The Rise Daily Podcast: Recent Episodes
Alicia Cottam and Anita Cottam
Life is so beautifully mysterious. We all have such unique experiences and backgrounds. Each offers us an opportunity for growth.
We choose how we live our lives. Will we choose to find the joy in each day or will we allow the despair to paralyze our momentum in life?
"The joy we feel has little to do with our circumstances of our lives, and everything to do with the FOCUS of our lives."
What will we choose to focus on? Here, we choose healing. Here, we choose growth. We will empower each other and RISE above our challenges day by day. Together, we will create a life in which we thrive.
In this week’s episode, Anita and Alicia discuss the importance of celebrating your success in all things. They share ways that they feel success in their every day lives and remind us why it’s important to find gratitude in your accomplishments.
The holidays can be so incredibly challenging when you’re forced to walk through grief and loss. Here to speak on this topic is Jennie Taylor. A public speaker, single mother of 7, and overall local treasure, she opens up with us and shares how she navigates the loss of her husband, former Mayor and Army Veteran Brent Taylor with her family during the holidays.
Gratitude a super power? Let's talk about what happens in our bodies when we cultivate an attitude of gratitude. When we make a conscious effort to see the miracles in our every day lives, we gain access to healing powers and call in all of the abundant blessings we're made to receive.
Mindy shares her personal journey centered in Byron Katie's work. She explained how her easily accessible tools have helped her to navigate through difficult situations in her life. You can find all of the resources for Byron Katie at thework.com and on Instagram @byron.katie
Over the course of the next few episodes, we're going to be sharing our Top 5 Lifestyle Tools. We're starting off strong with one of our absolute favorites, Essential Oils!
Rebecca Reeves is a force for "empowering women and teens to build confidence, self-love and inner strength through mindset and movement". She works with non-profit organization Building Utah Youth and shares why she became involved in this movement. She also shares her personal experiences leading up to this path. She teaches mindset yoga, mindset coaches and lives for the outdoors. If you'd like to follow her on her journey, you can follow her IG @rebeccareeves_mindset_yoga
If we knew what we know now... In this episode, we talk about the lessons we learned in raising our kids and what we would do differently. How we affect our environment and relationships when we adjust our way of being. We are energy and it comes with us everywhere we go.
In this episode, we discuss how best to keep you peace as the school year and holidays start approaching. We discuss our favorite practices that help to keep us grounded and aligned.
In this episode, we explore the importance of light viewing as a means to support a healthy sleeping routine. We go into detail on circadian rhythms and routines we can set in place to support our body’s natural systems.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of finding gratitude and intention in every moment, even those seemingly mundane. We explore what it can look like to find the beauty in our daily routines so as to elevate our day-to-day lives.
In this episode, Brook, an established Health Coach shares her integrative approach to nutrition. She offers guidance on fueling our bodies for optimal function and sustainability. She also explains the connection between nutrition and auto-immune diseases as well as mental health.
Follow Brook on IG @naturedbalance for more nutrition education!
In this episode, we talk about finding ways to be more accepting and welcoming to ourselves as we age. Learning to love ourselves no matter the age is something we can embrace so that we acknowledge the beauty that is a long and happy life. With age comes so much fun and freedom, let’s lean in together.
Our bodies are over 60% water. We are predominantly water. Let’s find out why it’s so important to drink water and hydrate on the daily! Just this alone will transform your health and body. Get ready to fall in love with staying hydrated! 🩵💧
Joni Cottam aka Joni's Adventures joins us on the podcast today sharing how fitness has supported her in each different phase of her life. She shares about her experience recovering from a severe injury as well as BII. Joni has done everything from Cycling, CrossFit, Trail Running and so much more. She also shares how she prioritizes her health and well-being while keeping up with family life!
Follow her on IG: @jonisadventures
Our dear guest Kai Franco shares the importance of breath connection. Our breath is a powerful autonomic tool . We can learn to manage our breathing in order to help support us in difficult moments. Our breathing can open us up to many positive possibilities.
Find Kai on IG @breathing.empowered
His live event information can be found in his bio!
We are thrilled to have this beauty as our first guest on the podcast! She has played such a huge role in our growth journey. Author of the book True Leader Campaign, Executive Producer of The Sound of Freedom a film for Operation Underground Railroad, majorly successful entrepreneur, miracle culture cultivator and dear, dear friend, Gina Truman.
We often hear about physical daily habits, in this episode however, we will go through the process of creating daily mind habits. We talk about shifting the cycles we get stuck in order to gain traction in our healing. We can slowly transform internally in restoring our own inner peace by remembering who we are, what we deserve and the value that we bring to the table.
In this Episode, Anita and Alicia discuss the importance of holding space for personal growth and mistakes that will inevitably take place in life.
Our feelings give us important information about ourselves. Emotions are a good thing! They help guide us through important breakthroughs. We are designed to experience our emotions.
This meditation comes from the Learning To Breathe course for adolescents. We can all benefit from this practice by tuning into our breathing. Noticing the oxygen in our body. If your mind wanders, refocus by bringing your attention back to your breathing. Enjoy.
In this episode, Anita and Alicia share their intimate experiences and how they've shaped their perceptions of themselves. They deep dive into practices which can help to undo these unwanted and "fake truths".
In this episode, Anita and Alicia discuss the importance of our relationships with our bodies. They share their personal experiences and offer a challenge to all listeners.
Our first official episode! Anita and Alicia talk about how to create awareness within yourself and break down the tools to invoking lasting change in your patterns.
In this episode, Anita and Alicia share a bit about their upbringing and their intentions with the podcast going forward!
Life is so beautifully mysterious. We all have such unique circumstances and backgrounds. Each offers us an opportunity for learning and growth. WE get to choose how we live our lives. Will we choose to find the joy and gratitude in each day or will we allow the despair and worry to consume our mind and paralyze our momentum in life?
One of our favorite quotes is "the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives." What will we choose to focus on?
Here we choose healing, here we choose growth. We will learn how to empower each other and rise above our challenges on a day to day basis. We will work together to cultivate a life that we love and which we thrive.