Empowered Educator Mom

According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), nearly 58 million U.S. adults live with mental illness like anxiety and depression.  In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m dedicating this episode of the podcast to a coaching tool known as The Model.  This tool helped me improve my mental health and learn to better manage my brain.  Can it do the same for you?

Listen in to learn the relationship between your thoughts and your results and how The Model can help with any problem or goal.

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Women face a host of physiological, neurological, cultural and other factors that inhibit their confidence.  Beyond the strategies discussed in last week’s episode, what can women do to overcome specific confidence blockers?

Listen in to learn why confidence is especially challenging for perfectionist women, six confidence blockers all women should watch out for, and practical strategies to combat each one.

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Confidence is foundational to accomplishing goals and dreams in life, but it doesn’t come easily to most women. This is due to a variety of reasons – some biological, some environmental, and some cultural.  So, if you’re a woman who wants to improve her confidence, what can you do?

In this episode you’ll learn the challenges women face in developing and maintaining confidence, why confidence comes more easily to men than to women,  and six things anyone can do to improve their confidence.

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Most people struggle with difficult coworkers at some point in their career.  Conflict and tension are natural components of all human relationships.  What can you do when the conflict or tension undermines your ability to do your job or negatively impacts your mental state?  How can you handle a difficult coworker in a way that decreases stress and frustration?

In this episode you’ll learn a variety of ideas and strategies to help you handle difficult coworkers.  Listen in to hear mindset ideas that can help you reframe your thinking about your coworkers and a five-step process that can help you resolve a conflict.  

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Everyone experiences hard things in life.  Sometimes we choose the challenges (like when we go after a goal or try to learn something new) and sometimes we don’t (like when we experience natural disasters, job loss, or the death of a loved one).  Whether they’re of our choosing or not, what can we do to better handle them?

In this episode you’ll learn a strategy I call “choosing your hard” that you can use to better handle difficulties in life.  This strategy can help you reframe how you think about challenges so they’re easier to handle and you’re better able to persevere through them.  Listen in to hear how to apply the strategy and how it can help increase your capacity to make decisions, get things done, accomplish goals, and get through difficult situations.

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Every day our amazing brains automatically and subconsciously collect evidence from the world around us.  They collect evidence of what is and isn’t safe, what works and what doesn’t, and what’s important and what’s not – all to help us survive and navigate the world.

Our brains are better and faster at collecting negative evidence than positive, though, and the over-collection of negative evidence often causes us to believe things that aren’t useful.  What, if anything, can we do to change that?

In this episode you'll learn one of my favorite self-coaching tools you can use to override your brain’s default evidence collection process.  This tool is incredibly powerful, universally applicable, and simple to use.  Listen in to learn the four-step process that can help you improve any area of your life.

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We always think we want quick progress and that slow progress is bad, but what if that’s not true?  What if slow progress is okay or even useful?  In this episode we’ll explore why slow progress isn’t a problem, and I’ll share six tips to help you handle slow or even no progress.

If you’re working on a goal, trying to change or build a habit, or going through a challenging situation and things aren’t progressing as quickly as you’d like, this episode is for you.  Listen in for a different way to think about slow progress that will leave you feeling empowered and motivated to keep going.

In this episode you'll learn:

• How to handle slow progress in goals and challenging situations
• Six tips to help you feel empowered and motivated when progress is slow
• How no progress can still be progress
• Why you don’t need to be further ahead than you are
• The difference between “the gap” and “the gain” and why you want to focus more on “the gain”
• One of my favorite self-coaching tools that can be used to improve any area of your life

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Seeing others as God does can be challenging. Our brains are hardwired to make snap judgements of others based on their outward appearance and behaviors.  How can we go beyond "looking on the outward appearance" and get closer to "looking on the heart" as God does (see 1 Samuel 16:7)?  

Whether you’re Christian or not, this episode will help you be more open and accepting of others – even when you don’t agree with their political, religious, or other beliefs.  Finding common ground is easier than you might think, and you can do it without changing your own beliefs and standards.  The benefit in doing so is that YOU get to feel more peace and calm and help others to do the same.

Note: this episode is a presentation I gave to my church's local women's group.  If you’d like to see a video of the presentation, you can watch it on my YouTube channel.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why it’s normal, natural, and healthy for our brains to make snap judgments of others
• Why it’s worth it to learn to override this default behavior
• Two tools that have been highly effective for me in overriding this default behavior, including:
  • The concept that completely changed how I think about this
  • A powerful question that can immediately shift your perspective about someone else

Get full show notes and a transcript at https://kerimartinez.com/6.

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If you set New Year’s resolutions or goals in January, there’s a decent chance you’ve already slipped up or abandoned them completely.  But that doesn’t mean failure is inevitable.  In this episode, we’ll explore three common obstacles to achieving goals and resolutions and three simple strategies you can use to overcome them to make success inevitable.

If goals and resolutions feel overwhelming or heavy or frustrating to you, if you don’t like setting goals and resolutions because you feel like what’s the point – you never accomplish them anyway – this episode is for you.  Listen in to learn a different way to think about goals and resolutions that will make it easier and more fun to achieve the results you want.

Get full show notes and transcript at https://kerimartinez.com/5

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This episode is part three of a three-part series on the Lies of Perfectionism.

Do you identify as a perfectionist?  Do you think perfectionism helps you do better work and be a better person?   

Perfectionism pretends to be noble.  It pretends to help you improve and grow.  But for a lot of high-achieving women, perfectionism isn't helpful.  For a lot of high-achieving women, perfectionism creates crippling self-doubt and leaves them feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and stuck.

If that sounds like you, I invite you to question your beliefs around perfectionism and consider how they’re impacting your life.

Get full show notes and the free PDF of the 7 Lies of Perfectionism at https://kerimartinez.com/4

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