This is one of the hardest topics and most emotional episodes that have ever been on the Dare Greatly Podcast, the topic of men's mental health and suicide.

Today's episode is special because it is so real and honest. My guests I am sharing with you have been through a really difficult time losing their husband and father to suicide. As you listen, you will gain insights on how to help your loved ones who are struggling. They are doing important work to minimize stigma with finding help and hope when you need it.

If you've ever felt alone, you don't know where to find help, Gina's foundation, Stay Mentally Strong will help you find resources and more answers of where to turn.

Today, Gina and Ellie Oliverson join me to share their incredible story of Sean and their powerful wisdom they've learned since his passing.

Sean was the last person in the world anyone would ever think would take his own life. Top of his class in college, a well-beloved orthodontist in our home town of Ogden, Utah, handsome, super fit, financially successful, just all the things, but very few knew how much he was suffering from anxiety, OCD, and not sleeping.

Gina and Ellie share what they've learned about men's mental health and how they feel called to make a difference in the space of making men's mental health more accessible, more easy and affordable for men to reach out before they are in crisis.

They're teaching us what it means to honor your loved one's memory while also turning heartbreak and grief into something that can help others who are going through similar hardships. Let's Stop waiting to get the help you or your loved one needs and thinking you need to be strong all the time by yourself.

It's time to disarm all the shame that keeps our men from seeking the support they need and take back the sense of control and the healing they need, if they feel like they've lost that.

For more resources, including links to connect with Gina and Ellie and the Stay MENtally Strong Foundation, see below:

• Learn more about the Stay MENtally Strong Foundation here.

• Follow Ellie's podcast, Her Horizon podcast on Apple Podcasts.

• To learn more about retreats to Italy with Gina and her sister, click here.

• To work with Danielle for coaching, follow this link to learn more.

• Join the Dare Greatly Creator Mastermind, fall semester ten week group starts soon. Click here to join.

• If you're a parent who is wanting your teen or young adult work with Danielle, check out Dare Greatly Coaching.

We all want to feel like we are good enough. We all have an innate desire to feel confident, but Imposter Syndrome can keep us from feeling like we belong, no matter how hard we've worked or how accomplished we are. Why is that? What exactly is Imposter Syndrome? How do you know if you have it and if so, what can you do to minimize it?

One of the most important things you need to know on this journey from being blocked in your creativity to restoring your creative strength, vitality and inspiration is: you will feel like you don't belong. You will see others who are further along, who are "more talented", who seem to make it look easier, who have that special something you don't have, who have more accolades, and knowing that those feelings are normal, and not making it mean that you don't belong, it makes all the difference.

Join me this week to learn how to work with and heal Imposter Syndrome.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• the top five challenges many people believe about Imposter Syndrome

• how to overcome those challenges and move forward instead of feeling blocked

• The three vital Truths you need to know to overcome it

• How to cultivate new versions of yourself, versus being Past focused.

• How to become mentally and emotionally stronger

• My favorite way to think about owning your true power and authenticity

Mentioned on the show:

• Join the Dare Greatly Creator Mastermind, fall semester ten week group starts soon. Click here to join.

• If you're a parent who is wanting to have your teen or young adult work with Danielle, check out Dare Greatly Coaching.

• Book - The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

• Song - Rocketship by Danielle Vaughn. download here

• Follow Danielle on Spotify here.

PRACTICE NEW SKILLS SERIES - ANXIETY with Dare Greatly Coaching LLC: Anxiety doesn't have to run the show! Want easy tools you can use immediately to help your loved one? In my Practice New Skills series, you can apply what you learn starting today. Applying what you know is the HARDEST part of relationships and family life! Especially in a fun way that is easy, positive, and builds connection. This series is made for families to give you tools to intentionally teach social and emotional skills while also building a stronger marriage and family. Download your practice skills here.

Would you describe yourself as someone who could use some healing given what you've inherited from the generations who've gone before you? Do your parents or grandparents have some unresolved trauma that you're carrying?

This summer has been impactful for my family in that my cute dad recently passed away. My dad is really my biological uncle who adopted me when my mom passed away at a young age. Many of you have asked questions about my past, I'm sharing it here.

I'm so excited to dive into today's episode all about what it means to take the good from your previous generations, and manage the challenges that come with it, even when it's messy. Honoring your father and mother can be a beautiful thing, but it can also be really difficult if there's generational trauma and the previous generations haven't done the work of healing.

In this episode, I share some of my personal story with trauma to help you gain perspective of how generational healing works. You'll learn how to identify the post traumatic growth you've gained along the way, the difference between PTSD, and Complex PTSD, and leverage your childhood as a strength.

