The Liberated Life - Hard Conversations Worth Your Courage

Write to Robin: [email protected]

Talk to Robin about getting and staying grounded here for free: https://calendly.com/quittingculture/meetme

Find Kasia: https://kasiasmusic.com/

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Find Robin:  quittingculture.com  

and, quitproofkids.com

About Robin: 

Robin is the founder of The Quitting Culture and Raising Quit-Proof Kids. She helps entrepreneurs & business owners get clear on their purpose,  develop the mindset of finishing strong,  and take intentional action to reach their most personal goals. She teaches parents how to raise confident, capable kids who grow up to become masters of their own lives. 

A former music & dance studio owner, mom to 4 kids, and business coach, Robin understands the massive impact unintentional quitting - both for children and adults - has on confidence and self-esteem. 

Using her unique blend of intuition, wisdom & experience, and her visionary approach, Robin loves to help her clients achieve their goals and live with greater impact, freedom, and joy. 

Show Notes:

This episode is Robin's personal process for identifying and accountably ending outdated commitments, promises & agreements self and with others. 

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Find Jay: 

On Facebook, in the Gonzo Parenting Group here or email him: [email protected]

About Jay:  Jay is the founder of Gonzo Parenting, a comedic and cathartic Facebook community to help parents laugh and heal with like-minded moms and dads. He's a writer, healer, and mentor who thinks that the biggest challenge of child-rearing is doing the personal work necessary to become the parents we want to be. He's a former attorney, restauranteur and business coach. He lives with his wife and six year old boy/girl twins in Sonoma, CA.

Show Notes:

The most important thing: That our children feel loved and safe.

Mindfulness & Meditation help with being our best with our kids.

Especially now, it’s important to stay grounded and present for our kids.

Stay in the present - the past brings guilt, and the future brings fear.

Staying present sometimes means pulling yourself out of the ‘world’ of Social Media, news, and conversations and back into the moment and being with your children.

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Find Shellee: https://collegereadyplan.com/

Find Robin: https://quittingculture.com

About  Shellee: 

Shellee Howard is the owner and president of College Ready. She is a college graduate and is a Certified Educational Planner. Shellee has a son who graduated from Harvard in the spring of 2016 debt free! Her son is currently a third-year medical student at UC San Diego.

Her daughter completed her freshman year at the University of Alabama and will complete her Nursing degree this year. Shellee has traveled around the world helping students plan for their “perfect match” college. She knows what it takes to compete in the Ivy schools as well as finding the best fit for all students. Shellee believes that no two students are the same and each student must have their own strategy and plan to be successful. Each student has a gift/talent and a passion that will set him or her apart from their competition. Getting to know your student one on one is the key to success. This can be done in person or via Zoom. College Ready has clients all over the world and each one is important. Her focus is to find the best academic, financial and social fit college for each student to thrive at and graduate debt free!

Show Notes

You don’t always need to go to the most expensive college.  There are three things to base your college decision on:

1. The right academic fit
2. The right social fit
3. The right financial fit

Sometimes, It’s not where you graduate from, it’s how well you do in college.

It's important to help your kids make their college choice. It is a huge decision with many implications. 
 

You can begin the college conversation very early by planting the seed about going to college so you can have a bigger conversation with kids when they are in grade school.

The process of preparing should really start when they graduate from eighth grade.  These questions will help you and your child determine where they should go and what they may want to study. 

What are you passionate about?

What are your core values?

What are you good at?

If you start early, getting college-ready can be gentle and fun….When they’re older, it ends up feeling more like firehouse preparation….

Colleges are not looking at what you’re doing to impress them. Instead, they are looking at your passion that leads to a purpose that allows you to demonstrate your leadership.

Colleges want to know how you will stand out….They want to see and want students to see their uniqueness. They want to see:

Early community service

Early demonstration of a passion

Early demonstration of leadership

College Ready works with students one-on-one and creates a 'Standout Strategy' for each student. They work together to create their college-ready resume based on that strategy. Their clients have someone on their side every step of the way.

Two big questions that Shelle gets asked by parents every day:

How do I know what my student is passionate about?

How do I pick the right college?

Shellee asks them those questions and records them for parents so they can hear their answers.

