Simple Steps Real Change on Empower Radio

What is the one question you keep turning over in your mind. That thing that sticks with you even when you know that answer isn’t coming your way? Why? Yes, Why? Why did my life end up this way? Why are they living the good life and I’m making ends meet? Why did he die and I lived? Why am I alone? Why? If you are stuck in the “why” space then tune in and discover how you can let go of the “Why” in your life and choose to ask “What” instead. Learn the Simple Steps to turning your stress and your regrets into your motivation and your power. Tune in and turn your attitude in the direction of your happiness.

Do you think you’ll be happy when you meet the perfect guy or girl, have the best job, the nicest home, the fastest car? What about until then? Are you destined to be less than something? Less than happy, less than fulfilled? Less than anything you have the right to be? What are you waiting for, really? Do you think you need permission, forgiveness, absolution? What are you waiting for? Motivation, energy, time? We spend our lives on hold or at least we tread water going nowhere. We think there will be time... until there isn’t. Are you ready to live your dream, explore you wild side, experience life beyond what your days have become? If you are then this show is for you. If you are ready, seriously ready tune in and explore the Simple Steps to move yourself out of your holding pattern and into the life you want to live.

Are you always thinking about what happened in your past and how you miss it or regret it? Or are you one of those people who worries about what might, possibly, happen in the future? Do you make decisions only have running through all the “What Ifs”? When was the last time you were able to let go of the past and forgo the future and just live in the moment? If you live you life in the before’s and after’s you sacrifice the only thing you really have, the now. If you’re ready to seize the moment, walk forward in faith and stay grounded in this amazing life then tune in today’s show as Cheryl discusses the freedom of being present for this moment in life. Learn how to climb out of your worries and fears and ground your happiness in this very moment. Discover how making that single choice releases the past and places the future in perspective. Are you ready?

Are you living or are you existing? Are you happy with your life? Are you content? Or are you just putting one foot in front of the other and hoping you’ll end up somewhere better than where you are right now? When we’ve been through life challenges we forget what its life to laugh, to enjoy the moment, to care. If you are finding yourself in that place of feeling nothing this show is for you. Tune in as Cheryl talks about how to find your way to anywhere other than where you feel stuck at. Discover how you can move yourself in the directions of your happiness.

Do you feel like you’re back at square one when you thought you’d be living out your golden years with ease? Did your life take a tumble or two and you’re upside down, you think? When we face the unexpected and the unthinkable we have a decision to make. Are we going to let it bury us or will we rise above it? Those are all easy concepts to understand if you’re not the one seeing your life from a dark and scary place. If you’re in that place you never imagined or wanted yourself to be join Cheryl & her guest Meredith Maran, author of The New Old Me, in a continuing conversation about navigating the rough waters of starting over later in life

Do you ever find yourself looking at someone else’s life and wondering why they seem to be so blessed and why aren’t you? If only you’d taken that job, moved to California, married that guy your life would be so different. Do you feel like you’re not living the life you want to, should be or are meant to? When we think of our lives in terms of what if we somehow feel like we’ve failed or are less than someone who seems to have what we want. Join Cheryl on today’s show as she strips down the “What If’s” to reveal “WOW’s you might be overlooking.

Are you living life solo and not sure what to do with yourself? Are you hesitant to go out alone even for a nice meal? Do you hate leaving your house because the thought of being alone scares you? Just because you’re going it alone doesn’t mean you have to spend the rest of your life lonely. Whether you are single by choice, by divorce or because your significant other passed it can be hard to walk out your front door let alone make new friends or to even go out with old friends. Newly solo at the age of 60 Cheryl went from her parent’s home to a home with her husband. Living life alone sometimes after years of never being alone is journey far outside your comfort zone. Tune in to today’s show and learn how a few very Simple Steps can be the breakthrough you need to enjoy your life again. Discover the new route to your happiness in embracing your new-found freedom even if you never wanted to go it alone.

Is there something in your past that haunts you today? Do you think that “if only” you’d made a different decision, been in another place, pursued a different passion that your life would be happier, more fulfilled, better? Do you live with your regrets? Every decision, every event, ever path we walked led us to where we are today. While you can’t go back and change it you can choose to see it differently. Just like two people can see any situation from completely different perspectives and you can see your life until now from a different and powerful vantage point. On today’s show Cheryl shares how taking a journey back in time for the purpose of re-framing your past can change your now and your future. Tune in and learn the Simple Steps to a place you’ve never been and could not even discover except for your willingness to explore your life in reverse.

