About Progress

In order to fully step into who you ARE, you need to look back at who you WERE.Last month we talked about ch-ch-changing! This month, we are focusing on being true to your real self. The one that you have still deep down inside you with interests, gifts, and passions put on the back burner.How can you rediscover your self? Go back to who you were as a kid. And consider which labels you have adopted that are getting in the way of you exploring others.CLICK HERE TO GET THIS MONTH'S FREE PRINTABLES, INCLUDING THE PROGRESS PLAN!Show Notes FREE Printables, including this month's Progress Plan Lend your voice and experience + be featured on the show HERE  Join the free and private FB groupJoin the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for February!) Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a community, not a fan club. We learn from and inspire each other.This new monthly series is where members of the About Progress Community write in to share notes with their fellow "Progressors."Listen in to hear how Progressors have grown, their experiences, their stories, and their wisdom on this month's theme. Show Notes FREE Printables, including this month's Progress Plan Lend your voice and experience + be featured on the show HERE  Join the free and private FB groupJoin the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for February!) Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: "Drive," by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine having THE "ideal body" everyone is after these days. Imagine your arms being commented on by strangers at the grocery store, thousands of social media likes and comments daily about how inspired people are by your hard work and dedication to body-building, and creating an entire family-led business off of helping others do the same.Then imagine leaving alllllll the glory and admiration behind because you learned first hand that having the "ideal body" didn't correlate to having an "ideal life."That's Cori Baker.A year ago she went through a massive transformation. One that entailed a huge departure from the old transformation photos she used to share; this one being about the inside.Cori left behind a life on the extreme end on health in pursuit of a truer health--one still focused on mindfulness, nutrition, and exercise, but in a way that created far more room for an actual LIFE in between it all.Listen to learn how Cori knew it was time to shift her focus, what hard things she saw in herself she determined to change, and what she did to do just that.Show Notes Cori's InstagramFREE Printables, including this month's Progress Plan Lend your voice and experience +be featured on the show HERE Join the free and private FB groupJoin the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for February!) Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: "Drive," "Changes," and "Golden Alley" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's Growth Spurt, Monica shares how she has translated this month's theme into her own life: learning what she needs to change this year. Monica shares three ways she wants to grow and how they relate back to better knowing who she wants to become. The three areas are: 1) Money2) Marriage3) FriendshipListen in to hear why she wants to make shifts in these areas and how you can also can figure out where you need to change the most, too.  SHOW NOTES:FREE Printables, including this month’s Progress Plan Lend your voice and experience +be featured on the show HERE Join the free and private FB groupJoin the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for February!) Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: “Spheres” by Nicolai Heidlas  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mindset is everything. So what do you do if the only way you learned how to change in the past was by hating yourself into it?Shifting your life by being motivated with guilt, shame, and "shoulds" is no way to grow.Tony Overbay is here to share how as a therapist he guides his clients (and himself!) to better catch negative self-talk and move into progressive change.Listen in to learn how you learning to like yourself (via your thoughts!) will help you better change into the person you want to become.Show Notes Tony's website, podcast, and Instagram + Value Model referencedFREE Printables, including this month's Progress Plan Lend your voice and experience +be featured on the show HERE Join the free and private FB groupJoin the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for February!) Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: "Drive," "Changes," and "Golden Alley" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People adore the "self-love" movement happening these days, and I'm alllll about it! Unless that acceptance-of-self translates more to someone excusing themselves from seeing where they need to change.Fully loving yourself entails being willing to see the good AND the bad in yourself. But your motivation is different--it's because you love the whole picture, and want to progress in ways that truly matter.Listen in to hear more! This is our first "Growth Spurt," which will be a continuing series of short episodes that are designed to help give you a little push to grow! Show Notes FREE Printables, including this month’s Progress Plan Lend your voice and experience +be featured on the show HERE Join the free and private FB group Join the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for January!) Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: “Drive,” “Flower Garden,” “Changes,” “Back In School” and “Warm Lights” by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're telling yourself that it's already the second week in January and it's too late for you to get serious about goal-making, you're wrong.And if you're already feeling burnt out, overwhelmed, or even under-challenged as one who strives to love goal-making, you're just doing it wrong.That's forceful to say--sure--but this interview with Lara Casey Isaacson is sure to help empower you to make goals that ACTUALLY work, and with progress--not perfection--in mind.Lara herself says that she is not naturally a "Goal Person." But, how she grew to successfully implement goal-making as an integral part to who she is, and then create a whole company devoted to helping others do the same was like this: LITTLE BY LITTLE.Listen in to hear how this happened for Lara and what you can do to become a "Goal Person," too.Show Notes Lara's website, Instagram, Facebook, and personal Instagram FREE Printables, including this month's Progress Plan Lend your voice and experience +be featured on the show HERE Join the free and private FB groupJoin the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for February!) Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: "Drive," and “Warm Lights” by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you feel stuck in the same patterns? Are you looking at the new year with equal parts hope AND fear? Wondering if you reallyhave it in you to make real, lasting change?You actually CAN change. Forget goal-making (that will come later), forget looking side-to-side to see what your internet friends or IRL loved ones are telling you you "SHOULD" be doing.Before anything else you need to hone into who you want to be, what change that requires from you, and WHY you want to change.Once you can do that (use our free printables here!), then you can go and DO SOMETHING about it.Listen in to hear how to start honing into who YOU want to become and how to make the kind of change that actually sticks around.Show NotesFREE Printables, including this month's Progress PlanLend your voice and experience +be featured on the show HEREJoin the free and private FB groupJoin the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for January!)Join Monica on Facebook and InstagramSongs Credit: "Drive," "Flower Garden," "Changes," "Back In School" and “Warm Lights” by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heather NEVER planned on living abroad--she was happy with her suburban Utah life. But when an unexpected job opportunity for her spouse showed up and with it a relocation to Japan, Heather found herself agreeing to move away from all she knew and loved. She expected it to be incredibly difficult.But what did she discover? Herself!Listen in to hear how this move exposed Heather to new sides of herself, added to her family's culture, and expanded their capabilities! Show NotesJoin the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for January!)My new Work in Progress T-shirt!!(Use code “PROGRESS” for $5)Contact Monica for podcast consultingand Progress CoachingJoin Monica on Facebookand InstagramSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever thought about trying something new but get caught up in the "how?"You just need to go for it. The "HOW" will come with time, even in the least ideal of circumstances.Lysha Smith is on the show to share how you can better go for the things that are going to add to your life. She starts by encouraging you to imagine yourself at 80 and look back on how you spent your time on earth.Doing this helped Lysha navigate her husband's cancer, their shared losses, and beyond. Lysha talks about how the lessons from the hardest time of her life have now translated to how she now navigates the "normal" hard days.Through it all, Lysha learned how trying to focus on the good AND trying new things is what can bring light to her hard (and good) times. Bring on the healing AND the the hope! Show NotesLysha's Website and InstagramJoin the Progress Program: SMALL-group GROWTH coaching for women (you can apply now to reserve your slot for January!)My new Work in Progress T-shirt!!(Use code “PROGRESS” for $5)Contact Monica for podcast consultingand Progress CoachingJoin Monica on Facebookand InstagramSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices