Connecting members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with certified coaches who have all the tools to help you live a life full of peace, love, fun, and progress.
Each episode features a highly trained and impactful life coach who is listed on the Life Coach Directory for Latter-day Saints (ldslifecoaches.com) and is filled with practical tools and ideas to get even more out of this life then you thought possible. Your life may be good already, but what if it could be amazing?
We all have heard the childhood rhyme, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” It seemed true as children, but in reality words really can hurt and cause a lot of damage. Within the Church we can often refer to those who have left as wayward, lost sheep, or apostate. Coach Jennifer Barnhart has many members of her family who have stepped away from the Church and she finds that when we use this language we drive a bigger wedge between ourselves and those who have left. Equating one's worth and value through our descriptions of them can be very hurtful. There is a lot of improvement we as members can do to show love and support to those who have left through the language we use in describing them. Jennifer is a beautiful example of this. If you have someone in your life who has left the Church this is a great episode to listen to so that you can be more loving in your language not only around them but also about them.
Outside of having someone close to you pass away, divorce is the most stressful thing anyone could go through. It is a time of change anywhere from where you live, how you parent, your financial situation, and the relationships you have in your life. Whenever you are going through something as life changing as divorce, it is important to get all the support you can get. On today’s podcast, you will find a great support person to have on your team. Coach Samantha Nielsen helps those who are going through a divorce navigate that period of time. Being a divorcee herself she brings firsthand knowledge to the help she can provide and helps you to make smart decisions today so that your future can have the best possible outcome. As she says herself in today’s interview, “Having someone present to help you think through those challenges and recognize that today’s decisions impact tomorrow’s outcome, is huge.”
Whenever we discuss pornography use in the Church we often refer to it as an “addiction” but coach Zach Spafford thinks this is an innacurate description of what is happening and one that needs to change. Zach feels the narrative around pornography use needs to change so that we can allow for agency and mistakes. When we can come to accept that all of us were sent to earth to use our agency and that mistakes are part of that agency, then we can come to view those who look at pornography in a much better way that can actually allow them to choose to not view it instead of being forced by fear to not view it. Which by the way, never works. If you or someone you know is viewing pornography and wants to stop, this is a great episode to listen to.
Who doesn’t like bacon? Bacon is a favorite for many families but when you have a large family, having bacon on a regular basis can get expensive. In coach Meg Thomas’s family one of their biggest family debates was over bacon. The kids wanted more but the parents knew daily bacon just wasn’t in the budget. How did they compromise? By holding a family meeting where every person’s concerns were voiced and then a plan was set in place where everyone gave and sacrificed for the good of the whole family. Meg Thomas believes you have to run your family like a business and when you address even a minor issue like bacon in a consistent format, you build a culture within your home that helps your family thrive and have great results. On today’s episode Meg has so many great tips and insights on how to take your family to the next level. If you want to create a family culture where you are all excelling together you definitely want to give this interview a listen.
We all want to have a good relationship with our children. But relationships between children and their parents can often become strained during the teen years. We often associate it to the teen being rebellious but really, they are just wanting autonomy. What we have to learn as parents is to release the control on our teen and let them take control of their own life. This is difficult but will make all the difference. On today's episode Coach Heidi Benjaminsen talks about how to do this and the wonderful results that both you and your teen can experience as you each stay in your own lane.
We live in a world that likes to quantify things and place value on how much something is worth. We are constantly determining the worth and value of everything in our life. We do it with activities and events by weighing them against the value of our time. We do it with clothes, cars, and houses against the money we think they are really worth. Since we engage in placing value on so many things in our lives it can be easy to also start placing value and worth on ourselves as well as others. It is easy to place someone’s value and worth based on the clothes they wear, the car they drive, the house they live in, or their level of education. We falsely believe that if we or others have a certain level of these things then we are worth more and therefore also more lovable. But people aren’t things. We came to earth with all our worth and value already within us. Our lovability was set before we ever took our first breath.
There is only one you and so you are the only one who can create a life where what you really want is a top priority. Many know this but making the things that matter most a priority an actual reality can often seem overwhelming and impossible. Coach Molly Claire sits down to talk with Heather about how each of us has unique desires, wants, and gifts that were given to us on purpose by God so that we could each create the handcrafted life we are meant to live. The biggest obstacle to your dream life is you and when you can both love yourself completely and get out of your own way is when you will start to trust yourself and create the life you want. Molly said it best when she said, “Sometimes the hardest or most scary thing, and also the most important thing really, is to go inside of us and find out what does success look like for me.”
When many think of someone who has ADHD they think of hyper, overactive little boys. While that definitely can be a symptom, for many girls and women the hyperactivity is in their brains and therefore often goes unrecognized and undiagnosed. Coach Jody Long was not diagnosed with ADHD until she was thirty-five. With that diagnosis the ways she had been all growing up started to make sense. She now helps other women with ADHD come to peace with their diagnosis as well as realize it’s one of their greatest superpowers. If you have ADHD or think you might, you will definitely come away with a feeling of hope after listening to this episode.
We like to classify emotions into two categories - good and bad. But what if there were no good or bad emotions? What if all emotions were actually good and there to serve you? Coach Meg Tilton believes that it is in accepting all the emotions, listening to what they have to say, and validating them, that we are truly able to gain emotional mastery and call forth a beautiful army of strong and beautiful emotions to achieve our purposes here on earth. Meg is on a mission to help every woman in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints use the God given emotions within her to live the life God sent her here to live. She believes the ability to be who you want to be came with you when God sent you to earth. The question is, are you ready to start the journey?
While repentance is a key component of overcoming our weaknesses and being able to return to live with God again, it can often feel heavy and have a lot of shame associated with it. But what if it didn’t need to be that way? What if we could come at repentance from a different angle and instead of feeling heavy, feel lighter and filled with more hope? Coach Amy Elkins feels that when we can view repentance as the process that allows us to move towards our next best work, the process isn’t heavy anymore but something we can use as a springboard to our progression. Amy and Heather have a beautiful discussion on how repentance and sin can be viewed differently so that we use it as a tool to turn our weaknesses into strengths. This is a great episode on how the gospel and coaching come together to help us gain more awareness in our lives.
