One Degree to Victory

Nelieta Hollis
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One Degree to Victory is a podcast about change—why we want it, why we struggle with it, and what helps us move forward. Hosted by Dr. Nelieta Hollis, each episode begins with a question and follows it through lived experience, thoughtful reflection, and the patterns that shape how we respond to life. From worry, anxiety, stress, procrastination, and stagnation to the moments when we find ourselves waiting, avoiding, beginning again, or becoming something new, these conversations explore what happens between wanting change and knowing how to move toward it. This is not motivation for motivation’s sake. It is a space to notice what is shaping you, understand the responses you have learned, and discover new possibilities for what comes next.

  1. Oct 14

    How To Rebuild Your Mind When Life Falls Apart

    The fastest way to stay stuck is to keep hearing the same story from the same people while your mind repeats the same conclusion. We dig into how an “echo chamber” forms in real life not just online and why it can feel comforting even as it quietly reinforces fear, helplessness, and old habits. When you’re under pressure, rebuilding after loss, or surviving something as brutal as homelessness, the battle is never only external. It’s also the constant loop of thoughts that tries to convince you there’s nowhere else to go.  We use the funhouse mirror as a clear metaphor: the reflection looks like you, but it’s distorted. Echo chambers do the same thing with identity and possibility, especially when your environment rewards complaint without offering movement. From there, we walk through three grounded tools for mindset change and mental health resilience: find a different voice that expands what you believe is possible, prepare a rebuttal for the intrusive thought you know is coming, and take one concrete action that disagrees with the old story.  If “I’m at rock bottom” is a line you know too well, we show how to answer it fast and back that answer up with behavior, even something small and imperfect. You’ll leave with practical self-talk strategies, a clearer sense of how your support system shapes your thinking, and a simple way to build momentum when hope feels far away. If this helped you, subscribe, share it with someone who needs a new voice today, and leave a review. What’s one thought you’re ready to challenge this week? Ask your questions, share your comments Links to all things One Degree to Victory: ➡️:       Facebook 🌐:      One Degree To Victory One Degree to Victory is the podcast of the NM Hollis Institute, where we explore the science and practice of building human capacity. Through practical frameworks, meaningful reflection, and real-life stories, each episode helps you think more clearly, respond more intentionally, and move forward one degree at a time.  Until next time, Constant Listener, I love ya'll. 💙

  2. Oct 7

    Your Situation Changes When You Show Up Differently

    You can name every way the system failed you, but can you name your part without collapsing into shame? That’s the hard, freeing question we sit with here, especially for moms navigating homelessness who are tired, stressed, and doing the best they can with limited support. We don’t pretend legacy systems aren’t frustrating. We say it out loud: the pace can be a snail’s crawl, the rules can feel unfair, and the help that’s “designed” to work sometimes doesn’t. But we also push back on the idea that your story ends there. If the system becomes the whole story, you lose the one piece you can actually control: how you show up, what you’re willing to notice, and what you choose next. Dr. Hollis walks through “truth, responsibility, and response” with real talk and real examples. We revisit the dark-room metaphor and flip it: stop only looking at what’s in the room, and start looking at where you are in relation to it. A car isn’t just transportation when it becomes shelter. A resource isn’t just help when your relationship to it is shaped by triggers, distrust, or burnout. Then we take “everybody else” out of the story long enough to ask what’s left, what was true about you, and what you can prepare differently next time. We close with the part people skip: forgiving yourself when you had knowledge but didn’t have the capacity to use it under pressure. If you’re trying to stabilize housing, rebuild trust, and make decisions while exhausted, this is your reminder that honesty can be gentle and still be real. Subscribe for the rest of the series, share this with a mom who needs it, and leave a review with one truth you’re ready to face next. Ask your questions, share your comments Links to all things One Degree to Victory: ➡️:       Facebook 🌐:      One Degree To Victory One Degree to Victory is the podcast of the NM Hollis Institute, where we explore the science and practice of building human capacity. Through practical frameworks, meaningful reflection, and real-life stories, each episode helps you think more clearly, respond more intentionally, and move forward one degree at a time.  Until next time, Constant Listener, I love ya'll. 💙

