Mindset Meets Mastery

“Learned helplessness is about responses to failure, not success.” -Crystal Clay

Sometimes, we stop doing things we love because something made us change the way we feel about them. We start to lose motivation and even the fondness after harboring negative thoughts and emotions, whether from external sources or from within us. Today’s topic is about “learned helplessness” and how it hurts us and those around us. It gives the idea that every failure is attributed to a person’s incompetence. Although this is not true at all, an individual can potentially lose sight of the relationship between success and their actions. Our guest, Crystal Clay, shares her research and wisdom on learned helplessness, it’s warning signs and how to overcome it. Learned helplessness is taught and learned in both personal and professional settings. Learned helplessness is about giving away control, lack of trust and fear, and creates people who begin to lose the desire to even try.

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Highlights:

00:28 Learned Helplessness- A Real Issue

05:55 Unboxing Learned Helplessness

08:19 Understanding Learned Helplessness

12:10 How Learned Helplessness Hurt Others

16:37 How to Recognize Learned Helplessness and Overcome It

21:39 Learned Helplessness in the Business Setting

24:31 Run Towards Your Fears

28:00 Learned Optimism 

“You have just ‘right’ emotions for yourself.” -Ilene Dillon 

When was the last time you had an overflow of emotions? Sometimes, we would rather hide from our emotions than face them head-on. Whatever the reason is, we must stop suppressing them right - now. Ilene Dillon, the “Emotional Pro,” discusses all things imaginable about emotion. She answers the question that has puzzled mankind for so long: “Why do we have emotions?” Knowing the answer to this perplexing piece of our self opens the door to the possibility of a happy and peaceful life. This episode will also clarify two opposing notions: positive versus negative emotions, and real versus synthetic emotions. Managing emotions is not always easy. Nevertheless, with understanding the fundamental concepts coupled with constant effort and unwavering determination, we can be “masters” of our emotions. 

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Highlights:

00:28 Are You Giving Your Power Away? 

04:26 You Are “Right” Emotional for Yourself

07:04 Positive Emotion vs Negative Emotion

10:49 Complicated and Recurring Emotions

16:46 The Universal Cause of Anger

19:13 Real Emotions vs Synthetic Emotions

23:24 How to Redirect Emotions

25:45 Emotions as a Navigation System

31:08 Embrace Your Lessons

“We are ultimately responsible for our own mental health. Learning how to ask for help is really important.” -Dr. Kelly Holder

The holiday season is here, now! For many, this is a season of enjoying family, food, football, and other festivities. However, some people can’t handle the smell of excitement in the air from the place they are emotionally or physically right now. Even if they wish to, it’s a battle to see through, to move past the holiday blues. Unfortunately, tragedies and adversities don’t know when to take a holiday for themselves. Our guest, Dr. Kelly Holder shares her expertise on holiday blues and mental health. She gives insights on managing holiday blues, self-care, and handling family traditions. Holiday blues can strike anyone, but you can strike back and create a new “normal.” This timely and important conversation is to support and encourage anyone with the holiday blues or other health issues.  This conversation will make a difference for you or a friend, neighbor, or anyone you know, and love. A key message is: There is help, and you are never alone!

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Highlights:

00:28 Strange Holidays

03:54 Holiday Blues vs. Mental Illness

06:29 How to Hold the Best Holiday

09:10 Signs to Watch Out For

10:55 How to Fulfill Your Responsibility to Yourself

14:39 Self-Care Is Not Selfish

19:21 How to Make Family Traditions More Meaningful 

22:51 You Are Not Alone

“I'm not smart… I prepare. And that goes for anything in life.” –Mona Dixon

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right! This famous Henry Ford quote echoes a fact nobody can challenge- our attitude towards obstacles can spell either success or failure. We need to accept the fact that obstacles are a given. It may come in many names and many forms but their existence is never to stop us from attaining success. They are there to remind us to keep going because when we begin to relax on our journey, we might think that we’ve already reached our goal even before we actually do. For Mona Dixon, obstacles are what makes her story inspiring and meaningful. Listen to her story and find out the secret behind her success.  

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Highlights:

00:28 All Sorts of People Overcoming All Sorts of Obstacles

06:54 Homeless But Not Hopeless

13:54 $20 Worth More Than Chump Change

19:58 Mona in Action

23:01 Meeting the Big Names

25:46 Believe in Yourself

28:12 Be Genuine

“Finding something that really matters to you, a cause greater than yourself, and pursuing it, is the thing that will take you where you want to be.” –Anne Lorimor

Life is full of opinions. We are born with the ability to think and think about which ones to believe. This applies to age talks as well. The age stereotype has dominated the world and sadly, our minds too. It’s beneficial to know our limitations as we grow older but not as beneficial to impose limitations on ourselves that don’t even exist in the first place. Anne Lorimor, Guinness  World Record Holder for the oldest woman to reach the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, has proven that age is not a limitation but an opportunity to do something great. She shares her “3-Steps” to beat age. There’s no such thing as too early or too late in life. Following your purpose is a lifelong journey. You go with it as long as you live. Persistence is the key, as Anne always says. There’s so much you can do if you just keep your end of the bargain.  

