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Hey y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #25: Equal Air Time

Have you been in situations where someone is telling you all the negative things about everything? Most of the things coming out of their mouth are simply negative, and sometimes it's a little uncomfortable to be around.

You might have noticed this with yourself. I know sometimes I'll notice, okay and this has gone wrong and this has gone wrong. And I'm thinking, and sometimes even talking about all the things that are not going the way I think they should. Well, I've come up with a new way that I learned over the past few years in Life Coach Training, and it's called Equal Air Time - E.A.T. And what it means is the same amount of time you give to all this negative talk and these negative thoughts, you can have them, but give the same amount of time to some positive ones. What's going well, what's good about this. And even as you're listening to someone talking about negative things, it's like, huh, how could I turn this a little bit and at least spend the same amount of time on the positive, or even offering them that, that opportunity to be like, okay, great, I heard all the negative, I want to hear some positive too.

So there's a quote by Abraham Hicks that I love: "There are always choices there for you. In other words, you can look at the hole in the wall, or you can look at the beautiful painting. You can look at the light bulb that is out, or you can see the light bulb that is working. You can look at your mate in his positive aspect, or you can look at your mate in his negative aspect. You can look at your body and find something that pleases you, or find something that doesn't. You can remember your childhood and find something of pleasure, or you can find something that makes you feel discouraged. You can remember a compliment, or you can remember somebody down on you. You can remember your love. Or you can remember your hate. In other words, you have that choice in every moment."

And so I like to think about this when I'm ruminating and negativity, or listening to something negative, it's just like, alright, we can do negative, but let's also do positive.

So, final question, I like to ask myself frequently: How can I E.A.T. Equal Air Time this situation? Hmmm, something to think about.

Have a good one y'all ~ and here's to Equal Air Time and to love.

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You're listening to the Love Tidbits Podcast, where you'll discover a small, tasty, delightful, bite-sized tidbit of love ~ I'm your host, LeAnn Austin

Hey y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #24: Say What I Feel with Caleb Price

I love observing and connecting with other humans, especially noting how they feel and implement love into their lives.

We have the amazing Caleb Price sharing some beautiful love insights with us today. Alright Caleb, briefly introduce yourself.

Hi guys, so my name's Caleb, I am 24. I turned 25 actually in two days, Thursday, so when we're recording. I don't know when this is coming out, but I turn 25, and so I'm pretty young. I'm also a guy, but I'm also a life coach, which is awesome. I love it. So I specialize in coaching specifically, college students or young adults. Really of any age, you just want to find more purpose in life, who want to break up with anxiety, and like find their version of success in the world in which we live. And so, and a big part of that is focusing on love and loving ourselves. And that's one of the biggest things that brought me into this work.

So yeah, I'm super excited to be here. And then I guess, fun facts: I also play the violin, I like to make pizza in my spare time and, I don't know, I'm a big movie nerd, which you'll see, cuz my quote is from a movie.

That is so fun. I love violin, pizza, and movies. Sounds like an awesome combination. I love it.

Alright, so first question: How do you incorporate love into your business and or your life?

For me, I incorporate it by always, reminding myself daily, why I'm doing it and reminding myself that I love myself however I'm showing up in the day. When it comes to my business or when it just comes to my day to day life.

So recently I just started a full-time job. And so I'm doing that alongside this coaching thing before it was just school and coaching, which was like also busy, but this is a new kind of busy where like I'm going to a job. And then after I'm tired and I'm like ugh. And so it can be really hard, easy to be like hard on myself, or be like, I don't want to show up this way or like this isn't worth it, or it's not gonna do anything.

But, whenever I have a conversation with someone about like, they're just like, well, how did you get into life coaching? I'm always reminded by how I felt in that moment when I was getting coached for the first time, and just how my life was dramatically changed that day. Where I was like, basically my coach told me how I wasn't loving myself, and how I was making everything about needing to change, needing to be something, needing to show up in a certain way. When the gift of life is I just get to, I don't have to be anything. And that right now I'm a hundred percent lovable. I can just show up. And it's from that place of love that we get to do amazing things and we have the possibility to change.

And so, it was that revelation that just like shocked my whole world. And it's that where like a couple months down the line, I was just like, why does no one know about this? Why do none of my friends know about the truth that you are a hundred percent loved and lovable right now. You don't have to change. And it's just our brain's getting in the way of that basically. Telling us that, you know, telling us things that aren't true, or trying to make the truth seem wrong. And so that's why I work on reminding myself that I look at myself in the mirror, and I just remind myself, hey I'm loved. However, we're showing up today. It's gonna be great. And it's not to say, it's not perfect by any means, but I think part of the goal and is just in love, is always striving towards this reminder, cuz it's so easy to forget that we're supposed to love ourselves.

Ahhh, Caleb, this is just making my heart sing because I have a 25 year old son as well. And just how you know right now, hey, I love me. I love all these things about me. I want to share that. I mean, ahhh, that's amazing, amazing stuff. Where did you even, I mean, learn about this, where did you even, and maybe you're going to talk about this later. I don't know, I mean:

I can, so yeah, my mom, she's actually a life coach. Okay, cool. April Price, and so she, so I was on my, on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy. Okay. For two years. And during that time she found life coaching and was just beginning this whole transformation. So it was really cool cause I came home and I just saw a completely different person basically, like just someone who I saw was like, who loved themselves, and began like loving their life.

Not to say it was bad before, but it was just so much more now. I could just see her so much more full of life, and I kind of was like, well, that's great. And just moved on. But, and then I just kept noticing, wow, this is impactful, really different. And she started becoming a life coach and everything. And, and then it was at that point where I kind of had a downturn where I wasn't loving myself at all.

Like just noticing this pattern of feeling the need to perform, to be a perfectionist to people please, and around 2020 happened, and I was just like, wasn't in love with my classes, my major, thought, how am I going to get a job, or do anything. Like, I hate it all. And like, and I was just dealing with a lot of stress, and then like put matters, like make it even worse basically, I was dating someone and I thought that was where my anxiety was coming from. So I broke up with her and that only made me more anxious. And so it was just this like, at this very low point, I wasn't caring about myself. I wasn't on my side. And it was just at that point where I was just like, enough's enough. I gotta get, there's something that I need to do.

