Balanced Living For Busy Professionals Podcast

Do you believe you can shift your life in a positive direction after you've suffered trauma? It is possible.  In this episode Diane talks to Marcus Aurelius Anderson about how to cope with adversity and how to shift your mindset after you've suffered trauma in your life.

You'll hear Marcus's incredible story of overcoming trauma and the victim mentality.  Diane and Marcus also talk about adversity as a gift, the importance of discovering what is truly important and what is not and how there is truth all around us, if we are willing to listen to it.  As Marcus says, you could either be a victim of circumstances or change your mindset. Listen to this episode to learn some tools and mindset shifts to move forward in a positive direction.

What you will learn in this episode

• Why we can't just push dark thoughts away and must acknowledge them
• How Marcus deals with coaching people who are resistant to change
• Why it's important to focus on all they ways in which you can succeed and not just why you can't
• How we can let obstacles and hardship limit our levels of happiness and fulfilment
• How adversity can cause us to shut down
• Marcus's advice for people feeling suicidal
• The adversity scale

Quotes:

"There's a lot more that we can accomplish if we can give ourselves that benefit of being a little bit uncomfortable sometimes."

"We can't just push these things away. We can't just act like they're not going on and intellectually put our fingers in our ears and say 'lalalalala' and hope it doesn't happen. We need to acknowledge and feel that pain and go to those depths, because the sooner we hit the bottom, the sooner we can build upon to get out of that pit of darkness and despair."

"It's okay to be happy, it's okay to be sad, just don't let that define you."

"In the end we are only as strong as the adversity we overcome." Contact Marcus:

The Gift of Adversity: Overcoming Paralysis and Pain to Find Purpose by Marcus Aurelius Anderson

https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Adversity-Overcoming-Paralysis-Purpose-ebook/dp/B076P481QN

Marcus's Website

http://www.marcusaureliusanderson.com/

Marcus's Tedx talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXicUawrH6o

Contact Diane:

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Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Get Diane's new book, "Jumpstart Your Life:  Find Your Motivation and Change Your Life One Step at a Time "available online at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound and other online retailers.

Join my private Jumpstart Your Life Community on Facebook.  Get resources, tips and ideas as you integrate the Jumpstart Your Life process.

In this episode Diane talks to Penney Pierce about transparency and how it can empower us to be our authentic selves. They discuss how the culture is changing as we leave the information age and how transparency is the key. Penney talks about how to let go of fear, how to be who we really are and the power of radical trust.

Penney Pierce is a gifted, intuitive empath and one of the pioneers of the intuition development movement. She is the author of several books including, Transparency: Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity.

What you will learn in this episode

• What transparency is and how it can help you
• How to get unstuck when you're off-centered
• The importance of attention
• Finding the true understanding of your fear and how to make it into something positive
• The power of transparency and authenticity
• How to be who you really are
• The story of how Penney had to put into practice her ideas on transparency and authenticity when moving from California to Florida
• The power of radical trust

Quotes:

"When you get stuck, it's a matter of taking a breath, coming back to center, realizing 'wait a minute that's not how I like to feel, I like to feel this way' and the imagining yourself back into that state."

"We're having to let go of things that weight us down, that are old and boring, slow and sticky, that we don't like any more and have the courage to move in these new ways of perceiving and being that are smooth and friction-less."

"There's a great hunger for authenticity."

"It's all about seeing people for who they really are."

"What you put your attention on increase and becomes real. What you take your attention out of dissolves."

Contact Penney:http://www.penneypeirce.com/

Transparency: Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity by Penney Pierce

Contact Diane:

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Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Get Diane's new book, "Jumpstart Your Life:  Find Your Motivation and Change Your Life One Step at a Time "available online at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound and other online retailers.

Join my private Jumpstart Your Life Community on Facebook.  Get resources, tips and ideas as you integrate the Jumpstart Your Life process.

