The Groundwork Podcast

What if the key to a richer, more intentional life isn't changing your surroundings but directing your focus inward? In this episode, Noah challenges you to pay attention to something we are rarely taught to notice. You’ll discover why ignoring your inner landscape strengthens negative loops, and how leaning into discomfort can become your most powerful tool for growth. In short, we break down: - One simple principle that is affecting everything from your mood to your relationships. - How unexamined patterns and negative thought loops sabotage the invitation to untangle something within you. - Why discomfort isn’t just a signal to flee. - Why most people prefer avoidance to the slow, courageous work of facing what’s inside - and what they risk missing without it. If you’re tired of feeling at the mercy of your unhelpful habits, It’s time to step out of your patterns and start actively shaping your experience. Deepen self-awareness, build emotional resilience, and turn attention into a powerful force for change.

In this episode, Noah discusses the importance of crafting the conditions of our lives rather than trying to control external circumstances. She emphasizes three roles you always hold in shaping your experiences and highlights the power of awareness in influencing our internal wellbeing. By understanding the difference between conditions and circumstances, individuals can take ownership of their part and respond more effectively to life's challenges.

In this episode, Noah Channing explores the profound question of what it means to pour your whole heart into life. She discusses the common tendency to avoid discomfort and how this avoidance can hinder personal fulfillment. By reflecting on trust, self-awareness, and the exquisite risk of fully engaging with life, listeners are encouraged to confront their fears and embrace their true selves. Noah emphasizes that freedom comes from choosing to live authentically, despite life's challenges.

In this episode, Noah gives insight as to the importance of cultivating the attitude of curiosity and what makes this a master skill when it comes to three really important things. Learn why the alternative has a terrible accuracy rate and yet most of us keep doing it. There are three introspective questions you should be asking yourself… what are they? Listen now and find out.

“We have this skill of curiosity that we could literally deploy at any time. It's always available, it's free to use, and we never run out of it.”

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In this episode, you will learn how aligned action creates opportunity and how taking action helps identify the possibility that helps generate a favorable outcome. Build confidence and elevate your awareness by taking a step forward. 

In this episode, I talk about how Intention Sets The Direction. Intention plays a vital role in having the final say in the overall direction of your life. The clearer you are on your intention, the clearer your choices align in that direction.

In this episode, I talk about the importance of Making Clarity Your Goal. Learn three strategies to help you get clear, move toward what you want to experience, and understand why the simplest question seems to be the hardest to answer. Begin to see yourself clearly, so that you can be more productive, effective, and at ease as you proceed down a path that aligns you with the life you want to lead. These strategies can be applied to your life right now so that you can stop feeling like you’re not getting anywhere.

In this episode, we look at the tip of the iceberg as it pertains to grasping for time. I invite you to look at where you seek elsewhere for what is available right here and examine if what you really want is available anywhere but here.

0:00 - Welcome Back

2:10 - Retreat and the noisiness of life.

3:40 - Noticing what we reach for and how time magically shows up.

4:35 - My story of grasping for time and rushing.

5:30 - How my plate taught me a very important lesson.

7:10 - Time doesn't change. Time is time. How we respond makes all the difference.

8:00 - Time traveling to get what we need someplace else.

8:50 - We are conditioned to grasp for time.

9:30 - Orientations vs. Gasping for outcomes.

10:25 - Where in your life do you begin reaching outside what is present?

11:10 - Realize the true potential of the time you have now.

12:05 - Is there any way to get to what you want without the present moment?

12:55 - Closing…

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In this episode, we explore a simple, yet mindful approach to making tough choices. I discuss the power of perspective always being available and what it means to be both the observer and participant in the same moment. I invite you to consider that your life is one big life altering event. Making tough choices requires mindful intention, courage, and vulnerability. A 5-second exercise to remind you of your power.

0:00 - Intro

0:50 - The state of an uncertain world. Big decisions.

1:55 - Committing to a course of action when there is a conflict between commitments.

3:05 - Take the risk or lose the change. Tiny maneuvers. We all play a part.

4:05 - Leaning into the upside instead of forfeiting the joy of the opportunity.

4:44 - Marking years of your calendar isn't a life.

5:35 - Directing inward for the final decision. Your life as one big life altering event.

6:40 - Remember what a big deal you are. Where care and power coincide.

7:50 - One of the ways I teach anchoring and trusting the present moment.

9:33 - How can I be an observer when I'm also the participant?

11:58 - A 5 second exercise to remind you of your power.

12:40 - A Powerful Question.

12:50 - Closing…

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In this episode, we discuss the question "What am I believing about myself" and explore the ways our beliefs are influencing our lives. This is a quick episode as I break down the old studio and start building out the new one. Better understand how you are relating to the world.

0:00 - Studio breakdown. Taking the energy and momentum of the end of the year to create a new space.

1:25 - What am I believing about myself?

2:25 - Getting stuck on why we're unhappy.

3:22 - How you relate to the world has the greatest impact.

4:20 - We forget our contributing role when we get caught in our story.

5:30 - Reflection questions and an invitation to notice what is influencing our beliefs about ourselves.

7:25 - Granting our confusion permission to run our lives.

9:00 - Worthiness is tied to some belief you have about yourself.

11:50 - Closing…

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