Focus Episodes

Have you ever wanted to have a system that captures all the to-do list items and ideas you have in one place? My special guest, productivity and organizing expert Lisa Woodruff, helps her clients take charge of their projects, schedules, and homes so that they can make more room for clarity, extra free time, and focus in their lives. You’re going to hear how her signature program and product, the Sunday Basket, was created to meet her own need to be more organized and how it has become a way for...

What new habits are you itching to start? What do you know will be a good activity or project for you to invest your time and energy into? What might you gain from investing your best efforts into developing a new habit? This episode is for all of us -- warriors inside a pandemic -- coping with daily stresses while also attempting to live and to work at our best. You will hear about how Dr. Li’s shoulder injury and pandemic weight gain created the chance for not only a new behavior (daily exerc...

Having organizing systems in place can be so helpful as we go through life and as we handle life’s transitions. When clutter of different varieties interrupts our ability to concentrate and to grow and change to our full potential, it often is a great idea to call in professional help. My guest in this episode, Linda Samuels, has been in the organizing field for 30 years, and she is someone who is “born organized.” Linda discusses how she has helped clients move through different phases of li...

Keeping up with responsibilities, chores, and all the tasks of everyday life sometimes can feel like one gigantic and heavy weight. If you are looking for strategies for making things feel a lot lighter, this episode is for you. Learn how to eradicate roadblocks, reduce your fears, work with greater ease, create more room to move and to create, and be more comfortable with the challenges that come in life in this episode. The 5 mindset shifts that you’ll hear about will help you to perform at a...

Show Notes - Episode 39: Move Away from Fear and Scarcity to Be Your Full Self with Allison Crow My guest this week is Allison Crow, a teacher turned real estate agent, turned productivity coach, turned life coach! Her vibrant journey and abundant life experiences make Allison no stranger to fear, and this is the story of how she was able to tackle everything that life threw her way without giving in to the voice of doubt inside her head. Despite moving from job to job and finding her place in...

Why do we become resistant to starting a task or new project? Well, my friends, there are a lot of reasons why you might be experiencing resistance but there are also a lot of ways to combat it. Whether you’re feeling resistant because you’re fearing an outcome, lacking trust in the process, or you’re struggling with being open to change, this episode will help you reflect and ask the right questions to help you understand the resistance you’re experiencing. Timestamps: [2:52] - Observe with...

Ambition has always been part of Susan Choi’s vocabulary. Although she’s a stress management coach now, she didn’t always know how to manage stress herself. Susan was overworked daily working in the corporate world, but a health scare made her realize that her definition of ambition needed to be rewritten. This episode describes her journey and how she slowly began to realize there was a lot more to life than achievement and the pursuit of success. You’ll learn more about how she was able to wor...

Okay, I have an inkling as to why you might be here. You’re here because you’re feeling overwhelmed, right? Or maybe you’re here because you get overwhelmed often and want to take the steps necessary to help prevent it? Maybe you also want to start being more productive without all the chaos? Well, my friend, you're in the right place. In this episode, I’ll be sharing six of my best tips for overcoming overwhelm and how you can start using those strategies RIGHT NOW. I know for a fact that when...

If you have an idea that’s worth going after, commit to it. If not, move on. This is the basic goal philosophy of my guest this week, ALoN David. He’s a goal setting expert, entrepreneur, and 90X® Founder & CEO; ALoN has created multiple 6- and 7- figure businesses from nothing. In 2017, after multiple hugely successful businesses, he decided to finally launch 90X®. He built the 90X® Planner System because that was the system he used to build his other businesses, and he was tired of never ha...

Giving yourself a break is much easier said than done. When balancing a family, a full-time job, and your personal time, it can feel like everything needs your attention at every moment. Finding peace among the chaos can sometimes feel like trying to find a needle in a haystack. My guest this week, Renae Fieck, a mom of 3, occupational therapist, and advocate for moms who desire more grace, space, and rest within their lives will teach us how to ease up and be more patient with ourselves in t...

When you get frustrated, what tends to happen? Do you tend to run from your feelings? Do you run from your tasks and responsibilities? Do you abandon what you were doing? These are normal responses to frustration. However, when we continue to stay frustrated over long periods of time, we can become caught in a cycle where we become even more frustrated because we’re not doing what we really want to be doing. So, how do we overcome our sense of frustration so we can be productive again? In ...

“Just be yourself!” is what everyone says, but that’s way easier said than done, right? Getting in touch with who you are (a.k.a. your real self) can be quite the journey! For some it may be simple, but for many it can be very challenging and take many years to “figure it out.” We know deep down we want to live as our true selves, but we also worry that we might run into difficulty if we actually do so. You might be worried that if you show more of your true self, others won’t like you....

