Create Your Future

Mandy Mackowiak
  • 5.0 (6)
  • Self-Improvement
  • Updated Weekly

Create Your Future is your guide to living your best life, thinking bigger, and becoming your Future Self. Hosted by Mandy Mackowiak — founder of the Athentis app and firm believer that you have the power to design a life you’re obsessed with — each episode delivers powerful insights, inspiration, and actionable tools to help you unlock your potential, achieve your biggest goals, and step fully into your Future Self. If you’re ready to grow, achieve, and align with your highest self, you’re in the right place. This podcast will inspire you to stay motivated, make massive progress, and become the person you’re meant to be. Your future starts now. Let’s dive in and make it happen.

  1. You Are Your Best Investment

    4d ago

    You Are Your Best Investment

    Early in my coaching career, I learned a concept that completely shifted my orbit: intentional self-investment. True self-investment isn't a single, massive transaction; it is a daily energetic deposit. Raising your capacity to give to yourself completely revolutionizes how you see yourself, the goals you set, and your willingness to create a life you love living. In this week's episode, we focus on the three core pillars of self-investment that have had the most profound impact on my life and on the lives of my private coaching clients. What We Cover in This Episode: Pillar 1: Growing Your Self-Concept - How we cast "votes" for the person we wish to become through our daily beliefs, style and appearance choices, fitness and health habits, and the intentional stretch goals we set.Pillar 2: Strengthening Your Mindset - How to become the active watcher and chooser of your thoughts. We talk about "thinking bigger," shifting into useful, optimistic perspectives, and the non-negotiable value of professional coaching.Pillar 3: Feeding Your Mind & Intellectual Life - Why your identity and your intellect exist in a beautiful, generative ecosystem. I share an update on my own impossible goals—including this podcast, company offerings, and graduating last month with my Master’s Degree in I/O Psychology and Leadership Coaching Certificate—and how setting impossible learning goals reinvents who you are.The Science Behind the ROI - The undeniable research-backed proof of why this works, diving into the behavioral science of enclothed cognition, the neurobiology of neuroplasticity, and how continuous learning builds your self-confidence and invaluable human capital.An Invitation to Your Next-Level Growth: Give yourself more than you are currently used to. Invest in yourself generously. When you hold your self-concept, mindset, and intellectual life to the highest standards, you build unshakeable self-confidence and create high-energy, high-impact days that pull your best future right into the present moment. In the Create Your Future podcast with Mandy Mackowiak, Certified Life Coach, you will get tools and practical strategies for elevating your self-concept and mindset, achieving your goals, and creating the life and future of your dreams. Please expect to be uplifted, learn, and be inspired as she and her guests cover topics ranging from life coaching and habits to mindfulness and spirituality to goals and happiness. For more information, visit mandymackowiaklifecoach.com.

    12 min
  2. Creating Your Highest Self Day

    Jun 19

    Creating Your Highest Self Day

    "It takes so much more energy to live in lower thoughts and avoid the unknown than it does to just go after what you truly want." In this week’s episode, we are diving deep into a transformative daily practice, a standard, and a discipline that holds the power to create incredible shifts in your life: Creating Your Highest Self Day. Every single day, our routine thoughts and actions shape our energy, our feelings, and ultimately, our self-concept. Through the lens of positive psychology, we are often generating either an upward spiral of resilience, well-being, and progress, or a downward spiral of unintentional habits, stress, and disempowered states. The beauty of this practice is that one thought or one small action can change everything. Today, I’m sharing how you can disrupt the default routines of your past self, break free from comfort-zone thinking, and intentionally design a day that mirrors the exact life you want to live. I share how this exact framework has helped me navigate my own major reinventions, pull myself out of tough days, and build a beautiful, guiding relationship with my Future Self. Inside this episode, we explore: Breaking Up the Default Day: How to interrupt the habitual patterns and low-energy thinking your brain defaults to when it wants to avoid the new or the challenging.  Highest Self Thinking: Training your mind with deliberate, future-focused thoughts. I share five of my personal favorite daily thoughts—including "Food is Medicine" and "This isn’t a problem"—and how they actively redirect your brain toward solutions, health, and momentum.Highest Self Action: Designing the routines, rituals, and flows that reinforce who you are becoming. I discuss how small, high-vibrational wins create an upward ripple effect that impacts your path to becoming your Future Self.Stepping into your potential and embracing the discomfort of growth takes far less toll on your well-being than staying stuck in low-energy thinking and avoidance. Choosing to live your highest self day, every single day, is the ultimate pathway to creating a high-energy, deeply inspired life. In the Create Your Future podcast with Mandy Mackowiak, Certified Life Coach, you will get tools and practical strategies for elevating your self-concept and mindset, achieving your goals, and creating the life and future of your dreams. Please expect to be uplifted, learn, and be inspired as she and her guests cover topics ranging from life coaching and habits to mindfulness and spirituality to goals and happiness. For more information, visit mandymackowiaklifecoach.com.

