Podcast by Josie Smith
Podcast by Josie Smith
10 September 2024
In today's episode, I'm talking with Kendall Lanning. Kendall embodies what it truly looks like to live a life as a multi-passionate human who embraces her gifts, her light, and even her struggles, to elevate her life's path and to bring light to everyone she serves. She's a certified child life specialist, certified yoga instructor, certified grief facilitator, Reiki practitioner, sound healing practitioner, artist, and author.
And in this conversation, we dig into her journey of first discovering yoga and sound healing, of finding her dream job as a child life specialist at Children's Hospital, and of becoming a published author of children's books. Kendall's books address difficult topics like grief and transition in a way that not only meet children where they are and provide them with the language they need in order to understand and cope with challenging circumstances, but they also provide parents and caregivers with tools and activities to use to further understand and support their children on these sometimes difficult life journeys.
You'll also hear about Kendall's own personal struggle with reading - she didn't even read her first book until she was in her 30s! And how she navigated this particular challenge in a way that ultimately empowered her to step into her purpose as a published author!
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Connect with Kendall:
Website: padmalight.com
Follow on IG: @padma.light
Kendall's books:
The Fox and the Feather (buy on Amazon)
Always Home (buy on Amazon)
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Connect with Josie:
Website: josiesmithcoaching.com
1:1 Coaching with Josie (3 month coaching program, by application only)
90 Minute Success Strategy Session
The 30-Day Purpose Journal: Reconnect with yourself, realign with your purpose, and reignite your dreams
Get a FREE copy of the one week version of the journal.
Would you like Josie to speak at your event?! Click here to inquire!
Follow on IG: @josiesmithofficial
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Topics addressed in this episode: author, artist, children's author, children's book, trauma, autism, yoga, sound healing, medium, mediumship, spiritual gifts, merkaba, light codes, death, dying, grief, homelessness, entrepreneurship.
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03 September 2024
After a two month break from podcasting (and so many other things too!) I'm back with a new episode! And in this episode, I share a little about where I've been over the past couple of months... what I've been doing (and not doing!)... what prompted me to take a social media break (and how freakin hard it was!)... why I loaded my dogs in the car one night at 1am and drove around for 3 hours in the middle of the night... hail the size of baseballs... watching trees fly down my street from my living room window... and my upcoming solo retreat to the desert...
You don't want to miss this episode! I'm so excited to be back and to share more in the coming weeks of all the new things to come!
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Connect with Josie:
Website: josiesmithcoaching.com
1:1 Coaching with Josie (3 month coaching program, by application only)
90 Minute Success Strategy Session
The 30-Day Purpose Journal: Reconnect with yourself, realign with your purpose, and reignite your dreams
Get a FREE copy of the one week version of the journal.
Would you like Josie to speak at your event?! Click here to inquire!
Follow on IG: @josiesmithofficial
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18 June 2024
Coming at you today with a quick bitch sesh! It's been awhile since I've done one of these! And today I am talking about work-life-balance. Or work-life-harmony. Or work-life-integration. Because you can call it whatever the eff you want to call it!
But so many people today in the coaching space and the personal development space would have you think that "work-life-balance" isn't attainable. But they turn around and slap another name on it - they call it "harmony" or "integration" instead - and suddenly it becomes this magical, realistic, attainable vision, and THEY have the secret coaching program that's gonna help you reach it!
And. I mean. WTAF?!
Unfortunately, there are a lot of really good marketers out there masquerading as coaches. They prey on people's fears and struggles and insecurities, and sadly, too many people buy into it, spend a lot of money, and end up getting hurt.
And I'm tired of it.
So in this episode, I give you some things to consider when you're trying to decide whether or not to invest in a coaching relationship. Because there are too many beautiful, caring, competent, in integrity coaches and mentors in this world who CAN help you through whatever it is you're navigating. Who CAN help you achieve the dreams and the visions you want to achieve. Who will support you and guide you and cheer you on. And I want you to surround yourself with THOSE people!
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Connect with Josie:
Website: josiesmithcoaching.com
1:1 Coaching with Josie (3 month coaching program, by application only)
90 Minute Success Strategy Session
The 30-Day Purpose Journal: Reconnect with yourself, realign with your purpose, and reignite your dreams
Get a FREE copy of the one week version of the journal.
Would you like Josie to speak at your event?! Click here to inquire!
Follow on IG: @josiesmithofficial
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Topics in this episode:
work life balance, work life harmony, work life integration, personal development, business coaching, life coaching, lifestyle goals, business goals, money goals, financial goals, time freedom, financial freedom, six figure business, coaching for entrepreneurs, financial coach, money coach, business strategy, entrepreneur, small business owner
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11 June 2024
In today's episode, I am talking with Katy Saltsman. Katy is a nutritionist, personal trainer, speaker, and business mentor on a mission to change the conversation around health, wealth, and happiness for women. She helps women master their hormones, metabolism, and health; and also helps female entrepreneurs master their highest self and wealth. She has helped hundreds of women live their happiest and healthiest lives; she runs a top podcast called Crying Burns Calories, and is the authenticity queen when it comes to running and scaling a business and brand that lights you up.
We talk about everything in this conversation! We talk about the importance of physical, mental, and emotional health as entrepreneurs, and how our health impacts our ability to be effective business owners. We talk about important health habits to implement as high achieving, goal focused, driven women and business owners. We discuss weight loss, balancing hormones, gut health, nutrition hacks, morning and evening routines, and honoring what our bodies need without feeling like we need to simultaneously deprive ourselves of the things that bring us joy.
