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21-Day Challenge – Take it and get serious about creating your best story. Today is Launch Day! Let me explain… Love Your Story was created to help people realize that their life stories are within their control. It is a platform for conversations about ideas and tools that help us shape our life stories and create them on purpose with more joy, love, satisfaction, or whatever you want to write into the story you create with your every day living. Well, since we went live in October of 2016 w...

Habits – Breaking Bad: 3 Steps to Reprogramming your Habits What is a new year if not a time to create resolutions, feel crappy when we don’t really keep them, and then create stories in our minds about how we never follow through! Yay – happy new year and welcome back to the habit of attempting a new start toward better ways at the beginning of each new year. We always mean so well. Today, I have a solution that actually has a pretty strong chance of success – a 3 step process that works for ch...

Shannon Happe Interview – A discussion on the mental stories we need to take us to over-the-top success. Welcome back to the next episode in Love Your Story interview land. Have you ever watched the Olympics and wondered what it takes to be one of these athletes who dominate their sport. One of these people who make it to the very top performance level? What type of mind control do they have to conquer the fears, the fatigue, overwhelm? While the Olympics are the display of physical prowess and ...

Interview with Annadel Lemon – Take Back Your Power During the month of August we had a series of podcasts, one each week, that dealt with the 5 steps of reframing the parts of our stories that are hard, shameful, full of regrets, etc. — the difficult parts of our tales that often hold us back until we can accept them and find the value in the experience. This reframing is such a powerful tool, and on today’s podcast I am excited to interview Annadel Lemon. who has done some massive reframing an...

INTERVIEW WITH EMILY CHIPMAN – MANAGING THE STORIES OTHERS HAVE ABOUT US Is it important to address or manage the stories other people have about us? Is it even possible to change the stories others have about us? Welcome back to Love Your Story interview land. Today I bring to you Emily Chipman, a woman and executive coach that I first met in one of my Story Launchpad workshops. She stood out to me because her additions to the conversations we were having were so insightful and spot on that ...

Interview with Sherri Lewis Wood – National Founder and Board Chair of One Warm Coat As we round our way toward Christmas I wanted to do an interview with someone, or some group, who are serving and loving on people and creating something good in the world. Here in Utah winters are cold and having a good coat is crucial to survival, so when I met up with the organization One Warm Coat I was excited to get their story. One Warm Coat is a national non-profit organization that works to provide a fr...

Episode 62 Stories of Appreciation: Giving Thanks I read a quote once that said, “A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.” I’m not sure who said it, but I know this is true because of how I feel when someone shows appreciation to me. It’s one of the easiest equations and it never fails: when we show appreciation to another person that person is more likely to help again, they are going to feel great, and they are going to try to exceed your expectations. It’s No...

Interview with the Kjars (pronounced Cares) 50 by 52 The Kjar family sold their home, bought a motorhome, and took their four kids on the road for a year of seeing the country, meeting other kids their age in different parts of the country, shadowing their lives for a day, and learning how to live in cramped spaces for extended periods of time. Join us for today’s interview with Matt and Lindsay as we catch up with them on the road for the second time to hear how things are progressing and to...

Interview with Tammy Johnson and the Tragic Death of her Son – A Choice of Perspective In 2016 a dear friend of mine went through an event that many deem to be the worst thing we can experience. The loss of a child. When I first saw the post on Facebook – the fastest way for news to travel these days – I was in utter disbelief. I couldn’t imagine it had happened, and I had no idea what to say or how to even approach her. I called around to check on her but didn’t think it best to join the throng...

Focus on Your Awesome – Run YOUR Race We are all familiar with the saying that what we focus on is magnified. The things we spend our time thinking about become a reality for us, so why might I ask, do we so often focus on our weaknesses, the things we don’t feel like we’re good at? Let’s change that. We have a lot of awesome going on already. Stories are our lives in language. Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. I’m Lori Lee, and I’m excited for our future together of telling stories, ev...

Episode 58 Interview with Mina Guli – 7 Deserts Run and the 6 Rivers Run After being pushed into a swimming pool and receiving a back injury where the doctors told her she would never be able to run again. Mina Guli could have used this as an excuse to define her life with limitations and boundaries defined by victimhood. Instead, she said to herself, “Am I going to let this doctor define what I do with the rest of my life?” The answer was NO! She started swimming, then biking, then running, and...

INTERVIEW WITH ANNIE MACWILLIAMS Today I interview a triple crown through-hiker – What’s a triple crown through-hiker? It’s someone who hikes the three longest trails in the United States – the Appalachian Trail (2165 miles), the Pacific Crest Trail (2650 miles), and the Continental Divide Trail (2800 miles). Tune in to hear why she does it, a few of her adventures, and to get a peek inside the head of someone crazy enough to practically live on the trails that weave across the country. Fo...

