The Best Parts Podcast

Picking up where the co-hosts left off in the last episode, Louise wants to dive deep into pleasure. She asks her co-hosts, Nikki, Sara, Kim, and Laura where is a place for you beyond guilt, maybe even beyond joy? Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Kim brings up Guilty Pleasures, asking her fellow coaches to weigh in on what they do that they consider guilty pleasures, and then challenges them to consider if there should be ‘guilt’ at all. Tune in as all the coaches, Kim, Sara, Laura, Louise and Nikki talk through what they view as guilty pleasures and whether the word “Guilt” does or should even apply. Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Laura brings up the topic of “Affirmations” which she and her fellow coaches, Sara, Kim, Nikki and Louise all feel often get a bad rap. Listen in as they quickly fall down the rabbit hole of woo-woo vs. retraining the neural pathways in your brain, and how each of them has interacted with affirmations or something similar in their own history. Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Sara tees up the question to her cohosts: What are the things that we cannot see that are taking up space in our minds, in our lives? A messy linen closet? An inability to manage paperwork? Or is it something more intimate? Listen in as Kim, Nikki, Louise, and Laura share with the audience the things that drive them crazy and keep them stuck. Some are outward-facing, some not so much. And then ponder the question: What drains your energy? Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Nikki asks her co-hosts, “What are you not doing that you could be doing? What are the things on your wishlist, your want list, your someday list that you could actually be doing right now?” Kim dreams of sleep and refreshing her French, Louise seconds the desire to learn French. Laura can’t get past her “shoulds” to decide what she wants to do and Sara says she does everything she wants. Nikki rounds out the group by wanting to learn to play Dungeons and Dragons. Then the conversation takes a right turn into fear, desires, and privilege. Tune in and answer the questions for yourself: what are you NOT doing that you could be? Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Social Media: pain or pleasure? Necessary or just a waste of time? Louise shares her concerns about Social Media and asks her fellow coaches to weigh in. Does she have to be on social media to promote her business? Ask yourself: how many social media platforms are you connected to? Does Fear of missing out (FOMO) keep you adding new platforms and scrolling through entries? Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Is wasting time a waste of time? Laura poses this question to her fellow coaches, and they come down firmly on both sides. Sara is very much against wasting time. Nikki shares how learning to honor her own process keeps her from feeling as if she’s wasting time. Louise wastes time on the regular and has mixed emotions about it and Kim is all for it. What do you think? Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Everyone has heard of the benefits of having personal morning rituals or morning routines. How do you create rituals for your business? Kim shares how she creates visuals to help her not only with clients but to help her create and grow her business. Upon unpacking the idea, most of the coaches found that they did do something similar in order to help them transition throughout their day and the various roles they all play throughout the day. Listen in and get curious about how rituals, routines, or habits impact your day. Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Sara brings up the sensitive topic of Body Image as she shares her own journey during the COVID-19 pandemic and how on one hand she’s proud of her body and on the other hand, she’s struggling with what she’s seeing in Zoom on a daily basis. Listen in as Kim, Laura, Louise, and Nikki share their own journeys with their own body image, the body positivity movement, and radical self-love vs. radical acceptance. Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Join Nikki as she kicks off Season 4 with her cohosts, Sara, Louise, Laura, and Kim and they discuss the music that defined their lives. Among the topics they cover is how a single line in a song can evoke an emotion long forgotten. They discuss earworms and wonder that though you might not remember what you walked into the kitchen for, just a few notes of a song will transport you to another time where you vividly remember everything as if it just happened. Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Tune in this week for some of our wacky, weird, and wonderful outtakes. Pull up a chair and let the hilarity ensue! Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Tune in this week for some of our wacky, weird, and wonderful outtakes. Pull up a chair and let the hilarity ensue! Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

What does Mrs. Doubtfire, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Catch Me If You Can, Yentl, and Six Degrees of Separation have in common, other than being fabulous movies that Louise loves? They all depict a character who is impersonating someone. And today Louise asks her cohosts Nikki, Kim, Sara, and Laura, how do you show up in your own life feeling like an imposter? Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Call it flow, call it the zone, awareness, ease or call it mindfulness, Nikki talks with her co-hosts, Laura, Sara, Louise, and Kim about what flow is, isn’t, and how can you bring more of it into your life. Nikki believes it is possible to cultivate flow and the coaches are intrigued to hear more. Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Pull us a chair with Nikki, Louise, Kim, and Laura as Sara tees up the question - why does our culture tend to pretend the bad things aren’t happening, encouraging us to just push through and 'be happy'? Tired of looking at the bright side and bypassing what's really coming up, Sara shares that she’s been struggling lately one day feeling really high and then really low the next. The discussion of glitter on poop takes some interesting twists, the wisdom of riding (literal) rollercoasters paints come pictures, and how to make things a bit easier without ignoring what's coming up gives everybody some insight into feeling the feels. Join the conversation! Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Join Kim as she quizzes her cohosts, Sara, Laura, Louise, and Nikki about what fears - irrational or otherwise - that they may have...and are willing to admit to. The big questions are asked: who decides what makes a fear irrational? What should you be afraid of that you aren’t? Pull up a chair and join us to find out who is afraid of frogs, umbrellas, and rooms full of balloons! Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Join Laura, Sara, Nikki, Louise, and Kim as Laura asks the question: how do I live in the now yet prepare for the future? As they weigh-in, the conversation turns into a tip-filled episode of how mindfulness exercises have helped not only their clients but the coaches themselves. Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Nikki poses the question to Sara, Kim, Louise, and Laura, “Would you rather fit or stand out?” Thus launches a discussion that takes the co-hosts back to childhood, high school, post-college, learning to navigate dress codes in corporate settings, and finally owning their own businesses. Spoiler: it’s not an either-or answer. It’s “Yes, and…” Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Pull up a chair and join us as we talk about how to know when to make a change in a relationship? Join Sara, Kim, Nikki, Louise and Laura as they discuss the process of knowing you need to make a change long before it actually occurs and barriers to ending it or changing the relationship. Each coach shares their own predilection for ending relationships and discuss how they might like to change those behaviors going forward. Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/

Join Laura, Sara, Kim and Nikki as Louise poses the question: What did you want to be when you grew up? Pull up a chair for a conversation about the pros and cons of having a single path followed from childhood vs. having a diffuse set of passions woven through life, how passions and childhood interests can serve now in a career, hobbies or living through a pandemic. Where to find The Best Parts Team: www.lauralively.com www.saradoellcoaching.com www.nikkibakerwulf.com www.louiseneil.com www.kimromain.com www.thebestpartspodcast.com/