Do you realize what stress is costing yourself, relationships, business/work? Did you know that there is something you can do about it? Join The Identity Coach, Lynn Lessell, as we learn how to manage the stress that we didn't even know about and take control to become our true selves. Together, we will discover the obstacles that are holding us back. Through Inner Power Partners (IPP) we have created a community so you will never be alone on your journey of unleashing your inner power.
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THE MANAGING MUM, Mom Stress, More Time, Set Boundaries, Work Life Balance, Mom Guilt, Self Care for Moms
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Stressed out by trying to find time to fit it all in? Do you wish that you could be more present with your children? Desperate for time to think about what you need but don’t ever get there? Financial pressure keeping you stuck in this cycle? I am thrilled that you are here! This is the podcast for mums who are managing it all. Overcome the overwhelm so that you can be more present at work and at home. Learn healthy habits that will boost your productivity and decrease your stress so that yo ...
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55 | Longing for a Life of Calm and Ease? You Can Have It!
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My mission is to help working moms build the mental muscles of resilience so that they can enjoy this busy season of life and can do so calmly and with peace and confidence. The truth is that you CAN be successful at work while being present with your family and building deep relationships with them without feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by it a…
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Making the Transition from Solopreneur to Entrepreneur
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Get ready for a fiery discussion on IPP Thursday as host Lynn Lessell takes on the topic that's been burning up the business community: solopreneur vs. entrepreneur. Join Lynn as she dives into an article by Kellee Marlow, exploring when it's time to make the leap from solo entrepreneurship to scaling up with a team. If you're a business owner wond…
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54 | The Road to Resilient - A Place of Calm, Confidence and Peace as a Working Mom
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Life as a working mom is stressful. You have so much to do. You feel guilty for doing or not doing things. There are so many expectations on you and needs that you are trying to meet. I have been there and have found myself in the spin that comes with feeling stressed and anxious all the time. This episode tells the story of how I moved from this p…
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53 | LIVE COACHING: How Do I Stay Present in the Moment With My Children?
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In this live coaching session, Amanda wanted some help figuring out how she could lose her temper less and could be more present with her children, giving them the attention they need and crave so that their cups can be filled. I loved the intentionality of this session where she was vulnerable enough to get to know what blockages she had that were…
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52 | Failing at Home and at Work? Success Is 3 Steps Away!
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When there are so many balls in the air, it is easy to feel like we are dropping some or not juggling them very well at all. As working moms, this can leave us feeling defeated and exhausted. But there are things we can do so that we can feel like we are succeeding and so that we can enjoy this season with more calm, feeling confident in the way we…
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16 Areas Business Owners Need To Outsource ASAP (Part III)
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In the final segment of this episode, Lynn tackles the remaining 8 areas identified in the Forbes article, including marketing, customer service, and technology support. Lynn shares her own experiences with outsourcing and delegation, and offers practical advice on how to identify the right freelancers or contractors for the job. By the end of this…
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51 | How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty
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Oooh, the discomfort of mom guilt! What a thing! It can rule our lives so much that we would rather give up our own boundaries and our needs in order to avoid it. This episode was a live that I did in my Facebook group which I would love to invite you to be a part of. You can join here: bit.ly/managingmumcommunity It gives you a new perspective on …
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16 Areas Business Owners Need To Outsource ASAP (Part II)
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In part two of this episode, Lynn delves deeper into the article's top areas where business owners can benefit from hiring or outsourcing. From social media management to bookkeeping, Lynn highlights the importance of recognizing your own strengths and weaknesses, and how outsourcing can help you build a stronger, more efficient business. Whether y…
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50 | Hangry Children? Hangry Mum? Stop Making These Mistakes With Guest Adi St George
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'Hanger' is a term well known in our household. As a working mum, it can be hard to remember to feed myself the right foods let alone the children! When we don't feed our bodies properly, we experience a physiological shift that means that we cannot think clearly and thus, we do not behave the way that we want to. This conversation with nutritionis…
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16 Areas Business Owners Need To Outsource ASAP (Part I)
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Feeling overwhelmed as a one-person show? You're not alone! On this week's IPP Thursday, Lynn Lessell dives into an insightful article from Forbes, identifying 16 areas where business owners need to hire or outsource. From administrative tasks to creative projects, Lynn breaks down which tasks are best left to others and which ones you should prior…
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49 | 3 Ways to Bust School Holiday Anxiety
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I know that the mid year school holidays can cause huge stress and anxiety. I have felt it myself and I have heard numerous mums talking about it in various places. So if you have felt a bit of dread about this period, you are not alone! I believe that there are ways that we can feel different about this time, however. Ways that, rather than leavin…
