The Regrets of the Dying, the Machine Mindset, and Remembering What Really Matters You’ve probably seen the lists — The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying. Regrets like: “I wish I had spent more time with the people I love.” “I wish I had taken more risks and followed my dreams.” But what if the real tragedy isn’t waiting until the end of life to feel those regrets? What if we’re already living them — every day — by back-burnering the things that matter most? In this episode, I’m reflecting on how easil...
Apr 10, 2025•6 min•Ep. 245
Author, executive coach, and personal branding strategist Amanda Miller Littlejohn shares a powerful reading from Chapter Six of her book, The Rest Revolution , and opens up about her ongoing journey to embrace rest in a world that glorifies hustle. If you’ve ever struggled with slowing down, even after realizing you're burned out, this vulnerable reflection will meet you where you are. Amanda explores the deep roots of our overworking habits and offers a gentle reminder: it takes time—and compa...
Apr 06, 2025•9 min•Ep. 244
Episode Summary: In this episode, I’m sharing a powerful mindset shift that came into focus during a recent trip to NYC. Over the course of 36 hours, I had three major visibility opportunities—two were amazing, and one totally flopped. But instead of spiraling over the one that didn’t land, I felt grounded. Why? Because I had volume on my side. When you stack opportunities, no single one has the power to derail your confidence. We explore why taking more swings is the secret to building momentum...
Apr 03, 2025•21 min•Ep. 243
This time last year, I was turning in the first draft of my manuscript for The Rest Revolution. While I still had many edits and revisions ahead, submitting the manuscript marked a turning point. It punctuated a season of deep personal and spiritual obedience. Just three years earlier, I’d gotten honest with myself about what was missing in my life. I had a gnawing sense that I wasn’t sharing enough of my own words, my voice, my truth. I felt hungry—for expression, for alignment, for creative pu...
Mar 31, 2025•19 min•Ep. 242
Click here to grab one of the limited February coaching spots →[ Enroll Now ] The current news cycle is so fast-paced and constantly changing, it makes it difficult to discern where to put your focus, especially when you need to stay informed about current events. The result can be a state of sensory overwhelm that can cloud your judgment and make it difficult to make decisions about everything, including how to navigate in your career. Restorative coach Octavia Raheem offered a powerful antidot...
Feb 06, 2025•22 min•Ep. 241
Click here to grab one of the limited February coaching spots →[ Enroll Now ] You’ve accomplished a lot. If you’re like my other executive coaching clients, you’ve checked the boxes of success—whether in your career, business, or personal brand. Yet, something still feels off. If you’re feeling unfulfilled but can’t pinpoint why, the answer likely lies in one of four key areas: income, influence, impact, or inner joy. Fulfillment isn’t just about achieving goals; it’s about balancing these four ...
Feb 05, 2025•24 min•Ep. 240
Thank you so much for tuning in to this special series of the podcast focused on my new book, The Rest Revolution: How to Reclaim Your Rhythm and Conquer Burnout When Overworking Has Become the Norm , which comes out in less than a week on November 13th. The Rest Revolution isn’t just about rest; it’s about the great realignment that is happening in this country. People are slowly waking up to the idea that good lives require more than work and achievement. Good lives require you getting in alig...
Nov 07, 2024•59 min•Ep. 239
It's publication day for Rest is Sacred: Reclaiming Our Brilliance Through the Practice of Stillness by Octavia Raheem! The new book is available today everywhere books are sold! Get your copy here . Thank you so much for tuning in to this special series of the podcast focused on my new book, The Rest Revolution: How to Reclaim Your Rhythm and Conquer Burnout When Overworking Has Become the Norm , which comes out on November 13th. The Rest Revolution isn’t just about rest; it’s about the great r...
Oct 29, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 238
Thank you so much for tuning in to this special series of the podcast focused on my new book, The Rest Revolution: How to Reclaim Your Rhythm and Conquer Burnout When Overworking Has Become the Norm , which comes out on November 13th. I’m thrilled to share this book with you because it’s my most important work yet. In The Rest Revolution, I explore how we’ve been conditioned to treat ourselves like machines and how this mindset leads to burnout, exhaustion, and a disconnection from our true selv...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 237
Hello, this is Amanda Miller Littlejohn, and thank you so much for tuning in to this special series of the podcast focused on my new book, The Rest Revolution: How to Reclaim Your Rhythm and Conquer Burnout When Overworking Has Become the Norm , which comes out on November 13th. I’m thrilled to share this book with you because I believe it’s my most important work yet. In The Rest Revolution, I explore how we’ve been conditioned to treat ourselves like machines and how this mindset leads to burn...
