Future You Podcast: Recent Episodes
Karen Foster
Learn how to start living your ideal life today! The Future You podcast explores how we can create a vision for our future that we can draw on to make changes in our lives right away. No need to wait until "one day when..."
As we approach the pointy end of the year, it seems that life can get a little frenetic. This week, Karen offers up a suite of tools you can add to your personal Stress Management Toolkit to help you sail through the Silly Season with grace and a deep sense of calm.
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This is a great time of year to turn your thinking towards the adventures you might like to have in 2023. This week, Karen step through the process she uses to create what she prefers to call her "Adventure List". Because we only get this one life. And it's up to us to make the very best use of the time we have available to us.
Your Future You says hi!
- Email karen@futureyouacademy.com.au
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Thankyou for listening! x
We get it. You're busy. Too busy to pay much care to your health and wellbeing. Hold it right there! Your wellbeing matters! Because as the saying goes, if you don't make time for your wellbeing, sooner or later you'll have to make time for illness. In this week's episode, Karen takes a look at some of the tweaks and shifts we can all make to ensure we are managing our health and wellbeing in a holistic sense and giving it the same degree of import as all the other things we fit into our lives.
Your Future You says hi!
- Email karen@futureyouacademy.com.au
- Web www.futureyouacademy.com.au
- Facebook free membership
- Instagram @karen.foster.coach
Thankyou for listening! x
This week, Karen welcomes professional Stylist Christina Robert to the Future You Podcast for what became a raw and honest discussion about body image and the beliefs we inherit from our families of origin. Christina generously shares her personal story and her vulnerabilities whilst offering up some practical tips to help you shape and assert your own personal brand.
A warning: This episode includes direct references to domestic violence and trauma.
Your Future You says hi!
- Email karen@futureyouacademy.com.au
- Web www.futureyouacademy.com.au
- Facebook free membership
- Instagram @karen.foster.coach
Thankyou for listening! x
Regrets. We all have a few. Quite often those regrets are to do with the chances we didn't take. In this episode, Karen shares 10 choices that you are probably going to regret a year from now... if you were to make them. So this time in 12 months, what kind of a year will you be reflecting on? The year is going to go by, no matter what. So our opportunity is to be intentional about how we make use of that time.
Your Future You says hi!
- Email karen@futureyouacademy.com.au
- Web www.futureyouacademy.com.au
- Facebook free membership
- Instagram @karen.foster.coach
Thankyou for listening! x
In a business sense, a strategic plan captures a plan for the future. Combining the best of the business world with all that we love about personal development, Karen steps us through the process of creating a personal strategic plan that captures our life vision, our values, our long-term goals and shorter-term priorities.
Your Future You says hi!
- Email karen@futureyouacademy.com.au
- Web www.futureyouacademy.com.au
- Facebook free membership
- Instagram @karen.foster.coach
Thankyou for listening! x
We all have an inner critic - that voice that prattles on incessantly within our heads. That little voice that tells us we're not enough, not worthy, not up to the task. A super handy survival instinct thousands of years ago, that voice today can keep us hidden and small. In this episode, Karen shares some evidence-based strategies to help you tame that inner critic so that you can explore your potential and step into your Future Self.
Your Future You says hi!
- Email karen@futureyouacademy.com.au
- Web www.futureyouacademy.com.au
- Facebook free membership
- Instagram @karen.foster.coach
Thankyou for listening! x
Buzzy Lewis is a creative, an author and a young woman who is wise beyond her years. In this episode, Karen chats with Buzzy about how she conquered the 'dark side' of her own creativity - the self-doubt, the self-consciousness and the need to be 'perfect'. More than just a discussion about the creative process and how we can tap into our own creativity, this is a reflection on how we can overcome self-limiting beliefs that keep us stuck.
What does success look like for you? Money, a nice house, a job title, awards? Or is it more to do with your everyday experiences - the adventures you have, the people you meet, the happiness and joy you feel? Whatever success means to you, there are many things you can do to prime yourself to receive more of it. This week, Karen explores seven ways you can ready yourself so that you are primed to become a success magnet!
So you think there are not enough hours in the day? How might it feel if you could reclaim five hours (or more) every day?! That's 35 hours a week! In this episode, Karen shares proven strategies to reclaim several hours a day so that you can spend more time doing the things that are most important to you.
We're usually taught that in order to be a good human being, we should put the needs of others ahead of our own. That's a fine sentiment... until it isn't. In an episode dedicated to every woman who has ever felt overwhelmed, overlooked and even resentful, Karen lays out the hard truth of habitually putting yourself last. And then outlines a few simple strategies to help you make your own life a priority - without the guilt.
We can all choose to be a person of high value. As someone who has the privilege of knowing and working with many high value women, Karen has a front row seat to what it takes to be someone who not only knows their value, but creates genuine positive impact in the world.
This week, Karen digs into the 7 qualities of high value women. Will you recognise yourself amongst them?
