Project You 2.2
Project You 2.2 is your go-to podcast for navigating life transitions with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Hosted by Carrie Helmer, a retired teacher and health coach. Each episode dives into practical strategies for mindset shifts, personal growth, and actionable steps to create the life you want. From transforming your health and fitness to mastering your emotions and setting bold goals, Project You 2.2 shows you how to connect with yourself, rewire your subconscious, and take intentional steps to level up. Tune in to find inspiration and motivation as you put yourself first and glow up.
Episodes
Ever feel stuck in the same life, even though you want something different? In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie Helmer shares honest, relatable stories from her own life—packing for vacations, tackling public performances, and discovering new ways to move, read, and show up—alongside real coaching insights from her clients.
You’ll hear:
- How small choices, like walking with an audiobook or ...
The energy in a room isn’t just background noise — it shapes everything you feel, think, and do. In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie Helmer draws on over 30 years of teaching experience and her life as a parent and coach to show how the people and spaces around you influence your focus, mood, and performance.
From classroom seating charts to family dynamics, Carrie shares vivid stories of how place...
Your life is not shaped by one big moment. It’s shaped by tiny inputs, repeated over time. Chaos theory teaches us that some systems are sensitive — small differences don’t disappear, they multiply. Just like a rounding error in math can change the final answer, small daily choices, beliefs, and habits quietly redirect the course of your life.
- Chaos doesn’t mean disorder — it means s...
Have you ever left a conversation feeling unexpectedly exhausted — even with people you love? In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie Helmer dives into the subtle ways relationships can drain our energy and how to navigate them without guilt. Drawing on her experiences as a teacher, parent, and coach, Carrie explores the art of reading the room, setting boundaries, and creating equitable space for yourself ...
In this deeply moving episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie reflects on a viral moment that stirred her heart — a mother holding her adult children and realizing she remembers the first time she held them, but not the last.
Speaking as both a living mother of three grown sons and a daughter still blessed to have her parents, Carrie explores the quiet truth that we celebrate firsts but often miss the lasts. Through...
In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie explores the two attitudes that shape every experience: the “I want to” energy versus the “I have to” mindset. Drawing on stories from her teaching days, her personal health and fitness journey, and her daily life as a mother and daughter, she illustrates how choice and perspective transform even the hardest tasks into opportunities for growth, joy, ...
In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie Helmer — a former math teacher of 31 years, mom of three, and life coach — explores the hidden skills of teachers who don’t just deliver content, but change lives. Drawing from decades in the classroom, parenting, and coaching, Carrie reveals how emotional intelligence, presence, and reading the room can transform every area of life.
You’ll learn how ...
In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie Helmer explores how the math concept of domain and range mirrors our real-life boundaries and relationships. Using stories from her 31-year teaching career, personal experiences, and playful references to Dora, Boots, and Swiper, she shows how the people we allow in — and how much access they get — directly influences our energy, peace, and joy.
Listeners are gui...
In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie uses the idea of an asymptote — a dotted line that a graph approaches but never touches — as a metaphor for the way we chase approval, perfection, peace, control, and the feeling of being “enough.”
Through a story from her 31 years as a math teacher, personal reflection, and gentle truth-telling, Carrie explores why we stay in motion even when we&rsqu...
Carrie sits down with Dr. Kavin Mistry, a board-certified neuroradiologist with over two decades of clinical experience imaging the brain, spine, and nervous system. Discover how tiny, everyday habits—like the way you breathe—can dramatically impact your health, longevity, and overall well-being. In this episode of Project You 2.2, Dr. Mistry breaks down complex science into actionable tips, from underst...
What happens when love turns into worry… and worry turns into distance?
In this deeply honest episode, Carrie speaks from the heart as a mother, former teacher of 31 years, and coach who has spent a lifetime creating safe spaces for hard conversations. She explores the tender space where parents, teens, and young adults collide — around college, relationships, identity, trust, and the fear of getting it ...
For decades, Carrie’s ability to “read the room” made her an exceptional teacher, leader, and advocate for her students. But what happens when empathy becomes conditioning — and your nervous system never powers down?
In this episode, Carrie explores emotional vigilance, chronic relational stress, and the hidden cost of always being the one who senses, manages, and carries the emotional weight ...
What if the messy, frustrating middle of your life is exactly where growth is happening? In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie shares stories that are equal parts heartfelt and hilarious — from hiding behind the couch to avoid a VHS movie in high school, to helping her husband survive the chaos of a brand-new career after decades in education, to learning how small steps added up to a 50-pound weight loss...
In this heartfelt episode of Project You 2.2, we reflect on the last messages Eric Dane shared for his children — a powerful, posthumous gift full of life lessons. Best known as Dr. McSteamy on Grey’s Anatomy, Eric’s words aren’t just for his kids — they’re a blueprint for all of us:
- Stay present and let go of regrets.
- Fall in love with life, purpose, and the p...
What are the things in life that no one can take from you?
In this powerful and deeply personal episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie Helmer shares the story of her son and father training side by side for their black belts—an experience that almost never happened. What began as a simple “yes” turned into years of growth, connection, resilience, and unforgettable moments.
Through this story, Carrie unpa...
Ever feel like your brain leaves the room mid-conversation? Or your teen can’t stay on task no matter how hard they try? ADHD isn’t laziness...it’s a brain wired to notice everything at once. In this episode, I share real-life strategies from my classroom and my home—creative, playful, and practical ways to help teens and adults focus, engage, and succeed. From “snow globe resets”...
What would change if the body you’re living in wasn’t yours — but borrowed from someone you deeply love?
In this Project You 2.2 follow-up episode, Greg Helmer builds on Carrie’s powerful mindset shift and offers three practical ways to treat your body with stewardship instead of shame:
• Why endurance is about consistency, not intensity
• How stewardship changes the questions you ask about ...
What would change if the body you’re living in wasn’t yours… but borrowed from someone you deeply love? This episode explores a transformative mindset that can shift your health journey in the most gentle, powerful way.
For 31 years, Carrie Helmer taught students how to solve for X—finding the missing number, balancing equations, and showing your work. But as retirement approached, she realized there was one equation she’d never solved for herself: Joy = ?
In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie shares her journey of rediscovering joy beyond grades, schedules, and expectations. From backyard adventures and Barbie hous...
In this episode of Project You 2.2, Carrie sits down with Kelsey Hammack, a 24-year-old American Sign Language interpreter who’s mastered the art of reflection, journaling, and self-discovery at a young age. We explore the pressures of perfectionism, the anxiety tied to chasing straight A’s, and how life experiences, including loss and personal growth, shape the way we approach expectations.
Kelsey shares...
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