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When your gut tells you something, do you listen or do you tend to push those feelings aside?

Intuition is your inner compass, but too often, we ignore those important signals- and that could be the very thing that’s holding you back from the life you want to create. 

Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment®, Blake explains why learning to trust your intuition is one of the fastest and most impactful ways to create the life that you want. She shares one simple thing you can do today to unlock your inner confidence.

In this episode, you’ll learn why so many of us lack confidence, and how societal conditioning and parenting paradigms have taught us to ignore how we feel. You’ll understand how that follows us into adulthood, resulting in a lack of confidence and self-gaslighting. You’ll learn the simple prompt that will help you start trusting your gut right now so you can cultivate more self-confidence and create a life of ease.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why we lack confidence (2:46) 

• Ignoring the evidence of your intuition (7:11)

• How a lack of self-trust manifests into adulthood (8:37)

• Listening to your intuition (9:38)

• Letting your inner compass guide you (11:20)

Favorite Quotes:

1. "Your brain can only process about 25% of the stimulus that you are getting... the remaining 75% your brain literally does not know about. So when you override your intuition, you are ignoring 75% of the evidence that you are being given." –Blake Schofield

2. “Life is always working for you. It's always working for your advantage. The challenge is we often are misinterpreting or overriding the lessons we're being shown.” –Blake

3. "Building confidence in yourself and your own decision making and your own intuition is one of the fastest and most impactful ways to be able to create the life that you want." –Blake Schofield

4. “True confidence doesn’t come from your identity in a job or relationship or parenting. It comes from being able to trust yourself and your decisions and know that you are creating the life and the career that you want.” –Blake Schofield

Additional Resources: 

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com

We often think that tough situations require complex solutions. 

But what if the solution was much simpler than you think?

Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment Ⓡ, Blake reveals the importance of viewing challenges as opportunities for growth and how one simple mindset shift can help you simplify complex problems, foster curiosity, and operate from a place of non-judgment. 

In this episode, you’ll learn how our lack of formal education around growth is the reason why we often repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Simplifying your thought process helps expand your perspective, allowing you to challenge the limiting beliefs that lead to repetitive issues. You’ll learn how to embrace curiosity and ultimately find the root cause. 

What You’ll Learn:

• The truth about the challenges you’re facing (2:16)

• A challenge to reconsider now (3:11)

• Why you keep repeating the same mistakes (5:14)

• What happens when you decide to make things easier (6:09)

Favorite Quotes:

1. “There is always a solution to the challenge that you're facing or the opportunity ahead of you.” –Blake Schofield

2. “When we don't see something simple, when it feels complex, it's a great opportunity to stop and question, what do we believe about this?” –Blake Schofield

3. “There is no challenge you can't meet. There is no struggle that you are facing today that you can't overcome.” –Blake Schofield

4. “We are not living as authentically as we want. We are not living with the peace and joy and space and time to be present in the way that we want, but it is possible for us to do that, and it starts with that curiosity.” –Blake Schofield

Additional Resources: 

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com

The people we surround ourselves with can either help or hinder our success in life. They’re the ones who provide support and offer words of encouragement when we need it.

And they’re not afraid to challenge us when we’re stuck. 

Our support system helps us see our strengths and acknowledge our weaknesses because they know that true growth comes from action, not perfection.

Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment Ⓡ, Blake welcomes Anne Marie Anderson, a three-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, keynote speaker and author. Taking bold moves in her career has helped her become one of the most experienced female play-by-play announcers in the country. Her book, Cultivating Audacity, shares how she found her “front row” support system and thus, gained the confidence to create change and ultimately, find true growth and success. 

In this episode, you’ll learn the importance of bolstering your support system and investing in yourself. You’ll hear how cultivating audacity and aligning with your values can help you overcome fear and doubt.

