If today was your last day on earth, are you happy?

Whether you go into an office or work from home, you likely spend the majority of your time “at work” with colleagues. So if you’re not happy at your work, chances are, you’re not happy in life, which is not a healthy way to live.

And when you peel back the layers, many times it can be attributed to a misalignment between your priorities and your work, a lack of boundaries, and/or poor communication.

The good news is, these things are all fixable!

Joining me in this episode is my colleague and former manager, Terri Quinn. Terri started her career in the tech industry 25 years ago and was one of the early pioneers of the TME (Technical Marketing Engineer) role.

You’ll hear Terri share what it was like starting her career as a young wife and mother in a male-dominated, fast-paced, highly-demanding industry. She discusses how it taught her the importance of knowing what your priorities are (because not everyone does) and owning them without guilt.

You’ll also hear us discuss how to establish boundaries in the workplace by:

• Understanding your priorities and using them as a guide in setting boundaries

• Recognizing your power within and asking for what you want

• Self-marketing yourself with effective communication

This episode is a mirror of the discussions that Terri and I had every day for the three years that she was my manager. While always supportive, she constantly challenged my way of thinking. Her influence had a profound impact on how I approach my work and my attitude towards it, which has changed my outlook and how I communicate with others beyond the job.

In this episode of The Live FAB Life Podcast, I’m joined by Sadie Adams, the Proprietress of Take Care, a spa with locations in New York City and in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles where a collective of practitioners explore conversations of beauty and health, authenticity, and self-expression.

You’ll hear Sadie share:

• How she started her career studying Ayurveda and teaching yoga

• How she became an esthetician

• What is microcurrent and the origins of it

• How she cultivates relationships with her clients by working with intention to explore the schism between where their motor actions are, and how they can integrate their intentions closer to their motor actions and become more integrated beings.

Joining me in Episode 116 is Sarah Morgan of xosarah.com. Sarah is an Emmy-Award winning digital strategist who’s been blogging and building websites since age 13.

After escaping her corporate design job, she made it her mission to help business owners grow their online presence without overwhelm + indecision slowing them down.

In this episode, Sarah tells her story of how she escaped her corporate job as a graphic designer in a newsroom by doing freelance work and eventually building a thriving business where she now helps other business owners grow their online presence without overwhelm and indecision slowing them down.

You’ll hear Sarah share:

• Her route from a corporate job to profitable solopreneur

• How she battled burnout and feeling disconnected to her work

• What it was like working with a coach then bringing mindfulness into her business and personal life

• Her best productivity tips and what her daily routine is like to manage her time and energy

She even shares a bit of what it was like teaching aerial silk and how it helped her find a balance between her mind, body, and work!

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

As women, we spend so much time living in fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of being judged and of what others might think, fear of not having or being enough, fear of failure.

But what could happen if we release those fears? What’s possible for you, if you weren’t afraid? What would you do? How far would you let yourself dream?

In this episode I explore:

• How living in fear holds us back and limits us from reaching our potential

• What happens if we don’t release our fears

• What’s possible if, instead of giving what we fear power over us, we let our drive to pursue our dreams outweigh it

And I even share a personal story and my best tips of how to work through fear and stop being afraid.

If I were, to sum up, the last year, it would be “the year of burnout.” During that time, I’ve come to surmise that burnout is simply the misappropriation of energy and time.

In this episode, I take you behind the scenes and share with you what burnout looked like for me - the bad and ugly parts of it (hint: it’s probably not much different what it looks like for you),  what steps I took to bring myself out of it and what lessons I took away from the experience.

It’s the time of year where we want to be healthier, we want to be wealthier, we want to make all our dreams come true, and it feels like anything is possible! It’s also the time of year where feelings of inadequacies, lacking, and not being enough can surface.

I fully advocate you doing you - embracing who you are, fully and unapologetically. But I also believe there’s nothing wrong with aspiring for more - of yourself and for yourself.

So what will be your catalyst for change? What will be the thing that will keep you steadfast and focused on whatever “that thing” is that you want for yourself?

In this episode:

• I talk about mindset, self-growth, personal development and share what tools have helped me do this work over the past decade.

• I share a few things I’m going to focus on in 2020 (and what the proudest goal I’ve achieved for myself has been thus far)

• And I ask a few thought-provoking questions to help you figure out what your catalyst of change is going to be.

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Kate DeVarney, a Neuroscientist, Holistic Wellness Coach, and Qigong teacher. You’ll hear Kate share:

• What Qi Gong is and the different kinds of Qi Gong practices

• How she was introduced to Qi Gong during treatment for breast cancer and the difference its made in her healing

• How her daily practice of Qi Gong helps her in managing the daily pressures in her full-time corporate job 

• And she even walks us through her step-by-step practice of it

In Kate’s words: “The incredible practice of Qigong, together with important lifestyle changes, and the support I received through creating a healing community, helped me transform my stress, pain, and trauma into a sense of peace, healing, and renewed energy. I discovered the strength and the life-changing tools I needed to finish treatment, thrive, and create a life I truly love.”

Now, Kate’s mission is to coach other women living with cancer in this powerful, comprehensive system of self-care, that teaches how to integrate simple, mind and body practices into a sustainable self-healing lifestyle.

Being a Type-A person, managing my to-do list, meeting schedule, and borderline OCDC behavior is par for the course. But at some point, all that daily tension takes its toll.

In this episode, I’m continuing my discussion from Episode 107 with an update on the current status of my health.

You’ll hear me share how I’m using conventional and functional approaches to repair hormonal imbalances, and also, how I’m doing some inner work to address deeply rooted behaviors, tendencies, and mindsets that’s kept me in a fight + flight state, so I can bring myself back into balance in a more rested + digested state.

I share the different tools and exercises that I’m incorporation into my daily routine to reset my behaviors, build new habits and how they help to balance hormones.

Over the past 2+ years of the show, I’ve shared my health journey in a number of episodes, but recently I had an experience that shifted the context of how I view my health.

It’s had such a profound impact on me so, in this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes with an update of what’s going on in my health and how a slightly different approach in tracking is helping me to get to know my body in a whole new way with a fresh perspective.