Pursue What Matters

Episode 204: Book Review - Transcend

We all want to reach our potential, but it can be challenging. Join me as I review Transcend by Scott Barry Kaufman, an excellent book about the new science of self-actualization.

 

This podcast will help you:

• Learn how to reach your potential

• Understand two categories of human needs

• Identify why purpose is essential to your potential

Episode 203: Getting Your Needs Met

It's time to create a more nuanced understanding of your needs. Are you getting your needs met? How would you even know? Join me Today as we explore 3 keys to understanding and meeting your needs. 

 

This podcast will help you:

•  3 Keys to understanding your needs

• Understand why you are driven by some needs more than others

• Learn how you can meet your needs effectively

Episode 202: The Trauma Grid

Are you tired of your unhelpful patterns? The ways you get emotionally hooked? Maybe you lash out, perhaps you shut down. Join me today as I share an excellent tool to help you overcome your miserable patterns. 

 

This podcast will help you:

• Learn how you get emotionally hooked in relationships 

• Slow down emotional reactions for greater calm 

• Understand how self-awareness and self-care lead to greater accountability 

 

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Episode 201: What You Need to Know About Relational Trauma

When you look at your own life, maybe you don't consider that you have a trauma history. Maybe you don't. But when it comes to our families, we can often experience death by a thousand cuts, or relational trauma. 

 

Join me today to learn what you need to know about relational trauma.

 

This podcast will help you:

• Understand the impact of relational trauma

• Learn 4 types of psychological trauma

• Identify 3 takeaways to help you be resilient

 

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Episode 200: Rethinking Trauma

The word trauma has been thrown around a lot in our society in recent years. And it's easy to be confused about what that term actually means. And, in fairness, the way the term has been used has shifted over the years. 

 

Today, I don't want to get into that debate - it's a contentious one with strong positions on either side. But I do want to get practical in terms of helping you understand your own experience. 

 

This podcast will help you:

• See how your history shows up in your present relationships 

• Understand how you become emotionally hooked

• Respond as the wise adult and not the scared child 

 

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Episode 199: Book Review - Us

The most successful marriages know this truth: You cannot love from above or below.

 

Partners must be equal. They make decisions together and see life's decisions as shared. This doesn't mean that everything is fair and perfectly equitable, but it means that you're approaching life as US, not ME. And this approach makes ALL the difference.

 

Join me on the podcast as I review Terrence Real's book, US.

 

This podcast will help you:

• Challenge the myth of the individual 

• Start thinking like a team

• Understand that you cannot love from above or below

 

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Episode 198: Are You Caught in a Relationship Storm?

If there's one thing you could do to create more happiness, security, and peace in your life, focus on strengthening your marriage. And yet most of us are woefully neglectful of our marriages. We believe love is enough, and I assure you it is not.

 

You reap what you sow. If you aren't daily attending to your marriage, don't be surprised when your relationship is full of thorny weeds. 

 

This podcast will help you:

• Understand the Relationship Storm Cycle

• Bring more sun into your relationship 

• Focus on doing your own work first

 

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Episode 197: What to do About Digital Exhaustion

In the past two years, our use of technology has skyrocketed with some big impacts. Don't worry, I'm not here to tell you to throw your desktop in the trash in favor of paper and pen, but I want to share some numbers from a large scale survey to help you assess how you are doing when it comes to digital exhaustion and what you might want to do moving forward. 

 

This podcast will help you:

• Identify if you are digitally exhausted

• Learn how digital burnout affects your team

• Combat digital exhaustion in 3 ways

 

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Episode 196: Be a Better Team Leader

Do you know the factor that makes the biggest difference in whether your team will succeed or fail? It’s all about engagement. Join me for today's podcast to learn how the team leader’s engagement can make or break a team. 

 

This podcast will help you:

• Understand what matters most to ensure an effective team

• Learn why team leader engagement is so important

• Learn 5 traits of engaged team leaders

 

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Episode 195: Book Review - No Fail Meetings

You owe it to your teams to organize your meetings, engage team members, and invite everyone to prepare for a focused, effective meeting. Tune in today as I review Michael Hyatt’s excellent book, No Fail Meetings. 

 

This podcast will help you:

• Learn 5 Steps for No-Fail Meetings

• Sync up your team for success 

• Have better questions for better meetings

 

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