She has channeled her often hilarious and sometimes distressing experience with parenting into two novels that tell the tale of a life she is definitely not leading.

Her latest book title says it all: Spy Mom, the story of a stay at home mom who used to be a spy. Beth has another book coming out next year.

In this interview we discuss:

• how Beth finally started “being a writer”
• writing + motherhood = the truth: what’s it really like
• the process of writing a book
• Beth’s mindset so she can keep writing and move forward
• Two takeaways - what Beth wish she knew 5-10 years ago about this business

LISTEN HERE

“You have to be in it because you love it and have a story to tell.”

~ Beth McMullen

Mentioned in this interview

• Spy Mom
• Beth’s website

Beth and I talked about getting in the writer’s zone and how she shuts out the rest of the world.  I immediately thought of one of my favorite visual images of getting in the zone. It was from the movie For The Love of the Game with Kevin Costner.

Here is a clip of Costner has shutting out the noise from the fans and getting into the zone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8KJZev7u0

How often do you hear those words in your own head?

Next time, I invite you to practice “clear the mechanism” as Costner’s character did and as Beth does in her writing process.  Let go of outcomes and focus on the process.  Beth does one page at a time and Costner’s character did one pitch at a time.

smiling,

Koren

In this interview, Dan discusses how we are all now in the world of sales.  You may not be selling an item or even a service, but you are influencing, persuading, or attempting to get someone’s attention.  Dan will share with you how to handle rebuffs, refusals and rejections so you can move others more effectively in your own life.

“The hardest part about being in sales is that everyday you face an ocean of rejection.” ~ Dan Pink

• Sales – past beliefs about it vs. what it is today
•  Buoyancy – the grit to keep going vs those who give up
  • self-talk
  • positivity
  • why negative is important and not to squash it
  • dealing with rejection
  • explanatory style
  • ”defensive pessimism”
• Two takeaways – to practice in your new world of sales.

Mentioned in this interview

Book: To Sell Is Human

Dan Pink: Changing the World of Work

Dan Pink: Motivation & Old School Beliefs about Paying People for Better Results

“How to live my life to the things that were important to me?” ~ Lisa Sonora Beam

• What is a Creative Entrepreneur
• Did you know where you were going?
• Why get an MBA as an artist?
• Cash based values/boundaries
• How her life/business is in comparison to what she thought she was going to be doing.
• The importance of structures + support + guidance for being an entrepreneur.
• Two takeaways – for your to build your business.

Mentioned in this Interview

• Book The Creative Entrepreneur
• Website
• Workshop For Love & For Money

We are often bombarded with messages about what to eat, the secret exercise to join and what to eliminate from our life to lose weight.

In this interview my guest Kathleen will discuss her journey losing 25 pounds without dieting and how she has been able to maintain her natural weight for the past 15-16 months.

Since she was going through menopause, she thought maybe her weight gain was permanent.  Kathleen shares with you her journey and how she was able to shed over 25 pounds and continue to keep it off 15 months later.

IN THIS INTERVIEW WE DISCUSS:

• Her FEARS prior to the weight loss.
• What helped her lose the weight.
• The previous attempts at weight loss + why this time was different.
• How she changed her mindset about menopause and how she stopped giving up on herself.
• What she did during her weight loss process.
• What she learned about herself.
• How she has been able to maintain her natural weight for the past 15-16 months.

Mentioned in the interview

Weight Loss Coaching Circle

From coal miner’s son in Virginia, to bank president & CEO and for the past 18 years

Don is known as one of the great leaders in the personal development field committing professional guidance to the betterment of others.  Don is the author of Everything I know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill. 

“Success is a journey not a destination.  It is what you become during the process.  And to me, you can consider yourself successful when you can give back.”

~ Don Green, on How She Really Does It

IN THIS INTERVIEW WE DISCUSS:

• Success – why some people have it and others do not.
• How you can create more success in your life.
• how Don defines success
• how Don applied Napoleon Hill’s principles to create success in his own life
• the power of beliefs
• your community/support structure
• Two takeaways: to create success in your life

Items mentioned in the interview

• Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill
• The Napoleon Hill Foundation
• facebook
• twitter

I am an example of a slasher career – radio talk show host, life coach, and swim coach/director of youth sports team.  Even when I was a college professor my title was full of slashes on the formal job description.

Marci returns to talk about a new way to think about the second half of our careers. Whether it came about due to a forced layoff, re-entering the work force after caring for your family, or a deep desire to do something different.  I invite you to listen to find out what could be possible for you:

“Everybody should make a choice that is best for them.”

~ Marci Alboher, on How She Really Does It

 I am no longer a prisoner of food.”

~ Regina, Weight Loss Client, on How She Really Does It

I wanted to share Regina’s journey with you because it is so damn inspiring how she has changed her life.  Like you and me, she is a real woman with a real life that is busy, challenging, filled with happiness and sadness.  There are days of struggle and days filled with gratitude and love.

She does not want to be the “poster woman” or even tell others what to do.  But she is willing to share her REAL experience.  Because it is so easy to think “so and so ate this food, or did this form of exercise and that was the secret to her weight loss.”   For her it was not one food, or finding the right exercise to do.  In this interview, Regina goes deep on all the facets that helped her on this journey.

You may be able to relate.  26 months ago she did not believe she could create the life she wanted.  Over the past 26 months, she has created the life she so craved.

