Decision making. It’s something we do every single day, multiple times a day. I’m sure we’ve all seen that sometimes, it can be overwhelming, even debilitating; no matter how much we are keeping it together in other areas, sometimes we get tripped up. Fortunately, Kirsten Parker realized this was a common theme she saw with the people she was coaching and it became something she has specialized in. Our conversation touches on her journey to look at the hard questions and make the decisions that led her into her current role, as well as a story from her clients, and talking about how this applies to you. 

If you are someone who can get overwhelmed and overthink, who has a hard time sticking to the decisions you’ve made, or just likes to laugh along with an intriguing conversation—this episode is for you. We’ll talk a bit about purpose too, because The Grit Show has found that purpose is a topic that resonates with our community.

Kirsten helps overthinkers trust their choices. She spent years moving her life & career forward, Yale Masters Degree in tow, feeling way more angst than certainty! Despite "success and smarts," she second-guessed big AND small decisions, over-valued others' opinions & usually catastrophized about what could go wrong. Coaching allowed her to finally feel calm, clear & confident – so she could feel present in her life – and that's exactly what she helps clients do now. Get your FREE Overthinker's Checklist to Simplify Decisions! https://www.kirstenparker.com/checklist

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Listen to her on Decision Masters Podcast: https://www.kirstenparker.com/decision-masters-podcast   

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Gratitude is one of my favorite tools. Yes, tools. It is amazing the wonderful things you can create in your life by being more grateful. It is something you need to learn how to use more of in your life and in today's episode (our final Thursday Thoughts for the time being), we explore this. So, earmark this episode. It is one you'll want to come back to as you think about gratitude and the amazing ways it can impact your life and work on building it into your life on a more regular basis.

About Shawna Rodrigues -

Shawna Rodrigues is the founder of The Grit Show (www.TheGritShow.com), a podcast that creates a community around purpose, alignment, and growth. Where scrappy survivors come together as seekers and thrivers. A published author, coach, and consultant, Shawna spent the first two decades of her career supporting children, families, and communities as a therapist, specialist, and director of programs and collaborations in the private and public sectors. Her impact and depth of dedication prompted the alumni association at Boston University to acknowledge her accomplishments with an award for “Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Social Work.” She's an avid traveler who values deep conversations, has immense gratitude for the incredible people in her life, and gains inspiration from the new people she meets and the perspectives they offer.

You can learn more about her novel at www.ShawnaRodrigues.com

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Feng Shui is a buzzword we’ve all heard and today we get to have an insightful conversation with Krystal Holm to add depth to our understanding of this powerful tool rooted in science that moves energy through your environment and can be a valuable tool to inviting the things you want into your life. 

Krystal is a Feng Shui Master, Interior Designer & Clutter Expert who helps work-from-home entrepreneurs turn their spaces into offices they love to work in. Using her proprietary framework, The Designed Life Method℠ Mind, Body, Soul, Home, she helps her clients declutter and design a workspace that empowers them to create the life & business that they want. Krystal shows women how to use their workspace as a 3D vision board to help them design who they are becoming & the life they want with it, right into their space.

We spend some valuable time touching on the stagnation that clutter can cause and the surprising way that clutter is a common challenge for many of us.

The best way to connect with Krystal is on her YouTube channel - bit.ly/WatchKrystalTV

Get her downloadable 5 step guide to Declutter your mindset at -DeclutterYourMindset.com

Book a time to chat with Krystal about working with her individually at PeaceAndProsperityAlignment.com

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Do you get overwhelmed by a seemingly endless to do list?

I sure do. It has taken me awhile to develop strategies to manage this, and after being sent in a spiral this past week by trying to follow a well-intended suggestion to start digitizing my endless list of things to accomplish, take care of, and address... (which resulted in wasting half of my day and losing all focus) I drilled down and remembered the brass tacks of what actually works for me.

After chatting with a friend or two, I thought you may find value in hearing it too.

I'd love to hear your thoughts. I upload the transcript to Buzzsprout, but don't have that all archived on my website just yet. If you are having any trouble accessing the transcript and it would be valuable to have the steps or questions in the show notes - send me a DM on Instagram, I'll be more than happy to get them over to you.

