Inspired Action Life Podcast

52. Navigating Choices: Ego vs. Intuition – Mastering the Art of Trusting Your Gut

In this solo podcast episode, host Karen Baldridge discusses the interplay between ego and intuition in decision-making. She reflects on the importance of listening to one's inner wisdom when faced with important choices, whether in relationships, finances, or business endeavors.
Karen begins by describing her approach to creating podcast episodes that address timely topics and personal insights. She introduces the central theme of her recent episodes—finding a balance between following intuition and taking massive action in a hustle culture.
She delves into decision-making processes and identifies the challenge of determining whether to follow conventional advice or trust one's intuition. Karen presents three different approaches: blindly following external advice, adhering to expert guidance, and listening to one's inner wisdom.
She emphasizes the abundance of information available on the internet but notes the scarcity of true wisdom. Karen suggests that individuals often seek quick fixes and readily adopt advice from experts, attributing any failures to external sources rather than themselves.
Karen presents the notion of aligning one's decisions with inner intuition, describing it as a "still small voice" or gut feeling. She relates a story of a friend who embraced her own intuition, defied external skepticism, and pursued a unique business idea that later found great success.
The host distinguishes between decisions made from a place of alignment and those made from ego-driven motivations. She acknowledges the importance of meditation, reflection, and seeking inner clarity to connect with one's authentic intuition. Karen also cautions against imposing artificial timelines on decisions, highlighting the significance of choosing the right timing aligned with one's current state and context.
She shares a personal experience where she made a decision from a practical standpoint, relying on logic and external influences, rather than consulting her intuition. This decision led to challenges and a need to reevaluate her approach.
In conclusion, Karen reiterates the value of intuition in decision-making, urging listeners to prioritize self-awareness, reflection, and alignment with their inner wisdom. She encourages individuals to trust their gut feelings, stay open to magic, and cultivate the courage to make decisions that are true to themselves.
1. "Walking the line between intuition and massive action in a hustle culture is a challenge many of us face when making significant life decisions."
2. "Should I follow advice that seems to work for others, or should I listen to my own intuition? It's a common dilemma."
3. "We drown in information on the internet, yet we starve for true wisdom that aligns with our individual paths."
4. "Listening to external voices often leads us to blame others for failures instead of taking accountability for our decisions."
5. "The inner wisdom, the still small voice, the gut feeling – all point toward the next best move aligned with our highest good."
6. "Trusting ourselves and making decisions based on our inner intuition can be challenging but highly rewarding."
7. "Consulting the ego-driven mind and external voices can lead to decisions made out of fear or scarcity, rather than true alignment."
8. "Meditation and quiet reflection help clear space for genuine intuition to surface and guide us in decision-making."
9. "The right timing for decisions is crucial – imposing artificial timelines based on external pressures can lead to misaligned choices."
10. "Prioritizing self-awareness, reflection, and alignment with inner wisdom empowers us to make choices that resonate with our authentic selves."

51. Surrender to the Divine Timing

In this podcast episode, I disucss discusses the importance of taking aligned and inspired action in various aspects of life, including business, projects, and personal growth. I emphasize the significance of surrendering to divine or aligned actions, rather than just following logical steps or repeating past patterns. Karen shares her own experiences with understanding the timing and flow of actions, and how letting go and trusting the process can lead to unexpected and positive outcomes. She encourages listeners to be open to opportunities, stay committed, and find joy in the present moment. The message is one of embracing change, alignment, and allowing things to unfold naturally.
"Sometimes it's just the redirection is God's protection."
"You just need to prepare to be ready to be ready."
"Let go of all your own concepts, preconceived notions of how it should go, and this is exactly what should happen... it goes according to whatever plan that God has set out or the universe has for you."

