Understanding Personality, Live Your True Voice Mike Ryan and Mandy Keene

We all need a sense of control to feel like our life is manageable. Yet, at the same time, we're all learning what we don't have control over. What's not ours to decide. It's hard not to get triggered by people doing the opposite of what you want them to do. Or to know if your cat is going to knock a plant off the shelf when you can't sit down with them and chat about it after. Our POWER is what we own, and what we protect that we DO have control over. Our attitude is under our control. Our efforts are under our control. But what about the things we fight for, that thought we wanted? Our efforts and attitude are exactly as we want them to be, yet something still isn't right. Things don't work out, or you end up hating it, but because you wanted it so badly, you fight against it. What does that do? You start to feel shame for things "you're not doing enough of". What if it's trying to show you that that isn't the right fit for you? That's alright! Seeing that as a message for your happiness and comfort, sooner, will guide you to the place that makes you feel the best. But believe me, we know that it doesn't feel easy at first. Our understanding of power and control gets scrambled, as human beings in this culture.

In this podcast, we'll be applying personality assessments and understanding your customized mind. Differentiating the beliefs of power and control to find PEACE in our every day lives.

"Cheer up", "Happiness is a choice", "Smile, it'll make you feel better". All of these sound simple and heartwarming, don't they? When you're looking at it from the outside, they seem like effective little sentiments. And there's value in them, nonetheless! But what about when you've been depressed for months? For years? What if you have no way to describe the pain in your heart, and as soon as you try, the person you're closest to nudges your arm and says to "cheer up". How does that feel?

In this podcast, we're talking about the old belief that "happiness is a choice" (as if it were that simple). Don't you think if we could press a button labeled "choose happy", our ENTIRE world would be a vivid utopia? Depression and anxiety wouldn't exist in most of our hearts and minds. We wouldn't be listening to podcasts and reading books guiding us to freedom, we wouldn't be drinking and venturing until our pain disappears. We want to peel away that repression from you; to break down the facade that our culture is leaves us to portray all the time. We're not always happy! We are human beings on Planet Earth, we feel it all. Today, we want to share the new belief with you, that's it's NOT as simple as one decision with your posture or your facial expressions... for lasting change, we have to go within and see where this pain and this sadness stems from in order to heal it.

You know that old belief that you have to hit your bottom to really be able to heal, to be liberated from what's been causing you so much emotional, physical and mental pain? We hear this stories of people's pivotal points where "their back was against the wall" or "their card was declined at the grocery store", and THAT'S what transformed them. Our culture is left to belief that we have to start from somewhere so painfully specfic. That's an old belief we're here to free you from. What happens when you dig into where that pain really stemmed from? Let's say it's a chronic pain or addiction. The pain may push you to want something better for yourself but what happens when you look within it? How was your body saying "no", when you weren't? What value of your's wasn't being fulfilled? Once you seek your truth behind the pain, we're here to share with you how THAT can be what finally liberates you.

In this podcast, we talk about how pain can be a temporary teacher, but the OLD belief is that it is the key to your freedom. We share stories of how this has affected us and people we love; how we believed that the people we loved needed to get arrested or to experience something specific to motivate them to get better. But does that make us more shameful and judgmental? How can we heal with something that brings all of us peace-of-mind, without having to hit the bottom?

Regarding Old Beliefs and New Beliefs again, this one is can be trickier. The old belief that WILL POWER and pushing ourselves beyond our limits; we have that everywhere, don't we? Even on hard days, where we're exhausted, where we're sick, we push ourselves to do more than our bodies and minds can take, so that ONE day, we'll make it to this finish line. Where we're financially stable, where our dreams fit into the molds we've been building, where we tell ourselves, "this is the hard part before it gets easier". It goes hand-in-hand with the "I'll be happy when..." notion, does it not? What about when doing this to ourselves makes us sick? Are we still pushing through it, then too?

In this podcast, we're going back to the preciousness of the present moment. How guiding yourself to happiness, forgiveness, and UNDERSTANDING yourself and your needs can happen before you make it to that finish line. How, once you start to create that peace for yourself, the success and things you dream of fall into place SO much easier. And you start to heal right now, opposed to waiting for a 'better time' to do so. When we attach our happiness to our achievements and the outcomes, what happens when we lose those? As our egos are tethered to them? In today's podcast, we tell you just how simple it can be to find happiness and peace, without pushing yourself to the point of physical and emotional pain.

We've all been here, before. In fact, in a lot of ways, we still do this every day. With our dreams of making ten times our current income, having the car we've always wanted, getting to a certain weight, having a ring on our finger... we start to take the idea of those dreams and tethering them to "this is when I'll be happy". Or even, "this is what will make me feel more at peace". We're programmed to be consumers in this world of fitting in, being approved of, credibility, success, and we feel so often that because of these things, time is pressed against us. But what happens when you finally have all of those things you so dearly wanted? Now, having goals and dreams are exactly what we all need-- it's a common factor amongst every human being-- but when we let it become our day-to-day obsession, how does that disguise the "road to happiness"? What things in your mind and heart go unnoticed as we shelve what we really NEED to have that happiness? We're robbed of our ability to be present in the moments we care most about because our temporary 'will power' has us distracted with every superficial mission we set out for ourselves.

In this podcast, we're going to dive deeper into the old belief that 'Image Is Everything', or 'I'll Be Happy When'. Showing you that the key to happiness is actually much simpler than those surface-level achievements. What if you could have all of the above?

You would think that we live in a time where vulnerability has a newfound safe haven for people to express, but it STILL isn't quite yet. Many of us were raised or trained not to show our frustration because we'll seem "ungrateful", or for men not to cry because it showed "weakness". How much of that do you still find around you? Where these personalities and characters are expected of us in our everyday lives, where only a fragment of it is permitted. Yet, we as HUMANS are designed to feel the entire spectrum of emotions. We understand what that's like! We grew up in different times than we have today, and though there's been progress, we're still lacking the nurturing and understanding that we need to heal, to grow, and to feel whole. What do you think that does to your body? To your perception of the world around and within you?

In this podcast, we talk about why vulnerability is important (in reference to Brene Brown's "vulnerability creates connection" brilliance), and how we can finally start to rid ourselves of the shame that represses most of our authenticity. Sharing stories that you might just relate to, and forgiveness for why things WERE as they were, we'll not only find our way back to the deep connection but to feeling ALIVE, again.