About Progress

Today's "Do Something Highlight" is with Melissa Lewis. After moving and facing huge trials, Melissa found herself again by making her own bucket list. Doing these small, fun, and challenging things helped Melissa get out of a dark place and helped her remember who she is.Listen in to hear what this looked like for Melissa and how you can do it, too!Show NotesMelissa's InstagramMonica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and Progress Coaching More Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's easy to dismiss someone else's success. "They have such good genetics!" "Amazing that their dad got them their first big break." "Wish I had that talent!" The truth is, progress is HARD. For everyone, regardless for how "blessed" they are. Ashton Barrett is on the podcast today to share how improving oneself is both messy and magical. As a crossfit junkie, macro coach, and nutrition specialist, Ashton has walked herself and others through the roller coaster of progress. She understands the highs and lows, and wants to help you know how to better navigate it yourself--with plenty of grace and little of comparing yourself to others. Listen in to hear how progress has looked for Ashton, and what she does to push herself through the hard and the stressful by challenging herself with the mantra, "Just one more." She also teaches how you can push yourself BECAUSE you love yourself, and what the growth mindset has to do with all things self-improvement.  Show Notes:Ashton's Website, Instagram, and FacebookLast week's episodes with Jody Moore and Natasha GrassoMonica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and Progress CoachingMore Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natasha Grasso quit her high corporate job with big hopes to slow down her life and finally get pregnant.   In the process, she started a new jewelry-making hobby that became a real passion. Natasha looked past what was practical and logical, listened to her intuition, and took a leap into making her hobby into a business that supported the greater purposes of her heart: one focused on her family. Learn how Natasha allowed the hard things in her life inspire perspective, rather than bitterness. Natasha also shares her beliefs about how there is no wrong way to mother and still find fulfillment. She also shares how motherhood has shaped her goals, company, and who she is fundamentally.  Show Notes:Natasha's Website, Instagram, and Monthly Jewlery Subscription: Bling BoxOur last episode with Jody Moore on How to Stop ApologizingMonica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and Progress CoachingMore Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How often do you say the words, "I'm sorry?" Odds are, it happens much more than you think. And most of the time, they're unnecessary apologies.   As women, we tend to fall into a cultural trap of apologizing for taking up space, for being human with human flaws, or for even getting bumped into at the grocery store. At times, our apologies are a way of avoiding facing the parts of ourselves that are hard to own up to and work on.  Jody Moore of Better Than Happy wants to help you stop apologizing both to yourself and to others. If this involves building up a stronger sense of self and one with more compassion? Listen to hear how. And if this involves asking yourself deeper questions about why this might be the case and what you need to own about yourself? Also listen to hear why and how. Show Notes:Jody's Website, Podcast, Facebook, and InstagramLast week's podcasts with Kim White (choose your WHY in trials) and Chanelle Neilson (create a morning routine!)Monica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and Progress CoachingMore Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're not naturally a morning person (Monica is a member of that club!), you know the viscous cycle of going to bed too late and never starting your day off on the right foot.   But there is hope for us snooze queens! Establishing a morning routine that works for YOU can be done in a very manageable, doable way. You have to ditch the all-or-nothing thinking and start smaller than you think you should. But in time, you'll be able to add to it and start your day off before your to-do list comes calling. And the effects will truly change your life!! Chanelle Neilson is here to share how she created a morning routine for herself one small step at a time, why it has changed so much about her productivity and happiness, and how you can do this, too.   Chanelle's greatest advice? Start where you are, and start with what you need. So don't fear. This episode is not only helpful, but hopeful.  Monica is currently hosting a Wake-Up Early Challenge on Instagram! And Chanelle has a free resource for you on how to get the hang of establishing your morning routine Show Notes:Chanelle's Podcast, Website and InstagramMonica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and personal Progress CoachingMore Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kim White has been told she has only months to live more times than she can count the past 4 1/2 years. And yet, she's still kickin' it! But doing so hasn't been born purely from her ability to see the good in her trials. In fact, Kim readily shares that for a few years she struggled in BIG ways emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. BUT as Kim decided her own "WHY" behind her cancer and other health battles, she has been able to find deeper empowerment to better face them. And also those good-bad days where kids throw tantrums;).  