Hey everyone! Welcome back to the Inspired Action Life podcast. I'm your host, Karen Boldridge, and today's episode is all about the magic of aligned action. Tune in as I share insights on taking purposeful steps, surrendering to divine timing, and embracing the journey. 🌟
🌠 Aligned Action: A Quick Dive 🌠
In this impromptu solo episode, I'm diving into the heart of taking action in alignment with your dreams and goals. Whether you're launching a business, embarking on a new project, or making a life change, this message is for you.
🌊 Surrendering to Divine Timing 🌊
Just like planting seeds in a garden, you don't dig them up to check their progress. Similarly, when you set your intentions and take action, surrender the outcome to the universe's timing. It's a dance of trust and patience.
🛤️ Staying the Course 🛤️
Sometimes, our plans hit roadblocks or detours. When things don't flow as expected, it's an opportunity to reflect. Are you pushing too hard? Is it time to pause and realign? Remember, redirection can be a form of protection.
💫 The Magic of Letting Go 💫
The most incredible opportunities often emerge when we let go of rigid expectations. Trust the process, stay committed, and be ready to be ready. Keep expanding your knowledge, nurturing your dreams, and believe that the right opportunities will find you.
🚣‍♀️ Floating Down the River of Life 🚣‍♀️
Picture yourself on a river, floating through life's twists and turns. Release resistance and allow yourself to receive. Sometimes, the best things come when you're simply enjoying the present and being open to unexpected joys.
🌌 Embrace the Journey 🌌
As you embark on your path, remember that each person's journey is unique. Let go of comparison and embrace your own divine plan. Look back at your life and notice the pattern – the most incredible moments often appeared when you least expected them.
💡 Final Thoughts 💡
So, my friends, let's commit to aligned action while surrendering to the universe's flow. Plant your intentions, take steps, and then release control. Embrace the magic that unfolds when you align your actions with your inner knowing and trust the journey.
Thank you for joining me today on the podcast. I hope this message resonates with you and encourages you to embrace divine action. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead! ✨ #AlignedAction #SurrenderToFlow #EmbraceTheJourney"

50. Michelle Villalobos Author & Founder of Superstar Activator on The Energetics of Life & Business

*Michelle Villalobos(https://superstaractivator.com)Michelle Villalobos, MBA, CSP, (AKA: The "Superstar Activator") works with mission-driven Superstars to reimagine and redesign their careers, businesses, and lives for more freedom, fulfillment, income, and impact. She also recently launched But I Want To Fly! An inspirational performance )
PERSONAL NOTE!!! Michelle was a game changer for me!
I went to her BUSINESS #MASTERMIND and was blown away....she is an, out of the box thinker, higher thinking approach to business and life and AND ABUNDANCE!. Michelle provided a whole new approach to business and how to integrate knowledge and intuition. approach to both! I so appreciated that as a natural INTUITIVELY LED PERSON. MOST PEOPLE DON'T ACCOUNT FOR INTUITION WHEN MAKING DECISIONS...THEY GO WITH DATA ONLY...BUT I ALWAYS FEEL led TO INCLUDE BOTH...MICHELLE HONORED THAT IN HER PROGRAM.
Her Superstar Activator Business Program...So Good! So many quotable quotes from this convo. Too many to document. !!!! SO JUST LISTEN IF YOU WANT A SHIFT TO YOUR BUSINESS OR JUST LIFE IN GENERAL. I align with her energy so much and I hope you will too!
" ...talking About following the Free energy in my life Like where's the free energy? Where is it? Why available? And I started talking about bound energy and I you know what, I started to realize was that all this pain and suffering was bound energy that could be liberated into. Something I didn't realize it was he used to say. I think it was him that used to say, like if you had, you know, oil fields under the land, you wouldn't want to get rid of the oil, you'd want to tap it. That's what you have like all that pain, all that suffering that you've been trying to cover. That's bound energy that you can..."
Such epic word pictures and mindset shifting wisdom throughout this whole this She is a total vibe and has fully impacted my life and elevated my thinking more than she probably even understands.
She is AN AUTHOR OF THIS AMAZING ADULT (AND KID) PICTURE BOOK ABOUT DREAMERS...(BUT I WANT TO FLY!!) SUCH A GREAT CONCEPT THIS BOOK IS EPIC....FIND IT HERE. www.butiwanttofly.com
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49.Are you a Permanent Resident in the Comfort Zone? Your Emotions Will Predict Your Outcomes

