The You-est You® Podcast Julie Reisler

Pleasure, sisterhood, and investing, oh my! Calling all my sisters! You will love this empowering conversation all about moving past the fears, blocks, and doubts of real estate investing to a much more informed understanding of the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ you have everything you need to get in the game. Kathy O’Neill, Crissy Freeman & Dr. Priti Chandran are powerful examples of what’s possible in building wisdom and intergenerational wealth to leave a more extraordinary legacy. 
 
Are you eager to do something that matters and feels good? Have you considered your next chapter, like helping people and getting a life coach certification? Wondering if you have what it takes to pivot and do something new or different? 
 
There’s a reason that the realm of coaching is on the rise. The art and skill of coaching one, when trained properly, can lead to inner transformation and positive life changes. In this episode, I sat down with a few of my Life Designer® coaches, who now use their gifts and skills to help various kinds of people get unstuck, unstoppable, and unleashed. 
 
Each of these women is truly stepping into their best self and becoming their ‘You-est You’ as a powerful coach on a mission to help others break free from self-doubt, lack of confidence, and worthiness. 
 
If you want to explore becoming a certified holistic life coach, learn more about my certification at: juliereisler.com/certification. 
 
Key Takeaways: It’s important to realize we all have blind spots and to get support in removing them. Listening is a superpower you can develop.  You don’t need to (and never will) have it all together to become a life coach. Coaching is really about helping others to see their greatness. The answers are within each of us; learn how to do this for yourself and others. You can stop the negative self-talk and stories and rewrite your next chapter.  It’s never too late, and you’re never too old to pivot careers. To serve others, you must be of service to yourself. Self-care is crucial if you want to give to others.  
Meet the Panel of Life Designer® Coaches   Kathy O'Neill Kathy is a Life Designer® Transition Coach who supports clients with big life changes.
With a master's degree in public health from Yale University, her first career focused on the administration of public and private healthcare systems. Her second and longest career started in Manhattan, where she began producing TV commercials, web video content, and short documentaries. Kathy's third career as a transition coach draws on aspects from her first two careers: the focus on serving others from her healthcare experience, and from her years as a producer, the deep listening skills required to discern what's important to her clients and setting up systems to bring to fruition what has been learned from that deep listening and the story behind the person. 
  Dr. Priti Chandran Dr. Priti Chandran is a former dentist turned Life Designer® coach. She helps stressed and overwhelmed individuals and their teams bring more calm and ease in all environments using mental fitness coaching as a tool. As a South Asian American, she’s no stranger to sacrifice and persistence. After leaving a successful career as a dentist, Priti found clarity while lost in the fog of doubt and unworthiness with the help of her coaches. She thrives in creating community and facilitating safe spaces for individuals to learn, grow & transform.
  Crissy Freeman Crissy is a certified Life Designer® Coach who empowers women to say yes to themselves and return to the driver’s seat after divorce. Crissy specializes in helping women rediscover their truth and their passion so they can show up with confidence as they embark on a new journey and navigate life as co-parent and single moms. Crissy’s coaching program supports and guides clients on their transformational journey from Mrs. to ME after divorce to create the life they truly want

Are you finding yourself about to start a new chapter in your life? Wondering if it’s too late to start anew in midlife? Feeling like you might be ready to pivot in your career, relationship, health, or goals?
  If you relate to any of these questions or are right in the middle of midlife, this episode is for you. I interviewed a wonderful former coaching client who is on a mission to help women in midlife rediscover their most important relationship, the one with themself, and how to attract their ideal partner. 
 
