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Episode 272: 7 Rules for Creating New Thoughts Jul 18, 2024

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When it comes to choosing your thoughts, the truth is that there aren't any rules. You get to think whatever you want! And there really aren't any rules that you have to keep or obey or even pay attention to.

But if you want to change your thoughts and you don't know where to start or sometimes feel overwhelmed or confused about how to think something new, then I hope these 7 rules will give you some help and structure for choosing a new thought.

Episode 271: Keep Working on It Jul 11, 2024

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It's the middle of the year.

Maybe some of you are feeling like we're already halfway through the year and you haven't accomplished as much as you wanted to yet. Maybe you're feeling a little discouraged with your progress, or maybe your brain has convinced you that the things you want are never going to happen and this is a good time to just give up.

Today on the podcast I want to give you some encouragement to keep going and some tools to help you keep working on the things you want to accomplish and create in your life.

In this episode we'll talk about how discouragement and shame can stop us from continuing to work towards the things we want and what to do about them. And I'll share two powerful experiences I had recently that I think will help motivate and inspire you to keep working on it no matter where you are in your progress.

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Episode 270: Freedom from the Tyranny of Your Brain Jul 04, 2024

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We spend all of our time inside our own heads, but have you ever noticed how it's often more like a prison than a playground in there? Our brains can be tyrants. And if we leave the thoughts it gives us unquestioned or unsupervised, they will keep us stuck and tortured and oppressed.

On today's podcast, I'm talking about how you can use your agency to break free from the tyranny of your brain and overthrow the regime in your head that is constantly criticizing, comparing, doubting, and diminishing you.

I'll show you five specific ways our brain harasses us, traps us, imprisons us, keeps us stuck and feeling bad—and what to do about it!

Learning to overthrow the tyranny and the dictatorship of your own brain is so important to be able to do what you want, feel how you want, be who you want, and create a life you love.

Episode 269: Best Summer Travel Tips Jun 27, 2024

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Summer is traditionally a time of year where many of us take a break, get away, and do some traveling.

And so today on the podcast I thought I'd share my best travel tips. But this episode isn't about things like how to pack efficiently or how to make the most of your travel reward points. Today I'm giving you all my best tips about what to think and how to feel as you travel with your loved ones—so that you have the best possible experience mentally and emotionally as you travel together this summer.

Because guess what?

No matter how far you go, no matter how exotic the location or how many planes, trains, or ferries you took to get there, your vacation is still being experienced through the filter of your brain. And even though we're getting away from it all, we never get away from our brains.

Episode 268: Marathon Recap: The Finish Line Jun 20, 2024

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I recently ran my first marathon, and I learned a lot of lessons doing it.

On today's episode of the podcast, I'm sharing my race day experience. You'll hear about the highs, the lows, the lessons, the battles I fought inside my own head, and the feelings you only get to feel when you do hard things.

Getting to the finish line is hard. It's gonna take everything you've got.

But I hope this episode will encourage you and help you keep moving toward your own goals and dreams and remind you not only that you can do hard things, but that it might be why you're doing it in the first place.

Episode 267: Marathon Recap: The Start Line Jun 13, 2024

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I recently ran my first marathon, and I learned a lot of lessons doing it.

But there were also a lot of things I learned just getting to the start line of this race.

From the sign up, to the training, through the taper, and all the miles in between, this experience taught me so many things about perspective and perseverance and fear and the power of decisions and celebrating every win.

On today's episode of the podcast, I'm sharing the first part of my marathon experience—what I did, what I learned, what got in my way, what I had to overcome, who I became, and what thoughts helped me the most as I did the work to get to the start line of a marathon.

Episode 266: Is This It? An Anti-Commencement Speech Jun 06, 2024

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We've just finished commencement season. At some point in our lives, most of us have sat in the audience of a commencement speech thinking that everything good in our life was about to start.

But then time passes and maybe 5 or 10 or 20 years later we can find ourselves looking around and thinking: Is this it? Is this what being an adult was gonna be like? Is this how it was supposed to turn out? Most of us had big plans to change the world, but maybe after a few decades, it just feels like the world changed us instead.

I think the problem is our expectations. I think commencement speeches and the happily-ever-after we see in the movies and on social media are all selling us the idea that life is supposed to be big and magical and exciting, and you are supposed to be happy and successful and gorgeous and killing it all the time.

So today I wanted to give a kind of "anti-commencement speech" and reframe your expectations about what life is supposed to be like, so that you can feel better about yourself and your very ordinary, normal human experience, and hopefully answer the question, "Is this it?" along the way.

Episode 265: Kindness Begins with Me May 30, 2024

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Most of us are good at being hard on ourselves. We know how to be disappointed and disgusted and frustrated with ourselves and we're experts at being critical and condescending of the parts of us that we don't like. Treating ourselves this way comes naturally (because of the way our brains work) and we've also had a lot of practice doing it.

What doesn't come naturally is being kind—especially to ourselves and especially when we are struggling. We've all heard the advice to be kind to yourself, but how do we do that, especially when we make mistakes or feel like we don't deserve kindness?

In today's episode I'm answering that question and teaching you how to develop a practice, habit, and culture of kindness with yourself.

Your relationship with yourself is the most long-lasting, long-term relationship you will ever have and learning how to relate to yourself with kindness is a superpower that will serve you in every area of your life.

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Episode 264: Self Help in the Stone Age May 23, 2024

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Sometimes it can feel like your brain is the enemy, but there's actually a really significant survival advantage for everything your brain does.

When humans first showed up on the scene, we had no camouflaged skin, no super hearing, we couldn't fly or swim. We couldn't see in the dark or breathe underwater. We didn't have claws or huge teeth or thick fur. The only thing we had was a three-pound pile of flesh secretly stashed in our skulls and that one advantage that allowed us to survive and thrive on this planet.

Today on the podcast, I thought it would be fun to imagine what self-help might look like in the Stone Age to demonstrate why your brain does what it does and why it takes so much awareness, intention, and energy to try and think differently.

Your brain is a miracle. But it is also misinformed about what's best for you and I hope today's podcast will help you have a brand new appreciation for the way your brain works and feel much more empowered to redirect it.

Episode 263: The Negative Rap of Negative Emotion May 16, 2024

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Nobody likes feeling bad, but what can make it even worse is when we think we're bad for feeling bad.

Even though our emotions are always just information being passed from our brain to our body, it's easy to make the mistake of thinking that feelings have a morality—that there are good ways to feel and bad ways to feel. And this can make us suspicious and even ashamed of our negative emotions.

On today's podcast, I'm pointing out the negative rap that our negative emotions get and giving you some important things to remember when you feel bad. You'll learn why you might conflate your negative emotion with wickedness, what your all your emotions really mean and say about you, and how to allow and embrace the experience of feeling…even when you feel bad.

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