Wake Up! Your Life is Calling.

The New Year is such a hopeful time that feels full of possibility.  So many of us are looking ahead and making plans to create something different in our lives.  The problem is that we all too quickly fall back into the same old habits and patterns that we've always done and the result is nothing ever changes.   Listen in to learn one simple way to stay connected to the outcomes you want to...

The end of the year is always a time of reflection for me.  Life is lived in forward motion but understanding and wisdom come from reflection.  Today's episode gives you a process to gain clarity and awareness around the themes and highlights of your past year, as well as a few powerful questions to ask yourself to gain deeper insight into your experience and guide your focus for the year ahe...

When life feels overwhelming it's easy to lose sight of our blessings and focus only on our burdens.   Today we learn how to shift our focus in the moment from burdens to blessings.  

Anxiety stems largely from our desire to control people and circumstances in our lives.  We want assurances that everything will go as we plan and that we will be ok.  Unfortunately, there are no guarantees.   Today's episodes explores strategies for letting go of what we can't control - which is most things - and learning to live with uncertainty without feeling anxious all the time.  

We have a tremendous opportunity to impact our future with the things we are doing today; however, we get so caught up in the day to day busyness of our lives that we easily slip into autopilot and let life happen to us.  Tune in to learn a simple and easy way to remember your future and create the life you want to have.  

Have you ever noticed that whenever something great happens our mind immediately begins to anticipate losing it?   It may seem silly but our capacity to have the things that we want most is an issue that most of us grapple with.  Embracing success, abundance and creating a new identity as a person with the thing(s) you've always dreamed of is a skill that needs to be learned and practiced.  L...

What is coaching?  What does it look like to work with me as your coach?  Why would you do it?   Listen to today's episode to find out!  

Do you ever struggle with feeling restless?  Restlessness is a general sense of agitation or frustration that stems from believing that things should be different than they are. When we are living awake and connected to the dreams and desires of our heart restlessness will very often result.  What if that's not a problem?  What if you could feel restless and still  live in the restfulness of...

If you have a hard time telling yourself the truth about what you really, really want it's most likely because you're scared that you'll just end up being disappointed...so what's the point?   The hard truth is you might end up being disappointed.  So what?   What if the journey to your dreams and desires is just as valuable - if not more - than the outcome you're after? ...

I am excited to introduce you to my friend Kelly Cooke today.  She is a widow and a mom to three amazing boys.  She is also one of the strongest women I know.  I have watched her walk through pain, loss and heartbreak with so much grit and so much grace.   With God there is always purpose in our pain and I believe that her story can encourage and inspire anyone listening who is walking a painful p...

Do you ever look around at people who you deem to be successful and wonder what they have that you don't?   When we see people who have something - or maybe lots of things - that we don't our tendency is to think we are different than them in fundamental ways.   That's not true.  As humans our hard wiring is pretty standard across the board.  You are not different than anyone else i...

What does an ideal day look like for you?  How often are you experiencing these days?  Sometimes great days will sneak up on us and surprise us but for the most part we have to be intentional to create our best days.   If you want more great days then create more.  Listen in for some ways to do it!  

Sometimes our exhaustion and stress isn't from all the things we are doing but rather from the people and situations we continue to accommodate that are no longer serving us.   Listen in for one way to take inventory of how this could be true in your life and what you can do about it.  

I've been reflecting on our family's recent vacation and I realized that I had put a lot of pressure on the trip to be great and memorable for all of us.   Guess what?  It didn't go as planned.  Lots of issues.  Lots of challenges.  Not at all what I had hoped or envisioned.   Been there?   Listen in for some insight into how to respond when life doesn't go as we plan.  

Whenever you are pursuing a goal or something that is important to you it's very common to experience a few predictable stages and the messy middle is one of them that very often can pull you off course.   Listen in for a few simple strategies to stay the course and finish what you start.  

One of the most common questions and complaints I hear from clients is....I just can't get motivated....or  how can I get motivated?   In today's episode I will tell you exactly how you can create motivation to accomplish whatever it is that you want in your life.  

Relationships are the greatest gift we have in this life and can also be our biggest challenge and source of frustration.   I like to think about difficult relationships as assignments - when we can stay present for them and accept the invitation to do the work necessary to stay in them we have the opportunity to expand our capacity to love and to grow into our best selves.   Today's episode...

Time is arguably the most valuable asset any of us has so how we use our time is very important.   How often do you think about your time - how you're using it and if you are making the most of it?   This episode offers a framework to evaluate your time spent / wasted vs invested in ways that offer long term rewards.  The goal isn't to spend every minute investing time, but rather just t...

Change can feel hard at times because it is a practice.  It requires practice and intentionality.  It's normal to have setbacks and to feel like all the work you are doing is just not working.   This week we explore why that is and how you can overcome these setbacks and set yourself up for success.  

If you've ever felt like there is something you desperately want to change - maybe it's your weight, your bank account, your job, whatever - but actually doing it feels impossible then you'll want to listen in!  In this episode we talk about an easy and effective strategy for implementing lasting change.  

Sometimes life can feel hard.  Am I right?  This episode is a simple reminder that you really can do hard things.  Sometimes hard things may be climbing mountains or starting businesses or other monumental acts and sometimes hard things are just getting out of bed in the morning.   Listen in for a very simple strategy to build your confidence and your courage to fuel you in doing the hard things y...

We live in an age of distraction.  Our attention and focus is one of our most valuable assets yet we mindlessly give it away to the trivial all the time.  Perpetual distraction leads to sleepwalking.  What is distraction costing you?  What would you gain by reclaiming your focus? Detoxing from distraction is one of the simplest ways to love your life again.  In today's episode we talk about o...

I'm so excited to introduce you to my personal coach, Jill Wright.   Jill and I have been working together for about four years now.  She has helped me to make major shifts and has helped me to elevate  my perception of myself both as a coach and as a person.  I am so grateful for her!   In today's episode Jill shares a bit about her own story as well as some golden nuggets that may help...

Your past only exists in your mind.  It is as malleable as your memory.   The stories we tell ourselves about our past are the foundation for our current identity as well as our future self.  It's important to decide on purpose what stories you want to tell and make sure those stories are helping you and not hindering you.   In today's episode we outline some simple ways to adjust your f...