Have someone ‘safe’ do this with your child….it’s different being asked by someone who is curious and from whom they feel no judgment.

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Join Stephanie and her guest speakers at the 4th Empowering Autism Summit October 27th - 30th, 2021. 

Find out more about the summit and get your free ticket here: https://tinyurl.com/RQKOCTEAS21

About Stephanie: 

Stephanie Weiderstrand is the founder of Beyond Special. She inspires families raising children on the autism spectrum to find hope, purpose, and clarity even amid the stress and chaos the atypical parenting journey brings. You can have the peace and calm you seek on the home front, the purposeful and intentional family relationship you desire, and claim back the life you thought is no longer yours. From living a life of reactive chaos at the homefront as a norm, it is time to get proactive and create the harmony and best possible life for our family by leveraging TODAY to support a better future for you and your family. Our transformation begins with our one purposeful step every day.

Find Stephanie: https://beyond-special.com/

Show Notes: 

Having a child who is on the Autism Spectrum can be completely overwhelming and all-consuming. It's very important to care for yourself so that you can have the energy to care for your family. 

If you’re not feeling excited about life, if you dread the day knowing what is ahead, you can take small steps toward more happiness.

The question Stephanie asks herself is: What can I do today to make tomorrow easier?

Focus on just one thing. What is the ONE thing you can do today to make tomorrow easier? 

Those things compound. Those daily things add up over time and you'll see the progress. 

For Stephanie, it initially was waking up earlier. Having a quiet cup of tea. It eventually became spending 5 minutes each day teaching her daughter to get dressed.

Our worries about our kids are valid but they do not help us move forward.

Instead of worrying, ask the empowering question, what can I do today to make tomorrow easier. 

It gives us more hope, more courage, and encouragement to keep taking small steps forward toward thriving, not just surviving. 

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Find Annie: 

Rebel Therapist, https://rebeltherapist.me/

Annie Schuessler is a business coach and the host of the podcast, Rebel Therapist Podcast. With her Rebel Therapist Program, she helps therapists, healers, and coaches make an impact beyond traditional private practice.  She is currently offering 'Create Your Program' and she also offers a Mastermind for business owners. 

Show Notes

Annie has created a business centered around her values including simplicity and  boundaries to protect her energy. 

Simplicity & boundaries protect her time and energy and allow her to excel at what she does, serve her clients at a higher level and honor her boundaries.

We have to know ourselves and set boundaries that work for us. 

Annie made a transition to her new business fairly slowly but in hindsight, she realizes it would have been better to do it faster because she had a foot in each business (which wasn't easy). 

Now that Annie has one business and a standard program that she repeats, she finds herself enjoying repeating and refining her process with clients. 

Question - what experiment could you run that you could use to get new information about something new you'd like to try?

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Find Pascale: [email protected]

Attend the encore of her event: What Your Teenager Needs from You here: 

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-your-teenager-needs-from-you-encore-tickets-168752538385?fbclid=IwAR28q5U_NzGYo2qpzWzn1HlhVMMNUpVUCB-A6T50uPrdGH6MxTRy0waakqc

About Pascale:

Born and raised in Quebec, Pascale has had many professional lives where the common thread has always been improving the way with which people communicate and understand each other. An entrepreneur at heart and a communication specialist first and foremost, COVID made her reassess her priorities and the impact she wants to have on the world. Understanding the crucial role teenagers will play in the coming future, and influenced by her own story as a teenager, she has decided to help #parents improve their communications with their teenagers so they can better prepare them for adulthood. Pacale is the Founder of Parent Lead Coaching

Find Robin: quitproofkids.com

Show Notes: 

To be in communication with our teens, we must be willing and able to adapt our parenting style. 

The basis of communication is listening. 

No matter how the world changes (technology, challenges, concerns) at the end of the day, our kids are humans and humans basically stay the same with the same needs for love and acceptance.  

We have to be able to see the person in front of us and look at their heart and see the value in what they are bringing. 

Whatever your teenager reflects back to you, you can use it to adjust your parenting and be relevant to them. 

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About Dr. Carly Crewe

Dr. Carly Crewe is the mom to a set of fiery twin girls and an MD Psychotherapist specializing in the comprehensive assessment and treatment of mental health disorders in women. 