Oct 15, 2024•14 min•Ep. 236
Join me for Resonance & Relevance - my brand new storytelling workshop. Learn more and register here . Let me be honest for a second. I have encouraged clients to make themselves visible for YEARS. But some time ago, I began to question the point of it all. Yes. I had to sit with the truth of how tiresome visibility actually was - even for me. With all of the other issues in the world competing for my mental space and emotional energy, constantly courting the spotlight became exhausting. (Yo...
Jun 02, 2022•24 min•Ep. 235
Sometimes, you have to disappear for a while... It can feel oddly vulnerable to disappear from public view - whether your version of public view is social media, a public speaking circuit, or the networking rooms for your industry. But EVERYONE disappears at some point - whether they leave a job, lose a job, have a baby, bury a parent, shutter their business, lose their motivation, or like me, succumb to burnout. In the past two years, so many of us have had to step out of the spotlight. We’ve h...
May 18, 2022•13 min•Ep. 234
Imposter syndrome is real, but there’s a fix: radical self-discovery. Radical self-discovery isn’t just a nice to do, it’s a must-do. And it’s a must-do on a REGULAR basis if you want to step into the highest level of your purpose and live the most empowered version of your personal brand.
Dec 08, 2020•15 min•Ep. 233
On today's episode, I take you behind the scenes of the morning routine that changed everything and helped me OUTGROW my goals. This new morning routine changed EVERYTHING - the consistency mixed with intention helped me outgrow my prayers in 30 days. Many thanks 🙏🏾 to Kailei Carr @kaileicarr Ash Johns @ashinspires Monique Ruffin @moniqueruffin and Jereshia Hawk @jereshiahawk *** Welcome to December! How are you feeling about 2020? If you're like most of my clients, you may be thinking about w...
Dec 02, 2020•19 min•Ep. 232
The end of the year is the perfect time to manifest money quickly. Many people are thinking about how they want to make changes in their lives, or may be reflecting on what they didn't accomplish this year that they need to bring back into focus. This is where you come in. How can you position your skillset as the solution to someone's end of year problem? How can you make yourself top of mind for those who may be ready to work with you at the top of the year? In this episode, I share five speci...
Nov 25, 2020•22 min•Ep. 231
Another rewind episode finds us here. This one is a bit personal, I've noticed a pattern with myself lately. I've been getting these confirmations about the things I'm doing that correspond to practices and worlds I'm not well-versed in. I heard the same message from two different people in as many days so I thought - hmm - maybe that's a podcast! The message was - we are often affected by forces we're not even aware of. It all goes back to clarifying what you want and putting that out there whi...
Nov 20, 2020•21 min•Ep. 230
I’ve never done a rewind episode, before but I was reminded by how many episodes I’ve recorded (157 and counting, yay!) AND how everyone listening hasn’t necessarily been here since the beginning. And even for those of you who HAVE been here since the beginning, some episodes bear repeating, so here we are. I’ve been thinking a lot about the intentions we set and how even when we make plans, our intentions tend to make the real difference because we never know exactly how we’ll reach our biggest...
Nov 15, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 229
You can land a mainstream book deal during a pandemic without a huge following... 🤯🤯🤯 After working together in our PYGA Agency program this spring and summer, our longtime client and academy alum Amber Cabral , a diversity consultant and Fortune 500 trainer, landed a mainstream book deal with Wiley Press. It all happened really fast - Amber wrote the book over the summer and it will be released on November 17 in just a few weeks. Since preorders are such a huge piece of helping books do well...
Nov 03, 2020•11 min•Ep. 228
A little update about where the Package Your Genius podcast is going... I haven't sat down to record an episode of Package Your Genius in eight months and for that, I need to be straight up with you and offer my sincerest apologies. When the year started, I was in a season of searching that took me a little longer than it usually takes at the beginning of a new year. I knew I was on the cusp of a season of personal and business change - I can't tell you how I knew it, but I did know it. And for ...
Oct 28, 2020•21 min•Ep. 227
As a personal branding coach to high achievers, I have a special insight into the inner lives of many of my clients. And one unfortunate thing many of them have in common? They don't see themselves clearly. Their possibility and their potential for GREATNESS is often obscured by a lack of self-awareness. So they downplay their gifts, sell themselves short, and end up overlooked for the very opportunities they seek. Since the company we keep is important, and we base so much of our self-knowledge...
