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On today's episode:

• My experience with the protest behavior of anxious and avoidant attachment styles.
• Our wounds never really heal; we just learn more tools and become more aware. 
• Anxious attachment may become mean as a test of the other person’s commitment and love.
• Change the way you interact with the world and the world will reflect that back to you. You change one variable, you change the whole equation.
• Avoidant people need to work to put their thoughts and needs into words.
• Anxious people need to work to express their needs and expectations and give others the benefit of the doubt for not living up to their romantic fantasy.
• Ask further questions instead of projecting your own story onto the situation.
• The more you get to know a person and learn about their pain points, the less you take things personally because you have proof that they aren’t about you.
• Try box breathing to regulate the nervous system.

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On today's episode:

• If you value transparency, authenticity, and loyalty, you will naturally be more direct because you value truth.
• You can be direct but still have tact in your communication and delivery.
• Every good quality about you has a dark side.
• Every relationship has a learning curve.
• Those with people-pleasing tendencies may be difficult to be friends with because you never know where you stand.
•  When you prioritize other people’s needs over your own, you aren’t keeping peace; you are setting the stage for future conflict and resentment.
• Speaking up for your needs isn’t selfish, its essential.
• Check in on your people-pleasing friends and work toward making them feel safe to express their needs.

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Anna Shostak is a health and fitness coach, personal trainer, and former “boss-girl” who is on a journey to rediscover her true self and authentic femininity after moving to New York from Ukraine with just one suitcase and $500 and spending a decade in survival mode. Now, Anna’s mission is to empower women with the tools and knowledge to feel good physically and mentally. She aims to inspire women to stand up for themselves in relationships and life, focusing on love and happiness and embracing their feminine power.

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In this episode:

•  Anna’s story of coming to the US alone at the age of 21 with just a suitcase and $500.
• Selling hot dogs and sharing a bed with a friend in pursuit of the American dream.
• Everyone hires a personal trainer for different reasons, and it’s not always for weight loss.
• Anna’s experience competing in bodybuilding and her relationship with food and her body.
• Pay just as much attention to your mental progress as your physical progress.
• Focus on the habits, and the body will follow.
• When you don’t know yourself, it’s hard to build any relationship with anybody.
• Today's society isn’t set up to support monogamy and a strong family unit.
• The evolution of perspective on sex and marriage.
• If you didn’t have a good role model for relationships, you have to seek out information to fill that knowledge gap.
• Our souls are lovable, but our ways of relating to one another are typically very dysfunctional and can make us a pain to be around.
• People don’t know who they are because they’re always on the go and never take the time to slow down and check in with how they’re feeling or what their body is trying to tell them.
• Building a relationship with God.
• Learning about boundaries.
• RC Blakes, Jr. on YouTube
• Book: *Letting Go* by David R. Hawkins.
• Book: *The Untethered Soul* by Michael A. Singer.
• Danny Morel's "Awaken"
• App for Breathwork: Open
• Rediscovering her femininity.

For all this and more, tune in!

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On todays episode:

• Those who don’t have kids and those who don’t marry can be argued to be fundamentally selfish.
• Your partner is an undiscovered ocean; their brain is completely different from yours, and to think you have them figured out is fundamentally incorrect.
• Is it selfish to not want to bring kids into such a dysfunctional world?
• The world is waking up to the corruption of our government, our food industry, etc., and it’s up to you whether or not you raise your kids in the mainstream or not.
• Don’t force your kids to abide by rules or have beliefs that you yourself don’t stand behind.
• Lead by example.
• Not having children and not getting married means that your life is just about you.
• People decide on their stance on having children based on their here and now instead of having forethought to when they’re 50, 60, 70 years old.
• I used to want it to just be me and Ryan and saw children as distracting from that.
• The people who say they don’t want kids typically don’t like the idea of sacrifice.
• Why aren’t you making decisions as your future self if you already know that that’s who you will become in the future?

AND MORE!

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Jennifer: "Food lover, workout enthusiast, adventure-seeker, DJ, ex-beer chemist, and project manager who once aspired to be a dolphin trainer at Seaworld. Based in Gulfport, FL, she enjoys strolling along the beach, admiring the beauty of the sunset, and contemplating life's big questions—like whether she should have steak for dinner again or try something new for a change. "

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On Today's Episode:

• Jen’s mindset when she met her ex-husband.
• For some, a year and a half isn’t long to get to know someone, while for others, it is.
• It's easier to be influenced by outside pressure when you don’t know yourself yet.
• Loving someone’s individuality is a sign of maturity.
• As we grow up, we learn to have compassion for people rather than judgment.
• Jen’s experience with a fortune teller.
• Jen’s experience with ayahuasca in Mexico in hopes of finding herself.
• Do not do ayahuasca if you are not ready to face your demons.
• How can you expect someone else to know you if you don’t know yourself? 
• You should be confident about your behavior. If you aren’t confident, question if it’s something you even want.
• Say no to things that don’t align with your long-term goals.

