#336: When you need to soften the edges
Hope you’re all soaking up the summer sun and enjoying these long, warm (okay, almost too warm) days! As we move through this season, I wanted to take a moment…
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This archive provides an overview of all podcast episodes published until the closure of the Watertown studio in December 2025. You can listen to new episodes published after 2025, as well as all of the old episodes over on Spotify.
#335: Operation Get Lively – My First Blog Post in 2014
Unless you just recently joined us, you know that we celebrated our 10th anniversary during the entire month of June. Part of the festivities included a new website for the…
#334: Your Key to Summer Consistency
Summer is here, and with it comes a lot of fun (hopefully!)—and often a shift in our schedules and routines. But I’ve discovered something powerful: getting consistent with just one…
#333: 10 Years and a Truth Bomb
As we wrap up our month-long celebration of Get Lively’s 10th anniversary, I’ve got a little something to share that’s been on my mind. This reflection might come as a…
#332: Thinking Forward
I guess it’s fitting that 10 years into Get Lively, I’m podcasting about something that I chat about often… how I often struggle replaying useless stories over and over in…
#331: Get Lively Gets Local
Sometimes we get to turn the tables, and that’s what is going on this week as I get to be a guest on the Little Local Conversations Podcast!
#330: Breaking up with my fitness tracker.
So I broke up with my fitness tracker. And I know, in the grand scheme of the world and life, this is about as minor as it gets. But given…
#329: Two Small Biz Owners Chatting about Identity, Change, and Expansion
Every now and then I meet someone and as we start talking we keep saying: I can relate. Oh my gosh, YES! Same, here. That’s exactly what happened when I…
#328: Why Getting Traction Helps
Ever find yourself saying OVER and OVER that you want something for your life but you just can’t seem to get traction? Yup, that was me at the start of…
#327: The Opposite of How I See my Myself
Yes, the identity conversation on the podcast continues! I wonder if it will take us all the way through to the daffodils blooming… So this week’s conversation on IDENTITY is…
#326: When I find myself being judgemental.
Another week and another aspect of “our identity” to explore. Now that I’m on to this topic, I keep having all these moments where I realize: wow, you are doing…
#325: When looking back tells you so much.
“More people need a place to feel good about themselves, to co-exist, to feel worthy of having a seat at the table.” That is what I found in a notebook…
#324: Deciding which story to tell ourselves.
You know I love sharing snippets and concepts from books that I’m reading… and the book this time around is: The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday. This book…
#323: Having an Identity Crisis?
It’s February, my friends! That happened quickly! So as I was recording this week’s show, I was having all kinds of revelations at the moment. Realizing so many things about…
#322: Slicing the Apple just Right
Over the holiday break, I read a book about why small businesses fail. Sounds dreadful, I know, but it was EXACTLY what I needed to be reading and in fact,…
#321: Fear of Making Change when Old Habits Die Hard
I took time over the Christmas break to take a closer look at the functions of Get Lively and how to grow as a business so that we can continue…
#320: Two things for 2024
Happy 2024! Oh, all those even numbers make me so happy! As we take our first steps into this new year, I’ve got TWO things that I’ve decided to focus…
#319: Reflections and Building Character
Happy Holidays! As 2023 comes to a close, there are two things that I’m reflecting on and I invite you to do the same. Tune into this episode as I…