In this episode 34 of The Pausecast... - Why it's not enough to keep you head above water - The secret to calendaring to establish and keep your boundaries - How to know the one thing to focus on or keep in your routine - Learn about Ziva Meditation and the free resource center to get started, https://tinyurl.com/pause-zivaselfcare About Rachael O'Meara Rachael O’Meara is a transformation leadership coach who empowers overwhelmed, successful women to reclaim their lives and thrive at work and beyond. She launched The Pausecast to help listeners be more self-aware as they learn how to intentionally shift their behavior and live purposeful, empowered lives every day. For the past twelve years, Rachael's experience in sales and client services at Google has helped her have a pulse on what it takes to be a successful and thriving transformational leader.  Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com and the TEDx stage in 2019. Rachael lives in San Francisco with her husband and pauses as much as possible to ski, road bike, and BE (which is a life long challenge!). She has a Master's in Transformational Leadership and Coaching from the Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential and has an MBA from Fordham University.

In This Episode Ellen Langer shares… - An experiential active noticing pause led by Dr. Langer - What active noticing is, and how it can help you manage stress or get out of overwhelm - Difference between defensive pessimism and mindful optimism is, and how it can help you cope with uncertainty - The 2 things about stress everyone should know - How being hopeful means one is already negative - Why we should all be focused on work life integration, and not work life balance - Why play and engaging needs to happen more - What we can learn from copulating rats, The Simpsons, and how the mind defaults to think About Dr. Ellen Langer - Dr. Ellen Langer, Ph.D., is a social psychologist and the first female professor to gain tenure in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She is the author of eleven books and more than two hundred research articles written for general and academic readers on mindfulness for over 35 years. Her best selling books include Mindfulness; The Power of Mindful Learning; On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity; and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Her most most recent book is The Art of Noticing which pairs one-liners culled from her research with her original paintings. She has also edited the Wiley Mindfulness Handbook, an anthology on mindfulness in which leading researchers integrate work derived from her western scientific theoretical base of mindfulness with research on eastern derived forms of meditation. Dr. Langer has been described as the “mother of mindfulness” and has written extensively on the illusion of control, mindful aging, stress, decision-making, and health. Among other honors, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Distinguished Scientist Awards, the World Congress Award, the NYU Alumni Achievement Award, and the Staats award for Unifying Psychology. Most recently she received the Liberty Science Genius Award. LINKS: For more info on Dr. Langer or to have Ellen speak at your next event, contact her at https://www.ellenlanger.com/ About Rachael O'Meara Rachael O’Meara is a transformation leadership and mid-career coach who empowers overwhelmed, successful women to take back their lives and live a fulfilling, thriving life. She created The Pausecast to help listeners be more self-aware as they learn how to intentionally shift their behavior and live purposeful, empowered lives every day. For the past twelve years, Rachael's experience in sales and client services at Google has helped her have a pulse on what it takes to be a successful and thriving transformational leader. ​Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com and the TEDx stage in 2019. Rachael completed her MA in Transformational Leadership & Coaching in July 2020. __________________________ Are you seriously done with feeling overwhelmed? Talk to me 1:1 in a 30m "Thriving Breakthrough Session" and how I might be able to help: bit.ly/pausegift

In this episode 32 of The Pausecast... - Join a guided pause led by Dr. Judith - What yearnings are and why they matter - What the Transformational Imperative is, and how you're a part of it. - How to live a more engaged fulfilled life and how all emotions help guide us to that. About Dr. Judith Wright - Dr. Judith Wright is co-founder of the 501(3)(c) Wright Foundation for the Realization of Human Potential. - She is also co-founder and Professor of Transformational Coaching the Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential. LINKS More Life Training RSVP: https://www.morelifetraining.com/ Wright Graduate University: http://wrightgrad.edu/ http://www.heartofthefight.com/ - latest book TalksatGoogle: Overcome Mindless Habits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfTLp8kOULY About Rachael O'Meara Rachael O’Meara is a transformation leadership and mid-career coach who empowers overwhelmed, successful women to take back their lives and live a fulfilling, thriving life. She created The Pausecast to help listeners be more self-aware as they learn how to intentionally shift their behavior and live purposeful, empowered lives every day. For the past twelve years, Rachael's experience in sales and client services at Google has helped her have a pulse on what it takes to be a successful and thriving transformational leader. ​Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com and the TEDx stage in 2019. Rachael completed her MA in Transformational Leadership & Coaching in July 2020. __________________________ Are you seriously done with feeling overwhelmed? Talk to me 1:1 in a 30m "Thriving Breakthrough Session" and how I might be able to help: bit.ly/pausegift

