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The Everyday Awesome Project86: The Power of Your Voice With Coach PollyHangout with Coach Polly this week as she asks: 'Have you ever caught yourself spinning in mental circles, trying to solve problems all on your own?" You're not alone! In this revealing solo episode, Coach Polly opens up about her lifetime as a "lone ranger" solopreneur and her transformative discovery that changed everything: the power of speaking her truth in trusted circles.What I've learned is simple yet profound: our minds can only take us so far. When we speak our thoughts aloud—whether in masterminds, support circles, or even to one trusted friend—something magical happens. Our...2025-08-1419 minThe Everyday Awesome Project85: Finding Trust Out On The TrailDo you have trust issues? With others, the world or YOURSELF? Then what happens when you strip away all your safe roles, responsibilities and digital distractions, leaving nothing but you, a 42-pound backpack, and 50 miles of rugged trail ahead? If fear and distrust are your instincts then listen up! This week Coach Sam shares her recent profound personal journey of self-discovery on the Trans Catalina Trail—a solo backpacking adventure that transcended physical challenge to become a masterclass in self-trust."I wanted to be free from all identities and labels—mother, wife, worker, friend, sister—for this week,"...2025-08-0756 minThe Everyday Awesome Project84: WTF Now? Coaches Polly & Sam Are Inviting You To Live!LET'S GOOOOOOOO! Yes, you. Are you finally ready to stop dreaming and start doing? Coaches Polly and Sam pull back the curtain on their fresh vision for transformational experiences designed to help you become the person you've always known you could be. It is your time. The duo reveals their exciting lineup of programs launching through the Everyday Awesome Project, starting with the Come Alive program – an eight-week incubator where changemakers surround themselves with supportive peers who become their biggest cheerleaders. Unlike programs that just talk about change, this one demands action, with participants creating and executing con...2025-07-3131 minThe Everyday Awesome Project83: The Self Improvement ParadoxHave you ever found yourself trapped in an endless cycle of self-improvement, always chasing the next fix for something you believe is broken within you? That's the self-improvement paradox – the continuous need to improve ourselves to the point where it's no longer healthy.In this thought-provoking conversation, we dive deep into how society bombards us with messages about maximizing our potential, optimizing our lives, and fixing what's "wrong" with us. We explore how these external pressures can lead us down paths of improvement that aren't truly serving us, coming from a place of lack rather than abundance. Fr...2025-07-2453 minThe Everyday Awesome Project82: Sam's Solo Backpacking Trip | Going Outside to Go InsideCoach Sam is off on her first SOLO backpacking trip- 5 days across Catalina Island! This week she shares why she is choosing to do this adventure and how her desire to be both in nature and alone is just what the doctor ordered. So what happens exactly when you disconnect from everything in your daily life and identity to reconnect with your authentic self? While most people wait until they're in crisis mode to address their mental health, Coach Sam takes us on a journey through her proactive approach to mental wellbeing. This isn't about fixing something b...2025-07-1746 minThe Everyday Awesome Project81: Triggers to Tools: Transforming Your Inner LandscapeTriggered much lately? We all all! But have you ever wondered why certain interactions trigger intense emotional responses in you and other things do not phase you? This week with Coaches Polly & Sam we discuss how that answer lies in how your brain stores memories and then adds emotional charge to them. Coach Polly shares her training in the powerful world of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and reveal how understanding "little t" traumas can transform your daily experiences. While traditional therapy has its place, the waiting lists are growing longer, and many people need immediate tools to manage t...2025-07-1041 minThe Everyday Awesome Project80: Vision to Velocity: Building a MovementDo you have a cause or personal passion you want to generate collective action around? This week with Coaches Sam and Polly we dive into the art of turning vision into velocity—the process of creating and sustaining movements that matter.We explore the fundamental question many purpose-driven individuals ask themselves: "How do I take this fire inside me and share it with the world?" Whether you're "fired up" by inspiration or "fed up" with the status quo, we break down how these emotional sparks can ignite meaningful change when channeled effectively.The conversation uncovers pr...2025-07-0354 minThe Everyday Awesome Project79: The Lost Art of FriendshipFriendship has become something of an antique in our modern world—a word we rarely use and a connection we struggle to maintain. In this deeply insightful conversation, we explore why authentic friendship may be the most underrated health intervention of our time.The numbers are shocking: in the 1950s, people spent 25% of their time with friends. Today, that number has plummeted to just 13.8%, while online time has skyrocketed to 60%. This shift directly correlates with skyrocketing rates of loneliness, now recognized as a serious public health crisis linked to cardiovascular disease, dementia, diabetes, immune system suppression, and mo...2025-06-2659 minThe Everyday Awesome Project78: We Are All Just Here To Walk Each Other Home...This week Coach Sam reveals her new forearm tattoo —"We are all