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 live in a world of countless voices all trying to get us to listen to them. At times it can be overwhelming and often distracts us from our path. Coach Debra Thomas has found that the most important voice to listen to is your own inner voice. But learning how to do this takes time and effort. On today’s podcast Debra talks about how to better listen to your inner voice and gives some examples and steps to help you do it better. This is a great episode on showing the power we have already inside and that that is the best guide for our life. If you want more help finding your inner voice and having it be the thing that guides you, check out Debra’s website and set up a time to chat with her.
If you are a human and living life, then you have without a doubt experienced another human doing something that has hurt you or made your life more difficult. In these situations we need to have a lot of self-compassion for ourselves but we also need to learn and start taking responsibility for our emotions and reactions. Being a coach for those going through a divorce, coach Tanya Hale helps her clients learn how to take responsibility and move out of being a victim. As you will hear Tanya say today, when there is a villian, there is always a victim. We all need to learn to take responsibility for our agency so that instead of being a victim we can be a hero. This episode contains so many truths we all could use. We hope you listen and apply what is being taught. The concepts taught here apply to all of us but if you happen to be going through a divorce, then make sure to look Tanya up and get a free consultation call so she can help you do it faster and better.
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have culturally painted a picture for what a good woman looks like and as a result we have seen in many ways how doing this has been damaging. Many of the podcasts here talk about how to help women break free of that story but on today’s podcast we flip the coin to see how culturally in the Church we have also painted a picture of what a good man looks like and how that can also be damaging to these men and have negative effects on the most important relationship in their life. Coach Rhonda Farr talks today on the podcast about what it is like to be a high achieving man in the Church who is doing all the things he was told he should do - like providing for his family and serving faithfully in a calling - and is still having significant struggles in his marriage.
We all have thoughts about ourselves and if you were to really examine them, are you telling yourself mostly negative things or positive things? If you said something negative, you are in the norm. You have a wonderful brain that is constantly trying to make sure that you are safe but a lot of times it goes about doing that in a very unhealthy way. After going through some hard things in her life and listening to a brain that while well intentioned, was telling her over and over again that she was not enough, Coach Alicia Hall realized that she didn’t have to believe that anymore and she started her healing journey of believing that she was enough. That Heavenly Father and the Savior love her exactly as she is and that her worth and value were determined before she even came to earth. She now helps her clients learn these same truths for themselves. She helps each of her clients recognize that they are enough, that Heavenly Father loves them just as they are, and that their lives have meaning and purpose.
As women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we often feel our worth and purpose is solely tied to our children and so when they leave the house and are not an everyday and every moment focus, women can feel lost and wonder what their purpose is now. Coach Jackie Swainson wants women to know that life after children can be amazing, full of purpose and that there are great things ahead. It is a time where they can start to clean out unhealthy thoughts, start believing in themselves more, and free themselves of the “thick things” that can often weigh them down. Getting older is a time of expansion and where women can really grow and be a force for so much good.
Often when we talk about God and becoming more like Him, we dwell on emotions or attributes that are positive and feel good. Feelings like love, charity, understanding, and patience. We seldom focus on emotions like anger, frustration, jealousy, and hate. Somewhere in our earthly learning we have come to believe that God doesn’t feel those things and so if we do, then we are doing something wrong and are in some way bad. Coach April Price is on the podcast today talking about how the exact opposite is true. It is not that God is sitting in a constant state of love and happiness while never feeling negative emotion. What He is actually doing is feeling all the negative emotion and then consciously choosing the love, the understanding, and the patience through His agency. One of our greatest gifts from God is the ability to grow and growth requires us to be able to feel negative emotion and still choose love, still choose to move forward, still believe we are good. When we can accept that feeling negative emotions is normal, we can stop believing that we are doing life wrong and start to realize that we are actually living the plan of God.
When it comes to coaching there can be a lot of growth, mind stretching, and emotional maturing that takes place as old beliefs are questioned and replaced with new ones that create different results. We can definitely do a lot of cognitive growing on our own, but partnering with our Heavenly Parents is how we can do it so that our results are greater than we could ever imagine. The unique perspective of all the coaches here on the Latter-day Life Coaches Podcast is that we can take all the tools of life coaching and filter them through the lens of the gospel. This added filter helps those of us who have clients that believe in God and want to combine coaching and the gospel do that in a seamless way. In this final episode of 2022, Heather Rackham, the host of the podcast, shares some of her biggest takeaways from the year.
We often think that it’s selfish to focus on ourselves and do things that make us happy, but coach Kyla Beecroft could not disagree more. Today on the podcast she shares a tool she uses to help her clients really focus on themselves by learning their strengths not just so they can be happier but so that all around them can be happier. Kyla believes we were sent to earth to grow and fulfill a specific purpose and we will do that best as we focus on our strengths, but we must first know what they are. We are not all meant to be alike and our different strengths are what allow for us to collectively be better. If you have been searching for a way to know your purpose and strengths you are definitely going to want to listen to today’s episode.
In the spring of 1820, the question by a young boy about which church he should join opened the Restoration of the gospel and allowed God to once again speak to men on earth. If Joseph Smith had never had that question, where would your life be today? Even though our religion was brought back to earth through a question, we as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints often have a lot of fear around asking questions. Many fear asking questions will draw them away from God instead of closer to Him. Coach Meagan Skidmore found herself several years ago in a position where her faith and her lived reality did not match up and she had a lot of questions. This put Meagan on a very unknown path and what she found is that as she turned to God with her questions her faith deepened.
Many of us have read or are familiar with the famous book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The story follows one fateful Christmas Eve for Ebineser Scrooge. That evening four ghosts pay him a visit. His old friend Marley, The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future. Each ghost has an important lesson for Mr. Scrooge and that evening changes his life. Well, this story by Dickens is not just meant to be a story of a man learning how to change his ways and create a new life. It has deep and significant meaning for each of us as well.
