067: I Just (Joined A Mastermind Group)! Now What? With Jessica Stephens

Hey Friend,

In this week's episode, I delve into the stressful, unfocused and distracted season I'm experiencing and highlight the challenges I've faced recently. Mostly feeling unfocused, conflicting priorities and uncertainty.

We also discuss the importance of establishing a morning routine for mental health, turning off digital distractions, maintaining physical cleanliness for mental clarity, and expressing emotions to trustworthy individuals to prevent mental clutter.

I emphasize the necessity of recognizing my mental capacities and taking the necessary steps to alleviate stress. Lastly, we talk about my messy phase and share strategies to regain focus, while reassuring that it's okay to be in seasons like this.

Listen in as we talk about:

• The season of life I’m currently in

• Feeling extremely distracted

• Not having the capacity to do all the things

• What I have been doing to try and help with the distraction

• Acknowledging the mess in my life adding to distraction

• Being overstimulated

• Tapping into what's important

• Talking about capacity

• The importance of talking things out
  
  

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Hey Friend,

In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Phebe Trotman, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur and accomplished soccer player. She has achieved many accolades as an athlete, including being inducted into several sports halls of fame, winning championship titles, and being recognized as an exceptional athlete. Phebe has also excelled in her career as a network marketer, earning top awards and recognition within her company. She is passionate about personal growth and empowering others to reach their full potential.

We talk about Phebe’s life story, starting from her experience in sports to building her reputation in network marketing and eventually authoring her book, 'Never Quit on a Bad Day'.

We discuss various moments where Phebe almost quit. However, we acknowledge the importance of pushing through difficult moments and how growth happens through discomfort. Phebe also shares her approach to daily challenges and strategies for nurturing resilience. Jessica highlights the aspect of integrity and importance of aligning actions with core values. Finally, they discuss Phebe’s book and how it aims to inspire others through shared experiences of resilience.

Listen in as we talk about:

• What’s important to know about Phebe 

• Rewind tape to younger phebe who she was and these moments that she wanted to quit

• The importance of who you surround yourself with

• Pushing through that first hurdle, or deciding when to quit

• Throughout your career how many other times did you want to quit or almost quit

• When was a time you did quit and regret it

• Advice for people who tend to quit on themselves for the little things

• Advice for when you do need to quit something to service something else

• Stepping into your ideas

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Hey Friend,

In this week’s episode, Liz Deacle joins me to share the candid story of her family's journey traveling through 22 countries, sharing how they planned the adventure, managed it on a budget, and the impact it had on their lives.

Liz shares how her family used house sitting and couch surfing to afford the year-long adventure, and how the experience inspired her children's respective paths. She also discusses how they adapted upon their return to their native New Zealand, and looking for alternative ways of earning an income, eventually leading to the creation of an online business and their own successful travel blog and book.

Liz is a best selling author, a podcaster, YouTuber and a storyteller. A natural-born optimist, lover of wine, and non-lover of hormones, Liz is British, she is married to Brian, and together they have two kids. In 2009, when their children were 8 and 5, Liz and her husband left England and took their family to start a new life in New Zealand. Once there, Liz embarked on something she had dreamed of doing her whole life (but had never been brave/financially comfortable/crazy enough to do). Homeschooling. In the ten years that followed the family built their own home under a dormant volcano on the North Island of New Zealand and enjoyed years of freedom and adventure together. In 2018, Liz and her husband put into place another life long dream. They rented out their house, used the meager savings they had and backpacked around the world for a year with their teenagers (16 and 13). Three years after returning from the world trip, Liz wrote a book.

Listen in as we talk about:

• What’s important to know about Liz 

• Life before they left on their journey across the globe

• Handling money on their trip

• Planning their itineraries

• Finding their house sitting gigs

• The biggest challenges they encountered

• How they wrapped up the trip

• Now what

• How the world tour affected their kids

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Hey Friend,

In this week’s episode, award-winning health expert and national best seller, Nicole Kerr joins me on the podcast to talk about surviving a near-death experience and immense trauma. She is the author of You Are Deathless: A Near-Death Experience Taught Me How to Fully Live and Not Fear Death. She is also the co-author of Eating the Rainbow: Lifelong Nutritional Wellness—Without Lies, Hype, or Calculus.

