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    Secrets for an Awesome Life

    Have you ever seen someone completely enjoying life? Living to their fullest, not brought down by anyone or anything, totally having their stuff together? It's almost like they know secrets you don't. This show is about those secrets. Don't worry. Not very many people know these secrets. Or if they do, they don't apply them. These secrets are skills and mindsets not taught in any college or high school course. We may have heard of them, but no one taught us how to actually apply them to our lives. Which is a shame, because when you apply them, your life becomes more awesome. That's why I created this podcast, for teens who are looking to up the awesome level in their lives. I am Joey Mascio and I’m a Teen & Young Adult Life Coach. I was certified at the Life Coach School where I was trained by Master Life Coach Brooke Castillo. I've also gone through Jody Moore's Advanced Certification. I take the strategies and tools I’ve learned from these two powerful women, and lots of my own, and adapt them for teenagers and young adults. I am also a middle school teacher and counselor, a proud father of three, and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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    Episodes (149)

    Creating Value

    Creating Value
    The first step to creating money, which is this month's theme, is creating VALUE. Many people have it backwards when it comes to the value they provide and the payment they receive. It limits them. But, as taught in the fabulous book "The Go Giver," the first Law of Stratospheric Success is the Law of Value. Ben and I go into that in detail in this episode and tell teens and young adults how they can apply it to multiple areas of their lives.

    Creating Money

    Creating Money

    Don’t you wish you could create money and have it appear out of thin air? Well, we can’t do that, but what we can do is switch our mindset to allow us to find more money in our lives. That’s what the secret is this week, switching our mindset so that we can see the money that is available to us, to allow us to obtain it. 

    This is the first part of an ongoing series where we will be talking about finances. I’ll be joined by other Firmly Founded coaches and we are going to break down how you can “create money” with your brain. 

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    A Teenage Carol Part Four - The Ghost of Teenage Future

    A Teenage Carol Part Four - The Ghost of Teenage Future

    This week we continue the “Teenage Carol” story with Part Three: The Ghost of Teenage Present. Eben goes to visit some recent events in his life, to get a better look at what others’ true perception of him was - which is much different than what Eben had thought. 

    This brings us to today’s secret, we often assume what other people think of us. Often when we think they dislike us or something similar, it’s an untrue perception based on a few key events that we don’t actually have the full context of. If we truly knew the full story, it may change the way we saw them.  Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok

    A Teenage Carol Part Three - The Ghost of Teenage Present

    A Teenage Carol Part Three - The Ghost of Teenage Present

    This week we continue the “Teenage Carol” story with Part Three: The Ghost of Teenage Present. Eben goes to visit some recent events in his life, to get a better look at what others’ true perception of him was - which is much different than what Eben had thought. 

    This brings us to today’s secret, we often assume what other people think of us. Often when we think they dislike us or something similar, it’s an untrue perception based on a few key events that we don’t actually have the full context of. If we truly knew the full story, it may change the way we saw them.   

    Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok

    A Teenage Carol Part Two - The Ghost of Teenage Past

    A Teenage Carol Part Two - The Ghost of Teenage Past

    Part two of the story “A Teenage Carol”, where Eben gets brought back to events in his past to see how it affected the way he thought of himself - whether he remembered the event or not. 

    Ben Pugh joins us today to discuss how events in our past can consciously or subconsciously cause shifts in the way we think of ourselves years down the road. Sometimes these events are much more insignificant than we remember because the way we interpreted at the time caused us to blow it out of proportion in our heads - something that sticks to us, sometimes our entire life.  Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok

    Ben Pugh - website | facebook | podcast

    Quitting Porn

    Quitting Porn

    Today Zach Spafford joins the show to share a personal experience of his. At some point in his life, he decided he needed to quit watching porn. He comes on the show to talk about how we can stop unwanted behavior in ourselves. Personal growth is a constant in our lives, and sometimes we can find ourselves feeling powerless to unwanted behavior. In this episode, Zach shares the secret of how we can eliminate unwanted desires within ourselves.

    Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok

    Zach Spafford: website | instagram | facebook |podcast

    Secrets for an Awesome Life
    enNovember 25, 2021

    Cheat Codes

    Cheat Codes

    Life would be so much easier if we had a book of cheat codes for it, right? In this episode, Brooke Romney comes on the show to share some of her “cheat codes for life”. She’s the author of the book “52 Moderns Manners for Teens!” which can act as a book of cheats when navigating life. Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok

    Brooke Romney: website | instagram | facebook | book

    Axing Anxiety

    Axing Anxiety

    We all deal with anxiety in one way or another. Some people feel anxiety is just a constant that we need to deal with - but the problem with this thought process is it removes any control you have over it. While we all do deal with anxiety, there are elements we can control to reduce how it impacts our everyday lives. More often than not, our thoughts blow things out of proportion, and being able to manage your thoughts to prevent anxiety levels from rising is one of the secrets to living an awesome life.  Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok

    The Shield of Humor

    The Shield of Humor

    Using humor as a shield against bullying is very effective! Penn State saw that using humor when being bullied is the 3rd best way in preventing further bullying. The best way to be able to use humor is loving who you are and accepting the parts of you, you might not like - but not believing any part of you is actually bad. Being you is the best thing ever, and once you know that, it makes using humor that much more easy and effective.  Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok

    How (Not) to Prevent Bullying

    How (Not) to Prevent Bullying

    Penn State did a study that looked at different tactics used against bullies. Some of these were more effective than others, some were even harmful and ended up with more bullying in the end. The tactics that weren’t very helpful were usually focused on the bully and changing, and trying to control their behavior.  What tactics specifically tend to be the most effective? We take a look at Penn State’s list to see what showed to work the most. 

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    Secrets for an Awesome Life
    enOctober 21, 2021

    What If There Are No Bullies?

    What If There Are No Bullies?

    Bullies rarely ever see themselves, or their actions as being a bully. They often don’t even realize what they are doing is negatively impacting someone. What if the bully actually needs help? Sometimes all it takes is for the bully to realize they are, in fact, a bully. Bullies don’t want to think of themselves as a bully, and sometimes that is all it takes to change a bully’s ways.  Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok

    Moon Head

    Moon Head

    Being bullied sucks, it really does. It’s hard to find a way to deal with it - but I learned a way to counter the things bullies would say about me. I learned to own it. This didn’t stop them from saying it, but it stopped it from having a major negative impact on the way I felt and thought about myself. I accepted it, but what made this effective was that I also accepted myself and I still loved myself for who I was. Being called moon head wasn’t fun, but it never caused me to feel less than, it never made me hate the size of my head.  Bullies will make fun of people for anything. The things we enjoy, the way we look, the way we act, these are all things a bully might pick on someone for. If we can own it, and accept ourselves we give people permission to accept who we are. Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok

    Becoming Bullyproof

    Becoming Bullyproof

    October is National Bullying Prevention Month, this means we will be diving into the secrets that will help all of us become Bully Proof.  The war against bullying is a very positive movement. There are a lot of things being done - but at the same time, it doesn’t feel like it’s quite hitting the mark. The message towards bullies to.. stop bullying is not very effective - usually the bully doesn’t even consider what they are doing to be bullying! And then there is the message for bi-standards to stand up and speak out against the bully. This is also very positive, but what happens if the bi-standard is not there?  The problem with both of these messages is that they rely on other parties to do something, it does not allow you as an individual to have control of the situation. Today we talk about the 3rd message, how to empower yourself with confidence and make yourself become Bully Proof.

    Joey Mascio - Firmly Founded Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | tiktok