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MoxieCast 026: Training Your Happiness Muscle, with Susanna Halonen
If you ever find yourself saying, “I’ll be happy when I get promoted/lose the weight/find my hawt partner (or fill in the blank with your own variation),” today’s episode is for you. Today I’m joined by the “Happyologist,” Susanna Halonen. Have a guess what percentage of your happiness is predicted by your circumstances. I said 50 […]
MoxieCast 025: Finding More Joy & Purpose, with Jeff Harmon
If you’ve ever grappled with the angst-producing question, “Is this all there is?”, today’s episode is for you. We’re connected 24-7, yet we crave intimacy and true connection in our bellies. Am I right? We’ve learned to value productivity (and accessibility) over the soul-satisfaction of doing work that makes us feel alive. If you’re nodding […]
MoxieCast 024: Performance Fuel for the Extraordinarily Busy, with Rhiannon Lambert
Hands up if you’ve ever experienced a forehead-meets-keyboard moment late in the afternoon before necking back another coffee or Diet Coke? Or maybe you haven’t eaten since breakfast – unless you count the biscuits in the 2pm meeting, or the breath mint you had in the taxi heading home. Living like this, it’s easy […]
MoxieCast 023: Changing Your Relationship to Food, with Daniel Thomas Hind
“I know what it’s like to stand in front of a fridge and just eat and eat and eat. It’s like you have no choice, you’re almost possessed.” Meet Daniel Thomas Hind, founder of EvolutionEat, a transformational lifestyle coaching company that helps overwhelmed people revolutionize their relationship with food. As a formerly fat Italian […]
MoxieCast 022: Mastering Distraction, with Giovanna Capozza
Have you ever thought about over-achieving as a form of distraction? Me either. Enter Giovanna Capozza, today’s guest. Giovanna is a transformational coach, speaker and host of She Rises, a podcast which focuses on everything from business leadership to spirituality for high-achieving women. She’s witty, wise and has the best eyebrows on the planet, but […]
MoxieCast 021: Monica Day on How to Have Better (Wilder, More Connected) SEX
I have wanted to talk about SEX on Moxie Cast for a long time, but I’ve struggled to find intelligent, sensitive and thought-provoking content that still felt a bit GRRRR. Then I met Monica Day. She’s smart. She’s sassy. And most importantly, she’ll mess with your thinking about the sex you’re having. We talk about […]
MoxieCast 020: Handling Uncertainty & Discomfort, with Nathan Seaward
Nathan Seaward grew up knowing precisely what he wanted to do. You know how people can get associated with a thing? I have a friend who mentioned once that she liked flamingos and now she’s the flamingo-lady. Come Christmas or birthday, friends and family bestow upon her an array of flamingo-themed items: mugs, sweaters, socks, […]
MoxieCast 019: Dealing With a Difficult Past. Insights, Ideas & Practices, with Kelly Childress
We don’t reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved. — Cheryl Strayed Kelly Childress has climbed the mountain. A few mountains, actually. Her own challenging past has set her up to do the important work that she now does – helping patients to […]
MoxieCast 018: Courage, Transition and Mission, with James Butler
A few days after I released this episode, my guest James Butler died suddenly at the age of 28 of a suspected aneurysm. I was – am – heartbroken to lose a friend and fellow coach who had such an impact on me, and on so many others. His fiancee Leighann has invited people to […]
MoxieCast 017: Overcome Worry & Live More Joyfully, with Gabrielle Treanor
Remember that time when you worried, and it was really helpful? Nah. Me either. Here’s a mic drop of a quote by Eckhart Tolle: “Worry pretends to be necessary, but it serves no useful purpose.” Truth, right? And yet we can worry ourselves into a tizzy on a regular basis. If you want to cut […]