Breakthrough Mode

Megan Bauer
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A personal development podcast geared towards helping women improve, become their best selves, live their best lives, and go on to inspire and build others.Join my email list here: https://www.meganbauer.com/weekly-opt-in

  1. 1d ago

    324. 5 Ways to Think Like the Person You're Becoming

    Join the Deciding Hour Priority Waitlist HERE! What if changing your perspective could change what you believe is possible, what you prioritize, and what you actually do? In this episode of Breakthrough Mode, Megan takes the “Up Level Your Thoughts” piece of the RITUAL framework from concept to practice. Instead of simply trying to think more positively, you'll learn how to intentionally shift the way you look at your circumstances by thinking from the perspective of the person you're becoming. Megan walks through five practical ways to do this: ask better questions, stop using your past as a prediction, consider what your future self would prioritize, choose thoughts that create useful action, and then carry those thoughts with you as you take action. The goal isn't to ignore reality or convince yourself that everything is easy. It's to change the thinking that influences how you approach reality so you can create different results and become a different version of yourself. In this episode, you'll learn: Why the quality of the questions you ask yourself matters How to turn low-quality questions into questions that create useful action Why you should use your past as information rather than a prediction How your brain can use past experiences to anticipate what comes next How to ask what the future version of you would prioritize Why the things your future self prioritizes may be the very things you're currently avoiding How to choose thoughts that encourage action rather than undermine it Why your thoughts and actions need to work together How to practice an up-leveled thought while you're actually doing the thing How repeatedly thinking and acting from your next identity can help you become that person In short: Megan gives you five practical ways to shift your perspective and start thinking from the person you're becoming. When your questions, thoughts, priorities, and actions all point in the same direction, you can begin creating your future instead of simply repeating your past. If this episode resonated, let’s stay connected:→ Get weekly insights + behind-the-scenes in your inbox: Get the Emails!→ Learn more about coaching: Visit MeganBauer.com→ Come say hi on Instagram: @bauer.ftw→ Watch this episode on YouTube: HERE! Breakthrough Mode is a personal development podcast for those who want to build better habits, simplify their lives, and become who they’re meant to be. Hosted by life and habit coach Megan Bauer, each episode blends mindset shifts, practical tools, and real-life examples to help you gain clarity, stay consistent, and create meaningful change.

    324. 5 Ways to Think Like the Person You're Becoming

  2. 3d ago

    323. Borrow Their Goggles

    Join the Deciding Hour Priority Waitlist HERE! The quote that I mention in this episode is:"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old." - Peter Drucker You are always looking at your life through a set of “goggles.” Those goggles—your thoughts, beliefs, experiences, assumptions, and interpretations—shape what you notice, what you think is important, and even what you believe is possible. But the person you are becoming has a different perspective. They see things differently because they have made different decisions, developed different beliefs, and learned to interpret their life in new ways. In this episode, I’m talking about what it means to borrow that perspective—to put on the goggles of the next version of you. This isn’t about positive thinking or pretending everything is great. It’s about intentionally stepping outside your habitual way of thinking so you can see new possibilities, make different decisions, and take different actions. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why so many of your thoughts and interpretations are actually habits How your “goggles” shape what you notice, prioritize, and believe What it means to borrow the perspective of the person you’re becoming Why you don’t need to imagine a perfect future version of yourself How a simple perspective shift can change your behavior and priorities Why becoming someone new often requires letting go of old thoughts and habits How I’m using this shift in my own relationship with social media Why creating something new often requires you to stop doing something old In Short:  The way you see something influences the way you approach it, act on it, and ultimately experience it. Start practicing how to borrow the perspective of the person you’re becoming so you can see your life differently—and begin acting differently, too. If this episode resonated, let’s stay connected:→ Get weekly insights + behind-the-scenes in your inbox: Get the Emails!→ Learn more about coaching: Visit MeganBauer.com→ Come say hi on Instagram: @bauer.ftw→ Watch this episode on YouTube: HERE! Breakthrough Mode is a personal development podcast for those who want to build better habits, simplify their lives, and become who they’re meant to be. Hosted by life and habit coach Megan Bauer, each episode blends mindset shifts, practical tools, and real-life examples to help you gain clarity, stay consistent, and create meaningful change.

