The Infinite Capacity Podcast

It's happened to all of us... feeling (unfairly) judged by another person that we know well, respect and care about.  Whether a family member, close friend, colleague or boss; it can feel really terrible to be at the receiving end of another person's judgment.

But how do we get away from REACTING, DEFENDING or (even worse) piling on and judging more?  How do we move toward an outcome that actually feels better?

In this podcast episode certified life coach Andrea Morton tackles the topic of how to deal with the judgments of others, giving 4 simple steps you can follow right away to navigate your own unique situation or story.

This conversation helps listeners understand how to process your own emotions, grow and learn... so that experiencing judgment becomes less uncomfortable, and instead a natural and even 'welcomed' part of your own evolution toward becoming the best version of yourself.

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching

Alone in her United Kingdom apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jess Mell struggled greatly with her mental health.  Grappling with anxiety and depression, she felt at times that life would never hold real happiness or joy again.  Even though she sought traditional medical treatment and therapy, she was left wondering bleakly if she would ever actually feel better.

Then Jess decided to set herself the challenge of doing one new thing every day for 365 days.  The results were absolutely life changing. Not only did Jess re-discover her happiness and passion for life - with activities ranging from cooking new foods to watching classic movies to beekeeping and traveling - but she is now inspiring countless others to do so worldwide.  As Drew Barrymore recently said on The Drew Barrymore Show about Jess and her project, "I love this. I want to be her. I do."

In today's laughter-filled episode, host Andrea Morton chats deeply with Jess about this powerful challenge that she gave herself... and how others can improve their mental health through hands-on action and trying new things.  You will love this inspiring and fun episode! 

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching

As a response to the many emails that life coach Andrea Morton receives with requests for coaching feedback, she has launched a new part of the Infinite Capacity Podcast called “Ask Andrea” where listeners can write in with questions (that will be presented anonymously) and receive feedback on air about their dilemmas.

Today’s podcast features a letter from “Feeling Like Cinderella” who is trying to navigate a tricky relationship with her husband’s three older sisters.

In her response, Andrea Morton will highlight some great principles from the book, “Crucial Conversations” by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler.

The tips in this great podcast will help you improve your difficult relationships AND hone your ability to communicate and connect in 2023!

You can get your copy of “Crucial Conversations” here on Amazon or from your favorite local bookseller!


(Direct Link: https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-Second/dp/1469266822)

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching

Welcome to 2023!  

Andrea Morton receives a lot of messages from moms who want life coaching.  This episode launches a new part of the Infinite Capacity Podcast called “Ask Andrea” where listeners can write in with brief questions (presented anonymously) and receive feedback on-air about their dilemmas.

Today’s podcast features a letter from “Downsizing and Overwhelmed Mama” who is trying to navigate an upcoming business move while feeling down and unmotivated.

In her response, Coach Andrea will highlight two great principles featured in the outstanding book, “Fear is My Homeboy” written by Judi Holler, a professionally trained improviser, keynote speaker, moderator and author.

Coach Andrea will also show how anyone can apply these ideas to their own lives!

This great podcast will help you kick off your 2023 with momentum and productivity.

Get your copy of “Fear Is My Homeboy” here on Amazon or from your favorite local bookseller!
 
URL -  https://www.amazon.com/Fear-My-Homeboy-Doubt-Succeed/dp/1626346267 

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching

What is your relationship like with failure? 

Do you consider yourself to be a risk taker?  Or are you someone who likes to play it safe and stick to what you know? 

When things don't work out... what do you make it mean?  

Do you tend to keep going, when the going gets tough?  Or, do you sometimes feel overwhelmed and shut down?

In this week's Infinite Capacity Podcast episode, host Andrea Morton examines how our thinking about failure can impact our willingness to put ourselves out there to try new things.

Morton explores how the emotions connected to our fails can have a big impact on our level of resilience, grit and perseverance in the face of challenges.

This episode also takes a look at how motherhood can inadvertently become a 'failure enabler' as Moms get wrapped up in our children's goals and dreams. 

Lots of powerful questions here to help you make a breakthrough in your own relationship with failure, so that you can take action!

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching

In this first episode of Season 3 of The Infinite Capacity Podcast host Andrea Morton interviews Ruth Templeton, a Masters Graduate from the Centre for Nutrition, Education and Lifestyle Management in the UK.

As a mother and practitioner at Dinutrigen, Ruth strongly believes that knowing how we are made genetically can empower us as individuals to inform our decisions around nutrition, environment and lifestyle to determine how we experience our journey in health.

Ruth is fascinated with nourishing our bodies in a way that makes sense with our unique genomics and specifically focuses her practice around increasing mind health and overall well-being.   

Sharing personal stories from her journey as the mother of a baby who once suffered from malabsorption due to food sensitivities, Ruth draws upon her experiences to teach parents tips for how to nourish themselves and their children in a cost-effective way... and also how to trust their intuition about their bodies (or the bodies of their children) while working to heal gut microbiome issues. 

This is a fascinating episode with a truly delightful guest!

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching

In this week’s podcast, host Andrea Morton interviews Dr. Fay Hosseini, a highly educated, dedicated professional who has devoted her career to the service and care of others.