I invite you to listen to her journey and maybe this can give you inspiration and insight to see what is truly possible for yourself.  So often we look for the secret recipe, food, or blueprint for weight loss.  We believe this “secret” will end the massive amounts of time and energy we spend on food + our bodies in our daily lives.  We want to know what the magic food or exercise to incorporate into our lives so we can lose this damn weight forever!  But when you listen to her journey, you will realize it was none of that – recipe, specific food/exercise program or blueprint.

In this interview with Regina, we zoom in and out on her personal journey  and how she has changed her relationship with food and exercise resulting in a byproduct of over 80 pounds lost.  All this and not going on a diet.

I hope this interview gives you insight and helps you or someone you know who may struggle with food, diets, exercise and is a prisoner.  Maybe with this interview you can see the glimmer of possibilities for yourself.

Thank you for joining us!

IN THIS INTERVIEW WE DISCUSS:

• how Regina now views food
• Regina’s relationship with food now
• what her relationship with food was like 2 years ago
• her mindset now and how this helped her on this journey
• she hated exercise and now is passionate about it – how???
• how uncovering from shame is the crux of her journey
• how she cultivated courage
• how her journey is affecting her relationships in her life
• how much energy this process really took
• the effort she put into this process + what she received from it
• building a team of support

music Christine Kane - Virginia

He is also the creator of SmartBusinessRevolution.com, where he writes about entrepreneurship, interviews successful entrepreneurs and shares his own experiences with entrepreneurship.   

John and I discuss the mistakes to avoid for entrepreneurs.

• Improper setup for the business and systems
• The simple fix for your business
• Wasting resources like your time, instead learn where to focus your time
• Taking a look at your finances
• Two takeaways – to help listeners who are solopreneurs.

Items mentioned in the interview

• Koren’s interview with Michael E. Gerber

• Smart Business Revolution

Connect with John

• facebook

• twitter

Valerie and I talk about the often not talked about details of transitioning to self employment.  She is quite candid in this interview about her journey from employment to self-employment and the effects of the economy and how she managed them.

You may recall Valerie here before when we discussed the Impostor Syndrome and her book The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women.  

IN THIS INTERVIEW

• background
• catalyst for change
• what her mindset was when she left her job
• how she overcame fears of leaving “a safety net – ie ”Corporate America”
• health insurance
• ebb and flow of income
• what is it really like to make a living without a job or regular paycheck
• Two takeaways – to help listeners who want to make a living without a job

What do you want your life to look like?

~ Valerie Young, on How She Really Does It

Mentioned in interview

• Book: The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women

• website

   

   

   

   

   

How does one go from being a lawyer to sharing his Disney passion with others and make a real living doing this?

Lou Mongello is a widely recognized Walt Disney World author, expert, host, speaker and historian.

He is the host/producer of the award-winning WDW Radio show, author of the Walt Disney World Trivia Books, and author/narrator of Audio Tours of Walt Disney World.

Lou gives us his back story about how he started his business without a business plan and was a pioneer in the new media of podcasting back in 2005.  For those of you who may be a wantrepreneur (a word I learned from Lou during the interview) and want to know the REAL back story of leaving a professional job with a culturally accepted identity (lawyer) to becoming a Disney expert and working for yourself this interview will give you candid and real insight.

IN THIS INTERVIEW

• The process Lou went through from lawyer to Disney expert.
• Starting podcasting
• Building a tribe (community)
• How Lou really does it.
• The truth about leaving your job: scary moments
• How Loud did not get paralyzed by FEAR
• Building blocks
• Takeaway

Connect with Lou

• WDW radio

• facebook

• itunes

   

Frequent guest Brené Brown has called Dr. Kristin Neff’s research “powerful and her ability to explain how self-compassion affects our everyday lives makes her book Self-Compassion a transformative read.”

“Self-compassion is not a selfish act.”

~ Kristin Neff, PhD., on How She Really Does It

We discuss self-compassion and learn what it really is, and why you have such a hard time being self-compassionate with yourself.

More specifically in this interview you will find out about:

• Her personal journey to self-compassion
• Fixing from the lizard brain.
• Self-Compassion vs. Self-Criticism as motivators for change
• Compassion is not passive.
• Why people have such a hard time being self-compassionate with themselves.
• Compassion for yourself versus for someone who has wronged you.
• Illusion of control = perfection.
• Compassion is a PRACTICE
• How self-compassion is different than self-pity.
• TAKEAWAY: – tips to practice create self-compassion in your life

“Self-compassion is a more effective motivator for change than self-criticism.”

~ Kristin Neff, PhD., on How She Really Does It

Mentioned in interview

• Test how self-compassionate you are
• Guided Self-Compassion Meditations
• book
• website

Have you ever talked and talked to try to resolve an issue in a relationship?  Did you feel exhausted and unheard?

Couples therapist Nancy Dreyfus created a revolutionary practice that helps real people hold the power to express what they wish they could say to the person they love.

Nancy is the author of Talk to Me: Like I’m Someone You Love and has created flashcards of the same name.

In this interview we discuss:

• Why relationship cards
• Nancy for the first time shares a vulnerable personal story
• Statement “Talk to me like I’m Someone You Love.”
• Who is this book for?
• What topics are discussed?
• Challenges of communication
• Nancy shares prompts with us.
• Words & listening
• Two takeaways – for improved communication between couples or parent/child

Connect with Nancy

• website
• book
• flashcards

I hope you enjoy the conversation.

