FINE is a 4-Letter Word

Lori Saitz

Wasn’t it just a couple years ago you were sitting on the beach at spring break in Ft. Lauderdale – listening to the Pet Shop Boys, U2, and Def Leppard - with your entire life ahead of you? Now you’re looking back 30 plus years and wondering what the hell happened. Not that it’s been all bad. Of course, there’ve been highs and lows. And today, everything’s fine. It’s just fine. That’s the problem. You don’t really feel like you have anything to complain about. Lots of people might envy what you have. But you’re feeling a deep undercurrent of suck. Like, there must be something more. And you don’t know what to do about it. Welcome to Fine is a 4-Letter Word, with host Lori Saitz. Each week, you'll hear inspiring stories of self-discovery and courage from people who have said F*ck Being Fine and have transformed their lives and businesses. Plus, get practical tips and takeaways to move you from spinning in place - to forward action - so you can create a life of joy. None of us knows how much time we have here. So we have to make the most of it. We have to do the things that light us up and bring us joy. This show will give you hope, help you find your passion and purpose, and dare you to see the life that’s waiting for you. You’ll never hear - or say - the word “fine” in the same way again.

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106. Summer Session 6: Do What Lights You Up: Messages from Snakes & Scorpions with Tab Scott

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

09/07/23 • 37 min

It’s still summer as far as I’m concerned. And in today’s Summer Session we’re going back to episode 16 from August of 2021. It’s called Do What Lights You Up: Messages from Snakes & Scorpions with Tab Scott.

Tab is an award-winning international advisor, speaker, and best-selling author of Trust Your Animal Instincts-Recharge Your Life & Ignite Your Power. And wow, what a story. Highly recommend.

We talked about the intersection of science and spirituality in regard to energy. How animals can help you find answers – in Tab’s case it’s been snakes and scorpions – hence the title of this one. And what you can do to achieve purposeful transformation, one small bite at a time

Here’s what’s changed in Tab’s world since we published.

Tab is very excited about working on her second book. It’s about taking badass lessons from nature to make businesses faster, more productive, and positive. Mark your calendar - the projected publication date is February 2024.

She’s consulting on sustainability, energy conservation, efficiency, and renewables. As well as innovation, behavior change and team building and dynamics. She sees a resurging movement in wellness and a love of nature and wants to help people who want to be part of that positive change.

Lastly, she’s moved with her partner from Nashville to Denver. Tab’s got an incredible story, so keep listening.

Speaking of changes and moving... if you’ve been dreaming of escaping your life and taking a sabbatical but you don’t know how you can make it work... head over to Zen Rabbit.com. That’s where you can get your free copy The Five Easy Ways to Start Living a Sabbatical Life – without having to take a year or even a month off from real life. There’s more to come on this topic too. Check it out at Zen Rabbit.com

Tab’s hype song is Chumbawamba’s Tubthumping (aka I get knocked down, but I get up again!)

Resources:

Learn more at: https://powering-potential.com/

Connect with Tab on LinkedIn

Follow Tab on Instagram and Facebook

Get Trust Your Animal Instincts

09/07/23 • 37 min

105. Summer Session 5: Tap Into Your Intuition & Own Your True Self with Brigitte Baker

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08/31/23 • 43 min

Going back a few months to February 2023 for this Summer Session. My guest is my very own animal communicator, Brigitte Baker. We're learning how she uses her intuitive abilities to strengthen the bond between humans and their companion animals.

Brigitte's journey to embracing her gift was not without its challenges, as being around animals and their pain was initially too much for her to handle. After years of societal pressure and feeling like she didn’t fit in, she had a turning point and found the courage to own her unique qualities. Listen as Brigitte inspires you to embrace our individuality and live authentically.

This episode is sponsored by Zen Rabbit. If your life is a bit of a mess and you feel caught in a storm with chaos swirling around you, check out the new Staying Calm in Chaos program. It’s 10 short audio sessions of tools and techniques to help you find peace of mind. No matter what life circumstances are throwing at you.

