Be the CEO of Your Life
268 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★ - 21 ratingsThis podcast will help you find motivation, inspiration and to transform stress and anxiety for happiness and positivity.
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How To Lower Expectations But Have High Standards wit Katerina Arapis
May 01, 2023 13:22 - 1 hour - 114 MBHigh achievers have many amazing skills. We jump into action, we do as much as needed to see the end result happening and we are willing to fail as many times as possible in order to make things happen. HOWEVER, we also tend to be very hard on ourselves and place unrealistically high expectations on ourselves. We confuse high expectations with high standards. In this episode, business coach Kat Arapis and Life coach Olga Lacroix talk about the tools they teach their clients to lo...
The Healing Power Of Writing w. Jacqueline Fisch
April 17, 2023 09:00 - 57 minutes - 105 MBThis episode is a mix of a few things… all writing related. IT IS A MUST listen. Author, coach and writer expert, Jacqueline Fisch tells us how she started her own journey as a copywriter and how that has led her to the writing of two books, and to becoming the founder of the Intuitive Writing School. If you want to learn about the psychology behind journaling, how the moon cycles benefit the type of writing or journaling you do and, to hear some fun prompts to get you started on this...
Overcoming Burnout w Maggie Perotin
April 10, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 91.4 MBWe all want to succeed, but many of us go about it the wrong way. We tend to over-do, people-please and totally ignore ourselves. The results? Success BUT with burnout. How long can you sustain success if you burn out? In this episode, I interviewed a wonderful coach who learned a lot from her own experience of over-working, over-doing and over-ignoring her needs. She is here to teach us how mindfulness helped her make a switch and create a life of possibilities instead. A...
Positive Psychology with Rita Ernst
April 03, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBAttention high performers! This episode is for you! If you have been caught up in the world of over-doing, over-performing and are feeling a little exhausted, it is time to do something about it. Imagine instead of running yourself to the ground to succeed, you learn the tools to ignite your extraordinariness? Wouldn’t that be fun? Have you heard of toxic positivity? It’s time to clarify what that is, and I brought an expert to do so. Please join me in this episode with Rita ...
How To Handle Big Diagnoses with Alison McLean
March 27, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 82.8 MBWhen life gives you lemons, what do you do? LEMONADE! Easier said than done, right? One of the reasons I enjoy mindset coaching is because I get to teach others how to use their mindset powerfully and in their favor, no matter how many lemons life throws at them! In this episode, I am interviewing a coach who has lived with very difficult diagnoses and has beautifully used her mindset to help her heal. Join me in an episode that will give you hope and tools to cope with ...
Lowering Anxiety With Self-Hypnosis w Lindsey Carothers
March 20, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 82.5 MBTo all my anxious people: LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE. Lindsey Carothers literally blew my mind away. She shares a couple of self-hypnosis techniques that work like magic indeed to lower anxiety. Fast, easy-to-use and effective techniques that you can start using right away. If that doesn’t make you want to turn in to listen, this might: During the episode she literally HEALED me from my life-long phobia to mice. If you know me, you know I can’t even say the word mice ...
Returning To Places Where You´ve Lived Trauma
March 13, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes - 41.7 MBReturning to places where we’ve had previous trauma can be triggering, stressful and at times un-avoidable. In this episode I walk you through a short list of steps that you can take to feel safe, when having to go back to places where you’ve experienced trauma. Whether the place of trauma for you is a hospital, a specific street, or like in my case, an entire country, it is important to recognize that trauma lives in our bodies and it is necessary to address it. Here thi...
Investing In Your Marriage with Maggie Reyes
March 06, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBEvery year your relationship grows or dies. Marriage is such an important part of life, if it’s working well, all other things in life are well or manageable, but when the marriage isn’t working, it really feels like it impacts all other parts of life. If you are in a long term relationship, it’s important to self-reflect on how you are helping it grow year by year. If you aren’t growing it, nourishing it intentionally, how are you contributing to its lasting effects? Marr...
Parenting Strategies w Jeanine Mouchawar
February 27, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBHave you ever wondered if you are the only one struggling with setting boundaries and consequences with your children? No matter their age, as long as you’re a parent, you have a very important job that comes with no instructions and it is very challenging. We are left to figure it out ourselves. We follow patterns our parents did, some of us have educated ourselves on best practices, but we are never quite sure if we are doing it right. Right? Well, in this episode, I inte...
