Thought Provoking Questions with Izzy

Should you look for another job, end a relationship, move cross country, or stand up to your mother? Life is filled with decisions each day, from choosing what food we eat to the careers we choose and everything in between. How do you make important choices in your life? In this episode Izzy shares a tool for helping make choices and decisions. This discerning practice or process can offer a strategy that aligns with everything important to you and supports creating a thriving life. You see, the premise by which you made decisions in the past may no longer work for you today. Some of those decisions may have resulted from what was expected, what was popular, or your inner rebellion. Perhaps you feel as though there is nothing left to prove, defy, or even chase at this moment of your life. Instead, there is an inner voice that wishes and craves to make a choice from a deep knowing. A feeling of alignment and direction that supports your truest, most authentic self. Welcome home! You see, this part of you has always existed but, at times, may have been distracted or ignored.

In this episode, Izzy talks about all things EGO. She explains how noticing our EGO has been a hot topic in her coaching sessions lately and how the EGO often gets a bad rap, deservingly so at times.  But can the EGO also have a positive role in our lives? Can you spot your ego when it is present? And, is it possible to release and let go of this thing called EGO?  You see, if you are human, there is a good chance that you will live with EGO. But with awareness and conscious attention, you can live and thrive when you become aware and befriend your EGO.  Give this episode a listen, and perhaps you'll find the insight you need to befriend yours and find more inner freedom and peace. 

Over the past few weeks, Izzy has been talking a whole lot about prosperity and abundance. This week Izzy is sharing an important and different perspective on prosperity. She shares a powerful story that demonstrates just how easy it is to give away our time, this valuable commodity, as if it were limitless, at the expense of our health, relationships, financial freedom, integrity, peace, balance, and JOY. She also shares some simple but powerful questions that could be a game-changer for you to begin living in congruency with what you want and the actions you take... inviting more abundance and prosperity in all ways! Go ahead and give it a listen and if you feel like you need help in any way, check out Izzy's one-on-one packages here, or contact her to see what may be the best next step for you!

This episode explores why tapping into your passion, purpose, and gifts can lead to living life with more abundance. We all know creative individuals who have turned their gifts, talents, and passions into a prosperous living. So the question is, why can't you? Perhaps you have convinced yourself that it might be too hard, you don't know how, you are not good enough, you can't afford it, or maybe you don't have the support to commit to this journey. These are legitimate obstacles, but have these excuses denied you and the world from experiencing your gifts and talents? In this episode, Izzy shares a secret that just may change your perspective. Give it a listen to begin your journey toward abundance by tapping into your own passions, purpose, and gifts. And if you think you want a hand, consider my one-on-one package Passion, Purpose, and Gifts, to help you awaken the possibilities of living this inspired-filled life. You can learn more here.

In this episode Izzy talks about shifting the scarcity and lack mindset to that of abundance and prosperity. Abundance and prosperity are about all things, not just about money but also love, creativity, time, space, and JOY. All can be impacted by the attitude we hold. She invites you to consider, how does fear of not enough hold you back? How and where are you living in scarcity? And, if an abundance mindset is a practice, as is a scarcity mindset - which one have you practiced? And for those ready to let go of any area where you may feel scarce, you are invited to join Izzy and her two amazing colleagues, Michelle Marie and Elise Manzo, on Sunday, October 9th, for the full-day retreat, Unlocking Prosperity, to help you change and cultivate more abundance from the inside out. Come to uncover old limiting beliefs, shift your vibration, and heal your mind, body, and soul in order to invite more prosperity, abundance, and joy into your life. Held at the beautiful Stable Gate Farm and Winery take part in this transformational work. And as a bonus, it's peak foliage week in the Berkshires! Sign up here before September 24th and get $30 off the registration fee

In this episode Izzy explores the root of our sense of value and worth. You see, if we quantify our sense of worth and value based on who we are, what we do, and/or what we have, then it can be a moving target dependent on many circumstances and conditions. She shares a story of a young girl and how so often we experience defining moments that establish our relationship with self-worth, value, and prosperity.  Are you ready to peel back the layers and explore what is holding you back from experiencing more prosperity and abundance in your life, relationships, creativity, and JOY? Come join Izzy and the PROSPERITY TEAM, on Sunday, October 9th, for a full day of self-exploration, where we will be emotionally, physically, and spiritually shifting the energy of prosperity in order to attract more abundance. Click here to find out more and take advantage of the $30 savings if booked by September 4th.

Chances are if you are taking the time to listen to this episode, you didn't win that GINORMOUS lottery windfall. If you had, you would probably be busy planning the rest of your life or at least getting your affairs in order to collect that check! Like so many, if you bought a ticket, you most likely spent a little time fantasizing about what you would do with the winnings. So, what would you do with all that money? This week Izzy talks openly about money, prosperity, and abundance--exploring your relationship with prosperity and examining some deep-seated blocks that are potentially getting in the way of experiencing more abundance in your life. 

In this episode Izzy asks what keeps you from practicing meditation? You might say time, ability to quiet down or stay focused. Many say that the greatest obstacle is that they don't really know how or are not sure they are doing it correctly. She clarifies that mindfulness simply means present moment awareness and meditation is the most powerful form of mindfulness. Izzy invites you to give yourself self-permission to pause for just 15 minutes and allow yourself to experience this by guiding you through a simple meditation practice. 

