Into Your Own Greatness: Recent Episodes
Jennifer Olson
Being young can be challenging. It’s filled with pitfalls, potholes, cliffs – that you must navigate often with no GPS and no tools. After 20 years of teaching high school, I see the need for the tools growing exponentially every year. Into Your Own Greatness will provide you with a life school toolbox to help you build the staircase to step in to your own greatness. My goal is to provide you with a life toolbox empowering you to bring your dreams and visions of success to life. My vision is for every teen to feel well-equipped, supported, and confident to step in - to their own greatness.
Applying for college can be stressful - and picking which schools to send applications to can be overwhelming. This episode will help you navigate and narrow down the list so you put your best foot forward and make every application fee count!
Perfectionism is a myth - it can be paralyzing and keep you from living your best life. I'll share tips on how to celebrate progress, not perfection and help you move into your own greatness.
Do you feel burned out? If you ask most people over the last 2 years, the answer is most likely to be YES with five exclamation marks after it. Burnout is a kind of trauma that messes with your mind and your body. How do you know if you are burned out? This episode will help you learning to create balance in your life NOW, and create habits that will make creating balance as an adult much easier and make it less likely that you will suffer from burnout. The result will be a happier and more productive you!
Failing can make you feel sad, angry, frustrated, self deprecating, ready to give up, and maybe even guilty. But failure is the best learning tool. What if, instead, failing made you feel optimistic, resilient, and ready to take on the challenge again? Find out how with these tools and step into your own greatness.
While some people stuff their emotions, some make them the focus of everything and some let them rule their life. Having a balance will leave you healthy without feelings that will explode when you least expect it. This episode will help give you guidance in how we see our emotions and what to do with them. Want to read more about processing emotions? Reezan Huseyin has a great article! https://www.artofwellbeing.com/2016/06/21/processyouremotions/
We get so caught up in name recognition, but when it comes to college, it doesn't matter WHERE you go, it matters THAT you go and you go to a college, university, trade school, military branch that fits you and helps you become your best! Also included are things to consider when choosing a post-high school path.
When a relationship, job, marriage, friendship falls apart or is lost, how do you move on? This episode will share some tips on how to move forward and find even better things ahead.
Getting motivated to do the simplest things has sometimes felt like climbing Mt. Everest. Here are some thoughts and some practical ideas to put in to practice to get you moving in the right direction. Life is happening FOR you, not TO you - get motivated and take advantage of it!
Be honest – when it comes to talking to your parents, sometimes it seems like they are speaking a language you’ve never heard. Well, its true and this episode will give you some tips on why and how you can build better communication with your parents.
When you compare yourself, you will always be disappointed. Here's why you should stop and how to stop comparing yourself.
Control can appear in many forms: A song by Janet Jackson, a video game, or as we will be exploring today, the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events. The past year has been an 18 month course in lack of control that no one wanted to take. This episode will share several tools and perspectives to help you gain control, even when you don't have any or feel like you don't.
This is a continuation of Episode 2A where we continue our discussion about post high school and college life. My guests, Remy, Sanjana, and Marco recently graduated and have some great questions and some fun conversations as we chat about their future.
Rejection is never easy. It stings, it hurts, it makes us angry, but it is part of every facet of our life. Whether it’s not getting a job, not getting into that school your really wanted to attend, or that person you’ve had your eye on who declines your prom ask, being rejected can really knock the wind out of your sails. Let's face it - it sucks. Why? What can you do to "get over it"? Join me for this podcast for answers.
So, you graduated high school. What's ahead? Will you lose your high school friends? Whether it's a 2 or 4 year school, what will college be like? Join me as we discuss these and many more questions about post high school and college life. My guests, Remy, Sanjana, and Marco recently graduated and have some great questions and some fun conversations as we chat about their future.