If you've ever struggled with wanting to build a better legacy for your family you are creating versus the one you inherited, this episode will give you perspective to navigate those situations with more intention.

• Why generational healing is useful but can be difficult to do on your own without the right kind of support.

• How to reframe trauma and see where you've experienced Post Traumatic Growth.

• The importance of understanding the difference between PTDS, and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

• Why building on the good you've inherited is important and how to identify your generational strengths.

If you worry about how to help your kids navigate today's world and you're wondering how to help them, you're in luck. My Free Guide for Parenting Teens is my go-to resource, where you'll learn tools and strategies applicable to children at any age, and you can click here to download.

Making decisions ahead of time is a powerful place to operate from. When you consider what you want your midlife years to look like, you have options that can open up fulfillment and joy. Midlife does not have to be hard or sad.

This quote stopped me in my tracks and will not leave my mind. Consider it for yourself: "Ten years from now, you'd give anything to be this age again, this healthy, this cute, and have this time again. Go do something that makes you proud of yourself today."

If you're a mom whose children are starting to become more independent, you might be wondering what life will look like ten years from now. It can be hard to imagine when you've lost yourself in mothering. But if you're interested in still finding purpose, maybe it's overcoming loneliness, or setting yourself up for success with coping with empty nest syndrome, and embracing life to thrive after children leave, then you're going to love this episode.

Stevie Nicks said it best… "well i've been afraid of changin' / cause I built my life around you / but time makes you bolder / even children get older / and I'm getting older too…"

These lyrics speak to my soul. They did even when my kids were young. I can remember imagining how hard it would be to be at that place where your kids are no longer in your day to day, and it made me feel kind of melancholy.

But lately I've been thinking about the line "time makes you bolder." Is that actually true? And if so, what does that look like?

Listen in and discover how to make your midlife your best chapter yet.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW

• Website, Danielle Vaughn Coaching for parents, young adults and older teens wanting support in dating, marriage, and building that dream in your heart.

• Come join us inside the Dare Greatly Society, my group coaching program.

• Stream more of Danielle's music on Spotify find more original music as well as new releases shared on the podcast.

• Grab the Cheat Sheet for Parenting Teens and Young Adults here!

My journey in the Marriage and Family Studies world has been influenced by lots of amazing mentors, from John Gottman to William Doherty, to Brene Brown.

Through their teachings, reading all their books, and my own experience and introspection, I came to understand the importance of fighting for your marriage.

It's a powerful way to approach your relationships and explore where a consumer mindset may be undermining your marriage.

Fighting for your marriage will allow you to show up fully with your partner, and it can transform the way you experience fulfillment in the most important relationship you will take on.

In this episode, I share what getting support for your marriage looks like, how it works, and how being intentional of who you let into your inner circle is one of the most important decisions you will make.

Through getting the right kind of support, you can access your highest level of marital happiness and make choices that create the outcomes you've always hoped for. Tune in this week to learn how.

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER

• How to assess if family and friends are Marriage Builders or Marriage Underminers.
• Soft reasons for divorce and Hard reasons for divorce.
• The importance of building a community of good mentors, and how to be a life-long learner.
• How to assess your counselor or therapist if they are operating from a Personal Satisfaction bias or a Fighting for Your Marriage bias.
• What happens when you fully understand and practice self-reflection and the power of thought work in your marriage.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW

• Book, Take Back Your Marriage by William J. Doherty, PhD; offers practical tools for sticking together in a world that pulls us apart. A wise and timely book of advice on marriage from one of America's favorite therapists.
• Book, Atomic Habits by James Clear. An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones.
• Website, Italy Retreats for Women - Make Life Sweet trips to Tuscany, Italy with Maria and Gina.

• Website, Danielle Vaughn Coaching for parents, young adults and older teens wanting support in dating, marriage, and building that dream in your heart.

• Come check out the Dare Greatly Society.

• Stream more of Danielle's music on Spotify find more original music as well as new releases shared on the podcast.

• Grab the Cheat Sheet for Parenting Teens and Young Adults here!

Do you or someone you love live with a chronic illness or with chronic pain? Then you're going to want to lean in and listen closely to Shelby Lives Vibrantly.

As a life coach, invisible illness warrior, and kidney transplant recipient, Shelby has navigated the waters of chronic fatigue and chronic pain for over two decades and can help you feel more energized and alive than ever before. Using a combination of nervous system regulation paired with mindset coaching, she helps moms who experience chronic conditions increase their energy, feel at peace with their diagnoses and body, and eliminate or decrease their physical symptoms without restrictive diets or costly supplements. She helps moms rewire their relationships with their bodies and their symptoms so that waking up can feel like the best part of their day again.

