Omar Pinto Coaching

We all have unrealistic expectations. What are yours?

These expectations can chip away at relationships, keep us from reaching our goals, and create unhealthy patterns and behaviors in our lives. When we or someone else falls short, we draw false conclusions, and if we're not careful, unrealistic expectations can lead to resentment.

So how do we relinquish unrealistic expectations? In this Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, the group helped Travis. Coming to terms about his unrealistic expectations in regards to his alcoholic father, Travis's anger and resentment has caused him to create distance until he gets stronger in his own sobriety.

The group also helped Simon. Navigating the world as an empath, Simon asks the group for help with connecting to his feelings in front of people, bringing down his walls, and becoming vulnerable. As empaths, when we realize how sensitive we are, we avoid people, situations, and can lose trust with ourselves and our peers.

In this Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, you'll learn:

• Examples of unrealistic expectations and how they can contribute to our relapse process
• How unrealistic expectations can contribute to the negative beliefs we have about ourselves
• Characteristics of empaths
• How to navigate the world as an empath and use it to our advantage

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/022.

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Meet Milena Regos, she's a rebel entrepreneur, a visionary, and the creator of Unhustle. She's on a mission to disrupt the status quo and revolutionize the way people live and work to create sustainable success without stress and burnout.

In this episode of Omar Pinto Coaching, Milena talks about her background with the hustle culture and how she shifted to the Unhustle way of living. She describes how to unlearn the hustle mentality and the impacts of a simple life that perfectly defines success.

Listen in to learn the importance of unplugging from technology to be in presence with yourself and unlock your potential.

"If all you do is work, you're living a very one-dimensional life, and you're not drawing any energy and inspiration from anything else."- Milena [15:41]

What You Will Discover:

• [4:27] How Milena got into the unhustle mentality 8 years ago before she started teaching others on the same.
• [7:39] Milena's childhood in Bulgaria, her background with the hustle culture, and its impacts on her life.
• [13:53] Her career success in the digital marketing world and the burnout she experienced during that period.
• [16:59] Milena narrates the pivotal moments that completely turned her life around.
• [25:12] How the simplification of her closet translated into her life and business.
• [33:22] Why you should deeply think before you purchase things you don't need.
• [41:23] The seven blocks of the unhustle framework to create a successful life.
• [47:11] How the Japanese forest medicine technique allows people to deeply connect with nature.
• [49:03] Learn to find the time to connect with yourself and be more present.

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/021.

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Most times, when we're presented with struggles, it's an opportunity for us to learn. Just coming back from a relapse, Stephanie feels lonely, stressed, and not good enough. For years, living at home with alcoholic family members, her idea of love from her family was transactional and limited. For years, the sense of loneliness caused her to comfort herself with drugs and alcohol when nobody else was able to.

In today's Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, the group helps Stephanie learn to begin the process of trusting herself to learn how to re-parent and find empowerment within her own life. When we find ourselves alone, scared, and isolated, we teach ourselves how to survive with maladaptive coping mechanisms because it's the only choice we have. When these tools stop working, we must reach out, learn how to accept help, and begin the work to access the empowerment we all have within.

In this week's Podcast, you'll learn:

• • • How to access our feelings of empowerment anytime we want them
    • How beating ourselves up turns into a snowball effect that can lead to relapse
    • How to begin the process of trusting ourselves to find self-love

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/020.

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Whether you have a loved one that is sober, in recovery yourself, or are watching someone struggle with addiction, one of the biggest components of recovery is learning how to support and restore our relationships with our loved ones. The best way for us to be there and help others is to ultimately work on ourselves.

In today's Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, the group helped Wendy. In recovery herself, her children have also struggled with addiction. Now that her children are grown and have moved out of the house, she feels a combination of emptiness and guilt. What was once days filled with school, extracurricular activities, and carpooling, are now days of emptiness and sadness in acknowledgement that her primary purpose as a mother is not what it once was. Wendy also feels guilt regarding her children's addiction issues and doesn't feel "good enough," as a mother and feels the need to compensate by using control out of fear.

