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
125 episodes
Ep 123: Belonging
We were camping in the mountains with a group of 20 kids and their parents, when the ground began to shake. The first things I noticed were quivering leaves on the trees around us, followed by a soft rumbling that can only mean one thing in SoC...
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20:01
Ep 122: Manuals
Have you ever stood behind someone in the grocery store thinking they should put the divider between your groceries and theirs? Or thought someone should turn off their fanny pack music blasting down the hiking trail right behind yo...
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19:25
Ep 121: Expanding Emotional Capacity
Let’s go back to emotions 101. Your emotions ARE your superpower. There are three ways that we naturally deal with them; we stuff them down, we act them out, and we buffer (put something else on top of them like work, sex, tv or sc...
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19:16
Ep 120: Be a Time Whisperer
When I thought of time management, I used to feel and think… ’Blahhh.’‘That is NOT sexy.’‘I am not wasting my time on that. I want to be here in the present.’‘It’s so boring. It’ll melt my face off. I just won’t do it.’&...
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25:05
Ep 119: Wegotchu
Have you ever gotten roasted or teased for things you were kind of surprised about? Or what about this…have you ever been teased for saying something that you didn’t know was unique to you? I’ve recently been told multip...
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Ep 118: Three Priority Tricks
A client recently asked how I get up at 5am in a house with squeaky floorboards and a husband who’s a night owl. The answer to this, and to so many other things comes from knowing my priorities. While the 5am wake up call might ring...
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20:15
Ep 117: Two Things are True
There are two ways of looking at the world. We can think that there is one truth to everything; “one thing is true”…OR we can realize that many things are true at the same time. We call this “two things are true” thinking. Recently...
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Ep 116: Everybody's a Snowflake
Two things stop people from taking action on the ideas that they have to make their own lives, their communities, their workplaces, families, and the world a better place. They think that they’re not special enough…or
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Ep 115: Turning a No into a Yes
Grace was sitting across from me, with her hands wrapped around a mug of tea. Our session was first thing in the morning for both of us, and I could imagine that the rain that I could see falling so consistently in gentle waves outside my offic...
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Ep 114: Listening is Sexy
Did you know being an excellent listener is a way to practice great boundaries?It’s hard as hell to do, with a human ego standing right in the way…but it’s also the skill with the single biggest payoff. Listening as a bounda...
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Ep 113: The Art of Self Lovin'
Bekah Salazar and Marie McDonald are lifetime sister-friends. We are also all about becoming EXPERTS at loving ourselves so that we can give our best to the world...and even more importantly than that, because we deserve it. And so ...
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26:47
Ep 112: Stress Cycles
Ever feel like stress just piles on stress? We all know stress is a part of life, but are we handling it right?For most of us, we tend to get stuck in a cycle of feeling stressed, instead of finishing the cycle by shaking it off and actu...
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Ep 111: Consistency
Do you want your big idea to stop being just an idea? Or are you constantly starting and stopping, never actually reaching your goals?In this episode, I dive head first into the second main ingredient for you to reach your goals. Consis...
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Ep 110: Clarity Questions
This year, I decided to live a "Year of Zero Lies." Everything that I do or say, I commit to being 100% authentic. In this process of personal discovery, I have learned five simple, but incredibly powerful questions that have help...
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Ep 109: Commitment
Recently, we celebrated my parents' 50th anniversary, which means they've been together for half a century! If you think about it, their relationship is an idea they made real and stayed committed to it for 50 years and counting. T...
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15:53
Ep 108: Three Month Cycles
Do you ever make New Year's resolutions? This episode isn't about if you should or shouldn't. Instead, it's about a great way to make any idea – big or small – happen.We'll talk about three month goals, a framework for achieving yo...
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22:49
Ep 107: Design a Regenerative Year
Before the end of the year, we usually spend this time to make up a list of things that we want to do or change. We call that our New Year's resolution. Today we're going to be more specific on that. In this episode, we're going to...
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Ep 106: Stepping Out of the Box
Have you ever noticed how we often approach new things with a fixed idea of how they should be? Whether it’s a trip, a project, or even a conversation, we tend to follow familiar patterns. But why? In today's episode, I'll...
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25:54
Ep 105: Your Ideas are Bigger Than You
Imagine puffing a dandelion into the air. As you blow on the dandelion, all its little feather-like flowers go out into the world. When we put our ideas out, they spread like a dandelion and other people get to experience and build off ...
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20:05
Ep 104: Be Here For It
Are there miracles around you that you're letting pass you by?Right now, we are the youngest, most flexible, and strongest we'll ever be. And when miracles such as our ideas come up, it's important that we are fully present, so we can g...
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19:51
Ep 103: Starting Strong
How often do you wake up with stanky morning mind? We're waking up first thing in the morning and whatever's in our brain or whatever it is that we feel is what we're going to experience. That's just how our brain works. There's no shame in tha...
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22:52
Ep 102: Next Level Love for You
If you look in the mirror right now and reflect, can you say that you are living your life fully? Are you giving a little bit more love to yourself that you deserve? We're walking around the world and this is the youngest any of us will...
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24:14
Ep 101: Support
How are you feeling after the presidential election this week?Are you feeling anxious and a little disoriented?Or are you feeling happy and nervous at the same time?The truth is, for many of us, a lot of things might happen ...
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Ep 100: Using Words to Feel Better
Do you feel better when you had a really bad moment in your day and you get to vent to someone about it? And did you know that we literally can create reality in the other person's mind when we do that? Mind-blowing, right? So if we're ...
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Ep 99: What Do You Find When You Dump Out Your Purse?
Have you ever dumped out your purse only to discover the most random stuff lurking in there? Maybe an expired coupon for ramen, or an even a single almond. To imagine that single almond… is comedic genius. I too, have had that single al...
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