Experience Life

Today's guests have a unique view on what experiencing life means to them! Join me on this journey to listen as I heard in real time what experiencing life meant to my own children. I was filled with so much pride while recording this episode as I asked my kids what made them feel alive. Also don't miss a special unexpected appearance from my forever fooling husband ;) 

Self discipline can be a great quality to have, in fact I think its one of my best qualities. I am finding out now that this is mostly because this was the quality that produced actions in myself that created results in my life that I was praised for as a child, and even as an adult. It is usually true that you will exceed at whatever you have been continued to be praised for, its incentive to continue to strive for excellence in this matter. When you think about your relationship with self discipline and production, what your self discipline producers is often praised. This can very easily turn into a dangerous pattern if you are not careful! 

Although I desire to keep my self discipline as it is most of the reason I have experienced great success in my life, I had to retune some of the soundtracks derived from my own discipline. I had to get really honest with myself and see how I had adapted unhealthy habits of allowing self discipline to show up in my life and block me from receiving the very thing I had been working so tirelessly for in the first place! 

Come join me to listen about how I worked on changing this unhealthy habit I had allowed myself to adapt. This work is not easy, but easy robs you of proud. I am always striving for growth for if you are not growing you are surely dying.

Lifers enjoy the ride! 

Lifer of the month for June announced! 

As I sit here today facing a new chapter of my life, I reflected back upon past chapters of my life, and the underlying theme was how quickly life carries on. Despite the days that feel endless, despite the seasons that bring no hope, despite the pain and hurt, life marches on. When I reflected back upon my life and myself during the roughest of seasons of my life I realized that I spent a good amount of time wishing time away. I know find myself wishing for more time, wishing for the ability to go back and do it again. Though I cannot go back, I cannot undo what's already been done, I can recognize this and utilize it as leverage to make the now more meaningful. 

Warning: this is a tear filled episode as I recorded in real time feels! 

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?

Kayla Civello is the owner, operator and the face of Kayla Civello training. She joins me on this raw episode to share about her path that has lead her here to this moment. You may know Kayla for her compassion for lifting weights, and uplifting woman on Instagram, yet you've never heard the heart of Kayla Civello the way it displays on this episode. Kayla comes with a tough exterior, yet a compassionate soul with a heart of gold. Come join us and listen in as we sit down to talk about her rocky journey, and how that became a catalyst for change. As Kayla celebrates one year in business, she reflects on the road she leaves behind.  Kayla shares the driving force behind the blood sweat and tears of her business and the grit it took to get her where she is today. Kayla is transparent in sharing with us how she transformed her life, yet still holds onto the feeling of "never wanting to feel the way she did that day." As she speaks of the most pivotal moment. Kayla is passionate about life, and fighting for what you believe is yours. From a woman who had little vision of a dream at all, she has surpassed dreams she never knew were possible for her life. Kayla knew once she began to see her dreams in action, then slowly become reality that she was being called for more. That more is played out behind the doors of her business everyday, where Kayla supports woman in "igniting their inner badass."

Find Kayla by joining and following her training business on IG @Kaylacivellotraining 

Check out her badass webpage @ www.kaylacivellotraining.com

You are whoever you believe you are. Literally whatever your belief is about yourself is going to replicate the product of what your life is today. Because we know that your thoughts drive your actions and your actions cultivate your results. Before you can change anything in your life you need to adapt your feelings to match the person you want to be. This rings true in every aspect of life. If you want to become a runner you have to start thinking like a runner, in order to begin to adapt the lifestyle of a runner and do things that runners do every day, for the result of becoming a runner. Once you begin to cultivate thoughts and beliefs about yourself, your actions will begin to follow on their own and eventually you will create different results. 

May Lifer of the month announced here! 

How can we begin to reframe our thought patterns? We begin by tapping into our self awareness to evaluate the thoughts playing on our soundtracks. Paying attention to our reactions to things because every reaction is an education. So how do we learn from our reactions? We pay attention with our learned self awareness and we start asking ourselves better questions. Have you ever thought about the fact that you don't have to actually accept replaying a thought? You may retire them, replace them, or repeat them. You are who ever you believe you are, and your happiness is actually more in your control than you think it is. I am going to share some tools and tips that have worked for me in my own life, in hopes that it might help you in yours as well! 

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!!! 

Today we are welcoming guest Megan Eddinger to the table with us! Megan is joining us in the conversation of mental health this month, as we recognize mental health awareness month in May. Megan found herself a married mother of three at the age of 24, while her heart was full she was overwhelmed. Megan shares an inside vulnerable look into her own life and how she has managed depression and anxiety in different seasons of her life. During this conversation with Megan she presents in a poised grounded manner, that warmed my heart and cast a different light on mental health. In a country where 16.2 million Americans suffer from depression alone each year, this is the conversation we need to be having all over the world. 

Megan Eddinger- connecting ambitious moms who want to get in touch with who they are outside of being a mom. 

Instagram @Megan.eddinger 

Listen to her podcast, Unlock Your Ambition on Apple podcasts or anywhere you find podcasts!