Take Back Your Life Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dianne Taylor
This is a podcast for female lawyers as well as other professional and business women who are tired of feeling overwhelmed, stressed and burnt out, who want to start living a relaxed, stress-free life of achievement, fun and freedom. Being successful doesn't mean you have to work 70 hours a week chained to your desk with no time for anything else. I work with professional and business women to open up space in their lives, to see what is possible so they can live from their dreams and achieve their highest postentional. Join us to learn how you can start to Take Back Your Life today!
We all cope with so many things during each and every day and more often than not we forget to give ourselves a pat on the back for doing an amazing job with life. In this episode I introduce the concept of R.A.C.ing - Recognising, Acknowledging and Celebrating espcially the little things we get done each day.
In this episode I give you a quick overview of how the brain and body responds to stress and some quick tips to help you alleviate stress. Understanding just a little of how the brain works is really key to helping you create more peaceful days and be happier.
Stress is not a normal operating system for our body. We have become conditioned to expect and accept stress as normal. In this episode we talk about what stress looks like, how it shows up and how you can start recognising it for you, so that you can start changing how you live right now.
Do you know what your highest values are?
Can you name your top 10 highest values in life?
If you are like me, it might be something you have never consciously thought about but your highest values are the things that drive you to do what you do each day, dictate what you actually achieve in life and they might surprise you.
If you are listening to this podcast, it is because like me you have found that you are not really where you wanted or expected to be in life and want to change things, to be more, to do more, to have more. A starting point to achieving what you want is being prepared to have a good look at what your values in life actually are and what might need to change.
Join me in this podcast in examining how you values work in life and what you can do to change them and change your outcomes.
In this episode I talk about one of my favourite thought concepts which is empty the cup.
This is a zen proverb that for me is a big part of how I approach life, how I approach challenges, how I approach learning, and how I can be of service.
Give this episode a listen to find out how embracing this proverb allows me to approach every situation with calm and openness, allows me to be always humble and willing to learn and allows me to be present with clients and colleagues and to give my best in every situation.
For me, approaching life with an empty cup has many facets and is liberating and life-changing
In this episode I talk about one of the key concepts I learnt from my mentor Jim Fortin that everything in your life is a choice.
I will show you in this episode, how your choices create your world, how they keep you trapped but also how they can free you from the restraints and concerns you have created in your life. I will be sharing how the choices I made kept me trapped in a toxic relationship and kept me stressed and overwhelmed in every aspect of life until I made the choice to change them.
The power of choice is at the core of your life and creates the world you live in, the limits you place on yourself and the things you can achieve.
In this episode, I take you through what the Take Back Your Life program is all about, why I created it and what it will do for you.
If you are tired of being overwhelmed, stressed, and sick of the rinse and repeat nature of your life, then this is the podcast episode for you.
There is a better way to live and you can start today to make different choices, to live differently and create a different life for yourself.
In this episode I share the core pillars of the Take Back Your Life program and what they will do for you to help you start transforming your life TODAY.
In this episode i talk about how i have been able to find peace and certainty amid the constant changes in the world we live in, not least because of the covid pandemic. Its not always easy to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if we can let go of worry and be present we can approach the changes forced on us in life in a better way.
In this episode I share with you why you need to allow yourself to say NO, why saying yes to everything that comes your way and trying to be all things to all people never works. If you are like me and have spent most of your life saying yes then this episode is for you. Enjoy.
When was the last time you took a moment or two to just stop? To just be? If your answer is something like, 'I can't remember' or "Who has time?" this episode is for you. Inside this episode I share the power of pausing and how this can help you get through your day in a better way.
This episode is all about encouraging you to think about the patterns in your life and looking to see where they are working for you and where they might be keeping you trapped. The patterns in our lives are run by our subconscious programming and they may not be always serving us or taking us where we want to go in life. If you are looking to take back control of your life and making change, you need to look at what your current patterns are and where you might be able to start making changes to open up new perspectives.
In this episode I talk about some ways to set boundaries within your working environment to create some space, calm and peace for you as you go about your day.