What if personal transformation didn't have to be HARD? What if you could PLAY your way through obstacles in life and relationships? That's what the conversations on Be. Play. Love. reveal to you. Listen in and learn how to embrace your whole self. Pull up a chair and let's explore how to… - Live your life fully in your purpose - Interrupt old patterns and befriend your feelings - Experience “play” as a way of being Join us each week if you want to live consciously, joyfully, and transform y ...
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Far out conversations unpacking the game of life, the path to reveal the game itself, and how to play it. It's time to give up the struggle. It's time to awaken to your power. It's time to play. In the vein of Abraham Hicks, Access Consciousness, Deepak Chopra, Byron Katie, Brenee Brown, Nassim Haramein, Danielle LaPorte, Gay Hendricks, Eckhart Tolle, and Louise Hay.
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Did you know that the daisy flower is known for being the “friendliest flower?” It symbolizes new beginnings and hope for a better day on the horizon. It’s a flower that comes in many colors, each representing something new. From childbirth to motherhood, sense of humor, and sensuality. All the things you will find being discussed here. Hosted by Mary Hendricks, a mom of three, wife, and social media influencer from @theverymarylife. Come in as a new friend but leave feeling like an old frie ...
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Don't Fight a Transition, Let the New Energy In w/ Gay Hendricks
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Most people experience an injury or other setbacks as an enterprise of the universe working against us. But what if the setback is an important transition, a demarcation point between who we were and who we’re going to be going forward? Maybe it’s buried traumas we need to address, or physical healing that will make us stronger. We’re being given t…
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Want to Expand Your Energy? Complete Your Incompletions
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For most people, when our brains feel sluggish or clogged up, the first thing we do is reach for the coffee. But there could be an entirely different reason why your creativity and energy are getting all tangled up. From to-do lists that never end, to decisions we’re not making and actions we’re procrastinating on - incompletions are a drain on our…
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Choose, Practice, Recommit: This Is What It Takes to Have Great Things
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We live in an instant gratification culture, so it’s not surprising that a lot of people want to just skip to the good part. We’re looking for that button that will magically fix everything wrong with our lives. Well, the truth is, the journey is just as beautiful as the destination we wish to arrive at. We expect great things to just magically app…
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Shift in the Moment: The Most Powerful Way to Diffuse An Inflamed Interaction
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Whether it’s an aggressive interaction at pickleball or a misunderstanding at work, our biggest lessons often come from not-so-pretty moments…if we choose to shift and learn. When we feel attacked by other people, it might feel justified to have a knee-jerk reaction and kick back, but we can accomplish a lot more by making another choice. It might …
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I’m Sorry For Being Great: Tall Poppy Syndrome in Women
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If you’ve ever felt uncomfortable and squirmy about celebrating your accomplishments, you have tall poppy syndrome AKA an upper limit problem. Unfortunately, because of how we’ve been conditioned to focus on others, women are more likely to struggle with this. You’ll often find us downplaying our greatness, making ourselves smaller, and having a lo…
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How to Build Your Inner House of Happiness w/ Marci Shimoff
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Recent stats show only 20% of women say they are truly happy, so it’s clear that we’re in the middle of a huge unhappiness epidemic. For centuries, we have been conditioned to abandon ourselves, not pay attention to what we need and externalize our experiences. No wonder so many of us live in a constant state of angst. In order to make happiness ha…
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How to Regain Your Intuition If You've Lost It
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Intuition is something every single human being has access to. That wise and timely inner voice that seems to drop information from nowhere and *just knows* something we don’t. Though it may feel like information coming from another realm, it’s actually coming from within. It’s just another sense we’ve been given, and it takes many forms. You feel …
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How to Become an Active Participant in Creating Your Health w/ Dr. Mary Pardee
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In our society, we treat our body like machines. We push them hard and only pay attention to them when they break down instead of preventing the breakdown in the first place. For many people, the solution is investing in all the trackers, watches and monitors to know what’s going on, but we completely abdicate our health to external influences in t…
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How to Switch Your Inner Language From Criticism to Self-Love
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Words have so much power, not just in the definition but also in the force behind them. Some of the worst things we say are to ourselves, and we often don’t even know it’s happening. There’s a reason why we’re so good at addressing ourselves negatively. Our culture teaches us to stay in check, not to get too full of ourselves and it also teaches us…
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Conscious Ink: How to Solidify a Moment With Meaning w/ Frank Gjata
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Whenever we make a commitment, set an intention or create an affirmation, we often need a little reminding, and words do that so effectively. Some people write words that remind them of the commitment on Post-it Notes or in journals. That’s because words can be a powerful anchor that brings us back to what matters. They can be metaphors we can appl…
