The Conditioning Culprit

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The Conditioning Culprit is the podcast for growth-oriented, high-achieving individuals ready to initiate radical change in life and work. Equip yourself with the awareness and mindset shifts required to ditch the outdated paradigms that keep you stuck, whether they are personal, professional, familial, or societal. Those limits must be identified and burned down, replaced with what authentically aligns for you. When you confront the conditioning that's not serving you, you have the power to make transformative changes that improve your life holistically.

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June 10, 20264 min

The High Achiever's Guide Chapter 14: Who Cares, Anyway?

Free download below*While I wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoytaking in the content this way and get value from it.There's more to this world than each of us. When you have the courage to do the work personally, you create a ripple in the people around you. Imagine how different the world would be if people operated from aligned authenticity rather than from fear and conditioning. Do it for you. Do it for the collective.This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠.

June 10, 202626 min

The High Achiever's Guide Chapter 13: Be Tenacious and Trust

Free download below*While I wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoy taking in the content this way and get value from itThe transformative journey requires a huge commitment on your part. This is the quest of your lifetime, but you'll also never be "done." Be willing to do the work, show up, get back on track when needed, and persist - tenaciously. Is it hard? Sure. I can't lie to you. But it's also deeply exhilarating when you see the positive results of your efforts. There's no instant gratification here. Expect to be challenged as you attempt to makechanges. Refine your process as needed. Center yourself and stay present.This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠.

June 10, 202624 min

The High Achiever's Guide Chapter 12: Show Up and Use Your Words, FFS

Free download below*While I wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoy taking in the content this way and get value from it.You must use your voice if you want to show up authentically. Eating your words, staying silent, going along to get along - none of these is sustainable and will eventually put you into a simmering or defeated state where you never say what needs to be said. Speaking up is not a creation of conflict. The personreceiving your words has to manage their reaction, and vice versa. Learn how to take incremental steps to using your voice and why it matters.This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠.

June 10, 202621 min

The High Achiever's Guide Chapter 11: Stay in Your Lane

Free download below*While I wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoytaking in the content this way and get value from it.Our world makes it nearly impossible to keep our heads focused on our priorities. It takes discipline to avoid the traps of tribal behavior, rage bait, and focusing on the other rather than ourselves. It takes deliberate, conscious effort to interrupt our usual way of doing things to establish more productive ways to engage with others while preserving our own peace.This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠

June 10, 202620 min

The High Achiever's Guide Chapter 10: What About Your Friends?

Free download below*While I wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoytaking in the content this way and get value from it.Who you spend time with and what you talk about is hugely impactful to your quality of life. Take a serious look at the energy of the people and groups your associated with. What you tolerate in your regular interactions has profound effects and can be particularly scary to confront as fear of isolation orloneliness can pop up around making needed changes. This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠.

June 10, 202623 min

The High Achiever's Guide Chapter 9: Your Feelings Are Your Compass

Free download below*While I wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoy taking in the content this way and get value from itLogic and analysis have likely ruled your life up to this point. It's time to tap into your feelings as your built-in guidance system. When you dismiss your intuition or rationalize your way into a decision, you often live and learn and wonder why you didn't honor what you knew, even if it didn't make logical sense. The habit of allowing logic to trump emotion will keep you operating in ways that are based on your conditioning rather than your authentic self. Identify how you do this and what shifts will get you into alignment.This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠.

June 10, 202632 min

The High Achiever's Guide Chapter 8: What Are You Worth?

Free download below*While I wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoy taking in the content this way and get value from it.Are you undervaluing yourself? It's time to find out. Success and self-confidence do NOT equate to a solid foundation of self-worth. It's common for high achievers to tie their value to their role, status, salary, and other external measures of success. Discover how misvaluing yourself leads to difficulty withprioritization, putting what really matters to you on the back burner, and triggers gross feelings like guilt and shame. This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠.

June 10, 202621 min

The High Achiever's Guide Chapter 7: The Dangerous Allure of Conditions

Free download below*While I wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoytaking in the content this way and get value from it. Allowing conditions to dictate when and how you take action is a recipe for stagnation. Uncover the ways in which conditions you've defined keep you "waiting for the right time" or stuck in perfectionist tendencies rather than taking aligned action to make shit happen.This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠.

June 10, 202617 min

The High Achiever's Guide Chapter 6: Don't Just Pray. Row the Damn Boat.

Free download below*WhileI wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoy taking in the content this way and get value from it. Take an assertive approach to what you want from life. A disempowered approach, where you feel at the mercy of what's taking place around you, makes you vulnerable to victim mindset. Look at your own role in what you experience anddetermine what needs to shift in order to move you forward. This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠.

June 10, 202620 min

The High Achiever's Guide: How Fear Has Made You Its Bitch

Free download below*While I wait for an official opportunity to create an audiobook, I decided to record myself reading it for those who prefer to listen rather than read. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional narrator! That being said, I hope you enjoy taking in the content this way and get value from it. Fear is the layer beneath resistance to change. It serves a purpose, but you must be able to distinguish between fear that holds you back and fear that must be overcome. Get curious and give yourself honest answers about where fear shows up, how you handle it, and what you can do differently. It will take some work on your part to get this clarity; be compassionate with yourself and suspend judgment as you dig in. This book is for those who are serious about making change. There are guiding questions at the end of each chapter to help you do the work. To make it easier to follow along, I've created a ⁠free workbook download⁠ so that you have the questions available when you're ready to dive in. For more information, check out my ⁠website⁠.