Meet Laurie James Laurie James is a mother, divorcée, recovering caregiver turned author, relationship coach, and podcaster. Her debut memoir, Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, is about family, marriage, parenting, being an adoptee, and caring for elderly parents, but most importantly, it’s about her journey from feeling alone most of her life to finding belonging. Now, she helps women in midlife and beyond find the freedom to redesign their relationships and lives to experience more joy and happiness and make the most of their second or third act. Laurie is a mother of 4 adult daughters, a free spirit, and a lover of nature, skiing, and sailing. 
  Key Takeaways: Getting support is okay, especially when you are a coach, therapist, or healer. Pay attention to your inner nudges. They are here to guide you for a deeper reason. Don’t dismiss them even when they seem illogical. You’re worth the time, energy, and investment in getting the support or coaching you need to do your inner work and design your next act. When relationships or careers fall apart, it’s important to lovingly turn the mirror on ourselves to understand our part better.   Make the most of your 3rd (or 4th) act! We all deserve peace, freedom, and happiness.   
For more information on Laurie and her book, please visit www.laurieejames.com.
  A Free Toolset To Design Your Best Life This stunning free toolset is a 7-day workbook (25 pages) full of powerful mindset practices, grounding meditations (and audio), a new beautiful time management system and template to set your personalized schedule for your best productivity, a personalized energy assessment, and so much more. It’s designed to specifically help you uplevel your routine and self-care habits for success so you can radiate and become your ‘You-est You.’ These tools are some of Julie’s best practices used with hundreds of her clients to help you feel more confident, clear, and connected to your best self so that you feel inspired to take on the world.
Get it at: juliereisler.com/toolset
  Looking To Help Others Get Unstuck and Design Their Best Life? If you are feeling a strong urge to help other big-hearted empaths get unstuck and design their best life, you've got to check out my Life Designer Coach Academy. This world-class four-month virtual live coach certification program will give you proven tools, techniques, practices, and methodology to be a powerful coach. This coaching program is for aspiring and current coaches looking to fill in the missing pieces and gain confidence and mastery in the coaching core competencies and the integrative health modalities from a mind-body science, positive psychology, and healing arts perspective. To learn more, go to lifedesignercoachacademy.com.
  You-est You Intention Cards Want your own powerful deck of 33 You-est You Intention Cards? These cards were channeled by Julie. Each card has an empowering intention and deeper questions to ask your ‘You-est You’ for greater self-awareness, higher consciousness, and spiritual growth. You can get them now at juliereisler.com/shop. 
  Sacred Connection This community is a sacred, safe place built on love and acceptance. It will help you evolve and expand into your highest self. Please share your wisdom, comments, and thoughts. I love hearing from you and learning how you are being your truest, you-est you. Please join us in our Facebook group:

Have you ever been to a therapist or a coach? Are you curious to know what the difference is? Did you know that although they are different modalities, there are more similarities than you might think? 
 
In this episode, I brought back my dear friend and colleague, Molly Carmel, a psychotherapist and certified Life Designer® coach, to dive deep into a fascinating topic that often sparks curiosity and confusion: the difference between therapy and coaching. Join us as we unravel these two transformative paths toward personal growth and mental well-being.
 
Molly and I had such a real and raw conversation about authenticity, doing the inner work, the surprising power of coaching, and why she chose to go through the Life Designer® Coach certification program. 
 
Meet Molly Carmel  
Molly Carmel, LCSW-R is a leading addictions and eating disorder therapist and Founder of The Beacon Program (Beacon by MC), which offers individual and group solutions to help people break free from their destructive relationships with food and dieting. Known for her irreverent, “straight talk, no chaser” attitude, she’s also the author of the innovative book Breaking Up with Sugar: A Plan to Divorce the Diets, Drop the Pounds, and Live Your Best Life and the host of the podcast, What You're Craving. Molly has made it her life’s mission to help people find a sustainable solution to the battle of obesity and related eating disorders. After battling an eating disorder for over 20 years and finding no solution in available treatment, she began her professional path and has never looked back. In addition to her extensive training in Substance Use and Eating Disorders, Molly is intensively trained in and has an undying love for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. She is also a certified Life Designer® Coach, trained shaman, Reiki healer, and certified Tibetan bowl singing practitioner. 
 
How Does Coaching and Therapy Differ   
First off, I like to say that coaching and therapy are like PB & J; they go beautifully together and are respectfully a distinct healing modality. While therapy and life coaching share some common aims, their approaches differ. 
 
Both support self-insight and positive change. However, therapy focuses on addressing psychological challenges and trauma and diagnosing mental health issues. There is a greater focus on one’s past and understanding, expressing, and healing past traumas and challenges. 
Life coaching complements therapy by starting with the client’s existing strengths and helping them set and achieve personal and professional goals for the future. There is a greater focus on the present and future, using the past to learn, grow, and harvest lessons. Coaches take a forward-moving, solutions-oriented, growth-oriented approach. The coaching relationship centers on accountable, empowered clients ready to create the life they want. 
 
However, coaches recognize when clinical therapy is the right step. The two modalities can work powerfully together, with therapy helping people overcome obstacles from the past and coaching propelling them toward the life they aspire to create. Ultimately, both therapy and coaching are powerful tools for transformation.
 
Thinking of Becoming a Spiritual Life Coach?  
Want to do something that fulfills a higher purpose? Eager to put your head on the pillow at night, feeling like you’re doing good in the world? Do others naturally confide in you and share their deepest, dark secrets? If so, you need to check out the Life Designer® Coach Academy, a spiritual life coach certification that will give you the necessary tools, framework, proven practices, guidance, and experience to become masterful as a life coach. Learn more about the next cohort starting in October 2023 at https://juliereisler.com/certification. 
 
A Free Toolset To Design Your Best Life  
This stunning free toolset is a 7-day workbook (25 pages full) of powerful mindset pract

Do you feel like you just can’t meditate no matter what you do? Maybe you’ve been told you have a monkey mind that won’t calm down. Or it feels impossible to sit still and be present with your breath and thoughts. 
 