And so I reached out to a coach, and that's when I realized, and that's like the, for me, like the funniest thing is it's never like, oh, it's like, I expected like, oh, I'm gonna change all these things and then I'll finally be good and like, okay, and feel good about life. It's not about that. It's just like, you're just depriving yourself of feeling good right now, cuz that's totally a hundred percent available to you. You're just saying that you can't feel that way.

Um hum, well for you to realize that and know your value, like in your heart, I can see it as we're talking, is just amazing. And I love that you're choosing to share that. That's so awesome. Ahh, alright Caleb, so number two: What is something you love about you and why?

That's a hard one because, well, it's hard usually for people because it's hard to talk about, you know, why they love themselves. Um hum, and I don't know, you can come with excuses, like bragging and whatnot. For me, it's like, there's a lot of things to choose from that I do love about myself and I do care, but it's something that I have practiced it. Before this point it'd have been, been like, well, what's there to love, but just like from this transformation, it's just this change of really trying to just seek and like understand like anything about me I could love, even if it's something that's like, I don't know, kind of funny or kind of weird. Like, I don't know.

Like, one thing that I really love about myself is my laugh personally. Like I feel like I have a great laugh. It's just a lot of fun. I like to tell jokes. I like to be funny or more importantly, I like to laugh with people or at people's jokes and stuff. I remember one experience in my life, like where we were at a musical, my sister was performing at and it was a comedy. It wasn't, it was supposed to be funny. It wasn't just making fun of it. So it was supposed to be funny. And me and my friend, we were dying laughing. And later that week, or sometime, either my sister or some of her friends or someone they reached out and they were just like, I could tell you were in the audience cuz of your laugh and like you made it that much more enjoyable. And it's, and like, you know, my siblings would be like, let's go to the movies cuz like with you, it's more fun cuz you're gonna laugh and your laugh is like contagious.

And so that could easily for me be something like, oh, I'm being noticed, I'm obnoxious. And like sometimes my brain does tell me that, but I've just chosen to accept it as like, this is who I am and like really lean into like, yeah, I like this about myself. I like that I laugh. A lot of people might not like that. I know probably some people watching a movie, they're gonna be like, well, now I can't hear what's going on, we need to have the subtitles on or something like that. But that's just like one thing that off the top of my head, like, I really love my laugh and just like, and also being able to find humor in even the, I don't know, most boring or most difficult circumstances.

Um hum, so fun. Ah, I love that too, we gotta get you laughing now. Alright Caleb, so before I ask you the last question, anything else you'd like to share, and where can our audience go to find out more about you?

Yeah definitely, for me as a coach, I focus a lot on helping young adults see themselves for who they truly are. That underneath all these thoughts of anxiety and fear, I help them try to understand the truth of why their body is communicating and their brain is communicating to them in this way.

For example, last night, I think one great truth that also really goes along with this is that one reason, I think the most important reason, why we experience fear, is because we love. Is because we care. Well, I was coaching someone and he was explaining all these fears and anxieties about having a difficult conversation with his romantic partner, about his desires and was worried about being selfish and like what she was gonna say and everything. And he had all this fear and anxiety and felt like I shouldn't be this way, you know, all these thoughts and this drama. And I just loved being able to remind him. And it just dawned on me, you know the reason why you're afraid is because you care about this person. You care, and you love them so much that you want them to like you, you want them to like still be with you after you express the desire.

I mean, that seems really extreme, but that's where our brain goes. Because that's what it wants, it cares. And while that's not necessarily the healthiest place, I love reminding ourself that our base desire, our default setting in for all of us as human beings, is love. It's returning to this idea that yes, love is how we operate, love is how we can truly see ourselves. We just have a brain that challenges us. That forces us to remind ourselves that, hey love is this answer that requires us to even have faith and believe in it when we don't see it happening, when we don't see the end in sight or any way that we could even be loved by others, or it just seems like love is out of our reach, or we just can't feel that way. Even, it just doesn't feel like we have that. It's about believing it and then trying and testing and striving. And it's just my firm belief that like love is like our default. And it's the reason why we do a lot of things. Sometimes, unfortunately, but most of the time it's for good.

Mm-hmm, so beautiful. Alright so where can people hear about you Caleb?

Oh yeah, so well my website is calebpricecoaching.com you can go visit that. And if you're, you know, young adults and you're curious about working with me, even if you're a parent, I help parents. I have a free worksheet telling them how they can be there in love and acceptance for their kids, even when they don't agree. Cuz as college kids, we kind of tend to choose our own paths and our parents don't usually agree necessarily with that. And so helping them to get to a loving place. And as well as I have a podcast, so my podcast is called Relatable Thoughts. I focus on advice and you know, young people and just also tell lots of funny stories to relate to life coaching principles. And you know, it's just a, it's a good time. So that's where you can find me. And also, I mean, Instagram that's social media is on there. So @calebthecollegecoach, that's where I'm at.

Okay on Instagram, and I'll put all of these things in the show notes, but just a shout out to your podcast. I just found out about it and started listening to it.

And I send it to all my single or all my adults kiddos, and I'm like, hey y'all listen to Caleb. My married ones, my single ones. I'm like everybody listen to Caleb. So I'm excited to listen to more of those too. So well done, and I love that a 24/25 year old guy has his own podcast. That's awesome. Yeah, I love it.

Nice, alright, the last question: What is your favorite question or quote about love?

So this one, it's really good. It's I didn't, I don't usually think of it as a quote. I mean, I pulled up a quote from it, but my favorite movie is a movie called Arrival. If you've seen it. It's with Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, long story short it's about aliens, but the big plot about it is about how love basically like is not bound by time, and how our perception of time is bound by language and our thoughts. And it's really cool.

