Bloom Your Mind
We all think and talk about what we’ll do someday, but what if that someday could start right now? If there’s a change you want to make in yourself, in your life, or an idea that you have that you want to make real … this podcast is for you. After 20 years leading and coaching innovators, Certified Coach Marie McDonald is breaking down how great change-makers think so you can do what they do and take your ideas out of your head and into the world where they belong. We’ll teach you how to stop trying to get other people to like you and your ideas, and how to be your own biggest fan instead. You’ll learn how to ditch the drama and have fun with failure, to stop taking things personally, and to get out of anxiety and into decisive action when you don’t even know how or what you’re doing yet. Marie has used this work to go from bar tender to Vice President, to create the family of her dreams, and to start a multiple six-figure business from scratch within eight months. Whether you want to change a relationship, a habit, write a book or start a movement, it starts here on The Bloom Your Mind Podcast. Find me on Instagram @the.bloom.coach to get a daily mind-bloom, and join my weekly list. See you inside!
Episodes
151 episodes
Ep 149: Failure Tolerance
Most of us were taught that failure is bad. That if we fall short, it means something about who we are—our worth, our capability, our potential. But what if failure isn’t a problem at all? What if it’s the path to everything we want?
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Ep 148: Chrononormativity
So many of my students reach a point in life where they’ve checked all the boxes: career, marriage, kids, home, stability. They’ve climbed every rung of the ladder they were told to climb. And then one day, they look up and think—now what?<...
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Ep 147: Power Over, Power Under, and Power With
This week’s episode dives into something we all experience but rarely talk about— embracing all of our weird social reactions. The feelings that rise up when we’re around other people: self-doubt, comparison, superiority, inferiority, grasping,...
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Ep 146: Saying No to Say Yes
The more we put ourselves out into the world, the more people come to know us by the value we add—and the more they begin to depend on us. This is beautiful…until it isn’t. Because over time, the value we add and the strengths we command become...
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Ep 145: Thought Bridges
Last week, I hit pause. A middle-of-the-night migraine, a body that said “nope,” and—after three straight years of weekly episodes—I let myself skip a week. Not because I didn’t care, but because I chose health over hustle for this week
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Ep 144: Regenerative Thinking
In this episode of the Bloom Your Mind Podcast, we unpack the cycles of thought that either move us toward the life we want—or pull us away from it.Just like a garden, our minds are always growing something. Some thoughts regenerate poss...
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Ep 143: Transitions
Seasons change, and so do we. Sometimes we’ve literally got one foot in the next season, as we change from spring to summer, summer to fall. Other times we’re transition a personal season of life, from one era of ourselves to another. This epis...
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Ep 142: Conflict Convo Cheat Sheet
Conflict isn’t a detour. It’s the road itself.And if you’re out there making ideas real, you’re going to hit it—whether you like it or not.This week on the Bloom Your Mind Podcast, we’re wrapping up our 3-part conflict resolution ser...
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Ep 141: Solving People Problems
Ever notice how much easier it is to point at a person and say, “YOU are the problem”? Yeah, me too. But here’s the truth: people aren’t the problem—problems are the problem. And when we stop confusing the two, everything gets lighter,...
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Ep 140: Resolving Conflict
We are all changing. Sometimes we’re doing it on purpose- setting goals that require us to think and feel and act differently, goals that require us to evolve and grow. Sometimes we’re changing in reaction to the world and the people around us....
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Ep 139: Finding your Moxie
With a cup of melted ice cream in my hand, I waited for a group of kids to explore a book store, staring in the window at the best sellers. That was the day I found an author whose prose gave me a week of both mind-swooning entertainment ...
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Ep 138: Ditch the Shell
Have you ever outgrown a version of yourself— and gotten stuck in that awkward liminal space between one identity and another? In this episode of the Bloom Your Mind Podcast, I’m taking you on a wild ride that starts with a free-ran...
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Ep 137: The Game of Inches
It’s not the big leaps that get you there—it’s the tiny, consistent steps that make your vision real. In this episode, Marie shares how the most successful creators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers all play the game of inches. Hear st...
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Ep 136: The Yes Trip
This episode is the joyful, slightly reckless little sister to episode 72, “The Freedom of a Hard No.” Because once we get clear on what doesn’t serve us…we open up all kinds of space in our brain, our schedule, and our sense of safety...
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Ep 135: When it's Happening For You
I was with a group of friends, when one of them approached me and said “Your daughter just said something that blew my mind. She said that you told her that when she has a crush on someone, it’s just for her.” “Yes,” I said, “I sure...
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Ep 134: Blood Sugar Magic
After six months of an injury that was dramatically lowering the quality of my life, I gave up on doctors as the solution to my problem, and took matters into my own hands. I started on a deep dive of research and exploration into b...
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Ep 133: Longevity and Transforming your Body with Ashley Adam
Ashley is the creator of Kinnect Fitness-a movement method that blends science, soul, and somatic wisdom. With 15+ years of experience in fitness, she offers alignment-based classes designed to support longevity, healing, and deep connection. H...
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Ep 132: Turn Your Idea Into a Goal
Last week’s episode lifted the curtain on the five things that get in the way of people turning their ideas into real things. The top two reasons are hard core idea killers! We have a ready made solution for idea killer number one, and that sol...
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Ep 131: Idea Killers
At a party last week, someone asked what I do for a living…which led to them asking a second question. “What is the thing that gets in the way most, when people are trying to make an idea real?” What an amazing question. In this wee...
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Ep 130: Rad Women
There is a goldmine of hacks and inspiration to learn from a specific population of people living in the world right now, and this episode is all about it. Maybe because we grew up in the 90’s, when body image culture caused eating ...
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Ep 129: Congruence
A group of entrepreneurs presented their ideas to a panel of angel investors to be rated, and eventually chosen or rejected. While both groups poured over the content of reports, and bantered over the words spoken, the real investment decision ...
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Ep 128: Joy, Ease and Lightness
As I spoke at multiple events for hundreds of people this past week, I had a moments of deep gratitude for the tools available for us to use to practice presence. Some of what I teach on the podcast is content that I’ve invented and created, an...
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Ep 127: Jumpstart your Thinking
We’re all thinking of ideas to make real all day every day, though we often don’t realize it. Ideas for what we want to do with an afternoon, how to theme a party, what relationship or health habits we want to tweak, or the big obvious ones lik...
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