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Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Build a New Business 🛠Today's episode is all about being a beginner! Let's say you want to start a new career, or a new business, or possibly just build a new skill or offering within your existing business. How do we go about starting something new? How do we pivot slowly but surely towards the thing we want to do?
I am currently in the process of building towards becoming a professional photographer, alongside my existing business (which I still very much enjoy!). It's still early days, but I have already learned *so much* and I wanted to...2024-08-1236 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy7 Tools for Slowpreneurs 🧰As I am sure you know by now, I'm a bit of a systems geek! It's a big part of my "slowpreneur framework", which has three major components: strategy, systems & self-care. In my experience, having all three of these pieces set up in an intentional way is what unlocks your ability to have a business that feels good and sustainable to run. 🙏🏼
So today we're talking about the systems part of things! On this episode, I'm sharing my seven most-recommended tools for slowpreneurs, based on what we want more of. Each of these recommendations is tailored towards a feel...2024-07-1552 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Handle Slow Seasons in Business 📉On today's episode, we're talking about how to deal with slow seasons in your business. All business owners will deal with these at some point during their career! Maybe you launch something to crickets, or your cashflow gets sluggish, or you're suddenly not sure where your next client is coming from. Slow seasons are normal and inevitable, but can also REALLY throw us for a loop if we're not careful.
The truth is that while slow seasons are normal, there is almost always something we can do to get that momentum going again. So in this episode, I...2024-06-1743 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyBusiness Lessons from Taylor Swift 🎤On today's episode, we're using Taylor Swift & the Eras tour as a case study to see what we can learn about slowpreneurship! Even if you're not a big fan of Taylor, I still think there are some interesting lessons to be learned from the way that she steers her career. 🎶
We're covering humility, preparedness, generosity, earnestness, sustainability, creativity, and surprise & delight. While the examples are based on the business of a global popstar, the lessons are universal. Hope you find some inspiration here for your own business! 🎤
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Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyQuitting the Internet with Sarah Von Bargen 👋🏼On today's episode I'm interviewing Sarah Von Bargen about her decision to step back from public internet life and adopt a more sustainable business model for herself.
I've been a fan of Sarah's for years, ever since she was first blogging on Yes and Yes, and long before she was selling courses. So imagine my sadness, delight and envy when she announced her internet retirement! I was so intrigued by her decision and was so excited about this opportunity to ask her more about it. In this episode you'll hear more about the reality of running an o...2024-05-201h 08
Thinking About PodcastCelebrating Two Years Of Thinking About With Stephanie Pellett & Kirsti McNabneyToday, we are thinking about the power of a platform that allows people to share their stories and the power behind telling them. Also, this episode is extra special as our host, Kirst, steps into the spotlight, with Stephanie Pellett taking over the interviewer’s chair. Get ready for a peak behind the curtain as Kirsti shares insights, reflections, and the journey of celebrating two years of podcasting success.Kirsti kicks off by sharing the excitement of marking two years of podcasting and the party she hosted to celebrate. She emphasizes the importance of celebrating every achievement, no ma...2024-05-141h 04
Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy7 Ways to Be a Slowpreneur 🐢Hello hello & welcome back to Season THREE of Slowpreneur! I am so happy to be back after our season break and ready to dive back into the world of slowpreneurship with all of you.
On today's episode, I'm sharing seven key mindset shifts that I've had to make on my journey to building an intentional and sustainable business that works for me. These are philosophies or ways of thinking about your work that can make a huge impact on how you feel as an entrepreneur & I hope they get the wheels turning for you as to how y...2024-05-0645 minThinking About PodcastEmbracing Slowpreneurship & What We’re Not Doing This Year With Stephanie PellettToday, we're thinking about slowpreneurship and starting the new year without a bang with Stephanie Pellett.Stephanie is a creative coach and consultant for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Her goal is to make your business more sustainable, more expansive, and ultimately more fun for you by streamlining your systems, improving your customer experience, and updating your unhelpful limiting beliefs. She was a host on the Learn With Shopify YouTube Channel and has taught classes in partnership with Creative Mornings and Make Lemonade. She is also the host of the podcast Slowpreneur: Business without the Busy, w...2024-01-101h 17
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Set Gentle Boundaries 🔑As a solo business owner, it can be really tough to set boundaries with clients. We need to have policies that protect us, but speaking those out loud and enforcing them with others can feel super scary, if not next to impossible. 🙈
It's also pretty hard to figure out when to be disciplined with your boundary-setting, and when to be more flexible. When we should give people the benefit of the doubt, and when we should hold firm. This is why gentle boundary-setting is an art, not a science.
