It's A Choice: Recent Episodes
Zack Olinger
This podcast explores what living an authentic and inspired life is like. The struggles, the wins, those bittersweet victories that make living an authentic and inspired life worth it.
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It's a Choice - S01E0037 - Choosing Your Story
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about choosing our story. I present an exercise that may help shift your stories and beliefs around pain points in your life. I also talk about my own story around stress in my life and how I choose to manage it.
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As always, thank you for listening and much love to you all!
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It's a Choice - S01E0036 - Choosing Your Shame and Guilt
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I talk about guilt, shame, and humiliation. How the tools of shame, guilt, and humiliation, employed under the guise of love, are used as insidious and manipulative leverage to attack our personal sovereignty. How guilt, shame, and humiliation are used to serve the selfish expectations of others regarding how they think we should live our lives.
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It's a Choice - S01E0035 - Choosing Your Responsibility
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I talk about how I have recently become aware of some of the things that I am responsible for having in my life; things that I was, until just recently, blaming others for doing TO me. Sometimes a hard lesson is learning: the world doesn't test us, it reflects us. I personally found this one hard only because I didn't like what I saw. :) Thanks for the opportunity to learn and grow, Universe!
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It's a Choice - S01E0034 - Choosing Your Cause and Effect
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about intention and choosing what we cause in our lives and what effects we create. I talk about how we create expansion in the lives of others and how that can create wealth for ourselves. I also talk about how showing up in a relationship can lead to higher quality sex.
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It's a Choice - S01E0033 - Choosing Your Blame
Hey Universe!
We've all experienced resentment, anger, frustration or some other negative, low vibe emotion. We've all blamed somoeone else for DOING something TO us. How many of us have taken the time to turn that around and to "effectively blame" those who have "wronged" us?
In this episode I talk about taking those time when we find ourselves blaming someone as opportunities for gratitude.
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It's a Choice - S01E0032 - Choosing Your Power
Hey Universe!
How many of us are living our lives in an unauthentic way? Living our lives because we feel loyalty to, obligated towards, indebted to someone else expectations, desires or rules? How does it serve us to live our lives to make someone else feel better or happy? What about the relationship we have with ourselves, what we feel is true for yourself? What about our happiness and honoring that?
In this episode, I invite you all to step into your own authority; to reclaim your sovereignty. I invite you all to stop allowing others to be selfish with YOUR life. We all get what we tolerate in life. Most of us tolerate others telling us how we should live our lives. I invite you to consider what your life would be like if you were to, as Rage Against the Machine says, "Take the Power Back".
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It's a Choice - S01E0031 - Choosing Your Transition
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about transition; transition from one phase of your life to another.
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It's a Choice - S01E0030 - Choosing Your Strategy and Presence
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about a new podcast that I am starting, The Real Zack Olinger, where I focus on relationships and the conflicts we have all faced. That podcast will have weekly interviews where we explore relationships and potential solutions to those conflicts through understanding masculine and feminine expressions.
Link to The Wake Up Call on Wednesday, May 12th at 3:00PM CT: The Wake Up Call
I then talk about things that came to my awareness today around presence, intuition and ways of BEing.
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It's a Choice - S01E0029 - Conversations With Milo v1
Hey Universe!
In this episode I bring on my youngest son, Milo. Milo and I talk about some questions he has asked me as he reads Awareness by Anthony de Mello.
We talk about loving yourself, choosing happiness, death, and the law of attraction.
The second half of this podcast is more natural and free flowing conversation. :)
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It's a Choice - S01E0028 - Choosing Your Values
Hey Universe!
What do you value? What emotional experiences matter most to you and which to you most avoid? What rules have you made up that define whether or not you experience those emotional experiences?
In this episode, starting around the 10 minute mark, I walk through a practical example of how to find answers to those questions based upon what I experienced at The Journey Within (and also at Date With Destiny).
It has been said that we have a "highway to hell, and a dirt road to happiness". Most of us depend on things that are completely outside of our control to bring us our happiness and our pain.
The great news is: it's all made up bullshit; and once we realize what rules we've made up, we can CHOOSE entirely new rules and change the game altogether.
Sounds too good to be true? Perhaps...try it out though. What do you have to loose? Your addiction to your pain?