Dr. Fay is a highly awarded PharmD who introduced clinical pharmacy services into the emergency department of Harborview Medical Center (a Level 1 Trauma Center) where she has worked for over 10 years. Dr. Fay - together with an incredible medical team - deals daily with significant trauma and the need to think with precision in an intense, high-stakes environment.  She is also certified as a Life Coach helping busy professionals overcome work frustration, imposter syndrome, people pleasing and more. 

In addition to her phenomenal career success, Dr. Fay is a vibrant and dynamic human.  She is a daughter, sister, aunt and close friend to many... and a big fan of ice cream!

In today’s inspiring and laughter-filled episode, the conversation focuses on how Dr. Fay’s childhood as an immigrant to Canada from Iran shaped her work ethic & life path, and how a significant personal loss led her to life coaching and to the amazing way in which she is now helping professional women with burnout and exhaustion today.

Dr. Fay’s 5-star podcast, “A Dose of Perspective,” is a great resource for busy professionals looking to learn how to master emotional resiliency by harnessing the power of their own minds.

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching

Have you ever wanted to feel more in control of your own life, rather than at the mercy of its highs and lows?  

Are you the type of woman who works on personal growth to stretch yourself to see what you are capable of?  Do you have hopes and dreams but sometimes lack the confidence to go after them?  

Are you navigating a situation in life (like parenting, or improving your relationship) where you could use more support?  Do you feel like you've tried EVERYTHING and still feel like you sometimes struggle?

In this episode of The Infinite Capacity Podcast, veteran life coaches Claudia Z. Hill and Juli Osmun join Andrea Morton to discuss how discovering life coaching helped them to better navigate divorce, blended families, career transitions, struggles with parenting and more. 

They will also explore how the shifts that became possible in their own lives and the lives of their clients ultimately inspired their mission to make life coaching accessible and affordable for ALL women with the Growth & Grace Coaching Collective and talk together about exciting opportunities ahead.

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching

Podcast host and life coach Andrea Morton knows what it's like to have bad days as a Mom... not only is she a mom of 3 herself, but she also spends a big part of each week working with overwhelmed, stressed mamas in midlife to help them find real balance and healthier relationships.

However, it's not always possible to talk things through with a life coach when YOUR real life is getting crazy - which, more often than not, tends to happen somewhere between Friday at 5pm and Monday morning... while everything is closed for the weekend!  (If you even HAVE a life coach to start with!!! Which everyone should!)

That's why this week in the podcast, Andrea will walk listeners through a self-coaching process; explaining through a very personal example how you can begin coaching yourself through a crummy day or in a tough situation by:

- exploring how to isolate the thoughts that are really bugging you or bumming you out
- figuring out what meaning you are making from the way you are thinking
  - helping you to see how to lighten your own load, so that you are no longer reacting from a place of pain
- learning how to process your hardest feelings

When stress gets heavy, it's natural to yearn for easy comfort or a dopamine surge.  That's why eating ice cream and shopping are so popular with overwhelmed moms!! Those activities don't create lasting feelings of goodness, however.  At best, they are a temporary fix. 

The ideas shared in this episode can help you permanently stop buffering and avoiding... take back the reins during your own crazy days, and start coaching yourself toward balance and emotional health!

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching

In her groundbreaking book "The Highly Sensitive Person", Psychotherapist Elaine N. Aron, PhD writes, "Most people walk into a room and perhaps notice the furniture, the people... (but) Highly Sensitive Persons can be instantly aware, whether they wish to be or not, of the mood, the friendships and enmities, the freshness or staleness of the air, the personality of the one who arranged the flowers."

Oh boy, did she ever nail me. THIS IS ME.  And long before I knew the label 'highly sensitive person,' I knew that not only am I weirdly intuitive in social situations but that I also become emotionally flooded and overstimulated more easily than a lot of the people around me. As Aron shares, when people like me get overwhelmed we become 'distressed, clumsy and confused.'  I am super affected by other people's moods and emotions, and sometimes that has led to reactions I'm not proud of.

Yet this same heightened intuition, sensitivity, emotion and empathy also served me well as a teacher, friend and daughter.

It was only when I became a Wife and a Mom (surrounded by squabbling kiddos and other people's emotions 24/7) that I REALLY had to face living as a highly sensitive person and figure out once and for all how to better navigate my relationships and manage my own mind and emotions... for the health & well-being of my family. 

That is how I found my way to life coaching and (later) the career of my dreams coaching overwhelmed, stressed out mamas like me!

Today's super vulnerable podcast is the most personal, powerful thing I've ever shared live.  I hope you'll pass it along to all of the other sensitive, emotional mamas that you may know and love, so they can learn from my funny stories, true confessions and mistakes.

(This episode was recorded LIVE in Austin, Texas at The Life Coach School - Mastermind 2022.)

Do you know an interesting midlife woman with a cool story to share on this podcast? You can share their info by contacting andrea@thinktothrivecoaching.

Life and ADHD coaching for midlife women is available by appointment.

You can also reach out via Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thinktothrivecoaching