The Everyday Awesome Project
The Everyday Awesome Podcast is your mega dose of multivitamins for building your mental muscles, physical body and an empowered life. Your hosts Polly and Sam are on your dream team; lifelong coaches in business, health & fitness and human potential. They are on fire to ignite change in the lives they touch.
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Through our coaching programs, live experiences and weekly podcast we explore what is possible for everyday humans. Their motto is "Every day is a new opportunity to find your AWESOME!"
Episodes
141 episodes
137 : Microbiome 101| Fascinating Findings Re Your Gut Shapes Hormones & Health
Your gut is not just where food goes. It is where your immune system trains, where inflammation gets decided, and where your brain’s chemistry gets a huge vote. Coach Sam goes solo and shares the gut microbiome science that has her genuinely fi...
136 : Have You Stopped Dreaming? Stop Starving Your Dreams & Learn to Feed 'Em.
You can have a good life on paper and still feel like your future went quiet. When Polly Mertens and Samantha Pruitt look around, they keep seeing the same pattern: people aren’t “hopeless,” they’re afraid to hope, and that fear slowly starves ...
135: Tour Divide: An Epic 2,716 mile race that changed me forever. GUEST Cary Hayes
A month alone on a bike will tell you the truth about your limits. Our guest, Carrie Hayes, just finished the Tour Divide, the legendary ultra endurance bikepacking race that follows the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route from Banff, Alberta all ...
134 : Why Try Seat of the Soul: A Practice for Living A Purposeful Life
Your mind can make fear sound like logic, but your body tells the truth in seconds. Polly shares a solo, real-time personal transformation experiment she calls the “Seat of the Soul” practice: noticing when she’s operating from a fear-driven pe...
133 : Solo On The John Muir Trail | Preparing to Hike 250 Miles Alone (Sam's Prep)
Two hundred and fifty miles sounds heroic until you do the math: high altitude starts around 9,000 feet, relentless climbs that add up to roughly 55,000 feet, and the daily reality of moving through the Sierra Nevada with a fully loaded pack. W...
132 : Strengthening Intuition Like a Muscle | Practices & Exercises for Deeper Intuitive Powers
Your body often knows the truth before your brain can build a convincing argument. We get real about “woo-woo intuition” and make it practical: how to recognize the first clean signal, why we override it, and what it takes to rebuild self-trust...
131 : Triggers & Emotional Hijacking | Ways to Learn From Body Wisdom
Your reaction isn’t “too much” for no reason. Sometimes it’s your nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do a long time ago, then dragging that charge into the present before you can even think. We get real about emotional triggers, wh...
130: Permission to Play! Creative Breaks
You can run a business, raise a family, keep the lights on, and still feel like something essential is missing. For us, that missing piece is often play: the kind that loosens the straitjacket, cracks the mind open, and lets your real self brea...
129: Must Do: The Mid Year Reset | How to Reboot Your Dreams Anytime of Year
You blink and suddenly it’s mid-year. If your goals feel stale, your calendar feels crowded, or your motivation feels like it quietly slipped out the back door, we’re here to say: you can restart whenever you want, and you don’t need anyone’s p...
128: Female Sex Hormones Explored
If you’ve ever been told hot flashes are “just part of aging,” we’re calling that out for what it is: an incomplete story that keeps women stuck in unnecessary suffering. We sit down and get brutally practical about the hormones most people red...
127: Serotonin & Dopamine-Happiness Hormones Coming Your Way!
Dopamine isn’t your brain’s “treat.” It’s your brain’s chase signal, and once you see that clearly, a lot of modern life makes uncomfortable sense. We talk through why dopamine spikes show up in everything from social media and gambling-style a...
126: Forgiveness - Why Its NOT About Other Person
Forgiveness has a branding problem. People hear the word and think it means letting someone off the hook, pretending harm didn’t happen, or walking back into a relationship that still isn’t safe. We don’t buy that. We frame forgiveness as an in...
125: A 15 Min Exercise To Build Resilience & Self Compassion with Coach Sam
Your week leaves marks, even when you pretend it didn’t. I’m Coach Sam, and I’m sharing a simple weekly journaling practice I call “Highlights and Heartbreaks” to help you get emotionally honest, feel less numb, and stop letting life blur by on...
124 : GUEST: Nisse Noble on Navigating Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships
Loving your mom doesn’t automatically make the relationship safe, easy, or even tolerable. We sit down with Nissa Noble, founder and creator of Planet Gayle (@planetgayle), to talk about the reality so many adults carry quietly: complicated mot...
123: You Are Not Your Diagnosis: How Not To Let A Lab Report Run Your Life!
A diagnosis can land like a stamp on your forehead, and if you’re not careful, it starts running your decisions, your confidence, and even your future plans. We’re pushing back hard on that. A diagnosis is a snapshot of what’s happening right n...
122: I Rewired My Brain in 30 Days with Self Hypnosis. Here's What Happened with Coach Polly
Coach Polly solo this week- talking FEAR and how it can be totally irrational and still feel completely real. I know that firsthand, and for a long time I kept treating it like a discipline problem: read another book, make a bigger plan, try ha...
121: Don't Wait! Why Most People Think They Have More Time & Lose Out
“Don’t wait” sounds obvious until you realize how many of us are quietly living like our real life starts later. Today we pick up The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski and dive into the first invitation, using death awareness and Buddhist wis...
120 : Taming Your Inner Critic with Coach Sam
Coach Sam solo this week schooling on the INNER CRITIC! You know, that “not good enough” voice that can sound like motivation, but it usually runs it's mouth on fear, shame, and moving goalposts. #truthtalk I’m sharing what’s been c...
119: Overgiving Trap! Confessions of An Overgiver Turned Boundary Badass
If you’ve ever walked away from a hangout feeling like you just donated a pint of blood, we made this one for you. We’re talking about the overgiving trap, that sneaky pattern where “I’m just being kind” turns into over-functioning, people plea...
118: Hypnosis Curious? How Powerful Self Hypnosis is Accessible to Everyone
Odds are- you are probably getting “hypnotized” every day and not in the stage-show way! When you’re half awake in bed, locked into a movie, stuck in doomscroll mode, or deep in a run where everything goes quiet, you’re in a trance-like state t...
117: Reinventing Yourself: Taking the Road Less Traveled with Coach Polly
Coach Polly solo today! Your resume might look like a patchwork quilt, and you might secretly wonder if that means you are unfocused. It's more common than you might think. In this episode you'll learn how a simple comment with a cl...
116: Lessons in Elite Personal Development | What 15 Years of Self Investing Can Do
Your life can look successful and still feel heavy, tense, or unfinished. We get into the kind of personal development that doesn’t just hype you up for a weekend, it retrains how you think, speak, and show up when it actually counts.We...
115: Manifestation with Coach Sam
Coach Sam solo this week! Here to share how a single iPhone memory cracked open a bigger story: what if manifestation isn’t magic at all, but the moment you take full ownership of your life? We trace a straight line from a 2018 desert summit ph...
114: "A Year to Live" Course / Concept Introduction
What actually changes when you live as if time is short? We open a year-long journey inspired by Stephen Levine’s A Year to Live and the Spirit Rock program led by Vinny Ferraro, Pam Dunn, and Frank Ostaseki, and we get honest about fear, freed...
113: Build Your Self-Capacity with Coach Sam
Coach Sam solo today! Tired of chasing endless fixes that leave you drained and doubting yourself? We flip the script on self-improvement by introducing a sturdier, kinder lens: capacity. Instead of treating your life like a DIY project, we foc...