How's that working for you? :) It wasn't working too hot for me - I'll tell you that much!
All upsets are rule upsets; when we are upset, we are upset because someone or something is not fitting in to the rules we have around something that we value (what we want to emotionally experience)
Below are the prompts for finding your towards and away values:
Toward Values Prompts:
- What had to happen in order for you to feel X?
- How do you know you're experiencing X?
Toward Value Rules Prompt:
- What had to happen in order for you to feel X?
- How do you know you're experiencing X?
Away Values Prompts:
- In the past, what has been the feeling you would do almost anything to avoid having to feel?
- In the past, which of these feelings would you do more to avoid having to feel? X or Y?
Away Value Rules Prompt:
- What had to happen in order for you to feel X?
- How do you know you're experiencing X?
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It's a Choice - S01E0027 - Choose Your Lesson
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about 12 lessons or takeaways that I had from my experience with The Journey Within program that I attended a couple of weeks ago. If you have participated in Jim Fortin's TCP program, or participated in a Tony Robbin's Date With Destiny program, most of these things will sound familiar to you. I talk about how remembering some of these lessons brought clarity to me in the now and how some of these lessons have impacted my recent past and how I have used them to set intentions and clarity for my future.
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It's a Choice - S01E0026 - Choosing Your Teacher
Hey Universe!
Welcome to episode 26 of It's a Choice! This episode marks the half year mark of this podcast!
In this episode I talk about what I experienced by choosing to participate in The Journey Within program put on by my friends Luke & Ricky. I talk about how things I have learned, heard and experienced before came together in a cohesive whole, how being pushed to physical and spiritual limits cemented a new identity for me and how things continue to fall in to place when I completely trust and surrender to the process.
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I love you, Universe; and thank you all for listening!
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It's a Choice - S01E0025 - Choosing Your Potential
Hey Universe!
This is a quick episode where I talk about an experience I had recently that pushed my physical limits beyond what I knew I was capable of. This experience brought a new level of appreciation for choices and how I interpret pain.
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I love you, Universe; and thank you all for listening!
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It's a Choice - S01E0024 - Choosing Your Dreams
Hey Universe!
Welcome to episode 24 of It's a Choice! In this episode, I talk about what has happened over the past week of my life and how it related to a dream/vision of mine that I have had since October 2020. Over the past week, an interesting job potential has presented itself, growth opportunities with my youngest son and finding an unexpected avenue to reach a part of my target audience for a program that I am developing for young men.
A new twist, lesson and ask: If you find this episode or podcast helpful, please like and or comment on it. Also, if you have found this episode or podcast to be helpful, please share it; as those you share it with may also find benefit from it as well.
I love you, Universe; and thank you all for listening!
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It's a Choice - S01E0023 - Choosing Your Investments
Hey Universe!
Don't let the title fool you! In this episode, I do NOT talk about what may be considered a typical investment vehicle. Not in the least. In this episode, I talk about some thoughts that came to me today while thinking about my relationship to money and how we are all conduits for currency. How do you choose to relate to currency? How much do you allow yourself to receive, and in turn, how do you choose to interpret how you invest your currency? These are a few of the things I talk about in this episode.
Thanks for checking it out!
I love you, Universe!
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It's a Choice - S01E0022 - Choosing Grace
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about how I have experienced grace over the past week - in a number of different ways. From purchasing itsachoice.com and then finding out the domain was not available, to being presented with numerous job opportunities and how honoring my inner knowing and declining one opportunity led to other amazing potentials. To how I have been presented with an opportunity to attend an event when it looked like there was no possible way that I could attend. So many examples of grace have appeared to me over the past week.
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It's a Choice - S01E0021 - Choosing Our Words
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about we speak our reality into existence. I also speak about how the framework of music helps us connect with emotion and inspires us in creating our realities. Thanks to Rachel, Reese, Milo and Nick for inspiring various pieces of this episode. 🙏❤️
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It's a Choice - S01E0020 - Choosing Our Interpretations
Hey Universe!
In this episode I get a little nerdy and talk about how our interpretations are nothing more than IF/THEN statements that we can choose. I use examples from 2 videos from a YouTuber, made2express, and a short that can be found on Disney+ (Inner Working). A shout out to my youngest son for turning me on to made2express and a shout out to my dear friend and love for turning me on to "Inner Workings" on Disney+.
