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- Making Someone Wrong Won't Make You Right
In this episode, Robin and Nina explore one of the most common — and costly — habits in human relationships: making someone else wrong.
They discuss: — How labels like "narcissist" and "psychopath" become shortcuts that shut down empathy — The psychological payoffs of demonizing someone you love — Nina's story of staying curious and connected with a politically passionate family member — Robin's personal experience of being demonized — and what it feels like to have the door shut on you — Self-regulation and why it's the foundation of every good conversation — Questions to ask yourself when you notice the pattern
What conversation is worth your courage?
— People Skillz: pplskillz.com
— Free Open Loops Tool: closetheloopsnow.com/tool —
— Book: Stop Stealing From Yourself — coming summer 2026
Join our 5 Day Detox Your To-Do List Challenge coming soon! More details to follow!
If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
25 min - The Purge For Peace --Why I Left and Why I'm Back
After three years of intentional silence, Robin Quinn Keehn is back — and she's not here to fill your feed. She's here because she has something worth saying.
In this episode, Robin shares why she stepped away, what she learned living with fewer commitments, and why she's returning now with new tools, real experience, and a book coming this summer.
Where to find Robin:
pplskillz.com
Get the free tool: CloseTheLoopsNow.com/tool
Robin's People Skillz Community
Reading my Substack? New articles every Wednesday. robinqk.substack.com
robinqk.substack.com
If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
5 min - Finding Your Voice: How to Deliver Compelling & Captivating Presentations with Vicki Noethling
Thanks for listening! Find Vicki here: www.findyourleadershipconfidence.com
If you’re ready to strengthen how you handle difficult conversations, join the free People Skillz community. We offer structured communication training, live sessions, and guided practice designed to build calm authority. You can also take the Communication Patterns Quiz to discover your default response under pressure.
Join Robin's community here: https://www.skool.com/peopleskillz
About Vicki Noethling
Vicki Noethling is a speaker, trainer and coach focusing on public speaking and leadership. She also has an anti-aging/wellness business which compliments her public speaking business well. Helping entrepreneurs, especially women find their voice is a passion. She is a best-selling author and host of The Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast.
Show Notes
Leaders have to coach, counsel, encourage and motivate. How we say what we say matters.
By first writing down our thoughts we become better speakers, teachers, mentors, and coaches.
Issues in speaking (and teaching, mentoring, and coaching) come from a lack of clear, concise communication.
Our words, and tone, need to come from our gut.
Before we respond it's critical to take time to listen to the other person. Actively listen to what is said.
When speaking publicly in person arrive early enough so you can talk to people in the audience. Make sure your talk is going to resonate by asking what brought them today, what they hope to learn, what their experience has been, etc.When speaking on Zoom, arrive early and engage with people there. Use the chat. Invite people to answer your questions in the chat so you can hear from more people. Ask the same questions you would in a live event.
During your talk, when telling your stories, do it in a way that makes the person who is listening see themselves in the story (i.e. the same thing happened to me! Or, I feel the same way). Be relatable.
Be yourself and connect with the people who resonate with you and your story. You don't need to try to be anyone else (like a speaker you admire or who has trained you).
Use your facial expression and gestures to connect with people. Vary your expression, your tone, and your energy.Make your talk like a song. Songs have hooks, verses, choruses, bridges, dynamics, intros, and outros. Listen to music and notice all the ways songs keep you engaged. Use the same ideas to make your talk engaging and keep people leaning in.
Listen to the radio announcers to understand vocal variety.
If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
26 min - Finding Your Way in an Uncertain World: Tips for Staying Grounded and Focused on Your Purpose
If you’re ready to strengthen how you handle difficult conversations, join the free People Skillz community. We offer structured communication training, live sessions, and guided practice designed to build calm authority.
Show Notes
- Your purpose is something that is inherent in you and is present throughout your life. It is the thread that connects all of your experiences and drives your actions and decisions.
- Your mission is the specific way that you express and fulfill your purpose. It is the goal or objective that you are working towards in a particular aspect of your life. You may have many different missions throughout your life, as your purpose and goals evolve and change.
- Your vision is the way that you see the world when you have completed your current mission. It is your long-term perspective and the impact that you hope to have on the world.
- Your values are the things that matter most to you and shape how you show up in your mission. They are the guiding principles that inform your actions and decisions and help you stay true to your purpose.
- Do not get taken off course by the events happening around you.
- Stay in the present moment by noticing what is happening in your world right now.
If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
29 min - Trigger Warning! Micro Episode on Feeling Depressed
If you’re ready to strengthen how you handle difficult conversations, join the free People Skillz community. We offer structured communication training, live sessions, and guided practice designed to build calm authority.
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Show Notes:
Feeling depressed ranges from feelings of sadness to feelings that life is no longer worth living. Robin is not a doctor but she has been directly impacted by the outcomes of severe depression when her beloved Aunt Judy ended her life several years ago.
In this micro episode, Robin asks hard questions, triggering questions, not to make you feel worse but to get underneath the hood and potentially expose what's operating beneath the surface of feeling depressed.
If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
6 min - Trigger Warning! Micro Episode on Feeling Betrayed!
Get the Trigger Warning! Card Deck here
If you’re ready to strengthen how you handle difficult conversations, join the free People Skillz community. We offer structured communication training, live sessions, and guided practice designed to build calm authority.
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Show Notes
There are times when we feel betrayed. Either we have misunderstood or someone else has misrepresented themselves or their intentions. The question really is, when we feel betrayed, where do we point the finger and who suffers the most as a result?