What You’ll Learn:

• (7:31) Being held back by fear

• (13:42) Claiming your audacity  

• (18:37) The value of investing in yourself 

• (25:26) Knowing who’s in your front row

• (37:27) What changes when you take control of your life

Favorite Quotes:

1. “Audacity is in the action, not in the outcome.” –Anne Marie Anderson

2. "Don't expect to eliminate your barriers. You're never going to conquer fear or own time, but you can learn to manage it and work with it once you're aware of how it's affecting you." –Anne Marie Anderson

3. "I had to learn how to invest in myself and how to only take advice from people who had achieved what I wanted to achieve." –Blake Schofield

4. “The big problem, I think, for a lot of people is they don't want to put a voice to it. They're afraid to say aloud what it is they want.” –Anne Marie Anderson

Additional Resources: 

Buy the book: https://a.co/d/3nDO0qq

Sign up for book updates: https://annemarieanderson.com/book/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-marie-anderson-3557ab39/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annemarieandersontv/

Does “the most wonderful time of the year”  feel less like a holiday and more like overwhelm?

Feeling stressed or anxious during the holidays is unfortunately all too common. 

But busyness isn’t a badge–It’s a warning that something needs to give. 

Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment Ⓡ, Blake shares the importance of recognizing that busyness is not a badge of honor but rather a warning sign that stress and overwhelm are taking over. By shifting existing belief systems, you can start to reduce stress and achieve personal growth.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to identify the sources of stress in your life and truly understand which systems are contributing to your overwhelm. You’ll learn how to overcome busyness through small, actionable steps and create necessary boundaries so that you can begin to prioritize what truly matters.

What You’ll Learn:

• Challenging conventional wisdom by confronting busyness (0:33)

• Why tactics and boundaries alone won’t create real change (4:16)

• Identifying the core belief that’s holding you hostage (5:07)

• Actionable steps to shift your behaviors (5:55)

• A real-world example of how this works (9:09)

Favorite Quotes:

1. “How you do one thing is how you do everything. Meaning whatever the belief systems are tied to some of the problems going on in your life, I can promise you that they're tied to multiple problems going on in your life.”

2. “Change happens through a series of small steps. But when you actually can address these things at a deeper root, change happens exponentially.”

3. “Our fear is if we stop doing so much, we'll be seen or judged as lazy. We won't be able to produce the same types of results we've produced in our career... And it is those fears unexamined that steal our joy, that steal our impact, that steal our presence.”

4. “When we can start to see that our view of things is limited, that we have blind spots, that maybe we're creating our own stress and anxiety, that maybe the things that we really care about aren't as critical for somebody else, the weight can begin to be lifted.”

Additional Resources: 

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com

If fear and uncertainty are holding you back from making the changes you want in life, then there’s only one hurdle you need to overcome. 

Yourself.

For most of us, the limitations we create are self-inflicted. They are merely perceptions that can be overcome by making one simple change.

Make the decision that you CAN.

No matter what your unique challenges are, the key is to simply make the decision that you CAN overcome limitations, that you CAN push past your limits, and that you CAN build resilience.

And if you think it can’t be done, then today’s guest has a message for you.  

Today on The Bridge to FulfillmentⓇ, Blake welcomes Mark Black. He is a resilience expert, coach, and author. His impressive feats of having survived a heart and double-lung transplant and the subsequent completion of 4 marathons are an inspiration to embrace possibility. 

In this episode, you’ll learn how to flip the script of your limiting beliefs and begin to look at what is still possible versus what you think you can't do. You’ll learn how to push the limits rather than believe your assumptions. You’ll also hear how to begin to embrace the inevitability of change earlier in the process so that you can reap the highest rewards.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right.” –Henry Ford

What You’ll Learn:

• (6:29) How Mark learned early in life to build resilience

• (13:01) Pushing beyond the fear to take a leap of faith

• (17:44) The opportunity cost of waiting for change to happen

• (23:40) What you can learn from his life experience

• (30:35) The real power that coaching provides 

Favorite Quotes:

1. “Everybody's got stuff. Somebody else's stuff is different than yours. But that's not the reason why you can't. It just means you have to adapt in different ways to deal with it.” –Mark Black

2. “Most people don't achieve the happiness, fulfillment, joy, peace of mind balance that they want for their life because of the things that they believe are true that actually aren't.” –Blake

3. “There really are far deeper levels of things that sometimes we struggle to see because we don't want to admit that where we are maybe isn't where we really want to be. But when you can really be honest with yourself about that, that's where the power really lies.” –Blake

4. “What am I showing my kids that a career should look like? What am I showing them that adult life should look like? Do I want to show them that being an adult means slogging my way through something that I hate so that I can pay bills because that's what adulthood is? Or do I want to show them that valuing my own thriving is important because that's going to make me a better human, which makes me a better parent, which helps them?” –Mark Black

5. “Most of us are far more limited by our perception than we are by our ability or our capacity. ” –Mark Black

Additional Resources: 

Web: markblack.ca

Facebook: www.facebook.com/IAmMarkBlack

Instagram: www.instagram.com/IAmMarkBlack

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iammarkblack

Get clarity on where you are on your journey to career fulfillment, where you’re headed, optional paths to get there, and the right next step to take.

