Not Your Average Lives Podcast

Episode 134: Making Life Easier For the Tech-Challenged Entrepreneur with Deanna Fenton

career mindset Jul 18, 2021

If you are someone who thinks tech is a huge barrier, my guest will make you change your perspective! Deanna Fenton is the techie in your pocket who loves nothing more than to help online course or membership site creators kick tech overwhelm to the curb! She has worked as a WordPress website developer and had a marketing agency since 2006. Deanna has the philosophy of staying young at heart and mind through lifelong learning. 

Deanna had her marketing agency since 2006 and was tired and burned out. Learning about Kajabi in late 2015 and deciding she wanted to create digital products and teach people how to create their own websites and how to build, market, launch and scale online businesses without tech overwhelm sparked her passion for all things technology! 

What she’s most excited about is her membership with a mostly over 50 crowd on how to build their businesses. She has one member who is almost 80 years old and her get-it-done attitude always inspires her!

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Episode 133: Don't Say Don't!

This episode was inspired, as you'll learn, by a day spent with a bunch of little people and an incident I witnessed that was a perfect example of one of the rules of the subconscious mind.

I knew about this rule and I explain it to my students, but I never really thought about its impact on the words we say to our kids (and grandkids) when we play the role of protector. It was a real AHA moment for me.

First of all, I love being around my grandchildren! And this past weekend was the 3rd birthday of one of my grandsons so I got to meet and spend time with some of his little friends.

I always feel so abundant when I am in the presence of my grandchildren, and this week as I was reflecting on that day, it dawned on me that I feel that way because children are pure abundance...

The majority of kids see the world as limitless and full of opportunity before the world gets a hold of their brain and programs it with limiting beliefs. In fact, it made me so happy to just sit back and watch...

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Episode 132: Expert Hacker On Ways to Rock Midlife with Cat Coluccio

career mindset Jul 11, 2021

EP132: A Qualified Educator, Personal Trainer and Life Coach, my podcast guest this week is Cat Coluccio – aka the Midlife Success Coach – she is also an author, international speaker and coach, and a champion of midlife women.

A transplanted Australian, Cat lives in New Zealand with her husband, her grown children and grandson, plus an overabundance of cats and chickens. She is the author of a number of books, including her best selling 21 Hacks Series. The third book in the series – 21 Hacks to Rock your Midlife – was launched recently at the first ever Rocking Midlife® Virtual Summit.

In this episode, Cat and I talked about her firsthand experience as an empty nester and her love for cats and chickens, and all the valuable information she’s learned about menopause. This is such a fun interview as we share so much in common and I enjoyed hearing about her life!

Cat is the founder of both the Rocking Midlife® Community and Podcast, was the PSA...

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Episode 131: When Plan A Is Derailed

Today I talk about the importance of "redeeming the day" with simple pleasures when your plan goes by the wayside.

An excerpt from the "Simple Abundance" book inspired me to look at how a recent day of mine, that was not going well, caused me to derail my Plan A to improve my mood. Even though my day was not derailed by someone else, like the example she shared that happened to her, I had the same experience of needing to alter my plan and redeem my day.

So I found the parallels with her experience and mine and shared them in this episode.

I created a Plan B, as she suggests, and switched my focus to the present moment instead of the future - which is what my Plan A was all about - and that improved my mood and got me back to my happy place.

So how are you going to react the next time your Plan A is derailed? Or maybe you'll find, as I did, that your Plan A is derailing you and leaving you in a less-than-happy (and abundant) state. What actions will you take to get present and...

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Episode 130: Are Your Money Stories Keeping You In The Same Familiar But Frustrating Place? Conversation with Debbie Sassen

career mindset Jul 04, 2021

Debbie Sassen is a Business and Money Mindset Coach and former Financial Planner. She helps midlife women in business to make more money and grow wealth, without burnout and sacrificing their family. Her coaching gracefully combines business strategy, money management with mindset work to help women dissolve the family of origin money story and limiting beliefs that keep them stuck in a cycle of under-earning, overspending, and under-saving.

Too many women feel belittled and diminished by professionals in the financial industry. Debbie believes it's time to change that narrative. No woman should have to dim her light and brilliance to build a solid financial reality for herself and her family - now and in the future! She believes that when we own our wealth and take responsibility for it, we give other people permission to shine their brilliance brightly, too.

