The PhD Mommy's Journey

Episode 10: How to Enjoy Life, Plan the Journey

In this episode of The PhD Mommy's Journey Podcast, Brie delves into two profound concepts: 'Experience' and 'Perception' – two potent tools that can shape your life's journey.

Experience

According to Merriam-Webster (n.d.), 'experience' is defined as, "the conscious events that make up an individual's life." Our experiences are a combination of what we live through, learn from, and use as a stepping stone to personal growth. Merriam-Webster further defines experience as, "the act or process of directly perceiving events of reality."

Each experience, whether it's a business win, a parenting breakthrough, or even a setback, adds a unique layer to your life. These experiences are not just events, but lessons that shape you, teaching resilience, patience, innovation, and tenacity. They mold you into a dynamic woman who can pivot a business strategy while also managing a toddler tantrum.

Perception

'Perception', on the other hand, is the way we understand or interpret our experiences. It causes us to, "attain awareness or understanding of" the lens through which we view our world, influencing our mindset and, in turn, our reality.

Perception is a fascinating aspect of our human experience. It's our personal interpretation of the world around us, shaped by our senses, experiences, and individual cognitive processes. Perception is like a personal filter (or lens) for our reality. It's how we make sense of what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. But it goes beyond just our five senses. It includes how we interpret situations, understand others' actions, and even how we view ourselves. Perception can be influenced by our background, beliefs, values, and current emotional state, making it unique to each individual.

Why You Should Care

Through engaging storytelling, enlightening discussion, and sharing educational insights, Brie explores how these concepts play a critical role in developing a mindset that allows you to fully enjoy life. She also discuss strategies to plan your ultimate destination, be it a state of financial freedom, a lifestyle imbued with discipline and motivation, or a self-made haven of mental well-being.

Join Brie as she unravels the power of experience and perception, guiding you towards a paradigm shift that can be life-changing.

Let's journey together, proving that even amidst the challenges of parenting and entrepreneurship, millennial moms like you can cultivate a mindset focused on enjoyment, growth, and achieving your desired destination.

Remember, the key to living an enriched life doesn't lie in what you experience, but rather how you perceive it. Tune in, and take a step closer to that ultimate destination!

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Introducing “The PhD Mommy’s Journey Podcast”: The Power of Self-Efficacy

Join Bridgette (Brie) Ojo, The PhD Mommy and ultimate millennial mompreneur guide, in her captivating podcast series designed exclusively for ambitious mompreneurs like you! As an educator, scientist, researcher, and PhD candidate, Bridgette is dedicated to helping other dominate their sector in the marketplace while nurturing mindset, motherhood, and motivation. Get ready to embark on a transformative journey through storytelling with science, business, entrepreneurship, research, and personal experiences are intricately woven to empower and embolden you in creating a sustainable financial ecosystem.

In this episode, “The Power of Self-Efficacy”, Bridgette highlights the importance of self-efficacy and what it means to believe in yourself. Bridgette introduces the topic of self-efficacy, the belief in one's capacity to accomplish tasks. Self-efficacy was first proposed by Albert Bandura in 1977 and is a key predictor of behavior change. Self-efficacy influences goals, energy, and likelihood of success. Bridgette shows examples of self-efficacy in practice through the self-efficacy theory (SET), which has influenced various fields, including health psychology, education and sociology. Bridgette provides examples of applications: self-management of chronic diseases, smoking cessation, alcohol use, eating, pain control, and exercise. As a devoted entrepreneur, Bridgette shows readers how self-efficacy is the secret sauce for achieving dreams. In a fast-paced business world, it's easy to doubt ourselves. Self-efficacy is the inner voice that pushes us to push beyond our limits. Believing in our abilities makes us resilient and unstoppable. Research shows that when we believe in our abilities, we take on challenges with resilience. Florence Scovell Shin and Dr. Jordan Peterson's wisdom aligns with self-efficacy and faith; Bridgette is a firm believer in using outside sources to help fine-tune and better understand us. She believes that when we combine faith, belief, and philosophy, we become unstoppable.