Clearing the spaces we exist in - whether those are physical spaces, mental or energetic spaces - can clear the way for exciting new things to come into our lives. This week, Karen heralds the arrival of spring in the Southern Hemisphere with a little emotional spring cleaning as she discusses the importance of being intentional with what we invite in.
Wabi Sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that values imperfection, nature and things that are unique. With her curiosity piqued, Karen embarked upon some research into this ethos and today shares some deep wisdom about how we can all incorporate a very ancient way of thinking and being into our modern lives.
Why don't we talk more about money? This week, I have a mindful chat with Behavioural Money Coach Lea Clothier about how we can shape a far more positive relationship with money. We touch on money archetypes, deep-seated beliefs, scarcity thinking and so much more. Essential listening for anyone who has ever felt they don't have enough money or that they're simply no good at attracting, managing or keeping money.
Life is busy. Sometimes crazily so. But with a few mindset tweaks and some practical tools, it is possible for any one of us to move from disorganised chaos to being a totally organised goddess moving serenely through life! This week, Karen shares the seven strategies she has used to become super organised and feeling on top of her life!
The poet Mary Oliver once asked: "Are you breathing a little and calling it a life?"
In this somewhat philosophical episode, Karen ponders the meaning of "a life well lived", reaching back into history to learn about time and imagination, among other things. It's all in the name of research to better understand how we can all live a richer, more juicy and luscious life!
If you've ever wondered about how you could best develop yourself as a person and increase your chances of success in life, look no further! This week, Karen shares her top 7 personal development skills - the foundations of knowledge for any person who is interested in growing and evolving as a human being.
It feels as though there is an awful lot of negativity in the world just now. So how can we fortify ourselves against the difficult and negative people we constantly bump up against in our daily lives, some of whom may even be the people we love most? This week, Karen provides some practical strategies to help us all respond to and manage the more challenging and habitually negative people in our lives so that we can preserve our positivity and live our best lives.
Are you feeling a little too comfortable right now? Could it be time to challenge yourself to step beyond your comfort zone? This week, Karen explains why she has challenged herself to do just that as part of her ongoing personal development journey and provides some practical strategies to support you as you take your first steps beyond your comfort zone. After all, nothing great ever happens there!
Most of us have been conditioned to focus our energy and efforts on life's big, momentous occasions. But are we missing out on a limitless supply of inspiration that surrounds us all every day? This week, Karen asks how we can find inspiration in the tiny, daily moments. When we take the time to notice, there are gems of inspiration all around us in the apparently mundane.
Do you know what you truly want from life? Do you have a clear understanding of what makes you happy? This week, Karen discusses the concept of self-leadership, taking a deeper dive into one of the competencies of self-leadership - 'knowing your desired experiences'. Essential listening for anyone who is grappling with those fundamental questions about knowing what they want in life.
We all know people who just seem to be able to command any room they walk into. Executive presence is the 'X factor' that singles some people out as great leaders of self and of others. This week, Karen examines executive presence and gravitas drawing what the science tells us will help us develop a more impactful, positive presence in all our dealings.
It's a big admission for a coach, but recently, Karen lost her mojo. In this episode, she shares the strategies she used and the steps she took to get out of her funk and back on track towards evolving in to her ideal Future Self. Because we all have bad days. We just don't need to make our bad days mean our life is a disaster!
We all have self-limiting beliefs. One of the most common is a sense of being somehow 'not enough'. This week, Karen gets personal about her own struggles with 'not enoughness', offering up five evidence-based strategies we can implement to reshape our self-identity on our own terms.
When was the last time you did something truly spontaneous! Inspired by the true story of a woman who decided to take a Fijian holiday on a whim, Karen explores how we can live a life that's slightly less scripted - how we can all invite more spontaneity into our lives. It's a lot of fun!
Could you be relaxing all wrong? If your idea of switching off is to recline on the couch for a marathon Netflix session with a giant bag of potato chips, it may be that you're not relaxing at all. This week, Karen takes a radical approach to recharging your batteries in a more scientific way. (Spoiler alert - it involves a whole lot of nothing!) If you find it hard to really slow down, you'll want to put your 'to do' list aside and absorb this episode right this minute!
As a keen observer of people, Karen has kept a watchful eye on the leaders and successful people in her orbit. This week, she shares the top 10 habits that she has observed in highly confident women (and men!) Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, the concepts can all be applied in your own life to cultivate more self-belief and confidence.
An abundance mindset, or the ability to see the possibilities and the opportunities in life, could be one of the key predictors of success. In this week's episode, Karen examines what it means to have an abundance mindset (hint - it has nothing to do with your bank balance) and how we can all foster a more abundant way of thinking and living.
We all want to feel that we belong somewhere. But sometimes this can be difficult. It could be that you've started a new job, moved to a different community or because you are moving into a new season of your life. Whatever the reason, there are times when we feel we just don't belong. This week, Karen explores what we can all do to find our tribe and our own sense of belonging, no matter what stage of life we are at.
