The Gutsy Podcast | Mindset, Personal Development & Entrepreneurship for Women

Your brain operates in a uniquely beautiful way. You see the world differently and have a creative way of approaching life, business, and productivity. It can also be overwhelmingly challenging to focus, accomplish your goals, and find fulfilled completion in your work.
Today, we’re chatting with Genie Love, a coach for professionals and entrepreneurs who are learning they have ADHD or Autism later in life, about ways to embrace the way your mind works with productivity and focus methods that help you reconnect and accomplish your goals.In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The importance of finding your own tribe as an entrepreneur
• Hidden disorders and understanding Neurodiversity
• Neurodiversity and entrepreneurship
• Embrace the way your brain works and do what works for you
• Energy blocking and other productivity tips
• Letting go of the negativity about how your brain works
• Regularly checking in with yourself is key
• Mindfulness and other ways to quiet the noise in your brain

Genie Love holds a Master's degree in Educational Leadership as well as degrees in Physical Therapy and teaching. She was a Special Education teacher for 20 years specializing in working with students who have ADHD and/or Autism. She coaches professionals with ADHD and/or Autism to move from living in chaos to calm to become productive, confident, and successful in meeting their personal and professional goals. This happens through her signature NeuroAutonomy method which includes researched strategies, mindfulness, and mental fitness.Resources from this episode
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Today’s PowerbackTM episode is all about your calendar.

There's this unspoken expectation that we have to be available whenever somebody wants us - a client calls or a prospect calls or somebody wants to meet with us and we're just like, ‘Oh, that day is already full but I'll make it work.’

And then inevitably what happens is, you end up overspent for the day!

Overbooking and allowing other people to have control of your calendar is what I like to call a power leak - and it's not serving you nor anyone else.

So today's PowerbackTM lesson is tips and tricks on how to take your PowerbackTM in your calendar:

1. Block out one day every week where you don’t meet anyone (not virtually nor in-person!)
2. Schedule meetings using an online calendar like Calendly
3. Block out the same day every week for recurring tasks (this will help you stay in your zone of genius!)

Just remember, this is your time and you get to make the rules!
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Fear and stress love to pop up at the least convenient hour of the day. I feel like fear loves to pop up the most when you're just on the brink of something. You've put in a lot of time and effort, you can see and feel your future right in front of you. Then fears like, Oh, hey, we haven't talked in a while. Let's sit down and have a really awful conversation.
I also find that fear and stress really love to pop up when things seem to be going out of control, and it's not always that it's something negative — but sometimes it's the number of things you have to balance in your life.
For instance, not long ago, we rebranded our entire company and within two weeks we saw an incredible influx of inquiries. A lot of these were people that had been watching for quite some time and our rebrand sparked something within them. But here's what's showing up because of that: Greatness is great, but too much of a good thing is a challenge no matter what it is. And what we're finding right now is the need to slow down, focus, develop processes, and really get down into the nitty-gritty basics of business.
In all honesty, I've been kind of freaking out like, Can I do this? Can I handle this? Oh my gosh, I asked for all of this. But I don't even know if I have the capacity to handle it myself emotionally, physically, spiritually, mentally. Can my team handle it? Am I putting too much on them?
I mean, the conversations I have silently are excruciating sometimes, but that's why I'm talking about it here because I know damn well I am not the only one that does it. When we are faced with a lot of stuff on your plate, good, bad, or in between, it gets overwhelming.
Something I've learned over the years, particularly through business, is the awareness of when this pops up — when I feel like a tornado in a handmade pottery store or when I feel like everything around me is spiraling out of control — that is my cue to say, you know what? I'm freaking out because I don't have all the information and details I need. I am running faster than I can walk and it feels like wet sand is slipping right through my fingers
This week, I want you to take your powerback by looking at everything you've got going on. I'm literally asking you to pause and sit with yourself and make a list. What is going on? When are these items due? What takes priority and precedence over the others? What is needed of you? We typically bypass this entire process because why? It takes time and we're thinking, Gosh, if I don't have enough time to begin with, how on earth am I going to have the time to sit down and figure it all out?
By giving yourself the time to stop, breathe, and really look at everything, (most of the time) you'll find it's actually not quite as overwhelming as it seems.
So I challenge you to take 15 or 20 minutes of silence with yourself, grab a notebook, calendar, spreadsheet, etc. and take a look at the next few weeks of your life: What is stressing you out? What do you need to know to be at ease? How can you help yourself to achieve things more efficiently and less stressfully?
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So many times, we want to show up in our lives and in our businesses but we fear what other people might think and say about us.