If you know anyone who might find value in this conversation, I invite you to share it!

smiling,

Koren

Are you over the age of 50?  Do you worry about being employable now?  Have  you unexpectedly lost your job despite your strong performance?  Do you have a fear that you are no longer employable due to your age?

A limiting belief many have is once you are over 50 it is hard to get a job, and doubly hard due to our current economy.  Michele Woodward knows the truth about that myth.  Michele is an executive coach, career strategist, and author who has helped hundreds of people with employment after 50.

She also has personal experience of gaining employment after 50.  In the 1980s, Michele worked in the White House for the Reagan administration and more recently she was Executive Director of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission, a bipartisan, year-long effort appointed by President Obama.

In this interview we discuss:

• The job market according to Michele.
• Current fear of the job market for those over 50.
• Connector strategy.
• Processing grief with an unexpected job loss.
• Dealing with Doubt
• Process of getting clear on what is next for you.
• College/education
• Vulnerability and authenticity
• Black and white mindset
• Importance of recognizing how far you have come in your journey.
• How the future may not look like what you thought but it may be better.

Connect with Michele

• website

• facebook

• twitter

• radio show WiseWork

My intention with this interview is to empower and inform you that life is not over after 50.  You may have experienced a sudden job loss or want to do something differently but are afraid because you are over 50.  Michele gives some practical insight of things you can do in this next phase of your life.  Remember your age does not define you.

If you know someone who can be helped with this interview please share it with them.  Thank you for spending your time to listen to this interview and share it with someone who needs it.

smiling,

Koren

Patti Digh was my first guest and final guest for 2012.  Patti and I wrapped up 2012 in this interview.  For those of you new to Patti she is writer, a speaker and a mom.  Her work opens space for people to say a big “YES: to their lives – before its’s too late.

You see in 2003 Patti Digh’s entire life changed.  Her stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer.  He died 37 days later. That experience lead Patti to a renewed commitment to ask herself every morning: “what would I be doing today if I only had 37 days to live?”  Patti is the author of several books including best seller Life is a Verb.

As she mentioned in the previous interview, she asks herself these questions as she shapes her life:

How well did you love?

How fully did you live?

How deeply did you let go?

Did you make a difference?

In this interview we discuss:

• Intention Driven vs Circumstance Driven
• Control – her daughter’s diagnosis with Aspergers and her husband’s unexpected cancer diagnosis
• What we learned
• Accepting help
• From our interview in Jan 2012, Patti mentioned how obstacles move the story forward, we further discussed this.
• Two takeaways – 3 things going through loss/grief

Items mentioned in this interview:

• January 2012 interview

• Patti’s husband (otherwise known as Mr. Brilliant) journey with cancer
• Patti’s daughter and Asperger’s

Connect with Patti

• website
• facebook
• twitter
• books: Life is a Verb, Creative is a Verb

Anger.  Do you find yourself angry?.  Do you not want to be angry?  Do you work hard trying to diminish your anger?

Harriet Lerner is a practicing clinical psychologist and is best known for her work on the psychology of women, marriage and family relationships.  She is the author of eleven books including the New York Times bestseller The Dance of Anger.  You may remember Dr. Harriet Lerner was a guest here before and when we talked about sex in relationships from her latest book Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled.

In this interview, Harriet gives us insight about our anger and how it can actually help our life and is not something to bury.

Things we discussed:

• Her incredible journey to publish her book The Dance of Anger.  It took five years and what she learned from this experience.
• How can anger be helpful in our lives
• Ineffective vs effective communication
• Overfunction vs underfunction
• Resistance to change
• Countermoves in change
• Takeaway

Items mentioned in this interview:

• The Dance of Anger

• Marriage Rules

Connect with Harriet:

• website

• twitter

• facebook

As she connected more with her personal quest to make a difference she founded First30Days.com and Arianestudio.com.  She is a writer, speaker and change optimist.

In this interview we talk about her metaphor – The WoodPecker Syndrome along with:

• seminars & workshops -> lifelong learning
• change demons
• perseverance
• support needed to change
• time

Before going on air, Ariane mentioned how many people are “not willing to stick it out for long enough and give up at the first stumbling block.”  She also said that creating the life you want, “is not about money, education, age, or connections.  Big change is a culmination of lots of small change.”

Items mentioned in this interview include:

• The Woodpecker Syndrome
• Mindful 365
• The First 30 Days

Connect with Ariane

• first30days.com
• arianestudio.com
• facebook
• twitter

I invite you to get out of your own way and start making internal changes with yourself – how you see yourself.  You have power and control over your view of yourself.

Thank you for choosing to spend your hour with me.  If you enjoyed this interview, please share it with friends, either by email or using the social media buttons below.  And thanks for sending me all the emails about the show and how the interviews help you in your life.

smiling,

Koren

Susan is talks about how you can learn the no-fail tips to making your favorite holiday treats.