This week on Balanced Living for Busy Professionals, Diane welcomes back Kim Campbell o continue their discussion about plant-based nutrition. In this episode Diane and Kim discuss how to get started with plant-based nutrition and the importance of eating whole foods. Kim also offers tips on how to incorporate plant-based food when eating out, utilizing frozen vegetables and planning ahead.

Kim Campbell is the author of Plant Pure Nation Cookbook. She transitioned to a plant-based lifestyle in the mid 90's and has been following this way of eating for over 25 years.

What you will learn in this episode:

• Kim's journey to eating a plant-based nutrition
• How Diane started living a plant-based lifestyle due to a health crisis
• What plant-based means
• How Kim has helped her parents transition to a plant-based way of eating
• Kim's tips for busy professionals with no time, on how to incorporate plant-based meals into their life
• How plant-based eating can be inexpensive
• The advantages of batch cooking and planning ahead
• How to be plant-based when your partner or family isn't interested
• The Healing America program that Kim is involved in

Quotes:

"Our philosophy at Plant Pure is that you're eating as close to 100% plant based and whole food plant based."

"The whole food is often the hardest because we live in a very processed food world."

"People don't really know what they're eating anymore."

"Start where you are. What are you eating now that you can make a little healthy or that you can switch-out with more of a plant based substitute."

"Being sick is not convenient."

Contact Kim:

Plant Pure Nation

Plant Pure Nation Film

Healing America

Contact Diane:

[email protected]

Ask your questions or share your feedback:

Write your comments in the show notes section

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Get Diane's new book, "Jumpstart Your Life:  Find Your Motivation and Change Your Life One Step at a Time "available online at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound and other online retailers.

Join my private Jumpstart Your Life Community on Facebook.  Get resources, tips and ideas as you integrate the Jumpstart Your Life process.

Our connection to food starts at birth and our food driven culture is a way to give pleasure to our lives. But sometimes we use food to fill a void and our emotional connection to food can cause problems. Glenn Livingston, author of Never Binge Again: Stop Overeating and Binge Eating and Reprogram Yourself to Think Like Permanently Thin Person...on the Food Plan of Your Choice!, joins Diane to discuss emotional eating. They uncover what emotional eating means, discuss emotional issues and food. Plus, you'll hear strategies to help you build a solid foundation that can resist food impulses no matter what emotional state you are in.

Glenn Livingston is a veteran psychologist and former CEO to a multi-billion dollar consulting firm. He has an interesting perspective on food, both as a professional and as a formerly obese man.

What you will learn in this episode:

• What emotional eating really means and how eating hyper palatable food impacts your neurological and physiological systems
• The study Glenn did to understand which foods people turn to for comfort and struggle to stop eating
• Glenn describes which emotional issues you are likely to have depending on which kinds of food you tend to binge on
• Making your food decisions in advance
• How creating statements of character is how you beat emotional eating
• How the negative voice you hear after you make a mistake is binge motivated and how it's hard to keep binging if you refuse to yell at yourself
• Strategies to separate yourself from your lizard brain
• How advertising, and other messaging from the environment, impacts our lizard brain and directs our decisions
• How advertising affects you more when you believe it doesn't impact you
• How to deal with guilt and shame

Quotes:

"You don't need to figure out why you overeat, you need to figure out how to stop."

"Character trumps willpower."

"That's how you beat emotional eating. Your create statements of character."

"If you ask people if they can give up chocolate during the week, a lot of them will so no. Well could you become the kind of person who doesn't eat chocolate during the week and they'll say yes."

"It's very hard to love yourself out of an addiction

Contact Glenn Livingston: NeverBingeAgain.com

Contact Diane:

[email protected]

Ask your questions or share your feedback:

Write your comments in the show notes section

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Get Diane's new book, "Jumpstart Your Life:  Find Your Motivation and Change Your Life One Step at a Time "available online at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound and other online retailers.