Dr. Crewe uses a diverse combination of modalities in her work including varied therapy modalities (CBT, DBT, interpersonal, solution-focused, etc), integrative approaches, psychopharmacology, and nutritional psychiatry (using food as medicine.) 

After becoming a mother and struggling with severe postpartum mental illness, Carly became passionate about women and maternal mental health. Carly is the Owner and Founder of Eunoia Medical, an innovative telemental health clinic for women, designed in the pursuit of a well mind. As a completely virtual platform, patients of Eunoia Medical can access high quality, personalized and effective therapies in the comfort of their own homes. 

Carly was awarded the Outstanding New Professional Award in 2019 from the Alberta College of Family Physicians and is the host of the Mind Over Motherhood Podcast. Carly is a co-author in the Amazon Bestseller You’ve Got This, Modern Mama and her solo book is scheduled to publish June 1, 2021. Carly believes that as women, there are more than enough obstacles holding us back from the lives we crave and deserve. Our minds should not be one of them.

Find Dr. Carly: https://carlycrewe.com/ 

& here: https://www.eunoiamedical.ca/

SHOW NOTES:

Being in communities of women is helpful because often we don't know that other women share similar thoughts and struggles. When we share the struggle, the stigma goes away.

Part of mental health is choosing what’s right for us and what brings us peace.

Warning signs that you have a mental health issue: 

If you’re not feeling amazing, or good - what does your mental health actually feel like?  Are you

1. Not feeling like yourself?

2.  Reacting in ways that are not typical for you?

3.  Experiencing rage, irritability, or anger that isn’t normal for you?

If you answer yes, then you may be dealing with stress (and sub-optimal mental health)

The pandemic has put us under tremendous stress.

We are in a constant state of a low-grade flight or fight.

We may not always feel worried but the body still feels the stress.

If you’re not feeling like yourself, target the amygdala. It is probably over-activated (it is the fight-or-flight part of the brain). You can help your amygdala to calm down by: 

1. Focusing on your sleep
2. Limiting the amount you go on your phone, watch the news, open emails….to avoid scary things
3. Exercise
4. Connect with others

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Find Robin:  [email protected], www.quitproofkids.com

www.quittingculture.com

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Find Angelica  (aka Sita Sadhana Kaur):

Radiant Relationships  www.angelicaisisazura.com

About Angelica: 

I am a proud mother of two beautiful girls. 15 years ago, after a very bad conflict at work, I discovered personal development books for myself. I set on a journey to master the art of life, to understand who I was, to find my life purpose, and most of all to understand why my life was actually not the way I wanted it to be. I spent 15 years going through the dark sides of my soul. I was caught in the drama of an emotionally and physically abusive relationship for 10 years. After my marriage dissolved I had to face the consequences of the years of abuse and self-neglect. I was suffering from PTSD. The journey to healing was not an easy one, yet it had its profound gifts for me. I experienced true healing and found my passion to help women break free from the grip of toxic relationships. I use my own intuition, Inner child work, Akashic Records, and Kundalini Yoga technology to bring true transformation into women’s lives.

Find Robin  www.QuittingCulture.com

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Find Jennie: [email protected]

About Jennie: 

Jennie Bellinger is a Certified Professional Coach and the host of the Badass Direct Sales Mastery Podcast. She works with badass direct sales moms to move from making $100 monthly to reaching the top 1% of their organization. 

An entrepreneur since 2010, she understands the desire to contribute to your family's future and be present with them in the here and now, and how difficult balancing those two priorities can be. So Jennie has learned the hard way (while building two separate businesses, raising two kids, and navigating a divorce) to fulfill that need to contribute and be there for her children. Jennie is also known as The Direct Sales Domme. Luckily, as a Certified Professional Coach, her methods are very effective, not painful.

Show Notes: 

Don’t count on your friends and family to buy your products. Ask them if you can practice on them but remove any expectations that you are trying to sell them something or convince them to buy.

It is important to focus on what your client needs NOT how much money you’re going to make.

What problem does your product solve? Go find people who have that problem. 

Solve problems for people.

Don’t try to convince someone….rather, have a conversation about their problem, and see if you can help them.

Referrals come from people that you’ve helped.

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