When she was a 19-year-old cadet at the United States Air Force Academy, Nicole was forced to learn how to live and love differently following a terrifying and transformative Near Death Experience. Her memory of the crash came back 20 years later, and it has taken her almost another two decades to align her soul, spirit, mind, and body – proving healing is certainly a non-linear process.

Her story unveils layers of life struggles, victories, personal growth, and spiritual transformation, and gives a reframe and redirect to those who are so immersed in fear-based living that they overlook their soul's purpose. Nicole emphasizes the importance of addressing soul wounds, just like physical and mental ones, and reprogramming fear-based mental patterns to reach a state of gratitude and conscious living.

Listen in as we talk about:

• What’s important to know about Nicole 

• How she got into the Air Force

• The car crash that changed everything

• The second near death experience that took her out of her body

• The third near death experience that she went through

• Binge eating disorder and PTSD

• How she started living this new version of her life

• When did the memory of the crash come back

• The concept of soul loss

• About her book and what’s next 

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Hey Friend,

In this week’s episode, we explore methods to live a more sustainable lifestyle in 2024. I share my thoughts with you on my personal mission to make more homemade goods and create less waste and reduce my store bought items, and my plan to switch to homemade alternatives such as nut milk and sparkling water and other thinks I know I can easily swap that will have a big impact on how much waste we create at home. 

We talk about the importance of reuse, reduce, and recycle in a more responsible way and suggest buying secondhand items to avoid contributing to single-use plastic waste. We emphasize the importance of refining personal consumption habits to benefit the wider planet and invite you to continue the discussion on sustainable living on my Instagram.

Listen in as we talk about:

• Reflections on the New Year

• Introducing the More and Less List

• Sustainability and the Environment

• The Importance of Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling

• The Power of Homemade

• Gardening + Canning

• The Power of Small, Meaningful Changes

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Hey Friend,

In this week’s episode, I’m talking with Kelly Majdan, a bestselling author, speaker, and certified health and wellness coach. Kelly, in her mid-forties, embraced obstacle course races with her husband and kids as a life-affirming challenge. 

Leaving her 25-year career in the financial services industry, Kelly started her wellness advisory firm, Power Through Wellness. Kelly helps midlifers develop wellness strategies prioritizing time, money, and resources to attain their health goals without breaking the bank. Kelly discusses how overcoming physical hurdles in obstacle race courses taught her to transcend life challenges about purpose, creativity, and collaboration.

​​When not playing in the mud she can be found relaxing at home watching movies with their two massive dogs and a very spoiled cat.

Listen in as we talk about:

• When life took a turn and her husband's health scare

• Signing up for the warrior dash

• Mental and physical components to prep for 

• Using obstacles from the course to analyze her life

• Top 3 lessons you've learned from completing these courses 

• Creativity and adopting new ways of doing things 

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In this week’s episode, I’m talking with Tess Waresmith. Tess shares her painful lessons of losing $80,000 in poor investments in her twenties and how it motivated her to learn about wealth building and investing.

She turned those lessons into strengths, enabling her to build her net worth to a million dollars by the age of 35. The discussion also highlights the importance of normalizing money conversations, understanding fees in financial advisory services, and shifting one's mindset regarding money and investing. Tess is celebrating her last day at her full-time job as she ventures into full time entrepreneurship.

Tess is a financial coach and the founder of Wealth with Tess, a financial education platform that helps corporate women and entrepreneurs in their 30’s/40’s learn how to grow their money using simple investing strategies so that they can retire comfortably, chase their dreams, and live life on their terms. After losing 80k in bad investments in her twenties, Tess learned everything she could about wealth building and built her net worth to 1 million as a single 35 year old woman. Now she’s helped thousands of women learn how to grow their money using simple investing strategies anyone can do (even if you’re short-on-time or a total newbie investor). 

