Tag: self-image

Episode #302: Winning the One-Horse Race of Life with Shane Jacob

Shane Jacob is a Certified Life Coach, Professional Horseman, Entrepreneur, Author, and host of The Horsemanship Journey podcast, who combines horsemanship with personal development empower people to find and use their horsepower within to develop the confidence and strength to blast past their perceived weaknesses and become whomever they desire.

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Episode #282: Standing on the Ashes of Burned Bridges with Isaiah Orozco

Isaiah Orozco went from making over a six-figure income to becoming an alcoholic and drug addict with legal problems and struggling with severe anxiety and depression, to eventually losing it all. He managed to climb out of the mud and build something much bigger and better than he had before.

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Episode #226: Mental Health, Pole Power, and Self-Love with Rachel Calderon

Rachel Calderon is licensed mental health practitioner who provides positive therapy to a wide variety of clients of all backgrounds from a harm reduction and empowerment approach. Her client base includes the LGBT+ community, monolingual Spanish speakers, refugees, grief, and people struggling with trauma.

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Episode #203: Body Image, Self-Esteem, and Getting Naked with Marc Paisant

Marc Paisant is a motivator, mental health advocate, unabashed perpetual learner, husband, and father of two beautiful girls. He is also the host of the Relatively Normal podcast, where he shares his personal experiences of dealing with ADHD, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and body image issues.

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Episode #126: Putting Your Best Face Forward

 

Putting our best face forward and how we present ourselves to the world has a huge impact on our self-image and self-confidence. Jade Alexander is an expert on helping people optimize their appearance on camera and video. She is a photographer, videographer, entrepreneur, and co-founder and co-owner of Synergy Videography.

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Episode #107: Self-Acceptance, Self-Love, and Taking Control of Your Life

Dina Marie is an entrepreneur who have owned several successful businesses. She is also the author of the book “My Fat Pants Don’t Fit: A Mostly True Story of Divorce, Weight Loss, and Finding Self-Love.” Dina shares her personal struggle with weight gain, emotional eating, self-doubt and self-loathing.  

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How To Get Out Of Your Own Way

Sometimes you just have to get out of your own way. Or, more specifically, out of your mind. As someone who has been out of my mind more often than I care to admit, I understand how sometimes your mind can mess with your head. And your goals. And especially your dreams.

One of the things I learned as a brand new martial arts student was how to get out of the way of an attack. And I was really, really good at it. My technique of choice was to cover my head with my gi top and run off the mat screaming, “Don’t touch me!” Ah, yes. Those were the good old days.

Eventually I was able to get out of my head and into my body to stay engaged with my attacker and gracefully step out of the way. Soon after that, I was able to step back into my attacker and take him down. It was a slow and tedious process for me, but once I let go of my preconceived  conviction that I was going to get beaten to a pulp, magic slowly began to unfold.

Not only did I learn to get out of an attacker’s line of fire, I learned how to get out of my own way as well. Because it’s that negative self-talk, the fear that we are either going to fail, look stupid, be ridiculed, or fall on our face. Huh, been there, done that. All of the above. And yet I survived.

I have to be honest, and I have to confess that I still struggle with getting out of my own way, especially when a remarkable opportunity presents itself. And it recently did, but I’m not quite ready to talk about it quite yet. I’m still trying to wrap my head around it and wonder what I had gotten myself into.

But if we don’t keep reaching for new heights, think of all the incredible experiences we might miss out on. And that would just be sad, don’t you think?