Start your complimentary, Personalized Career Fulfillment Plan by going to www.thebridgetofulfillment.com/pcfp

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com

Do you struggle to speak up and say how you truly feel in difficult situations?

Staying silent or feeling a sense of fear about speaking up doesn’t allow you to show up as your authentic self.

While holding back your truth can help you feel accepted, it can also be damaging to your self-worth, hiding your authenticity when it matters most. 

But there IS a way to stand in your truth without damaging your relationships.

Today on The Bridge to FulfillmentⓇ, Blake welcomes Amy Green Smith. She is a certified life coach, speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Through her work, she helps people transform from people-pleasing to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-worth. 

In this episode, you’ll learn how to shift from people-pleasing behaviors into speaking your truth with respect. You’ll hear boundary recipes that will help you overcome self-doubt and conquer the fear of rejection. You’ll learn how to find your voice and speak your truth through fearless, authentic communication.

Speaking up doesn't have to be confrontational. It’s possible to share difficult truths with grace.

What You’ll Learn:

• What we’re taught about acceptance (6:27)

• Looking to current relationships to heal past wounds (12:36)

• Determining when your fear is legitimate (21:49)

• What it looks like to be authentic in the moment (29:41)

• How to ask for what you need: a boundary recipe (38:31)

Favorite Quotes:

1. “We often think our experience is just our own, but very rarely are we actually alone.” –Blake

2. “When we're talking about finding our voice or speaking up, almost always antithetical to that, is that investment in what other people think- that people pleasing.” –Amy Green Smith

3. “Your bullshit tolerance starts to get lower and lower once you realize, like, oh, I should not be spoken to in that way.” –Amy Green Smith

4. “That's often why we end up as people-pleasers, because we see things differently than the people around us, and we're told that we are wrong or not okay, or we should be compliant. And as a result of that, we lose connection with our inner compass.” –Blake

5. “People feel safer with you if they know where you stand and where they stand with you.” –Amy Green Smith

Additional Resources: 

Connect with Amy Green Smith:

Website: https://amygreensmith.com/

Freebies: https://amygreensmith.com/free/ Social: https://www.instagram.com/heyamygreensmith/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/heyamygreensmith/ https://www.facebook.com/heyamygreensmith https://www.threads.net/@heyamygreensmith

Get clarity on where you are on your journey to career fulfillment, where you’re headed, optional paths to get there, and the right next step to take.

Start your complimentary, Personalized Career Fulfillment Plan by going to www.thebridgetofulfillment.com/pcfp

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com

Is your work no longer making you happy? Are you ready for something to change but unsure what the right next step should be? 

Making a career change, especially when everything looks great on paper, can feel like a huge challenge (even more so when it feels like you’re doing it alone).  

But this unsettling feeling you’re experiencing can actually be a gift, nudging you to transition with intention because that’s the only path to fulfillment that will put YOUR values first.

Today on The Bridge to FulfillmentⓇ, Blake shares the most effective way to navigate a crossroads in your life and career.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to use this season of transition as an opportunity to avoid career burnout before it happens, identify your unique secret sauce transferrable skills™, and start creating the life you’ve always wanted. You’ll learn why what you’ve been doing hasn’t produced results, and what you can do right now to finally get things moving in the right direction.  

What You’ll Learn:

• Two approaches to making a transition (1:09)

• The place most people get stuck (3:20)

• The biggest challenge we face when seeking change (5:15)

• Why you’re not gaining more clarity (7:30)

• The moment “more” becomes possible (11:48)

Favorite Quotes:

1. “This is where so many of us get stuck:  we're making these changes, or we're trying to get clarity, we're reading the books, we're changing jobs, we are having these conversations, and they're not moving us forward.”