Join my private Jumpstart Your Life Community on Facebook.  Get resources, tips and ideas as you integrate the Jumpstart Your Life process.

In this episode of Balanced Living for Busy Professionals Diane speaks with anxiety expert, Stephanie Dalfonzo. Together, they offer practical tools to help you make small mindset shifts for lasting anxiety and stress relief. Listen and learn empowering strategies that will help you say goodbye to the chaos, stress and anxiety in your life, gain control and bring your life back into balance.

Stephanie Dalfonzo is an Anxiety Expert, Speaker, Certified Hypnotist and Yoga and Meditation Teacher. She shares inspirational empowerment with simple action steps, and has freed thousands of people from their anxiety, stress and fears. 

What you will learn:

• How to get to the other side of anxiety with small efforts and keep your balance
• How to choose to respond to what happens in your life with simple tools and strategies
• How to create everyday practices that build up your "resilience muscle"
• Why "one size fits all" methods do not work for releasing stress and anxiety
• Stephanie guides listeners through two mental rehearsal practices that they can use to reduce stress and anxiety.
• How to de-program yourself from your digital devices and find balance

Quotes:

"We are at higher stress levels now than ever before in this country."

"Simple mindset shifts create lasting change."

"When life throws you a curve ball, your resiliency muscle will support you."

"It's not so much what happens to you in life, it's your response to it"

"Balance does not happen in a vacuum"

Contact Stephanie: StephanieDalfonzo.com

Free Download:   5EasyWaysToCalmAnxiety.com

Contact Diane:

[email protected]

Ask your questions or share your feedback:

Write your comments in the show notes section

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Get Diane's new book, "Jumpstart Your Life:  Find Your Motivation and Change Your Life One Step at a Time "available online at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound and other online retailers.

Join my private Jumpstart Your Life Community on Facebook.  Get resources, tips and ideas as you integrate the Jumpstart Your Life process.

In this episode Diane speaks with Nicole Wells about mindset shifts for presentations and events. Shifting your mindset can help you mentally prepare for tough audiences or speaking engagements. You will learn preparation tips that help save you time, ease your nerves, and improve your confidence when speaking or presenting to small or large groups.

Nicole Wells (SpeakWells.com) turned her greatest fear – public speaking – into her greatest passion, and has since taught thousands of professionals to do the same. She coaches individuals and groups from Fortune 500 companies, major law firms, and leaders in the marketing, branding and financial services industries. Nicole founded consultancy, Speak Wells and has more than 15 years of training and coaching experience.  Nicole has been an adjunct faculty member at New York University's Stern School of Business, The School for Professional Studies and The New School. Nicole specializes in presentation skills, handling nerves, first impressions and impromptu speaking. Her mission is to empower even the most reluctant speakers of the world to stand up and express themselves with poise and confidence.

What you will learn:

• How to turn your greatest fears into your greatest passion
• Learn to perform well in spite of fears when speaking in front of a small or large groups.
• How to interrupt negative thought patterns that may arise when speaking.
• Surefire tips on releasing anxiety and nervousness at the beginning of a speech.
• How to figure out what works and not succumb to old thought patterns.
• Why practice and experience is important when learning public speaking as a skill.
• Why taking big belly breath and visualizing a speech before it actually happens sets you up for success and calms the nerves.
• Learn strategies to help shift your mindset and come out on top with poise and confidence.

Quotes:

"When speaking, most of the time, people are not that interested in you."

"We judge ourselves more than anyone else."

"Just because you think a thought does not mean it's true, it's only valid when we reflect it on ourselves."

"Find your own template for speaking from the inside-out."

"Prepare your speech with the audience takeaway in mind."

Contact Nicole:

Nicole Wells Kurtzman, Principal, Speak Wells SpeakWells.com [email protected]

Nerve Busters Free Offer  Speak Wells Reminders: Presentation Strategies with You in Mind

Contact Diane:

[email protected]

Ask your questions or share your feedback:

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Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Get Diane's new book, "Jumpstart Your Life:  Find Your Motivation and Change Your Life One Step at a Time "available online at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound and other online retailers.

