Welcome to Episode 122 where we have an important conversation with Donna Tashjian, Life Mastery and Health Coach about how to turn your life around. In this episode we get to talk to Donna, who is a down-to-earth inspirational speaker. She has been speaking and coaching for over 20 years. She is the founder of Vibrant Living International, author and host/founder of the “You Were Designed for Greatness” podcast. She has been married to her wonderful husband for over 36 years, mother to three, and grandmother. She loves flowers, time in nature and you will always see her with a cup of tea. She has a passion to help you reach your full potential. I loved having Donna on the show. She shared so much great wisdom about how to get unstuck!    Key Elements: Identify why sometimes how we define our past influences change. Discuss how we can easily normalize discomfort. Explore how Donna’s proven program have helped so many women.   "We all have big changes  in our lives that are more or less a second chance."  - Harrison Ford Resources:   CONNECT WITH DONNA: https://www.ivibrantliving.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drtashjian/ https://www.instagram.com/drtashjian/     Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

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EP122 Creating the Life You Want

Welcome to Episode 121 where we explore the areas we most need to look at when we are focusing on changing for the better. In this episode we get down into identifying some important areas to look at so we can see if we need to work on some things to become healthier.  These areas I believe hold the components for a confident, healthy self.  They are also crucial if we want to have healthy relationships.  Know that when you start in one area, you will eventually get to all the others because growth begets growth.  When we get healthier in one area it makes us look at the others.  This is a great thing and can help guide you through the process.  All you have to do is show up with an earnest heart and willingness to do the work.  Key Elements: Identify key problem areas that hold our core issues. Recognize the impacts of making changes in each area. Normalize some of our fears about changing.   “It’s actually far more exhausting to not work than it is to work. It takes far more energy to sit with internal conflict than it does to get to work.” -Benjamin P. Hardy Resources: Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP121 The Changing Me: Getting Honest About Where You Struggle

Welcome to Episode 120 where we begin this month by exploring what it means to be truly ready to make big changes in your life. In this episode we talk about when we reach that point in our adult life when we get serious about needing things to be different. Maybe we are hitting an age milestone, a big change or loss, or we simply can no longer ignore the symptoms that show us things aren’t ok. All month we’re diving into this topic to give you a chance to take a moment and reflect upon where you might be today, and where you’d rather be instead.  Key Elements: Normalize the times we usually face upheaval in our lives. Explore some of the areas we might want to change. Look at some of the telltale symptoms that tell us it’s time…   “Change is painful, but nothing is as painful  as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” - Mandy Hale Resources: Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP120 The Old Me: Things Definitely Need to Change

Welcome to Episode 119 where we wrap up this month focusing in on the biggest confidence builder of all:  Integrity. In this episode we get into what some of the most important aspects of our integrity are, from defining our values to identifying several ways we can become more honest and open.  Being assertive requires that we are first proud of who we are, and more certain of our truth before we can put that out into the world.     Key Elements: Explore how what you value and believe help you define integrity for you. Look at how emotional honesty and healthy boundaries play a big part. Utilize visualization to help us define where we would like to be.   Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right.  These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. — W. Clement Stone     Resources: Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP119 The Essence of Assertiveness is Integrity

Welcome to Episode 118 where we look at how commitment and follow through create congruence and self-confidence. In this episode we talk about a very important aspect of assertiveness and self-confidence, and that is the concept of congruence.  Risking commitment to what matters and following through on those commitments to raise self-esteem and bring a greater level of trust in your relationships is life-changing.  Join us as we walk through how to build self-confidence by putting more of your truth out there.    Key Elements: Look at ways to work on risking commitment to what matters to you. Explore how commitment is asserting your truth out into the world. Discover via experiential exercise about what congruence means to you.     “Everything  you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” - George Addair   Resources: Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP118 Assertiveness is About Commitment and Congruence