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On this episode:

• There is more than one way to get to a result.
• Who are you assume your way is the only way.
• What you’re not changing, you’re choosing.
• My need for certainty.
• Boundaries are not an ultimatum, they are a fire escape plan, if you do X, then expect Y in response.
• Companionship and romance won’t get you to “forever."
• A relationship is effort, care, contribution.
• You can help to influence “change” in another person is if you’re watching them behave in a way that’s different from what they told you they want. That's called accountability.
• Our relationships are mirrors of us because they reflect what's in our realm of awareness.
• There is a window of tolerance for slacking off or behaving less than you promised your partner you'd be.
• If you are in a season where they have to pick up more of the slack, you better be busting your butt to get yourself recalibrated and back on track, otherwise you are just taking them for granted.

AND MORE!

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CT, 41, is a local triathlete who works as a remote project manager in the healthcare technologies field. He is on a weight loss journey and is an advocate for removing or reducing alcohol and other toxins in your life. He likes to stay active around town and works with CASA Pinellas when possible!
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On today's episode:

• -What is Synesthesia 
• What it means to be an empath
• The difference between having a high IQ and a high EQ
• We all have a unique superpower
• Getting what you want through manipulation isn’t really what you want, it’s tainted.
• How alcohol was the elephant in the room for why an entire year’s worth of effort yielded the loss of only 1 pound!
• Gamification is a good for success 
• New habits will sometimes mean you have to walk away from old friends 
• Instant gratification is about the reward and delayed gratification is about the process
• Ask for the opportunity!

All links discussed in Episode:
CouchSurfing.com
Bionic Bloom
Untapped
Herban Flow
Dancing Goat Dairy
Brickyard DTSP
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CT, 41, is a local triathlete who works as a remote project manager in the healthcare technologies field. He is on a weight loss journey and is an advocate for removing or reducing alcohol and other toxins in your life. He likes to stay active around town and works with CASA Pinellas when possible!
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On today's episode:
-Weighing 503 pounds- the truth that nobody talks about
-Walking in drastically underrated
-Zize Bikes: Only bike that holds up to 550 pounds
-There aren’t resources available for heavier-set people to even BEGIN their journey toward health and weight loss.
-Throw away your old “goal” clothes. Focus on the journey and buy new things.
-The rush of facing your fears makes the challenge worth it.
-If you have to tell people who you are, you aren’t embodying who you are, or else they’d be able to see it.
-I can’t hear what you’re saying because your actions are speaking too loudly.
-You can either get crushed by the machine or you can develop some good armor
-Recap of CT’s 7 deaths
-Cats teach you consent, dogs teach you discipline

Part 2 going live on 5/8
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On today's episode:

Q1: What is a relationship lesson that I wish I had learned sooner?
-No relationship will ever look like the fantasy that you have in your head of how it should look
-In longterm relationships, people often take one another for granted because of the absence of the emotional cue that was there in the early stages.
-Relationships are often harder at the beginning than in the middle.
-Most people don’t have a foundation for relationship skills and team dynamics.
-Many people grew up not being raised to know how to communicate properly.
-Step back and look at the progress from a macro perspective.

Q2: How do I get out of the friend zone?
-Make sure that what you consider flirtation is actually flirtation.
-Make sure to figure out whether there’s already a goalie in place before you decide to shoot your shot. 
-Have a very clear understanding of what it is you have to offer and then figure out what sort of person you are dealing with so you can determine if they are even worthy of the value you have to offer or if you’d be better off with someone else. 

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PART 2
Will Roder: 39, born in Iowa, and has lived in FL for over 10yrs. 
He is currently working for an oil company out of Texas as well as jump-starting his own company- Black Ice Plunge.

On today's episode:
-Problem solving in relationships
-Your kids teach you the significance of staying and working through issues and differences.
-Your level of commitment determines your level of action
-The pain of watching your child grow up and detach as a parent.
-Transitioning from friend to parent as your kids grow up.
-Your timing of communication can yield two different results.
-What can you change about the delivery of your message to get the result you’re looking for?
-As people grow and change, their style of communication grows and evolves as well.
-The difference of perspective as we age. Your thoughts on something this week can be very different from your thoughts on it last week.
-The challenge of merging paths in a relationship.
-The best way to prevent infidelity is to avoid possibly troublesome situations.
-You have to make a conscious choice every single day to continue to do things that are  putting you in the best position possible to have the best relationship.

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