Sarah Glenn has nearly a decade of coaching experience supporting over 3,700 individuals with goal setting, career, and life design. And she has supported over 150 businesses with their recruiting and staffing strategies. She has been trained through the Robbins-Madanes School of Coaching as a career and life coach and has extensive experience as a recruiter, manager, business developer, and coach. In this episode, Sarah  shares how she left her corporate job to start her own coaching business, Completely Coaching, at the start of 2020 and has served many people to help them reach success while also making her dreams a reality. It's an episode you don't want to miss.

Since we are in our new year, that means its a new year to challenge ourselves and to get out of our comfort zones. Instead of just setting new years resolutions that most people have a hard time sticking to by the end of the month. Why don’t you try to think of goals you want to achieve this year and think of things that will actually challenge you to be a better version of yourself than you are. The important part of goal planning and creating new challenges for yourself isn’t just about making millions of dollars, or to stress yourself out with a list of all these desires. The purpose of having goals and planning them out strategically is to help you to grow as a person, to get more educated, be ambitious, to help push you to put yourself in new situations, get out of your comfort zone, and just look at how you can have more of the joys you want in your life now because life is happening now. Listen to my big 3 takeaways and the key to hitting your goals this year that I discussed in this episode and lets get ready to crush our goals this year!

Jody Dontje is an inspiring global coach, Australia Speech Champion, TEDx Talk speaker, and international humanitarian who was awarded “Ambassador for Peace” by the Women’s Federation for World Peace and Universal Peace Federation. Jody helps professionals to own the power of their unique speaker voice, to communicate clearly and from the heart, and to be the leader of their own lives. Jody’s struggles throughout her childhood and adolescent years, including being subjected to racism and bullying, led her to develop severe identity issues growing up and later a passion for helping others overcome similar challenges. It wasn’t until Jody dedicated herself to empowering others that she truly found her voice, confidence, purpose in life and true fulfillment. Now, Jody dedicates her everyday life to empowering humans across the globe to access and activate their full potential, live their dream, and lead a life of vibrant success, fulfillment and purpose. Jody shares so many valuable nuggets in this episode to help inspire you that you can have anything you want in your life, so make sure to listen to her full inspiring interview!

Think of a word that describes your theme for the new year. My word for 2020 was acceptance because i had to accept that I lost my job, had to postpone my wedding several times, accept I have gut and thyroid issues that I had to get professional help with, and learning to accept every single plan I made that I couldn’t have because of the pandemic, that word helped me cope after I did my own mourning and realized I needed to take massive action to be in the energy and mood I needed to be in, and to have the right mindset in creating this podcast to help be here and inspire all of you. By having a word as your theme for the year it can help keep you accountable when you feel at a loss and need something to go back to , to remind you what your goals are and what you want in this life, and what will help you to move forward from new challenges. My word for 2021 is Opportunity! I chose opportunity as my word because I’m going to create new opportunities for myself for my business to grow bigger, new opportunities to meet new people virtually through new guest interviews of this podcast, opportunities to connect to loved ones, opportunities to continue to work on reaching my optimal health, opportunities to continue my education in personal development, adventure opportunities, relationship opportunities to continue to learn how to be the best partner to my husband, and any lesson that comes my way. I will look at every lesson as an opportunity to listen, learn, apply, and then act. When you choose your word remember this is your life. What is important to me will not be important to you. So think of what is important to you and get excited for the new opportunities coming your way. 2021 is going to be a beautiful year so go with the flow, listen to what you need, do what you can control, take action, be kind to yourself, learn to relax, prioritize your health, and remember to Design Your Happiness! 

I am so excited because this is not only episode 40 of the show, it also the first episode of a new segment of Design Your Happiness Podcast called His and Hers with my amazing husband Mike Blair. I know how much you all enjoyed listening to his first interview on the show which was episode number 7, so I am excited to bring him back on the show today and in future episodes in our joint collaboration of the His & Hers segment.

