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The Everyday Awesome Project
The Everyday Awesome Podcast is your mega dose of multivitamins for building your mental muscles, physical body and an empowered life. Your hosts Polly and Sam are on your dream team; lifelong coaches in business, health & fitness and human potential. They are on fire to ignite change in the lives they touch.
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149: Victim Mentality and Martyrdom: Set Boundaries Without Becoming the Rescuer
Victim mentality and martyrdom can sound like harmless venting, but when it becomes a lifestyle it drains your nervous system, your relationships, and your…
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148: Tour du Mont Blanc: 3 Lessons on Being Present and Living Your Way
A mountain can be stunning in a photo and still completely wreck your expectations in real life. We’re sharing Polly’s Tour du Mont Blanc story from the…
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147: Detox Your Life: Clear What Drains You and Reclaim Your Peace
Detox is not a juice fast. It is the moment you realize your life feels heavy and you decide to clean house on purpose. I am Coach Sam, flying solo today, and…
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146: Non-Attachment: How to Care Without Carrying Everyone Else
If you’ve ever felt proud of being the one who holds it all together, this will hit close to home. I’m talking about non-attachment, not as indifference, but…
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145: Body Positivity: Make Peace With Your Body as It Changes
If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and felt like your body was a problem to solve, this one is for you. I’m Sam Pruitt, and I’m going straight at the tension…
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144: Tour du Mont Blanc: Moving Beyond Fear Into Adventure
Something wild happens when you say yes to a challenge that’s bigger than your usual routine. We’re talking about the Tour du Mont Blanc, a roughly 100 mile…
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143: Energy Medicine Explained: Exploring Reiki, Breathwork, and More
The moment you stop thinking of the body as a machine and start seeing it as an energetic system, a lot of “mysteries” get practical fast. We dig into energy…
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142: Codependency: How to Stop Overgiving Without Shutting People Out
If you’ve ever felt anxious when someone you love is struggling, then caught yourself trying to fix it fast, this conversation lands with a thud. We’re naming…
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141: Why You Feel Stuck: 4 Hidden Barriers to Making a Change
Stuck can look like a weight-loss plateau, a job you keep complaining about, a relationship you keep “thinking about,” or a health pattern you keep…
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140: 20 Days Alone on the John Muir Trail: Grief, Identity, and Letting Go
Twenty days alone in the Sierra Nevada changes the math on what you think you need. Sam Pruitt returns fresh off a solo John Muir Trail thru-hike: 250+ miles…
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139 : The Microbiome Is Crazy Cool | Why You Need to Pay Attention for Mind Body Spirit
I’m heading into the wilderness for a 20-day solo hike across the Sierra Nevada on the John Muir Trail, and before I disappear into miles of granite and sky, I…
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138 : Microbiome 102 | Game Changing Gut Essentials for A Better Body & Energy
Your gut can be the quiet reason you feel energized and steady or inflamed, foggy, and stuck in cravings. Today Sam Pruitt goes solo to finish Gut Microbiome…
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137: Microbiome 101: How Your Gut Shapes Hormones, Mood, and Health
Your gut is not just where food goes. It is where your immune system trains, where inflammation gets decided, and where your brain’s chemistry gets a huge…
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136: Have You Stopped Dreaming? How to Start Wanting More Again
You can have a good life on paper and still feel like your future went quiet. When Polly Mertens and Samantha Pruitt look around, they keep seeing the same…
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135: Tour Divide: 2,716 Miles of Grit, Self-Discovery, and Unexpected Kindness with Cary Hayes
A month alone on a bike will tell you the truth about your limits. Our guest, Carrie Hayes, just finished the Tour Divide, the legendary ultra endurance…
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134: Seat of the Soul: Stop Letting Fear Run Your Life
Your mind can make fear sound like logic, but your body tells the truth in seconds. Polly shares a solo, real-time personal transformation experiment she calls…
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133: Hiking the John Muir Trail Alone: Preparing for 250 Miles After Loss and Injury
Two hundred and fifty miles sounds heroic until you do the math: high altitude starts around 9,000 feet, relentless climbs that add up to roughly 55,000 feet…
