Positively Living®: Shame-Free Productivity Conversations
The Positively LivingⓇ podcast is designed to help you prioritize your passions, personalize your approach to life, and achieve your goals without the burnout. If you're an overwhelmed multi-tasker, multi-passionate, people pleaser, creative, and/or caregiver, you'll love this mix of solo and special guest episodes. With topics like productivity, self-awareness, personal development, habits + systems, decluttering + organizing, positivity, stress management, trauma + grief, entrepreneurship, and more, you’ll find actionable advice, wrapped in humor and hope, dedicated to helping you do less, live more, and breathe easier.
Episodes
251 episodes
Five Energizing Habits to Make You More Productive
As a holistic productivity coach, I’ve seen repeatedly how much overall well-being impacts productivity. As a caregiver and mom, I experience it personally, too, having spent years in various states of overwhelm and exhaustion. I’ve come to rea...
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Episode 249
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22:18
How to Find Light When the World Feels Dark
A positive approach is essential no matter what you come up against in life, and cultivating positive thinking can be a lifesaver when dealing with dark times. Please don’t confuse positive thinking with toxic positivity, which denies our strug...
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Episode 248
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17:40
Why Being Intentional is Essential to Be Productive
Too often, we go through our days reacting to things that come up, putting out fires, and running on the hamster wheel without knowing how we even got there or how to stop. While this is a well-meaning approach to get by, the result isn’t produ...
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Episode 247
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15:31
A SIMPLE™ Way to Reduce Clutter and Stress
While there are many systems for decluttering and experts advising you on how to approach clutter, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. The key to finding the approach that is best for you is creating your own framework, which is one of the ...
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Episode 246
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21:54
Themes: The Simple Time Management Trick You Need
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by a packed calendar and even more overwhelmed by trying to add more things to that calendar, incorporating themes into your schedule might just be the solution you need. Themes–though most known for novels and f...
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Episode 245
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19:35
How to Clear Your Digital Clutter
We've talked about physical and mental clutter many times on the podcast, but digital clutter is in its own category. It’s one of the more insidious types of clutter because you can't see or feel it. It hides really well and is one of the easie...
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Episode 244
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24:34
How Your Home Office Can Make You More Productive
Whether you have a large, private space or a shared section of a room for a home office or workspace, it’s important to acknowledge how your surroundings impact your productivity. Even the smallest design changes can help you focus and foster c...
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Episode 243
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22:18
A Reverse Approach to Better Achieve Your Goals
While I’m thrilled to coach you every episode (and will continue to do so), it’s also my goal to equip you with the resources to coach yourself for maximum growth and achievement. Today. I’m doing this through a series of simple yet powerful qu...
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Episode 242
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20:53
Why Being Cozy Can Make You More Productive
When you think of productivity, your mind might immediately jump to hustle and grind culture…unless you follow me, of course! But today, I am introducing you to the concept of being cozy AND productive. It may seem like an odd juxtaposition, bu...
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Episode 241
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20:08
Four Things You Need To Do Before The Year Ends
With another year coming to a close, you may be feeling ready for a “fresh” start. But before we leave this year behind us, I highly encourage reflection, celebration, and preparation during this time so you can step into the calendar year conf...
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Episode 240
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17:27
How to Choose a Word of the Year [Re-release]
Compassionate, sustainable productivity comes from small steps compounded by way of building habits that work best for us. When it comes to my fellow multi-passionate creatives, caregivers, and neurodiverse clients, it’s essential that we creat...
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Episode 239
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18:56
The Most Effective Life Coaching Questions to Ask Yourself with Lisa Kneller
Having a coach is like having a second brain that gives you a different perspective when making decisions to improve your life. This is the reason coaches hire other coaches and why coaching yourself–either in place of hiring a coach or as a su...
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Episode 238
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36:03
How to Use a Gratitude Practice in a Stressful Life
Life is stressful. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either selling something or living on an island somewhere. But just because a stressful life is the reality for many of us, doesn’t mean that life’s not good too. It can absolutely be both. I...
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Episode 237
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21:13
Make Your Holiday Season Less Stressful with the 80/20 Principle
There is so much to appreciate about the holiday season, including time with those you love and experiences that connect you more deeply with others and yourself. It’s a time when you can take a break, enjoy treats, and think about what’s most ...
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Episode 236
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20:33
When You Must Say No for a Less Stressful Life
As a recovering people pleaser and a multi-passionate creative, I actually love saying YES to people and opportunities. But I’ve also learned what will happen if I’m not careful, intentional, and selective in the things I say yes to. This week,...
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Episode 235
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18:11
[Strategy Call] Handling Invisible Stressors in a Demanding Life with Janis Isaman
Invisible stressors are stressors in our lives that aren’t necessarily obvious but can build up over time and take us down. As a multi-passionate entrepreneur, volunteer, and solo parent and caregiver of a special needs child, Janis Isaman foun...
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Episode 234
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55:45
Quick Tips to Try When You're Feeling Overwhelmed [Ask Lisa]
According to Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies, I am a questioner by nature. In addition to constantly asking why, I also love answering questions too. I appreciate the challenge and the encouragement to reflect, which is probably why I love coa...
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Episode 233
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24:35
How to Prioritize Personal Time by Setting Boundaries
Whether you’re working for someone else or yourself, personal time is essential for maintaining mental and physical well-being, preventing burnout, and boosting your productivity and performance. It’s something we know we need to prioritize, bu...
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Episode 232
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21:19
How to Become a Recovering Perfectionist with Steph Ellen Diplock
Do you struggle to take action because something has to be “just right,” or do you beat yourself up for everything you’ve done wrong (without noticing all you've done right)? Maybe you feel like you’re just not enough because you can’t reach th...
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Episode 231
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38:10
Why We Need to be Trauma-Informed (More Than Ever)
Productivity is often viewed as a one-size-fits-all solution, but that is far from the truth. There could be a hundred different factors that impact your productivity, one of which is the topic we’re addressing today: trauma. Becoming trauma-in...
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Episode 230
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16:53
The Most Important Direction For Effective Planning
While our ability to be flexible and resilient and change direction is important, planning first is essential. It’s a way to arrange how things will go ideally, and even if they don’t go that way, it will still help you keep focused and remain ...
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Episode 229
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18:51
How to Avoid Forgetting Things When Life Gets Hectic
While I don’t presume to know what your life is all about, I bet I can guess one thing about you: you handle a LOT. Whether you’re handling the mental load of caregiving or your mind is overflowing with ideas (or both), it can be overwhelming. ...
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Episode 228
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21:03
Combining and Stacking Habits for Better Results
Positive habits are the cornerstone of a productive and fulfilling life, but mastering them can be a challenge. Today I am continuing our conversation about habits with more advanced strategies to help you maximize your productivity, reach your...
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Episode 227
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18:10
How to Balance Your Life through Wholeness Pillars with Nicole Mixdorf
People are so quick to strive for work-life balance, but there’s a reason we struggle to achieve that balance. Nicole Mixdorf joins me on the podcast today to challenge this narrative, sharing the true nature of a balanced life and how it’s not...
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Episode 226
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42:27
How to Rebuild a Lost Habit or Create a Better One
Habits can be both our greatest allies and our toughest adversaries. When we’ve painstakingly built up a routine that serves us well, it can be frustrating when life throws us a curveball, disrupting our hard-earned habits that we mistakenly th...
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Episode 225
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