The Life Coach School Podcast With Brooke Castillo

Does living a softer life mean you won’t achieve your goals or be successful? Does it mean you avoid building the emotional strength needed to overcome obstacles?   Listen in to hear my take on a soft vs. hard mindset for living, whether one is better than the other, and how to reach your goals regardless of which one you lean towards.

Sturdy self love is fierce love.   Committed, dependable, and consistent love - the kind of self love that can change your life.   This week, discover how to cultivate sturdy self love and a quick exercise you can do right now to start creating this type of love for yourself.

It’s time to stop living a default life, stop making decisions with your survival brain, and start taking small, daily steps to create real change.   Tune in this week to hear how I will help you do all of that inside Get Coached in 2024. I share what the year will look like inside the program, what you will learn, the changes it will help you make, and why now is the time to start.  

We know that building a business or trying anything new comes with a lot of trial and error.   Unfortunately, we’ve been taught that error is bad. We should just quit.   My friends, I urge you not to quit. Instead, develop the skill of determination.   In this episode, discover what it means to truly be determined, how to develop this skill, and how to maintain it. Learn how to keep going when faced with adversity, not to reach the end result faster, but to become who you want to be along the way.  

What if you saw your brain as an ever-appreciating asset that brings you compounding interest?   We aren’t taught to think about investing in our brains this way and it’s time to change that.   Find out what the best financial investment you can make is, how to make it, and the wonderful things that can happen when you do.

Tune in this week to learn what's changing next year in Get Coached. I'm going to give you everything I’ve got in terms of coaching you directly, helping you directly, and I cannot wait to share with you all of the wonderful things that I’m doing, and all of the awesome opportunities that I’m creating in my life and in yours. 

Are you making your Ls, or losses, mean that you should give up?   Are you making them mean that you’re a loser?   I get it. I lose a lot. But I also win a lot - because I stay in the game.   Today, I'm sharing how to take a loss and use it to make yourself even better than had you not lost at all. The bigger your dreams are, the more opportunities you will have to practice these steps. Let’s go.  

What an incredible milestone we have achieved together.   This body of work is a testament to the power of consistency.   Mine and yours.   In this collection of clips, we're going all the way back to the first episodes, to the introduction of how our thoughts create our feelings and how to do a thought download, to the compound effect that small, consistent action has on our lives and on our successes.  

Too many people aren’t willing to fight for what they really want, and instead, they blame themselves or others for not getting it.   In this episode, I invite you to consider where you aren’t fighting for what you want and why maybe you should. I share some examples of where I’m willing to fight and the importance of having your own back.   Plus, in this week’s Examples of Awesome interview, Master Certified Coach Brig Johnson talks to Akilah Folami, coach for attorneys, about why you have to be willing to fight for what you want and what you believe, and the benefits of doing so.

From the people we have personal relationships with to the people we follow on social media, we are constantly being influenced.   The people you allow to directly or indirectly influence you have an impact on your decisions, your habits, and how you show up.    In this episode, I show you how to see who is influencing you, how to stop being influenced by people you don’t want to be influenced by, and how to consciously choose who influences you moving forward.

Do you ever suddenly find yourself down the rabbit hole of negative self talk?   Do you ever ask yourself, "Are these thoughts serving me?"   In this episode, I talk about our brain’s negative noise. Negative noise tells us negative things about our lives, self, and the world. I discuss how to identify negative noise so that you can process and heal from it. Some negative thoughts get lodged into our minds and we don’t even realize it, but there are ways to counteract this and program our brains to lead the lives we want.   Also, in this week’s Examples of Awesome interview, Master Certified Coach Brig Johnson is joined by Cathy Council, a Master Certified Life Coach who coaches women on how to look good naked and enjoy the foods they love at the same time. Brig and Cathy discuss how identifying and processing difficult emotions actually allows for more energy to get things done.

Every goal you set comes with a cost.   The problem is, most people don’t consider the cost of a goal when they set it.   In this episode, I share how to do a Cost-Benefit Analysis of your goal so that when the costs come up, you are prepared to pay them. Discover why establishing the cost (and all the added benefits) of setting your goal is crucial for anything you want to achieve.  

It is completely normal for us to consume a lot. It’s what we’re trained to do as humans.    However, when we’re consuming more than we’re creating, we run into problems.   In this episode, I share what over-consuming looks like, how we get there, and how to break out of over-consumption by creating more. If you’re tired of feeling stagnant in your life, it’s time to look at your output and start creating a life you truly love.   Plus, in this week’s Examples of Awesome interview, Master Certified Coach Brig Johnson is joined by Dielle Charon, sales coach for women of color. They discuss the thoughts that got in Dielle’s way on her path to making seven figures, and the first thought she had once she made it.

You might think that once you lose the weight and get the body you want, you can finally be happy.   Unfortunately, this usually leads to burnout from trying to get those results as quickly as possible.   This week, find out why overdesire, overhunger, and overtrying won’t get you the results you want faster. I share how to create sustainable, long-lasting results without rejecting the body you’re in right now.  

We get so caught up in the surface-level, petty nonsense of our lives that we forget to remember our future.   I invite you to remember it now. What would your future self say to you today?   Tune in this week as I explore this question. Whenever you think about how precious life is, do this exercise to tune in to your future self. Consider what they would want you to spend the next two decades doing, and start.  

If you feel like you’re just going through the motions and life is happening all around you but you’re not in it, I see you.   I’ve been there.   In this episode, I share two ways to heal your secret pain. Learn how to stop dissociating from it and drop the shame.   Plus, in this week’s Examples of Awesome interview, Master Certified Coach Judith Gaton is joined by Master Certified Coach Sara Fisk to talk about how to stop ruminating and start looking inward for validation.  

Most people try to avoid feeling anger and other negative emotions. You might want to repress it or even meditate it away.   However, after a recent realization I had about a time when I felt very angry, I was reminded how important it is to process our emotions.   Tune in this week to learn why we need to feel harder, process our negative emotions, and the magic that happens when we do.

If you’re experiencing resentment, agitation, frustration, and even anger as it relates to someone you’re in relationship with, understanding the difference between boundaries and avoidance is vital.   Join me to hear the differences between boundaries and avoiding, and an exercise you can try that will distinguish which camp you currently fall into.   Plus, on this week’s Examples of Awesome interview, Brig Johnson speaks to Master Certified Coach Gabrielle Smith about how she helps coaches get over their niche drama and sign their first paid clients.

Do you ever wonder why selling feels uncomfortable?   If you’re a woman who’s afraid to sell, doesn’t want to come across as pushy, or feels uncomfortable raising your prices, this is for you.   Join me and Aprille Franks to hear why every woman needs to learn the Feminine Selling process, and why it’s the antidote to everything you hate about selling right now.  

There are a lot of concepts and teachings I’ve created over the years that you can begin exploring right now to change your life.   But have you ever wondered where to start?   Hear 10 ideas about life that I’ve distilled and simplified down to their core, and why each one is worth trying on.