REALIFE Conversations from the Porch

How do you communicate in a way that people will remember? What can we learn from the intersection between biblical truth and neuroscience about how we retain information?

Today I’m joined by author Charles Stone, and we talk about his latest book If Jesus Gave a TED Talk: Eight Neuroscience Principles the Master Teacher Used to Persuade His Audience.

We talk about: 

• The eight components of a memorable talk that lead to healthy learning
• What we can learn from the teaching and storytelling of Jesus that can help us grow as communicators
• How the brain continues to change and grow even as we get older
• Specific ways communicators can ensure that their message is one that people will remember and retain

If you want people to not only remember your message but take action on it, this episode will give you powerful ideas to help you improve as a communicator.

Connect with Charles Stone:To learn more about Charles, his books, and for free resources, visit www.charlesstone.com.

Charles has been a pastor for 40 years serving as Lead Pastor, a Teaching Pastor, an Associate Pastor, and as a Church Planter. He’s the author of seven books, which you can learn more about here.

Charles has been married to Sherryl for 41 years, and they have three grown children and three grandchildren.

He earned an engineering degree from Georgia Tech, a Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate of Ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. His most recent degree is an executive masters in the neuroscience of leadership from The Neuroleadership Institute. He is completing a post-baccalaureate certificate in Therapeutic Models of Mindfulness from Wilfred Laurier University and has also completed a graduate certificate in Mind, Brain, and Teaching from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently enrolled in the PhD program at Columbia Biblical Seminary and is researching stress in pastors.

REALIFE Resources:If you’re ready to discover what matters to you, download our  FREE Intro to REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

REALIFE Process Facilitator Network™The REALIFE Process Facilitator Network is open for applications! If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out how to be certified as a REALIFE Process Facilitator™!

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About Teresa McCloy:Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders discover and live out their best REALIFE! She has worked with clients from all over the world to help them bring clarity to their REALIFE and joy to their REALWORK!

How do you create space in your life and business when you have a big event coming up?

In this episode, I’m joined by Erica Vinson, our Director of the REALIFE Facilitator Network™, as we talk about the big life events we are each currently navigating: Erica’s move and my daughter’s wedding.

We’ll give personal examples and practical tips for how to create space for life’s big moments, including:

• How to make the event more manageable by creating a project with specific action steps
• Why it’s important to limit other things going on in your life so you have the emotional space to be present
• Recognizing your limited capacity by setting boundaries and communicating your needs with your people
• How to purposefully pause and acknowledge the moment instead of rushing through it

Whether you are walking through an exciting life change or grieving a loss, it’s important to create space for it. You can’t do it all, and this episode will help you name what matters so you can be present for life’s big moments.

Mentioned in This Episode:Task management software used by the REALIFE Process® Team: Nozbe 

REALIFE Resources Mentioned in This Episode:If you’re ready to discover what matters to you, download our FREE Intro to REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

REALIFE Process Facilitator Network™The REALIFE Process Facilitator Network is open for applications! If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out how to be certified as a REALIFE Process Facilitator™!

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About Teresa McCloy:Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders discover and live out their best REALIFE! She has worked with clients from all over the world to help them bring clarity to their REALIFE and joy to their REALWORK!

Do you have to be active on social media in order to grow your business? In this episode, I’m joined by Lindsay Sterchi, our Director of Marketing here at the REALIFE Process®, for a conversation about why and how to show up on social media.

We talk about:

• Do you need to be on ALL the platforms?
• How do you come up with ideas for the content of your posts?
• What does it look like to authentically engage with people on social media?
• How do you show up as your true self instead of simply following the latest trends?

We’ll also share some practical tips that will help you become more intentional with your social media strategy.

If you see the value of showing up on social media but struggle with how to actually approach it, this episode will offer some fresh perspective and tangible ideas.

Mentioned in This Episode:Resource for free images: unsplash.com

REALIFE Resources Mentioned in This Episode:If you’re ready to discover what matters to you, download our FREE REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

REALIFE Process Facilitator Network™The REALIFE Process Facilitator Network is open for applications! If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out how to be certified as a REALIFE Process Facilitator™!

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About Teresa McCloy:Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders discover and live out their best REALIFE! She has worked with clients from all over the world to help them bring clarity to their REALIFE and joy to their REALWORK!

As we move into the last quarter of the year, what needs to shift for you? In this episode, I’m sharing a practice that helps me decide what to stop, start, and continue in my personal and professional life.

We’ll consider three areas:

• Prune: What do I need to remove or cut back?
• Plant: What is something new I want to begin?
• Tend: What do I need to give attention or care to?

