Beautiful Work Beautiful Life : Recent Episodes
Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin
If you could dream the most beautiful life into being, what would that look like? What would it feel like? What would your days be like? How would you spend your precious time? Each of us has our own ideal of what a beautiful life is. Each day you are co-creating your life. And it’s happening from the inside out, whether you realize it or not. If there is one secret to life in a simple statement, it might be this - you create your life everyday from what you believe, what you think, and finally, what you do. Within this secret lies the key to consciously becoming the creator of the life you most desire. It’s about inner work - reconfiguration and transformation for the inner alignment to bring forth the beautiful life you want. Join life coaches Laurel Holland, Laurel Boivin and their guests as they share weekly conversation and wisdom about courageously looking inward to make your life beautiful through your own inner work. Or as they say, the beautiful work.
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In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin begin exploring what oppression is and why recognizing it is an essential part of the journey toward self-liberation.
Starting with traditional dictionary definitions and expanding into a broader understanding of oppression, they examine how oppression can exist not only in external systems and structures, but also within our own beliefs, behaviors, and patterns.
Through conversations about people-pleasing, inherited conditioning, abuse of power, patriarchy, self-discipline, and personal responsibility, they invite listeners to consider where they may be feeling weighed down, limiting themselves, or unintentionally limiting others.
At its heart, this conversation isn't simply about freedom from oppression—it's about the freedom to live authentically. By uncovering the beliefs, expectations, and conditioning that shape our lives, we create the possibility of becoming more fully ourselves and making choices that align with who we truly are. This episode lays the foundation for a season devoted to the inner work of self-awareness, authenticity, and self-liberation.
In This Episode
- What oppression is—and why understanding it matters
- The difference between external oppression and self-oppression
- How people-pleasing can become a form of self-oppression
- Why abuse of power isn't always external
- The role of systems, culture, and conditioning in shaping our beliefs
- How authenticity begins with recognizing what is limiting your freedom to be yourself
- Why true freedom comes through self-awareness and self-discipline
- Recognizing that we can experience oppression and unintentionally oppress others
Definitions:
To oppress: crush by abuse of power or authority; weigh down or burden.
Oppression: the unjust or cruel exercise of power or authority; a system or pattern that limits people's opportunity, dignity, freedom, safety, or ability to be fully themselves.
Journaling prompts
- Where in your life do you feel weighed down or burdened in a way that prevents you from being your authentic self?
- What beliefs, expectations, or roles have you accepted simply because they were considered "normal"?
- Where might you be giving away your own power—or misusing it toward yourself or others?
- Where have you experienced oppression in your own life, and how might those experiences still influence your beliefs or choices today?
- What is one belief, behavior, or expectation you're ready to question as you continue your journey toward living more authentically?
Authors mentioned: Wallace Wattles
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment, helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com.
Kicking off their sixth season of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin begin with a bold invitation for listeners: to move beyond personal growth and into the deeper work of self-liberation.
After exploring the many dimensions of inner work for the past five seasons, they introduce a new focus—examining the beliefs, conditioning, social norms, and systems that quietly shape who we become and how freely we are able to live as our authentic selves.
Together Laurel and Laurel discuss why liberation begins within, how self-oppression often shows up through silence, self-limitation, and fear of belonging, and why courageous self-expression matters not only for our own lives but for our communities, workplaces, and society.
This new focus will encourage listeners to question long-held assumptions, explore the roots of internalized oppression, and discover how doing the deeper inner work creates greater freedom, stronger self-leadership, and a more beautiful life.
In this episode:
- Why this new season marks a deeper exploration of inner work through the lens of self-liberation.
- What self-liberation really means and why authenticity requires courage.
- How social conditioning and internalized beliefs keep us small, silent, and disconnected from ourselves.
- The essential role of psychological safety, belonging, and supportive community in personal transformation.
- Why self-leadership is the natural outcome of inner work—and how liberated individuals help transform families, organizations, communities, and culture.
- The difference between scarcity and abundance, and how believing there is "enough for everyone" changes the way we live.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Where in my life do I feel most free to be my authentic self? Where do I still feel the need to hide parts of myself?
- What opinions, beliefs, or parts of myself have I kept quiet because I feared rejection, criticism, or not belonging?
- What messages did I learn growing up about fitting in, being "good," keeping the peace, or avoiding conflict?
- Where might I be participating in my own self-limitation or self-oppression without realizing it?
- What would self-liberation look like in my life right now?
- How would my relationships, work, or community change if I consistently showed up more authentically?
- Do I truly believe there is enough—for opportunity, success, love, belonging, and fulfillment—or do I operate from a mindset of scarcity?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment, helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
As the fifth season of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life comes to an end, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin reflect on the lessons, conversations, and growth that have shaped the past year.
They explore what it really means to "live your best life" and how that life isn't created by external achievements alone, but through the ongoing practice of inner work.
The conversation explores the connection between our inner world and our outer experiences, emphasizing that while we can't control everything that happens to us, we can take responsibility for how we respond. Through self-awareness, honest reflection, stillness, and intentional choices, we gradually create a life that feels more aligned, peaceful, and authentic.
Rather than chasing perfection or someone else's definition of success, the Laurels encourage listeners to cultivate a vision of their own beautiful life, take small daily steps toward it, and trust that the vision will continue to evolve as they grow.
Episode Highlights:
- How your inner world shapes the way you experience your life.
- Why knowing yourself is the foundation for creating meaningful change.
- The role of self-responsibility without self-judgment.
- Why stillness and self-awareness help reveal habitual patterns that no longer serve you.
- Why your vision of your "best life" should remain flexible and continue evolving as you grow.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- If you look honestly at your life today, what is your inner world creating in your outer life?
- What would your best life look like if you imagined it from your own heart rather than someone else's expectations?
- What patterns or habits keep showing up in your life, and what might they be trying to teach you?
- How are you contributing to your own harmony—or your own disharmony—in this season of life?
- What is one small step you could take today that would move you closer to the life you want to create?
- How do you know when you're living your best life? What does it feel like for you internally?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info:
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment, helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore the connection between inner work and finances. Together, they examine how our earliest experiences with money shape our sense of abundance, scarcity, worth, generosity, and possibility. Through thoughtful questions and personal stories, they invite listeners to become curious about the beliefs they've inherited and whether those beliefs still serve the life they want to create.
The conversation reminds us that our relationship with money is deeply connected to our relationships, our professional lives, our values, and our sense of self. When we begin to examine our money story with compassion and awareness, we create space for new beliefs, greater alignment, and a more abundant way of living.
Episode Highlights:
- Explore how childhood experiences and family dynamics shape your relationship with money.
- Identify inherited money beliefs and consider whether they still serve you today.
- Examine the difference between scarcity and abundance as internal ways of experiencing life.
- Discover how money stories are often connected to worthiness, identity, value, and spirituality.
- Learn how finding new role models can help rewrite limiting beliefs about wealth and generosity.
- Reflect on how your values—not money itself—can become the foundation for creating a beautiful life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What did you learn growing up about money?
- What did you watch in your household about how your parents dealt with money?
- What are ten beliefs or messages you've heard about money? For each one, ask: When did I first hear this? Who taught me this?
- If you had more than enough money, what would you do with it? What does your answer reveal about your values?
- What is your story around money? What belief have you carried for years that may no longer be true?
- In your heart of hearts, what is the life you truly want to live—and what does money have to do with that vision?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info:
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment, helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland, laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com.
In this episode, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore the relationship between inner work and professional life, inviting listeners to examine whether the career they've built truly reflects who they are.
Together, they discuss how cultural expectations, family influences, and societal definitions of success can quietly lead us toward careers that no longer fit. Through self-awareness and inner work, we can begin to distinguish between the life we've inherited and the life we're intentionally choosing.
The conversation also explores the importance of recognizing what energizes and depletes us, understanding our values, and allowing our authentic selves to be expressed through our work. Whether that means finding a different role, contributing to healthier workplace cultures, or simply becoming more aligned with your purpose, this episode offers encouragement to take the next step with curiosity rather than judgment.
Ultimately, the invitation is to create a professional life that honors your unique gifts while contributing meaningfully to the world.
Episode Highlights:
- Explore how inner work and professional life are deeply connected.
- Consider how cultural expectations and definitions of success influence career choices.
- Learn why understanding your values, gifts, and authentic self can lead to greater fulfillment at work.
- Discover how noticing what energizes and depletes you can provide important career guidance.
- Hear personal stories of leaving careers that no longer aligned with who they had become.
- Reflect on how each of us can help create workplace cultures where people are encouraged to bring their authentic selves.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What beliefs, expectations, or messages influenced the career path I chose? Which of those still feel true for me today?
- Am I choosing this professional path because it genuinely reflects who I am, or because it's the path I thought I was supposed to follow?
- What aspects of my work consistently energize me, and what parts leave me feeling depleted? What might those patterns be trying to tell me?
- How am I able to express my authentic self through my work today, and what small change would allow more of my true gifts and values to be present?
- If I told myself the story of how I arrived where I am professionally, what would I discover without judging myself?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com.
In this episode, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore the connection between inner work and relationships. They discuss how many people begin their inner work hoping a relationship will change, only to discover that the real transformation happens when they begin changing how they show up. As we return to our true selves, relationships often change too.
Together, they explore what it means to come home to yourself, why authenticity can create both tension and freedom in relationships, and how the relationship you have with yourself becomes the foundation for every other relationship in your life.
This conversation is a reminder that inner work isn't about becoming someone new. It's about uncovering who you've always been and having the courage to live from that place.
Episode Highlights:
- Why inner work often begins with a desire for a relationship to change.
- The difference between changing yourself and trying to change someone else.
- What it means to "return to your true self."
- How authenticity can create tension—and deeper alignment—in relationships.
- Why the relationship you have with yourself shapes every other relationship in your life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Where in my life am I hoping someone else will change, and what might change if I focused instead on how I am showing up in the relationship?
- What parts of myself have I hidden, minimized, or set aside in order to maintain a relationship, role, identity, or sense of belonging?
- What does "coming home to myself" mean at this stage of my life, and what would it look like to honor that more fully?
- Where am I experiencing tension between being true to myself and meeting the expectations of others? What am I afraid might happen if I were more authentic?
- How would my relationships change if I trusted myself more deeply and spoke my truth with greater honesty and courage?
- Which relationship in my life has taught me the most about myself, and what has it been trying to show me?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland is laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Developing self-trust and trust in life is an experience that must be practiced to be realized. This meditation is being reissued to support you in growing your self-trust and seeking the truth of what you believe right now, as well as building a foundation of inner beliefs that build trust.
Enjoy this guided meditation to support you in affirming your intuition, your creativity and your empathy. Rather than limit what you believe you can have and experience, relax into this meditation to support you in expanding your ability to hold what you want deep in your heart. Bring it forth through your imagination and embody it while you release what may be keeping you from allowing all you want to be present fully in your mind and heart.
Engage this meditation to grow your trust in yourself, life around you, and in all that you desire.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
This episode of the Beautiful Work Beautiful Life explores what it means to stay open enough to find safety in a world that can often feel emotionally and psychologically unsafe.
Through personal stories, honest reflection, and grounded conversation, Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland unpack the connection between trust, nervous system regulation, self-expression, and psychological safety.
The conversation explores how many of us learned to stay small, quiet, or guarded in order to protect ourselves — and how healing often requires us to gently practice showing up differently. From using your voice in difficult conversations to navigating anxiety, boundaries, authenticity, and self-trust, this episode offers a compassionate look at the inner work of building safety through lived experience.
Listeners are reminded that safety is not always something we find outside ourselves first. Sometimes it’s something we build, one courageous moment, one conversation, and one authentic expression at a time.
Episode Highlights:
- The relationship between trust, nervous system regulation, and psychological safety
- Why staying open can feel difficult when anxiety or fear is present
- How lived experience helps build self-trust and emotional resilience
- The role of voice, authenticity, and boundaries in creating inner safety
- Practical grounding and self-regulation tools for navigating difficult situations
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Where in my life do I tend to close down or hold back in order to feel safe?
- What situations invite me to practice using my voice more fully and authentically?
- How does my nervous system respond when I feel emotionally or psychologically unsafe?
- What helps me stay grounded, calm, and connected to myself in challenging moments?
- What might become possible if I trusted myself enough to stay open instead of retreating?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of the Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, co-hosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore the deeply personal journey of self-trust, trusting life, and what it truly takes to keep a dream alive. Through honest storytelling and reflection, they unpack how self-doubt, old patterns, people-pleasing, and fear can quietly disconnect us from the dreams we most deeply desire.
Laurel Boivin shares the vulnerable and inspiring story of finally moving back to New Hampshire’s seacoast after holding the dream for more than 15 years — and the inner work required to stop abandoning her own desires in order to keep others comfortable. Together, the Laurels discuss how dreams often require courage, discomfort, trust, and a willingness to act differently in order to create different outcomes.
The conversation weaves together themes of worthiness, divine timing, subconscious patterns, emotional awareness, and the importance of holding onto what matters, even when the path forward is unclear. Listeners are reminded that if a dream lives within them, it may very well be meant for them; and that keeping a dream alive begins with honoring it, believing in it, and trusting themselves enough to carry it forward.
Episode Highlights
- Exploring the connection between self-trust, trust in life, and the courage to pursue meaningful dreams
- Laurel Boivin’s personal story of holding onto a 15-year dream of moving back to the seacoast
- How people-pleasing, self-doubt, and old identity patterns can keep us disconnected from what we truly want
- The importance of asking: What do I want, why do I want it, and am I willing to act differently to support it?
- A powerful reminder that dreams often unfold through divine timing, inner work, and self-kindness rather than force or certainty
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What is the dream I keep carrying inside myself?
- Why do I want this dream?
- What would it look like to hold my dream without forcing the outcome?
- Where have I been abandoning my own desires to keep other people comfortable?
- What patterns or behaviors might I need to interrupt in order to create a different outcome?
- What do I say I want but struggle to fully believe I deserve?
- How might self-doubt be shaping the way I look at my life or decisions?
- What would it look like to organize my life toward what I truly want?
- What dream have I picked up and put down repeatedly over the years?
- If I believed I was worthy of my dream, how would I act differently?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, co-hosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore what it means to live with greater trust in the face of life’s uncertainty and unpredictability. Through honest reflection and personal stories, they discuss the tension between wanting control and learning to loosen our grip on how life “should” unfold.
The conversation explores how unexpected experiences — both painful and beautiful — can become opportunities for growth, self-awareness, and deeper trust in ourselves and in life itself.
Laurel and Laurel also reflect on the role of inner work, emotional awareness, spirituality, and curiosity in helping us navigate change with greater resilience and openness.
Listeners are invited to consider how they respond when life takes an unexpected turn, and how developing new inner resources, self-trust, and compassionate self-awareness can transform the way they move through uncertainty.
In This Episode
- Why life’s unexpected turns often become our greatest teachers
- The illusion of control and learning to loosen our grip
- How trust, spirituality, and inner work are connected
- Using curiosity instead of reactivity during difficult moments
- The role of emotional awareness in navigating uncertainty
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Do you struggle with feeling like you should have things under control?
- When things don’t go as planned, how do you typically respond?
- How do you learn to go with the flow of life and loosen your grip on the reins?
- What does trusting life actually mean to you?
- Do you trust life?
- Is your behavior truly aligned with what you say you believe?
- What emotion is underneath your reaction to difficult or unexpected situations?
- What verbal cues or grounding phrases could help you respond differently when you feel emotionally reactive?
- How might the unexpected parts of your life be redirecting you toward something better?
- What would it look like to trust yourself more deeply during uncertainty?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, co-host Laurel Boivin explores a question many of us wrestle with during times of uncertainty: Can we trust life?
Drawing from personal experience, reflections on unexpected life detours, and lessons learned through coaching others, Laurel examines the difference between trust and certainty, and why our desire for certainty can often keep us stuck. She invites listeners to consider whether trust is less about knowing what will happen and more about our willingness to continue participating in life despite uncertainty.
Along the way, Laurel explores the relationship between trust and faith, reflects on how unexpected experiences often shape our lives in meaningful ways, and offers practical ways to cultivate greater trust through self-trust, presence, curiosity, and small forward steps.
This episode is a gentle reminder that while life rarely offers guarantees, we may not need certainty to move forward. We may simply need the willingness to stay open, take the next step, and trust ourselves to meet whatever comes next.
Episode highlights:
Why trust and certainty are not the same thing—and how confusing the two can keep us stuck.
The difference between trust and faith, and why both matter during times of uncertainty.
How unexpected detours often become some of life's most meaningful chapters.
Why trusting life begins with trusting yourself.
Three practical ways to strengthen trust: staying present, taking the next step, and remaining open to possibility.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Can we trust life?
- What parts of your life today were planned, and what parts of your life today happened unexpectedly?
- How much of your life today was part of your original plan, and how much was an unexpected surprise or detour?
- What is actually true right here, right now, in this moment?
- Where in your life are you looking for certainty, and where might life be inviting—or nudging—you to trust the present moment?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of the Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin explores what it means to reclaim your voice as an ongoing practice. Moving beyond awareness alone, she shares how using your voice requires intentional action, small moments of honesty, and the willingness to stay connected to yourself even through discomfort.
Through personal stories, reflections on relationships and visibility, and practical guidance, Laurel explains how many people learn to hold back their truth in order to stay safe, agreeable, or accepted. She offers compassionate encouragement for listeners who are learning to interrupt old patterns, build self-trust, and express themselves more honestly in conversations, relationships, and leadership.
This episode is an invitation to practice reclaiming your voice one small step at a time — not through perfection or dramatic change, but through presence, awareness, courage, and authenticity.
In This Episode
- Why awareness alone is not enough to create change
- The connection between voice, self-trust, and authenticity
- How people learn to become agreeable, accommodating, or silent
- Three practical ways to begin reclaiming your voice
- Staying connected to yourself through discomfort and uncertainty
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Where in my life have I learned to hold back my voice?
- What automatic responses or patterns do I notice in conversations?
- What truths, opinions, or feelings have I been hesitant to express?
- Where might I benefit from pausing before automatically responding?
- What would it look like to practice using my voice in small, safe ways?
- How do I typically respond to discomfort when expressing myself honestly?
- What opportunities in my life might be inviting me to step more fully into my voice?
- What does reclaiming my voice mean for me personally right now?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, cohosts Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland explore how our voice, both spoken and unspoken, can quietly shape the course of our lives. Through personal stories and reflective dialogue, they uncover how early conditioning, family dynamics, and unexpressed emotions can limit self-expression and keep us from fully stepping into who we are.
The conversation invites listeners to reconnect with their authentic voice as a pathway to clarity, confidence, and self-trust. By examining what was once silenced, practicing safe expression, and speaking desires out loud, listeners are encouraged to move toward greater alignment between who they are and the life they want to create. Ultimately, this episode is a gentle but powerful reminder: your voice is not just a tool for communication, it is a gateway to transformation.
You’ll hear these highlights and more
- How conditioning shapes your voice
- The cost of staying silent
- Speaking your desires out loud
- Finding safe spaces to express
- Building trust in your voice
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What were you allowed to talk about—and not talk about—growing up?
- How did your parents or caregivers respond to the way you expressed yourself?
- Which parts or “qualities” of your voice do you use often—and which do you avoid?
- Where in your life are you not getting what you want—and what role might your voice be playing in that?
- Are you speaking out loud about what you want, or keeping it inside?
- What do you want most right now—and can you write it down and say it out loud to yourself?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, host Laurel Holland sits down with voice teacher, author, and songwriter Barbara McAfee for a powerful, experiential exploration of voice as a pathway to confidence, embodiment, and inner power.
Together, they unpack how our voices are shaped by culture, conditioning, and lived experience—and how reclaiming the full voice can unlock clarity, presence, and self-expression. Barbara introduces her Five Element Voices framework (earth, fire, water, metal, air), offering listeners a fresh lens for understanding communication, leadership, and authenticity.
This conversation is both deeply compassionate and playfully practical—an invitation to stop fixing your voice and start befriending it.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- Why voice is not just communication—but manifestation
- How conditioning and trauma shape which parts of our voice are “available”
- The Five Element Voices and what each reveals about power and presence
- Why confidence grows through practice, not perfection
- How play, sound, and experimentation restore wholeness
- What it means to trust the intelligence of your voice
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What is my story about my voice?
- Which element of voice feels most familiar to me right now?
- Which voice feels least accessible—or most uncomfortable?
- Where might I be confusing “authenticity” with habit or conditioning?
- What part of my voice might be waiting for permission to return?
Links/Books mentioned - Barbara’s website - www.barbaramcafee.com , Barbara’s email - barbara@barbaramcafee.com
Barbara’s TED talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze763kgrWGg
Barbara’s original song “Yes” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1HIPsvFgTI&list=RDI1HIPsvFgTI&start_radio=1
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Barbara McAfee is a master voice coach, author, keynote speaker, and singer/songwriter who merges lessons from 12 years in organization development with the transformative power of sound. Her bestselling book, Full Voice, is based on her 30+ years as a voice coach, supporting people from many professions to find their voice, whatever that means to them. Her new audiobook, Vocal Intelligence, came out in 2025. Since 2013 she has been training others to carry the sacred work of “midwifing voices” into full expression. Her approach shifts the way people think about and use their voices forever. Barbara has produced nine recordings of mostly original music and is founder of the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer comfort choir in the Twin Cities.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin invites you into a deeper exploration of what it really means to find your voice. Through relatable, everyday moments like leaving a conversation wishing you had said more, she uncovers the subtle ways we hold back our truth to avoid conflict, maintain harmony, or meet expectations.
Laurel reframes voice as more than communication.
She offers a compassionate look at why we learn to hold our voice, the cost of doing so, and how to begin reconnecting with it through awareness and small, intentional moments of honesty.
In This Episode
- Why we learn to hold back our voice
- The emotional and physical cost of silence
- Voice as a reflection of self-trust
- How misalignment shows up in everyday moments
- Reconnecting with your voice through awareness
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Where in my life do I tend to hold back my voice or stay quiet?
- What do I notice in myself when that happens?
- What am I trying to manage or protect in those moments?
- What feels true for me right now, even if I’m not ready to say it out loud yet?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin brings the conversation on alignment full circle by exploring what it actually feels like to be out of alignment, and what to do when you notice it.
Rather than dramatic moments, misalignment often shows up quietly: subtle tension, lingering fatigue, disconnection, or a sense that you’re moving through life on autopilot.
This episode offers a compassionate and practical approach to reconnecting with yourself, without needing to overhaul your entire life. Through awareness, pause, honesty, and small intentional shifts, Laurel reminds us that alignment isn’t something we achieve once, t’s something we return to, again and again.
Listeners will hear
- How misalignment quietly shows up in your body, energy, and daily life
- Why feeling “off” isn’t a problem, but a signal worth listening to
- A simple four-step process to come back into alignment
- The power of awareness, pause, and honest self-reflection
- How small, intentional shifts create meaningful realignment
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration:
1. Where in my life do I feel slightly out of alignment right now?
2. What is one small step I can take to move toward alignment?
3. Is there a boundary that needs strengthening or attention?
4. Is there a value that I am overlooking?**Host/Cohost/Guest Info**
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore why living in alignment is more complex, and more transformative, than it initially appears.
They unpack the internal systems that must come into alignment (values, beliefs, behaviors, and identity), and how misalignment often shows up as resistance, control, or feeling stuck.
Through personal stories and coaching insights, they illustrate how conditioning, self-worth, and unconscious beliefs can quietly shape our choices. Ultimately, this conversation invites listeners to approach alignment as an ongoing, evolving practice—one rooted in self-honesty, curiosity, and the courage to live in deeper truth.
In This Episode
- Why alignment often feels harder than expected
- Signs you may be living out of alignment
- How values and beliefs shape your experience
- The role of conditioning in keeping you stuck
- Why self-worth impacts what you allow in your life
- Using values as a filter for decisions
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Where in my life does things feel forced, resistant, or out of flow?