Interview: Access Fund National Conservation Team – Climbing the Nose of El Cap The Access Fund is a non-profit committed to protecting climbing access and the integrity of America’s outdoor rock climbing areas. They face issues like loss of areas as private land is lost to development, or public land managers regulate the areas, or climbers overuse an area and degrade it. The Access Fund focuses on a couple areas. Legal policy and advocacy for rock climbers. Land acquisition and protecti...

Today we kick off a month of adventure interviews; stories with adventurers about their feats and stories. Interview with the Higgenbotham brothers (twins) The Higgenbotham twins are lifeguards from Southern California, endurance athletes, and surfers. Deciding, on a handshake, to undertake the adventure of a lifetime, the two brothers set out to prone paddleboard, using only their hands to propel them, from Alaska to Mexico, down the entire West coast of the United States – 2200 miles, in 20...

The Stories We Tell Ourselves Stories are our lives in language. Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. I’m Lori Lee, and I’m excited for our future together of telling stories, evaluating our own stories, and lifting ourselves and others to greater places because of our control over our stories. This podcast is about empowerment and giving you, the listener, ideas to work with in making your stories work for you. Story power serves you best when you know how to use it. Today we’re taking a qui...

Interview with Rob Holmes – Founder and Chief Strategist of GLP Films How to Identify Your Next Great Story Welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast! Today we are back in business interview land where we talk with professionals who have learned the true value of story in business, and they share their knowledge and ideas with us on how to use story in our professional spaces. Today we get to talk with Rob Holmes – the Founder and Chief Strategist of GLP Films, the leading content marketing...

Interview with Star Coulbrooke the Poet Laureate of Logan, Utah. Our life stories are poetry in the making. Poetry is story at its most distilled; story where every word matters; story rich in image and sound and power. Today I am excited to introduce Star Coulbrooke, Poet Laureate for the City of Logan, Utah, she is also the co-founder and coordinator of Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings venue. She is published in literary magazines and anthologies, her poems are also available in chapbo...

Episode 51: A Political Story about the newly designated Bear’s Ears National Monument and those who are willing to fight for its survival. For contact information for Utah senators, go to: http://senate.utah.gov/ When President Obama designated the Bears Ears National Monument he gave the following speech – The White House; Office of the Press Secretary. December 28, 2016 Statement by the President on the Designation of Bears Ears National Monument and Gold Butte Natio...

How to Reframe Your Difficult Stories: 5 Part Workshop Series: Step 5– The Final Reframe At any given moment you have the power to say, “This is NOT how the story is going to end.” Join us today as we discuss the 5th and final step in reframing the chapters of your story that feel broken. Today we’ll put all the previous steps together to come to the final reframing of your story. Get ready to rewrite the broken chapters for good. Stories are our lives in language. Welcome to the Love Your St...

How to Reframe Your Difficult Stories: 5 Part Workshop Series: Step 4– Changing Lenses A farmer stood with his dog overlooking his fields. Behind them in the grasses peered a small brown rabbit, and above flew a lark. The farmer looked across the field and saw cows, milk, provisions for his family, a new car. The dog saw frustration because wild things could so easily hide and escape his chase. The rabbit saw security. To the lark flying overhead, the field was home. While we may all be looki...

How to Reframe Your Difficult Stories: 5 Part Workshop Series: Step 3– Finding the Meaning or Purpose Behind an Experience When Becky Andrews (episode 22) found out that she had a degenerative eye disease that would cause her to go blind, I’m sure she wondered, “Why me?.” When my son was diagnosed with Leukemia and had to return from his mission where he was teaching others about Christ’s love for them and serving them, a journey he had worked, waited, and saved money for, I wondered, “Why him? ...

How to Reframe Your Difficult Stories 5-Part Workshop Series: Step 2 – Tell Your Stories Those stories hidden in the dark of night, kept under cover, the lid closely guarded and locked, cannot breathe or break free from shame, guilt or sadness that are a part of their very nature. Until the lid is opened, until the light can shine down upon the dark shadows, to chase them out and loosen the ties that hold the story closed, there will be no healing. Join us today for Step 2 of the 5 part reframin...

REFRAME YOUR DIFFICULT STORIES – 5-Part Workshop Series Do you want to be free of the stories in your life that make you feel small or that you find shame or guilt around? These stories often affect our self-perception and thus our interpreted self-worth. This workshop is to help you reframe and resee your life in healthier ways. Workshop Step #1 – Accept It Debbie Ford said, “The greatest act of courage is to be and own all that you are. Without apology, without excuses, and without on...

Interview with the Kjars (pronounced Cares) 50 by 52 The Kjar family sold their home, bought a motorhome, and took their four kids on the road for a year of seeing the country, meeting other kids their age in different parts of the country and shadowing their lives for a day, and learning how to live in cramped spaces for extended periods of time. Join us for today’s interview with Matt and Lindsay as we catch up with them on the road to hear how things are going and what wonderful stories an...