Focus Episodes

Send Dr. Li a text here. Please leave your email address if you would like a reply, thanks. In this episode, Dr. Christine Li explores the four most common roadblocks to personal and professional success: lack of focus, perfectionism, overwhelm, and physical clutter. She breaks down how each roadblock shows up, why it matters to remove them, and offers practical tips for clearing your path forward—helping you create more time, energy, and progress in your life. Timestamps 00:00:00: Christine ...

Send Dr. Li a text here. Please leave your email address if you would like a reply, thanks. In this episode of the Make Time for Success podcast, Dr. Christine Li guides listeners through a gentle, stress-free year-end review. She shares mindful strategies for reflecting on 2025, focusing on movement, mindset, and the meaningful moments from the past year. Listeners are invited to take stock of their experiences without judgment, highlight moments of gratitude, tackle lingering open loops, an...

Send Dr. Li a text here. Please leave your email address if you would like a reply, thanks. In this episode, Dr. Christine Li shares a powerful ten-step exercise that she introduced to her Success Lab clients. With a focus on creating an effective game plan for a span of two to three days, this exercise is designed to help you make the most of your time and energy, whether you're looking to maximize a weekend or refocus during the middle of a hectic workweek. Dr. Li guides you through her tho...

Send Dr. Li a text here. Please leave your email address if you would like a reply, thanks. In the first episode of 2025, Dr. Christine Li kicks off the new year with a heartfelt message to her listeners. Celebrating the start of the fifth year of her podcast, she reflects on the rapid passage of time and the rich experiences shared with her community. Dr. Li emphasizes the importance of approaching this new beginning with clarity, focus, and renewed energy, especially for midlife women who ofte...

Send us a text In Episode 199 of the "Make Time for Success" podcast, Dr. Christine Li kicks off a transformative two-part series aimed at helping you speed up your life when you feel stuck or sluggish. Drawing from her recent live coaching session during the Re-Energize Your Home 5-Day Decluttering Challenge, Dr. Li shares six powerful tips to reclaim your focus and energy. From managing external and internal stressors to creating a high-focus environment and embracing the right soundtrack, the...

In this podcast episode, Dr. Christine Li speaks about the habit of pre-worrying and its impact on mental resilience. Listen in as Dr. Li discusses personal experiences and professional insights as a psychologist, and as she offers pragmatic strategies to combat pre-worry, emphasizing the importance of setting earlier deadlines, breaking down tasks into manageable sections, and incorporating small victory celebrations into the workday. Stay tuned as she shares the strategy of reframing perspecti...

In this episode, Dr. Christine Li explores the critical importance of building unshakable trust within oneself. This episode is part of her solo content experiment, focusing on self-trust as a fundamental component of success. Listen in as Dr. Li discusses strategies to avoid the temptation to quit, cope with intense emotions and lack of self-confidence, and stay committed to personal growth. Stay tuned as she shares the value of patience, focus, emotional resilience, and performing despite inte...

In this podcast episode, Dr. Christine Li was invited to interview Tracy Otsuka on Tracy’s podcast called ADHD for Smart Ass Women to do a grand introduction for the release of Her book by the same name, ADHD for Smart Ass Women. Listen in as Tracy delves into key insights from her book and explores the unique perspective of women with ADHD, discussing topics such as attention, focus, creativity, and positive emotion. And stay tuned! Tracy shares some valuable insights, and provides a glimpse in...

Are you ready to break free from your limiting beliefs and move into a success packed future? If so, take time to listen to this episode! I'm breaking down an actionable five step plan to determine your priorities, identify any obstacles that may be in your way, define your next moves and create an action plan so you can achieve what you want in a timely, reliable and powerful way. We're calling this focus and flow. Timestamps: •[1:25] Dr. Li shares the first two things to cultivate a productiv...

Do you want to maximize your performance at home, at work, in your social life or even with just everyday decision making? My special guest, Jennifer Finley, is an expert in guiding others to do just this type of excellent mental performance work. Tune in to the episode to hear how to develop your intuition, use it to guide you, and how we can shift and mold our reality based on our emotions, our thoughts, our focus, and our intent. Jennifer Finley is trained in multiple coaching methodologies ...

If you've ever had the desire to see what else is out there for you in the world, or if you've ever felt like you're interested in making a pivot in your work or your life to fully explore your talents, then you will resonate with today’s guest. Jessica DeRose is filled with stories that you're going to enjoy, including those of when she was a celebrity personal trainer, and a former elementary school teacher, who turned her once cute side hustle into a multimillion dollar business in just 18 mo...