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48.1 | Find More Time Friday - How Being Resilient Can Give You More Time
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This final episode of this season of Find More Time Fridays talks about resilience and how building our resilience can allow us to show up in the best way possible while also giving us the capacity to make rational, logical decisions that lead us to having more time. If you want to dig into this more, you still have time to register for the Take Ba…
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48 | 3 Things Keeping You From Work Life Balance
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Achieving work life balance is something that I think many of us are trying to do all the time. I am interested by what causes us to be out of balance and also in what we can do to get back there. Here are three things we can stop doing so that we are able to achieve a closer state of balance. By giving these three things up, we will find that ther…
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47.1 | Find More Time Friday - The Relationship Between Time and Values
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I had a great session with a colleague once that highlighted so much to me about my relationship with time and also with money. I bring the exercise she did with me to this episode today so that you can benefit from the lesson I learnt about the relationship between our values and time, including how much time we have. In this third Find More Time …
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47 | 5 Questions to Shift Your Mindset as a Working Mom
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This episode is inspired by 5 questions I got from Marie Forleo, the author of a book called ‘Everything is Figureoutable’. I loved these questions and thought that as working mums, they can be so useful to help us be curious about where we are unsatisfied or stuck and where we want to make changes. When we know what is causing us discomfort in the…
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46.1 | Find More Time Friday - A Formula for More Time
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More time is something that we, as working moms, long for. And more specifically more me-time, time to slow down, breathe and perhaps do something for ourselves. I believe that this time comes from doing something in the moments when we feel like we have no time. And this formula offers a reminder for what you can do in the moment to help you have …
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46 | Build Boundaries Between Work and Home: Be More Organised With This Simple Tool
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Are you a fly by the seat of your pants kind of person? Do you wish you could be more organized but can't seem to figure out how (or perhaps even why?!) There is a fluster and chaos that comes with not having a plan in place and even though planning might feel uncomfortable to you, it makes such a difference to how productive you are. Today I outli…
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45.1 | Find More Time Friday - What Happens When You Think You Have No Time
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In preparation for the Take Back Your Time Workshop on 2 July, every Friday for the month of June will be Find More Time Friday where I will be bringing you a short bonus episode with some concept or thought or experience I have of how you can have more time as a working mom. To register for the Take Back Your Time Workshop on 2 July 2024, click he…
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45 | Never Have Enough Time? Stop Making These 3 Excuses
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Time is a finite thing and it can feel like it is slipping through our fingers. Have you ever found that there are times when you can get so much done that you suddenly have a bit of time to spare? If so, what was different about that situation? I would imagine that you possibly were enjoying the things you were doing and so there were no other dis…
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44 | LIVE COACHING: How Do I Stop Snapping and Be More Patient?
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Sarah had been struggling to keep her patience with her toddler and her husband and found herself snapping at them. Since becoming a mom and working on her business at the same time, she had lost sight of what she did to bring her joy and find her peace and she was looking for help in finding a way to be more patient and to remember what she loved …
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43 | The One Thing Working Moms Can Do to Slow Down and Be Calmer
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Calm is something I used to envy in other working mums, or even SAHM mums, that seemed to have it all together. I might have looked calm on the outside but underneath it all, I was paddling furiously to keep myself afloat, I was exhausted and behind the scenes was chaos. But I have learnt how to slow down, how to be calmer and more patient and I am…
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42 | Set Boundaries So That You Can Be More Productive With Mahnaz Sharif
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This episode is a fabulous conversation with Mahnaz Sharif all about boundaries and how setting boundaries can support our productivity and our wellbeing! Mahnaz empowers Mums whose business dreams are buried under family needs. Most mums know the feeling of being sandwiched between what their family needs from them and the business they want to cr…
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41 | My Journey From Hating Exercise to Completing a Half Ironman
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As a young girl, the thought of exercise made me feel exhausted, heavy and lethargic. I would do everything I could not to exercise. Little did I know that a few years later, I would be a rower, would be running half marathons and would be completing a half ironman. My story is one that I think that we could possibly all relate to in some area of o…
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40 | Feeling Stuck? 5 Ways to Move From Striving to Flow
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Are you feeling stuck in some area of your life? In your role as a working mom or in your role at work? In your health or in your relationships? Do you feel like you just can’t see way out of the situation and the way that things are going but you know that you want things to be different? Today's episode offers five steps to getting unstuck that I…