- What do I say I want—and am I truly acting in alignment with that?
- What beliefs might be underneath the places I feel stuck?
- Which of my values are currently being honored… and which are not?
- What conditioning or old patterns might I be ready to release?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel is joined by nurse wellness coach Kristen Reed, founder of Nursing Your Way to Wellness, for a deeply human conversation about healing, alignment, and trusting the quiet nudges that reshape a life.
Kristen shares her journey from years on the front lines of hospital care to building a whole-person wellness practice, shaped by two life-altering accidents, profound recovery seasons, and an unwavering commitment to listening inward.
Together, Laurel and Kristen explore what it really means to live in alignment: not as perfection or linear growth, but as integrity between body, values, purpose, and care for self.
This is a conversation about stillness as medicine, boundaries for people who love their work, and the courage it takes to let go of what no longer fits — even when it once mattered deeply.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How major life disruptions can become portals to clarity, healing, and purpose
- What “living in alignment” looks like in real life, especially for caregivers and helpers
- Why stillness, sensory rest, and nervous system awareness are essential inner-work practices
- How to trust the nudge toward change, take small aligned action, and release self-betraying stories
Poem mentioned:
Please have me go where you'd have me go.
Do what you have me do.
Say what you'd have me say.
Please use me in service to my highest good, in service and love.
I am ready and willing to allow my full connection to my spirit.
I am no longer burdened by what I have left behind.
Heaven above me and Earth below me, support me on my way.
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Kristen Reed is a registered nurse, nationally certified health and wellness coach, and the founder of Nursing Your Way to Wellness. With 17 years of experience in bedside nursing at leading hospitals, including Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Kristen brings deep clinical insight to her whole-person approach to health. Her work is rooted in helping women understand their bodies, regulate stress, and build sustainable habits that support energy, balance, and wellbeing. Kristen blends evidence-based health coaching with a compassionate, human-centered lens shaped by her own healing journey. She is passionate about empowering women—especially in midlife—to feel confident, informed, and aligned in their health and lives. You can learn more about Kristen and the work she does at www.nursingyourwaytowellness.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland is laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com.
What does it really mean to live in alignment, and how do you know when you’re not?
In this episode, Laurel Boivin explores alignment as an internal experience of integrity — when your values, energy, body, and choices are no longer in conflict.
Laurel shares her personal story of leaving a corporate role that once fit but no longer aligned with who she was becoming — and the grief, uncertainty, and courage that came with that decision. She also unpacks how misalignment shows up physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, especially for capable people who are skilled at pushing through.
This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and begin choosing what fits you now.
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin explores what it truly means to express your emotions with grace and confidence. Building on previous conversations about befriending emotions and developing inner strength, this episode focuses on giving your emotions a voice—without suppressing them or letting them spill out in ways you later regret.
Laurel shares a simple, practical framework to help you communicate your emotions clearly, calmly, and respectfully. She also explores why so many of us struggle with emotional expression, how unexpressed emotions can lead to disconnection and resentment, and why learning this skill is essential for self-trust, healthy relationships, and sustainable leadership.
This conversation invites you to move from holding or hiding your feelings to expressing them in a way that creates clarity, connection, and deeper alignment with yourself.
Episode Highlights
- Why emotional expression is the natural completion of emotional processing—and what happens when we skip this step
- The difference between suppressing emotions, reacting impulsively, and expressing them with intention and clarity
- A simple 4-step practice to communicate emotions with grounded confidence
- How regulating your nervous system changes the quality of your conversations and relationships
- Why expressing your emotions builds self-trust, reduces resentment, and creates more authentic connection
Journaling prompts suggested to further your exploration:
- Where in your life might there be an emotion that needs a voice?
- Is there something you’ve been feeling but holding back to keep others comfortable?
- How might it benefit you—and your relationships—if you expressed that emotion with care and clarity?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore how inner strength is cultivated through our relationship with difficult emotions. Rather than avoiding or numbing hard feelings, they discuss how learning to sit with them builds emotional resilience and deep inner power.
Through personal reflection and practical insights, the conversation highlights the idea of the “feeling muscle,” the importance of observing emotions without identifying as them, and why inner strength is an inside-out experience. This episode invites listeners to develop the awareness and fortitude needed to navigate life’s challenges with greater presence, health, and confidence.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- What it really means to manifest inner strength through emotional awareness rather than avoidance
- How building the “feeling muscle” allows you to sit with and outlast hard emotions
- Why numbing, distracting, or suppressing feelings can weaken us over time
- Simple practices for observing emotions without becoming them
- The difference between inner strength and external power
- How emotional resilience supports your ability to navigate life’s biggest challenges
Journaling prompts suggested to further your exploration.
- When a difficult feeling shows up, what do I usually do?
- What emotions do I tend to avoid or push away?
- How do I typically respond to myself when I’m experiencing a difficult emotion?
- What do I reach for when I don’t want to feel what I’m feeling?
- What patterns do I notice in how I handle uncomfortable feelings?
Links/Books mentioned
The Feeling Muscle: How to Sit With and Outlast Hard Feelings, by Jen Drummond Rapkin
Death, by Sadhguru
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, host Laurel Holland sits down with naturopathic doctor and author Jenn Rapkin for a deeply human conversation about emotions, embodiment, and resilience. Jenn shares the inspiration behind her new book, The Feeling Muscle, and invites listeners to rethink their relationship with emotions—especially the hard ones we often try to avoid.
Drawing from her personal journey with OCD, her clinical work, and body-based healing practices, Jenn explains why our thoughts don’t always have our best interests at heart—and how reconnecting with the body can help us feel safer, steadier, and more grounded. This episode is a powerful reminder that feeling deeply is a strength , not a weakness. And when we build our “feeling muscle,” we expand our capacity to live more fully, authentically, and courageously.
Highlights include:
- Why our thoughts don’t always have our back—and how to stop letting them run the show
- How emotional resilience is something we can practice and strengthen
- How embodiment and mindfulness help interrupt anxiety, OCD, and intrusive thought patterns
- Understanding body armor—how we physically hold down emotions and how to release them gently
- The importance of going slowly in healing and honoring your own timeline
- How naming emotions and describing their physical sensations builds emotional intelligence
- Why avoiding hard feelings actually limits our lives—and how learning to feel them creates freedom
- The often-overlooked practice of receiving positive emotions and compliments
- How compassion neutralizes and softens the inner critic to build self-trust
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration to gently support deepening your emotional awareness and resilience.
Links/Books mentioned: The Feeling Muscle by Dr Jenn Rapkin
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Dr. Jenn Rapkin is a naturopathic physician, bodyworker, former dancer, and Frequent Feeler with more than 25 years of experience in mind-body and body-centered therapies. Her new book The Feeling Muscle chronicles her personal and professional transformation from physician to a shepherd of “feelings.” In her clinical practice, her bodywork table is a place to hold space for, validate, and give voice to her patients’ inner felt emotion. She has had the good fortune in her life to balance deep and meaningful inner reflection with rich and interesting life experiences – from growing up on Nantucket Island, go-go dancing in the Guggenheim Museum, and living as an expat in Barcelona to raising two amazingly soulful and spirited children in Connecticut.
What if your emotions weren’t problems to fix, but messengers inviting you into deeper self-awareness and resilience?
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin explores what it means to befriend your emotions—a practice many of us were never taught but deeply need. Rather than treating emotions as obstacles to control or avoid, she invites listeners to see them as valuable messengers offering insight into our inner world.
In this thoughtful conversation, Laurel shares how turning toward our emotions with curiosity instead of resistance expands our capacity to feel, process life’s experiences more fully, and build resilience from the inside out.
In This Episode:
• The hidden costs of suppressing or avoiding feelings
• How emotions function as messengers and sources of information
• A simple four-step practice for befriending and processing emotions
• Healthy ways to release emotional energy and build inner resilience
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What feeling do I most often avoid?
- What do I tend to do instead of feeling that emotion?
- What healthy release practices are available to me when strong emotions arise?
- When have I experienced a difficult emotion and discovered that I could outlast it?
- What might change in my life if I approached my emotions with curiosity rather than judgment?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this meditation, intended for first thing in the morning, we greet the day with a clear intention to move through the day with kindness and love. This meditation is also useful if you find yourself being hard on yourself. Using gentle words, checking in with the physical body, and using encouragement to stay mindful of thoughts as they arise, we decide to set the tone for positivity and kindness. Beginning with a brief body check in and breathwork, and ending with the same, you will feel ready to step into your day with a mind focused on kindness.
Music by Chris Collins accompanies this meditation.
In On the Other Side of Pain, Laurel Boivin explores pain as an inevitable part of the human experience—and a powerful catalyst for transformation when it is met with honesty, care, and time. Rather than bypassing or minimizing pain, this episode invites listeners to slow down, feel what needs to be felt, and trust the nonlinear process of healing.
Laurel reflects on how pain lives in the body, why we are not meant to carry it alone, and what it means to be truly resourced while healing. From honoring grief and loss to choosing whether pain hardens or softens us, this conversation gently guides listeners toward the awareness, perspective, and compassion that often emerge on the other side of pain.
This conversation focuses on:
- Why dismissing pain—or rushing to meaning—can slow healing rather than support it
- The importance of allowing grief, loss, anger, and disappointment to be felt and honored
- What it means to be “well resourced” while processing pain, and why support matters
- How pain can shape who we become without defining or diminishing us
- The choice pain presents: hardening for protection or softening with awareness and compassion
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Who am I now, on the other side—or in the midst—of this experience?
- How has this experience changed my path, my priorities, or the way I see my life?
- What did I learn about myself during the healing and processing, not just from what happened?
- What knowledge, wisdom, or insight do I now carry that I didn’t have before?
- Who might benefit from what I know now, and how might I share it in a human, grounded way?
- Where do I notice pain living in my body, and what might help me release or soften it?
- In what ways has pain clarified what truly matters to me?
- When I think about this experience, do I notice myself hardening or softening—and what choice feels most supportive right now?
- What beliefs, faith, or inner trust help me remember that my life is still unfolding?
- What feels different in me today, even if I don’t feel “better”—and how can I honor that shift?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland explore the deeply human—and often painful—habit of comparing ourselves to others. Together, they unpack how comparison is a mental activity rooted in storytelling, beliefs, and self-awareness, and how it can quietly shape our emotions, confidence, and life choices.
Rather than treating comparison as something to eliminate entirely, the Laurels invite listeners to transform it, from a source of self-doubt to a pathway toward clarity, purpose, and self-trust. Through reflection, curiosity, and intentional inner work, comparison becomes information rather than judgment, and an invitation to create a life that truly fits you.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- Why comparison creates emotional pain and how it subtly shapes our inner world
- How the stories and beliefs beneath comparison reinforce self-doubt
- What self-awareness makes possible when you notice comparison patterns
- How to shift comparison from judgment into clarity, choice, and purpose
Journaling prompts suggested to further your exploration:
- When do I most notice myself comparing to others, and what seems to trigger it?
- What story am I telling myself when I’m in comparison—and what belief might be underneath that story?
- Is comparison bringing me closer to the life I want, or getting in the way? How do I know?
- What do I think I want when I compare myself to someone else—and why do I want it?
- How might I meet the deeper feeling or need I’m seeking without needing the “thing” I’m comparing myself to?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this deeply moving and honest conversation, Laurel Boivin sits down with Angela Whitten, a Maine mom who tragically lost her 18-year-old son, Trent, to suicide in June 2022.
Angela,executive director and co-founder of Stay; for Life, a Maine-based nonprofit supporting mental health awareness and suicide prevention, shares her journey of inner work, resilience, and purpose after the loss of her son.
This episode offers both heartfelt storytelling and practical guidance, including how to start hard conversations about mental health, why warning signs aren’t always visible, and how small acts of connection can remind people they are not alone.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
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What a “beautiful life” means when it’s grounded in authenticity, nourishment, and relationship
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How inner work and therapy helped Angela walk alongside depression, anxiety, and grief
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The difference between reacting and responding—and why it matters in relationships
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How Stay: For Life was born from loss and now supports mental health and suicide prevention
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Why men’s mental health needs intentional space, support, and community
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Practical ways to start conversations when you’re worried about someone
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A powerful reminder that even in the darkest moments, light and purpose are still possible
This episode includes discussion of suicide, grief, and mental health struggles. Please care for yourself as you listen. If you or someone you love needs support, call or text 988 (in the U.S.).
Links/Books mentioned www.stayforlife.org
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Angela Whitten, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Stay; For Life, is a mother from Wells, Maine, who tragically lost her 18-year-old son, Trent, to suicide in June 2022. In response, she co-founded Stay; For Life, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to save lives by advocating for men's mental health and suicide prevention. Angela brings a deeply personal and unique perspective on the critical importance of supporting the mental well-being of our communities. In her work, she shares practical tools and resources that can help individuals navigate mental health challenges, both for themselves and when supporting others. You can learn more about Angela and Stay; For Life at www.stayforlife.org. You can follow Stay; For Life at https://www.instagram.com/stayforlife2022/.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, host Laurel Boivin explores what it means for pain to become a portal—not because pain is good or required for growth, but because when we meet it with presence and support, it can open us to deeper awareness.
Against the backdrop of collective uncertainty and emotional heaviness in the world, Laurel reflects on how personal and collective pain intersect. She names the many ways pain shows up—physically, emotionally, psychologically, relationally, and spiritually—and offers a compassionate reframe: sensitivity is not weakness, it’s intelligence.
Rather than numbing, fixing, or rushing to make meaning, Laurel invites listeners to pause. To listen. To shift their relationship with pain. Because when we meet pain with presence instead of pressure, we may discover it carries important information about what needs tending, what’s out of alignment, and what matters most.
This episode is a gentle reminder that you don’t have to carry pain alone—and that support, boundaries, and self-compassion are powerful acts especially in uncertain times.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Where is pain showing up in your life right now?
- How have you learned to relate to pain?
- What happens if you meet pain with presence instead of pressure?
- What does your pain seem to be asking of you?
- What would it feel like to stop carrying pain alone?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
In this Beautiful Work Beautiful Life episode, host Laurel Boivin invites listeners to pause and check in with how the first month of the new year has actually felt. While fresh starts often bring motivation and momentum, they can also create pressure to push harder, do more, and stay productive.
This episode offers a gentle reframe: ease isn’t something we earn after working harder or reaching a future milestone. It begins with awareness, self-support, and compassion. Rather than forcing progress, noticing what drains or supports us can create more sustainable energy, clarity, and connection.
Laurel invites listeners to consider a different way forward—one where ease exists alongside ambition, responsibility, and meaningful goals.
Listeners will hear:
- Why the pressure of a new year can drain energy instead of creating momentum
- The difference between discipline-driven effort and living with more ease
- How constant over-efforting disconnects us from ourselves and what matters most
- Why ease begins with awareness, not action or fixing
- How ease can coexist with ambition, responsibility, and meaningful goals
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What comes up for you when you think about the word ease?
- Does ease feel possible in your life right now? Why or why not?
- In what ways do you believe you need to earn ease?
- Where in your life are you pushing harder than you need to?
- What feels harder than it needs to be right now?
- Where in your life does ease already exist?
- With whom do you feel the most ease?
- Which people, places, or commitments require extra effort or force from you?
- What currently drains your energy, and what fills it?
- What would bring more ease into your life right now?
- What would it look like to let ease exist alongside your ambition and responsibility?
- How might you pursue your goals without forcing or over-efforting?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin invite listeners into a quieter, more contemplative kind of inner work—one that begins not with fixing or forcing, but with noticing. Through a thoughtful exploration of how our outer environments reflect our inner landscapes, they offer a powerful truth: what surrounds us is often a living mirror of what’s happening within us.
Rather than approaching our homes as projects to complete, this conversation reframes them as teachers. Each room, object, and surface becomes an invitation to reflect on relationship, energy, intention, and care for ourselves and for others. The Laurels explore how spaces can support connection or solitude, giving or receiving, nourishment or depletion, and how small, intentional changes can gently shift the way we live and relate.
With stories drawn from family life, leadership, grief, memory, and meaning, this episode encourages listeners to slow down and listen to what their surroundings are quietly saying. It’s a reminder that transformation doesn’t require dramatic overhauls—only honesty, presence, and a willingness to tend to what truly matters.
This is an invitation to create space, inside and out, for more clarity, connection, and beauty to emerge.
In this episode:
- How your outer environment can mirror your inner world
- The connection between home, energy, and relationships
- Giving vs. receiving relationships—and how space supports both
- Why small, intentional changes create lasting transformation
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What do my surroundings tell me about my inner state of being?
- Where does my environment feel aligned with who I am right now?
- What in my space feels heavy, unresolved, or unfinished?
- Where do I feel most nourished or restored in my surroundings?
- What is one small change that would bring more ease or clarity?
Links/Books mentioned
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Laurel Holland introduces Talor Stewart, creator of Conscious Home Design, and an architect from Vermont, to discuss how home design impacts personal life and relationships. This conversation emphasizes the importance of consciously designing your home with intention, which supports giving, receiving, and reciprocal relationships offering tips and strategies to put this practice into action.
Talor highlights the significance of small changes, like adding plants and creating dedicated spaces, to enhance well-being. He references the Harvard Adult Happiness Study, which found that quality relationships are the biggest predictor of happiness and longevity, therefore focusing on this as an important part of the environment can reap great rewards. He also discusses Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the importance of designing spaces that support higher human needs, such as creativity and personal development.
Talor offers a workbook and consultations to help individuals apply these principles in their homes.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- When I think about my home, how does it usually make me feel—and why?
- Which relationships in my life feel primarily giving, receiving, or reciprocal right now?
- If my home were intentionally designed to support my relationships, what would change first?
- Where in my home do I feel the most friction or tension?
- What is one small, intentional change I could make in my home that would gently support me in my day-to-day life?
Links/Books mentioned -
Conscious Home Design: The Guide to Living Your Best Life by Designing for Happiness, Health, and Relationship Success by Talor Stewart https://conscioushomedesign.com/
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
To connect with Talor visit https://conscioushomedesign.com/
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at liveyourinnerpower.com
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Talor Stewart, creator of Conscious Home Design, begins with the belief that surroundings are much more than a backdrop; they are an active ingredient in a beautiful, intentional life. Whether it’s designing kitchens for mindful meals, bedrooms that encourage true rest, or movement spaces that actually get used, he shows people how architectural details can empower their health, relationships, and personal purpose. His book and workbook, Conscious Home Design, as well as his online course materials distill these ideas for any family or space. Talor regularly consults nationwide and internationally for custom designs.
As we begin a new year, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin invite you to slow down, tune inward, and ask a powerful question: What would it look like to make your life easier?In this episode, they explore the idea of ease—not as a life without challenges, but as a gentler, more conscious way of meeting whatever life brings.This conversation isn’t about fixing yourself or flipping a switch overnight. It’s about beginning—softly, honestly, and with compassion—so your inner work can support a more beautiful, ease-filled life.You’ll hear about: The practice of “what’s on top”—a simple yet grounding way to acknowledge what’s on your mind without letting it run the show Letting go of self-criticism around ease and redefining what it truly means to live with flow How honoring divine timing can reduce force, pressure, and burnout Real-life reflections on caring for the physical body, allowing priorities to unfold naturally, and trusting when things are “ready” Choosing a Word of the Year (or phrase) as a touchstone for intention, clarity, and self-awareness How structure and spaciousness can coexist—and why both matter* The role of embodiment and noticing how ease actually feels in your bodyThe episode closes with thoughtful journaling prompts to help you reflect on where life feels hard, where ease already exists, and how you might bring more grace, patience, and awareness into the year ahead.Journaling prompts:1. What’s on top for me right now?2. Where do I want more ease in my life?3. What feels hard right now?4. Where do I already experience ease or flow in my life?5. How am I showing up differently where things feel easy versus where they feel hard?6. What does ease feel like in my body?7. How can I recreate that feeling of ease in places that feel challenging?8. What feels essential right now? What is not essential right now?9. What am I trying to force that might benefit from more space or time?10. What does “making my life easier” mean to me?11. Where do I believe things shouldn’t be easy?12. How am I approaching this part of my life—through force or through ease?13. What am I being asked to trust right now?14. Where am I struggling to surrender to timing?15. Where do I crave more structure?16. Where do I need more spaciousness?17. What does un-busying my life look like for me?18. Who am I becoming in this season of my life?The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.comThe link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullifeHost/Cohost/Guest InfoGuiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this end-of-year episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin invite listeners into a deeper, more intimate look at their emotional lives. Rather than focusing on year-end accomplishments, this conversation turns inward toward the lived emotional landscape that shaped the year: grief, anger, fear, and joy.
Together, Laurel and Laurel explore why emotions are such powerful messengers, how resistance keeps us from processing what we feel, and how building emotional capacity leads to a fuller, more connected life.
You’ll be gently guided to reflect honestly on how you felt this year, what those feelings revealed, and what emotional patterns are asking for attention as you step into a new season of growth. It’s a spacious and soulful invitation to reconnect with yourself, and to design your year ahead from a place of deeper self-awareness.
In this episode:
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Why developing emotional awareness is essential to authentic living
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Four foundational emotional “quadrants”: grief, anger, fear, and joy
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The subtle but powerful role trust plays in your ability to feel joy
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How to reflect on your emotional year — the highs, lows, and everything in between
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Using your emotional inventory to guide the year ahead
Your End-of-Year Emotional Inventory:
Grief — What was lost, disappointing, or unprocessed?
Anger — What boundaries need strengthening or revisiting?
Fear — What held you back, protected you, or asked for healing?
Joy — What delighted you, inspired you, or called you forward?
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
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What losses or disappointments did I experience this year?
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What sadness have I acknowledged — and what have I avoided?
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How do I give myself space to sit with and feel my grief?
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What “small” griefs or disappointments did I minimize or judge as “not a big deal”?
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What am I angry about from this past year?
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How is my anger serving me?
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Where are boundaries needed, strengthened, or repaired?
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What forgiveness work is calling to me — toward others or myself?
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In what ways am I still blaming others instead of tending to my own inner work?
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What did I feel afraid of this year, and how did that shape my choices?
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When was fear trying to keep me safe — and when was it limiting my life?
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Where do I feel anxiety, and what emotion might be underneath it (grief, anger, disappointment, etc.)?
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How can I begin to build a more compassionate relationship with my fear?
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What genuinely brought me joy or delight this year?
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Where did I expect joy and not find it — and what does that reveal about my expectations or needs?
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What gets in the way of me allowing or receiving joy?
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Where do I need more trust — in myself, others, or life — to experience more joy?
Links/Books mentioned:
Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos, by Rudolf Steiner, December 1, 1994
Previous Beautiful Work Beautiful Life episodes on:
Transform Your Anger Into Loving Self-Kindness, December 18, 2023
How to Welcome Grief with Sue Burhoe, November 28, 2022
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info:
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this unfiltered and expansive conversation, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore the many ways a “call” can show up in your life. Inspired by their recent reflections on stretching beyond comfort zones and trusting what feels aligned, they share real-life moments when saying yes to something unplanned opened a completely new path.
Together, they talk about how to recognize the clues that a calling is meant for you, why your analytical mind isn’t always the best guide, and how spiritual, emotional, and embodied wisdom play a vital role in navigating your next step. You’ll be encouraged to look back at the turning points that shaped you, honor the intuitive guidance that’s emerging now, and stay open to the ways life is inviting you forward.
This episode is a reminder to listen more deeply, both within yourself and in the unexpected opportunities that come your way, and to trust that each call is simply part of your becoming.
In This Episode:
- How giving yourself permission to dream bigger can open doors you weren’t expecting
- The ways callings can show up through invitations, opportunities, or moments that simply feel right, even if they weren’t part of the plan
- How to sense the inner cues and quiet inner-knowing that help you discern when something is truly meant for you
- Why slowing down creates space to hear your intuition and reconnect with your deeper wisdom
- How looking back at past turning points can clarify how guidance has shown up for you in the past, and how it may arrive now and in the future
Journaling prompts to further your exploration:
- When the call comes, would you know it’s for you?
