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Episode 260: The Key to Upleveling - Relax Interview Cortney McDermott Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. It’s December and we are winding down 2023 with two of the best episodes of the year. In a couple week’s we’ll have the Best of 2023 episode, which looks at download numbers for all the episodes throughout the year to find out what the favorites have been - I always love that episode. It gives me lots of great info. but it also gives the listeners a quick peak at 5 excellent episodes ...

Episode 259: Quit Proof - Interview with Jenn Drummond Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. We are closing in on winter, and I always like to pull in a guest with some wintery story - a professional skier or a mountaineer - during these chilly months. We’ll today’s guest fills that bill nicely. Get ready to be inspired by my guest Jenn Drummond. She is a mountaineer who has conquered the world’s seven second summits and recently became a world record holder. But her journey goes far beyond ...

Episode 258: Understanding Your Emotions for Emotional Resilience: Mastering Anger - Part 5 Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. This is the last of the 5-Part Series on Creating Emotional Resilience. This series was created from a class I took, you’ve heard about it in all the other episodes - in it we practiced different skills like healthy thinking patterns, managing stress, overcoming anger….all the good stuff. Take from it what resonates with you, that you may navigate your life with ...

Episode 257: Stronger Together - Building Emotional Resilience Through Healthy Relationships - Part 4 Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Have you ever been in a tight spot where a strong family relationship or a great friendship provided you a space for staying sane or healing? Let me rattle off a few that come to mind quickly for me: Once I was talking with my therapist during my marriage to an emotionally abusive man. I was explaining how I had left and gone to my parents for a weekend...

Episode 256: From Chaos to Calm: Managing Stress and Anxiety for Emotional Resilience - Part 3 Welcome to Part 3 in our 5-part Emotional Resilience Series of 2023. I hope you’ve listened to Part 1 & 2. If not, here’s a little background: I joined an emotional resilience group a few years back. There was a physical therapist, a composer, a nurse, a home economics teacher and me, a Realtor. We did not know each other before hand, and we were doing this course on-line because it was during Covid. ...

Episode 255: Developing Healthy Thinking Patterns for Emotional Resilience - Part 2 Marcus Aurelius said, “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.” Today’s episode is #2 in a 5-part series of creating emotional resilience. Today’s episode is titled: "Empowering Your Mind: Developing Healthy Thinking Patterns for Emotional Resilience” A couple years ago I joined an emotional resilience group a few years back. The class focused on learning and...

Episode 254: Building Emotional Resilience by Understanding Who You Are and Embracing Your Strength: Part 1 In Life, the Truth, and Being Free, Steve Maraboli says, “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” In this crazy world we live in we come up against things people in no other time have had to deal with. Our mental and emotional resources are taxed with mental illness, with severe deviations like all the confusion around gender, like the high suicide...

Episode 253: Coding the Subconscious for Success - Interview Riya Sokol Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. We are inspired by people who help us see the world in fresh ways. We often get stuck in our stories and perspectives, and those stories, many times, limit us. Further more, we don’t often stop to question those stories and perspectives. Let’s take the Corona Virus for example. How many people stopped to look for the positive things that came from our time of seclusion, fear, change ...

Episode 252: Voices of Healing -Personal Stories of Life on the Healing Journey. Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. We all die. We all pay taxes. Another thing we all have in common on this crazy ride called life is that we all need to heal. Why? Because in this rough and tumble life we all get hurt. We all have to heal from things mild to wild, the broken heart, the deep disappointments, the full-out traumas. As I’ve looked over the past episodes of the Love Your Story podcast, no matter...

Episode 251: How to Overcome Money Block Stories: Insights from Dr. Amanda the Money Healer When I was growing up we didn’t have a lot of money. My dad was a teacher and we grew up growing our own food in the garden, mom made homemade bread, which now is very cool, but back then it just meant you were poor. My parents were frugal because they had to be and I gained a money mindset of lack. Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time working to shift that - focusing on gratitude and abundance. I’m s...

Episode: 250 The Kindness Effect: One Woman's Journey to Heal through Compassion - Interview Megan Snedden Welcome to the Love Your Story Podcast When Megan lost her father in a plane crash and her brother in a car accident, her heart and life plummeted. Mental health issues brought her to rock bottom, but sitting at the bottom and looking up, she choose to find happiness despite her despair. On today’s show she tells us her story and introduces us to The Kind Effect, a movement she started th...

Episode 249: Trusting Your Gut: How Intuition and Curiosity Can Shape Big Life Stories - Interview Taylor Proctor Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast peeoooopppplllleeee! A bit ago, Taylor Proctor, a spicy little red head and the host of “Creating with Confidence” — an internationally acclaimed podcast, was meditating, and the idea of being an 8-figure business owner came to her mind. Now….8-figures is a minimum of $10m, and she initially thought….ya, there’s no way that is possible. But th...