In episode 31 of The Pausecast, we discuss and experience... - Experience a guided pause led by Aaron - The missing piece most of us miss when it comes to leading yourself - How Aaron got out of being “unstuck” - How to lead without “driving hard” - How Aaron learned to take in more renewal resources and “nutrients” and how it changed his life - Depleting vs. fulfilling merit badges - Why being busy instead of feeling fulfilling. - How burnout can shift to be a practice of living - Learn to have your own “no” permission slip - How to create more emotional “calories” to match high depletion rates About Aaron: Aaron McHugh is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, author, and career liberator who is learning to master a sustainable work-life balance while weaving the rhythms of play and enjoyment into his every day routine. He hosts the fast-growing podcast “Work Life Play,” leads Reboot Your Life experiential weekends, speaks widely, and is an affiliate advisor to McKinsey & Co., helping drive large culture transformations in North America. Aaron's Free Gift: https://www.aaronmchugh.com/keep-going/ About Rachael O'Meara Rachael O’Meara is a transformation leadership and mid-career coach who empowers overwhelmed, successful women to take back their lives and live a fulfilling, thriving life. She created The Pausecast to help listeners be more self-aware as they learn how to intentionally shift their behavior and live purposeful, empowered lives every day. For the past twelve years, Rachael's experience in sales and client services at Google has helped her have a pulse on what it takes to be a successful and thriving transformational leader. ​Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com and the TEDx stage in 2019. __________________________ Are you seriously done with feeling overwhelmed? Talk to me 1:1 in a 30m "Thriving Breakthrough Session" and how I might be able to help: bit.ly/pausegift

In episode 30 of The Pausecast, we discuss and experience... - A guided writing pause led by Derek - How writing helps to pause and create - How to live your life as a series of grand experiments - How living intentionally and saying no are ways to refresh and renew - What lessons have you learned from pausing? - How making changes now is a good move - Hear about Derek’s new book, and it’s inspiration SUM - The metaphor for when you “crack the code” - How the Muppets, safes, and rainbows are important cues to pause. About Derek Sivers Derek Sivers is an American writer, musician, programmer and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians. His current projects and writings are all at sivers.org. About Rachael O'Meara Rachael O’Meara is a transformation leadership and executive coach who empowers overwhelmed, successful women to take back their lives and live a fulfilling, thriving life. She created The Pausecast to help listeners be more self-aware as they learn how to intentionally shift their behavior and live purposeful, empowered lives every day. For the past twelve years, Rachael's experience in sales and client services at Google has helped her have a pulse on what it takes to be a successful and thriving transformational leader. ​Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com and the TEDx stage in 2019. __________________________ Are you seriously done with feeling overwhelmed? Talk to me 1:1 in a 30m "Thriving Breakthrough Session" and how I might be able to help: bit.ly/pausegift

In episode 29 of The Pausecast... Experience a "bluesky" pause guided by Erric - How to stop the ticker-tape mind - How Radically Happy happened with Phakchock Rinpoche - How being a lion and less like a dog helps you   - How Erric's buddhist background helps him pause - How to find meaning and avoid the struggle About Erric Solomon Erric Solomon is the co-author of Radically Happy: A User's Guide to the Mind. Throughout his career as a Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur and as an innovative meditation teacher, has been interested in understanding the mind and how it functions, both as a user-experience designer and as a mind hacker.  ​As a participant in the Logo Group at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, he interacted with some of the world’s deepest thinkers on how to make intelligent machines. This experience inspired a lifelong passion to understand the mind and how it functions, and it led Erric to the study of Buddhist theories of mind and the nature of consciousness. He has been an invited speaker to lead seminars and retreats in corporate settings—such as the WorldBank and Silicon Valley tech firms—as well as in prisons, temples, and Buddhist centers across the United States and Europe. You can find Erric at RadicallyHappy.org LINKS www.RadicallyHappy.org Radically Happy, by Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon: https://www.amazon.com/Radically-Happy-Users-Guide-Mind/dp/1611805279 How to Pause and Not Freak Out - Rachael & Erric video on how to pause in uncertainty and COVID19: https://youtu.be/6PeidNa-7BE

In episode 28 of The Pausecast...Rachael O'Meara and tips on pausing in uncertainty...like right now in the Corona Virus pandemic. ​- Experience a guided immunity boosting pause with Rachael - Recognize the choices you can make about fear - Why emotions and expression helps in times of uncertainty - Know 3 of your Cognitive Distortions - Why drama doesn't help but can hurt us - Daily Pause ideas for routine, structure, and making the best of things. About Rachael O'Meara Rachael O’Meara is a transformation leadership and executive coach who empowers overwhelmed, successful women to take back their lives and live a fulfilling, thriving life. She created The Pausecast to help listeners be more self-aware as they learn how to intentionally shift their behavior and live purposeful, empowered lives every day. For the past twelve years, Rachael's experience in sales and client services at Google has helped her have a pulse on what it takes to be a successful and thriving transformational leader.  Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com and the TEDx stage in 2019. Rachael lives in San Francisco with her husband and pauses as much as possible to ski, road bike, and BE (which is a life long challenge!). She has a certificate in Transformational Coaching from the Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential and has an MBA from Fordham University. If you enjoy this podcast, please rate as you feel fit on your favorite channel! For more info on Rachael visit rachaelomeara.com