    9 min
  3. Habits of Mind

    Jun 12

    Habits of Mind

    Have you ever noticed how easily we can let default habits, external chaos, or old stories run the show? In this week's episode, we are diving deep into how we can actively regain our mental and physical strength, shift our perspectives, and generate powerful, positive energy through the daily habits of our mind. As a student and teacher of yoga, the spiritual side of my daily practices is a massive part of my mindset, my energy, and who I am. Through my own ups and downs, I’ve realized that when we intentionally practice three key habits of mind, we create the perfect internal environment to step directly into our highest selves. Today, we are breaking down those three essential practices: Presence: The gentle pause. It’s the ability to intentionally direct our awareness to the now without judgment—finding the space between the thoughts where all possibilities live.Being the Observer: Becoming the scientist of your own mind, emotional life, and actions. It’s holding awareness and gathering pure data for self-knowledge and growth, completely free of judgment.Being the Master: Stepping into true self-mastery as the gatekeeper of your mind and heart. Being the Master means you are the absolute chooser—choosing your thoughts, your beliefs, your energy, and the meaning you give to every circumstance.Inspired by the profound words of physicist Nassim Haramein, “You cannot be the master if you do not know you are the master,” this episode is a call to step out of doubt, stop shrinking to fit into "realistic" boxes based on who you used to be, and step into your immense personal power. What if the worst-case scenario isn't failing, but never trying at all? Tune in to create spaciousness in your mind, generate curiosity, and practice being your highest self every single day. In the Create Your Future podcast with Mandy Mackowiak, Certified Life Coach, you will get tools and practical strategies for elevating your self-concept and mindset, achieving your goals, and creating the life and future of your dreams. Please expect to be uplifted, learn, and be inspired as she and her guests cover topics ranging from life coaching and habits to mindfulness and spirituality to goals and happiness. For more information, visit mandymackowiaklifecoach.com.

    9 min
  4. 30 Day Goal June 2026 + Moving Through Discouragement

    Jun 5

    30 Day Goal June 2026 + Moving Through Discouragement

    "Discouragement is a normal part of evolution, not a sign of failure or a reason to quit. Failure is progress—it is evidence of action, growth, and wisdom." As we step into June, it is time to set our next meaningful 30-day goal. As high-achieving women who are loving deeply, giving our best, living with courage, and actively becoming our Future Selves, we often encounter a very normal side effect of growth: discouragement. When obstacles arise or expectations aren't met, it’s easy to feel discouraged or lose momentum. What if your journey isn't meant to be perfectly linear? What if we could disrupt that heavy feeling just by changing our expectations and perceiving failure as momentum? In this episode, I share a personal journaling process I used earlier this year to move through discouragement and pivot back into empowerment. Together, we look at a simple, three-step pathway to keep moving forward: Flood your mind with progress: Acknowledge your wins (your past self would be so proud!).List what you can control: Shift your energy to your own thoughts, perceptions, and movement.Take one powerful action: Ask yourself the one question that turns discouragement into empowerment.Listen in to reset your expectations, celebrate your gains, and set an exciting 30-day goal for June that connects you with your best possible future. In the Create Your Future podcast with Mandy Mackowiak, Certified Life Coach, you will get tools and practical strategies for elevating your self-concept and mindset, achieving your goals, and creating the life and future of your dreams. Please expect to be uplifted, learn, and be inspired as she and her guests cover topics ranging from life coaching and habits to mindfulness and spirituality to goals and happiness. For more information, visit mandymackowiaklifecoach.com.