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Eric Bauberger, BS, CSCS, is a Holistic Life Coach and Motivational Singer-Songwriter. In an effort to be "successful", he pushed forward with a split life as a hustling personal trainer by day and a musician struggling with his purpose by night. But after the passing of his sister Jessica in 2018, he experienced a profound shift in his connection to himself and the Universe, which led him to a new purpose within his music and his desire to contribute to the collective. Eric was able to find a gift within the tragedy by applying the art of surrender and gratitude that he had been practicing for the simple sake of seeking relief from his chronic anxiety. These tools proved to be much more powerful than he perceived them to be. This not only granted him grace instead of grief, but an unshakable calling to pursue his dream as a musician in a bigger way than he ever imagined. He now runs his own life coaching business, EZENFLOW, works part-time, and infuses his original music and poetry into workshops that teach practical tools for living life more easily and with flow. The guidance he provides is ultimately to help others tune in to their most authentic selves by understanding the rhythms of the mind, body, and spirit and how to create inner and outer harmony.

Shawna and Eric spoke about 

16:46 The fact resourcefulness is more important than resources.

27:48 Goals and acknowledging what might be blocking you.

33:35 Seamless ways Eric integrates self care into his life.

36:40 Three component process to move towards clarity & creating what you want.

The guidance Eric provides helps others tune in to their most authentic selves by understanding the rhythms of the mind, body, and spirit and how to create inner and outer harmony.

 Best way to connect with Eric: https://linktr.ee/ezenflow

https://ezenflow.com/ 

We put a pin in the band from earlier times Moon Days –check them out here - https://moondays.bandcamp.com/

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Welcome to Thursday Thoughts on The Grit Show. This week, we are chatting about something you would see as innocuous under most circumstances: cherry blossoms. However, the science of epigenetics and the inheritable intergenerational effects of trauma are quite intriguing and may have you looking at these lovely markers of spring in a whole new way. Epigenetics is something Shawna has long been interested in and although this field is young, and full of room for debate, Shawna feels there are a lot of interesting facts and things we can learn from it.

Her takeaways may not be the ones that are discussed in the mainstream, but will definitely give you some food for thought. She touches on a couple of studies that are referenced below, but will also talk about the lenses that this research can give us as we move through our days and interact with those around us. If you have thoughts on this, we would love to hear them.

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Shawna Rodrigues is the founder of The Grit Show (www.TheGritShow.com), a podcast that creates a community around purpose, alignment, and growth. Where scrappy survivors come together as seekers and thrivers.

Article on study of the Epigenetic effects of the Dutch Famine: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.html

Study by Brian Dias and Kerry Ressler 

Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3594

Shawna Rodrigues left her award-winning career in the public sector in 2019 and after launching The Grit Show, soon learned the abysmal fact that women hosted only 27% of podcasts. This led to the founding of the Authentic Connections Podcast Network intent on raising that number by 10% in five years- 37 by 27. Because really, shouldn’t it be closer to 50%? She now focuses on helping purpose driven solopreneurs find their ideal clients through podcasting. She believes that the first step is guesting on podcasts - check out her tip sheet and once you've built your business and are ready for the full-service support for podcasting production and mentoring, she'll help you launch the podcast you were meant for. She still finds a little time for her pursuits as a best-selling author and shares the hosting of Author Express, a podcast that features the voice behind the pages of your favorite book. Find her on Instagram- @ShawnaPodcasts and learn more about the network and other happenings at https://linktr.ee/37by27.

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Stacie McCoy is a compassionate divorce and co-parenting life coach with over 25 years of professional family support experience—and a pretty interesting divorce and co-parenting story of her own. She joined The Grit Show today to share her stories and truth and some of the work she does to help women deepen their relationship with themselves and be more intentional about living the next chapter of their life. The conversation touched on the gravity of having your life and purpose shaken by monumental shifts like divorce and the importance of self-care. Stacie gave us the naked truth of what things feel like in the depths of divorce, even when things look like photo-shopped perfection to the outside world. The incidence of divorce is on the decline in the US, but we all know someone who is experiencing or has experienced it, and this episode is a valuable reminder of the many layers of impact. For individuals going through divorce, especially those with kids, her challenges and experience will resonate. Walking away with some of her favorite self-care snacks and the importance of fitting them in-regardless of dosage- will be beneficial for us all.  

