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Raising AthletesA Mother-Son Journey Through Basketball and Life, Parker Jones | EP 125 Pt. 2In this latest installment of the “Talking to the Student Athlete” Series, Kirsten is joined by her son, Parker Jones, to reflect on the Parker's journey from AAU basketball to playing at Colgate University. They share the challenges, triumphs, and key lessons learned along the way—from navigating the intense competition of youth sports to balancing academics and athletics at the collegiate level. Together, they discuss how the support system of family, coaches, and teammates shaped his development, and what it took to succeed on and off the court. Tune in for insights into the dedication and perseverance behind a succ...2024-10-0750 min

Raising AthletesA Mother-Son Journey Through Basketball and Life, Parker Jones | EP 125 Pt. 1In this latest installment of the “Talking to the Student Athlete” Series, Kirsten is joined by her son, Parker Jones, to reflect on the Parker's journey from AAU basketball to playing at Colgate University. They share the challenges, triumphs, and key lessons learned along the way—from navigating the intense competition of youth sports to balancing academics and athletics at the collegiate level. Together, they discuss how the support system of family, coaches, and teammates shaped his development, and what it took to succeed on and off the court. Tune in for insights into the dedication and perseverance behind a succ...2024-10-071h 00

Riding Tandem# 55 How to Say No Without Guilt- Tips from Decision Master Kirsten ParkerDive into a riveting conversation with Kirsten Parker, host of the Decision Masters podcast, as she returns to discuss the art of decision-making. This episode delves into the challenges of saying no, understanding personal agency, and overcoming misconceptions about selfishness. Kirsten shares practical strategies, relatable stories, and actionable tips to help you make decisions that align with your values and vision. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a leader, or someone striving for better decision-making in your daily life, this episode is packed with insights you won't want to miss. If you love this show, please l...2024-07-171h 11

Decision Masters#106: Detox Your Decision ProcessEver wish you could just detox the crap that makes decisions difficult outta your system? Well, ok, you may not have ever thought about it like that - but I bet it sounds pretty good all the same. This week, I introduce a Decision Mastery Fundamental: Decision Detox. We look at three specific behaviors that derail the decision process, spike your stress, and basically make it impossible to land on a choice you trust in any kind of efficient or clear-headed way. And we look at the pattern interrupts you're going t...2024-06-0618 min

Run Canada PodcastEP 185. Remembering Helly VisserAt the end of November 2023, we lost a Canadian women's Masters icon, Helly Visser. At 89 years old, she left us still holding twelve Canadian Masters records and three world masters records. She was inducted into the Canadian Masters Hall of Fame in 2010 and twice honoured as Alberta's Masters Athlete of the Year. Helly was a mainstay of the Calgary running community. She was always there encouraging people to find joy in sport and even helped with the campaign to build a field house in Calgary. Helly served as an inspiration as to what was possible at any age...2024-01-2016 min

Go Time in Fort Worth with Mayor Mattie ParkerHard-working solutions to homelessness with Presbyterian Night Shelter’s Toby Owen & Kirsten HamMayor Parker talks with Toby Owen, CEO of Presbyterian Night Shelter, and Kirsten Ham, VP of Career and Workforce Development of Presbyterian Night Shelter, about the success of the UpSpire program which provides steady employment opportunities for people experiencing homelessness, and larger efforts happening citywide to address shelter, workforce, and affordable housing needs.Learn more about Upspire.Learn more about Presbyterian Night Shelter.Read: Fort Worth’s plan to tackle homelessness with expanded budget..A podcast hosted by Mayor Mattie Parker, Go Time takes a look at cu...2023-12-2128 min

Decision Masters#79: EXPERT INTERVIEW! There's More than One Way to Career Pivot, with Coach Shyloh BrownThinking it might be time for a career change? Whether you're pretty happy but curious about venturing out of your Comfort Zone, or you're burnt out and one spicy interaction from quitting on the spot - this episode's for you. Listen in on my conversation with fellow Coach and Career Changer, Shyloh Brown, as we talk about: The messy, unsexy, real way a "pivot" usually looks (hint: it's not what you think and you may not like it) How to respond to real-life fears about paying bills and feeding your kids when you're contemplating ca...2023-11-3043 min