In today's episode, I'm sharing two rece...2023-12-0450 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusySustainable Social Media with Kirsti McNabney 📱On today's episode, I'm interviewing social media strategist and event planner Kirsti McNabney, whose mission is to help you connect with your ideal clients in-person and digitally.
If you're somebody who has a major love-hate relationship with social media (🙋🏻♀️), this is the episode for you. Kirsti's approach centres authenticity, community, and building true connection with the people you interact with online. We talk a lot about why social media "best practices" might not be right for you, and how you can create a social media presence that actually feels good for you to sustain.
I found Kirsti...2023-11-201h 16
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Stop Doomscrolling 😱When the world is scary, it is easy to get sucked into the bad habit of doomscrolling: compulsively checking our various feeds for bad news and updates. This impulse makes sense! We want to be informed, and it's difficult to switch off when things are stressful. 🙃
And yet staying in this cycle of doom is not helping us or anyone else. It's throwing off our nervous systems and making us less effective in our work and our activism. So in today's episode, I'm sharing some of my best strategies and tips for reducing your doomscrolling, plus some crow...2023-11-1436 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyThe Power of Pleasure with Joy Asibey-Gabriel 💋On today's episode, I'm interviewing Joy Asibey-Gabriel, personal stylist and feminine adornment coach, about the power of living & working pleasure-first.
This was such a rich conversation! We explored why it can be so hard for us to prioritize pleasure, why pleasure is so important, how Joy brings pleasure into her life and business, and how we can start to access it in small ways every day.
Joy is such an inspiring human, who is always dancing, laughing, and dressed to the nines. I love watching how she shows up in the world, and I really...2023-10-2358 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy7 Hot Takes on Online Business 🌶Confession: I'm a business coach that kind of hates the business coaching industry. I have opinions about some of the shenanigans that go on when it comes to marketing, sales and business models, and I want to talk about! Not just to protect you from scammy, slimey tactics, but also to strongly discourage you from replicating any of them inadvertently. 🙅🏻♀️
In this episode I'm sharing my seven hottest takes on the world of online business: everything from passive income to MLMs to "investing in yourself". We're going there! Wanna join us? 🌶
As always, would love to hear your tho...2023-10-0942 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyThe Energetics of Business with Celina Rosso 🔮On today's episode, I'm chatting with Celina Rosso, intuitive business witch & medium for entrepreneurs, about how we can use energetics in our business to move closer to the things that we want.
Our conversation was full of great nuggets, including: how to follow the nudges you get towards your next right steps, the importance of meeting your strategy with energy, and how we can add some practical magic into the process of running our businesses. Celina's approach is all about having a relationship with your business and your clients, and she has some powerful perspectives to share...2023-09-2558 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyWhat We're Not Doing Anymore 🙅🏻♀️Y'all, we have a lot to do which means we have a lot to NOT do. On today's episode, I'm talking about entering my anti-decanting era, plus what my shampoo bottle epiphany taught me about figuring what else I'm not doing anymore in life and business. This is a terrifically freeing thought experiment that I highly encourage you to take on in your own life! 💡
Tune in for lots of examples of the power of personal policies, how we apply this practice *weekly* in The Profoundery, and other ideas for things you may want to discontinue for your...2023-09-1146 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Take a Vacation From Your Business 🏖On today's episode, I'm convincing you to take a vacation from your business. A real one! Not a staycation, not a working trip, not a digital nomad experience on the beach in Thailand. A real vacation where you unplug from your daily tasks, give yourself a chance to breathe, and learn to be a human again. 😍
I'm going to share two key mindset shifts that you'll need to take on board before you feel like vacationing is possible, and then I'll talk through six tips to make your vacation more fun & relaxing for you. Ready to vacay?! 🏖
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Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusySlow & Steady Marketing with Amanda Laird 📣On this episode, I'm talking to Amanda Laird of Slow & Steady Studio about mindful marketing that helps you achieve your business goals. Amanda has years of experience in marketing and we are so lucky that she is sharing her philosophies and approach with us. 🙏🏼
You'll hear some of the factors that make marketing so hard (for all of us!) and how we can use the principle of "just enough marketing" when it comes to how much we show up. She emphasizes the importance of understanding your business foundations & how we can customize our marketing approaches to each of our specif...2023-07-101h 06
Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy7 Books for Slowpreneurs 📚On this episode, I'm sharing my seven favourite books for slowpreneurs! 📚 Unfortunately there is no book specifically about slowpreneurship (yet! I hope to write one soon!) but these seven taken together are a good primer to help you build more slow values into your own business.