Comes with five awesome meditations. And there’s a bunch of other #calmplimentary stuff – like mandala coloring pages, templates for writing gratitude notes, and 52 weeks of inspiring activities to maintain your chill throughout the year. Because how many more days in a row do you want to say “Arg, today was a cluster-f*ck. Tomorrow will be better?”

Check it all out at https://get.stayingcalminchaos.com/

Brigitte's hype song is Brick House by The Commodores

Resources:

Learn more at: reiki317.com

08/31/23 • 43 min

104. Summer Session 4: Complacency is a Disease with Tony Jalan

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

08/10/23 • 42 min

This week’s Summer Session takes it back to March 2022 for the conversation with Tony Jalan. He and I talked about motivation, problem solving, owning where you are in life, and practicing intentional gratitude. Tony really got me thinking about the whole concept around intentionality.

I’ll never forget that after we stopped recording, Tony shared with me that one of the stories he told from his childhood, he had never shared before. That’s the cool thing about the intimacy of a podcast studio.

One of the key takeaways from this one was There’s not a point in anyone’s life where you’re above asking for help. Even the highest level coaches and leaders have coaches and mentors. Everyone needs someone to pull them up.

Check it all out at https://get.stayingcalminchaos.com/

Tony’s hype song is All I do is WIN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXzlRoNtHU

Resources:

Connect with Tony on LinkedIn

Follow Tony on Instagram

08/10/23 • 42 min

103. Summer Session 3: Unleash Your Joy with Carol Banens

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

08/03/23 • 37 min

For this week’s Summer Session, we’re kicking it back to January 2022 for the conversation with Carol Banens. She and I talked about grief and the grieving process, setting healthy boundaries, and expanding your awareness of the present moment.

Here’s what’s new with Carol since this episode published. She is now a certified grief to gratitude coach and a certified grief educator. She’s focused her grief coaching practice on working with widows and widowers. And she just this week published her first book of grief poems. It’s called “Kintsugi Your Heart: The Art Of Living With Grief” and is available on Amazon.

Because how many more days in a row do you want to say “Arg, today was a cluster-f*ck. Tomorrow will be better?”

Check it all out at https://get.stayingcalminchaos.com/

Carol’s hype song is Bill Withers: Lovely Day

Resources:

Learn more at: https://www.carolbanens.com

Connect with Carol on Facebook

Follow Carol on Instagram

Get Kintsugi Your Heart: The Art Of Living With Grief

We mentioned the Abraham Hicks Emotional Guidance Scale

08/03/23 • 37 min

102. Summer Session 2: Living a Mindful Midlife with Billy Lahr

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

07/27/23 • 47 min

Today’s Summer Session episode we’re going back to Living a Mindful Life with Billy Lahr, from October 2022. Let me update you on what’s changed in Billy’s world since we published.

Billy is back from his two-year odyssey overseas, which included eight months in South Korea. He's parked himself in Minnesota and is leading virtual mobility & meditation sessions as well as mindful living group and 1:1 coaching sessions. He also has a new course out called Mindfulness for Anxiety.

In August he's releasing a brand new Reflect-Learn-Grow Introduction to Mindfulness course.

His awesome podcast The Mindful Midlife Crisis is on hiatus for now. But each Sunday and Wednesday you can tune in for a guided meditation. His last published episode about leaving Seoul is a tear-jerker. In it, he talks about making the difficult decision to leave Korea (despite every fiber of his being not wanting to go), why he wants you to stop asking people who make difficult life decisions, “Why?” and what to say instead, and what his journey has really been all about.

Go listen to that after you listen here.

If you’re up for some laughs today, keep listening.

