Part of being human is having a brain that predisposes you to negative thinking. No matter how much self development you do, that’s always going to be the case. The negative chatter in your brain will still be there. That’s …
In today’s episode, we tackle all the ways that pretending can hurt you, and why so many of us crave the ability to show up more authentically. Pretending to be different than you are creates so much internal stress that it …
All those people who “know” what’s best for you - all the experts, advisers, family and friends – they’re all just people with opinions. It’s a mistake to elevate their opinions to the level of rules you MUST follow. Other p…
There’s something in the air. Everyone around me seems to be blowing up their businesses, leaving their jobs, redefining their priorities, or changing their relationships. It’s like we can all suddenly see the downside of NO…
The complexity of your thinking doesn’t make you smart. It doesn’t help you find the best solutions. It doesn’t make you more likely to succeed. But it definitely slows down the progress you make towards your personal goals.…
The best thing you could ever tell me after I've coached you, or you've tried implementing some of the suggestions I make on this podcast is, “I feel more myself then I used to feel.” If more of us could navigate the world b…
Our desire to be seen and heard – to be witnessed – is a fundamental human desire. We all want to know we matter. This episode explores the experience of being witnessed by others, why it’s important, and how we can heal by …
Join me for this delightful interview with Geetika Agrawal, the founder of an incredibly creative-in-every-way platform, “Vacation With an Artist”. VAWAA, as Geetika calls it, connects 113 artists in 27 countries with people…
You hurt yourself when you don’t honour your unique differences and traits. If you canvas other people for answers, you're depriving yourself of your own creative ideas that could lead you to new answers. It’s a mistake to l…
This episode is about Monarch butterflies, us and the magic of being in the “goo”. For a Monarch, the goo means the transformative stage when its caterpillar body has dissolved into a thick, black soup, and its cells are rea…
Learn a new way to think about the seasons of your life that will enrich your experiences whether you’re young or old. Too often, we look at other people and ourselves and fail to see what’s possible because of our habit of …
Learn how you can expand time so that you’ll always have enough of it to do the things most important to you. In this episode, I share ideas about how to loosen your time constraints and think more expansively and creatively…
Some surprising lessons on expansion from the end of my trip to Italy. I share what I learned from getting pickpocketed in Florence, missing my connecting flight home from Paris, and eventually arriving home only to discover…
Once you discover the powerful connection between your thoughts and feelings, you’ll initially enjoy a tremendous feeling of capability, “Amazing. I never have to feel bad again!” Sound good? Hang on. It’s exactly at this po…
Imagine yourself standing in a roofless room and you’re suddenly limitless. You’re in Pharrell William’s “room without a roof”. This is what expansion feels like. Expansion is the difference between having a life that's just…
Learn why contentment fuels your productivity while worry and stress slow you down. When you get caught in the trap of believing that worry and stress motivate you to work harder, solve your problems and get things done, you…
Shame is the emotion that stops us in our tracks more often than any other emotion I know. Shame happens when you do something that creates an outcome you didn’t like AND you use that undesirable outcome to point to yourself…
Our encounters with strangers matter. They teach us to be open. To share the joy of being alive. To listen and learn. To find points of connection. They remind us of our own humanness. They remind us of everyone else’s human…
I got the idea for this episode when I listened to an interview on the CBC podcast, Tapestry. The interview was with the editor of the book, Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. That book is a compilation o…
You and I have something in common. Neither one of us is perfect. Yet, we act as though we should be. We keep expecting perfection from ourselves. When we fail, when we show up imperfectly, when we make a mistake, we believe…
This episode will change your relationship to ease. Too many of us put “working hard” up on the alter, It becomes our religion. Ease simply isn’t part of the process we imagine we need to achieve our goals. This is a mistake…
Today we explore why your emotional vocabulary matters. Your capacity to precisely name your emotions will radically improve your ability to diagnose why what you’re doing is or isn’t producing the outcomes in your life you …
In today’s episode, learn how to manage the tension between your desire to be in the full enjoyment and appreciation of your life as you experience it now, and your simultaneous need to grow and evolve and submit your life t…
It doesn’t serve us to push down our negative emotions. Sadness, pain, grief, doubt, frustration are all part of our full human experience. These feelings can be beautiful in their own right. In this episode, I talk about Uk…