You’ve survived the tough times and lived to tell about it.You’ve hit rock bottom and been taken down by the worst life has to offer but you’re still standing. Now its time to put the past in its place and focus your next steps on the best life has to offer you. Perhaps it took the worst for you to be able to even see the best but now you know what you don’t want. You know what isn’t worth it any more and you’re ready to let the good times roll! On today’s show we’re going to talk about how to recognize the good, to embrace it, expect it and to honor it. If you’ve just come up off of rock bottom you may be skeptical of anything that looks good. You’re waiting for something bad to happen, for that other shoe to drop. Tune in the learn how to abandon those fears and use the lessons of your past to celebrate the now.If you’re ready to get your happy on then join Cheryl and explore the Best Life Has to Offer You!

On today’s show, the last in an 8 part series “Challenges - Surviving to Thriving The Worst Life Has To Offer,” join Cheryl and celebrate your journey. Even when we realize we’ve made it through a trip from hell we need to take the time to appreciate our strength and our resolve. We are changed by what we’ve been through. Discover that the person you are now is amazing, powerful and who you were meant to be. Celebrate the new you!

When you find yourself on the other side of the worst life has to offer what have you learned? Do you feel like you survived it but you are still in the same place you were before you made the trip? What do you want to do with your life now that you’re not in the middle of your pain and the drama? On today’s show, the 7th in an 8 part series “Challenges - Surviving to Thriving The Worst Life Has To Offer” we’re talking about what this experience has taught you about yourself and about life. When you don’t want to revert back to your old life tune in for the Simple Steps to help you use your experience to transform your life into more. Learn how to leverage your new found knowledge to laugh again, love again and be open to the infinite possibilities that you didn’t know you had and may not have. It’s all about harnessing the power you acquired from the worst life offered you.

When we start to come out of the worst life has to offer something happens that can knock us back down yet again. We get up again and again but it just seems like there’s a target on our back. Friends and family say something that reminds us of our failings or our losses and any progress we have made evaporates. On today’s show, the 6th in an 8 part Series - “Challenges - Surviving to Thriving The Worst Life Has To Offer” you’ll learn now to diffuse the naysayers and rise above the drama they create. Discover the Simple Steps to harness the power from what you didn’t expect and use it to move through your pain even faster. If you are determined to make a better life for yourself this show will motivate you to use everything that is thrown at you as stepping stones for a happier now.

When you go through the worse life has to offer it’s easy to be angry, frustrating, resentful and so many other emotions that leave you being less than your best. It’s easy to lash out at others when we’re dealing with the crap. Unfortunately doing so magnifies our own pain and makes our ability get through the challenges harder. On today’s show, the 5th in the eight part series Challenges - Surviving to Thriving the Worst Life Has To Offer, We’re talking about living with Grace when you don’t even have the energy to be nice. Learn the Simple Steps to finding gratitude even in when you aren’t and discover how being humble in the face of fear and embarrassment diffuses both and strengthens your resolve.

Now that the initial shock from experiencing the worst life has to offer has settled in you realize that you need to do something. Unfortunately you’re walking through foreign territory and you don’t know what to expect let alone what to do. So much has changed in your life of late and everything you believed in is in question. Unless you’ve been fired, bankrupt, divorced or widowed more than once you don’t have a clue what happens now or next. In today’s show, the 4th in the series Challenges: Surviving to Thriving the Worst Life Has to Offer, we’re going to explore what happens now and next for you. Cheryl opens up the discussion with traversing the paths of financial devastation from job loss, foreclosure & bankruptcy to losing your financial security. Discover what you can do to empower your next steps through education and professional help. Whether from a job loss or divorce what you do now and next matters for your future peace of mind. If your dealing with the death of a loved one tune it to understand that while your solo journey may be unique it is also forged by your choices. Regardless of what the worst has been for you listen in and pick up a Simple Step or two that will make what happens now and next just a little bit easier. And you need that!

When your life has been turned upside by the worst life has to offer you find yourself floundering in a sea of emotions. Whether you are reeling from the reality of your divorce, job loss, or any other life changing event that you never wanted or expected your pulled and pushed to extremes. This is the 3rd in the eight part series Challenges - Surviving to Thriving the Worst Life Has To Offer. Today we’re talking about Avoiding the Pendulum Swings. On any given day the emotions you are experiencing can plummet you into the abyss. Five minutes later something could change and you feel almost happy again (or maybe for the first time). With every high though you begin to expect to crash again. You fear the good times because you know the other shoe is about to drop. Tune in to learn the Simple Steps to smooth out the highs and lows and to pivot on your path in ways that will enable you to be confident and secure in what comes next.