Everyday Strong Radio

My episode this week is all about midlife and the opportunities that come with it. For most of our lives, we have a playbook to follow whether its on how to be a good student, spouse, parent, employee, etc. Now that you have reached midlife, there is no instruction manual. So, what's next? 

What's next is that you get to write your own manual without any expectations already laid out for you. This is your chance to become all you came here to become and unearth your authentic self. 

Today’s episode is on lagging indicators.

We usually think of lagging indicators when it comes to the financial and business world, but today I'm talking about it in terms of your life. 

Why? 

Because most people decide their future on what they have evidence of from the past. 

This is how you sell yourself and the people around you short. 

Using lagging indicators is making decisions about your future based on the past. 

It’s capping what’s possible for you and causes resignation, discouragement and blame.

Just because it’s always been a certain way, doesn’t mean it always will be.

Tune in to get the shift you need to start making decisions about your future, from your future….right now.

This weeks episode centers the story of my life at this moment. We often live our lives on the go, constantly looking for the next thing, the next project, the next goal. But sometimes stillness allows us to realize that we are already the person we have been working so hard to become. 

Where do we go from there? How do we overcome discomfort in the stillness? The possibilities are endless, but no matter what path you take, you do not need to do it alone, and you get to do it on your own terms. (If your terms include an Oracle Deck, I highly suggest the Work Your Light Deck I use)

This weeks podcast is about being your future self now and enjoying having already arrived. 

This week’s episode is something I haven’t done in a long while - a Client Spotlight.

I’m thrilled to have my client Nancy Olson join me as she shares where she was when we met and where she is now. 

Nancy is the perfect example of someone who took what she learned, implemented it and created the results she was looking for in her life in no time flat.

From being in a time deficit to having an abundance of time….from feeling like everyone owned her life but her to disentangling herself from things that no longer serve her….from having fractured family communication to fantastic communication….Nancy is an incredible example of what the power of mindset can create in your life.

This is one you won’t want to miss!

This week the podcast is back and with a very special guest, my dear friend and a coach too, Carola Fuertes. Carola and I talk about the difference between trust and belief, what each truly means, why one can be stickier than the other, and how both can be especially useful in your day to day life.

I had different plans for this episode but changed them this past weekend when Norm and I were working outside getting his house ready to go on the market.

When we paused to admire all the hard work we’ve done we joked about how great everything  looks just as we are about to leave. 

And isn’t that the thing? 

So often we wait for something to happen or be a certain way before we enjoy it.

But why?

Why not enjoy it all now?

Then I realized what I’ve been forgetting to remember….and what you can remember too, in any given moment.

Tune in to this short ‘n sweet episode for your mission over the next couple of weeks - should you choose to accept it - and learn how to remember what we so easily forget.

One of the most common things clients or prospective clients want to work on together is time.

They think there’s not enough of it.

They don’t feel they have control over it.

They feel everyone and everything else is taking up all their time.

Or they feel like time is getting away from them and there’s nothing they can do about it.

It’s exhausting and it sucks the life out of you. 

And it’s all optional. 

Join me for this week’s episode on collapsing time….meaning how to make more of it so you can get what you want in your life faster. 

Today’s episode is about being clear.

It’s something I’ve been practicing since I joined my business Mastermind a year ago.

And it’s a skill I’ve been having my 1:1 clients sharpen more and more each week.

But what does it mean to be clear?

It means cutting through all the mind drama and deciding something.

This may sound simple at first blush, and the idea of just deciding is simple, but it’s not always easy.

Why? 

Because for most people just deciding something is scary.

The brain will tell you, you don't have enough information to make the decision.

Or you don’t have any evidence the decision will work.

It will say, slow your roll, little lady….what do you think you’re doing or who do you think you are deciding something like this?

And that question is what plagues many of the women I work with.

In some areas of life it’s easy to be clear. 

Yet in other areas, like say, what you’re going to do with the next 30 years of your life now that your kids are gone….it can be paralyzing. 

Tune in this week to learn what being clear looks like and what it doesn’t look like...then see for yourself how you can simply be clear….in every area of your life.

This week I dive into the concept of overfunctioning, which is when we use tools, skills, and know-how from one aspect of our life and apply it to a different aspect of our life, except it’s not needed. 

If you’re a teacher, it looks like interacting with your kids or partner as a teacher instead of a partner or mom. 

If you’re an accountant, it looks like making sure everything is in balance and all loops are closed in other areas of your life, not just on the spreadsheet. 

It’s the brain’s way of taking what has worked in the past and applying it to the situation at hand, and while it seems like it would be helpful, it often causes a ton of unnecessary stress and drama. 

The thing is, overfunctioning is something I’ve done a lot in my life, and I bet you have too…..all unknowingly. 

Tune in this week to learn more about what overfunctioning is, how to tell if you’re doing it and how to use a more useful strategy instead.

Sometimes life hands you a plate filled with so many situations it’s hard to handle it all at once.

Yet, if you’re like me, you still try. 

And try and try. 

But no matter what your Action Line is filled with, you can never outrun thoughts that don’t serve you. 

This week I share what’s been going on behind the scenes here, how trying to keep all balls up in the air showed up as emotional neglect, and what I was forgetting to remember.