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Welcome friends to Episode #121 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. If I were to make a top 5 list of things I coach on, tolerating uncertainty would be up there. An achiever’s nightmare is uncertainty and lack of control. That sentence alone may have given you the shivers (and not in a good way). Even if you think you are pretty laid back and flexible, when you don’t get what you want fast enough or if things sit in limbo too long, it can feel intolerable. How do you build up a tolerance for something you really don’t like. That’s exactly what we’ll talk about on today’s podcast. LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/121-2

Welcome friends to Episode #120 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When we think about what we want next in terms of our careers, it can be difficult to go down the road less traveled. Many careers and organizations have a well-defined career path that looks like a series of promotions or lateral moves that eventually lead to an end destination. The head of a company, a department or a functional expert. What if none of these seem interesting to you? How do we know which path to take? Today’s podcast is going to highlight what we need to redefine career success.    LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/120

Welcome friends to Episode #119 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Big things can happen when you go away. When you plan a trip, you want to be able to make the most of it. If you’ve ever gone away and come back with a fresh perspective, new relationships or decisions made - you know the power of a trip. It can change your life. Today’s podcast is on what makes a trip life-changing and how to create experiences that you will remember for the rest of your life.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/119-2

Welcome friends to Episode #118 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. One of the things that make it easiest to move around in this world is knowing our gifts. What are our competencies? What are our strengths? How do we make what’s unconscious, conscious so that we know how best to show up in any given situation? Today’s podcast is on this very thing. Your unconscious competencies and why it’s so important for you to understand them. LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/118

Welcome friends to Episode #117 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Our identity and accomplishments in this world are often tied to what others believe is worthy. We are looking for happiness in the approval of others. This is completely normal, yet there comes a time when you feel a bit lost in the sea of the world around you. How do you cut the ties of external validation when it stops serving you? Does it serve us? This is exactly what we will cover in today’s podcast.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/117

Welcome friends to Episode #116 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. We will often come across people with personalities that seem larger-than-life. They seem to take over conversations and situations, leaving you wondering, “what happened?” How do we work and live with people who seem to not only have big personalities, but also opinions and ways of working that differ from our own? Today’s podcast will reveal where we are giving away our power, and how to stand firm without aggression.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES:https://mayempson.com/116/

Welcome friends to Episode #115 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Whatever you believe, you know that death is a certainty. Whether it’s the death of someone you love or the death of your identity, the grief of loss is inescapable. What do you do when this happens and how do you process these life changes? Today, we’ll examine how to live our lives and chart a path forward through grief.    LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/115  

Welcome friends to Episode #114 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. How we spend our mornings and evenings can often be reduced to the single phrase, “I’m not a morning person” or “I am a morning person.” If you’ve struggled with morning routines, you’ll know that it can feel challenging to get these new habits to stick, especially when you feel that you’re a night owl. Today, we’ll really check into the idea of mornings versus evenings - if one is better than the other - and most importantly, how to make it work for you.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/114  

Welcome friends to Episode #113 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. In a world where we feel even more time-starved and distracted, we crave simplicity. When I work with people who feel like there is so much more to do than time to do it, often the one thing they most desire is to not have to do anything. If you feel like sometimes all you want is to simply stare at a wall and not be on the move, constantly - you’re in the right place. Today, we’re going to discuss how to create even more simplicity in your life so that you can enjoy having space in your life to do what you really want to do, with who you want, when you want to do it.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/113

Welcome friends to Episode #112 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. There’s often a time in our life where the day to day doesn’t cut it anymore. We want some of the magic and the mystique. We are looking for something intangible and extraordinary. A feeling and an experience where we feel connected to the moment in such a way that we get lost in it. Today, we’ll look at what it means to have that feeling of attention and detail to a craft - and to be inspired again by our work.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/112-2/  

Welcome friends to Episode #111 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. We all know the power of focus and how if we could stay focused for a little bit longer on what matters most, then we would be able to do so much more in the time we have. In our culture of distraction and multitasking, it often feels impossible to stay focused on one thing at a time. Today, we’ll review how to actually stay focused so that you can finally get yourself off the hamster wheel of doing, and be able to bring your projects and goals into completion.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/111-2/