Welcome to Episode 117 where we explore how motivation is connected to holding onto who you are, and not losing yourself in your relationships. In this episode we talk about how motivation and is a big part of assertiveness, and how confidence is built – or broken by how much we can stay focused regardless of what life throws at us.  We explore the typical motivation killers that can creep into our life and take over before we know it.  Then we talk about how to get back to you and what you want for your life.    Key Elements: Look at how motivation is easier to hold onto when we are clear with our why. Discuss the typical ways we can get lost in our life and in others and then lose our mojo for what we want for us. Look at ways to get back on the horse and get moving again.     “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” – Michelle Obama   Resources: Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP117 Assertiveness and Motivation: Owning Your Why and Not Losing Yourself 

Welcome to Episode 116 where we introduce the concepts of motivation and commitment as integral parts of healthy assertiveness.   In this episode we talk about how assertiveness is an expression of confidence, which in turn is built on commitment and motivation. We dive into the conversation about how assertiveness is not just about speaking up, but also about owning our motivation and our commitments.  This way we can state our truth, stand in our truth, and live out our truth.  Not only does this help us trust ourselves and to feel grounded and confident, but it also allows others to have faith and trust in us. Key Elements: Address the concepts of motivation and commitment to be explored this month. Look at the rights we each have when it comes to assertiveness. Assess your comfort level with your own expression.   Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt   Resources: Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP116 Assertiveness is All About Motivation and Commitment

Welcome to episode 115 where we focus on how asking for what we need in the moment and honoring agreements creates emotional safety in our relationships. In this episode we get into just what it takes to negotiate needs in the moment – when the thing is happening – when we least want to – because we may fear conflict.  But learning how to practice healthy boundaries and detachment go a long way to feeling comfortable doing so. The ability to resolve things as they are happening can help keep resentments from building up.  We also explore how honoring agreements can build trust in a relationship, as not honoring them can break it.   Key Elements: Revisit the concepts of boundaries and detachment as crucial to negotiating needs. Explore how agreements can make or break trust in your relationships. Discuss typical scenarios where we might need to put our skills to the test.     Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.” -Werner Erhardt Resources: Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP115 Negotiating In the Moment. Creating Agreements to Create Trust

Welcome to episode 114 where we identify the communication skills necessary to be able to negotiate in our relationships.    In this episode we talk about how important it is to be able to detach, have good boundaries, and be able to connect assertively and with emotional honesty and genuine caring – about yourself and them.  Good communication means no manipulation, no emotional immaturity and focusing on a mutually beneficial interaction. It’s about what you’re willing and not willing to do, and NOT about them anymore.   Key Elements: Identify the key ingredients in healthy communication that make negotiating and problem solving more possible. Discuss how assertiveness and vulnerability are so important to connection. Focus on ways to keep the focus on you, where it belongs.     “Assertiveness is your ability  to act in harmony  with your self-esteem without hurting others.” – Author Unknown Resources: Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP114 Negotiating Requires Healthy Communication Skills

Welcome to episode 113 where we explore how our childhoods helped to shape our ability to negotiate or not, via how they managed conflict themselves, as well as how they tried to teach us to do so. In this episode we talk about how your family, your first friends and your community both taught you and modeled for you how to handle conflict, how to ask for what you needed, and how to problem-solve. Since families can struggle to have these skills much less pass them along, many adults have ongoing issues in their own relationships that they don’t know how to resolve.   Key Elements: Explore how parents modeled, as well as taught you about expressing feelings, problem-solving and managing conflict. Talk about some of the common issues dysfunctional families deal with. Contrast this with healthier families and how they operate.     “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin   Resources: The Cost of Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family: https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/jfmdp/journal-of-family-medicine-and-disease-prevention-jfmdp-3-059.php?jid=jfmdp Stuffing It: The Culture of Not Speaking: https://www.mentalhelp.net/blogs/stuffing-it-the-culture-of-not-speaking-v2/   Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP113 What We Learned - and Didn’t - About Negotiating.

