Go Bucket Yourself

Season 2 of the One Life Live It podcast is here!

In this episode, we discuss what you can expect for the Season 2 episodes that will be delivered, if you hit Subscribe, to you every Thursday.

The theme for Season 2 is to Stop the Drift.

What does that mean?

Like you, we(Chris and Deb) have been at that junction in life where most things are pretty okay--you've got a job, your kids probably aren't going to be sociopaths, you have a few friends on Facebook--but something really feels like it's missing. Maybe you know exactly what that is. We didn't.

We sat on the sidelines and quietly tried to push down this unsettling feeling that was whispering to us that we were meant for more. But what does that even mean? Shouldn't I just be happy with what I have today? Who am I to think that I deserve more than I've got? Shouldn't I just stay in my lane and leave the really cool stuff to the people who've got it all figured out?

We feel ya. Those questions swirled around in our heads for years. Thankfully, we found really good mentors, books, podcasts, and started to have conversations with each other that helped us to break free from the limiting beliefs that were holding us back. Our prison cell was entirely comfy and had all the makings that would lull us into blissful drift...until it didn't. We had strayed for far too long; the whispers had become screams; it was time to take action.

In this Season, we will share stories of our guests, others, and our listeners who are drifting and ready to Stop the Drift, set their rudder, and start living the Bucket-List life, Today!

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Chris and Debbie celebrate the final episode of season one of the podcast with a recap of the season and their guests from season one.

They share the theme(s) of this first season:

• Overcome Fear
• Eliminate Obstacles
• Grow Your Mindset
• Live an Adventurous, Authentic Life
• Get to Know Yourself

They share a review from a listener, thank their audience with most sincere, and overflowing gratitude and announce their first GIVEAWAY. Listen in to learn how you can win too!

They'll wrap it up with an update on their future plans for the podcast, GoBucketYourself, and personally. Will there be a second season?

Resources from this episode:

• Here's the blog post Chris mentioned about choosing a through-hiking trail.
• Find all of the episodes from season one of the podcast at gobucketyourself.com/one-life
• Leave a review in your podcast player or on our site in the comments for a chance to win one of these four books (your choice):
  • A Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
  • The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
  • Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
• Email us with your questions, comments, suggestions at [email protected]
• Apply to be a guest on season two of the podcast here.
• Connect with us on Instagram:
  • Chris
  • Debbie

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• 🌎 gobucketyourself.com
• Chris @bucketyourself on Insta
• Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta
• Get Deb’s book HERE

In this episode, Chris and Debbie check in with their daughters, Claire and Delilah, before during, and after their three-week family trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Before leaving, they'll discuss their preparations, plans, anxieties, and excitements. They'll update their progress one week into the trip. Then they'll share their favorite and least favorite moments of their stay.

Chris and Debbie also chime in throughout the episode with their thoughts and ideas on extended family travel.

Quote shared in this episode:
“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B.

It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Resources from this show:

• Airbnb
• Listen to this bonus episode that mentions surfing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Stay in touch!

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• Chris @bucketyourself on Insta
• Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta
• Get Deb’s book HERE

In this episode of the podcast, Chris and Debbie talk with Becky Heptig, of startedat50.com, while self-quarantined during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have an extensive and honest conversation about all that led up to the position Becky and her husband found themselves in at the age of 50--with three children, a net worth of $0, and no hopes of retirement. There are so many parallels to the financial struggles so many are faced with during this pandemic.

Becky walks us through being burdened with fear and debt, how they got there, and how they were able to get themselves out of the hole they were in and to their present reality--debt free and retired early from their investment portfolio.

Listen in to hear all the ups and downs, twists and turns, and even some step-by-step to help you realize it’s never too late to start.

Some memorable quotes from Becky in this episode:

• “We had walked through a lot of pain. I never want to go through that pain again, but for us, that’s what it took to change our minds.”
• “We hadn’t done any planning for the future, so one major event sent us off the cliff...I saw us digging a bigger hole every day just to survive.
• “These circumstances have been thrust upon us. None of us chose this. It’s bringing to light things that we wish we’d done differently. In our situation, we had no emergency fund.”
• “If someone’s listening to this and they feel like it’s too late for them or they’ve lost hope, I want to encourage you--that there is hope, and you can make positive changes for yourself right now.”
• “We don’t have to have all the things we think we have to have.”

