Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

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Holiday Sugar, Gentle Boundaries

2025-12-1910:21

Holiday Health: How to Set Kind Boundaries & Protect Your Spark ✨ Small-town generosity often arrives as sugar-laden love. But when comfort food creates a "sugar monster" fog, you start hiding instead of showing up. This self-help masterclass teaches you to pivot from a holiday doom loop to an upward success cycle without rejecting your community. Learn to Master Your Holiday Mindset: Break the "Hiding" Habit: Recognize when feeling "frumpy" makes you stay small and dim your light.Choose ...

Don't Just "Get Through" The Day

2025-12-1708:52

Stop "Getting Through" the Day: How to Grow FROM Your Holiday Stress 🎄 Stop Surviving the Holidays: The Jim Rohn Mindset Shift 🎄 Stop "just getting through" and start getting FROM the day. 🚀 On a 30-hour "Windshield University" road trip, we unpacked a life-changing Jim Rohn insight: Reframing holiday stress as a harvest. This self-help playbook moves you from survival mode to intentional presence, turning friction—like untangling lights or family quirks—into memory-making. Learn to master yo...

What If Rest Is The Real Work?

2025-12-1511:48

What If Rest Is The Real Work? Trading Guilt for Grace & Hustle for Health 🛌 After a big win, a brutal virus delivered a hard stop. We explore the messy truth of ambition vs. wellbeing: the guilt over breaking a streak and the radical idea that rest is a discipline, not failure. This self-help playbook for sustainable excellence teaches you how to stop giving from the empty well and protect your capacity with a kinder standard. You'll learn to: Rest as Discipline: Honor limits and challen...

The Ripple Effect And a 30-Year Goal

2025-12-0313:58

The Ripple Effect: How a 30-Year Dream Teaches Fear Management & Stewardship 🐠 A cold, muddy dive planted a long-term goal: the Great Barrier Reef. 🌊 This self-help masterclass in patience and personal development is the full-circle story of a dream realized, teaching you the ripple effect of small choices. We share how steady breathing and a calm guide transformed panic cues (the "call of the void" at 40 feet) into focus. You'll learn: Long Goals Shape Us: Waiting 30 years meant we were ...

World Champion Moonshots

2025-12-0112:12

Rookie to World Champion in 1 Year: The Moonshot Mindset Start from zero knowledge and land a world title in one year? Yes. This self-help path proves mindset beats lack of experience. The radical shift: converting vague hopes into a calendared system of milestones. This personal development playbook turns a Wildly Improbable Goal (WIG) into a repeatable success cycle. You will learn the secrets to accelerated achievement: Rookie Curiosity, Rock Star Dedication: Fail forward by treating...

Jumpin' Jana

2025-11-2812:17

Protect Your Jump: Setting Boundaries & Reframing Results as Data (Not Identity) 🐍 A world jump competition, a snake delay, and a coach pushing catastrophe talk at the ramp. This is a masterclass in mindset under pressure. This self-help playbook for courage teaches you to set a firm boundary and protect your fragile dreams. When the fuse is lit, you commit to the ride and choose your thoughts precisely. You will learn: The Catastrophe Boundary: Decline untimed, negative feedback. Catastr...

What Are Ya Afta?

2025-11-2610:23

What Are Ya Afta?: The Single Question That Unlocks Audacious Living & Purpose 🧭 Tired of knowing only what you don't want? The simple Australian question, "What are you after?," is the daily reset that pulls you into deliberate living. This self-help playbook overcomes vague wishes by teaching emotional granularity (aiming for mastery or novelty, not just joy) for sharper decisions. You'll discover the secrets to consistent personal development: The Aim vs. The Climb: Separate ego-driven...

Upgrade Your Greeting

2025-11-2410:38

Upgrade Your Greeting: How 5 Words Can End The 'Scrolling Humans' Trap Hack Your Hello: End Autopilot, Build Real Connection 🗣️ Stuck on "Good morning... I'm fine"? This script drains your spark. Our self-help playbook from Australia reveals how simple, curious greetings (e.g., "How goes it?") shatter the law of habituation, force presence, and unlock real connection. Upgrade your first five words for personal development: The Habituation Trap: Predictable scripts numb your attention. S...

Travel Chaos

2025-11-2108:21

The Next Best Step: Performance Under Pressure & The Power of Adaptation 🇨🇦🇦🇺 Wheels Lost? The Single Question for Performance Under Pressure 🇦🇺 A 30-hour travel haul ends in disaster: a world-class team's wheelchair wheels are missing at the World Water Ski Championships. This self-help playbook for high-stakes setbacks shows how one mindset shift—"What's the next best step forward?"—replaced a blame spiral with immediate resilience. You'll master adaptation under pressure: The Crisis Qu...

Look For The NEWNESS

2025-11-1910:55

Look For The Newness: Reset Your Energetic Thermostat with Micro-Adventures 🧭 Is your daily routine draining your spark? Stuck in the sameness of Monday? This self-help playbook uses a simple Australian micro-adventure (a hidden alley, jasmine-scented courtyard) to teach you how to escape habituation and revive creative drive. Learn to raise your energetic thermostat and overcome the "wall of tired" without a vacation: The Habituation Trap: Routines dull attention, leading to a "low power" em...

