Silver Women, Bright Future

When you're feeling sick and stuck in bed, maintaining a positive attitude can be particularly challenging, but it's crucial for both your mental and physical recovery. Here are several effective ways to prevent your attitude from spiraling negatively under these circumstances:

1. Focus on What You Can Control: Concentrate on small, manageable tasks you can accomplish, like setting daily goals for hydration, completing a puzzle, or even organizing your bedside space. This helps shift your focus from frustration over your illness to achievements you can control.

2. Practice Mindfulness and Meditation: Engaging in mindfulness practices or meditation can help calm your mind, reduce stress, and promote a more positive outlook. Even simple deep-breathing exercises can be powerful tools to help manage anxiety and frustration associated with being bedridden.

3. Stay Connected with Loved Ones: Social connections are vital for mental health, especially when you're isolated. Use technology to stay in touch with friends and family through calls, video chats, or social media. Sharing your feelings and experiences can provide emotional support and reduce feelings of loneliness.

4. Engage in Positive Distraction: Find activities that you enjoy and can do from bed, such as reading, listening to music, podcasting, or watching uplifting movies or series. These positive distractions can help keep your mind off your illness and contribute to a more optimistic outlook.

5. Set a Routine: Establishing a daily routine can provide a sense of normalcy and purpose. Even simple structure like regular meal times, setting aside specific times for reading or other activities, and a bedtime routine can make a big difference in how you feel both mentally and physically.

6. Practice Gratitude: Keep a gratitude journal or simply reflect on things you're grateful for each day. Focusing on positive aspects of your life can shift your mindset from negativity and help you recognize the good, even in challenging times.

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Coming to you today from the vibrant grounds of the Orlando Wyndham during Podfest 2024, and spurred on by the powerful #unmute movement! Pat aims to encourage you to find your voice in various aspects of life, from personal to professional settings.

Takeaways:

• Be empowered to Speak Up: the concept of #unmute encourages you to make your voice heard across different spheres of your life.

• Discover Practical Steps for Personal Growth: five foundational tips to help you 'unmute' yourself.

• Engage and Build Your Own Community: you can't over-emphasize the importance of community support, accountability partners, and life networking to foster growth and opportunities.

Key Sections:

• 1:00 What exactly IS the #unmute concept?
• 2:00 Make a connection where you are.
• 4:00 Commit to doing one scary thing every day.
• 6:00 Gamify your challenges.
• 8:00 Network your life.
• 10:00 Mindset is key.

This down-to-earth approach, combined with actionable advice, makes this a must-listen for anyone looking to find their voice and make an impact in their world.

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In this episode, Pat Fenner discusses four reasons why the past year might not have gone as well as you'd have liked. She encourages listeners to reflect on those reasons and offers insights on how to move forward.

Takeaways

• Reflecting on the past year can help identify areas for improvement.

• Lethargy and settling for the status quo can hinder personal growth.

• Unexpected bombshell news can disrupt plans and cause emotional distress.

• Buying into negative self-beliefs can lead to a downward spiral.

• Finding your voice is essential for personal and professional success.

Key Sections

2:06 Reason 1: Lethargy

5:15 Reason 2: Bombshell News

6:54 Reason 3: Buying into the Lie

8:53 Reason 4: Not Finding Your Voice

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In 'How Do I Find My Voice?', Pat explores the importance of finding one's voice in both business and life. She acknowledges that some people may struggle with this, especially after facing challenges and feeling worn down. Pat suggests several ways to find one's voice, emphasizing the importance of work-life harmony and finding what works best for oneself.

Important Takeaways

• Finding your voice is crucial for personal and professional growth.

• Journaling can help in self-discovery and understanding how you've changed over time.

• Using yellow legal pads or other creative tools can inspire creativity and exploration.

• Having a word of the year or creating a vision board can provide a visual representation of your goals and dreams.

• Identifying the top five questions or topics people come to you for can help you discover your strengths and areas of expertise.

• Conducting interviews with trusted individuals can provide valuable feedback and insights.

• Work-life harmony is more important than work-life balance, and it's about knowing when to adjust your focus.

Key Sections

2:20 Chapter 1: Journaling

3:15 Chapter 2: Using Yellow Legal Pads

6:06 Chapter 3: Word of the Year and Vision Boards

7:34 Chapter 4: Identifying Top Five Questions or Topics

9:29 Chapter 5: Conducting Interviews

12:11Chapter 6: Work-Life Harmony

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Welcome to the newly rebranded podcast, Silver Women Bright Future! Your host, Pat Fenner, shares her personal journey of growth and change, including starting a business, getting a divorce, and embracing a new life. She emphasizes the importance of mindset and taking action to move forward, outlining the three main areas of focus for the podcast: business, podcasting, and life lessons. Pat concludes by inviting listeners to engage with the show and share their questions and topics of interest.

