Congruent with Lisa Carpenter | The truth beneath success. Why it never feels like enough.

How to Set Boundaries In Your Battle With the Busy Work Blues

Today, I’m talking to Carly from Sydney, Australia who started working with me in June 2020. I’ve brought her on because I want to share what transpired for her in the six months we worked together. She had really profound results after a year of hesitation. She was doing busy work for the sake of being busy and using up time...and then beat herself up over not getting everything on her daily to-do list done. In this episode, we discuss how she turned it around and learn to set boundaries for herself.
6:08 - The big problem Carly discovered when she first started
11:24 - Carly taking responsibility for what was happening at work
16:23 - How data (and a figurative face slap) led to a promotion and pay raise
19:36 - Why high-functioning women constantly throw themselves under the bus
25:43 - Where the energy behind drive or ambition really comes from
31:15 - What drives Lisa a little crazy in the coaching world
36:39 - The ultimate lesson Carly learned about herself
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Emotions are simply ENERGY in MOTION

The year 2020 has been such an emotional roller coaster ride. It’s caused people to either lean into their feelings or double down on behavior that only serves to numb them emotionally. But what are emotions really, and why are they so powerful? In this episode, I talk about the consequences of getting stuck in your emotions and what it means to allow yourself to feel what you feel.
2:23 - What emotions are and why you need to let them move through you
6:14 - Our tendency to avoid emotions and label them as good or bad
9:49 - Why we tend to struggle to be with our own emotions
14:40 - Ways in which suppressed emotion can show up to create chaos in your life
17:09 - What a simple practice of self-care looks like
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How to BE committed to living life from empowered possibility with Jim Fortin

In today's BONUS episode, Lisa is sharing a conversation she had with her mentor Jim Fortin.
Jim is widely known as a leader in transformational coaching, brain science and subconscious reprogramming. His Transformational Coaching Program (TCP) has been instrumental in changing Lisa's life personally and professionally, and today she's sharing the story of how she came to find Jim and what it looks like to BE the woman who works from possibility and commitment.
Jim shares some of his personal journey from launching the first cohort of TCP back in 2018 to what it has grown to in 2021 and what he sees for its growth into the future. He shares the behind the scenes of how he reluctantly stepped into his leadership, expanded into possibility and anchored into what he is here to do on the planet.
Make sure before you do anything else you get yourself on his free training and don't forget to tag Lisa and say hi when you join the FB group!
Jim's FREE BE DO HAVE 3 part Transformational series is about to kick off so go ahead and sign up at www.lisacarpenter.ca/bedohave2021
To get on the waitlist for TCP join www.lisacarpenter.ca/tcpwaitlist
Check out Jim's Transform Your Life From the Inside Out Podcast HERE
Also mentioned is James Wedmores Mind Your Business Podcast Episode 114 - How To Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind For Automatic And Lasting High Performance

Prioritizing Yourself In Pursuit of Ease and Commitment to Your Best Life

As I record today’s show, my time to take the stage at my first WBFF bodybuilding show approaches. I’m in the home stretch and have been 100% focused on that. While you’re probably not preparing for a bodybuilding show like I am, surely there are things in your life that feel hard. You have to juggle lots of things, and you want to do great things in your life.
But you’re also tired and trying to figure out how to get everything done and make yourself a priority. So today’s episode is all about how I’ve made doing this really hard thing filled with as much ease as possible in hopes that you can translate what I did into your own life.
2:34 - Why I made the decision to get back to being an athlete
5:11 - What I had to be willing to do in my business to commit to this path
11:13 - How I approach my days right now, balance things out, and put myself first
15:25 - Where I focused on gathering support to aid me in this process
19:53 - What helps keep me data-driven, not emotionally-driven, during this body transformation process
22:42 - The inspiration I hope you take away from this episode
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What are you teaching your kids about feelings?

In today's bonus episode of the podcast I am talking to Katie Soy who is not just a colleague and good friend, but also a story coach, writer and author. I want you to know her and why her work is important to you and the children in your life.
In this conversation we dive into what it was like to grow up feeling like we were different, why our emotions were so big and what happened when we learned to stuff everything we were feeling down. In this episode, we speak to the journey of creating emotional fluency in ourselves and what it looks like to support our children as they try to decipher what they are feeling before they have the language of emotions.
Today Katie is launching her second audiobook in the series about Gem an adopted Firefly and her adventures with her friends.
I invite you to explore both titles at www.katiesoy.com/fireflystories
The Firefly and the Storm and her newest book The Firefly and the Butterfly by visiting her website at www.katiesoy.com/fireflystories
She has also just announced the launch of her Firefly Society that will support parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers etc with additional resources to promote emotional well-being in our children along with self-love, self acceptance and deeper knowledge and understanding of what makes each of us unique. It's safe to feel big feelings and inside The Firefly Society her community will surround you with others who are committed to welcoming the voices of their children fully expressed.
https://www.katiesoy.com/fireflystories
katiesoy.com/thefireflysociety