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It's a Choice - S01E0019 - Choosing Your Appearance
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about an opportunity that appeared to me. This led me to think about appearances in general, how I appear to others and how I've chosen to appear in the past.
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It's a Choice - S01E0018 - Choosing Your Identity
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I talk about the definition of being, existence and identity; about how creating and growing in to a new identity is a process.
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It's a Choice - S01E0017 - Honoring Your Truth
Hey Universe!
In this episode I discuss honoring ones truth in spite of others; how we've been conditioned to believe it is selfish to honor ourselves; and how not honoring ourselves is a betrayal not only to ourselves, it is a betrayal of the Universe expressing itself through us.
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It's a Choice - S01E0016 - Choosing a Direction
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I talk about my lack of direction, fear about my choices and potential outcomes. I talk about my experiences with choosing a direction and surrendering to the trust that the outcome with be what is best for me and those impacted by my choices.
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It's a Choice - S01E0015 - Navigating Choices
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I discuss my thoughts and an experience when I allowed myself to be guided to an outcome thst wasn't what I expected. What do you do then? How does one proceed when one is led to an outcome, by following oens own intuition and feeling, that doesn't match or align with an expected set of circumstances or outcomes?
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It's a Choice - S01E0014 - Choosing Your Will
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about a recent experience thst made me think about personal power, will and our ability to choose how we direct our will.
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It's a Choice - S01E0013 - Choosing Risk
Hey Universe!
In this episode I speak about choices and how each choice has its own element of risk.
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It's a Choice - S01E0012 - Fortune vs Misfortune The Outcomes of Our Choices
Hey Universe!
In this episode I speak about the Chinese parable of the farmer and the horse, the show Counterpart and how we never, truly, know if something we interpret in the moment as "good" or "bad" actually manifests in to positive or negative outcomes.
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It's a Choice - S01E0011 - The Energy We Choose
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I speak about being vulnerable and having a conversation with my mom about the energy our family chooses when expressing our judgments (opinions) on pretty much anything. How this energy has been destructive, unhealthy and unsafe for nurturing genuine unconditional love.
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It's a Choice - S01E0010 - The Judgments We Choose
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I have my first guest, Nyachia Knight and we discuss the judgments that we chose, judgments that we have experienced, judgements that we've passed. Ranging from kids, to parents, to friends, to whatever. Thanks for listening!
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It's a Choice - S01E0009 - How Do You Choose to Relate
Hey Universe!
In this episode I talk about how we choose to relate - to any and everything. How interpretations are characters in our stories and how we truly do speak our lives in to existence.
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It's a Choice - S01E0008 - Choosing Your Own Adventure
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I provide some past examples of intuitive decision I have made. More importantly, I discuss the themes and principles that are present each time and how it is important to be aware of our own interpretations and stories as we choose to follow our own inner guidance.
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It's a Choice - S01E0007 - What Have You Chosen to Deny Yourself
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I speak to some of my choice that I have made over 2020. I end with a realization on what I had been choosing to deny myself and how that impacted my life.
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It's a Choice - S01E0006 - From Rage to Gratitude
Hey Universe!
This episode is about how I went from choosing to being a victim, being completely pissed off 😡🤬 at The Universe, to being responsible for my choices and being grateful 🙏❤️ for my lessons and opportunities.
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It's a Choice - S01E0005 - My Biggest Lies
Hey Universe!
This episode is raw - I cry. In the beginning, this wasn't even supposed to be a podcast episode. I discover how I was editing myself and not trusting the Universe to express itself through me.
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It's a Choice - S01E0004 - F*ck Fear
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I talk about how fear is a choice, how it keeps us small and from living our authentic and inspired life.
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It's a Choice - S01E0003 - Trust, Respect and Expectations
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I talk about how I learned about huge triggers mine and how I was choosing to set myself to be triggered. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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It's a Choice - S01E0002 - My 2020 Journey to Now
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I speak about the choices I made to live an authentically inspired life thst got me to right now.
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It's a Choice - S01E0001 - How to Live an Authentic and Inspired Life
Hey Universe!
In this episode, I detail my process of how to live by following your intuition, your gut, to live an authentic and inspired life.
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