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Wellbeing Starts With Curiosity: How to Nurture Yourself Daily
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Being kind to ourselves is an ongoing conversation, and one of the ways it expresses itself is through the things we do to nourish ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. Ultimately, our ability to fully experience and express our essence is hinged on our daily habits and practices of self-care and self-love. We can think of each of these …
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Movement...the Most Powerful Way to Reclaim Security in Your Body w/Erica Hornthal
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Our bodies are the vessels we occupy from the start of our lives, but so many of us feel disconnected in this home we have within ourselves. If we live in our bodies, how can they feel so foreign to us? For a whole lot of reasons, we’re taught to ignore body wisdom even though it holds the most potent information about ourselves and how we move thr…
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When It’s Not a Whole Body Yes: How to Locate Yourself and Make a Choice
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You’ve likely heard about the “whole body yes” and “whole body no”, and maybe even practiced using these to make your decision-making process a little easier. But choosing is really hard when we don’t feel that nudge from our body wisdom, and we just feel “meh” about the whole thing. When it’s not a definite yes or no, we’re stuck in limbo, and tha…
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Making Friends with Your Feelings: The New Way of Leadership w/Diana Chapman
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The old way of showing up to work meant shoving our emotions away, not being vulnerable and putting on a facade of confidence, no matter what. Admitting you were afraid, unsure or overwhelmed? That was an absolute no-no. The problem is, this also meant we were showing up without a lot of the intelligence we actually need to have emotionally healthy…
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Moving House Can Be Magical: How to Play With Transitions
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Moving house, they say, is one of life’s most stressful events, but it doesn’t have to be. Sure, it stirs up a ton of emotions and learned patterns, but with the right awareness and intention, it can be a magical time and a beautiful voyage to a new world. We can discover new parts of ourselves, deconstruct feelings as they come up, and treat the m…
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Sense Foraging: How to Interrupt Fear by Feeling Into Your Wisdom
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This just in: science has confirmed what we’ve known (and have been practicing for years) about the power of paying attention to our body sensations. In a world of doom scrolling, depression, anxiety and fear, the solution lies within - in the amazing treasure chest we have in our bodies. We have an inner garden of sensory data, feelings, embedded …
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You Are the Canvas: How to Dress for Self-Expression
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Don’t mix prints, you’ll stand out too much. Don’t wear horizontal stripes, it makes you look wider. Wear what looks good, even if it doesn’t feel good. Behind every woman is a rigid set of fashion rules that stifles our expression, creativity and keeps us from accessing the play that comes with fashion. What if we took the inside out approach to f…
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Coherence: The Most Powerful Nutrient for Any Great Game
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In the world of sports, many people think that the energy of competing is the most powerful thing we can tap into. But there’s actually a higher level to play the game at, and that’s coherence. Instead of being reactive, and playing like we’re in a pinball machine, we can tap into presence, flow and connection, and that’s when everything just click…
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Hero-ing is Hurting You: How to Shift Into Your Own Genius
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Seeking the approval of others, helping people without being asked, putting famous people on a pedestal. These behaviors might seem completely unrelated, but they are symptoms of the same thing - hero-ing. Anytime we’re not acting from our own inner value, we’re relinquishing our power to an external source, which is dangerous. Hero-ing ourselves, …
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Let Yourself Be Visible: The Journey From Ghostwriter to Author
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The shift from side hustle to entrepreneur, ghostwriter to author is in many ways, a shift from self-imposed obscurity to visibility and standing in our own worth. Many of us are conditioned to promote others, be in the background, obligate and accommodate to a point where we end up not taking up the space we deserve. When we become the face of som…
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Criticism is Always Destructive: A Kinder Way to Unleash Genius
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Take criticism, they say…it will be good for you, they say. Our culture has led us to believe that criticism is the price we pay for genius and that it’s the only way to learn what we need in order to be great. There’s one problem though: no one learns and improves when they’re in fight mode. We can’t access flow or genius when we’re frozen up - it…
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How to Experience The Nourishment of Your Inner Landscape
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Connection is the ultimate antidote to loneliness and addiction, but in our world, it eludes so many. The rift between our inner landscapes and how we describe them to each other makes it hard for us to tune into one another, and so we’re stuck in small talk, restrictive words, and nothing that truly nourishes. We want to get our true feelings acro…
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Money Follows Energy: The Intersection Between Impact and Wealth
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When it comes to wealth, it seems like there are two camps our society tends to put people in: those who make an impact doing what they love, but don’t make a lot of money, or, those who make a lot of money, but don’t make an impact and hate what they do. It’s easy to get caught up in the paradigm that if you’re trying to earn money and work in you…
