04: Shush Your Inner A-Hole Today! with Jennifer Pastiloff

08/03/21 • 48 min

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03: What are you waiting for to do YOU? with Tamika Felder

Tamika Felder is a woman with dreams plus an awesome speaker, author, cancer survivor, and advocate who has devoted her life to helping others do one simple thing: do what they really want during your one precious life.

Listen to this week’s episode with Tamika and get ready for a boost towards taking action and control over your life. I promise Tamika is a cheerleader, not a fear leader, and her energy is sparklingly contagious. Remember, you don’t need to ask for permission or wait for the perfect moment to do what you want!

Episode highlights:

(03:03) - How Tamika Felder’s life suddenly changed when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer at 25, and how coming face to face with mortality gave her a new perspective on life.

(08:15) - What is holding you back today? — Don’t wait to be skinnier, smarter, or more connected. Do the things that will make you happy!

(16:17) - Limiting beliefs and how to break them by experimenting the world, traveling, and doing what YOU want to do.

(22:29) - The importance of making conscious choices and having healthy boundaries.

(26:19) - Giving yourself grace and achieving a balance between having pity parties and pushing yourself forward.

(28:18) - Catabolic & anabolic energy: Going from tunnel vision to admiring a prism of possibility.

(35:43) - Beware of fear-leaders and energy vampires! Why you need to escape people who suck out your energy and project their fears on you.

(43:20) - What does balance even mean in today’s crazy hustle culture and why is it okay to stop and reflect?

If you’re wanting to implement ideas you heard, visit MalloryErickson.com/Podcast for the top tips and tools, full transcripts, quotes, videos, and additional resources from each episode.

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05: Fundraising and Funder Behavior: The Tiny Habits That Will Change Your Life with BJ Fogg, PhD

BJ Fogg, PhD is a Stanford behavior scientist, author of the book Tiny Habits, and one of my absolute teachers and heroes. In this conversation, BJ shares his Fogg Behavior Model plus many useful and simple hacks to defeat fear and create habits for anything we want to achieve. His approach to people is immensely human, compassionate, and positive. (Just like fundraising!) You really don’t want to miss this conversation.

Episode highlights:

(01:39) - Behaviour Design & the Tiny Habits Method: Who is BJ Fogg, PhD, and his work as a behavior scientist at Stanford.

(03:36) - What is the Fogg Behavior Model? A 3-step easy-to-learn model to understand and influence all of your behaviors.

(08:56) - Applying behavior science to fundraising and ow to calculate the ideal size of the ask?

(12:50) - The key moments of celebration and giving people positive feelings of success

(20:55) - Do you feel like you can’t do something? Check for these 5 factors of ability and take a tiny step towards action.

(30:15) - Allow yourself to feel successful: Learn how to feel shine on demand for even the tiniest of successes!

(34:56) - How to really beat fear with compassion and get to the action.

If you’re wanting to implement ideas you heard, visit MalloryErickson.com/Podcast for the top tips and tools, full transcripts, quotes, videos, and additional resources from each episode.