The Life Coach School Podcast With Brooke Castillo

Most people do not like to feel discomfort. The reason why we are not as far as we’d like to be with our goals – whether it’s weight-loss, quitting drinking, building a business – is because we have chosen not to be uncomfortable. Changing and doing new things is very uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable to risk rejection and experience failure. However, doing these hard things and experiencing discomfort is THE ONLY road to success. Join me this week as we take a look at the two types of discomfort we can experience and explore the power of experiencing the type of discomfort that comes with growing on purpose.

One of the most important things that I talk about to my students is the idea that anything is possible for their life now. And that the reason why they may not be believing in their future is because they are trying to build their future by drawing on references from their past. In this episode, we revisit the concept of past focus vs future focus and dive deeper into the power of using your imagination to create new possibilities in your life.

This week, we have another “Lessons from” episode. And in this episode, I want to talk to you about the amazing Caron S. Dweck, the author of the popular book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

One of the essential skills that we teach to our Life Coach School coaches is how to listen to their clients. Today, I want to teach this useful skill to you, so you can really hear when someone is saying something to you. Join me as I outline the 3 main components of effective communication and walk you step-by-step through the process of figuring out the true meaning of any conversation that you may engage in.

This week, I talk about what it’s like to be me: what my life is like, and what it’s like to coach for a living. I also pull back the curtain on the life and business of life coaches and talk about the main skillsets that every coach needs to master in order to have a successful business.

Today, Sira Gill and I dive deeper into the topic of organization and take a look at why it matters (not just so you can have a clean house but also for so many other reasons) and why you should consider putting your energy into organizing your life and home. Join us as we discuss general idea of the organization and a talk about Shira’s incredible new program, why I think it matters, and why every single one of you should consider joining and going through her process.

This week, Shira Gill joins us to talk about making vital changes in our lives and how one change can have a huge impact on your entire life. On this interview, we talk about how you can start organizing your cluttered home and touch on the tweaks that you can do in your life to start thinking about yourself as a person who's good at organizing.

This week, I’d like to bring to your attention that you may be a little bit dramatic about your life (and you probably don’t even recognize it in yourself). Listen in as I explain how you can recognize when you’re being overly dramatic and show you how you can de-dramatize any emotionally-charged situation.

On this episode, we take a look at the reasons why we experience goal shame, how it is often triggered, and how it affects our ability to grow. I talk about my personal experience with goal shame around my business and how I was able to work through it and share the lessons I have learned. Join us this week to find out how you can begin to shed goal shame in your life and business, set huge goals, and achieve them with a light heart that adds more value to the world.

On this episode, I want to share a simple philosophy that will help you tremendously when looking for simple solutions to most complex problems. Tune in as I outline a step-by-step process that you can use to solve any problem quickly and effectively.

On this episode, I talk about the detrimental effects of justifying your hate for villains (even if it’s in the name of justice) and explain how it interferes with becoming the best version of yourself and causes you to suffer in the process. Listen in to discover how having compassion for all humans can give you strength, make you more capable of enacting change, and save you from a lot of suffering.

This week, I want to talk to you about a concept – a powerful coaching tool –  that I came up with to help my clients start thinking about themselves in a different way and start honoring their own plans. I call it the Minimum Baseline. On this episode, I explain why having a minimum baseline is crucial to creating meaningful and consistent change in your life and how you can get started today.

I find it fascinating that people make money based on what they believe to be true; and most often, they believe that the amount of money they can make is limited by the amount of time they have to produce. They have the concept that they are getting paid for their time firmly ingrained in their minds. I absolutely believe that is flawed thinking. On this episode, I go into some of my ideas on money and invite you to question your current money philosophy, especially if you don’t have as much money as you would like to have.

On this episode, we take a look at the power of being the best employee you can be, no matter where you work, and explore different ways you can add more value to your employer and live a more fulfilled life.

A lot of you spend way too much time indulging in confusion and don’t make decisions which causes you to miss out on reaching the next level and evolving into an even better version of yourself. In this episode of The Life Coach School, we take a look at why you absolutely must make decisions more often. Join me as I share my best tips to help you become more decisive, save time, catapult growth, boost your confidence, and achieve amazing results in any area of your life.

Listen in to find out what you can do to prevent miscommunicating your ideas and check out my best communication tips for different situations. From giving (or taking) directions to someone you work with to saying sorry and speaking with confidence, you’ll learn how to become a more effective communicator, avoid unnecessary drama, and get the results you want more often.

On this episode, we explore how cognitive dissonance often prevents people from setting big goals and stalls progress. Join me as I explain how you can apply proven self-coaching tools to bridge the gap between your old beliefs and the new ones and achieve anything you desire in life.

This week, I want to talk to you about shyness. If you consider yourself shy, you’re surely familiar with being overwhelmed being around others, feeling uncomfortable, timid, and insecure. For those of you who view shyness as a character trait that cannot be changed, I bring you good news: it can absolutely be changed. And in this episode, I will show you exactly how you can do it.

In this episode, we explore how confirmation bias drives us to always prove our beliefs and how that process causes different people to see a different set of realities based on the same set of facts. Tune in to find out what you need to do in order to be able to use confirmation bias in the way that helps you get EXACTLY what it is that you want in your life.

This week, I actually had a different podcast planned for you all. However, I recently heard Ryan Daniel Moran’s powerful message that I absolutely had to share with all of you. In this message, Ryan reminds us to be grateful for what we have and how we can to be happy now instead of focusing on what we don't currently have.