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132: Intuition or Anxiety? How to Tell the Difference and Trust Yourself
Your body often knows the truth before your brain can build a convincing argument. We get real about “woo-woo intuition” and make it practical: how to…
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131: Emotional Triggers: Why Small Moments Set You Off and How to Reset
Your reaction isn’t “too much” for no reason. Sometimes it’s your nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do a long time ago, then dragging that charge…
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130: Permission to Play! Creative Breaks That Refuel Your Life
You can run a business, raise a family, keep the lights on, and still feel like something essential is missing. For us, that missing piece is often play: the…
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129: The Midyear Reset: Rethink Your Goals and Restart Without Guilt
You blink and suddenly it’s mid-year. If your goals feel stale, your calendar feels crowded, or your motivation feels like it quietly slipped out the back…
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128: Menopause Hormones: Beyond Hot Flashes, Myths, and “Just Aging”
If you’ve ever been told hot flashes are “just part of aging,” we’re calling that out for what it is: an incomplete story that keeps women stuck in unnecessary…
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127: Dopamine and Serotonin: Why You Keep Chasing More and How to Feel Steadier
Dopamine isn’t your brain’s “treat.” It’s your brain’s chase signal, and once you see that clearly, a lot of modern life makes uncomfortable sense. We talk…
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126: Forgiveness: Let Go of Resentment Without Letting Them Back In
Forgiveness has a branding problem. People hear the word and think it means letting someone off the hook, pretending harm didn’t happen, or walking back into a…
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125: A 15-Minute Journaling Practice for Resilience and Self-Compassion
Your week leaves marks, even when you pretend it didn’t. I’m Coach Sam, and I’m sharing a simple weekly journaling practice I call “Highlights and Heartbreaks”…
The Everyday Awesome Project124: Complicated Mother-Daughter Relationships: Love, Boundaries, and Distance with Nisse Noble
Loving your mom doesn’t automatically make the relationship safe, easy, or even tolerable. We sit down with Nissa Noble, founder and creator of Planet Gayle…
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123: You Are Not Your Diagnosis: Take Back Your Voice in Your Health Care
A diagnosis can land like a stamp on your forehead, and if you’re not careful, it starts running your decisions, your confidence, and even your future plans…
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122: 30 Days of Self-Hypnosis: What Changed My Fear and Self-Doubt
Coach Polly solo this week- talking FEAR and how it can be totally irrational and still feel completely real. I know that firsthand, and for a long time I kept…
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121: Don’t Wait: Stop Living Like Your Real Life Starts Later
“Don’t wait” sounds obvious until you realize how many of us are quietly living like our real life starts later. Today we pick up The Five Invitations by Frank…
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120: Taming Your Inner Critic: When “Not Good Enough” Runs Your Life
Coach Sam solo this week schooling on the INNER CRITIC! You know, that “not good enough” voice that can sound like motivation, but it usually runs it's mouth…
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119: The Overgiving Trap: From People Pleaser to Boundary Badass
If you’ve ever walked away from a hangout feeling like you just donated a pint of blood, we made this one for you. We’re talking about the overgiving trap…
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118: Hypnosis Curious? What Self-Hypnosis Is and How to Get Started
Odds are- you are probably getting “hypnotized” every day and not in the stage-show way! When you’re half awake in bed, locked into a movie, stuck in…
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117: Reinventing Yourself: Your Career Detours Might Be Your Superpower
Coach Polly solo today! Your resume might look like a patchwork quilt, and you might secretly wonder if that means you are unfocused. It's more common than you…
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116: 15 Years of Personal Development: What Actually Changed My Life
Your life can look successful and still feel heavy, tense, or unfinished. We get into the kind of personal development that doesn’t just hype you up for a…
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115: Manifestation in Real Life: Turn Your Vision Into a Plan and Take Action
Coach Sam solo this week! Here to share how a single iPhone memory cracked open a bigger story: what if manifestation isn’t magic at all, but the moment you…
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114: A Year to Live: What Would You Change If You Had One Year Left?