Becky shares some important steps along their path to freedom:

• The support of their community and family in difficult times
• Changing her mindset
• Finding tools to support them
• Finding Dave Ramsey and applying his resources, including building a “baby emergency fund” then becoming debt-free
• How getting clear about their values and their spending helped them feel empowered, safe and brought them peace (rather than feeling deprived)
• How applying what they learned took them from feeling like, “They might not ever be able to retire” in 2008 to having the ability to pull their retirement forward by four years in 2018 at the age of 63
• How they’re able to pay forward the support they felt in their time of need now that they have financial security

She also has this advice for anyone struggling financially right now:

1. Find a mentor and an accountability partner (they can be the same person)
2. Forgive yourself (“You can’t move forward with fear and shame.”)
3. Formulate a plan and move forward

Listen to the end to hear about the adventures Becky and her husband share together in retirement and about Becky’s bucket list.

Resources from this episode:

• Becky’s blog, startedat50.com
• Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University and his book, Financial Peace
• Choose FI podcast and resources
• A Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
• The Retirement Manifesto Blog by Fritz Gilbert

Stay in touch!

• 🌎 gobucketyourself.com
• Chris @bucketyourself on Insta
• Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta
• Get Deb’s book HERE

In this episode, Chris and Debbie talk about the impact goal setting has made in their lives. They discuss, in-depth, the process of breaking down future visions into manageable, daily steps that support designing each day intentionally to make progress toward living the life of your dreams.

They provide specific examples of how they've used this process in:

• building and completing items on a bucket list
• creating enough passive income through real estate to reach financial independence in just a few years
• writing a book

You'll also hear how they get clear with themselves and each other about their goals through yearly "planning dates", exercises, and regular check-ins, enabling them to understand and support each other in their progress.

Resources from this episode:

• Episode #246 of Amy Porterfield's podcast with Jay Papasan
• The One Thing by Gary Kellar and Jay Papasan
• Episode #5 of the One Life. Live It! podcast with Carl Jensen of 1500days.com
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Econome Conference from creator Diania Merriam from Episode #3
• Montana Money Adventures, 10 Lessons
• This quote from Theodore Roosevelt
• View the full show notes and find other episodes HERE

Stay in touch!

• 🌎 gobucketyourself.com
• Chris @bucketyourself on Insta
• Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta
• Get Deb’s book HERE

In this episode, Chris and Debbie are joined by Brenda and Jalea Baker of A Freesoul Experience. They speak in-depth about life's journey from wholeness to fear and back to wholeness again through one's search for their own, uniquely individual "truth". Brenda and Jalea share:

• Their Simple Story
• The Freesoul mission--to be happy and free anytime, anywhere, with anyone, and under any circumstance
• The meaning of essence, parking spaces, prying tool, Ahhs, and Icks
• Where fear comes from
• Fear versus wholeness
• Simple stillness
• Words/actions/behaviors that signal fear--need, must, should, interrupting, using a high-pitched voice, explaining, convincing
• Words/actions/behaviors that signal truth--peaceful, slow, low tone of voice, confidence, silence
• The freedom that comes from choosing to see wholeness in others

Some great quotes from Brenda and Jalea in this episode include:

• "Truth and freedom are synonymous. Truth and essence are synonymous."
• "There's no forcing with the truth."
• "Don't should all over yourself."
• "When I'm in my truth, I won't be moved."
  As well as these quotes that came up in conversation that have influenced us: 
• “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Victor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
• “Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.” - Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
  ― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Resources from this episode:

• Their website: https://afreesoulexperience.com/
• Their socials: Instagram, Facebook
• Purchase A Simple Story
• This blog post on fear
• Other books mentioned in this episode:
  • Spontaneous Evolution - Bruce Lipton
  • Big Magic - by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
  • The Daily Stoic - Ryan Holiday

Stay in touch!

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• Chris @bucketyourself on Insta
• Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta
• Get Deb’s book HERE

In this episode, Chris and Debbie dive deep into one of the four core values at GoBucketYourself--overcome fear.

They talk about how fear shows up in their lives and what habits, routines, and resources they've found most helpful moving forward with fear. Then they dig into why you would even want to overcome fear in the first place. Finally, they answer the big question, "Can you really overcome fear?"

Resources from this episode:

• Here is our recent blog post, "Making Friends with Fear"
• Follow @bucketyourself on Instagram! DM for your free 30-day pass for the Calm app.
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Camp FI Rocky Mountain
• The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
• Listen to this episode of Don't Keep Your Day Job with Gay Hendricks
• The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
• Desire Map Planner by Danielle LaPorte

Stay in touch!

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• Chris @bucketyourself on Insta
• Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta
• Get Deb’s book HERE

Chris and Debbie sit down for a quick chat about the ups and downs of self-quarantine, social isolation, slowing down, and changing their plans.