Improviding LifeBefriending Your Unique Decision Making Style featuring Kirsten ParkerSend us a textGust episodes are back as we begin season 4 of the Improviding Life Podcast with a bake, I mean bang!Decision Coach Kirsten Parker joins us as we play with the word "friendly" through the lens of Tool of Improviding #4 - ID the ShipTake a listen if you want to explore what makes a one of a kind friendship so meaningful, how the daily decisions we underthink may actually fill our cup the best, and how life can be more livable when you know what values are a priority...2023-10-2537 min

Over the Edge PodcastEp. 9 Kirsten Parker: "Stop setting dream goals, start making decisions"Our guest this week on Over the Edge is Decision Coach Kirsten Parker. If you’re always setting goals but never reaching them, this is the episode that will de-mystify your biggest challenges around your creativity and your life. Over the Edge Podcast with Paige Ray is a weekly chat about pushing creative boundaries, making big moves without knowing all the answers and jumping off a cliff to our dreams while figuring out how to build a plane on the way down. Creative work is wild, but we can figure it out. Let’s go over the edge...2023-10-2455 min

Decision Masters#73: Decision Style #2: The ProcrastinatorHave you taken the Decision Style Quiz yet? It'll tell you your default Decision Style, how to avoid its most common (most annoying) pitfalls, AND how you can use it to your advantage. Welcome to Decision Style #2: The Procrastinator! Wait, Kirsten, procrastinating is bad, evil, and actually any human's most condemnable character flaw...Isn't it??? NOPE. Just because we have a default way of thinking that feels like a a problem, that doesn't mean it has to stay a problem. In this episode, you'll hear: What "proc...2023-10-1215 min

Decision Masters#72: Decision Style #1: The OverthinkerHave you taken the Decision Style Quiz yet? It'll tell you your default Decision Style, how to avoid its most common (most annoying) pitfalls, AND how you can use it to your advantage. Today we're delving into Decision Style #1, which happens to be my personal default: The Overthinker. Wait, Kirsten, are you telling me it doesn't have to be a completely bad thing that I overthink stuff? EXACTLY. Just because we have a default way of thinking that feels like a a problem, that doesn't mean it has to st...2023-10-0515 min

Decision Masters#65: Food Decisions & Thoughts About Your Body w/Victoria Yates, Intuitive Eating CoachHow do we make easier, better, more self-honoring decisions when it comes to FOOD and how we think about our bodies? Well, if you're like me, you have a lifetime of influences that makes this a complicated question. This year though, I decided I wanted answers (and good ones), so I hired Intuitive Eating Coach Victoria Yates! I gotta be honest - I had no idea what "intuitive eating" was (and frankly didn't really care). I just wanted to clean up this drama that wasn't going away on its own. Listen in for:2023-08-1747 min

The Balanced Business OwnerHow To Reduce Decision Fatigue (Guest Kirsten Parker)You make (what feels like) a bazillion small and big decisions each day - from when to exercise and what to eat for dinner to how to grow your business. All these decisions can feel exhausting! Listen to this podcast episode as Andrea and guest and Decision Coach Kirsten Parker share a tangible process you can use to make decisions quicker, easier, and less tiresome. What You’ll Learn: What decision fatigue is and how to dramatically reduce it in your daily life When you’re faced with a decision, you want to identify the pr...2023-04-1042 min

Decision Masters#46: Expert Interview! Stress Management for Over-Stretched Professionals w/Coach Jackie de CrinisJackie de Crinis is an expert in stress management, overthinking and JOY. (Already hooked? ME TOO.) And she knows what she's talking about. With a background of 30+ years as a Hollywood Producer, working for the biggest name companies on high profile shows, she has ample experience with STRESS. "There's this concept of 24 hours in a day, and you're like 'Well I have to sleep a FEW hours, so I've gotta figure that out 'cause I need to function. And then everything else was about multitasking, and trying to get ahead of the next tsuna...2023-04-0644 min