This episode is sponsored by Zen Rabbit. Head on over to Zen Rabbit.com to get your free copy The Five Easy Ways to Start Living a Sabbatical Life – without having to take a year or even a month off from real life. While you’re there, you can also find a link to the brand-new program called Staying Calm in Chaos. If your life feels like a dumpster fire of stress and overwhelm and you’d prefer to be someone who feels peace of mind no matter what – Staying Calm in Chaos is for you. Comes with five awesome meditations. And there’s a bunch of other #calmplimentary stuff – like mandala coloring pages, templates for writing gratitude notes, and 52 weeks of inspiring activities to maintain your chill throughout the year. Check it all out at Zen Rabbit.com

Billy's hype song is Refuse/Resist by Sepultura

Resources:

Learn more at www.mindfulmidlifecrisis.com

Connect with Billy on LinkedIn

Follow Billy on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter

Listen to my guest interview on the Mindful Midlife Crisis

Relax to a Billy meditation

07/27/23 • 47 min

101. Summer Session 1: Creating Your Life The Way You Want It with Shannon Paterson

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

07/13/23 • 40 min

Today is the first Summer Session of 2023. Remember back in the day when all the TV shows would do summer re-runs? It’s like that. Except instead of just pulling from the last season of 22 episodes, I’m taking you back to select episodes from the entire catalog.

We’re starting with Shannon Paterson’s show from November 2021. In this one, Shannon and I cover learning to love and appreciate yourself, accepting where you are and moving forward from here, and the power of speaking your truth.

Let me update you on what’s changed in Shannon’s world since we published. You might remember she’s a 3X Ironman World Champion triathlete. So, she’s gone back to her roots of fitness coaching, specializing in helping women who are over 40, who are experiencing the physical changes & energetic lows due to hormonal shifts.

This focus complements her mission of helping empower all women to "Live Your Truth” because strengthening your body helps you feel better in every way... physically, mentally, and spiritually. The new scientific research is proving that to truly look and feel your best at any age, you need to embrace NEW ways of exercising and nutrition that work for perimenopausal and menopausal women. She adamant that women are not small men, and training like one won’t get you the results you want.

To this end, she’s helping women make simple tweaks to improve body composition, confidence, and wellness via in-person and online personal training, nutrition counseling, and athletic coaching. I’ve been following her on Instagram and she’s always posting valuable info there.

Shannon also got married and moved from Washington state to Arizona, where she’s now enjoying living in an oven.

Shannon's hype song is Rise Up by Andra Day

Bonus song is Wavin'Flag - Coca-Cola Celebration Mix by K'NAAN)

Resources:

Learn more at www.liveyourtruthco.com

Connect with Shannon on LinkedIn

Follow Shannon on Facebook and Instagram

To schedule a free 30 min mindset empowerment coaching session, go to https://calendly.com/liveyourtruthgirl

07/13/23 • 40 min

100. How to Make Better Decisions

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

07/06/23 • 24 min

It’s a celebratory solo episode created to help you make better decisions! Welcome to episode 100! What if I told you there are no “wrong decisions?!” Yup, every decision you make is the right one.

In this one, discover how to figure out what your deep-seated limiting beliefs are and how you can change them to create more favorable results in your life. Learn how to stop spinning in indecision and wasting time weighing every last insignificant option while darting back and forth between options like a squirrel crossing the road.

Hear what “trick” you can use today and forever more to determine what your intuition is telling you so you can make the best choice for you in that moment.

There are a couple of book recommendations and I share a few research studies on what happens to our brains when faced with too many options. When you finish listening to this one, you’ll be set for making all kinds of decisions you can feel good about!

This week’s hype song is It’s My Life by BonJovi

Resources:

Listen to Using Your Values As A Filter with Nicole
The Paradox of Choice, why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Peter Crone on Instagram

You know you can go to Zen Rabbit.com to get your copy of the short guide to working less and living better - also known as The Five Easy Ways to Start Living a Sabbatical Life. You may also be interested in a brand-new program called Staying Calm in Chaos. It’s 10 short, easily digestible audio sessions that walk you through how to go from being an overwhelmed high achiever to a calm, grounded, and centered person who has peace of mind no matter what. Comes with some awesome meditations and there’s a bunch of other cool stuff to go with it. Check that out at https://get.stayingcalminchaos.com/

07/06/23 • 24 min

99. How to Honor Your Energy with Maria Riegger

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

06/29/23 • 43 min

We are fortunate to have with us the remarkably versatile Maria Riegger. Maria is a corporate attorney, astrologer, parenting coach, and author. Born under the sign of Gemini, Maria claims her head has always been in the clouds. As a kid, when she was bored, she would make up stories in her head and has been writing since she was about 13 years old. Today, her unique blend of sarcastic wit and resilient spirit shows through her parenting books as well as her gritty contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels.

