Experience Life

Hey girl- are you trying to control everything in your life? Isn't that exhausting? I know, me too.. I tried for so long to control everything, including other people and the world around me. I got burnt out, and what I learned is that you can't actually control anything except yourself, and how you respond to the circumstances and the people in your life. You were never in control anyways. I still struggle with this and I'm willing to bet you do too. Because what is underneath that control perfectionism self, is certainly something else. That something else aways includes fear. Fear of something, and you deserve to know what that fear is that is showing up as a controlling self, and standing in your way of living a more free life. Let's peel these layers apart as we talk about controlling tendencies and why its important that you seek course correcting these behaviors before they sabotage your life. 

GIVEAWAY: Don't forget our April giveaway, to be entered to win a gift in the mail from Experience Life podcast host Sarah Jac, leave a review here on Apple Podcasts, and share something on your stories on instagram and tag @ms.sarah_jac. 

Until next time, enjoy the ride!

Ever have that nagging feel like you should be doing something else? Laundry, dishes, clean the house, work...but you really want to be doing something else? But you can't see to combat the shame of feeling like you earn a rest? Or you should have accomplished more of the do list before you took a break? ohhhh please tell me you have felt this way, I know I struggle with it. Let's talk about why we do this to ourselves and how our brain is truly comprehending the message we are sending it. 

As Steve Jobs once said "your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

Ask and you shall receive- recently I did a survey on my IG stories asking what my listeners were struggling the most, an overwhelming amount voted for overcoming fear and self doubt. I suppose this makes sense especially during a time of a global pandemic where we are pushed to stay further inside of our comfort zones that makes us feel safe, when the outside world feels out of control. I am here to share with you my own experiences and the knowledge I have cultivated from these experiences in my own life.

 If you are struggling with fear and self doubt there is an undoubtable an underlying limiting belief. The only way you identify this limiting belief is to do the work and ask the questions to uncover what the limiting belief is in hopes of correcting it. But where did this even have the ability to develop? Somewhere along the way we relinquished control and allowed this belief to form. We are not born this way. 

Rumi has a quote that says "You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. you were born with ideas and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." 

So how do ewe find these wings?

You do NOT want to miss this honest, educational conversation that I had with Dr. Meghan Hurley-Powell, better known as Dr. Meggy. Dr. Meggy is a professor of literature with a PHD, a writer, a podcaster and entrepreneur. Dr. Meggy joins me all the way from Iowa here on the Experience Life airwaves to talk about all the juicy things going on in her world. Meggy's shares with me honestly about how she has allowed our hustle and grind culture to stand in her way of reaching her goals in the past, and how to overcome this battle. She shares what has worked for her in the combat about self guilt, and the forever feelings of being unseen and unheard. This conversation is epic, as Dr. Meggy's responses had me on the edge of my seat speechless! 

Find Dr. Meggy's on Instagram @drmeggymarie where you can find her link in her bio to locate her journal prompts or join her email list. 

Dr. Meggy's podcast can be found on Apple, Spotify or anywhere podcasts are found under The Power Within Her.

We all know that our thoughts drive our actions and our actions equal our results. In order to create the correct thoughts to take the actions I know I need to take for the results I desire, sometimes I rely on this helpful tool. Sometimes I chose words to come with me for the ride through the year, month, week or even day. Last week I chose the word execute. Join me on this episode where I share why I chose the word execute and how I desperately needed it in my life in order to clear space from my brain before all my energy was depleted. For if you never take action in the form of execution you may wind up procrastinating  too many thing and derailing your progress. 

A few extra things in this episode  as well~ 1 Special announcement in addition to lifer of the month for July will be announced!

Susie Bell- Entrepeneuer, adventurer, mental health advocate, and coach Susie Bell joins us here today from another country! 

