Imperfect Success

In this week's episode of  the Imperfect Success Podcast, Nicole shares tactics to survive stressful "push periods" - intense work sprints when your workload skyrockets. 

Learn how to manage overwhelm and avoid burnout during crunch times, so you can get through the chaos without sacrificing your sanity.

5 Key Takeaways:

• Establish an endpoint for push periods to maintain motivation. Knowing it's temporary prevents hopelessness.

• Decline non-essential commitments during intense work periods. Only accept if it's a top priority project.

• Choose 1-2 grounding habits to keep amidst chaos. Maintain rituals that provide calm and recharge.

• Take back control over how you spend time. Combat helplessness by being intentional about priorities.

• Build in recovery post-push period. Gradually resume normal routine rather than diving back into overdrive.

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This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.

Welcome to Imperfect Success:  the podcast teaching success-driven perfectionists how to achieve their goals imperfectly!

Today we’re sitting down with a Professional New York City makeup artist, Kaley Were! 

Kaley shares insider tips to help anyone – from total beginners to seasoned pros – create beautiful, glowing makeup looks with confidence and ease. You’ll learn Kaley’s favorite products, application techniques, and tricks for accentuating your best features. Whether you want an everyday look or jaw-dropping glam, Kaley’s 15 pro tips will help you get gorgeous results.

5 Key Takeaways:

1. Invest in a few high-quality multipurpose makeup products instead of lots of cheap ones. A little goes a long way!

2. Use opposite colors on the color wheel to make your eyes pop. For blue eyes, choose bronzy browns. For brown eyes, opt for blues and greens, etc.

3. Apply matte shadows in the crease and shimmery shades on the lid to add dimension to the eyes.

4. Choose lip colors that complement your natural undertones for a flattering, “my lips but better” effect.

5. Blending skincare ingredients into your makeup gives you healthy-looking, glowing skin! Look for primers and foundations with hyaluronic acid.

Follow Kaley: 

IG = @kaleywerebeauty  

Makeup Store 

Website  =  https://www.kaleywerebeauty.com/ 

More about Kaley: 

Kaley Were is a multi-hyphenate artist living and working in New York City. As an actress, she has toured the country with the national tours of Annie and The Wizard of Oz and spent three years spreading magic on the seven seas as a mainstage performer with Disney Cruise Line. When she is not performing, she is a professional makeup artist, particularly specializing in headshot makeup for TV/Film and theatre. She loves using makeup to enhance natural beauty and highlight individuality and believes makeup is for everyone. She grounds her work in inclusivity, and her content is a space for conversations and resources that challenge the confines of the beauty industry. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Benjamin.

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This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.

Pull up a seat and get ready for some straight talk. This is Imperfect Success, the podcast for high achievers who want to accomplish their big goals while rejecting the idea that they need to be perfect. Join coach for perfectionists and recovering perfectionist Nicole Baker Holloman as she dishes out hard truths with a side of humor to help you accomplish big things imperfectly.

In today's show, Nicole dives into the emotional struggle many goal-driven overachievers face when they feel like a failure.How do we get out of goal slumps? How do we get our motivation back? What do we do when goals feel too far away and we’re getting down on ourselves? 

Nicole shares 7 powerful motivational truths to help reignite your inner motivation when you start doubting yourself and your goals seem impossible.

Key Takeaways

• Ditching perfection and embracing your beginner status - it's okay not to know it all!

• Kicking procrastination to the curb instantly, because it doesn’t own you

• Learning the skills to make ish happen, even if you don't have them yet

• Giving yourself a break during chaotic life chapters

• Doing one big thing at a time so you don’t lose your freaking mind

• Putting in work doesn’t mean losing fun - find joy in the journey!

• Practicing patience because Rome wasn't built in a day, people!

If you’ve been feeling like a hot mess, procrastinating express instead of a goal-getting machine, then sit back and enjoy this pep talk! You GOT this!

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This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.

Welcome to Imperfect Success! The ultimate podcast for driven perfectionists learning how to achieve their dreams, even if it’s done imperfectly. 

In today’s episode, we're diving deep into the world of AI, demystifying its capabilities, and sharing how I've chosen to utilize AI as a tool to assist with my work. But just as importantly, we're discussing the boundaries I've set and why there are specific tasks I've chosen to steer clear of when it comes to artificial intellegence.

Key Takeaways:

• How I use AI as an Assistant: Instead of dreading repetitive tasks, I look at AI and wonder, "How can this help me reduce time on tasks I don’t enjoy?"