- How do you typically sense or feel a calling — emotionally, physically, intuitively, or energetically?
- When in your life have you taken a step that didn’t make practical sense but felt right?
- Have you ever talked yourself out of something that felt like a calling? What held you back?
- What signals does your body give you when something is truly meant for you?
- Where in your life have you chosen the safer or more familiar path instead of the one that you were called to follow?
- How do you slow down enough to hear your intuition or inner guidance?
- When you look back, can you identify moments that felt guided or aligned in hindsight?
- How do you stay open to what’s next, even when the last calling no longer feels like your final destination?
- What might be calling to you from within right now?
Links/Books mentioned
Slow Down and Greet Your Creative Genius with Pia Leichter https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/podcasts/beautiful-work-beautiful-life/episodes/2149095866
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Laurel Boivin sits down with bestselling author, podcaster, and intuitive astrologer Molly McCord to explore astrology not as a belief system, but as a practical, compassionate language that helps us understand ourselves, navigate change, and trust our inner wisdom.
Molly shares her journey from curious teenager to internationally respected astrologer, the tools that supported her through fear and visibility, and how astrology can help us to deepen self-acceptance, confidence, and purpose.
Laurel and Molly talk about personal cycles, collective themes, and the power of community. Molly also offers simple ways for anyone curious about astrology to begin. This conversation feels like sitting down with two wise friends who remind you that you’re not alone, you’re not behind, and you are deeply supported by the universe you’re part of.
In this episode, we explore:
- Why astrology is an energy system of consciousness rather than a belief system
- How astrology can validate our lived experiences and support inner work
- Using cycles—like the New Moon and Mercury Retrograde—as supportive guides
- Learning to trust intuition and navigate fear when stepping into your purpose
- Making peace with your strengths, challenges, and soul patterns
- How collective astrology reflects global themes and why awareness matters
- Molly’s journey to becoming an astrologer and the community that has grown around her work
- Simple, practical steps to get started with your own chart
- How aligning with cycles can help create a more beautiful, intentional life
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration:
- When did you first feel curious about something others didn’t fully understand or value? What drew you toward it?
- Is there an area of your life where you feel a quiet pull or whisper calling you forward? What might it be asking of you?
- Which tools—journaling, nature, tapping, meditation, conversation—help you reconnect with yourself when you’re moving through fear or uncertainty?
- Is there a part of your life that feels ready for a New Moon moment—a fresh start, a new intention, or a shift in direction?
- What parts of yourself have you judged or tried to change that might actually be invitations for compassion or acceptance?
- What strengths or passions have you tucked away because they weren’t valued in your environment? How might you welcome them back?
- How does your intuition speak to you—and where do you tend to doubt it? What would trusting it look like this week?
- Where in your life do you feel most seen and understood? What kind of community helps you feel grounded, creative, and connected?
Links/Books mentioned:
McCord, Molly. Awakening Astrology: Five Key Planetary Energies for Personal Transformation, by Molly McCord, Hierophant Publishing, 2022.
Soul Growth Astrology: A Workbook for Realizing Your Heart’s True Desires, by Molly McCord. Hierophant Publishing, 2024.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Exploring inner wisdom as the quiet compass that brings clarity, steadiness, and deeper alignment, host Laurel Boivin invites listeners into a grounded conversation about reconnecting with the guidance that already lives within them. She shares how the most trustworthy direction often arises not from effort or analysis, but from spaciousness—those moments when we slow down enough to hear what’s speaking beneath the surface.
Drawing on the framework of four intelligences—heart, intuition, spirit, and mind—Laurel walks through how each one offers a different lens of insight. Through simple practices, reflective questions, and gentle examples, she helps listeners notice which aspects of their inner GPS feel clear, which feel quiet, and where they may be longing for connection or grounding. You’ll be invited into a quiet self-check-in, a moment to sense what your heart is feeling, what your intuition is whispering, what meaning may be unfolding in your life, and what your mind already knows to be true.
Laurel weaves these four intelligences together, revealing how they form a fuller, more reliable picture of your truth and your next steps. This episode is a spacious reminder that your deepest wisdom is available when you create room to notice it. It’s an invitation to pause, listen, and trust the subtle signals guiding you toward a more aligned, intentional way of being.
In this episode:
- The four intelligences that shape your inner guidance system
- How heart, intuition, spirit, and mind each offer distinct forms of wisdom
- Simple practices to reconnect with your inner GPS and deepen self-trust
- A gentle check-in to notice what your inner wisdom is revealing right now
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Why do we meditate? There are many reasons, but sometimes it’s because we want to know a self that exists beyond the body that carries us through our life's activities. To have a glimpse, or an experience, of sensing that you have moved beyond your form and into a space that feels more vast, more ethereal than body, is one of the gifts of meditation. In this guided meditation, you’ll be invited to relax into and through the body, to let go, and to enter a space that feels like being more than your body.
Music by Chris Collins accompanies the meditation.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Exploring rest as the fertile ground where insight, spaciousness, and possibility take root, host Laurel Boivin shares that the most inspired, aligned creativity grows out of restoration, not relentless effort.
Drawing from Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith’s framework in Sacred Rest, Laurel walks through several essential types of rest—physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and creative—and reveals how each one replenishes a different facet of your inner world. Through relatable examples and simple daily practices, she gently guides listeners to notice where they’re depleted, where their nervous system is asking for care, and where beauty or awe may be calling them back to themselves.
You’ll be invited into a quiet self check-in, a moment to pause and feel what’s stirring beneath the surface—your body’s fatigue, your mind’s busyness, your emotional load, and the places where life may feel flat or disconnected. Laurel shares her own journey with sensory rest and how focusing on a single form of restoration created meaningful, cascading change in her life.
This episode is a soft, spacious reminder that doing less often opens the door to deeper clarity, wider creativity, and a more aligned way of being. It’s an invitation to choose one small act of rest this week and let it become a catalyst for your own renewal.
In this episode:
- Why rest is foundational to meaningful creativity
- Five forms of rest that restore different parts of your inner landscape
- How depletion shows up physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually
- Simple practices to create more mental space, emotional honesty, and creative inspiration
- A guided check-in to reconnect with what your body, mind, and spirit need most right now
Links/Books mentioned
Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
Rest Quiz: https://www.restquiz.com/
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
When life takes an unexpected turn — when everything feels like it’s falling apart — that’s not the end of the story. It’s the beginning of something new, and creativity is your way through.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, life coaches Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin talk about what happens when life “goes to bleep.” They share real, vulnerable moments of personal and professional breakdowns, and how those seasons became catalysts for growth, clarity, and strength. You’ll hear how creativity and resourcefulness show up not just in art or hobbies, but in everyday problem-solving, self-honesty, and courageous decision-making.
Together, we explore how to move from fear to curiosity, from blame to action, and from resistance to receptivity. If you’ve been feeling stuck, uncertain, or ready for something to shift, this conversation will remind you: every eruption in life is an invitation to rediscover your inner genius and create your next beautiful chapter.
Key Takeaways:
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Why breakdowns are the birthplace of creativity and renewal
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How to turn fear into curiosity and forward motion
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The importance of finding the right kind of support
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Moving from blame and self-judgment to inspired action
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Four powerful questions to regain clarity and courage
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The mindset of “this or something better” — and learning to receive it Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What’s happening in my life right now that feels like it’s “gone to bleep”? What emotions or fears are present for me?
- What might this challenge or breakdown be inviting me to discover about myself?
- What do I really want — beyond the fear, frustration, or disappointment?
- What support do I already have, and what support do I need to move forward?
- Where am I holding onto blame — toward myself or others — and how might letting go free up energy for creative problem-solving?
- How can I see my current situation as an experiment — an opportunity to learn, grow, and create something new?
- Where in my life am I being asked to receive more — love, help, opportunity, or possibility?
- What would it look like to trust that what’s next could be this or something better?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
As a Leadership Coach, Speaker, and Podcaster, Laurel Boivin works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Pia Leichter joins Laurel Holland to discuss creativity and inner transformation as a pathway to make your own life your most important creative project.
Pia shares her journey of turning 50, traveling to Bali, and embracing solitude to enhance her creativity. She emphasizes the importance of inner work, self-awareness, and purposefully designing your life experiences. Pia describes her coaching approach as a creative partnership, helping clients navigate sticky junctures and pivot towards new creative directions. She highlights the need to slow down, create space, and trust oneself to foster creativity. Pia also discusses overcoming fear through practical steps and the significance of rest in unlocking creative genius.
In this episode you'll hear about -
- how to begin the journey of coming home to yourself and discovering your creativity
- shifting your perspective to stay grounded in gratitude for simply being here on Earth
- Pia's life breakdown that led to the remaking of her life and reconnection with her creative nature
- listening to and honoring the pull from within that leads to creative engagement
- Pia's defines a creative life for ideas about how to look at your own life for creative shifts
- the importance of slowing down and creating space for ideas to emerge
- strategies for dealing with fear, including recognizing when fear is disguised as logic or practicality
- the role of imagination and dreaming in fueling our creative process and taking courageous action
- recognizing rushing as a scarcity issue and how to deconstruct that habit
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - To get a copy of Pia’s book:
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Creative-Club-Biggest-Project/dp/B0DPJ8L4NM/ref=sr_1_1
- And the audiobook: https://www.audible.com/pd/Welcome-to-the-Creative-Club-Audiobook/B0F6VZCWT4
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Pia Leichter is a creative partner, published author, certified coach, and entrepreneur. Her path has been anything but ordinary: a recovering nomad, she’s reported as a journalist in Sri Lanka, graduated summa cum laude from NYU, and worked as an award-winning creative director for some of the biggest brands in the world. Now, as the founder of Kollektiv Studio, she’s uniquely positioned to co-create wild visions and ventures. She recently published Welcome to the Creative Club, a book that challenges everything people thought they knew about creativity.
- Connect on social:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pialeichter/
- https://substack.com/@pialeichter
More about her work: https://kollektiv.studio/
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, co-host Laurel Boivin invites you to explore the powerful connection between gratitude and creativity.
Laurel guides you through a gentle breath and grounding practice, teaching how embodied gratitude awakens authentic creativity from within—because when we feel safe enough to receive, creativity comes alive. Through science, spirit, and soulful reflection, you’ll learn how gratitude softens the nervous system, quiets the stress response, and creates the inner safety that allows inspiration to bloom. You’ll also be guided to sense gratitude in your body and notice what creative energy begins to stir from that space of fullness and peace.
You’ll learn:
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How embodied gratitude (not just gratitude lists) opens the door to creative flow
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The science of gratitude—dopamine, serotonin, and the brain’s relaxation response
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Why feeling safe is essential to creativity and inspired living
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A guided mindfulness practice to awaken gratitude in your body
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How gratitude and imagination meet to spark transformation
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
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What does gratitude feel like in my body today?
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What softens or opens within me when I linger in that feeling?
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What might this gratitude want to create or express through me?
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How does my creative energy shift when I feel safe and open to receive?
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What ordinary moment today can I meet with gratitude and curiosity?
Links/Books mentioned: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment, helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this meaningful and thought-provoking episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin invite you into an intimate conversation about what it truly means to choose life before it’s too late.
Inspired by the timeless reflections of Bronnie Ware’s The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, the Laurels explore the lessons that surface when we pause to consider how we’re really living. Together, they unpack powerful themes — the courage to be your authentic self, creating balance beyond work, expressing your true feelings, nurturing relationships, and allowing yourself to experience happiness and joy.
As the veil thins between worlds this late October, the conversation takes on a soulful tone — one that gently encourages reflection, closure, and new beginnings. With humor, compassion, and grounded wisdom, Laurel and Laurel remind us that inner work is life work… and it’s never too late to begin again.
Tune in to explore:
- The five most common regrets of the dying — and how to live without them
- Why authenticity, balance, and emotional expression are keys to fulfillment
- Simple journaling prompts to help you reflect and realign
- How to invite more happiness, creativity, and meaning into your everyday life
As you listen, you might just find the inspiration to take one small step toward the life you most want to live.
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing, by Bronnie Ware
- I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
- I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
- I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
- I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
- I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Do I have the friendships I wish I had? Am I devoting time to those friendships?
- What keeps me from being authentically me?
- In what areas of my life am I struggling to show up authentically?
- What are I doing that doesn’t feel like my true self, and who am I doing it for?
- What role am I playing, and who assigned me that role?
- How can I still work hard but not miss out on my lifetime—the memory making and the relationships?
- How can I honor the work that I’m doing so that I can provide for my family and contribute to the world in a way that feels good, without sacrificing other important things?
- What do I wish that I had said to the people in my life that I haven’t said yet?
- Do I feel like I would have any of these regrets if tomorrow I found out I only had another week to live?
- What am I doing now so that I don’t have regrets?
Links/Books mentioned:
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing, by Bronnie Ware
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. Learn more about Laurel, her work, and books at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. Learn more about Laurel Boivin and her work as a leadership coach, speaker, and podcaster at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
At a time when the world feels especially divisive and heavy, cohosts Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland explore what it means to stay anchored in goodness.
This honest and hope-filled conversation touches on emotional overload, social media, and collective fear that can disconnect us from our natural goodness and the goodness around us. They talk about how simple practices can help us return to center. From cultivating a daily devotional practice or creating a “supper club” for sharing good news, to setting energetic boundaries and choosing curiosity over judgment, this episode is a gentle reminder that goodness begins within us.
In this episode, How To Be Good in a World That Feels So Bad, you’ll hear reflections on:
- The power of seasonal cycles and self-reflection
- How to manage energy and information overload
- The difference between collective goodness and group think
- Compassion, curiosity, and conscious self-care as daily practices
- How personal goodness contributes to healing the collective
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration:
- What have I learned and how have I grown over the past year?
- What moments, experiences, or relationships am I ready to harvest and celebrate?
- Where have I witnessed goodness in myself, others, or the world recently?
- How can I intentionally bring more attention to what’s going right in my life?
- What am I consuming (online, in conversation, in thought) that impacts how I feel about the world?
- What is within my circle of influence, and what is beyond it?
- How do I want my energy to influence the people and spaces around me?
- What kind of energy or “good” do I want to contribute to the collective?
- Am I living in alignment with the goodness I want to see in the world?
- How can I practice curiosity instead of judgment today?
- What would compassion, toward myself or someone else, look like in this moment?
- What quality or value do I want to devote myself to cultivating (e.g., love, insight, peace, courage)?
- What practices help me clear emotional or energetic overload and return to center?
- How can I be “good” to myself and other people in my small sphere of influence today?
- What’s one simple act that will help me contribute more light or goodness to the world around me?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland, her books, and the work she does at https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
What does it take to walk across an entire country—3,400 miles, 16 states, and 7 months on the road?
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, cohost Laurel Boivin sits down again with Nick Tucker, a husband, father, speaker, and storyteller whose journey of resilience has inspired many. At just 23 years old, Nick felt a calling he couldn’t ignore: to walk from Maine to Los Angeles with nothing more than a backpack, a friend, and faith that the road would provide.
Along the way, he discovered the power of kindness from strangers, the lessons of resilience born in days of rain in Pennsylvania to desert heat in Arizona, and the deeper spiritual work of learning to give himself the same grace he so freely gives to others.
This is more than a story of an extraordinary adventure—it’s a reminder that life is built one step at a time. Whether you’re facing a transition, longing for purpose, or simply curious about what happens when we say yes to a calling, Nick’s story will inspire you to trust the journey and keep moving forward one step at a time.
Links/Books mentioned: Becoming Resilient with Nick Tucker, Beautiful Work Beautiful Life Podcast, 8/10/25 https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/podcasts/beautiful-work-beautiful-life/episodes/2149071852
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland, her books, and the work she does at https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, is a life and leadership coach, and a speaker. Laurel helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Nick Tucker is a husband and father, a speaker, storyteller, and founder of Camp Nick, a youth adventure camp in Los Angeles. Living the life he always dreamed of, Nick’s message centers on resilience, healing, and the lifelong journey of becoming. Nick is also the visionary behind the Walk With Me Tour, a cross-country speaking tour that retraces his 2011 walk from Maine to California – a 7 month-long journey of more than 3400 miles through 16 states and 20 volunteer projects along the way. You can learn more about Nick at www.NickRTucker.com, email him at nick@nickrtucker.com, and follow him on Instagram @NickTucker.
In this solo episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin explores how tiny, consistent actions can create extraordinary change.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the gap between where you are and where you want to be, this conversation is for you. Laurel shares stories from her own journey—including the lessons learned while walking 1,500 miles in a single year—and client experiences that show how starting small builds momentum, confidence, and self-trust.
You’ll discover:
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Why small, ordinary steps are more powerful than giant leaps
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How consistency shapes confidence and strengthens self-trust
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The importance of celebrating progress as much as setting goals
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Practical ways to recommit when you’ve fallen out of rhythm
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Journaling prompts to help you gain clarity and take your next step
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration:
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Where do I feel overwhelmed by the size or magnitude of the change I want to make in my life?
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What’s one step I could take in the next 24 hours to move toward my goal?
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What kind of support do I need to keep going day after day? (Do I need a system, a tool, or a person?)
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How would my life feel if I trusted that small steps are enough to accomplish what I want to accomplish?
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How does it feel to be more confident and have more self-trust, knowing that I have the ability to do what I set out to do?
Links/Books mentioned:
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (2018) by James Clear
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One Step at a Time: Walking Across America with Nick Tucker https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/podcasts/beautiful-work-beautiful-life/episodes/2149091326
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Do you ever wish for more clarity, confidence, or ease in your life?
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin invites you to slow down and tap into one of the most powerful tools you already carry within you — your inner wisdom.
Laurel explores what inner wisdom really is, what often gets in the way of hearing it, and simple practices you can use to connect with that quiet inner voice. You’ll also discover how to begin trusting your wisdom through small steps, reflection, and gentle self-compassion.
If you’ve been searching outside yourself for answers, this episode is your reminder that your inner wisdom is always present, patiently waiting for you to listen and follow where it leads.
The following journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration:
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When was the last time you trusted your inner wisdom, and what happened?
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Where am I currently seeking clarity or guidance? What does my inner wisdom say about it?
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How does my body signal “yes” to me? How does it signal “no”?
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What keeps me from trusting myself fully? (Fear, doubt, outside pressure, or something else?)
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What is one small decision I can make this week from a place of inner knowing?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our Beautiful Work Beautiful Life Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info:
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland, cohosts and life coaches, explore the courage to trust your body’s wisdom. Inspired by a recent conversation with Tara Eschenroeder, a seasoned yoga instructor and retreat leader, the Laurels share personal stories and practical insights about returning to the body as a source of truth, healing, and guidance.
They reflect on the resistance many of us feel when tuning into our bodies, the emotions that can surface through practices like yoga and tai chi, and the profound release that comes when we allow ourselves to feel. Through anecdotes about headaches, back pain, and even garlic overload, they illustrate how our bodies continually send us messages about alignment and self-care.
Listeners are encouraged to gently begin by befriending the body, acknowledging resistance as part of the journey, and exploring resources like Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life. This episode offers inspiration and practical wisdom for anyone seeking deeper trust in themselves, more confidence in decision-making, and a renewed sense of connection between body, mind, and spirit.
The following journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration:
- What transformation do I want in my life right now?
- How does resistance show up for me when I try to listen to or connect with my body?
- How can I tell the difference between my body’s wisdom and my fear?
- What might my body be trying to tell me through the discomfort or pain I’m experiencing?
- What does this specific ache, tension, or “cranky spot” in my body want me to know?
- How would my life change if I befriended my body instead of resisting it?
- What practices help me return to my body and feel more present?
- Where in my life am I ignoring signals from my body that something is out of alignment?
- What would trusting my body’s wisdom look like in my daily choices?
- What would my beautiful life look like if I fully trusted myself—body, mind, and spirit?
References:
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
Gratitude for My Physical Body, a guided meditation 6/20/22: https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/podcasts/beautiful-work-beautiful-life/episodes/2147748858
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our Beautiful Work Beautiful Life Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Laurel Holland interviews Tara Eschenroeder, a seasoned yoga instructor and retreat leader, about her journey and the impact of yoga on her life. Tara shares her transformative experience with yoga, which led her to pursue a life aligned with her purpose. She discusses the benefits of community and cleansing practices, emphasizing the importance of inner work and connection with nature. Tara highlights her upcoming yoga and music festival in Virginia and her various offerings, including retreats, virtual coaching, and guided meditations. She encourages listeners to stay encouraged and trust their inner knowing.
Links/Books mentioned - Information on how to work with Tara can be found at www.greatabidingyoga.com . To connect with her via email - beckesch@gmail.com
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Tara travels the country and beyond, leading workshops, retreats, and festivals. She is a self-published author and has held additional teaching credentials. Tara’s true gift, however, is her ability to live the teachings of yoga off the mat. She openly navigates life's challenges with a light heart, just as she would encourage a student falling out of a pose. She is a living example of trusting her own calling, a powerful inspiration for anyone who feels ready to spread their wings into something new.
Enjoy this 11-minute meditation created for this full moon to help deal with anxiety or any other feeling that you challenges you.
Often in meditation we take for granted that we’re turning inward, and that there is so much in the inner world to explore and focus on during the time that we are sitting.
In this meditation you’ll be guided to remain purposeful, holding the intention of actually looking within, as you sit in meditation. You’ll be invited to give attention to inner aspects of your world, and to remember that your attention holds the power to calm and relax you at any moment.
The suggested posture for this meditation is sitting. We’ll be exploring a difficult feeling to use as an example of how to be fully present to what’s happening within. Choose any feeling that you find challenging to engage with the process we’ll explore.
Music by Chris Collins accompanies this meditation.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, co-hosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin dive into an exploration of heart, wisdom, and courage—three qualities that, together, form a foundation for living with authenticity and alignment.
Through story, reflection, and gentle practices, they invite listeners to consider how these qualities are not separate, but deeply interconnected: the heart as the source of compassion and truth, wisdom as a deep knowing that grows when we learn to trust ourselves, and courage as the brave act of living our truth in the world.
Their conversation offers journaling questions and everyday examples of how we protect our hearts, how we can recognize our own wisdom, and how courage often shows up in ways we may not give ourselves credit for.
If you’ve been longing to live more fully from a place of authenticity and intention, this episode is an invitation to pause, reflect, and step more confidently into your beautiful life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- How often do you breathe into your heart, and what do you notice when you do?
- Are there feelings you’re afraid to face or feel?
- Is your body showing signs of protecting your heart through posture or tension?
- Do you believe you are a wise person? Why or why not?
- Do you believe you were born with wisdom, or have you gained it over time?
- What’s the difference between wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge—for you?
- Who do you admire as a wise person, and what qualities make you see them that way?
- Where is your own wisdom showing up in your life, and are you trusting it?
- What courageous acts have you taken in your life that you may not have given yourself credit for?
- Looking back to childhood, what risks or brave acts did you take that revealed your courage?
- Where in your life have you held back from using your courage, and why?
- Who do you admire as courageous or heart-centered, and what about their actions inspires you?
- What countercultural practices (like journaling, meditation, or heart-centered leadership) feel meaningful to you?
- How might you honor your own heart, wisdom, and courage this month?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this conversation, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore how focus and devotion guide our inner work and ultimately shape the lives we create. Drawing inspiration from a recent episode, Becoming Resilient with Nick Tucker, they reflect on how devotion isn’t just a spiritual word or heavy commitment. It can be as simple as daily practices that keep us aligned with what matters most.
Together, they discuss the importance of clarifying what you’re truly devoted to, breaking free from old family patterns, and shifting from chasing material success to cultivating meaning and becoming. Through vulnerable stories, practical tools, and encouragement, the Laurels remind us that inner work is not only beautiful—it’s the foundation for a fulfilling and purpose-driven life.
