It’s common self-help advice that “you are the aggregate of the five people you spend time with” or to simply “let go” of people who are “toxic”--but is this way of being profoundly dehumanizing? In this podcast episode, I respond to a listener request to talk about choosing who you surround yourself with and how those people have an impact on your well-being. If you’ve felt conflicted about how to figure out who the people are who are your truest friends, and if you’ve been uncertain about how to effect change in your relationships, this episode is for you.

Whether you have trouble trusting your intuition, or feel like you’ve got intuition on lock but could always use a few more insights, today’s podcast episode on learning to trust your intuition will break down some of the essential components. How do you know the difference between excitement and fear? How do you tell the difference between a “red flag” and needing to stretch into something outside your comfort zone? That’s what we’re talking about, today.

Do you have trouble recognizing self-sabotage? That’s something of a trick question, because we typically only recognize self-sabotage in hindsight. In today’s Your Courageous Life podcast episode, I’m talking about how you can start recognizing self-sabotage *before* you’re actually doing it. We’re getting real about shiny object syndrome, taking two steps forward and one step back, and how to finish what you start.

Today’s Your Courageous Life podcast episode offers some help with perfectionism. Often, people say they know they are perfectionists, but they have less of an idea of what to actually *do* about perfectionism. How do we stop getting stuck in the cycle of perfectionism? Today’s episode breaks down how perfectionism shows up and what we can do to notice it and change our habits.