Redeem Your Ground – Doug Scott

02/24/21 • 51 min

My guest today has a fascinating story that involves following a call taking a leap of faith to pursue doing what he’s uniquely created to do. About eight years ago, he jumped out of a successful career in corporate America to follow his passion and become a landscape designer and a home and garden blogger. After his move from the corporate sector, he helps families make their exterior space more aligned with the way they uniquely want their home to be. Let’s dive into our fascinating interview with Doug Scott, the founder of Redeem Your Ground.

In this episode, we talk about:

Getting Out of Corporate America – Doug’s journey of leaving the corporate environment to launch a new company.

Finding Your Gift – Knowing what we’re gifted with can be valuable in many aspects of our lives. But sometimes, it could be somewhat obscured. Doug shares his thoughts on what you can do to discover what you’re gifted with.

Family, Parenting, and Life Choices – Doug shares the story of how he came to a major realization about his life while spending time with his children and how it influenced him to pursue what he was uniquely created to do.

Surviving the Jump – Doing what you’re created to do might come with its own obstacles. Doug dives into how to survive and keep doing what you’re created to do once you make that leap of faith.

Moments of Doubt – How to listen and look for positive affirmations to help you get through challenging or doubtful moments.

Living Intentionally – How living intentionally could allow you to recognize, feel, and be aware of the smallest things that help you and encourage you to keep going and

Time to Listen – When we face struggles along our path, we may not have time to stop and look at things in a more effective way. Doug shares with us the value of finding time to listen, how he found time to listen, and how it helped him make it through the struggles.

Conversations with Children – Doug shares stories of the conversations he has had with his daughters about doing what you’re created to do and the value those conversations bring into his life and his daughters’ lives.

Contact Doug Scott:

Website: redeemyourground.com

Instagram: instagram.com/rygblog

Mentioned in the episode:

The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life by Os Guinness:
goodreads.com/book/show/98692.The_Call

From Striving to Answering the Call of Music - Stanton Lanier:
www.bobbikahler.com/newpaths/episode011/

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In this episode, we talk about:

Getting Out of Corporate America – Doug’s journey of leaving the corporate environment to launch a new company.

Surviving the Jump – Doing what you’re created to do might come with its own obstacles. Doug dives into how to survive and keep doing what you’re created to do once you make that leap of faith.

Moments of Doubt – How to listen and look for positive affirmations to help you get through challenging or doubtful moments.

Living Intentionally – How living intentionally could allow you to recognize, feel, and be aware of the smallest things that help you and encourage you to keep going and

Contact Doug Scott:

Website: redeemyourground.com

Instagram: instagram.com/rygblog

Mentioned in the episode:

The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life by Os Guinness:
goodreads.com/book/show/98692.The_Call

From Striving to Answering the Call of Music - Stanton Lanier:
www.bobbikahler.com/newpaths/episode011/

Previous Episode

Conversation with a Life Enthusiast - Britt Skrabanek

My guest today is one of those people whose creativity comes out in many flavors. She is a fiction author who has self-published four novels, a content strategist, and a co-founder of Superneat Marketing. She's been blogging since 2012, and last year, she launched her podcast, Love Your Enthusiasm, a podcast that helps women to pursue their greatest passion. She's also a yogi, ballet dancer, cat-mom, and life enthusiast. Let's dive into my conversation with Britt Skrabanek.

Contact Britt Skrabanek

Website: brittskrabanek.com
Podcast: loveyourenthusiasm.com
Twitter: twitter.com/brittskrabanek
Instagram: instagram.com/bskrabanek/

Mentioned in this episode

My Interview on Britt's Podcast - Give Yourself the Grace with Bobbi Kahler:
loveyourenthusiasm.com/give-yourself-the-grace-bobbi-kahler/

Bobbi's Takeaways

I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Britt. Here are my takeaways from the conversation.

In order to be at your best, ask yourself, what do I need to find a balance, and then be intentional about including that in your daily life. For me, that's being in nature. I have to do something every day that gets me out. And in nature, that's when all is right with the world for me.
Sometimes we need to sit with a loss, and then we can move on from it. But if you don't sit with it, and if you try to rush past it, you may end up with regrets.
And we also don't get to complete the experience. And that will cheat us out of the healing that could come with it.
Ironically, think of all the messages that we get to either chin up or buck up or move on, or be a trooper. And those are all good things at the appropriate time. But we can't rush past the authentic emotion, or we will miss the healing.
If we all take the vow of sameness, we can never stand out. It's not just okay to be you. The world needs you to be you.
Staying true to who you are, requires courage. And the ability to put your passion before what everyone else thinks. Courage comes from our passion.
Other people won't care about your passion as much as you do. And that's okay. And moreover, if you expect them to care as much as you do, then you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.
If someone doesn't love what you're doing, someone else will. There's a lot of people in the world, what you're doing and who you're being, it will resonate for someone.
The bumps, the wrinkles, the bruises, and the scars come from a life that has truly been well lived.
Don't be the Instagram version. Be the real you. According to Britt, it has three components that I heard.
- A strong sense of self.
- The second thing is an unwillingness to hide,
- And finally, care about people, not what they think of you.

Next Episode

A Gateway to Growth - Georgena Eggleston

Grief and loss are inevitable things we all may come across at some point in our lives. And the way we respond to our losses is what defines where our lives are headed. My guest today is someone who has endured great loss but hasn’t been broken by it. She has lived through the grief of losing three of her closest family members, and now, she helps people move beyond grief through her 20+ year private practice and reasons to live circles she created for those who have survived suicide attempts. Georgena Eggleston, trauma specialist, author, and certified body-mind therapist joins us today to talk about living through grief and making it an opportunity for growth. I hope you enjoy this conversation.

In this episode, we talk about:

Living Through Grief – Georgena talks about the experience of
dealing with the deaths of three family members, the way she dealt with it, and
what helped Georgena move through the grief.

Understanding Grief – Grief is the result of a significant loss.
However, we often associate grief with death. Georgena talks about six types of
grief that come with different types of losses.

Anticipatory Grief – How to deal with a situation where you know
that a significant loss is inevitable and you’re grieving because of it.

Grief is a Call for Care – What you can do to stay healthy and
take care of yourself in times of grief.

Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail – Why grieving people need to
plan for the events that remind them of their significant loss and how to use
these events to move through the grief.

Grief and Body – Georgena talks about how grief affects our body,
how grief can show up in the form of physical pain, and what you can do to
prevent it.

Grief & Growth – Grief is a gateway to growth. Georgena shared
with us how to embrace your grief and use it for your growth.

Habits & Patterns - We all have habitual behaviors, and these
can sometimes be unfavorable to us in times of grief. Georgena shares her
thoughts on how thin happens and how we can prevent these patterns from
becoming our prisons.

Contact Georgena Eggleston:

Website: beyondyourgrief.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/georgena

Mentioned in the Episode:

Georgena’s Book - A New Mourning: Discovering the Gifts in Grief:
beyondyourgrief.com/book-a-new-mourning/

Building Resilience through Mindfulness – Christine Green:
www.bobbikahler.com/awareness/episode020/