Living Fully Alive

Join Mary and her special guest, Lisa Abramson. Called an inspiration by Oprah, Lisa Abramson is an executive coach, mindfulness teacher, author and mom of two girls. She teaches overachievers how to develop a resilient mindset and create success that’s sustainable. She’s helped more than 15,000 people increase their mental resilience through her online programs and has shared her insights at TEDx, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, The Stanford Graduate School of Business and in Forbes, NPR, The New York Times, Health, Fast Company, and more. Lisa has delivered over 8 million minutes of calm around the globe through her guided mindfulness meditations. Listen as Mary and Lisa talk about how Lisa’s commitment to 4 minutes of meditation a day changed everything and how you can create mindfulness in even the most seemingly mundane parts of your day.     ON THIS EPISODE WE WILL DISCUSS… - Starting small with micro mindfulness commitments - How to identify emotions in the body as sensations - Using mindfulness to cultivat

Join Mary and her very special guest, Allison Fallon. Allison is an award winning author, sought after public speaker, and nationally recognized writing coach. She has worked with thousands of people to realize their writing potential and become published authors. She is also no stranger to this podcast and one of Mary’s dear friends! Listen as Mary and Ally talk about how the circumstances of the last year have affected their practice of mindfulness. There are seasons in life where we are wired to step into survival mode. In these times we won’t always have the capacity to dedicate time or space to personal growth. We need to bring compassion to ourselves in these seasons. Then when you get beyond that point, it is crucial to be able to allow those circumstances to build a strong foundation in order to help you navigate and weather the next storm. While also allowing ourselves space to cope, we can also access tools we have gathered along the way to help us in these seasons. Writing is one of these tools for

Join Mary as she kicks off this month's topic of MINDFULNESS. Did you know that you have creative agency over your life? You have a say so in how your life plays out. You can’t create anything good in your life without becoming aware of how you got to where you are right now. We need to bring awareness to where we are in the present moment without judgement. Mindfulness takes the focus off of the external world and places our focus on our internal. This is key because everything that is happening outside of us first starts internally by our thinking. 95% of our thoughts are unconscious. When we choose to become aware of these thoughts we can take our power back and begin to change our external world and our future. Then when we can investigate what we are longing for without judgement, but instead with curiosity, we can pinpoint the limiting views of what is possible for our lives.The opportunity to become mindful is available to us all day everyday. No matter where we are, or what we are doing, we can begin

Join Mary and her special guest Kairah James. Kairah is a Body Confidence and Health Coach. Her mission is to empower women to feel confident in their bodies through mindset, nutrition, and fitness. She discovered her passion for coaching while in university. Though she had always dreamed of becoming a doctor, halfway through completing her degree in Health Sciences she realized that wasn’t the path for her. With no idea what she was going to do with her degree, she found herself at the gym where she worked with a trainer who helped her see what she was truly capable of. That experience had such a profound impact on her life, which is when she knew she was dedicated to helping other women unleash their full potential. Listen as Mary and Kairah talk about the intersection of mindset and body confidence.  ON THIS EPISODE WE WILL DISCUSS… -Truly embodying body confidence  -Defining confidence for yourself -Talking to yourself the way you would a child -Mindset as a practice -Breaking the cycle of negativity towa

Join Mary and her special guest Natalie Wilson. Natalie Wilson, is the creator of High Heal Diaries. Mother of three, wife, business-woman, and a three-time breast cancer survivor. Natalie has had an extensive and ever-changing career as an interior decorator/home stager, makeup artist, licensed paralegal, model, certified coach practitioner, and author. After losing her younger sister to gun violence in 2003, a baby at 4 months gestation, being diagnosed with focal invasive ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in 2008, and undergoing a bilateral mastectomy - she wasn’t sure if she could withstand any more pain. After two more recurrences of breast cancer in 2016, she realized that her pain and struggle must not have been in vain. Natalie miraculously made her way through the stages of emotional healing, and instinctively knew she must be a voice for others fighting this horrible disease, as well as those dealing with other emotional turmoil and struggle. Listen as Mary and Natalie chat about how your body is just