Listen in to hear how to better support yourself and others through trials, how it's OK to be mad and sad, what simple gratitude can do to shift things around, and how love is ultimately the greatest foundation for all things hard. Show Notes:Kim's Instagram and referenced blog post Last week's interview on VulnerabilityMonica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and personal Progress CoachingMore Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Vulnerability" is a popular term these days. But for very good reason. Forget thinking "vulnerability" is where your distant relative shares all the horrible minutia of her life. True vulnerability demands courage. The kind where we look at our true selves in the mirror, see what needs to change, and get going. It's also the kind that lends yourself a tremendous amount of compassion as you navigate growth and the "humanness" you'll experience along the way. Sarah Carpenter and Stacy Weinstein of the Unpolished Podcast are experts in this field, both from teaching others and practicing true vulnerability in their own lives. Listen in to hear what this really looks like, how vulnerability will empower you to move towards a much better you, and why it's possibly the only "should" that you need on your priorities.  Show Notes:Unpolished Podcast, Sarah's Website, Stacy's Website Last week's episode with Neena WarburtonMonica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and personal coachingMore Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Stop being so childish!"  What if we encouraged the child-like strengths our children gravitate to instead of demanding they grow up?   What if we thought about what we liked to do as children ourselves--what our personalities were like, our interests, dreams, and even things we liked to do--and made that the basis for who we can better become as adults?  Neena Warburton believes that becoming more child-like is the key to unlocking what our spirit longs to be AND helps us better parent our kids. So if you're struggling to figure out who you are because you don't recognize yourself any more--reconnect with your own inner child. And if you can't figure out how to handle a challenging kid in your life--translate their child-like traits into strengths and do your best to better cultivate that. (And engage with them more as a child, too!) Neena is on the show to teach us how to do both. Show Notes:Neena's website, Instagram, and Facebook Last week's episode with Christiana HillMonica's next workshop in Walnut Creek, CA on August 25th--get your tickets HERE and $15 off each ticket when you use the code "LISTENER"Monica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and personal coachingMore Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"I want to. I can. I will." This is the mantra that got Kristina Southam to her goal of running a marathon and hiking Mt. Kilimanjaro. She's our "Do Something Highlight" today and sharing ways that she has done things that have scared her and the effect of them. One of these included taking a break from a graduate program she had worked so hard to get into, and how deferring ended up being the best way to reset her life. Listen to hear about how she wanted to show up better for the people in her life, what self-care looks like for her, and what she learned about doing the right thing in the right season of life. Show Notes:Kristina's Instagram and Las Vegas Race: Saints and Sinners Half and RelayMonica's next workshop in Walnut Creek, CA on August 25th--get your tickets HERE and $15 off each ticket when you use the code "LISTENER"Monica's two-day, 24-hour workshop REDISCOVER YOU, with guest teachers Kim Christenson and Rachel Nielson (use code "AUGUST" to save $25 and listen to the episode to hear a discount for $35 off)Monica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and personal coachingMore Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an international model turned student, turned missionary, turned business owner and clothing designer,n speaker, advocate, and author (phew!), Rosemary Card has done and seen more than most almost-30-year-olds!  Rosie's gift of using her unique voice was forged through years of standing up to bullies, living up to her values amidst great pressure, and speaking up even within her own religious culture. She shines so brightly, and Rosie knows YOU can, too! In this interview, Rosie shares how she found her own voice BY using it, what she believes we all need to do, and how faith is made stronger because of doubt.   Want to learn more from Rosie? You simply MUST read her book. It's the perfect mix of memoir, essays, and self-help from a gal-who-knows.  Show Notes:Rosie's website, book, Instagram, and FacebookMAMA SPRING BREAK!Last weeks' episodes with Camille Andros, Crystalee Beck, and my 100th episode!Monica's two-day, 24-hour workshop REDISCOVER YOU, with guest teachers Kim Christenson and Rachel Nielson (use code "AUGUST" to save $25 and listen to the episode to hear a discount for $35 off)Monica's next workshop in Walnut Creek, CA on August 25th--get your tickets HERE and $15 off each ticket when you buy two or more tickets with the code "TWOPLUS"Monica's Facebook and InstagramContact Monica for podcast consulting and personal coachingMore Podcasts from About ProgressSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices