Bloom Your Mind

Today we're gonna do some future trippin'. Yup, we're talking about your future self in this two-part episode, because it's a hugely important skill, both for turning an idea into reality, and when you're trying to bring something out of your mind and into the world.

The science is very clear that future thinking and mental rehearsal are good for depression, anxiety, heightened creativity, empathy, and overall well-being. 

In this episode, you'll learn many of the reasons why Marie recommends that we think from the perspective of our future self, every single day. 

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The origin of how Marie's husband started the future trippin' concept
• Learn a step-by-step visualization to engage your future self every day
• How to set your big 3 future self goals
• Why it's important to act and BE the future you in the present
• How developing a future vision helps us see the timeline

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

Marie stubbornly does what she wants and today, she's going to make a big ol' podcast about love … the day after the Valentine's Day.

On this day after, we don't have to just go back to everyday life. We can put love, real love, on the top of the mental inbox again.

Join Marie as she shares her Five Little Love Hacks that you can bring into your life today, this minute, and every day after. From the assumptions we have or the type of attention we give to the thoughts we choose, we can create more awareness, move connection, and a whole lot more love.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Five "love hacks" you can do today to change your relationships
•  How love is based on our thoughts about the people in our lives
• Why the assumptions we hold define the relationships we have
• The unique, easy-to-implement hallmark of really strong couples

Featured in this episode: 

• Tony Robbins
• Gottman's Institute Love Lab
• Terrance Real
• Harvey Keitel

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

Wife, daughter, son, father, artist, blue-collar worker, teacher, student. We all live in a variety of roles throughout our lives, using them as guides for how to behave, choose, and operate. How do those roles make us feel? And do we have a choice about what those roles really mean?

In today's episode, Marie digs deep into how roles get defined and just how much our behaviors in those roles are interwoven with our core beliefs. She also has two simple but powerful questions you can ask to help re-define the roles you play. Because y'all… you get to decide.

What you'll learn in this episode: 

• "Who says" is a powerful statement to call BS on societal beliefs
• How the roles we play are intricately tied to our beliefs
• Why our brains try to align our roles based on how others have defined them
• Two  questions to get to the root of your roles and what they mean for you 
• Learn about the "good day spray" and how you can use it today :)

Mentioned in this episode:  
Trudi LeBron - Equity Centered Coaching 

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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Asking yourself good questions is a tool that we use in design thinking, and in any innovative practice that engages "possibility thinking." The process of inquiry sparks creativity and curiosity, helping us to break down the self-imposed limiting boxes, so we can ask ourselves high-quality, empowering questions that inspire, motivate, and point us towards where we want to go. 

What you'll learn in this episode: 

• Why it's more helpful to ask your brain directed questions
• The practice of asking powerful questions in your day-to-day
• When you ask a great question your brain will give you great answers
• Asking questions gives us access to innovative thinking on a higher level

When we are willing to ask intentional questions, we open the realm of possibility to shift and change what we want to contribute and create in the world.

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

In Marie's last episode, she talked about how often we think we are our thoughts. In today's episode, she digs into that topic a little more, exploring how we can step back from believing those thoughts. We're zooming into that singular moment when you have the unhelpful, negative thought.

Whether you're getting up in front of a crowd to speak, preparing to launch your first business, asking the boss for a raise, or preparing for a big life change, Marie's unique Velcro Technique is the perfect trick to re-center. Not only that, but it opens the door to compassion, which is far more effective than the harsh thoughts you've got running through your head.

What you'll learn in this episode: 

• How celebrating your bigness has a positive impact on those around you
• A challenge, or dare, to try out this week
• Why we think we are our thoughts, and forget we have a choice whether to think it or not
• Marie's unique Velcro Technique to un-stick yourself from negative thoughts

Featured in this episode:

• Ep 7: How to Do Brain Magic

Your brain is there to protect you, to keep you safe, but more often than not, it's taken over and pulled you onto a detour that doesn't get you closer to your destination. It's time to get back in the driver's seat.

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

We know that in order to stay physically balanced, we need sleep, water, nutrients for our body. It ensures our survival. But what we really don't learn are the fundamental ways we can make our brain thrive every day. 

