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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
236 episodes
[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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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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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Episode 218
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Episode 212
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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...
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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...
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Episode 210
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