But there's this quote at the very end of it. Because the whole idea is about thinking about time differently. And so it comes, there's like some future time travel stuff and you have to all watch it. It's a really great movie. It'll blow your mind. But the most important part is at the very end, these two are talking, and so she asked, like, if you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things? And then Jeremy Renner responds and says, "well maybe I'd say what I feel more often." And it's this idea that he, I mean up until this point in his life, he just realized what he was lacking was kind of focusing on love and this desire. And so, and they be, you know, become a couple and it's really wonderful. And it's really interesting cuz then Amy Adams on her part, she sees from the end, from the beginning and she sees that, yeah, they're gonna end up divorcing, and she's like, but she still chooses to be with him. Because she knows that experiencing the love is going to make it all worth it, like going through it. That's what journey of life is. It's a really great movie. You all have to watch it. It's awesome.

But I just personally love the concept of maybe I'd say what I feel more often, specifically about love. I used to, I don't know, kind of make fun of myself for wanting to say like, I love you so much. Like at the end of every phone call with my family, or even to my friends who like, you know, they're bros, they're guys. They're not saying I love you, probably hardly ever. And it was just this idea in my mind of like, I want to really just normalize love and really normalize this idea about like, if I feel a certain way then like, why am I depriving other people from hearing it? And why am I depriving myself of feeling satisfied in letting people know? And so it's just, that's my quote. It's really good.

Yes it is. "Maybe I'd say what I feel more often." Hmmm, something to think about.

Thank you Caleb, for sharing your tidbits of love with us. Have a good one y'all, and here's to love.

If you would like to become an expert at loving yourself, check out my Lovin Me Program at leannaustin.com

Is it T or F?

Here's a simple way to figure this out.

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Hey y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #23: T or F

I'm guessing most of you have taken tests where T or F, meaning true or false, were the options. I loved quizzes like this because I had a 50% chance of getting it right. I remember my first test experience in college, all the worry about going to the testing center, what it would be like. I'd heard stories of how scary it was. It's completely different now, but for you old timers like me, who know how a testing center used to be, it was quite an experience.

Well, I remember thinking, and I think it was a science class I was taking, how hard could it be? It's multiple choice. There's lots of true or false questions. I'm sure it's not gonna be that bad. Well , I didn't do too hot on that test. And instead of just A, B, C, D, or E, it was A and B, L and M, Q and R, A, B, C; so many options that you really had to know your stuff. And I learned very quickly that I needed to study a lot more in order to pass these quizzes.

Well, back to true or false. I always thought T or F was interesting, especially when I started learning how it relates to our minds. Now, one of the very first things I teach my Lovin Me members, is to understand the difference between T or F, meaning thought or fact. Now in order to do this, you need to have some thoughts and facts to work with.

So similar to cleaning out a drawer or your closet, it's helpful to take everything out of your mind and then intentionally choose what's useful, and what you want to keep and to put back. And then also the stuff that you don't need and you want to get rid of. So, if we're going to see what's going on in our minds, we want to be aware of what's up there.

And the simplest way I've found to do this, is what I call a Thought Dump. Where you grab a piece of paper and a pen, and you write down everything that comes to mind. Even doing this for just a few minutes is helpful, to get all of your thoughts on paper. Then you can see what's going on in your mind and you notice the things you want to keep, and the things you want to toss, just like cleaning out your closet.

Well, after I do a Thought Dump, I read back through and notice, okay, which of these things are actually facts, which are true, which could I prove in court. Which are facts and then noticing, which are simply my thoughts. Often we think everything is true, but in reality, most of the things bothering us are our thoughts about the facts and not the facts themself.

So if you want a fun quiz to do, try a Thought Dump. Once you clean out your mind and have it on paper, go back and note, which is a thought, and which is a fact? Is each phrase that you wrote down a T or an F? Facts we can't change, but thoughts we can change. When we start tweaking our thinking, then we get the results we truly desire.

So if you want to play the T or F game with me, and accomplish your goals, improve your relationships with others and yourself; join my Lovin Me Program, and together we'll make that happen.

So try a Thought Dump. Distinguish between your Ts and Fs. And then, a question to ask your Ts; Is this a thought I want to keep or tweak?

Hmmm, something to think about. Have a good one y'all ~ and here's to Ts and Fs and love.

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Find out what a lobster has to do with creative living. Thank you Elizabeth Gilbert, for a beautiful book~

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Hey y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #22: Big Magic & A Lobster

I just finished reading the book Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert. Now, I got mixed up on this book recommendation and I thought I was getting The Big Leap, but instead I got Big Magic, and maybe it was by some big magic that that happened because what a fascinating book.

Elizabeth shares on the first page of the book.

Question: What is creativity?

Answer: The relationship between a human being and the mysteries of inspiration.

We all have jewels deep within us, and the hunt to uncover these jewels is creative living. The courage to go on the hunt in the first place, that's what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one. The often surprising results of the hunt, that's what Elizabeth calls Big Magic.

Well there's lots more packed into this book that I definitely recommend reading. And I want to share the story she tells at the very end...

"Little Brother was an aspiring painter. He saved up all his money and went to France to surround himself with beauty and inspiration. He lived on the cheap. Painted every day. Visited museums. Traveled to picturesque locations. Bravely spoke to everyone he met, and showed his work to anyone who would look at it. One afternoon, Little Brother struck up a conversation in a cafe with a group of charming young people, who turned out to be some species of fancy aristocrats.

The charming young aristocrats took a liking to Little Brother and invited him to a party that weekend in a castle. They promised Little Brother that this was going to be the most fabulous party of the year. It would be attended by the rich, by the famous, and by several crowned heads of Europe. Best of all, it was to be a masquerade ball, where nobody skimped on costumes. It was not to be missed. Dress up, they said, and join us.

Excited, Little Brother worked all week on a costume that he was certain would be a show stopper. He looked all around Paris for materials, and held back neither on the details nor the audacity of his creation. Then he rented a car, and drove to the castle three hours from Paris.

He changed into his costume in the car and ascended the castle steps. He gave his name to the butler who found him on the guest list and politely welcomed him in. Little Brother entered the ballroom, head held high, upon which he immediately realized his mistake.