In this interview we discuss:

• Tips for creating less stress in the kitchen.
• Food is an expression of one feels.
• Doing something you have never done before.
• Tips for newbies.
• Letting go of perfection.
• Listen to how Susan views “baking is like driving.”
• Flour containers
• Measuring flour tips
• Sifting flour
• Different types of flour
• Takeaway

Items mentioned in this interview

• King Arthur Baker’s Companion
• King Arthur baking tips & primers
• King Arthur contact info
• King Arthur guarantee

Connect with Susan

• blog
• facebook

Here is the gingerbread village my daughter and her friends made this holiday season.  I hope this interview helps with baking tips as well as your mindset to help you get out of your way and spend time having fun in the kitchen.

smiling,
Koren

In the interview we discuss:

His journey from 7 years old to 25 and why stay in a sport that is known as an individual sport

• His mindset
• His team of people
• Quitting…keeping going
• What he learned from the Olympics.
• Two takeaways – for listeners who want to pursue their dream, and are on the verge of quitting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xofhB6iQBuQ

More about Scott

• Wall Street Journal - Meet the Other Olympian Who Eats Subway
• New York Times - On Patch of Carpet at Trials, a Range of Emotions
• Los Angeles Times - London Olympics: No medal, but a new life path for Scott Weltz
• Post Race Press Conference
• New York Times - One Made It by Water, and Another by Land

In the Los Angeles Times article Scott talked about his journey and said “I have a whole different story than he (Michael Phelps) did.  If my journey can inspire someone down the road, that would be great.  If someone could look up to me and say ‘People always told me I couldn’t, but I think I can,’ and they end up doing it, man, that would be amazing.”

My hope for you is for Scott’s journey to give you insight for fullfilling your own pursuits.

smiling,

Koren

“What do you want from the holidays?”

Listener favorite Peter Walsh is back.  Peter is an organizational expert, New York Times bestselling author and host of Extreme Clutter on OWN.

Peter and I  talk about reducing stress during the holidays.  Peter will share tips to organize your life through the holiday chaos.

In this interview we discuss:

• ways to reduce stress during the holidays
• figuring out the vision you want from the holidays
• communicating with loved ones
• money and the holidays
• expectations and acceptance
• takeaway – tips for the holidays

“You give time for what you believe is important” ~ Peter Walsh

What are you giving time to?  Is it in line with what you think is important?

Connect with Peter

• website
• OWN
• facebook
• twitter

My hope for you is to enjoy your holiday season.  It took me a few years to get in line with what I wanted from the holidays and how I was actually living the holiday season.  Each year I would tweak and refine and get closer to the vision I had along with the vision my family had for the holidays.  Enjoy!

Thank you for choosing to spend your hour with me and Peter.  If you enjoyed this interview, share it with friends.  The buttons below can help you share!

smiling,

Koren

Uncertainty + Risk + Emotional Exposure = Vulnerability.

Aren’t those scary words.  Most of us would rather not experience those situations in our lives.  In fact many people have spent years avoiding those situations.  However according to Brené Brown, “it is the vulnerable moments that bring meaning to our lives.”

Brené Brown is the author of New York Times bestseller Daring Greatly and research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work.  Brené has been on the show before where we discussed our capacity to love others and worthiness.  In this interview Brené gives us more insight into her groundbreaking work on vulnerability and shame so we can dare greatly in our own lives.

In this interview we discuss:

• Brené’s inspiration for Daring Greatly
• Comfort and Safety – the difference between nurturing and disengagement
• Why we would rather live disappointed than feel disappointed
• Why it is hard to lean into vulnerability
• Joy is the most vulnerable, difficult emotion to feel and why it triggers us to prepare for disaster
• What vulnerability looks like in our professional lives
• What vulnerability looks like in ourleadership roles
• What vulnerability looks like in our relationships with family – partners, spouse, children, parents, siblings
• What vulnerability looks like in ourfriendships
• Gremlin Tapes vs. Lizard Brain
• How we can protect ourselves when someone else is in their own shame and trying to hurt of hook us.
• Takeaway

Items mentioned in this interview

• feedback checklist
• Daring Greatly book
• Daring Greatly quote by Theodore Roosevelt 

Connect with Brené

• website
• facebook
• twitter

I hope this interview helps you lean into your own vulnerability and understand shame better.  Doing the things that Brené talks about is a practice.  As you know from this show, it’s not about being perfect or never making mistakes.  It is about practice and tweaking to live your life in alliance with your values.

Thank you for choosing your hour to spend with me.  If you enjoy this interview, please share it with friends, either by email or using the social media buttons below.

smiling,

Koren

Do you worry about how smart you are?  Or do you you learn to without being outcome driven?  

Carol Dweck is a world renowned Stanford University psychologist and the author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.  Her groundbreaking research is breaking the myths of where success really comes from.

We discuss the power of one’s mindset and how that leads to tapping one’s full potential and we will discuss early identifiers such as GATE, early athletic success and labels.