If you’ve ever wondered how to stay focused on what truly matters, or how to weave devotion into the everyday, this episode offers guidance and grounding wisdom for your journey.
00:17 Introduction
00:33 Season Overview
01:18 Podcast Format & Flow
03:15 Episode Topic Introduction
03:43 Personal Stories of Devotion
04:55 The Role of Desire in Inner Work
06:39 Focus, Devotion, and Commitment
08:24 Simplicity in Devotion
10:50 Material Desires vs. Greater Purpose
12:58 Breaking Family Cycles & Personal Purpose
16:31 Finding Your North Star
17:35 Devotion in Career and Life Choices
19:57 Becoming vs. Having
21:11 Practicing New Ways of Being
23:15 Emotional Processing & Self-Compassion
25:34 Strategies for Starting Inner Work
26:27 Final Reflections & Listener Engagement
31:00 Invitation for Feedback
32:01 Closing Remarks
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration:
- What is something I feel deeply devoted to in my life right now? How does that devotion show up in my daily actions?
- When I think about what I don’t want in my life, what does that reveal about what I truly desire instead?
- Where in my life have I confused “having” (material success, achievements) with “becoming” (the person I want to grow into)?
- What would my life look like if I shifted even more of my focus toward becoming rather than having?
- What family or generational patterns am I ready to release or transform?
- If I were at the end of my life, what would I most want to have experienced, created, or contributed?
- Who are the trusted people I could ask about my natural gifts, and how might their perspective help me see myself more clearly?
- When have I felt most aligned with my true self, rather than living from conditioning or expectation?
- What daily practice, no matter how simple, could I commit to as an act of devotion to myself and my growth?
- How do I want to contribute to the world, even in small, everyday ways?
- Where in my life might I need to course-correct because my devotion has shifted away from what truly matters to me?
- How do I want to show up in my relationships, as a parent, partner, colleague, or friend?
- What emotions or stories have I avoided processing that might be holding me back from growth?
- How would my life feel different if I practiced showing up as the person I want to become, one interaction at a time?
- What does “inner work” mean to me personally, and how can I make space for it this week?
Links/Books mentioned
Becoming Resilient with Nick Tucker: https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/podcasts/beautiful-work-beautiful-life/episodes/2149071852
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life and leadership coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this thought-provoking episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin dive into the transformative journey of becoming resilient. They explore the richness of the words "resilience" and "becoming," sharing personal insights, client stories, and reflections on how adversity can be a powerful teacher.
From the importance of finding safety, physically and emotionally, to cultivating emotional intelligence, reframing your story, and nurturing the four intelligences (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual), they guide listeners through the inner work that fosters lasting strength and growth.
This conversation is an inspiring reminder that resilience is not just about bouncing back, but evolving into a fuller, wiser version of yourself.
Journaling Prompts from the Episode:
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When have I faced adversity in my life, and what did I learn from it?
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In my current challenge, how am I becoming rather than simply doing?
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Do I see myself as the hero/heroine of my story, or as a victim? Why?
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Where in my life do I feel physically and emotionally safe? Where do I not?
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How do I currently process my emotions? Is there a healthier way I could approach them?
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If I rewrote my story with the lens of “It happened for me,” what insights would I discover?
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Which of my four intelligences (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) feels most developed? Which needs more attention?
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What beliefs or values give me strength during difficult times?
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How would I approach life differently if I believed every experience was for my becoming?
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When I feel emotionally stuck, what physical action could help me shift my state?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info:
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. Learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. Learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this powerful and meaningful conversation, Laurel sits down with speaker, storyteller, and youth mentor Nick Tucker to explore what it truly means to become resilient.
From a childhood shaped by addiction, foster care, and loss to walking across the country in a spontaneous act of spiritual searching, Nick’s story is one of transformation, healing, and choosing a life of purpose—again and again.
Together, they dive into:
- The real definition of resilience (hint: it’s not just bouncing back)
- How writing his life story revealed unprocessed trauma and sparked healing
- The importance of self-awareness and learning to feel your feelings
- The surprising forms inner work can take—walking, parenting, praying, cooking
- Why relationships are our greatest teachers in emotional growth
- And how Nick’s “Walk With Me” tour is spreading hope and humanity across the country
This conversation is rich with wisdom, humor, and truth—and a beautiful reminder that we never stop becoming.
Whether you're navigating your own healing, showing up for others, or simply trying to figure out what’s next, this episode invites you to slow down, look inward, and take the next courageous step toward a beautiful life.
Links/Books mentioned
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Nick Tucker is a husband and father, a speaker, storyteller, and founder of Camp Nick, a youth adventure camp in Los Angeles. Living the life he always dreamed of, Nick’s message centers on resilience, healing, and the lifelong journey of becoming. Nick is also the visionary behind the Walk With Me Tour, a cross-country speaking tour that retraces his 2011 walk from Maine to California – a 7 month-long journey of more than 3400 miles through 16 states and 20 volunteer projects along the way. You can learn more about Nick at www.NickRTucker.com and follow him on Instagram @NickTucker www.instagram.com/nickrtucker
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin celebrate their podcast's fifth year and its recognition as one of the top 100 inner work podcasts. They discuss navigating change, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness and intuition. Laurel Boivin shares her experience of moving after 20 years, highlighting the challenges of initiating change and dealing with others' reactions. They stress the significance of journaling to explore personal feelings and the need to trust one's intuition. Laurel Holland recounts selling her house intuitively, which led to multiple offers over asking price. They conclude by encouraging listeners to explore their responses to change and develop self-awareness.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin explore the evolving concept of the American Dream and what it means to truly live a life that feels like your own. Together, they reflect on how many are moving away from traditional aspirations like wealth, status, and conformity, and instead redefining success through the lens of purpose, creativity, well-being, and connection.
They emphasize the deep inner work required to discover what you really want—work that begins with self-awareness and the courage to let go of outdated ideals. Through personal stories, including the joys and challenges of watching their children forge different life paths, they demonstrate how honoring others’ dreams, and your own, can lead to profound growth.
The conversation also touches on the cultural shift from communal living to individualism, and how play, creativity, and presence can lead to a more meaningful, heart-aligned life. This episode is a loving call to explore your unique dream, trust your inner wisdom, and take your place in rescripting a more authentic, inclusive vision for the world.
00:00 – Welcome & Reflections
01:19 – A Different American Dream
02:10 – Letting Go of One-Size-Fits-All Dreams
04:57 – The Need to Know Yourself
05:18 – Individual Desires & Collective Good
07:23 – Questions for Listeners
08:25 – Stories of Parenting, Change & Letting Go
13:39 – Laurel & Laurel Share Their Current Dreams
14:59 – Aging, Work & Redefining Retirement
17:21 – Creative Expression, Play & Purpose
20:04 – Listener Invitation: What’s Your Dream?
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books/Resources mentioned:
The Value of Leisure and Play with Dr. Deb Ayer: https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/podcasts/beautiful-work-beautiful-life/episodes/2147901133
Bold Moves with Mikaela Perry:
https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/podcasts/beautiful-work-beautiful-life/episodes/2148833229
https://www.mikaelaperry.art/
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin reflect on the importance of staying true to yourself through the ever-evolving stages of life. As they wrap up Season Four, they explore how inner work shifts over time and how embracing your current phase—whether defined by age, career, or emotional growth—can bring clarity, fulfillment, and connection.
Their conversation covers the value of recognizing and respecting your own evolution, practicing curiosity and deep listening, and building relationships with others across different life stages. Laurel and Laurel share simple, powerful tools such as journaling, checking in with your values, and asking open-ended questions as ways to stay aligned with your true self.
They also highlight the transformative power of women’s stories and the importance of finding your voice, especially when your perspective has changed. Listeners are invited to embrace their unique journey, reflect on what they want now, and give themselves permission to grow, shift, and honor who they are in this moment.
This episode is both a celebration of the season and an encouragement to do the inner work that leads to a life of meaning, beauty, and authenticity.
00:00 – Welcome & Season Reflection
01:47 – What is Inner Work & Why It Matters
03:35 – Life Stages & Staying True to Yourself
05:52 – Cultivating Curiosity About Others’ Life Stages
08:25 – The Power of Listening Without Advice-Giving
10:59 – When Inner Work Comes Later in Life
12:27 – How to Speak Your Truth with Grace
14:35 – Beyond “Why” and “How”: Embracing the “What”
18:22 – Practices to Stay True to Yourself
27:25 – The Power of Intergenerational & Diverse Friendships
33:15 – Closing Reflections & Invitation
Links/Books mentioned Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. Learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. Learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Pixie Hamilton joins co-hosts, Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland, to discuss the concept of self-definition and the essence of one's being. Pixie shares her journey of self-discovery, highlighting how her awareness and freedom have evolved over the years. She emphasizes the importance of understanding one's core essence, which remains consistent despite life's changes. The Laurels and Pixie explore how different individuals define their beautiful lives, stressing the uniqueness of each person's path. They suggest using archetypes from Caroline Myss's work to aid in self-discovery and encourage embracing one's true nature, even if it challenges societal norms. The conversation underscores the value of self-reflection and alignment with one's essence for a fulfilling life.
1:45 Pixie Hamilton shares what her beautiful life looks like, highlighting that she lives with the awareness to set herself free and live in trust and love
4:48 Defining what one's beautiful life looks like comes from self-definition, asking who are you?
5:30 Exploring the essential part of yourself that remains the same throughout life
6:30 Asking the question who am I and what is my purpose over the course of your life, Pixie offers her life as example
10:00 Transitioning to defining yourself by your inner consistency rather than outside influences
11:30 The confidence that comes from discovering the essence of who you are
14:00 Finding the essence of what drives your behavior and choices
18:30 Looking back on your life to moments when you connected to your essence to gain clarity about who you really are
19:50 Exploring language and the words you use as a pathway to seeing yourself more clearly
21:00 Meant for more as a message to understanding more of yourself rather than acquiring more
22:20 The difference between life purpose and soul's purpose
26:00 Pixie and Laurel share similar activities that have different purposes as an example of "who are you" and how you define yourself and explore yourself
31:20 Honoring the uniqueness of each person and what drives them with wonder and curiosity since no one truly knows another's inner motivations
33:00 Examples of how to explore your soul desires and your self-definition in the context of the situations of your life
35:00 Using your essence to help you through low moments or times
39:00 Finding places to be yourself without being known by others, to explore deeply who you really are
41:30 How finding your essence is transformative in your life, revisiting different topics in the podcasts as examples of the healing power of discovering who you really are
46:30 Using the work of Caroline Myss and her identifications of archetypes as a way to help you discover/explore your essence
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin dive deep into how the stories we tell ourselves shape our lives, and how we can shift them to align with who we truly are becoming.
From long-held beliefs that no longer serve us to surprising insights that challenge our identity, the Laurels explore the powerful relationship between self-talk, personal growth, and transformation. They share personal examples, including the “I’m not a plant person” myth and the courageous redefinition of divorce, to illuminate how rewriting your internal narrative can lead to freedom, joy, and fulfillment.
You’ll walk away with practical steps to begin shifting your own story, questions to spark reflection, and encouragement to receive the help you need along the way. If you’ve ever felt stuck in a role or identity that no longer fits, this conversation will inspire you to author a new chapter that reflects your deepest desires and dreams.
Your story matters. Your life matters. And you have the power to change both.
00:00 Welcome and Reflections on Season 4
03:37 The inspiration behind today’s episode
04:46 Contradictions, fact checking, and myth-busters
06:32 The story that is your life
08:44 Powerfully crafting your story
10:03 Laurel Holland’s big story
13:02 Being the hero and casting director of your story
17:01 How staying in a story benefits us
17:38 A mother’s wisdom
19:29 How to change your story
21:26 The importance of the words we choose
24:29 Questions to help you change your story
27:09 Being open to receiving help
28:14 Roles and resistance
30:37 An invitation to listeners
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration:
- What is a story I tell myself about who I am — and is it really true?
- What part of my life feels repetitive, stuck, or uninspiring? If I could rewrite that chapter, what would I want it to look like instead?
- How do the words I use about myself shape my daily experience? What’s one word I could replace that would feel more empowering?
- What story have I been holding onto because it feels safer than facing the unknown?
- If I’m the casting director of my life, what new role do I want to step into next?
- Where am I resisting help and how could receiving support move me closer to my new story?
- Who am I without the roles I’ve clung to (like “the helper,” “the caretaker,” “the peacekeeper”, “the responsible one”)?
- What is something in my life right now that contradicts a story I’ve been telling myself? What proof exists that a new story is possible?
- What do I truly want that I’ve been afraid to claim?
- If I could dream beyond my wildest dreams, what new story would I be bold enough to write for my life now?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. Learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. Learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
What if thriving isn’t a goal to chase, but an everyday way of living that’s deeply personal and true to you?
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin invites you to pause and gently turn inward to explore that beautiful, liberating idea. She unpacks what thriving really means — beyond hustle, perfection, or someone else’s expectations. She also shares inspiring, real-life stories showing how thriving can look wildly different for each of us: from savoring slower mornings and setting heartfelt boundaries, to boldly saying yes to dreams that once felt out of reach.
You’ll be guided to reflect on your own vision of a fulfilling life through thoughtful journaling questions designed to help you reconnect with what nourishes you most.
This episode is an encouraging reminder that thriving is a daily relationship with yourself — a practice of living in alignment with what feels nourishing, meaningful, and beautifully true. Pour yourself a cup of tea, grab your journal, and let’s begin this gentle exploration together.
0:00 Welcome
01:39 Introduction of today’s topic
02:51 Introduction of Laurel and Laurel
03:37 What it means to really thrive
04:35 Real-life examples of thriving
06:10 Journal prompts
08:26 Final reflection and invitation
09:30 Closing
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration:
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When was the last time you felt like you were thriving, even for a moment? What were you doing?
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Who were you with? How did it feel in your body?
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What does your ideal thriving day look like and feel like from sunrise to bedtime? Describe it in great detail.
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What do you need more of in your life right now to feel deeply nourished and supported?
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What do you need less of to create more spaciousness for your thriving self to emerge?
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If you fully believed you were worthy of thriving, what is one small step you could take this week to honor that?
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What parts of your current life already feel like thriving? How can you expand those moments?
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Where do you feel most alive? Is it a place, a person, an activity? How can you invite more of that energy into your everyday life?
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What old beliefs and stories might be holding you back from fully stepping into your thriving life?
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Who in your life supports you thriving, and who drains you? How might you gently create more boundaries or more connection as needed so that you can thrive?
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If you could give your future self — your future thriving self — one piece of advice, what would it be?
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If you could thank your former self for bringing you into this moment and giving you a taste of what thriving looked like, what would you say to your former self?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin celebrate their four-year podcast journey, reflecting on their initial social media connection and shared passion for inner work. They discuss the importance of moving from survival mode to thriving, highlighting signs like constant tiredness and lack of inspiration as survival symptoms. They emphasize the need for slowing down, being present, and addressing the emotional and energetic aspects of life. Practical steps include identifying survival aspects of your life, setting clear intentions, and building a supportive community. They recommend resources like self-help books and journals to aid in this transformation. Ultimately, they advocate for living authentically and contributing your unique gifts to the world as a way to move into thriving.
2:00 The hosts talk about making talk about inner life and work a part of everyday conversation
5:30 The importance of the topic of being in survival mode and how to identify if that's where you are
6:20 Acknowledging survival mode and how it keeps you from being able to make change
7:00 Human doing versus human being
7:55 Laurel Holland shares how she stopped compulsively doing and making changes to slow down and be more connected to herself and her children
8:40 Laurel Boivin talks about the benefits that came from a day of "not doing" but rather just experiencing the moment
10:00 The healing component of being in nature as a way to recover from overwhelm
11:10 Uncoupling productivity from being successful and worthy
12:00 The hosts talk through a strategy of moving from survival to thrive - Laurel Holland talks about the meditation she created to help identify survival mode to help identify where
15:10 Connecting your creative energy and thriving
16:30 Making an intention to thrive and committing to that by taking steps
18:30 The need for a healthy support system to move into thriving
20:20 The importance of doing inner work and its transformational potential
23:00 Live Your Inner Power, The Journal - a resource to help you move through inner work to reclaim your life and begin to thrive.
24:00 The beauty of bringing your gifts to the world when you thrive
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - Live Your Inner Power, The Journal by Laurel Holland, The Four Agreements by Don Migual Ruiz
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this meditation you’ll explore the different areas of your life through the lens of your chakras, moving from identifying survival patterns to affirming your pathway to thrive. You'll first be guided through a relaxation exercise, and then transition into a journey up the chakras to look within and wonder where you may be trapped in survival habits that keep you from thriving in your life. To finish the meditation, for each chakra you’ll be offered an affirmation to move you towards thriving for each area of your life. You might consider having a journal nearby to make notes or further process what arose during the meditation after you finish, or repeat the meditation, stopping and starting to capture what you might explore in more detail to move out of surviving and into thriving in your life.
Music by Chris Collins accompanies this guided meditation.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Host Laurel Holland and guest Amber Lilyestrom discuss their personal and professional journeys, emphasizing the importance of inner work and gratitude. Amber shares her life as a 43-year-old mom in New Hampshire, highlighting her resilience from childhood trauma and her commitment to living authentically. She describes her business model, which integrates personal growth with professional success, and stresses the significance of witnessing and self-reconciliation. Amber's work focuses on helping clients align their inner and outer lives, fostering a sense of purpose and fulfillment. They also touch on the importance of knowing oneself and the role of dreams in guiding one's path.
0:00 Laurel introduces Amber, her work, their connection
3:00 Amber talks about her beautiful life, focusing in the season of life she is in and the qualities that she loves about her present life
5:00 Laurel notes that Amber spoke with so much gratitude and how it relates to manifestation
6:00 Amber shares her story of inner work beginning with a childhood story of sexual abuse and the trajectory of how that beginning required continued inner work to navigate her inclinations as an overly-responsible young person
8:30 Amber shares about how she managed her emotional energy as she was growing in her youth and into college life that developed into an eating disorder. She shares about her first marriage and why it ended and the personal journey of tuning into who she was in her heart and soul.
10:20 Laurel and Amber talk about committing to inner work early in life and the gift of what this means
13:00 The motivation of wanting to change personal patterns in order not to pass them on to your children, your children being the mirror to your truth
14:10 The surprising realization that perfectionism patterning can keep us out of falling into a victimhood mentality
16:20 Women and oppression, overcoming any victim mentality and the importance of being a witness for women so that they may step into their power
18:00 Amber speaks into the power of witnessing one another as women, and doing inner work, and how it can support our empowered action to move to what we want and create our lives more consciously
19:20 The importance of embracing the ordinary and honoring the mundane
20:10 Amber speaks about the entrepreneurial journey and honoring the deep desires she held for her work that ran counter-culturally to what she learned from other coaches in building business
22:45 Amber's aha moment about her shift in her work
24:44 Amber's realization that her life belonged to her
25:30 Amber's belief on "if the dream is in you it is for you" and her coaching around this to help others go after their dreams
30:30 Laurel and Amber talk about life purpose
32:30 Amber's belief about business as self-expression
34:00 How Amber moved out of the trauma response through self-discovery and relaxing into her truth and organizing her life in alignment with her true self
38:00 Amber talks about her next vision for her life
Links/Books mentioned- Ambers poetry book - Paddle Home
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
What if the way you’re moving through your days isn’t sustainable? What if there’s a better way waiting for you?
In this episode, cohost Laurel Boivin opens an honest and encouraging conversation about what it means to live in survival mode, and how to begin shifting toward a more intentional, connected, and fulfilling life. Through personal reflection, client stories, and practical insights, Laurel explores the common signs of survival mode, what thriving can look like, and small, meaningful ways you can move from simply getting by to living with greater purpose.
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or disconnected, this episode offers perspective, support, and hope. You don’t have to stay stuck. You are meant for more than just surviving. You’re here to thrive.
00:00 Welcome and Introduction
02:40 What Is Survival Mode?
03:54 Survival Mode as a Stress Response
05:05 Common Signs of Survival Mode
06:24 A Story of Surviving to Thriving
08:21 What Thriving Really Means
09:28 Five Ways to Begin Shifting
10:51 Journal Prompts to Help You Shift From Surviving to Thriving
12:27 Final Encouragement & Next Steps
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Where in my life do I feel like I’m just getting by?
- What am I afraid will happen if I slow down?
- What am I tolerating that is draining me?
- When was the last time I felt truly alive?
- What do I need more of in my life?
- What do I need less of in my life?
- What am I ready to let go of?
- What does thriving look and feel like to me?
- Where do I feel most like myself—and with whom?
- What support do I need right now?
- What’s one small step I can take today toward the life I want?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. For more information about Laurel Holland, her books, and the work she does, visit www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. For more information about Laurel Boivin and her work, visit www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, host Laurel Boivin explores the powerful and transformative journey of moving from loss to purpose. As part of a multi-episode focus on loss, Laurel invites listeners to look beyond pain and grief to uncover the deeper meaning and potential that can emerge from life's most difficult moments.
Through personal insights and moving stories—from public figures like Gabrielle Giffords and Amanda Gorman, to the courageous and inspiring path of her friend Angela Whitten, Laurel illustrates how loss, though painful, can become the fertile ground for discovering renewed purpose.
Listeners are encouraged to reflect on what purpose means to them, even (and especially) in the wake of heartbreak or transition. With gentle guidance, Laurel offers three heart-centered practices to help begin this process: asking what remains, following the pull of what feels meaningful, and engaging in reflective journaling.
From Loss to Purpose is a beautiful reminder that loss is not the end of your story. Rather it can be the beginning of something even more aligned, meaningful, and life-giving. Whether you're in the midst of loss or finding your way through to the other side, this episode offers encouragement, hope, and practical support to help you take the next step to move from loss to purpose.
01:02 Introduction of episode
01:58 Introduction of cohosts, Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland
02:34 Purpose and what it is
03:37 The revealing nature of loss
04:56 Three examples of transforming loss into purpose
07:40 How to move from loss to purpose
08:49 Practices to help you transform loss
10:18 An offer of support
10:40 A reminder about loss
11:02 Available resources and support
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- If this loss is shaping me and not breaking me, what might it be revealing?
- What have I come to understand deeply because of this experience?
- Who might benefit from the wisdom I've gained through this experience?
All questions posed in the episode:
- What does purpose mean to you?
- What does purpose mean?
- What does it look like for you to move from loss to purpose?
- What loss have you encountered?
- What loss are you still dealing with and healing through?
- How can you move from loss to purpose?
- What remains?
- What still feels true for me?
- What values, interests, or passions have stayed with me through this season of loss?
- What brings you peace?
- What feels meaningful, even in small ways?
- If this loss is shaping me and not breaking me, what might it be revealing?
- What have I come to understand deeply because of this experience?
- Who might benefit from the wisdom I've gained through this experience?
Links/Books mentioned:
Stay; For Life, a non-profit organization whose mission is to save lives by advocating for men's mental health and suicide prevention. You can learn more about Stay; For Life at https://www.stayforlife.org/.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin at www.fluxflowcoaching.com
Co-hosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin discuss the themes of loss, disappointment, and letting go in their most recent podcast focusing on inner work. They emphasize the importance of accepting and embracing change, rather than resisting it. Laurel Holland shares her personal experience of learning to let go by first accepting what is - Letting Be. They highlight the distinction between acceptance and resignation, and the necessity of processing emotions to move forward. The conversation also touches on the collective loss experienced during the pandemic and the importance of finding gratitude and wisdom in past losses.