    8 min
  5. The Ultimate Self-Leadership + Emotional Adulthood

    May 29

    The Ultimate Self-Leadership + Emotional Adulthood

    "No circumstance and no person can make us feel any certain way. We are always the one who decides how we will feel." Today, we are talking about the ultimate tool for self-mastery, peace of mind, and true personal empowerment: Emotional Adulthood. Looking back at the trajectory of my coaching journey—from my early days certifying at The Life Coach School to my recent graduation from graduate school—this single concept has been foundational for my own transformation. In this episode, we are exploring what it looks like to take 100% ownership of your life, your emotions, and your results. When you operate from emotional adulthood, you stop delegating your happiness, your worth, and your success to other people’s opinions or external circumstances. You also realize that your circumstances are completely neutral, and you get to decide exactly what they mean. You are the boss of you. You get to decide how you want to feel, how you want to show up, and who you are becoming every single day. What We Are Diving Into: The Stance of Power: How to move out of emotional childhood and reclaim 100% responsibility for your inner life.Controlling What’s Yours: The pure freedom of focusing exclusively on what you can control, and elegantly letting go of the rest.Intention Over Reaction: How to look at any challenge, decide it’s not a problem, and pivot directly into your most empowered, highest Future Self.Taking full responsibility for your thoughts, feelings, and actions is the path to creating exactly what you want. It is a daily practice, it is a powerful skill, and it changes absolutely everything. Tune in, own your influence, and let's step into ultimate self-leadership together. If this episode spoke to you, please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share it with an intentional woman in your life who is ready to claim her own power. In the Create Your Future podcast with Mandy Mackowiak, Certified Life Coach, you will get tools and practical strategies for elevating your self-concept and mindset, achieving your goals, and creating the life and future of your dreams. Please expect to be uplifted, learn, and be inspired as she and her guests cover topics ranging from life coaching and habits to mindfulness and spirituality to goals and happiness. For more information, visit mandymackowiaklifecoach.com.

    10 min
  6. Daily Plans and Goals

    May 22

    Daily Plans and Goals

    Your daily schedule isn’t just a to-do list—it’s the blueprint for your Future Self. How are you intentionally shaping your day today? In this week’s episode, we are diving deep into one of the most powerful, transformative habits I have ever implemented in my life and coaching practice: the art of daily plans and goals. While many of us are familiar with goal-setting from a high-level corporate or leadership perspective, true self-leadership begins when we bring that exact same intentionality into our private lives. When we plan our days in advance, we aren't just scheduling our time—we are deciding our mood, our energy, and our mindset on purpose. What We Cover This Week: Directing Your Brain: How to disrupt the motivational triad, move past the brain's default desire to conserve energy, and proactively choose your daily focus.Embodying Your Future Self: Why your daily habits are the ultimate "votes" for the woman you are becoming. Learn how to stop reacting to your circumstances and start creating your life from your future.The Power of the Pivot Moment: What to do when your brain prefers comfort over commitment, and how action generates the momentum, inspiration, and energy you've been waiting for.Building Your Self-Concept: Drawing on the brilliant philosophy of James Clear, we discuss why the goal isn't just to achieve a result—it’s to shift your entire identity.Whether it is committing to your physical health, showing up fully for your family, or producing at the highest level for your company, every single item on your schedule has a purpose. It is time to stop repeating the past and start producing your best life, one intentional day at a time. Be your Future Self now. Tune in to find out how. “The small, consistent, and intentional actions are the pathway to achieving impossible goals and creating incredible change. One day at a time is the pathway to your most spectacular life.” Connect & Review: If this episode resonated with you, please take a moment to leave a review and share it with someone who is ready to step into their next level of self-leadership. In the Create Your Future podcast with Mandy Mackowiak, Certified Life Coach, you will get tools and practical strategies for elevating your self-concept and mindset, achieving your goals, and creating the life and future of your dreams. Please expect to be uplifted, learn, and be inspired as she and her guests cover topics ranging from life coaching and habits to mindfulness and spirituality to goals and happiness. For more information, visit mandymackowiaklifecoach.com.