just here to walk each other home." This beautiful conversation is about grief, death and the liberating Buddhist philosophy that everything is impermanent. Together we explore this profound realization and its powerful implications for how we live, love, and eventually leave this world.Death touches all of us. Whether sudden or prolonged, expected or shocking, the experience of losing someone we love (or facing our own mortality) can be transformative. Yet our culture often keeps these conversations hidden behind closed doors, leaving us unprepared and is...2025-06-1951 minThe Everyday Awesome Project77: The Second Brain: How Your Gut Impacts Your Health P2Part Two this week on the GUT with Coaches Polly and Sam. This round we are gonna dive into your overall physical health, to top off last week's part one brain-gut connection session. So imagine your gut as a thriving garden, where beneficial bacteria bloom and support every system in your body, like the beauty of having fresh veggies or flowers in our garden. When that garden flourishes, you experience vibrant health; BUT when weeds take over, the effects ripple through your entire being and choke all the good plants. In this eye-opening episode, we dive deep in...2025-06-1255 minThe Everyday Awesome Project76: The Second Brain: Understanding Your Gut-Mind Connection P1Ever felt gut punched? Do you follow or often ignore your gut instincts? Are you intuitive at times, feeling in your body when things just are not right or a different choice needs to be made for no obvious reason? All of this and way more are your second brain communicating with you! That's right, science now confirms you have a second brain, and it lives in your gut. This complex neural network, called the enteric nervous system (ENS), consists of millions of neurons lining your entire digestive tract. The ENS operates independently while maintaining constant communication w...2025-06-051h 04The Everyday Awesome Project75: Health is Wealth with Coach SamCoach Sam is IN THE HOUSE this week and has an urgent offer you can not refuse! Well, unless you don't want to be health rich! Here is the deal- what if the most lucrative part-time job you'll ever have is taking care of your own body and mind? Coach Sam delivers this powerful wake-up call about treating your health as your most valuable investment – one that prevents the painful full-time job of battling disease later in life.Drawing from her personal experience after hitting rock bottom at age 30, Sam shares how neglecting health can transform into a...2025-05-2922 minThe Everyday Awesome Project74: Living Simply and In AbundanceLess is more, for real. Think about it- do you ever feel like you're constantly chasing more? More stuff, more success, more of everything—yet somehow feeling less fulfilled? Less happy? You're not alone. The irony of modern life is that our pursuit of abundance often leaves us feeling empty. So let's talk about it this week with your Coaches Polly and Sam! In this episode, we dive deep into the counterintuitive concept that simplifying your life is actually the path to greater abundance. We challenge the notion that fulfillment comes from external validation, racking up wins or...2025-05-2245 min
The Everyday Awesome Project73: GUEST: Addict to Organ Recipient to 300-Mile Ultrarunner- Meet Kelly Thrush!This week Coach Sam sits down with her friend and fellow ultra runner Kelly Thrush @just_keep_going. His story is nothing short of a miracle so buckle your seat belt! When doctors told Kelly he had just weeks to live due to end-stage liver failure at only 38, he could have given up. Instead, he and his girlfriend (now Wife:) found themselves on an extraordinary journey of transformation that would lead from the darkest depths of addiction to the heights mountains of human endurance.In this raw and deeply moving conversation, we explore how this alcoholic liver t...2025-05-141h 27
The Everyday Awesome Project72: GUEST: Shine Bright with Crystal Goddess Hannah GatchHow does a simple fishing trip turn into a divine message that completely redirects your life? Listen in this week to guest @seekinghighergrounds Hannah Gatch, an Intuitive from Sedona's Center for New Age, as she shares her extraordinary journey from addiction in South Carolina to spiritual awakening in the red rocks of Arizona! #transformation Coach Polly unpacks Hannah's story- where it begins with a moment of desperation at a fishing pond, as she cried out to her higher power asking to understand what she was doing wrong in life. The answer that came through LOUD and CLEAR, t...2025-05-081h 03The Everyday Awesome Project71: "Let Them" Theory with Coach PollyCome along with Coach Polly this week as she unpacks the popular Mel Robbins "Let Them" Theory! It is a reality check we all need to get- that the moment you stop trying to control other people, that is when you truly regain your personal power. This episode dives deep into Mel's latest book on the "Let Them Theory" - a revolutionary framework for releasing the exhausting grip of control and finding the peace in surrender.As a self-described "recovering perfectionist with a 20-year long addiction" to control, Coach Polly shares how this concept has transformed her...2025-05-0127 min