1:45 The cohosts introduce the topic and the difficulty it's presented to handle in the culture
2:45 They discuss how to actually "let go" with grace and ease
4:00 Laurel B talks about how letting go could be used in a specific example to deal with acceptance
6:00 Talking about working through life losses that are not necessarily about death
8:00 Looking at the stories we tell ourselves that contribute to losses and learning to work with them
8:50 No longer resisting emotions to avoid loss and disappointment - taking time for grief as a decision
9:40 Processing emotions pro-actively as a part of the grief process
10:10 Gratitude as a healing step in moving beyond the loss
12:00 Identifying what's underlying the "dream" you want to experience to help you move on and be ready for what might be next to full the desire
13:20 Dealing with disappointment that underlies anger to address loss more directly
15:55 Other episodes that relate to the topic are in the show notes
16:30 Aging as opportunity to process loss well and pro-actively
17:00 Self-definition, change and growth and how they relates to loss and change
18:50 Practicing saying goodbye well as a way to skill-build in processing loss and grief
20:46 Tips for moving through loss and disappointment and its circular nature
22:10 Trauma as a complex topic related to loss and disappointment and needs special attention
22:45 Exercises to help you actively work on your loss and disappointments to move on
25:00 The myth of a timeline for grief
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Live Your Inner Power, The Journal by Laurel Holland, the Beautiful Work Beautiful Life podcast episode on anger was published in 12/23 and entitled Transform Your Anger into Loving Self-Kindness, the Beautiful Work Beautiful Life podcast on grief was published in 11/22 and entitled How to Welcome Grief
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this episode, Laurel Boivin is joined by photographer and homesteader Rachael Kloss Pawlik for an honest and inspiring conversation about navigating loss, surrendering control, and creating a life rooted in gratitude, love, and intention. Rachael opens up about her fertility journey, the heartbreak of multiple miscarriages, and the inner work that helped her heal—from Reiki and retreats to seasonal living and simple daily gratitude. Her story is a beautiful reminder that even through grief, we can build a life that feels aligned, grounded, and deeply meaningful. If you're walking through a difficult season or simply looking for encouragement to trust your path, this episode will speak to your soul.
00:00 Welcome & Introduction
03:15 Defining a Beautiful Life
04:32 Living a Seasonal Life
07:11 Dreams, Detours & Becoming a Mother
08:15 Spiritual Growth Through Loss
13:36 Healing & Gratitude
16:11 Inner Work Practices & Tools
19:20 The Impact of Inner Work on Parenting & Business
23:42 Advice for Navigating Hard Things
25:38 The Healing Nature of Self-Reflection
26:37 Final Reflections
Links/Books mentioned
The LoveLight Center in Wells, Maine: https://www.lovelightilluminations.com
Discovering Your Light Within with Cheryl Banfield: https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/podcasts/beautiful-work-beautiful-life/episodes/2148507722
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Rachael Kloss Pawlik is a photographer, dream builder, homesteader, and entrepreneur living a grounded and creative life in Wells, Maine. As the founder of Dragonfly Photography, Rachael has spent over 18 years capturing life’s most meaningful moments—weddings, families, and the in-between—with presence, artistry, and reverence. Her clients invite her into their lives, and she honors that trust by capturing moments and creating memories that last for generations. When she’s not behind the lens, Rachael is co-creating a life she loves alongside her husband and daughter—growing flowers, tending chickens, harvesting microgreens, and nurturing their second business, Our American Farmhouse. Whether she’s planting seeds in the soil or her soul, Rachael’s life reflects beauty, intention, gratitude, and transformation. You can learn more about Rachael and her photography at https://www.dragonflyshots.com/ and her farm products at https://www.ouramericanfarmhouse.com/.
In this episode, Laurel Boivin explores the transformational power of loss. Losses that shake our identity — the end of a job, a relationship, a dream — also bring opportunities to rediscover ourselves more authentically.
Through her own story of career loss and reinvention, Laurel shares how listening deeply, even when fear is louder than hope, can lead to a life of greater meaning, purpose, and connection.
If you’re navigating a season of uncertainty, feeling the ache of loss, or standing on the edge of change, this episode offers gentle guidance, inspiration, and practical tools to help you move forward — one courageous step at a time.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
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How to view loss as an opening, not just an ending
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Practical tools to support you through grief and change
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The value of small steps, self-trust, and intuitive listening
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How loss invites us to live, love, and connect more deeply
00:00 Welcome
01:36 A few words about loss
02:40 Introduction of cohosts, Laurel and Laurel
04:00 Laurel shares a life-changing loss
08:51 An invitation to come home to yourself
09:30 Letting loss linger
10:33 The quiet whisper of invitation
13:30 Encouragement for listeners facing loss
10:33 Tools for navigating loss
14:11 A sacred threshold
14:57 A challenge for listeners
15:39 Closing inspiration
Journaling prompts suggested to further your exploration:
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Have you ever experienced a loss that actually opened doors for you?
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What loss are you carrying right now?
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Is the life you’ve been living no longer fitting you?
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What is this loss inviting me to notice?
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What is this loss asking me to release?
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What new possibility might be waiting just beyond this point of grief and loss?
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What is this season of loss asking me to do?
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What am I being asked to let go of?
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What is this loss making space for?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and to Laurel Holland is laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com.
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info:
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin invites you to embrace a transformative truth: your legacy isn’t just something you leave behind—it’s something you live every single day.
Inspired by Mary Oliver’s iconic question, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”, Laurel explores how leadership and legacy are shaped by the choices we make, the values we embody, and the energy we bring to each moment.
Leadership, she reminds us, isn’t reserved for titles or formal roles. It’s about living with intention, impact, and authenticity—in our relationships, our work, and even in the quiet moments when no one is watching.
Through thoughtful reflection and powerful journaling prompts, you'll be encouraged to:
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Reclaim your role as the leader of your life
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Align your actions with your values
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Embody the legacy you want to live
Laurel challenges you to commit to one intentional action this week that reflects the leader you are and the legacy you’re creating—because your life is your legacy in creation.
Tune in to be inspired to live with more clarity, courage, and purpose.
1:00 Introduction to Leadership and Legacy
3:00 Introduction of Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland
3:42 Defining Legacy
4:29 Questions to Consider
6:33 Reclaiming Yourself & Your Leadership
7:33 Everyday Acts of Leadership
8:23 Final Thoughts & Additional Questions to Consider
9:18 A Challenge for Listeners
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
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How are you living your legacy?
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How do you want to be remembered by your life?
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What does legacy mean to you?
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What legacy do you want to live and leave—not the version others expect of you?
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What do I want to be known for—not just by others, but by myself?
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Am I living in alignment with my legacy?
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Are my actions reflecting my values?
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Are my words aligned with my truth?
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Are my relationships nourishing the person I am becoming?
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What do I want my legacy to be?
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Where in my life am I already living that legacy?
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Where am I living intentionally?
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Where am I being invited to align more deeply?
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How am I currently showing up as a leader in my life—personally, professionally, in my community?
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What kind of leader do I want to be known as—now, in the future, and beyond my lifetime?
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What qualities and values do I want my leadership to embody every day?
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What is one small action I can take this week that reflects the leader I am and the legacy I want to live?
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. For more information visit www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. For more information visit www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Laurel Holland and her co-host Laurel Boivin discuss the evolution of their podcast, which has shifted from weekly conversations to seasonal themes. They emphasize the importance of inner work for personal growth and leadership, particularly for women. Laurel shares her journey of self-improvement as a mother, highlighting the impact of inner work on her parenting. They stress the significance of leading one's life from the inside out, advocating for self-care, self-talk, and authenticity. The conversation also touches on the concept of women as creatrixes, the power of intuition, and the need for safe spaces to foster authentic leadership and personal growth.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Podcast host, Laurel Holland interviews Bri McCorkell, an intuitive healer and Reiki Master, about her journey and work. Bri shares her life as a 42-year-old mother and wife in New Hampshire, emphasizing the beauty and simplicity she finds in her farmhouse and family. She discusses her inner work, including overcoming addiction and pre-verbal trauma, and the importance of surrendering to a higher purpose. Bri highlights her deep shadow work with women, focusing on pre-verbal trauma and the soul's original gifts. She also touches on the natural aging process and the importance of inner beauty and spiritual growth.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, co-host Laurel Boivin guides listeners through a powerful exploration of what it truly means to lead from the inside out.
While leadership is often measured by titles, achievements, and outcomes, Laurel invites a different conversation—one that centers on presence, authenticity, and alignment. Drawing from her own personal journey and experiences with clients, she shares how embodied leadership isn't about performing a role, but about becoming fully aligned with who we are at our core.
She also shares three foundational elements of inside-out leadership and how these practices can create lasting, meaningful change in both life and work.
Whether you're a seasoned leader or just beginning to step into your own leadership power, this episode offers inspiration, reflection, and practical prompts to support your inner work journey. It’s an invitation to come home to yourself and lead a life that feels true, impactful, and beautifully aligned.
00:00 Welcome & Introductions
02:48 What Is Leadership, Really?
04:33 The Shift: From Performing to Embodying Leadership
05:03 What Is Embodied Leadership?
07:18 Increasing Impact & Significance
07:59 Three Foundations of Inside-Out Leadership
10:40 A Turning Point in Laurel’s Leadership Journey
12:09 Leadership Transformation and Inner Work
13:18 Journal Prompts for Reflection
14:13 Closing Thoughts & Invitation to Listeners
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Journal Prompts from this Episode:
- Where in your life or in your work are you being called to come back to yourself?
- What does alignment look like for you right now?
- What is one small action you could take this week to lead from within?
Additional Reflective Questions from the Episode
- What does leadership mean to you?
- Have you ever found yourself doing all the “right” things as a leader, but still feeling like something is off?
- What patterns, behaviors, or tendencies are showing up in how you lead?
- Are your actions reflecting your values?
- Does the way you’re showing up match who you truly want to be?
- What intentional action can you take that reflects who you are at your core?
- Where might you choose rest instead of hustle?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life and leadership coach and founder at Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, host Laurel Boivin dives deep into the process of transforming inner work from insight to action. She explores how personal growth isn't just about understanding ourselves, but about actively integrating and embodying inner work. She also highlights three key approaches to integration, introduces three essential elements of embodiment, and offers journaling questions to consider. No matter where you are on your personal development journey, this episode offers actionable insights into creating meaningful life changes by bringing inner work to life.
01:00 Introduction of podcast and hosts
02:19 Introduction of episode topic
03:10 Integrating inner work
04:09 How inner work changes ss
05:21 Navigating old patterns and behaviors
06:59 Embodying Inner Work
07:37 Three ways to integrate inner work
09:33 Ways to integrate and embody inner work
10:31 Embodiment versus integration
10:48 Three key elements of embodiment
12:58 Reflection questions to consider
13:20 Invitation to deepen inner work with support
14:17 Encouragement to continue inner work
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Reflection Questions:
- Where are you holding back from integrating inner work?
- What small step can you take to embody your inner work?
All questions posed in the episode:
- How can we take all that powerful inner work that we do, the awareness, the self discovery, the breakthroughs, the healing, and how can we bring it all into our day to day lives?
- What is one teeny, tiny decision, one very small step you can make today that aligns with your growth or your new way of being?
- How can you align your environment, your surroundings, your situations with your inner work?
- Does your environment, your space, and the people in your life support your new way of being? Do they support you fully in who you are becoming?
- Are you acting on autopilot? Are you letting an old habit rule the day?
- When you notice the old habit, the autopilot, can you consciously, deliberately, intentionally choose to do something differently, to do the thing differently, to show up and be different?
- Can you show up as your true self, even when it's uncomfortable?
- Can you act in a new way, even when it's uncomfortable, even when you're afraid of someone's judgment or what someone might think of you?
- Where in your life are you still holding back from fully integrating your inner work?
- What is one small step you can take today to embody your inner work more fully?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com/.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin discuss the importance of meditation as a path to inner work. They debunk common myths about meditation, such as the need for a quiet mind or a still body, emphasizing that meditation is about self-observation and mindfulness. They highlight various meditation practices, including moving meditations and guided meditations, and stress that meditation can be practiced anywhere, anytime. They also discuss the benefits of meditation for self-awareness, emotional regulation, and reducing loneliness. Both hosts share personal experiences and recommend books and practices to help listeners integrate meditation into their lives.
3:30 The myth of a quiet mind in meditation
6:30 The myth of having to be still to meditate
8:20 The myth of having to be in a quiet place to meditate
10:30 The myth of having to practice daily to be a meditator
12:55 Simple practices that bring meditation alive in your life
14:30 What mindfulness is and how to bring it into your life to help your life today
16:30 Guided meditations as a way to explore meditation successfully
21:20 Book/author recommendations to help you explore meditation
25:40 The loneliness epidemic and how mediation can help heal this - how loneliness helps you know yourself and understand yourself
33:30 Laurel's personal testament to having an inner sanctuary and what it's like to have that and her commitment to daily practice in and out of routine
Links/Books mentioned - Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Suzuki, many books by Jon Kabt-Zinn including Full Catastrophe Living
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this meditation you’ll explore the idea that difficult times can be seen as thresholds into a new life. Likewise, an inner calling to something more, even when that something is not clear, may be an invitation, an inner urge to discover more of your potential. What feels potent, but without form, may be experienced as “a call from the soul” into a life that you came here to live. This meditation begins with a poem to set the stage, then you’ll be guided through a relaxation that centers you in your chakras, and finally an invitation to explore the idea of taking a step toward something new as opening the door to a world of possibilities.
Music by Chris Collins accompanies this guided meditation.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Are you ready to stop searching for happiness in the outside world and start discovering the limitless peace, joy, and fulfillment that already exist within you?
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, co-host Laurel Boivin sits down with George Peterson, a spiritual teacher, meditation expert, podcast host and author, to explore the life-changing power of inner work. From overcoming addiction to becoming a globally recognized meditation and breathwork healer, George shares his personal journey of self-discovery and resilience.
Together, they dive deep into the difference between external, fleeting happiness and true, lasting fulfillment. George reveals the hidden blocks that keep us stuck, the truth about manifesting abundance (it’s not just about positive thinking!), and why our intuition is always leading us toward our highest path—if only we listen.
You'll learn how meditation, breathwork, and small daily shifts can clear emotional weight, strengthen intuition, and bring you closer to the life you desire. Plus, George introduces his powerful MEDI Method, a practical, effortless approach to meditation that will change the way you experience your mind, your energy, and your purpose.
This episode is an invitation to step out of survival mode and into a life of clarity, peace, and deep inner joy. If you’ve ever felt stuck, lost, or disconnected, this conversation will inspire you to trust yourself, embrace transformation, and start creating the life that was meant for you.
Enjoy!
00:01 Laurel introduces George Peterson and shares their small-town connection
02:30 George reflects on the shift from external happiness to deep, internal fulfillment
06:15 Object-Referral vs. Self-Referral Happiness: why looking outside ourselves for happiness keeps us stuck, and how inner work helps
12:20 The power of Inner Work including meditation, breathwork, gratitude, and movement as key practices to clearing emotional blocks
20:10 The truth about manifesting and the key to attracting abundance
28:45 George shares his "Rashi" experience
35:00 The importance of listening to your intuition and why fear and excitement often coexist.
42:50 The three phases of energies: creation, maintenance and destruction
50:20 George’s Meditation Framework (MEDI Method), a practical guide to effortless meditation and overcoming obstacles
57:30 George’s final words of wisdom
Links/Books mentioned:
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THRIVE: How to Use Meditation to Overcome the Things That are Holding You Back, by George Peterson
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Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsch
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
George Peterson is a Vedic Meditation teacher, Breathwork Healer, and transformational coach with over a decade of experience in addiction recovery. As host of The George Peterson Podcast and author of THRIVE: How to Use Meditation to Overcome the Things That Are Holding You Back, he blends mindfulness and modern strategies to inspire personal growth. George leads retreats, workshops, and coaching programs that help individuals overcome obstacles, reduce stress, and cultivate resilience. Through his teachings, he empowers others to find inner peace, break free from limitations, and truly thrive. You can learn more about George and the work he does at www.georgespeterson.com or contact him at George@georgespeterson.com.
What if the peace, confidence, and fulfillment you’ve been searching for aren’t outside of you—but within you, waiting to be uncovered?
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, we explore the transformative power of inner work—the intentional process of deep self-discovery, emotional healing, and personal growth. Co-host Laurel Boivin breaks down what inner work really means, why it’s essential for a meaningful and aligned life, and how you can integrate it into your daily routine, even amidst life’s many demands.
By the end of this conversation, you’ll have powerful tools to cultivate self-awareness, break free from limiting patterns, and create a life that reflects your deepest truth. Whether you're just beginning your inner work journey or looking for fresh inspiration, this episode will help you take your next step with clarity and confidence.
00:00 A Warm Welcome & The Journey of This Podcast
02:58 What is Inner Work?
03:59 The Five Core Aspects of Inner Work
06:53 The Importance of Inner Work
08:12 How Inner Work Transforms Every Area of Your Life
10:51 Inner Work Practices You Can Start Today
13:14 Boundaries as Inner Work
14:06 The Key to Lasting Transformation: Consistency
15:12 A Personal Story & Final Reflection
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- What inner practices do you currently have in your life?
- How do you prioritize inner work with all the demands on your time, energy, and attention?
- What small inner work practice can you commit to this week?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin explores the essential elements of manifestation—boundaries, intentional action, and your inner state and beliefs. She highlights how boundaries safeguard energy and create space for your dreams, while your inner state determines what you attract. Laurel delves into the power of beliefs and self-worth in shaping reality and emphasizes the importance of taking intentional action to show the universe you're ready. This episode also includes more than a dozen journal prompts o help you reflect and take aligned steps toward your dreams.
00:17 Welcome
01:11 Invitation to join the Beautiful Work Beautiful Life community
01:45 Laurel shares what she’s learned during the past several weeks
02:15 An overview of the four foundational elements of manifestation
02:57 Introduction of the hosts, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin
03:00 What manifestation is and isn’t
04:06 Boundaries as a way to stay aligned and focused on your dreams and desires
05:20 The power of saying "no" with love
05:39 The importance of your inner state and energy
07:14 Your beliefs and sense of worthiness
09:08 Changing and strengthening your beliefs
09:26 The importance of intentional action
10:19 Reflecting on the four foundational areas and taking aligned action
11:16 Trusting the manifestation process
11:38 An invitation to share with Laurel and Laurel
The following journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration of manifestation, boundaries, beliefs, and aligned action:
- Where am I giving away my time, my energy and my emotions in ways that don't serve me and my dreams?
- What boundary, if I set it, would allow me to stay in my highest state of alignment?
- Who am I as I am walking towards my dreams, as I'm taking action so that I can have what I desire in this lifetime?
- What emotions do I experience most often, and how do they impact what I attract?
- When I'm feeling low energy or out of alignment, what helps me reset?
- What small daily practice can I introduce to keep myself in a high vibe state?
- What are my core beliefs about success, abundance, and love?
- Do I truly believe I'm worthy of success, abundance, and love?
- What is one belief I may have that might be blocking my manifestations?
- Where did this belief come from?
- What is a new belief I can start practicing today?
- What evidence do I have in my life that I am worthy, that I am already worthy?
- Which of the four foundational areas need the most attention in my life right now?
- What is one small shift I can make today to realign myself with my dreams?
- What is one aligned action I can take today, no matter how small, that moves me closer to my dreams?
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Life coaches Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin discuss the complexities of manifestation, emphasizing that it is a layered, nuanced process rather than a simple affirmation. They highlight the importance of clarity, self-observation, and alignment in achieving one's goals. They stress that manifestation involves not just visualizing but also taking concrete actions and maintaining a positive mindset. Examples include Laurel Holland's desire for a TED talk and Laurel Boivin's career transition. They also discuss the role of boundaries, gratitude, and overcoming limiting beliefs to truly believe in infinite possibilities. The conversation underscores the need for ongoing self-reflection and support from a community.
3:20 The illusion that manifestation is easy and simple and an explanation/definition of manifestation
6:00 Examples of individuals that had the clarity and alignment to bring forth what they desired
7:00 "Clarity is the soil from which manifestation can grow." Laurel Boivin. A discussion about clarity and manifestation - sending out mixed messages blocks manifestation.
9:00 Calling oneself out to whether behavior aligns with what one wants - paying attention to what we actually do each day.
11:00 Believing in the field of infinite possibility, using your life as a research project for manifestation followed by personal examples from the host
17:00 Looking at what you want a symbolic representation of how you want to feel, what you want to experience as a lifestyle or the way you imagine yourself, referring to Cassandra's interview as an example too, identifying the essence of what you want
22:10 Looking at your conditioning to discover how it may be placing limitations on manifesting
23:30 Getting clear in what you want without getting caught up in the specifics, using the idea for a significant relationship and making money as examples
29:00 Demonstrating your desire through action so that the universe might align in support
31:00 Aligning action as a method of discovering your inner misalignment
35:00 Boundaries and focus - the essential work of alignment, the hosts use gratitude as an example
40:00 Examining all consumption (especially opinions and information) as a way to see your interference in manifestation
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Laurel Holland interviews Cassandra Neece of The Dharma Collective about manifesting dreams and the inner work involved. Cassandra shares her journey of achieving her dreams, including living in Mexico this winter, working remotely, and supporting clients with branding and websites. She emphasizes the importance of gratitude, self-awareness, and overcoming limiting beliefs. Cassandra discusses the impact of natural disasters on her community and the resilience it fostered. She highlights the significance of aligning one's purpose (dharma) with their digital presence and the role of community support in achieving dreams. Laurel and Cassandra stress that manifesting dreams requires inner work, gratitude, and a strong foundation.
4:30 Cassandra shares the current week as a window into her beautiful life and how she lives
7:30 The beginning of her manifestation process and clarity that led her to the current dream
9:00 Making conscious decisions to create the foundation for manifestation
14:10 Cassandra shares some of her inner work that brought forth her dream(s) including having a vision and trusting in infinite possibility, how she communicates with herself, elevating her self-talk, growing incrementally in her presence and gratitude consistently
17:20 Delving into believing in the infinite field of possibility, moving through limiting beliefs like a scarcity mindset
20:30 The importance of speaking what you want aloud and the power of partnership or support in your truth
23:20 Other visioning/manifestation techniques
25:25 Letting go of conditioning in order to embody your authentic dream and trusting your big yes, trusting your path instead following a template
30:00 How finding your path and joy is healthy for the world
31:00 Cassandra shares her work, and understanding of purpose and dharma, helping others bring their gifts to the world
33:00 Finding your purpose and living your dharma discussion, personal stories
37:30 Your communication and its connection to your manifestation experience
40:15 How Cassandra overcomes the habit of comparison and the truth of comparison is the thief of joy
43:30 Cassandra's practice of changing a habit using slowly moving from self-judgment to self-praise as an example
45:45 Scarcity mindset as a limiting foundation and how to take yourself out of this mindset
47:00 Embodiment practices that bring you into, and grow, presence and gratitude
52:20 Looking for the gift in crises, Cassandra's personal story of living through natural disaster
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Manifestation is not just about thinking positively and hoping for the best—it’s about aligning your mindset, emotions, and actions to create tangible results. That’s where science and magic meet.
Laurel Boivin reveals the science and magic behind manifestation, including neuroscience, psychology, and quantum physics, intuition, energy, visualization, and belief. She also offers five simple steps to help listeners harness the power of science and magic for manifestation to create a beautiful life.
00:01 Welcome and introductions
01:04 What manifestation is and what it is not
02:12 The science of manifestation
06:04 The magic of manifestation
09:16 Five steps to combining science and magic
12:18 Using science and magic to create more ease and joy
13:44 Connect further
14:25 Next up: An Honest Conversation About Manifestation with Cassandra Neece
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, host Laurel Boivin wraps up a theme that has been carried through several recent episodes, courage, by exploring the interplay between uncertainty, variety, and clarity. Laurel discusses how embracing uncertainty can lead to personal growth, creativity, and self-awareness, ultimately fostering clarity in life. She shares insights on how fear often disguises itself and provides practical tips and journaling prompts to help listeners address fear, step out of their comfort zones, and take small, bold actions toward their dreams. By reframing uncertainty as an opportunity, listeners can discover new perspectives, opportunities, and a deeper understanding of themselves.
00:01 Laurel introduces the episode's theme and its connection to courage.