    9 min
  7. Simple Moves, Powerful Outcomes

    May 15

    Simple Moves, Powerful Outcomes

    "A woman who prioritizes her own instincts, desires, and inner knowing creates her most spectacular life." Mandy Mackowiak Hi, my beautiful friends! Welcome back to the podcast. In last week’s episode, we talked about identifying the one "Impossible Goal"—the one habit or investment that would revolutionize who you are and the experience of your life. As we move toward that revolutionary future, our brains often bring the "drama." We get stuck in the emotional weight of other people’s opinions, the fog of worry, and the "thought errors" that make simple moves feel heavy, painful, and confusing. In this episode, I’m sharing how I navigated my own recent experience with decision drama and how I used the Thought-Feeling-Action model to reclaim my power. We’re stripping away the mental clutter and getting factual. When we simplify our thinking, we stop being "stuck" and start being the powerful decision-makers our future selves require us to be. In this episode, we explore: The Audience Trap: Why placing the utmost importance on your own thoughts is an act of respect and care.Worry vs. Power: Shifting from "what could go wrong" to the intentional outcomes you actually want.The Power of Neutrality: Using intentional thoughts like "Nothing has gone wrong" and "All of my decisions are right" to stay grounded and move forward.The Power Sequence: How to use movement and intentional thinking to generate the actions that produce spectacular results.Your clarity is not a discomfort to others; it is a gift to your Future Self. It’s time to let go of the unnecessary pain holding you back, trust your inner knowing, and make the simple moves that create your most powerful life. In the Create Your Future podcast with Mandy Mackowiak, Certified Life Coach, you will get tools and practical strategies for elevating your self-concept and mindset, achieving your goals, and creating the life and future of your dreams. Please expect to be uplifted, learn, and be inspired as she and her guests cover topics ranging from life coaching and habits to mindfulness and spirituality to goals and happiness. For more information, visit mandymackowiaklifecoach.com.

    10 min
  8. Changed By One Goal + Invest in Your Future Self

    May 8

    Changed By One Goal + Invest in Your Future Self

    What if the greatest reward of your goal isn't the finish line, but the woman you become while reaching for it? A few days away from her Master’s degree graduation, Mandy Mackowiak reflects on the "Impossible Goal" that redefined her self-concept. This episode is an intimate look at the reality of self-investment, the tuition, the time, and the intentional daily trades required to turn a dream into a degree. Mandy explores the profound shift from not 100% believing in herself to becoming a woman who is gritty, disciplined, and entirely reliable. Using insights from James Clear, we discuss how: Self-investment is a standard: How valuing your own growth teaches the world how to treat you.The power of the "Trade": Exchanging "just-for-fun" for "future-focused" to protect your happiness and success.Habits as pathways: Why one small daily investment is actually a vote for your Future Self.The investment isn't just the "thing" you do; it’s the evolution of who you are. Join us as we celebrate the courage to begin and the discipline to finish. What is the one investment that would revolutionize who you are becoming? In the Create Your Future podcast with Mandy Mackowiak, Certified Life Coach, you will get tools and practical strategies for elevating your self-concept and mindset, achieving your goals, and creating the life and future of your dreams. Please expect to be uplifted, learn, and be inspired as she and her guests cover topics ranging from life coaching and habits to mindfulness and spirituality to goals and happiness. For more information, visit mandymackowiaklifecoach.com.

    8 min
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Create Your Future is your guide to living your best life, thinking bigger, and becoming your Future Self. Hosted by Mandy Mackowiak — founder of the Athentis app and firm believer that you have the power to design a life you’re obsessed with — each episode delivers powerful insights, inspiration, and actionable tools to help you unlock your potential, achieve your biggest goals, and step fully into your Future Self. If you’re ready to grow, achieve, and align with your highest self, you’re in the right place. This podcast will inspire you to stay motivated, make massive progress, and become the person you’re meant to be. Your future starts now. Let’s dive in and make it happen.

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  • Creator
    Mandy Mackowiak
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    163
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Mandy Mackowiak Life Coach
  • Show Website
    Create Your Future