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Soul Boss

Michelle Mainsmichellemains.com
I’ll show you practical ways to use soft skills to become the creative, wise CEO of your life—a Soul Boss! Your goals deserve more than wishing or willpower. So, skill up today with inspiring tips, tactics and affirmations!
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Episodes

Jumpstart Your Intentions with a Smart Push - Back

Does it feel like something is missing in your 2022 goals? That’s your instincts whispering you need to review, refine, and revise before jumping ahead. Click to learn how soft skills can help you avoid distractions and do-overs!

Jan 11, 20225 min

Jumpstart Your Intentions By Standing Ten Toes Down

How do you have big results this year? Pick intentions where you can stand ten toes down and put everything else on hold. Click to learn how standing ten toes down and soft skills led Walker Hayes to “Fancy Like” success.

Jan 03, 20225 min

Brush Up Your Setback Mindset

Has a setback made you focus on your faults? Don’t put the past under a microscope. Use soft skills to stop selling yourself short and get your healthy self-image back.

Dec 27, 20216 min

How Soft Skills Can Help You Handle A Harsh Goodbye

2021 may not be turning out exactly as you hoped, but there’s still time to act like the creative, wise CEO of your life—a Soul Boss—and take charge of releasing what has weighed you down. Learn how soft skills can help you let go of what has run its course. Give yourself the gift of peace.

Dec 14, 20216 min

Find Your Better Life

Are you getting whispers that something is only kinda, sorta working? Stop pushing yourself to YOLO and take it one step at a time. The soft skills of creativity and smart choices can help you get there!

Dec 07, 20216 min

Say So Long To The Sunday Scaries

Have you fallen into the swamp of the Sunday Scaries? Relax—soft skills can be your life jacket. Click to learn how Lady Gaga developed a list of tactics to help her address anxiety. You can, too!

Nov 30, 20217 min

Say So Long To Powering Through

Have you already made up your mind that you’re going to put your head down and power through the holidays? Learn how a 2-time Olympian used soft skills to take charge of her chronic pain and commit to feeling good.

Nov 23, 20215 min

Embrace Your Imperfections

Don’t let perceived imperfections determine your destiny. Use soft skills to embrace every shortcoming, mistake, and weakness—they’re part of what makes you human—and say so long to insecurities.

Nov 16, 20215 min

Own Your Approach

Are your emotions starting to get the best of you? You could be giving others a story to tell, and not a good one! Say so long to self-sabotage and avoidable conflicts by owning your approach.

Nov 09, 20215 min

Strengthen Your Confidence Muscle

Other people’s support and encouragement are wonderful, but you’ll get stuck if you only feel all right when others validate you. After all, no one travels with a Greek chorus singing their praises! So, strengthen your confidence muscle every day and say so long to self-doubts!

Nov 02, 20215 min

Make Clarity A Habit

Taking charge of your life isn’t about highlighting everything that looks good and ignoring everything else. Use clarity and soft skills to stare down what seems to be getting the best of you!

Oct 26, 20217 min

Keep Your Yesses And No's Plain And Simple

Do you need to change your “yes” button from default on? Learn how soft skills can help you say no to anything that feels overcomplicated. Say yes to keeping life plain and simple!

Oct 19, 20215 min

Answer Your Trust Alarm

Someone shouldn’t automatically make your shortlist, no matter how cool they are. Use soft skills to make smart choices before you get blindsided. Answer your trust alarm the first time around!

Oct 12, 20215 min

Define Your Go - No Go Point

If you don’t know your yesses or no’s, someone else will make those decisions for you. Click to learn how a few simple questions can instantly define whether you’re at a go or no-go point.

Oct 05, 20215 min

Accomplish Great Things Through Play

Have you fallen into a rut of striving and efforting? Try taking a fun, light-hearted attitude and rely on soft skills to power your results. Be the person who marries play and productivity!