I'll be walking you through all of these books one by one and sharing why it has stuck with me over the years. We're covering a whole range of topics, from setting up standard operation procedures to dealing with stress to time management, and I hope you pick up some of thes...2023-06-2625 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyWhy Slow is Good with Géraldine Jippé 🤍On today's episode, I'm talking to Géraldine Jippé, the creator of the podcast Slow is Good and the co-founder of The Slowpreneur Summit, about her journey to slowpreneurship. 🙏🏼
She shares how she learned the hard way after a cancer diagnosis that she needed to slow down and prioritize her life while building a business. I loved Géraldine's approach to business, how she wants to set a better example for her son, her practice of playing the harp (!) and much more.
I think you'll love her gentle energy and soulful approach to building a business with...2023-06-1259 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy5 Ways to Get More Rest as an Entrepreneur 😴On this episode, I'm talking about why rest is so important for us entrepreneurs. It's not just a "nice to have" thing that can be sacrificed on the altar of productivity! Rest is one of the most important factors when it comes to our productivity & creativity, and should be prioritized.
I'm also sharing five different kinds of rest to hopefully spark some new ways of thinking about rest and encourage you to fold even more of it into the everyday life of running your own business.
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Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyGrowing a Gentle Business with Ashley Beaudin 🌱On today's episode, I'm talking to Ashley Beaudin, the Gentle Business Coach, about her approach to building a gentle business that prioritizes care, safety and compassion for ourselves. ❤️ She shares her own journey to building a gentle business and what she's learned from past experiences and endeavours that were successful externally, but not always internally.
Ashley is so thoughtful and intentional in everything she does, and I was so inspired to learn more about her approach to creating more ease & joy while also achieving our goals. Her thoughts on protecting and regulating our nervous systems as a key...2023-05-151h 00
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Be a Slowpreneur 🦥Hello and welcome back to Season Two of Slowpreneur! 🐌 Thank you for coming back for another round of thoughtful conversations about what it means to build a sustainable & intentional business. 🥰
On today's episode, I thought it was about time that I tell you about my philosophy on slowpreneurship! I'm sharing my personal definition of what it means to be a slowpreneur, as well as definitions that have come before me. And I'm also explaining my framework for slowpreneurship, which prioritizes three key factors: strategy, systems, and self-care. I'll give you examples of each so that y...2023-05-0132 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy7 Slow Business Lessons from Season One of Slowpreneur 🎉And just like that, it's the end of Season One of Slowpreneur! I'm taking an intentional pause between seasons, but not before I share the slow business lessons that I've learned from creating this podcast that I think are widely applicable no matter what kind of business you run. 👀
In this episode you'll hear my thoughts on the importance of showing up, how vulnerability creates connection (and my two most important rules for being vulnerable with your audience), and ways you can motivate yourself to keep going when things are hard. These are universal lessons that I con...2022-12-1254 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy5 Work-From-Home Commutes to Gently End Your Day 🛁Over the past few years, more folks than ever are working & running businesses from home, myself included! It's harder than ever to set up clear boundaries around our time & work hours. If we're not careful, the lines between personal & professional life can get really blurry. Over time, this lack of down time can lead to us to feeling a huge lack of wellness & restfulness in our everyday lives. 🙃
On today's episode, I'm sharing five ideas for "commutes" you can try even if you work from home. These are simple, free things that you can do to create mor...2022-11-2836 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Create a Calmer Business 🙏🏼It's not easy to build a business, and it's even harder to build a business that feels calm & peaceful to spend time working in. I've learned a few strategies over the years about what helps me to feel more relaxed when managing my business, and on today's episode I'm sharing those ideas with you! ✨
If you struggle with setting boundaries, managing client communications, keeping track of what you have to do or find yourself constantly fielding questions, this episode will give you some ideas & inspiration to set things up in a more sustainable way. 🙏🏼
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Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyLiving Beautifully in the Present Moment with Palak Dave of Embiria & Hosted Here 🌿On today's episode, I'm talking to my friend Palak Dave of Embiria and Hosted Here about her mission to live beautifully in the present moment, and to inspire others to do the same. Through her experiences, events, and thoughtfully curated spaces, she uses the five senses to invite us to slow down and find deeper presence in our everyday lives. 🙏🏼
In our conversation we talk about Palak's major business shift from going it solo to joining a team, and how that's supported her to step more fully into what she does best. We also discuss our complicated relati...2022-10-311h 01
Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy5 Tools to Reflect On Your Business 📝Everyone talks about how it's so important to work ON your business instead of only IN your business, but what does that actually mean? One key aspect is taking time to reflect on your experiences and make sense of all the data you're collecting as a business owner.
