Episode 110: A Conversation about Race, Love and Learning With Myrna Brady
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This week I am privileged to open up a dialog about race, love, listening and learning with my good friend Myrna Brady.
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Episode 109: John Jantsch and The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur
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John Jantsch brings 19th-century wisdom and his 20th-century experience to the show and discusses his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur.
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Episode 108: The Crossroads of Must, Should and Want
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"What Is The Whisper That Will Not Leave You Alone?"
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Episode 107: Susie Moore: How To Stop Checking Your Likes
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In today's show Author, Susie Moore stops by to share how to stop checking our likes, start taking and action and move toward creating a life of purpose and fill our potential.
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Episode 105: Staying Centered, Creating Community and Moving Forward
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So the show notes today are the resources that are helping me get through these unprecedented and challenging times and I hope they will help you too.
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Episode 106: Meditation To Find Calm In The Chaos
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A short meditation to help you find the calm amongst the chaos
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Episode 104: What I Learned From Oprah
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This week’s show is inspired by my recent experience at the Oprah Winfrey 2020 Vision Tour. Below are a few questions and insights from the day. I encourage you to print out the questions in the full show notes and take some time after this episode to get quiet, turn inward and listen to the whispers.
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Episode 103: How To Close The Confidence Gap
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In this solo episode I walk you through a few of the steps that I take my clients through when working with them around the feelings of confidence. Topics include why we lack confidence, what to do about it and how to act confident before we really feel confident.
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Episode 102: Kelly McGonigal on The Joy of Movement
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Author Kelly McGonigal joins the conversation this week to talk about the power of movement, music, and community. Kelly helps remind us about the gifts that come when we move our bodies to music and come together in community.
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Episode 101: Jenny Blake on Building Momentum With Ease
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Jenny Blake joins me this week to talk about creating and building momentum in 2020 with ease and joy. We talk about time management, systems, goals, and money.
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About Today's Guest
Jenny Blake is the founder of Pivot Method, a growth strategy company that helps forward-thinking individuals and organizations map what’s next.
She is an international keynote speaker, and the author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One, which won the Axiom Best Business Books Award in the careers category. Jenny also hosts the popular Pivot Podcast, which CNBC listed among 6 podcasts to make you smarter about your career, and Entrepreneur selected as one of the top 20 female-hosted business podcasts.
After two years at a technology start-up in Silicon Valley, followed by five years at Google in Training and Career Development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 where she has been running her own consulting business in the years since, helping innovative organizations like Google, Microsoft, and CHANEL incorporate the Pivot Method into their global career development and manager training programs.
Her motto: if change is the only constant, let's get better at it. Today you can find Jenny at PivotMethod.com and on her Pivot Podcast.
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Show Notes
For my first interview on Your Yes Life Now Podcast, I had to invite my dear friend Jenny Blake back onto the show. As the author of Pivot, she was the perfect guest for this episode.
We begin the conversation with the question “what are we saying yes to?” Jenny shares that saying yes for her is also saying I she is her first priority and that means that her health, her wellness, her rest, her space, her sanity is her first priority – a lesson we can all learn to be better at. The yes for Jenny and her yes life is about honoring who she is and giving herself permission to say no so that she’s really clear and joyful when she does say yes.
We talk about burnout and how quickly it can loom upon us if we are not careful. Jenny shares that having awareness of our own tendencies is so crucial. And then what she offers for us when we do find ourselves in a state of burnout, is to flood ourselves with self-compassion. So instead of the self-talk that burnout is a problem, flip the conversation to be able to say to yourself - I can see that you've been working so hard and I see how much you've done. She goes on to share that If she is worried about someone else's wellness more than her own and she hasn't yet done her basics of movement, hydration, eating well, sleep, then she reminds herself to rewind so that she can stay full to help and love those around her.
Jenny’s life mantra is “Let it be easy, let it be fun.” And for her, this is a lens she uses when making decisions about her life and work.
As this show was recorded at the end of 2019 we talk about our words for the upcoming year. Mine is Financial Freedom, which moved us into a conversation about money, worth and income. We speak about money being energy and that if we allow ourselves to take the restrictions and the fears and the worries away and we allow full abundance to flow through us, we can serve others, we can serve the world, we can create more, we can reach more, we can donate to charities and we can earn more and share more.
We move onto the topic of time and Jenny invites us to question what we have been told about traditional working hours and what it takes to be successful. Jenny wants 2020 to be a year where she can simplify. She shares that she has just blocked off her calendar in 2020. She has blocked out the fourth week of every month along with I blocking off Mondays and Fridays. She is going to experiment with compressing her time and elevating her focus with an estimated total of 1000 working hours in 2020.
Jenny’s word is luxurious and we both share that our words for 2020 feel a little uncomfortable and we invite you to pick a word for 2020 that is a stretch word – one that makes you feel a little pushed and challenged.
Jenny is both spontaneous and also a genius as systems. She also has a mantra that comes from the agile development word and that is - each time you repeat a task, take one step toward automating it. What that means is saving yourself the time. Being kind to your future self. If you find yourself writing an email, giving directions to your home, or any task that you can anticipate you're going to do move it into a system that can be replicated.
Jenny and I both believe that you can be successful on your own terms and that it takes courage and perseverance to figure out what works for you and your life and on your terms. With that as we move into 2020, both Jenny and I wish you a journey that is easy and fun -and has systems in place to help you out along the way.
Mentioned In This Show
The Seat of The Soul by Gary Zukav
It’s Not Your Money by Tosha Silver
Creating Money by Sanaya Roman