By taking the time to identify what we want to grow in this next season, we can decide how to spend our time and what projects to focus on. I encourage you to set aside some time to reflect and name what you need to prune, plant, and tend to in order to flourish in your life and work.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Episode 68: Exploring the REALIFE Process® - REALIFE Time

Episode 82: Connecting Your Values and Your Time

Episode 119: The Enneagram + Time Management + the REALIFE Process®

Episode 117: Mind Mapping–A Tool for Discovery

John 15:1-16

Romans 12:1-2

REALIFE Resources Mentioned in This Episode:If you’re ready to discover what matters to you, download our FREE REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

REALIFE Process Facilitator Network™The REALIFE Process Facilitator Network is open for applications! If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out how to be certified as a REALIFE Process Facilitator™!

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About Teresa McCloy:Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders discover and live out their best REALIFE! She has worked with clients from all over the world to help them bring clarity to their REALIFE and joy to their REALWORK!

Do you feel overwhelmed by creating high-quality videos for your business? Most of us depend on videos to present our message and connect with clients, but it doesn’t have to be complicated.

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing a tool that can help you take your videos to the next level. I use this software almost daily in my business–whether I’m going live on social media, leading a Zoom meeting, or recording a teaching video for our program.

This program allows you to seamlessly incorporate slide decks, graphics, and even interview other guests in a way that looks clear and professional.

Listen in to hear what this software is, and ideas for how to use it in your business. I love to talk about technology, and I hope this episode equips you to do your best work without getting bogged down by the details!

Links to Tools Referenced in This Episode: Episode 114: 2021 REALIFE Process® Top 5 Software Applications

Ecamm Live

Canva

Zoom

Stream Deck

REALIFE Resources Mentioned in This Episode:If you’re ready to discover what matters to you, download our FREE REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

REALIFE Process Facilitator Network™The REALIFE Process Facilitator Network is open for applications! If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out how to be certified as a REALIFE Process Facilitator™!

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About Teresa McCloy:Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders discover and live out their best REALIFE! She has worked with clients from all over the world to help them bring clarity to their REALIFE and joy to their REALWORK!

If you want to launch something new, where do you begin? How do you know if you’re ready?

In this episode, I’m sharing practical, actionable steps to help you launch your new program right away. Instead of waiting until you feel ready, keep it simple and let it be messy.

We talk about:

Why you don’t need to have the technology ready before you launch

How setting a date and working backwards can help you plan your action steps

Why having a conversation is your first step before you write a single piece of copy

How to leverage an imperfect start to learn as you go and do it again

If you have been hesitant to launch your new program, course, or business because you don’t feel ready, this episode will show you why NOW is the time to begin.

REALIFE Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

If you’re ready to discover what matters to you, download our FREE REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

REALIFE Process Facilitator Network™

The REALIFE Process Facilitator Network is open for applications! If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out how to be certified as a REALIFE Process Facilitator™!

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About Teresa McCloy:

Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders discover and live out their best REALIFE! She has worked with clients from all over the world to help them bring clarity to their REALIFE and joy to their REALWORK!

I’m thrilled to fill you in on some changes we’re making to serve our community better. Introducing: the REALIFE Facilitator Network™!

In this episode, we’ll talk about why we chose the word “network” and how the connection between our 25+ facilitators is helping them grow in their lives and businesses.

In this episode, we’ll unpack the benefits of being in our network:

• Community: find support from other coaches and entrepreneurs
• Connection: get referrals and resources from other facilitators as you network with one another
• Coaching: receive regular one-on-one coaching for your life and business, while also growing your own coaching skills
• Content: get exclusive access to done-for-you content to use with your clients and in your own personal development

If you feel isolated as a coach or business owner, the REALIFE Facilitator Network can provide the support and connection you need to thrive in your life and business.

Learn more about joining the REALIFE Facilitator Network™ here.

Connect with a coach on a free Discovery Call: Erica Vinson and Terri Johnson

Meet some of our REALIFE Process Certified Facilitators™ here.

Also mentioned in this episode:Episode 143: How to Add a New Team Member, with Lindsay Sterchi

REALIFE Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

If you’re ready to discover what matters to you as you build your business, download our FREE REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

REALIFE Process Facilitator™ Certification

The REALIFE Process Facilitator Certification Program is open for applications! Our next upcoming Starting Point Intensive Training is October 9th. If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out the REALIFE Process Facilitator Certification!

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About Teresa McCloy:

Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders discover and live out their best REALIFE! She has worked with clients from all over the world to help them bring clarity to their REALIFE and joy to their REALWORK!

How do you build a new life after starting the road to recovery? What does it look like to incorporate new rhythms, routines, and behaviors after becoming sober?

Join Teresa and REALIFE™ Recovery Coach and Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor Terri Johnson as they discuss how the REALIFE Process® can partner with an individual’s recovery journey to move forward into a new way of living.

Teresa and Terri discuss:

• How to find help for someone who wants to take the first step to become sober
• What the first year of recovery looks like and how to develop rhythms and structures to support a new way of life in long-term recovery
• Why knowing who you are is foundational for learning how to dream again
• How to identify projects and incremental action steps that will help you make progress one day at a time
• Why the practice of reviewing your days and weeks is crucial to recovery

Terri shares how using the REALIFE Process® in her recovery allowed her to find freedom within the structure of a Modern Day Rule of Life™.

