In today’s episode I talk about the 3 core needs that drive humans and I share which one was MY biggest driver of the three.

As I talk about them, I'd love for you to think about which one most drives you. What are the thoughts you are thinking, and which need do your thoughts align with? What need, in the actions or non-actions you perform are you trying to satisfy most?

Many of the beliefs that are at the root of these thoughts are unconscious to us, as you'll see in my examples. But once they are dug up and you are aware of them, you can begin the work to change your behavior and the beliefs that are unconsciously driving you.

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Today’s guest is Bonny Snowdon, an accomplished Colored Pencil Artist and artists' mentor from North Yorkshire. With a somewhat incongruous background in corporate Britain and International Business coaching, Bonny shares her journey of rediscovering creativity, overcoming adversity, and finding success as an artist and mentor.

She describes the pivotal moment in 2016 when she rekindled her love for art after a hiatus of 30 years. The joy and fulfillment she experienced led her to embrace her artistic passion once again. Just a year after rediscovering her creativity, Bonny took the leap and became a full-time artist. She shares the inspiration behind this decision and the impact her artwork had on others.

In this episode, Bonny and I talked about:

• The story of how she reignited her passion for art after three decades 
• The evolution of her transformative journey as she rediscovered her creativity while navigating the challenging process of divorce
• How...

Today I'm bringing back another amazing episode I did with two more of my awesome and fully-sparked students, Kim Diede and Gail Johnson, who each share how stepping into their most authentic selves to live from a place of deep purpose has changed their lives. They are both doing incredible things and making an impact in the world by doing what they love. 

Kim, is a mom of 3 and a grandma of 1, who worked in banking at a job that was clearly not what she was brought here to do. You can hear her entire back story in Episode 7 when I first interviewed her on my podcast and before she ever entered The Second Half SPARK School.

She shares how working with me gave her a new perspective about how her fear of the unknown - even though she had discovered her purpose and it was lighting her up - was keeping her trapped in a job and depriving the world of the books she hadn't yet written. 

Gail, who is a medium, was denying her real gifts too. She didn't think she had...

Today I'm airing a replay of a past episode I did with one of my amazing Second Half S.P.A.R.K. School™ students, Denise Hughes. Denise shares her story of signing up to the Second Half SPARK School™ at a very low point in her life, when she was on medical disability with “long” Covid, with very little energy, and far from living her best life.

But fortunately, like all of my students who decide to take action, she was finally ready to do something about it and she knew she couldn’t do it on her own… 

Denise’s story is nothing short of remarkable as it shows how our path to the dream life we desire is not always what we think it will be. But Denise shows how once we shift our internal energy by changing our mindset, we begin to attract what we desire. 

She is also a testament to how staying in abundance, no matter how hard your journey gets, and continuing to apply the tools she learned in the Second Half SPARK...

Are you tired of feeling stuck, unmotivated, and unsure of your future? Do you long to discover true happiness and wake up excited every day?

You're not alone! Millions of women our age feel the same way, but there is a solution.

Introducing Awaken Your Inner Spark, a FREE 3-part training series designed to help you unlock incredible insights about what it is you're here to do and what is possible for you. Through this training, you'll discover how to:

• Remove the invisible obstacles that are keeping you stuck in a life without passion
• Unlock long-forgotten or undiscovered desires that have been hidden away in your subconscious
• Find the motivation you need to pursue what sparks you

The breakthrough-inducing content is jam-packed with exercises and examples that will unleash your inner spark so that, by the end of the training, you'll be waking up excited and motivated about your next chapter. 

But don't wait! This training is only available for a limited time, and the...

In today’s episode I share the story of a woman who lived what she may have believed was a purposeful life but she made one of the biggest mistakes people make when it comes to finding their true purpose, it was another person, her husband.

She had the purpose block I referred to in my last episode as "purpose-oblivious." If you'd like to learn about this and the other 3 purpose blockers, tune into Episode 330.

As I explain, your true purpose is not from an external person or material thing or things, it’s something that is found within you and has to do with work or activity that makes you come alive, feel valued, and has deep meaning as to why you do it. And this activity sustains you over time. It never dies like a person can. But many are oblivious to this truth.

You’ll hear the details of this woman’s life and how she’s spent most of the past 16 years since her purpose died, bedridden, incontinent, and disconnected from the world around her...

In today's episode, I describe the 4 main reasons you may be blocked from finding the purpose that you came here to fulfill. 

Much like the empty nester identities I spoke about in Episode 330, these purpose blockers result in certain behaviors and thoughts that prevent you from pursuing your REASON FOR BEING - and in some cases, even believing you have one.

Let me be the first to tell you, in case you are what I call "purpose-oblivious: Yes, you have a purpose. You came here to fulfill it, and if you are not waking up and taking action towards the pursuit of it, you'll continue to rob yourself of the pure joy that comes from living from that place of purpose.

And you'll continue to rob the people that will benefit from you operating that way - both the people around you who love you and will get the best version of you when you are a purpose-filled human AND the people who you'll impact by the purpose that is yours to fulfill.

So what will it be? Continue to allow these...

In today’s episode I share real data about how busyness and overwhelm keep the Busy Doers and the Overwhelmed Wingers from taking the very action that will get them unstuck. I explain why a Scared Settler is actually more apt to take action towards positive change and find true happiness!

If you are not familiar with these terms, please listen to my last episode where I explain the 6 different empty nester roles so you can see which role you might be operating from that is causing you to live a mediocre life and be stuck in inaction - or action that’s preventing you from living your most happy life.

It’s a crazy phenomenon but, as I shared, it’s only because you are totally unaware of what is happening. The behavior patterns we operate from in our day-to-day life have become automatic at a subconscious level.

The great news is that when you know better, you do better and that is exactly why I wanted to talk about these two roles and warn you, if this is the...

In today’s episode I'm sharing not just FIVE but SIX roles I've identified that affect how we show up and play the game of life, and these identities tell us a lot about whether we are happy and fulfilled or whether we are stuck and setting for a mediocre existence.

A couple of years ago, when I was getting certified as a Master Neurocoach, I learned that our behaviors are tied to the roles and identities we operate from in life.

It was that lightbulb moment when I realized there were specific roles I had played in my past that had kept me stuck in a very passionless and unfulfilling existence, after my kids, who were a big part of my fulfillment for 20 years left home. And I started to see a pattern of behaviors in older women who I was coaching who felt stuck like I had been.

After observing various behaviors and noticing specific patterns around those behaviors, I was able to identify 5 different roles that keep us from taking the action that will get us unstuck, as well...

Today’s episode is a short one but it’s a good one! It’s just me taking a few minutes to reflect on a recent realization about a negative reaction I had to being told “I love you” by Mel Robbins.

I decided to do an episode on this because I think this is something that others do too so I wanted to talk about it AND to share the one word answer I came upon when I asked myself “Why?” It was judgement. 

I’ve been judging Mel negatively for saying I love you at the end of her newsletters?! WTF?!!!!

Here’s what I realized once I had the awareness of what I was doing…

I didn’t believe Mel. And I was judging her negatively for saying something that wasn’t true.

I mean, how could she love me? She doesn’t KNOW me.

Then I thought, but I love her! And I’d tell her if I ever ran into her on the street. But the truth is: I don’t really know her, do I?

What Mel is doing is giving me unconditional...