THE GRIT SHOWDecision Making–Getting Past Overthinking and Overwhelm w/Kirsten ParkerDecision making. It’s something we do every single day, multiple times a day. I’m sure we’ve all seen that sometimes. It can be overwhelming, even debilitating; no matter how much we are keeping it together in other areas, sometimes we get tripped up. Fortunately, Kirsten Parker realized this was a common theme she saw with the people she was coaching and it became something she specialized in. Our conversation touches on her journey to look at the hard questions and make the decisions that led her into her current role, as well as a story from her cl...2023-03-2833 min

Decision Masters#42: The One Question to Ask When You're OverloadedObbbbbbviously most of us are putting more on our daily plates than we can logistically, energetically or just like, humanly handle — can we agree on that? 🙋‍♀️ But Kirsten...I legit have 17,000 things to do AND I'm super capable & hate B- work, so I feel like these are still fair expectations. I know. That's the problem. 😑 For a lot of our lives, pushing ourselves to our breaking points, going above and beyond x10 and reeeeeally testing how far we can stretch 4 hours' sleep has resulted in BIG SUCCESS. Whether that meant high achie...2023-03-0910 min

Decision Masters#41: Expert Interview! Don't Love the Work You're Doing? Change the Narrative You're Living In - with Coach Winn ClarkWant to love your work more (...or at all)? Ever struggled with the Inner Critic?? This episode's for you, my friend! Winn Clark, my own former coach and now friend-for-life (she knows, it's not weird...), drops in this week to give you some BIG stuff to think about: 👉 How to create lasting change by changing the narrative you're living in "So much of how you show up in the world is dictacted by your narrative - old habits, old ways of seeing yourself." "What got you here isn't going to help you get th...2023-03-0251 min

Decision Masters#40: Expert Interview! One Decision Starts the Upward Spiral to Your Ideal Life: with Brazen Coaches Calley Hewes & Valerie KingWhat even is an "ideal life"? Turns out, this huge-ish question is super worthwhile to ask, and Brazen Coaches Calley & Valerie are here to help us answer! 😁 This interview is for you if you have any kind of job / life dissatisfaction OR you just love the idea of feeling good about the direction you're taking yourself. We talk about: Calley's career pivot from Nurse Practitioner to self-employed Wellness Coach Valerie's decision dominos that led her to enterpreneurship The reality that "everyone's goals for you are coming from a different place" The importance of giving yourself q...2023-02-2346 min

Riding Tandem#19 Making confident decisions with Kirsten Parker: How to hear yourself and stop overthinkingKirsten Parker, former theater stage manager and self-proclaimed "organizer," helps people organize their overwhelmed minds, drop their shoulders and make decisions they love, even when fear and self-judgment threaten to derail them. We talk about confident decision-making for business owners when so much is at stake. There's a balance to Planning, Action, and Mindset. Usually, when confidence is low and decision pressure is high, people bounce back & forth between Planning & Action. We dive into real-life stories and Kirsten's SIMPLE 6-step decision-making process from her Decision Masters Program, where she teaches how to trust every decision you make. 2023-02-081h 15 $The OverThinker\'s Guide to Joy$ The OverThinker's Guide to Joy63: How to Make Decisions with Coach Kirsten ParkerIn this episode, I’m joined by my coach colleague and friend Kirsten Parker, and we’re talking all about how to make decisions. Kirsten is sharing why creatives and academics are particularly prone to overthinking their decisions, why she decided to start helping others make decisions that are free of shoulds and obligations, and a simple exercise for deciding what you want and deciding that you’re worthy of it. Get full show notes and more information here: https://jackiedecrinis.com/63 2023-02-0133 min

