The Practice Ground | A Self-Improvement Podcast with Ken Li and Kari Watterson

The Practice Ground | A Self-Improvement Podcast with Ken Li and Kari Watterson

Most of us don't need more information -- we need more experience. Join confidence coach, Ken Li, and mindset and habits coach, Kari Watterson, for conversations that challenge how you think, encourage courageous experimentation, and inspire you to gather experiences that deepen your confidence—and your participation in your own life.

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September 25, 2026 • 39 mins

One woman. So many different ways to be inspired by the way she lived. 

In the days following Dolly Parton's passing, tributes from around the world reflected the extraordinary range of what she meant to people. Artist. Songwriter. Businesswoman. Philanthropist. Storyteller. Trailblazer. Beloved by family, friends, collaborators, and generations of people who never knew her personally. 

Someone who seemed unmistakably, unap...

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A good quote may make you stop. A great one might make you do something differently.

In this episode of The Practice Ground, Ken and Kari each share a quote that has been guiding them lately.  More than just words they find inspiring, these are ideas they’ve been putting into practice — and discovering what can happen when something that resonates begins to change the way we live. 

The quotes we’re present...

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What if a habit you've been trying to break isn't a failure of discipline — but a sequence you've become very good at repeating?

In this episode of The Practice Ground, we take the cue-craving-response-reward framework from Episode 3 out of theory and into practice.

Ken volunteers a habit he's wanted to change for some time: after late-night tennis, he often finds himself stopping for a burger, fries, or another favorite fast-f...

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What if struggling to stick with a habit isn't only about willpower or discipline — but how well the habit has been designed?

In this episode of The Practice Ground, Ken and Kari explore James Clear's four-stage habit loop from Atomic Habits — cue, craving, response, and reward — and what it can look like to deliberately design and train that sequence in real life.

Ken turns the conversation into a case study, askin...

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Can taking the time to record three wins each day really make that much of a difference?

In this episode of The Practice Ground, we explore an idea from entrepreneurial coach Dan Sullivan and organizational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy: much of our dissatisfaction may be a measurement problem.

In their book, The Gap and The Gain, Sullivan and Hardy distinguish between measuring ourselves against an ideal that is always somewhere a...

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Why can making a decision feel so difficult — even when we know there may not be one “right” answer?

In our first episode of The Practice Ground, we explore why decision-making can feel so complicated — especially when uncertainty, competing priorities, values, and the desire to make the “perfect” choice all enter the equation. 

We talk about analysis paralysis, the temptation to keep gatherin...

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