Welcome friends to Episode #110 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. If you want to do something new, you often don’t because you think you might fail. What if you knew how to become really good at something? What if you knew that there was a process to figuring it all out and that you could become really good? Would you try something then? Would you finally do that thing you really want to do but have been scared to do? If the answer is yes, then today’s podcast is for you. We’re going to talk about becoming really good at the thing you do.    LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES:https://mayempson.com/110-2/

Welcome friends to Episode #109 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. One of the first things that happens when we start thinking about changing our jobs or our lifestyle is we get worried about money. Even if finances don’t drive your decision about what you do for a living, you still want to feel like you can support yourself. You are making decisions on a daily basis about how you live your life based on money. The question is, “How is that working for you?” Today, we’re going to talk through how much money you really need to help inform how we spend, save, invest and earn money.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/109-2/

Welcome friends to Episode #108 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. We don’t always get what we want. Sometimes that helps us and sometimes that creates more issues. Why do we sometimes have success? Why don’t we always get the success we desire? When you’ve gotten pretty good at your work, we can be surprised by feedback from others or from results that show us we aren’t as good at everything as we thought. What do we do when we feel that we should be more successful than we are? Today, we’ll discuss the concept of success entitlement and how it is either creating or preventing success for you right now.    LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES:https://mayempson.com/108-2/

Welcome friends to Episode #107 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by a long list of goals and to-do’s, you know that you need to prioritize. Yet, we don’t want to do it because it makes us feel like we have to make the impossible decision of saying no to things we really want. If it was so easy to prioritize, you would have already done it. How do you prioritize when all your options are important? Today, I’m going to share with you the Prioritization Process I use with my clients and why it will become your roadmap to achieve that health, wealth, spiritual or relationship goal.    LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/107-2/

Welcome friends to Episode #106 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Financial stability is often what we desire when we start to feel insecure about our money situation. It’s also the basis of taking risks and developing a sense of self-worth. What if we thought about financial stability as a construct of our mind instead of as hard numbers? How would our life change as a result of thinking about financial freedom and money differently? In today’s podcast, we’re going to put our minds to work reshaping our definition of financial success and questioning everything we’ve been taught.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/106/

Welcome friends to Episode #105 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. What if you could continually grow in the amount of satisfaction and happiness that you felt? When we have goals, we get excited and start doing the work to get there. At some point, however, we hit those goals and then we wonder, “is this it?” In today’s podcast, I want to offer you a new way to think about success, plateaus and what happens after you hit a goal, milestone or finally make that big decision - and what to do to surpass your plateaus.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/105

Welcome friends to Episode #104 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When was the last time you truly defined what success meant on your terms? Not just for one specific goal, but across the whole of your life? When we don’t redefine success, we stay exactly where we are doing the things that we used to define as successful. As you start to get that feeling of accomplishment and success, we struggle to let ourselves reimagine what could be next and why. Sometimes, when life is already feeling good - we don’t want to change it. Yet, if we don’t redefine success, life will still change - but towards an end goal that may be someone else’s - not yours. Today, we’ll talk about redefining your own success and how that helps you recreate the life you are living.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/104-2/  

Download the Bedtime Routines PDF here to create your very own routines. Welcome friends to Episode #103 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When we begin to review the times in our day where we feel the most challenged, bedtime and evenings can be one of them. We often have an ideal that we feel we’re not living up to in our lives whether it’s our own use of the evenings and how we transition into sleep, or how our kids transition from the evening into sleep. Whether you are in a period of transition or you want to make some necessary adjustments, today’s podcast on bedtime routines for adults and kids will help you create a routine that works for you and your loved ones. LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/103-2/

Welcome friends to Episode #102 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Please join us for a one hour, virtual meditation and sound healing event to benefit the Ukraine refugee crisis. If you feel called to do so, you can make a donation to the International Rescue Committee. The International Rescue Committee provides food, medical care, and emergency services to refugee families. In this hour, we will practice techniques to help build a supporting environment for us to find peace from within, together. Let's create a movement of peace one person and home at a time. LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES:  https://mayempson.com/?p=742&preview=true