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39.1 | BONUS EPISODE 2 - The Impact of Stress on How Much Time You Have as a Working Mom
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You are stressed and overwhelmed and just wish you had a moment for yourself. The to do list goes on and on and you aren't sure when you are going to get it all done. You snap at the children, want to cry and feel like you are going to break at any moment. This episode looks at how this state of stress can lead to the fact that we have even less ti…
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39 | How to Close Your Laptop When You Still Have Things to Do
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At the end of the day, do you find it really hard to close your laptop and stop thinking about the to do list and all the things that you didn’t get done? Do you feel drawn back to it and find yourself working after hours or unable to be present with your family or even yourself? The overstimulation of all that is required of us during the day can …
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38.1 | BONUS EPISODE - 3 Ways You Can Take Back Your Time
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We all long for more time. Time to do the have tos and time to do the want tos! But it feels like there is never enough of this precious resource and we are running around trying to fit everything in while feeling flustered and exhausted. Today, I offer three practical ways that you can take back your time so that you can get more done in the day a…
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38 | Struggling to Stay Focused? Stop doing These 3 Things
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When the to do list is as long as our arms, it is so easy to jump from task to task, suddenly remembering that something needs to be done or reacting to a request for something from one of the many people who have needs or expectations of us. We are distracted, there isn't enough time to fit everything in and we end up feeling guilty for not workin…
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37 | Lesson’s Learnt About Living From My Daughter’s Open-Heart Surgery
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On 9 June 2022, my two-year-old daughter was wheeled into theatre to undergo open heart surgery. As I watched her prepare for the surgery and in the days following this ordeal, I was in awe of how she managed the whole process and it got me thinking about why she was able to do so with such calm and ease and peace. It made me think about how we cou…
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36 | Money vs Time. The Debate Between Working Full Time and Being With Your Children
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Do you feel like you are constantly chasing your tail, trying to balance the time you spend at work and the time you spend at home? Do you wish you had more time for your children and yourself and that you could give up some of your work time but you need the money? Does the work life balance seem impossible to find and you wish you could feel less…
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35 | 3 Ways Back to Me Time and What Brings You Joy and Balance
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Do you find that you never have a chance to do the things that you love? Or you actually can’t even remember what it was that you used to do that brought you joy? One of the biggest problems I have come across for working moms is finding ‘me-time’ or taking any time for ourselves if the time does come up or is offered to us. We end up out of balanc…
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IPP Thursday (Dealing with Difficult People)
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In today's episode of IPP Thursday, host Lynn tackles the tough topic of dealing with difficult people in conversation. Whether they dominate the discussion or are just downright offensive, Lynn challenges listeners to consider strategies for handling these challenging interactions. Tune in for practical tips and advice on how to navigate conversat…
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34 | How Her Beliefs Caused Her Anxiety and How That Changed With Shan Wright
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Today, I had the great privilege of spending time with Shan Wright who lives in Indiana USA, a working mom of 4 and a registered nurse and wellness coach so we have a little bit in common! Shan’s passion for holistic healing and wellness grew after her experience with postpartum anxiety. She now shares the solutions she uses for intentional and pea…
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In this episode of IPP Thursday, host Lynn delves into the topic of deadlines and explores the various ways in which they can impact our lives. Whether deadlines create a sense of urgency or lead to unnecessary stress, Lynn offers insightful tips and strategies for managing our relationship with deadlines. Tune in to gain valuable perspective on ho…
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33 | LIVE COACHING: How Do I Stay Focused so I Can Get Everything Done?
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In this coaching call, Diane was looking for some help with time management. She came to me looking for strategies to shut out the noise and focus on what matters in every time block and each area of her life. We worked through what isn’t working for her. She was distracted and found that she wasn't productive when she had the time to be. She devel…
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IPP Thursday (What Do You Want People To Know About You?)
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In today's episode of IPP Thursday, host Lynn poses a thought-provoking question to the listeners: what is the most important thing you want people to know about you? As the discussion unfolds, the focus turns to how this answer can apply to both personal and work life, exploring the concept of authenticity and how we navigate between different rol…
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32 | A Bit More About My Journey of Working Motherhood 🥳WITH A BIRTHDAY GIFT INSIDE🎁
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Today is my birthday and so I am excited to share a little bit more about where I have come from and where I am today. We look at the tools that I have used to make changes in my life and to transform it from one of striving and fluster and not doing anything properly to one of focus and feeing in control of my future, able to keep that work life b…
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IPP Thursday (Need More Time In The Day?)
