592 | Getting To The "Why" Of Addiction with Joe Tlustos
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Release Date: 08/17/2023
755 | How Can You Grow Your Capacity?
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Welcome back to the show! In this episode, we delve into capacity, emphasizing how it relates to our ability to handle more, make decisions, and support our growth. I share personal experiences of feeling called to do more and the journey of expanding my capacity to meet those aspirations. Throughout the episode, we explore the importance of recognizing and challenging the stories we tell ourselves, understanding that our beliefs shape our capacity. I touch on the discomfort and challenges of growth, emphasizing the need to track progress over time and build resilience. Drawing on personal...
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754 | Supporting Your Daughter Through A Leukemia Diagnosis with Fallon Moran
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In this heartfelt and inspiring podcast episode, I had the privilege of chatting with my client and friend Fallon, a mother whose two-year-old daughter, Penelope, was recently diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Fallon shared the unexpected and challenging journey she has been navigating since Penelope's diagnosis on August 1st. Fallon recounted the series of events that led to Penelope's diagnosis, from initial symptoms like facial palsy and ear infections to the shocking discovery of leukemia cells in her blood work. Despite the difficult circumstances, Fallon's resilience and...
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753 | Can You Hold a Belief About Abundance?
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Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I explore abundance and the belief systems surrounding it. I also share my journey of shifting my mindset from scarcity to abundance, particularly in financial abundance. I reflect on a time when I believed that abundance was only about money and how this limited belief system led me to overwork and burnout in my service-based business. Despite working tirelessly, I felt stuck in a cycle of lack and struggled to see abundance in other areas of my life. Abundance is beyond financial wealth and includes relationships, health, and personal fulfillment. I...
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752 | How EFT Can Help You
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In this episode, I dive deep into the concept of why EFT tapping works, explore the intricate workings of our subconscious mind and how EFT tapping can help us reprogram our thoughts and emotions. As children, we absorb information through our senses, processing 2.3 million bytes of data per second. However, our brains can only handle 126 bits of information, leading to a filtering process where we distort, delete, or generalize information to make sense of it. This filtering process can lead to the internalization of negative emotions and perceptions, disrupting our body's energy...
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751 | The Four Pillars of a Power Couple with Gabriela Embon
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Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast. I had the pleasure of interviewing Gabriela, a seasoned coach and author of the upcoming book Becoming a Power Couple: Four Pillars to Engineer Legendary Marriages. In this episode, Gabriela shares her journey from chemical engineer to certified coach and delves into the passion that drives her work in helping individuals engineer legendary lives. Gabriela emphasizes the importance of passion in driving one's life and discusses the key focus areas for a life of no regrets - career and primary relationships. She highlights the freedom to...
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750 | How Hard Can You Trust?
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Welcome back to the show! As we enter September, a time of reflection and transition, I invite you to join me in exploring the themes of self-trust and personal leadership. This episode dives into the importance of trusting in our path, actions, and intuition, especially during challenging times when trust may seem elusive. I emphasize that trust is not just about sitting back and waiting for things to happen; it requires active engagement and movement. We can cultivate a stronger sense of self-trust by trusting the seeds we've planted, past efforts, and our ability to show up for ourselves...
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749: What You Are Avoiding, You Are Keeping Alive
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In this episode, I wanted to share thoughts on avoidance, why you might be avoiding something, and how you can shift through that stuck emotion. In this episode, we discuss: 1) Avoidance is a way to make you feel in control, to avoid rejection or to avoid discomfort. Avoidance behaviour is a way to cope with uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. Many people rely on avoidance as a coping mechanism, which can seem like the easier path compared to confrontation — but avoidance can be harmful in the long run, leading to more fear, anxiety, and unhealthy habits 2) Your...
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748 | Creating Harmony in Your Home: A Guide to Feng Shui with Alejandra Brady
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Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast! In this episode, I enjoyed interviewing Alejandra Brady, an experienced interior designer, feng shui practitioner, biophilic designer, and best-selling author. Alejandra shared her journey of discovering feng shui and biophilic design and how these practices have transformed her life and the spaces in which she works. Alejandra explained that feng shui is about working with the energy flow in a space, whether it's a home, office, or any other environment. She used the analogy of building a house on a mountain to illustrate the importance of finding...
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747 | What Does Fear Mean About You?
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In this episode, I wanted to share thoughts on fear, what fear is, what it is trying to do, and how to change your relationship with fear so that it doesn’t have to hold you back in your life. Fear is a primal response that tries to keep you safe and protected, exactly what your subconscious mind is built to do. “Fear can have a voice, it doesn’t get a vote.” by Elizabeth Gilbert. Stop trying to rid yourself of fear; it doesn’t go away; you build a better relationship with it. Fear can keep you safe; it has well-meaning intentions, yet it doesn’t get the deciding vote or the...
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746 | Are Your Circumstances Dictating Your Day?
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In this episode, I wanted to share thoughts on your daily circumstances, which are dictating your day. Who are you when everything is going right and when it feels like nothing is going right? This will all come down to knowing your intentions and your values and living by them. In this episode, we discuss: 1) Intentions, values, self-leadership and how we can lead ourselves when it feels like nothing is going smoothly. 2) Here are some tips on how you can rise above when it feels like things are not going right, when challenges are high when things don’t make...
info_outlineIn this episode we are speaking with Peer Coach, Joe Tlustos. Joe suffered from multiple addictions (including opioids, alcohol and others) for more than 20 years, mainly due to undiagnosed mental health conditions including Bipolar Disorder II, severe depression, anxiety and adult ADHD. Joe voluntarily entered inpatient treatment in November of 2008 and has been in recovery ever since. Prior to getting well, he spent more than 35 years in the broadcast media industry as an Emmy-award winning program director, on-air talent and talent coach. Joe started as a peer coach in 2017. In that time, he has helped hundreds of people from all walks of life find lasting wellness from addiction. He’s learned a number of important lessons along the way and continues to share them with his members. He’s experienced as a coach and a peer in that place where highly creative talent, mental health and addiction intersect.
In this episode we discuss:
1) The importance of going slow to go fast, sometimes we are being asked to slow down, to tap in, to feed ourselves, take care of ourselves first, and none of it is a sign of weakness.
2) We have a current epidemic of loneliness, feeling as though we are lacking connection, not belonging or fitting in, and we’re not as powerless as we think we are.
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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach
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 far past the level of normal experimentation.
Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life. She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others