The Good Life with Michele Lamoureux

What does it take to find work that is truly satisfying? How do you figure out what steps to take to get clarity on what a meaningful career would like for you? How do you unhook from all the well meaning advice about what you should do with your life and instead listen to your gut? These are just a few of the areas I ask Tammy Gooler Loeb, career coach, and author of “Work From The Inside Out: Break Through Nine Common Obstacles and Design a Career That Fulfills You.” If you are looking to make a career transition or find more meaning in your work, you’ll love this conversation. All of the show notes and resources mentioned can be found at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/168 While on the show notes page, we’d love for you to join our newsletter. You’ll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You’ll also get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love (available for a limited time). WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ How well intentioned people in your lives can encourage you to go in a particular direction and why it is okay to follow the work that is most meaningful to you. 2️⃣ Why it is important to listen and trust our intuition. 3️⃣ Specific exercises you can do to get on track if you aren’t sure what you want to do. 4️⃣ How to manage fear so it doesn’t keep you stuck. 5️⃣ How do you know if you are on the right path. 6️⃣ The importance of patience when switching careers or finding meaningful work. 7️⃣ Passion vs Purpose and which is actually important and useful. RESOURCES MENTIONED Michele on Instagram Michele’s Book Book: Work From The Inside Out: Break Through Nine Common Obstacles and Design a Career That Fulfills You Website: https://www.tammygoolerloeb.com IG: @tammygoolerloeb ABOUT THE GUEST Tammy Gooler Loeb, is the author of the recently released book, “Work From The Inside Out: Break Through Nine Common Obstacles and Design a Career That Fulfills You”. She is a career and executive coach who helps people pursue meaningful and fulfilling work. In addition to coaching individuals, Tammy consults and speaks on career satisfaction, leadership development, effective workplace communication, and networking strategies. Tammy has enjoyed working with clients and companies across a wide range of industries and sectors for over two decades.Tammy also hosts a weekly podcast, Work from the Inside Out, where she showcases the inspiring stories of people who made a variety of professional transitions to more satisfying and fulfilling work over the course of their careers. Tammy’s expertise has been featured in Harvard Business Review Ascend, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Boston Globe. Thank you for listening to the show! If you enjoyed this interview, please take a moment to rate and review it on Apple podcasts. Your reviews are so appreciated! Not sure how to do it? Instructions are below. XO, Michele

Did you know that what you eat can impact your mental health? Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard psychiatrist, who has studied nutrition and is a trained professional chef. She helps us understand the gut-brain connection and how what we eat can have a direct impact on our mental well-being. In her book she teaches us how our diet can fight depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, ADHD and more and we get into her research in this interview. All of the show notes and resources mentioned can be found https://thegoodlifecoach.com/167 While on the show notes page, we’d love for you to join our newsletter. You’ll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You’ll also get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love (available for a limited time). WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ How she is a pioneer in nutritional psychiatry.  She also defines what that means for those who are unfamiliar with the term. 2️⃣ How she realized nutrition was an important part of mental and decided to incorporate it into her practice. 3️⃣ Why mental health is a pandemic about and just how important what you eat is to your mental and physical health. 4️⃣ The gut-brain relationship and how they are interconnected. 5️⃣ Why foods that cause inflammation impacts your metabolic health. 6️⃣ The role of the microbiome on health. 7️⃣ Specific foods that make anxiety worse and others that help relieve it. 8️⃣ What Dr. Naidoo eats in a day to maintain a healthy gut-brain relationship. RESOURCES MENTIONED Michele on Instagram Michele’s Book Book: This is Your Brain on Food Website: https://umanaidoomd.com/ IG: Dr Uma Naidoo on IG ABOUT THE GUEST Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space: a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef graduating with her culinary schools’ most coveted award, and a trained Nutrition Specialist. Her nexus of interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry. Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the United States. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at MGH Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She was considered Harvard’s Mood-Food expert and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Naidoo is also the national best selling author of This Is Your Brain On Food. In her book, she shows the cutting-edge science explaining the ways in which food contributes to our mental health and how a sound diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues, from ADHD to anxiety, depression, OCD, and others. Thank you for listening to the show!

