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Ep. 40 Lessons I Learned from 2021
For this season ender episode, Coach Kathi reflects on the biggest humbling life lessons she learned looking back at most of 2021, pulling from her own experiences and how she’ll be applying them to her new year, setting her up to win!
Ep. 39 Why Gratitude Matters
November is Gratitude month, and Coach Kathi talks about why having an attitude of gratitude – always being grateful for everything and expressing it – is important and how it corresponds to happiness and our overall wellbeing. Gratitude is the cornerstone of happiness, and is such an important skill to build for better relationships, learned optimism, and a thriving life!
Ep. 38 Gifts For My Future Self
Coach Kathi explains the concept of the Future Self and dives into how you can use it as a powerful tool to change your life completely. Participate in the exercise for building a rock solid relationship with your future self and how gifting yourself today will help set your future self up for so much success.
Ep. 37 On Being a Badass
In this episode, Coach Kathi goes into what it takes to be a badass and how to generate BAE (badass energy) on a daily basis. Being strong and successful isn’t the same as being arrogant – it’s about being consistent and willing to feel all the feelings, and making decisions regardless of the outcome.
Ep. 36 Mastering the Magic of Manifesting
How do we manifest things, people, and opportunities into our lives? After ‘The Secret’ launched in 2006, people have gotten more comfortable around the idea of co-creating their goals, dreams, and desires with the Universe. Coach Kathi teaches her formula for mastering manifesting and you can take easy steps to apply it to your life right away.
Ep. 35 Developing your Spiritual Practice
Are you religious, spiritual or both? Coach Kathi explains the difference between the two, why some people prefer to explore spiritual practices rather than keep to the dogma and ceremonies of their religious beliefs, how to deepen their spiritual practice, as well as tools to help get you started.
Ep. 34 The Work-Life Balance Mindset
Working from 9 to 5 before going home and shutting off seems to be a thing of the past. And with more and more people working from home without time boundaries, we seem to be working more than we’re living. Coach Kathi explores the myth that is the ‘work-life balance’ and how to better look at how we can shift our mindset for the betterment of our work and personal life for better overall wellbeing.
Ep. 33 Beefing Up Your Boundaries
We’ve learned how to beef up our physical boundaries during the pandemic – wearing masks, social distancing, and limiting physical contact. But what about our personal boundaries? Coach Kathi talks about the benefits of beefing up our personal boundaries, what happens when we lack boundaries, and her own experiences of when people have crossed hers.
Ep. 32 The Problem With Toxic Positivity
Toxic positivity has become so ingrained in our culture, which is a big problem for a variety of reasons. Coach Kathi talks about the problem with toxic positivity, how to recognize the signs of toxic positivity, and what you can do in order to not be the victim or perpetrator and that this cycle can finally stop with you.
Ep. 31 The Magic of the Morning Routine
There are various reasons to start the habit of a morning routine, but for Coach Kathi, the intention behind having one is a practice of is self-love and self-care. Create a morning ritual that honors you, grounds you, and fills up your own love tank, so you aren’t looking for other people to fill it up and feel resentful and empty at the end of the day when you don’t get what you want.
Ep. 30 Sexual Wellbeing for Filipinas
Even in the 21st century, many Filipinas still believe that, when it comes to your sexuality, you can only be one of two things – the virgin Mary or Mary Magdalene. There is no in between, and many of us carry the guilt and shame with wanting to explore and educate ourselves around our sexuality. In this episode, Coach Kathi shares what she discovered about her sexuality while collaborating with the woman empowerment brand, noti.ph.
Ep. 29 How I Deal with My Anxiety
With more and more people struggling with feelings of anxiety, coach Kathi opens up an talks about how she deals with living with general anxiety disorder, as well as the wellness tools she has in place that works for her for coping with hers.
