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Bullies Be Gone with Nate Webb
Sometimes bullies attack all at once in a coordinate effort to tear you down. What do you do then? Today's guest is someone who has been through that exact thing, Nate...
Tame Your Emotions (Three Tools Every Hero Needs Part 3)
The third and final tool every hero needs is the reins. The reins represent taming your emotions! Every hero experiences pleasant and unpleasant emotions, so learning ...
Write Your Story (Three Tools Every Hero Needs Part 2)
To be the hero of your story, teens need to take up the pen and start writing their narrative purposefully. In this episode, I talk to teens about how to do that and w...
Own Your Results (Three Tools Every Hero Needs Part 1)
Every hero needs three important tools. Today, I talk about the first one: the Flag (Own Your Results). The flag is what teens can use to stake a claim over their own ...
Ups and Downs and Happiness
Sometimes it feels that life achieving happiness is an endless trek up a down escalator. But never fear! That's actually true. And that's a good thing, if you know how...
Stop the Fart Spray
Sometimes life seems crappy. However, the truth of the matter is life is just life. Neutral. And we are spraying fart spray on it and calling it crap. Here's a tip: ST...
My Big Announcement...
My 100th Episode!! I promised a big announcement and I am delivering this episode. Or, you can go straight to the goods at www.sidekicktohero.com
Talking to Others using the CAPE Method
Talking to other people can be tough. I talk to teens this episode about a method I use to eliminate awkwardness from my conversations and make talking to someone new ...
How to Be Brave
I teach teens the recipe for being brave in this episode. You can't face your fears, worries, and anxieties without the confidence that comes from brewing up some brav...
Emotional Independence
There is nothing more free than being emotionally independent. It allows you to manage relationships, make powerful choices, and keep striving for success despite fail...
Respect
"I only respect those who respect me!" is a terrible way to view respect. It's a guaranteed way to give your power to other people. Plus, it's a recipe for a world wit...
Truthful vs Useful
Just because a thought is true, doesn't mean it's useful to think. How many thoughts are you holding on to because they are "just true" even though they are stopping y...
Anchored Thoughts
We all have anchored biases, or thoughts that we grabbed onto first and have stuck around. Some may be keeping us from getting to the destination we desire. Others may...
Fail BIG!
If we mess up in a social situation, our first instinct is to hide our failures from others. Hope nobody saw it. Guess what, they probably did. So, rather than hiding ...
Untapped Power in Your Brain
There is LOADS of power in your brain that you are not using. If you could access it, you could do amazing things. There are 4 levels of metacognition, which level are...
How to Make Grief Fulfilling
Sometimes life serves us up some grief gruel. It's not the tastiest thing on the menu, but it's on the table anyway. Someone we love dies, we get broken up with, or we...
Becoming Antifragile
If fragile is something that breaks easily under pressure, then what is Antifragile? (Hint: it's NOT simple something that doesn't break easily). I talk about that tod...
Performance Anxiety with Jon Skidmore
There are performances throughout our lives, whether they are auditioning for the Jazz Band, taking the ACT, or talking to someone we're crushing on. How do you manage...
Don't Let Other People Write Your Story
We should be the authors of our thoughts and our opinions, especially since they create the world we live in. But how many times do you let OTHER people write your sto...
Sidekick to Hero
We were all born to be the hero of our own life, but sometimes we feel like a sidekick. If you want to be able to go from sidekick to hero whenever you want to, you ne...
Dreams and Identity (LIVE!)
I'm at a conference this week with my mentor, my Yoda, Jody Moore. So this episode I broadcast live from my minivan with a special guest and friend, Tyson Bradley, and...
The Worlds We Build
Ready for something that is trippy yet true? We live inside a world we build with our mind. Our brain takes the facts around it and connects them together with stories...
The Greatest Tragedy Ever Told
The greatest tragedy ever told isn't about someone who had it all and lost it all, or someone who tried hard to get the thing they wanted and never did, and it's not e...
Spending Time Wisely
Teens, you are wealthier than most adults in one particular area: TIME. When you're young, you have time wealth and as you get older (generally) you trade time for mon...
The Noise of Negative Thoughts
The ability to separate out signals from noise is uber useful. Take your thoughts for example, there are a lot of them bouncing around in there. All negative thoughts ...
The Boredom Challenge
We can't stand to be bored!! But, what if we could? What if awesome things like creation, inspiration, and connection were all achieved by being able to be bored. Toda...
Social Media is NOT Real Life
I know you know that social media isn't real life... but how often do you forget that? How often to do make decisions or choose thoughts based on something you saw on ...
We Make (the Worst) Villains
Have any villains in your life? You know, people who are just the worst and make your day miserable? Or maybe just people who you dislike a lot? Well, that person isn'...