The Shift Training Podcast

In today’s episode we’re announcing the end of Season 1 and touching on what to expect in Season 2 of the podcast.

Major thanks to all those who have continued to listen, share, and support the podcast this season. We've learned a fair amount from your feedback. We can’t wait to bring in some guests to share their stories with you.

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you.

Also,If you have a story that you believe will help someone else, we’d be glad to chat with you about being a guest, please send us a message. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have a magnificent week! We’ll be back soon!

In today’s episode we’re chatting about Grace! If you’re struggling with showing grace to yourself or others, this one's for you.

In this episode we cover:
What is Grace?
When we’re approaching challenges or mishaps with a negative perspective is grace present?
How can we refill or improve our levels of available Grace?
When is it time to make use of Grace?

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If this episode did anything for you, laugh, stimulate, irritate, or clarify, please share it with a friend. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have an excellent weekend!

In today’s episode we’re reviewing The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier.

In this episode we talk a bit about the book, our two cents, takeaways, and why we recommend the book. If you’re a leader, teacher, coach, or someone that often gives advice to friends and family, we definitely recommend this book.

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If this episode did anything for you, laugh, stimulate, irritate, or clarify, please share it with a friend. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life? Curiosity 

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In today’s episode we’re chatting about the value in choosing your struggle and how to choose the struggle that’s right for you.

In this episode we cover:
What do we want in our lives?
If the work is guaranteed and the target or “success” isn’t, is the struggle still valuable?
How do we know if the struggle is “right” for us?
Should we account for the cost that may come with the intention and go from there?

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What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have a wonderful weekend!

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In today’s episode we’re chatting about the similarities and differences between relative, subjective, and objective perspectives or truth.

In this episode we talk about the following:
Subjective truth or perspective.
Relative truth or perspective.
Objective truth or perspective.
Where they intersect and how they differ.

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What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

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In today’s episode we’re reviewing Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win The War Within by the Legendary David Goggins.

We talk a bit about the book, our two cents, takeaways, and why we recommend the book. Also we briefly touch on the audio-book version for the additional content.

Let us know what you think about this discussion or loose review in the comments or via a review. If this episode did anything for you, laugh, stimulate, irritate, or clarify, please share it with a friend. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Stay Hard!

In today’s episode we’re reviewing the Tactical Guide to Winning The War With Yourself, 75 HARD by the Great Andy Frisella.

In this episode we talk a bit about the book, our two cents, takeaways, and why we recommend the book. At this time we are near the middle of going through the challenge ourselves and have already been soaking up and enjoying the benefits.

Let us know what you think about this discussion or loose review in the comments or via a review. If this episode did anything for you, laugh, stimulate, irritate, or clarify, please share it with a friend. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have an amazing week!

#75hard #andyfrisella #bookreview #delayedgratification #passion #persistence #grit #emotionalresilience #feelings #emotions #behavior #perspective #selfawareness #selfmanagement #personalgrowth #personaldevelopment #eq #ei #emotionalmastery #personaltraining #humaninteraction #shifttraining #shiftownyourlife #shift #training #ownyourlife

In today’s episode we’re reviewing the following question. What are some of the consequences of too much delayed gratification?

In this episode we talk about the following:
How long is long enough to wait or too long to wait?
The famous marshmallow test.
The risk of complacency.
Burnout, timidity, and lack of interest or drive.

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If this episode did anything for you, laugh, stimulate, irritate, or clarify, please share it with a friend. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have an amazing week!

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In today’s episode we’re talking about persistence, grit, and emotional resilience. How those relate, how they differ, and why we need all three to go further in our lives.

In this episode we talk about the following:
Ways to view persistence, grit, and emotional resilience.
How persistence, perseverance, and grit are different.
How persistence, grit, and emotional resilience work together.
Persistence - to proceed without ceasing.
Grit - relating to courage and passion.
Emotional Resilience - Being able to adapt to emotionally difficult situations.

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If this episode did anything for you, laugh, stimulate, irritate, or clarify, please share it with a friend. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have an amazing week!

#persistence #grit #emotionalresilience #feelings #emotions #behavior #perspective #selfawareness #selfmanagement #personalgrowth #personaldevelopment #eq #ei #emotionalmastery #personaltraining #humaninteraction #shifttraining #shiftownyourlife #shift #training #ownyourlife

In today’s episode we’ll be answering a few questions from the Where Should We Begin Game created by Esther Perel. We thought it would be a good opportunity to be vulnerable with you. We hope that you enjoy this content and consider buying the game. It’s one of the best for connecting with others.

If you’re interested in this card game you can buy it here:

https://game.estherperel.com/

If you want to learn more about relationships of all kinds and the amazing Esther Perel you can learn more here:

https://www.estherperel.com/

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

We hope that this episode will help you with your own exploration of vulnerability. The game is truly fun and how things play out is always interesting.

If this content was interesting, entertaining, or informative in any way, please share the show. Not only will that help us, it may help the person you share this with. Both of which, we'd greatly appreciate!

Have a fantastic weekend!

In today’s episode we’re asking the question, which comes first, rights and freedom or responsibilities and consideration? We’ll be talking a bit about the dance between those.