Anxious To Confident
February 20, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 73.8 MBThis episode was from a series of workshops Olga taught in the Spring of 2022 about anxiety. This particular episode focuses on why we have body image anxiety and how to eliminate it. Listen for a detailed step by step guidance on how to begin to approach your body image. If you find this episode helpful, please share it with your friends who may also struggle with body image issues. Helpful links: Join detox the mind: https://olgasway.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/113...
You Are Techie w Nicole Trick Steinbach
February 13, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes - 104 MBIf you have ever said that you are “not a techy woman” please listen to this episode. You will be pleasantly surprised to realize that you are in fact techy and that beginning to own this title and perception of you is not just helpful to you, but to all the women in our future generations to come. Not long ago it was thought that women’s brains were smaller than men. We all know how much BS was in that thought. Nonetheless we believed it. Thinking that you are not techy is per...
Anxiety Over Conflict
February 06, 2023 21:56 - 36 minutes - 67.3 MBHow to stop the anxiety of creating conflict? You really want to stop worrying about saying “the thing” that's going to create conflict, and you want to have a different relationship with speaking up. You want it to feel easy and comfortable? And most importantly, you don't want it to impact your relationships negatively. Right? You need to listen to this episode. This episode was a masterclass Olga delivered in the spring of 2022 and today, she is releasing it as an episode for...
The Five Steps To Create Magic
January 30, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBMagic does exist and in this episode we will tell you all about it. In this episode, Carolina Angarita (best selling author, international speaker, CEO and founder of Carolina Angarita) is explaining in detail how to implement five steps into your life that will turn on the magic. These steps include time management techniques as well as mind-blowing thoughts that enhance success. If you are feeling the need for a little motivation, this is for you. Helpful links: Carolina Angar...
What To Do When You Fall Off The Plan
January 23, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes - 59.9 MBShow notes: This episode will give you the exact steps to follow when you fall of the plan. Whether your plan was to lose weight, to start a new hobby or to save money, we all tend to quit when we “fail” at making perfect progress. As humans, we will never be perfect, which is why it’s so important that we learn to fail. That’s right, failure is a skill. It needs to be developed. Listen for more details. Audio clip: your biggest enemy here is gonna be your own mind who's...
Money Anxiety
January 16, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 62.6 MBMoney anxiety. In this episode I will give you the exact steps I followed to go from being a broke refugee to owning multiple real estate properties. While there is some strategy involved, my focus point for this episode is to teach you to manage your mind and its relationship with money. Listen up to gain a new perspective on why you might feel anxious around money, what to do about it and how to begin to have a mindset of abundance. Being rich isn’t about having money. B...
Detox Your Mind 101
January 09, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes - 49.1 MBThis episode will walk you through some basic steps to stop the mean inner conversation in your head. Thoughts can be like beautiful flowers or like nasty weeds. Our job is to take care of the garden in which they grow (the mind). Everyone needs to clean the garden from weeds, so our mind is no different. We need to clean the mind on a regular basis in order to ensure that our “weedy” thoughts aren’t taking up all the space in which beautiful flowers can grow. Grab pen and paper,...
2002 In Review
January 02, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutes - 78.7 MBShow notes: Every year that ends leave us with some pretty significant lessons. It is totally up to us to grab those lessons and bring them forward to the new year. In this episode, I’m walking you through my biggest lessons of 2022. I will tell you the strategies I use to review my year and how I intentionally choose what to do with those lessons moving forward. Listening to this episode will for sure help you reflect on your own 2022 and the lessons it gave you. Helpful Links:...
The Compound Effect Of Decisions
December 26, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes - 63 MBMaking small decisions every day compound to big results later. Before you make a decision ask yourself: What would it be the compound result of making this same small decision every day, for a full year? When you think of decisions as singular acts that do not impact the future, you minimize their power, and this is how you end up with regrets. Whether you suffer from decision paralysis or, you have a hard time creating new habits, I encourage you to listen to this sho...
Your Relationship With Planning
December 19, 2022 10:00 - 41 minutes - 75.7 MBWhat is your relationship with planning? There are three types of planners: The very attached to the plan and the outcome, the ones who engage in some planning but not really see themselves as planners and the ones who never plan at all. What do they all have in common? They are all avoiding feeling one tiny feeling. Curious to find out what feeling all the planners and not planners are trying to avoid? You will have to listen to this episode to find out. 3 takeaways: - W...
Women Thrive With A Community w Tanya Cole-Lesnick
December 12, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBYou are interested in coaching or therapy, but you are terrified of doing it in a group setting. Your worst fear is to feel embarrassed, to feel rejected and to expose yourself vulnerable in front of others. In this episode we break down the myths people have about getting help in a group setting and we highlight why this type of work is far more beneficial than only doing one on one work. Therapist and life coach Tanya Cole-Lesnick joined me this week in the podcast to share her...