This was indeed a costume party. His new friends had not misled him there, but he had missed one detail in the translation. This was a themed costume party. The theme was a medieval court, and little brother was dressed as a lobster. All around him, the wealthiest and most beautiful people of Europe were attired in finery and elaborate period gowns, draped in heirloom jewels, sparkling with elegance as they waltzed to a fine orchestra.

Little Brother, on the other hand, was wearing a red leotard, red tights, red ballet slippers, and giant red foam claws. Also, his face was painted red. This is the part of the story where I must tell you that little brother was over six feet tall and quite skinny, but with the long waving antenna on his head, he appeared even taller. And he was also of course, the only American in the room.

He stood at the top of the steps for one long gastly moment. He almost ran away in shame. Running away in shame seemed like the most dignified response to this situation, but he didn't run. Somehow, he found his resolve. He'd come this far after all, he'd worked tremendously hard to make this costume and he was proud of it.

He took a deep breath, and walked onto the dance floor. He reported later that it was only his experience as an aspiring artist that gave him the courage and the license to be so vulnerable and absurd. Something in life had already taught him to just put it out there, whatever it is. That costume was what he had made after all, so that's what he was bringing to the party.

It was the best he had. It was all he had. So he decided to trust himself, to trust in his costume, to trust in the circumstances. As he moved into the crowd of aristocrats, a silence fell, the dancing stopped, the orchestra stuttered to a stop. The other guests gathered around Little Brother. Finally someone asked him what on earth he was? Little Brother bowed deeply and announced, I am the court lobster.

Then laughter, not ridicule, just joy. They loved him. They loved his sweetness, his weirdness, his giant red claw, his bright spandex tights. He was the trickster among them, and so he made the party. Little Brother even ended up dancing that night with the Queen of Belgium."

Elizabeth says, "This is how you must do it people. You must stubbornly walk into that room regardless, and you must hold your head high. You made it, you get to put it out there. Never apologize for it. Never explain it away. Never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew and you worked with what you had in the time you were given. You were invited and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than that.

They might throw you out, but then again, they might not. They probably won't throw you out actually. The ballroom is often more welcoming and supportive than you could ever imagine. Somebody might even think you're brilliant and marvelous. You might end up dancing with royalty.

Or, you might just end up having a dance alone in the corner of the castle with your big red foam claws waving in the empty air. That's fine too. Sometimes it's like that. What you absolutely must not do, is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party. And that will be a pity because, we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment."

If you want to expand your creativity, strengthen your mental and emotional muscles, and incorporate more love into everything, join my Lovin Me Program.

And as Elizabeth shares in my final thought from the book, "The treasures that are hidden inside of you are hoping you will say yes." Hmmm, something to think about. Have a good one y'all ~ and here's to creativity and love.

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Sharing some of the best quotes from This Is Us

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Hey Y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #21 ~ This Is Us

I recently binge watched the last season of This Is Us. Now, if you've never seen this show, and want to watch something that is real, relatable, raw, and authentic, and brings up all the feels, this show is it. There are so many things I love about the beautiful, messy Pearson bunch.

A quick synopsis: This Is Us is a television series that follows the lives and families of two parents and their three kids in several different timeframes. There are so many takeaways from this show for me, but just want to share my favorite quote from each of the five main characters.

So Kevin says, "Sometimes you just got to do the right thing. You got to do the right thing, even if it's not what you want."

Kate says, "But the truth is I'm strong. And the things that I have been through have made me tough as hell."

Randall says, "Everyone sees their childhood with different lenses."

Jack says, "When you're young, you're always trying to be older. And when you get old, you're always trying to go back. Try and appreciate the moments, you know?"

Well, before I wrap this up with my favorite last quote; What's a TV show or a movie that you like? Why? Share that with your friend or family. Maybe even take them to a movie or watch a show with them.

I think throughout watching this series, my overall things that I've learned from This Is Us, is to be present, to appreciate the little things, to keep showing up. And as most of us are in the middle of summer right now; How could we do that? Maybe a TV show or movie remind you of something that you could share with someone you love.

Alright, well to wrap this up with my favorite quote from Rebecca Pearson, the cute mama of the show. She says, "Take the risks. Make the big moves, even if they're small ones. Forge ahead with your lives in any and every direction that moves you. I'm asking you to be fearless." Hmmm, something to think about.

Have a good one y'all, and here's to being fearless and to love.

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Ways to connect with Jamie~ instagram.com/jmebills jamiebills.com twitter.com/jmebills

You're listening to the Love Tidbits Podcast, where you'll discover a small, tasty, delightful, bite-sized tidbit of love. I'm your host, LeAnn Austin.

Hey y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #20: The Most Wonderful Thing with Jamie Bills

I love observing and connecting with other humans, especially noting how they feel and implement love into their lives.

We have the amazing Jamie Bill's sharing some beautiful love insights with us today. Alright Jamie, briefly introduce yourself.

Hi, thanks for having me here. Like she said, my name is Jamie Bills and I live in Michigan with my husband and our three girls. And I am currently working toward my dream of becoming a picture book author.

So when I'm not working on developing the craft or helping my critique partners or writing and revising my own manuscripts, I am posting reviews about other picture books on Instagram, and that's been fun. I enjoy, I've been able to get to know a lot of different authors and illustrators and reviewers from around the world. And it's also been fun to start working as an influencer. For multiple publishers, which isn't as lucrative as it sounds, but it has provided a lot of free books.

That is awesome. I love it. I'm curious, like how did you get interested in picture book author? I mean, I'm not even totally sure what that is, maybe you can explain what that is?

Okay, so when we were just in college and didn't have a lot of money and Ken was busy, my husband, I would often go to Goodwill to get books for my girls, and I would spend a lot of time and we started building up our library there, and I just started realizing like how much I love picture books and just my passion for it. Anytime we go into a bookstore, I directly go to the picture book. So there's picture book, middle-grade, YA, and adult. So picture books are just the ones that are illustrated for the littles, is specifically what I'm interested in. They're typically 32 pages. There's a very, standard, obviously there's deviations, but that's your standard, 32 page illustrated book.

