February 21, 2019
Author Suzie Carr Interview
Seize the Day Podcast
Welcome to Seize the Day Podcast with Natalie Miller-Snell.
In todays show, I am joined by the very wonderful, Suzie Carr. A renowned author, blogger, podcaster, Director of Membership for the Golden Crown Literary Society and general lovely human being, it was a true pleasure to have Suzie on.
Suzie talks candidly about the adversity she has experienced in her life, the insights she has gained through those experiences and how she managed to turn a negative situation to a positive one. It’s truly inspiring and very admirable. Suzie talks about her passion for writing and shares which of her books are her favourite. She also talks about GCLS and why it’s a great conference to attend.
Seize the Day was inspired by my favourite latin expression, Carpe Diem. I’ve had some great mentors throughout my life who have offered me invaluable guidance. I'm hoping to do the same through these podcasts. We have so many wonders at our fingertips; sometimes we just need a little help, or someone to point us in the right direction.
I hope you enjoy the show!
Suzie Online
Website: Curves Welcome
Twitter: @girl_novelist
SUZIE'S NEW BOOK as discussed on the show: The Pet Boutique
Natalie Online
Website: Seize the Day
Twitter: @natmillersnell
Email: nataliemillersnell@gmail.com
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February 14, 2019
Easy Ways to Improve Critical Thinking - Curves Welcome
Curves Welcome with Suzie Carr
Most of us want to have more influence over things that matter to us. If you want to effectively lead others in any capacity, and this can be as a parent, coach, employee, employer, community member, in other words, in every conceivable life experience where you want to bring the best to a situation, you need to be able to think critically.
In this episode, we take a look at 4 simple tips:
- Being self-critical
- Becoming a better listener
- Gathering facts
- Developing a forward-thinking mentality
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February 11, 2019
Get A Hobby
Coffee Break With KA & Dana: Meaningful Conversations From A Lesbian Perspective
As lesbians, you’d think we know what women want. But the truth is, women are so complicated sometimes that even another woman can’t quite figure it out. With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, the pressure is on to find a way to show your girl that you care. In this episode, KA and Dana discuss Valentine’s Day:
- Things to do
- Perfect gifts
- The L Word
- Chocolate
KA is an author of lesbian romance with degrees in counseling, psychology, and social work. She writes stories about lesbians, burdened by past trauma, who find healing in the love of a soul mate.
Dana is an avid reader, a recovering alcoholic, a fisher-woman, and a graduate of the school of hard knocks.
As co-hosts, they're quite the duo. Connect with them online at www.kamoll.com
Music in this episode (Lucky Way) is licensed for use in various multimedia applications by Melody Loops.
February 7, 2019
A Problem Shared is a Problem Halved
Seize the Day Podcast
Welcome to Seize the Day Podcast with Natalie Miller-Snell.
In todays show, I wanted to explore the basic concept of talking. How a problem shared really is a problem halved.
We can often drive ourselves crazy and worry unnecessarily when we don’t share. We can build things out of context in our mind until we are immobilised through fear. So in this episode I talk about some of my experiences and some examples, to demonstrate why it’s good to talk.
Seize the Day was inspired by my favourite latin expression, Carpe Diem. I’ve had some great mentors throughout my life who have offered me invaluable guidance. I'm hoping to do the same through these podcasts. We have so many wonders at our fingertips; sometimes we just need a little help, or someone to point us in the right direction.
Dr Sam Collins - Radio Heaven, One Women’s Journey to Grace
I hope you enjoy the show!
Natalie Online
Website: www.seizethe-day.com
Twitter: @natmillersnell
Email: nataliemillersnell@gmail.com
Instagram: seizetheday_today
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February 4, 2019
Toxic People, Toxic Times
Coffee Break With KA & Dana: Meaningful Conversations From A Lesbian Perspective
Toxic people spew negativity to demean and deflate you. And they think you're the problem. Whatever insult or injury they've inflicted upon you, it's either your fault or you're making a mountain out of a molehill. -- Psychology Today (2017)
In this episode, KA and Dana discuss the topic of toxic people and toxic times:
- Handling them in the workplace
- Dealing with them at home
- How having them around can negatively impact your health
KA is an author of lesbian fiction with degrees in counseling, psychology, and social work. AS KA Moll, she writes stories about lesbians, burdened by past trauma, who find healing in the love of a soul mate. As Cade Brogan, she writes thrillers.
Dana is an avid reader, a recovering alcoholic, a fisher-woman, and a graduate of the school of hard knocks.
As co-hosts, they're quite the duo. Connect with them online at www.kamoll.com
Music in this episode (Lucky Way) is licensed for use in various multimedia applications by Melody Loops.