The Recovery Coaching group took Wendy back to childhood to a place when she began being self-critical. What was once a silent message of not feeling, "good enough," became a journey of turning into someone she thought she should be for her mother, father, and family, ultimately, abandoning herself.

In today's Recovery Coaching call, you'll learn:

• How to make amends to yourself
• How to let go of what we want to control
• How to show compassion to our inner child and younger selves
• How to get in touch with the true essence of who we are and begin the path of healing

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/019.

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Meet Little Kate of the SoberKates and the co-host of The After Party Podcast. She's sober and has just celebrated her four year soberversary. Kate found herself in a decade-plus long hole of alcoholism when what started out as fun was no longer funny.

In this episode of Omar Pinto Coaching, Kate shares her alcoholism journey that started at 12 years old and her sobriety journey that started 4 years ago. She dives deep into the negative feelings that pushed her to alcohol, the positive ones that kept her there, and the painful ones that got her out.

Listen in to learn why you should look within and make choices that are for your own happiness and not what others want.

"Build the confidence to make your own choices and build your own path."- Little Kate

What You Will Discover:

• [4:57] Little Kate describes the first time she drank alcohol as a 12-year-old and the liberating feeling it gave her.
• [11:22] How parents pressuring their children can negatively impact their feelings and perspective.
• [15:41] She talks about the coming-of-age summer that she went wild with drinking.
• [26:24] When things went down south, the death of her brother, and the trauma of her family's separation.
• [37:24] She describes the moment she decided to be sober plus the side effects she experienced.
• [42:45] How logical facts of alcohol's side effects worked for Kate rather than the 'powerless' intangible language.
• [46:40] When the After Party Podcast started- and impact it's having on the SoberKates and others.
• [57:00] Learning to overcome the obstacle of people always having an opinion on your sobriety.

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/018.

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In early sobriety, it's common to experience cravings. No matter if it's cravings for alcohol, drugs, or food, it's likely that we've all experienced them, and even more likely we'll experience them again.

However, what exactly does having a craving mean? In the same sense that most of us used drugs, alcohol, or other mind-altering substances, when we experience cravings, we can ask ourselves if we're trying to soothe, numb, or escape an uncomfortable situation or event in our present or past lives.

In this week's Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, the group helped Travis. Dealing with cravings for food and video games, he finds himself uncomfortable in his sobriety while trusting the process of recovery. The coaching group guides him back to a significant event in childhood when he first felt abandoned and betrayed by his parents and put his trust in substances. Finding himself escaping the uncomfortability of putting trust in the recovery process, the group guides him through an exercise to begin working on these negative patterns to ultimately seek freedom and find purpose.

In this week's podcast, you'll learn:

• Why we experience cravings
• How to recognize common behavioral patterns that negatively impact our lives
• What to do when we experience a craving
• How to slow down and respond instead of react

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/017.

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When we get sober, and begin to find ourselves again, it can be common to ask ourselves, "what am I doing this for?"

We're told that if we follow all the necessary steps, we'll remain sober and find a life beyond our "wildest dreams." However, for some, we make it to the other side and the grass is still brown. Instead of the pink cloud we so often hear about, a rain cloud follows us around and we become miserable.

How to we get ourselves here? How do we find happiness, fulfillment, and joy?

In this week's Recovery Coaching call, the group helped Matt. Finding himself unfulfilled and depressed, he's become stuck in the grips of self-centered fear. The group gives Matt practical tools to begin removing himself from this self-centered fear and start becoming more of service to others.

When we begin to short ourselves of what we're capable of doing and the help we're able to give, we lose a sense of purpose. Once we begin adding value to the world, we can begin to get out of the self-centered fear and begin to find happiness, fulfillment, and joy.

