When life feels scary and such a drag, we desire to feel happier and live a fuller more adventurous lifestyle.

In her twenties, today's guest Karen Joy Langley was as she puts it, " a very troubled soul - a stress ball!! Because of poor career choices and bad relationships. She was depressed, felt lost, and extremely anxious.

Her desire to experience more happiness and well-being led her to stumble upon systems and processes that activated her 'happiness GPS." They helped her to build an anti-stress blueprint that she could use when under pressure. Her blueprint helped her to feel more in control and led to fewer black cloud days, more direction, greater confidence, stronger relationships, and professional success.

Some Questions I Asked

• What is your superpower?
• How did you transmute pain into power?
• How do negative thoughts affect our success in life?
• What is one of the biggest lessons you’ve learned from a setback?
• What are some actions we can take to better manage stress and overwhelm?
• How do you savor success?

In This Episode You Will Learn

• Why parents need to be mindful of the behavior they model for their children
• How working on a job she hated led to her feeling unhappy and depressed and why she decided from that point she would never work on another job she hated
• How Joy's self-employment journey led to interviewing Beyonce and Destiny Child
• Why we should be careful about what we are thinking
• Why adults should write with color to increase our sense of play and curiosity
• Why you should care more about your health 

 
Connect with Karen Joy Langley

• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Stop Feeling Stressed Out Podcast
• Karen Joy Langley Counseling Profile

Also Mentioned In This Episode

• Joy's Stop Feeling Stressed Out
• Tara Brach The Trance of Unworthiness
• Jackie's You Are Enough Coaching

Contact Jackie Capers-Brown 

• Website
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Amazon Books
• Jackie's Courses

Music Credit:

Bensound Going Higher

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Managing our personal finances is one of the most critical skills we can develop in order to level up our life.

When you grow up in poverty and you hear the adults around you speaking negatively about money it's difficult to develop an abundant lifestyle. As an adult, this conditioning can often lead you to live in survival mode with saving money is the least of your concern.

Today in the guest chair Joy McLaughlin-Harris, CEO of Touch of Joy International LLC shares her turnaround story of how she began to shift her mindset towards money after a financial setback, and how this experience inspires the work that she does today.


Some Questions I Asked

• What Is Your Superpower?
• What Is the "Saving Is the New Sexy Movement"?
• What Is One of the Most Important Lessons You've Learned from A Setback?
• What Is the Best Advice You've Been Given?
• What Is the Shift 2020 Summit About?

In This Episode You Will Learn

• How to Move Beyond Survival Mode
• Mindset Shifts You Need to Make to Better Manage Your Finances
• The Benefits of Paying Yourself
• The Importance of Creating Systems In A Business to Build Multiple Streams of Income
• Why It's Important to Get Up, Get Going and Get Moving In the Face of Fear

Contact

• Touch of Joy International, LLC
• Facebook
• Twitter

Also Mentioned In this Show

• Shift 2020 Summit
• Saving Is the New Sexy T-Shirt
• Making the Shift Book

Contact Jackie Capers-Brown 

• Website
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Amazon Books
• Jackie's Courses

Music Credit:

Bensound Going Higher

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Growing up as a foster kid is tough.

It can feel like you are alone, especially when you are carrying the shame of a parent's addiction in your mind and heart.

Dr. Radisha Brown joins us today in the guest chair to share her level up journey.

She managed to persevere in the face of daunting odds to pursue and achieve her dream of helping and serving people as a mental health therapist.

On today's episode of Level Up Your Life, Dr. Brown discusses her journey of moving Qbeyond her childhood trauma to become a light for women suffering because of their mental weight.

Dr. Radisha Brown is a mental health therapist, wellness expert and best selling author of the book 'Girl, Get Off the Couch.' She helps women understand the connection between mindset and weight to release their mental weight.