"Across Both Sides of the Mirror" by Bianca Pensy Aba is a highly recommended book. It is a beautifully crafted adult contemporary low fantasy novel touching on existential crisis, found family, individuality, and African mythology. Bridgette personally loved the book and felt a deep connection with the main character, Nova. Get your copy on Amazon, Kindle, or Barnes and Nobles.

This episode harmoniously blends market research solutions with self-efficacy to help you harness tool to dominate your sector. Reflect on your incredible power and embrace unshakable self-belief. Bridgette believes in your duty to embrace your God-given talents, apply research and business wisdom, and anchor yourself in faith. As Christian mompreneurs, Phillipians 4:13 reminds us we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Embrace self-efficacy, align with a greater power, and boldly step into the marketplace. Hold onto the truth and remember you are destined for greatness. Self-efficacy empowers us to rise above self-doubt. We are capable, driven, and together, an unstoppable force. As you stretch your God-given potential, Bridgette encourages you to always shatter glass ceilings, push beyond limits, and make your mark on the world.

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Episode 9: How to Enjoy Life: Choose the Ultimate Destination

In this episode of The PhD Mommy's Journey Podcast, Brie talks about how we all need to STOP waiting for the perfect moment in life. To get better, you have to simply get better.

We are all going to die. There is no escaping this harsh, yet powerful reality. We do not know the day, time, place, nor the manner in which we die.

What if today was the day?

What if you died today...how would you feel?

Really think about this: imagine you are going to work. You have a million and one things in your head per usual, you get a series of text messages, you’re exhausted, you yawn... BANG.

You were involved in a car accident and ended up being partially ejected because you never put on your seatbelt. You were too busy to hear the warning from your car because you were too busy yelling at people, honking, cursing out people, telling them to move out of the way, while listening to loud meaningless music that doesn't even really align with your morals.

“Did I tell my daughter I love her?” “I never called my mom back...” “Who is going to pick up my kids?”

Pretty bad, huh?

Yeah, I know. This is why you need to change...like, now.

The difference between successful and non-successful people:

• They get things done, no matter how they feel.

Stop sitting around waiting and thinking. Stop doing “research” and “waiting.”

Go out there and become who you want to be.

Who care about the past? That was so yesterday 💁‍♀️

Stop caring about what others think.

Be yourself.

Be proud in who you are.

You are popping.

You are perfect.

Go all the way in, queen.

Here's what you need to do:

1. Stop doing what you’re doing. Here is the scoop: either you want to cry every night alone eating taco bell, tums and red bull or...you could be drinking red wine in Paris with the man you love. Pick one. No more excuses.
2. Start doing what you’re not doing. Why? Well, because as you remove bad things, you need to replace it with good things. Think of it as a filtering process. Out with the old, in with the new. How simple?

Start off small. No matter how small, just start.

“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.” -Carl Jung.

Here is what I am going to start doing:

-Read one Bible verse a day.

Sometimes a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.

Make it happen.

Claim your greatness.

You decide what, where, when, how, and if you are going to enjoy your life.

Choose your destination.

Are you ready?

Let’s ride...

A special thank you to Chispa Motivation for the amazing motivational video at the end of this podcast episode. Here is the link to this amazing motivational video.

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Hello there and welcome to: The PhD Mommy's Journey Podcast – Episode 2 on Mindset: How to Enjoy Life, The Power of Will.

In this episode, Bri continues her exploration into the book Unf*k Yourself and reveals the power you have every time you decide you will or will not do something. She even opens up about how her best friend’s death rocked her to the core and why most people avoid conversations about death, grief and bereavement. You’ll also discover how to retake control of your life, accept, embrace, and make the most of everything life throws at you (both the miserable and the amazing!).

That’s not all! Here’s what else you’ll learn along the journey:

• The science experiment Bri did on herself using the book Unfu*k Yourself.
• How to use the circumstances in your life as fuel to achieve your greatest desires.
• The most vital life lesson we all must learn that is never taught in school.
• What you must be willing to do if you want to live a life that you love with no regrets.
• Why 99% of people self-sabotage.
• What the most boring part of a basketball game can teach you about facing the toughest obstacles life throws at you.
• Why Bri’s planning to shave all her hair off before the end of February.
• A two-minute hack to improve your mood when your mental health is in the dumps.
• A mantra or affirmation you can say daily if you truly want to enjoy your life to the fullest.
• The doors you’ll face in life and how to know when to open them or keep them shut.
• The one tool you need to design the life you desire.