Feb 27, 2020•19 min•Ep. 226
This past fall, I had the pleasure of working with conscious business and brand strategist Ash Johns in Package Your Genius Academy. Ash has quite the bio; trained in corporate advertising, she's also highly spiritual and intuitive. Her spiritual talents and passion for social equity inform her current business where she works as a psycho-spiritual coach. Before entering PYG Academy, Ash was rightfully hesitant about money. She'd just returned to the U.S. from Bali, and her business wasn't earni...
Feb 20, 2020•43 min•Ep. 225
A common idea keeps many high achievers stuck in analysis paralysis. It's the inability to decide on a focus area because they are admittedly 'multi-passionate.' Every day, talented professionals fail to move their brands forward because they can't pick a direction. I've talked to many people who feel they need a separate website, distinct social media pages and brand identities for each of their passions. Let's face it - that's a lot to keep up. In my opinion, characterizing yourself as multi-p...
Feb 12, 2020•15 min•Ep. 224
Trying to figure out the next level of your brand? As much as you may think you need to start from zero and do something completely brand new, the key may be to go back to the beginning so you can see how you've always been able to summon success. Go back. Back to the early days. Back to those foundational experiences that defined you early on. How have you been always doing what you do? Too many of us are reinventing the wheel, thinking that "building a brand" means forging ahead into the futur...
Feb 05, 2020•21 min•Ep. 223
Activating a project requires a different type of energy than maintaining a project. You won't always have to work as hard to maintain something as you had to work to get it off the ground. If like me, you're a high achiever who's grown accustomed to striving, that may feel unfamiliar to you. But at some point, after you've put in the work, understand that the work will become easy. The trick here is to remember you've earned the ease. You don't have to tear down what you've built to "make it ha...
Jan 30, 2020•25 min•Ep. 222
This past weekend, I decided to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by doing a write-a-thon with my kids. We each have a dormant writing project that could use a little intentional time and focus - Connor has a new fiction project, Logan has a fiction/comic book project, and I have another non-fiction project in the works. So we dedicated our weekend to writing. All said we wrote for 6 hours 🤯 over 2 days - broken up in two 90 minute writing sprints each day. In between spr...
Jan 21, 2020•23 min•Ep. 221
One of the biggest lessons I've learned from nature is this: the leaves and flowers of any growing plant are not visible all the time. And the same is true for us as ambitious high achievers. Even though we may want to be perpetually "in bloom", that's not realistic. This time of year, it's easy to get swept away in the energy of a new year. Fresh starts. New beginnings. But what happens when your grand ambitions for the year have yet to surface? When your actual life doesn't match the hashtags ...
Jan 16, 2020•14 min•Ep. 220
For high achievers, it's common for us to become immune to our accomplishments. Before the triumph of a win has settled in, we're on to the next. After jumping a major hurdle, we've already mentally raised the bar again before our feet even touch the ground. The danger is that doing this creates a diminished and completely false self-image. We're BOSSES in the world, yet when we diminish our accomplishments we begin to mentally see ourselves as ordinary people who have yet to do big things. But ...
Dec 24, 2019•11 min•Ep. 219
I don't know about you, but I've never gotten really good at something without a ton of practice. And yet, when we get caught up in our perfectionism, we rob ourselves of the valuable practice that would make whatever we're contemplating, well, perfect. When we don't put ourselves out there, we miss out on the practice of sharing our ideas clearly having sales conversations powerfully articulating our value improving our timing and presence understanding what our audience wants getting comfortab...
Dec 17, 2019•12 min•Ep. 218
You don't need a perfect blueprint to lay the first stone. And yet, as high achievers, many of us would rather wait until we have the most failproof plans before taking the smallest action. But action, no matter how imperfect, will refine even our best plans. I learned this (again) recently when I decided to make a pivot. I went from hosting a one-day virtual event to hosting a one-month evening intensive after thinking through the needs of my academy alumni. But in this mindful pivot, I uncover...
Dec 08, 2019•22 min•Ep. 217
If you're anything like me, you've probably had a zillion ideas that somehow 'magically' dropped into your spirit - things you somehow knew you were supposed to be doing, or chances you new you were supposed to be taking, but you couldn't explain how you knew exactly what you knew. You may call it intuition, your inner knowing, God or the Holy Spirit. Whatever you call it, you know when you've gotten a direct download. But acting on those downloads is another thing all together. I've received cl...
Nov 20, 2019•17 min•Ep. 216