01:16 The Uncomfortable Nature of Uncertainty
03:25 Variety as the Key to Clarity
05:34 Fear in Disguise
06:57 Practical Tips for Adding Variety to Your Life
09:03 Three Tips to Explore Your Fear and Gain Clarity
09:17 Journaling Prompts
11:52 Befriending Fear
12:47 Closing Reflections
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- Where in your life does fear show up for you? And how does it show up?
- What is one fear that is holding you back?
- What is one small step you can take to lessen that fear and remove it as an obstacle?
Three tips to work through fear:
- Write It Out: Take a journal or a piece of paper and write down your dreams and goals without filtering or judging.
- Speak It Aloud: Share your dreams with someone you trust.
- Take a Small Step: Choose one small, actionable step toward your dream.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Life coaches Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin discuss the fear that often holds people back from making bold changes in their lives. They explore how fear manifests in different situations. They emphasize the importance of recognizing internal desires and the need to address self-limiting beliefs. The conversation highlights practical tips for overcoming fear, including writing about what you want, speaking about it, and engaging in activities that promote relaxation and creativity. They also stress the necessity of small, manageable steps towards change and the role of self-care in navigating overwhelm and burnout.
2:00 Asking the question - does fear hold you back from change? The hosts answer for themselves
5:30 Exploring the background reasons that we don't move into the change we desire
6:10 How your self-identity often leads you into the life you want. The idea that you know what you want but don't know how to get there
7:30 Exploring the idea that each of us has the power to change, to go for what we want, and don't utilize it
9:00 Beginning with the manageable, small change as the way to move forward
9:10 Letting go of what other people think as necessary to making the changes you want
10:05 Exploring the bold move Mikaela made and how she did it
11:10 You are the great creator of your life
13:30 Examining your conditioning to see how you are holding your own self back - steps to deconstruct it so that you can overcome being stuck. Journaling prompts included here.
20:45 The reality of your vibration as part of your attraction/manifestation process
21:20 The bold move of finding a trusted partner to explore how to make your change as a beginning
23:00 Dealing with burnout and the change you want
26:00 Vision boarding and soul collaging as a way to open inwardly to what you most want
31:00 Dealing with the loss involved in change even when the change is positive and desired
34:40 A final challenge to finding and moving toward the change you want
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Mikaela Perry, a New York City based visual artist with a background in farming and public policy, joins Laurel for a conversation about her personal journey from farming in Northern Vermont, to food and farm policy and advocacy, to following her heart and pursuing her art business full time. In this episode, Laurel and Mikaela explore themes of purpose, identity, alignment, and the courage necessary to forge one’s own path, offering insights and inspiration for living a beautiful life.
0:09 Laurel introduces her guest, Mikaela Perry
2:48 Mikaela shares her early experiences on the family farm
3:38 Experiencing a deep inner knowing that she’d be an artist
4:59 How public policy and advocacy influenced Mikaela’s artistic practice
11:08 The importance of self-reflection, inner work, and embodied practices
13:51 Relationships, curiosity, and coaching
15:29 Inner work and small acts of courage
16:58 Alignment
18:24 Journaling and other helpful resources
21:08 Experiencing flow
22:36 Identity and purpose
24:28 Mikaela shares a turning point in her life that spurred her inner work
27:58 Emotions are clues
37:56 Leaving the policy world and navigating an identity shift
44:02 Encouragement to make bold choices, embrace uncertainty, and nurture creativity
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books and work, at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
Mikaela Perry is an oil painter and former fifth-generation farmer from Vermont based in New York, NY. Inspired by her own experiences as a farmer, her paintings explore connections between the divine feminine, spirituality, land, and animals. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the US, and in 2023 her first solo show "Memories in Bloom" debuted at Solas Studio in New York City. Mikaela was selected by Chashama to attend the ChaNorth Artist Residency in 2024, and in 2023 she was honored as a recipient of the New York City 40 Under 40: Rising Stars in Food Policy Award for her artistic representation of farmers and the local food system. Her work has been featured in the AQ Quarterly Journal Vol. 1, curated by Ekatarina Popova, and written about by the City of New York’s FoodPolicy Center. You can learn more about Mikaela and her work at https://www.mikaelaperry.art/ and follow her at https://www.instagram.com/mikaelaperryart/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikaela-perry/.
In this episode, Courage to Dream a New Dream, Laurel Boivin talks about dreaming big and how to reconnect with the natural dreamer that exists in all of us. She discusses the challenges of dreaming we face as adults, including societal expectations, fear of judgment, and financial concerns. Laurel shares a story about knowing you’re meant for more and struggled with humility and fear of being perceived as egotistical. She explores obstacles to dreaming, such as relationships, societal norms, and mindset, and offers strategies to overcome these, including journaling exercises and reading recommended books. The episode concludes with a call to action to dream big, take bold action in pursuit of your dreams.
1:12 Laurel shares what courage to dream is all about.
1:46 Laurel introduces herself and her cohost, Laurel Holland.
3:43 When you know you are meant for more or there's more to life.
6:33 Resolving the tension between adult responsibilities and dreaming big.
7:47 The obstacles to dreaming that adults face.
13:46 Protecting ourselves from disappointment.
14:49 What it takes to overcome the obstacles.
15:32 Book recommendations.
16:38 Laurel talks about next week’s episode and her guest, Mikaela Perry.
19:29 Laurel offers an exercise to help you connect with your inner dreamer.
21:28 Journaling prompts to help you dream big.
25:22 Laurel encourages listeners to begin dreaming again.
27:16 Encouragement to help others connect with their dreamer-self.
The following journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
- If you had a magic wand, what would your life look like? What would you create or change in your life if you could have, do, or be anything and everything you wanted?
- Wouldn’t it be great if… Create a list of things you want in life, opening to the possibility of the things you want becoming a reality.
Book Recommendations:
- Playing Big by Tara Mohr
- Rising Strong by Brené Brown
- Taking the Leap by Pema Chödrön
- The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Life Coaches, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin, reflect on their season of discussing inner work, noting its organic and intuitive approach. This approach is an example of the path of inner work. They highlight key themes along the path: telling your own story, mending what's hurt, truth-telling, heart-centered living, and embracing imperfection. They emphasize the importance of acknowledging and addressing internal conflicts, letting go of control, and living authentically. The conversation underscores the value of self-acceptance, courage, and bold moves in personal growth. They encourage listeners to trust the process, embrace uncertainty, and focus on inner work for true transformation.
1:30 Why the hosts are recapping the season so far and how it can shape your inner work
3:00 The importance of telling your own story and how the work can begin here
8:00 How inner work can resolve outside circumstances
9:30 The life-changing question of where are you not willing to acknowledge or live into your truth
11:30 How you can navigate speaking the truth aloud rather than focusing on a premature solution
13:20 How to lean into the chaos of life so you can overcome habits of trying to control
14:30 Knowing your okay even when life is messy, leading by example
19:00 A question to keep you focused on heartfelt living
20:00 Learning how to recover from perfectionism by taking messy action purposefully
25:00 The future topic of taking bold moves
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - Live Your Inner Power, the Journal by Laurel Holland
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
This podcast conversation explores the theme of embracing imperfection and the importance of being willing to not get it right. Life Coaches, Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland, discuss how this shift in mindset can lead to a more fulfilling life, freeing oneself from self-imposed burdens and societal expectations. They share personal anecdotes, as well as emphasizing the role of self-identity in perfectionism, and the need to question and challenge personal rules and assumptions. The discussion highlights the importance of mastery through repeated attempts and the benefits of adopting a "perfect mess" approach to life.
3:00 Laurel and Laurel explore the idea of self-identity as a limiting factor in being willing to overcome perfectionism or the need to control things
5:30 Exploring how a willingness to not be right frees one to be able to move forward in life more freely and experiment with new ways of doing things
7:00 Being different in a role without preconceived notions about how to do it "right" in order to more fully express oneself
8:30 Using this concept to support non-judgmental thinking
9:10 Laurel Holland shares examples of "not getting it right in her life"
10:30 A discussion of being groomed to be "right" in different environments
12:30 The fear of appearing imperfect or messy that keeps one from trying new things
17:00 Laurel and Laurel share personal examples of how to practice being messy or imperfect, and explore the risks of doing this
19:10 Reflecting about what you want from life and what's holding you back and how it may connect with not being willing to get it "wrong" or messy
22:30 An invitation to be messy in the year ahead in order to align more closely with the beautiful life you desire.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
What does it feel like to be both an open field of energy that receives and releases, while being a solid body that is grounded on the Earth? We explore practicing these states in this guided meditation. There are benefits to both feeling solid and feeling ethereal. We can flow more easily when we feel a sense of openness. We can become truly present when we acknowledge our sense of being in the moment and connected and of the Earth. To be able to flow with life around you and to be present to your life in each moment helps you access your ultimate power.
Music by Chris Collins accompanies this guided meditation.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Laurel Holland welcomes Bunny Young to the show where they discuss identity, manifestation, and entrepreneurship, emphasizing the importance of aligning with one's true self and desires. Bunny shares personal experiences and insights on healing from trauma and navigating motherhood and entrepreneurship. The speakers highlight the need to unlearn societal expectations and embrace a more fluid and adaptive approach to life, recognizing that each person brings unique lessons and opportunities for growth.
1:00 Laurel introduces Bunny Young as entrepreneur and life coach of one of her companies, "A Better Place Consulting"
3:30 Bunny shares her story of how living her dreams are a reflection of the inner work she's done in the last few years even though others felt like she always talked about where she wanted to be
6:45 Bunny talks about how she heard herself, but didn't trust herself, and therefore what she wanted didn't come forth
8:40 Discerning whether you trust yourself and Bunny's trauma that kept her from truly trusting
9:30 Doing the deep work versus checking a box of "having done" something
10:10 How Bunny chose to use her trauma experience as a way to connect more fully with others
12:00 Manifesting life through beliefs and self-identity, releasing the unconscious limitations
14:00 How your change can influence change in others
18:20 The spiritual growth journey of an entrepreneur and Bunny's story about resisting being one because of the beliefs she created watching her parents while growing up
20:45 Introducing Bunny's podcast and where her theme emerged from
22:10 Bunny's work as a business therapist and the money spent (wasted) on working out her "title" and the lessons she learned from this
24:20 How allowing her work with clients to be messy to bring about the beauty of the work - giving herself the permission to take messy action
28:00 Being a mom and working from home space, dealing with putting the roles together to honor who you are and what you want
30:30 True connection and presence as the true dilemma of our time
32:30 How to be strong and calm for children
34:10 Bunny's tip for how to speak with children in a helpful manner
37:20 Growing the capacity to receive your beautiful life
Links/Books mentioned - “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl - a great mindset read.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Guest Bio for Bunny Young
Stuntwoman turned businesswoman is the best way to start a bio. After being diagnosed with a heart condition at an early age and depending on a service dog for a higher quality of life, Bunny focuses on using each day to fully deliver our purpose within the world. She founded her company, A Better Place Consulting to empower and educate businesses and organizations about the impact of work-life alignment and mental health at work. Bunny enjoys breaking the codependency found between professionals and their companies A.K.A Business therapy. She also enjoys teaching burnout prevention to law enforcement, military, and correctional officers. As a third-generation entrepreneur, an international speaker, retired therapist, surfer, Army wife, and cowgirl who speaks 4 languages, Bunny is still most proud of her incredible children and her sexy supportive husband. Bunny's website is www.bunnyyoung.com.
Laurel Boivin discusses the challenges of perfectionism, sharing her personal journey and experiences. She identifies some key traits of perfectionism, such as unrealistic standards, fear of failure, and self-criticism, and explains how it leads to stress, anxiety, burnout, and reduced productivity. Laurel also discusses how perfectionism impacts creativity, self-esteem, relationships, and health. She provides strategies to overcome perfectionism and emphasizes the importance of grace and self-acceptance on the path to allowing imperfection.
0:11 Laurel explains why she doesn’t love the topic of perfectionism.
1:11 Laurel introduces herself and her podcast partner and cohost, Laurel Holland.
2:32 The difference between healthy striving and perfectionism.
2:52 Common characteristics and tendencies of perfectionism.
5:32 Laurel shares an approach she is using to overcome perfectionism.
7:05 The impact on mental, emotional and physical well-being.
8:08 The relationship between perfectionism and procrastination.
9:03 How perfectionism hinders creativity.
9:49 Self-esteem and self-criticism.
11:54 The impact on relationships.
13:05 Overworking and difficulty delegating.
14:05 Reduced productivity and efficiency.
16:17 The impact on health and wellbeing.
17:53 Laurel shares a personal story about perfectionism.
20:19 Tips to overcome perfectionism.
26:07 How mindfulness helps manage perfectionism.
27:07 Support to help lessen your perfectionism.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel Holland at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.
Laurel Boivin, life and leadership coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. You can learn more about Laurel Boivin and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.
How comfortable are you with letting go of control?
If you like to be in control, or you find yourself trying to control situations and outcomes, planning every detail, fixing situations or predicting outcomes, this episode is for you.
In this episode, Laurel Boivin discusses the importance of letting go of control in life. She also talks about the need for control leading to frustration, anxiety, and increased risk of burnout and how embracing the flow of life can bring inner peace, reduced stress, enhanced creativity, improved relationships, and spiritual growth.
Laurel shares her personal journey including the unexpected career path that emerged from letting go of control and a recent experience that reminded her control tendencies still exist. She also shares practical steps including becoming aware of control tendencies, practicing mindfulness, setting flexible intentions, embracing uncertainty, trusting life's timing, and seeking support and journaling prompts to help listeners reflect on their relationship with control.
0.00 Laurel welcomes listeners and introduces the topic of the episode.
0:54 Laurel introduces herself and Laurel Holland.
1:48 Laurel shares a few details about upcoming episodes.
3:16 Why letting go of control is uncomfortable yet important.
5:24 What letting go of control is and is not, and why we struggle with it.
7:26 The benefits of letting go of control.
17:02 Tips and strategies to let go of control and surrender into the flow of life.
26:07 Journal prompts to help listeners examine their relationship with control.
30:44 Laurel expresses her hope that listeners deepen their exploration of surrender and their level of trust and freedom that comes with letting go of control.
Journaling prompts are suggested to help explore letting go of control and surrendering to the flow of life.
- What emotions arise when you think about letting go of control, and what do these emotions tell you about your relationship with control and surrender? What do the emotions tell you about your relationship with trust and faith, and maybe even others?
- What would trusting life's timing look like in your current circumstances? What comes up as you reflect on specific situations where you are feeling impatient or frustrated with the timing of life, with the timing of outcomes.
- How has your need for control limited your growth and creativity?
- What support or resources do you need to feel more comfortable surrendering to the flow of life and letting go of control? What support, emotional, physical, spiritual, practical, mental, what support do you have and what do you need to feel safe?
- How can you fully embrace uncertainty as part of life's journey, rather than something to fear?
Links mentioned:
Heart-Centered Leadership with Ericka Lewis, Beautiful Work Beautiful Life Podcast, 11/11/24 https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/podcasts/beautiful-work-beautiful-life/episodes/2148876353
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life and leadership coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin reconvene to discuss living through the heart instead of in the head as a powerful act in work as well as at home. They introduce their podcast episode titled "Heartfelt Living in a Heady World," inspired by an interview with Erica Lewis on heart-centered leadership. They emphasize the significance of being present, using all faculties, and integrating spiritual practices into daily routines. They highlight the challenges of balancing personal and professional lives and the need for heart-centered leadership in the workplace. They conclude by encouraging listeners to commit to full-body awareness and presence.
1:00 Introduction to your hosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin
1:36 Recasting elder hood - recommended the book, Hagitude by Sharon Blackie
3:40 Describing last week's show with Ericka Lewis about Heart-Centered Leadership including sharing her personal connection with Laurel Holland
5:30 Laurel Boivin describing her connection with Ericka relating the challenges of working in a male-dominated industry
6:00 Discussion about merging your personal persona and the person you are in the workplace
7:40 The toll of hiding parts of yourself
8:25 An example of being a guide to others as you claim your inner work and acknowledging inner discontent as a call to become more heart-centered
10:00 Successful intuitive, heartfelt, leadership in the work place
13:30 Walking as meditation as a way to incorporate turning inward as a daily practice
15:00 Spiritual practice as a part of life routines with intention
17:30 Why embodiment work is so important in living in the world today, being able to discern truth from misinformation
20:00 "Using all your faculties" - a deeper understanding of what they can mean
22:30 Affirmations/mantra examples they demonstrate how to shift your mind and presence
25:05 Remedial efforts to "letting go of control" and becoming more present and reconditioning your nervous system in order to let go
30:10 The importance of learning what it feels like to be grounded, centered in your body and how it can transform your experience
Links/Books mentioned - Hagitude by Sharon Blackie
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Do you have relationships in which you feel known and understood? Do you have safe people with whom you can share your deepest truth? Trusting relationships are often the bedrock of a fulfilling and heartfelt life and most certainly of experiencing fulfilling connection.
Knowing how important this aspect of life is, how do you build trusting relationships? There are specific elements that create trusting relationships that many won't take the time to explore or learn, and will feel disappointed in the relationships they experience. In this episode you'll hear about many of those specific elements and how to begin cultivating those in your own life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - John Bradshaw on Oprah leading inner child meditation
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Feeling rooted to the Earth, grounded and present, and centered in your whole being allows you to connect more fully with others as well as with the natural power in your whole being. When we chronically live through our minds and in our heads, we often feel disconnected from our bodies and the wisdom, connection, and power latent in the lower parts of our being. In this meditation, the focus is on breath work and imagery to bring your attention and energy into the lower part of your body to encourage feeling more rooted, grounded and centered both in your body and on the Earth. You might use this meditation to help you expand your awareness to be able to attend to both what's happening within you as well as around you.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
When your nervous system is stressed it becomes increasingly difficult to think clearly and make holistic life decisions. In this podcast episode, the hosts share personal stories about living with stressed nervous systems and how they recovered. You'll learn ways to identify the ways your nervous system responds to keep you safe and then becomes stressed with lasting impacts that disrupt healthy life functioning. They discuss ways to address and work towards healing and calming the nervous system and recover clarity about how to move through your life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - Tapping video with Laurel Holland, Tapping episode from Season 1, Insight Timer app for guided meditations
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Do you fear change in your life? Do you trust yourself to make good choices for yourself? Do you feel like you have a good inner compass to direct you to fulfillment? And how can you change within so that all of these questions feel resolved and you feel confident to move through life with ease and grace? In this episode the hosts invite you to explore how to develop a strong inner guidance system to bring you toward the fulfillment you desire over the course of your life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Meditation can be a time to move beyond your thoughts, to still the thinking mind. One of the ways to accomplish this is to bring your full attention to your senses, to the sensations in your body and into the power you have to direct your attention within to elicit specific sensations. Listen in to this 8-minute meditation to relieve yourself of your thoughts and return to your deeper inner world.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass.
Your inner critic can latch onto aspects of your life that you don't like, ways that you've showed up in the past that felt troubled, things you've said that you don't feel good about, anything that can be used as a source of self-disappointment, and create repetitive criticisms that become inner self-talk that are the self-created limitations to finding happiness and contentment.
In this episode you are invited to consider how to paradoxically befriend your inner critic in order to use it as an information provider of what you want to create your fulfilled and beautiful life as well as the ways you've been conditioned to believe what's important before your grow-up self could make those important decisions.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - Playing Big by Tara Mohr, the book that invites you to connect with your “inner mentor”
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Do you worry about fitting in? Maybe you have a deep desire to belong to a group or a community, a couplehood, or a family. Your "need" for this may come from not feeling like you fit in with your family of origin, or maybe you didn't feel like you found your "group" of peers when you were growing up.
As this podcast begins its third season, the focus of the first month invites you to consider how connected you are to your inner guidance versus feeling driven by outside influences. In this episode the cohosts offer you the permission to “not fit in”. This permission is all about letting go of that need to fit in for a time as you reconnect with your essential inner guidance (inner GPS).
What is your inner GPS? That answer, along with how to do the work of reconnecting with the inner guidance that can lead you to your heartfelt and fulfilling life, are explored in this episode.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
How does a gratitude practice change you? How does it bring you a fresh attitude and perspective? It happens when you learn to cultivate the feeling of gratitude within you, in body, in mind, and in the heart. This gratitude meditation supports you in focusing inwardly to cultivate the feeling of gratitude and begin your day in peace.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
An abundance mindset - one that's focused on growth, abundance, wealth of all kinds, relationships that feel full and all things rich - developing an ability to condition our mindset will transform our lives powerfully. How do we actually create an abundance mindset that will allow us to readily live a beautiful, bountiful life experience?
In this episode, one of the most popular from Season 2, Laurel and Laurel breakdown how a mindset works, in the literal, of "how you think" can bring about a sense of abundance or lack thereof. They offer examples of ways we think that don't allow abundance, the kind of conditioning that keeps us from an abundance mindset, and how to begin to condition your own thinking for a vital and vibrant abundance mindset. They give examples of how to follow feelings to reveal limited thinking that leads to scarcity rather than abundance.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
What blocks your inner peace, your personal development, or your happiness? This is the inner work that you must discover to move these blocks out of the way in order to live the life that will bring you the fulfillment you enjoy. Enjoy this reissue of one of Season 2's most popular shows.
Laurel and Laurel share what they have identified while coaching clients, as the 3 common blocks they see that keep people from living the life they want. In the course of this podcast you'll learn about those blocks and how you can address them in your own life to overcome them and move forward. They use examples from their own lives and the actions they took to move beyond them.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Guilt can be both a debilitating habit and a big limiter when it comes to creating a beautiful life. This episode was one of the most popular from Season 2. To master using guilt well, liberates your heart in wonderful ways. Laurel and Laurel begin with talking about the ways guilt can be useful and to be a good guide for you in your life.
Have you thought about your own patterns of how guilt may be motivating you? This podcast episode digs into the many ways guilt becomes a pattern that you take on automatically without a critical eye to how it may not even be yours to carry, what might be behind the guilt, and how to begin the journey of healing and freeing yourself from guilt patterns that limit your own life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Healthy and bountiful self-love and acceptance is the foundation of discovering your passions, your purpose, and your people. The season's most popular new moon meditation guides you inward to grow your self-love and acceptance. Self-love and self-acceptance, when experienced as a foundational inner state, allow you to live most authentically, courageously and with deep peace. Enjoy this 10-minute meditation that guide you inward, to find presence in your whole body, and using your breath guides you to embody courage and acceptance while releasing the limiting feelings that may be holding you back from true self-acceptance.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
We're circling back to where we started - why do we do the beautiful work? Many of us decide to begin or continue because of a crisis in our lives or because we are desperate for change. We might find ourselves in emotional turmoil or pain, we may have been in emotional stress for so long that we now find ourselves physically ill. We often begin the beautiful work when life is not beautiful.
With good fortune and a courageous heart, one day you realize that this inner work has made such an impact that life is good. When you stay with the beautiful work, life really does become beautiful.
What would your beautiful life look like? What do you want? We invite you to create from the inside out, look at how you're organizing, choosing and creating based on your inner state, and realize that you can change, you life will change, when you dedicate yourself to your own inner work.
Enjoy this repeat of our first episode and remember why you may be called to the beautiful work.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
How much freedom can you create personally through your voice? Your voice can include your thoughts, the words you speak, and the way that you listen. The hosts reflect on the origins of Independence Day in the US and what the theme of oppression means when it comes to using our voices well and courageously. They share personal stories as examples about their pathways to using their voices in service to the work they do in the world today. Listeners are invited to explore their own habits and patterns of how they're using their voices through journaling prompts offered in the episode.
Links/Books mentioned - for more on using your voice and how it’s connected to your ability to live authentically and powerfully see previous episode, “Your Power Your Voice” and a recent episode on “The Importance of Integrity”. Enjoy a guided meditation that complements this podcast
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Do you wonder if you’re in a relationship with a narcissist? Do you find yourself using this word more often? Do you hear the word narcissism being used more often? As the culture advances in understanding of the science of psychology, we hear terms that describe mental health conditions and issues more frequently. Yet we don’t often fully understand the terms and what they mean to people both experiencing these issues and being in relationship with people with these issues. In this episode you will learn about narcissism, how you might recognize narcissistic characteristics, and how you might begin your healing journey if you are in a relationship with someone who is a narcissist or has narcissistic tendencies and behaviors.
