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Aug. 22, 2023

Ep. 18: Three Things You Need To Do To Have Professional Success

You want a new job or a promotion or a leadership slot or a new business... so what do you do? How do you make it happen? Let's talk about three steps: break down the skills, find people to look at for evidence, and grow your...

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Aug. 15, 2023

Ep. 17: Making Gut Health Digestible; Nutrition, Immunity and the Gut-Brain Connection

"All disease begins in the gut, which also means all health begins in the gut..." Dr. Katie Collier, NP, joins me for an episode on gut health that will give you all the basics of what it means to have a healthy gut, why you care, and how our digestive system plays a role in our health, immunity, and even mental focus. She shares exactly what to eat (did your mom tell you to eat your veggies?) to bring your gut back into a healthier state - and we talk about how to recognize when y…

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Aug. 8, 2023

Ep. 16: Barking Up The Right Tree; How Therapy Dogs Transform Classrooms

If you are a dog lover, a parent, a teacher or all of the above, this episode is for you. If mindset and nature and fun are empowering and important, then bringing them into our classrooms while kids are still young seems ev...

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Aug. 1, 2023

Ep. 15: Empowering Kindness: Raising Strong Girls in a Changing World

Are you raising the next generation of professional women and leaders? Are we teaching girls and women to be nice or to be kind - and what is the difference? This week is all about finding ways to help girls and women to act...

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July 25, 2023

Ep. 14: Using FUN to overcome feelings of doubt and fear

Jen Liss joins me this week to talk about how we can focus on fun to overcome doubt and fear in our lives. Within the first 10 minutes of this episode, she gave me a sentence that I will use over and over to determine what I...

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July 18, 2023

Ep. 13: The impression of increase; using empathy and providing value in sales and in life

What would happen if you smiled more, gave genuine compliments, were fully aligned with your offer, and made sure to listen well? Whoever you were interacting with would most likely leave the conversation with an impression ...

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July 11, 2023

Ep. 12: The two principles of style that you need to know now

Feeling good - confident - in what we wear and in our appearance matters. Style helps us to feel empowered, put together, confident, and positive. Emotion is the most powerful element to mindset and success and so feeling g...

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July 4, 2023

Ep. 11: Human Design: Decoding your Blueprint for Success

Human Design is a fascinating way to find out more about ourselves - our strengths, our best ways of working, how we interact with people, and more. This week my guest is Nicoline Huizinga and she shares with us the basic bac...

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June 27, 2023

Ep. 10: Choose your own adjectives! How to let other people’s labels go.

A single comment about us being too shy or too smart or too silly can have an impact for YEARS. This week I'm talking about what listeners shared with me about labels they've dealt with in life - anything from ditzy to quiet...

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June 20, 2023

Ep. 9: Tapping is all the rage; here’s why

EFT Tapping is being talked about on the Today show, is being used and taught by thousands, and is the subject of today's episode. Need your brain to actually believe that you can achieve your big goals? Need to process some...

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June 13, 2023

Ep. 8: The Two Types of Food That Everyone Needs

This one is personal - I'm sharing the story of my relationship with food, and it is not a smooth ride. I had some struggles and I told no one. Those struggles helped me find a way to look at food differently, however, and using these two types of food - FUN and FUEL - has been a game changer. I hope it will be for you as well. Resources: Kristen Coffield has lots more information at theculinarycure.comFind the GreenGutGlowPlus at www.bit.ly/greengutglowplusFind lots more information an…

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June 6, 2023

Ep. 7: How -and Why- to Build Strength and Balance (Especially in Midlife)

We reach a point where we realize that it's REALLY important - and also a bit more challenging - to maintain strength, flexibility, and balance. So why does it matter so much and what can we do to make sure we can be strong and flexible while also avoiding pain and injury? Julie Cates of Strong Women Over 50 (@julcates) and Exercise for Life Studios joins me on this episode to share her four principles of safe and effective exercise (they're powerful!), and to talk about the two bu…

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May 30, 2023

Ep. 6: I’m Doing All The Things; Why Aren’t They Working?!

Have you ever felt like you were putting in all the effort and nothing seemed to be working out? You're doing your best and the goal seems out of reach? Karen Mullins and I are talking about the resistance we sometimes have related to a goal - and how we feel about that goal - and she shares some practical tips to help us all achieve more and do it with lightness and faith. The true purpose of a goal is the person we become on the way there, so what if what are you doing actually IS wor…

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May 23, 2023

Ep. 5: Do You Have an Upper Limit Problem and Can You Fix It?

We've been talking about gratitude during the last two episodes and now let's jump a few steps earlier to something most of us struggle with for which gratitude and appreciation are a SOLUTION. Remember we talked about how the brain wants to avoid danger and stay in a safety zone? We all struggle with an Upper Limit Problem that holds us back in certain areas. Let's talk about why this happens, how to grow your upper limit so you can do more and achieve more, and how this migh…

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May 16, 2023

Ep. 4: The Secret to Living in Gratitude (Gratitude Part 2)

Did you know that if we can switch to gratitude, we can crowd out the fear and worry that often is spinning through our heads all day? The two do not play well together! Fear takes hold because our brains are looking for ris...

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May 9, 2023

Ep. 3: Do You Express Your Gratitude? (Gratitude, Part 1)

OMG I was thrilled to chat with Jennifer Richwine, author of the book, With Gratitude - The Power of a Thank You Note. We talked about handwriting thank you notes versus emailing them, challenges with knowing what to say and ...

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May 9, 2023

Ep. 2: What You Really Should Know About Walking

Let’s talk about the evidence - does walking really matter when it comes to your fitness level, heart health, clothing size, muscle tone? OMG, yes! Strengthening the immune system, improving both energy and sleep, supporting ...

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May 9, 2023

Ep. 1: How and Why to Raise Your Vibration

Welcome to OMG Teach Me! "Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want, and you cannot help but get that reality..." Easy to say and hard to do or understand? Let's find out. If you've ever had a day in which everything seems to be going wrong - or going right - you've seen how this works. Our thoughts and feelings create a vibration - a frequency - and that is how we act and interact with the world. Listen in t…

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May 1, 2023

OMG Here’s What’s Coming

Ready to live your best life, make healthy choices, have success, have fun… and still have time for everything else? As a teacher, corporate trainer, and network marketing leader, I’ve learned how to create an empowering mind...

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