It all started with an email… An email to someone this morning, saying that I think my marathon running career might be over.

Why would I think this? Because on the weekends, I just don’t want to run upwards of 15 miles. I don’t feel like putting in the time, or the effort.

I said that I just like running 5-7 miles per day… which, in the immediacy, is true. However here’s what I’ve observed:

When I don’t run the 15s on the weekends, the 5s during the week are much harder and less enjoyable. In essence, I have to do the 15s to love the 5s.

That reflection perfectly complimented my listening to Steve Chandler’s The Story of YOU on my run today. He said that if you told someone to “go have fun on the piano,” how much fun they’d have is basically tied to how much work they put in.

He said this beautiful line:

“The connection of work and fun is always hidden away by advertisers and other peddlers of instant pleasure".”

I tend to attract clients who desire “exoneration.” This is the land of hunky dory, where everything is just blissful rainbows. That place doesn’t exist- but this one does, and if you’re up for 30-ish minutes of motivation and a re-introduction of, wait for it, THE GET THE F*CK OFF PODCAST (because the new name sucked anyway,) I am here for it.

Monologues all around. Hot air. Enjoy.

Things mentioned in this episode:

The Story of You (and How to Create a New One) by Steve Chandler

The Urantia Book, Paper 48

The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

“Stutz” on Netflix

The Offspring, MOTA

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST,

MY BOOK "LOVE” IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON!!!! BUY IT HERE!!!

Roger Martin is an incredibly deep, beautiful, powerful human being I received the distinct pleasure of meeting this year. During our time on the Friendship Bench together, I began to view him very much as a teacher.

In our conversation, we discovered we shared similar moments of awakening when we realized that life as we imagined was actually a creation our minds, an illusion, and completely changeable.

Roger shares some of his early story, and the moments that got him asking the question that helped him change his entire experience: “Why Do You Experience Life As You Do?” (Or, “Why do I experience life as I do?”)

This exploration centers in the ideas of curiosity, connection, waking up, and finally feeling peace after seemingly a lifetime without it.

If you find yourself in a lifetime of pain, unable to shift from it, I hope you can listen to this episode, and hear something maybe a little bit differently than you have before.

Roger is the author of the publication Helpful Questions Change Lives. He’s the Co-Founder of The Mindset Difference, helping leaders be at their best, irrespective of the circumstances they face.

You can find Roger on Substack (https://hqcl.substack.com/) on his website (https://www.themindsetdifference.com/) or on LinkedIn.

Motherhood is such a sacred, special, and often overlooked role that women play in our society. It comes a lot of heaviness. The questions – “Will I do this right?” “Will I fuck up my kid?” 

And then the guilt, guilt for everything you did, didn’t do, might have done, could have been…

It is courageous to be a mother. 

I said that at the end of today’s episode of View from the Roof with my dear friend and masterful coach, Alysia Lyons. She is doing some of the most noble work I know, helping moms navigate the journey of parenthood.

Alysia Lyons is a mom first. She is a Master Neurotransformational Results Coach, the Co-Director of Raising Enlightened Children, an author of several parenting books and the host of the Imperfect Mommying podcast.

As the proud mother of a son who has been her own course corrector, she now leads the parents through long-lasting neurological shifts to help ease their guilt and increase their emotional peace to find their happy. 

What’s the most essential thing to being a great parent? The answer might surprise you.

Mentions in this episode:

First, Alysia’s NEW book Good Mom Rules: Ditch Mom Guilt & Find Your Happy officially launches on NOV 7, 2023.

GET IT HERE TODAY

Information about Alysia and Melanie’s 5-Week Course (and registration) can be found here:

https://alysialyons.com/register

or here: bit.ly/3ra086G

More information about Alysia and Melanie’s work with Raising Enlightened Children can be found at:

https://alysialyons.com/

and

https://www.raisingenlightenedchildren.com/

Join the Raising Enlightened Children Community on Facebook here: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2599203676991650