Dr. Michelle Maidenburg has over 30 years of clinical experience with her private practice in New York. She is a Certified Group Therapist, TEDx Speaker and author of her newest book “ACE Your Life” Unleash Your Self Best and Live the Life You Want.

She maintains a private practice in Harrison, NY. She is the Co-Founder and Clinical Director of “Thru My Eyes”, a nonprofit 501c3 organization that offers free clinically guided videotaping to chronically medically ill individuals who want to leave video legacies for their children and loved ones. She is also adjunct faculty at New York University (NYU) and teach a graduate course in Mindfulness Practice.

She is a Board of Directors member at The Boys & Girls in Mount Vernon. She is a member of the American Red Cross Crisis Team and serve on the Board of Directors of the Westchester Trauma Network (WTN) in Westchester NY.

She is a Certified Group Therapist through the American Group Psychotherapy Association and a Diplomate and certified member of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She has advanced training in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Structural Family Therapy, Mindfulness, and am a Level II trained Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist.

She is the author of the book “Free Your Child From Overeating” 53 Mind-Body Strategies For Lifelong Health and new book “ACE Your Life” Unleash Your Self Best and Live the Life You Want. She is a blogger for Psychology Today (962k reads) and recently did a TED Talk on “Circumventing Emotional Avoidance.” She has been featured in more than 150 national and international media including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Ladies Home Journal, Men’s Health, and Forbes.

She is a contributing editor of GROUP, the journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society. She is a consultant and trainer on a variety of mental health and health related topics and is dedicated and invested in health and mental health advocacy.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• What is emotional avoidance and how does it show up in our thinking and decision making?
• What skills and steps to take to manage or cope with intense negative or uncomfortable emotions to avoid acting out behaviors.
• What is a healthy way to engage with painful experiences and emotions when we encounter them so we can build better relationships?
• What skills and steps do we need to take when managing or coping with negative and uncomfortable emotions so we avoid acting out (e.g., angry outbursts, overeating, etc.)?
• And so much more…

Patty Buccellato, Certified Image Coach, makes it her mission to bring clients to just that place. She guides high-visibility women (think: “Zoom meetings”) on a path to discover their own personal architecture, helping them use this natural design structure in combination with their strengths, character, and values, to achieve their greatest goals.

With more than 25 years in the image industry, Patty is internationally recognized as a Certified Professional Member of the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI), a designation earned by only a handful of consultants around the globe.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• how not every great outfit makes a great choice for Zoom 
• one thing never to wear in front of the camera lens.
• What is the one style tool that can visually erase years from a woman’s apparent age, without need to go under the knife or laser?
• When does it make sense to return to closet ground zero and build a wardrobe from scratch?
• And so much more…

Celebrating Small Wins

Today I wanted to talk about the importance of celebrating your wins, even the smallest wins you don’t think it’s worth celebrating. Celebrate them because celebrating small wins triggers feelings of pride, increased confidence, motivation and joy. This helps to keep you working towards your next small steps, and eventually your overall goals. 

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

Society brainwashes us about overnight success stories and flashy accomplishments, where in reality, small wins are the biggest building block of your success and happiness in life. 

Our younger selves are often socially conditioned to to rank small or simple wins as not impactful or not as important as bigger wins. But the reality is that small wins matter even more than you’d actually think.

A daily routine of mine is journaling my gratitudes. But things got way more interesting when I added these journal entries with daily wins. Because these daily wins remind you of your daily progress and knowing that you’ve made progress will boost your confidence to take the next step towards your bigger goals. Studies have shown in research of organizations who have employees simply recording progress in some way helped them boost self-confidence and this upgraded confidence can be put to use toward future successes because capturing these small wins every day enhances a worker’s motivation. If you want more details on this you can Google Harvard study celebrating small wins. 

Earlier I mentioned feeling a sense of pride and joy when we record these wins. There is actually science behind this thought process too. When you accomplish something, it activates the reward center of our brains, the neurochemical dopamine is released and energizes us with feel-good emotions and helps us experience the feeling of being rewarded, and can hook you on wanting to achieve even more so that you can feel this emotion again. 

Celebrating small wins gives you clarity. So often we lose sight of our direction and why, but recording these small wins down will help you see that clarity again, what it is that you’re working towards and why you started in the first place. Success loves speed and success loves celebrations. 

So what are some small wins that are often overlooked?

• Learned something new.
• Tried something new.
• Completed everything according to your schedules.
• Stepped outside your comfort zone.
• Found an opportunity to be creative.
• Made fast decisions
• Trusted your intuition or followed your gut.
• Made all meetings today on time.
• Had a great idea.
• Hit inbox zero.
• Performed a random act of kindness.
• Completed self-care.
• Ate a nutritious meal.
• Read for 10 minutes.
• Didn’t hit snooze or woke up before the alarm clock.
• Practiced boundaries and said “no” to something you usually can’t refuse
• Decluttered your space.
• Spent time with family.
• Felt productive.
• Stuck to a routine.
• Avoided distractions or procrastination.
• Made your bed.
• Practiced mindfulness
• Got to the gym or got some exercise done at home.
• Asked for help when you needed it.
• Meditated or did breathworks
• Gained one extra follower on Social media

I challenge you to celebrate your wins right now on social, post on IG or elsewhere and tag me at @mslucyliu . 

Remember, nothing is too small to record down and celebrate and it’s not bragging if it’s the truth. Keep celebrating, and your wins will repeat and expand.

Cheers to your celebration and evolution. 

You’ve got golden content on social media, on your website, or in books sitting there collecting digital dust.  Don’t let it go to waste! 

In this episode Becky Ogden who considers herself a miner of sorts.   She’s a repurposing specialist who’ll sift through that golden content of yours and find the valuable nuggets for you. She’ll give it new life so you can leverage it again to save yourself time on content creation, show up consistently online, build that crucial “know, like & trust” factor, drive traffic to your offers, and sign new clients.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• Remember how to repurpose content with the easy to remember acronym E.A.S.E. 
• Is it correct to start with long form content and repurpose it into small pieces?
• What is the best content for repurposing?
• The 4 step EASE process to repurpose content
• And so much more…

Guest featured in this episode:

Charlene is a relationship expert and also a dating and love coach. She is also a Certified empowerment coach through the S.W.A.T. Institute. Her specialty is helping single, successful career women attract committed, masculine men find their aligned partner, their best-friend lover.

Charlene Byars enjoys a full coaching practice as an Empowerment and Relationship/Dating Coach, and leader of women. She is also a speaker on several topics. She has studied women and men in relationships for over 20 years and is the creator and founder of the Relationship Revolution System and Level Up For Love. Her passion is coaching and leading women to live their most empowered lives and attract their soul-aligned, devoted masculine men.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• What are the three female archetypes and how can women use that knowledge?
• How do you explain or teach about respect in a romantic relationship?
• How important is communication in a relationship?
• What do men really want?

And So much more…