100% Awesome Podcast
280 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsYou might not know it, but every result in your life is 100% because of the thoughts you think. This is very good news because it means that changing our thoughts can change everything else. This podcast provides practical ways to gain awareness of your current thoughts and then deliberately choose the ones you want in order to improve every area of your life. The way things are is not the way things have to stay. And that my friends, is 100% awesome.
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Episode 77: What Are You Avoiding?
October 22, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes - 23.5 MBWhile your human brain is well-intentioned, it is also totally confused about your purpose for being on earth. You are here for creation and growth and contribution, and your brain’s natural instincts are getting the way of all that. What your brain thinks is “safe” is really just sabotage. This episode has actionable steps you can take to expose your own brain’s avoidance tactics, and get the most out of your awesome life. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/77
Episode 76: Divine Discomfort
October 15, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes - 26.2 MBMost of us think that negative emotion is something to be avoided and that if we are living our lives in the “right way,” our uncomfortable experiences will be limited. But for those of us who strive to follow Christ, learning to feel our feelings, may be an important part of becoming more like him. In our quest to become holier and acquire divine attributes, his perfect example demonstrates the need to feel our emotions rather than avoid them. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/76
Episode 75: Ask April
October 08, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes - 29.9 MBFor the first time on the podcast, I am answering listener questions. In this episode, I share how to think new thoughts, how to allow your children to have their feelings and opinions without needing to control them, how to look at your own thoughts without judgment, how to move on from betrayal, trauma, or divorce, and how to use thought work in everyday life to change the way you think and react in any situation. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/75
Episode 74: Breaking Free from the Tyranny of Your Own Thoughts
October 01, 2020 04:00 - 30 minutes - 31.8 MBIf you have been seeking self-improvement for any length of time, you might have noticed that as much as you change and try to be better, your brain still has negative thoughts about you. Most of us want to know how to get this to stop. We’d like to reprogram our brains once and for all to think positive thoughts about us. But this is impossible. Your negative thoughts are just your brain is doing its job. The problem is not that the brain is giving us negative thoughts. The problem is th...
Episode 73: Certainty in an Uncertain World
September 24, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 27.1 MBIt seems like we have an unusual amount of uncertainty in our lives right now. But really, we have never had any certainty. Uncertainty is the human condition. Anything can change at any moment. And the more we can accept uncertainty, the more acceptance we can feel. Instead of needing certainty in the world outside of us, we only need to tap into the certainty inside of us and believe in our capacity to handle anything that comes. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/73
Episode 72: God’s Infinite Approval of You
September 17, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 27.2 MBOne of the default thoughts our brain gives us is that God is disappointed in us and the way we are living our life. But, not only is this thought untrue, it is also keeping us more disconnected from God. The truth is that God cannot be disappointed in us and we are always learning and growing in the exact ways we need to. When we really understand God’s infinite approval of us, even with our faults, our relationship with ourselves and with God will change. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/7
Episode 71: Go Do The Thing
September 10, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 29.4 MBWe all have something that we really want to do in the world, but we’re too scared to do it. In this episode, I’m sharing some ideas to help you get into action and do the thing. Because whatever you do, the creation of it will bless the world, but the real value is what happens to you as you overcome your own brain and all its fears and insecurities. And doing the thing, despite your fears, is one of the best ways to get that. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/71
Episode 70: When Other People Don’t Like You
September 03, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutes - 26.3 MBYou are sharing this planet with other humans and some of those other humans won’t always like you. They will think all kinds of thoughts about you, and they are allowed to. But, the good news is that while every person you interact with has thoughts about you, your life experience is 100% created by the thoughts that you think and not the thoughts they think. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/70
Episode 69: For the Mamas
August 27, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes - 31 MBAs mothers, we often feel stretched and inadequate and the disruptions created by the pandemic have made things even harder. You are not failing. Your brain just thinks you are. The thoughts your brain offers about your shortcomings as a mother are not only painful, unproductive, and sabotaging the amazing work you are doing, but…they are also 100% optional. You can decide to think about yourself and your mothering in a completely different way. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/69
Episode 68: Getting Good at Feeling Bad
August 20, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 32.7 MBBecause earth life contains a surprising amount of negative emotion (50%!), one of the best skills we can obtain is to get good at feeling bad. In this episode, I share how to process and feel your feelings, so that you have more control over your emotional life, so you can start doing the things you’ve been too scared to try. Getting good at feeling bad is the key to getting the life you really want. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/68