Welcome to episode 112 where we dive into some of the biggest obstacles to being able to negotiate needs in our relationships. In this episode we talk about some of the struggles that can get in the way of being able to negotiate in our relationships.  We explore the idea that grieving and detaching, setting healthy limits and honoring other’s boundaries and health self-esteem wounds are at the crux of being able to collaborate and problem solve.   Key Elements: Discuss how boundaries and detachment work are necessary to problem solve. Delve into how our self-concept plays into our ability to be assertive. Look at ways the ability to grieve can also play a big part.     “It's not harsh to be assertive, its harsher when people take advantage of you” ― Janna Cachola Resources:   Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP112 What Gets in the Way of Healthy Negotiating in Relationships

Welcome to episode 111 where we spell out how we will be talking about a very important part of relationships: learning how to negotiate to solve problems and forge a strong friendship. In this episode we introduce the topic we will focusing on all month – healthy negotiating needs in our relationships.  We outline what gets in the way, how we may have never learned how to do it, and why it’s so important to practice it with those we care about.  Negotiating embodies assertiveness, self-confidence, boundaries and owning our choices. I think it’s the best way to problem solve and keep trust alive in our relationships.   Key Elements: Identify why we may struggle to negotiate in loving ways. Look at important components of being able to ask for what you need. Assess how well you know how to negotiate, and what might be difficult.     All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements   -Stephen Covey Resources:   Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP111 Negotiating in Relationships: The Magic of Collaboration

Welcome to episode 110 where we finish out the month talking about how we underestimate the power of daily choices that can greatly impact our life. In this episode we look into how even though we may not see it yet, it’s all the tiny choices we have made every day that have brought us to where we are today, for better or worse. Therefore it is the intentional healthy choices we can begin to make TODAY that will add up over time, to help us reach our goals.  Tiny choices create big changes if we are diligent and determined! Key Elements: Address how we can be unconscious to how our daily choices shape our future. Look at ways to begin creating a plan to reach your goals. Identify what we need to focus on if we want our daily choices to be healthier ones.     The choices you make now,  the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life,  even who you are, forever. - Sarah Dessen   Resources:  Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

Episode 110 How making Small Daily Choices Create Big Changes

Welcome to episode 109 where we look at what it means to keep yourself, and the other person, in a place of choice when communicating.    In this episode we explore what it means to keep choice in our connections with others.  To demonstrate healthy boundaries, detachment, and therefore personal ownership of what belongs to us, and allowing the other to always be choosing.  Key Elements: Look at how we can avoid choosing and instead present with a victim-based mindset. Identify how blurred boundaries create emotional hostage-taking. Practice “being in choice” in your communication, creating emotional safety and the atmosphere for deeper connection.     Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice. - Hannah Harrington     Resources:   Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

EP109 What Choosing Looks Like in Communication

Welcome to episode 108 where we focus on what it really means to be in a place of choice, so we can take full ownership of our life, and feel empowered.  In this episode we describe the essence of Choice Theory by William Glasser, and talk about how taking ownership what we can control can help us create healthy relationships with ourselves and others.  Key Elements: Learn about the basic tenants of Being in Choice and the benefits. Look at how you may be other-focused, and how that can hurt your relationships. Practice recognizing and taking more ownership in your life.     It's only when we are  able to see our own behavior  that we are able to wake up  and start making  conscious choices.  - Debbie Ford. Resources: https://wglasser.com/what-is-choice-theory/     Make sure you sign up for the bonus downloads at www.ownitpowercast.com.  Tribe members will receive them in their email each week. Thank you for tuning in to this podcast. Please remember to leave a positive review on your podcast platform and let us know how this episode has been helpful. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Spotify so you don’t miss a thing!

Episode 108 What it Means to Be in a Place of Choice

The Own It! Powercast is all about personal growth. It’s about taking time to learn, grow and change, with You in the driver’s seat. Life coach, counselor and teacher Mary Baker will walk you through the necessary ingredients to have great self-confidence, live with purpose and on purpose, and finally start to love your life. This is a show about taking charge of your personal growth, and about taking your fear and turning it into powerful choices that will create sustained changes. Finally understand what’s been in your way all along, and the tools you need to get to where you want to be. So if you’re serious about transforming your relationships with yourself and others, then this is the podcast for you!

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