In this conversation with luminary Light Watkins, we talk all about how to find peace, calm, and serenity within your mind, and yes, through the proven power of meditation. Light shares a wealth of wisdom and teaching about how to change the way you view your mind, body and spirit, especially as it relates to meditation and finding true and lasting inner peace.
  Meet Light Watkins Light Watkins is a long-time meditation teacher and thought leader who has spoken and consulted at Fortune 500 companies worldwide on wellness, purpose, and enlightened leadership. He is the author of three best-sellers: The Inner Gym, Bliss More, and Knowing Where to Look, as well as the soon-to-be-released Travel Light: Spiritual Minimalism to Live a More Fulfilled Life. Light has written a daily dose of inspirational emails to tens of thousands of subscribers. He is the host of The Light Watkins Show, which is a podcast that features the backstory of luminaries who’ve created platforms for social good. In his online community, The Happiness Insiders, Light has created masterclasses and challenges to help spiritual practitioners around the globe embody the principles of “inner” work. Light is a “one-bagger” who has been living nomadically since 2018.
  Key Takeaways: Take hope of faith. Give what you want to receive. We’ve told ourselves we can’t meditate, but this isn’t true. Start by sitting comfortably and making friends with your thoughts. Think of your mind as an ally. Don’t let your fear of other opinions stop you from becoming your authentic self, i.e., your ‘You-est You.’ Investigating your internal emotional baggage is always the root cause of where, in doing more profound work, you’ll find your inner zen, peace, and serenity To travel light, stop carrying around the past. The richest information about tomorrow is in today’s moment.    A Free Toolset To Design Your Best Life This stunning free toolset is a 7-day workbook (25 pages full) of powerful mindset practices, grounding meditations (and audio), a new beautiful time management system and template to set your personalized schedule for your best productivity, a personalized energy assessment, and so much more. It was designed to specifically help you uplevel your routine and self-care habits for success so you can radiate and become your ‘You-est You’. These tools are some of Julie’s best practices used with hundreds of her clients to help you feel more confident, clear, and connected to your best self so that you feel inspired to take on the world.
Get it at: juliereisler.com/toolset
      Looking To Help Others Get Unstuck and Design Their Best Life? If you are feeling a strong urge to help other big-hearted empaths get unstuck and design their best life, you've got to check out my Life Designer Coach Academy. This world-class four-month virtual live coach certification program will give you proven tools, techniques, practices, and methodology to be a powerful coach. This coaching program is for aspiring and current coaches looking to fill in the missing pieces and gain confidence and mastery both in the coaching core competencies and the integrative health modalities from a mind-body science, positive psychology, and healing arts perspective. To learn more, go to lifedesignercoachacademy.com.
  You-est You Intention Cards Want your own powerful deck of 33 You-est You Intention Cards? These cards were channeled by Julie. Each card has an empowering intention and deeper questions to ask your ‘You-est You’ for greater self-awareness, higher consciousness, and spiritual growth. You can get them now at juliereisler.com/shop. 
  Sacred Connection This community is a sacred, safe place built on love and accept

Meet Monick Halm Monick Halm is the founder of Real Estate Investor Goddesses. She is an educator and advocate for female real estate investors and has a mission to help 1 million women achieve financial freedom through real estate. Monick is herself a real estate investor and syndicator and owns, together with her investors, over 1000 rental doors across thirteen states. 
 
She is a graduate of McGill University and Columbia Law School.  She is the #1 bestselling author of The Real Estate Investor Goddess Handbook and Invest Like a Goddess - Advice from the Most Successful Women in Real Estate, a TEDx speaker, podcast host, real estate strategy mentor, yogi, world traveler, recovered attorney, wife, and mother of three amazing kids. 
 
Monick grew up with two parents from Haiti who emphasized the importance of getting a good education and becoming either a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. Monick chose to be a lawyer but soon realized that she did not like the profession and found it to be soul-sucking. It wasn’t until she was let go while pregnant with her first child that she realized the blessing of being given the freedom to try her hand at real estate investing. This blessing in disguise gave her the ability to start her business which now educates millions of women on how to invest like a goddess.
  Investing Like A Goddess Real Estate investing is not one size fits all. Monick shared a great metaphor to help you figure out your investment vision and how to reverse engineer it. She shared that if you were going on a vacation, you’d first figure out where you want to go. Do you want to travel abroad to the South of Frances (yes, please!), the pyramids in Egypt, the grand canyon, or perhaps a beach in Cape Cod? Like planning a vacation, you’ll want to figure out your vision. For example, do you want enough passive income to retire from any job? Perhaps you want to be set for retirement and have a significant nest egg, or maybe you want to leave a fantastic legacy for your children’s children’s children. Clarify your vision first.
 