Join my private Jumpstart Your Life Community on Facebook.  Get resources, tips and ideas as you integrate the Jumpstart Your Life process.

In this episode of Balanced Living for Busy Professionals, Diane speaks with Dr. Eric Maisel about overcoming difficult family dynamics.  Many of the difficult people you encounter in daily life can be avoided, but what if they're family members? What if the difficult person is a parent, a sibling, one of your children, or your significant other? Life coach and retired family therapist, Dr. Eric Maisel, shares valuable insights on how to stay sane in the midst of family difficulty. Get practical strategies to help you navigate through the most challenging times. Learn how to maintain inner peace in the midst of family chaos and maybe even create a better life for your whole family.

Eric Maisel, PHD, is a retired family therapist, an active life coach, and the author of more than fifty books including his latest, Overcoming Your Difficult Family.  He has been featured in Martha Stewart Living, Redbook, Glamour, Men's Health, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Self Magazine.

What you will learn in this episode:

• Why family relationships can be the most difficult and chaotic
• How to overcome not just your difficult family but your own internal demons
• Use just 7 words when meeting with a difficult family member after a long period of time
• Learn different family styles and dynamics
• Learn how to survive and thrive in a difficult family
• How to have the courage to make a change
• How to create inner peace for the whole family

Quotes:

"Sometimes the best way to overcome a difficult family member is to end the relationship"

"Have the courage to make a change because change has consequences"

"Family relationships are the most difficult because you don't choose your family"

Contact Dr. Eric Maisel:

Eric Maisel PhD

Family Therapist

www.EricMaisel.com

Book:  Overcoming Your Difficult Family

Contact Diane:

[email protected]

Ask your questions or share your feedback:

Write your comments in the shownotes section

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Get Diane's new book, "Jumpstart Your Life:  Find Your Motivation and Change Your Life One Step at a Time "available online at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound and other online retailers.

Join my private Jumpstart Your Life Community on Facebook.  Get resources, tips and ideas as you integrate the Jumpstart Your Life process.

In this episode, Diane talks with Kathleen Audet about style, confidence and purpose. Learn what it means to be seen for who you are and not just for your outfit or label. Hear Kathleen's unique perspective on style, starting with your mindset first, working from the inside and out. Kathleen provides tips on how to shop for essentials and make you forget the statement "I have nothing to wear," forever.

Kathleen Audet, Your Authentic Image is a Personal Stylist and Image Consultant that has virtually worked with people all around the world to find their authentic image in essentializing their wardrobe. She has been in the fashion and image industry for 20+ years. On this episode, Kathleen talks about how to be authentic, confident and empowered when it comes to our own personal style.

What you will learn:

• How Kathleen's stroke changed the way she looked at clothes.
• How to dress from the inside out.
• How to dress according to your personality.
• Be seen for who you are and not just for the outfit or the label.
• Have confidence in whatever you wear.
• Ways to essentialize your wardrobe.
• Get past the stigma in the workplace.
• Use your clothes as a resource and not a liability.
• How your clothes send non-verbal messages.
• Accept your body for what it is and other barriers.
• Advice for men.

Quotes:

"What's going on the outside is reflected on the inside."

"Everything starts with the thought process."

"I'm not coming to you for something more than who I am."

"Your wardrobe is a place that you create who you are."

"Your clothes have a non-verbal communication to the world."

"We remember people by color first."

"Your image is something people are going to see whether you want them to or not."

"The first impression in the morning is not on other people, it's on us."

"Feel your way into your closet, not just think your way.