Ep. 28 Practical Ways to Boost Your Immunity
We’re at the last quarter of 2021, and are still stuck in the longest lockdown in the world. While vaccine rollouts are slowly coming along, a lot of us don’t pay enough attention on working on our body’s natural immune system as well – one is more effective with the other. In this episode, Coach Kathi shares her biggest learnings while talking to her colleagues at Centro Holistico – integrative and Functional Medicine practitioners – on how to best take care of yourself and raise your immunity that you can apply right away.
Ep. 27 Emotional Literacy for Filipinos
How are you doing on a scale of “Ok lang,” to “Ok pa?” Coach Kathi explores the cultural and generational limiting beliefs behind our struggle with emotional literacy, shining a light on how we’ve normalized them and how they’re holding us back from flourishing as a people.
Ep. 26 Calling Out Cancel Culture
Cancel Culture has become such an ugly part of our online experience – the digital equivalent of a mob with pitchforks. Coach Kathi digs into how cancel culture had worked to create powerful movements, but at the same time a green flag for online bullying, giving her perspective on what to you if you were the one being cancelled, what you may want to consider before cancelling anyone, and how to stop the hate from spreading as a bystander.
Ep. 25 On Confidence & Taking Up Space
Coach Kathi addresses how not being able to actively socialize because being stuck indoors for the past two years has taken a toll on our self-esteem as well as our social skills, and how we’re now more in our own heads more than ever. She gives her perspective on the importance of confidence, how to build it back up again, and how to take the courage to take up space once again.
Ep. 24 Creative Abundance
For this Workplace Wellbeing episode, Coach Kathi talks about abundance – whether in terms of time, finances or other valuable resource you feel is in short supply – and how to see and create opportunities for yourself to step into abundance that aligns with your passions and brings you joy.
Ep. 23 Be More Selfish
Why would anyone want to be selfish? Probably because we aren’t selfish enough. Coach Kathi discusses why we should have stronger boundaries and be pickier of who we give our time, talent, and treasure to and why “healthy selfishness” is something we should have more of coming out of 2020.
Ep. 22 Character Strengths In the Workplace Part 2
On this Workplace Wellness episode, Coach Kathi shares the other half of the 24 VIA Character Strengths – a positive psychology tool the she uses when working with teams and organizations and how to maximize them, going through the core virtues of justice, temperance, and transcendance.
Ep. 21 Loving the Skin You’re In
It’s usually after Christmas that we start beating up on ourselves for overindulging over Christmas and adding, “Lose x amount of weight” into our new year’s resolutions looking to start strong with out #ballikalindog2021 programs. Coach Kathi goes into her journey of loving the skin she’s in and her tips on how to be body positive, embracing and honoring the journey our physical bodies are on, while commiting to show up for ourselves better.
Ep. 20 Character Strengths In the Workplace Part 1
For this episode of Workplace Wellness, Coach Kathi shares a positive psychology tool that she applies to the workplace when working with teams – VIA character strengths – and goes through three core virtues and 12 character strengths on how to maximize them if you have them and how to maximize the natural signature strength of your team, startinng with the core virtures of wisdom, courage, and humanity.
Ep. 19 Moving from Crisis to Opportunity
For this episode, Coach Kathi talks about how to change perspective about the crisis that crop up in our lives – whether it be a global pandemic or one that could be relational, psychological, or emotional – and how to see the silver lining and build on that.
Ep. 18 Powerful Coaching Questions for Managers
As managers, most of the time it feels easier to just tell our team what needs to be done, which in the short term delivers faster results, but in the long terms makes people too dependent on you for everything, which is exhausting! Coach Kathi lays out some powerful coaching questions to get your team accountable for the results they want to create in the workplace, creating a team or organization that is self-empowered and responsible.
Ep. 17 Consistently Taking Small Actions
When we try to change our lives for the better, we go from 0 to 100 and completely try to reinvent ourselves in the hopes that it would stick, but it’s usually a set up for failure and disappointment. Coach Kathi talks about taking another approach, of consistently taking small actions every day that would help you move forward.
