Teaching Yourself to Learn Holly Totten

Our guest today is Diane Martinez, and she brings a certain energy to this conversation that is electrifying, and I reckon you’ll love it as much as I do. Diane starts with the famous quote from Abraham Hicks, ‘Everything is always working out for me,’ and from there, the conversation really takes off. Diane truly understands what it's like to know you have more to offer the world and knows we can either drift through life or consciously create it. Listen in as I chat with Diane about:
Quiet confidence and peace in our own mindsets and how it isn’t up to us to force life into certain configurations. Opportunities that present themselves when we’re in a state of resistance, and how we can fail to see opportunities in front of us. How she found courage and strength moving overseas from everything she had ever known and how this changed the trajectory of her life. Taking care of our mind, spirit, and body and how it can benefit our life as a result. How there is a momentum of beliefs that has taught us we can’t trust ourselves and that the answers lie outside us, changing this mindset and what that means moving forward. Please follow Diane and her wonderful work on Instagram or via her website https://consciouscreatinglifecoaching.com/ and text 404.439.9383.
 
To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story. You can reach Holly at teachingyourselftolearn@gmail.com or via the website www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.
This episode is made possible by the New Author Intensive. To find out more, please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and use coupon code NEWAUTHOR for $100 off when you sign up.
Because while everyone is not a writer, anyone can become an author.

Even as a writer, there are times when I struggle to find the words to express how much certain moments in my life mean to me. All the way from my earliest childhood memories until now, there has been one particular person who has been there every step of the way, and that is my mom. Today we bring you a very special Mother’s Day episode with myself and my brother Pete Hale. My mom (Jerry) is inspirational to all those who know her, and this conversation is very near and dear to my heart.
 
Words can hardly describe it; take a listen for yourself inside.
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Y’all know that I love a good quote: after all, it’s one of the opening questions I have asked each one of my guests for the podcast, and today is no different. However, I’d love to throw in a bonus quote for you today from a famous movie that includes fried green tomatoes, the Whistle Stop Cafe, and Fannie Flagg. “It's funny when you're a child, you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.” I find this quote so relevant to both the conversation in this episode and as we navigate through this third half of life. Today's guest is dear to my heart and actually the mom of Melissa Stecher, who I chatted to all the way back in episode 14. Kim Stetcher is a devout Catholic Christian and keener than her beans gardener. Listen in as we chat about:
Building a circle of love. A prayer group that has been going strong since 2004 and provided phenomenal support even more than anyone thought possible.
How Kim's gardening love has developed and played a part in her life through her dad, family, mentors, and working career. Starting small with seeds and now growing to schedules, plans, and all the wisdom along the way.
The difference between heirloom seeds can make and how Kim's family is now on board to build a legacy and help her produce enough to share with friends, family and support services in the community.
How to start, even if you’re a complete beginner. The benefits of growing your own produce and how easy it can be to start with a seed.
Kim is developing ways to share her wisdom and skills, and in the meantime, I invite you to reach out to me with any questions and comments at teachingyourselftolearn@gmail.com or via the website www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.
 
To connect and apply to be a guest and share your story, you can reach Holly at www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.
 
This episode is made possible by the New Author Intensive. To find out more, please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and use coupon code NEWAUTHOR for $100 off when you sign up.
 
Because while everyone is not a writer, anyone can become an author.
 

This episode piggybacks off last week's solo episode - although without so much of a Walton reference inside. If you’ve listened along with the Podcast for a while now you know Holly loves a good quote or few and today is no different. She opens with the quote from Jackson Pollock which says - the secret to success is to be fully awake to everything about you. Listen as Holly explores this very concept in her third half of life and talks about:
Stepping back and taking a 360 degree look at every aspect that has to do with you including likes and dislikes, dreams and desires and where your inner world may have been influenced by that external to you.
Think about what you keep coming back to. Often we find that it does present itself again in this third half of life journey.
A fun and simple exercise that Holly found herself coming back to years after she was witness to it. A wonderful reminder when we find ourselves in a funk and veering off track.
The noise that we often have around us when it comes to what we should, could and would be doing.
 
To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach Holly at teachingyourselftolearn@gmail.com or via the website www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.
 
This episode is made possible by the New Author Intensive. To find out more please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and use coupon code NEWAUTHOR for $100 off when you sign up.
 
Because while everyone is not a writer, anyone can become an author.
 

I’m a self-confessed sentimental, nostalgic type of person and over the years have loved to sit down with the Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, to name a few, and today’s episode is actually inspired by a Waltons episode! The episode has a pivotal message of following your heart and encouraging us to figure out what we want by simply stepping forward. I expand on this concept in this episode with further thoughts involving:
The John Barrymore quote A man is not old, until regrets take the place of dreams. How this quote is relevant even 100 years later and how generations benefit from these words and experiences, especially in their third half of life.
Coming back to recurring themes in our lives, paths and signs that resurface, something that you are passionate about and is difficult to get out of your mind.
Sentimental and nostalgic moments through memories with the box. How they can evoke further thoughts and memories and my reflections with these moments.
 
To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach me at teachingyourselftolearn@gmail.com.
 
This episode is made possible by the New Author Intensive. To find out more please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and use coupon code NEWAUTHOR for $100 off when you sign up.
 
Because while everyone is not a writer, anyone can become an author.