Wake Up To Your Life

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October 29, 20268 min

EP 154: You Can't Change What You Don't Notice

What if the change you keep working on targets the wrong thing? Amanda shares why so many of us put real effort into fixing what we can see while the root of the problem is what matters most but often goes unnoticed. She talks about the gap between where you are and where you want to be, and what happens when clients uncover things they never knew were there. Amanda also hints that a bigger life update is coming soon. Key Takeaways: You can only change what you notice. Many long lists of attempted fixes fall short because they target the wrong problem. Noticing works best without shame. Seeing something new about yourself is information you can work with, and the Wake Up To Your Life Model gives you a way to find it. Reflection questions: What change have you been trying to make that hasn’t stuck? What might be sitting underneath it? Who in your life could help you see it? Resources: Join my 7 Days To A Better Life Challenge Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

September 17, 202610 min

EP 153: A Tool For When You Can't Give Everything Your Best

What do you do on the days your best isn't available? If you're a high performer, you already know the feeling. You gave a solid effort, you got the work done, and you still ended the day convinced you fell short. Amanda has coached hundreds of leaders through that exact loop, and there's one tool she reaches for before the burnout comes. A client started raving about what it did for her life, which is what finally made Amanda dedicate a whole episode to it. In this one she walks you through what the tool is and exactly how she's using it in her own life right now. Key Takeaways: The advice most coaches give high performers about lowering the bar on hard days, and the reason Amanda watched it fail with clients. A simple three-tier tool that keeps your standard of excellence fully intact while making room for the season you're actually in. Amanda's own real-time example: which single area of her life gets her best right now, and what she's deliberately letting sit lower. Two questions to sit with: where are you demanding your best right now, and what would a win look like in that area if you defined it in advance? Resources: Join my 7 Days To A Better Life Challenge Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

August 7, 202610 min

EP 152: The Sneaky Reason You Never Feel Caught Up (And What Your Brain Has to Do With It)

What if being busy has less to do with how much time you have and more to do with how much time you're using? In this episode, Amanda unpacks why her calendar opening up this summer left her feeling just as busy as when she was running a business, homeschooling, and finishing her Master's degree all at once... and the research-backed reason behind it. Key Takeaways: Capacity isn't fixed. It bends to whatever time you hand it. Parkinson's Law explains the pattern. Work expands to fill whatever time is available, and researchers have tested this directly. Learn a trick that works with what we know about Parkinson's Law Find time leftover at the end of the day, even on your busiest days. Resources: Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

July 23, 202614 min

EP 151: How to Repair a Relationship After a Conflict (The Brain Science Behind It)

Why do some couples grow closer after a fight while others slowly drift apart? In this episode, Amanda shares a real moment from her own relationship and then breaks down what's actually happening in your brain in the minutes after conflict. Key Takeaways: Understand what a rupture and repair cycle looks like The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry frames rupture and repair as essential to real connection, and ties repeated unrepaired ruptures to mistrust, resentment, and distorted beliefs about the relationship or yourself. How a rupture can knock both people out of a regulated state, and repair is what brings connection and co-regulation back. Repair isn't one-size-fits-all. Knowing what your partner actually needs to feel repaired matters more than following a script. Resources: Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

July 14, 202612 min

EP 150: The Nervous System: You're Not Regulating, You're Avoiding

Have you ever canceled plans and told yourself it was to "keep your peace" or avoided something that dysregulated your nervous system? In this episode, Amanda breaks down the real difference between regulation and avoidance and how to strengthen your capacity and resilience. Key Takeaways: Regulation means staying in the hard moment; avoidance means leaving it. We've started using one word to justify the other. Notice before you exit. Use the Wake Up To Your Life Model and ask: what's happening around me, to me, within me? Half the time it's not "unsafe," it's "unfamiliar." Widen your window of tolerance (Dr. Dan Siegel) in small, everyday moments. Regulated doesn't always mean feeling calm. Resources: Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

July 6, 202612 min

EP 149: The Difference Between Achievement and Real Impact (And What Your Brain Has to Do With It)