Would you like to learn a simple 5 step process for getting organized around dressing well so you look and feel your best? If so, tune into this informative interview with Mary Lou Andre, who is a nationally recognized stylist, corporate image consultant, speaker and author.  For over 25 years Mary Lou has been empowering people with the knowledge and systems they need to dress as the best version of themselves. She walks us through her process so we can easily learn how to do this for ourselves. If you love learning about fashion and style, or your sense of style has changed, or you just want to understand an easy way to get organized around looking your best, this interview is for you. All of the show notes can be found at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/166 While on the show notes page, we’d love for you to join our newsletter. You’ll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You’ll also get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love (available for a limited time). WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ How to retrain your eye to understand the principles of dress 2️⃣ How dressing well helps boost your confidence. 3️⃣ An organized process to getting dressed. How to declutter and streamline your closet. 4️⃣ How to try things on to determine the best fit for your body. 5️⃣ Assessing your current wardrobe and identify your budget and style. 6️⃣ Assembling your team – including the stores/designers where you’ll shop, who will do your alternations and jewelry repair. A stylist. The people that will help you feel and look your best. 7️⃣ The must have items every woman should have in her closet. RESOURCES MENTIONED Michele on Instagram Michele’s Book Website: dressingwell.com IG: @dressingwellboston FB: dressingwell Mary Lou’s book ABOUT THE GUEST Mary Lou Andre is a nationally recognized stylist, corporate image consultant, speaker and author. She is founder and president of Organization By Design, Inc., a Needham, Massachusetts-based wardrobe management, fashion and image consulting firm that helps individuals and organizations understand the power of being appropriately dressed in a variety of situations. Mary Lou is recognized by the media as a professional image, wardrobe organization, personal style and retail expert and has given in-depth interviews about a variety of these topics on ABC World News Now, CBS The Early Show, and MSN’s Money Central. Her fashion and professional image insights are regularly featured in national publications such as In Style, Real Simple, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Marie Claire, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Esquire, Executive Female, Family Circle, Sales & Marketing Magazine, Woman’s Day, Working Mother and The Washington Post. She is the author of Ready to Wear: An Expert’s Guide to Choosing and Using Your Wardrobe Thank you for listening to the show!

What do astronauts, Olympic champions and Nobel laureates do differently that allows them to achieve at such a high level? That's what we cover in this interview with Dr. Ruth Gotian, the author of "The Success Factor." Ruth says being a high achiever is accessible to anyone who cultivates the skills and dedicates the time. She walks us through the four attributes that peak performers share and walks us through many actionable tips you can apply to your life. All of the show notes can be found at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/165 While on the show notes page, we’d love for you to join our newsletter. You’ll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You’ll also get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love (available for a limited time). WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ Ruth’s definition of a high achiever and how everyone is capable of becoming a high achiever. 2️⃣ Whether being successful is based on nature or nurture. 3️⃣ The four attributes of high achievers. 4️⃣ Creative ways to find a mentor and the value of having a team of mentors of all ages. 5️⃣ The importance of being a life long learner.  6️⃣ Why we need to stop binging Netflix and dedicate our time to our natural talents and live up to our potential... and much more. RESOURCES MENTIONED www.ruthgotian.com/book Ruth's book "The Success Factor" www.twitter.com/ruthgotian www.instagram.com/ruthgotian https://www.linkedin.com/in/rgotian/ Michele on Instagram About the Author Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking. Recently, she won the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement - Radar Award given to a “thinker with the potential to change the world of theory and practice” and cemented her place as the #1 emerging management thinker in the world. She is also a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she is a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. Her research is about the mindset and skill set of peak performers, including Nobel Prize winners, astronauts and Olympic champions. She is the author of The Success Factor.

