The Life Coach School Podcast

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#9: It Doesn’t Get Better Than This Jun 12, 2014

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How often do you tell yourself life will be better when you lose weight, make more money, or finish that project? In this episode, I explore a thought that has completely challenged how I think about happiness: it doesn’t get better than this. We’ll look at what living in the present moment actually means and how to pursue your goals without postponing your ability to enjoy your life right now.

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What You Will Discover:

Why changing your circumstances doesn’t increase your capacity for joy.
How waiting for a better future can keep you from appreciating your life today.
How to set goals and create change from a place of acceptance and happiness.

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Hosted by Master Coach Brooke Hicks, previously Brooke Castillo, The Life Coach School Podcast explores how your thoughts shape your feelings, actions, and results. Discover practical insights on self coaching, thought work, mindset, emotional management, self confidence, overcoming procrastination, achieving goals, and life coach training and certification. Learn how to use the Model to understand your patterns, think deliberately, and create a life that you’re excited to live.

#8: Owning Negative Emotion Jun 05, 2014

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Feeling bad doesn’t mean you’re doing life wrong. You aren’t supposed to be happy all the time, and trying to avoid every uncomfortable feeling can keep you from fully experiencing your life. In this episode, I explain what it means to own your negative emotions and share how allowing myself to feel shame led to deeper compassion. Learning to feel your feelings is a skill you can practice.

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What You Will Discover:

The difference between allowing negative emotion, resisting it, and reacting to it.
How emotional eating, drinking, and overworking can become ways to escape your feelings.
A 10-minute practice to help you experience uncomfortable emotions with curiosity instead of judgment.

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#7: Questions to Ask Yourself May 29, 2014

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What questions are you asking yourself all day? If you keep asking what’s wrong with you, your brain will get busy finding answers. In this episode, I share how to ask better questions that build self-awareness and help you find solutions. Whether you’re coaching yourself or working with life coaching clients, these simple tools can help you understand your thinking and give your mind a useful direction.

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What You Will Discover:

How to recognize negative beliefs hidden inside the questions you ask yourself.
Four self-coaching questions to help you understand your thoughts and feelings.
How to use a thought download to get your thinking onto paper and examine it.

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#6: Vulnerability vs. Victim Mentality May 22, 2014

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Being vulnerable takes courage. It means showing up and being willing to feel your emotions, even when someone doesn’t like you or agree with you. In this episode, I explain the difference between vulnerability and victim mentality, including the sneaky ways blame and defensiveness can leave you feeling powerless. We’ll explore how taking responsibility for your feelings can help you build deeper connections with yourself and other people.

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What You Will Discover:

How to recognize victim mentality in complaining, blaming, and the stories you tell yourself.
How to hear criticism without making someone else’s opinion determine your self-worth.
Why being willing to feel uncomfortable emotions can help you understand patterns like emotional eating.

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#5 Overcoming Fear May 15, 2014

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You don’t have to be fearless before you take action. If you’re waiting until you’re no longer afraid to start your business, meet new people, or put yourself out there, you could be waiting forever. In this episode, I explain how overcoming fear starts with understanding the thoughts creating it and learning to feel it. You can be afraid and still move toward what you want.

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What You Will Discover:

How to distinguish fear that protects you from fear that holds you back.
What it means to feel your emotions instead of resisting or avoiding them.
How confusion and indecision can hide fear and keep you from taking action.

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#4: How to Fail May 08, 2014

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What if you weren’t afraid to fail because you knew you’d have your own back afterward? In this episode, I explain how fear of failure keeps you from pursuing your goals and why learning how to fail is a skill worth practicing. We’ll look at perfectionism, self-sabotage, and how becoming more willing to make mistakes can help you build confidence and keep taking action.

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What You Will Discover:

Why what you make failure mean determines how you feel about it.
The difference between failing outside your comfort zone and sabotaging yourself by not showing up.
How practicing five failures a month can help you stop beating yourself up and start learning.

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Ep #3: How to Set Goals Apr 28, 2014

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On this week's episode, we're going to talk about how setting goals, believing in them, and achieving them allows us to remove the obstacles to understanding our greatness.

#3: How to Set Goals Apr 28, 2014

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You can love your life exactly as it is and still want more. Goal setting doesn’t have to come from believing something is missing or that you’ll finally be happy when you get there. In this episode, I share my process for setting specific goals, working through self-doubt, and creating an action plan. The biggest benefit is who you become along the way.

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What You Will Discover:

How to set goals from abundance by practicing wanting what you already have.
Why fear and self-doubt are part of personal growth and how to work through the thoughts blocking you.
How to use your future self’s perspective and “do goals” to

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Ep #2: How to Feel Better Apr 28, 2014

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On today's episode, we are talking about exactly what it means to feel better, and how you are in control of those feelings.

#2: How to Feel Better Apr 28, 2014

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What are you waiting for before you let yourself feel better? Losing weight? More money? A different relationship? In this episode, I explain how your thoughts create your feelings and why you don’t have to wait for your life to change to experience more happiness. I’ll also walk you through a simple self-coaching exercise to understand your emotions and practice creating the feelings you want.

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What You Will Discover:

Why achieving your goals doesn’t automatically create lasting happiness.
How to identify the thoughts behind your three most common feelings.
Why positive thinking only works when you believe the thoughts you’re choosing.

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