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How to up level every part of that and how to connect with who you are and connect with your happiness Again, where you are and more importantly to create that next version of you, that version that is dying to come out, but you just dont know how to get yourself there.
And ultimately sit with the emotions, feel them, and then eventually clear them, because if you do not clear them, they all the angers that are keeping you in place in your comfort zone because you are fearful and not that because you know,

48. Sabrina Carter Host of My Prevention RX Podcast; Healthy Lifestyle Mentor

NEW PODCAST EPISODE @mrssabrinacarter … link to podcast in bio 🎉
“I cant fathom that I was the one that chose this path, because I was in such a position where I was thinking like, “how could a good God let this happen “ I’m going to just go all in whether you perform how I want you to or not because a lot of times he has other plans.’ #commitment #perseverance #belief #bigfaiththemovement
Sabrina Carter is a physician assistant, the host of the My RX no my prevention RX podcast, and a healthy lifestyle mentor. She's got a great, interesting story to share
From early life… she was always headed down the path of health, beauty & wellness faith and kindness as instilled in her by her parents
My mom cooked a lot, and although we got compliments for being beautiful, …she always reinstated, “but you're kind and generous and nice “ #motherswisdom
📣📣 Sabrina was a competitive cheerleader growing up, and she was a college cheerleader at University of Florida and University of Miami🎉🎉🎊🎊 this would not surprise anybody who has ever met Sabrina or seen her. She’s fit, cute, and very disciplined!✨💕
But as with all stories… Not everything turned out perfectly…
she went into a career that she thought she would love and embrace worked hard to get accepted into physicians assistance, school, and achieved a degree in this field once again, in the field of cardiology… Then came the storms of life
“In 2016, my sister got pregnant, gave birth, and was given a cancer diagnosis well. I had just invested a huge amount of money in a business, but I lost all motivation for it and creativity and could barely think clear… she had to go and be with her family.
This was her only sister and only sibling… She tells the story of how she has been overcoming pain loss, starting and restarting careers, businesses and living in different cities, and trying to juggle all of it… And still going through it
Nobody is immune to trouble or heartache or disappointment… But the key is, do you have enough faith and perseverance to overcome rebuild and get stronger? Listen to her story, so inspiring!
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Sabrina Carter Host of My Prevention RX Podcast; Healthy Lifestyle Mentor

47. Conscious vs Subconscious...Who’s Running Your Program?

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• You have to be in the right state of mind to receive the truth
• You're never going to get there if you don't first start within.
You have to shift how you look at life, not what you're looking at, and that's a little profound, but it's kind of simple.
• happiness is even originated is something that is completely dictated and intentionally created by you and not by anyone else, and not by any circumstances.
• The conscious mind versus the subconscious mind.
• The conscious mind is the mind that you are in control of. It is the mind that makes decisions t
the mind is just a little downstream from every bit of information that we consume.
• I was raised to believe certain things, and if you never question them, then this is what you believe.
. The subconscious mind is where God plays, where your intuitive senses take over,
your subconscious mind always knows what is right for you and what is aligned with who you are.
• We are so easily programmed because we are not intentionally programming ourselves. We are allowing everyone else's program to program us, and so our programs of scarcity and incredulous thoughts towards money affect our marriages and our finances.
• If you are surrounded with incredulous people or negative scarcity minded people who can't see bigger, that's their own protection program. You've just accepted it as truth instead of challenging it, so that's why I always am like, now I'm looking at colleges and all of this.
• The subconscious mind is constantly going, it has been going since the time the brain formed, it picks up on all the inferences that you didn't even realize in your conscious mind was going on, and it decides the program.
• You can never create something that has never been created because you have never read about it because it doesn't exist. The conscious and the subconscious is the thing that either makes us or breaks us, and the connection between them is the thing that gets me so excited. You have all the answers you need, so be still and make space for God to talk to you.
• Once you wake up and snap out of the matrix, you will be shocked at the amount of information available to you. You will all of a sudden get these lightning bolts going oh, my God, I remember seeing that I remember thinking that why did I not do anything about it?
• When you consume too much stuff, your garden becomes cluttered with weeds and you have no clear path for growth. You have put a muzzle on God, on your intuition and you can't produce because you're too busy being unfocused with a bunch of other nonsense.
• Instead of beautiful, robust, sumptuous fruits and vegetables, think of your conscious mind as a garden. You've just let the weeds take over and
• Turn off the news, because it tells you who to hate, who to love, what to do what not, and why you should hate them.
Breath work and meditation are wonderful physical tools to access your subconscious mind and unload the energy at a cellular level
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• Your life and how you think can be changed by getting rid of stuck energy that gets in your body from your awkward childhood and awkward teenage years.
• When you're going to make a decision, ask nobody's opinion. Let your gut lead you let your soul be led by higher wisdom
• Home for somebody today I know I'm very passionate about this topic, but I hope it does the same for you. Create your own life today.

