Best Work/Best Life From Kathy & Mo

NY Times bestselling author and Harvard researcher, Shawn Achor describes the ways happiness can be created, expanded, and leveraged in your work and life. If you want more happiness, success, and reward, Shawn offers a new pathway to it, with practical steps and tools.

Holiday 2016 PICK:Mo and I get real! We share in a raw, authentic and very open way all about our own vulnerabilities, and walls we now realize we’ve put up all our lives that stop us from deep connection, effective communication, and experiencing the help, love and support we long for.

Bringing love to us is a deep need for all humans, and a necessary part of a fulfilling, connected and enriching life. Kathy and Mo zero in on vital behaviors and habits that connect us with love, and shed light on thoughts and behaviors that block us from giving and receiving love. This time of year, find new ways to open your heart more fully to the love that’s all around, and let it in! Giving and receiving love is a most cherished gift in life.

One of Kathy and Mo’s top pick for the Holidays, this powerful interview with Mike Dooley shares his life-changing insights on how the Universe gives us real messages to listen to and pay attention to, to access the genius and wisdom inside and all around us. Enjoy this podcast as our Holiday treat!

Kathy and Mo share some secrets to turning our wants and dreams into real life! Goal setting is essential to accomplishing your life purpose. Heck, it is essential to completing any worthy action. For decades we have been setting S.M.A.R.T. goals in the corporate world. Goals must have traction in both the organized, tangible physical realm and in the world of dreams and desire. Find out how to use all these forces to turn your dreams into action and achieve what you want.  

Knowing and honoring the true, raw and compelling story of your life, and making full use of it to help others and the world, is the key to connecting to your deepest power.  In this revealing episode, Kathy and Mo share how we all can own our stories more fully - including finding new ways to shine a light on and heal your “dirty little secrets” that make you feel vulnerable and ashamed, and reframing your story to see more clearly the amazing talents, passions and gifts that have always been a part of you and your life.

Unconscious bias affects everyone on the planet, not just a select few. International HR Leader Kristen Pressner shares her powerful personal revelation about her own surprising bias (against women like herself), and a critical new strategy she learned to help her uncover, and correct, her biases.

Held in Vietnam as a prisoner of war for 5 years, Lee Ellis learned so many deep truths about leadership, courage, honor and accountability. He joins us to share his amazing lessons learned, experiencing being beaten and tortured, and watching his colleagues rise above unbearable treatment to lead with honor. Retired Air Force Colonel Lee Ellis describes his most powerful leadership lessons which inspired him to write his riveting book, “Engage With Honor”.

Living and working in ways that clash against our core values generates pain, suffering, and a sense of alienation, from ourselves and others around us. On the other hand, recognizing what you value deeply, and shaping your life, work and relationships to support those essential values, is key to our happiness and well-being. Karen Kimsey-House shares how to identify your core values and honor them, and at the same time, build positive, collaborative, “co-active” relationships that nurture all involved.

Most of us resist change fiercely, and experience deep discomfort and even paralyzing fear when we contemplate launching into new territory or taking a new direction, even if it’s something we think we want. But it’s that very resistance that holds us back from living life full-out, and experiencing our deepest potential and happiest lives. Listen in as Mo and Kathy share candidly about the experiences that stretched them the most in their lives, and the dramatic realizations and growth that they gained from stretching far beyond their comfort.

Life may be scarred with opportunities missed, loves we never went forward with, or “mistakes” we have made. We have all heard the biggest regret is not doing something. Life is bound to hand us a few stones in our backpack called regrets. The time we wasted? The bully boss we stayed with way too long! What we do with these stones? Do they weigh us down or do we polish them and learn about ourselves and life in new ways? Listen in as we dive deeply into what we have learned from our regrets!

Life and career change can impact our most fundamental needs and desires, so understandably we have fear around making change. But in order to build happy lives and careers, we need to proactively “pivot” or we will get pivoted. As best-selling author Jenny Blake shares, “If change is the only constant, let’s get better at it.”  Jenny joins us to explore her latest book, PIVOT, gives us a new framework to help us understand how to embrace positive that draws on our strengths and assets while identifying new opportunities that will be the bridge to important new directions we’ll love.

Life’s lessons are often handed to us on a platter of pain and confusion. Sometimes, when we’re in the middle of them, we can’t quite see what’s unfolding. How we go through dark times and come out of them affects our lives forever. Finding your true strengths, your real needs and learning that your strengths can also reveal blind spots are the valuable lessons that come. Kathy and Mo explore their dark experiences including Mo’s breast cancer journey. Listen in to this intimate discussion shared with vulnerability, openness and soul.

Saying “Yes” is an easy thing to do (often too easy). Many of us are trained to accommodate, assist and oblige others’ needs and wants. But this pattern becomes a runaway train for so many, when we’re not able to stand up for ourselves, or even identify our deepest wants.  A chronic habit of an unexamined “Yes” brings us to a never ending list of to-do’s, “shoulds” and resentments. Eventually “yes” can lead to “I’m utterly exhausted and drained” and filled with the anxiety of too many distractions. Listen to what we have learned about how to authentically say “YES!,” and when to walk away.

Kathy and Mo are thrilled (and amazed!) to celebrate their one-year anniversary of producing 51 Best Work/Best Life shows. In this episode, they take a look at what they’ve learned throughout the process - about their styles, their mindsets, fears and blocks, and making a big dream a reality, together.

Spiritual healers and sisters Lacy Young and Kayla Floyd share their awe-inspiring work in shifting energy and empowering individuals to move into new ways of thinking and being to experience a richer, fuller and more joyful life. Throughout our lives, many of us have become blocked -- in our energy, our beliefs and our actions -  holding onto to negative energy and pain which causes  sadness, depression, limitation and disease. Our spirit session with these soulful sisters shares practical strategies we all can use do to overcome our blocks, pain and limits.

Mo talks with Kathy about her new work, TEDx talk and upcoming training and book focused on the 5 life-changing ways to call up the bravery  required to create the lives we long for.  Based on Kathy’s research and work with over 10,000 women, she’s seen that without doing this transformational inner work – to rise up, speak up and stand up boldly for ourselves -- we continually fall short of our dreams and visions, and fail to reach our highest potential. 

Kathy and Mo explore the top six reasons so many people stay stuck - in careers that fail them, relationships that are unsatisfying, habits that hurt them, and in life experiences that keep them from feeling the love, joy, peace, impact, and fulfillment they deeply long for.

Mo and Kathy discuss the powerful belief “Everything always works out for me” and explore how it colors and impacts our total life experience. They share personal stories of how our programming and deep-seated beliefs inform what we see, and influence what our hearts, minds, and spirits retain. They explore how possessing an unwavering positive belief in oneself -- and a commitment to fostering the energy of love rather than fear -- can open a new pathway toward a more fulfilling and brilliant life.  

Filmmakers Erin Bagwell and Komal Minhas are a dynamic duo who used their powerful experiences of being harassed and caught in the corporate world into a visionary film and artful story for all to be inspired to accomplish anything you can dream! They have taken the best stories of women entrepreneurs and crafted a wonderfully uplifting film for people of all ages. Listen in as they tell us their stories and inspiration!