    323. Borrow Their Goggles

  3. 5d ago

    322. Stop Thinking Like The Old Version of You

    Join the Deciding Hour Priority Waitlist HERE! What if the way you approach your day is being influenced by a version of you that you're actually trying to outgrow? In this episode of Monday Morning with Megan, Megan breaks down the “U” in the RITUAL framework: Up Level Your Thoughts. This isn't about positive thinking, affirmations, or pretending everything is fine. It's about intentionally stepping outside of your default perspective and borrowing the perspective of the version of you you're becoming. Your past experiences, habits, circumstances, responsibilities, and other people's expectations all have influence over how you see your day and the decisions you make. But what if, instead of letting those things make the decisions for you, you asked how the future version of you—the person who has accomplished what you want and lives the way you want to live—would approach them? Megan explains how practicing this shift can change the way you problem-solve, prioritize, and show up for the situations in front of you. In this episode, you'll learn: What “Up Level Your Thoughts” actually means within the RITUAL framework Why this practice isn't simply positive thinking or affirmations How your past, habits, circumstances, and other people's expectations influence your decisions Why your current perspective can keep you repeating your current patterns How to borrow the perspective of the future version of you How to ask what your future self would consider important How your future self might approach problems differently Why making decisions from your next identity can help you become that person How to recognize when you're operating from your default way of thinking How to “try on” a different perspective when you're facing a stressful situation How to use this practice to change the way you problem-solve and show up throughout your day In short: Up Level Your Thoughts is about stepping out of your default perspective and borrowing the perspective of the person you're becoming. When you start making decisions from that next version of you, you begin practicing being that person now. If this episode resonated, let’s stay connected:→ Get weekly insights + behind-the-scenes in your inbox: Get the Emails!→ Learn more about coaching: Visit MeganBauer.com→ Come say hi on Instagram: @bauer.ftw→ Watch this episode on YouTube: HERE! Breakthrough Mode is a personal development podcast for those who want to build better habits, simplify their lives, and become who they’re meant to be. Hosted by life and habit coach Megan Bauer, each episode blends mindset shifts, practical tools, and real-life examples to help you gain clarity, stay consistent, and create meaningful change.

    322. Stop Thinking Like The Old Version of You

  4. Sep 18

    321. How to Make Time for What Matters

    Join the Deciding Hour Priority Waitlist HERE: You don't find time for the things that matter. You create it. Life is full. There will always be responsibilities, obligations, errands, people who need you, and things competing for your attention. But if there's something you keep saying is important—a habit, a passion project, taking care of yourself, or work that's on your heart—you have to create space for it intentionally. In this episode, Megan walks you through five steps for creating that space: name exactly what you want to make time for, decide that it matters, find a realistic and sustainable time window, protect that time, and pre-decide what you're going to do when you get there. She also shares one of her favorite identity-based habit “backdoors”: when you can't make yourself want to do the thing, focus on becoming the kind of person who does it. In this episode, you'll learn: Why you need to get specific about what you actually want to make time for How naming the thing creates clarity around the time you need Why you have to close the gap between what you say is important and what your calendar demonstrates is important The difference between wanting something and wanting to want something How to use identity to create a powerful “backdoor” into a habit How to find a realistic, consistent, and sustainable time window Why putting something first thing in the morning can give you a powerful advantage Why you shouldn't build your plan around an idealized version of yourself How to protect the time you've created Why protecting a morning habit often begins with the choices you make the night before How pre-deciding removes friction and makes following through easier Why knowing exactly what you're going to do makes it easier to use your time well How the Deciding Hour can become a protected space for the things that matter most In short: Megan gives you a five-step process for creating real time and space for the things you say are important. Stop waiting for time to magically appear and intentionally create the conditions that make following through possible. If this episode resonated, let’s stay connected:→ Get weekly insights + behind-the-scenes in your inbox: Get the Emails!→ Learn more about coaching: Visit MeganBauer.com→ Come say hi on Instagram: @bauer.ftw→ Watch this episode on YouTube: HERE! Breakthrough Mode is a personal development podcast for those who want to build better habits, simplify their lives, and become who they’re meant to be. Hosted by life and habit coach Megan Bauer, each episode blends mindset shifts, practical tools, and real-life examples to help you gain clarity, stay consistent, and create meaningful change.