Happiness IS NOT the Most Useful Emotion When Elevating Your Life

BIG TOPICS....YET CONTROVERSIAL
• Useful EmotionS
• Comfort Zone
• Anger
• Mood
• Change
Welcome back to the Inspired Action Life podcast, hosted by Karen Baldridge.
• Happiness is not the most useful emotion when trying to elevate your life, mood, emotions, or career.
• The dreaded comfort zone is where you want to be comfortable, but when you get to that comfort zone, it gets dicey.
• When you're feeling unhappy or one of the best drivers for change is hurt anger, anger is actually on the positive side.

JoAnne Bolt HOST, B-WORD Podcast, FOUNDER, The PODCAST-Her Community

Joanne Bolt is the founder of the B Word podcast https://www.joannebolt.com/blog/122
and the PodcastHer Network group.https://www.joannebolt.com/
She started her career as a consultant for one of the top five consulting firms in the world but pivoted to real estate. However, she soon realized it wasn't her passion and found her calling in podcasting. She finds joy in pouring into those she interviews, as well as her audience. She prefers to work in a group setting, where people can take what they want from her wisdom, and she does not feel the pressure of a one-on-one coach. JoAnne believes that many people need to identify why they can never feel complete in their current work....she did.... and she found that podcasting was a natural fit for her!
BIG IDEAS FROM THIS EPISODE
Monetizing Your Podcast
Finding Your Niche
Getting Started
Networking and Collaborating
Inspiration and Creativity
Discovering Your Strengths
Monetizing Your Podcast
Podcasting can be used to make money, even if you don't have millions of downloads per episode. Focusing on women can be particularly lucrative, as they can make six-figure incomes. Podcasts are a great way to introduce potential customers to your business and help them get to know you. For those just starting out, content should focus on providing value to listeners.
Finding Your Niche
She tells a story of her friend, Allie Casazza, wrote Declutter Like a Mother and found success by talking about it with her husband, writing a book, and shifting her podcast to focus on cleaning out business space. To become a success, one must start with what they can currently offer and be willing to pivot their podcast in a group setting.
Getting Started
Podcasting can be intimidating for new users, but the Podcast Mastermind Group can offer guidance and advice. One way to grow your podcast and business is through Pinterest. It is important to remember that perfection isn't necessary, and that it's better to start than to wait. It is possible to start a podcast for free, but if you want to store episodes, you will eventually need to pay for a version upgrade. Initially, it's best to only spend around 50 dollars on equipment, but after some time, more expensive equipment can be purchased if desired.
Networking and Collaborating
Joanne Bolt offers a membership site for those looking to get on other people’s podcasts without having to go in for interviews. Members can get access to the site and all of its evolving features. Joanne also offers an accelerator program which puts podcasts in groups of 6 to 8 for six months and teaches members how to swap ads and collaborate together. Additionally, members can take part in a two-part mini-series known as a “collab”, where one interviews the other and then they switch, resulting in two episodes and two audiences. The key is getting collabed with the right podcast host and arranging them to drop at the same time.
HER BEST ADVICE IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PODCAST ON....Discovering Your Strengths
Become an expert in something you don't know and ask friends what comes easily to you. Help others solve their problems by asking the right questions and bring out the best in people. As an example, Sarah Gammel created a business teaching others how to network effectively, after someone pointed out her natural ability in this area.