Listen in as we talk about:

• Normalizing Conversations Around Money

• What’s important to know about Tess

• Working with a financial advisor and the problems she found

• What she did after realizing she lost the money

• The mindset change she went through

• 3 things everyone should learn about money

• Her transition into full time financial education

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Hey Friend,

In this week’s episode, I’m talking with Stephanie Cansian about her transformative journey centered around a simple, yet challenging exercise – the burpee.

Stephanie shares how she started doing burpees initially to improve her physical appearance, but it eventually led to numerous other positive changes. Stephanie discusses overcoming self-doubt, building confidence, achieving her goal of being able to do 100 burpees, losing 30 pounds, and feeling more driven and satisfied in her life generally.

Stephanie also shares how this journey inspired her to write a self-help book that encourages people to be mindful and live in the moment, while also discussing her subsequent career shift to become a full-time writer and email marketer.

Stephanie Cansian is a copywriter, email marketer, and author of the book “Change the World in $10 or Less”. She loves trying new restaurants with excellent coffee, reading good books in comfortable chairs, and breaking a sweat everyday.

​Stephanie can categorically confirm that Central Jersey exists, as she lives there with her husband Kevin and dog Remus.

Listen in as we talk about:

• What’s Important to know about Stephanie

• Why she needed to start doing burpees

• The biggest transformation she noticed

• Using the same achievement mindset in different areas of life

• How to get back on the bandwagon once you’re off

• Deciding to write a book

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Hey Friend

In this week’s episode, Cat Valyi joins me to talk about the shift into a new decade, specifically turning 60. Cat shares about her life, professional experience, and how she not only takes care of her health, but prioritizes it.

We talk about redefining retirement and aging. Instead of treating age as a countdown to retirement or an expiration date, we discuss the importance of remaining active and pursuing goals no matter how old you are, ultimately redefining aging.

Cat Valyi is the founder of CV Strategic Marketing Solutions and the co-founder of Women With Dynamic Purpose. Cat has over 30 years of experience as a B2B healthcare marketing executive. Her corporate expertise helps leaders in the industry transform their marketing mindset and develop winning strategies to get, keep, and grow their businesses. As a success coach, Cat uses her unique methodology that combines psychology, mindset, and marketing principles. This powerful blend empowers her clients to streamline their strategic development and define their goals and path while strengthening their ability to achieve their professional objectives.

Listen in as we talk about:

• What’s Important to know about Cat

• Her Approach to Helping Others

• Transitioning into 60s and Gaining A New Perspective

• Redefining Retirement

• Influence of Ageism and Changing Mindset

• Embracing Your Age and Keeping Fit

• Living in the Present and Planning for the Future

• The Difference Between Biological Age and Psychological Age

• The Impact of Positive Self-Talk

• Challenging Ageism and Embracing Your Age

• Maintaining Energy and Vitality in Later Life

• The Role of a Partner in Aging

• Future Plans and Embracing New Opportunities
  
  

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Hey Friends,

Welcome to Season 6, and the start of a brand new year!

I’m kicking off season six with an episode that focuses on my own journey to embracing a child-free life. As you may remember from past episodes, the hubs and I made the decision to let go of trying for kids after dealing with infertility and a transition phase. 

I share about how 2023 was the first full year I wholeheartedly embraced and found joy in being child-free. I shed light on the changes I made throughout the year, from my home to my conversations, social media habits and overall business model.

Lastly, I give you insight into future plans which include travel, passion projects and strengthening friendships with other child-free women.

Listen in as we talk about:

• Embracing being childless to childfree

• Acknowledging how the narrative when you’re older is geared towards moms and parents

• What inspired this episode and for me to dive into this topic

• DINK Lifestyle and the benefits. 

• Unfollowing social accounts that were more mom or parenting focused, and focusing on ones that were more to do with being childfree

• The content we consume really does impact our subconscious 

• Rich Auntie Energy is what I want for my life. 

• Having multiple spaces in my home to support my passions

• Getting excited about child-free plans and travel

• Not having to split caregiving energy when things are tough

• The changes I’ve made in my business

• Steps to take if you’re aligned with this message too
  
  

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