100% Awesome Podcast April Price

Summer is traditionally a time of year where many of us take a break, get away, and do some traveling.
And so today on the podcast I thought I’d share my best travel tips. But this episode isn’t about things like how to pack efficiently or how to make the most of your travel reward points. Today I’m giving you all my best tips about what to think and how to feel as you travel with your loved ones—so that you have the best possible experience mentally and emotionally as you travel together this summer.
Because guess what? 
No matter how far you go, no matter how exotic the location or how many planes, trains, or ferries you took to get there, your vacation is still being experienced through the filter of your brain. And even though we’re getting away from it all, we never get away from our brains.
 

I recently ran my first marathon, and I learned a lot of lessons doing it. 
On today’s episode of the podcast, I’m sharing my race day experience. You’ll hear about the highs, the lows, the lessons, the battles I fought inside my own head, and the feelings you only get to feel when you do hard things.
Getting to the finish line is hard. It’s gonna take everything you’ve got. 
But I hope this episode will encourage you and help you keep moving toward your own goals and dreams and remind you not only that you can do hard things, but that it might be why you’re doing it in the first place.

I recently ran my first marathon, and I learned a lot of lessons doing it.
But there were also a lot of things I learned just getting to the start line of this race. 
From the sign up, to the training, through the taper, and all the miles in between, this experience taught me so many things about perspective and perseverance and fear and the power of decisions and celebrating every win.
On today’s episode of the podcast, I’m sharing the first part of my marathon experience—what I did, what I learned, what got in my way, what I had to overcome, who I became, and what thoughts helped me the most as I did the work to get to the start line of a marathon.

We’ve just finished commencement season. At some point in our lives, most of us have sat in the audience of a commencement speech thinking that everything good in our life was about to start. 
But then time passes and maybe 5 or 10 or 20 years later we can find ourselves looking around and thinking: Is this it? Is this what being an adult was gonna be like? Is this how it was supposed to turn out? Most of us had big plans to change the world, but maybe after a few decades, it just feels like the world changed us instead.
 
I think the problem is our expectations.  I think commencement speeches and the happily-ever-after we see in the movies and on social media are all selling us the idea that life is supposed to be big and magical and exciting, and you are supposed to be happy and successful and gorgeous and killing it all the time. 
So today I wanted to give a kind of “anti-commencement speech” and reframe your expectations about what life is supposed to be like, so that you can feel better about yourself and your very ordinary, normal human experience, and hopefully answer the question, “Is this it?” along the way. 

Most of us are good at being hard on ourselves. We know how to be disappointed and disgusted and frustrated with ourselves and we’re experts at being critical and condescending of the parts of us that we don’t like. Treating ourselves this way comes naturally (because of the way our brains work) and we’ve also had a lot of practice doing it. 
What doesn’t come naturally is being kind—especially to ourselves and especially when we are struggling. We’ve all heard the advice to be kind to yourself, but how do we do that, especially when we make mistakes or feel like we don’t deserve kindness? 
In today’s episode I’m answering that question and teaching you how to develop a practice, habit, and culture of kindness with yourself.
Your relationship with yourself is the most long-lasting, long-term relationship you will ever have and learning how to relate to yourself with kindness is a superpower that will serve you in every area of your life.
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Sometimes it can feel like your brain is the enemy, but there’s actually a really significant survival advantage for everything your brain does. 
When humans first showed up on the scene, we had no camouflaged skin, no super hearing, we couldn’t fly or swim. We couldn’t see in the dark or breathe underwater. We didn’t have claws or huge teeth or thick fur. The only thing we had was a three-pound pile of flesh secretly stashed in our skulls and that one advantage that allowed us to survive and thrive on this planet.
Today on the podcast, I thought it would be fun to imagine what self-help might look like in the Stone Age to demonstrate why your brain does what it does and why it takes so much awareness, intention, and energy to try and think differently.
Your brain is a miracle. But it is also misinformed about what’s best for you and I hope today’s podcast will help you have a brand new appreciation for the way your brain works and feel much more empowered to redirect it.