Links/Books mentioned - books 1. The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap, by Ross Rosenberg 2. Loving the Self-Absorbed (How to Create a More Satisfying Relationship with a Narcissistic Partner by Nina W. Brown Podcasts: Tami M Coaching - YouTube - Subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tamie+m+coaching This is her recent one - she puts them out each week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jls1w6Lusj8
Ramani - YouTube - Subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/@DoctorRamani
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Pixie Hamilton graduated from the first Live Your Inner Power Group. She has been on a forty year healing journey. In her professional life she was an engineer and writer and has turned her attention to writing in the self-help realm now. Pixie has been reflecting and learning from the inner journey by consuming and integrating countless self-help books and videos, surrounding herself with like-minded seekers and mentors, and committing to an extensive journaling practice for the last 25 years.
What is the difference between having a secret and being private? Why is it important to understand the difference? How does it impact your power and your authentic expression? During this episode the hosts dive into how you can begin to more fully embrace the differences between privacy and secrecy, liberating yourself into living in more alignment with your truth and your honest self expression. Laurel and Laurel share openly about their roles as Life Coaches and confidentiality and their comfort in this, and conversely, their personal desires to avoid holding others secrets in their private lives.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Enjoy this new moon meditation that invites you to open outwardly while cultivating stillness from within. After the contracting energy of the waning moon, you can purposefully return to a more aware, connected state that taps into a deeper sense of belonging through this guided meditation. Get ready to expand into the space and life you want to embody today.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Integrity in business, relationships, leadership, parenting, sports - you name the area of life - matters. A person of integrity shows up with confidence, steady in their voice, and able to express well what they care about and speak into that with grace. Integrity can be the difference between clarity and confusion. Listening to this episode will help inspire you to build integrity as a lifelong endeavor that can reap beautiful rewards, both internally and externally.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Grief Coach, Sue Burhoe joins Laurel and Laurel to demystify how to encounter and move through grief well and why it’s so important. Sue shares the trauma of losing her husband suddenly and how she learned to cope with this loss and eventually felt called to help others move through their own grief journeys.
A few highlights and topics - how to respond well when you see someone who’s going through a loss, ways to honor those who passed, self-care tips, normalizing the grief process - what’s more real rather than myths you may have heard, and the many types of loss we encounter that bring on grief
Links/Books mentioned - Books mentioned - The Body Keeps the Score by Van Der Kolk, books by David Kessler.
Resources
In Richmond, VA - The Full Circle Grief Center - https://fullcirclegc.org/
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Sue Burhoe is a Certified Holistic Life Coach specializing in Grief and Loss. She is also a Certified Grief Educator. Her empathic spirit helps her clients go from surviving, to thriving, in some of the most devastating times in their lives. Find Sue on Instagram at @sueburhoe. To learn more about her and see her offers visit her website. www.sueburhoe.com
Give yourself a gift and focus inwardly as you bring gratitude into your heart and mind. When we take time to Practice meditation, we have the opportunity to align with not only what’s important to us, but what gives us the feeling of abundance and fulfillment. This vibrational state allows us to bring forth more good in our lives and the world around us.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Holidays can be stressful, especially when you anticipate family challenges. In this podcast, Terri Hamilton joins us to offer tips and strategies to proactively work with your boundaries and simple mindfulness techniques to empower you to go into the holidays and make them what you want them to be. These tips are useful anytime of the year, particularly for parents wanting to improve their parenting skills.
Links/Books mentioned - The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz to contact Terri Hamilton,
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
In a culture where we often get kudos for loyalty, you’re invited to look at loyalty through a different lens. From abandoning one’s authenticity, to the extreme of ignoring healthy self-care, we’re exploring the ways loyalty can become a problem. We use the term over-zealous loyalty and relate co-dependency issues to loyalty that ignore one's own sense of right and wrong. Pixie Hamilton returns to the show to share some of her insights and there are a couple of surprising aha moments for the hosts to share with you.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Pixie Hamilton graduated from the first Live Your Inner Power Group. She has been on a forty year healing journey. In her professional life she was an engineer and writer and has turned her attention to writing in the self-help realm now. Pixie has been reflecting and learning from the inner journey by consuming and integrating countless self-help books and videos, surrounding herself with like-minded seekers and mentors, and committing to an extensive journaling practice for the last 25 years.
Resentment could be thought of as anger gone underground. Both are powerful emotional experiences, meant to help you create healthy boundaries. The goal in making use of these emotions positively is to feel the emotion, let it move within you, and make clear, conscious and respectful choices about how to express your feelings. This lesson will give you more ideas about how to work consciously and powerfully with resentment and how it can help you feel more free instead of more bound up.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Have you read "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz? It's one of the most sold self-help books in the world. And for good, reason. It's a wonderful book to use as a guide for transformation when you actually use the agreements and do as suggested in the book.
Kate Patterson joins Laurel and Laurel for this episode as they explore the agreements in this episode. The agreements are powerful and simple and therefore deceivingly effective in their ability to help you work with your inner world in a profound way.
What other self-help books have deeply impacted your life? Share in the comments!
Links/Books mentioned - "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
How often do you hear yourself say the phrase, "that's not fair"? If you know that you say it then this episode is inviting you to explore the phrase more deeply. More importantly, to help you find your way w so that you don't suffer with the feelings that this phrase may bring up for you.
In a world that often feels run by a legal system, we can get caught up in what we think is "just" or "fair", and more emotionally, what we see as "unjust" and "unfair". Because this is the way of humans - different values, flawed execution of systems, and sometimes misuse of individual and collective power - the topic of justice and judgment is essential exploration for a creating life of inner peace and one that feels beautiful for you. May it inspire you to free yourself of suffering over justice and instead become the activist in service to your own values.
This show is full of provocative questions and ideas for how to shift your thinking and working with this topic so grab your journal or notebook for this one!
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
The power of your mind to work with change is immense. We often use it to create fear and worry instead of the ability to work with change deeply, proactively and well. This guided meditation can be used to understand how change may have important guidance for you rather than seeing it as a threat. Use this guided meditation to explore a new way to encounter any change, to build your emotional resilience, and to befriend change.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Communication and curiosity can be the keys to responding well when others change. Laurel and Laurel offer ideas and ways to bring more curiosity into any situation when others change or situations change. They give helpful ideas, phrases, and language you might try out when you find yourself in the face of things changing and you you might feel out of control and fearful.
They offer a step-by-step process to help you work through any stress and resistance you have to moving through changes.
Links/Books mentioned - Tapping podcast episode - , Tapping instructional video with Laurel Holland
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
"There is no one in the universe who is going to fulfill your heart's desires but you."
What's in your heart? What's in your head? Commitment challenges often come from a misalignment between what your heart and body are telling you and what your head is telling you.
As Laurel and Laurel dig into the topic of commitment on the podcast this week the conversation kicks off with what inner struggles the hosts experience in keeping commitments and relaxing into them. Commitment struggles offer the opportunity to understand the quality of commitments we've made and keep or don't keep with ourselves.
This episode hopes to inspire you to look directly at your commitments, how you feel about them, and how they may be holding you back or helping you flourish.
Links/Books mentioned - Laurel Holland’s book “Crossroads”
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Responsibility - what does the word bring up for you? How do you emotionally react to the word, the idea? What are the inner conditions that may drive into being overly responsible or to reject it altogether?
If the word or idea of "responsibility" bothers you, or makes you feel heavy, this may be the perfect podcast episode for you! Laurel and Laurel dive into the ways responsibility can either make you feel burdened or more free. How can responsibility make you feel free? We're letting you know how it can.
Links/Books mentioned - “The Gifts of Imperfection” by Brene Brown
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
When you want to change but feel like you can't seem to make it happen, use your mind and imagination to help you set the stage for change. First make the change in your mind, pause to experience the moment of repeating what you don't want and then instead of repeating it, make that change in your mind - feel it, see it, hear it, experience it, and then you can more readily take the action to make that change in your "real" life.
Enjoy this guided meditation and use it regularly until you've made your change successfully.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
As we do the beautiful work, we will grow and change. We may want different experiences in relationships, other than what we've known so far. We may feel the need to move on from some relationships. This can be challenging, emotional, and we may resist doing this because we don't know how to do it well.
In this episode, Laurel and Laurel talk about the ways they have managed their change in relationships, for instance like changing roles in family relationships in order to form new ways of connecting as they grew. When you want to do this well, with kindness, it takes some good attention and care both to self and the ones we care for, and you must challenge yourself to gain new skills and ways of communicating and showing up in order to move on well and feel good about it. This show offers some great ideas and situations to consider in support of your growth and evolution.
Links/Books mentioned - The Caroline Myss book mentioned in the episode is “Sacred Contracts”.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
You can free yourself of suffering that you may be causing yourself with the habit of internal judging, both of yourself and others. Where does judging come from within you? Laurel and Laurel speak into their own stories and recovering from judging patterns and how it's been liberating as well as bringing inner peace to their personal lives and relaxation into their bodies. The conversation moves through the cultural habits of living in judgment through the strategies to replacing your judging habits with more positive, healthy patterns.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Activate your senses, your imagination and your energy centers to bring to life inside yourself any vision that you desire for your life. With this guided meditation you will activate your inner power to align energetically with what you want, grow your courage, and be prepared to take the steps to make it a reality.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
The right kind of support can give you a crucial edge to give you what you need to take the scary step.
A crucial edge to give you what you need to take the scary step.
The crucial edge that tells you - you've got this.
A crucial edge that holds you in love for exactly who you are.
The crucial edge that cheers for you when you go after what you want.
The crucial edge is the right support in your life. And with every evolution of your growth, your support must evolve with it. That may mean leaving behind some people and inviting in new connections. It may mean showing up differently in the relationships you're in now. It may mean speaking more honestly and clearly in your relationships. And especially to yourself.
A good support network must evolve with you. Making sure this happens can make all the difference in living a beautiful life.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Have you lost your ability to be the visionary of your life? You once had it, and we think it's important you reconnect with that ability. It's important, for sure, if you want to live a beautiful life. If you weren't raised to be a visionary, it's never too late to retrieve that part of your inner world that will bring your vision forth.
From moving beyond survival mindset and living, to courageously making changes that will lead to new possibilities, we must bravely step up and decide what we want matters. Creative play often seems frivolous but the transformation of taking mundane chores and routines into a place of playful curiosity brings meaning and interest back into our everyday lives.
Links/Books mentioned - Laurel Holland mentioned "Simple Abundance" by Sarah Ban Breathnach, and the book she couldn't think of the title to is "Spark Joy" by Marie Kondo.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Most of us have been conditioned to feel good about being productive and getting things done! In fact, it may be how you base your positive self-esteem, and when you aren't productive, you feel “not good enough”. This is the "disease" of extreme productivity.
We invite you to enjoy this guided meditation that’s meant to help you let go of any old programming that told you that you needed to "accomplish" constantly to have value, and instead to embrace the strength and power of your pure, engaged presence. As you reconnect with the essence of your power and tune in to your full presence, you recover the natural beauty an ease of being human.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Do you know what your unique gifts are? The exploration of what your gifts might be opens doorways to your beautiful life. Will it always be smooth and easy, this exploration? Maybe not. But it will be fulfilling, exciting, and loaded with meaning and wonder.
Laurel and Laurel speak into how our gifts can get squelched early in life, and how to take the journey of retrieving that inner connection and committing to making your gifts an exploration that matters to you.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Your heartfelt desires are often connected to the path of personally living into your full potential. We've generally been conditioned to believe our desires will only get us into trouble if we "give in" to them. This conditioning calls for some serious beautiful work to eliminate any blocks you might have to tamping down or denying these impulses, and instead welcoming them with curiosity and wonder at what they may be about.
Tuning in to your inner world as regular practice helps you regain your essential power. As you develop this practice and honor what's coming from within, you feel much more capable of crafting the life you want to be living.
Laurel and Laurel talk about how they each practice tuning into the deeper messages and desires they hold for their lives, and the ways they have used these practices to cultivate a beautiful life.
Links/Books mentioned - You can learn more about Live Your Inner Power, the Journal at Laurel Holland's website, Live Your Inner Power.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
This guided meditation brings you into your inner world to help you activate your senses to bring to life your dreams and desires. This is inner work that will help become more clear and ready to hold your dreams more strongly, and bring into reality the deeper desires that remain latent within. Your dreams matter and can make the world more beautiful.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
When you play it safe it translates to playing it small. Or maybe it keeps you in the illusion that you're free of harm. Or it could be that you may be just simply trying to stay in your comfort zone. Whatever the reason, there are real dangers in playing it safe. Mostly that you self-limit the possibilities and the potential for a full and meaningful life.
Laurel and Laurel dig into this "scary" topic and how it impacts your ability to live the beautiful life you deeply desire. They open up about their own habits of playing it safe and how to go about changing those self-limiting patterns.
Links/Books mentioned - Laurel H mentioned “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz. Laurel H mentions the article and subsequent book by Bronnie Ware called “The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing”.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Could boredom or chaos be messengers that invite you to call in new life? How can we use our internal systems to help us create the change and direction for our life that will bring us more fulfillment? How do you grow more trust in yourself so that you might follow your heartfelt path?
Laurel and Laurel explore the intricacies of how to go about calling in your new life with clarity and intention. They share personal stories and their own ways of gaining clarity and moving forward with more ease and grace.
Links/Books mentioned - Laurel Holland talked about the book “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel Van Der Kolk,MD and her book of poetry is “Crossroads, Poetry for the Courageous Soul”.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Releasing judgment frees you up to see with clearer eyes, to open to your compassionate heart, and to practice acceptance in a world where we are quick to judge and criticize. Enjoy this full moon meditation and align with the waning of the moon to help you focus on releasing this self-limiting pattern.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Anyone out there fear, resist, or otherwise try to control change? If so, this episode will inspire you to develop and new and accepting relationship with change. Since change is the nature of life itself, when you learn to embrace and invite change, you come into a new alignment with the way life can organize on your behalf. In this episode Laurel and Laurel invite you into a conversation to inspire you to welcome change and see it in a new light.
Links/Books mentioned - Laurel Holland talked about the book “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel Van Der Kolk,MD
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
What are you doing these days to make your life better? How committed to you to making your life what you want it to be? Do you feel like you can't seem to make the changes you want? Are you trying to change things on the outside, trying to control life around you?
We're here to help you think differently about change and how it actually happens. Following Season 1, Awakening to the Beautiful Work, we find ourselves in Season 2, Living In the Beautiful Work. When you realize that your inner work, or the beautiful work, is the potent transformational agent to creating your own beautiful life, you commit wholeheartedly to living in the beautiful work.
Living in the beautiful work means opening to all the messy, wondrous, difficult, glorious, uncomfortable, and joyous aspects of doing your inner work and embracing this lifestyle. The Beautiful Work Beautiful Life podcast brings conversation from Laurel and Laurel on topics that will inspire listeners to claim their beautiful work and be glad they did.
Links/Books mentioned - You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws, as well as Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman both of which share the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
As we wrap up Season 1 of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Awakening to the Beautiful Work, we're sharing our most popular episode for you to revisit before diving into Season 2, Living in the Beautiful Work - Your Relationship With You. Taking the time to develop a positive and fulfilling relationship with yourself affects every single aspect of your life - work, other relationships, recreational time, and all the other areas of your life that make up your particular pie chart.
This week's episode aims to support you in making the relationship with yourself a primary priority in your day-to-day life. Knowing yourself and knowing what makes your heart sing means living into your beautiful life, taking the small steps and large leaps into creating your fulfillment in all areas of your life.
How do we live a happy life until we truly know what will make us happy or fulfilled? This is the inner work only you can do.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Are you meditating yet? If not, you’ve probably read and heard that not only does meditation provide endless health benefits, it actually gives you time back. How does that work? We use a lot of energy (and ultimately time) dealing with inner conflict, indecision, emotional baggage and other life draining experiences. When you take the time to meditate daily it provides both the opportunity to shed these unwanted life drains, as well as restores a natural energetic harmony within that creates a balanced foundation to deal more effectively with life’s challenges. In this episode, Laurel leads you through a brief guided meditation for restoring inner balance and focus and energizing yourself anytime of the day.
The email to send questions to Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
What we resist persists. What we give our attention to grows. These two laws of nature can help us craft our life when we understand them by exploring them more deeply. When we resist what is happening in our world we feed it energetically. When we ruminate on our problems without solution, they grow in strength.
In this podcast from 2021, Laurel and Laurel explore how to work with resistance so that you can shift from resisting what isn't working and what you don't like in your life, to a more transformation-inducing posture in order to craft the life and outcomes you want to be living.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
You have the power within you to create the quality of life you desire. When we feel overwhelmed, disappointed, conflicted, confused, or distressed by life or specific circumstances, there is always an inner solution to improve our experience and lead us to the kind of circumstances we desire. Laurel shares the transformative practices of what she calls the Inner Power Wheel. This wheel of practices helps you break self-limiting habits and create the behaviors and inner connection for living in the world today and dealing with life. With these practices you source from your power within and re-align your actions to create what it is your heart desires.
Links/Books mentioned Courageous Woman and Live Your Inner Power, the Journal are available on Amazon and other select digital book sales outlets.
The email to send questions to Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
It's never too late to plan for a beautiful life. I speak from experience when I share that my beautiful life came in waves, a career I loved began at 40, a wonderful marriage that has fulfilled my dreams began at 51, and the home and garden that daily nourishes my soul was created in my 60s!
Whatever your dreams are, the joy is in the unfolding, the experiencing, the wondering and the walking towards and sometimes even in the waiting when you get busy living fully in the now with a steady and awakened presence. This week we re-issue the episode "Planning for Your Beautiful Life". We talk about about a different way of thinking about "planning".
What your heart longs for is worth planning for.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Most days we move about the world taking for granted the magic of how our body operates to keep us alive, in balance, and aware. When you take the time to tune in to your physical body with appreciation for the many ways it supports and allows you to enjoy and partake in life, you build a platform of gratitude that creates a baseline of resonance for the abundance of what you have in any moment. Enjoy this guided meditation. We send it out to you in support of you developing a gratitude practice that offers you the opportunity to raise your vibration to one that aligns with abundance, appreciation and love.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
We're circling back to where we started - why do we do the beautiful work? Many of us decide to begin or continue because of a crisis in our lives or because we are desperate for change. We might find ourselves in emotional turmoil or pain, we may have been in emotional stress for so long that we now find ourselves physically ill. We often begin he beautiful work when life is not beautiful.
One day, with good fortune and a courageous heart, we realize that this inner work has made such an impact that life is good. When we stay with the beautiful work, life really does become beautiful.
What would your beautiful life look like? What do you want? We're inviting you to create from the inside out, get to looking at how you are organizing, choosing and creating based on your inner state, and realize that you can change, you life will change, when you dedicate yourself to your own beautiful work.
Enjoy this repeat of our first episode and remember why you may be called to the beautiful work.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin are the co-hosts of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life and coach clients through personal and professional development. Get to know them, learn about their backgrounds, and about the podcast during this short episode.
Laurel Boivin's website is fluxlowcoaching.com and Laurel Holland's is liveyourinnerpower.com. The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
We're celebrating our first year of podcasting by chatting about the inner work that makes your life beautiful when you have the courage and self-commitment to dig into this amazing transformative lifestyle! If you're new to the podcast this will give a quick overview of the past 9 months episodes and why we loved them.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
How often do you feel stuck in your life? When we are immobilized in our ability to move forward in the ways we desire, there underlies a tug-of-war within you of competing desires and/or beliefs. This meditation guides you inward to uncover what the source of the inner conflict might be that keeps you in place and uncomfortable. With clarity you may be able to communicate and move on.
The email for Laurel Holland is laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel and Laurel happily announce a beautiful offering for gathering together this summer in sacred circle. During this podcast they share the 2 books they'll use for each circle and why they chose these particular self-help books. Each circle will be an opportunity to experience an intimate and inspiring way to create and enjoy community and connection.
Links/Books mentioned “the Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz and “The Gifts of Imperfection” by Brene Brown.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
We had so much fun sharing some of our favorite books to help you do your beautiful work! There are so many we couldn't get them all in to this one episode, but we've got some really great ideas for you!
Books mentioned:
- The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
- The Desiderata of Happiness by Max Ehrmann
- Go In and In by Danna Faulds
- The Yamas & NiYamas, Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice by Deborah Adele
- Living the Sutras, A Guide to Yoga Wisdom Beyond the Mat by Kelly DiNardo and Amy Pearce-Hayden
- Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach
- Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryua Suzuki
- Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat Zinn
- Goddesses Within
- A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
- The Femeinine Face of God
- Anam Cara by John O'Donohue
- Bound on Earth by Judith G Hunter
- Giving Birth to God by Mother Clare Watts
- The Enlightenment Process by Judith Blackstone
- How to Enter the Silence by Helen Rhodes Wallace
- Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
- The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
- Courageous Woman by Laurel Holland
- Live Your Inner Power, the Journal by Laurel Holland
- Deep Listening by Jillian Pransky
- The New Earth by Eckhart Toll
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
HostCohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Do you feel heard and understood? Do you crave the kind of connection where someone really listens deeply to what you are saying as you share how you feel? How safe do you feel in your significant relationships to speak from your heart?
As we go forth in doing our beautiful work it's essential to have spaces and connections where we can speak our truth. Do you assume others know what you need and want in relationships? Are you willing to speak up and ask for what it is you want, especially if you want others to be quiet and just listen to you?
Growing into the ability to become a good listener and to find others who will listen well takes effort and special attention to how we are showing up and how we are growing in our relationships. The effort spent can result in fulfilling and intimate relationships, the kind of relationships that each of us seeks deep in our hearts.
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Links/Books that are helpful - Difficult Conversations by Stone, Patton, and Heen and Will the Real Me Please Stand Up? by John Powell
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Rachel Douglas of Richmond Virginia's Inner Work Center joins Laurel on the podcast to share her story and what's happening at the Inner Work Center that the RVA in which the community can partake. Rachel and Laurel talk about what mindfulness is, and how this practice can be a beautiful and gentle portal to beginning or continuing inner work. They also discuss the growing desire for individuals to find a place to explore spirituality without the dogma of a religious path.
Links/Books mentioned - Here is the link to the poem Rachel mentioned: https://www.taramohr.com/inspirational-poetry/the-quiet-power-2/
Direct all questions for the Inner Work Center to
hello@innerworkcenter.org or they may call 804.359.0384
Questions for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Rachel Douglas came to The Innerwork Center in 2015 (when it was Chrysalis) as it’s first Executive Director She has volunteered for many formal nonprofits and informal grassroots organizations and believes the issues, while vast, are all connected. Rachel earned a BIS (now known as GSWS) and MSW from VCU and considers herself a lifelong learner, holding multiple personal and professional development certificates, including Koru Mindfulness at Duke University. None of her formal education compares to what she has learned by doing her inner work through The Innerwork Center.
To find out more about RVA's Inner Work Center - https://innerworkcenter.org
Uncertainty, it can leave you feeling anxious, fearful or worried. It also can bring you to a place of openness, hopefulness, or positive anticipation. What would you prefer? And are you willing to do the work of transformation so that uncertainty no longer disables you? We hope to inspire you!
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
HostCohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Enjoy this 12-minute guided meditation as you are led inward to develop awareness and sensitivity to your own energy. Your hands are a powerful place to focus on and with which to experience rapid conscious connection of what energy feels like inside and outside your body. Use this guided meditation daily and experiment and explore your own energy!
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
What does "threading the light" mean? As we wrap up this sequence on energy here on the podcast, Bri McCorkell joins me to speak into her experience of energy as a child, a woman, and a practitioner and a very special way she's supporting women on their healing path. Light is another way to experience energy so this conversation brings us into another way of working with energy consciously.