In this interview we discuss:

• Growth & Fixed Mindset
• Where mindsets is applicabl in our lives – business, leadership, workplace environments, education, academics, athletics, relationships, health and personal development
• Social conditioning – labels of GATE, athletic success, outcome driven
• How mindset can get in the way of developing our full potential
• Intellectual undertanding of growth mindset, but still living in a fixed mindset way of life.
• How to develp growth mindset
• Carol Dweck’s definition of success
• Takeaway -two things listeners can do

Mindset resources

• book
• website

I hope this interview gives you evidence that personal self-development is possible for YOU.  Carol Dweck’s research shows us that with a fixed mindset we can get in our own way.  With a growth mindset you provide an opportunity for growth, a willingness to learn and practice without creating a verdict and self-eliminating yourself.  What mindset do you have in the different areas in your life?

smiling,

Koren

We discuss:

• What courage means
• Has Andea ever felt like she didn’t have courage
• How to build courage
• Dealing with uncertainty + courage
• Why she created Cultivating Courage course

Items mentioned in this interview:

• 29 Gifts
• Cultivating Courage e-course

Connect with Andrea

• Superhero Life
• facebook
• twitter
• instagram

I hope this interview helps you know that courage is possible for you.   We can all develop our courage and help it grow like a muscle that needs to strengthen.  If you enjoy this week’s interview, please share it with friends, either by email or using the social media buttons below.

smiling,

Koren

Talent.  Do you groan when you hear that word?  Do you feel shame or believe it is not possible for you to get talent – that you are a lifetime of mistakes? 

You may remember my guest Daniel Coyle author of one of my favorite books The Talent Code.  In past interviews we discussed where talent comes from and the link between our brain and building talent.  

Dan has a new book, The Little Book of Talent: 52 TIPS for Improving Your Skills and in this interview we  talk about why you need to stop viewing mistakes as failures and what you can do to build the skills that you need to be successful.

In this interview Dan and I talk about:

• mistakes – failures
• the certain type of mistake that is okay to make
•  intellectual understanding of making mistakes intellectually, next step how to really live it
• mistakes as a verdict
• comfort and safety – getting good at something requires risk
• culture values of grit, failure, struggle
• Portrait of a real hero “Someone who bends over exhausted when no one else is watching.”
• Your brain doesn’t care what it learns it.  Your brain is just built to do stuff.
• “reaching”
• skill building
• hard skills/soft skills
• skill building not just for athletics, music or academics, also applies to leadership and business
• shades of perfection
• how to practice ABC’s without creating an environmnet for self-elimination
• practice – REPS
• Little League Letter Dan mentions in interview

If you enjoy this week’s interview, please share it with friends, either by email or using the social media buttons below.

smiling,

Koren

Connect with Dan

• website
• twitter
• facebook
• The Talent Code
• The Little Book of Talent

Other interviews with Dan Coyle

Interview 1 – background and how talent is really created

Interview 2 – in depth about our brains and how we can build talent

Fabeku Fatunmise is a business awesomizer, suck exorist and sonic alchemist and world’s most skeptical shaman.  Fabeku is here to talk about his journey as an entrepreneur and how he has really created a business and lifestyle that works for him.

•  mindset
• blueprints
• entrepreneurship as personal development
• inner stuff
• Two takeaways – for entrepreneurs on their journey

Connect with Fabeku

• website
• facebook
• twitter

music Christine Kane - Virginia

Lee Woodruff really understands this from her own personal experience.  Her husband Bob Woodruff was at the top of his game in 2006 as co-anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight.  But then tragedy struck when he was in a tank in Iraq which was hit by an explosive.  Bob was severely injured and nearly died.  Six years after his traumatic brain injury, Bob has stated that he is “getting back to normal” at  home and at work as a national correspondent for ABC.

Lee talks honestly about resilience moving forward in her life and finding the ability to hope again.  And through her journey Lee has achieved her own dream after the age of 50 by writing her debut novel Those We Loved Most which hit the New York Times Best Seller list.

Those We Loved Most is a book about human resilience.  My favorite quote is in the beginning “Loss is not the end, it’s simply an invitation to change.”

We discuss:

• why Lee choose to write this story?
• loss, grief and resilience
• “magical thinking” ~ trying to make the tape in the mind change the present
• when in the dark abyss, how do you know that life will be better?
• what the past six years have taught her
• takeaways

Connect with Lee

• book
• website
• facebook
• twitter

music Christine Kane - Virginia

We discuss:

• How she started out not believing she could create the life she wanted, that has now changed.
• Her relationship with food now.
• Her relationship with exercise
• How she lost her weight if she did not diet

music Christine Kane - Virginia

Laurie has developed Courage Studio where women entrepreneurs can be part of a community that can help them grow their business.

Connect with Laurie

Over the years, the show has been about the possibilities for you – the real possibilities.  I don’t want to live in a box where we are defined by our past, but where we can really truly create a life that we actually want for ourselves.

After much thought, reflection, emails from listeners and advice from my mentor, I have decided to change things up on the show.  I have spent the past 5.5 years interviewing other people and giving them a platform to use their voice.

Now I am using my voice.  From time to time I will be discussing things I have learned in my life’s journey.  I believe life is a classroom.  This radio show has provided incredible opportunities to learn and grow for both you and me.  As a coach for the past 19 years I have been able to test out what I have learned and see what really works.  Because I realize that intellectually learning something does not actually change your life.  It’s also about doing.

I am passionate about people living true to themselves in a practical way.

Today I am going to talk about the Secret Sauce.  This is the sauce to success.  On this show the underlying question that I have had is “why are some people successful and others not?”

On this show I talk about “The Quest for the Secret Sauce.”

