The Resilient Mind Podcast with Andrew and Steve

Wow! What an incredible conversation with Kristy Mandour, owner of Sow to Speak, full of so many nuggets to be emotionally intelligent and at our best! This episode unleashes a torrent of information from how to be emotionally intelligent to harnessing resilience to setting and holding true to the boundaries that are the most important to us. And, as a bonus, we even dive into communication! This truly is one conversation you don’t want to miss and will find yourself coming back to time and time again!

This episode is absolutely jammed packed with easy actionable tips that get at the heart of what truly makes us happy today! Not yesterday and years past but, today, in a world full of social media, distractions, and so much content! From how to focus to embracing the positives of who we are (instead of disqualifying them) to alleviating the pressure of feeling we have to be perfect (and feeling that we are failing when we are not while we believe others are), our incredible guest, Jo Bauer, shares wisdom you don’t want to miss! If you’re looking for help, feel overwhelmed, or don’t know where to start, we’ve got you! Join us as we layout the fundamentals of what does make us happy today!

“I have to change everything I eat at once.” “I’ve tried before and it didn’t work. It’s not possible to lose weight.” “I’ll start after the holidays…” Do any of these thoughts sound familiar? Whatever we’ve thought about food, one thing is for sure, we are not alone in those thoughts! Another thing that is also for sure is, there is a way out from underneath our thoughts and feelings around food that don’t serve us! We often know what to do in terms of what to eat. For example, eat our fruits and vegetables, watch the amount of sugar we eat, and don’t eat too much. However, it’s creating the right habits that work for us to actually eat this way that stand in our way of doing so. Join us and Nutritionist Kiki Magnuson as we dive into creating the intelligent eating habits that do allow us to eat healthily and have our donut too!

Being at the top of our game isn’t just about peaking physically, it’s  also about peaking mentally.  In fact, it’s the mentality that’s the  more important of the two. How hard we push ourselves in athletics, at work, and other areas of  our lives comes down to the thoughts we have around what we are doing.   Our brains register the effort we are outputting and tell us it’s too  easy, just right, or too hard.  It’s this – our mentality – that reaches  its limit first.  However, if leveraged properly, our mentality can  work for us.  It can uplift us and take us to new heights, drive us to  get better, and bring about the success we seek. Join us and former professional soccer player Megan Richey as we dive  into the power of mindset and how it led her to a career in professional  sport, as well as, how it helps the young athletes of today.  If you  want a competitive edge in your next competition or at work, this  episode is for you!

“Suffer in silence!” Have you ever heard this phrase, been told it, or even without prompt keep to yourself and don’t express the struggles you have? If you do, you are NOT alone!!! We face very real trauma in our lives today and being told to suffer in silence makes it that much worse! We often feel there is no release, no way out, and no one can help us. Today, we share, there is a way! Our guest, Amber Kivett, founder of KIPRS – Kivett Instant Pain Relief System – shares her story with us through heartache, pain, and resilience. This truly is an episode you don’t want to miss! If you are suffering, in any way, this episode WILL help you!

Being a parent is not easy! Not only do we face the challenges of raising our children, we also face the expectations and pressures of society for doing so. What we see on social media is often disconnected from what we experience “IRL” – in real life – which makes us feel alone, ashamed, and even that we are messing up as parents. We’re here to tell you, you’re not alone!!! You are not alone in the challenges you face as a parent. You are not alone in the desires you want for kids to not struggle in life. And, you’re not alone in feeling lost as a parent! There are parents just like you out there, facing the same challenges as you, and, there is way to overcome them and embrace what is truly within our control! Join us as we get H.O.T. (honest, open, and transparent) with Tanya Perhsin, author of “MOM”ing: It’s Not All Sparkles and Tutus.

Do you feel disconnected from those you work with and a means to an end? If you do, you’re not alone! As a whole, work across the world has fundamentally reverted back to being transactional. We are overloaded, have ever changing priorities, and don’t have the time! Because of it, when we interact with others, we want to get in, get out, and be done with it. We’ve limited how we communicate and interact with others to the bare-bones necessities to keep the needle moving forward. The simple trick that gets us over all of this is: making work personable again! Join us as we talk through easy ways to make work personable again and reclaim the connection we crave.

The ability to forgive others can be difficult. When someone does or says something, who we naturally are dictates our reaction to it. It may be a serving reaction and it may be a non-serving reaction, either way, that’s okay! It’s who you are and is to be embraced! If our natural reaction is non-serving, we can either let it consume us or counteract it and choose how we want to respond. Responding is different than reacting. It is our cognitive ability to understand and embrace how we react that allows us to then determine how we want to respond! We don’t have to let our rage and anger consume us, we can embrace a serving response, forgive others, and behave how we want! Join us as we dive more deeply into understanding the differences between reacting and responding to forgive others.

Challenges are a part of life.  They can overwhelm us, cause us  heartache and pain, or, they can be powerful opportunities that lead us  to achieving what we truly want.  The choice is ours to make! When we are challenged and face adversity, we have the ability to  choose to be resilient – to say “No, not today!”  We are, and will  always be, in control of our mentality.  The choice to focus on what we  want to achieve, the desires we have, the outcomes we seek is ours!   And, it is what helps us rise above and conquer the challenge we are  facing! Each and everyone of us has this ability to focus on what we want,  to say “not today,” and to annihilate the barriers we face to achieve  what we want!  Join us as we dive into the keys to harnessing our  resilience in the face of adversity.

Have you ever walked away from a conversation, meeting, or even from  watching a sporting event thinking: “That didn’t go how I thought it  would”? As human beings, we tend to make assumptions about how things are  going to go.  For example, we may presume someone will react a certain  way to what we have to say to them.  The danger of this is, we can  actually create self-fulfilling prophecies that blind us, fueling the  “fire” and prevents us from interpreting what the other individual  actually meant.  If you’ve ever ripped into someone only to have them come back with:  “Hang on!  That’s not what I am saying at all!” then, you know what we  mean.  When we presume we know what someone is thinking, what they are  going to say, or what they intend, we have a habit of interpreting their  reactions and what they say through our lens versus being truly open to  what they are actually conveying to us.  This leads to create  self-fulfilling prophecies. All it takes to alleviate this is a slight shift in the way we  approach these conversations.  We can prepare for the possible outcomes  of how a conversation may go without forcing our narrative to be met by  remaining open to the possibilities; rather than, forcing our narrative  to be met through assumptions.  Join us as we dive into how to create  this subtle, yet powerful, shift.