Whether you are in recovery or want to help someone else walking that road, the components of the REALIFE Process provide great tools to help you do your next right thing.

To connect with Terri through a complimentary discovery call, visit https://www.therealifeprocess.com/terrijohnson. 

If you or a loved one needs help finding a treatment program, visit https://www.samhsa.gov/ or email [email protected].

What is a Modern Day Rule of Life™?

A rule of life is a commitment to live your life in a pattern of behaviors, rhythms and routines. It is crafted through discernment, in partnership with God, as you consider the way God designed you and the values He has inscribed upon your heart.

Once discovered and written, it serves as a tool and framework that can help you make decisions for your life and determine how best to order and align your days.

REALIFE Resources:

If you’re ready to discover what matters to you as you build your business, download our FREE REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

REALIFE Process Facilitator™ Certification

The REALIFE Process Facilitator Certification Program is open for applications! Our next upcoming Starting Point Intensive Training is October 9th. If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out the REALIFE Process Facilitator Certification!

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About Teresa McCloy:

Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders discover and live out their best REALIFE! She has worked with clients from all over the world to help them bring clarity to their REALIFE and joy to their REALWORK!

How do you successfully add a new member to your team? Or if YOU are the new team member, how do you start out well in your new position?

In this episode, we’re joined by the newest member of the REALIFE Process team, our Director of Marketing Lindsay Sterchi. Teresa and Lindsay share the story of how she joined the team, what worked well, and the struggles that come with being new.

Listen in as Teresa and Lindsay discuss:

• How to find work as an independent contractor when you’re just starting out
• The importance of knowing what you want and need in your work for your current season of life
• Discerning when and how to add to your team
• How to lead a new person well and help them acclimate to your team culture
• What a new team member should focus on first, before diving into task mode

Whether you are leading a team or joining an existing one, this episode will give you practical ideas of how to build and grow a healthy team.

How to connect with Lindsay:

• Visit www.lindsaysterchi.com
• Get Lindsay’s free download: “Your Toolkit of Five-Minute Spiritual Practices”
• Listen to the podcast: Simple Spiritual Practices
• Connect with Lindsay on Instagram or Facebook

Lindsay Sterchi is a writer, podcaster, and speaker, and serves as the Director of Marketing at the REALIFE Process. In each weekly episode of her podcast, Simple Spiritual Practices, she teaches one short, tangible practice that will give you fresh ideas on how to connect with God in a way that leads to lasting life change. She lives in Effingham, IL with her husband Tyler and twin first-grade daughters, Addy and Lissy.

REALIFE Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

If you’re ready to discover what matters to you as you build your business, download our FREE REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

Book: Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman

REALIFE Process Facilitator™ Certification

The REALIFE Process Facilitator Certification Program is open for applications! Our next upcoming Starting Point Intensive Training is October 9th. If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out the REALIFE Process Facilitator Certification!

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Connect further with the REALIFE Process®:

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About Teresa McCloy:

Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and l...

Is there a gap between the work you’re doing and the passion you long to pursue?

In this week’s episode, author, ghostwriter, and podcaster Kent Sanders tells us how he transitioned from his day job to building a business that reflects his needs and values.

We talk about:

How to know when it’s time to transition, and how to leave well

How to develop your main gift as a marketable skill

The power of saying YES to “small” opportunities

How building a business that lines up with matters to YOU can give you freedom in your time, location, and finances

We also discuss the value of hiring a ghostwriter, and how getting expert help can serve to powerfully expand your message and business.

If you’ve dreamed of quitting your day job and building a business that you love, Kent’s story will inspire you and give you practical ideas for what to do next.

To connect with Kent, visit kentsanders.net or email him at [email protected].

Kent Sanders is the founder of Inkwell Ghostwriting, which helps leaders grow their business through books and other content. He is also the host of The Daily Writer podcast, which helps writers cultivate the habits for creative success. In addition, Kent is author of The Artist’s Suitcase: 26 Essentials for the Creative Journey. He lives near St. Louis, Missouri with his wife and son.

REALIFE Resources

If you’re ready to discover what matters to you as you build your business, download our FREE REALIFE Needs and Values Assessment. You’ll gain clarity on what you uniquely need to create a life and career you love.

REALIFE Process Facilitator™ Certification

The REALIFE Process Facilitator Certification Program is open for applications! Our next upcoming Starting Point Intensive Training is October 9th. If you're looking to go deeper personally in your REALIFE and have the desire to serve others and multiply your impact, check out the REALIFE Process Facilitator Certification!

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About Teresa McCloy:

Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, an ACC Executive Coach, and an IEA Accredited Enneagram Professional who helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders discover and live out their best REALIFE! She has worked with clients from all over the world to help them bring clarity to their REALIFE and joy to their REALWORK!