Join Mary and her special guest and dear friend, Amy Porterfield. Amy Porterfield is an online marketing expert and the host of the top-ranked podcast, Online Marketing Made Easy. Before building a multi-million dollar digital course business, Amy worked with Peak Performance Coach, Tony Robbins, where she oversaw the content team and collaborated on ground-breaking online marketing campaigns. Through her bestselling courses and popular podcast, Amy’s action-by-action approach proves that even the newest online entrepreneurs can bypass the overwhelm, and instead generate exciting momentum as they build a business they love. Just like the rest of us Amy is a woman who is doing the hard work learning to love herself. You will love this chat between girlfriends as they talk about what it would look like and the space that would be freed up in their lives when they stop thinking about the size of their thighs!    ON THIS EPISODE WE WILL DISCUSS… - The spiritual practice of allowing yourself to be seen - What you

Join Mary as she kicks off this month’s topic of Body Confidence! Despite what culture tells us, most people will tell you the thing they find the most attractive about a woman is confidence. Confidence can often feel elusive. Either you have it, or you don’t. But true confidence comes when you walk in the knowledge that you are lovable. That even in your flaws you are enough. No matter what you look like, how you age, how your body changes, you are loved. Feeling confident in this means that you know that your lovability isn’t ever on the line. Confidence is knowing that you are unconditionally loved. For most of us, coming to this place is a journey. It is a journey that has nothing to do with your body and has everything to do with your mind. The good news is that this kind of confidence can be learned! Once you learn it, everything in your life will work for the better. But it takes practice. When you move forward even when you are scared to be seen, you will begin to flex your confidence muscle. Little b

Join Mary as she wraps up this month by talking about creating a blueprint to help you fulfill your purpose. We were all  uniquely created for a reason. Once we understand who we are at our core, it is much easier to craft the life we were meant to live. This allows us to show up for our purpose. It frees us from comparing our purpose to others. It frees us from allowing others to tell us who we should be. It allows us to see the value in who we are and the gift we have to offer the world. We have to believe that no one person’s purpose holds more weight or value than someone else’s. Each of our individual purposes, though different, are of equal value and are deeply needed. When we have this deep understanding of our purpose we can create a blueprint to help keep us on track and focused on our mission in this world. As we grow and change our blueprint will move and grow with us. We can stop and evaluate our blueprint at any time and make any adjustments needed. What we value in our lives will stand the test

Join Mary and her special guest, Lisa Jane. Lisa Jane is a Soul Purpose Coach, Speaker & Intuitive. Her mission is to help women awaken to their soul’s purpose & fully step into it as an entrepreneur. In this episode, Mary and Lisa Jane discuss how we are typically trained to look outside of ourselves for answers. Books. Family. Friends. Spiritual Leaders… outsourcing to find direction. But what if those answers already exist inside of us? Lisa Jane shares several tools to help us tap into our intuition and find the answers within. Because when we have the tools we need to connect with our true desires without limitation, this is when we can truly uncover our life's purpose. Lisa Jane helps us move out of the “should’s” and into the calling of our soul. Our soul's purpose is not limited by constructs of society, by rules, by finances, fads or  others' opinions. It’s limitless. And once we let our intuition guide us, we can connect to our true purpose and allow it to flourish. This is the birth place o

Join Mary and her very VERY special guest, her mother, Gail Hyatt. Gail is a mother to 5 daughters, grandmother of 9, and wife of 40 years to Michael Hyatt. At 65 Gail has lived, and continues to live, a full life. She has played many different roles over the years and through all the various seasons of life. It is easy in our social media culture to find ourselves comparing what we are doing and how we are living to others. We may find ourselves feeling like we are falling short or even jealous of the lives of those around us. But the truth is that all of us have a unique purpose. A purpose that is just for us and can’t be compared to anyone else. No one else was created with your gifts. Your personality. Your strengths. Your desires. You were created intentionally, just as you are, with whatever you need for each season of life. As life unfolds, our purpose is bound to evolve and change. It is important to remember that whatever season you find yourself in, you have a purpose there. Nothing is wasted. Your