In this episode we talk about the following:
Rights and Freedom, where do those come from?
Responsibility and Consideration, in the present and beyond the present moment?
Quick mention of Jocko and discipline equals freedom.
Do you feel more empowered and capable when taking on responsibility or when placing responsibility elsewhere?

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If this episode did anything for you, laugh, stimulate, irritate, or clarify, please share it with a friend.

If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

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In today’s episode we’re talking about expectations, agreements, demands, and tyranny. How those relate and hopefully highlight the importance of agreements for many to see.

In this episode we talk about the following:

Expectations, especially unspoken ones, without agreements are essentially demands.

Where do expectations come into play?

Expectations based on agreements or past behavior.

Is this related to practicing healthy boundaries and negotiation with others?

What’s the first step to  bring an expectation or need to the table to form an agreement?

Tyrant or Leader, which will you be?

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What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have a fantastic week!

In today’s episode we’re presenting 3 questions that support getting what you want in 2023.

In this episode we talk about the following:
What do you want?
Why do you want it?
How are you going to get it?
What are you willing to pay, sacrifice, release to get it?
Short term and Long term goals.
Struggling in the beginning is the first step to mastery.

We hope that this episode will lead you to getting what you want in 2023.

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

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What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

#newyear2023 #2023 #success #questions #feelings #emotions #behavior #perspective #selfawareness #selfmanagement #personalgrowth #personaldevelopment #eq #ei #emotionalmastery #personaltrainer #personaltraining #humaninteraction #shifttraining #shiftownyourlife #shift #training #ownyourlife

In today’s episode we’re talking about habits and changes to consider making to insure that 2023 will be even better than 2022.

In this episode we ask the following:
What is one habit you want to build that will lead to progress and success for 2023? (Why?)
What is the bad habit you want to break this 2023? (break or replace?)
What is something you can do to develop an amazing morning and night routine?
Where do you need to invest in your life to experience that feeling of progress?
How can we better navigate failure?

We hope that this episode will lead you to insights you can use.

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What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

In today’s episode we’re talking about humility, modesty, timidity, and meekness. The differences and how to better tell when you should consider humility or not.

In this episode we discuss the following:
Humility - If your ego is out of control or you’re working on taming it.
Modesty - A solid baseline to operate from.
Timidity - No thanks and we’ll tell you why.
Meekness - Don’t ever underestimate a kind and patient horse.

We hope that this episode will lead you to insights you can use.

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have a fantastic weekend!

#humble #humility #modest #timid #meek #ego #questions #feelings #emotions #behavior #perspective #selfawareness #selfmanagement #personalgrowth #personaldevelopment #eq #ei #emotionalmastery #personaltrainer #personaltraining #humaninteraction #shifttraining #shiftownyourlife #shift #training #ownyourlife

In today’s episode we’re talking about The Culture Code, another way to view obstacles, getting better after being sick, and reconciling something you’ve been avoiding.

In this episode we discuss the following:
The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle.
Obstacles might be guiding, not just hindering us.
Von talks about elements of getting well after being sick.
What is something you need to reconcile that you’ve been avoiding?

We hope that this episode will lead you to insights you can use.

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What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?


Have a fantastic weekend!

In today’s episode we’re talking about three observations that we made during that week and would like to bring to you for consideration.

In this episode we discuss the following:
Why our perception of self needs to be greater than our identity.
Why you should talk to strangers who seem too cool for you.
Why building your self-esteem is about doing the work, trust, sense of safety, and self care.

We hope that this episode will lead you to insights you can use.

Let us know what you think about this discussion in the comments or via a review. If you have any specific questions to ask, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at support@shiftownyourlife.com

What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have a fantastic weekend!

In today’s episode we’ll be doing a quick crash course on emotional studies. We have some books that we recommend you start with to gain a solid understanding of feelings and emotions. Sans-neurochemistry today, which is also an important component but start with these.

In this episode we briefly discuss the following:
Emotional Awareness - Universal Human - Gary Zukav
Emotional Granularity - Atlas of the Heart - Brené Brown
Emotional Intelligence - Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves,
Emotional Agility - Emotional Agility - Susan David
Theory of Constructed Emotion - How Emotions are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett
Detachment and Awareness - The Untethered Soul - Michael A. Singer
Redefine Your Life - The Code of the Extraordinary Mind - Vischen Lakhiani

We hope that this episode will give you some insights that you can use. Please check out whichever of these books seems to be the most helpful to you where you’re at now.

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What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

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In today’s episode we’re talking about storytelling and a few reasons why it has such a large role in our connections with others.

In this episode we discuss the following:
Why stories will help you to reach and connect with other people.
Stories are a key part of how humans see the world.
Resonating is part of what creates the space for vulnerability or openness.
How the stories we tell ourselves affect our connection with others.

We hope that this episode will give you some insights that you can use. Either to improve your storytelling or to better see some of the scripts and stories at play around you.

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What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have a fantastic weekend!

In today’s episode we’re discussing when to grit and when to quit? How do we know when it’s time to hold tight or time to let go? If you’ve ever held on too tight to anything or felt like you quit something prematurely, this episode is for you.

In this episode we discuss the following:
What is Grit?
What are some of the benefits of Grit?
How can we tell when it’s time to move on?

We hope that this episode will provide you with a structure or idea of how to evaluate for yourself when it’s time to grit or quit.

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What’s one small shift you’d like to make in your life?

Have a fantastic weekend!