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Is stress a big problem in your life?

Can you relate to feeling so stressed out that you can't think straight?

Maybe you struggle to remember a time when you didn't feel overwrought?

Or perhaps you're living with a partner whose stress levels are adversely impacting your relationship?

If stress is a problem in your life, this episode is for you.

I can empathise 100% with the damaging effects of chronic stress and thanks to my own experience (which I share in this episode) I know what it takes to firstly manage and secondly reduce stress so it no longer rules the roost.

Episode highlights:

• Understanding what stress is
• Not all stress is bad
• When stress becomes chronic
• Signs and symptoms of long-term stress
• Medicating stress Vs dealing with the root cause
• Practical strategies to calm your stress response
• How to reduce day-to-day stressors
• Seeking support for managing severe stressors

Stress reduction is achieved when you know how to manage the internal effects of your external circumstances - this episode will help you get started.

Download the PDF version of 5 Practical Strategies to Reduce Stress here.

Register for the STRESS LESS Workshop on Tuesday 1st October here.

Connect with me on Instagram @emmaobriencoach here

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

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Is your life unfolding the way you really want it to? Or are you settling for what’s happened along the way? Can you identify what’s working for you or does your focus land on what’s not lighting you up and stop there?

If you’re feeling stuck in a rut, this episode is for you!

In this episode of the podcast, I talk to fellow women’s empowerment champion Gina Maier Vincent about what it takes to actively design a life you really enjoy and why many women feel unable to go after their dreams and desires.

You’ll learn how to view your time and energy as currency and how making more conscious day to day choices can radically change the game for you over time.

Episode highlights:

• Powerful questions to ask yourself if you’re not sure what you want
• The powerful influences other people’s opinions have on us and how to stop accommodating others at your own cost
• Being unapologetically ‘you’
• How to balance all areas of your life not just ‘work’ and ‘life’
• Why prioritising the things that matter to you is key to feeling fulfilled
• Unloading the heavy weight of ancestral unworthiness
• The impact pursuing your dreams has on the folks around you
• Viewing time and energy through the same lens you would money and spending all of these wisely
• Bringing day-to-day choices into conscious awareness to uplevel your life

Gina shared some seriously good pieces of practical advice in this episode that’ll help you get your life moving in the right direction. Enjoy!

Pre-order Gina’s book here.

Visit Gina’s website www.exquisitelyaligned.com

Connect with Gina on Instagram and LinkedIn.

Listen to my interview on Gina’s podcast here.

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

 DM me on Instagram @emmaobriencoach
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Have you ever wished you could be more creative?

Are you feeling disconnected from your purpose and a sense of fulfilment in life or work?

The answer might be far simpler than you think and you’ll find it in this podcast episode.

In this episode, my guest Tineke Tammes, a career and creativity coach, and I chat about what it means to be creative (it’s not just painting and drawing) and how to access your own innate creative talents even if you consider yourself to be a left brained person.

Episode highlights:

• A real world definition of creativity
• How to use your creative brain for problem solving as well as arty endeavours
• The impact creativity has on your wellbeing and mental health
• The value of choosing meaning and doing things that matter to you
• Stopping yourself from drifting through life and taking back control
• Reconnecting with your body to access your creative brain
• The misty, murky process of tapping and working with your creativity
• How feelings of fear block creativity
• Making a habit of nurturing your creativity to allow it to bloom
• Marrying creativity and action to bring your ideas into reality
• Identifying your ‘Everybody’
• Tineke’s inspirational client success stories 
• Two activities you can do TODAY to start tuning into your creativity

This was a wonderful conversation about a topic I feel very passionately about and I hope it’s inspired you to make some space for your creativity to blossom.

Book a FREE saboteur call with Tineke here.

Visit Tineke’s website www.tineketammescoaching.com

Connect with Tineke on LinkedIn here.

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

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Do you struggle to make decisions? Do you doubt yourself and end up procrastinating? Are you stuck because you can’t decide what the right course of action is?

If analysis paralysis is your kryptonite, this episode is for you.

My guest, Jessica Frew, a BOLD action taker, unpacks why women find it so hard to make decisions that’ll ultimately improve their lives and how to get started with small steps to build your decision making muscles so you can change your life for the better.

