Unpacking Myself

In this episode, I talk with the person who taught me what "Accountability" truly means - it's an underrated principle. Linda speaks, writes and consults internationally, teaching personal accountability to organizations & leaders, but the principles apply to all aspects of life. How often do we make excuses or shy away from our role in the outcomes in front of us? How do we treat accountability as lessons learned and exercise it more often? How does accountability change the workplace? Linda diives into all of this in this episode. It's a game changer!

Madonna was on to something (never thought I would say these words), when she said "I'm a material girl, living in a material world." There really is no escaping it. We are surrounded by it. There shouldn't be guilt around buying nice things but what happens when we let the "thing" control us and feed our confidence. In this episode I share moments when this has happened to me and how I have learned to become more aware of these moments. I talk through how this awareness can help strengthen our self worth & confidence.

I had the realization that if I wait for everything externally to be just right before I start doing the things I want to do this year, I may end up watching another year pass me by. In this episode, I unpack why & how I was able to make a mindset shift and truly reset even with some of the same hurdles in place from last year. Not everyone has to be making the same progress this early in the year but it is important for everyone to know that they have the power to take charge when they are ready to.

Some of the most successful people in the world have this trait in common - the desire to constantly do better. But negative emotions can pop up when we reflect on how we can improve, causing us to often avoid it entirely. If others aren't honest in their feedback & we aren't being honest with ourselves either, then who the heck is going to help us improve? In this episode, I talk through where these emotions come from & why it's important to unpack it so we can simply focus on how to be better.

Have you ever taken someone else's actions or something they said personally? Made assumptions about their intentions? We often think things are about us when sometimes they are not. In this episode, I dive into why we do this and examples that we can all relate to. This is another thing that creates unnecessary clutter in our mind and while we may not be able to control the initial thought, we can control how long we let it stay. I share how I shift my thoughts to remove this clutter from my mind.

A lot of people are excited about 2020 being over but what is really going to change at midnight? In this week's episode, I share how I'm using this New Year's as a checkpoint for 3 things to help me go into 2021 pumped and with a recharged mindset. We can't make life go back to how it was before the pandemic but we can still create change for ourselves in this upcoming year. Listen in as I unpack how to make sure 2021 doesn't become a repeat of or a dragged out 2020 for all of us. The only thing that changes at midnight is our mindset.

Do you ever feel like some of the Self Love stuff on Social Media is too cheesy or fluff or annoying? Ha - I have! In this episode, I cut through (not "the") cheese to get to what truly matters and how a lot of things in our life revolve around this topic. It's easy to ignore, dismiss or go on auto-pilot with this topic but being aware and intentional about self love can help create positivity in so many areas of our life. I talk through the real-life application of loving yourself & how it can manifest in our life.

We have all had minor interactions with people that make us ask "why did I do that?" or "why did I say it that way?" Maybe you said or did something without really thinking it through. We all do that. Have you ever replayed the tape of you doing that "thing" to the other person 10, 20, 30 times in head? Beating yourself up everytime? Yes, yes and yes! In this episode I talk about why it doesn't need to be this way and how we can remove this negativity that takes up space in our mind quickly.

This year I have witnessed one too many people I love deal with really hard hard things. Years ago I had explored the question we all have asked at some point - "why do bad things happen to good people" but lately I have been feeling my faith get shaky. I knew I needed to remind myself of the beliefs I have held around this question for many years. In this episode, I revisit my beliefs & how we shift from the "WHY did this happen" to "how do I want to choose to respond & react in this moment."

On the surface deflecting compliments may not seem like a big deal. Many say it's just about a way to show humility. That's what I thought for years until I sat down and unpacked this. This becomes an important topic when you realize that how you respond may actually reflect what YOU think of yourself. I talk through why it's important to receive compliments with open arms and how this can be a tool to help us see parts of ourselves that we haven't embraced yet.