January 31, 2019
How to Make Better Decisions
Curves Welcome with Suzie Carr
It can be hard to make a decision. Especially important ones where the risks are great. Sometimes deciding on something is a leap of faith. You’ll never know the outcome until the consequences and benefits of your decision begin to show. What this tells me is kind of comforting in one way. Here’s why. The outcome of the decision is not as important as the act of deciding.
In today's podcast, we take a look at:
- Avoid paralysis by analysis
- 3 tips to make a better decision
- What to do if the decision fails
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January 24, 2019
How to Balance Life and Time More Effectively
Seize the Day Podcast
Welcome to Seize the Day Podcast with Natalie Miller-Snell. In todays show, I explore how we can balance our life and time more effectively.
There are some fundamental basics we can follow in order to balance our life and time, including: leaving work ‘at work’, saying no, and taking time off.
There are also more holisitic ideals we can focus on, such as being positive and keeping your energy 'bank' high.
I hope you enjoy the show!
Natalie Online
Website: www.seizethe-day.com
Twitter: @natmillersnell
Email: nataliemillersnell@gmail.com
Instagram: seizetheday_today
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January 21, 2019
Combating Seasonal and Holiday Depression
Coffee Break With KA & Dana: Meaningful Conversations From A Lesbian Perspective
The holiday season can be difficult for anyone suffering from depression, but it can be especially difficult for many in the LGBT community, a community at higher risk for depression and suicide than the general population.
In this episode, KA and Dana discuss the topic of depression including:
- symptoms and treatment
- why it's worse during certain seasons and around the holidays
- strategies to feel better
KA is an author of lesbian romance with degrees in counseling, psychology, and social work. She writes stories about lesbians, burdened by past trauma, who find healing in the love of a soul mate. In addition, she writes romantic thrillers as Cade Brogan.
Dana is an avid reader, a recovering alcoholic, a fisher-woman, and a graduate of the school of hard knocks.
As co-hosts, they're quite the duo.
Connect with them online at www.kamoll.com
Music in this episode (Lucky Way) is licensed for use in various multimedia applications by Melody Loops.
January 17, 2019
How to Make a Fresh Start
Curves Welcome with Suzie Carr
Starting over always requires a level of courage that can seem overwhelming. It takes courage to toss aside old ideals for new ones. Whether you're starting over out of necessity for your health, career, and happiness, or you're doing so because you're bored and in need of a challenge, doing so will offer great benefits.
In today's podcast, we take a look at:
- Finding your courage after you've lost your way
- How comfort can be debilitating
- Capitalizing on change when taking a leap of faith
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January 14, 2019
Making and Keeping New Year's Resolutions
Coffee Break With KA & Dana: Meaningful Conversations From A Lesbian Perspective
According to www.entrepreneur.com, "a lot of people have great resolution ideas to achieve their goals, like automatic bank transfers for saving money and a new smartwatch to help with weight loss. However, statistics show that only 9.2 percent of people ever achieve their New Year's resolutions and break free from their bad habits."
In this episode, KA and Dana discuss the topic of resolutions:
- why we make them,
- why we find it difficult to keep them,
- and what we can do to be more successful.
KA is an author of lesbian romance with degrees in counseling, psychology, and social work. She writes stories about lesbians, burdened by past trauma, who find healing in the love of a soul mate.
Dana is an avid reader, a recovering alcoholic, a fisher-woman, and a graduate of the school of hard knocks.
As co-hosts, they're quite the duo. Connect with them online at www.coffeebreakwithkaanddana.com.
Music in this episode (Lucky Way) is licensed for use in various multimedia applications by Melody Loops.
January 10, 2019
The Power of Intention
Seize the Day Podcast
Welcome to Seize the Day Podcast with Natalie Miller-Snell.
Happy new year everyone. I’m so excited to be starting the new year with you all.
In todays show, I want to explore the power of intention. I want to strip it back, forget about resolutions and explore how we can have clear intention with our thoughts, goals and general day to day life.
The mind is an incredibly powerful tool - our thoughts play a huge part in our life, so we need to be crystal clear what we are putting out into the world.
The simplest way to do that is to look within ourselves and ask:
- What do I want?
- How do I want to feel?
- What do I want to be?
In order to answer these questions, we need to focus on three things:
- Clarity - Being clear
- Senses - Trusting your gut
- Openness - Being open
Hope you enjoy the show!
Natalie Online
Website: www.seizethe-day.com
Twitter: @natmillersnell
Email: nataliemillersnell@gmail.com
Instagram: seizetheday_today
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January 3, 2019
What Matters Most
Curves Welcome with Suzie Carr
In this episode, I take a step back and reflect on my first ever podcast episode where I asked a provocative question I borrowed from Steve Jobs: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today.
