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What is worse than not setting healthy boundaries? Setting boundaries that don't stick! In today's episode, we will continue to explore effective boundaries and how awareness of our own monsters can instantly add that stickiness we need.

Whether you're making positive changes at work or home, with friends or family, boundaries are part of that process. Let's keep it simple and not overcomplicate things. Let's also remember that we ...

In today's episode, I'm sharing my original learning that I earned from the School of Hard Knocks. Did you know that I conducted a 30-year experiment to find all the worst ways to set personal boundaries? Yes, that was me. You're welcome!

It's not easy to set effective boundaries, the kind that allows you to live and do and be the way you intended when you set the boundary. And when our boundaries fall flat or seemingly fail, it's ...

For forty years, I struggled with setting and holding boundaries. Forty years is a long time. With confidence, I can say that learning the truth about boundaries and learning how to set effective boundaries has transformed my life.  

Unpopular fact: setting boundaries isn't easy. Talk is easy. These days, it seems that everyone is talking about boundaries. But do they really know how to do it?

What if you struggle with:

• People ...

Episode 26: There's a whole other way to live on the "other side of the street", and I can't wait to tell you more about it. While everyone else is churning out the work harder, strive more, be better and earn your pay content, I'm here to tell you it's time to abide and thrive.

On one side, it's all up to you, and most likely you'll never quite feel like you're enough. On the other side, there is room to be, space to relax, and fr...

Did your mom tell you there'd be days (or weeks) like this? With your supercharged resilience, you can bounce back from unexpected changes and catastrophes like a tennis ball. Or at least, you won't be knocked out flat with adrenal fatigue or overwhelmed by brain fog. The key? Capitalize on your strengths. You already have a signature trait or two that helps you bounce back from adversity. Let's cultivate that strength with three s...

Have you ever been told to go ahead and let a bad day be a bonafide bad day? If you're like me, bad days are enemy number one. I strongly dislike the wasted time, unpredictable emotions, chaos, frustration, and inefficiency of a bad day so much that I want to manage it right out of existence. However, we can make a bad day into a horrible day depending on how we respond and interact with it. 

What do we do with a bad day? Most of u...

In today's episode, we dive deep into the transformative power of encouragement. Join us as we explore the courage it takes to share high-value support that touches the soul. The other day, I opened an email that knocked me back in my seat. I was blown away by words that I didn't even realize I needed -- words that brought high-value encouragement and affirmation. It got me thinking: "I wonder what our worlds would be like if we da...

In today's episode, we are making peace with the reality that we cannot change people, and in fact, it's empowering to realize that we are powerless to change people. With the best of intentions, we try to fix or change people, but the consequences are usually negative for both parties. Let's be honest. It rarely works in the long run. One person feels disrespected, irritated, and controlled, and the other person has wasted time an...

It's that time of year again, and I know that you're feeling the rising stress as we approach Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year. More than ever, we believe that overdone is well done. I understand completely. Each November, you enter with hope and a half-baked plan to make the holiday season better. You'll fix what didn't work last year. It will be less hectic and stressful. But once again your calendar is filling up, your expe...

Episode 20: In this part 2, we continue our conversation about how to break free from beliefs and actions that keep us from thriving and moving forward with focus and purpose, specifically with our weaknesses. How we interact with our weaknesses really matters. We've been taught and conditioned from our earliest years that weaknesses are meant to be turned into strengths. Think about it: how many times were you encouraged or even f...

Episode 19: Do you want to be proactive, intentional, and in charge of how you respond to pain, hard things, and obstacles? How does perfectionism sneak into your desire and efforts, ruining your best plans? I certainly know about perfectionism. Over the last decade, I have clearly seen that my patterns of thinking and doing could no longer work. In the hardest and most painful years, I realized that perfectionism was more in contr...

Episode 18. Some pressure in the right amount and for the right reason can be incredibly motivating. However, over 60% of women feel stressed and overwhelmed by unreasonable external and internal pressure nearly daily. We feel under pressure at work, in our family, and even at church, and when we look around it seems normal.

But did you ever stop to ask if you agreed to this storyline? Do you want to feel all this pressure? Have yo...

In this episode, I'm talking about something nobody mentioned to me in over 40 years of living. People often resist good growth and beneficial changes in you! We often aren't prepared for this, leading to confusion, frustration, setbacks, and conflict. When we make positive changes to our workflow at our job, when we work hard and learn how to do something successfully, or when we grow personally in our ability to stop over-schedul...

In this episode, we get honest about the problems people can bring with their opinions, why agreeable people tend to collect opinions, and how to filter out and disqualify the harmful ones.

 We've been conditioned to hold people's opinions in high regard. It can feel prideful or mean to discount them quickly. However, opinions can get us off track and slow us down. They can be extremely discouraging and even harmful. And to be hone...

This is an episode about how to face two common ways we self-sabotage and reduce if not eliminate it from our lives.  There are so many kinds of creative thinking patterns, behaviors, and habits that effectively stop us from doing what we want to do. We also stop ourselves from learning, and growing.

Why do we do it? Even George Michael from the band, Wham, cries out in the epic 80's song, Everything She Wants, "Oh why do I do the ...

Episode 14.  Does Perfectionism seem to come naturally to you? If you're neurodivergent, this episode is for you! Many women over 35 are only now discovering their ADHD and making the perfectionism connection. 

• If you're wrapping your head around a new diagnosis of ADHD or wondering if this could be the missing puzzle piece to explaining your struggle with such imperfect perfectionism, this episode is for you.

Today Kerri...

13.  Permission granted to make time for fun. No, it's not frivolous. In fact, fun is just as important as productivity. Your well-being, relationships, and work success depend on your consistent ability to add fun to your life and to lighten up!  

When we are in the middle of chaos, busyness, or challenging seasons, we are tempted to grind it out with our heads down!  Why? Because it seems frivolous, expensive, and time-consuming....

With her lifetime of experiences with Impostor Syndrome (successes and failures), Kerri reveals why the voice of the Impostor sounds so accurate, logical, and persuasive. When battling an intelligent and covert enemy, we need a plan of action.

In this episode, you'll learn the three places where you'll most likely experience Impostor Syndrome and what you need to disarm and defeat it!  This is part 2 of the series on Imposter Syndr...

episode 11: If you asked me what is the number one obstacle I have faced in my adult life, I'd say without reservation:  Imposter Syndrome. Have you ever felt like an unexplained shadow follows you around, keeping you from experiencing joy and happiness in your success? Have you experienced the dreaded thought that eventually people will discover that you're not who they want you to be?  

Let's take a deep dive into imposter syndro...