Your Courageous Life podcast

Everyone needs to know how to set goals without getting stressed--at least, not so stressed that you end up sabotaging the goal or quitting, entirely. You can learn how to set goals without getting stressed by shifting your mindset around failure and placing your intentions on following through consistently, rather than pushing yourself to hit a certain outcome. In today’s podcast episode, I’m bre...

Today’s episode is a little different in tone than my usual Your Courageous Life podcast episodes–because for those of you who know that they’re settling, playing small, who want to go after goals that are bigger and more audacious than they’d imagined, I want to speak directly to you about how to stop messing around and dive 100% into the pursuit of your highest calling. There are four essential...

When the holidays are on the horizon, people start to feel stressed--but you can have a stress-free holiday by examining the belief systems that weigh you down and make you feel crazy. Whether it’s in-laws who drive you crazy, old family dynamics that come up just when you thought they were done, the travel delays, or the expenses, today’s podcast episode gets into the belief systems that you can...

As I recorded this episode, the Sonoma County fires of 2019 were happening--and I live in Sonoma County, approximately 20 miles from the initial origin of the fires. I wanted to share an episode on dealing with difficult situations and use challenging circumstances such as these fires and how they have impacted myself and my community, to highlight ways of handling difficult situations.   Get more...

It’s common self-help advice that “you are the aggregate of the five people you spend time with” or to simply “let go” of people who are “toxic”--but is this way of being profoundly dehumanizing? In this podcast episode, I respond to a listener request to talk about choosing who you surround yourself with and how those people have an impact on your well-being. If you’ve felt conflicted about how t...

Whether you have trouble trusting your intuition, or feel like you’ve got intuition on lock but could always use a few more insights, today’s podcast episode on learning to trust your intuition will break down some of the essential components. How do you know the difference between excitement and fear? How do you tell the difference between a “red flag” and needing to stretch into something outsid...

Do you have trouble recognizing self-sabotage? That’s something of a trick question, because we typically only recognize self-sabotage in hindsight. In today’s Your Courageous Life podcast episode, I’m talking about how you can start recognizing self-sabotage *before* you’re actually doing it. We’re getting real about shiny object syndrome, taking two steps forward and one step back, and how to fi...

Today’s Your Courageous Life podcast episode offers some help with perfectionism. Often, people say they know they are perfectionists, but they have less of an idea of what to actually *do* about perfectionism. How do we stop getting stuck in the cycle of perfectionism? Today’s episode breaks down how perfectionism shows up and what we can do to notice it and change our habits.   Get bonus listene...

Some people know that people-pleasing is an issue that needs to stop, and others may think it’s not an issue--but in fact, there may be some hidden areas where, under the right circumstances, you unconsciously go into people-pleasing mode.  Are you tired of constantly bending over backward to please others and sacrificing your own needs and desires? Well, you're not alone. In this eye-opening...

If you (like me) grew up without an athletic background and have never particularly liked going to a gym, and if you (like me) have ever struggled with creating consistent eating habits, this episode will resonate on many levels. While long, definitely listen all the way to the end so that you can get the benefits of all the different threads coming together--the takeaways for how you can apply th...

It’s time to take action now - no more waiting. You deserve more. You deserve better than the b.s. lies of “It’s not the right time” or “But I’m not the kind of person who…” People who go after what they want and take action now are not people who have it all figured out, all the resources, all the time, all the connections, all the abilities. Those things are helpful, but they are not a prerequis...

People often think that they are committed to excellence...when they are actually practicing perfectionistic behaviors that are wearing them down. In today’s podcast episode, I break down the key differences between a commitment to excellence, and perfectionism.   Get bonus resources at https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/begin  . 🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been...

Getting things done is part of life--and it often causes an immense amount of overwhelm for people. In today's podcast episode, I'm talking about the attitudes and habits that you can adopt around getting things done that will up your effectiveness and how much you can get done, while decreasing stress. I’ll also share my system for setting annual, quarterly, and weekly goals that enable...