Connect with Koren

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music Christine Kane - Virginia ]]> http://howshereallydoesit.com/podcast/2012/06/the-quest-for-the-secret-sauce/feed/ 2 0:54:03 I started this show in October of 2006 because I had a question how can I have better life balance?  I often wondered “How do other women do it all?  Why can’t I do better?  What’s wrong with me?”I wanted a show where I could learn those answers.[...] I started this show in October of 2006 because I had a question how can I have better life balance?  I often wondered “How do other women do it all?  Why can’t I do better?  What’s wrong with me?”I wanted a show where I could learn those answers.  I asked the station to create a show and they told me I should create it.So, I sought out guests who had information and journeys to share with others.  I figured we could learn from their journeys to improve our own lives. Over the years, the show has been about the possibilities for you – the real possibilities.  I don’t want to live in a box where we are defined by our past, but where we can really truly create a life that we actually want for ourselves. After much thought, reflection, emails from listeners and advice from my mentor, I have decided to change things up on the show.  I have spent the past 5.5 years interviewing other people and giving them a platform to use their voice. Now I am using my voice.  From time to time I will be discussing things I have learned in my life’s journey.  I believe life is a classroom.  This radio show has provided incredible opportunities to learn and grow for both you and me.  As a coach for the past 19 years I have been able to test out what I have learned and see what really works.  Because I realize that intellectually learning something does not actually change your life.  It’s also about doing. I am passionate about people living true to themselves in a practical way. Today I am going to talk about the Secret Sauce.  This is the sauce to success.  On this show the underlying question that I have had is “why are some people successful and others not?” On this show I talk about “The Quest for the Secret Sauce.”   Connect with Koren twitter facebook music Christine Kane - Virginia Koren Motekaitis no no Life Coaching, Successhttp://howshereallydoesit.com/podcast/2012/06/the-quest-for-the-secret-sauce/http://www.howshereallydoesit.com/wp-content/uploads/Koren%20Motekaitis%20-%20Secret%20Sauce.mp3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/howshereallydoesitpodcast/~3/3JWeCkBjQ8Q/ http://howshereallydoesit.com/podcast/2012/06/adam-baker/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:23:41 +0000 hello@howshereallydoesit.com (Koren Motekaitis) http://howshereallydoesit.com/podcast/?p=4333 …In 2008, after the birth of their daughter Milligan, Adam Baker and his wife, Courtney, decided to sell everything they owned, pay off their consumer debt and travel the world as a family.  The Baker’s simple motto is “The first]]> In 2008, after the birth of their daughter Milligan, Adam Baker and his wife, Courtney, decided to sell everything they owned, pay off their consumer debt and travel the world as a family.  The Baker’s simple motto is “The first step to living a life of passion and purpose is to remove the barriers that hold you back.”  This journey lead to the creation and work on ManVsDebt.com.

Now Adam is finishing up a new project as the producer of  I’m Fine Thanks a feature length documentary about complacency.  It’s a collection of stories about life, the choices we all make and the paths we ultimately decide to follow.

The windows of possibilty is the theme to my show each week.  It’s about not being defined by our past and working towards a new future.  In the interview Adam talks about how he was kicked out of college, worked in two fast food restaurants, prior to his latest accomplishments with Man vs. Debt and now his documentary I’m Fine, Thanks.

I asked him the question that he has never been asked – “How did he not let that experience define him as who he was and what he was capable of?”

We also talked about:

• why the documentary I’m Fine, Thanks
• curse of 7
• complacency
• who’s script are you living
• creating your opportunity for you to choose
• what did Adam learn from making his documentary I’m Fine, Thanks
• kickstarter project

Connect with Adam

• Kickstarter project – I’m Fine, Thanks
• Man vs. Debt
• twitter
• facebook

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We discuss my own personal experience with success.  How I was able to achieve success despite a deep core belief  of “I am a loser.”  And what others can do to achieve success in personal growth, athletics, and business.

Connect with Koren

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She successfully climbed a ladder of academic success earning a Ph.D in sociology.  While working in her academic teaching appointment Angela realized this was not a good fit for her.

Angela had spent her life doing what she thought she was supposed to do and what others expected her to do which lead her to a near death experience.

Angela has been on quite a journey with her health and recovery.  She has been open about her journey on Productive Flourishing and started a powerful conversation – Extraordinary Women Change the World.  Angela is here to talk about how you can understand yourself and your strengths through adversity.

 In this interview we discuss:

• doing what you are supposed to do – doing what others expect of you
• health scares
• being vulnerable
• empowering women
• Two takeaways – for the listeners to practice to practice empowerment

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Connect with Angela

• Extraordinary Women Change the World
• twitter
• facebook

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We talk about:

• what she does and how she makes a living
• putting yourself in the driver seat of your life
• feelings
• being real
• suckage

Connect with Danielle:

• website
• book
• twitter
• facebook

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Her latest book is The First Husband.  In this novel, Laura explores how we choose our partners and whether we can trust that choice once we’ve made it.

We talk about The First Husband and get to know the woman behind the book – Laura Dave.

• Why she wrote the book.
• The First Husband is about relationships.  What were the questions you asked yourself  to help you explore your thoughts about relationships?
• What Laura Dave trying to figure out by writing?
• Making choices
• What is Laura Dave’s daily life like?
• The uncertainty of book publishing and being an author in that environment.

Connect with Laura

• The First Husband
• website
• facebook
• twitter

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Jess is here to talk about how you can work effectively with a virtual assistant for your business.