The Marriage Life Coach PodcastPracticing Openheartedness in Your Marriage with Kirsten ParkerOn this episode of The Marriage Life Coach Podcast, my client Kirsten Parker joins me to talk about practicing openheartness in your marriage. Kirsten is a Decision Coach for overthinkers and her mission is to help fellow hard-working, high-achieving smarty-pants stop using their brains against themselves and trust every decision they make. Join us as we talk about The Marriage MBA from her perspective after being married less than a year, the differences between her experiences with The Marriage Mindset Makeover and The Marriage MBA, and what openheartneess looks like in her marriage. ...2022-12-0554 min

The Brazen PodcastHow to Make the Right Decision Without Overanalyzing with Kirsten ParkerThis episode will help the over-analyzers, over-thinkers, and anxious minds know they are making the right decisions confidently and quickly without stress and overwhelm. Kirsten Parker is a decision coach who will walk us through her framework for helping her clients make decisions that feel right for them every time. Tune in to hear more!Be sure to find and connect with Kristen Parker on her website and on Instagram at @kpcoaching. You can also click this link to connect with us via our website.Check out full episodes of the Brazen podcast...2022-09-1349 min

Decision Masters#17: Client Convo! How to Not Get Stuck in Other People's Opinions with Kirsten J. ParkerMeet Decision Masters Program member Kirsten Parker! (Nope, we literally never get tired of that 😅) KJP shares extraordinary wisdom & personal stories in this interview! Including: How she stopped overthinking the decision to start her own business and leave her job of 22 years 🙌 That the "biggest helpful change through the program" was changing the habit of getting stuck in other people's opinions, ideas & judgments 🧘‍♀️ Why it's vital to update your goals & values rather than stay stuck in your old definition of "success" What making a Clean Decision feels like (and why her decisions don't feel muddy & never-ending anymore!) 🦸‍♀️ And how, d...2022-09-0844 min

Floductivity with Cara DempseyFrom Over-Thinking to Confidence and Clarity Kirsten Parker | #22Send us a textIn this episode, I chat with Kirsten Parker. She is a Decision Coach for overthinkers. We talk about how she helps Overthinkers realize how much more access to Clarity, Confidence & Decisiveness they have than their overwhelmed, anxious brains might be telling them! Some of the powerful tools she shares to help with overwhelm are:Heart-focused breathingHelping people access clarity Move towards more confidenceGuiding her clients to take back controlRestructuring decision makingVisualizing what they want in their futureFinding the right support to help you to your goals For...2022-08-091h 03

Run Canada PodcastEP 125. Kirsten ParkerYou asked for it, you got it. The amazing Sasha Gollish was kind enough to turn the tables to act as host and ask me some of her questions and some contributed by our community. We talk about how the show got started, some of our athletes that have most profoundly impacted me, and how to deal with post-run hair bird's nests. 2022-08-0651 min

College and Career ClarityDecision Coaching Tips for College Bound Families with Kirsten ParkerToday, we’re kicking off our August series by speaking with Kirsten Parker about how to create a solid framework for decision-making so you and your teen can move forward with confidence during the often stressful college-bound journey.EPISODE NOTES I’ve never done a series on the podcast before, and I’m excited my very first is focused on how to build a college list so that you know where your family should visit and where your student ultimately apply. But before you even begin this process, it’s important to take stock of your core...2022-08-0226 min

Decision MastersGet Excited!How do you know you're making the right decision? That's the exact question we'll answer on this podcast. Hi, I'm Kirsten! I'm the Decision Coach for Overthinkers. I've been coaching big-brained high-achievers for years, helping them stop living in fear of regret, option paralysis and the dreaded FOPO (fear of people's opinions!). And now I'm here to help YOU get out of Overthinking agony and make every decision EASIER. We'll use science-based, tried-and-tested tools to change lifelong habits, and you'll turn Calm, Clear & Confident into your new baseline. When you...2022-05-2401 min