Episode highlights:

• Jessica’s personal journey of co-parenting a child with her gay ex-husband
• How external influences such as religious communities influence your decision making
• Being intentional about the decision making process
• Recovering from self-betrayal
• Learning to trust your gut when you’ve been taught not to
• Managing your emotions when you’re faced with a decision
• Learning to sit with and process difficult emotions
• Using the way you feel to inform you, but not to direct the action you take
• Starting small with decision making so you can build confidence
• THE most powerful question you can ask yourself
• How to make decisions that enable you to choose your life direction
• Empowering yourself to make good decisions by exploring all the available options
• Stop shoulding all over yourself
• Jessica’s Triple B Decision Making Formula
• Taking the right action so that life happens for you, not to you

Confidence comes from taking baby steps consistently. Learning to trust yourself to make small decisions on a regular basis, means that when the time comes to make big decisions, it’ll be far easier.

Join Jessica’s FREE workshop here.

Visit jessica’s website here: www.heyjessicafrew.com

Connect with Jessica on Instagram here @heyjessicafrew 

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

 DM me on Instagram @emmaobriencoach
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Do you feel drained, but can't quite figure out why?

Are you walking through your life simply reacting to everything that's happening around you?

In this episode of the podcast my guest, holistic health expert Emily Steines, shares how to budget your energy so you can reconnect with yourself, feel better and improve your quality of life.

Episode highlights:

• Identifying your energy givers and energy suckers
• How to connect with your body and really listen to what it has to tell you
• Challenging your beliefs about success
• Learning lessons from burnout
• Redefining your relationship with technology
• The power of setting an intention for your day
• Acknowledging your coping mechanisms and shifting the unhelpful ones
• The mindfulness, movement and nourishment trifecta 
• Practical techniques and tools to calm your nervous system and tune in to what YOU want

Amidst our hustle and grind society this is a powerful and much needed conversation to have about reframing success and self-care.

Visit Emily's website: www.boopbod.com

Connect with Emily on Instagram: @boopbod

Enjoy 15% off Emily's app and course by using the code PODCAST here.

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

 DM me on Instagram @emmaobriencoach
or book a free connection call HERE.

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You're likely all too familiar with the constant stream of chatter that goes on inside your head. 

But are you aware of the power it exerts over your life?

In this episode I share the extent to which your inner chatter helps and hinders your progress and how to take back the control so you can enlist your self-talk to help you move forwards in your life.

Episode highlights:

• 60,000 thoughts a day of which 80% are negative!
• What positive self-talk can help you achieve (spoiler alert - anything)
• The impact of anxiety on your ability to take action
• Why negative inner chatter is so destructive to self-confidence
• 5 Strategies to help you calm your inner critic
• How to use affirmations (that actually work) to boost your frame of mind

I get very excited about sharing this work because it's so damn effective, so I really hope you enjoy this episode!

Watch the replay of my 5 Steps to Unshakeable self-Confidence here.

Connect with me on instagram and let me know what your biggest takeaways from this episode are @emmaobriencoach

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

 DM me on Instagram @emmaobriencoach
or book a free connection call HERE.

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What if you could manage to actually reach that health goal? How would your life change? How would you treat yourself differently?

Can you relate to setting big goals for your health, weight or fitness but never quite achieving them?

We’ve all been there and it’s frustrating as hell.

On this week’s episode, my guest Esther Avant, a health and lifestyle coach unpacks why you’re not reaching your goals and how to reframe your mindset around time and expectations so you set yourself up for success.

Grab yourself a notebook and a pen and get ready to change the way you look at your goals.

Episode highlights;

• The question you should be asking yourself about your goals but probably aren’t
• How to reduce the level of overwhelm in your life so you can achieve your goals
• Managing your expectations so you stop setting yourself up for failure
• Why your goals should have a big why if you want to reach them
• The value of making the steps to your goals as small as possible
• Navigating your goal gap
• Creating long term goals to lay the foundation for lasting success
• Esther’s 3 Cs of success
• Repairing your reputation with yourself to build confidence
• Big rock habits that create consistency
• Swapping self-criticism for compassionate ownership
• The power of support and accountability when you’re working towards big goals

Whilst Esther is a health coach, the advice she shares and the conversation in this episode is equally applicable to any area of your life where you’re setting big goals. I thoroughly enjoyed our chat and I’m sure you will too.