• What is a VA?  What does a VA do?
• Why hire a VA?
• Trust with the VA?
• How to know the right fit?
• How to know what you want in a VA?
• How much do VA’s cost?
• How to work effectively with a VA?
• How to be respectful of one’s VA?
• Two takeaways – what can a listener interested in hiring a VA do to hire/work with a VA?

Connect with Jessica

website

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Her philosophy embraces the goal of reconnecting with the internal wisdom about eating with which one is born, for the purpose of developing a healthy and satisfying relationship with food and body.  in her private practice Elyse helps her clients overcome diet mentality and learn how to listen to their body.  The third edition of Intuitive Eating will be out this summer and includes a chapter on children and food and more reseearch supporting intuitive eating.

We discuss:

• the myth of fast weight loss – what happens
• diets are abuse
• “control of food”
• enjoy food and get satisfaction
• cognitive distortions
• shackles of dieting

Connect with Elyse

• website
• book
• audiobook

More interviews with Elyse Resch

• Make Peace with Food
• Children and Food

We discussed:

• lack of representation of women in the highlest levels.
• how we raise our sons and daughters
• the financial value of a stay at home mom
• how we can stop the influences of media about women
• how women can stop media influences on ourselves

Connect with Jennifer Siebel Newsom

• website
• film
• facebook
• twitter

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Are you stuck?

Do you want to switch jobs?

Have you been trying to figure out the next step in your career?

Have you taken time off and now want to know how to re-enter a career that you enjoy and want?

Did you take time off from your career and now want to re-enter the work force and create the career you want for your life?

Renee Sievert, RN, MFT and coach and I talked about how you can gain clarity and direction to help you build the career you want for your life.

• Renee’s own journey with handling What’s Next
• The 3 step process of What’s next: Take Stock, Get Clear and Act
• Why is getting clear so important
• Equus coaching
• The takeaway – a few things for you to help you figure out what’s next in your career

Do you want help figuring out WHAT’S NEXT for your career?  Renee and I have an upcoming group.  Click HERE to receive information about the group.

Connect with Renee

• facebook
• book
• website

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Have you heard about a relatively new company – Dwolla?  Dwolla created a payments network that’s completely independent of credit and debit cards.  You can go shopping in person and use your mobile phone to transfer cash from your bank account to that store.  The cost.  Free for the buyer and .25 cents for the business.

Currently Dwolla has 20 employees and about 80,000 users moving between $1 million and $3 million per day in transactions.  By the end of the year, Dwolla expects to have 250,000 users and a total of $1 billion in transactions for the year.

According to Fast Company magazine, Dwolla is the World’s 8th most innovative company.

I talked with Dwolla COO, Charise Flynn about:

• What is Dwolla
• Why did founder, Ben Milne create Dwolla
• safety & security
• using Dwolla with social media – Facebook, twitter, and LinkedIn
• what kind of impact does Dwolla want to make
• how is Dwolla growing
• Business side – staying in Iowa, working on folding tables, etc.

Dwolla

• Website
• Safety
• Security & Patners
• twitter

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He is a Computer Scientist and Manager by training, Designer by trade, and Performer by birth.  Prior to embarking on this project, he served as the Assistant Director of Engineering / Senior Software Design Engineer by day at MAYA Design, and an independent DJ / Music Producer / Performance Director by night.

When he’s not fighting for the right to empathize and to be empathized, he is acting, directing, dancing, composing, programming, or woodworking.

We discussed:

• What art is.
• Realizing Empathy Project
• Kickstarter project
• Empathetic Conversations

Connect with Slim

• website
• facebook
• kickstarter
• twitter
• youtube

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Peter has been a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey show and is the author of several best selling books, most recently LIGHTEN UP: Love What You Have, Have What You Need, Be Happier with Less.

• risk + uncertainty + clutter
• Starbuckization of the United States
• why we don’t like uncertainty in our lives – society’s conditioning
• Education in the United States
• how Peter deals with uncertainty in his own life
• Takeaway – Peter’s 2 views of the world

Connect with Peter

• website
• books
• facebook
• Extreme Clutter TV show
• twitter
• youtube

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She is the author of eleven books including the New York Times bestseller The Dance of Anger. Her latest book is MARRIAGE RULES; A MANUAL FOR THE MARRIED AND THE COUPLED UP.

WHITE GIRL PROBLEMS pokes fun at, and provides commentary on, the current state of pop culture manufactured drama of the oblivious is not just accepted, but glorified by reality shows, endorsement deals, and glossy magazine covers.

We discussed:

• Who is Babe Walker really?
• Why do we enjoy reading/watching people complain about trivial problems?
• Our pop culture’s fascination with these rich girls and over the top problems.
• How they built a business and created a book all from twitter two years ago.

Connect with Babe Walker

• book
• twitter
• facebook
• blog

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Do you think you are lucky?

My friend Susan Hyatt is here to discuss how you can create your own luck in your life.  Even if you don’t think you are lucky right now, it does not mean that you can not be lucky!

Susan helps people create their own brand of luck.  And she is the author of Create Your Own Luck where you can learn step by step how to do it yourself.

Susan and I discuss:

• What is luck?
• Why is mindset so important?
• People who have turned their luck around
• Takeaways

After the interview I asked Susan one final question.

Koren: Do you ever worry about running out of luck?