    321. How to Make Time for What Matters

  5. Sep 16

    320. The Real Reason You Can't Find Time

    Join the Deciding Hour Priority Waitlist HERE: Sometimes the biggest thing standing between you and the time you want to create isn’t your schedule—it’s you. When something matters to us but requires us to inconvenience someone else, disappoint someone, ask for help, or say no to something else, it can suddenly become much harder to prioritize. We tell ourselves the thing on our heart is important, but our actions often reveal that we haven’t allowed it to be important enough. In this episode, I’m sharing one of my biggest blocks to creating time for the things that matter to me—and what changed when I realized I needed to let those things be important enough to find creative solutions, communicate my needs, ask for support, and sometimes inconvenience others. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why the biggest roadblock to creating time may be yourself What it means to let something be as important as you want it to be Why “I can either do this or take care of everyone else” is often a false choice How being willing to inconvenience others can actually help you create better solutions Why communicating what’s important to you gives others the opportunity to support you How consistency—and not occasional bursts of effort—is what creates real progress Why creating time for yourself and your work isn’t selfish when you widen your perspective In short:   If there’s something on your heart that you keep pushing to the side because it feels selfish, inconvenient, or impossible to fit in, this episode will challenge you to see it differently. Let it be important enough to make time, find solutions, ask for help, and keep becoming the person you want to be. If this episode resonated, let’s stay connected:→ Get weekly insights + behind-the-scenes in your inbox: Get the Emails!→ Learn more about coaching: Visit MeganBauer.com→ Come say hi on Instagram: @bauer.ftw→ Watch this episode on YouTube: HERE! Breakthrough Mode is a personal development podcast for those who want to build better habits, simplify their lives, and become who they’re meant to be. Hosted by life and habit coach Megan Bauer, each episode blends mindset shifts, practical tools, and real-life examples to help you gain clarity, stay consistent, and create meaningful change.

    320. The Real Reason You Can't Find Time

  6. Sep 14

    319. If It's Important, You'll Make Time

    Join the Deciding Hour Priority Waitlist HERE: What if the reason you can't make time for something isn't that you don't have enough time—but that you haven't decided it's important enough? In this episode of Monday Morning with Megan, Megan shares a conversation she recently overheard with a group of women who wanted to establish a new habit but couldn't figure out where to fit it into their already-full lives. Her advice wasn't necessarily what they wanted to hear: if something is truly important to you, you have to make time for it. Megan breaks down the two most realistic ways to create that time: put the habit at the beginning of your day or remove something else from the middle of your day to make room for it. She also explores why evenings are often the highest-risk place to put an important habit, and the difference between actually wanting something and simply wanting to want it. The Deciding Hour can become the space where you make time for what matters—and then carry the feeling of having prioritized it with you throughout the rest of your day. In this episode, you'll learn: The two primary ways to make time for an important habit Why putting an important habit first can dramatically increase your chances of doing it Why evenings are often unreliable for habits you genuinely want to establish How decision fatigue and unpredictable schedules can derail evening habits Why making time is ultimately a reflection of what you consider important The difference between wanting something and wanting to want something Why wanting to want something can keep you stuck without creating solutions How the Deciding Hour can create protected space for what matters to you Why doing something first thing can impact how you feel for the rest of your day How to be honest with yourself about what is—and isn't—important enough to change for In short: You don't need to find more time—you need to decide what matters enough to make time for. Megan challenges you to stop beating yourself up over habits you aren't prioritizing and start acting in alignment with what you truly want. If this episode resonated, let’s stay connected:→ Get weekly insights + behind-the-scenes in your inbox: Get the Emails!→ Learn more about coaching: Visit MeganBauer.com→ Come say hi on Instagram: @bauer.ftw→ Watch this episode on YouTube: HERE! Breakthrough Mode is a personal development podcast for those who want to build better habits, simplify their lives, and become who they’re meant to be. Hosted by life and habit coach Megan Bauer, each episode blends mindset shifts, practical tools, and real-life examples to help you gain clarity, stay consistent, and create meaningful change.