In this rough-cut, impromptu episode, they share their feelings about worthiness absent of productivity. Listen in to hear what their thinking in this unexpected and unpredictable time.

Resources from this episode:
How to Be Here by Rob Bell
Wild Ideas Worth Living Podcast, EP126 Mike Posner: Becoming Someone You're Proud Of
Debbie's latest Instagram Post about the conversation

Stay in touch!

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• Chris @bucketyourself on Insta
• Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta
• Get Deb’s book HERE

In this episode, Chris and Debbie welcome Deanna Broaddus of Recovering Women Wealth. Deanna shares openly and honestly about the many obstacles she's overcome in her life to begin to create the life she felt called to. Some of these obstacles include:

• an attempted suicide after a broken engagement
• drug and alcohol addiction
• debt and bankruptcy

The conversation dives deep into these topics, as well as, how Deanna was able to overcome them in order to begin designing the life she felt called to live. She tells us about:

• the relief that came from freeing herself from the debt that was weighing her down
• the steps she took that allowed her to do so, as well as, live a life of sobriety
• the life she's been able to now that she's overcome addiction, debt, and begun working toward retirement

Listen in to hear her full story and her advice for anyone that has obstacles of their own to overcome in their path to living the life they feel called to.

Resources for this episode:

• Deanna's blog: https://www.recoveringwomenwealth.com/
• Email: [email protected]
• To learn more about her mission and how you can help support it and the mission through Juna Amagara, read this blog post from Deanna: https://www.recoveringwomenwealth.com/2020/03/02/how-i-am-taking-my-first-overseas-mission-trip-2/
• Juna Amagara
• Follow her on socials:
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/recoveringwomenwealth/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RecoveringWomenWealth/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeannaRWW
  • Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/RecoveringWomenWealth/
• For more inspiration to design the life YOU'RE called to live, try reading this post or this one from gobucketyourself.com.

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• Chris @bucketyourself on Insta
• Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta
• Get Deb’s book HERE

In this episode, Chris and Debbie sit down to talk about bucket lists.

Chris talks about being a natural planner and assuming everyone had a bucket list. A large part of his bucket list began on a trip to Alaska when he saw the mountain, Denali. He bought a couple of used books about it (Mt. McKinley at the time) while he was there, and it was all downhill from there. Some of the items on his bucket list include mountaineering, climbing fourteeners and thirteeners in CO, travel, and through-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.

Debbie talks about why she’s resistant to lists in general and why she’s come around to at least making a mental bucket list. Hers includes writing a children’s book, learning to play the guitar, getting her pilot’s license, surfing, and travel.

They also discuss:

• How to commit to
• Plan for and check off items on your bucket list through:
  • Prioritizing
  • time blocking
  • breaking goals into actionable steps
  • focusing on just the next step, one step at a time

They also answer questions about:

• Overcoming fears to accomplish items on your bucket list
• Writing it down to keep yourself accountable
• Why they like to encourage each other to accomplish items on their bucket lists
• Do you need to quit your job to check off items on your bucket list
• Where the name GoBucketYourself came from

They leave you with this thought:

“Whether you’re a list person or not, chances are you have some desires or dreams within you that aren’t going away. What are those dreams simmering in your soul that aren’t being silenced no matter how hard you try to ignore them? Have you taken the time to put them in a list?

The truth is that most of the things we dream about are possible on the weekends, or on an early morning, or evenings, or even a vacation. We don’t always have to completely disrupt our lives to make our desires a reality. If we break our end goals apart into smaller, doable steps, they move from dreams to actual possibilities. By taking just the next step, we build both confidence and insight about the next step we should take after that. If we continue moving forward just one step at a time, our fears become quieter, taking a backseat to designing a life that allows us to step closer to the life we dream of.

Being confronted with the truth of my own mortality--a truth for all of us, health issues or not--pushed me into making the most of as many of my days as possible. That meant getting clearer about what it was I really wanted. As I continued to take steps toward living a joyful, memorable life as frequently as possible, I realized there was nothing to feel guilty about at all. Reaching for my desires and fulfilling my purpose has continued to mold me into the kind of human I want to show up as in this world, whatever the label maybe--wife, mother, friend, teacher.

At GoBucketYourself what we want for you is exactly what Annette White said, ‘Stop dreaming about your bucket list and start living it.’

What tiny seed is begging to sprout from the depths of your soul, friends? May you find just the next step in moving toward it. In giving yourself permission to take just the next step, may you find that the rest begin to illuminate your path until you begin to live each day fully, knowing you’ve got ju

Stay in touch!

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• Chris @bucketyourself on Insta
• Deb @imperfectprogress.me on Insta
• Get Deb’s book HERE