I love that. I used to teach elementary school back in the day and I remember a few, I mean, picture books are pretty impactful, so that's so fun that you do that. Alright, so three questions for you today. The first one is: How do you incorporate love into your business and or your life?

Okay so with the picture books, like I was saying, when my girls were little, we would spend countless hours reading together. And in fact, at one point I made it a goal to read every picture book in the library where we were living at that time, because we were just checking out so many, I thought, well, let's just start at A and go through the whole library, which was pretty crazy, but we'd take like 30 at a time. And we did end up moving before we were able to complete that specific goal. However, we have read thousands of books together.

Those moments of just snuggling together and laughing and learning and going on these literary adventures are just priceless to me. And as I work on my own manuscripts, I try to keep that in mind. And my favorite type of picture books have both humor and heart, because I think it's really good for kids to have a funny escape from life. Like life things are hard for kids, you know. And it's just so good for them to be able to laugh, but also if a book touches their heart, it's more powerful. They'll remember it and they'll want to return to it. So that's the aim of what I'm writing and the type of books I like to read the most.

That is so beautiful, how you've incorporated that with your girls, that you're able to spend time doing something you love with them, as well as doing something you love yourself and creating that for others. I love that. Awesome. Okay. Number two. What is something you love about you and why?

So when you think about that question, sometimes it's easiest, you know, if someone has told you, and one thing that my Grandpa Lawrence used to praise me for when I was little and a teenager, he'd always say you can make anything fun. And I realized like for the most part that he was right, that I do have an ability to make the most out of pretty hard situations. And I can find excitement in small things. And I love that because it helps me feel younger I think. Because kids have the ability to be extremely excited about something as small as being line leader or having like five extra minutes of recess or, you know, just little things.

And when I was a teenager, I remember looking around and noticing that adults typically don't have that much enthusiasm and it kinda made me nervous. Then I thought, I don't want to lose this, and I actually started praying earnestly that I would always be able to keep that enthusiasm for life and feel those exciting feelings. And that's been a prayer that's been answered and I'm grateful for that.

And I totally agree with that because the time I've been able to spend with you, you totally know how to have fun. And it's so fun being with you and the things that you've taught me. So that's awesome. Okay, before I ask you the last question, where can our audience go to find out more about you?

Okay, so I'm, like I said, I'm on Instagram @jmebills is my handle on Instagram and I post multiple times a week, typically reviews, but sometimes other ideas. And then I also have a website, jamiebills.com, and there I have some booklets. I have different fun ideas of things that you can do with books, as well as just a little bit more information about my writing journey.

And if you're a writer yourself, I actually have a section where I share tips that I've learned at conferences and through some of the education that I'm going through, books or seminars or different things like that.

That's excellent. And we'll put those in the show notes as well. That's fun to have all those resources. Cool. Okay, so last question. What is your favorite question or quote about love?

Okay, so of course I'm going to use something from a picture book. And one of my favorite quotes about love comes from one of my favorite picture books that was written in 1967. It's titled Pickle Chiffon Pie, and the author's name was Jolly Roger Bradfield. And in this book, there are three princes that all want to marry the princess. So the king sends them on this journey into the forest to find the most wonderful thing. And whoever can find the most wonderful thing will get her hand in marriage. So two have them bring back extra ordinary things, but Prince Bernard comes back empty handed and it's not that he hadn't found anything wonderful. He just didn't want the oger to scare the princess. He didn't want to disturb the painting mice. And although the three, no snoozel could make really good pies, he didn't want her young snoozels to be left without a mother.

So my favorite quote comes when, the king is talking to him and in response to him not bringing anything back, he says: "You brought back a story of kindness and love and consideration for others, truly the most wonderful thing of all."

Hmmm, something to think about. I love that Jamie. Well, thank you, thank you for sharing your tidbits of love with us today.

Have a good one y'all and here's to love.

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Hey y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #19: Urges

Last week on my walk, I all of a sudden started thinking about no bake cookies. It was so random that this popped into my head. I didn't see food or anything. My mouth started salivating and I was having a hard time thinking about anything else besides no bake cookies. This was an urge. An urge is an intense desire caused by what we're thinking. And at that time on my walk, I was having an urge for no bake cookies.

Our brains are programmed to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and be efficient. I was sure at that moment that no bake cookies were an absolute must for me. Often our desires come from an effort to numb or avoid unpleasant feelings. Most of us are not taught how to manage our emotions, so we turned to something external to dull or distract ourselves. When we create desire or urge with our thoughts and then reward that urge by giving into the desire, we program ourselves to desire it even more.

Many times we try to react, resist, or avoid urges. Well today, I want to teach you how to allow and process an urge. So, I created an acronym for the word URGE. I love acronyms because it's an easy way for me to remember and teach concepts.

So think of the word URGE, the U stands for understand. Understand I am having an urge. It feels urgent, but I don't have to answer or reward or respond to it.

The R stands for recognize. Recognize that an urge is a feeling in our body caused by a thought. A feeling is a vibration in our body, nothing more. When we are curious and willing to experience these vibrations, we find that we can feel any emotional.

These are a few questions you can ask yourself when you're having an urge. For example, when I was having an urge on my walk for no bake cookies, I asked myself: Where is this feeling in my body? It was kind of in my chest. And I then said is a hard or soft? Well it was kind of like a ball, rock hard. And then sometimes you can ask, is it fast or slow? Mine was pretty fast. And then another question: How does this feeling make me want to react? Well, it made me want to go have some no bake cookies. And then I said: Why am I feeling this? And I recognized it was because of the thought I must have no bake cookies, and that was feeding into the desire and I thought it was going to be over if I didn't have no bake cookies.

Alright, so the G in urge stands for goal. Our goal is to unlearn desire by allowing urges to be there, without responding to them. Because we aren't used to doing this, it's going to require some practice. It simply takes time and repetition to learn how to allow urges. The goal is to have an urge, and allow that desire to be present without answering it.

So a few ways we can do that is, first pretend you're describing the experience to an alien who has never experienced an urge. What does it feel like? Where do they feel it? What are they thinking?