If you want to take what you're learning on the podcast and apply it to your unique circumstances, you need to join the Dare Greatly Society! It has individualized support for your marriage, family life, and that dream in your heart. Click here for more details.

What You'll Learn on this Episode:

• How to live vibrantly even when you're managing chronic pain or chronic illness

• Where additional healing can be found and how to understand the emotional component to healing.

• Insights of how chronic pain can be worked through with the nervous system, and what 'pain reprocessing therapy' is.

• Why 'acceptance' isn't the only approach to working with chronic pain.

• What to do with Anger when it shows up due to a difficult diagnosis.

• Tips for working through chronic pain in relationships with partners and how to better support each other.

• How to face the fears of missing out when the body needs more rest than usual.

Mentioned on the show:

• Book, Unlearn Your Pain by Howard Shubiner; offers cutting edge scientific information on the mind body connection and a complete guided program for recovery from mind body syndromes.

• Book, The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon

• Website, Shelby K Hansen, the life coach for moms experiencing chronic fatigue and/or chronic pain, wanting to learn how to live vibrantly.

• Come check out the Dare Greatly Society.

• Stream more of Danielle's music on Spotify find more original music as well as new releases shared on the podcast.

• Grab the Cheat Sheet for Parenting Teens and Young Adults here!

Have you ever noticed the emotion of jealousy come up in your creative endeavors? Sometimes it can really wreak havoc with our creativity and ability to enjoy accomplishing our goals. Maybe you've been inspired by others who have gone before you, a successful artist or creator who has accomplished what you want to accomplish, and you find yourself wishing you had what they had.

If you've ever found yourself feeling jealous or less-than, wishing opportunities would come your way that other people seem to get, or even at a complete loss of what to do with the emotion of jealousy, you'll want to learn and implement my framework of how to deal with jealousy in a healthy way.

Join me on today's episode where I'll show you how to tune into your jealousy, versus tune out so you can let its intelligence inform you how to create your own opportunities that will light you up.

If you want to take what you're learning on the podcast and apply it to your unique circumstances, you need to join the Dare Greatly Society! It has individualized support for your marriage, family life, and that dream in your heart. Click here for more details.

What You'll Learn on this Episode:

• What to do with jealousy if you wish you had actionable tools to work with it.

• Why resisting or avoiding your jealousy doesn't work and usually backfires.

• How to get instant relief from being jealous.

• The key to creating your own opportunities so you can move from 'wishing' to making yourself proud.

If you're wanting to have an antidote to the venom of jealousy - and get back into the joyful flow of creation without worrying about what other people are doing - today's episode is for you.

Creating your dreams takes courage and the willingness to dare greatly. I'm cheering you on.

Don't let jealousy stop you or slow you down.

Mentioned on the show:

• Grab the Cheat Sheet for Parenting Teens and Young Adults here!

• Coaching changed the way I enjoyed motherhood and honored my dreams in my heart, and I've witnessed it change the lives of hundreds of parents and young adults since. Click here to work with me for three months. (You'll be amazed at what working with a coach for just three months can do.)

• Come check out the Dare Greatly Society.

• Book, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

• Stream more of my music on Spotify where I share my original music as well as new releases shared on the podcast.

Show Notes Podcast

I am in the trenches of parenting older teens and young adults myself, and it is not easy. And many of the people I work with come to me wanting support in their parenting given today's challenges. I'm teaching five skills you'll want to adopt in your parenting tool kit no matter how old or young your children are, the skills your child needs in order to navigate the unique challenges of today.

If you've ever found yourself feeling worried for your teen, out of your element, or even at a complete loss of how to help your teen, you'll want to learn and implement these five skills, it's never too late.

I've boiled it down to five skills I believe teens and young adults need these days to face their future with more self-trust, and if they implement these skills, they will be far more prepared for the unique challenges and difficulties today's world presents.

Join me on this episode to discover what to do with negative emotion, how to support your older child when they're struggling, and how to apply all the concepts we learn here on the podcast and practice them in their everyday lives.

If you want to take what you're learning on the podcast and apply it to your unique circumstances, you need to join the Dare Greatly Society! It has individualized support for your marriage, family life, and that dream in your heart. Click here for more details.

What You'll Learn on this Episode:

• 5 vital skills your teen or young adult needs to navigate today's world

• How to be the Allower of emotions, versus the Judger, so you can build more confidence and self-trust.

• What keeps us stuck in low self-worth and what to do instead.