Self-sabotage is all about our brains working behind the scenes to keep us safe. It's almost always the result of lessons we've learned in the past that at some stage worked for us. Trouble is, what was great for us as a five-year-old may not work when we're 35! This week's episode explores what self-sabotage looks like, why it happens and what we can do to overcome it once and for all.
Karen admits she's not great with routines. But there is one powerful question that she asks herself every day - sometimes multiple days a day - without fail.
This simple question can help keep you focused and trained on your goals and it can set you up to live every day in a more intentional, proactive manner.
So what's the question? Take a listen to find out...
Are you feeling stuck? As if you are just reacting to events and people outside you, leaving you with a sense of being out of control? Get back in the driver's seat of your life by trying out some of these practical strategies to get help you get unstuck and reclaim some of your joie de vivre.
So-called Imposter Syndrome affects more people than we think. The irony is that it's almost impossible to experience Imposter Syndrome unless you are achieving or stretching beyond your comfort zone. So it's actually an affliction of high achievers!
In this week's episode, Karen takes a close look at what it is, why we experience it and how we can adjust our mindset so that it has less of an impact on our success.
Time is so precious. We each have the same 24 hours in every day, but why do so many of us struggle with productivity and understanding how best to manage our time? The answer lies with our mindset. This episode does not provide a list of time managment tips or techniques. But it does delve into some mindset principles that could set you up for success when it comes to having mastery over the minutes, hours and days of your life.
The one constant in our lives right now is change. And it seems that fortune favours the resourceful. With that in mind, Karen uses this episode to delve into five things that resourceful people do as a matter of habit. Great news - they're all things you could be doing in your life right now.
We all have choices. Even when it feels as though we don't. This week, Karen delves in to what it takes to live live on purpose and with clear intent. If you have been living life on autopilot, or if you have a sense that life is happening to you without you having any say over how it unfolds, this episode is for you.
No need to put it off any longer! This week, Karen provides the low down on why we procrastinate (spoiler alert - it's nothing to do with laziness) and what we can do about it. You'll take away some practical ideas and perhaps some inspiration to help you stop making excuses and start taking action.
In her lucky 13th episode, Karen provides some inspiration to help you invite more good luck into your life. Whether you believe in the concept of luck or not, there are certainly plenty of things you can do to position yourself to attract a whole lot more of the good stuff into your life.
Charisma, it turns out, is a learned behaviour - not something we're born with. And it's something each of us can decide to be. This week, Karen chats about the three core elements of charisma - presence, power and warmth - and provides some practical exercises you can experiment with to develop your own charismatic presence.
Why do so many of us find it so hard to achieve lasting change? This week, Karen investigates the barriers to change and suggests some real life strategies and mindset hacks to help you finally make the changes you've been wanting to make. It all begins with knowing what you want to achieve and who you want to become.
It's the month of love! In honour of Valentine's Day, Karen explores asks what self-love really is and what it means to you, offering some pragmatic ideas to help you fall back in love with yourself. It's not just about candlelit baths and massages (although those things are great). It's more to do with whether you can truly see and accept yourself as you are. ❤️
"Are you breathing a little and calling it a life?" This question - posed by American poet Mary Oliver - provides the inspiration for this week's episode in which Karen explores some strategies to help you engage more fully in the richness of everyday life.
Is work/life balance even possible? This week, Karen explores one of the questions her clients most commonly ask, sharing some practical strategies to begin the process of achieving greater balance and therefore greater harmony in all domains of your life.
Over the past several weeks, I've been experimenting with the idea of 'subtracting' from my life, rather than adding to it. And the results have been profound. In this week's episode, I share some of my results as we explore the magic of simplification through subtraction.
Every seemingly tiny choice we make each day is a vote for or against our desired Future Self. Each decision can either take you closer to the person you wish to become, or further away.
In this week's episode, we look at the power of tiny habits as a force for positive change in your life. I also share my personal goal-setting framework which is based on two simple questions:
- Who do I need to be to achieve my goals?
- What tiny habits will I need to sustain to ensure I become that person?
Anyone can learn how to be a great leader. But it's much harder to master becoming a great leader of self.
In this week's episode, I explain the concept of self-leadership as a pathway to realising your best life. I also do a 'deep dive' into one of the most important prerequisites for self-leadership - self-awareness. Most of us probably think we have a pretty good handle on this and that we know ourselves well. But, do we really?
I don't know about you, but I'm not a fan of New Year's resolutions! I just don't like setting myself up to fail. But I do love the idea of fresh beginnings and the new year presents us with boundless new opportunities.
In this episode, I look at some of the more common reasons resolutions fail and I offer three key ideas (that are NOT resolutions) to help you make the most of your fresh beginning.
Happy 2022!
In this episode, I offer my top tips to help you remember and revive the sense of wonder and enchantment you felt as a small child. After all, who doesn't need a little more magic in their every day?!
What does it mean to "live from your future"? In this episode, we explore five simple steps towards understanding your Future Self.