Time is so omnipresent in our lives that it is easy to overlook its significance. Many of us struggle with time, race against time, feel oppressed by time, pang for more time, but what does this really mean? Why do we have these experiences? And what do these experiences mean for our lives? In today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, we take a closer look at time and our relationship to it. What is within our control and why it matters in our quest to live happy and fulfilled lives.

Last week I promised (at least in my post-script) that this week’s podcast would be fun and light. As I mentioned last week, February is typically a challenging month for me. This is why I made a special point of PLAYING BIG this month too. Like many people, I can be known to put PLAY at the bottom of the priority list. But not this month. This month, it rose up…. LITERALLY!  Join me for today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, during which I share why things like indoor skydiving are not a luxury for those committed to living a courageously curious life!

I don’t know about you, but February is typically the most challenging month for me of the year. I know I am not alone because the ‘February Blues’ is actually a thing, especially if you live where it is cold and dark in February. The trees are bare, the air is raw, and for many people, there seems to be a lot of change to cope with. This is why today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, is about coping with discomfort. Whether this discomfort is the result of a relationship challenge, marriage ending, job transition, illness, politics…. Whatever the source of the discomfort, join me for 17 minutes of getting curious about how to cope with the February Blues (or discomfort of any kind!).

Valentine’s Day has always been very curious to me. Hallmark created a holiday and the next thing you know, there is a day during the year on which more people than not - whether in a relationship or not - walk around with a faint or very strong feeling of insufficiency and unmet expectations. When the expectation is set all around us about what LOVE is supposed to look like (and this idea is very far from the reality, depth, and complexity of what love is actually like), the result isn’t pretty. In today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, I take on Valentine’s Day as well as the broader impact of externally constructed expectations in our lives. How are we affected by externally constructed expectations and what can we do about it?

Are you feeling affected by the current state of affairs in the country? Do you find yourself wondering how to BE and cope and what to do? In this week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I muse with Darwin Carlisle and Matt Loftin from the Lofty Darwinism podcast show about how we find our place in this new world we are living in. Join us for this 3-way conversation.

Does life ever make you crazy? Does your job, family, traffic, news ever trigger you, make you feel anxious or get you down? In this week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant we talk about how to make how you react to the outside world the object of your curiosity. All of us are affected by things from the outside world and the amazing thing is that our reactions can teach us a lot about ourselves as well as helping us find a path to greater contentment. Listen in for tips about how to navigate in an ever-unpredictable world. www.couragetobecurious.com

Do you have the courage? In this week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant - the first of 2017 - we will be talking about having the courage to be curious! Perhaps you have no idea why the host company of this podcast is called, Courage to be Curious. This week’s episode makes it all clear. Listen in as we explore why Curiosity is one of the foundations of personal growth and why real personal growth is not for the feint of heart!  Join us for the journey and gear up for an amazingly brilliant year of Wondering Your Way to a Brilliant You! www.couragetobecurious.com

All month we have been talking about listening and today I want to offer that perhaps the greatest gift we can give to someone else and to ourselves is the gift of feeling heard. In today’s episode, I offer guidance on how you can give this gift in these final days of 2016 - and well beyond, of course. To whom might you want to give the gift of feeling heard by you? Why might you wish to give yourself the gift of feeling heard by you? How might you do this? This is the subject of today’s episode. www.couragetobecurious.com

Most of our listening experiences are oriented outward, but I honestly believe that the most important listening we can do is oriented inward. We look at the galaxies, the seas, the rainforests, and marvel at how complex, wondrous, and rich these environments are, and today I invite you to consider that your inner world, your mind, body, and spirit is equally as complex, rich and wondrous - and absolutely worthy of your curiosity. In today’s episode, I explore WHY we should bother listening within and some tips on getting started with this practice. www.couragetobecurious.com

The foundation of all relationships is effective communication, and the key to connected communication is being able to really listen. While we hear things all the time, true listening is a highly engaged process; a full being experience. On today’s episode, we delve more deeply into what gets in the way of our really listening to others, what the consequences of this are,  and how we can become more engaged and connected through deep listening. www.couragetobecurious.com