Building healthy habits can feel difficult; we know this all too well, and I think we can all relate! Sometimes the habits we’re trying to build seem so challenging we think that the process has to be an “all-or-nothing” action. We start, only to get discouraged and to fall back into our old habits again. It makes us think, why do we fail? What’s the missing link? In this episode, Sarah Von Bargen teaches us that having joy in the habit change process and celebrating our efforts instead of...

When we feel good on the inside and out, your inner power shifts. This week’s episode is all about empowerment and taking back control over your health. My special guest, Kristin Fraser, discusses her health journey and how she was able to find her inner glow through nutrition, meditation, and healing. We’ll also get to hear how she’s taking action with her extensive knowledge to encourage and empower her clients to make meaningful, long-lasting shifts in their health for the better. Kristin ...

Our words have power; the way we speak and act are tools for getting the things we want and creating impact. But why do so many of us hold our thoughts and ideas back? How do we get past those roadblocks to get the things we truly want? In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Ellie Parvin, a Communication Expert & Educator, (University Professor, Speaker, Author, Coach and course creator), who uses her skills and techniques to show others how to improve their lives for optimum success and to ge...

Our spaces and environments can tell us a lot about a person. Our guest this week is Tamra Fleming and she’s gifted and skill at bringing her clients’ visions front and center so that they can reach their highest energy and best selves while transforming the space they live in. At its core, this type of work is about creating a relationship with the client in order to create change in the client’s thinking and perspectives so a space can be created based on the vision they have for their life...

This week, we’re switching things up a bit! I’ll be the one answering some of the most asked questions I receive as the Procrastination Coach as asked by my friend and colleague Tamra Fleming. Tamra is the creator of a transformational personal growth process that comes from aligning peoples’ physical living spaces to the vision they have for their life and she’s an expert when it comes to the topic of the meaning of space. In this episode, we’ll be discussing some of the best practices fo...

When you begin to accept who you truly are, you begin to expand and grow. I’m not referring to the things others think you are, but you, the real you -- the you that you believe is your truest self. It’s when we begin to listen to ourselves, not others, where we begin to see the change and start understanding that we hold so much power when we stop worrying about what others think or say about us. Wondering or assuming what others want, need, and think creates a limit to who we can become as we ...

Sometimes being a people-pleaser is just NOT fun. Sure, we may get excited at the chance to help someone or work really hard to get the satisfaction of a job well done, but at what cost? We’ve all had that dreaded feeling, having to decide between saying “yes” or saying “no” to something or someone. You might be asking yourself, is saying “yes” really a “bad” thing? If you think about it, always saying “yes” all the time can hurt us because it can get in the way of what we really want to do, s...

Imagine what your life would be like if you only greenlit your ideas. No red lights, no one telling you what you “should” do. What do you think would happen? Shelby Stanger is no stranger to fueling her wildest ideas. A seasoned journalist and top-ranked podcaster, Shelby Stanger’s work and podcasts have been featured everywhere from The New York Times and The San Diego Union Tribune to Outside Magazine, ESPN and the cover of Apple Podcasts. Curious about her subjects and willing to go to gre...

If you’re new to the concept of energy work, in the simplest terms, it’s used to balance the body’s various energies to alleviate stress, health conditions and disease. If you’ve ever heard of the phrase, “energy work” you might be in one of two schools of thought. Whether you’re an adopter of energy work practices or you’re a bit skeptical about it, I encourage you to listen actively and be open to the possibility of it. It’s truly incredible work! My guest, Elizabeth Pasquale, LMT, CST, NLP...

We’ve all heard the phrase, “You’re your own worst critic.” Those feelings you can’t quite shake off -- the fear of judgment, embarrassment, or showing who we really are -- they stop us from growing and doing the things we want to do. But why do we believe these negative views of ourselves without question? Why can’t we accept that the things we do are “good enough?” The truth is, it’s become a habit -- and a very deeply ingrained one at that. So often, I see people knock themselves down before...

Episode 8: Supercharge Your Thinking, Productivity, and Creativity with Diane Bleck Feeling creative in both your work and in life is an empowering experience. Take a moment to recall the amount of times you’ve taken to be creative lately and reflect on this question, “Am I allowing myself the time and space to be creative?” If your answer is leaning towards “No” or “I’d like more opportunities to do so,” let’s change that. This week, I will be introducing you to Diane Bleck. She is a prof...

Ask yourself, “If I had the courage to be real with myself and set boundaries with my work, could I?” We have all been in a place where our work seems to take priority over our lives or perhaps you’re currently stuck in that spot right now. When you see or hear the word “work” what do you feel? Does your body tense up? Does it make you feel uneasy? I’ve always been the type of person to say “YES!” to everything. I remember slaving over projects constantly, never having time for myself to d...