The Marriage Life Coach PodcastMaking Powerful Decisions in your Marriage with Kirsten ParkerOn this episode of The Marriage Life Coach Podcast, we begin an interview series on The Marriage Mindset Makeover, my self-study program. Throughout the series, you will hear from members of the program as they share their favorite parts, the things they learned, and the things they love the most. During this episode, you’ll hear from Kirsten Parker, a Decision Coach for overthinkers. Her mission is to help fellow hard-working, smarty-pants stop using their brains against themselves and be able to trust every decision they make. In her program (the Decision Masters Program) she upd...2021-12-2747 min

Run Canada PodcastEP 83. Jenn WaltonThe first episode of our August "how it started, how it's going" series brings you ultra trail runner Jenn Walton. Jenn has been a fixture of the Winnipeg running scene forever: she started her journey on the roads, found her heart on the trails, and found her challenge in the ultra. Jenn shares her journey as well as tips for those sitting on the fence with trying trails and ultras as well as safety tips for solo running. 2021-08-0532 min

Run Canada PodcastMeet your Sheroes, Lyndsay TessierFor episode three of our Meet your Sheroes series, presented by the ASICS Runkeeper App, I had the opportunity to chat with the incredible Lyndsay Tessier. My co-hosts are Eugenie Steyn and Madison Kerr-Wong. Eugenie is a fellow marathon runner and teacher in the GTA who normally just gets joy from waving at Lyndsay when she catches her out for a run. Madison had the good fortune of being coached by Lyndsay and had her support during a particularly challenging time with her running. We got her take on how she focuses her life with her dual tracks of...2021-07-3053 min

Run Canada PodcastEP 82. Kiera VerbonacKiera Verbonac started her journey as a runner, then got the biking bug and tried out a duathlon. After success in that category, she donned a wetsuit and now she trains like a beast in the triathlon. Kiera is an amazingly dedicated athlete who also happens to be hearing impaired. We talk about some of the challenges that come with that in her training and racing, none of which hold her back at all. She's also got a ton of great first-time triathlon tips for newbies!2021-07-1552 min

Run Canada PodcastEP 81. Kate BazeleyIt's the Pride of the Rock: Newfoundland's Kate Bazeley! Kate holds the provincial record for the marathon, but don’t think she’s let that slow down her drive. This former Canadian Half Marathon Champion has been setting big goals, but at the same time balances the things in life that are most important to her: her family. Kate’s a firecracker and fuelled by competitive spirit – we talk about some of her races and how she takes a wider view when it comes to injury and setbacks.2021-07-081h 06

Run Canada PodcastEP 80. Winning WithinThis is what it looks like when passionate, driven women work together to make change. The founders of Winning Within, Delilah Topic, Teagan MacDougall, Dhana and Samantha Cruikshank and Rachel Cliff join me to talk about the foundation's mission: encouraging positive body image self-acceptance and empowering women to find self-worth outside of sport. We discuss their personal experiences and why they are so focused on helping to change the conversation for women in sport. 2021-07-011h 12

Run Canada PodcastEP 79. Polly MoodyPolly Moody is a runner who takes a licking and keeps on ticking. She is a mother of two, a kindergarten teacher and one fast runner. She lives in Calgary but she has travelled all over chasing amazing race experiences and speedy courses. We talk about race day feels, and about some of her experiences chasing a sub-3 race. We dig into how she has been recovering from an ACL reconstruction the past few months and what that experience has really been like: the fears, the frustration, the sadness and the light at the end of the tunnel. 2021-06-241h 06

Inspired Soles40. Women Run Canada Podcast Host | Kirsten ParkerGot feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a textKirsten Parker is the host of Women Run Canada where she talks with Olympians, running legends, race directors and community builders who share our passion for this fantastic sport. Carolyn even had the pleasure of co-hosting an episode with Kirsten where they interviewed her hometown running Shero, Paula Wiltse. In this episode we pull back the curtain on:Her decision to start the podcastHow she books such incredible guestsWhether she ever gets star struck, and Who’s still on her dream guest list. In...2021-06-2248 min