If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
5 min - Trigger Warning! Micro Episode on Feeling Angry!
Get the Trigger Warning! Card Deck here
If you’re ready to strengthen how you handle difficult conversations, join the free People Skillz community. We offer structured communication training, live sessions, and guided practice designed to build calm authority. You can also take the Communication Patterns Quiz to discover your default response under pressure. Join us at [insert link].
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Show Notes
Anger is the HOT emotion and keeps people at a distance. Although we can feel righteous in our anger, it doesn't always serve us or our relationships with others. We can get a handle on it when we dig into our triggers that set us up for feeling angry.
If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
6 min - Cesar Hasselmann on the Importance of Recharging to Bring Our Best to All of Our Relationships
Find Cesar:
cesarhasselmann.com
About Cesar
Cesar Hasselmann is an author, mentor, coach, consultant, and a founder of AMH Consultancy, which is helping small to medium business owners achieve the same success he had cornering several industries and building a company with 120 employees from the ground up, working with multi-international companies big brands. His book “Life Break Through” is a book for those who want more success, inner peace, and both emotional and financial stability, and allows you to interpret the wisdom as it applies to your own journey.
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If you’re ready to strengthen how you handle difficult conversations, join the free People Skillz community. We offer structured communication training, live sessions, and guided practice designed to build calm authority.
Show Notes
1. It's critical to do our best to maintain our balance during unsettling times. One way to help ourselves is to watch what we allow into our lives (such as movies, media, and conversations).
2. Each of us has natural cycles. These cycles happen in all areas of our lives including our business & personal life.3. It's very important to recharge yourself so you can give to your family, clients, and relationships. Recharging is doing what feels good to you like dancing, sleeping, walking, reading, exercising, etc...
4. If we don't recharge, we eventually run out of juice. We become less effective.
5. When we are able to sync our business cycle with our personal cycle, we have more to give our clients.
6. It's good, and important to take breaks. Not only do we need breaks, but other people need breaks from us!If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
33 min - Trigger Warning! Micro Episode on Feeling Disappointed
If you’re ready to strengthen how you handle difficult conversations, join the free People Skillz community. We offer structured communication training, live sessions, and guided practice designed to build calm authority.
SHOW NOTES
Disappointment can take many forms, but it usually comes from unmet expectations. Of course, it can be triggered by any number of situations where we feel let down. It can also be habitual - we can develop a habit of setting ourselves up to be disappointed by not getting clarity about the results we're expecting. Learn how to spot the 'set up' and avoid it or resolve it when it happens.
If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
11 min - Serena Curran on the ReCreation Revolution: BEing You in Business to Create Impact & Income
Connect with Serena:
https://serenacurran.com
Get Your Gifts:
Journey to Shift into the Flow of Money
serenacurran.com/moneyflowBook a complimentary Soul Aligned Wealth Strategy Session
bit.ly/wealthysoul
About Serena
Serena Curran guides spiritual entrepreneurs, change makers, healers, and visionaries to stop feeling confused, overwhelmed, and underachieving. She leads her clients into claiming their freedom, designing and expanding their business so that it feeds their soul and creates impact and income without sacrificing their well-being.
As a leader of the ReCreation Revolution, she has over 25 years experience as a serial international entrepreneur, healer, and teacher. Serena has compassionately led hundreds of business owners to breakthrough to their next level in business with ease.
She nurtures, supports, and guides her clients through the Akashic Records flavored with Quantum Human Design, astrology and various healing modalities. She offers both one on one and group programs.
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SHOW NOTES
The RE-Creation Revolution is about recreating who we are and how we do business to create the world we want to see.
- See yourself as on a mission to bring your gifts to the world
- Let that mission lead you forward
- Reinventing who you are being—in alignment with your soul and your evolved self
- Design a business around you and what you love-letting go of prescriptive strategies and reconditioning from disempowering beliefs
- Expand into a bigger version of yourself and a bigger vision for your business
- Use the vehicle of your business to create impact and income-spiral relationship
- Use the way you do business, with your values to create the world you want to see.
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If you’re ready to strengthen how you handle difficult conversations, join the free People Skillz community. We offer structured communication training, live sessions, and guided practice designed to build calm authority. You can also take the Communication Patterns Quiz to discover your default response under pressure. Join us at [insert link].
If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com
23 min
About The Liberated Life - Hard Conversations Worth Your Courage
From the publisher's feed
A podcast about hard conversations, resentment, boundaries, and self-trust.
A lot of us are tired in a way sleep doesn't fix — doing all the things, and still pulled at by something we can't quite name. Usually it's the unsaid, the unfinished, the undecided: the open loops quietly draining our time, energy, and peace.
The Liberated Life is about those loops — and how to close them. Hosted by Robin Quinn Keehn — human dynamics specialist, certified mediator, and author of Stop Stealing From Yourself — it's an honest look at what holds us back and what sets us free: resentment, the conversations we avoid, the boundaries we don't hold, the promises we break to ourselves, how we communicate under pressure, and the calm on the other side. Some episodes are Robin and a single idea. Others are conversations with people who've lived it. No fluff, no hype — just the truth, said plainly.
This isn't about hacks, hustle, or surface-level strategy. It's the quieter, harder work — closing the gap between who you are and who you're becoming, one honest conversation at a time.
Whether you lead a business, a family, a community, or simply your own life, the work is the same: stop avoiding, say the thing, and free yourself from what you've been carrying.
Start with the free Close One Loop tool at closetheloopsnow.com.
Because the real question was never what's on your to-do list. It's this: what conversation is worth your courage?