Your Courageous Life podcast

Today's podcast is devoted to listener-submitted questions on how to beat boredom (what to do when life feels kind of "blah"), how to definitively know whether to stay or go in a relationship, and how to learn 'adulting' skills if you weren't taught them when you were growing up. I'll be giving you my take on each of these questions with actionable ways for liste...

If you’ve experienced betrayal or had life throw you a curveball that has you questioning everything and wondering how you’ll learn to trust again, buckle up for today’s episode. Learning to trust again isn’t easy to do, but I’ll go over the three specific ways that you can recover, heal, and step into trusting yourself. 🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling t...

“Betrayal” is a very dramatic word that we might be reserving for only the biggest violations of trust, but betrayals come in all forms. If you've felt betrayed by someone in your life, today's episode is all about how to regain a sense of self and trust in your capacity to heal after betrayal. 🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind,...

Today's episode is short and sweet but it's one you'll want to bookmark--it's a message for anyone who's holding themselves back, reigning themselves in, worried that they are "too much" or "not enough." Are you ready to stop holding yourself back? 🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding bac...

There’s one strength to leverage in life that will get you farther than any other: consistency. Whether you want to be someone who is seen as reliable, or you want to find ways to crush your goals, your ability to be consistent is the top strength to leverage in life. In today’s podcast episode, I’ll talk about how to become more consistent. I’m going beyond a mentality of “trying to be more consi...

Everyone says that they want to be more confident–but how do you actually develop the skill to be more confident? In today’s podcast episode, I go over actions that you can take to develop more confidence. These are actionable strategies that will help you develop the skill of being more confident over time, so that at this time next year you can look back and see true progress. 🚨 This isn’t just...

If you’re wanting to better understand yourself, that’s likely because either you’re in the midst of a messy transition, are trying to make a decision, or want to change something about yourself or your life and realize that understanding who you are is critical to navigating what comes next.  When you understand yourself, you become more confident and self-aware, and have an inherent trust in you...

You already know some strategies to find friends. You join groups, host a dinner party where you ask known friends to bring along friends of theirs who might be compatible, initiate conversations, etc.  Today’s episode is about how to find better friends, meaning how to identify the qualities and characteristics of someone who would likely make a solid friend, as well as how to identify the charac...

What's behind a relationship where people are trying to change, but things feel stuck? Old relationship patterns or dynamics. Discover how to release old relationship patterns in this podcast episode, where I delve into essential practices that will make everything easier in your relationships.  From trusting that people are doing their best to clarifying for better understanding, these habit...

In my latest podcast episode, I'm diving deep into the secrets of building smoother, more harmonious relationships.  Join me as I reveal four game-changing habits that will transform the way you connect with others. Master the art of understanding and clarifying, keeping the focus on yourself, and how to apologize in ways that build greater connection, and start to see immediate actionable im...

You already know that you need to communicate with kindness and use “I” statements when communicating–so why is it that with communication in relationships, there can be so many misses?  In today’s episode on how to improve communication in relationships, I’ll go over some ideas that you might be missing and give you strategies for improving communication in all of your relationships, whether work...

We’ve all heard of burnout, but one of the most insidious aspects of burnout is that it might be impacting you without your conscious awareness.  In this episode, I’ll talk about how to recognize burnout in yourself and others (including in kids!) and the evidence-based action steps to stop burnout.  For high achievers who have trouble knowing the line between high performance and burnout? This ep...

You know you want to... work on the creative project (book, novel, podcast, art), exercise for your health, eat healthier, or implement some other habit that would improve your life.  Yet when it comes down to it? Ugh! You just don't feeeeel like it. If you’ve ever struggled with getting the motivation to start something important to you, or how to sustain that motivation, today’s episode is...

Want to get an extra 14 hours of time to do whatever you want in your week?  Or how about starting off the day feeling positive, like you filled your cup before you met anyone else's demands?  It all starts with creating your ideal morning routine. In this episode, I'll break down the steps to starting your morning off right even if (like me) this is something you've previously stru...

Getting stuck in pessimism, struggling to manage our time, and generally feeling kinda worn down by life can hit all of us at some point--so in today's Your Courageous Life episode, I'm talking about 4 specific ways to up-level your life. It's time to take charge of your time and feel more capable as you tackle big challenges. 🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If...

You, me, and everyone else I know struggle to some degree with social media--one day it's a repository of connection and inspiration, and another day it's the place where people grouse, complain, and start fights. Research shows that the more time you spend on social media, the more likely you are to feel anxious or depressed--so it matters that you are purposeful with how you utilize so...

Do you know who you are, when you are your best self?  It's a question that took up residence in my mind when I felt I was at a crossroads. "Who am I, when I'm my best self? What am I doing? Who am I being in those moments? What environment am I in?" These are the questions I started to ask myself. I dually prepared this as a meditation for @insighttimer (I'm a meditation...

In this episode, I dive into the connection between exercise and improved mental well-being, and giving you practical advice on how to make exercise a habit (for real, this time). Web: https://www. YourCourageousLife.com Gram: https://www.instagram.com/katecourageous Tok: https://tiktok.com/@katecourageous 🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grin...

After an extended hiatus from the Your Courageous Life podcast, today I'm bringing some updates and the most important life lessons I've learned after two years of ups, downs, and everything in-between. 🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s su...

Where have I been, and where am I going? I've been on hiatus for a bit and will be on hiatus for a bit longer, so that's the question that I'm answering on today's podcast, where I explore what it's like to walk through "liminal space" in your life (periods of uncertainty, things falling apart, that are not necessarily "crisis" but are a time of treadin...

Starting the path to change isn’t enough--we also need to start cultivating accountability for ourselves. We can use habit-formation and the brain’s capacity for neuroplasticity there, too. In this Courage Habit focused episode, Kate + co-host Andy Sewell look at how to create community and how that ties in to courage.  Listen here: https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/courage-habit-podcast-creating...

Feeling stuck in the busy-hustle-burnout cycle? I’ve been there, too--and I’ve been leveraging the tools that I’ve learned from the psychology of courage and neuroplasticity to shift out of productivity, and into creativity. (Or, at least, to be able to discern the difference between the two and when one is more needed, than the other!).  If you’ve felt like your efforts to stop being so busy alwa...

Okay, but how do we respond to criticism and critique? And how do we know when we’re triggered because someone’s being unkind, versus because someone’s telling us a truth that we really need to hear? In this special Courage Habit episode, we’re digging into the very real experience of navigating criticism, whether our own or someone else’s.   Listen here: https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/courage...

Change your mindset, and you change your life--that’s the powerful premise that neuroplasticity offers us, and we can use this in order to shift away from fear-based thinking to find more courage. In this episode, we use real examples to talk about how you can shift your thinking using the power of cognitive reframing (a clinically validated approach to behavior change!).   Listen here: https://ww...

Ever struggled to change a habitual reaction? In this episode from the Courage Habit series, Kate + Andy look at habitual reactions and how to shift those reactions in order to develop more courage. We’re getting into the nitty-gritty of what it means to create long term change through the brain’s capacity for neural plasticity. Looking at your current reactions is a helpful jumping off point for...