Episode 67: Joy in Any Circumstance
August 13, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes - 34.1 MBAs humans and especially as Christians, we believe that we’re supposed to be happy—at least, most of the time. And when life is hard, this belief that we should be happy makes us think that something has gone wrong and that either God isn’t there or he doesn’t care about us. In reality, difficult circumstances are evidence both that God is there and that he loves you, because our circumstances provide the way to joy, which is the greatest gift God has for us. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.co
Episode 66: Becoming Who You Want to Be as Quickly as Possible
August 06, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutes - 26.3 MBOur identity is solely created by the collection of thoughts we have about ourselves. We define ourselves by the things we already believe about ourselves. We are what we think we are. When we want to become another version of us, the only thing preventing that is the thoughts we currently believe about ourselves. The fastest way to become who you want to be is to decide to think different thoughts and to adopt them as quickly as possible. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/66
Episode 65: Things To Know for Your Mission (on Earth)
July 30, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes - 31.9 MBWe have each left our heavenly home for an extended period of time to come to earth and have a human experience, which gives us the chance to learn and grow and serve others. In this episode, I share the things that I think are most important for each of to remember as we go on “this mission” and face the challenges of mortality. They are thoughts that have made the biggest difference in my human experience. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/65
Episode 64: From Where You Are Now to Where You Want to Be
July 23, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBIt’s a good time to do a little mid-year evaluation and check in with yourself about the results you are creating in your life. Learn why it can be hard to stay on track with our goals, and how to overcome obstacles so we can consistently create more of the outcomes we want in our lives. Here are five ideas to help you get from where you are now to where you want to be. These tools will motivate and empower you to keep going after what you really want. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/64
Episode 63: I Can’t Believe How Wrong I Was
July 16, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 29.4 MBI have found that the best parts of my life are the parts that my brain was completely wrong about. And I find that the more wrong my brain is, and the more willing I am for my brain to be wrong, the better my life gets. Today I share lots of the things my brain was wrong about in the hopes that you can look at your own life and start to question the things your brain is telling you. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/63
Bonus Episode: More Ways to Get Help from Me
July 10, 2020 23:37 - 8 minutes - 2.44 MBEvery Friday, I send out a little video to everyone on my email list, in which I share something that I’ve learned or applied in my life that has helped me that week. Today I am sharing the audio recording from one of my recent videos so that you can see how to get even more help from me. You can sign up for these weekly emails and videos here: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/your-weekly-shot-of-awesome
Episode 62: The Miracle of Change with Danny Deaton
July 09, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 14.1 MBDanny Deaton knows how to change. He went from a strung-out addict to a man who loves his life, his family, and his work helping families heal addiction. He is living proof that you can change anything. Danny’s change will inspire you, help you give up the excuses in your way, and motivate you to stop letting temporary solutions prevent you from making the real changes you want in your life. For help facing addiction: https://www.yourlivingproof.com https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/62
Episode 61: The Relationship You’ve Always Wanted
July 02, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes - 34.6 MBThe idea that it takes two people to create a great relationship keeps many of us from having the relationship we long for. Luckily, this just isn’t the case. Each one of us can have the exact relationship we want with anyone—and it’s completely up to us! Here is what I have learned about our personal power to create the relationships we’ve always wanted, and how taking 100% responsibility for the way I think changed my most important relationship. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/61
Episode 60: Surrendering Defensiveness
June 25, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes - 33.5 MBWe all have confirmation bias that is created because our brain is programmed to gather evidence that our beliefs are correct. But this built-in bias often keeps us from seeing another point of view without getting defensive. Learn how to surrender our defensiveness and use this emotion as a signal to examine our own thoughts, that might be “unkind and invisible,” and see it as opportunity to learn and grow and increase our ability to love. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/60
Episode 59: Moving from Intention to Implementation
June 18, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 30.5 MBWe all want to change things in our life, but most of us get stuck in the space between our intentions and implementation. Closing this gap is the secret to changing any aspect of our lives. Here are five tools to help you move from just thinking about change to actually creating change in your life. None of these tools involve taking doing more, because it turns out that implementing change in our lives is completely dependent on what happens inside our minds.
Episode 58: The Problem with Guilt and Shame
June 11, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes - 35.1 MBMany people come to self-improvement from a place of self-rejection and disgust and set off to improve from a place of guilt and shame. This is a losing proposition. Not only are guilt and shame completely unnecessary to change and grow, in most cases they are the very things preventing real transformation. In this episode, I’ll show you how to give up guilt and shame so that you can change and become in all the ways you want to.
Episode 57: Loving the Unlovable
June 04, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBWe don’t need any one to change in order to love them—because if we want to feel love, that is always our responsibility. And it requires us to choose to love, allow, and tolerate others, regardless of their choices. In this episode, I offer some thoughts to help us love people we disagree with, tolerate the intolerant, and allow for wrongness in the world without becoming wrong ourselves. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/57
Episode 56: Keys to Mental and Emotional Health
May 28, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 31.3 MBWhile our bodies go through periods of illness or injury, there is so much we can do to improve and take care of our physical health. The same is true for our mental and emotional health. Here are four keys that make a huge difference in managing our mental and emotional life experience. When you put all of these principles into place, they allow you to take control of your own mental and emotional health, alleviate unnecessary suffering, and love your life. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/56
Episode 55: What My Most Successful Clients Think
May 21, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes - 33.2 MBMy clients know that the only difference between the life they have and the life they want is the thoughts they choose to think. And so they go to work every day to think powerful thoughts and that gives them incredible results. In this episode, I share some of the beliefs that have made the biggest difference for my most successful clients and, if you choose to believe the same things, it will make a huge difference for you too. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/55
Episode 54: How to Create Anything
May 14, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 30.7 MBThought is the mechanism of creation. Thoughts have the power to become things. It’s important to understand that we create all our results by the thoughts we choose to think. This awareness allows us to see our results differently and take responsibility for the things we have created—inadvertently or purposely— in our life. Learn how thoughts become things, how to choose your thoughts based on the results you want, and harness your power to create anything.
Episode 53: How to Love Yourself for Real
May 07, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutes - 34.2 MBOf all the challenges our human brain presents us, loving ourselves might be the hardest. Our brain is convinced that we need to be better (in every way) before we can love ourselves. But this isn’t true. In this episode I’ll tell you exactly how to develop the beliefs and choose the thoughts that will allow you to love yourself for real. It all starts by recognizing that loving ourselves is a choice that happens in our mind. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/53
Episode 52: Creating Consistency
April 30, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes - 31.3 MBLearning to take consistent action is how we create anything in our lives. This episode is about how to be consistent and show up for yourself, and I share four tools to help: act in the present, examine your thoughts, make a decision, and create a small container. These tools will allow you to create the life you want through powerful, consistent action. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/52
Episode 51: How to Stop Using the Gospel of Christ Against Yourself
April 23, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 27.1 MBChrist's message is one of love and hope. But, as Christians, we often use his message and his work against ourselves—to beat ourselves up, to despise ourselves for faults and weaknesses, to judge ourselves and others, and to inhibit our growth and learning. This new awareness will allow you to question the unhelpful interpretations your brain might offering you and give you a new way to think about yourself, your earth life experience, and your discipleship. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.c...
Episode 50: What I've Learned about Leaving My Comfort Zone
April 16, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes - 27.6 MBLife offers each of us a chance to grow, develop, innovate, evolve, and create. But in order to do these things we have to be willing to step outside our comfort zone and confront the protests of our own brains. The lessons I have learned in creating 50 podcasts can help you as you go to do hard or new things in your own life—even things outside your current capacity—and allow you to go after all your goals and dreams in a big way. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/50
Episode 49: Lies I Used to Tell Myself
April 09, 2020 04:00 - 30 minutes - 26.7 MBMy life has changed significantly over the last couple of years. But, fundamentally, the only difference between me today and me then is the thoughts that I think. In this episode, I want to share some of the lies I used to tell myself in the hopes that you will be able to recognize similar lies that your brain might be telling you. Our brains never stop selling us on negative thoughts about ourselves, but we get decide to whether or not we believe them. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/49
Episode 48: The Power of Meekness
April 02, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 27.4 MBAs humans, we often think that there is a "right way" to feel—for both ourselves and for others. But judging ourselves and others is a painful way to live. It is heavy. And it adds to your stress and discomfort. But you can set it all of it down. In this podcast, I offer that the alternative to judgment is meekness. When we view ourselves, and others, and God from a place of meekness we can drop our need to control everything around us and access peace. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/48
Episode 47: Don't Wait to Love the Life You Are Living
March 26, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MB"Waiting for things to get better" sounds hopeful, but it makes our current life unacceptable and a little unbearable. It makes us feel like we have to wait for a different version of our life to show up before we can be happy. The awesome news is that you don't need to wait for things to change in order to love the life you are living. In this episode I'll show you that you don't have to wait for a place without pain or hardship to also feel joy. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/47
Episode 46: How to Get Relief When Things are Hard
March 19, 2020 04:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThis episode is a little pep talk for your brain! I want you to know that relief is available to each of us whenever we need it. It comes by identifying the true cause of our suffering, embracing the uncertainty of our lives by believing in what is certain, and letting it all be exactly as it is. No matter the circumstances or the uncertainty and risk in our life, our reaction is always ours to control and that means that relief is always available to us. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/46
Bonus Episode: How to Choose Peace in the Face of Fear
March 15, 2020 01:54 - 29 minutes - 25.1 MBIn this special bonus episode of the podcast, I am offering some thoughts to help ease your worry and fear, and empower you to decide how you want to think about what is happening in the world right now. No matter what happens outside of you, your agency to create your experience is always there inside of you. And I want you to know that, even now, peace and confidence and joy are 100% available to you. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com
Episode 45: How the Willingness to Be Wrong is Always Right
March 12, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes - 31.3 MBBefore we can adopt a new belief, we have to be willing to be wrong about the old one. This may seem obvious, but it is harder than it sounds because our brain loves to be right. In this episode of the podcast, I’ll show you how being willing to be wrong is essential for growth, why our brain wants to hold so tightly to old beliefs, and help you be willing to be wrong more often, so that you can get the life you want. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/45
Episode 44: The Unlimited Value of Coaching
March 05, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 26.5 MBOver the last couple of years I have invested thousands of dollars in coaching and, if given the choice, it is an investment I would make again and again. This is because of the unlimited value that coaching has provided in my life. In this episode of the podcast I share the ten most valuable things I have learned and discovered through coaching and explain why I think coaching can be so valuable to you. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/44
Episode 43: Compound Misery
February 27, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 30.3 MBWhen we believe we shouldn’t feel negative emotion, we add more negative feelings to our lives, compounding our misery and increasing our pain. The answer to this is to get good at feeling our negative emotion, instead of trying to resist it. The more we can allow our negative emotion, the more we can avoid compounding our misery. Learn how to avoid compound misery to alleviate your suffering. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/43
Episode 42: How to Make Progress from Abundance
February 20, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 31.8 MBIt’s easy to use our flaws and mistakes as a way to punish ourselves into growth and change. We have lists of all the things we want to remove or eliminate in ourselves—thinking if we cut all these parts out of us, we can change into a better version of us. But it doesn’t work. Self-destruction does not create. Instead of wanting to become less, the key is to focus on becoming more of who and what we already are. This is change through love and abundance. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com
Episode 41: Love Unlimited
February 13, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 30.2 MBLove isn’t magic or destiny. Love doesn’t come and go by itself. Love isn’t a result of the actions of another. It doesn’t move from one person to another. Love can’t even be shared. Love isn’t a result of anything outside of us—it is always a result of a thought inside of us. Learn how to identify the thoughts keeping you from feeling love. You are responsible for how much love you feel, which gives you access to the unlimited supply of love any time you want. https://www.aprilpriceco
Episode 40: Minding Your Own Business
February 06, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 48.6 MBWe know that we create our feelings with our thoughts, but we notice that others are still under the impression that their feelings are created by the things outside of them. The good news is that we don’t have to fix this in order to feel okay about them or their feelings! Learn how to let other people feel what they want, how to give up people pleasing, and how to feel whatever you want about yourself and the people in your life. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/40
Episode 39: 6 Thoughts That are Holding You Back with Susan Dangerfield
January 30, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 56.2 MBWhenever we go after a goal and spend energy growing and evolving, our brain wants us to stop. So it offers us limiting thoughts about our progress, our identity, our capacity, our limitations, and our decisions—and these thoughts keep us from achieving our goals. In this episode, Susan Dangerfield talks about common thoughts that keep us stuck and how to get around our brain’s objections so that we can achieve exactly what we want. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/39 https://www.sdangerfit.co
Episode 38: Overcoming Fear and Taking Action with Rachel Stewart
January 23, 2020 05:00 - 37 minutes - 53 MBIn this very special episode of the podcast I interview author, Rachel Stewart, about how to turn our beliefs into reality by taking action, even in the face of self-doubt or fear. I talk to Rachel about how we don't have to feel "qualified" or ready to start taking action, how to recognize that fear is both a liar and a necessary companion to any achievement, and why it's always worth doing hard things to get what we want. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/38 http://unqualifiedtools.com
Episode 37: How to Believe New Things
January 16, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 51.9 MBIn order to accomplish what we want in our lives, we have to believe we can. All our results start with our beliefs. But our brains are programmed to notice the negative and use that information to define our present and create our future. To get different results, we need to interrupt our brain's "prediction machinery" and think new thoughts. So how do we do this? Here are three keys to believing new things about yourself, your abilities, and your life. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/3
Episode 36: Your Invincible Power to Choose
January 09, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 27.9 MBWe sometimes forget that we are always making a choice. These choices add up to create the life we have, even if we don't realize it. I invite you to honestly examine the idea that we only do what we want to do. This perspective shows us that there aren't actually any "have to's" in our life, and that everything we do is our choice—allowing us to give up blame and resentment, own our choices and our outcomes, reach our goals, and love the life we are living. www.aprilpricecoaching.com/36
Episode 35: Rethink Your Goal Setting
January 02, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 27.6 MBWe all have goals and things we want to accomplish in our lives. But sometimes the way we've been taught to think about goals is actually getting in our way, making accomplishing and achieving our goals harder. I invite you to rethink how you set goals by understanding we don't become better when we achieve goals, achieving our goals won't make us happy, our goals should be hard, and when it comes to goals, what we think is more important than what we do. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/35
Episode 34: Gifts from My Coaches
December 26, 2019 05:00 - 28 minutes - 25.4 MBThis year I have received so many gifts from my coaches. I picked just five that made the biggest impact on my life this year to share with you. These thoughts and ideas were given to me by the very best coaches and teachers out there—Brooke Castillo, Jody Moore, Susan Dangerfield, Danielle Thienel, and my own custom-designed life curriculum. I hope they bless your life like they have blessed mine. For links to these amazing coaches, go to: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/34
Episode 33: Creating New Thought Habits
December 19, 2019 05:00 - 31 minutes - 27.8 MBWe spend most of our lives just thinking on default. We have lots of old, unexamined thought habits. A thought habit is just a thought we have thought over and over again creating a well-rehearsed neural pathway. But the brain has the power to create new neural pathways any time. This neuroplasticity allows you to purposefully create productive and positive thought habits, and decide how you want to think about your life…and that, my friends, is 100% awesome! https://www.aprilpricecoaching....
Episode 32: How to Make Infinite Progress
December 12, 2019 05:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBWhen we evaluate our progress in life, we tend to judge our accomplishments with a finite mindset. But this can be frustrating when we are working in areas of infinite growth, like fitness, personal development, relationships, or spirituality—where there is no finish line. It's powerful to view your life and your progress with an infinite mindset, and shifting your thoughts in this way can keep you invested, motivated, and committed to your personal goals. www.aprilpricecoaching.com/32
Episode 31: How to Feel Your Feelings
December 05, 2019 05:00 - 35 minutes - 29.8 MBBy and large, most of us are not very good at feeling our feelings. We don't have a lot of practice or skill at feeling, allowing and processing our emotions. Instead, we spend our time and energy avoiding, resisting or reacting to our emotions. In this episode, I'll show you how to process any emotion and show you the power that allowing your emotions will give you in your life. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/31
Episode 30: Seeing The Magic of Your Awesome Life
November 28, 2019 05:00 - 23 minutes - 19.7 MBBecause we have human brains, we aren't programmed to notice the magic, miracles, and awesomeness of our lives. But that does not mean they don't exist! To find more joy and awe, we have to purposefully redirect our brains to notice all the gifts that are there, that go mostly unnoticed. Here are three tools that you can use to help you recognize the truth about your awesome life and recalibrate your brain to "see things as they really are." https://www.aprilpricecoaching/30