What if the rules you’ve been living by were never really yours?

In this episode of Your Courageous Life, we offer five courageous, repeatable practices for breaking free from inherited expectations and choosing a life of integrity. 

Let’s ask: What are you tired of? What lights you up? From interrupting autopilot to making peace with disappointing others, we explore how to create rules that serve—not sabotage. 

With prompts, insights, and a call to own your truth, this episode is your invitation to live in alignment with what matters most. You get to choose the rules. Let’s play your way.

🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call.

If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—
it’s time to start a living practice of courage:

→ Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program
→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC
→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®
→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast

Start now: YourCourageousLife.com

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Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Let’s get honest: you'd probably loooove to have more money. In this episode of Your Courageous Life, we unpack the discomfort so many of us carry around wealth and desire. From the shame of wanting material things to the “above-it-all” mindset that hides scarcity fears, we’re pulling back the curtain. 

Let’s explore the Capital-S Stories we’ve inherited about money—stories that shape our choices, judgments, and self-worth. Because how you relate to money often mirrors how you relate to life. Whether it’s fear or guilt this is the work of practicing courage with money and rewriting your money story from a place of truth.

🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call.

If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—
it’s time to start a living practice of courage:

→ Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program
→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC
→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®
→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast

Start now: YourCourageousLife.com

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Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Expectations can quietly run the show—until we notice the resentment, anxiety, or constant mental replays that signal we’re holding on too tightly. In this episode of Your Courageous Life, we name the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive signs of living in expectation mode—and what it’s costing us.

Hope is healthy. But expectations? They get heavy. Let’s shift the focus to what we can control: our integrity, our alignment, and how we show up even when outcomes are uncertain. 

When we let go of controlling others or perfect results, we reclaim our power. 

🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call.

If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—
it’s time to start a living practice of courage:

→ Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program
→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC
→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®
→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast

Start now: YourCourageousLife.com

Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest

Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Here's a radical take on how to protect your energy: there’s no such thing as an “energy vampire.” That’s just a way we dodge responsibility for our own lives (!).

In this episode of Your Courageous Life, we take radical ownership: no one drains your energy unless they have access to you.

Protecting your energy isn’t just about saying no—it’s about saying yes to what matters most. Let’s get clear on what you’re protecting your energy for. When your priorities are murky, your boundaries will be, too—and depletion creeps in fast. 

This is about clarity, ownership, and choosing to live on purpose.

🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call.

If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—
it’s time to start a living practice of courage:

→ Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program
→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC
→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®
→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast

Start now: YourCourageousLife.com

Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest

Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Let’s get real: we all care what people think. Wanting to be liked isn’t weakness—it’s human. In this episode of Your Courageous Life, we strip away the shame around that truth and explore what it means to own your desire for connection without letting it control you.

Let’s talk about how to stop letting other people’s opinions dictate your choices and how to break out of the people-pleasing loop.

This isn’t about pretending not to care—it’s about reclaiming your agency, one bold choice at a time. Let’s tell the truth, then decide who we want to be.

Head on over to today's post to learn more: https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/caring-what-others-think/

🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call.

If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—
it’s time to start a living practice of courage:

→ Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program
→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC
→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®
→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast

Start now: YourCourageousLife.com

Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest

Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

There’s a story behind this podcast episode: a story that intertwines what we learned about friendships during our formative years, with caring what other people think. The two are connected, and in this podcast episode I share how I spent years carrying around emotional armor and buying into a good-bad binary where people were concerned (one that I had to drop, if I wanted to truly love and be loved). Visit https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/begin to learn more.

Head to YourCourageousLife.com to join the community and access an entire library of courageous resources that complement this episode.

Let's connect! @katecourageous on Instagram, @YourCourageousLife on Facebook.

The world isn’t slowing down—and neither can we. In this episode of Your Courageous Life, we explore what it really means to be resilient in a time of overwhelm, outrage, and urgency.

Resilience isn’t about “staying strong” or faking positivity. It’s about building the capacity to meet this moment—rooted in purpose, emotional regulation, flexibility, and connection. Let’s ask the hard question: Who do you want to be in the midst of this? Because  right now, the resistance needs your resilience. 

Let us rise—not with burnout, but with integrity, compassion, and the courage to adapt and act. This is how we begin.

Learn more at  https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/become-more-resilient/ 

🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call.

If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—
it’s time to start a living practice of courage:

→ Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program
→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC
→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®
→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast

Start now: YourCourageousLife.com

Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest

Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

We all do it—stick with habits, patterns, or choices that aren’t working. In this episode of Your Courageous Life, we normalize why: because they’re familiar, numbing, or offer fleeting comfort. 

Let’s call it out with compassion—not as failure, but as a very human fear of change. 

Avoidance doesn’t make us broken. But at some point, we have to interrupt the cycle. It takes real courage to stop pretending and say, “This isn’t working—and I’m the one keeping it going.” 

Let’s tell the truth, interrupt the autopilot, and choose what actually serves the life we want.

🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call.

If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—
it’s time to start a living practice of courage:

→ Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program
→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC
→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®
→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast

Start now: YourCourageousLife.com

Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest

Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

We all build emotional armor—sarcasm, control, perfectionism, shutting down. In this episode we're honoring the truth: that armor once protected you. But now, it might be keeping you from the connection and healing you crave. Let's redefine softness not as weakness, but as strength in vulnerability, tenderness, and emotional presence. 

And, understand this--being soft doesn’t mean being a doormat. It means being rooted enough to stay open. It’s a paradox: the thing that feels unsafe (letting your guard down) is exactly what creates real safety in the long run. This is where courage begins to feel like home.

Link to the episode: https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/how-to-be-softer

🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call.

If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—
it’s time to start a living practice of courage:

→ Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program
→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC
→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®
→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast

Start now: YourCourageousLife.com

Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest

Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Forget the grit-your-teeth, push-it-down toughness. In this episode of Your Courageous Life, Kate Swoboda redefines what it really means to be emotionally tough. True toughness? It’s choosing to use the discomfort for your growth—not by shoving feelings aside, but by refusing to let them make the final call.  

Let's take on the myth of “being ready” and dismantle the lie that confidence comes first. Doubt is not a stop sign—it’s a signal that you’re on the edge of something meaningful. 

Link to the episode: https://www.yourcourageouslife.com/how-to-be-tougher/

🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call.

If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—
it’s time to start a living practice of courage:

→ Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program
→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC
→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®
→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast

Start now: YourCourageousLife.com

Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest

Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.