We take a look at:
- How to set priorities effectively
- What action to take on priority goals
- How to ensure you're living your best life
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December 20, 2018
How to be there for yourself
Curves Welcome with Suzie Carr
If you could have a chat with your younger self and offer a piece of life advice that would change the destiny of your journey for the better, what would that be? What would that conversation sound like? Would you ever dare talk to her in a negative voice? With a lack of respect for who she was created to be? With distaste that she isn’t more like her friends? Of course you wouldn’t. You would treat her with the kind of wise love you gained through the years.
We discuss:
- How to thrive instead of just survive
- How to rise out of defeat
- A new way to view adversity
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November 29, 2018
Global Girl Project Interview with Julia Lynch
Seize the Day Podcast
Welcome to Seize the Day Podcast with Natalie Miller-Snell. In todays show I am incredibly fortunate to get to interview the very inspiring Julia Lynch, founder of Global Girl Project, a wonderful leadership exchange program for young women from developing countries. Julia tells us about #travelling #nepal #capoeira #disney and how #globalgirlproject began.
One of the motivators for starting Seize the Day was to get inspirational women on the show, to talk through how they found success, what got them to the point they are at now, and why they do it, so I’m truly delighted to have Julia join me in this episode. She is #makingadifference in the world.
Seize the Day was inspired by my favourite Latin expression Carpe Diem. I’m very much a “glass is half full” person and I’ve had some great mentors throughout my life, who have offered me invaluable guidance. We have so many wonders at our fingertips and sometimes we just need a little help, or someone to remind us.
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Twitter: @natsnell
Email: nataliemillersnell@gmail.com
Instagram: seizetheday_today
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November 22, 2018
Claim Victory Over Life
Curves Welcome with Suzie Carr
When everything in the world tells you to turn around, to go back to where you feel safe, to go back to that place where you don’t have to expose yourself to discomfort, what do you do?
Do you follow the same path as everyone else and oblige? Or do you go toward that unknown anyway in hopes of finding your purpose?
We discuss:
- Why the most challenging paths are the best for our future
- How to continue the journey when others whisper your defeat with it
- When to ignore the naysayers and travel outside the norm
- How to keep going when everything in you screams for your mercy to stop and go back to comfort
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November 8, 2018
How to Get to Where You Want to Be
Curves Welcome with Suzie Carr
Most of us spend our time looking ahead. We get excited when we think about an upcoming trip, the beginning of a new television series, summer when it’s winter, a new job, or a holiday. There’s always something to look ahead at. Something that calls us to pay attention to it and be there in our minds instead of where we are. This can be dangerous.
We discuss:
- Why living in the future is dangerous to your life today
- How you can better set yourself up for success right now
- How to connect with yourself on an intimate honest level
- How to confront that which challenges and scares you
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October 25, 2018
How to Get in the Zone
Curves Welcome
How to get in the zone. I know a lot about this. In fact, I would bet any writer knows about this. To sit down and create a brand new world in 80,000 words, give or take, requires an extreme connection with the zone. You might be a writer, cook, accountant, doctor, no matter what you do there always comes a point where you need to zone into something with everything you have. Not getting there can be extremely frustrating.
I know how that feels. First, let me say, life tosses us curveballs and those curveballs can totally take us off track. One minute we’ve got laser precise focus on our intentions, the next second, yes second, because that’s all it takes, we are thrown so far off course we can’t even begin to recognize the landscape before us.
Many things can do this to us, job loss, a fight with someone we care about, an accident, a death, even good things like winning the lottery, getting a promotion, receiving an award, beginning a new friendship or romantic relationship. Any outlier to your set point can catapult you from where you intended to be. Good or bad.
And because life isn’t linear - if it were that would be boring - we’re forced to deal with this imbalance throughout our life. And the sooner we can recenter, the sooner we’ll get back to that incredible feeling of being in the zone.
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October 18, 2018
Common Traits of Successful Women
Seize the Day Podcast
Welcome to Seize the Day Podcast with Natalie Miller-Snell. Episode 7 - wow - that’s come around quickly. In this weeks show I explore Common Traits of Successful Women and I discuss some of the topics covered in a wonderful workshop I attended by Dr Sam Collins - Aspire Presence and Impact.
The Aspire Presence and Impact Model 3 A’s are: -
- Authenticity
- Authority
- Agility
Common Traits of Successful Women are: -
- Self Confidence
- Empathy
- Knowledge
- Communication
I thoroughly enjoyed doing this podcast. It’s important we each recognise how valuable we are, how we are experts in our field and that we can and will succeed. Seize the Day!
Seize the Day was inspired by my favourite Latin expression Carpe Diem. I’m very much a “glass is half full” person and I’ve had some great mentors throughout my life, who have offered me invaluable guidance. We have so many wonders at our fingertips and sometimes we just need a little help, or someone to remind us.
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