Takeaways

• Embrace change and growth in your life, even if it feels challenging.

• Mindset is important, but it must be accompanied by action.

• Business, podcasting, and life lessons are key areas of focus for mature women.

• Pivoting or swizzling can be a more gradual and intentional approach to change.

Key Sections

1:25 Explanation for the Pause

02:23 Silver Women Bright Future

04:08 The Importance of Mindset

05:07 Three Areas of Focus

10:01 Pivoting or Swizzling

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How'd you do in high school biology?? Yeah, me neither…

I vaguely remember talking about the processes of equilibrium and homeostasis. Still, it wasn't until I was in counseling a short while ago that I learned they also apply to human relationships and our own psyche!

While they may be healthy in the world of science, when we're talking about them as a reaction to our growth and change to better mental health, we need to know how to minimize their influence on our own lives.

Perhaps someone in your life is starting to change and act differently. Or are you changing and beginning to realize that you need to act or be somehow different? A healthier you, perhaps?

I'm talking today about the times when you may realize a change is in order and it may not be sitting too well with those around you.

Here are 3 ways to minimize the effects of people's, um, let's say "unsupportive" behavior, as YOU are starting to grow and change and move towards health.

Are you trying to accomplish a personal pivot in life? Realizing that there is a healthier way to live - and getting push-back in the process? Then let me encourage you to grab my download "Affirmations to Strengthen my Personal Balance." It's a collection of Scripture and uplifting quotes to strengthen the "new you" that's coming about… The link is in the show notes here:

patfenner.me/swbf-podcast/

Follow this podcast and get a free pdf, the "Times that Transform", here. Discover major life transitions that many women face, and start discovering ways you can be prepared to tackle them head-on!

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Joni Mitchell returned to the stage at the Newport Jazz Festival this past summer. And what a celebration that was!

She had a brain aneurysm in 2015 (I mistakenly said in the podcast 20 years ago!) and lost the ability to talk, walk, and sing… She had to teach herself, or be taught, how to do all those things all over again.

What a series of transitions that was, am I right?

Tune in as I talk about what her experience - and this oldie but goodie - teaches us about handling life transitions...

patfenner.me/both-sides-now/

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Hey - I can help you get YOUR podcast out so you can "get back to business"! Reach out and explore working with me here: Website - patfenner.me/services

And watch snippets of these episodes on YouTube

Journaling enables us to sit still, focus on, and evaluate the issues, attitudes, and actions (or lack thereof) we're taking in our lives, and consider how they are serving us and our future selves.

In a previous episode, I talked about the messages we tell ourselves. The constant conversations we can have - for good or for bad - that run through our heads each day, perhaps even non-stop throughout the day.

Healthy, productive journal prompts have a way of hard-stopping those conversations when they're negative and redirecting them to a more positive vein.

JOURNAL PROMPTS The 12+ journal prompts cover 4 key areas that we need to examine as we're going through changes in life:

1. Practical Actions,
2. Emotional Awareness,
3. Relational Affects, and
4. Forward-thinking Attitudes.

There are no "yes" or "no" answers to them…but there are no wrong answers, either!

patfenner.me/journaling-prompts-for-transitions

Follow this podcast and get a free pdf, the "Times that Transform", here. Discover major life transitions that many women face, and start discovering ways you can be prepared to tackle them head-on!

Let's be social! Find me on

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Hey - I can help you get YOUR podcast out so you can "get back to business"! Reach out and explore working with me here: Website - patfenner.me/services

In this short-but-sweet episode, I'm discussing an easy-peasy way to get moving through change and overcome whatever transition you're in the messy middle of!

patfenner.me/little-things/

Follow this podcast and get a free pdf, the "Times that Transform", here. Discover major life transitions that many women face, and start discovering ways you can be prepared to tackle them head-on!

Let's be social! Find me on

Instagram - @patfenner

Facebook - ​​https://www.facebook.com/pat.fenner1

Hey - I can help you get YOUR podcast out so you can "get back to business"! Reach out and explore working with me here: Website - patfenner.me/services

Typically, people think of boundaries as a way to enclose or limit our freedom...but healthy boundaries can actually help us navigate change as we explore new ways of engaging with the world.

In this episode, I'll be discussing:

• 3 benefits boundaries offer us, and
• 4 areas to explore setting them

Also, make sure to pick up the download I mention! The link is in the show notes, which you can access here:

patfenner.me/boundaries-to-navigate-transitions

Follow this podcast and get a free pdf, the "Times that Transform", here. Discover major life transitions that many women face, and start discovering ways you can be prepared to tackle them head-on!

Let's be social! Find me on

Instagram - @patfenner

Facebook - ​​https://www.facebook.com/pat.fenner1

Reach out and explore working with me here: Website - patfenner.me/services

And watch snippets of these episodes on YouTube