The Everyday Awesome Project70: GUEST: Join The Joy Revolution with MARC CORDONWhat if personal growth isn't enough? What happens when you achieve everything society told you to want, yet still feel empty inside? Marc Cordon @marccordoncreative knows this journey intimately and is with us this week to download his unscripted path to finding purpose and passion. Growing up as a first-generation Filipino-American, Marc found himself caught between worlds - too Filipino to be fully American, yet too American for his Filipino relatives. After dutifully pursuing a neuroscience degree and master's in public health to fulfill his immigrant parents' dreams, he rebelled by forming "the best Filipino band in t...2025-04-241h 23The Everyday Awesome Project69: Mindy Body Level UpWhat happens when you deliberately choose something physically challenging and slightly terrifying? Samantha Pruitt reveals the extraordinary gifts waiting on the other side of difficult physical challenges.From barely managing ten minutes on a treadmill at age 30 to becoming an ultramarathon runner tackling 100+ mile races, Samantha's journey transcends typical fitness narratives. The medals and finish lines only tell half the story. The true transformation happens in what she calls "the pain cave" - those moments when you're forced to show up for yourself despite every part of you screaming to quit.Through progressively more demanding...2025-04-1753 minThe Everyday Awesome Project68: Creating Your Day with Coach PollyCoach Polly solo here! Wondering if you ever feel like your days are 'happening TO you' rather than being created BY you? That's what living in "default mode" feels like—a reactive state where we're at the mercy of our monkey minds, external demands, and fluctuating energy levels. STOP THIS!In this deeply personal episode, Coach Polly shares a transformative practice I've recently adopted called "Creating Your Day." This simple 15-minute morning ritual has completely shifted how I show up in the world, helping me move from reactive to creative living. Drawing from wisdom gained through Landmark Ed...2025-04-1018 minThe Everyday Awesome Project67: Money Talk: Know Your NumbersTRUTH= avoidance of your own financial clarity is creating more stress (mental, emotional and physical) than the actual numbers themselves!? In this motivation coach conversation, Sam and Polly dive deep into why so many of us resist looking at our finances, both business and personal, and explain the surprising energy drain this avoidance creates in our lives and businesses.Together we will explore the uncomfortable truth about financial denial—it's not just about missing a few receipts or delaying your bookkeeping. This pattern of avoidance creates a mental and emotional burden that affects your decision-making, relationships, and ab...2025-04-0349 min
The Everyday Awesome Project66: GUEST: Tribe Builder Tanya Rooney Slays the DragonsOMG WE ARE HAVING A BLAST this week with special guest Tanya Rooney @tanyarooneymn aka Tribe Builders! The three of us are about to light the zoom room ON FIRE! WooHooo! #bringtheiceTune in as we explore what life can look like if you surrounded yourself with the right people and just say "hell yes" to adventure! In this captivating conversation with Real Estate Entrepreneur and fellow podcast host Tanya Rooney, we explore how building a strong tribe around yourself can transform not only your business but your entire approach to life. Oh and we just may...2025-03-271h 11The Everyday Awesome Project65: Discovering Buddhism - Practices in the Art of Living"There are thousands of pathways up the mountain, and all of them have the potential to reach the summit." These epic words from Buddhist teachings perfectly capture the spirit of this deep tradition - which is not a religion, by the way y'all. Coach Sam learns that Buddhism is simply the ART OF LIVING and jumps in! Woohoo! Listen in this week as Coach Sam shares her recent trek to a Buddhist monastery near San Diego, where she participated in a walking meditation with over 100 strangers in complete silence. What struck her most wasn't the spiritual pr...2025-03-211h 13The Everyday Awesome Project64: Dreams That Won't Die - Visionaries Alliance UnleashedHave you ever had a dream that simply refuses to die? That spark of an idea that keeps reigniting no matter how many times life's obstacles try to extinguish it? In this energizing conversation Polly & Sam meet up in Big Bear, California to share how a transformative hike on the Pacific Crest Trail became the catalyst for breathing life into a vision we can't seem to let die.Learn of visionary Catherine Montgomery's seemingly impossible 1926 dream of creating a Mexico-to-Canada hiking trail (WTF!?!). Nearly 100 years later, that vision is now the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). The...2025-03-1348 minThe Everyday Awesome Project63: Creating Creativity and MagicStep into the enchantment of conversation as we explore how creativity can transform your daily interactions into moments of genuine connection and joy. This episode packs an insightful journey on what it truly means to infuse "magic" into our conversations and highlights the essential role that creativity plays in fostering deeper relationships. You’ll discover the importance of shedding the default survival mindset and embracing curiosity, which allows us to experience the present moment and connect more fully with others. We're not simply going through the motions of "how was your day?" Instead, we question how to shi...2025-03-0647 minThe Everyday Awesome Project62: The Journey of Self-Discovery: Insights on Personal DevelopmentJoin Coaches Sam & Polly this week and deep dive into personal growth work. This discussion will take you through the core aspects of self-discovery and personal development, highlighting the significance of understanding oneself in a world preoccupied with external success. We share personal stories and insights about how curiosity and connection drive growth, and why investing time in YOUR personal development is critical for a fulfilling life. We explore the various modalities of personal growth, from immersive workshops to insightful readings, revealing the profound impact these experiences have on our lives. Listen as we unpack the importance o...2025-02-271h 02