The Power Of One
December 05, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 55.2 MBDo you ever feel that no matter how much you do, it’s never quite enough? Do you keep moving the bar up for when it is that you will finally be happy, successful, satisfied?? Do you grow your list of things to do and your self-expectations in an attempt to quiet the inner voice that keeps whispering…”what else can you do?, what else do you need? What else can you achieve? You might be operating from a place of not enough. That may feel normal to you but it isn’t and it is the rea...
Creating Big Things w Marie Lewallen
November 28, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes - 80.9 MBDo you ever have BIG ideas or thoughts but don’t know where to start to see them through? In this episode, we are going to be talking with certified coach Marie Lewallen McDonald about breaking down how change-makers think and act so that you can do what they do- and take your ideas out of your head and put them into the world where they belong- today. The more we believe in our own ideas, the more we recognize the ideas that others have, that we can believe in. We know that diss...
Being Who We Are w. Micheline
November 21, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes - 89.5 MBWhat if it took you longer to get to where you wanted to get? But the destination is way better than the initial one that you thought you could get to? In this episode we are going to be talking to my friend and CEO coaching client Micheline all about how she has learnt overtime to change her mindset for the better as well as how she has learnt to be Ok with where she is and to “sit in the mud” sometimes. Sometimes we forget in the midst of the storm that life somehow always work...
Steps To Clean Your Energy
November 14, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 71 MBDo you ever feel that you have a lot of guilt and obligation, and sometimes even resentment when you're doing things for yourself and for others? Today's episode is all about how to clean our energy so that we can live a simple, happy, free of guilt, free of fear life. If you were to truly ask yourself, “why am I doing this?”, you will always bring it back to somebody else's expectations of yourself, or that someone will be hurt if you stop doing this thing. All of those feelings...
Episode 171 - Steps To Clean Your Energy
November 14, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes - 71 MBDo you ever feel that you have a lot of guilt and obligation, and sometimes even resentment when you're doing things for yourself and for others? Today's episode is all about how to clean our energy so that we can live a simple, happy, free of guilt, free of fear life. If you were to truly ask yourself, “why am I doing this?”, you will always bring it back to somebody else's expectations of yourself, or that someone will be hurt if you stop doing this thing. All of those feelings...
Why Do We Stay Feeling Emotions Longer Than We Want To?
November 11, 2022 21:53 - 19 minutes - 35.8 MBIn this episode we're going to answer the question “why do we stay longer than we want to feeling these unwanted, difficult emotions? You stay in an unwanted emotional state way longer than you desire for one simple reason… Resistance. What you resist, persists. It is not just a saying, it is the truth. No emotion, no circumstance and no pain lasts forever. You won't be “in the hole” of having difficult emotions forever, but you will stay longer than you need to if you don't follo...
Episode 170 - Why Do We Stay Feeling Emotions Longer Than We Want To?
November 11, 2022 09:00 - 19 minutes - 35.8 MBIn this episode we're going to answer the question “why do we stay longer than we want to feeling these unwanted, difficult emotions? You stay in an unwanted emotional state way longer than you desire for one simple reason… Resistance. What you resist, persists. It is not just a saying, it is the truth. No emotion, no circumstance and no pain lasts forever. You won't be “in the hole” of having difficult emotions forever, but you will stay longer than you need to if you don't follo...
Stop Complaining
November 07, 2022 21:52 - 26 minutes - 49.3 MBOn today’s episode we're going to be talking about complaining. Why it doesn't work, why we do it, what is the root cause of it and what to do instead of complaining. I bet you anything, you're not the only one who thinks complaining is a form of communication. I suppose any kind of words are a form of communication, but complaining is not an efficient way of communicating what we actually want to communicate. Nobody wants to hear anybody complain. Nobody has time for that. There are many ...
Episode 169 - Stop Complaining
November 07, 2022 09:00 - 26 minutes - 49.3 MBOn today’s episode we're going to be talking about complaining. Why it doesn't work, why we do it, what is the root cause of it and what to do instead of complaining. I bet you anything, you're not the only one who thinks complaining is a form of communication. I suppose any kind of words are a form of communication, but complaining is not an efficient way of communicating what we actually want to communicate. Nobody wants to hear anybody complain. Nobody has time for that. There are many ...