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On this episode of IPP Thursday, Lynn dives into the concept of time management. She asks listeners if they ever wished they had more hours in a day and explores different strategies for managing schedules. Do you stick to a routine, or do you find yourself constantly playing catch-up? Tune in as Lynn provides helpful tips and tricks for making the…
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31 | The Secret Weapon to Living a Slower, Calmer Life With Balance
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Sometimes we lie in bed and wonder how we could make a change to the relentless rush and hamster wheel of life. Or at least, I have done that many nights of my life! And I have found that there is one thing that I can do that can allow me the space and the freedom to slow down and to respond life the way that I want to, living it more intentionally…
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30 | Find the Focus You Need to Get Things Done as a Working Mum
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Once the children are settled at school and the year is in full swing, we still have to get back into the swing of work if we have been out of it over the holidays. I found that my work took a bit of a backseat while I was getting everyone ready and into the new school year and now I am back at my desk and need to hit the ground running! This can s…
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29 | VALENTINE'S SPECIAL: How to Connect With Your Husband and Feel ‘In Love’ Again
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Connecting with someone is the foundation of any relationship. If you do not connect with someone, it is hard to keep that relationship going. In the busy-ness of working and mothering life, there is little time to think about how we connect. Sometimes we do and sometimes we don’t and if we don’t, we don’t often take time to think about why not. Th…
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28 | Manage the Back to School/New School Exhaustion
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This is a busy season for working moms. After the holidays, we are flung into back-to-school activities with everything new whether it is a new class or a new school altogether, or just a new year after the festivities of the Christmas holidays! It can be exhausting and this exhaustion can cause us to be impatient, irritable and generally not the w…
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27 | Resentment Eating You Up? Time to Take Back the Fork!
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If you are anything like me, resentment is a part of your life, even more so now that you are a mum trying to manage the mental and emotional load and fit everything in that needs to get done. It is a really hard emotion to put down and it can cause real chasms and break downs in relationships. Today’s episode offers a new take on resentment that m…
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In this episode of MeMonday, host Lynn delves into the intriguing and often paradoxical concept of change. With a keen understanding that change is typically met with resistance, Lynn explores the potential benefits that transformative experiences can bring to our lives. Drawing from personal anecdotes and expert insights, she tackles the overarchi…
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In this episode of IPP Thursday, join host Lynn as she delves deeper into the intriguing topic of "Best Practices." Building upon the discussions from the previous episode, Lynn provokes introspection by questioning whether we unknowingly slip into autopilot mode while executing these so-called "best" practices. With utmost curiosity, she invites l…
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26 | Do This One Thing to Get the Results You Want
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Are you struggling to see results even though it feels like you are working so hard? Do you wonder why you can’t see to make any progress? Do you wish you could feel less pressured and more at ease? In every area of our lives, there is one thing we can do to make sure that we make progress and that we get the results that we want. Today’s episode t…
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In this episode of MeMonday, join host Lynn as she delves into the topic of energy. We've all experienced times when our tank feels completely empty and navigating through day-to-day tasks seems insurmountable. Lynn dives into the different ways we can recharge and replenish our energy levels when facing such situations. Whether it's through self-c…
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IPP Thursday (Are Best Practices Truly the BEST Practices?)
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In this episode of IPP Thursday, host Lynn dives into the intriguing and essential topic of "best practices." What exactly are best practices, and how do they pertain to your own life and endeavors? Lynn explores the concept's application and potential pitfalls, raising thought-provoking questions along the way. Are these so-called best practices t…
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25 | The Anxiety Equation. Shift Your Perspective and Get Control
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Feeling anxious is something that we have all experienced in varying degrees. But why do some people find certain situations anxiety provoking while others seem to manage them or even thrive in them? Why do some people get overwhelmed, lose focus and feel stressed when other can remain calm and peaceful and in control? Today’s conversation takes a …
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MeMonday (Slow Down...You're Moving Too Fast)
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In this episode of MeMonday, host Lynn delves into a common frustration we all experience: the feeling that taking small steps towards our goals isn't getting us there fast enough. She explores the idea that rushing and taking shortcuts may ultimately lead us on a longer and more challenging route. Join Lynn as she shares personal anecdotes and ins…
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