Access Esther’s FREE Habit Tracker here.

Visit Esther’s website here: www.estheravant.com

Connect with Esther on Instagram @esther.avant 

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

 DM me on Instagram @emmaobriencoach
or book a free connection call HERE.

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Infertility affects 1 in 6 people across the globe, but rarely is it talked about publicly and many women suffer in silence. If you’ve experienced the rollercoaster of a fertility journey, or you know someone who is, this episode is for you.

My guest, Ashley Holmes, a holistic fertility coach, shares how navigating your inner world and making the time to process your emotional experience helps to make sense of your reality whether or not your fertility journey results in the arrival of a baby.

This is a tough topic and this conversation is very powerful.

Episode Highlights:

• The lowdown on my own fertility journey
• What happens when you end up with no baby after years of trying
• Accepting ‘what is’ even though it’s not what you want
• Feeling whole and complete regardless of your circumstances
• The power thought patterns have on the way you feel
• How to sit with difficult feelings
• Techniques for processing through uncomfortable emotions
• Dealing with deep rooted anger
• Managing the effects of cumulative stress 
• How Ashley uses Ayurveda and energy healing to create mind & body balance
• The 3 Ayurvedic constitutions
• Becoming conscious of what you’re not only putting into your body but onto it too
• Finding a supportive community to journey with rather than trying to cope alone

Acceptance, courage and inner work and essential components on what can be a rough ride for some women. I found this conversation with Ashley very insightful and I hope, if infertility is something that’s affected you, you listen and know that you’re not alone.

Access the FREE chapter of Ashley’s book Nourish here.

Visit Ashley’s website here.

Connect with Ashley on Instagram @ashley_holmes3202 

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

 DM me on Instagram @emmaobriencoach
or book a free connection call HERE.

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Have you ever wondered how your home space affects your life?

Do you find yourself making excuses for your house and not really enjoying the space you live in?

Would you like to know how to feel happier in your current home?

If so, this episode is for you.

My guest, Feng Shui consultant Moni Castaneda, shares how to work with your home to achieve your goals, shift your energy and create a nurturing environment for everyone you share living space with so you can enjoy spending time in a home you love.

Episode highlights:

• The basic principles of Feng Shui: what to put where so you can be happy, healthy and successful
• An overview of the three types of Feng Shui
• Moni’s Feng Shui system; The 9 Steps of Feng Shui
• How Moni works with her clients’ own sense of style to help them love and be proud of their homes
• The state of your home is a reflection of the state of your life
• Ways to create safety, balance, harmony and a connection to nature in your home
• Using specific areas in your home to help you set life goals
• The most important areas to start applying Feng Shui principles for life success
• How your art and mirrors affect the energy of your home
• One surprising kitchen item that is very important for good chi
• 3 things you can do right now to improve the energy of your home

Moni shares such brilliant ideas and insights in the episode about how your home space affects all the other areas of your life! If you’re on a self-development journey already, prepare to be taken to the next level!

Access Moni’s FREE Style your Home Masterclass here and make sure you stay on the list for access to 15 more free classes.

Visit Moni’s website here: www.ninestepstofengshui.com

Connect with Moni on Instagram here @fengshuiforus 

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

 DM me on Instagram @emmaobriencoach
or book a free connection call HERE.

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Have you noticed patterns repeating in your life?

Did you know that behaviours can be passed down from one generation to the next?

The good news is that you don't have to resign yourself to fate, when you can connect to the past to redirect your future.

In this podcast episode, my guest Elizabeth Kipp, shares how intergenerational trauma and unhelpful patterns show up and how she uses Ancestral Clearing to help folks shift and heal themselves so their lives unfold more intentionally.

Episode highlights:

• The way we're all connected
• How thought patterns and behaviours travel down generations
• The past imprints the future unless you choose to make changes
• What Ancestral Clearing is and how it works
• A demonstration of Ancestral Clearing
• How Ancestral Clearing freed Elizabeth from years of chronic pain

Download Elizabeth's FREE Ancestral Clearing prayers ebook here.

Visit Elizabeth's website here: www.elizabeth-kipp.com 

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

 Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

 DM me on Instagram @emmaobriencoach
or book a free connection call HERE.