Watch how you experienced the urge as though you are sitting across the room, this is another way you can do it. This creates distance between the experience, including the thought, you're choosing, and the feeling that it's creating. So basically you're the watcher and you're simply watching the urge.

Another way is to hold the urge. Accept the urge, and be present with it. Allow it to be there. Pretend to hold it in your hand and approach it with childlike curiosity.

And one last way to allow the urge; to be present without answering it. And simply allow it, move toward it. Open up to that emotion.

Alright, the last letter in our URGE acronym is E. E is for evaluate. As we practice allowing urges, we get better at feeling them, and the intense desire begins to dissipate. Again, this will take time and practice just like anything new, but rather than being afraid of the urge, see it as an opportunity to get better at allowing urges.

So to do this, you could write about the urge in a notebook, or have a jar and put something visual inside each time you allow an urge. I do this, I have a jar in my kitchen, and every time I allow an urge, I'll put a bead in the jar.

Now for those of you who think you have to get this right all the time, no, this is not how it is. You don't have to start over when you quote, mess it up. Nope. We just have a jar. And when we allow urges, we stick a bead or whatever you want in the jar. And watch it grow, and it doesn't matter how quickly it fills up. You're just practicing allowing urges, and seeing something to notice when you do them.

Being able to allow an urge is a skill. By practicing this over and over and being compassionate with ourselves when we give into an urge, we'll become really good at allowing urges. So, if you want to strengthen your mental muscles and increase your ability to recognize and allow urges join my Lovin Me Program. Besides the urge acronym I created, remember that's Understand, Recognize, Goal, and Evaluate. I also have many other ways to help you get the results you truly desire.

Lastly, one of my favorite quotes is from the amazing life coach, Rachel Hart. She says, "Urges are powerless without our consent." Hmmm, something to think about.

Have a good one y'all, and here's to allowing urges and love.

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"Being human is not a bout being any one particular way; it is about being as life creates you"....

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Hey y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #18: Self-Compassion

I recently read the book Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff, countless words of wisdom in this beautiful read. Just a few gold nuggets I'd like to share. Kristin says, "Being human is not about being any one particular way. It is about being as life creates you, with your own particular strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges, quirks and oddities."

She shares three core components of self-compassion. The first is Self-Kindness. Self-kindness means that we stop the constant self judgment, the disparaging internal commentary that most of us have come to see as normal. It requires us to understand our failures instead of condemning them. Self-kindness involves more than merely stopping self-judgment. It involves actively comforting ourselves, responding just as we would to a dear friend in need With self-kindness, we soothe and calm our troubled minds. We make a peace offering of warmth, gentleness, and sympathy from ourselves, to ourselves. Instead of seeing ourselves as a problem to be fixed, self-kindness allows us to see ourselves as valuable human beings who are worthy of care.

One way to practice self kindness, Kristin calls, "the hugging practice". So basically what you do is you give yourself a gentle hug. It kind of seems a little bit silly at first, but your body doesn't know that, it just responds to the physical gesture of warmth and care.

Skin is an incredibly sensitive organ. Research indicates that physical touch releases oxytocin, which reduces fear and anxiety. So I've been trying out this hugging process, even just crossing my arms with a little extra pressure, hugging myself. When I do that, that can be really calming in difficult situations.

I've also heard that there are some great benefits from eight second hugs, and my boys sort of love it when I hug them for eight seconds. But give it a try, just giving yourself a hug, and then also giving those you love an eight second hug.

Alright, so the second core component of self-compassion is Common Humanity. Common humanity is feeling connected with others in the experience of life, rather than feeling isolated and alienated by our suffering. When we're in touch with common humanity, we remember that feelings of inadequacy and disappointment are shared by all.

A couple things that separate us from this feeling of common humanity, is when we play the comparison game. When we compare ourselves with others. And when we do this, we only further distance ourselves from the people whose success makes us feel bad about ourselves in the first place. The sad irony is that the very reason we want to succeed, is because we want to feel accepted and worthy, to be close to others, to feel that we belong. But when we compare ourselves with others, it does the exact opposite.

Another separation from the filling of common humanity is the illusion of perfectionism. Perfectionism is defined as the compulsive need to achieve and accomplish one's goals with no allowance for falling short of one's ideals. These unrealistic high expectations mean perfectionist will inevitably be disappointed.

It's like that black and white thinking. That one way or the other. I really like to play in the gray, to play in that middle part. And I talk more about this in podcast: Play in the Gray - episode #9. So if you want to hear more about that, check out episode #9.

Alright, so one last core component of self-compassion that Kristen shares is Mindfulness. Mindfulness is when we hold our experience in balanced awareness, rather than ignoring our pain or exaggerating it. It's a clear scene, and nonjudgmental acceptance of what's occurring in the present moment. When we're mindful, we see things as they are, no more, no less. In order to respond to our current situation in the most compassionate, and therefore most effective manner.

Mindfulness provides incredible freedom because it means we don't have to believe every passing thought or emotion as real and true. Now when I notice I'm distracted, or resisting feeling anything, it's helpful for me to take a few deep breaths, and think about what is happening right now. Staying present. This redirects me to the mindful state that I want to be in. Mindfulness provides us with the opportunity to respond, rather than simply react.

Well, that's it. So those are what Kristin teaches the three components in order to be truly self-compassionate: Self-Kindness, Common Humanity and Mindfulness. And there's lots more information in her book, if you're interested in learning more about self-compassion.

Now this is also what we do in the Lovin Me Program. There are a variety of ways we strengthen our emotional and mental muscle. Y'all are really good at loving and having compassion for others. And I'll help you further develop your self-compassion and become an expert at loving yourself. If you want to learn more, go to my website: leannaustin.com to sign up.

Now, one last favorite quote from the book is by Carl Rogers. He says, "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." Hmmm, something to think about.

Have a good one y'all, and here's to self compassion and to love.

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What's one of your recent embarrassing moments?

You're listening to the Love Tidbits Podcast, where you'll discover a small, tasty, delightful, bite-sized tidbit of love. I'm your host, LeAnn Austin.