Susan: There is no such thing as running out of luck.  Since we are creators of it, we tap into and generate as much as we want.  I never worry that I’ll run out of luck.  Once you know what you know, you can’t unlearn it.  Like riding a bike, or swimming.

Connect with Susan

• website
• book
• facebook
• twitter

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What’s possible for this person?  What can she accomplish in this economy?  How can she provide for her daughter and herself as a single mom?

Alicia Rittenhouse is now a successful entrepreneur as a Tech Cheerleader + Digital Diva.  She has built her business bootstrapping from the ground up while raising her daughter and being the sole provider.

Alicia teaches other entrepreneurs to use technology so they can build successful online businesses.

We discuss:

• how she went from making $10 an hour to $75,000 last year
• how she bootstrapped her business
• and ways for you to build your business using technology

Connect with Alicia

• website
• facebook
• twitter

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Do you think somehow you got your job as a mistake?

Do you continue to pursue more education and credentials to overcome your impostor syndrome?

What are the secret thoughts of successful women so you can be more like them?

Dr. Valerie Young understands how you feel.  She too felt that way when she was in graduate school and getting in her own way while trying to write her dissertation.  Valerie has spent her career on understanding the impostor syndrome and how to help you overcome feeling like an impostor.

Valerie is the author of The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the IMPOSTOR SYNDROME and How to Thrive in Spite of It

In this interview Valerie and I discuss:

• the impostor syndrome and who feels this way
• why so many of us feel like impostors
• how to overcome the impostor syndrome
• The takeaway – two steps you can practice to overcome the impostor syndrome

Connect with Valerie

• website
• book
• facebook

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My guest Patti Digh asked herself that 38 days after her step-father was diagnosed with cancer.

He had passed away on the 37th day.

The experience of those 37 days lead her to create a body of work where Patti wanted to write everything down she wanted to remember and everything that she wanted her kids to know about her.  She wanted her kids to know she was a human person full of fears and vulnerabilities, successes and the things she was proud of.  As well as things that she has failed at.

Her blog 37days.com was a way to tell her story.  Stories from her life to her children.

She also did not want to be told that tomorrow is day 1 and have regrets.  She lives by “this is exactly the life I wanted to live.”

Patti is an author, speaker and mother.  She has written 6 books including best sellers Life is a Verb and Creative is a Verb.

Patti and I discussed

• how this experience helped her get clear in her life
• the three questions that Patti uses to help her measure her success
• there’s no royal road (find out what it is)
• finding the extraordinary in the ordinary
• The takeaway – two things you can do to practice living extraordinary in the ordinary of your own life.

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Connect with Patti

• website
• facebook
• twitter
• google+
• books: Life is a Verb, Creative is a Verb

She is a New York Times bestselling author, “America’s best known life coach“ according to USA Today and O, The Oprah Magazine columnist.

Martha has a new book coming out at the end of this month Finding Your Way in a Wild New World.

I welcomed having my mentor and teacher Martha Beck here so we ccould discuss how you can get out of your head and find your way in this wild new world.

We discuss:

• Four technologies of Magic – Wordlessness, Oneness, Imagination, Forming
• Why Magic and what Martha means by it
• Wordlessness – why it’s an important step in this process.
• Goals and Wordlessness
• Onesness
• Imagination
• And examples of Forming
• Two takeaways

Connect with Martha

• pre-order book: Finding Your Way in a Wild New World
• website
• twitter
• facebook

Listen to more interviews with Martha Beck

• What dieting really does to your body (and the story of Martha Beck’s career)
• Feeling stuck, uncertain and blocked.  Try Steering by Starlight.
• Creating the Life You Want
• Success and Martha’s WIG’s

What did you experience when Martha took us through one of her favorite tools in the interview?  Did you feel your heartbeat?  Did you drop all your other problems, to-do lists?

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Pamela Slim is a seasoned business coach, author, and professional speaker who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business.  Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation, is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web.  A former corporate manager and entrepreneur herself for more than a decade, she deeply understands the concerns faced by first-time entrepreneurs. Her experience teaching martial arts for 10 years to thousands of students has helped her clients deal with fear head-on. Her book Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur was named Best Small Business/Entrepreneur Book of 2009 by 800CEORead.

Pam is here to talk about how entrepreneurs get in their own way and ways for them to get out of their way and build their business.

• Ways in which entrepreneurs get in their own way.
• What are your top three wishes you could inject into every would-be entrepreneurs brain?
• Stories of clients who were in their way and removed road blocks and built their business.
• Two takeaways – two things listeners can do to get out of their way.

Here’s what Pam said about the interview.

Connect with Pam

• website
• twitter
• facebook
• book

In this interview we discuss

• how you can experience your right hemisphere
• how to stay out of your own way
• how your thoughts and feelings can affect your life
• why compassion is so important

Jill Bolte Taylor: STROKE of Insight TED TALK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU

In this interview, two students from UCD who are involved with Occupy UCD share what the movement is about and the state of education in our country.

• Occupy Movement
• “It’s not hatred that kills people, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel
• Occupy UC Davis and Occupy Davis
• Education – high costs and the value
• Two takeways – how you can get involved

This interview occured a few hours befor the pepper spray incident at UC Davis on November 18, 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJmmnMkuEM

Connect with Occupy UC Davis

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