The Take Back Your Damn Life Podcast
131 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsTake Back Your DAMN LIFE with certified burnout and stress management coach, speaker, and former scientist Ellyn Schinke.
On this podcast, Ellyn is on a mission to help busy, burned out corporate professionals and entrepreneurs find their balance. She puts her former scientist spin on no-bulls**t self-help by sharing tips, mindsets, and providing actionable + intentional takeaways to help you take back your damn life!
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30 - On Burnout, Slowing Down and Giving Yourself What You Need
January 24, 2019 15:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBFriends, I have a cold. And even though I game planned content for today that had a lot to do with MOTIVATING you the EFF UP to take ACTION on the things you want, it didn't make sense to talk about that today when I'm so low energy and when I'm still trying to recover from my cold. So today, in the spirit of my cold and what it's telling me about what I need in my life right now, here are 3 tips I have based on how I've been feeling lately on burnout, feeling the need to slow down and why i...
29 - Navigating Big Life Changes with James Burroughes
January 22, 2019 15:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBHave you ever had a desire to make a big change, but found yourself hanging on tightly to your past identity and career? Struggling to justify your decision to the people in your life? Not knowing where to start or if it's the "right choice" or the "right time"? We've all been there, but some of us are paralyzed by the uncertainty of the change and some of us embrace that uncertainty. James Burroughes has found himself embracing that not only in one big pivot, but multiple times. And I'm so ...
28 - What bulls*** stories are you telling yourself?
January 17, 2019 15:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBLet's face it - we all tell ourselves some BS stories. Maybe they're stories about our ability to travel the way we want, lose the weight we feel is slowing us down, start the business we'd always wondered and wished at...whatever! These stories can come in so many different shapes and forms - and, I don't know about you, but I'm DONE let my bulls*** stories control my life. In today's episode, I'm gonna get a little raw and a little real and tell you about some of my stories from my past, h...
27 - Overcoming False Beliefs with EFT + Holistic Healing Ft. Taryn Johnson
January 15, 2019 15:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBOur second interview of 2019 is with the amazing Taryn Johnson. Taryn Johnson, aka the Remote Yogi, is a spiritual + yoga teacher and coach who has used intentionally used personal growth, holistic healing and yoga to work through her own trauma, anxiety and false beliefs to transform herself and others. Not only that, but she gives tangible tools that you can use in your own life to help you overcome your own trauma, including perhaps the best description of the emotional freedom technique ...
26 - Finding MORE in Life and in 2019
January 10, 2019 15:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBHave you ever wondered if there's "more" for you in this life? It's a complicated question. A question that you may resist, but it's also a question that, if you listen to it, can help you to make some HUGE changes in your life! But, so often we get stuck, overwhelmed, and frustrated. How do we identify how to start creating MORE in our lives? Where the hell do we even start? Well, today I want to teach you a tool that I love, that I use every quarter and that I use with every client to help...
25 - Taking Action & Making Moves in 2019 with Kacia Fitzgerald
January 08, 2019 15:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBLadies and gentleman...today's guest is the quintessential woman of action, the queen of making moves...and so much more. I'm so pumped to welcome Kacia Fitzgerald. When I met her in 2014, she was just kicking off a new side hustle, living in NYC, supporting her boyfriend through dental school and just starting a job at Google. If that doesn't sound badass enough, this girl took a good life and decided she wanted a GREAT one. She quit her job and kicked off what would become a 7-figure busin...
24 - How to Maximize Your New Years
January 01, 2019 05:00 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBIt's 2019! And ya'll know that I'm not big on New Years...I'm big on goals and living intentionally according to your vision always. Not just with each new calendar year! But, that doesn't change the fact that a lot of us are in that New Years headspace of wanting to make some changes, some big pivots and some freaking transformation into 2019. So, how can we maximize that mood? Well, in today's spur of the moment, impulse episode, I wanted to give you just that - some of my top tips for max...
23 - How to Navigate Fear & Failure into 2019...
December 19, 2018 21:40 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBHow do we navigate moments when we fail? How do we bounce back? How do we not beat ourselves up? I don't know about you...but I know how daunting failure and the fear of failure can be. In our careers, in our relationships, in our health...in so many ways. I know how having failure before can haunt us and be so hard to bounce back from. But it doesn't have to be. Today, we're going to elaborate a little bit more on some of the topics that we touched on in our interview on Tuesday and I'm goin...
22 - Change Your Mindset to Change Your Life Ft. THE Dan Holloway
December 18, 2018 06:00 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MBYou could say I've been saving this episode...I mean technically I recorded it a couple months ago. But, actually, with all the other content that I've been creating for you guys and all the amazing interviews that I've had the pleasure of getting, this is just where this interview landed in the schedule. And it's the PERFECT little kick in the butt going into the new year because in this episode, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dan Holloway, or THE Dan Holloway as I've taken to callin...