Need some help dealing with disappointment? That’s the subject of today’s podcast episode. When you’ve really wanted the big dream, and you’re dealing with disappointment because things didn’t go as you’d hoped, it’s important to avoid going into a space of avoiding your disappointment. Today’s podcast episode lays out the essential pieces of processing feelings of disappointment. Get more courage...

I was reading Tim Ferriss’s book, Tribe of Mentors, in which he asks a set list of questions to different people who have attained success in their fields. This got me curious--how might you and I use the Tim Ferriss interview questions in our own lives? What might those questions tell us about who we are, how we tick, and our way of being? I’m going through each question on today’s podcast episod...

Our lives matter far more than we can possibly realize, far more than we can possibly give them credit for.  We can never know when, just by being ourselves, we will be someone else’s gift. We do ourselves a gross disservice when we assume that because of our occupations, or unless we take some kind of massive action, we cannot have an impact. Risk the vulnerability of letting other people know th...

Tough truth? We don’t do what we say we should, if we don’t believe that any of it will actually work. Really, what do you believe? Because if you truly don’t believe that meditation (or anything else) could benefit your life, then there’s no point in even telling yourself that you should try it just because everyone else says that it’s great. Right here, right now, you are able to do what you are...

Waiting until it’s the right place, right time, yadda yadda yadda is just a delay tactic. There is no right time, right place, right way, or right circumstance for starting the things that are most important to our souls. Now is the perfect time. This is the perfect moment. You are the perfect person. You’ll learn everything else you need, along the way. When you don’t know where to start, right h...

Especially if you’ve been efforting awhile, you’ll wonder: how long is it going to take, to feel better? The answer? It takes as long as it takes. There’s no timeline, no cartography of the soul for how to feel better, faster. When fear sings that (old) tune, it’s actually time to double-down on doing the work--not give up.   Get bonus resources at https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/begin  . 🚨 Th...

If you want to live a better life, if you want to step into these habits of highly successful people, you’ve got to stop wiggling out on your own integrity. Your goals can be positive obsessions that drive you towards development, or they can be hungry ghosts—an endless desire to feed yourself with status or something outside of yourself. Success is about how you feel in your own human skin, and i...

Skipping a daily practice is like saying, “I have the option to do something to improve my happiness and well-being, but hey, I won’t take it.” When you feed yourself emotionally, the healthier and stronger you are. We live in a world where people suffer emotionally in greater numbers than ever before, and it is no crime to create ways  to build your emotional resilience. That’s what a daily pract...

Without a doubt, it’s not helpful to try to bypass negative feelings--but it’s also not helpful to write off possibilities when changing a negative mindset. Changing a negative mindset isn’t possible if you aren’t willing to own the fact that you feel stuck. At first, changing a negative mindset feels like a ton of work. With time, seeing what more is possible can become a habit.   Get more resour...

Embrace the inner critic? What? Yes--and here’s why: If you practice abusive behaviors, you become the abuser--and this is true whether you abuse others, or yourself. There’s something so much bigger awaiting you when you decide not to hate your critic or wish it would go away. To embrace the critic doesn’t mean letting it get away with poor behavior--there are other options--and that’s exactly wh...

Taking personal responsibility for your life includes recognizing what *isn’t* yours. It’s good to own your part; it’s also necessary to be clear what you have no control over. You aren’t going to self-help your way into fixing other people’s stuff, for them. Today’s episode will help you get clear on the boundaries.   Get more bonus resources at https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/begin  . 🚨 This...

When others are uncomfortable with themselves, they’ll hide themselves--and ask us to do the same. But we don’t have to play into that pattern. In this episode, I’m talking about embracing who you are, despite the possibility of others criticizing.   Get extra bonus resources by going to https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/begin .   Let's connect on Instagram: @katecourageous  🚨 This isn’t ju...