How To Create Your Alter Ego And Become The Woman You’re Dreamed About

Everything you need to create the life you want is already in you. You just have to find a way to bring it out into the physical world somehow. Today, I want to dive into the idea of creating an alter ego to help you become the person you want to be. In this episode, I share my alter ego who was already living my vision so you can see how I went from insecure and self-doubting to powerhouse coaching master and how you can have a similar transformation.
5:56 - How the concept of an alter ego entered my world
8:15 - How I used my introversion as an excuse to hold myself back
10:33 - Why the idea of having an alter ego is important
13:01 - The world-famous alter ego you’ve probably heard of before
14:15 - What you can do after the end of this episode to help you form your alter ego
16:40 - Sharing some of my alter ego’s attributes and my struggles and triumphs, paragraph by paragraph, to inspire you
27:33 - What masculine energy will do to you if it’s left to its own devices
33:23 - All of the ways the alter ego document helped me rewrite who I wanted to be
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The Alter Ego Effect by Todd Herman
Read Lisa’s alter ego document here.
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Why Taking Imperfect Action Is Actually Perfect

I have a very special guest today! When I hired Stacey Harris, founder and CEO of Uncommonly More, to support my podcast production, I was ready to make a bigger impact in the world. I love that she puts people first and uses her background in audio engineering and decades of digital marketing experience to lead her team in supporting hosts like me, helping me market with integrity while I share my message.
Even if you’re not an entrepreneur, you’ll want to listen to this episode. Stacey and I discuss taking imperfect action to get started, letting go of perfectionism and control to move forward regardless of what you do, data vs. feeling and the importance of staying present in your emotions, and when to know it’s time to ask for help. But if you do have or are about to launch your own podcast (or want to uplevel the one you have), then make sure you listen until the end. You’ll hear some amazing things!
5:57 - Who Stacey is and what I thought the first time I met her
9:44 - The social media annoyance that pushed me to start podcasting and my imperfect 1st episode
11:54 - How you decide what you like and what works and doesn’t work for your show
15:30 - When it’s a good time to check in on what you’ve been doing
18:48 - Crucial things people miss too often that cost them and their clients
24:03 - One thing Stacey’s company does for my podcast that I absolutely LOVE
26:08 - What you’ll find impossible to do without support and defaulting into emotions vs. data
29:29 - The utterly nonsensical thing too many say about podcast marketing (or anything, really)
34:15 - Why building trust through imperfect action helps you
37:44 - The type of podcast episodes that get a TON of engagement
42:52 - The right time to reach out to Stacey for podcast support
49:28 - Leaving you with one last, inspirational call-to-action
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Visit Stacey’s website at Uncommonly More
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Episode 6: “Why Self Care Doesn’t Work (Part 1)”
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Why Being Committed to an Outcome Can Leave You Screwed

Do you have certain things you’re desperate to achieve? Many of us have a goal we’ve struggled to attain and have spent way more time than desired in pursuit of it. But we can choose to feel how we want to feel about our goals now and not just when we reach the finish line. In this episode, I discuss what attachment to the outcome of your goals looks like, how it negatively affects your results, and what you can do to detach.
4:21 - Why I needed to stay detached from the outcome with my podcast
7:55 - What you’re missing when you’re attached to the outcome
13:58 - The irony many face when playing the weight loss game
15:14 - Where to put your focus instead if you want to achieve your outcome
17:02 - How I deal with uncertainty around the outcome of my upcoming WBFF show
24:40 - What you should do to attain true freedom and feel your best every day
27:15 - Why you do yourself a disservice by only using this one metric to measure your progress
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Free Yourself from Being Stuck in the Buzz of the Daily Grind

Something happened last week that I want to talk about today. It highlights how we’re all connected, something that Mother Nature shows us all the time. But what happened also carries a common message that I needed to hear and want to share with you. So in this episode, I reveal what happened, how the message I got out of it has already changed my life, and how it can change yours too.
3:26 - The joy and necessity I find in shaking up my routine sometimes
8:08 - The magical thing that happened in my backyard last week
12:00 - The lesson we really need to understand from Mother Nature
14:45 - How I’ve become more discerning and the position I thought I’d never be in
16:54 - What’s often required of you if you’re struggling to accomplish the things you want
19:31 - The powerful medicine that comes with bees
22:08 - How nature demonstrates our ability to defy what’s possible
27:22 - Looking at who decides how you choose to live your life
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The Illuminating Lives Podcast with Israel Smith
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Why Aren’t You Worth Your Time and Energy?

I see women struggle with self-care all the time. They’re taking care of so many things between family, career, volunteering and community service, and so on. Yet, they don’t have time to take care of themselves...or so they think.
If you’re not making time for yourself as a priority, what’s it costing you? And how does it look to the people around you, especially your kids? You truly have the power to take care of yourself, even if you believe otherwise, and in this episode I show you how. If you’re tired of being tired, you don’t want to miss this!
3:51 - What you really mean when you say you don’t have time to take care of yourself
7:15 - Why self-care is the most selfless thing you can give yourself
8:32 - What you’ll discover by taking inventory of all of your activities
11:37 - The more self-care you practice, the easier it’ll be to deal with this
12:27 - Why I see self-care as a way of being, not a way of doing
13:37 - How I practice self-care and ideas for what to include in your own self-care list
18:40 - The self-care commitment you must make to yourself as a priority
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