100% Awesome Podcast

Whenever we watch the people in our life suffer or face challenges, our natural instinct is to try to fix or change things in order to ease their suffering.

But not only is changing or removing their pain often impossible, it’s also not the kind of help our loved ones really need.

As I faced the challenges of a recent endurance event, I watched how perfectly my husband, David, was able to offer me incredible support without changing the challenge, questioning my decisions or my abilities, and without losing his patience or compassion. And on today’s episode, I’ve asked him to share his experience and insights. 

We all have incredible opportunities to support and care the people we love, and I hope this episode will help you as you witness, cheer, and comfort the people you love most in the world as they face the “mountains” of their lives. 

I recently completed an ultra-endurance challenge called 29029, where I climbed the vertical equivalent of Mount Everest, 29029 feet, in 36 hours.

Reaching the summit took everything I had and plenty that I didn’t think I had. And I learned so much. There are things we can only learn by going way outside our comfort zone, by finding the edge of our abilities, and stretching ourselves beyond what our brains believes we are capable of. I surprised myself, I met myself, and I discovered myself.

In this follow-up episode, I’m sharing the final lessons I learned in those uncomfortable, sometimes painful, hours I spent climbing and ultimately conquering to Mont Tremblant. I hope they will help you, encourage you, and inspire you as you face the Everests in your life.

**Looking for tickets to HOPE DAY? I’m part of an all-day coaching event in Utah on October 12th and if you’d like to get a ticket you can use this link: 

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I'm part of a full-day coaching retreat happening Oct. 12th in northern Utah called HOPE DAY. This is a special bonus episode to invite you to that event, give you all the details, and remind you that the last day to get your ticket is Tuesday, Oct. 1st.

If you have been thinking about coming to HOPE DAY consider this episode your personal invitation to join me there.

In this bonus episode, I also share a powerful thought about how to be both happy IN your life and WITH your life and how coaching can help you do both!!

You can sign up for HOPE DAY using my discount code using this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/930171486957/?discount=April

I recently completed an ultra-endurance challenge called 29029, where I climbed the vertical equivalent of Mount Everest, 29029 feet, in 36 hours.

Reaching the summit took everything I had and plenty that I didn’t think I had. And I learned so much. There are things we can only learn by going way outside our comfort zone, by finding the edge of our abilities, and stretching ourselves beyond what our brains believes we are capable of. I surprised myself, I met myself, and I discovered myself.

In this episode I’m sharing the powerful lessons I learned in those uncomfortable, sometimes painful, hours I spent climbing and surrendering to Mont Tremblant. I hope they will help you, encourage you, and inspire you as you climb the mountains of your life.

**Looking for tickets to HOPE DAY? I’m part of an all-day coaching event in Utah on October 12th and if you’d like to get a ticket you can use this link: 

www.eventbrite.com/e/930171486957/?discount=April

Do you ever wonder why it feels so good to set a goal and decide you’re going to do something but then it feels so bad to actually do it?

When our dreams are out ahead of us in the future, they feel exciting. When they are accomplished and behind us in the past, they feel satisfying. But in the present, our dreams don’t necessarily feel so good because the present moment is where all the work and effort and discomfort and pain and vulnerability of our dreams exists.

The difference between dreaming and doing is discomfort. And on today’s podcast, I’m sharing some tools to help you manage and navigate the discomfort and difficulty that inevitably comes whenever you are working towards your goals and dreams. 

**Looking for tickets to HOPE DAY? I’m part of an all-day coaching event in Utah on October 12th and if you’d like to get a ticket you can use this link: 

www.eventbrite.com/e/930171486957/?discount=April

You can get a lot of relief and hope using the principles and tools of thought work.

But it’s also easy to weaponize these tools and use them against yourself.

The whole point of increasing your awareness and understanding of your thoughts is to make the hard work of being human easier. And if the tool you’re using isn’t making the relationship with yourself warmer and stronger, then there’s a good chance you’re using the tool as a weapon.

On today’s podcast, I remind you that when it comes to thought work, usefulness is the only thing that matters, and I’ll point out some common ways you might be using these tools to make yourself wrong, so that you can take what helps you feel hope and optimism and compassion and leave the rest. 

**Looking for tickets to HOPE DAY? I’m part of an all-day coaching event in Utah on October 12th and if you’d like to get a ticket you can use this link: 

www.eventbrite.com/e/930171486957/?discount=April

I am competing in a big endurance event in a couple weeks and in the run up to that event my brain has given me lots of doubt—doubt about my preparation, doubt about my ability to finish the event, doubt in my capacity to endure pain, doubt about my age, my body, my mental toughness, and everything in between!

But doubts are just thoughts. 

And my doubts don’t know any more about the future than my beliefs. So I don’t have to give them any more credibility than I want to.

Today on the podcast, I’m sharing the things I’m doing about my doubts and giving you some tools that I hope will help you overcome your own doubts. Cause all the good stuff is on the other side of your doubts and you never have to let your doubts keep you from anything you really want.

**Looking for tickets to HOPE DAY? I’m part of an all-day coaching event in Utah on October 12th and if you’d like to get a ticket you can use this link: 

www.eventbrite.com/e/930171486957/?discount=April

We all share this world with each other. And we all have separate brains that are individually assessing and interpreting that experience for only ourselves. That means that in any given circumstance or situation or experience, lots of different brains are going to have lots of different opinions about it.

The problem is that many times other people’s opinions can feel dangerous. Because even though we can’t control other people’s opinions, it often feels like their opinions have the potential to have a big impact on our safety and happiness. 

On today’s episode of the podcast, I’m giving you a new way to think about the opinions of other people. I’ll show you why those opinions often feel so threatening and how to release your fear and your need to control other people’s opinions so that you can feel more peace in any situation. 

Other people’s opinions are a big part of the human experience, but today I want to show you that your own opinion (which is the only one that you can control, by the way) is the only one that really matters. 

**Looking for tickets to HOPE DAY? I’m part of an all-day coaching event in Utah on October 12th and if you’d like to get a ticket you can use this link: 

www.eventbrite.com/e/930171486957/?discount=April

Like you, I have been so inspired and delighted as I watched the recent Paris Olympics. 

I was amazed by the skill, by the vulnerability, by the courage, by the willingness to suffer and sacrifice that was demonstrated by the athletes that participated. And I took notes. Because I wanted to remember the things I learned by watching other people pursue their dreams.

On today’s podcast, I’m sharing some of my favorite lessons and thoughts from the Olympic games. I think no matter what you are trying to create in your life, no matter what choices you are trying to make, no matter what dreams you are pursuing or what obstacles you face as you do that, watching other humans choose and pursue and overcome in pursuit of their own goals can help you. * * * Looking for tickets to HOPE DAY? I’m part of an all-day coaching event in Utah on October 12th and if you’d like to get a ticket you can use this link: 

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Perhaps the most essential element to changing your life is having the hope that it’s possible. 

It’s easy to get discouraged and believe that change is impossible, but as long as we are alive and have the ability to choose our thoughts, change is available for all of us.

In today’s episode, I share a metaphor to remind you of your power to change and give you hope that real change is simpler and more accessible than you think. 

I also interview Annie Haviland about HOPE DAY, an upcoming coaching event being held in northern Utah on October 12th. I will be at this event teaching and coaching and today I’m sharing all the details and inviting you to join us there. To learn more and get signed up using my discount code, you can follow this link:

www.eventbrite.com/e/930171486957/?discount=April