Two minds are better than one! I am so excited to share this interview style podcast episode with you here today! After a long break of no interviews this guest is the perfect way to break the ice. Susie Bell, better known as Ensusiasm for her bubbly personality and amazing ability to always show up with the best energy. Susie brings a realm of perspectives to the Experience Life podcast today as she talks about what is important to her in order to Experience her life through all of the experiences a human deserves. Susie focuses on how to "charge her core" in order to stay committed to her journey in the pursuit of whole heartedly happiness. Susie gets vulnerable with us here on the show on what she has learned about herself and how she has used it to her advantage to tackle and accomplish her goals. She also brings quite the resume, come aboard the Experience Life train today to take a ride down the ensusiasm pathway! 

Susie says: “sometimes on the way to your dream, you get lost and find a better one.”

You can find Susise on IG @ensusiasm 

Listen and subscribe to her podcast Charge My Core on Apple Podcasts. 

 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-detox-technology-boundaries/id1544980254?i=1000503194841

Welcome aboard lifers! We are now in the month of May which is mental health awareness month and I have chosen to celebrate that all over ever platform I have available to me. I have been sharing on my IG stories all about Mindset Matters May which is an IGTV series that I am hosting with 3 powerhouse business women who I get to call my friends. We have joined forces to bring you our vulnerable side while we share about our lives and how our mindset matters. Catch me shoot some fire your way on this quick saucy episode where I will break down why mindset matters and how this IGTV is going to play out!

Life is a classroom, one that I always want to be intentional about showing up in. You see we are actually meant to be learning all the days of our life here on earth. We aren't meant to go to school earn a degree and your learning for life is complete. This establishes a fixed mindset and what happens when you establish a fixed mindset is that you don't grow. You're either growing or you're dying, and I'm far from ready to die yet, I want to live full and die empty. So I intentionally look for ways to incorporate ways to always possess a growth mindset in my life. Looking at life as a classroom has been a great tool to assist me at redirecting my brain back to a place to be always on the look out for the ways that life is teaching. Life is working in your favor, not against you. But Life doesn't send you a clear message stating what exactly you are supposed to be learning and absorbing from the movie playing out in real time. You must be aware of what the lesson is inside of each movie playing in your life. 

So on todays episode I am going to share with you how I view life this way and how it has helped me navigate through some really choppy waters in my life. Because sometimes we are the teacher, and sometimes we are the student, and being the student is always the easiest of hats to wear but crucial to a full human experience. 

EXTRA: also announcing lifer of the month for the month of April!

Are you trying? Or are you training? Trying is not good enough. If you are kinda sorta trying to do something you are going to kinda sorta get results. Yet if you train to do something, you will succeed every single time. If you commit, fully engulf in committing to doing something and you drive your commitment with discipline you can accomplish anything you align with this commitment. The pathway to get you there is training. Training is the breaking down of the actionable moves required to move the needle forward towards your goal. Olympic athletes train, they are not born champions. They trained to be champions. They train when no one is watching.

You are wildly capable of anything you can dream for your life. Training is the route to take you there. Come experience life with Sarah on this episode as she speaks on the importance of training vs. trying.

Self awareness is being aware of traits, behaviors and feelings. Having the ability to notice your feelings and your physical reactions, in the pursuit of learning from them. Every reaction is education. Self awareness is the first step to working towards a healthy state of mind. Your thoughts drive your actions, and your actions equal your reality, therefore we must first become self aware of what we are believing as our truth before we can begin to take action upon cultivating a new reality. Humans have 48.6 thoughts per minute, this is 70k thoughts per day. If you don't possess self awareness in how these thoughts are showing up in your life, you cannot have control. You are the CEO of your life. You may not have control over what thoughts come to your mind, but you have control over reframing these thoughts and cultivating new thoughts for your future self. A study was conducted that proved that 95% of humans believe they are self aware, but the real number is closer to 12-15%. That is mind blowing you guys, and we have the ability to retune this soundtrack fir generations to come. Lets go!!!