• Where real self-worth comes from and how to help your kids identify it in themselves.

• How to assess what your unique strengths are and how to lead with them versus swimming in unhelpful comparisons

• How you'll have so much more confidence, peace, and clarity in your parenting when you use these skills as a foundation for guiding your children.

Mentioned on the show:

• Grab the Cheat Sheet for Parenting Teens and Young Adults here!

• Coaching changed the way I enjoyed motherhood and honored my dreams in my heart, and I've witnessed it change the lives of hundreds of parents and young adults since. Click here to work with me for three months. (You'll be amazed at what working with a coach for just three months can do.)

• Come check out the Dare Greatly Society.

• Sign up for Coaching for Men by clicking here, six week coaching series special offer. (space is limited.)

• Stream more of my music on Spotify where I share my original music as well as new releases shared on the podcast.

Today's episode is directed towards how life coaching benefits men, husbands and fathers. If I could go back and talk to my young-married self, learning what I've learned through studying Marriage and Family, I would have supported my husband a little differently over the years.

While being a husband and father in today's culture is full of more opportunity than ever before, it can also feel like you're carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. You might think you have to be strong all the time and not know who to talk to when you are feeling weighed down. You might feel awkward talking about what you're worried about and you might not want to be perceived as weak. Whatever you're worried about right now, coaching can help.

Tune in this week as I share some of the ways I help the men I coach. I'm sharing the three things men need to know as they learn how to self-regulate frustration, anger, and the fight-or-flight instincts they deal with as they move through their career and juggling marriage and fatherhood so they can feel more supported while knowing what to do with juggling it all.

I have room for three clients between now and the end of the year that you can sign up for right now! The Coaching for Men program is available for $349 for six weeks. Check it out by clicking here!

If you want to take what you're learning here on the podcast and apply it in your unique circumstances, you need to join the Dare Greatly Society three month group coaching program: We start our next group mid-January. Get into the program by clicking here. (space is limited)

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ON THIS EPISODE:

• The problem with growing up with an emotionally unavailable father and what to do about it.
• Why men struggle with knowing what to do with emotions and how to help them.
• My experience with helping my husband and how it's improved our marriage.
• What men want more than anything else, versus what women want.
• The importance of understanding our nervous system programming and how to reprogram it if it isn't serving us.
• How to self-heal if you are constantly in 'fight or flight' mode and how to use a diffferent fuel that doesn't push loved ones away.

MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:

• Coaching taught me how to self-heal without years of therapy (although we love all the good therapists!) and I've watched it change the lives of hundreds of women, teens, and young adults since. Are you wondering if it is right for you? Let's meet over zoom and see if it's right for you, click here to schedule a free consult.
• Come check out the Dare Greatly Society
• If you're a parent who is a self-learner and enjoys knowing how to best support your kids in today's challenging world, I want to help you take your parenting to the next level. Interested? Purchase the Dare Greatly Parenting course here.
• Grab the Preparing Teens Cheat Sheet for the five vital skills they'll need to navigate today's world and overcome ANY challenge. click here.
• Listen to more of my music on Spotify for streaming.

What's the difference between those who struggle with finding inspiration for their art and those who are receiving new ideas regularly? Between those who are lit up by inspiration and those who can't find it? Artist Dates.

Perhaps your creative spark is simply suffocating beneath the weight of all your responsibilities.

For us to blossom and flourish, it requires taking the time to refill your cup, and we do this with what Julia Cameron calls Artist Dates.

Whether you have a packed full schedule, or are in a season with time on your hands, we all do better when we carve out a little space for new scenery, new stimulation for the senses, and a fresh perspective to clear our heads.

Julie Cameron is convinced that the Artist Date is the antidote to a lack of inspiration, and that the Muse isn't only for the smart, talented, or well-connected. She wants to support you when you're in the midst of your messy middle and life's responsibilities, and that's exactly what I'm sharing with you today.

What You'll Learn on this Episode:

• How 5 famous artists from contrasting styles and mediums found their inspiration, and how you can too by following their lead.
• Why even the most successful, resilient people lose their creative edge and want to give up sometimes, and what to do about it instead.
• Where to start if you are new to Artist Dates.
• The secret to overcoming creative blocks and regularly connecting with (or reconnecting with) your Muse.

Mentioned on the show:

• If you'd like to join the Dare Greatly Creator Mastermind, then come join our fall semester ten week group. Click here to join.
• If you're a parent who is wanting to have your teen or young adult work with Danielle, check out Dare Greatly Coaaching.
• Book - The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
• Song - Rocketship by Danielle Vaughn. download here
• Follow Danielle on Spotify here.