In this episode, we not only talk about Debbie’s career as a money mindset coach, but also about her life experiences...

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Episode 129: The Boomerang Effect

Today I share an example of how quickly the gift of abundance is returned when you are on the giving end. 

Yesterday I stepped into the abundance of TIME and gifted my husband with some of mine, which I don't do enough of - especially in the middle of my very busy work day.

But I had a spontaneous urge to ride with him to a property to pick up one of his real estate signs. Nothing romantic or exciting, just placing my time and attention on him by being his company and doing the driving so he didn't have to.

I decided to make a quick stop on our way back at a cute little country store I love and hadn't visited since before the pandemic. (I promise, it was not a part of my plan until we were almost to our destination!) And what I got from that very quick visit not only made my day but provided me with this valuable lesson to share with you! 

I desired a zucchini and one was handed over as a gift! Yep! A store GAVE ME an item and didn't charge me!!! When was the last time...

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Episode 128: Taking Her Yoga Business From Covid Shut Down to A Multi-6 Figure Online Business with Nathania Stambouli

My latest guest has an amazing inspirational story to share! Nathania Stambouli is a yoga teacher, retreat leader and coach who teaches people how to break through limiting beliefs, slay their stories of "I can't" to step fully into YES I CAN and in this episode, she shares how she transformed her business, which was shut down in the middle of a pandemic, from an in-person yoga studio where she was making $36,000 a year to an online yoga program and retreat business making over 350K in just 9 months!  

Nathania believes we have the capacity to create a reality we love when we dare to walk into the fire and do the work. She is a champion for those who aren’t sure they have what it takes to change their life, to teach you that YES YOU CAN and to show you the way. The ONLY thing standing in your way is you (and your excuses)!

She had two major transformations in her life, both of which needed a lot of courage and trust in herself and the universe. First was when she...

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Episode 127: Secret Anniversaries of the Heart

Today's episode was inspired by the June 16th excerpt in the book "Simple Abundance" by Sarah Ban Breathnach. It hit a chord with me and when something does that, I want to share it.

Did you know that June is the month of secret anniversaries of the heart?

And do you even know what secret anniversaries of the heart are? I didn't.

But once Sarah explained it, boy did some past memories come up, good and sad. 

There are sooooo many amazing quotes in this 3 page excerpt, many of which I share on this episode.

So listen and let those secret anniversaries of your heart come through because they need to...

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Episode 126: Turning Lemons Into the LemonAID Podcast with Heidi Alldredge

mindset Jun 20, 2021

My guest for this week’s episode, Heidi Alldredge describes herself as a wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, friend, caregiver, hot chocolate bomb maker, motivational speaker, teacher and podcaster! And if you don't know what a hot chocolate bomb is, like me, you’ll find out in this episode!

Heidi started her own radio talk show in 1999 at the age of 27 as a way to overcome the very dark thoughts she was having at the time. She had the idea that  by meeting and interviewing people with inspirational stories, it would help her mindset. And it did!

Not long ago, she decided to revive her old radio show as a podcast and she even took some of her old interviews from 20 years ago and added them as episodes and did an update episode with some of those guests from the past.!

Heidi has been married since 1992 to Christopher, the love of her life. She has 3 children and has hosted 5 foreign exchange students - whom she now claims as her own children. She also enjoys spending...

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Episode 125: Does Your Environment Allow You To Thrive?

Today's episode was inspired by a training my friend and mentor Alex Paulos did inside my Second Half S.P.A.R.K. School™ this past week.

He spoke of how many of us are withering in the environments we are living in and we must look for ways to create an environment we can THRIVE in.

It was quite powerful and it led me to the realization that when you are thriving, you feel abundant. And when you are withering, you are more likely to be focused on the lack in your life.

THRIVE = ABUNDANCE!

So of course I had to share this aha moment with you!

So where are you in life? Are you thriving or withering? And if the latter, what can you do about it?

Create an ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENT where you CAN thrive, like the coconut tree analogy I shared!

It's time to ask yourself:

  • Who are you surrounded by? Who can you find to help you thrive?
  • What are you doing? What behaviors are contributing to this withering state?
  • Who are you being? Tune into the different feelings inside when placed in...
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