Ep. 16 Self-Love Practices That Will Transform Your Life
Coach Kathi shares her story of burning out and crashing, and how important it is to put yourself ad your wellbeing first, sharing self-love practices that have worked for her and have transformed her life, giving structure to her days and keeping her grounded and resilient despite what’s going on around her. What self-love practices do you consider to be non-negotiable in your life?
Ep. 15 Loving Leaders
Coach Kathi introduces team leaders, managers, and business owners to the concept of Loving Leadership, why the word ‘love’ and ‘workplace’ don’t exactly mix, the benefits of becoming a loving leader, and how it can immediately be applied to change the workplace culture.
Ep. 14 Designing Your Life
What’s the biggest difference between people who live full, rich, meaningful lives and those who don’t? Coach Kathi starts season 2 talking about how to live with intention by mindfully designing your life and being an active participant instead of life leading you, pandemic or not, explaining the GROWTH model and how you can apply it to the goals you set for yourself.
Ep. 13 The Problem with Romance
Books and movies have set a pretty high standard when it comes to romanticism, but has it distorted our notions for romance in the 21st century? Kathi talks about expectations we were taught growing up, and why that sets us up for failure in modern day relationships.
Ep. 12 Wabi-Sabi Love
In this age obsessed with perfection, how do we love the imperfect things about our partner? Y’know, the loud snoring, the need to win every argument, the corny jokes. After the honeymoon period of the relationship if over, what next? Kathi talks about finding gratitude and appreciating the parts of our partners we’d usually loathe.
Ep. 11 The Lowdown on the 5 Love Languages
Kathi kicks off love month by starting with the basics of any relationship – figuring out one another’s love languages and why it matters to our overall wellbeing.
Ep. 10 Boundaries In Romantic and Parental Relationship
A lot of Filipinos struggle with boundaries – knowing where their personal boundaries are as well as speaking up when they feel those boundaries are crossed. Kathi discusses boundaries in romantic and parental relationships and how it affected her life.
Ep. 9 Discomfort on Purpose
This episode is all about discomfort – getting out of your comfort zone because you have a bigger and grander version of yourself that you want to achieve!
Ep. 8 Tapping Into the Magic of Manifesting Languages
Kathi explains the magic of our manifesting languages. Do you recognize how you manifest? Do you gravitate towards two or three or do you notice how it cycles, depending on where you are in life?
Ep. 7 Lessons In Positive Psychology
In this episode, Kathi talks about how marrying positive psychology concepts and tools into her coaching practice has helped her improve her practice tremendously.
Ep. 6 Habits to Set You Up for the Next Decade
Happy New Year! Did you know that 35% of us who make New Year’s resolutions break them by January? Let’s set yourself up for success and start these practical habits you can start now that will set you up for the next decade.
Ep. 5 The Transformative Power of Listening
In this episode, Coach Kathi delves into the skill of listening, and how we can develop a better ear to get to know people, ask insightful questions, and get over that need for listening only for the sake of responding.
Ep. 4 Coping with Holiday Stress
Christmas season in the Philippines evokes a different kind of stress, especially for our balikbayans who want to enjoy time with their family, but keep getting caught up in the hullabaloo of family gatherings, out-of-town-trips, and reunions. Coach Kathi gives us a few tools on how to deal with the holidays.
Ep. 3 Setting Yourself Up for Success
In this episode Coach Kathi talks about the importance of goal setting, and how to look forward to planning it out and making your goals, dreams, and desires a reality.
Ep. 2 Limiting Pinoy Belief Systems
Kathi delves into belief systems and conditioning that a lot of Filipinos grew up with, bringing awareness to these “bullshit rules” and why the no longer serve us. Can you relate to any of them?
Ep. 1 An Attitude of Gratitude for Friendsgiving
With it being gratitude month, Kathi is celebrating the spirit of the season sharing why adopting an attitude of gratitude is so beneficial for the body, mind, and spirit, as well as the little things we could do to practice carrying a grateful heart.
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