Next, you’ll want to address what kind of trip you’re taking. Are you going to be on a cruise, biking through the Alps, riding in an RV, flying first class, or perhaps hiking? Similarly, it’s important to understand and choose the investing options that fit your greater vision, which might be investing in buildings, syndications, duplexes, single-family homes, etc. 
 
Lastly, you need to know what resources you have available and how to leverage them. We talked about how having resources doesn’t always mean money. It could be your time, your relationships, or even your experience 
  Why Women Fear Investing In the past, it was dangerous for women to own their power. It wasn’t until 1974 that women could get their own loans without having a man accompany them. Often the fear stems from not being sure how to invest in real estate or where to begin. Monick wants you to know that this is something anyone can do, whether you grew up on food stamps or with a family who owned real estate. Check out her free training on her website to learn more and get started, and get her book, Invest Like a Goddess. It’s time for us women to build our own wealth, stability, and financial security. 
  The Goddess Secret Sauce 1) Pleasure - The new reframe is ‘Pleasure through’ vs. ‘Muscle through.’ Don’t try to muscle through anything. This hyper-masculine way of doing life will lead you to exhaustion. Pleasure does NOT mean comfort, though. Remember, there is no growth in a comfort zone or comfort in a growth zone. Prioritizing pleasure is revolutionary and often uncomfortable. 
 
2) Intuition - this is your life GPS! Don’t expect your intuition to be logical. It doesn’t run on logic, and rather, it is your direct line to your Higher Power that will show you the path best for you. The goal here is to learn to trust your intuition fully.
 
3) Mindset -

Meet Eric Konolavov Eric founded The Goal Guide, a renowned training organization specializing in sales, leadership, communication, and mindset. He is also the creator of Relentless Goal Achievers, a private group coaching community for business leaders worldwide. Despite humble beginnings as a refugee from the former USSR, he proudly served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 8 years, earning numerous awards and deployments. Transitioning to civilian life, Eric excelled in sales and leadership roles, consistently surpassing revenue goals and earning accolades. Motivated to share his expertise, Eric founded The Goal Guide to provide coaching and training services to entrepreneurs and sales organizations worldwide. With a strong foundation in personal development and leadership training, he empowers teams to achieve their goals and has a reputation for delivering exceptional results. Eric's journey from a challenging background to entrepreneurial success makes him a compelling mentor and leader in the industry.
 
Today, we're diving deep into the exciting world of goal setting, manifestation, and personal growth. Get ready to unleash your potential, tune into the law of attraction, and live the life you've always dreamed of!
 
Eric was one of my earlier coaching clients back in 2015, and we worked together to help him design a life, and mainly a career, that he loved and that loved him back. Through the power of gratitude, intuitive journaling, and a willingness to redesign the stories he was telling himself, Eric has since created a thriving business that is focused on helping people to achieve their goals and dreams. 
  Episode Highlights: Pushing Boundaries, Embracing Growth: It's time to break free from self-imposed limitations! Discover how pushing boundaries leads to immense personal growth and empowers you to achieve the seemingly impossible.

The Law of Attraction Unveiled: Have you ever wondered why some people effortlessly attract success while others struggle? In this episode, we unravel the secrets of the Law of Attraction.

Gratitude: The Key to Abundance: Gratitude is not just a fleeting emotion; it's a powerful tool to unlock abundance in your life. Join us as we explore the profound impact of gratitude on your well-being and how cultivating this attitude can attract more of what you desire.

Living Your Dream Life: You deserve to live a life filled with joy and purpose. Working with a life coach and becoming a life coach helped Eric to manifest his dream life. This episode will inspire you to take actionable steps toward living the life of your dreams.

Your Goals are Possible: You need to stop thinking about what isn’t possible and realize that you are unlimited potential in human form.    Takeaways and Action Points: Learn to set goals that challenge and inspire you to grow beyond your comfort zone.
Understand the principles of the Law of Attraction and how to harness its power to manifest your dreams.
 
Cultivate gratitude as a daily practice to attract abundance and positive experiences.
Embrace actionable steps to start living the life you've always dreamed of.
  Basic Principles of the Law of Attraction: A review for those of you who might need a law of attraction refresher.
Thoughts Become Things: The Law of Attraction is based on the belief that your thoughts have a powerful influence on your reality. Positive thoughts attract positive outcomes, while negative thoughts may manifest negative experiences.
Energy and Vibration: Everything in the universe is made up of energy, and each thought and emotion carries its unique vibration. When you emit positive vibrations through your thoughts and emotions, you are more likely to attract positive experiences.
Focus and Intention: The Law of Attraction emphasizes the importance of focusing on what you want to manifest in your life rather than dwelling on what you don't want. By setting clear intentions and maintaining a positive focu