Send us Fan Mail In Episode 685 of It’s Bizzy, Elizabeth “Bizzy” Chance gets real about something nobody warns moms about: the first holiday season when the house is quiet. Halloween week hits like a freight train. No costumes to make, no trick-or-treat plans, no one asking if they have everything they need. Bizzy shares how the loss of those years has drawn her closer to God (Psalm 57, under His wing), a chance run-in on the beach that reminded her to tell another mom to embrace every moment...
Oct 27
16 min
Send us Fan Mail Do you hate talking about money? Does selling yourself feel “icky,” like you have to become a pushy used car salesman? Sales confidence coach Karina Klaus joins Elizabeth “Bizzy” Chance from Lisbon, Portugal, to explain why so many women freeze when it’s time to sell, and how to change it. With a background in psychology and business, Karina helps women heal their relationship with selling by clearing the subconscious beliefs and money blocks that hold them back. In this epis...
Oct 22
30 min
Send us Fan Mail Are you a fixer? Do you jump in with your opinion, rescue the people you love, and try to control how everything turns out? In this solo episode of It’s Bizzy, Elizabeth “Bizzy” Chance, sober for 20 years, shares a phrase she heard in a recovery meeting that changed everything: every person gets to have their own consequences. She talks about: · Why Step Three, turning our will and our lives over to God, was so hard for a mom who wanted to control ev...
Oct 20
16 min
Send us Fan Mail What if the story you were handed isn’t the one you have to keep? Avril Millar was a civil engineer in Glasgow in the 1960s, when women in hard hats were still a novelty, and the only woman among 174 engineering students at her university. She went on to teach maths and physics while her children were small, then ran her own wealth management firm as CEO for twenty years before leaving to do something more meaningful than make rich people richer. Since 2009, she’s advised boa...
Oct 15
39 min
Send us Fan Mail After my episode with Michael Goessling, whose birth father turned out to be Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers, the response was overwhelming. And the message I kept hearing was: “I needed a happy story.” In this solo episode 681 of It’s Bizzy, I talk about why good news hits so hard right now, the moments from Michael’s adoption reunion that moved so many of you, and a run-in at the dog beach that taught me something about miserable people. You can’t fix them, but you ...
Oct 13
16 min
Send us Fan Mail Michael McDonald's Son on Adoption, Faith & Finding His Birth Parents What happens when you find your birth parents at 58 — and your birth father turns out to be Michael McDonald of The Doobie Brothers? In Episode 680 of It's Bizzy, my lifelong friend Michael Goessling shares his incredible adoption reunion story, and the faith, gratitude, and family love behind it. Michael was adopted as a baby through Catholic Charities in St. Louis by Paul and Kay Goessling, who raised...
Oct 8
47 min
Send us Fan Mail Episode 679 of It's Bizzy How much of your life have you spent worrying about things that worked out anyway? Today is my 58th birthday. A year ago, on my 57th, I was crying, scared, and angry because nothing looked like the picture in my head. One year later, I'm calmer than I've ever been. What changed? I stopped trying to direct the movie and started writing my plans in pencil, not pen. In this birthday episode, I finally answer the question I ask every guest: what do I wis...
Oct 6
20 min
Send us Fan Mail Nobody wants to talk about it. So we're talking about it. Jeremy Lipkowitz was on track for a PhD in genetics at Duke. He was also addicted to porn, an hour a night, every night, since college. At 23 he looked down the road and didn't like who he saw. So he went looking for happiness, found meditation, traveled to India, trained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar, and walked away from his PhD to teach people how to train their minds. Today he helps high-achieving men break free fr...
Oct 1
57 min
Send us Fan Mail Do you ever wake up and wonder how many you had last night? What you said? Why you did it again when you swore you wouldn't? You're not at rock bottom. But you're not okay either. I'm 20 years sober and I've been coaching since 2013, and today I'm talking about gray-area drinking, that big middle nobody talks about. I share my own story (including the wine glass that holds an entire bottle, wink wink) and five signs it might be time to take a look: 1. You have rules about you...
Sep 29
17 min
Send us Fan Mail ⚠️ EXPLICIT: This episode contains strong language and mature themes, including alcoholism, addiction, and mental health struggles. Listener discretion is advised. Episode 676 of It's Bizzy What happens when the life that looks glamorous from the outside is quietly falling apart on the inside? My guest today is Paul Drayton, actor and author of the memoir Ride or Die Trying: A Life Before, During, and After Laughter. Paul was raised in Sunderland in the northeast of England, ...
Sep 24
53 min
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