Life is filled with lots of unpredictability. The question is not how to do you avoid these adversities but how you can be with them with as much equanimity as possible. This episode explores the first and most important tool to help you how to walk through fire as opposed to around it-- mindfulness. Mindfulness simply means PRESENT MOMENT Awareness. Izzy explains that mindfulness and meditation are the paths. They are the most powerful tools to help create that space or gap in order to help slow the mind and live more consciously. To respond versus react. And, it's when you do this that you find inner freedom. And if you aren't sure where to start to create more space and find more Inner Freedom in your life, you can explore Izzy's packages to find one that speaks to you here.

In this episod Izzy explores finding comfort in the discomfort.  Discomfort is something that we have all experienced in life. Discomfort in our bodies, relationships, jobs, finances, and lately, the state of the nation and world. A discomfort that clutters our minds, our emotions, and spirits.    So how do you find comfort in the discomfort?  Listen to find out.

In this episode Izzy has an honest conversation about your life! The life that you have spent so many years building, maintaining, sacrificing, and paying for. She explores how although you have dreamed and worked so hard to have this life, there could be a part of it keeping you living in a prison and asks if there is a monster in your life that you keep feeding?

Last week we began a conversation about compassion fatigue and the symptoms and risks of being an empath – feeling too much! One might say that the world is really struggling right now, and if you are sensitive to the suffering and struggles, your compassion meter is on overdrive. This week Izzy explores something we should all consider, we often overgive what it is that we need. She asks: How and where do you overgive? This might be a clue as to what you need. Do you overgive into kindness? Do you overgive in patience, support, encouragement, financial support, or nurturing? And, once you answer this question, what would it look like to turn that giving onto yourself?

In this episode Izzy explores compassion fatigue and her own experiences with it. She explains that if you are an empath, meaning that you feel your way through the world, you probably have at some point felt compassion fatigue. And, because the state of the world has provided us with plenty of opportunities to practice feeling deep, deep compassion, you may even be experiencing it now. Stay tuned over the next couple of weeks for much more on this topic, including benefits and ways to practice self-compassion.

In this episode, Izzy discusses how a person can live among a million people and still feel lonely, how someone can be married with a family and feel all alone while on the other hand one go through a pandemic, isolated at home for over a year, with barely any human connection, and feel neither alone nor loneliness.  She explores how in these times of uncertainty, many of us became highly aware of the feelings of fear, isolation, anxiety, and anger. The more we tried to resist or loath them, the more they seemed to cling on.

There are many events that happen in life that may seem like the worst thing ever at that moment, but after time you recognize that the uncomfortable event was the very thing that propelled your life forward and led to something better.  The same can be said for good or lucky events in our lives. How many times have we read about individuals who won the lottery only to end up poorer or less content than before the big win? This week, Izzy will explore how grasping and clinging to an outcome can contribute to personal suffering by sharing a story shared by many Buddhist teachers. This is an opportunity to explore the perspective of what it means to experience nonattachment to the outcome. 

There are many ways in which we humans contribute to our own suffering. Attaching to a particular outcome or a perspective is certainly one of them. In this episode, Izzy explores the idea of impermanence and nonattachment.  

What is there not to WORRY about lately? In this episode, Izzy discusses how the world has given us plenty to worry about, and for many (including herself) worry has certainly been the most dominant, uncomfortable emotion. It may be a struggle to stay hopeful, especially when some things feel much bigger and more complex than we can control or influence. However, marinating in worry all day and night is not helping the situation. So today, Izzy offers you a tool to help you confront your worries.

If you've been following along as Izzy explored the Life Balance Wheel over the last 8-weeks, your wheel is now completed. You now have a view, an inventory, of your current life! Congratulations! In this episode, Izzy asks if your wheel was to roll down the hallway, would it be a bit of a bumpy ride? Are you able to notice the areas of your life that you are most satisfied with are the areas you have put the most energy into? Do you notice the areas you are least satisfied with are perhaps the areas you have ignored or neglected? You may be asking now what? Where to go from here? Well, according to Izzy, the idea is to start small. Small goals, Small doable action steps. Intentionality, consistency, and accountability (even just to yourself). This is the path to building confidence, increasing trust, and encouraging change. And, If you are overwhelmed and feel like you need a little personal guidance, stick around to the end for a one-time bonus offer from Izzy to help you to create a plan that feels achievable and personal to you.

In this episode, Izzy guides you through week 8 of exploring the Life Balance Wheel. Today the last pie piece on the wheel is all about your environment. Your environment has to do with various things. It can begin by asking how satisfied are you with the part of the world or country you live in? Your community? And, very importantly, your home? Izzy's job as a coach is to help you figure out where you are today to help you move forward, and that's exactly what these past 8-weeks have done. Remember, if you have missed a week or two along the way, you can catch up here.

It is week seven of Izzy's exploration of the Life Balance Wheel. This week she's digging into Fun and Recreation by asking "How much fun do you have?" Although experiencing "fun and recreation" in life sounds easy, many people struggle with this area. According to Izzy this area is actually a bit complex as it can reveal a lot about old and deep conditioning.   Go ahead and listen and consider how much fun do you have in your life, and do you give yourself permission to have fun?  Don't forget, you can still join in and follow along by downloading your wheel and listening to previous episodes at izzylenihan.com/#wheel.