    319. If It's Important, You'll Make Time

  7. Sep 11

    318. How to Reset Your Day in 10 Minutes

    Join the Deciding Hour Priority List HERE! What if you could reset your day in just 10 minutes? In this episode, Megan gives you a simple, guided practice for using The Reset—one of the most powerful parts of the Deciding Hour. Whether you're carrying frustration from yesterday, replaying an argument, beating yourself up over a mistake, or simply feeling hijacked by your emotions, this exercise gives you a way to pause, process what happened, and intentionally decide what happens next. The practice walks you through five two-minute steps: looking at the facts and your interpretation, finding the lesson, releasing what you don't want to carry, deciding what matters now, and choosing who you want to become because of the experience. The goal isn't to ignore what happened or force yourself to “get over it.” It's to take the wisdom, leave the weight, and use the experience to intentionally shape who you're becoming. In this episode, you'll learn: Why a daily Reset can keep emotional “trash” from accumulating How to look objectively at what happened before interpreting it How to identify what you made an experience mean How to find the lesson or growth opportunity in difficult experiences How to release guilt, resentment, disappointment, perfectionism, or other emotional weight How to intentionally shift your perspective How to decide what deserves your time, energy, and attention now How to use an experience to decide who you want to become The complete 10-minute Reset practice, broken down minute by minute How to use this practice whenever something hijacks your thoughts or emotions—not just in the morning In short: Megan walks you through a 10-minute Reset practice to help you process what happened, take the lesson, release the weight, and intentionally choose what happens next. It's a practical way to turn difficult experiences into fuel for your becoming. If this episode resonated, let’s stay connected:→ Get weekly insights + behind-the-scenes in your inbox: Get the Emails!→ Learn more about coaching: Visit MeganBauer.com→ Come say hi on Instagram: @bauer.ftw→ Watch this episode on YouTube: HERE! Breakthrough Mode is a personal development podcast for those who want to build better habits, simplify their lives, and become who they’re meant to be. Hosted by life and habit coach Megan Bauer, each episode blends mindset shifts, practical tools, and real-life examples to help you gain clarity, stay consistent, and create meaningful change.

    318. How to Reset Your Day in 10 Minutes

  8. Sep 9

    317. Take the Lesson, Leave the Weight

    Join the Deciding Hour Priority List HERE! What if you could learn from yesterday without carrying all of yesterday into today? In this episode of Wednesday in the Wild, Megan goes deeper into The Reset, one of the most powerful parts of the Deciding Hour. The Reset isn't about pretending something didn't happen, forcing yourself to feel positive, or bypassing difficult experiences. It's about acknowledging what happened, deciding what you want to learn from it, and intentionally choosing how much—and in what way—you allow it to influence today. Megan shares how she's practiced this in her own life, from letting go of frustration after difficult experiences to deciding that exhaustion doesn't automatically get to dictate her day. She also explores why letting go is a skill you can practice, how to interrupt thought loops when your mind keeps returning to something, and why the goal isn't to carry nothing from yesterday—but to carry what serves you. In this episode, you'll learn: What The Reset really means within your Deciding Hour How to separate the lessons of an experience from the emotional weight of it Why a missed habit or workout doesn't have to become a reason to miss again today How to acknowledge difficult experiences without allowing them to hijack your day Why your feelings don't automatically have to have decision-making power How to use the past as information rather than evidence against yourself Why intentional release is a skill you can strengthen with practice How to interrupt thought loops when your mind keeps replaying something How to decide what you want to carry forward from yesterday How positive experiences can also intentionally influence today Why The Reset isn't about productivity, positivity, or ignoring what happened How choosing what influences you can help you keep moving toward who you're becoming In short: The Reset is the practice of acknowledging what happened, taking the wisdom from it, and releasing the weight that doesn't serve you. You don't have to let yesterday—or your current emotions—make today's decisions for you. If this episode resonated, let’s stay connected:→ Get weekly insights + behind-the-scenes in your inbox: Get the Emails!→ Learn more about coaching: Visit MeganBauer.com→ Come say hi on Instagram: @bauer.ftw→ Watch this episode on YouTube: HERE! Breakthrough Mode is a personal development podcast for those who want to build better habits, simplify their lives, and become who they’re meant to be. Hosted by life and habit coach Megan Bauer, each episode blends mindset shifts, practical tools, and real-life examples to help you gain clarity, stay consistent, and create meaningful change.

    317. Take the Lesson, Leave the Weight
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A personal development podcast geared towards helping women improve, become their best selves, live their best lives, and go on to inspire and build others.Join my email list here: https://www.meganbauer.com/weekly-opt-in

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  • Creator
    Megan Bauer
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    324
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Breakthrough Mode
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