This causes you to stay small and gives you perceived safety, but ultimately it's pulling you further and further away from your calling.

In this Gutsy Podcast Exclusive, we're talking to Sean Hunter, also known as #pelotonhusband, about the effects of negative feedback and how to overcome them.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Sean dances the line between being a gym teacher, an actor, and studying for his Master’s degree.
• Why it’s important to listen to that voice telling you, ‘You need to do this’.
• Advice to aspiring actors, musicians, artists that want to pursue something but feel it’s insanely out of reach.
• How the pandemic has shone clarity on many facets of life.
• The importance of being in a ‘reflective state’ as well as ‘reframing the mind’ through language.
• The 2019 Peloton Christmas commercial and the perspective Sean hopes to shift concerning the commercial’s controversy.
• The effects of negative feedback and how to overcome them.
• The importance of infusing curiosity into your life.
• What GUTSY means to Sean.

Sean is a teacher by trade and actor by hobby. He's a K-7 gym teacher and the former #pelotonhusband living in Vancouver. He enjoys acting, teaching, lots of backdoor activities, and staying social with friends.

Sean played the role of the husband in the 2019 holiday commercial for Peloton, an at-home indoor cycling brand. The commercial received millions of views (I’m talking over 5 million views) and at the time raged the world.

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Click HERE to watch the 2019 holiday Peloton commercial.

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Have you ever had one of those daunting tasks, that thing you keep thinking about on a regular basis? You know it needs to be done, but you just keep saying, Oh, I'll get to it tomorrow. Oh, I'll get to it the next day. And, inevitably, tomorrow comes. And the next day comes. And the task continues to roll over.
I'm going to take you down a quick story path here, guys, because I have done this recently and I want to bring this to you so that you can prevent this unnecessary stress in your life.
So let's talk Microsoft Word. Out of the blue one day a couple of months ago, when I would open up a new document it wouldn't save as the right size. Like all of a sudden, it was like 8.75 by 10.25 or some ridiculous size. So I would go to the settings and I would choose and ask to make it regular letter size and it wouldn't change. So I had to deal with this abnormally sized document. Well, I can't use that. Right? It doesn't look right. It throws me off. So every time I wanted to have a quote-unquote normal-sized document, I would open up another document, resave it as a new name, delete out all the content, and then use it.
Now, I know this doesn't seem really big or whatever, but I use Word for a lot of different things in my business. I use it when I'm documenting questions and planning for the podcast. I'm writing content for Worx & Co. I use it for communications. I mean, I'm in Word a handful of times a week, but every time I opened it I got irritated and frustrated because why on earth, Word, would you make this ridiculous sized document? I allowed this to go on within myself for I would say probably four to six weeks.
I knew what I had to do. I was working in an outdated Microsoft Word. I couldn't tell you what year it was. I don't know why it didn't auto-update. There are a thousand reasons and questions that I'll never know, but I knew the reason and I knew it was because I went out to one of my coworkers' desks and I realized, Oh, your word and Excel icons look different than mine. They look way more updated. Shit, I know what I have to do to get rid of this problem. But to do so, I knew that I was going to have to take the time to download the programs.
I know that's not hard, but time is really precious. I was going to have to download the programs. I was going to have to re-install them, and then, inevitably (and why I put this off for so long), I had to go find the passwords because I had to log back in. And then the old documents needed converted to the new documents. And all these things started happening and I was like, see, this is why I didn't want to deal with this. And then I stopped and I thought, well, here's a podcast episode because how many times do we put off doing sometimes the smallest task because of the larger things that come along with it?
It wasn't about downloading it, it wasn't about putting in the password, it was the combination. And honestly, it was the time to stop, deal with the issue, and do what I needed to do to alleviate the initial challenge that I started from in the beginning. It takes more time and more effort to put into thinking about why and how you can't do what you need to do than it is to just do the damn thing to begin with. So this week I want you to take your power back by taking care of the annoying thing that you know you just don't want to deal with, but also know your life is going to be a lot easier and a lot more streamlined if you just block out the time to

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