If you have oodles of ideas swirling around in your brain but feel like you might need some direction to put those thoughts in motion, you're going to love this episode with my special guest, Wendy Batten. Wendy is funny. She's delightful. She's self-effacing. She is great! She's a remarkable role model for me, and I think she will be for you as well. Listen in as Wendy shares her essence of being a dreamer, how she faced innumerable scary ledges but ultimately trusted the jump and the incredibl...

My special guest today, Julian Canita, is here to share his story of how he was able to create a satisfying career for himself despite the belief there weren’t many opportunities available to him. His story has multiple happy endings, and he shares with us many life and career search lessons inside this episode. Listen in as Julian shares how keeping your vibration high and getting out of your comfort zone will enable you to work on your mindset… making room for you to choose the person you want...

If you're feeling stuck in your search for more fulfillment in your work, or in running your own business, my special guest, Helen Kho, has some very special guidance and inspiration for you inside this episode. Listen in as we discuss how to address when you know you are meant to do something else, something more… and how being open to your intuition, open to letting it all go, getting back into your curiosity and feelings and following your heart will help you make a smooth transition into wha...

Have you ever had the experience of knowing that you were NOT going in the right direction for yourself or for your career? Listen in as my special guest, Shelley Paxton, discusses redefining and waking up to your truth, solidifying what matters the most and creating a future that is more in alignment with who you are meant to be. Stay tuned as we discuss slowing down to meditate and listen to your body, feeling brighter, more energetic and like the most powerful version of yourself and understa...

When listening to this somewhat philosophical episode, I would love for you to embrace the idea that everything in life is perpetually transitioning or transforming… and to remember in this experience of constant adjustment and pivoting, that we are agents of change all the time. To honor that thought, I thought we'd have a little bit of a conversation about manifesting what you want in your life, figuring out your relationship to your life, and to embrace the reality of change and the powerful ...

Have you ever worked yourself to the point where you felt like you had really overdone things? Maybe even to the apex of landing yourself in hot water or even the hospital? If you are curious about whether your tendency to overwork or give too much of yourself is affecting you negatively, this episode is for you! My guest, Sensei Victoria Whitfield, shares a goosebump-inducing story about her own experience working herself into a dire situation, and then also shares how this event shaped her lif...

In this episode, I am sharing six great tricks that you can rely on to develop a smoother way of working and to keep overwhelm at bay. Feeling overwhelmed is not fun and interferes with how we see ourselves, how we see our work and how we view our future opportunities. When any of us feels overwhelmed, we are not functioning at our best. If your goal is to get past the overwhelm to restore that feeling of wellness that we all crave, then you should definitely stay tuned! Timestamps: • [2:25] ...

Are you striving for success, but not getting the results you've been hoping for? My special guest, Kerri Altom, has developed a great strategy and technique for getting to the root of what might be getting in your way. In this episode, you're going to hear how Kerri's work with leaders of all different varieties helped her realize that too often leaders skip the critical step of getting clear on their values, priorities and purpose. Our conversation covers the questions we need to ask ourselves...

It is really important to know how to use your voice and your ideas in order to achieve success. But what happens when you feel or sense that your voice is not being heard or listened to? Today we're going to have a conversation with my special guest, Marsha Guerrier, a leader in the business and marketing space, about success and what it takes to move you from your vision to the actions that will get you there. Tune in to hear us discuss how she used her experiences, her ambition, her know-how,...

It is really easy to get discouraged or to even give up when we feel that our efforts are not being responded to, or even heard. So how are we supposed to pursue our big vision, dreams and plans if we don't know how to ask people for help powerfully or effectively? We are lucky today to have my special guest, Indrani Goradia, on the show. She is going to give us a powerful lesson in asking for what we need and sticking around to make sure we get the best outcomes possible for ourselves. Indra...

There's always a spirit of change and self improvement in the air around the New Year. With the ringing out of the old and ushering of the new, the vast majority are contemplating habits they want to change. What better time than the beginning of a new year to pause and reflect on what we need to work though and release and how we can do that. My special guest, Adrienne Glasser, is the perfect person to show us how to find compassion within ourselves and to make space for newness and change. ...

Each New Year brings with it a rush of new energy, with the world ready to start new habits and get off to a fresh start. The chance to begin again is truly a great feeling. What can come with the New Year is also a bit of pressure — pressure to have resolutions that stick, habits that are better, and everything proceeding in perfect time. It can end up feeling like a lot of pressure. In this episode, you will have a chance to reflect on this special time and what success really means and ...

Do you worry that you might be settling for less than you're capable of in your life or your career? Do you have a mean girl or mean guy voice inside your head telling you all the reasons why you can’t, shouldn’t or aren’t good enough? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, this episode is one you need to stick around for. My special guest, Michelle Fernandez, is an entrepreneur who read the signs that were happening in her life, to leave the jobs that were not satisfying her fully in o...