Values Based Living

Warning: this episode is for parents! Complete with a 9 month old playing in the background, this episode truly embodies what it means to be a multi-tasking parent. Ali interviews Kristina, VBL's Social Media Coordinator and dedicated values enthusiast, about what it's been like as a new mom with 2 kids and an otherwise full life. 

Kristina shares her challenges and learnings, and how values have helped her find common ground with her 4 year old when they seem to want totally different things. 

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Coreen and Ali talk in their monthly Zoom Q&A about 6 Ways to Make a Good Decision, and answer questions from participants. 

Free handout of the 6 Ways to Make a Good Decision: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n_G3JtJNBMNCgmjcg4ZNuf6sFD7yUJ8y/view

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Coreen and Ali have been conflict resolution experts for 25+years collectively and love to share tips and tricks to interacting better with ourselves and others.

Values Based Living support is not meant to replace therapy or advice from health care professionals. 

We gush about our love for LOVE! Love is a top value for both Ali and Coreen, who explore how developing their own standards, boundaries, and general assertiveness allowed them to get into healthier relationship with their value of love.

We refer to our Values Based Assertiveness course

And our Exploring Shadow Values workshop

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We also reference The Little Love Book, by Elise Poppers

And the 8 Types of Love According to the Ancient Greeks

This is a bonus episode to acknowledge the new year. We have some tips to share when it comes to setting manageable goals. What better time to share them than the time of new year’s resolutions!

Here's a sneak peek of the 5 tips to Setting Manageable Goals: 

Want more? Learn about our Reverse Goal Setting workshop that dives more deeply into this process.

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Resources: Free Values Based Goal Setting Handout

We explore the difference between "being a good person" and "knowing our values". Are they the same thing? If I know and live my values am I probably a good person? 

Coreen, Kristina, and Ali have some fun with this topic and throw out their thoughts from a conflict resolution, coaching, and values perspective. 

Check out a guest article on this same topic, written by one of our dedicated Values Based Living students: Does Knowing Your Values Make You a Good Person?

Get started with our free values assessment quiz 

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Ali and Coreen review the Top 5 Challenges faced when getting to Know Your Values in our first free Zoom Q&A session! One of our incredible students, Gavin, joins us to help us get the ball rolling on these sessions. 

Interested in the Know Your Values virtual course? Learn more here: https://values-basedliving.com/courses/know-your-values/

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Coreen and Ali have been conflict resolution experts for 25+years collectively and love to share tips and tricks to interacting better with ourselves and others.

Values Based Living support is not meant to replace therapy or advice from health care professionals. 

Also referenced:  

The Language of Emotions, by Karla McLaren 

The Power of Vulnerability, by Brené Brown  

Tangentially Speaking podcast, by Chris Ryan

Consider this episode a model for one way to check in to see if you're living your values in business.

Coreen and I have struggled for years to add a values based lens to our marketing. We've been chipping away at it incrementally, but recently we had a breakthrough around our marketing vision and thought it would be fun and insightful to record our values assessment of our new marketing vision. We don't necessarily share what our marketing plan is in this episode (mostly to keep you from the monotony of it); instead, we review our business and personal values to see to what extent we're in alignment with our updated marketing strategy and offer some examples. 

This episode is for people who want to see what it's like to weave values into an initiative like marketing, or for people who want to know more about the values of Values Based Living and of us:).

VBL Values:

Teamwork, Get ‘er done, Authenticity, Meaning, Fun/Joy, Community, Measurable High Value Content for Participants, Simplicity/Ease, Playing Big

Note: We reference a marketing resource, Tad Hargrave with Marketing For Hippies, as a big reason why we're making great strides in our marketing. We're not getting anything tangible for pumping him up, we just like what he does:).

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Coreen and Ali are so grateful to have access to the Seven Sacred Teachings and to be able to refer to them as a guide. They each picked a teaching that lines up with one of their values. In this episode (Part 2), Coreen describes how the teaching of TRUTH was incredibly helpful in navigating her relationship with a compulsive liar. 

See part 1 in the previous episode for Ali's example, in which she shares how the teaching of LOVE helped get her through a messy and painful business partner separation. We recommend starting with this episode, as it touches on what the Seven Sacred Teachings are and why they are so important to Values Based Living. 

We reference information from the 7 sacred teachings overview from Northwestern Polytechnic, who got their information from Empowering the Spirit, which guided us as well. 

We donate half of our monthly circle proceeds to BearClan Patrol in Calgary, Alberta. Check out the Winnapeg chapter for more information on the initiative.

You can learn more about our Values Based Living circles here. Reach out to us at [email protected] if you would like to attend one of our virtual circles.

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Coreen and Ali are so grateful to have access to the Seven Sacred Teachings and to be able to refer to them as a guide. They each picked a teaching that lines up with one of their values. In this episode (Part 1), Ali shares how the teaching of LOVE helped get her through a messy and painful business partner separation. 

See part 2 for Coreen's example, in which she describes how the teaching of TRUTH was incredibly helpful in navigating her relationship with a compulsive liar. 

The 7 sacred teachings overview from Northwestern Polytechnic, who got their information from Empowering the Spirit.

We donate half of our monthly circle proceeds to BearClan Patrol in Calgary, Alberta. Check out the Winnapeg chapter for more information on the initiative.

You can learn more about our Values Based Living circles here. Reach out to us at [email protected] if you would like to attend one of our virtual circles. 

⁠PATREON⁠: Join us on Patreon or more podcast episodes that go deeper: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/valuesbasedliving⁠⁠⁠

⁠VALUES QUIZ⁠: Get started with our free Values Quiz: ⁠https://values-basedliving.com/top_five_values_quiz/⁠

Coreen and Ali have been conflict resolution experts for 25+years collectively and love to share tips and tricks to interacting better with ourselves and others.

Values Based Living support is not meant to replace therapy or advice from health care professionals. 

This is sort of a continuation of episode 7 called "Values and Birthdays", so feel free to listen to that one first if you want to hear the full story.

We discuss how tricky it can be to forget about unwanted social pressures completely when you have kids. We also explore our own shadow values and attempt to explain what's going on for us when our values take the reins without our awareness. 

Learn more about us: https://values-basedliving.com/about-us/

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