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In this episode, Mary shares her personal journey of discovering and being diagnosed with ADHD. She discusses the symptoms and challenges she faced, as well as the impact it had on her daily life. Mary also explores the connection between ADHD and PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) and how they can exacerbate each other. She shares her experien…
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Bend Time With Essence: Lessons From Our Photoshoot
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Photography can be used in many ways, but in its most magical form, it can formulate a different lens through which we can see ourselves. This lens can access our realness and beautifully reflect it back to us. When we look in a mirror, we might start to criticize ourselves, but when we look at a photo that truly reflects our essence, we can’t help…
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In this conversation, Katie and Mary discuss the challenges they face with school schedules and the frustrations surrounding Valentine's Day celebrations. They also delve into the difficulties they encounter with the school system, including issues with school registration and retention. The conversation highlights the considerations and concerns t…
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The Upper Limit is the One Problem: How to Make Friends With It w/Gay Hendricks
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In the journey towards our most expansive, genius self, one thing likes to trip us up - our upper limit. You’ll see it in every culture, no one goes unscathed. If you’ve ever noticed how your big mess ups happen after something good happens - you might have an upper limit problem. Anytime we grow, a loud alarm goes off in our subconscious. Our job …
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In this episode, Mary interviews Emma Jasper, also known as the Dilemmas of Emma online. Emma shares her personal journey of resilience and self-discovery after going through a divorce. She emphasizes the importance of embracing main character energy and making choices that align with your own desires and values. Emma encourages listeners to find j…
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How to Feel Happiness in the Face of Collective Sorrow
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When the world is shaking and there seems to be suffering everywhere we look, it’s really easy to sink, to think “what’s the use” and shut ourselves off from joy and beauty. Experiencing our aliveness is the act of balancing the awful with the awesome, and learning to let different feelings flow through us. Our emotions come from one faucet, we can…
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Having More Kids and Sitting on The Fence
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In this episode, your host Mary discusses the topic of closing the chapter on the baby making years. She shares her personal experiences and emotions surrounding this transition. Mary also addresses the pressure and expectations that society places on individuals regarding the decision to have more children. She encourages listeners to be honest wi…
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Adrenaline is Addictive, Actual Life Energy is Nourishing
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Ever noticed how our bodies are these incredible, self-sufficient chemists? Adrenaline, our homemade super drug, rushes in when urgent demands and life's drama unfold. It's a potent surge, but it's a fleeting high that leaves us wanting more, every single time. But here's the real kicker – there's another player in town, often overshadowed by adren…
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In this conversation, Mary and Ashley from Tiny Human Print Co. discuss the importance of confidence in children and how it can be nurtured through positive parenting. They explore the impact of words and body image on children's self-esteem and the role of social media in shaping their perceptions. They also delve into the issue of trolling and on…
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Play at Work: How to Spend More Time in Your Zone of Genius w/Tina Scala
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When we’re squarely in our Zone of Genius, work doesn’t feel like work. It feels like play, flow, ease; we’re plugged directly into Source. Unfortunately, today’s world of work isn’t about play. It’s all process and productivity, “we’re doing serious, important work here, there’s no room for fun.” If it feels too easy, we must not be doing anything…
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In this conversation, Mary and Katie discuss the impact of perspective and the importance of focusing on what truly matters in life. They share their experiences with online criticism and the challenges of dealing with trolls. The conversation also delves into the judgment surrounding cosmetic procedures and the need to respect personal choices. Th…
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Being the Hero Actually Isn't a Good Thing: How to Give Unselfishly
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Being a hero is celebrated and even coveted in our culture, but if we dig into it, it’s actually not a positive thing. Humans have this magnificent impulse to share and give - the art of generosity. But this incredible ability can easily run up against the need to be the hero. Heroes swoop in and save the day, but it doesn’t actually come from a go…
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In this episode, host Mary Hendricks opens up about her personal experience with PMDD (Perimenstrual Dysphoric Disorder). She discusses the symptoms she has been experiencing, including imposter syndrome, irritability, and appetite changes. Mary also shares her struggles with suicidal ideation and the importance of seeking a diagnosis and opening u…
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Within is the Safest Place to Be: How to Create From Essence and Resonance w/Suzy Batiz
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An idea - whether it’s a business, a book, or a brand isn’t just an object. It’s a living dynamic organism that has come to us, and us alone, for a reason. This beautiful thing chose us to flow through and co-create with us, and that’s a vision that needs no one’s approval to bloom. It’s a completely different way of doing business, yes, but it is …
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It's 2024 and we are back with another Katie's Corner with my bi-montly cohost, Katie Costa from @mommyneeds_morewine. In this episode, Katie and I discuss the challenges of parenting and feeling overwhelmed. We talk about the importance of focusing on the present moment and the power of manifestation. We also share their thoughts on setting goals …
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New Year Energy: A Simple Process to Pull the Future Into the Present
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The transition from one year to the next always stirs up all sorts of questions and the obligatory subject of resolutions. The problem is that we often go about it the wrong way. For starters, we don’t bring completion to the last year, so we carry old energy forward. Then we think about creating what we want in a way that feels more like punishmen…
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How to Make Self-Love Louder Than Your Inner Critic
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Our inner voices can be the most loving, comforting and compassionate parts of ourselves. Unfortunately for many of us, they are the most critical, prickly, and unkind speakers. It’s like our worst insecurities and fears are being played on loudspeaker over and over again. It actually goes all the way back to the womb. Sound is the first sensation …
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Presence Isn’t Just a Noun: How to Perfectly Practice the Art of Presencing
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Presence…it’s a word most of us employ as a noun, but that strips it of its power and purpose. Presencing may not be a word dictionaries and search engines recognize, but it is how our essence is actually expressed. Presence in its truest sense isn’t a static state - it’s active, always expanding and shifting. It’s how we fill our reservoir of aliv…
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Grounding Flight Anxiety with Dial-A-Pilot Kyle Koukol
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Statistics show that about 40% of Americans have a fear of flying - that's 1 in 6 people! And yes... as I'm sure you know by now. I am that 1. I've had a few recent trips that really put me through it with anxiety and fear of getting on an airplane, so I'm so glad I was able to have this conversation with Kyle Koukol - an airline pilot and business…
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Partner Advice from a Recovering Man Child with Zach Watson
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If you're tired of telling your partner where the apple juice is in the fridge, then settle in. We're breaking down the mental and emotional load that comes with motherhood - and, even better - how to take actionable steps to lighten that load in your house. From the self-proclaimed "Recovering Man Child," Zach Watson is on a mission to make a more…
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Reactivity is the Flip Side of Creativity: How to Get On the Delicious Side of Things w/Kirsten Vangsness
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Creativity is the ability to let your beautiful internal hologram radiate out into the world, but it’s not easy. We’re taking the most innocent, precious part of ourselves and airing it out at the risk of opinions, judgment and rejection. There’s power in taking radical responsibility for our experiences. There’s significance in flipping every “no,…
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Katie's Corner: Welcome to Burnout Season
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It's the holiday season and here we are - freaking TIRED. I know you feel it, too. Let's get into it. Sit in this burnout, together. Have some laughs. Katie's here to make it all happen with me. Episode Highlights: -The marathon and difficulty of buying gifts for everyone -How do we feel about a hamster? -Making Christmas special without losing our…
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The Benefits of Better Screen Time with Those Media Moms
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Screen time is a polarizing issue for all parents - do you, or don't you? How much is too much? What's good and what's not? Thankfully, I'm talking to two experts who are dedicating their careers to helping parents let go of guilt and approach screens from a well-researched and realistic point of view. Dr. Roxy Etta and Dr. Liz Horgan are the two m…
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Competition is Killing Us: How to Shift Into Celebration
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Going from an average pickleball player to a champion should be a moment of celebration, but sometimes winning unleashes questions, doubts and stories we didn’t even know were there. “Am I a threat now that I’m doing well?” “Do people hate me now?” “Maybe I should have lost to make things easier.” Competition often activates parts of ourselves that…
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Advice for Dads (and Those Raising Kids with Them) from The Rookie Father
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I am thrilled to introduce a new voice to the podcast: Kendall Smith, author of Rookie Father: A Playbook for Men Experiencing Fatherhood for the First Time." Kendall is a veteran dad who uses his life experiences to help other men navigate fatherhood, especially if they didn't have a father figure at home growing up. This is a great listen for you…
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Curious Attention: The Template for Self-Love & Cure For Manufactured Value
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When we look at babies, no one’s thinking about how competent or productive they are. We find them lovable, valuable, and deserving of curious, nourishing attention, just as they are. Then we get older and a switch flips. We move away from being, and we start manufacturing our value through work, being highly competent, and producing something wort…
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Mom Truths for Now and Later with Cat & Nat
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This is not a drill. The OG everyone-can-relate-viral-social media Moms are HERE. Yes, I'm talking about Cat & Nat: best-selling authors, podcasters, content creators, and fellow-mom cheerleaders. I am a BIG fan of these two women, and I'm so grateful they took the time to join me for this episode. They are honest and so, so real: you won't want to…
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