Brave Being the Podcast

Full disclosure, since the last episode I had a lost my #$%& moment and I gain some additional insight that I thought was crucial to share with you. No matter how much regulation, study, or awareness building we do, we are still human. Therefore we still have moment when our emotions get the best of us. It is in these moments we can REFLECT and learn incredible things about ourselves. 

I share my moment with you in the episode and walk you through all the facets, complexities, and insights that occurred. I share this with you to be example of what being human is. What navigating emotional process, transformation, and what a true brave being is. My vulnerability is what makes me stronger. 

Enjoy. 

Come on, we all "lose it" every once in awhile. Whether it be at work, at home or in the privacy of your own experience, it happens. And even if there haven't been other spectators to your frustration, we often find ourselves feeling ashamed, sad, exhausted and wishing we would have handled it differently. So if this is a fact of life how do we deal with? 

In this episode I talk about the 2 Phases of "Losing it" and provide you with clear guidance of how to cope before and after. This episode is sure to reduce your fears, worries and shame around losing your cool. 

Pain and discomfort are clearly not a desirable experience. Yet so often the reason we find them to be so challenging is because we make it far more complicated in our mind, than if we were just to experience it. Pain and Discomfort are factors of life, and yet we try so hard to avoid and distract. This avoidance and distraction often leads to more pain and discomfort. 

In this episode, I use the metaphor of Child Birth as a way to relay the importance and possibility that pain and discomfort provide. This lens is immensely useful if you have had a child birth experience, are approaching one, or even have just thought about what it might be like to give birth... probably painful! I diffuse your misconceptions about pain and make strong suggestions for how to increase your tolerance, move towards discomfort and reap the many benefits of this process. Turns out our pain and discomfort often results in transformative moments. 

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Every think that maybe you are just not totally wired to change? You may be on to something here. There are a lot of factors that go into our ability to have massive transformation in our lives. We often think we want something to be different, yet haven't really fully explored if that is even a possibility for us. 

In this episode I talk about our capacity to transform. What factors play into this? How our brain tends to respond? And what we need to enact the transformation that we say we desire? I believe that the ability to transform anything in our life is available to us all. We just need to get smarter than ourselves in discovering what opposition might be up against us in making those changes. This episode is the first step. 

Have you ever taken a good look at the people who are in your life? Are they supportive? or critical? Surrounding ourselves with individuals who are supportive of our feelings, experiences, dreams and desires is crucial to our human experience. We need to have the "right" people on our bus if we want to achieve our goals and follow our dream. 

When the wrong people take up space in our life it becomes toxic. There voice becomes our voice and being able to focus on what is most important to us is very hard. In this episode I help you determine if you have the right people on your bus and if not how to get them. If you get people in the right seats in your life, you will be unstoppable. 

References: "Good to Great" by Jim Collins

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The greatest risks reap the biggest reward. They also come with a whole lot of fear. This fear often keeps us from wanting to take greater risks in our lives. What if you could take risk and feel like it wasn't even about the reward? Rather, it was about the experience of getting to overcome challenge, deepen your relationship to yourself and to grow. Then perhaps a risk wouldn't be so bad. Risks are crucial to your evolution and yet are so hard to confront. This episode invites you to take risk by giving you reasons why it actually benefits your to do so. So what risk are you going to take? 

Many of desire to have more money or more simply put, financial security. Yet, we ignore some of the primary principles required to get us that financial freedom. Like, have you ever thought that maybe how you relate to money is a direct reflection of how you relate to yourself? For better or for worse money is complicated relationship in our world. One that many of us could improve upon. Even more so, how we relate to ourselves also could use some work. In this episode I connect these concepts. Showing you on increasing your internal worth may just up the $$$ in your bank account. 

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Part of the Brave Being culture is stepping into our personal empowerment and being able to communicate our feelings in relationship. This skill could be considered assertiveness. Our ability to be assertiveness is necessary in reflecting our emotional experience, internal world and experiences in relationship. Often we take a passive approach because we fear how other will respond or react. In doing this we miss out on a fundamental opportunity to not only practice assertiveness but also CONNECTEDNESS.

In this episode I talk about how to be more assertive (not to be confused with aggressive) and how to truly reflect our emotional experience in relationship to feel seen, heard, and understood. Being more assertiveness drive our personal empowerment, deepens our connection to self and ultimately can enhance our interpersonal relationships.  

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Did you know that most of what we communicate is NONVERBAL. That's right! Our energy plays a huge part in how we communicate, connect, and engage with others. The crazy thing though is that we often get hooked on words and language and forget to assess what a persons behavior is actually trying to communicate to us. 

In this episode I talk about the importance of non verbal communication and give you exact tools to be able to deepen your own understanding of what is being communicated to you besides just language. This can be so powerful in increasing our sustainability, emotional connection, and relationships. 

We talk a lot about having a connection to your emotional experience, but where exactly do we find our emotional experience? And what's the point of it all? Well, the more we deepen our connection to our heart the more we gain access to our True Self. Our true self is our essence, our emotional center, our place to access dreams, desires, purpose. It is crucial on our life's path to connect to our heart. 

Often it is our mind that gets in the way of deepening our connection to our heart center. Our mind most certainly is responsible for not allowing us to connect to our emotions. This episode allows us to identify these two centers and how they operate in our lives. Neither one is better than the other, they both have a purpose. This episode we clarify how to get these two forces to work together. In working together we are able to have the most optimal life experience possible. ENJOY!

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