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Welcome to The PhD Mommy’s Journey Podcast, a podcast for those who want to actually enjoy life.

I’m your host, Brie, your bestie who also happens to be your number one fan. I am an educator, scientific researcher and Qualitative Storyteller who’s obsessed with science and dedicated to equipping you with valuable and useful tools along your life journey. I believe you have a unique and special gift the world needs to experience, and I am here to help. Understand one thing: you have exactly the tools needed to create a more purposeful and meaningful life.

This is the seventh episode of the series, Unf—k yourself, by Gary Bishop. On the previous episode, I talked about the importance of knowing who you are, also known as your identity. In addition, I briefly talked about the importance of your identity, how it’s formed, and the impact it has on human behavior. I also talked about the brain, mind and how both of these key components of your behavior is influenced by your thoughts. The mind is a powerful thing because your thoughts have power; however, it is very important to know that you are not your thoughts, you are what what you do.

On today’s episode, I’m going to start off by asking you this one important question: Do you really want to enjoy a life you love? How comfortable are you with being uncomfortable? Are you willing to go against the grain to achieve beyond your wildest dreams? If so, stay tuned.

The title of chapter seven is: I am relentless. Are you relentless?

What is relentless and why is it important? Relentless is showing or promising no abatement of severity, intensity, strength, or pace. Another word would be known as unrelenting: not softening or yielding in determination. How many times have you been successful in life? How many times have you experienced winning? How did it feel? Great, right? Everyone wants to win; everyone wants to be congratulated and celebrated...I mean, you worked hard, so why not?

Here’s another question: What is something you’ve always dreamed of? What is something you wish you could’ve always done? I’ll go first: I have always wanted to be a philanthropist...I’ve always wanted to be someone who makes a difference in the world by helping people feel better about themselves. I shied away from it through starting to apply to medical school, becoming a teacher, getting a phd...which have all been great because I learned a lot along the way, but I never felt a sense of fulfillment because those things were very easy for me. However, one area in my life: speaking, specifically public speaking...that has been something I’ve always ran away from on the other side.

Anyone who knows me knows I’m an introvert; I’m very shy, quiet and I prefer to stay to myself. I know a lot of people and I have a lot of people who support me, but I tend to be alone. I enjoy being alone because I can get lost in my thoughts...however, I started to notice that there were a lot of people who became very depressed. I felt bad because I realized that there were so many people who have either lost hope or lacked confidence and lacked an ability to have some type of self-worth. I’ve tried encouraging a lot of people and realized I needed to do more...so I did. It hasn’t been easy, but I am in a better place mentally simply being myself.

What about you? What about you? How are you feeling? No, really how are you? It’s okay to be honest. Take a few seconds to really sit down and think about how you are feeling.

See, the thing about life is that we all face obstacles; we all face battles, silent battles, embarrassing battles...tragic battles. Think about the battles you have faced and continue to face in your life. Think about the things you have done and allowed others to have a specific judgment about you? Maybe you are someone who is ready for a change...maybe you are someone who is truly tired of being stuck in a never ending hamster wheel of depression, anxiety, fear, laziness, procrastination...maybe you are someone who wants to change. Guess what, you can change...you can become this beautiful masterpiece after chipping at that invisible rock over your life. Are you ready to change?

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Back to my earlier question: What have you always dreamed of doing? Who have you always dreamed of becoming? What have you always dreamed of working towards? Why haven’t you done it then? What are you waiting for? The perfect moment? That doesn’t exist...you can’t dictate how things will turn on. You can’t dictate on how the game will go or how the story ends, but you can dictate your actions. You can dictate your response to your situation and create a life you truly enjoy.

It’s only true if you agree Do you know the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people? Relent...