48 episodes

The Best of Ourselves is a weekly coaching show that explores how to be less reactive and more mindful in our day-to-day lives. Host Marcia Hyatt is a certified leadership and life coach. She tells stories and shares the latest research on topics include behavior change, effective communications, resilience, teams, growing, leadership and organizations.

Best of Ourselves Marcia Hyatt, PCC: Leadership and Life Coach

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    • 4.9 • 10 Ratings

The Best of Ourselves is a weekly coaching show that explores how to be less reactive and more mindful in our day-to-day lives. Host Marcia Hyatt is a certified leadership and life coach. She tells stories and shares the latest research on topics include behavior change, effective communications, resilience, teams, growing, leadership and organizations.

    BOO Special Edition – Harriet’s Load

    BOO Special Edition – Harriet’s Load

    We all have an limiting identity, the story of who we think we have to be.  We usually do not see our own choices unless we have the courage to reflect.  Harriet’s Load is a story I wrote years ago that was showing me I had choices I just couldn’t see (yet).







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    You can order copies of What Have I Mythed? from Drury Lane Books







    Other Recorded Myths:









    * Connected or Separate (NOT PUBLISHED)







    * Looking Where You Want to Go (in What Have I Mythed?)







    * Fear Gets a Hug (in What Have I Mythed?)

    • 5 min
    BOO429 – Accessing Our Full Potential

    BOO429 – Accessing Our Full Potential

    We have lots of potential that we do not allow ourselves to access. It’s courageous work to reflect on our limited sense of identity and to open up to what else is possible.  And we each have the capacity and resources to do it, given patience, curiosity and lots of compassion.







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    The Mindtrap of Ego







    Acceptances as a Step Towards Growth







    Change One Step at a Time

    • 5 min
    BOO428 – Encore – Being Unkind to Myself

    BOO428 – Encore – Being Unkind to Myself

    How often are we hard on ourselves?  How often do we deny our feelings or push through?  What do we do when we REALLY see that we are being unkind?  In this episode, we explore what to do when we observe harsh patterns.







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    Kristen Neff







    Brene Brown TED talk

    • 5 min
    BOO427 – Encore – Ladders Out of Mindtraps

    BOO427 – Encore – Ladders Out of Mindtraps

    Our hard wiring response to change is exactly the wrong thing we need to thrive in turbulence, uncertainty and complexity.  In Jennifer Garvey Berger’s practical new book, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, she boils down the problem and ways to free ourselves. In this podcast, we explore how to get out of the mindtraps.







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    Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps

    • 5 min
    BOO426 – Encore – Mindtrap of Ego

    BOO426 – Encore – Mindtrap of Ego

    Our hard wiring response to change is exactly the wrong thing we need to thrive in turbulence, uncertainty and complexity.  In Jennifer Garvey Berger’s practical new book, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, she boils down the problem and ways to free ourselves. In this podcast, we explore how to get out of the fifth mindtrap – ego.







    Resources







    Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps

    • 5 min
    BOO425 – Encore – Trapped by Control

    BOO425 – Encore – Trapped by Control

    Our hard wiring response to change is exactly the wrong thing we need to thrive in turbulence, uncertainty and complexity.  In Jennifer Garvey Berger’s practical new book, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, she boils down the problem and ways to free ourselves. In this podcast, we explore how to get out of the forth mindtrap – control







    Resources







    Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps

    • 5 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
10 Ratings

10 Ratings

Slim2k16 ,

Beautiful podcast

So insightful, so calming. My favorite podcast.

tommymerle ,

helpful

I enjoy these podcasts every week.

jeff_wandering ,

Packed full of wisdom and insight in just 5 minutes

I look forward to these 5 minutes of wisdom and wisdom each week from Marcia. She has a wonderfully calm and pleasant speaking voice and is able to fill 5 short minutes with more value than most can with much more.

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