Following some soul searching after a health scare, Stacie left the non-profit world and is now on her own doing what she loves most: helping women to heal and fall back in love with their life after divorce—without messing up the kids. She is on a mission to help others filter out the pain, bitterness, and regret of divorce by walking them back to their heart’s wisdom. Stacie lives in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, with her two amazing children and her 2 pudgy guinea pigs.

Stacie is currently available for 1:1 private coaching sessions and for group coaching via her new 6-week group coaching program, The Divorce DIstillery. 

This program is designed to give clients the tools and support to help them move through divorce and co-parenting with deeper clarity, ease, compassion, and with a new sense of resiliency and purpose. Most importantly, it's designed to help clients fall back in love with life after divorce--and to become their own best partner. The one they truly deserve.

Visit her website to book a call or to learn more!

www.staciemccoy.com   

Book your Epiphany Call: https://www.staciemccoy.com/contact

She would love it if you come hang out with her on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/staciemccoy_divorcedistillery/

and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/staciemccoydivorceandcoparentingstrategist as she spends a lot of time with her audience there.

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Last summer Shawna had a doctor's appointment that resulted in a referral to a neuro-oncologist- a hard hitting curveball. Today on Thursday Thoughts she takes this one-on-one opportunity with you on The Grit Show to ask you "What's on your bucket list?" and give you some food for thought around where you're standing when life throws curveballs at you and if there might be other ways to look at things.

Shawna Rodrigues left her award-winning career in the public sector in 2019 and after launching The Grit Show, soon learned the abysmal fact that women hosted only 27% of podcasts. This led to the founding of the Authentic Connections Podcast Network intent on raising that number by 10% in five years- 37 by 27. Because really, shouldn’t it be closer to 50%? She now focuses on helping purpose driven solopreneurs find their ideal clients through podcasting. She believes that the first step is guesting on podcasts - check out her tip sheet and once you've built your business and are ready for the full-service support for podcasting production and mentoring, she'll help you launch the podcast you were meant for. She still finds a little time for her pursuits as a best-selling author and shares the hosting of Author Express, a podcast that features the voice behind the pages of your favorite book. Find her on Instagram- @ShawnaPodcasts and learn more about the network and other happenings at https://linktr.ee/37by27.

Follow us on Instagram: @The.Grit.Show or Shawna @ShawnaPodcasts

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In different ways and by varying influences, we’ve all been conditioned to move through this world in a certain way that has worked for others and been deemed acceptable. Human Design helps to unlock what is unique in each of us that may better illuminate ways our conditioning, and the things we keep hitting up against, may not be in our best interest. That these may not be in alignment with what will allow us to move through this world with more ease. Human Design was brand new to me and Megan Seamans was the perfect guest to lead us as we embark to learn a little more about Human Design; touching on the first layer of the five types that look at energy. Join us for an engaging conversation and an opportunity to expand your understanding of Human Design and how it might apply to your life.

Megan Seamans is a certified Energy Coach and Human Design Guide. She supports people to tap into their magic and confidently lead their life; without people pleasing, fear, or doubt standing in the way.

After navigating the loss of her brother in 2018 and facing burnout on the thing she was the most passionate about, she changed the way she looked at purpose.

Now, Megan helps humans around the globe to live their own kind of extraordinary. Megan’s been named the Clarity Queen as her coaching provides rapid clarity for people to go from frozen in time to magnetically in motion.

Connect with Megan Seamans:

https://www.meganseamans.com/

https://www.instagram.com/meganseamans

https://www.facebook.com/MeganSeamansCoaching/

Megan’s Book - Balanced Out: The 21-day guided workbook for women who want to move from overwhelmed and stressed to confidently living on purpose.

https://amzn.to/3AQy3G2

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It makes sense to wonder, where did the name The Grit Show even come from? And what does it mean for the content of the show? Grit is the tenacity to get beyond the challenges, the courage, resolve, strength, and character needed for life’s hardest moments. Grit is about the hard parts and grit is imperative, but it doesn't fit into the podcast in the obvious sense. Listen in on this episode to see where it does fit in, where you fit in, and where it all began.

Thursday Thoughts are our shorter episodes each week where you get Shawna one on one. If you have thoughts on these topics or questions, please follow us and send us a DM on Instagram @The.Grit.Show.

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