The Divine Natured Podcast: Recent Episodes
Paige Smith
Latter-day Saint Certified Life Coach Paige Smith provides a blend of gospel principles and coaching tools with the goal of helping you put off the natural man and create a vibrant, fulfilling life.
In this episode, I discuss the harmful beliefs that some of us have about what it means to implement exact obedience. I offer some ways to think about exact obedience that help promote and increase faith, honors agency, and strengthens our relationship with the Lord.
In this episode I discuss how expectations and ideals within the Church can be harmful, and how to view them in a way that is useful, healthy, and promotes discipleship and strong mental health.
In this episode, I dive into two recommendations I have for tackling the painful emotion of loneliness. By applying these two recommendations, listeners take complete authority and empower themselves to create loneliness or connection on purpose.
In this episode, I talk about how while 2020 was a hard year--it isn't any more difficult than any year before or after it. What creates our suffering and misery are our own beliefs--and those beliefs shared our lived experiences. I discuss how we choose to believe and think on purpose so that we can create a life we love fiercely without being at the affect of things outside of our control.
In this episode, I dive into 6 lessons that I have found useful in seeing goals through to the end, especially as we set New Years Resolutions. I dive into how we can overcome certain roadblocks, remain committed to our goals, and manage our own expectations so that we can make our dreams come true.
This is the final video of the 25 Days Like Him series, where I teach about and invite us to consider how we can be truly selfless like the Savior as we celebrate Christmas Day.
This is the 24th video of the 25 Days Like Him series, where I teach how to be purposeful like Jesus Christ--and how to uncover what you have been foreordained to do.
This is the 23rd class of the #25DaysLikeHim series, in which I teach listeners how to be optimistic like the Savior and how to use that optimism as fuel to create whatever it is that they want.
In this 22nd class of the 25 Days Like Him Series, I teach about how we can demonstrate reverence for the Father, like the Savior did, but acknowledging Him in all things and treating life as if we are always walking on hallowed and sacred ground.
This is the 21st class in the 25 Days Like Him series, in which I teach about implementing forgiveness like the Savior does. I teach how forgiveness doesn't excuse what another person did, and how forgiveness is a gift to ourselves that allows us to heal and move forward. I also teach how to process negative emotions that are in the way of getting to forgiveness.
This is the 20th class in the 25 Days Like Him series, with this class focused on being grateful like the Savior. I emphasize how Christlike gratitude not only is the expression of thanks, but the acknowledgement that Heavenly Father's hand is in all things.
This is the 19th class in the 25 Days Like Him series where I teach about practicing being reliable the way the Savior is.
In this episode, I explain what people pleasing is and how we as Latter-day Saints try to people please our way to exaltation.
This is the 18th class in the 25 Days Like Him series, where we practice a Christlike attribute each day leading til Christmas. In this episode, I teach how the Savior was unapologetically honest about who He was and what He stood for, and how we can follow His example.
This is the 17th class in the 25 Days Like Him series, on practicing Christlike gentleness. In this class I teach how the Savior demonstrated gentleness, and how we can emulate His example by accepting and loving people as they are.
This is the 16th class in the 25 Days Like Him series, where I teach how to be fearless like the Savior.
This is the 15th class for the 25 Days Like Him challenge. I teach listeners how to emulate demonstrating compassion the way that the Savior does.
This is the 14th class as part of the #25DaysLikeHim challenge, where we practice a Christlike attribute each day through December 25th to increase our focus on the Savior. In this class, I teach about grace, and how to more fully accept Christ's grace in our lives.
This is the 13th class for the #25dayslikeHim challenge, where we practice a Christlike Attribute in the days leading up to Christmas. In this class I talk about being diligent like the Savior, and how we can invite the spirit of diligence into the everyday good causes we are already doing.
This is the 12th class for the 25 Days Like Him challenge, covering being Humble like the Savior. I teach how the Savior was humble, and how we can emulate humility by glorifying God while not deprecating ourselves.
In this special episode of The Divine Natured Podcast, I interview Latter-day Saint author C. Noelle McBride as a follow-up to her newly released book, Beauty for Ashes: Divorce and the Latter Day Saint Woman, about the true story of her divorce. She talks about her decision to divorce and how she relied on the Savior and was transformed and healed by the power of the Atonement.