If you are an energy practitioner, a person committed to your healing path, a mother who was unhappy with her conception or birthing experience, or someone who wants to explore a more subtle realm of life as a human, this episode may inspire you to bring more attention to your own experience of energy.
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul..
Bri McCorkell is an energy healer, intuitive counselor and spirit doula. She works with and supports women through all stages and cycles of their life. Her offerings support women back into connection with their bodies and alignment with their intuition, feminine energy, wisdom and creative power. Bri’s sessions are all unique and intuitively lead, meeting you where you are in the moment with exactly what you need. A session may include reiki, light massage, essential oils, flowers, an herbal foot soak: whatever your soul is calling for as we move through gentle practices to clear emotional, energetic, physical, emotional and birth traumas.
Bri has a MA and CAS in School Psychology and Counseling and a B.A in selfCommunication, Psychology and Spanish from Fairfield University. She is a Reiki Master + Teacher Trainer, certified in the healing art of Ho’oponopono and other healing frequencies, and uses her gifts of intuition, channeling and sacred healing to show women how to be their own healers. Bri’s also a mama, wife, and sober warrior who’s walked the same path as her clients. She lives with her husband Rory, their sons Holden & Noah, daughter June and a menagerie of pets in the Seacoast of New Hampshire.
Would you like to learn a technique that can help you heal from past emotional trauma? A way to feel empowered to shift your emotional state when you feel stuck? How about a way to rewrite the possibilities of how you show up in habitual patterns in a freer and more empowered manner?
Today we are discussing and describing Tapping, or Emotional Freedom Technique. This self-healing tool has been around for many years and it's "science" is based in Chinese Medicine. I consider it a powerful, freeing, relaxing experience when I am feeling emotionally overwhelmed.
Pixie Hamilton joins me today as we share personal stories of using Tapping for our emotional freedom and healing as well describing how to use and implement this effective tool in your own life.
As with any alternative healing experience, this is not recommended as a substitute for current treatment from any medical practitioner that currently treats you. We are not recommending this a solution to replace any treatment you are now following.
Links/Books mentioned - Links/Books mentioned - The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner is a wonderful resource to help you learn and understand tapping in an easy to read format. His sister Jessica Ortner has written a book to help heal from eating disorders using tapping. That book is called The Tapping Solution For Wight Loss and Body Confidence.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Pixie Hamilton graduated from the first Live Your Inner Power Group. She has been on a forty year healing journey. In her professional life she was an engineer and writer and has turned her attention to writing in the self-help realm now. Pixie has been reflecting and learning from the inner journey by consuming and integrating countless self-help books and videos, surrounding herself with like-minded seekers and mentors, and committing to an extensive journaling practice for the last 25 years.
Why is it important to protect your energy? And how can you do this effectively and with ease?
In order to live how you want, to create what you most want, and have the quality of relationships you desire, how you spend your energy is key. Your energy, your time and your attention are vital resources that make or break a good life.
Laurel and Laurel talk about strategies to protect your energy and manage and focus your energy to live your beautiful life. They share patterns to be aware of that can deplete your energy and exhaust your ability to create what you want. They offer ways to reflect on your choices to help empower you to make new choices aligned with what it is you want now.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
We wake up and there's more difficult global news to process - what do we do? How do we manage emotionally and mentally to keep going, to feel of use to the world, and to deal with grief that accompanies the world's suffering?
Laurel and Laurel talk support, strategy and ways to become clearer and more whole, despite the state of the world. They also talk the realities of what's good self-care when you're triggered by the bad news of the world.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
What is energy and how do we actually experience it?
An abundant resource, a tool for self-care, a way to live life better than before ... so many good things about becoming energy aware! What you can do with intention! And with your attention by focusing your energy and mind! It's incredible!
We invite you to talk energy with us today as we share our personal stories of awakening to the world of energy. Our shifts and healings from engaging consciously with the world of energetics have made profound differences in our lives for both Laurel and I.
We hope to inspire to open to and explore energy so you infuse your own life and world with new wonder!
Links mentioned
The Daily Energy Routine that Laurel mentioned at the end of the show - Link - The Daily Energy Routine
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Do you have a hard time sharing your truth? Do you have a hard time identifying your truth? Do you struggle listening to others truth? What does it mean to share your truth?
We hope this podcast helps! We live in a culture where it's rare to be witnessed and heard fully and safely, so sharing our truth well is a prevalent problem for many individuals. I'm introducing you to Dr. Courtney Pare who specializes in working with individuals who struggle in relationships, with anxiety, and with self-image issues. She has been on her own deep healing journey for many years and speaks intimately not only from both a personal and professional place.
On the podcast today, we dig into how you can more readily and comfortably share your truth, create safe spaces for listening to others truth, and be an advocate for good listening and honest and authentic conversation.
The email to send questions to Dr Courtney Pare is drcourtneypare@gmail.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Dr. Courtney Paré is a holistic anxiety coach, naturopathic physician, and speaker. Through fiercely compassionate, action-oriented, 1:1 and group coaching, she helps high achieving women rediscover their deepest value, talents and joys and reclaim a life worth living.
Utilizing an integrative approach, she guides clients to shift their relationship with fear and failure, delicately process trauma, connect with their inner wisdom, and be genuinely proud of who they are. Through Courtney's leadership, clients learn how it's possible to live a powerfully fulfilling life alongside anxiety and OCD.
Aging - a subject that can be fraught with conflicted feelings but so important for us to be able to speak and converse about easily and readily. There are so many negative messages, especially for women, in our culture about all the "bad" things about aging. There are indirect messages about all the losses that aging brings. We rarely focus in on the benefits of aging.
This podcast intends to highlight why the beautiful work of embracing aging versus resisting aging can be life-affirming and enhancing. Our intention is to support you to bring to consciousness these culturally embedded messages, alter them to positively support your own aging, and create new messages to speak and share with others that demonstrate that aging has beautiful benefits and joys. Laurel and Laurel share ways to reconsider how to appreciate aging, strategies to engage aging positively, and ways to affirm our aging as we experience changes.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Know thyself. When you are truly self-aware you can carve a pathway to really wonderful self-care. Self-care is crucial to experiencing a beautiful, nourishing, fulfilling life.
Ultimately, each of us is responsible for our own self-care. We often want others to care for us well but we are the only ones that truly know exactly what we need and want. Once we arm ourselves with this knowledge, we can then become more effective with fulfilling those needs and wants. Self-awareness creates this opportunity for effective self-care.
Can you commit to yourself on the journey of self-awareness and self-care? We want that for you because we know you can then become a giver of the beautiful gifts you came to this life to offer.
Laurel shared her healing/coaching session with Nan Akasha.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Do you have a conflicted relationship with being more visible? Many of us do because it might mean more attention, more responsibility and more stress. And yet, it can also mean feeling more empowered, more energized, and more successful.
On this podcast episode Laurel and Laurel discuss the feelings, the complications and the rewards of becoming more visible. We share our stories about historically working to be invisible, and why that was so, and then attempting to become more visible as a way to feel more fully alive and expressed.
Whether we're talking about personal or professional issues of being more/less visible, this topic brings essential issues forward for true fulfillment and life satisfaction.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Forgiving, such big work. Such beautiful work even when it involves some ugly emotions and situations. Because forgiving, ultimately, is the gift you give yourself. You recover a peaceful heart. You no longer feel the poison of anger or betrayal running through your veins and mind. You are free to move and empowered to set boundaries based on your truth and your values. So many benefits to receive from forgiving.
What big and beautiful work we are discussing this week on the podcast!
On this episode we discuss the intricacies of forgiveness work and how life changing and freeing it can be. We offer a step-by-step process to move through forgiveness in a healthy way. We talk about the all important self-forgiveness as well to support your journey into a peaceful inner life.
Links/Books mentioned - Laurel Holland shared the book "Women Who Run with The Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in which she shares how to forgive.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Pixie Hamilton joins me in this episode to get into the nitty-gritty of how important boundaries are for each and every one of us, especially if you want to create your own beautiful life.
"This is the number 1 tool for your toolbox when truly getting to the business of making your life the way you want it." And as Pixie says, right from the beginning, the holdup often is knowing what you want - getting clear in what you want so that you can actually then get to the business of making it happen with a shift in boundaries!
Pixie and talk about how to gain skills in setting and communicating healthy boundaries, flags to help you identify when boundaries need to change, some of the reasons that we often have trouble delivering our truth in setting boundaries, and different ways to think about some of the reasons we often don't set the boundaries that really want to set.
We hope this conversation will help you set more appropriate boundaries on the path of creating the beautiful life you deeply desire.
Links/Books mentioned -
Laurel Holland's publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, leads the reader through the process of inventorying and learning all about setting healthy, flexible boundaries. You can acquire this book at liveyourinnerpower.com.
The email to send questions to Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Pixie Hamilton graduated from the first Live Your Inner Power Group. She has been on a forty year healing journey. In her professional life she was an engineer and writer and has turned her attention to writing in the self-help realm now. Pixie has been reflecting and learning from the inner journey by consuming and integrating countless self-help books and videos, surrounding herself with like-minded seekers and mentors, and committing to an extensive journaling practice for the last 25 years.
Are you willing to look at the judge that lives in you? When you are ready to seriously consider how judgement shows up in your life and how it may be limiting it, great positive change becomes a reality. You free yourself from many self-limiting factors and the inner critic who can truly shut down your best life.
Laurel and Laurel share stories of how they learned, and continue to learn, how to recognize and to quiet their inner judges and experience the liberation that follows. They dig into the difference between opinions, beliefs and judgments. They talk about the cultural influences that we are faced with when trying to quiet the inner judge but how we can be "game changers" by doing this important inner work.
Links to resources mentioned -
Laurel Holland's publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, leads the reader through the process of recognizing and owning judgement and self-judgment and changing those patterns. You can acquire this book at liveyourinnerpower.com.
The book “the Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz is another wonderful resource for learning more about the judging habit and how to break it.
Listen to more on self-care in the previous episode, Selfish as Self-Care.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
HostCohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Feeling in control feels good. When we make plans and they work out, it's satisfying. Yet, there's a limit to "controlling" life and having it feel good and continue to produce positive outcomes.
Laurel and Laurel share personal stories of recovering from being controlling, and experiencing the freedom and boost of energy that results from this inner work. We talk about the nuances of what being controlling can look like, and how and why it drains your energy and often negatively impacts relationships.
In the end, our ability to release control and relax into a more wholistic flow in our days, can produce a truly elevated life experience. May this podcast episode inspire you to consider this as a way to create a more beautiful life!
Links/Books mentioned
Laurel Boivin shared the book and app “Ten Percent Happier” by Dan Harris who shares his struggle and recovery from anxiety.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Often the beautiful work begins with a crisis or a moment of clarity in which we suddenly know something needs to change. As we embrace that inner work can be a positive and life-enhancing aspect of living, we shift into a mindset of opening to the beautiful work and actively engaging in the process of personal development and transformation.
In this episode to kick-off 2021, Laurel and Laurel invite you to consider planning for a beautiful life by seeking, and purposefully engaging the beautiful work. We often make plans and set goals for work or professional life, but wouldn’t it be wonderful to take this experience gently into living into the beautiful work? We think so!
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
With intention and focus, you can powerfully end the year and then begin the new year. In this guided meditation, we take you through two beautiful practices - releasing the year gone by and creating your vision for the year to come.
Join Laurel and Laurel as they lead you into a relaxed state, focus on inner power centers for clearing and embodiment, release 2021, create your vision, and inspire you with affirmations and poetry. The ideal way to enjoy this meditation is to find a quiet place where you will be undisturbed, bring your journal along to make notes at the close, let go and surrender to the experience.
From our hearts to yours, may the gift of this meditation bring clarity, focus and peace!
The meditation is approximately 33 minutes. If you must do it in shorter sessions, plan to stop at the 16 minute marker.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
What is grace? What we've been taught, the cultural definitions, the book dictionary - all point us in the direction of Divine intervention of some sort.
But the actual experience of grace becomes a miraculous, expansive, feeling-oriented, personally uplifting gift, received in a unique way for our delight, that seems bestowed from an outside source that leaves us with gratitude and wonder.
Who doesn't want more of this?
Laurel and Laurel dive into personal experiences of grace, how they each feel and relate to grace, and then explore ideas about how to live with and experience more grace and wonder through where your attention is focused.
Links to resources mentioned
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
HostCohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
All your life becomes your own through meditation.
I truly believe this and have experienced personally the profound possibilities and transformations that have made my life so incredibly good through learning to sit still with myself and tune in to my deeper truth, a strong connection with what I call the Divine, and my ability to see anything that life throws at me as a learning lesson and growth opportunity.
On the podcast we're -
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talking about meditation
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sharing how we became dedicated to meditation time
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leading you through brief mediations
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speaking into why it's so important to develop the ability to be with yourself in this whole and restorative way
- offering motivating tips like how it can help you enjoy the little things like waiting in a grocery store line.
May meditation become your pathway into all that your heart deeply desires.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
HostCohost/Guest Info:
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Have you ever taken a values assessment? Learning about what you value and having clarity about what drives you in your decision-making empowers us to become a person of integrity.
Integrity comes from the actual integration of our values in our day-to-day lives. How are you doing with the integration of your values? That's what we are speaking into in the podcast today.
Are you struggling with other's values? We hope to support you in working through that struggle and finding more peace.
Links to resources mentioned:
Here is a link to an example of a list of core values - https://thehappinessplanner.com/pages/list-of-core-values
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
HostCohost/Guest Info:
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Q and A with Laurel and Laurel
Answering questions from listeners this week!
How does this work help to address issues such as major changes? How do you address fear and loss with these life transitions?
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“It’s Not My Problem”
“How can we not jump in when it’s not our problem?”
Moving consciously through life change, how to deal with the emotions that changes can stimulate or trigger, and learning to stop over-functioning in relationships - we speak into these challenging issues that many of us encounter as we live into the beautiful work.
Links mentioned:
Laurel Holland recommended the book, The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Grateful. Gratitude. Appreciation. Feeling really good. That's what we experience when we are in the state of gratitude or appreciation.
Feeling the feeling ultimately leads us to the intention behind developing a gratitude practice. It's worthwhile, and potentially life-changing, to bring yourself into the state of experiencing gratitude on a regular basis. I've know friends who have literally expanded their client-base and monetary income through the practice of beginning with regularly feeling grateful for what they have in the present. I've known others who have found new friends, and made new positive connections from the practice. As for myself, I love the feeling of being on the verge of tears from bringing myself into the state of appreciating being alive and connected to life in the deepest of ways.
We talk discuss the intricacies of learning to bring yourself into the state of abundance or gratitude. Don't miss this episode that is all about this goodness.
Laurel and I are ever grateful for you, our listeners.
Links/Books mentioned - The Book Laurel Holland refers to is The Path of Least Resistance, Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life by Robert Fritz
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
As requested by a listener, we're addressing "self-care after COVID" - and not necessarily after having COVID.
This episode speaks into the changes that we can embrace and activate because we've lived through these last 19 months. Each of us has been affected in various ways by the impact of COVID to the economy, socializing, work-life, home-life, health and wellness, and all the other parts of existence that make up a life. Our worlds have been shook up and shaken in ways we never anticipated.
What a prime opportunity to reconsider how you live your life, how you care for yourself, and what is most important to you.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
HostCohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Has anyone ever told you that you were "too" sensitive, enthusiastic, intense, emotional... whatever it might be? Do you worry that you're "too much"? Maybe that you're not enough?
My special guest, Bri McCorkell and I have both had this experience. We're tackling this "too much" topic on this podcast episode and reframing this to help you find peace with, and maybe even, new meaning for any time you may have been told you are too much.
This is a beautiful time for sensitive souls, highly conscious folks, to step forward and claim your abilities, gain skills and use your inner resources for higher service. If you feel called to more fully express yourself, explore your sensitivities in new ways, shed the burdens of carrying around other peoples' energy and problems, and want to feel more confident in your unique gifts, this episode is for you.
Resources:
Bri’s Website: https://www.brimccorkell.com
Follow Bri on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bri.mccorkell.healing/
Bri’s email: bri@brimccorkell.com
My Website: https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com
Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liveyourinnerpower/
My email - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her journal, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Bri McCorkell is an energy healer, embodiment mentor and spiritual teacher who helps women and mamas all around the globe discover their Divine Blueprint, activate their full power & recreate a life that is truly theirs. One day, when dropping her son off at daycare and crying in the car for the life she truly craved, she decided to step into her innate worth, stop apologizing for wanting more, and start building a business that empowered women to have the lives they dreamt of. Today, Bri gives women the tools they need to discover who they really are, heal their past, remember what they came here to do, and align their realities with it.
Bri has a MA and CAS in School Psychology and Counseling and a B.A in Communication, Psychology and Spanish from Fairfield University. She is a Reiki Master + Teacher Trainer, certified in the healing art of Ho’oponopono and other healing frequencies, and uses her gifts of intuition, channeling and subconscious journeying to show women how to be their own healers. Bri lives with her husband Rory, their sons Holden & Noah, daughter June and a menagerie of pets in the Seacoast of New Hampshire.
Selfish - such a loaded word. It's been a journey to find the "good" in selfish in my own life. Am I grateful that I found my way into letting selfish come alive in my life. When we decide that self-care is selfish, we live in a downward, self-limiting spiral that's ripe for taking us into not only overwhelm but eventually burnout.
In this podcast we do our best to understand how we came to be stuck in the pattern of becoming "selfless", why we might think that's a good thing, and what it actually looks like when we are playing that out in our day-to-day lives. Then we invite our listeners to challenge the status quo around claiming that being selfish is bad or wrong, and can actually be about proper self-care.
We'd love to know your thoughts on this topic! As always, questions are welcome. We'll answer any questions on future episodes.
Links to resources mentioned
Laurel’s book Courageous Woman and journal Live Your Inner Power are available.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
"Holding myself accountable - self-trust is nothing more than simply trusting myself to do what I say I am going to do." This message from Laurel Boivin got cheers from me during the podcast!
Self-trust can be an antidote for some of the anxiety that is prevalent in the world today. As we explored self-trust on the podcast this week many related topics emerged such as faith, trust in what you believe in, trust in others as a reflection of trust in yourself, and how we are expected to trust organizations and systems in the world that are now unraveling. After you listen to the podcast this week, you may believe as we do, that self-trust is a worthy and valuable path to pursue to feel confident and to live a beautiful life.
The book Laurel Holland mentions in the podcast about your family relationships playing out at work is "How Did My Family Get In My Office?" by Bonnie Artman Fox.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Co-dependency has become a term that we often use or toss about but don’t truly understand exactly what it means or what it’s all about. Co-dependency, a complex topic, affects many people in families where addiction, narcissism and other dysfunctional or mental health issues exist. Pixie Hamilton and I dig in and share our personal stories of recovering from co-dependency, how it impacted our relationships and self-esteem, and how we continue to work with its tendencies in our lives today after decades of personal development.
Some highlights in the podcast are what motivates co-dependency, why it's hard to change, tips to help identify whether you might be struggling with co-dependency and then how to approach change.
Links to resources mentioned
Ross Rosenberg’s book mentioned in the podcast is entitled “The Human Magnet Syndrome” and Melody Beattie’s book is “Codependent No More” .
The email to send questions to Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Pixie Hamilton graduated from the first Live Your Inner Power Group. She has been on a forty year healing journey. In her professional life she was an engineer and writer and has turned her attention to writing in the self-help realm now. Pixie has been reflecting and learning from the inner journey by consuming and integrating countless self-help books and videos, surrounding herself with like-minded seekers and mentors, and committing to an extensive journaling practice for the last 25 years.
Relationships - they make or break your life in so many ways. How are you feeling about the relationships in your life?
Laurel and Laurel talk about their budding friendship through the podcast and the intuitive process that brought them together. They dig into the complexities of living in relationships especially for women, some of the differences for men and women because of our inherent psychological make-up, and the importance of making peace in your relationships while living.
Ideas about how to deal with difficult relationships and make good use of them as well as suggestions on how to authentically show up in your relationships are offered.
Laurel’s book Courageous Woman and Live Your Inner Power, the Journal are available for purchase.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Who is the one person you will always be with? Well, you of course.
Taking the time to develop a positive and fulfilling relationship with yourself affects every single aspect of your life - work, other relationships, recreational time, and all the other areas of your life that make up your particular life pie chart.
This week's episode aims to support you in making the relationship with yourself a primary priority in your day-to-day life. Knowing yourself and knowing what makes your heart sing means living into your beautiful life, taking the small steps and large leaps into creating your fulfillment in all areas of your life.
How do we live a happy life until we truly know what will make us happy or fulfilled? This is the inner work only you can do.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
When we aren't living authentically we often feel bereft, frustrated, confused or detached from life in ways that cause disinterest or resistance. As you decide to claim who you truly are and show up as that person, you discover a new energy and excitement about living. Laurel and Laurel share personal stories of feeling inauthentic and how to carve the pathway into living the fullness of who you are, highlighting the benefits of walking this path.
Links/Books mentioned
For the mind body chart described by Laurel Holland, enjoy Louise L. Hay’s book, “You Can Heal Your Life”.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Are you aware of just how powerful your voice is? Your inner voice as well as your spoken word are often considered the literal pathway to creating and recreating your life. Taking ownership of what you think, what you say, and how you speak to both yourself and others can be some of the most beautiful and powerful work you can do for creating your beautiful life. Laurel and Laurel share personal stories regarding their paths to evolving stronger, more aligned voices as well as ways to begin to get more centered in both your truth and your ability to speak it.
Links/Books mentioned -
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
How does the beautiful work actually happen? There are endless ways, so many tools, and possibilities of support for this beautiful work. Laurel and Laurel talk about their own support and tools along their paths and offer lots of ideas about how to get good support for the work.
Both Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin accept new clients when their schedules permit. Contact them directly for inquiries about coaching opportunities.
Links mentioned
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
- Wake-up calls and nudges from the universe, whether big or small, come in all different ways. Are we listening and do we have the courage to respond affirmatively? In this episode, Laurel and Laurel talk about how listening to the wake-up calls and nudges from the universe can lead us to living more closely in alignment with our most authentic self and reach our great potential within.
Links mentioned
Laurel Holland's book Courageous Woman and Live Your Inner Power, the Journal are available for purchase.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
The power of telling your story is in the owning it fully. Change stories are powerful because they often offer the listener encouragement and inspiration for their own bold changes. When we decide to change we truly are jumping into a new and unknown experience.
“We make change when the fear of the known is greater than the fear of the unknown”. It takes courage to leap into the unknown!
Laurel and Laurel share the beginning stories of what led them into their own beautiful work. One shares the difficulty of facing who she was in her marriage and the other who she was in her professional life, and their individual desires to be more authentic and discover more fulfillment.
Links mentioned
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
What if resistance is our way of trying to protect our hearts? Often it is so subtle we mistake it for perseverance. In this episode, Laurel and Laurel explore resistance, how it shows up in our lives, how we respond to it, and how much can change simply by being aware of it.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
A personal message to listeners, especially for those feeling intimidated, anxious or leary of doing this beautiful work.
What is sacred space? We're chatting about that in this episode. It’s essential when doing the beautiful work that you are in a safe and contained space. We think of this quality of space for the work as “sacred space”, a place where you can become vulnerable enough to successfully perform inner work. Laurel and Laurel talk about how to create sacred space and the benefits of living more and more in space that feels sacred.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Co-host Laurel Boivin joins Laurel to kick off the podcast and talk about what the beautiful work is all about and why it’s so important. In this episode you’ll be inspired to weave the beautiful work into your life so that you can follow your dreams and create the life you most desire. Some topics discussed are resisting the work, owning your inner work, trusting your internal wisdom, messages that come to do the work, honoring the impulses to dig into inner work, and gentle strategies for doing the work. The show wraps up with questions from both coaches to help guide your work.