This episode is really special to me because we are discussing the importance of our health and how big of a factor it is to take care of our health while we can. This year has presented various challenges for so many people, and for me some of my personal challenges this year have been with my health primarily my gut health and finally dealing with my thyroid. And because of these experiences it forced me to get educated on how to take better care of my health and to become much more educated on how to improve to have a better immune system and truly learn what it takes to reach my optimal health.

And optimal health is something that is so important to my husband as well as he's always been focused on living a healthy lifestyle. We aren’t perfect, we aren’t fitness trainers, scientists, or experts in the health world. But we are real people prioritizing our health now more than ever, and we are friends with experts in the health world, and amazing doctors who have educated us a great deal to learn what we can to be the healthiest we have ever been. This episode is to spark you to guide you in your own optimal health journey and to start asking questions, start listening to your body, start reading nutrition labels to know what you are putting inside of your body, start researching, find out where you can avoid chemicals, and research experts and holistic doctors in the health world to help you with reaching your optimal health. 

This episode is a very important education based episode with Attorney and Estate Planner, Mark Ignacio who educates us on the importance of having a lawyer who specializes in estate planning. He reminds us to start your will when you are 18 and find an estate planning lawyer when you either purchase a home, start a family, or have assets you need to make sure is set up for your family without any stress on our loved ones in case of an emergency.

Mark Ignacio is a local San Diegan who attended St. Augustine High School and went on to the University of San Diego where he obtained his bachelor’s in Psychology, graduating Magna Cum Laude while finishing his studies in only 3 years. He ultimately attended and completed his legal studies at California Western School of Law where he graduated in the top quarter of his class, as well as earning academic achievement and pro bono awards. Mark is the founder and principal attorney for his firm, the Law Office of Mark Ignacio, where he focuses on estate planning, estate settlements, real estate, and business law matters.

I hope you all had an amazing thanksgiving and holiday weekend for those of you that celebrate it. In honor of thanksgiving I wanted to focus this episode on the spirit of giving thanks for all we have and counting our blessings. Sometimes we get so focused on what we don't have, or always wanting more, which is great to have big dreams, and big goals, but make sure to enjoy what you currently have. I know it's been one of the toughest years for a lot of people, but is important to be thankful for all of the incredible things we do have. From all the little things to all the big things. When you are thankful for all you have it will lead you to an abundant filled and happier life. And it will make the hard times better.

Joseph Salvatore Fucarino was raised in Lodi, New Jersey. When he was younger after school Joe would make home videos and short films with his friends and family. During high school Joe worked in the restaurant industry and soon went onto college to pursue a Hospitality Management Degree. He studied at Bergen Community College from 2011-2013. Then in fall of 2016 Joe started his brand "Therapy Without a Degree". "Therapy Without a Degree" is a brand that offers unconventional therapy and support for followers. His podcast is a place for everyday people who need some advice and perspective from regular real life people. The brand also creates different events and platforms that assist others in a therapy that works for them. Make sure to listen to his episode to learn from his incredible story. 

Huber Bongolan is the StackSource, Director of Capital Markets and has 9 years of experience in commercial and residential real estate finance. He has sourced $700+ million in debt and equity financing for land, construction, bridge, and permanent deals in all product types. Huber has a double bachelors, in Business Economics and International Studies, from UC Irvine where he graduated Cum Laude. He then earned a double masters, MBA and MRED, with Program Distinctions, from University of Southern California. Huber also enjoys writing about Real Estate trending topics and education to share his high level advice on how to get money for any real estate deals. His real estate advisory firm helps investors and developers access debt and mezzanine capital nationwide through their interactive online platform, so make sure to listen to this episode to learn more.

Learning to say NO is so important because it means you respect yourself, your time, your boundaries, your mental health, and are saving your yes's for the right situations, people, & opportunities that make you happy and feel free. We should not be feeling guilty for saying no to what we don't truly feel is right for us, and only say yes to the things that light us up. It's our life and we need to live it how we want. And design our happiness the way we want to.