Ken Bechtel is an author, speaker, and podcaster. He is the creator and host of Speaking of Partnership,a podcast with listeners in over 100 countries. In his recent book, Follow Your YES: A Simple Idea to Improve Anyone's Life, Ken shares ideas on building confidence and eliminating overwhelm across the full spectrum of life. He has invested over 20 years into researching and refining what it takes to make people thrive in this busy world and is dedicated to helping people expand into their fullest expression and live fulfilling lives.

Ken joins me today to discuss “following your yes” and how doing so can impact your life. He distinguishes the “internal yes” from the “intellectual yes.” He discusses why a “no” uttered from the deepest convictions is better than a people-pleasing or conflict-avoidant “yes.” He explains how following “maybes” over an internal “yes” makes us overwhelmed and overburdened. Ken also reveals the key to transforming your life and underscores how staying true to your “yes” can become a gift to the people in your life.

“The key to any transformation is not the first commitment that you’re going to transform, it’s re-committing when we fall off the track.” - Ken Bechtel

This week on Mastering Overwhelm:
Your “yes” as divine guidance
The decision-making process and how to distinguish whether it’s an “internal yes” or an intellectual justification
How feelings push us forward and guide us through life
The discovery of Only 10s and how to declutter our minds of shiny objects
The fear of missing out and how following your “yes” can become a gift to the people in your life
“Maybeland” and the importance of letting yourself be a beginner
Productivity, overwhelm and following your “yes”
How Following Your YES encouraged me to write Rising Leader

Resources Mentioned:
Book: The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfectionby Michael A. Singer

Connect with Ken Bechtel:
Follow Your YES
Speaking of Partnership
Speaking of Partnership on Facebook
Speaking of Partnership on Twitter
Ken Bechtel on LinkedIn
Ken Bechtel on Instagram
Email: info@SpeakingOfPartnership.com

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Ken Bechtel is an author, speaker, and podcaster. He is the creator and host of Speaking of Partnership, a podcast with listeners in over 100 countries. In his recent book, Follow Your YES: A Simple Idea to Improve Anyone's Life, Ken shares ideas on building confidence and eliminating overwhelm across the full spectrum of life. He has invested over 20 years into researching and refining what it takes to make people thrive in this busy world and is dedicated to helping people expand into their fullest expression and live fulfilling lives.
Ken joins me today to discuss “following your yes” and how doing so can impact your life. He distinguishes the “internal yes” from the “intellectual yes.” He discusses why a “no” uttered from the deepest convictions is better than a people-pleasing or conflict-avoidant “yes.” He explains how following “maybes” over an internal “yes” makes us overwhelmed and overburdened. Ken also reveals the key to transforming your life and underscores how staying true to your “yes” can become a gift to the people in your life.
“The key to any transformation is not the first commitment that you’re going to transform, it’s re-committing when we fall off the track.” - Ken Bechtel
This week on Mastering Overwhelm:
<ul>
<li>Your “yes” as divine guidance</li>
<li>The decision-making process and how to distinguish whether it’s an “internal yes” or an intellectual justification</li>
<li>How feelings push us forward and guide us through life</li>
<li>The discovery of Only 10s and how to declutter our minds of shiny objects</li>
<li>The fear of missing out and how following your “yes” can become a gift to the people in your life</li>
<li>“Maybeland” and the importance of letting yourself be a beginner</li>
<li>Productivity, overwhelm and following your “yes”</li>
<li>How Following Your YES encouraged me to write Rising Leader</li>
</ul>
Resources Mentioned:
<ul>
<li>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Surrender-Experiment-audiobook/dp/B00YOJ9RV6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+surrender+experiment+by+michael+singer&amp;qid=1668580080&amp;sprefix=the+surrender%2Caps%2C784&amp;sr=8-1">The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection</a> by Michael A. Singer</li>
</ul>
Connect with Ken Bechtel:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.followyouryes.com/">Follow Your YES</a></li>
<li><a href="https://speakingofpartnership.com/">Speaking of Partnership</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SpeakingOfPartnership/">Speaking of Partnership on Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/S_O_Partnership">Speaking of Partnership on Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-bechtel-68a9388/">Ken Bechtel on LinkedIn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/followyouryes/">Ken Bechtel on Instagram</a></li>
<li>Email: info@SpeakingOfPartnership.com</li>
</ul>
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The Mastering Overwhelm Podcast – How to Thrive in Business, Relationship and Life.You are successful. I know you want to enjoy it.This podcast is focused on supporting successful business leaders, like you who are stretched in all directions and feel trapped by crushing responsibilities.Our conversations will focus on:
Moving from constant firefighting to proactive impactful action.
Building deeper relationships with our friends and families
Making time for our mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

Join us each week to create sustainable, enjoyable success.

The Mastering Overwhelm Podcast &ndash; How to Thrive in Business, Relationship and Life.You are successful.&nbsp;I know you want to enjoy it.This podcast is focused on supporting successful business leaders, like you who are stretched in all directions and feel trapped by crushing responsibilities.Our conversations will focus on:
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Join us each week to create sustainable, enjoyable success.

How to Thrive in Business, Relationship and Life

Mastering Overwhelm

The Mastering Overwhelm Podcast – How to Thrive in Business, Relationship, and Life. You are successful. I know you want to enjoy it. This podcast is focused on supporting successful business leaders, like you who are stretched in all directions and feel trapped by crushing responsibilities. Our conversations will focus on:

Moving from constant firefighting to proactive impactful action.
Building deeper relationships with our friends and families
Making time for our mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

Join us each week to create sustainable, enjoyable success.