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Highlights:

05:00 Options Opened

07:45 A Record Breaking Summit- Twice

14:06 Climbing with 3 Broken Ribs

17:10 3 Steps to Beat Age

20:50 Teaching the Youth to be Financially Literate

25:35 Persistence Makes a Difference

27:35 Pursue Something Greater than Yourself

“Whatever is going on right now is recoverable. And all we need to do is keep on going.” –Kim Sutton

There’s always a lot to do, but we seem to run out of time for everything to get done. Sometimes, we have days filled with dissatisfaction and regret thinking about the things we missed on our To-Do List. The thing is, we don’t have to do everything. Just because we can, does it mean we should. Kim Sutton shares her secret and techniques on positive productivity- working the way smart people work. It’s easy to get distracted, especially if you have what Kim calls, the Chronic Idea Disorder, which is the title of her upcoming book. She explains the struggles one with this condition faces and how to turn this malady into a benefit. Failures and obstacles are merely small fractions that make up the entirety of progress. Whatever it is that makes things hard, it’s “overcomeable.”  Being busy is different from being productive as their outcomes convey. Productivity breeds progress and it only comes with teaching yourself to do more than just chase money.

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Highlights:

04:05 What is “Chronic Idea Disorder” and How to Recover From It

08:25 Create a Priority List

13:19 The Entrepreneur’s Worst Enemy

14:31 How to Teach Your Clients How to Expect

16:37 Saving the Life of Entrepreneurs Through Positive Productivity

18:00 How Perfectionism Impacts Progress

21:48 Don’t Share Your Wounds; Share Your Scars

27:24 The Pomodoro Technique

“The definition and the purpose of communication is to connect; if you've not connected, nothing's going to happen.” –Glenn Michael Milliet

What does selling and communication have in common? Connection. Business communication expert, Glenn Michael Milliet talks about how to be an expert in communication. Entrepreneurs are used to being around people everyday, but in order to keep the business rolling, they need to do more than just “sell.” Glenn shares the vital “Billion-Dollar Question” that can spark an influx into your bank account. Not everybody can speak like Martin Luther King Jr. or Abraham Lincoln, but anybody can have a shot in making a legendary imprint in someone’s life. Before jumping in to your next appointment, learn what communication really, truly is and how you can be more effective at it.

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Highlights:

00:01 The Communication Talk

04:48 That Missing Piece

12:52 The 100% Guaranteed Winning Bet

14:20 The Billion-Dollar Question

19:14 How to be an Expert Communicator

25:43 The Right Order of Communication

28:57 Don’t Aim for Success; Aim for Significance

“You have the ability to change your life at any moment of any day whenever you change your thoughts.” -Stacy Danford 

What does it really mean to have gratitude? Gratitude impacts the brain and mind, and yes, there is a difference. Gratitude is an actual science, backed by real research. Gratitude in good times and bad, is powerful with impacts on life outlook, sleep patterns, stress levels, and more. Gratitude directs mindset formations for each of us up to 70,000 thoughts each day.

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Highlights:

00:27 Grateful for Being Grateful 

06:19 Mind vs Brain- What’s the Difference?

09:17 How to be Purposely Grateful

13:17 The Most Important Minutes of Your Day

17:02 The Science and Benefits of Gratitude, No Matter What

20:03 Outthink Your Brain

22:07 Yell: “STOP!” 

26:08 You Can Change Your Life Any Moment of Any Day

“Reassess your business development, your business offerings, and your business services. And see how that equals to who your primary and secondary and third level target markets are. Because that's where you're going to shift mindsets. And that's where you're going to learn to master your expertise and become the go-to expert in your business.” -Arlene Gale 

In this episode of Mindset Meets Mastery with Arlene Gale, Arlene dissects how and why a business and business owner can’t be all things to all people in developing profitable marketing and business-building strategies. Examples and tangible action steps that direct us away from the human nature of wanting to please everyone to the success formula and  mindset that the “riches are found in the marketing niches” strategy may feel weird, but is more successful. Thinking small for target market opens more doors, not less.

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Highlights:

00:27 The Business Branding and Market Targeting Myth

06:50 The “All Things to All People” Myth

13:34 Niche Down to Earn More 

15:55 Selling to Secondary Level Market

19:19Caution! Don’t Hit the Banks

22:59 It’s Time to Re-asses 

“Get out of the lame excuse zone… Just get out of your own way.” -Debbie Allen

As part of Mindset Meets Mastery with Arlene Gale’s goal of flipping what we think we know about business upside down, this program is a great example, because most of us hear success is hard. But Debbie Allen, the Go-To Business Expert, tells us how failure is harder than success. Learn how to be a shameless self-promoter and what the key to success really, truly is from a person who has built and sold numerous million dollar businesses. Debbie talks about how “Success Is Easy” with just a few mindset shifts.

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Highlights:

03:28 The ‘Shameless Expert of Experts’  

08:10 Success Is Easier than Failure

12:38 Success Defined

16:54 The Squirrel Syndrome

23:13 Get Your Asking Gear 

28:06 Rid of the Childhood Mindset

30:17 Own Your Value

32:37 Get Out of the Lame Excuse Zone!