In today's episode, I'm sharing my five favourite tools for reflecting on your business. All of these tools are inexpensive or free, but could pay huge dividends in the value you gain from making space to reflect.
And don't miss our Reflect & Reset Session 🗓, happening on Wednesday, Octo...2022-10-1735 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Juggle Life & Business in Stressful Seasons 🎾We've all experienced stressful seasons in our lives & businesses, and managing them can be really challenging. When everything feels important but time is limited, how do you make progress towards your goals or even just stay afloat? ⛵️ Life lately has been a little bit chaotic, but I'm making it through thanks to some helpful reframes and strategies.
In this episode, I'm sharing the metaphor that helps me navigate hectic seasons and juggle all of my priorities effectively. Hint: I intentionally drop some balls on purpose! If you're dealing with a stressful season, I hope the ideas in this...2022-10-0335 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyNurturing the Person Behind the Business with Sonja Seiler of Nurture 🧈Today on the show, I'm creating some space for Sonja Seiler of Nurture to share her story of burnout recovery, and speak to the subtle shifts & changes to her retreat as a result of her experiences throughout the pandemic. Sonja is one of my best friends & favourite collaborators, and it was such a gift to get to connect with her and make meaning out of what she's been going through over the past few years. ❤️
This episode is perfect for anyone who has been struggling with burnout and is trying to find new inspiration and new ways of b...2022-09-201h 02
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Navigate Business Burnout 🙃Sometimes you lose the love for your business. You hit a wall (financial, emotional, or otherwise) and feel like you can't go on anymore. You fantasize about getting a part-time job at Indigo (just me?!) and wonder if you're even cut out for this whole entrepreneurship thing after all. I've been there! I'm actually there right now!
In this episode, I'm sharing the story of my own slump, which I am only now *slowly* starting to emerge from. It's been a hard few years, and that's taken a toll on all of us humans running businesses, myself i...2022-09-0651 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyBusiness Lessons from Bruno 🐶Today on the show, it's Bruno's first birthday! To celebrate, I'm sharing all the life & business lessons that I've learned from the experience of raising this puppy over the past year.
While a dog might be an unexpected source of business wisdom, I hope you can find some inspiration in this episode to apply to your own life and business. It's surprising just how much this little puppy has to teach me about what it means to live a good life, how to honour my capacity, and how to reinforce my boundaries with others.
PS. Th...2022-06-2749 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyFruitcakes, Flowers & Figuring It Out with Rachel Kelly of Make Lemonade 🍋Today on the show I'm talking to Rachel Kelly of Make Lemonade about her journey over the past year: closing her physical coworking space, navigating her "fruitcake phase", and then deciding to become a florist! 🌼 We discuss how important it is build a life outside of your business, to let yourself dream bigger, and to follow your curiosities wherever they might lead, even if they don't "make sense" at first.