TierneyShirrell Founder LIVE BOLD MOVEMENT A PRAYER & PERSONAL GROWTH COMMJUNITY

Tierney Shirrell is the founder of the Live Bold Movement, which is a prayer powered personal growth community for women, emboldening them to follow their purpose, God's purpose for their life.
She has had the vision for this group for many years but as with most of us...we put it on the shelf and "waited for the perfect time" to dust it off and bring it into the world....SPOILER ALERT...THERE IS NEVER A PERFECT FEELING TIME...IT NEVER GETS EASIER TO TAKE RISKS AND DO NEW THINGS YOUVE NEVER DONE!
THAT'S THE POINT...(OF THIS PODCAST SERIES SPECIFICALLY...JUST TO FOLLOW YOUR DIVINE GUIDANCE..SPIRIT...GUT...WHATEVER YOU CALL THAT LITTLE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD!)
She tells the story first hand of how she finally took the big plunge and moved out here to ARIZONA...whwere she always wanted to be but continued to put it on the back burner....uprooted the whole family to follow this gut instinct and how her husband's life simultaneously was working to make this plan happen too! THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES...THIS WAS A GODINCIDENCE!!
SHE is bringing her vision slowly to life and telling us about it here.
The moral of this story and episode is...LISTEN TO THAT STILL SMALL VOICE...EVEN WHEN IT'S SCARY AS CAN BE....it's waiting for you to move and bring something new into the world and to fulfill your purpose! Listen in....!! You will be inspired too.!

43.You Attract WHAT YOU ARE Energetically...Success, Money, Relationships, Career Advancement etc...

YOU DON’T GET WHAT YOU WANT… YOU ATTRACT WHAT YOU ARE😨 👉🏻YOUR #ALIGNMENT REEEEAAALLLLYYY MATTERS☄️🔥🚒🧨
Yikessss…. But also Hhmmm🧐
I love and detest this all at the same time… Especially when I look around and see what I currently have, and what I am still working towards… (or the lack of them😒🫣)
☄️REMEMBER…. The “HOW “Will I get it… “ is up to God!
But… The what And when will I begin to actively seek it… Is up to YOU!
☄️ Sometimes you have to operate outside the confounds of adult logic and stop wrestling your ideas to the ground and just dream a little
☄️ guard your mood energy for happiness… Because that determines your ALIGNMENT… And when you are aligned, you are a super attractor magnet for all the things that you want!!!☄️☄️☄️🔥
Not Sure? For Example:
do you know some people “Good Luck” just seems to follow? Do you think that’s an accident?
Some people are that money is never an issue for them. They are never struggling? And great opportunity just seems to find them? accident to?
Some people whose career just seems to be so charmed while you struggle and get mad at your toxic office environment etc. etc. while they continue to rise through the ranks? Lucky again?
No struggles, or seem to be happy, even when they are in the midst of something, but can maintain their optimism. faking it?
Some people who just somehow find the best partners and have the best relationships…And everything just seems so charmed for them? Another accident?
Why do you think it is? There are laws that rule this universe… There is #OrderInTheUniverse. And the more I learn the more I realize, and can confirm that like attracts like success, attracts success… Money, attracts money… Positivity attracts positivity… Negativities attracts negativity… Failure attracts more failure… Taking opportunities Attracts more successful opportunities..,,etc Etc Etc
💰💰💰🎊🎊💃🏻🙏If this intrigued you at all listen in to this episode… I could’ve gone on…about this from all of the things I have learned and even research that has gone into this very topic… It’s mind-boggling, but it’s so #empowering too🎉🥳