Unnecessary suffering is at the heart of what separates those who thrive from those who just survive.
Our brain has become an expert at creating pain where none needs to exist.
Layering emotional turmoil on top of life's natural challenges and preventing us from achieving what we're truly capable of.
In this second part of the Weekly series, I'm breaking down the core principles of coaching and how understanding your brain's motivational triad can fundamentally transform your relationship with success, pain, and achievement.
Join me in The Weekly in 2026. You can sign up right now by going to TheLifeCoachSchool.com/theweekly.
What You Will Discover:
How your brain's survival mechanism creates unnecessary suffering on top of life's natural challenges.
Why the motivational triad (seeking pleasure, avoiding pain, conserving energy) keeps you stuck in mediocrity.
The five components of the self-coaching model that govern everything in your life.
What happens in your brain when you set an impossible goal and why it immediately creates resistance.
How weekly repetition and coaching can rewire negative thinking patterns permanently.
The difference between clean pain (necessary) and dirty pain (optional) in your emotional life.
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The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss
Ep #537: Weekly 1
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#537: Weekly 1
The people who transform their lives aren't necessarily smarter or more motivated.
They're the ones who show up consistently, week after week, to learn, practice, and apply coaching tools to their specific situations.
The magic isn't in consuming more content - it is in the weekly rhythm of learning concepts, hearing them applied to real situations, and then implementing them in your own life.
This three-part process of learning, repetition, and application is what creates real results.
Today, I'm introducing The Weekly, a live coaching program where I'll introduce tools, coach participants on any topic, and create that essential weekly reset that keeps you moving forward. Whether you're ready to make aggressive life changes or just want to stay on track with subtle improvements, this program gives you the structure and support to make 2026 your most transformative year yet.
Join me in The Weekly in 2026. You can sign up right now by going to TheLifeCoachSchool.com/theweekly.
What You Will Discover:
Why weekly engagement with coaching creates more lasting change than intensive one-time learning experiences.
The three-phase process that turns concepts into life-changing results: learning, repetition, and application.
How listening to others get coached on similar issues accelerates your own growth and understanding.
Why group coaching often produces faster breakthroughs than one-on-one sessions.
How to maintain motivation and momentum by creating a weekly reset practice.
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#536: Capacity and Capability
Have you ever noticed that just when things start going well, you somehow find a way to mess it up?
Maybe you finally start making good money... but then spend it all immediately.
Or you attract a healthy relationship... but find yourself creating drama.
Or you're making progress in your business... but suddenly feel overwhelmed and pull back.
Here's the truth: It's not your capabilities holding you back. It's your capacity.
In this week's episode, I dive deep into the crucial difference between capability and capacity and why understanding this distinction could be the key to unlocking your next level of success.
What You Will Discover:
Why people with all the right skills still sabotage their success when they haven't expanded their capacity to hold it.
How to identify and question the thoughts that are limiting your capacity for money, relationships, and success.
The three-step process to increase your capacity: awareness, decision-making, and deliberate practice.
Why avoiding stress and overwhelm actually shrinks your life and limits your opportunities.
How to develop capability through massive action and failure while building capacity at the same time.
The difference between taking on more stress that kills you versus stress that grows you.
What happens when your capability outpaces your capacity and how to bring them into alignment.
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The Work by Byron Katie
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#535: Be a Badass - Tools
Most people avoid the emotions and challenges that would change them. That’s why they stay stuck.
In this episode, I’m sharing the tools to become a badass - someone who creates extraordinary results by building mental toughness and emotional resilience.
This isn’t about positive thinking. It’s about stepping into your power and knowing challenges will come with it.
You’ll learn to build emotional strength by processing, not avoiding feelings. You’ll develop behavioral strength to keep moving forward when you mess up. And you’ll see why impossible goals are the key to redefining your identity.
Stop operating from weakness. Start operating from power.
What You Will Discover:
Why making the decision to be a badass requires telling people and committing publicly.
How to build mental strength through repetition, exposure, and intense work periods.
The three reasons setting impossible goals transforms your identity and results.
Why anticipating worst-case scenarios and planning for them strengthens you before obstacles arrive.
How emotional resilience means embracing fear, doubt, and insecurity rather than avoiding them.
The difference between coddling (which weakens) and self-love (which strengthens).
Why badasses are built on piles of failures, mistakes, and judgments.
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Ep #534: Be a Badass - Obstacles
Ep #533: Be a Badass - Part 1
Ep #451: Dread Sprints
Ep #284: Antifragile
Ep #112: Post-Traumatic Growth
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#534: Be a Badass - Obstacles
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is in how you face obstacles.
Your brain is hardwired to seek comfort and avoid growth, which keeps you stuck in mediocrity - in the ordinary.
This wiring, known as the Motivational Triad, is great for survival but terrible for achieving greatness.
In this episode, I’m breaking down the obstacles that stand between you and the badass version of yourself and the key to overcoming them.
What You Will Discover:
Why your brain's motivational triad (conserving energy, avoiding pain, seeking pleasure) directly sabotages extraordinary achievement.
How fragility and constant excuse-making weaken your ability to create results.
The hidden cost of approval-seeking and why you're wasting energy trying to please people you don't even respect.
What drama and negativity bonding really do to your mental fortitude and creative capacity.
The difference between self-love and self-coddling, and why one strengthens while the other weakens.
How to use negative emotions as opportunities to build strength instead of reasons to retreat.
Why accepting you're both good and bad, right and wrong, frees up massive energy for creation.
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Ep #533: Be a Badass Part 1
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