Rachel is such an inspiring person with such a zest for life, and it was really great to learn from her journey and see the new avenues ope...2022-06-1356 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy75 Easy: My New Motto for Business & Life 💪🏼As you're probably well aware, we're living in an incredibly challenging time in history. For most of us, life is pretty hard right now! And yet, as you'll hear on this episode, I recently decided to make things even harder on myself by starting a new challenge called (I can't make this up) 75 Hard. It didn't last, but along the way I learned some important lessons about the ways that we often inadvertently choose to make our lives harder than they need to be because of outdated scripts & ideas about how we "should" be living or doing business.
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Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyCreating Rituals and Embracing Change with Julia Nethersole of Glass Full 🌸It was such a joy to speak with my friend & fellow business owner Julia Nethersole of Glass Full for this episode. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation: what it means to truly practice both self and community care, how we can start to curate our attention more intentionally, being present in our own lives, and why we need to give ourselves (and our businesses!) permission to change.
Julia also shares some of her favourite self-care activities, her noticing practices, and the next steps she's taking to build ritual and celebration into the fabric of G...2022-05-161h 16
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyHow to Get Your Business Off Instagram📱If you have a love/hate relationship with social media, you're not alone. Over the past few years, I've been finding myself less interested and more overwhelmed by apps like Instagram and TikTok, and feeling a pull towards slower platforms, like podcasting, blogging, and YouTube.
In this episode, I'm talking about some things to consider when it comes to where you're putting your marketing energy, offering you reassurance that you don't have to take part in any platform (or feature!) that you don't want to, and giving you some of my top tips if you want to b...2022-05-0243 min
Slowpreneur: Business Without the BusyWelcome to Slowpreneur 🐌Welcome to Slowpreneur, my new podcast about slow & steady entrepreneurship for thoughtful, values-based business owners. On this first episode of the show, I'm explaining why I'm starting a new podcast now, and letting you know what you can expect from future episodes of the show. Tune in to hear my real thoughts on the business coaching industry, why slowness is an antidote to so much of the toxicity in our culture, and what I actually mean when I say "slow".
I hope that this podcast feels like a soft place to land for you as an entrepreneur, a...2022-04-1334 min
Soul Compass5 Ways to Increase Your Productivity as a Creative Entrepreneur with Stephanie PellettRunning your business can be overwhelming. The workload is constantly growing, along with the jumbled to-do lists, projects and calendars. You’re flooded with emails and messages, not to mention all the social media pings. You love what you do, but there are distractions everywhere and it’s hard to feel productive. Working on a project itself often seems so easy on the outside, am I right? Yet the emotional work involved in growing your creative business is not so easy.
Whether you’re starting out or are hitting your stride after a few years in the game...2020-01-2836 min
Life In Limbo Podcast036: Notice Your BehaviourToday on the podcast I'm sharing a new idea that I've been playing around with in my own life, and I've been seeing it crop up in the lives of people around me as well! It's the concept of noticing your behaviour, and paying attention to what kinds of signals it has to share with us about how we may *really* be feeling about something, or what decision might be best for us in any given moment. It can be tricky to "listen to our intuition", so this idea has been super helpful in giving myself what I need...2019-07-1624 minLife In Limbo Podcast035: Creating New HabitsThis week on the show I'm going into a bit more detail about the new daily habit that I am trying to form! I'm discussing the "why" for the new habit, how I'm motivating myself to work towards it, and how I'm setting up structures to help myself be "successful" with my habit on a daily basis. So far it's been going well, and I think it's because I'm using certain strategies that I know will work well for me. Tune in to hear more about some ways to set yourself up for success with any new habits that...2019-06-1826 minLife In Limbo Podcast034: Be Less PreciousToday on the show I'm talking about the idea of being less precious with our creative work! How do we do it? I think the answer is giving ourselves a better structure for getting it done and then commit to showing up at a frequency that allows us to be less obsessive and perfectionistic over every single piece of work that we put out into the world. So in this episode, I'm sharing these ideas and a few examples of how I'm inspired to be less precious with my own creative work.
See shownotes for this episode...2019-06-0420 minLife In Limbo Podcast033: How to Read More BooksThis week on the podcast I'm tackling one of my favourite topics: how to read more books! In this episode, I'm discussing the reasons why reading is my favourite hobby and what it gives me personally, as well as sharing some tips & habits to help you get more out of your reading life. If you've ever wanted to do more reading, I hope that these thoughts will help motivate you to get into the habit!