Hey y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #17: My Awkward Afternoon

I recently attended a Mastermind Conference in Austin, Texas. There were 1500 other life coaches there and I was all over the place anticipating this event.

Well the day finally arrived, and I woke up nice and early, went to the airport, got on the airplane in my jeans and pink sweatshirt. Knowing that once I got to the hotel, I could change in something else. While there waiting, some very kind people from the area reached out to me and said, Hey, do you want to meet up and take an Uber over together to the hotel? I thought that sounded great. So I met up with them, made some new friends after I landed, and off we went over to the hotel.

Well, they were all staying at the hotel where the Mastermind was held, but I was staying with another friend, just around the corner. Well, I thought it was just around the corner, but I saw the name of the hotel as we were driving in, and it said Hyatt over there, the hotel. And so I'm looking around and it's probably a good three quarters of a mile away from where we were, which is fine, cause I like to walk. So we dropped their stuff off, and they offered to leave my suitcase there with theirs, but I thought, well, I'll just take it, and then after lunch, I'll go over to my hotel and check-in.

So we went to the hotel, excuse me, we went to the place for lunch and I'm pulling my carry-on behind us. And it's making, you know, those weird noises when the cart, the wheels are being crazy and it's so annoying, cause it keeps making that little clicking sound. It's doing that all the way to lunch. So here we hear LeAnn coming along, click, click, click clicking.

Well, we get to lunch. We sit down and eating, and I noticed that my phone is almost dead. It's not charged and I don't know how to charge it at this point. I don't have any way to connect and I really need that to figure out how to get to my hotel. So we're eating lunch with my new friends.

I'm totally distracted thinking about how I'm the only person in jeans and a pink sweatshirt right now, as well as how I'm going to get to the hotel, the noise this suitcase is making and all the things. Well, finally, I get up, excuse myself, and I go find my hotel. Well, I'm walking over there and it's a little farther than I thought. It's over across the bridge. It's under the viaducts, it's, you know, it's not probably the safest place for me to be traveling with my little carry on, pulling behind me and, ugh, I'm sure it was quite the sight.

Well, I go into the hotel and find out, this was not the hotel I was staying at. There apparently is another Hyatt hotel, which is right next door to the place where I was attending. I was so embarrassed that I had done this. So I get my bag. I get more directions, cause my phone at this point is not working. Have my little paper map, and I dragged myself over to walk back over. I'm sure anybody watching me thought this was very humorous as I'm pulling around my very noisy carry on. I get into the correct hotel and I go in the elevator and click on, I was on the 18th floor. So I jumped in the elevator and I start going up and it stops it's 16, and it won't go any higher. And I'm like, what in the world? I'm pushing all the buttons. It will not move. So I'm like, I am stuck in the elevator. I finally get here. I'm a little exasperated at this point. And finally I'm like, all right, well, I'll get off at this floor that I'm on, cause I can't go anywhere. I'm gonna go see if I can find stairs. Like can't even find the stairs in this place. And finally, when I do, they're all blocked off weird, and I find one of the people cleaning and I say, Hey, how do I get to floor 18? And she told me, you know, I don't know you're going to have to go talk to the front desk.

So I get back in thinking, all right, this can not be that hard to get to floor 18, and get back in the elevator. So again, feeling more embarrassed at this event-full afternoon that has taken me to get to my hotel. And I noticed there was a little thing in the elevator that says, put your card here or whatever it is, obviously I don't travel a ton.

And I didn't know that you have to show your key card in the elevator. So, finally figured that out, get to the 18th floor, get in my room, and I was about in tears at this point, it had been quite the afternoon. I was like, I don't know, what am I doing? I, you know, just craziness. So, I share that with you, just to help you know more about embarrassing things. Embarrassment, Brené Brown defines it as a fleeting feeling of self-conscious discomfort in response to a minor incident that was witnessed by others.

Now she says there's three types of events that can trigger embarrassment. The first committing a faux pas or social mistake, the second being the center of attention, and the third being in a sticky social situation. The last thing Brené shares about this is; embarrassment takes years to develop and its emergence coincides with the self-conscious ability to understand what others may be thinking of us.

So if you've ever been or raised a tween or teen, you know that they often spend more time being embarrassed than not. It's a constant cringe when we start seeing ourselves through others' eyes, and it stays that way until we get to midlife and fall apart, before we realize it takes just too much energy to try to manage perception.

I think I'm getting to the midlife point where yes, all the things happened and it was totally embarrassing. But as I sat in my hotel room after almost tears, and then chuckling about the events that had just unfolded, I remembered, you know what, this really doesn't matter. And even if all the other life coaches were witnessing me do this, it's okay.

So if you want to learn more about this embarrassing, or all the feels, and stop trying to control other people's perception of you, join my Lovin Me Program, and I'll help you make that happen. I love this quote: "Embarrassing moments create the best memories." Hmmm, something to think about.

Have a good one y'all, and here's to embarrassment, memories, and love.

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Ways to connect with Aundrea~ thewakeupstories.com @aundrea_d_ twitter.com/aundrea_demille www.facebook.com/wakeupstories

You're listening to the Love Tidbits Podcast, where you'll discover a small, tasty, delightful, bite-sized tidbit of love. I'm your host, LeAnn Austin.

Hey y'all, welcome to Love Tidbits, episode #16: Connections with Aundrea DeMille. I love observing and connecting with other humans, especially noting how they feel and implement love into their life.

We have the amazing Aundrea DeMille sharing some beautiful love insights with us today. Alright, my Georgia girl, will you briefly introduce yourself.

A: It's always awkward when people, when I introduce myself, it's like tooting your own horn. But, I'm Aundrea DeMille. I've been in Utah for four years. I am the author of: Is it racism? How to Heal the Human Divide. Owner of 360 True Design Real Estate Photography. Mom of five boys, four still at home, one who has left the nest. And I do a lot of diversity equity and inclusion work. I was commissioned by the governor to do inclusion work here in the state of Utah; like a lot of trainings and speakings. And, I love all things, peanut butter and hate all things chocolate.