In episode 27 of The Pausecast... - ​Experience a refreshing pause led by Jennifer - What led Jennifer to embark on a career studying conflict - Why conflict is so challenging - How to know your conflict type (hint: take the free assessment noted in the show notes) - The 4 common conflict habits that get us into trouble and how to avoid - The No. 1 tip that works to move through conflict - The two types of pausing you can take to facilitate conflict - How to leverage anger and other emotions to get out of conflict About Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetlzer ​Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler is founder and CEO of Alignment Strategies Group, the New York-based consulting firm that counsels CEOs and their executive teams on how to optimize organizational health and growth. Author of OPTIMAL OUTCOMES: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home, and in Life (HarperBusiness, Feb. 25, 2020), she is a keynote speaker at Fortune 500 companies, public institutions and innovative, fast-growing startups, where she inspires audiences of all kinds, including those at Google, Harvard and TEDx, and in her popular course at Columbia. A former counterterrorism research fellow with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, she is a graduate of Tufts University and holds a Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. LINKS Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062893653?tag=harpercollinsus-20 Watch Jennifer's TEDx talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_goldman_wetzler_free_yourself_when_conflict_resolution_fails Take the conflict assessment: https://jengoldmanwetzler.com/optimal-outcomes-assessments/

In episode 26 of The Pausecast... - ​Join a visualization pause led by Ron Carucci, Managing Partner of Navalent - Learn the trifecta for better leadership - Why we need “mirrors” as leaders - Even the best CEOs have their trigger moments: here’s what one found out working with Ron - Discover leaders want to know more about - What power really means - How to show up with purpose and be motivated - How to find your blind spots and ask for feedback. - Tips for becoming more inclusive, open, and broadening your perspective as an inclusive leader About Ron Carucci - Ron Carucci is managing partner of Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. - Ron has a thirty year track record helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. - Ron led a ten year longitudinal study on executive transition to find out why more than 50% of leaders fail within their first 18 months of appointment, and uncovering the four differentiating capabilities that set successful leaders apart. - Those findings are highlighted in his groundbreaking Amazon #1 book Rising To Power, co-authored with Eric Hansen. LINKS How to Be More Powerful than Powerless - Ron's latest (of 3) TEDx Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_carucci_how_to_be_more_powerful_than_powerless Ron's book Rising To Power on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Power-Journey-Exceptional-Executives/dp/1626341087 Sign up to the latest research from Ron: https://www.navalent.com/resource-center/ About Rachael O'Meara - Rachael O’Meara is a transformation leadership and executive coach who empowers overwhelmed, successful women to take back their lives and live a fulfilling, thriving life. - She created The Pausecast to help listeners be more self-aware as they learn how to intentionally shift their behavior and live purposeful, empowered lives every day. - For the past twelve years, Rachael's experience in sales and client services at Google has helped her have a pulse on what it takes to be a successful and thriving transformational leader.  - Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com and the TEDx stage in 2019. - Rachael lives in San Francisco with her husband and pauses as much as possible to ski, road bike, and BE (which is a life long challenge!). - She has a certificate in Transformational Coaching from the Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential and has an MBA from Fordham University.

In This Episode 25 of the Pausecast: - Experience a 2x2x2 pause led by Marci (inspired by Heartmath Institute). - How to start the "feel good happiness" chemical flow of oxytocin - Why Heart Rate Variability (HRV) matters - The one question you can ask yourself daily to improve your well-being - How Pausing changed Marci's life - How Marci defines happiness and how to generate more of it. - The recipe for happiness and what we can/can't control. - How the "7 main areas of happiness" can be a great metaphor for how to live a fulfilling life. - How to create Your Year of Miracles and get your free ebook, "4 mistakes from living a miraculous life. *** About Marci Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher and an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. Her books include the international bestsellers Happy for No Reason and Love for No Reason. Marci is also the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, as co-author of six books in the Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul series. With total book sales of more than 16 million copies worldwide in 33 languages, Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. Marci is also a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret and the host of the PBS TV show called Happy for No Reason. She narrated the award-winning movie called Happy. President and co-founder of the Esteem Group, Marci delivers keynote addresses and seminars on happiness, success, empowerment, and unconditional love to Fortune 500 companies, professional and non-profit organizations, women's associations and audiences around the world. Marci is currently leading a one-year mentoring program called Your Year of Miracles. Her opening seminar has been heard my more than 100,000 people. Marci earned her MBA from UCLA and holds an advanced certificate as a stress management consultant. She is a founding member and on the board of directors of the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of 100 top transformational leaders. Through her books and her presentations, Marci's message has touched the hearts and rekindled the spirits of millions of people throughout the world. She is dedicated to helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives. www.HappyForNoReason.com www.MarciShimoff.com About Rachael O'Meara Rachael O’Meara is a transformation leadership and executive coach who empowers overwhelmed, successful women to take back their lives and live a fulfilling, thriving life. She created The Pausecast to help listeners be more self-aware as they learn how to intentionally shift their behavior and live purposeful, empowered lives every day. For the past twelve years, Rachael's experience in sales and client services at Google has helped her have a pulse on what it takes to be a successful and thriving transformational leader.  Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com and the TEDx stage in 2019. Rachael lives in San Francisco with her husband and pauses as much as possible to ski, road bike, and BE (which is a life long challenge!). She is certified in Transformational Coaching from the Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential and has an MBA from Fordham University.