How do you reset your life after a big transition, while honoring the places you’ve been and paths you’ve walked? As I celebrate the 100th episode of the Your Courageous Life podcast, I’m offering a metaphor for how we can think of this time of pre- and post-pandemic transition, and sharing the three essential pieces that you need when you reset your life to pave the way for a new beginning.

Have you ever been in that space of, “I’m going to change” and then the moment arrives when you could make a different choice, and you just...don’t? Today’s podcast is all about living beyond the comfort zone. The comfort zone has its place--it helps us ground ourselves in preparation to stretch--but we know we can’t always live from that place. At some point, we have to lean beyond that comfort zone, and, we’ve got to be aware of our unconscious habitual reactions to the necessary discomfort that we feel if we’re going to be able to change. Living beyond the comfort zone means recognizing when we’re about to go into old habitual patterns again, so that we can get unstuck.

2020 was a hard year--and? It was an opportunity. It was an opportunity to dig deeper, finding out what it is that you want most out of life when so many options were taken away. It was an opportunity to find out where our skill-sets were coping had holes. It was an opportunity to look at justice in a new light. It was an opportunity to say more true yes, and more true no. Want the next year of your life to be different? Let’s recap what we’ve been through to pave the way for what’s next.

Ask the confident woman you know, “What has been the cost?” She’ll tell you stories. For every confident woman I’ve met, there are stories of needing to face the undermining behaviors of others. In today’s podcast episode, I’m asking all of us to consider how we undermine our own confidence...and how we contribute, inadvertently, to undermining the confidence of others. Confidence isn’t false bravado. It has deep roots.