What if the fulfillment you've been chasing through achievement was never going to get you there, and your brain has the science to prove it? In this episode, Amanda shares what she experienced at a recent conference with the Attachment & Trauma Network in Dallas, and why being surrounded by people living for genuine service and sacrifice was inspiring. Key Takeaways: The neurological difference between achievement and genuine generosity Why dopamine keeps us motivated but was never designed to make us feel fulfilled How Dan Siegel's MWe concept explains why living only for personal achievement keeps us from the integration where we feel most whole and most alive What it means to wake up to what's happening around you and why so many of us are asleep to the needs right in front of us Two honest reflection questions to sit with this week about what you're doing with what you've been given Resources: Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook Attachment & Trauma Network Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

June 19, 202615 min

EP 148: If You're Feeling Lost, Here's What To Do

We all run from feeling lost, but what if clarity is actually found on the other side of embracing it, not avoiding it? In this episode, Amanda shares a perspective shift that came to her on her back porch this summer, and introduces a simple mindset tool that can completely change how you experience uncertainty without changing your circumstances. Key Takeaways: Why our usual responses to feeling lost tend to keep us stuck rather than help us move forward The "explorer" mindset shift: what it looks like to get curious about a lost season instead of running from it Why what we notice in a lost season often reveals more about who we are becoming than where we're headed How spiritual formation and feeling lost can coexist, and why God cares more about who you're becoming than the direction you're headed Resources: Summber Survival Kit Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

May 28, 202627 min

EP 147: What You've Been Avoiding Might Be the Way Through — with Emily Bailey

In this special interview episode, Amanda sits down with fellow coach and dear friend Emily Bailey to talk about what happens when the thing you've been running from becomes impossible to avoid. Emily shares her own journey of recognizing that she had been labeling lack as dangerous, and how changing her relationship with it gave her a freedom she had been chasing in all the wrong places. Key Takeaways: Why labeling an emotion as "dangerous" keeps you stuck in avoidance, and what it looks like to finally stop running from it and change your relationship around it The three-part process Emily used to move through lack and how you can apply this to whatever you have been avoiding Why dignity isn't something you earn when you reach your goal; it belongs to you right now, in the middle of the process The difference between being rescued from a hard season and moving through it with intention Resources: Emily Bailey's Sacred Disruption Summit: https://www.wholeandwild.com/sacred-disruption-summit Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

May 13, 202630 min

EP 146: The Real Reason You Feel Disconnected From the Life You've Built

You're doing everything right, and something still feels off. That's not a motivation problem or a discipline problem; it's a self-leadership problem. In this episode, Amanda digs into the brain science behind why so many people feel disconnected from the lives they've worked so hard to build, and walks you through four tools to start filling back up. Key Takeaways: Most high performers are pouring out constantly without refilling, and personal development rarely teaches you how to stay full in real time without an elaborate self-care routine. Self-leadership is actively developing a confident sense of who you are, taking ownership of what you do, and being intentional about how you grow and how you're feeling about your life is directly connected to it Neuroplasticity means the patterns you've been running don't have to keep running, but rewiring requires awareness, repetition, and time Discover 4 tools that you can use in just a few minutes a day to fill yourself back up. Resources: Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

April 16, 202623 min

EP 145: How Your Relationships Literally Shape and Reshape Your Brain

The people in your life aren't just affecting how you feel, they're influencing the actual physical structure of your brain. In this episode, we explore Interpersonal Neurobiology, a framework developed by Dr. Dan Siegel, and what it reveals about why our relationships are one of the most powerful forces shaping who we become. Key Takeaways: What Interpersonal Neurobiology is and why the connection between your mind, brain, and relationships matters more than you think The two signs that integration has broken down in your life, and why neither one is a personal failure Why the relationships you had in early childhood are still influencing how you connect with people today How to become someone whose presence actually integrates and calms the people around you What Scripture has always said about community and how it lines up with what neuroscience is only now catching up to Resources: Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook Wake Up To Your Life Coaching Highest Potential Planner Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_

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