Wellish

On this episode I sat down with Sarah Armstrong, vice president of global marketing operations at Google, who has mentored women and men her entire career and avid “good divorce” proponent and the author of The Mom’s Guide to a Good Divorce: What to Think Through When Children Are Involved,” whose personal mission is offering insights and tips to moms – and dads – about how they too can have a “good divorce.” We discuss how to choose happiness despite hardship, the role children play in a role form both the perspective of the parents and the child and determining what your life will look like post relationship. Sarah provides tips on how to cope when you are the one going through the divorce as well as if you effected by a divorce during, but also after the heavy emotions take their toll. If you want to feel validated about any roll you have in seperating from a serious significant other from being the person in the relationship to being a child of divorce to being in a situation where two parents are not together, this episode is for you.

On this weeks solo episode we are leaning into the social norm of creating New Year's resolutions. There's nothing wrong with capitalizing on a surge of motivation, so let's set the goals, but let's do so in a way that we can actually get a win instead of feeling like whatever we set the intention to do eventually fades away. I am giving you guys concrete ways to actually feel like you are completing your resolution and becoming the best version of yourself. Including a guided exercise at minute 21:47! Here's to 2024!

We all handle stress differently, but everyday stress is so much different than holiday stress. We have to make time to connect with so many people, we have money anxiety and are stressing to find the perfect gift, we have to see our family, potentially a significant other's family, and Christmas just donesn't feel they way it used to. Sarah addresses not just holiday anxiety, but the ways we can so quickly sacrifice ourselves for the happiness of others because that's what you're supposed to do at this time of year. If you are a people pleaser that is easily overwhelmed by the chaos the holiday brings, this episode is for you.

On this week's Q&A episode Sarah is answering the Elite's questions. From friendship issues to how to validate yourself to no longer identifying with your old self Sarah is providing best friend advice to help you with your self improvement progression. If you are feeling stuck on your journey to become the best version of yourself and like you have tried too many self improvement things but have had very little clarity this episode is for you.

This list of signs that you are too hard on yourself is a bit more subliminal. Sarah discusses the way she never used to claim the identity of being too hard on herself out of a deeper, and quite honestly, kinder, self awareness that she is hard working and has a strong work ethic. She begins to peel back layers to reveal some things that we may not even realize we are doing that could indicate you are being too hard on yourself. Do you think that could be you?

On this weeks solo episode Sarah gets into a topic that she finds incredibly challenging. She speaks from the place of the beginner in this new journey closer to becoming her best self compared to a place of mastery. Over explaining, talking to much, and giving people more justification than they may deserve is a bad habit she is working hard to break, so Sarah has listed out the 3 mindset shifts that she has taken in her own life to shift away from being so bothered by people and events out of her control and towards and more calm, cool, collected, and confident way of handling issues. If you are a person who has ever been called "too sensitive" or just wants to stop feeling like outside circumstances have so much control over your emotions, this episode is for you.

On this week's solo episode Sarah walks the Elite through 6 pieces of self improvement advise that not only are unhelpful, but actually have the opposite effect you intended the self help to have. Without awareness, it can cause you to build a mental checklist that you use as ammunition against yourself making you feel like even more of a failure than you started off feeling like. Sarah explains how it is what you do most of the time that matters and you have to do what works for you, not what works for someone else. If you feel like you are always trying to improve but never feel like you're the best version of yourself this episode is for you.

This week Sarah sat down with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Certified Professional Organizer (one of the first in the world), Simplicity Expert & Money Breakthrough Business Coach to discussed her systematic solution to cleaning your space for the long term. Sarah and Miriam discussed the ties between personal development and organization and how organizing helps you not only gain control and freedom of your life, but can teach you who you are. They explain how to use intentional decision-making and habit-building as a technique in organization and the impact of organizing on productivity and well-being. They also touched on the difficulties of distinguishing needs from wants in modern consumer culture and the reminder that personal worth is not determined by possessions or the perfection of one's surroundings. If you are someone who’s ideal self has a clean space but you find yourself living in a vicious cycle of cleaning up after yourself and it never staying clean like you vowed it would this episode is for you.

On this weeks solo episode Sarah is talking the Elite through the 4 major breakthroughs she has had on her latest personal development growth spurt to inspire your own breakthroughs. We’re talking the truth about the quotes we see plastered all of the internet, the underlying lessons of standing up for yourself, how to stop holding your current self hostage for your past selfies level of knowledge, and trusting yourself to create the life you want to live. If you are someone who feels like they just haven’t been able to get it right lately this episode is for you.

This week Sarah sat down with Bestselling Author, Transformative Guide, Speaker and Accelerated Evolution Academy Master Coach and Trainer Heidi Smith to discuss working with our minds instead of suppressing our feelings and experiences, working against them causing self hatred and consistent misery. Sarah and Heidi have a conversation about self-improvement and personal growth, emphasizing the importance of self-acceptance and progress over perfection. Heidi shares her personal journey with alcoholism and self-sabotage, and highlights the importance of physical and mental well-being. They also discussed the significance of understanding and accepting one's emotions, setting healthy boundaries, self-responsibility in relationships, and the power of self-care. The meeting concludes with Heidi's definition of her best self and her Kinda Toxic Kinda Well confessions.