21 - 5 Tips to Create Powerful Affirmations that WORK
December 13, 2018 06:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBWe're switching things up in this podcast! No more once-a-week. We're kicking things up a notch, because so often some of the actionable and tangible steps that we cover in each and every interview can get buried in the conversation. And sometimes, we're just covering something that I want to elaborate on. So, starting this week, we're going to add a new episode each week. A solo episode where I can dig a little bit deeper into the topic to provide you with actionable tools that you can take ...
20 - Manifesting for Results in Life with Barbara Cameron
December 11, 2018 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBThe first time I was introduced to affirmations + manifesting, I was probably like a lot of you. I thought they were complete and utter BULLS***. In today's episode, I'm sitting down with my friend Barbara Cameron, a renaissance woman of many passions and aspiring travel photographer, about how she's used intentional language and affirmations to manifest some incredible experiences in her own life, what so many of us do wrong when it comes to affirmations and ultimately the role that our lang...
19 - Ruthless Intentionality with Kat Burns of Vitality Rising
December 04, 2018 07:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBWhen you start moving toward something in your life, how fully have you committed to it? Are you all-in? Or do you still have a foot on the shore, wondering why your not sailing? In today's podcast, Kat Burns talks about what she called "ruthless intentionality", a phrase that I'm totally stealing in my future life. For her, it was all about taking responsibility and having some intention, ruthless intention, with the choices she makes. But you don't just declare something in your life. You c...
18 - The Stages of Defensiveness & Being Open to Feedback
November 27, 2018 07:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBDo you consider yourself to be a defensive person? I'd be willing to be that most people would probably answer "no" to this question, me being one of them. I consider myself to be a pretty open person, open to feedback, to growth, and so on. But am I, really? Are you? I had a moment the other day where I realized that I'm not. A person I trust made a comment that could have been valuable feedback for me. And my first instinct was to defend myself. I realized in reflecting on this situation th...
17 - How Self-Help is Like Spellbooks & Magic Ft. Flavius Popan
November 20, 2018 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBIf there's anyone in my Remote Year Community that is as MUCH of a personal growth nerd as I am, it's this dude right here! And damn was this a fun conversation. About how personal growth taught him to love learning and empowered him to look at learning differently as an adult than he ever did as a kid, how knowledge is like Harry Potter, teaching him new spells and tools that can transform his life just like magic would, imposter syndrome and how it showed up for him, failure in entrepreneur...
16 - Finding your Edge in Life + Work Ft. Dr. Laura Gallaher
November 13, 2018 07:00 - 58 minutes - 54.2 MBThe best part of doing a podcast is tapping into the genius of others and all they can teach you and this is another one of those moments when I'm so grateful that I kickstarted this podcast. In today's podcast, I am featuring a new friend and fellow Remote Year participant, Dr. Laura Gallaher. She is an organizational psychologist and the founder of Gallaher Edge, but more than the creds, she is an insightful badass and the hour I spent chatting with her truly is one my favorite interviews I...
15 - Silver Linings & Epic Fails
November 06, 2018 07:00 - 24 minutes - 23 MBHave you ever had an absolutely spectacular failure? Like it was the encapsulation of your dream and it crashed and burned so hard that you had trouble picking yourself back up? I thought I had to. That is until this past September. Today, I'm going to tell you about the most epic fail of my professional life. It was years in the making, and it failed miserably. I'm going to talk to you about some of what went through my head in the aftermath of that failure, what I did wrong, and some of the...
14 - Creating Freedom in Work + Life with Kelly Barnard
October 30, 2018 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.9 MBSometimes the biggest and best thing we can do for ourselves is give to set boundaries and to give ourselves permission to create our lives for ourselves and not for other people. To dig into that, I had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Barnard, a marketing consultant, career coach and, of course, a Remote Year Citizen, to talk about all things freedom. When she realized that her career at a marketing agency wasn't giving herself the freedom that she craved. So, she left her stable and ...
13 - Do You Have Reasons or EXCUSES?
October 23, 2018 06:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBGet ready to be CALLED OUT!!! Because damn did I feel called out, too. Similar to a couple of weeks back when I shared that audio clip from an IGTV I did, I'm breaking podcasting law and switching to a piece of audio that isn't great, because the content is what is the most important part. So often, we fall victim to the FAST, EASY, CHEAP attitude of our culture. But, that shit doesn't work, especially for long-term effective results in our lives. We have to be willing to invest our TIME + MO...
12 - Creative Living, Boundaries + Life By Design Ft. Krystal Anderson-Gosselin
October 16, 2018 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.9 MBI've been loving all these new friends I've been making on Instagram lately and, once again, that new connection turned into an AWESOME podcast interview! I'm so excited to have Krystal Anderson-Gosselin, aka @theunicorndilemma, as a guest on this week's podcast. We talk everything from discipline, boundaries to creative living, even for those of us that don't identify with the "creative" label, how to live more creatively and that helps us grow into who we were always meant to be. --- Sen...
11 - MINISODE: Defining Success on YOUR Terms
October 09, 2018 06:00 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBWhat does success look like for you? Is it a tangible thing you've contributed to the world? Is it a feeling of fulfillment or personal meaning? Is it more about your relationships? Is it a combination of all these things? Or...maybe you're likely me and you don't know. I was inspired by reading the book , “In the Company of Women”, to touch on success and what it means. It's an intensely personal subject and I realized in this MINI-SODE that I don't have a crystal clear definition. Instead, ...