What actually changes when you live as if time is short? We open a year-long journey inspired by Stephen Levine’s A Year to Live and the Spirit Rock program…
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113: Build Your Capacity: Feel Less Overwhelmed and More Resilient
Coach Sam solo today! Tired of chasing endless fixes that leave you drained and doubting yourself? We flip the script on self-improvement by introducing a…
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112: The Art of the Comeback: Rebuild Your Life After a Major Setback
A wrecking ball can shatter plans, but it doesn’t have to shrink your future. We dig into the real mechanics of a comeback—how to move from shock and spirals…
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111: Why Change Feels So Scary—Especially When You Didn’t Choose It
Change doesn’t just knock; sometimes it blows the door off the hinges. We dive into the kind of change you didn’t choose—losses that upend your plans, injuries…
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110: Women’s Circles: How to Build the Community You’ve Been Craving
Swipe culture says you’re connected. Your nervous system says otherwise. We dig into why loneliness is surging despite endless “friends,” and how small…
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109: Self-Sabotage: Why You Resist What You Want and How to Move Forward
Coach Polly solo this week telling you that your goals aren’t failing because you’re weak; they’re colliding with a brain designed for safety, comfort, and the…
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108: Commitment to Yourself: Stop Waiting for Motivation and Start Showing Up
Tired of resolutions that fizzle by February? We’re trading quick fixes for a revolution of agency, and it starts with a bold commitment to self. Together we…
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107: Why You Keep Falling Off Track: 3 Keys to Discipline That Lasts
Coach Polly solo this week- helping you start strong towards goals without burning out! We take a clear-eyed look at why goals fade—especially right after the…
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106: Healthy Aging: Everyday Habits for More Energy, Connection, and Joy
New Year’s Day begs for a reset, but we’re not selling anti-aging fantasies—we’re building healthspan. We take on the loudest myths about getting older and…
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105: Permission to Be Awesome: Stop Editing Yourself to Earn Approval
We celebrate the season by granting a bigger gift: permission to be awesome. We unpack why pretending costs so much, how to spot inauthentic habits, and…
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104: Begin Again: 3 Steps to Move Forward With Self-Compassion
Coach Sam Jam Solo this week! Reminding you that the odds that you exist are staggering—and once you feel that, self-compassion stops sounding like fluff and…
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103: Feeling Flat? How to Rebuild Your Energy and Creative Spark
Ever felt strangely numb after a big stressor or medical recovery—like your pain is down but your spark is gone? We open up about the odd “flatline” that can…
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102: Holiday Health Without the Guilt: Food, Energy, and Better Boundaries
Feeling great in December shouldn’t require willpower marathons or food guilt. We map out a practical, compassionate plan to avoid getting sick and avoid…
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101: Self-Compassion: Be Kinder to Yourself Without Lowering Your Standards
What if the real performance edge isn’t tougher discipline, but kind and honest self-talk? Today Coaches Polly & Sam unlock the trap of chasing…
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100: Celebrating 100 Episodes: 2 Self-Love Practices to Try for 100 Days
Today's confetti is flying, but this work is deeper: 100 episodes in, we’re celebrating by giving you two simple, life-changing practices to make self-love…
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99: Heart-Brain Coherence: A 3-Minute Practice for Calm and Clarity
Coach Polly Solo this week! Stressed, scattered, or stuck in analysis mode? Here’s a powerful reset you can do in the time it takes to boil water. We walk you…
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98: Talk to Your Pain and Make Peace With Your Body
OUCH! This week Coach Sam shares the day her back said “NO” and how it can feel like when your life says “STOP.” When her herniated L4–L5 back discs began…
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97: Sober Curious? Rethink Your Drinking Without Shame or Pressure
Coach Sam here solo this week! Asking what if curiosity could change your health more than willpower ever did? Coach Sam opens up about gut issues, anxiety…
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96: Climbing Mount Whitney: What a Big Mountain Taught Me About Self-Trust
Bagging the peak of Mount Whitney, the highest mountain peak in the contiguous United States, is hard as hell for any human. But what happens when you get…
The Everyday Awesome Project95: 5 Mindset Shifts to Shed Shame and Build a Healthier Life with Kelly Thrush
An addicted body on the brink. A liver transplant just in time. And a life rebuilt through small, stubborn, daily choices. Another broken down body and brain…
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94: Your Year-End Reset: What to Release Before Setting New Goals
This week we introduce Coach Polly's RETURN TO THE LIGHT program and discuss ways we can all take a 'year end' release inventory in order to set ourselves up…
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93: Why I Do Hard and Scary Things—and How They Build Self-Trust
Coach Polly solo this week! Asking what if the fulfillment you're seeking isn't found on the easy path, but rather through the challenges that scare you most?…
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92: Byron Katie’s The Work: 4 Questions to Challenge Thoughts That Keep You Stuck
THE WORK: That is the convo this week between Coach Sam and Coach Polly, as they revisit Byron Katie's mindset transformation process they both experienced…
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91: Anxiety Isn’t Just in Your Head: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection
More and more of us are feeling serious stress and anxiety in these turbulent times. But your anxiety isn't just about worried and confused mind thoughts—it's…
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90: Are You Listening or Just Waiting to Speak? How to Connect More Deeply
The art of communication shapes every aspect of our lives, yet most of us never receive formal training in how to effectively speak and listen. In this…