• How I Do Not and Will Not Use AI: For me, AI doesn't replace my role as a teacher/coach/creator. Instead, it can complement my teaching style by enhancing research material.

• My 3 Hard and Fast Rules with AI

• 8 Ways I Utilize AI: Both in my business to enhance my productivity and in my personal life to help my creative process

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This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Imperfect Success Podcast, I'm your host, Nicole Baker Holleman, a coach for perfectionists and high achievers, and today we're delving into the world of Mental Health and Sports!

Our guest today is Aaron Machbitz former D1 baseball player and pro wrestler turned mental health advocate and leader of the You are Loved nonprofit.

Key Takeaways:

• How do athletes both receive and not receive mental health resources

• How we can be kinder to ourselves as high achievers. 

• What does it mean to be truly “loved” and why don’t we let ourselves feel that way

• How to navigate grief 

Follow Aaron: 

IG = https://www.instagram.com/aaronmachbitz/ and https://www.instagram.com/YouAreLovedLife 

Podcast =  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/something-for-everybody/id1490761333 

Clothing line = https://shopforeverybody.com/  CODE: Baker20 

Website  =  https://youarelovedlife.com/ 

JOIN THE SCHEDULING WORKSHOP: 

Learn more about the upcoming workshop for creating a schedule that works best for you, your goals, and your brain by clicking the link below: 

https://www.lifecoachbaker.com/schedule 

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This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.

Welcome to the Imperfect Success! This episode delves deep into the art and science of 'focus'. How do we work WITH our brain to focus easier? How do we use simple focus tools that let us get way more done? And, of course, how we can tap into the MOTHER LOAD of focus - the flow state?

It's not about merely telling oneself to concentrate harder. Instead, it's about genuine, actionable strategies to enhance focus and productivity. 

Nicole unveils why so many of us struggle with focus, breaking down external, internal, and cognitive challenges, and illuminates the path to the cream of the crop of focus – the flow state.

Key Takeaways:

• Definition of Focus: It's the cognitive ability to channel attention and resources on a specific task, blocking out potential distractions, essential for effective decision-making and task completion.

• Challenges to Focus: From the constant digital interruptions in today's world to personal battles with mental clutter or emotional disturbances, numerous factors can stand in the way of achieving true focus.

• Adversaries of Focus: Some of the biggest inhibitors include perfectionism, the fear of failing, multitasking, and allowing ourselves to be endlessly distracted.

• Flow State: Introduced by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the flow state is described as the optimal experience where individuals are so engrossed in an activity that nothing else seems to matter, marked by characteristics like absolute concentration, a sense of reward, and effortlessness.

• Rapid-Fire Focus Boosters: Simple yet effective strategies like using the Do Not Disturb function, setting clear goals, meditation, getting ample sleep, and scheduled breaks can help maintain and boost focus.

Previous episodes in our conversation: 

One Sitting Tasks 

ADHD

JOIN THE SCHEDULING WORKSHOP: 

Learn more about the upcoming workshop for creating a schedule that works best for you, your goals, and your brain by clicking the link below: 

https://www.lifecoachbaker.com/schedule 

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This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.

Productivity has become overcomplicated and synonymous with Hustle Culture - but that’s NOT what productivity is! But what actually IS productivity? Why is it so much simpler than we believe it to be? And what are 3 simple tools that you can use today to be more healthily productive? 

In today’s episode, we’re covering how to stop doing it all, how to feel proud about the journey you and your goals are on, plus how to feel like you’ve actually accomplished something today (and every day).

Key Takeaways: 

• Learn what productivity IS and is NOT, plus why it’s so hard for high achievers to lean into healthy productivity 

• Prime hours: Learn what prime hours are and how to discover what time is best for you to tackle big projects (learn more about prime hours here)

• One-sitting tasks: Nicole’s bread and butter for diminishing overwhelm and tackling the tasks for the day instead of procrastinating

• Schedule: Having a schedule that allows you to be consistent and clear on your goals for the week (plus gives you the freedom to live your dang life!) 

JOIN THE SCHEDULING WORKSHOP: 

Learn more about the upcoming workshop for creating a schedule that works best for you, your goals, and your brain by clicking the link below: 

https://www.lifecoachbaker.com/schedule 

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Take the FREE “What Type of Perfectionist Are You?” quiz and learn how to overcome the negatives of your perfectionist type! 

Get Over the Overwhelm: Your Mini-Course to End Overwhelm for Good

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Connect with Nicole on Instagram

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This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.

On this highly requested episode of The Imperfect Success Podcast, we're about to dive into a big conversation around the allure of hustle culture and the sustainable alternative of hard work.

We delve into why it's destructive, explore why 'hard work' is a more sustainable model, and share guidance on making the mindset pivot from constant hustling to hard work.

Key Takeaways: 

• Unpacking Hustle Culture: Defining hustle culture and its role in perpetuating burnout, anxiety, and feelings of inadequacy

• Redefining Hard Work: Understanding hard work as a sustainable alternative to hustle culture

• How hard work is the sustainable option: Why hard work offers a more balanced, less anxiety-ridden path to success

• Transitioning from Hustle to Hard Work: Practical tips and strategies to shift your mindset from hustle to hard work

Leave a review if this episode resonated with you. Remember, perfection isn't the goal—imperfect, sustainable growth is.

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This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Imperfect Success Podcast, I'm your host, Nicole Baker Holleman, a coach for perfectionists and high achievers, and today we're delving into the world of TEDx talks!

Our guests today are Michael and Dafna Janet, the brilliant minds and passionate curators behind TEDx Cherry Creek. Their commitment to spreading ideas has led to numerous inspiring and thought-provoking TEDx events (resulting in over 12 million views on Youtube), and they are here today to share insights from behind the scenes. 

Whether you're an achiever dreaming of delivering your own TEDx talk or you simply want to understand the process better, this episode is for you. 

Key Takeaways:

• Michael and Dafnas Journey: How they became one of the first TEDx events to host TEDx Women and their 20 events after

• Crafting Your Application: Ever wondered what it takes to stand out in a sea of TEDx applications? Michael and Dafna delve into the intricacies of what makes an application successful and how you can increase your chances of getting selected.

• The Ideal TEDx Idea: Not all ideas are created equal, especially in the context of a TEDx talk. Michael and Dafna will discuss the criteria they use to assess potential talk ideas and how to ensure yours fits the bill.

• The Journey to the Stage: What happens after your application gets accepted? We'll take a deep dive into the preparation process, from refining your talk to rehearsing on stage, ensuring you're ready for the big day.

• Making Your TEDx Talk Resonate: Crafting a talk that resonates with the audience can be a challenge. Our guests will share their expert advice on how to make your TEDx talk leave a lasting impact on your audience.

This episode promises to be a treasure trove of insight and practical advice, whether you're an aspiring TEDx speaker or simply a curious listener.

So, get ready to step behind the curtain of TEDx, demystify the process, and perhaps even find the courage to submit your own application.

Follow TEDx Cherry Creet on Instagram: @tedxcc 

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Take the FREE “What Type of Perfectionist Are You?” quiz and learn how to overcome the negatives of your perfectionist type! 

Get Over the Overwhelm: Your Mini-Course to End Overwhelm for Good

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Connect with Nicole on Instagram

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This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.

Welcome to the Imperfect Success Podcast, where we help success-driven perfectionists ditch perfectionism and still enjoy the high-achiever lifestyle. 

In this episode, we tackle the topic of affirmations and unveil the truth behind their effectiveness. 

Contrary to the glamorous image portrayed on social media, affirmations require more than just empty words! 

We delve into the science of affirmations, including a groundbreaking study, and share three tips to make your affirmations actually work.

Episode Highlights:

• Understand growth vs. fixed mindset and how fixed mindset is hurting your affirmations.

• Learn about neuroplasticity and negativity bias and how it is the reason affirmations will or won’t work**.

• Learn about the Power of Action Verbs in your affirmations.

• Learn about the Mueller and Dweck study on beliefs about intelligence and learning success and how this is a GAME CHANGER for your affirmations.

• Uncover the importance of involving your body in the affirmation process.

• Recognize the significance of The Visibility Factor: Write Them Where You'll See Them.

Embrace these science-backed tips and witness the profound impact they can have on your journey to imperfect success.

** Negativity Bias Episode of the Imperfect Success Podcast

Articles referenced: 

1. Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance.

2. Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social cognitive neuroscience model 

MORE FROM NICOLE:

Take the FREE “What Type of Perfectionist Are You?” quiz and learn how to overcome the negatives of your perfectionist type! 

Get Over the Overwhelm: Your Mini-Course to End Overwhelm for Good

Schedule your FREE 30-minute Discovery Call

Connect with Nicole on Instagram

__

This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane! 

She’s accepting clients and you can contact her here.