Some Questions I Asked:

• What opens your heart and makes you glad to be alive?
• What have you discovered about yourself that helps you to level up the impact of your work?
• How have you been able to transmute your pain into power?
• How do you deal with fear when it comes to navigating the unknown?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• Dr. Brown's recipe for stir-fry cauliflower
• The importance of reconnecting to your personal power
• How shame and trying to be someone else can cause you to feel like a fish out of water
• Why having a compelling reason WHY you do your work helps you get through challenging times
• How F.A.T. can help you lose mental weight
• The inspiration for the Warrior Wellness Conference
• The role of nutrition in your life

Contact

• www.drradisha.com
• Girl, Get Off the Couch Book
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

Also Mentioned In This Show

Dr. Brown's book, 'Girl, Get Off the Couch'
The Wellness Warrior Conference

Contact Jackie Capers-Brown 

• Website
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Amazon Books
• Jackie's Courses

Music Credit:

Bensound Going Higher

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Ep. 4

How to Achieve Deliberate Success

Highly successful people are deliberate towards the success they want to achieve. They are able to step forward with greater clarity towards their goals when they establish personal standards about who they are, what they stand for and who they need to become to achieve the level of success they aspire to accomplish.


In This Episode You Will Learn:

• Why self-management is key to achieving deliberate success
• The difference between mindless repetition verse deliberate practice
• #1 challenge to deliberate practice
• Steps to developing a deliberate practice
• Why you should seek feedback to improve your performance

Mentioned In this Episode

• James Clear

Contact Jackie Capers-Brown 

• Website
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Amazon Books
• Jackie's Courses

Music Credit:

Bensound Going Higher

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Ep.3

Get Up Close & Personal With Your Desire

Danielle Laporte asserts, "When you get clear how you want to feel, the pursuit will be more satisfying."

Listening to other people's limiting perspectives about what is possible in your life over time can result in agonizing self-doubt that leads to procrastination or giving up on your dreams and goals.

This is your time to develop the spiritual consciousness that will embolden you to allow Divine energy to flow through you and become a channel from which your soul's purpose is actualized.

Desire and fear are two sides of the same coin.

You can baby step your way toward manifesting your desire by accepting that you can re-train your automatic response to fear. When you decide how you will respond to feelings of discomfort when taking on something new, you will increase your chance of leveling up your capacity to take action in the face of fear to manifest your desires.

In This Episode You Will Learn

• Align your pursuit with your desire
• The 4 stages of spiritual consciousness
• Be the energy of what you seek
• Your strongest fears reflect your soul's craving for freedom
• The lizard brain

Contact Jackie Capers-Brown 

• Website
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Amazon Books
• Jackie's Courses

Music Credit:

Bensound Going Higher

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Faith is expectancy. You will receive in life what you expect in life.

Do you have the faith to cultivate positive expectations about who you can become?

Or, have you settled into a state of "settling for the status quo"?

This episode will challenge you to consider the perspective that if you decided to affirm yourself and your value, you will begin to develop the consciousness that enables you to see that opportunities are all around you.

Here's What You Will Learn:

• Why it's important to develop a commitment to take action
• How to develop an affirming attitude towards yourself
• How having a compelling WHY helps you to manage your inner-critic
• Turn towards your fear

Also Mentioned In this Episode

• Napoleon Hill, author, Think and Grow Rich
• Albert Einstein: "Expand your circle of affection."

Contact Jackie Capers-Brown 

• Website
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Amazon Books
• Jackie's Courses

Music Credit:

Bensound Going Higher

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Iyanla Vanzant states: "What you tell yourself you are, you will be. What you allow yourself to be reflects what you have told yourself you are.

Have you ever wondered how individuals who have had to face daunting circumstances are able to press on to achieve personal and professional goals, while others lose their motivation and quit on themselves and become bystanders?

Why are some people able to maintain a fiery drive while other people's inner drive fizzles? What's the secret to maintaining the passionate determination and grit necessary to achieve sustainable long-term success?

Answer: The ability to develop and nurture empowering beliefs about yourself that enables you to cultivate an empowering self-identity that increases your self-trust and personal power.

Our beliefs shape our behavior which creates most of our life experiences.


In This Episode You Will Learn

• How the story we believe, we live
• Which aspect of ou brain fuels fear-based memories 
• How our beliefs shape what we expect
• The importance of developing empowering self-talk 

Also Mentioned In This Show

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have A Dream Speech"

Contact Jackie Capers-Brown 

• Website
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Amazon Books
• Jackie's Courses

Music Credit:

Bensound Going Higher

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