Join Mary on this episode as she kicks off this month’s topic, Purpose. There is a deep need in all of us for purpose. When we know our purpose it becomes the filter for our lives. All of us have been placed here intentionally and our purpose has an impact on everything around us. The thought of figuring out your purpose can feel overwhelming. But our soul came into this world already with the knowledge of what we were called to do. We don’t have to discover our purpose, we only need to partner with our Higher Power to remember what it is. In order to fulfill our purpose here on earth we need to remember what it is and live lives that honor and respect that calling. Once we remember our true purpose we can create a road map for our lives to keep us in alignment with who we are meant to be. Then we can run our own race and live lives of freedom, dedicated to things that fill us with passion, meaning, and create an impact in the world around us.   ON THIS EPISODE WE WILL DISCUSS… -The definition of purpose -Par

Join Mary and her special guests Em Atkinson & Linda Addis. Em and Linda are Feminine Leadership Coaches and the Founders, Visionaries and Sacred Space Holders for The Revolutionary Woman, and their inner circle, The Moon Society. Their teachings and trainings blend ancient wisdom with the modern way of living. They reconnect women to the sacred cycles within themselves, the earth and the moon, so they can live, love, and lead with ease, flow and integrity. When Em & Linda are not empowering a new generation of light workers you can find them dancing under the full moon, skinny dipping, obsessing over their dogs, Opie & Aura, or indulging in dark chocolate. In this conversation, we will talk about embracing your femininity by taking on a fresh perspective when it comes to your monthly cycle. At some point many of us have been taught that menstruation is something to be ashamed of. But our cycles as women are part of what makes us unique and connects us to one another and rituals of the past.  -The

Join Mary and her very special guest Simone Turner as they talk about finding your path to feminine embodiment. Simone Turner is the Founder of The Wildly Nourished Woman Collective and a holistic lifestyle expert guiding women to become the most successful and healthiest versions of themselves possible. Simone is a professionally trained Holistic Health & Embodiment Coach and a Reiki Level 2 Practitioner attuned and initiated through the lineage of the Usui System of Natural Healing. Empowering women to step into and reclaim their personal autonomy while building authentic sisterhood is what lights her up. She is passionate about supporting women like you to feel their best from the inside out - spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. When Simone isn’t doting on Oatmeal, her ShiTzu dog, she's coaching women to step outside the "societal" box, disrupting the norm, and helping them birth new beliefs of what feminine embodiment and living a Wildly Nourished life personally looks and feels like.  

Join Mary and her guest co-host Lindsley Brooks as they explore feminine archetypes. Many of us are familiar with the zodiac signs, we may even know what our sign is, but many of us don’t know that we possess attributes of each of these signs within us. As women we have a lot of suggestions, expectations, and roles we are supposed to follow and fulfill. That often puts us in a box unsure how to integrate our whole feminine self. We aren’t encouraged to explore all aspects of who we were, and instead get stuck between only a couple “good girl” options. Listen as Mary and Lindsley talk about what it’s like to be a multidimensional woman. They explore how each zodiac archetype invites us to learn more about who we are as a total and whole feminine woman. By learning about the 12 main feminine archetypes you can find the characteristics in yourselves, nurture and cultivate them, and feel confident embracing all the sides that make you uniquely you.   ON THIS EPISODE WE WILL DISCUSS... -The 3 overarching feminine

Join Mary as she kicks off this month's topic of Femininity. We get a lot of unconscious messaging around what it means to be a woman. A lot of “shoulds.” A lot of rules. And often a lot of pressure. We are put in a box with very limiting ideas of what it means to be a woman. Depending on where we grew up, our family of origin, and religious upbringing these ideas will differ. It is so important for us to begin to recognize how these outside influences have affected how we show up as women. Once we identify these “rules” we have been living by, we can then begin to define femininity for ourselves. We want to be able to create a definition of femininity that is empowering, expansive, grounded, and solid. Only we can individually choose what femininity is for ourselves. When we free ourselves from the cues of diet culture, of porn, of family, of religion, of region… we are free to take our cues from our own experiences and create our own definition of femininity that takes into account the unique way that we ea