Joya Dass was one of the first South Asian females to be seen on mainstream television in the US. She's been a business anchor for major networks for the last 15 years, delivering live hourly reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for Bloomberg, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NY1 News. She has a natural talent for creating unique experiences for women to come together and connect in meaningful ways which is what we explore on the show today. She will share how to do this to form great networking opportunities, foster meaningful connections, develop friendships, and help your career advancement.  Joya is currently focused on cultivating Women Leaders through her Women’s Leadership Academy. All of the show notes can be found at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/164/ While on the show notes page, I’d love for you to join our community. You’ll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You’ll get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love. WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ The importance of hard work and perseverance. 2️⃣ Why you have to show up for yourself and your dreams. 3️⃣ How to network in a way that creates meaningful connections. 4️⃣ Why you need to add value to someone first before asking others for anything.   5️⃣ How to curate a unique event to create culture and bond people in a meaningful way.  6️⃣ The value of why shared experiences bring people together, and much more. RESOURCES MENTIONED @joyadass on all social joyadass.com - with information about Joya's Mastermind for Women Podcast interview with Joya where she shares about the power of persistence  Joya's Tedx Talk - "Re-Thinking Failure" Michele on Instagram Thank you for listening to the show!

Most of us have experienced a brief power outage at some point but what if the power in your home went out for days, would you be prepared? What about a lockdown and going to the market with empty shelves and no access to things like toilet paper? We’ve experienced this with the pandemic but are you prepared in case something like that happens again without warning? What about wild fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, or some other natural disaster or emergency situation? If you needed to flee your home, would you be ready to leave safely and with the items you need to survive until the situation is better? Do you know what to have on hand at home or in order to flee? These are some of the questions that get covered in today’s interview. In my opinion, this episode is important for everyone and definitely worth your time. Joining us is Kathy Vines, Certified Professional Organizer, who has combined her organizational expertise with emergency preparation tips. She walks us through her 3-part emergency preparedness framework. You will learn so much useful information from this episode! Show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/163. WE DISCUSS: Emergency Prep for: 1. At home – shelter in place with limited access to supplies and services. 2. Fleeing your home but only for a certain amount of time. For ex. to avoid a hurricane. 3. Fleeing your home when it might be permanent because there are wild fires that destroy your home.  4. Each of these scenarios and how they require different supplies and preparedness. 5. How to approach it without being panicked but being prepared. 6. The importance of having a plan for the household. 7. Ways to mitigate risks. Core list of supplies: Water  2. Food 3. Medications 4. Toilet paper 5. Personal hygiene 6. First aid 7. Pet food 8. Camp stove + matches 9. Pot to boil water 10. A fuel source  11. Camping backpacks – old clothes that you could grab and go with warm clothes 12. Durable duffel bag 13. Tent 14. Make sure your devices are charged.  Phone or laptops especially to have communication.   15. Flashlights, glow sticks 16. Hand crank radio 17. Glasses or contacts What information you need on hand. Doctors number 2. Know how to turn off the water for your house 3. Copies of the insurance for your home 4. Being able to grab your most important life documents easily and have copies somewhere safe.  Passports, Birth certificates, and cash in smaller bills. Show Notes & Resources: Interviews with Michele: –Episode #9 with me and Kathy on Home Organizing –Episode #62- Kathy giving us organization tips to begin a New Year Kathy’s Resource Blog Post she referenced Website: clevergirlorganizing.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathyvinessays/ Michele on Instagram Book: Clever Girl’s Guide to Living with Less: Break Free from Your Stuff, Even When Your Head and Heart Get in the Way by Kathy Vines KATHY VINES BIO: Kathy Vines is a Certified Professional Organizer, Productivity Specialist, and the owner of Clever Girl Organizing. Kathy launched Clever Girl in early 2013 after a 20-year career in Human Resources. She works with people across the country through Virtual Organizing and in her annual Clever Girl Organizing Challenge, helping to untangle their relationship to stuff and create the systems to conquer the chaos around them. She is the author of the book, “Clever Girls’ Guide to Living with Less: Break Free from Your Stuff, Even When Your Head and Heart Get in the Way”. Kathy’s ideas have been featured in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Better Homes and Gardens and Real Simple magazines. She appeared in a national segment on “Inside Edition”, and that video has been viewed over 2.5 million times on YouTube, though admittedly, she can’t imagine how why 2.5 million people need to see her help a family organizer their refrigerator.  This episode was sponsored by Design a Life You Love, A Woman’s Guide to Living a Happier and More Fulfilled Life. My book includes 52 inspirations, one for every week of the year, each with practical tips to guide you to self-love and success on your own terms. It’s a short book that you can read in about an hour, but includes life lessons that will last a lifetime. Thank you for listening to the show!

