Positively Living®: Do Less, Live More... Breathe Easier.
The Positively LivingⓇ podcast offers specially curated content to help you prioritize your passions and achieve more without the burnout. Designed for multi-tasking creatives and caregivers, the mix of solo and special guest episodes covers topics like productivity, self-awareness, personal development, habits + systems, decluttering + organizing, positivity, stress management, 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
229 episodes since 2020
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...
September 16, 2024
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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...
September 09, 2024
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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...
September 02, 2024
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Episode 225
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24:16
Figuring Out Your Next Steps After Big Life Shifts
As the saying goes, “The only constant in life is change.” The extent of that change and how it unfolds can vary, sometimes feeling fairly minor and other times throwing us completely off balance, shaking the foundation of who we believe oursel...
August 26, 2024
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Episode 224
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17:25
How to Live a Productive Life While Grieving
It is problematic that we tend to look at being productive as a standalone thing, without considering the other aspects of our lives. The reality is that life doesn’t happen in a vacuum and even the small things can have an impact. Everything w...
August 19, 2024
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Episode 223
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17:56
How to Rebuild Your Life While Grieving with Carrie Hopkins-Doubts
Content Warning: Today’s conversation has very brief mentions of the loss of a loved one, and the loss of a child by suicide. If these are triggers for you, I gently encourage you to wait to listen or proceed carefully.
August 12, 2024
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Episode 222
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39:02
How to Help People Dealing with Trauma and Grief with Janice Scholl
Content Warning: Today’s conversation involves mention of medical trauma and near-death experiences. If these are triggers for you, I gently encourage you to wait to listen or proceed carefully. Grief is so much more...
August 05, 2024
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Episode 221
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42:03
How Decluttering Helps You Stress Less and Focus Better
Clutter is so much more than the physical stuff surrounding you. As Peter Walsh says, it’s anything that gets between you and the life you want to live. Clutter threads itself through every aspect of your life, impacting mental well-being, prod...
July 29, 2024
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Episode 220
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16:17
How to Free Your Mind from Imposter Syndrome with Nicole Majik
Imposter syndrome is something we’ve all experienced to some extent. It’s the culmination of our limiting beliefs that paralyze us in the moment and keep us from moving forward, which is why we need to free ourselves from it. Nicole Majik joins...
July 22, 2024
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Episode 219
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37:14
Why Successful People Strengthen Their Emotional Intelligence with Chantay Golson
When we look at high-achieving professionals, great leaders, and anyone considered successful, the first things we notice are their abilities, talents, strategies, and determination. We zone in on the hard skills, but soft skills are essential....
July 15, 2024
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Episode 218
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33:32
How to Use Body Doubling to Focus Better on Tasks
If you struggle to stay on task when working alone, you’re not the only one. One way to combat this is using a powerful productivity technique called “body doubling”. It’s a simple technique that supercharges your focus by simply working side-b...
July 08, 2024
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Episode 217
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18:09
How to Let Go of Shame and Rebuild Self-Trust with Valerie Friedlander
When we think of shame as an emotion, we can see how it doesn’t serve us, or rather, doesn’t help move us forward the way we want it to. But when we shift our mindset to view shame as another tool in our toolbox, we can understand why it is pre...
July 01, 2024
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Episode 216
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43:38
Why You Need to Know Your Internal Productivity Rhythm
Do you notice how your energy levels fluctuate throughout the day? The energy lulls and dips that you feel like you’re pushing through? While this certainly could relate to your sleep schedule or even be a sign of burnout, there is also a natur...
June 24, 2024
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Episode 215
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12:21
Why Your Morning Routine Results in Frustration Not Focus
Morning routines, although effective for some, are not for everyone. And that’s ok! At its core, a morning routine is just that, a routine. It’s a specific window of time in which you’re aiming to complete a habit or set of habits requiring ene...
June 17, 2024
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Episode 214
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15:32
Make Better Decisions When You Align Your Actions with Chantelle Andercastle
We all want to be in alignment because we know it’s a good thing. But what does being in alignment actually mean? And what are we aligning ourselves and our businesses to? Chantelle Andercastle joins me on the podcast today as we break down thi...
June 10, 2024
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Episode 213
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37:33
Why You Need to Ethically Align with Your Coach with Sarah Heeter
Being ethical is defined as conforming to a standard of what’s right and good. While there are definitely certain practices that obviously fit that, there are also many grey areas that we may not agree with, but are not technically unethical pr...
June 03, 2024
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Episode 212
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41:03
Life and Business Advice from a Multi-Passionate Mom Entrepreneur with Reena Friedman Watts
Being a mom and an entrepreneur is quite the combo and certainly not for the faint of heart. Today’s guest and fellow mompreneur, Reena Friedman Watts, knows this to be true. She returns to the podcast to share her experiences and challenges as...
May 27, 2024
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Episode 211
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38:10
Gratitude: One of the Simplest Habits to Improve Mental Wellbeing
During Mental Health Awareness Month, I wanted to revisit the practice of gratitude, a topic we have covered on the podcast before and is a personal favorite of mine. Studies have shown that having a gratitude practice is a powerful, yet simple...
May 20, 2024
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Episode 210
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13:14
How To Motivate Yourself By Meeting Your Needs First
In our hustle and grind world, it’s easy to get so focused on achievement that we forget about honoring and understanding life experiences in order to heal and grow. There’s a lot of irony in this because, in actuality, when we take care of our...
May 13, 2024
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Episode 209
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13:01
How to Make Your Anxiety a Creative Advantage with Gregory Halpen
If you’re a creative person who has anxiety, you know how anxious thoughts and feelings can be a massive block when it comes to your creativity. But when we start to recognize and understand our anxiety we can learn to integrate it into our cre...
May 06, 2024
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Episode 208
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38:57
When You Focus On Physical Wellness Your Mental Health Improves with Keri Cooper
Our mental health drives so many aspects of our lives and can either limit or lighten us. Thankfully, the more we understand it, the better we can tend to it, and the more likely we are to thrive. Holistic therapist Keri Cooper joins the podcas...
April 29, 2024
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Episode 207
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42:35
Early Signs of Burnout That May Surprise You
We often think of burnout as something obvious and big–where we cross a line and that’s it! We’re down for the count. But burnout is more nuanced than that and the early and more subtle signs can zip by us undetected, leading us to hit rock bot...
April 22, 2024
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Episode 206
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12:42
Why Some Stress Actually Helps You Perform Better
We often refer to all types of stress just as “stress” but there is a difference between eustress (good stress) and distress (bad stress). When we make this distinction, we’re able to clearly see how some stress can be a useful tool (is, in fac...
April 15, 2024
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Episode 205
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13:10
Why Bringing Nature Inside Will Help You Focus Better with Kasey Riley
Biophilic design is an incredible way to restore focus, enhance productivity and creativity, reduce stress, and improve overall wellness. The good news is, you may already be using it without even realizing it. Kasey Riley joins us today to sha...
April 08, 2024
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Episode 204
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38:04
How Breathing Can Calm Your Body and Better Your Mood with Jenny Cheifetz
It’s amazing what a deep breath can do, especially when you’re feeling agitated or stressed. Jenny Cheifetz, a certified breathwork facilitator joins us to dive deep into how we can use breathwork as a tool to reduce stress and anxiety, improve...
April 01, 2024
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Episode 203
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33:48