The Empowered Catholic Podcast
Join the Empowered Catholic Podcast, where we come together to seek empowerment to become the people God created us to be. Your hosts are Karen and Curtis: life coaches and public speakers. We are on a mission to spread the vision and tools of empowerment to all Christians, so you can experience the full power of the Holy Spirit active and free in your life. We invite you to engage with this group and seize the opportunity for personal and spiritual growth, transformed relationships, and new purpose and hope in God’s plan for you and for the whole world. "Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire." –St. Catherine of Sienna.
Episodes
Humans (like you for instance) have some habits of thinking that are traps. We all fall into them, repeatedly. You have to laugh! These traps can shut down our thinking before we realize it, leaving us stuck or making poor choices because the traps often work at an unconscious level. Asking great questions is the key to uncovering thought traps. We discuss and share examples of some of them, like Mind Reading, Fortune-...
What comes out of your mouth comes OUT OF your heart. It’s a window into your heart. And what you focus on & the way you interpret it powerfully conditions what goes INTO your heart. We talk about SHIFTING your focus to transform your heart for the better!
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Let’s chat a little bit about awareness. Try listening to yourself. We are necessarily using a lot of assumptions about what’s happening around us. The world is complex and we need to simplify it so we can act. That’s fine. Yet leaving our assumptions unchallenged creates blind spots. Like a map that’s not accurate, we can get lost in some areas of life. Karen and I chat about tips to create awareness and the kinds of ...
How do you show up in your own life? Are you consistently showing up at your best? With positivity, creativity, optimism, and ready to make decisions as needed? You might be showing up as “meh” more than you realize. How would showing up more powerfully impact your life, your impact on others, and your own experiences? This season of the podcast is about models that we like. Today we share an effective model for you to...
We continue to share how the energy you bring to your life makes a huge impact! This season of the podcast is about models that we like. Here, we are sharing about the iPEC Energy Level model. Today we are talking about what this positive energy might look like. We start to give you tips about how to shift to your positive energy so you can be more.
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The energy you bring to your life makes a huge impact! Your positive energy will drive your success in all areas of life. Negative energy is sometimes useful, yet it’s your positive energy that creates the impacts you want. Sometimes it’s good to hide “in the cave” with your negative energy, yet it’s getting out of the cave to interact with your situation that creates all the difference. We want you to be empowered to ...
You have some signature strengths. These are virtues that you do particularly well. It might be perseverance, or kindness, hospitality, love of beauty, humor, or any of many other possibilities. Putting them to work for you with intentionality is an excellent way to excel, achieve, and to pursue happiness. (Happiness is a word we use to mean flourishing, or thriving). “Signature Strength” is a Martin Seligman term for ...
Happiness is a primary goal of every human. It is inseparable from the human person. God made us to be happy and pursuing it is an important part of His plan for us. It’s part of our human nature. Positive psychology is the study of what makes people authentically happy. What do happy people have in common, and what is it that they DO that helps them get happy and stay that way? In fact, one study even found a correlat...
The working genius model created by Patrick Lencioni is so useful. A project starts with Wonder (seeing an opportunity) and ends with Tenacity (get it finished!). Patrick reports that there are four more steps between Wonder and Tenacity. You, your spouse, your kids, and your co-workers all have a couple of these steps that you are best at, and that you like to use. You also have a couple of these steps that you do not...
Learn about the FIVE CONFLICT STYLES and learn which one is your go-to style. Learn how different conflict styles—competition, accommodation, avoidance, compromise, and collaboration—play out in various scenarios. How can you navigate conflicts more thoughtfully and flexibly?
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There’s so much wisdom in Scriptures warning to “judge not.” So much! Why should we embrace this wisdom? And how? What’s the OPPOSITE of judgment? How about ACCEPTANCE. What could acceptance do for you that judgment cannot. Learn what judgment is COSTING you and what NON-judgment could do for you. And learn what we mean by “judgment.”
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Judge not lest ye be judged! It’s in the Sermon on the Mount. What would happen if we lived up to this standard? What would happen to us? To those close to us? To the world? Judgment closes doors and hearts. “Judge not” opens them. Here’s Jesus telling us not to judge others. How seriously will you take this? What’s YOUR “take” on JUDGE NOT?
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The Sermon on the Mount, Jesus literally tells us not to worry about what to eat, drink, or wear. He says that worrying is ineffective (Can any of you add a cubit to your height?) Is this idea of not worrying important to you? Should it be? Why does the book of Matthew spend valuable scriptural space on this idea? Is this just a tip? An important rule? Is it possible? And HOW do you “not worry” anyways? We have explana...
Adults manage their emotions. It’s what we do, right? Sometimes we forget how important it is to create some positive emotions to help us do what we need to do! There are traps to avoid when regulating emotion, including dismissing it as being of small importance or letting it capture us, for instance by rumination. Our brains’ powerful negative bias will suck us down into negativity if we don’t resist it by cultivatin...
Justice. It’s not what you think! Our habits of thinking about justice are not the habits of thinking about justice that are found in Scripture. Our modern minds view justice in narrow and legalistic ways, with a big focus on retribution or paying back. It’s not like that for the Jewish peoples in the times of Jesus that were familiar with Scripture. It’s more about bringing order and goodness, balance and truth, into ...
The Beatitudes are fascinating. We pick up the first one, “Happy are those who are poor in spirit.” What’s going on here? If I am spiritually impoverished, is that a good thing? Yes. Surprising, right? Spiritual humility is important for RECEIVING from God. And what does trust have to do with it? It surprisingly came up as a related topic in our discussion. It’s a curious thing and a profound truth. Come join us!
It turns out that “perfection” is a terrible translation of Matthew 5:48. It’s found in the Sermon on the Mount: Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect. It’s a typical example of Western English speakers seizing on a word and running with it, while being ignorant of what the speaker is talking about, i.e., mostly you hear ignorant and unhelpful things about this passage. Fortunately, you are here and we can clea...
It turns out that “blessed” is a terrible translation for the beatitudes (Matthew 5) That’s quickly evident when you review the original Greek and Hebrew meanings behind the word often translated as 'blessed.' The Beatitudes are often viewed as moral directives or do-this-to-get-that kinds of promises but that’s missing the point. The Beatitudes are actually an invitation to understand and participate in God's kingdom ...
We like Pope Leo’s reflection on the parable of the workers. It touches on the pursuit of happiness, the quest for meaning, and the need for belonging. It’s a message of hope! Hop in and check it out.
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What’s “the THING” in your life that you are SO DONE WITH but it’s not done with YOU? We share stories of past clients that got rid of that THING in their life that had troubled them for so long that they thought it would never be dealt with. Transformation IS possible!
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