  3. Sep 30

    Making Room For What Comes Next

    Your life can be hard and still be wide open. We talk straight to the part of you that’s tired of being defined by what you’ve survived, and we make room for what comes next. If you’ve been stuck solving “right now” problems on repeat, this conversation puts language to what’s happening in your mind and body, and it does it without shame. We unpack capacity, the attention, energy, emotional space, awareness, and decision-making ability you actually have available. When pressure is high, capacity gets pulled into urgent questions like where you’ll sleep, how you’ll get the kids where they need to go, or how you’ll make it through the week. Then we introduce prospection, the ability to look ahead, imagine possibilities, and start planning for the future. I share how homelessness narrowed my view to survival, and how even a small release of pressure gave me enough room to think beyond the hotel room. You’ll hear a practical distinction that can change your decision making fast: possible is not the same as feasible. We also use a flashlight-in-a-dark-room metaphor to explain why you may only be able to see a few steps ahead right now, and why that doesn’t mean the rest of the room is empty. We close with situational awareness, moving with intention, and trusting that as you change position, you’ll see options you could never see from where you started. If this spoke to you, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s carrying a lot, and leave a review so more listeners can find the support they need. Ask your questions, share your comments Links to all things One Degree to Victory: ➡️:       Facebook 🌐:      One Degree To Victory One Degree to Victory is the podcast of the NM Hollis Institute, where we explore the science and practice of building human capacity. Through practical frameworks, meaningful reflection, and real-life stories, each episode helps you think more clearly, respond more intentionally, and move forward one degree at a time.  Until next time, Constant Listener, I love ya'll. 💙

  4. Sep 16

    You Still Have a Say: Protecting Your Agency

    Panic loves to sound like certainty: “You have to decide right now.” When you’re a mom facing homelessness, that kind of pressure can hijack your brain and push you into choices that don’t actually move your family forward. We talk about a different path: protecting your agency, even when the system feels bigger than you and resources feel scarce.  We break down how a scarcity mindset forms during housing insecurity and why it’s more than money or services. Agency is your ability to find the part of the situation where your decisions still belong to you and act on it. From there, we lay out three agency traps that quietly steal your options: the permission trap (“I can’t until…”), the power trap (deciding to manage someone else’s reaction), and the pressure trap (urgency that makes one option look like the only option). We also talk safety, because reclaiming agency never means putting yourself or your kids in danger.  You’ll leave with practical, repeatable prompts you can use in shelters, temporary housing, shared homes, and stressful meetings: “What can I start while things are still difficult?”, “Let me think about that before I answer,” “What other options are available?”, and the pressure interruptor, “What happens if I don’t choose this?” We close with a real story from an extended-stay hotel that shows how one calm pause can create space for things to happen for you rather than to you.  If this helped you feel steadier and more clear, subscribe, share this with a mom who needs it, and leave a review so more families can find these tools. Ask your questions, share your comments Links to all things One Degree to Victory: ➡️:       Facebook 🌐:      One Degree To Victory One Degree to Victory is the podcast of the NM Hollis Institute, where we explore the science and practice of building human capacity. Through practical frameworks, meaningful reflection, and real-life stories, each episode helps you think more clearly, respond more intentionally, and move forward one degree at a time.  Until next time, Constant Listener, I love ya'll. 💙

  5. Sep 9

    When Everything Collides, Choose What Matters

    In this episode of This One’s For You, Dr. Hollis speaks directly to women navigating housing instability about one of the hardest parts of an unstable season: when emotions, responsibilities, relationships, hopes, and daily demands begin to merge into one overwhelming burden. She introduces a different way to move through the season by naming it, protecting capacity, and deciding what actually deserves to be carried forward. If this resonates, subscribe for more honest tools for resilience and mental health, share this with someone who needs steadier ground, and leave a review so more listeners can find it. What would you name the season you’re in right now? Ask your questions, share your comments Links to all things One Degree to Victory: ➡️:       Facebook 🌐:      One Degree To Victory One Degree to Victory is the podcast of the NM Hollis Institute, where we explore the science and practice of building human capacity. Through practical frameworks, meaningful reflection, and real-life stories, each episode helps you think more clearly, respond more intentionally, and move forward one degree at a time.  Until next time, Constant Listener, I love ya'll. 💙

