Balanced Living with Jenifer Truitt

Hello! Welcome to the Balanced Living Podcast, and thanks for joining me today for Episode 20! After a nearly month-long hiatus — which was somewhat of a sabbatical as I traveled to Europe with my family — I’m excited to be back as we continue to explore the time-tested and scientifically based principles that help […]

Hi, friend! Welcome back, and thanks for joining me today for the Balanced Living Podcast, Episode 19! If your brain is taking in 8 million bits of information at any moment in time, how does it know what is important enough to bring to your awareness?  That’s where the Reticular Activating System (RAS) comes in, […]

Hello there! Welcome back, and thanks for joining me today for the Balanced Living Podcast, Episode 18! Today’s podcast comes to you from the road (literally)… with a review, or maybe “overview” of Hal Elrod’s best-selling book called The Miracle Morning. I’m a total believer in having a solid morning routine, and this book takes […]

Hi again! Welcome back, and thanks for joining me today for the Balanced Living Podcast, Episode 17! As promised about six weeks ago, I’m back to talk about how it went for me to eliminate the “alert notifications” from my life… meaning the dings and buzzes from my phone and laptop, as well as those […]

Hello! Welcome back, and thanks for joining me today for the Balanced Living Podcast, Episode 16! I love it when I’m reading a great new personal or professional development book and come across a passage that completely resonates with me, making me feel like patting myself on the back for doing something well! Right now […]

Welcome back, and thanks for joining me today for the Balanced Living Podcast, Episode 15! One of Mr. Zig Ziglar’s quotes that most resonates with me is is this: You are what you are and where you are because of what’s gone into your mind.  You can change what you are and where you are […]

Hi there, and thanks for joining me today for the Balanced Living Podcast, Episode 14!   This week’s podcast is a bit of a book review.  I’ve been inspired by Andy Core’s book called, Change Your Day, Not Your Life: A Realistic Guide to Sustained Motivation, More Productivity, and the Art of Working Well.   When […]

Hi there, and thanks for checking out the Balanced Living Podcast, Episode 13! This podcast was recorded and published on Valentine’s Day, 2018, which happens to also be Ash Wednesday… quite a conflict if you’re a practicing Catholic, since we’re supposed to be fasting and abstaining from meat today.  No steak dinners out tonight, honey!!  […]

Hi there, and welcome to Episode 12 of the Balanced Living Podcast!   I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that there are VERY few reasons that I can imagine running 3 miles on a treadmill at 11:30 pm.  In fact, I would be hard-pressed to name even three! Yet that’s exactly where I […]

Hi there, and welcome to Episode 11 of the Balanced Living Podcast!   It’s mid-January, and ohmygraciousgoodness it is sooooo cold!  I know, you friends who live in the north… you’re saying, “It’s WINTER.  Get over it!” Here’s my response:  “This is the SOUTH!  It’s not supposed to be this cold in the winter!”  (I […]

Hi there, and welcome to Episode 10 of the Balanced Living Podcast! Happy New Year, by the way… it’s 2018 and time to start rocking those plans we made together at the end of last year! If you happened to miss my last podcast episode, you might not know that over on my blog I […]

Hi there, and welcome to Episode 9 of the Balanced Living Podcast! It’s just a few days away from the end of 2017, so if you’re like most people, you’re probably starting to think about 2018 and what New Year’s Resolutions you’ll be making.  (You may not call them that; I don’t!  It’s just “goals” […]

Hi there, and welcome to Episode 8 of the Balanced Living Podcast! I’m super-excited to come to you today through iTunes podcasts — I was added to their programming just after I published my last podcast episode, so this is the first one that is going straight to iTunes!  (It’s the little things in life […]

Hi there, and welcome to Episode 7 of the Balanced Living Podcast! Today’s episode was recorded the day before Thanksgiving, which also means the day before all of the holiday season madness descends — but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this broadcast I’m sharing just a few simple ways you can intentionally […]

Hello, and WELCOME to Episode 6 of the Balanced Living Podcast!