Sep 28, 20216 min

Keep Your Character Front And Center

Has someone told you that you can only get ahead by doing things at other people’s expense? Don’t fall for that story. Instead, learn how you can use soft skills to bring your principles to life!

Sep 21, 20215 min

Be The Obstinate Optimist

Admit it—are you a little stubborn? Instead of putting your head down and pushing forward, redirect your will. Use that energy and stubbornness to your advantage to learn, expand, and grow!

Sep 14, 20215 min

Flip The Script Like A Visionary

Is your internal wisdom urging you to Be the Somebody that leads a transformation? Learn how soft skills will help you flip the script like a Visionary!

Sep 07, 20215 min

Voice The No Before You Blow

Speaking up isn’t just good communication—it is an act of self-respect and self-care. So, start advocating for yourself early and often using soft skills. Say no before you blow!

Aug 31, 20216 min

3 Smart Ways To Maintain High Vibes

True self-care isn’t about isolating or hanging out at your favorite nature spot. It’s about learning how to maintain your center in a loud, complicated world. If you’re getting baited into arguments, including squaring off with strangers, start using soft skills. Make the smart choice to sashay away!

Aug 24, 20215 min

5 Ways To Fill Your Stamina Tank

Taking care of yourself isn’t vain or self-centered—it’s an essential, shrewd way to meet your goals. Use the soft skill of healthy self-esteem to fill up your tank so you can keep going all day long. Respect yourself!

Aug 17, 20215 min

Streamline Your Day With The 3D Rule

Are you ready to release unrealistic expectations, guilt, and that ridiculous To-Do list that never gets done? Turn to the 3Ds: Do it, delegate it, or dump it. Use the soft skill of smart choices to advocate for your self-care!

Aug 10, 20215 min

Advocate For Your Peace Of Mind

When stresses and pressures happen, do you know how to advocate for your peace of mind? Click to learn 5 ways soft skills can help you respond when you feel triggered and tongue-tied.

Aug 03, 20215 min

Brush Up Your Stress Mindset

Do you feel like you need to fight fire with fire to be taken seriously? Learn how soft skills can help you step back from stress, anger, and confusion and find answers. Care without getting carried away!

Jul 20, 20214 min

Brush Up Your GSD Mindset

We all need to GSD, but are you the person offering clarity and insight that people love to see coming, or the hellraising steamroller where people sigh, “Whew—I’m glad they left!” Learn how soft skills can help you transform frustrated aggression into positive action.

Jul 13, 20214 min

Brush Up Your Communication Mindset

Are you tired of feeding the email-chat-text beast? Use the soft skill of making smart choices about what to say and when. Quit the Most Mail Sent club!

Jul 06, 20214 min

Start Growing Stop Stressing

When you think back to your pre-lockdown world, did you constantly judge yourself for not measuring up to others? Scorekeeping probably made you feel constrained, worried, and miserable, and that’s no fun! Click to learn how soft skills can help you turn the page from stress. Design Life 2.0 from joy and what captures your imagination.

Jun 29, 20217 min

Push Past The Download

Are you forcing a creative idea just because it’s the first idea you had? Refining is a natural and necessary step of the creative process. Learn how healthy self-esteem can help you prime your creativity!

Jun 22, 20215 min

Take The Detour

Are you feeling nervous that your post-pandemic life isn’t falling into place? Reframe this period. See it as a detour where you’re learning to stay open, curious, and teachable. Click to learn how to combine the soft skills of adaptability and creativity—make delays work for you!

Jun 15, 20215 min

Prime Your Creativity by Aligning, then Designing

Has Life ever tricked you, where you thought you were playing one game and found out later you were in the middle of a completely different situation? As you think about your post-pandemic world, you may be determined to reverse that curse. If you’re not sure what to do next, follow this simple formula: Align to what matters to you, then design your life around those qualities. Click to learn how the soft skills of creativity and smart choices will take you where you want to go.

Jun 08, 20215 min
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