Join Mary and her special guest Amanda Leaveck as they chat about the connection between our brains and physical movement. Just imagine being able to approach movement from the intersection of neuroscience and intuition and learn how to move deliciously and from a place of ease. Amanda brings her expertise from her nourishing services including yoga, meditation, coaching, and her virtual membership program, Science & Magic. Amanda's researched-based approach to mindfulness is ignited by intuition, love, and a deep reverence for the unknown. In addition to attaining a Bachelors of Science in Neuroscience for undergrad, she graduated from the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration in 2017, where she focused on the integral relationship between connective tissue and the nervous system.Through formal education, independent studies, hands on work with clients, and over a decade of teaching yoga and dance, Amanda has a deep understanding of the human body. She adores creating experiences for all of us to more

Join Mary and her very special guest, her oldest sister, Megan Hyatt Miller. Megan and Mary have a candid conversation about their own personal journey through relating to movement in a new and empowering way. As a busy mom of 5 children, and the Chief Operating Officer, (soon to be CEO) at Michael Hyatt & Company, you’d think Megan would have zero time to incorporate movement into her already over-scheduled routine. Join the conversation today as Megan and Mary talk about why movement allows Megan to be an even better boss, mother, wife and friend. In case you aren’t familiar with her, Megan is also the co-host of the Lead to Win podcast with her father Michael Hyatt, which is consistently featured in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts. As a leader of leaders, she is the grand architect of Michael Hyatt and Company’s successful, achievement-focused culture. Today, she teaches other companies how to practically craft a company culture that makes The Double Win—winning at work AND succeeding at life—effortless. Sh

Join Mary as she kicks off this month's topic of Body Movement. We all know that moving our body is crucial for our health and well being. Yet, so many of us are disconnected from our bodies and have either lost, or never experienced, the joy in moving. We have attached movement to things like punishment and reaching goals that other people have for us. But what if we reshaped our ideas about movement? What if we stopped letting other people dictate how we should move and instead allowed ourselves to find movement that brings us joy? What if we detached movement from the goal of weight loss? What if we stopped looking at movement as a “should?” Join Mary as she helps you identify your triggers around movement. She’ll help you filter out the outside voices and get back to yourself. And give you permission to remove the shame. The shame around the way our bodies look, the way our bodies move, and what our bodies are capable of. When we do this we will create the space to find a form of movement we enjoy and we

Join Mary on this episode as she wraps up this month's topic of Necessary Endings. Throughout the course of our lives we will all experience our fair share of letting go. Often these aren’t things that we are in control of. But what about the things we are in control of? If you know anything about gardening you know that pruning is a part of keeping your plants healthy, thriving, and flourishing. It is the same with your life. The process of personal pruning, and intentionally cutting things out of your life, is the process needed to truly live your life fully alive. When we choose to cut off the things in our lives that aren’t living, aren’t producing fruit, are weighing us down, and aren’t giving us life, we create room for new and fruitful growth.     ON THIS EPISODE WE WILL DISCUSS... -The definition of pruning -Taking responsibility for your life and proactively pruning your own “garden” -The 3 categories that are ripe for pruning -Actively participating in creating the life you desire -Mary’s 5 step pro

On this episode join Mary and her special guest, Juan Santos. Juan is a professional counselor and author who specializes in helping people go from stuck to deeply connected in their relationships. He utilizes a creative off the book approach when helping people overcome challenges and live their best life. Juan is the owner of Santos Counseling LLC, a family owned counseling practice in Greensboro, NC. When he is not working, Mr. Santos loves to spend time with his family and loved ones. He enjoys the outdoors and family adventures with his wife and two kids. Join Mary and Juan as they talk about the changes that occur in intimate relationships over time and how to know when it is time to put in work and when it’s time to go.    ON THIS EPISODE WE WILL DISCUSS... -Getting back to a place of intimacy with your partner -Allowing the space for your partner to change -The importance of doing independent work first -Learning how to appreciate the differences in your partner -The different seasons of relationships