L: I love it, Aundrea. That's awesome! So fun all the things you do and I can relate to a mama of boys.

So three questions for you today. The first one, how do you incorporate love into your business and/or life?

A: So I would say with both, the way that I incorporate love, is leading with empathy first.

When we have clients in our real estate marketing company come to us with problems, the first thing that we do is listen with empathy and compassion, rather than getting defensive. And then we help solve that problem together. And I definitely do that personally as well. I'm not saying it's always easy, especially when tensions and feelings can get high in the DEI space.

If I'm doing a diversity, equity, and inclusion training, and there's, you know, a little bit of hostility in the audience, it can be very difficult to come from a place of empathy. But I make a conscious effort to pause, really listen and understand what they're saying, and then to empathize. I work really hard to tap into their energetic frequency, so I can feel what they feel and understand where they're coming from. And when I do that, it's easier to come together, and lead out with love. So I would say definitely with empathy, both in my photography company and when my diversity, equity, and inclusion space.

L: I love this, and I've witnessed this as I've listened to your amazing podcast; Wake Up Stories. It is so, ahh, just refreshing to hear how you do this, see how you live this, and it's beautiful. So yes, such a wonderful example of this. Thank you, I love that. Yeah. Alright, so the second one, what is something you love about you and why?

A: Again, that's hard to answer with one question. One of the things I love about myself is my God given talent to connect with people. People are naturally drawn to my energy and I've been blessed with the gift of articulation, and so I use that. I use that in all aspects of my life. I try to use it at home. It's not always as easy at home. It's actually easier with strangers. But that's one thing that I love about myself.

And I love my natural athletic ability. I'm naturally athletic, and I've always been involved in sports since I was a kid. I've always, once I hit high school, I was captain of my high school teams, captain of my college teams, just kind of a natural born leader. But my athleticism has actually led to me being more spiritual, because here where I live, I'm able to get out and hike a lot and connect with nature. And I'm not winded, I'm just naturally kind of in shape always. I know that kind of sounds arrogant, or maybe because I'm always moving my body, you know, if I don't hike, I'm doing a mile and a half walk up mountain hills with my dogs. You know, or paddle boarding in the summer, I ski in the winter. And so I use my natural athletic ability to connect with nature, which really helps me stay grounded in my spirituality, because I have my most spiritual experiences when I'm connected with nature, not when I'm in a church, or in a room, or it's just, if I'm barefoot in nature, it really helps me.

So I would say those are probably my two things and I guess it comes full circle because by using my athleticism to be out in nature and stay grounded, it helps me to let my light naturally shine and connect with other people. So, yeah, I would say those two.

L: So beautiful. I love that, and how the connectedness is, you know, with other humans as well as yourself through, I love that, connectedness, one of my favorites.

Okay. Well now, before I ask you the last question, is there anything else you want to share and where our audience can go to find out more about.

A: Yeah, for sure. If your listeners would like to connect, if you need help with business coaching, if you need a diversity, equity, and inclusion training and your environment, and your workplace, and your group, you can find me at: thewakeupstories.com That's s t o r i e s. You can also follow me on Instagram @aundrea_d_. And that's a u n d r e a. So the easiest place to find me is thewakeupstories.com, and to follow me on Instagram.

And if there's one message that I would leave with your audience is: I know it's easier said than done, but just walk the walk, you know, so many times we say, oh I love everybody. And well, I just teach people to be kind and teach my kids to be nice. But are we really? Right, when we have a difference of opinion, and we have passion behind those differences of opinions, no matter what it is, are we really coming from a place of love, and being open and listening to what others are saying from a place of empathy, or are we just defending our own points of view?

So if there's anything that I could leave, it would be; be open, because we're all here to evolve and change, and leave an impact. Everyone has gifts that God and the universe has given us. So I encourage everybody to tap into your specific gifts, and make a difference in your community and your home and your neighborhood. You don't have to write a book or have a podcast to make a difference. You can make a difference with your neighbors, your friends, your family members, just by having one conversation at a time.

L: I love the walk the walk, and I highly recommend listening to Aundrea's podcast: Wake Up Stories is fantastic. And she has so many, I mean, different backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, sexualities, everything. It's beautiful to hear all different takes on it. I enjoy listening to it too. So thank you for sharing that with our audience as well. Thank you. Alright, so the last question, what is your favorite question or quote about love?

A: Yeah, my favorite quote is, "You move towards and become that which you constantly think about and believe. And when I, I don't know who said it, I know who said it to me. I was early twenties, very well mid, actually late twenties, but very recently divorced and single mom. And I was at an event, when a fellow person in the neighborhood and from church, said this to me. And I don't know if she made it up or if it's a special quote, cause I've kind of heard it around before. But that, you know, if you move towards and become that which you constantly think about and believe, and if you do that from a place of love, your world will be amazing. Like miracles will unfold. You'll like walk with a beautiful peace and light within you, that inherently gives others permission to let their light and peace shine as well.

But it impacts everything. It impacts, you know, your academia, if you're in school and studying. Even if you're in higher ed, it impacts that. If you are wanting to grow a business, it does that. If you want to focus on being the best homemaker, it impacts that. You know, anything that you want to create, I think we forget, we have the power to create, right? If you believe in God listeners, or the universe, or creation in any shape, form or fashion, then you come from a power that created you, which means you have the power to create.

Just like if my dad was an athlete, I inherited his athletic genes. You inherit the power to create from your creator, and it's up to us to make our lives and this world a better place. And you can do that by focusing on, and I circled back to the quote, "you move towards and become that which you constantly think about and believe."

So, what are you thinking about? What do you believe? What are you becoming? What are you creating? And I encouraged to do that from a place of love.

L: Hmmm, something to think about y'all.

Thank you so much Aundrea. What a blessing you are, and it's so fun to see how you are truly changing the world. Thank you.

A: Oh, thank you. It was a pleasure. Thanks for having me on LeAnn.

L: Thanks y'all, have a good one, and here's to love.

A: We'll see ya.

L: If you would like to become an expert at loving yourself, check out my Lovin Me Program at leannaustin.com