Contact Kathleen Kathleen Audet, Your Authentic Image http://www.yourauthenticimage.com/

Ask your questions or share your feedback:

Comment on the shownotes

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Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving a comment: http://www.dianerandallconsults.com/balanced-living-for-busy-professionals/

Get Diane's new book, "Jumpstart Your Life:  Find Your Motivation and Change Your Life One Step at a Time "available online at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound and other online retailers.

Join my private Jumpstart Your Life Community on Facebook.  Get resources, tips and ideas as you integrate the Jumpstart Your Life process.

Today, Diane Randall and Dr. Davina Koltulski talk about creating stillness, staying present, and tuning into your inner wisdom in order to stay sane in today's world. To create a harmonious balance in work and in life, we need to be able to handle the negative energy in the world, focus on what matters and support ourselves.

Dr. Davina Kotulski is a licensed psychologist, life coach and spiritual counselor. Dr. Davina leads meditation workshops, spiritual classes, and her 90-day Follow Your Courageous Heart program, which focuses on moving beyond fear and other obstacles to create a meaningful life. She's committed to helping people live a fulfilling live in alignment with their values, their heart's desires, and authentic soul's calling. She's the author of multiple books and articles on marriage equality and the inspirational award-winning novel, Behind Barbed Eyes.

What you will learn in this episode:

• Why it's important to slow down, meditate, be mindful and grounded in our hearts and our bodies to deal with the intense stressors today and stay sane
• A simple meditation breathing exercise to get connected to a deeper wisdom, turning away from the world of appearances, and tuning in to the wisdom within us
• How to reconnect with your heart and nature by taking breaks, get back into a world of cooperation (not competition) by being in the now
• The importance of deep listening and appreciating the world right now in this moment, cutting out distractions from connected devices, and finding the time for busy people to "check back in."
• Simple examples of ways to take time for self-care (get a facial or massage, meditate, walk, yoga) to be able to give more to your friends and family from the overflow instead of the bottom of the barrel
• What Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh says in "The Miracle of Mindfulness" about being present and enjoying things like eating or doing the dishes
• Why it's important to stop the numbing and get human connection, one-ness, and wholeness back
• Reconnecting to our humanity to change what happens in our world around us, check back in, and treat ourselves differently
• How to stop chasing more desire, stimulation, addiction, and consumerism by living in your heart and not in your head

Quotes:

"We need to be able to tune into what's going on within us so that we know how to respond from a place of peace. We need to know how to respond, not react, to what's going on around us."

"We can choose to take time out, or the universe will give us those time outs if we don't choose them for ourselves."

Contact:

Dr. Davina Kotulski, Ph.D. Author, Psychologist, Life Coach [email protected] www.davinakotulski.com

Dr. Davina's special offer. http://followyourcourageousheart.com/webinar-special-offer

Get your complimentary Courageous Heart download at www.followyourcourageousheart.com

Contact Diane:[email protected]

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

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Today, Diane welcomes you to the first episode of 2018 which kicks off the third season of Balanced Living for Busy Professionals podcast.  In this episode, Diane talks about how to love yourself more in 2018.  Learn why the only resolution you need is to practice more self-compassion. Get her tips on how to be more caring, understanding, and supportive towards yourself which results in greater emotional well-being, less depression, anxiety and stress.

Listen as Diane shares her 7 best life changing tools and strategies for navigating through emotional issues that may arise when changing old habits and patterns as you practice your way to a new way of being more loving and kind to yourself in 2018. 

What you will learn:

• When you are loving and kind to yourself - thoughts, actions and choices are aligned
• 7 tools and strategies for navigating through emotional issues, old habit and patterns
• Compassion vs Self Compassion
• How to take better care of yourself in a deeper way
• Why people fail at self-compassion
• Love and kindness meditation exercise

Quotes:

"Being imperfect is being human"

"Self-compassion is noticing your own suffering"

"The only resolution you need this year is to practice more self-compassion"

Download:

Love and Kindness Exercise

Contact Diane:

[email protected]

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

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