Super Power U: Mental Models and Tactical Skills To Activate Your Inner Superhero

Robin Rivera is a wild woman warrior who lives from a place of raw truth and is dedicated to leadership, advocacy, and community service. She speaks with Lisa about her work to coach people and to help them transform their trauma into freedom, and the digital courses she created for women on a mission. She shares her personal story of overcoming trauma and sexual exploitation, the theme of freedom and vulnerability in her life, and how it connects to the wild woman inside of her.

"I believed in the power of my word, that is all I really had."

"The wild woman inside me was shut down, ostracized, and pathologized."

"I wasn't the broken one, I was just wild and free in my spirit."

-Robin Rivera

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Robin Rivera
• @RobinRivera
• @Robin__Rivera Instagram

Super U Resources:

• Super Power U Facebook Page
• Feedback and show ideas to [email protected]
• Lisa Betts-LaCroix on Twitter — @LisaBL
• Lisa on LinkedIn
• Super Power U Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play

How we experience sex in our relationships is so critical to enjoyment and fulfillment in life. Special guest Jessa Zimmerman, Licensed Therapist and Sex Counselor, podcast host and media personality, is making her mark on the world by helping couples with their emotional and sexual intimacy. She specializes in helping, educating and coaching individuals and couples using her nine-phase experiential process, that allows them real-world results in changing their relationship and sex life. Based in Seattle, Jessica offers both in office and online counseling and coaching sessions.

Today, she talks with Lisa about relationship patterns that overlap with sex, her own expert definition of a healthy sex life, her upcoming book Sex Without Stress, balancing communion with autonomy, and her Better Sex podcast which covers a diverse array of topics from different perspectives in an open and non-judgmental way.

"Your challenges are your challenges, whether it's showing up in the bedroom, or showing up in the kitchen."

• Mentioned in This Episode:
• Jessica Zimmerman
• How Healthy is Your Sex Life? Quiz

Super U Resources:

• Super Power U Facebook Page
• Feedback and show ideas to [email protected] Lisa Betts-LaCroix on Twitter — @LisaBL
• Super Power U Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play LisaBL.com

Marilee Talkington is an award-winning actor, creator of original work for stage and screen, director, and activist for women and artists with disabilities. Marilee has originated more than 60 stage characters, and takes a fearless stance on women being heard, and celebrating all types of uniqueness and diversity, both on and off the stage. Marilee speaks to the beauty in listening, her journey into acting and creative work, and offers examples of situations in which perseverance and growth reign supreme, no matter how uncomfortable the level of challenge and discomfort.

Marilee Talkington - Website and Marilee's IMDB

Quotes:

"My only job here on this planet is to realize the fullest potential of myself in the most epic, joyous, creative, courageous, wild way."

"Acting is an empathetic exercise."

"Eyes aren't the windows of the soul — the ears are."

Super U Resources:

• Super Power U Facebook Page Lisa Betts-LaCroix on Twitter — @LisaBL
• Super Power U Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play

Nir Eyal is the author of the bestseller Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, and blogger at NirandFar.com. Nir has a ton to share on habit formation of both companies and individuals, and how different products control us. Habits account for 50% of our actions every day, so Nir works closely with companies to help them create products that help form and stick with habits to upgrade their life.

Nir also addresses the difference between habits and addictions, the inner triggers that affect our behavior and misconceptions about distraction when it comes to technology, how to empower yourself and your family in an age of distractibility, and tips for maintaining a strong sense of self-efficacy and agency in the ever-growing technological revolution.

Nir and Far

Super Power U Resources:

• Feedback and show ideas to [email protected]
• Super Power U Facebook PageLisa Betts-LaCroix on Twitter — @LisaBL
• Super Power U Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google PlayLisaBL.com

This week's conversation with Victoria Lorient-Faibish is extra special. Victoria is one of Lisa's oldest and dearest friends, and they reminisce about their friendship that extends back almost 4 decades, to high school!

A relationship expert, keynote speaker, author and Holistic Psychotherapist, Victoria believes the key to self-acceptance is spiritual warrior work. She tells the story of her own rocky upbringing, and how she made the decision to transform her belief system through dedicated work and rewiring her thoughts. She believes that individuals with even the most dire family culture experiences can thrive when they discover and own their Self-Culture. Lisa and Victoria discuss two of Victoria's great Super Powers: Stopping Generational Dysfunction and Living with Courage and Heart!

Victoria Lorient-Faibish Website

"The buck stops with me. There will be no more generational dysfunction from me on."

• Super Power U Facebook PageLisa Betts-LaCroix on Twitter — @LisaBL
• Super Power U Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google PlayLisaBL.com

Today's guest, Mark Hamade grounds us in the need to be grateful for everything we have and then shares his personal experience of transforming his body from 390 lbs, and living in a wheelchair to his current state of health through habit, mindset, hard work and common sense. He emphasizes the importance of family and the pursuit of personal excellence as the deepest and most powerful motivation for success in business and in life.

Mark Hamade Website

On the Mark with Hamade

Super Power U Resources:

• Feedback and show ideas to [email protected]
• Super Power U Facebook PageLisa Betts-LaCroix on Twitter — @LisaBL
• Super Power U Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google PlayLisaBL.com

This episode was recorded live from Podcast Movement in Philadelphia at the TalkShoe booth. So FUN to have Craig and Gareth as guests. They use their Super Powers of deep listening and curiosity to have Ridiculously Human conversations with fascinating people on their podcast of the same name.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Ridiculously Human Podcast

Gareth and Craig's Website

Podcast Movement

Talk Shoe - A Community Building Podcast Platform

Super Power U Resources:

• Feedback and show ideas to [email protected]
• Super Power U Facebook PageLisa Betts-LaCroix on Twitter — @LisaBL
• Super Power U Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google PlayLisaBL.com

What if there was a way to rewire your nervous system, heal past emotional, physical, and spiritual wounds and in turn, create the external reality of our dreams? Contemplative Coach, and Master NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Practitioner Crystallin Dillon shares her personal journey and the events that led her down the path of wanting to free others of their pain and her massive perspective shift in college which resulted in finding and practicing NLP. Crystallin reviews the different types of attachment styles, and describes how they set the course for beliefs, patterns, and yes… results in our later life. Lastly, she describes the overview of NLP, how it shapes the story we tell about ourselves and the world around it and tips on getting started within the modality.

"I seem to reach into subterranean dynamics of life, and put words to it."

Super Power U Resources:

• Feedback and show ideas to [email protected]
• Super Power U Facebook PageLisa Betts-LaCroix on Twitter — @LisaBL
• Super Power U Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google PlayLisaBL.com

Even as a self-proclaimed shy and introverted person, Dreamworks Animation's Kendal Cronkite took big, bold chances that paid off in her personal growth and career. Today Lisa talks with her about leaving her comfort zone and what's to be gained from facing our fear. She shares her journey starting from her time as a hard-working Art Center student through her many impressive roles in the movie animation business, including her work on The Nightmare Before Christmas and as Production Designer on Madagascar and Trolls.

Super Power U Resources:

• Feedback and show ideas to [email protected]
• Super Power U Facebook PageLisa Betts-LaCroix on Twitter — @LisaBL
• Super Power U Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google PlayLisaBL.com

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Kendal Cronkhite
• Art Center
• Article on Kendal in Dot Magazine

Today's episode is the official Month #2 update of the Intermittent Fasting experiment. And Lisa's description of a book that had a profound impact on her life, called "Feeling Good" by David Burns.