Your Courageous Life podcast

Raise your hand if you've ever promised yourself you'd start meditating, and then...you started and stopped, or found it tough to get started. 🙋‍♀️

I've been there, myself--that is, until 2018 when I figured out 3 easy ways to start meditating that ended up helping me to step into more courage. I'm sharing these strategies with you (and the third one, I doubt you've heard anywhere else).

In this episode, we dive into the concept of how to handle it when you’re feeling unmotivated, so that you can shift out of resistance and into action. I’ve got 9 specific strategies to overcome low motivation, such as how you can do one tiny thing to trigger dopamine production, which can jumpstart motivation. (A note: our discussion of motivation in this podcast is contextual and takes into account recognizing when mental health ...

Across thousands of hours of coaching, training others, and–of course–a few of my own stumbles and fumbles, I’ve learned a few things about becoming more confident, the hard way. Here are 9 things to know about becoming more confident that will shift how you think about yourself. 

Confidence isn't about arrogance or constant affirmation but about owning our capabilities and accomplishments without diminishing others. ...

When was the last time you truly had a summer? Most of us stop having a summer vacation as soon as we enter the workforce, and over time we forget the magic that's possible when we create new adventures for ourselves. I'm sharing 3 questions that you can ask yourself to have the summer of a lifetime, so grab a pen and paper as you listen and start planning--there are options here even if you don't have a ton of cash....

Most people recognize that there are critical voices or beliefs that impact their self-confidence, and it's only natural to want to silence those inner critic voices as a result. What not everyone realizes is that "silencing the inner critic" is not an effective tool--if it was, wouldn't it have worked, by now? Today's episode from the archive gets into alternatives to trying to silence those critical belie...

What an interesting time capsule this episode is, on "watching what you make it mean." Recorded during the pandemic, it's about a powerful way of reframing even amid the chaos around you through deciding to "watch what you make [life, others, pandemics] mean" about what's possible for you, your life, or the world. As you listen, consider where you were when the pandemic was happening and what your fear...

Feelings matter--but when we over-emphasize their importance, they can run our lives. It's just as important to feel feelings as it is to know how to take control of your feelings. When you can take control of your feelings, you can use them to process through your life's experiences, without feeling reactive or numbed out.

Today's episode will go over a specific process that you can use for taking control o...

You know that you need to prioritize the things that matter most--and that's going to mean knowing how to say no. Sometimes you need to know how to say no to people placing demands on your time, and other times you need to know how to say no to your own resistance and temptation to quit or give up on yourself. In today's episode, I'm talking about the art of saying "no" to what doesn't light up your li...

When you're not living 100 percent fully alive, you feel burned out and stressed out. You don't feel like you have control over your time, the to-do list feels endless, and you lack energy to shift the course. In today's podcast episode, I'm reading aloud from my latest book, "100% Fully alive: From Burnout to Brilliance" (available for order here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09C2SDJNF ). 
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Going no contact is not a decision to be made lightly--and there may even be some alternatives to going no-contact that will bring you more peace. In today's podcast episode, I'm breaking down the 3 types of relationship scenarios where you might consider cutting off a relationship, and the 3 alternatives to going no-contact. And if you do need to go no-contact? I'm breaking down the structure of the conversation so ...

If you've ever struggled to set healthy boundaries, or you know you can set them but then you feel more stressed having set them than you did not saying anything at all, today's episode is just for you. I'm getting into setting healthy boundaries and being aware of the hidden landmines that make it harder to set and stick to your boundaries or how to avoid feeling guilty for having set a boundary, afterwards. 

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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 listeners to put strategies into action.

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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.

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“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.

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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?

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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 consistent” and into the actionable stra...

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.

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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 your own capabilities. The qu...

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 characteristics that indicate th...