Defying Self

Your marriage relationship plays a critical role in giving you the strength and endurance to parent your children well. In this episode, we cover the principles and practical examples of what it means to give and receive support from your spouse.

Resistance is the events, people and unfortunate outcomes that create a valid reason to give up. In this episode, Eddie talks through a recent challenge that caused him to learn how to defy valid reasons to give up. We highlight several principles that affirm how we keep moving forward in spite of the resistance of life.

Here are the principle that we covered: 

1. Where does your grace come from?

2. Sometimes the best offering is to give up

3.  Even if you fail, so what?

4. Resistance is defined by our expectation of results

Parenting is full of tough moments. Though we are often able to get our kids through these moments, there are "other" moments that cause us to freak out. In this episode, we take a look at where parenting anxiety comes from and what we need to do to overcome it.

To be better for ourselves and our kids we cannot afford to be weighed down any longer by the breakdowns of our upbringing. In this episode, we review that compassion, sight and transformation is needed to break free from the history that keeps us stuck.

We continue our conversation on defying the fear of getting started. We speak to Neo, an Investment Company owner in South Africa, about how she faced her fears and quit her job to start her own business.

Neo Maruatona Ratau is a finance professional, turned entrepreneur. She now co-owns an investment holding company, Mamor Capital, with an aim to drive SA's economic expansion through sustainable investments and commercial innovation.

Starting something new can be intimidating and overwhelming. Listen in to learn how Eddie journeyed through leaving his job and starting his private practice. In this episode we talk about the specific principles that will help you defy the fear of starting your next project.

How many times have you been on the edge of starting something new? Looking for a new job, starting a business, relocating or simply changing a habit, but the fear of getting started has you stuck? In this episode we talk about defying the fear of getting started.

Episode # 2 of our series on Defying the Noise of Negative Opinion. In this episode we look at how we can begin to heal from the pull of negative opinions. How do we push past the noise? How do we manage ourselves so that negative opinions don’t immobilize us anymore?

In this episode we deal with the noise of negative opinion. Why do other people's opinions affect some of us? And where does it all come from? We also talk about the factors that keep us stuck in our insecurities.

In this episode we continue our conversation on how we parent with confidence even though we are inexperienced. We discuss two truths of parenting: (1). We are all “inexperienced” parents and (2). There are guiding principles that give us confidence.