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Ep #92: Time Management: A Secret Hack to Staying Focused
Moving from a structured, corporate job into owning your own business can be a learning curve when it comes to time management and focus. I found this when I started trying to write my own book. But through taking a course on how to write a book in 30 days, I discovered an amazing technique…
Ep #91: FOMO, JOMO, FOPO and Me
The Fear of Missing Out, the Joy of Missing out and the Fear of Other People’s Opinions are the three musketeers of the modern social landscape. When I worked in television, I struggled with FOMO and FOPO. Everything was about getting on the right lists, being invited to big events, networking with the right people…
Ep #90: The Importance of Me Time with Maggie Lawson
When life gets hectic, me time often falls by the wayside. My guest this week is someone who has followed her dreams and knows the real value of celebrating me time. Discovering and embracing me time is something she credits her success with, and we all need a little reminder to take some time for…
Ep #89: Inspiration from the Emmy Awards
The entertainment industry is smack-dab in the middle of award season, and like most people, one of my favorite parts of tuning in is the acceptance speeches. While the Oscars speeches tend to be the most memorable, this year, an Emmy Awards acceptance speech was so brave and brilliant that it inspired this episode. Niecy…
Ep #88: Strategies to Stop Negative Thinking
Whether you realize it or not, your brain has a tendency to focus more on negative experiences than positive ones: negativity bias. But why does this happen, and what can we do about it? Like many things, negativity bias is rooted in our evolutionary history. When everyday life was a fight for survival, it served…
Ep #87: Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work and What Does
The New Year is an exciting time when all of us feel like we get to wipe the slate clean and start anew. Something that often goes hand-in-hand with the promise of a new year is the practice of setting resolutions, but I’m offering you a better way to start 2024 on this episode. Maybe…
Ep #86: Hypervigilance: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
One lifelong habit overthinkers like us tend to struggle with is being stuck in hypervigilance. Hypervigilance is expressed in a whole host of ways, like list-making. Or it could be an emotional habit, like internalizing how everyone else is acting, even strangers, or when you’ve achieved something, always waiting for the other shoe to drop.…
Ep #85: 5 Ways to Make December Your Best Month
It’s December, which means everybody is busy getting ready for the Holidays, or they’re busy avoiding the festivities. You might think of December as the final push before you can take a deep breath in January. For others, it’s time for a vacation. But for some, the Holidays bring up difficult feelings of melancholy, loneliness,…
Ep #84: Which of These 5 Perfectionists Are You?
As a perfectionist, or a recovering perfectionist, where do you need to learn to allow yourself to lose control? Where are you apologizing for being a perfectionist? Is perfectionism even a problem that needs fixing? We’ve spoken about perfectionism on the show before, but if you’re a recovering perfectionist, the learning never stops. There are…
Ep #83: Are You Overthinking Everything?
Why do we hear criticism so much louder than we hear compliments? Allowing criticism to ride shotgun over compliments is a classic overthinker’s trait. Studies show that women tend to both apologize and ruminate more than men, so it stands to reason that we’d give more airtime to criticism than we do compliments. Taylor Swift…