Episode 248: Raising Great Humans - Parenting Hacks from the Gallery Welcome to the LYS podcast. I’m a mom of two fantastic boys. They’re grown now, in their 20’s and in some ways they are even harder now than they were when they were small. We never stop worrying about them, wanting the best for them. Watching them suffer with hard things is much harder than suffering ourselves. When they were growing up I always followed the Love and Logic parenting model because I wanted to teach them respon...

Episode 247: Embracing Your Journey: A Gratitude Coach's Guide to Loving Your Story - Interview Holly Bertone Who has ever heard of a gratitude coach? What a great idea. On today’s show I am speaking with Holly Bertone, a gratitude coach, and we are going to be talking about how to unwrap resilience and build fortitude in our lives with the very lovely and important tool of gratitude. Stay tuned and let’s see if she’ll give us a little coaching. After all, as Tony Robbins says, “When you are g...

Episode 246: Seeing Things Differently - Personal Stories of Shifting Perspective One of the great life truths is that life is all about MINDSET. When you shift your focus the perspective changes, and when the perspective shifts your reality shifts. BOOM! Dropping truth. Once we accept this and learn about the power we have to reframe events and the stories we tell ourselves in order to support our learning and living, once we fully embrace the power of perspective and the flexibility of it, w...

Episode 245: Forbes declares, "One of the Best Storytellers of the Year." Interview Max Stossel Dear Listener…welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast. Today I have a special treat for you….really. It’s performance time… to welcome in the warmer weather and all good things we are getting a little Max Stossel. Max Stossel is an award-winning poet, artist and filmmaker named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. Spanning across five continents, from Lincoln Center in NY to th...

Episode 244: Tips on Connecting with your Man - Interview: Laura Doyle Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast - we are really knocking it out of the park in 2023. This is our 6th year doing the show and I’m so pleased to have collected so many wonderful stories and life tools for all of us to reference and use. SO MANY. Thanks for being here and continuing to enjoy the show. Today’s guest is going to blow your mind. Laura Doyle is a New York Times Bestselling Author, she is the star of Empowe...

Episode: 243 - What Hate Can Do: Interview Peter Mutabazi Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Today is part 2 of a two-part story - the story of Peter Mutabazi. Peter joins me today, to share the incredible story of his life in Uganda, we are picking up where we left off in part 1. For his full story - please listen to part 1, because today we are going to look at the rest of the story and the other side of the coin. Part 1 is titled: What Kindness Can do. Part 2 is titled: What Hatred Can...

Episode 242: What Kindness Can Do - Interview Peter Mutabazi - Part 1 Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast Today’s story, “What Kindness Can Do,” starts out with the story of Peter Mutabazi. Here's a clip from his book: “The vine came down on me so fast I did not have time to duck. It ripped across my right arm and burned like fire. “You worthless piece of….” my father yelled as he swung the vine around like a bullwhip. I spun around to protect my face. “Don’t you turn away from me,” He gr...

Episode 241: Standing Up for What YOU Believe in - Interview Samantha Hawkins Welcome to the LYS podcast. On this show we share stories - stories of big adventures, stories of big struggles, stories that allow us to share our experiences and learn from each other. Today’s guest is a story teller, so get your cup of tea or cocoa, find a warm comfy blanket, and settle in for some stories that teach us a few lessons. Samantha Hawkins, author of the children’s book “My Mommy Marches,” has been a ...

Episode 240: A Brave Little Warrior - The Story of a 4-Year-Old's Amputation Journey Description: Rosalie Mastaler was pushed into the world of disabilities when her son was bitten by his father's K9 police dog. Tune in for the story of courage and how the family creates good and recognizes miracles from this loss. Shownotes: Rosalie Mastaler learned about Disability Advocacy when her husband's police dog bit her son, Hunter, on February 8, 2015. Despite the trauma, Rosalie and Hunter chose to...

Episode 239: Tools to Magnify our Worthiness: Interview Chris Hawker Am I worthy of love? Am I worthy of good things? Am I worthy of success? I have a couple family members who have recently discussed with me feelings of unworthiness because of religious or cultural messages. It’s come up as a topic in multiple groups recently, so it’s been on my radar. So, when Chris Hawker, co-founder of Next level Trainings, recently was featured on the Spirit River Coaching Summit speaking on “Are you wor...

Episode: 238 - The Messages: A Story of Navigating Life Transitions and Embracing Change Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. I’ve struggled for a month, since I read Dawn Kohler’s book, The Messages, to figure out how to introduce this woman, what direction to take our discussion, and how to adequately portray the events that took place in her life….I’ve come up with nothing that seems to fully do the job so I’m just going to say “wow” and jump right in. In her 30’s Dawn’s body simply woul...

Episode 237: Bang Head Here: Interview with Josh Brazier & Hollie Henderson - Part 2 Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Today is Part 2 of Bang Head Here. We’re back with Hollie and Josh, the authors of Bang Head Here, and today we are talking shop. In Part 1 we got their stories, of Hollie’s troubled youth and how it put her on this incredible path, so go back and listen to part 1 to get her full story. And we got Josh’s story of being a young man in Morocco and working with refugees fro...