2. “When we lack clarity, we believe that the answer lies externally, in our circumstances, in somebody's book and somebody else's journey. And I want you to know that that's just not true. The answer is always internal. It's inside of you.”

3. “We often believe clarity has to be difficult, hard and painful to get. But that's just not true. It's our approach that is difficult, hard and painful.”

4. “It's all possible, but it's only possible when we look at our circumstances and recognize where I am today is not the life I want to be repeating, and I'm done just tolerating what I have I want more.”

Additional Resources: 

Get clarity on where you are on your journey to career fulfillment, where you’re headed, optional paths to get there, and the right next step to take.

Start your complimentary, Personalized Career Fulfillment Plan by going to www.thebridgetofulfillment.com/pcfp

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com

Are you feeling stuck in your career? Does it seem like finding real fulfillment requires a massive change?

It can be easy to think that change has to mean overhauling your entire career, when in fact, there are small shifts we can make to unlock progress that leads to more career satisfaction, helping you identify what’s really holding you back from happiness and recognizing your true potential.

Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment Ⓡ, Blake welcomes Jason Silver Smith, author of the book, Your Grass is Greener. He’s an entrepreneur who got his start at Airbnb, and today he helps leaders build great, lasting companies that people actually enjoy working for. He’s a sought-after public speaker, instructor, and advisor on how to transform work into one of the biggest drivers of positivity in your life. 

In this episode, Jason shares how the unexpected loss of his sister led to a transformation in how he wanted to live and work. You’ll learn practical tactics that can eliminate miscommunication in the workplace for good. You’ll also learn how aligning work with personal strengths helps unlock career potential, increase workplace productivity, and lead to more workplace happiness.

What You’ll Learn:

• How a life-altering experience shifted his perspective (8:57)

• Experiencing post-traumatic growth (14:06)

• Tactics to find more joy in the work you do (18:41)

• Recognizing your agency in life and work (29:38)

• Why real change is about the small steps we take (39:34)

Favorite Quotes:

1. “The hardest moments of our life often become incredible blessings that we didn't see in other ways.” –Blake

2. “There is no job, no career, ever worth your health or ever worth your life.” –Blake

3. “When things are going really well at work, it spills over into the rest of your life. You have more energy. You're fired up for what's happening in life. And the better you feel in life, the better you do at your job. And up and up and up and up and up we go.” –Jason Silver Smith

4. “If you don't know what you're great at, it's hard to know how to deploy that in a workplace setting. And when you're not doing what you're great at, you're not doing the best work, and you're not enjoying it.” –Jason Silver Smith

5. “When we accomplish something incredible in our lives, it's usually not some massive shift that happened overnight. It's usually the culmination of a bunch of small steps we took over time.” –Jason Silver Smith

Additional Resources:

Connect with Jason:

Book: http://www.yourgrassisgreener.com

Business: http://www.thejasonsilver.com

Better Work Newsletter: http://www.thejasonsilver.com/newsletter

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silverjay/

Get clarity on where you are on your journey to career fulfillment, where you’re headed, optional paths to get there, and the right next step to take.

Start your complimentary, Personalized Career Fulfillment Plan by going to www.thebridgetofulfillment.com/pcfp

Do you often come home from work feeling emotionally drained from dealing with a toxic boss or a challenging work relationship?

Just making it through the workday under these circumstances can feel like an accomplishment, but the truth is that over time, a toxic workplace will wear you down.

 “Life is teaching us lessons, and we will keep getting that lesson over and over and over again until we learn it. It first starts as a whisper, then a knock, then a bang on the door, and then the whole damn thing will come down.”

 Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment Ⓡ, Blake digs into the most common issues people experience in challenging workplace relationships, sharing strategies to help you reduce stress and identify the right next steps to take. 

 In this episode, you’ll learn how to come to terms with the reality of a challenging boss, co-worker, or team member in your workplace. You’ll learn how the constant exposure to toxicity and fear leads to self-doubt, and ultimately trauma. You’ll learn how to identify these patterns and make empowered choices that will help you protect your reputation and gain peace of mind.