Dr. Sara Gottfried, New York Times best-selling author of numerous books geared to empower women with the information they need to live healthier lives joins us to shed light on the relationship between our hormones and food. We discuss her most recent book, Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again. If you want to understand your hormones and how to be healthy, strong, and to create balance in your life – you are going to love this conversation! All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/162. While on the show notes page, I’d love for you to join our community. You’ll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You’ll get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love. WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ What is precision medicine and why it is way she practices medicine. 2️⃣ How healthcare should focus more on personalization and bio-individuality, rather than focus on the population, which is the medicine of the average. 3️⃣ Why women need to demand better care and ask doctors to look at root cause. 4️⃣ Why we need to eat in a way that regulates our hormones, from insulin to estrogen. 5️⃣ How anxiety and depression can be impacted by hormones being out of balance. 6️⃣ Why classic keto doesn’t work for many women. 7️⃣ The Gottfried Protocol and how to approach eating for metabolic health. 8️⃣ The important role testosterone plays in women’s health. 9️⃣ Dr. Gottfried’s daily morning routine and one thing not to do to begin your day, and much more! RESOURCES MENTIONED Website: Dr. Gottfried’s website with more resources Book: Women, Food, and Hormones – Book Instagram: Dr. Gottfried Integrative Practice: Dr. Gottfried Michele on Instagram MORE ABOUT DR SARA GOTTFRIED: Sara Gottfried, MD is a board-certified physician, researcher, educator, and NYT bestselling author. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed residency at the University of California at San Francisco. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Gottfried has seen more than 25,000 patients and specializes in identifying the underlying cause of her patients’ conditions to achieve true and lasting health transformations, not just symptom management.Dr. Gottfried is a global keynote speaker who practices evidence-based integrative, functional, and precision medicine. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in Dept. of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health.Her three New York Times bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her new book just came out in September 2021, called Women, Food, and Hormones. Learn more at SaraGottfriedMD.com

The iconic Debbie Millman is on the show. I have been an admirer of her work for years. For 20 years, Debbie was the President of Sterling Brands, one of the world’s leading branding consultancies. Under her leadership, Sterling grew to 150 employees in five offices. While there, she worked on the logo and brand identity for Burger King, Hershey’s, Haagen Dazs, Tropicana, Star Wars, Gillette, and the No More movement. Debbie is currently working with Law & Order SVUactor and activist Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation to eradicate sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, and the rape-kit backlog. In 2009 Debbie co-founded the world’s first graduate program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Today we discuss branding as well as how to design our lives intentionally. All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/161. WE DISCUSS: The difference between design vs. branding “Branding is about manufacturing meaning through symbols and objects, and design is the expression of that meaning.” What it takes to create a new brand or rebrand. You have to ask one crucial question when working on a brand: “Why does the world need this?” Her work for the Joyful Heart Foundation and how she got involved as the Chairman of the Board. Why she believes a person shouldn’t aspire to be a brand. What drives her to impact others. Her 5 Year Life Plan that she took with Milton Glaser that transformed her life. Big dreams all manifested within 13 years, within ten years, 80%-90% of it was achieved. The importance of declaring your wants. Declaration of intention. Debbie teaches her students the 10 Year Life Plan at the School of Visuals Arts. How at the age of eight she created a picture that turned into her adult reality – like a vision board. Her advice on how to live a creative life. Her thoughts on advertising during COVID, and much more! DEBBIE’S 3 BEST TIPS FOR DESIGNING A GOOD LIFE: “Continually think if not now, when?” “If you want a remarkable life, you have to commit to doing it.” Don’t edit your dreams before you try. We often determine what’s impossible before you determine if it’s possible. “Try before you decide you can’t. You get over failure and rejection, but you don’t ever really get over regret.” “Don’t give up on love.” RESOURCES MENTIONED Debbiemillman.com – website Debbie on IG @debbiemillman on Twitter Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits by Debbie Millman Brand Bible: The Complete Guide to Building, Designing, and Sustaining Brands by Debbie Millman Debbie talked about writing out an ideal day 10 years from now. Dream big and write down everything you want to have happen and review the entry once a year. This is the website she referenced with detailed notes. https://yourtenyearplan.com/ Michele on Instagram