How To Make New Friends
October 31, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes - 102 MBDo you ever feel that it is hard to make genuine friendships as an adult? That it doesn’t come as easy as it once did when you were younger? On today’s episode we are going to be talking with my friend Lucie about how to cultivate friendships as an adult, how to get what YOU need out of a friendship, as well as how to be the friend that you would want in your life. Lucie Bacchiochi has been working as an educator for the last 8 years and has had a career working in the Child Welfare fie...
Episode 168 - How To Make New Friends
October 31, 2022 09:00 - 55 minutes - 102 MBDo you ever feel that it is hard to make genuine friendships as an adult? That it doesn’t come as easy as it once did when you were younger? On today’s episode we are going to be talking with my friend Lucie about how to cultivate friendships as an adult, how to get what YOU need out of a friendship, as well as how to be the friend that you would want in your life. Lucie Bacchiochi has been working as an educator for the last 8 years and has had a career working in the Child Welfare fie...
From detox, to reset, to CEO of your life
October 24, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes - 41 MBIn this episode we are going to talk about all the things from Detox the mind to Reset Your Mindset to finally Being the CEO of Your Own Life. If you didn't guess it yet, these are the names of my coaching programs. I get quite a lot of questions about them on a regular basis. So I thought it would be helpful to have an episode that I can refer people to on a regular basis to listen to about what my coaching programs are, as well as who they are for? Each program helps you to mo...
Episode 167 - From detox, to reset, to CEO of your life
October 24, 2022 09:00 - 22 minutes - 41 MBIn this episode we are going to talk about all the things from Detox the mind to Reset Your Mindset to finally Being the CEO of Your Own Life. If you didn't guess it yet, these are the names of my coaching programs. I get quite a lot of questions about them on a regular basis. So I thought it would be helpful to have an episode that I can refer people to on a regular basis to listen to about what my coaching programs are, as well as who they are for? Each program helps you to mo...
Solving Problems 101
October 17, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutes - 44.5 MBHow do you define a problem? Today we're going to be talking about the steps that I follow to solve a problem. These steps have really helped me center my mind on problem solving, and also on understanding “why is this a problem?” and “what will be required of me and my thinking to resolve this problem?” In this episode I will walk you through where you can use your brain to problem solve, to push your limits of thinking of possibility, to take full responsibility for what belongs t...
Episode 166 - Solving Problems 101
October 17, 2022 09:00 - 24 minutes - 44.5 MBHow do you define a problem? Today we're going to be talking about the steps that I follow to solve a problem. These steps have really helped me center my mind on problem solving, and also on understanding “why is this a problem?” and “what will be required of me and my thinking to resolve this problem?” In this episode I will walk you through where you can use your brain to problem solve, to push your limits of thinking of possibility, to take full responsibility for what belongs t...
Gratitude Before Evidence
October 10, 2022 09:00 - 17 minutes - 31.6 MBHave you ever expressed gratitude beforehand? Before landing the promotion, before the favor is made, before making the money, before evidence that what you want will be here, have you expressed gratitude? In this episode we are going to talk about feeling gratitude before having evidence. When you connect to gratitude before the thing you want is even here, you open the doors to abundance and confidence. This is what some call the “done energy” in the sense that you trus...
It Was Meant To Be
October 03, 2022 09:00 - 26 minutes - 48.3 MBWhat does it mean when we say something is “meant to be”? In this episode we're going to talk about things that are meant to be, what it actually means, and how we can just accept whatever we're going through today, because maybe, it is going to land us exactly where we need to go, even if it is away from our original plans. There is no surprise that our mental health and our confidence is damaged on a daily basis, on an hourly basis, by the way in which we communicate with ourselves. T...
A balanced life audit
September 26, 2022 04:00 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBWhat tells you that you are off balance? We tend to think we are out of balance when we are about to make sudden changes in our lives, for instance being a businesswoman to becoming a mother. We fear that we might fail to do both and have a balanced life while managing to be the best in two things at the same time. In today's episode, we are going to audit together our beliefs about a balanced life. What tools I've been using since becoming a mom have helped me re-establish my relations...
Is failure actually a failure?
September 19, 2022 04:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBHow many times have you lowered your goals and expectations? How many times have you quit even before setting the goal? Quitting before completing any of your goals comes from how you perceive failure. Visit olgasway.com for full show notes. My doors will be opening soon on the September 26 cohort of my Reset Your Mindset group. So if this is for you, if you are a perfectionist, attached to achievements, overdoing, constantly fed up with your own mind, wanting to get a break from think...