What You’ll Learn:

• Common workplace patterns that lead to self-doubt (1:10)

• Existing in a fear-based work environment (2:13)

• How to start removing toxic people from your life (5:29)

• Understanding your values and finding alignment (9:00)

• Identifying the characteristics of poor leadership (10:52)

Favorite Quotes:

1. “If you stay in toxic circumstances or situations and either attempt to somehow make it work, avoid the conflict, or start blaming yourself… all of these are signs that you've had trauma.” –Blake Schofield

2. “It can become easy to get into a culture where people complain about work or complain about coworkers. All that does is create more toxicity.” –Blake Schofield

3. “When you value yourself, understand those healthy communication styles and how to vet leadership and organizations in a way that is supportive and aligned with that, you will no longer continue to suffer these issues.” –Blake Schofield

4. “There are healthy companies and there are toxic companies. There are companies who really empower people to learn how to collaborate, resolve conflict, and work together, and there are companies that do the opposite. Fear-based companies only care about how you perform. They don't care about what that environment actually looks like for their employees.” –Blake Schofield

Additional Resources: 

Get clarity on where you are on your journey to career fulfillment, where you’re headed, optional paths to get there, and the right next step to take.

Start your complimentary, Personalized Career Fulfillment Plan by going to www.thebridgetofulfillment.com/pcfp

 For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com

Are you a people pleaser with a high tolerance for handling what life throws at you? Do you pride yourself on your deep empathy for others, often procrastinating on what’s important to you?

If perfectionism and procrastination feel like inescapable parts of your life, then life is trying to tell you something. 

Procrastination isn’t a flaw. It is a signal that’s urging you to dig deeper into your underlying fears, recognize what’s misaligned, and identify what doesn’t feel safe. 

Today on The Bridge to FulfillmentⓇ, Blake welcomes Elyssa Smith, a trauma-informed life strategist who helps people understand the brain science behind self-sabotage. She’s the founder of Your Best Moment and creator of the Ultimate Self-Regulation Method. Her work empowers women to overcome self-sabotage and trauma and break free from procrastination, people-pleasing, and overwhelm. 

In this episode, you’ll learn how trauma from our past influences behaviors like procrastination and perfectionism. You’ll begin to understand the two types of pain, identifying the kind that strengthens versus the kind that injures, and why knowing which is which is critical for growth. You’ll gain a fresh perspective on why you might be feeling stuck and how you can finally break free by addressing what feels unsafe.

If you’re a high achiever who often pushes yourself into burnout, these actionable strategies will help you shift from survival mode to a place of thriving.

What You’ll Learn:

• Identifying when people pleasing is helpful versus harmful (8:11)

• The build-up of ‘shoulds’ that keep us stuck (15:03)

• Pain and our fear of failure (25:32)

• Big and ‘Tiny T’ traumas that influence our patterns in life (35:25)

• Working through procrastination (43:13)

Favorite Quotes:

1. “I think often we've been rewarded for focusing on everyone else, and in some cases, made to believe that it's selfish to take care of yourself.” –Blake

2. “Helping that's harmful is helping that is at your expense. There's something to be said for sacrificing for other people, but if it's a lifestyle, that's where you get into burnout. That's where you get into resentment.” –Elyssa Smith

3. “The vast majority of our stress, anxiety, and our problems are not circumstantial. It's not the toxic boss or the environment. It's whatever belief systems, patterns, etc, that we are dealing with that are creating that anxiety.” –Blake

4. “We have this special switch that we can turn on or off that's like, ‘I will tolerate more than is reasonable for no good reason’. So I had to find that switch, and I had to turn it off and say, No, babe, we don't need to do that.”  –Elyssa Smith

5. “The path of gentleness is sort of paved with a fear of failure. And the fear of failure is what the pain of strengthening looks like.”  –Elyssa Smith

6. “If those are your answers, work harder, be better, do more, you know that that is the pain that injures. If the kind of hard work you have to do is face your fears, that's the pain that causes resilience.”  –Elyssa Smith

Connect with Elyssa Smith:

https://elyssasmith.com

www.facebook.com/elyssacsmith

www.instagram.com/elyssacsmith

www.linkedin.com/in/elyssasmith

The Stress Less Lounge FB group: https://elyssasmith.com/facebook

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Additional Resources:

Get clarity on where you are on your journey to career fulfillment, where you’re headed, optional paths to get there, and the right next step to take.

Start your complimentary, Personalized Career Fulfillment Plan by going to www.thebridgetofulfillment.com/pcfp

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com