How to Get Out of Your Own Way with Darcy Luoma

October 21, 2021

Does the term self-sabotage just seem to really resonate with you? In today’s episode, learn how to get out of your own way.

After decades of studying coaching, leadership, conflict, emotional intelligence, and systems, today’s guest Darcy Luoma identified the six obstacles she kept seeing over and over again with coaching clients. In her model, Thoughtfully Fit, Darcy outlines each of these six hurdles and specific strategies to overcome them—so everyone can be successful, personally and professionally.

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Show Notes and Transcript: How to Get Out of Your Own Way

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Alright, let’s dive into today’s show which is truly one of my favorite interviews to date. Joining us today is Darcy Luoma, author of Thoughtfully Fit®, Master Certified Coach, and inspiring motivational speaker. She has worked as director for a U.S. Senator, deputy transition director for a governor, and on the national advance team for two U.S. presidential campaigns. As the owner and CEO of Darcy Luoma Coaching & Consulting, she’s worked in forty-eight industries with more than five hundred organizations to create high-performing people and teams. The media has named Darcy the region’s favorite executive-and-life coach four times. Darcy balances her thriving business with raising her two energetic teenage daughters, adventure travel, and competing in triathlons.

Today we are talking about really how to get out of your own way as a supermom. She talks about self-sabotage and what we as busy moms tend to do and think when we get in our own way. Darcy’s new book Thoughtfully Fit® goes through six hurdles that people tend to encounter and specific strategies to overcome them, some of which we are talking about in today’s show. Darcy is also incredibly vulnerable as she shares a traumatic story from her life, one that most of us can’t even imagine, and how being Thoughtfully Fit® truly saved her from crumbling.

You are going to love, love, love Darcy.

How to Get Out of Your Own Way

You are going to love today’s episode. Today we talk about how to get out of your own way and…

How are our own thoughts allowing us to self-sabotage (4:01)
Six hurdles you might encounter when you are getting in your own way (7:16)
Do you get so busy that you have no stillness? (8:36)
How to manage yourself and show up in any situation (9:11)
Do you think you would be happy if only other people were different? Here is what to do instead (10:36)
The similarities between being mentally, Thoughtfully Fit® and physically fit (14:21)
The magic of the word “yet” (14:52)
How you can use being Thoughtfully Fit® to truly make everything easier (17:14)
The three steps to a strong mental core (17:44)
What questions you can ask to make sure every “yes” is a big “yes” (19:01)
How being Thoughtfully Fit® can support you even in the midst of the biggest crisis (22:16)