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
134 episodes
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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Ep 126: What's your Story?
A friend of mine told a story a few months ago that has stuck with me in that way that a story does. I keep seeing echoes of it everywhere. I see expressions and examples of the point he was making in the coaching that my clients need, in my ow...
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Ep 125: The Practice
Zoe is in the middle of a conversation with her partner. She’s annoyed and frustrated and is reminded of a series of other things that she feels annoyed and frustrated about in her relationship. They’re all connected by the feeling of annoyance...
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Ep 124: Give Yourself a Freshie
Have you ever needed a fresh perspective so badly, that you just started over instead? Maybe it was by getting a fresh relationship going, or getting into a fresh job or home setting, or starting your life over in a fresh new place.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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