Katy shares her journey of beginning in nursing school, to transitioning into becoming a hairstylist, to then shifting into the fitness and personal training space - only to find herself discouraged with the "big box gym" mentality and eventually breaking out into building her own personal brand, providing individualized health, fitness, and nutrition coaching to women. As Katy worked with women on their health and fitness journeys, she began to notice a pattern - so many of the women coming to her for health coaching were entrepreneurs and business owners - which led her to finding her unique niche, combining business and health coaching and helping entrepreneurs build personal brands, authentically aligned businesses, and create wealth for themselves and their families; all while honoring themselves, their bodies, their health, and equipping them to design a business and a life that's not only profitable, but that brings them so much joy and fulfillment!
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Connect with Katy:
Check out her podcast! Crying Burns Calories
FREE! Mini Metabolism Makeover
Master Your Metabolism: A 10-week transformation program designed to optimize your metabolism, increase your energy, and transform your health inside and out
Follow Katy on IG: @katysaltsman
Request to have Katy speak at your event!
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Connect with Josie:
Website: josiesmithcoaching.com
1:1 Coaching with Josie (3 month coaching program, by application only)
90 Minute Success Strategy Session
The 30-Day Purpose Journal: Reconnect with yourself, realign with your purpose, and reignite your dreams
Get a FREE copy of the one week version of the journal.
Would you like Josie to speak at your event?! Click here to inquire!
Follow on IG: @josiesmithofficial
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Topics in this episode:
health journey, health goals, weight loss, hormones, gut health, health habits, personal branding, business mastermind, adapting to change, lifestyle goals, business goals, money goals, financial goals, time freedom, financial freedom, six figure business, coaching for entrepreneurs, financial coach, money coach, business strategy, entrepreneur, small business owner
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04 June 2024
In today’s episode, I get a little deeper into a challenge I brought up in last week’s episode – which is how to navigate the choices you need to make when the foundation of the road map you previously created to help you reach a major goal in your life or in your business has fallen apart.
When your goal hasn’t changed, but the foundation upon which you built your road map is no longer able to support that road map, you need to rebuild a new foundation. You need to adjust the road map. And in this episode, I walk you through several different potential scenarios that could fall into this particular type of challenge, as well as the questions you need to ask yourself and the possibilities you need to consider in order to repair or rebuild the foundation of your road map.
I equip you with tangible, tactical strategies to empower you to make the best decisions for your specific situation and with your specific goals in mind. Whether you’re in network marketing, a small business owner who provides physical products to your customers, an entrepreneur with a service-based business, or a nine-to-fiver looking to grow a side-hustle so you can leave your full-time job, this episode speaks to the challenges we all face when we’re following a plan to reach a specific goal, but something within that plan changes unexpectedly, forcing us to adapt.
This episode is all about creating the best road map for YOU, in order to equip you to reach YOUR personal, professional, and entrepreneurial goals. Your goals don’t look like anyone else’s goals, so your road map to reaching those goals isn’t going to look like anyone else’s road map. That’s why you need to know how to build that road map in a way that works best for you.
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Connect with Josie:
Website: josiesmithcoaching.com
1:1 Coaching with Josie (3 month coaching program, by application only)
90 Minute Success Strategy Session
The 30-Day Purpose Journal: Reconnect with yourself, realign with your purpose, and reignite your dreams
Get a FREE copy of the one week version of the journal.
Would you like Josie to speak at your event?! Click here to inquire!
Follow on IG: @josiesmithofficial
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Topics in this episode:
goal setting, adapting to change, lifestyle goals, business goals, money goals, financial goals, time freedom, financial freedom, six figure business, coaching for entrepreneurs, financial coach, money coach, business strategy, network marketing, entrepreneur, small business owner
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23 May 2024
Initially, this episode was supposed to be called "Lessons I've Learned from Yoga"...
And while I do share some of those lessons in this episode, I went on a little bit of a tangent early on and the entire episode turned into a discussion about some struggles I've been working through recently that have had me feeling stuck and uncertain in a lot of ways. And I share how I've begun to navigate those situations with some loving but challenging words from a mentor.
I talk about seasons - both literal seasons that relate to weather, and the seasons we experience in life. I talk about building road maps to reach our goals and also being willing to change and rebuild those road maps when things change. Because as we take the journey to reach the goals we've set, we grow and change, we overcome obstacles, we develop new tools to use along the way, all of which allow us to elevate our road map to a new level.
I share how I've begun to rebuild certain parts of my own road map after some of the foundational pieces I'd built upon crumbled and fell apart. And I share how integral my yoga practice has been in allowing me to stay connected to myself and how doing the inner work makes the outer work that much more relevant.
And, as I initially set out to do, I also share the lessons I've learned from yoga:
1) Never stop trying things that force you out of your comfort zone
2) Everything is always only a suggestion
3) You will never know all there is to know or be able to do all there is to do
4) There's no room for comparison or self-judgment on the mat
5) The body stores emotions that our conscious mind cannot access
6) Surround yourself with magical people
7) Never skip Savasana
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Connect with Josie:
Website: josiesmithcoaching.com
1:1 Coaching with Josie (3 month coaching program, by application only)
90 Minute Success Strategy Session
The 30-Day Purpose Journal: Reconnect with yourself, realign with your purpose, and reignite your dreams
Get a FREE copy of the one week version of the journal.
Would you like Josie to speak at your event?! Click here to inquire!
Follow on IG: @josiesmithofficial
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