  6. Sep 2

    You Don’t Have To Figure Everything Out Today

    When you are navigating housing instability, every need can feel urgent. Housing, food, transportation, work, paperwork and your children’s needs can all compete for your attention at the same time. In the first episode of new series: This One’s for You, Dr. Hollis introduces three simple containers—TODAY, NEXT and NOT YET—to help you decide what requires your capacity now, what can be scheduled and what you can intentionally set down. Drawing from her own experience living in a hotel with her children, Dr. Hollis reminds you that forward movement does not always change your circumstances immediately. Sometimes it creates enough safety, clarity or stability to help you make the next responsible decision. What truly requires your capacity today? Ask your questions, share your comments Links to all things One Degree to Victory: ➡️:       Facebook 🌐:      One Degree To Victory One Degree to Victory is the podcast of the NM Hollis Institute, where we explore the science and practice of building human capacity. Through practical frameworks, meaningful reflection, and real-life stories, each episode helps you think more clearly, respond more intentionally, and move forward one degree at a time.  Until next time, Constant Listener, I love ya'll. 💙

  7. Sep 2

    Stability Vs Stagnation

    Stagnation does not always look like doing nothing. You can work, pay bills, care for other people, solve problems, and carry responsibilities all day—while remaining stagnant in the area of your life that most needs your attention. In this final episode of the WASPS series, Dr. Hollis explores how worry, anxiety, stress, and procrastination can eventually become a pattern of no meaningful forward movement. She examines how stagnation develops within our relationships, emotions, health and well-being, and finances—and how outside conditions can consume the capacity required to move. Stagnation is not your identity. It is the place where movement stopped. The question is not, “How do I change my entire life today?” The question is: Where has movement stopped, which part of WASPS has been holding it there, and what is one responsible step that can begin movement again? Subscribe, share this with someone who’s holding everything together, and leave a review if it helps. What’s one area where movement has stopped, and what one step could you take this week? Ask your questions, share your comments Links to all things One Degree to Victory: ➡️:       Facebook 🌐:      One Degree To Victory One Degree to Victory is the podcast of the NM Hollis Institute, where we explore the science and practice of building human capacity. Through practical frameworks, meaningful reflection, and real-life stories, each episode helps you think more clearly, respond more intentionally, and move forward one degree at a time.  Until next time, Constant Listener, I love ya'll. 💙

  8. Aug 26

    What Is Procrastination Really Costing You

    Staying too long can look responsible on the outside and feel like slow erosion on the inside. We tell a personal story about knowing a job needed to end, trying to “control the exit,” and realizing that the longer we delayed, the more of our energy we spent just surviving the day. If you’ve ever felt like work turned into a battle zone, or you’ve caught yourself shrinking to fit a place you’ve outgrown, this conversation puts language to that tension.  We dig into the idea that procrastination isn’t only about unfinished tasks. Sometimes it’s a delayed decision, and the price is your capacity: your emotional bandwidth, mental clarity, relationships, and ability to pursue a bigger vision. We talk about why comfort zones feel safe, how complacency can quietly lower your standards, and what changes when you finally stop investing your best energy into a season that’s already over.  You’ll also hear a perspective shift that’s both practical and freeing: when the assignment is over, it’s over, and making space can be an act of integrity for you and for the people coming after you. If you’re wrestling with career change, burnout, fear of uncertainty, or the pressure to stay “reasonable,” you’ll leave with a clearer way to evaluate the true cost of waiting. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a push, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show. Ask your questions, share your comments Links to all things One Degree to Victory: ➡️:       Facebook 🌐:      One Degree To Victory One Degree to Victory is the podcast of the NM Hollis Institute, where we explore the science and practice of building human capacity. Through practical frameworks, meaningful reflection, and real-life stories, each episode helps you think more clearly, respond more intentionally, and move forward one degree at a time.  Until next time, Constant Listener, I love ya'll. 💙

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One Degree to Victory is a podcast about change—why we want it, why we struggle with it, and what helps us move forward. Hosted by Dr. Nelieta Hollis, each episode begins with a question and follows it through lived experience, thoughtful reflection, and the patterns that shape how we respond to life. From worry, anxiety, stress, procrastination, and stagnation to the moments when we find ourselves waiting, avoiding, beginning again, or becoming something new, these conversations explore what happens between wanting change and knowing how to move toward it. This is not motivation for motivation’s sake. It is a space to notice what is shaping you, understand the responses you have learned, and discover new possibilities for what comes next.

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  • Creator
    Nelieta Hollis
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 One Degree to Victory
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