10 - Ideas Become Things: Reflection & Travel to Take Back Your Life
October 02, 2018 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBWe're back on track with the interviews and this was a fun one because I just met my new best friend! Nicole Hudson is a fellow participant in Remote Year and her story parallels mine in so many ways. I absolutely loved hearing her story and talking about some of the hesitations, questions, and decisions that she ultimately had to make that led her to pick up and leave a seemingly great life and career in New York City to find a life that felt like hers. Some of the tangible work she did, the...
3 Tips Live Life ON YOUR TERMS
September 26, 2018 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBIt's a double episode week because this has been a BIG week for Coach Ellyn and my coaching biz! This is the week that I launched my baby, my dream program, Life 101! And today, I'm going to tell you all about the cornerstones of this program, which I believe to be the 3 Things you NEED to succeed in your life and to create your dream life on your terms! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbydl-podcast/message
1000% - On Coaching + How It Can Impact Your Life
September 25, 2018 06:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBToday, I'm sitting down with 3 of my former clients - Gunther Oakey, corporate counsel and all around creative badass; Annie Jacobsen, insurance broker by day and mental health guru by, also day; and Jess Newfield, Remote Year program leader + community facilitator + impact design consultant extraordinaire! These 3 took time away from their R&R at our personal growth retreat this past weekend to clear up some of the questions that people often have about coaching - what it is, coaching vs. th...
Why Your Goals May Fail
September 18, 2018 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBWhy do so many people set goals and then ultimately fail at achieving them? Well, I believe that there's a big reason for that and I believe that reason ultimately ties back to one specific thing. This week, I'm totally violating the rules of podcasting. It's like Podcast 101 that the quality of your audio is KING...but I'm taking a risk here, because I'm sharing some thing that might fall into the "shitty audio" category. I'm sharing with you a snippet of my fave IGTV that I've ever done cal...
Calm Your Tits
September 11, 2018 06:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBSometimes we just don't show up as our best selves. We snap at our friends, or significant others. We freak out about bad WiFi and struggle to keep ourselves from drop kicking our laptop across the room. We overreact! It's normal, and it's even more so when things aren't going perfectly. Bottom line, it's easy to be a good person and the best version of ourselves when things are going right and much more difficult when things aren't. Today, I'm going to tell you about some of my recent experi...
Fitness as a Vehicle for Growth
September 04, 2018 07:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB"There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back." In this episode, I talk all about how fitness and physical challenge has shown up in my life as a vehicle for challenge, change and transformation, with a little help from the wonderfully impactful essay "Iron & The Soul" by Henry Rollins, which has hugely impacted and resonated with me on my journey! --- Send in a voice message: ht...
Calling All Introverts!
August 28, 2018 06:00 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBToday I'm sitting down with two new friends from Instagram, Jenny & Mike of Introvert Goat, a budding apparel company with a mission of empowering introverts! We're talking all things introversion, from how their experiences with being introverts inspired them to start their company, the difference between introversion and shyness, managing introversion in social situations and SO MUCH MORE! Download to listen to this amazing and fun conversation! --- Send in a voice message: https://podca...
The 4 People I Need in My Life
August 21, 2018 06:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBThis is one of those episodes that probably won't be about what you think it is. It's not about my love for the Tacos, whom you heard from in the last episode. It's actually about the 4 people who will help me level up my physical and emotional game and the role that 1 of them has played in helping me handle my negative emotions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbydl-podcast/message
#NomadVibes - The Tacos Talk Travel
August 14, 2018 06:00 - 54 minutes - 50.4 MBWhy are you traveling the world for a year? Seriously. What is with this digital nomad trend? Well, in today's episode, we're sitting down with my girls and my current roommates in Prague, Kathleen & Kaarina, and talking all the things travel and the role world travel has played in our lives, particularly from the perspective of growth, challenge and change! We are the TACOS! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbydl-podcast/message
Welcome to the Growth Tribe
August 04, 2018 11:28 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBWelcome to the FIRST episode of The Growth Tribe, a personal growth + life transformation podcast where you'll hear stories and lessons from my own life, interviews with clients and some of my biggest mentors and inspirations, fellow coaches and other every day people, all with lessons, stories and tips to help you transform your life! In this episode, we're gonna talk a little about my story and why I'm so passionate about personal growth! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters....
The Growth Tribe Podcast :: TRAILER
August 01, 2018 21:00 - 1 minute - 355 KBAre you a growth-oriented person who is constantly looking for new ways to level-up your life? Well, then you need to join the growth tribe! My name is Ellyn and I'm the host of The Growth Tribe podcast. As a former scientist this podcast is my spin on no-bulls**t self-help to help you take back your life and go from good to GREAT! Because sometimes it's not about biz success, sometimes it's just about doing LIFE right. My goal in this podcast is to bring like-minded people together! You a...