95 percent of the work the brain does is subconscious. Automatic. Efficient. What's happening, though, is that our brain is repeating thoughts and ideas over and over. Sometimes it's helpful … but often it is not. We don't stop to see which of these thoughts running through our mind are true and which we're making up. So, the way to bloom our minds is to watch what it's doing.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Marie's single, most helpful technique that changed her life
• Why all those thoughts running through your brain aren't true
• A trait that people who are successful in relationships have in common
• Two powerful questions to ask every day to bloom your mind 

Listen in to lucky episode seven and learn the one special technique that Marie uses every day; one that changed her life from the inside out. Once you incorporate it into your day-to-day, you'll find just how easy it is to choose to live successfully.

Featured in the this episode:

• Super Friends article in The Atlantic

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

As we journey through our lives and we learn to love ourselves through our high points and our low points, we are experiencing the "upward spiral." 

This relates to the metaphor of a tree trunk. Think of how it starts in the middle, in a tight little spiral and it goes out, and each one of the rings that you see in the tree is a record of different season over and over again. 

Our lives go through the same seasons. In this episode, you'll learn how to dig deep and ask the questions that uncover the upward spiral experiences in your life. 

What you'll learn in this episode:

• How the upward spiral helps unravel patterns that keep us stuck
• How to meet challenges instead of reacting to them
• To see that nothing has gone wrong when challenges appear
• Marie shares her own "optimizer" tendencies showed her the upward spiral

The upward spiral allows us to meet ourselves with compassion, and be light-hearted and give ourselves grace for being totally normal humans in the world. We don't get stuck and stall out in those parts of the the spiral that are hard. We just notice them for what they are, walk through them and keep going. 

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

We know what we want. We see the change we want to make, but we just can't seem to get moving. It's like someone is holding down the pause button, preventing us from taking the action we need to get there.

In this episode of the Bloom Your Mind, Marie describes the three main reasons we stay stuck, and the steps needed to break through them.

The path forward is 100% within your control right now and every single day. The world needs more goodness, imagination, and creativity. The world needs YOU.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The big three reasons you stay stuck
• Why we can ignore this idea of an "original idea"
• What the world really needs from you
• Two secrets for finding where to start

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

It doesn't matter how big our goals and dreams are.

In the face of well-intentioned friends expressing their doubt, family and coworkers looking at you like you're crazy, or even the most supportive teacher asking if you're sure this is the right thing to do, it's easy to just get stuck.

To stop. To give up. But all of that is just a reflection of the before.

A reflection based on what is right now in the before. Now, it's time to shift your mindset into what will be in the after.

In this episode of the Bloom Your Mind podcast, Marie shares the three steps she took to change her beliefs and realign her focus; it comes down to being on the right side.

Listen now to learn how you can shift out of the before you're stuck in and believe in the after. 

What you'll learn in this episode:

• How Marie discovered two sides of change during grad school
• How to generate belief in what you want to create or change
• The difference between living in the before vs living in the after
• Three simple steps to make your focus real in the now (for the after)

 Featured in this episode:

• Ep 03: Turn Up Your Desire
• Wangechi Mutu’s Backlash Blue

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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Today's episode is all about what YOU want.
How to want from a place that's your true desire, that's aligned with your values, and with who you want to be.

Many of us, especially those of us that grew up as women, are taught to fear our desire.

We may have been taught that we're here to serve the needs of others, to work, and say YES, and to focus on meeting expectations. 

When we ask ourselves what we really want, and look at why we want it, it opens up a whole new wild, true world. 

THAT desire can fuel us through any challenges, or opinions, or failures, to make our ideas real, and to make the world we're in look like the one we want, in the beautiful inner land of our minds. 

What you'll learn in this episode: 

• In order to find out what we want we have to be willing to hear the answer.
• These answers reveal what's solid, lasting and true for us.
•  We can want from a place of service and love. It doesn't have to be about us. 
• Much of what we want doesn't actually come from us, and in this episode you'll learn how to tell the difference. 
• Learn how to create a north star for your life; a sentence that guides your every day choices and big life decisions. 
• Learn how to play more, to unleash the raw, wild desire inside all of us.

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM!
We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!