704 | Moving From Survivor to Thriver with Erik DaRosa
Own Your Choices Own Your Life
Release Date: 05/16/2024
Own Your Choices Own Your Life
In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on duality, what I have learned about it, and how I am so open to having this conversation on duality as it reflects on the first 6 months of this year in particular. In this episode, we discuss: 1) The duality of life is what makes it rich and meaningful. Life is a dance of opposites, both light and dark, joy and sorrow. Embrace both sides, for they are two sides of the same coin. Don't resist the darkness, for it helps you appreciate the light. 2) Duality is a concept that illustrates that balance is experienced between two...
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In this episode, we speak with Athlete, Personal trainer, and Health and Nutrition coach, Tayler Kelly. Tayler is a passionate personal trainer, athlete, and holistic nutritionist who empowers others through fitness and wellness. Focusing on athletic functional training, she blends her love for martial arts and holistic nutrition to help people achieve their peak physical and mental health. Tayler’s approach to nutrition emphasizes healing our relationship with food and promoting overall well-being. She is committed to sharing her experiences and insights to motivate others in their fitness...
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In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on scripting, what it is and one of the biggest lessons I learned about scripting while on my mastermind retreat in Sedona last month. I am not new to scripting at all. I am happy to share what I have learned from 10 years of scripting. These are the steps I use to write a script for my brain to focus on where it is going. In this episode, we discuss: 1) This was my biggest realization after writing my new script in Sedona, and I am sharing the guilt I felt and what I learned from this most recent experience. 2) Here is...
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In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on your breaking points or what feels like your breaking point and what it can also become. In this episode, we discuss: 1) Your breaking point can also become your learning point, the point where you ask more or different questions, where you recognize what is or isn’t working, where you are being asked to do more or do less, where you are open to the resources available for you or within you. It can be the scariest time or the time with the most possibilities. 2) Giving your best doesn’t have to break you. That...
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In this episode, we speak with The Social Psychic, Jason Zuk. Jason is an Attorney licensed to Practice Law in FL, TX, MS, AL, & NJ. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tampa, his Juris Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University, and an LL.M. (Masters of Law) in International & Comparative Law from Georgetown University. Jason is also a Psychic Medium and he has been providing accurate intuitive advice and guidance within many different social contexts since August 2004. In January 2017, Zuk decided to offer intuitive guidance professionally so that he...
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In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on the stories we tell ourselves, The story that we tell ourselves is the one that lives. Whether it is a story you want or don’t want, the only way we can change the story is to have awareness to interrupt the pattern and decide to create and feed a new story. I share some tips, tools and strategies in this episode as well as in the show notes below you can join the FREE OUTSPOKEN Open House. In this episode, we discuss: 1) Our thoughts are creating our life and the more we tell our story the more we keep it alive. ...
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In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on one of the biggest illusions we keep searching for, myself included. We all try to avoid uncertainty, even if it means being wrong. We take comfort in certainty and demand it from others, even when we know it’s impossible. In this episode, we discuss: 1) When we crave certainty we are searching outside of ourselves for the results we desire when instead we create our certainty within ourselves by building our courage muscle to start and to build resilience within ourselves. Also, it is up to us to grow into the version of...
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In this episode, we speak with Kim Mortson, from Body Design by Kim. Kim is passionate about inspiring and helping others to lead a healthier lifestyle. Kim is a certified Personal Trainer, Nutrition and Wellness Specialist and Older Adult Fitness Pro-Trainer who has combined her qualifications, industry recognition and personal enthusiasm to build an award-winning business since 2002. Kim is a former Community Ambassador for Lululemon and served as the Co-Chair of the Mt. Albert Sports Day 5km Run/Walk from 2014 – 2021. Kim was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in January of 2018...
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In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on who your biggest critic is and how you can learn to shift this perspective. “Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic, but don’t give it more attention than what it deserves.” ~ Michael Ian Black. Self-criticism is normal and even healthy in small doses. The dose or amount of self-criticism you use on yourself is what makes it a poison. When you always approach your work with negativity, it's paralyzing. In this episode, we discuss: 1) How do you handle the criticism? ...
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In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on what it means to be OUTSPOKEN, and why everyone can embrace this energy with some intentional work and subconscious reprogramming. In this episode, we discuss: 1) Start with getting quiet and asking yourself when did you decide that you couldn’t share your voice, your message, or allow yourself to be seen and heard. If you say you don’t know, I will say, “I know you don’t know, if you did know, when did you decide that?” 2) Framing up the story as to these three questions, who I was, what happened, as a result...
info_outlineIn this episode, we speak with Founder & CEO, Erik DaRosa. Erik known by friends as “Yoda,” is the Founder and CEO of From Survivor to Thriver, a mental health advocate, speaker, author and Co-host of the popular From Survivor to Thriver podcast. Through his work and his own lived experience, Erik is upending the front end of the mental health space and building a bridge between those who seek resources and those who provide both help and hope. Each week on his podcast, he tackles different mental health topics through honest and relatable "kitchen table" conversations with real people who are helping to shatter mental health stigmas and find their voices. He aims to normalize discussions around mental health topics and remind his audience they are not alone, there is strength in community and "it's perfectly ok to not always be ok."
In 2011, Erik traded in a successful career as a NYC finance executive when he moved to Colorado with his wife and two cats. Erik spent twelve winters as a ski instructor for the Aspen Skiing Company before retiring in the Spring of 2023.
Born and raised in New England, Erik earned his MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and his BA in Economics from Brandeis University. He lives in Colorado with his wife Amy and two cats, Lincoln and Taylor.
In this episode, we discuss:
1) Erik’s story, what it means to move from Survivor to Thriver, how he hid his story from everyone and what it was like to be able to learn how to share it and feel the release of the hold of his story on his life.
2) Erik shared his equilateral triangle of healing and how it needs all 3 components of Western and Eastern medicine and the component of nature and if one of the ends of the triangle collapses it all crashes.
Connect with Erik
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skisherpa
Website: https://fromsurvivortothriver.com
Email: [email protected]
Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Storytelling NLP Trainer, Speaker, Publisher & Author, 2xs Podcaster
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.
Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.