Worry - Your biggest expense
September 12, 2022 04:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBThe brain either focuses on creation or destruction. There is a creative energy that is forming amazing experiences and there is the negative energy that is destroying the life of your dreams. How can we master focusing only on creative energy? There is a faculty of your brain that uses discipline and can be incredibly powerful to you. This is the power that highly successful people are grasping. They also master focusing on tangible things and not the dreamy type of manifestation that ...
Taking a leap of faith with Lina
September 05, 2022 05:58 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBIt’s the quiet ones that exude the most power. This is because their transformation from shyness to loud strength requires a stronger level of work and dedication to themselves. In today’s episode, I speak with Lina, who in my head is an underdog. She came into the Reset Your Mind course just identifying the many things she had to work through and really doubting herself. She wanted to progress in her career and was too afraid of moving forward because of previous life experiences in Colom...
Living the life of your dreams with Janine & Myriem
August 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBGoing for the life of your dreams is to dive into a thick layer of discomfort. It is easier for us to look away from what’s really painful and just go around the edges onto another painful area. But what happens when you allow yourself to feel comfortable in the pain and be willing to be open to the support of others? In this episode, my friends, Janine and Myriem are just finishing their first round of Reset Your Mindset. And in these past 12 weeks, they both have had beautiful transforma...
The value of being vulnerable with Geneviève & Melissa
August 22, 2022 11:22 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBEveryone is a work in progress. And we also have to understand that we're not perfect. No, one's perfect. We all have things that we're working on and that's why we decide to change our mindset through life coaching. In this episode, Geneviève and Melissa, and I talk about the amazing advantages of signing up for anything self-help as well as the real obstacles we face when we decide to take a step towards our own personal development and growth. “I am forever grateful to all of the ver...
What is currently hurting your relationships?
August 15, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBThose of you who feel that you can never quite connect in your relationships, and never feel valued or understood are all symptoms of a lack of boundaries in a relationship. Grownups have the capacity to have these thoughts and emotions and eventually process having these boundaries to the best of their ability. They can either disagree, agree to disagree, or agree to part ways in a relationship or do something else as part of their processing. But, what happens if we choose not to hav...
How to Invest in Yourself
August 08, 2022 04:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBWhy do we have such a hard time deciding to invest in ourselves? I hired a new coach and I've got all these thoughts about what it felt like to make this investment. My mind had so many thoughts about why that was a scary move, and why I shouldn't invest that much money since it's very expensive. What if I didn't bring that money back? What if I failed at trying her strategic steps and tools? What if it didn't work for me? I came to the conclusion that ultimately the thoughts that I let...
Out of Guilty Mode
August 01, 2022 04:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBWhat if I told you the guilt you feel is generated by you? In today’s episode, I’m going to break down where your guilt comes from and life rules to change that feeling of guilt. You’ll walk away with the tools you need to get out of guilty mode. Visit olgasway.com for full show notes. My doors will be opening soon for the September cohort of my Reset Your Mindset group. I'm also going to be offering a Detox The Mind, five date live coaching in September, September 12. So if this is...
The Reason You Don’t See Results
July 25, 2022 11:20 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBIf you’re anything like me, you will have a lot of different goals in life. But what if you don’t meet these goals? In today’s episode, I want to talk about reasons why you don’t see results, specifically in your personal growth journey. If you keep trying to meet your goals, but it’s just not working: listen up! Visit olgasway.com for full show notes! Looking to increase awareness and peace of mind? Tired of listening to everyone talk about Mindfulness but you are unsure of what that ...
The 80/20 rule for productivity
July 18, 2022 04:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBMany of us think productivity equals visible results. It’s about achieving success and goals through having results that show all the time. But productivity is not just about seeing results, it’s also about having the ability to think with clarity, the output of energy you have internally, and how you can cultivate the key elements that feed your productivity. I believe, that for you to be productive, you have to cultivate four key elements: mental clarity, organization, prioritization, a...
The 80/20 Rule for Productivity
July 18, 2022 04:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBMany of us think productivity equals visible results. It’s about achieving success and goals through having results that show all the time. But productivity is not just about seeing results, it’s also about having the ability to think with clarity, the output of energy you have internally, and how you can cultivate the key elements that feed your productivity. I believe, that for you to be productive, you have to cultivate four key elements: mental clarity, organization, prioritization, a...
Out Of Fixing Mode
July 11, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBUncertainties in life are inevitable. These are things we don’t control and because of that, some people end up wanting to fix everything. Out of fear, they want to fix things to control the outcome. However, does fixing really solve the problem? In this episode, I would like to share why the fixing mode is not the answer to life’s uncertainties and problems. How you can get out of it and how you can revert from the fixing mode into confidence mode. The only thing certain is that life is...