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/016.

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Meet Rick Alexander, an author, speaker, and serves as the Chief Growth Operator for The Special Forces Experience. Rick spent 12 years in the United States Navy as a Special Operations Combat Medic and now helps people craft meaningful lives while in the heat of adversity.

In this episode of the Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, Rick opens up about how he overcame adversity and created a meaningful life. He describes how he let go of who he was told to be and instead focused on who he wanted to become.

Listen in to learn how to become aware of your toxicity through shadow work and taking the opportunity to change for the better. You will also learn how to observe moments of truth in your everyday life to help transform your life.

"Transformation is a really long process of learning to trust the voice that's deepest within you."– Rick [7:06]

What You Will Discover:

• [2:19] Rick describes the moments he fell in love with adventure and joining the military.
• [6:55] The self-realization journey that he took to start living a life aligned with his own value system.
• [8:47] How Rick transitioned from a career in the military to a writer.
• [23:03] How coaching made him discover his self-destructive patterns and understand them.
• [27:16] How to cut ties with who you were and establishing boundaries on who you are away from your family.
• [30:37] How he let go of unimportant things and make way for new energy and life.
• [34:05] How shadow works helps you be aware of your toxicity and allows you to change.
• [39:08] The process of repatterning by allowing yourself to hurt and let go.
• [42:16] The impact of listening to moments of truth to help transform your life.
• [51:30] The power of listening to your internal constitution before you make a move.

About Rick Alexander:

Rick spent 12 years in the United States Navy as a Special Operations Combat Medic and has completed multiple ultra-endurance events including a 240 mile run in body armor, to raise money for the children of fallen heroes. As such his work draws on this depth of experience in order to help people craft meaningful lives while in the heat of adversity. You can hear his ideas on his podcast, Morning Coffee with Rick Alexander, or by reading his latest book, Ambitious Heroes and Heartache.

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/015.

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Have you ever felt so desperate to move forward with your life but find yourself getting in your own way?

We have ideas to bring to life, stories to tell, and goals to achieve, yet, the internal conflict within us prevents us from even starting. When we get into our own way, it's caused by limitations and limiting beliefs that prevent us from moving forward.

Some of us can't get past the fear of failure. Some of us struggle with a nagging sense of inadequacy. Others feel pressure from feeling insignificant and feel powerless, and some may have a tendency to procrastinate.

In this week's Recovery Coaching call, we helped Travis. Feeling frustrated, Travis is conflicted with the fact that he is trying to move forward in his business, recovery, and life, but finds himself spinning his wheels.

When we stop trying to move fast, and trust the process, we can begin to be present with who we are, moment to moment. In this process, we gain the awareness and the insight we need to put aside these limiting beliefs and move forward with our lives. In this week's Recovery Coaching call, you'll learn:

- How to recognize signs that we're not moving forward - How to create actionable steps to create the change we want - The procrastination cycle that happens when we get into our head - How to begin to take action to move forward

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/014.

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Learning how to self-soothe is just as important for us as adults as it is as children. As a child, we learn how to self-soothe when we feel anxious, sad, disappointed, and insignificant. However, when we experience childhood trauma, the self-soothing we learn can become maladaptive.

In this week's Recovery Coaching session the group helped, Sean. After a recent relapse, Sean admits his relapse behavior was sneaky and immature, close to a childlike state.

As he begins to process the reason for his slip, he reflects on the dynamics of his family of origin and the childhood experiences he had. Feeling insignificant by one of the most important people in his life, it caused Sean to seek love and connection in any form, including substances.

When we learn to recognize specific patterns in our life, we can work towards finding alternative behaviors and begin to put them into practice. In this week's Recovery Coaching session, you'll learn:

• How to recognize what may be driving our maladaptive behaviors
• The ways these behaviors serve us
• Ways to begin to self-soothe without the need of harmful substances
• The six human needs that drive all human behavior

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/013.

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