In our conversation, we cover Maria's journey from “fine” to what lights her up now. She shares insight into how she replaced her command and control parenting style with a more compassionate approach centered on laughter, connection, and understanding the unique needs of her child.

Did you know your birth chart can illuminate your unique energies? Maria shares how understanding these charts can enhance a parent's understanding of their child's distinctive energy patterns. Prepare for a thought-provoking exploration into creativity, inspiration, and the underestimated power of unscheduled, free time for both children and adults.

Maria’s hype song is Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey

Resources:

Of course, you can go to Zen Rabbit.com to get your copy of the short guide to working less living better - also known as The Five Easy Ways to Start Living a Sabbatical Life. You may also be interested in a brand-new program called Staying Calm in Chaos. It’s 10 short, easily digestible audio sessions that walk you through how to go from being an overwhelmed high achiever to a calm, grounded, and centered person who has peace of mind no matter what. Comes with some awesome meditations and there’s a bunch of other cool stuff to go with it. Check that out at https://get.stayingcalminchaos.com/.

Produced by Nova Media

06/29/23 • 43 min

98. Perfection is Not the Goal with Jen Beck

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

06/22/23 • 51 min

Jen Beck is a registered Nutrition Consultant, an Advanced Practitioner of LIIFT UnTherapy, and CEO and founder of Complete Health Revolution. With two decades under her belt guiding people to discover the root cause of their issues and reclaim their health, Jen's mission to empower high achieving professionals and entrepreneurs to create a life they love is awe-inspiring. Besides her significant work with clients, Jen delivers corporate wellness programs to Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

Growing up on fast food, cigarettes, and a hefty disregard for personal nutrition, Jen's wake-up call - or her "2x4" moment - came when her mom was forced into a nursing home at 49 years old because of multiple sclerosis (MS). This was the catalyst that sparked Jen's curiosity and dedication to understanding the role of nutrition in our health. Researching the powerful impact of nutrition on chronic diseases, Jen embarked on a journey of learning, transforming, and healing.

We dive into Jen's process of introspection, understanding her feelings, and taking the leap to change her circumstances, and we uncover the small steps she took towards a much-desired transformation. Listen to how she debunked the "all or nothing" mentality, traced her perfectionism back to childhood triggers, and embraced therapy to heal her wounds. Jen’s story is a testament to how we can turn trauma into triumph.

Jen’s hype song is Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys

Resources:

Learn more at www.completehealthrevolution.com
Connect with Jen on LinkedIn
Follow Jen on Facebook and Instagram

Produced by Nova Media

06/22/23 • 51 min

107. Doing the Things No One Else Does

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

09/14/23 • 36 min

In this solo episode, I'm talking about a conversation in which a friend pointed out something I do that not many others do. And what you can learn from this habit.

I'm also sharing where I went and what happened on my summer road trip this year. AND... what crazy, brave, wild thing I'm doing next.

Listen to find out what the 3 big fears are that keep you from going after what you really want, why one common fear is really a big fat cop out, and the super-hard and controversial question you need to answer if you're feeling stuck.

Coincidentally, I saw a dragonfly at my door when I was outlining this episode. What's that mean? I looked it up.

This episode is sponsored by Zen Rabbit.com. That’s where you can get your free copy The Five Easy Ways to Start Living a Sabbatical Life – without having to take a year or even a month off from real life. Download it at Zen Rabbit.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Jack Perez's episode: Becoming a Decision Maker Who Takes Action

Brian Muka's episode: Co-Creating with the Infinite

Bistro Eleven88

TrustedHousesitters (this is an affiliate link)

09/14/23 • 36 min