“If the average person just more consistently did what they already know they’d be healthier, happier, and be making more money.” – Brian Moran Brian Moran the New York Times bestselling author of “The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months” is going to share how to get more done in less time. He will take us into this execution system he developed while also sharing easy to implement time management strategies. He also connects the dots back to why it is important to create our life vision so we can structure our time and goals around that vision.  You will learn tactical steps that you can use today to move closer to the life you desire. Loved this conversation so much! Tune in now and you can access the show notes with resources at thegoodlifecoach.com/160. Join my weekly Newsletter to get more tips and inspiration to design a life you love and you'll get a free copy of my book by the same name! There are 52 inspirations - one for every week of the year! WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: Why the 12 week year is an execution system and how that helps you get more done in less time. Why it’s not enough to know.  "You have to execute.  Knowledge is only powerful if you act on it." Get out of the annual environment.  With this program, you are going to stop after 12 weeks and that is your year.  Measure your success or failure and measure the progress and then go again.  It’s a fluid process.  You can use  this professionally or personally.  You can do  anything for 12 weeks and then decide is that somethingI want to do again. Your vision is you’re why.   Your goals NEED to align with the vision. At the goal level, know the difference between goals and tactics and outcomes and actions.  The actions we have control over.  Goals are outcomes.  Make sure at the goal level that is measurable – it’s an outcome. Determine what are the most important actions.  Most plans are conceptual not tactical.  You need to spell out the specific actions and focus on “less is more”. Stay connected to your vision by putting the longer term vision in front of you – laminate a card you can look at every day. Create visual reminders. The difference between a habit and routine is key.   Ex, going to the gym is a routine not a habit and routines are what drive success.  How you begin and end your day needs a routine.  The key is to start off positive.   End your day with gratitude.    How to manage time.  Time blocking – 3 core blocks: A. Strategic Block -3 hours blocked during the week.  No interruptions – working on the business not in the business. THIS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE.  B. Buffer Blocks – these are designed to deal with the emails/low level stuff.  Ex, I return calls between 4-5pm.  Don’t check your emails when they come in. Block time in to address it. C. Break out blocks – schedule time away from work to do something just for you to recharge. The Four Disciplines of the 12 Week Year  Vision – You have to know what you want. Planning – You have to ask – “What matters most?” Execution – Then ask, “Am I doing it?” Measurement – “Is it producing?” RESOURCES MENTIONED The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months – Brian’s NYTimes best-selling book https://12weekyear.com/ – Brian’s website and more resources Michele on Instagram ABOUT TODAY’S GUEST: Brian Moran, President and Founder of The 12 Week Year, has thirty plus years of expertise as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, consultant and coach. Brian is a recognized expert in the field of leadership and execution. His realization that most people don’t lack ideas, but struggle with effective implementation led him to the development of ‘The 12 Week Year’. His client list includes industry leaders like Allstate, Aon, Becton Dickinson, Dunkin’ Brands, Keller Williams, Mass Mutual, Medtronic, Merrill Lynch, Meritage Homes, Nationwide, New York Life, Papa Johns Pizza, Prudential State Farm and Taylor Made just to name a few. Brian resides in Michigan with his wife Judy and two daughters.

Would you like to invite in more abundance? Do you believe you can shift your energy in order to manifest money? Do you struggle with self-worth and feel that is your block to gaining wealth? These are just some of the areas we cover today with Polly Alexandre, money coach and intuitive healer, who overcame decades of self-limiting beliefs about money to become a multi-six figure entrepreneur who shares her powerful insights internationally.   Soulful conversation with many tactical tips in this episode. All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/159