By Launch Your Life Podcast
Launch Your Life with Dr. Michelle Gordon is the only mindset podcast that provides weekly actionable insights for lasting happiness and change for high achievers who are ready to bounce back from
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There’s no easy way to talk about racism.
It’s a learned behavior and hard to unlearn without a relaunch to thinking patterns.
I didn’t know anything different. But I actively worked to see how I was raised and change this.
And I'm still a work in progress.
Today on the Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m talking about the racist history of my home town and Christmas, among other things
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
01:40 Racism
07:32 Christmas in the House of Many Horrors
10:03 Baby Grow-A-Tooth
11:17 Unlearning childhood beliefs
Resources:
For more information, here’s the references used in this podcast:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Executive-Order-8802
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/executive-order-8802-1941-2/
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sundown-towns/
https://tumbleweird.org/the-tri-cities-is-a-sundown-town-again/
https://biblehub.com/galatians/3-28.htmhttps://depts.washington.edu/labhist/maps-race-tricities.shtml
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In my experience, sexualization caused extreme toxic shame.
Merriam-Webster has a descriptive definition:
“A painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety, the susceptibility to such emotion, a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute.”
On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about shame, my mother’s secrets, generational trauma, discovering fundamental truths about myself and more.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
1:41 Sexualization and shame
2:13 Experiencing toxic shame
3:11 The steps of grooming
4:37 Overcoming toxic shame
5:06 Sex-ed
5:33 The result of my coping mechanism
6:03 Generational trauma
7:46 My mother’s secrets
8:48 The abuse in my father’s family
9:07 My father’s shocking response
9:40 Narcissistic parents
10:39 Fundamental truths (about me)
12:03 My entrepreneurial spirit started young
Resources:
For more information, here’s the references used in this podcast:
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-toxic-shame#:~:text=Toxic%20shame%20is%20a%20feeling,childhood%20or%20as%20a%20teen
https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-self/2018/09/childhood-toxic-shame#1
https://www.icmec.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Behaviors-of-Sexual-Predators-Grooming.pdf
https://www.health.com/condition/ptsd/generational-trauma
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On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I continue with my childhood, reveal some alarming statistics, talk about the time I “woke up” in 5th grade, and more.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
02:29 Some alarming statistics
06:45 Disassociation
07:53 Waking up
08:32 Shame and guilt
09:16 The torture lost memory
10:35 The brain's elegance
Resources:
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Growth work is change work. It’s not only uncovering beliefs from childhood, but all the beliefs stacked through life experiences and anything we think is “true.” On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about the process of change and why it can be so hard as well as some anecdotes from childhood.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
01:54 True growth
04:30 Catholic school
11:44 Consequences of staying out too late
12:51 Complicated mother
13:29 Ballet
14:52 Life is a series of corrections
15:15 Frightening nights
Resources:
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On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I share how I developed a deep love of travel, a childhood illness, more stories of the House of Many Horrors, a recurring night terror, and much more.
True growth is uncovering the beliefs and stories you created as a child to make sense of perceived or real trauma. It can be tedious, painful, and meticulous work.
But bringing your rational, adult mind to the stories you create in your childhood is freeing.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
01:55 Wanderlust as a child
03:12 Alcoholic mother
04:12 A new diagnosis
05:36 One of my fondest childhood memories
06:16 Getting my ears pierced
06:42 Medical trauma
08:10 Visiting my cousins
10:05 Using my adult brain to make sense of abuse
10:35 Night terror
Resources:
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In this episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I discuss childhood beliefs, competition, feeling heard, and much more.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
01:50 My first pivotal year
02:05 Deep self-sufficiency
03:55 Competition
06:16 Feeling heard
08:14 Why I’m a doctor
Resources:
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In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I want to share my story to help you understand where I’ve come from and how I’ve relaunched my life over and over as I’ve dealt with trauma, adversity, setbacks, and surprises.
Back in 2018, I wrote over 60,000 words of a memoir and I’ve just let it sit on my shelf all this time, but in this series, you get to hear it first.
I hope you can find some inspiration as we go through this together.
I’ve just entered my 4th year of podcasting and I want to let you know how much I appreciate you spending time with me every week.
Today, I'll tell you about a surprising revelation that occurred when I was 5.
In This Episode:
00:00 Intro
02:04 Hometown history
05:35 The house of many horrors
08:47 The surprising lesson I learned from my grandfather
11:11 The power of responses
Resources:
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In today's episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I take you back to one of the first episodes I released on The Menopause Movement Podcast with Ryan Levesque, the CEO of The ASK Method® Company and one of the industry's highly-regarded personalities.
Many women in midlife, like me, pivot and want to be their own boss. The natural question that can come up is “What type of business should I start?” But here’s what you should be asking: “What market am I going to focus on pursuing?” In today's episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I take you back to one of the first episodes I released on The Menopause Movement Podcast with Ryan Levesque, the CEO of The ASK Method® Company and one of the industry's highly-regarded personalities.
We talk about the four types of entrepreneurs and their shadow sides, what is a practice business and why you should consider starting one, reframing failure and much more!
Who are you going to serve?
Many women in midlife, like me, pivot and want to be their own boss.
The natural question that can come up is “What type of business should I start?”
But here’s what you should be asking: “What market am I going to focus on pursuing?”
Because the business that you start is actually far less important than choosing the right market.
During the podcast, we discussed the most important question to ask yourself before starting a business, what to think about before you get started PLUS:
Tune in today to find out what type of entrepreneur you are and what type of business you should start!
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
0:00 Introduction and Opportunity
4:32 The most important question to ask yourself
7:03 First steps to get started with your business
9:05 Deciding what your non-negotiables are
9:25 The four types of entrepreneurs
17:22 Ryan’s analogy on starting a business
18:57 What is a shadow side
20:57 Looking at the life pyramid
21:32 The value of the ripple effect
23:16 Excelling in the five Fs of your life
25:05 Other aspects of the shadow side
28:16 How Ryan uncovered the different types of entrepreneurs
32:33 Why detaching yourself from the outcome and focusing on the process matters
33:32 Obstacles you face in the early stages of your career and overcoming it
34:39 Getting it going instead of aiming for perfection
37:53 It’s either you earn or learn
39:25 Getting a coach
40:30 Pioneers and settlers in business
43:20 Honoring and banking on your ideas
44:19 Recognizing imposters syndrome
48:42 Ryan’s growth, journey, and takeaways
52:50 Choosing progress rather than perfection
About the Guest:
Ryan Levesque is an accomplished entrepreneur and best-selling author. He started his journey by establishing practice businesses and now has his own enterprise, The ASK Method® Company. Ryan was featured in different publications such as USA Today, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Entrepreneur for his entrepreneurial work over the years. Currently, he has over 250,000 entrepreneur subscribers eager to read his business advice.
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Everybody feels like an imposter at first until we decide to push through in order to get to the next side. It's really hard to grow if we’re always comfortable but we need to get out of our comfort zone to improve.
Consistency wins the game for everything and I talk about that in today's episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast with Madonna Hanna who is a competitive sprinter in the 50 meter and 100 meter dash, motivational speaker, freelance writer, and actress.
Tune in today and get motivation to get started on whatever your dream is.
When I got back into exercise in 2014 I had to fight with myself to do it because I had this mindset that exercise was punishment.
I don't know where that came from.
But I had to change my mindset and it became something more along the lines of “What can I do with this body?”
I had to get really curious about it in order to make myself do things.
It's really hard to grow if we’re always comfortable. But we need to get out of our comfort zone to improve.
I always like to tell people that the best exercise is one you'll do with consistency.
Because consistency wins the game for everything.
In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m with Madonna Hanna who is a competitive sprinter in the 50 meter and 100 meter dash, motivational speaker, freelance writer, and actress.
During the podcast, we talk about what it's like to be an athlete in midlife and how to get started PLUS:
Tune in today and get motivation to get started on whatever your dream is.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
03:36 How Madonna started as an athlete
07:20 Madonna’s story of winning her team a bronze medal
12:54 Madonna’s mindset shift that led her to become a world-class athlete
19:45 How coaching closes the gap
22:45 The biggest challenge for women
33:40 Becoming a midlife athlete
36:24 The best exercise to do
40:02 How to get out of burnout
41:45 Madonna’s record
46:47 Moving forward with excellence
Resources:
Books mentioned in this episode:
A Beautiful Work In Progress by Mirna Valerio
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About the Guest:
Madonna Hanna had a successful career in the fashion industry at the corporate level. She retired as an award winning fashion marketing educator. Presently, she is a motivational speaker, freelance writer, actress, amateur competitive athlete, and she writes a monthly article for the Senior Scene publication chronicling her journey to the 2022 National Senior Games in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Madonna was selected as the January 2020 National Senior Games Association Athlete of the Month.
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The podcast currently has 167 episodes available.