Noelle's book can be found on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Ashes-Divorce-Latter-day-Saint-ebook/dp/B08KG5SPK8
This is the day 11 class for the 25 Days Like Him challenge, where we practice charity like the Savior. I invite you to consider the two dimensions of charity, and to do an inventory on your current capacity to have and extend charity.
This is the tenth class of the #25DaysLikeHim challenge. In this class I teach about Christlike kindness, and how it is always available to us even when things aren't going the way we want them to.
In tonight's class, Day 9 of the #25DaysLikeHim challenge, I discuss the topic of godliness. I cover how this rarely discussed aspect of our doctrine is intertwined with the making and keeping of covenants. I teach how godliness is a state that we get access to when we keep our covenants, as well as the related blessings and responsibilities of such a state.
This is the class for day 8 of the #25DayslikeHim challenge, where we are practicing the Christlike attribute of Patience.
This is the Day 7 class of the #25DaysLikeHim challenge, about the Christlike attribute of Discipline. I invite listeners to consider that discipline isn't just striving to be our higher self, but doing it consistently and choosing it over and over again.
This is the class for Day 6 of the #25DaysLikeHim challenge, covering Christlike Wisdom. I invite listeners to consider the things they might be knowledgeable about but lack wisdom. I invite them to do as the Savior did, and increase their wisdom by using their knowledge and combine it with the experience that comes from practicing and using the knowledge in everyday life.
In this podcast, I invite you to ponder the question of, "Who are you?" It isn't as straight forward as you think. I teach about the topics of self-concept and internal monologue, and how becoming the Watcher of your thoughts will help you recognize your brain's most practiced beliefs so you can decide on purpose which ones you want to keep to become the highest form of yourself.
In today's class for the #25DaysLikeHim challenge, I invite you to consider how the Savior created the world and universe as we know it.
This is Day 4's class of the #25DaysLikeHim challenge, covering the topic of Christlike Generosity. I teach that the Savior gave willingly, bountifully, and without discrimination. I invite listeners to consider how they can give with gladness and brotherly kindness to anyone, including themselves.
This is the class for the third day of the #25DaysLikeHim Challenge, practicing the Christlike quality of being a missionary. I teach about the Savior's enthusiastic and unapologetic commitment to being about His Father's business. To practice missionary work means to not just proselyte, but to also be an example of the believers, and do the work needed to be fully converted ourselves.
This is Day 2's class for the #25DaysLikeHim challenge, focused on Obedience. In this class I teach about how the Savior obeyed the commandments because He wanted to. When we think of the commandments as optional, we can decide that we want to obey them. I also teach that striving for 100%, but showing up at a minimum of 80% of the time and expecting to fall short is part of the perfecting and refining process.
This is the Day 1 class of the #25DaysLikeHim Challenge, on Faith. In this challenge I teach about how the Savior demonstrated faith, and we don't have to have evidence in order to believe in ourselves. I challenge listeners to practice faith as the Savior would by deciding to say, "Yes," to everything that comes at them--that they can believe that they can handle or do all of it.
In this episode I talk about how everything we do during the Christmas season is ultimately our choice--and how if we choose to center our minds and hearts on the Savior during this season, it's much better if we do it for reasons we like rather than out of obligation or because it's expected. I also introduce the #25DaysLikeHim Challenge in which I have developed a challenge for centering our focus on the Savior intentionally for the first 25 days of December.
In this episode, I teach about the benefits of the practices of gratitude and abundance. I cover the power of practicing gratitude and abundance, how they are different from each other, and how they open us up to becoming who we want to be and creating what we want on purpose.
In this episode I teach the purpose of commandments. I teach how it's easy to believe that they are a means for God to control us, but in reality that is the opposite of what He is trying to do. I cover how willing obedience to the commandments opens us up to progression and blessings.
In this episode, I teach how we can get to peace when faced with chaos and uncertainty. I discuss how processing the negative emotions is necessary to do before true peace can be fulfilled, and how when we intentionally choose thoughts that create peace, such as turning the the Savior--that we can create peace no matter what our circumstance is.
In this episode, I teach the concept of aligning our will with Heavenly Father's. I cover what it means to align our will with His by exploring desire, sacrifice, and what I have found to be true about bi-directional alignment.
In this episode, I introduce my foundational teaching that loving the natural man is not only the most Christlike thing you can do for yourself--but how doing so helps you overcome the natural man and become who you want to be.