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

Courageous Communication is Sophia FitzMedrud's Super Power.  Today's episode is perfect for anyone who thinks even for one moment that young people can't change the world. My guest is the author of the novel "Of Fish and Friends: Swimming Thirty Miles an Hour with a Boy in a Patchwork Tailcoat".  She's part of the founding chapter of Heirs to Our Oceans, a global movement of youth taking the ocean crisis into their own hands by educating themselves and others and processing and advocating for solutions, and she is 14 years old.

• Families who independently educate their kids outside of brick and mortar school who are trailblazing the future of learning
• What can happen when smart kids are given the opportunity to learn without limitations
• How Sophia came to be homeschooled
• Ocean conservation Sophia participates in with Heirs To Our Oceans, youth leaders around the globe dedicated to inspiring awareness, responsibility, and action
• Small steps kids and adults can do to help save the oceans and how small steps are a beginning
• Some of the actions Heirs have taken
• The importance of reducing seafood consumption, specifically of tuna
• Sophia's Book, "Of Fish and Friends" and National Novel Writing Month (Nanawrimo)
• How Super Powers can be the result of privilege and why we still need to honor our own, and each others strengths
• The power of speaking one's mind
• Early college as an alternate path to College and beyond
• Ballet and Musicals
• Friends as comrades, supporters and the source of happiness

Please help us reach more people. Maybe you know someone who is curious about homeschooling or who has a cause and needs some inspiration. Maybe you know someone who would love to support Heirs to Our Oceans and the initiatives they have going. Review and Like our Facebook page.

Join us again next week and every Thursday and for now be good, be bold and be brave.

Bold Badass, Melissa Monte is today’s Super Power U guest.  Our conversation will entertain, amaze and illuminate.  Melissa will inspire you to:

• Use Deliberate Practice to level up in any area you're trying to improve or learn
• Combine the principles from the books “Peak” and “Flow”
• Use Routine, Will Power, and Mindset
• Know The Power of your brain and how the principles in Psychocybernetics makes sense of the principle in the Law of Attraction.
• Consider the importance of mindset and the impact it has on your reality and your circumstances.    
• Learn from the insights she gained from the 49 books she read last year
• Get insight into your Next Act by asking 10 friends about your Super Power (again! must be a thing)

See SHOW NOTES for links and resources. 

Productivity doesn't always come naturally. Tiago Forte was a dreamer as a child, so he's a great example of Growth Mindset in action since he now runs a company, Forte Labs which specializes in helping people create transformative productivity systems.  In this episode, Tiago and I talk about how he thinks about and teaches design-driven problem-solving, habit formation and productivity...and how he was deeply influenced by his artist father growing up. He inherited and developed the ability to converge creativity and structured productivity.

Show Notes at LisaBL.com/7

SPU is committed to a new episode every Thursday. Yesterday, a technical snag almost got in the way but with the support of friends, we got this episode together in time. Lisa shares how she identified the three important top-level responses to adversity: Acknowledgement; Action; and Attitude whether the challenge is a delivery challenge or something more critical.

Show Notes at:  LisaBL.com/6

A deeper dive into Year Planning for 2018. 

For more information and complete resources see the Show Notes.

In this episode, Lisa shares the Year Planning system she's used for the past 19 years, including the process for determining a 2018 Year Vision Statement, "2017 in Review" and guidelines for Envisioning Next Year.  

Show notes can be found at LisaBL.com/4

Mindset, combatting Self-Doubt, World Domination Summit and Saying YES are just a few of the topics Lisa and Marli discuss. 

In this conversation, Susan and Lisa addressed the personal and systemic obstacles to amplifying women's voices and the solutions to it, including support, mentoring, cheerleading and finding foundational skills building for girls and women.  We explored how the meta experience of self-doubt threatened the podcast.  

My conversation with Christine Marie Mason was wide-ranging and deep...just like her. We talked about parenting, being a polymath, restorative justice in the prison system and the fact that everything is connected...in fact, indivisible-- which, not coincidentally, is also the title of her book. Christine’s life and the philosophical gems she offers an inspiring example for anyone who wants to live fully and authentically without compromise. She’s a model’s of connection, family and having a huge impact in the world.

Welcome to the intro episode of the Super Power U Podcast with Lisa Betts-LaCroix. In this episode, Lisa talks about her vision for the show and what you can expect each week. Subscribe for episodes each Thursday.