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See shownotes for this episode at...2019-05-1428 minLife In Limbo Podcast031: Sarah Von Bargen on Living On PurposeI am so excited about this very special episode – I'm chatting with one of my favourite thinkers & teachers, Sarah Von Bargen of the blog Yes and Yes. If you've read any of my Inspiration posts over the years, you know that Sarah's ideas have had a big impact on me personally and I'm always sharing her concepts with people both in my work and personal life. In this episode we're discussing her unique money philosophies, her own personal definition of success (and why we all need one of our own), the questionable ethics of much of the current on...2019-05-0747 minLife In Limbo Podcast030: Keep GoingToday's episode is the last one of season 3 of the podcast! Can you believe we're here already? I sure can't, this year is flying. On the show today I'm talking about motivation – specifically, the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and why it matters. I'm also sharing thoughts on how we never know who is listening or resonating with what we share, why that's okay, and why it's our responsibility to do the work anyways. Happy listening & thank you so much for being along on this journey with me! Talk to you soon.
See shownotes for th...2019-03-0527 minLife In Limbo Podcast029: It's All An ExperimentThis week on the podcast, I'm talking about how I try to use the concept of conducting experiments as a way to explore new ideas for my life and business. Instead of trying to figure everything out beforehand, there's so much freedom in the idea that we can figure it out as we go along, and that the end result will actually end up being even better as a result!
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Subscribe on...2019-02-2627 minLife In Limbo Podcast028: On Positive IllusionsThis week on the show I'm talking about my recent interrogation of some of my own positive illusions! In the episode I define the concept of positive illusions and make the case for why sometimes we need to break our own positive illusions (both the ones about ourselves and about the world) in order to become more of the people we want to be.
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Subscribe on iTunes here or see all episodes...2019-02-1222 minLife In Limbo Podcast026: Kathryn Bondy on The Art of NoticingIt was such a joy to talk to my friend Kathryn Bondy about her incredible work ethic, her profound artistry, and the way she sees the world. I am eternally inspired by almost everything that comes out of her mouth, and I was so excited to finally sit her down and start to capture some of her genius onto the record. In this episode we talk about how her journey began, how she taught herself the art of paper artistry, how her process has evolved, and what inspires her in the world.
See shownotes for this episode...2019-02-0544 minLife In Limbo Podcast025: Things Happen For Me, Not To MeThis week on the podcast I'm talking about one of my favourite reframes (borrowed from the greats, Oprah Winfrey and Byron Katie): the idea that things happen for me, not to me. I also discuss the importance of allowing yourself to feel your feelings before reframing the situation and avoiding spiritual bypassing, and share a few examples of times in my life when this reframing strategy has helped me take more inspired action in the face of tricky circumstances.
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See shownotes for this episode at...2019-01-2236 minLife In Limbo Podcast023: Identity-Based HabitsToday on the podcast, I'm talking about the concept of identity-based habits – how we can start to build better habits by believing different things about ourselves. I'm sharing what I've learned about how we start to shift those beliefs, and how I'm using this framework to start to build better habits of my own.
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Subscribe on iTunes here or see all episodes here.2019-01-1521 minLife In Limbo Podcast022: Dylan Doyle on Making Time for FunThis week on the podcast I'm chatting with my friend Dylan Doyle about how he uses the bullet journalling method to promote mindfulness and how he motivates himself to make time for fun.
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Subscribe on iTunes here or see all episodes here.2019-01-0843 minLife In Limbo Podcast021: Reflection & Goal Setting for 2019This week on the podcast, I’m sharing some of the resources and ideas I made use of this year in reflecting & goal setting, plus the methods I’m using to actually keep myself on track throughout 2019!
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Subscribe on iTunes here or see all episodes here.2019-01-0126 minLife In Limbo Podcast020: Add It UpThis week on the podcast, it's the end of season two! On today's episode, I'm talking about how the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, especially when we show up and don't break the chain. We end up creating a portfolio of work that says more collectively than any one piece of it ever could.
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I’ll share more in the episode itself, but the gist is that each week I’ll chat with an interesting pers...2018-05-0110 min