Episode 1: Who and Why

Hello and Welcome to the Love YOUR LIFE Podcast- This is Episode 1 - Who and Why - 

I am Ronda Loveridge and I am thrilled to be here with you today!

I have listened to podcasts like it is my job the last 5 years, but this is my first time doing the talking. I Love, Love, Love the podcasting world with our exchange of ideas and access to them any time we want them. What I have to say isn’t new information but it is packaged in a down to earth way that is straight forward, no nonsense, and at times very personal. You will have the chance to really get to know me the more time we spend together, but today I will give you a short introduction.

I am a midwest girl who was born and raised in the Kansas City, Missouri area. I got everything good you can imagine from living in a small town and was surrounded by more love and support than I could ever describe. When the time came to launch, I was hungry to see the big wide world and spent the better part of a decade all over acquiring an education, traveling and growing. While I was out and about, I met the most incredible man. It didn’t take us long to see that we wanted to build a life together, and that is what we have done these last 26 years.

 I threw my all into raising our four beautiful daughters and before we were done, we added one son to wrap things up nicely. He has kept me on my toes as we have sent all of the girls off to college, travels, and eventually marriage for the two oldest. I graduated to the title of grandma thanks to the most darling little granddaughter this last year, and can not believe I am here, but so it goes. My world, like yours, is ever expanding. 

While the girls were little I worked in the language education field. I taught English to non native speakers from many different countries and Spanish to English speakers. I loved giving people the help they needed to express themselves in the foreign spaces they placed themselves in and took great satisfaction in watching people of all ages get the confidence they needed to navigate their worlds with their words.

The funny thing is that there came a time as the girls started to leave for college that I no longer had all the words I needed to talk myself through the transition of our family dynamics, and As life would have it, I was hit with multiple fronts of change at the same time. It knocked me out of my regular emotional orbit for a good while, and it became apparent that I needed new tools to navigate the changing landscape of my life. 

When I went looking for help, I found life coaching. The way the information was presented and the power it gave me to improve any area of my life that I focused on felt like magic to me. In fairly short order, I was back to myself and then some. 

I came out the other side with new insights and perspectives that have not only helped me embrace all the things that life has thrown at me since then, but I have grown immensely in my abilities to be responsible for my own thoughts and feelings, my relationships across the board have improved, my health has improved, and the amount of love I feel for my life and all of the people and things in it has overwhelmed me with gratitude. 

This gratitude I felt for coaching inspired me to get certified and start my own coaching practice. 

I have been at that for the last 4 years and the evidence that I have that all of us ordinary people can pull ourselves out of our darkest places and take control over our lives with curiosity, responsibility, forgiveness, and grace has multiplied exponentially. I am yet to meet a person who cannot be helped by learning the principles that life coaching teaches. It doesn't matter how wonderful your life is already - Coaching can make it better. Likewise- It doesn’t matter how hard it is right now - Coaching will help you make it better.

Because of this, I am on a mission to help everyone I can possibly reach to become aware of how powerful you are in the creation of a life you love to be in. 

In our modern world, we tend to chase after changing the things, the circumstances, and the people in our lives so that we can be happier. If you stick with me, I will teach you how to change your mind about the things, circumstances, and people in your life. Once you catch on to how this is possible, and start to believe that you are capable of it, you will never look back. Even when things happen to us that we did not choose, there is a way through when we remember that we still get to choose how we will respond. 

Viktor Frankle - was a holocaust survivor who we will talk about next week. For now, listen to what he said, Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

If you are like me, you will love the feeling of freedom that comes from continually growing in your life. As you become aware of old thought patterns, habits, and results you are currently creating in your life, you will then have the choice to change.

That my friends, is how you make your life a really really good life. You might even start to LOVE it!

Thank you for listening to my first podcast!  I hope you can follow through and join me next week as I lay out the argument that our circumstances do not define us.

If you can think of someone you love who would be great to discuss these ideas with, make sure to like and share with them. 

A rising tide lifts all the ships in the harbor at the - so let’s get as many ships in this harbor as we can!