Little by Little: What If The Dream Is Bigger Than You Think—And You’re Ready Anyway

2025-11-1713:32

Little by Little: Beat Panic, Master Big Goals, and Conquer the Mountain (Living Lucky® Podcast) A dream trip turned into a 30+ hour endurance test became our self-help playbook for managing anxiety and any big goal. Discover the mindset shifts and micro-wins that transform the doom loop of negativity into grounded resilience. You'll master: Silence the ANTS: How to stop Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTS) from amplifying panic (even at 35,000 feet).Reframe Discomfort: Discomfort is data, not ...

Future Gratitude, Present Joy

2025-11-1410:07

Future Gratitude: The Mindset Hack to Turn Doom Loops into Momentum ✨ Stuck in worst-case forecasting? Shift focus to turn your doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle! This self-help episode reveals Future Gratitude: thanking life for what hasn't happened yet. Rehearsing the desired feeling state calms your nervous system and nudges aligned action, making wins inevitable. RAS Alignment: Your reticular activating system (RAS) filters your world based on practiced feelings; feel t...

Non-Dominant Affirmations

2025-11-1207:45

The Non-Dominant Hand Hack: 30-Day Challenge to Silence Clutter & Find Your Inner Voice ✍️ The fastest way out of mental clutter and the doom loop of negativity is through your other hand. This self-help episode introduces the powerful mindset hack: Write one short affirmation with your non-dominant hand for 30 days. The science of the awkward: Awkwardness is the Doorway: Fine-motor focus on shaky letters forces mental noise to recede, instantly interrupting rumination.New Neural Pa...

When Nothing Changes But Time

2025-11-1014:46

The Five-Year Question: Break the Loop and Achieve Meaningful Growth with TFA Will your next five years be meaningful growth or just time passed? This self-help episode is the practical playbook for escaping the doom loop and creating an upward success cycle in life and finance. Master the essential formula for change: Thoughts > Feelings > Actions (TFA). Keeping them the same guarantees stagnation. Learn to shift just one lever to build momentum—you must do it scared! Hear our ca...

StressLaxing: When Rest Feels Wrong

2025-11-0710:59

Stop StressLaxing: Use Turtle Steps to Master Procrastination 🐢 (Living Lucky® Podcast) Is your brain panicking during downtime? That's StressLaxing—the guilt-fueled mashup of rest and anxiety keeping you in a doom loop. This self-help episode gives you the mindset shifts to turn conflict into steady progress (using avoiding taxes as the perfect example!). Reframe Language: Call tasks a "challenge" (or privilege), not a "problem."Turtle Steps: Use micro moves (scanning 5 receipts) to build se...

Stop Fishing For Guilt

2025-11-0509:37

Say "No," End Guilt Trips: The Boundary Hack You Need 🛑 Does a simple "no" trigger guilt and debate? This self-help episode uses a real-life conflict to show you how to say "No is a sentence" without collapsing your boundaries. Stop the pressure to over-explain your way out of commitments. Learn to be direct, kind, and brief to protect your time, energy, and self-respect. Master two mindset shifts for pushback: The Let Them Mindset: Detach from other people's negative reactions.The Guil...

Survival, Gratitude, And The Grit We Forget We Have

2025-11-0309:55

Survival, Gratitude, & The Grit We Forget We Have: Lessons from 127 Hours Aaron Ralston's survival saga is a masterclass in resilience and grit, transforming a doom loop into an upward success cycle with mindset shifts. This self-help episode reveals the deeper lessons: counting small wins for momentum, how surrender clears mental space, and why a vivid vision unlocks strength when willpower thins. Hear his epiphanies on gratitude and the discovery that you are much more limitless t...

Prove Yourself To Yourself

2025-10-3108:17

Prove Yourself To Yourself: The Simple Practice That Ends Waiting & Builds Momentum Waiting for your "ship to come in"? Stop! This self-help episode reveals the game-changing practice to flip the doom loop: Prove yourself to yourself with one action. We expose the hidden comfort of waiting—a defense mechanism that erodes self-trust. Get the timeless wisdom of Jim Rohn and Zig Ziglar on why discipline over delay is the only path to your dreams. Learn to use the mental eraser on setbacks, h...

Just My Luck

2025-10-2910:34

Just My Luck: The Subconscious Hack to Train Fortune & End the Doom Loop (Living Lucky® Podcast) Ever wonder why some people are magnets for opportunity? This self-help episode reveals a game-changing shift that turns luck into a repeatable pattern. Inspired by Mind Power author John Kehoe, we share the hack to reprogram your subconscious mind: Good event? Say “Just my luck.”Setback? Ask “How lucky am I?”These cues train your mind to expect wins, scan challenges for agency, and co-create ...

Grace Under Pressure

2025-10-2708:09

Grace Under Pressure: Turning Setback into Team Strength (Living Lucky® Podcast) Grace Under Pressure: Crisis to Competitive Edge 🥇 (Living Lucky® Podcast) Dream slide out of reach? Our visually impaired teammate, Katie, broke her ankle weeks before World Championships. She flipped the doom loop by returning on crutches, choosing grace and humor. This self-help episode reveals the power of response over reaction in crisis. Her composure didn't heal her bone, but restored belief in the team. L...

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