The Mastering Overwhelm Podcast &ndash; How to Thrive in Business, Relationship, and Life. You are successful. I know you want to enjoy it. This podcast is focused on supporting successful business leaders, like you who are stretched in all directions and feel trapped by crushing responsibilities. Our conversations will focus on:
Moving from constant firefighting to proactive impactful action. Building deeper relationships with our friends and families Making time for our mental, physical and spiritual well-being.
Join us each week to create sustainable, enjoyable success.

Following Your YES with Ken Bechtel

It’s been four years since I began podcasting. I started with Mastering Midlife, which later became Mastering Overwhelmas my coaching practice evolved. You have all stayed with me for over 400 episodes, and after countless solo conversations and interviews with my brilliant guests, it is time to close the Mastering Overwhelm podcast. I have been going around the world, having a blast, and learning about living life. But all great things come to an end—so that other great things can begin.

In this episode, I share what I hope you learned—what I hope I was able to impart—from the Mastering Midlife and Mastering Overwhelm podcasts. I also introduce The Rising Leader and describe how my Only 10s principle and career in coaching and sales are culminating in the next major project of my life.

“I hope you noticed my humanity and how rich it is now that I’ve learned to accept my humanity, my spiritual self, and growth.” - Mark Silverman

This week on Mastering Overwhelm:
My fourth year as a podcaster
Lessons I hope you’ve taken from Mastering Overwhelm
Introducing The Rising Leader

Mastering Overwhelm - Set Yourself Free to Enjoy Your Success

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It’s been four years since I began podcasting. I started with Mastering Midlife, which later became Mastering Overwhelm as my coaching practice evolved. You have all stayed with me for over 400 episodes, and after countless solo conversations and interviews with my brilliant guests, it is time to close the Mastering Overwhelm podcast. I have been going around the world, having a blast, and learning about living life. But all great things come to an end—so that other great things can begin.
In this episode, I share what I hope you learned—what I hope I was able to impart—from the Mastering Midlife and Mastering Overwhelm podcasts. I also introduce The Rising Leader and describe how my Only 10s principle and career in coaching and sales are culminating in the next major project of my life.
“I hope you noticed my humanity and how rich it is now that I’ve learned to accept my humanity, my spiritual self, and growth.” - Mark Silverman
This week on Mastering Overwhelm:
<ul>
<li>My fourth year as a podcaster</li>
<li>Lessons I hope you’ve taken from Mastering Overwhelm</li>
<li>Introducing The Rising Leader</li>
</ul>
Mastering Overwhelm - Set Yourself Free to Enjoy Your Success
Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Mastering Overwhelm Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.
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To New Beginnings

Bryan Post is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and founder of Post Institute, an organization dedicated to helping parents heal wounds created by trauma. Post Institute has published over 100 books, DVDs, CDs, audio recordings, webinars, and articles on parenting children who have experienced pre-birth and early life trauma. One of America’s leading child behavior and adoption experts, Bryan has taught and offered love-based, family-centered principles and concepts to over one million parents and professionals worldwide. He also currently serves as the Clinical Director for Parents in Training, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides wraparound services to adoptive families throughout Northern California.

Bryan joins me today to discuss trauma and stress and how we can manage our responses to them. He defines trauma and describes its dynamics in adopted children’s lives. He explains why the loss of someone close to us can cause a physiological disruption and why taking the time to grieve is important. He dissects how trauma causes us to become fearful and stress-sensitive. He also shares what we can learn as adults from soothing a child who’s having a tantrum at the supermarket and underscores how we can learn to work through fear-based anxiety and stress responses by practicing mindful breathing.

“All emotional reactivity stems from unfinished business. The moment you find yourself being stressed out, it has far more to do with you than the other person in the situation.”  - Bryan Post

This week on Mastering Overwhelm:
Bryan’s background and his passion for helping adoptive families
Adoption and why it can be a traumatic experience for a child
Bryan’s definition of trauma and the basis of post-traumatic stress disorder
Society’s aversion to grief and other negative emotions
How practicing mindful breathing can help us manage fear-based anxiety and stress responses
The allostatic load and window of tolerance
Addiction as a trauma response
The physiology of stress and trauma reactions
How to help soothe a child having a tantrum in the supermarket
Navigating emotional highs and lows

Resources Mentioned:
Book: The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life by Joseph Ledoux
Book: Peaks and Valleys: Making Good and Bad Times Work for You - at Work and in Lifeby Spencer Johnson
Book: Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson

Connect with Bryan Post:
Bryan Post Website
Post Wraparound
Post Institute
Book: From Fear to Love: Parenting Difficult Adopted Children Using a Love-Based, Family-Centered Approach
Post Institute on Facebook
Post Institute on Twitter
Bryan Post on LinkedIn
Bryan Post on Instagram
Bryan Post on Facebook
Bryan Post on YouTube

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Bryan Post is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and founder of Post Institute, an organization dedicated to helping parents heal wounds created by trauma. Post Institute has published over 100 books, DVDs, CDs, audio recordings, webinars, and articles on parenting children who have experienced pre-birth and early life trauma. One of America’s leading child behavior and adoption experts, Bryan has taught and offered love-based, family-centered principles and concepts to over one million parents and professionals worldwide. He also currently serves as the Clinical Director for Parents in Training, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides wraparound services to adoptive families throughout Northern California.
Bryan joins me today to discuss trauma and stress and how we can manage our responses to them. He defines trauma and describes its dynamics in adopted children’s lives. He explains why the loss of someone close to us can cause a physiological disruption and why taking the time to grieve is important. He dissects how trauma causes us to become fearful and stress-sensitive. He also shares what we can learn as adults from soothing a child who’s having a tantrum at the supermarket and underscores how we can learn to work through fear-based anxiety and stress responses by practicing mindful breathing.
“All emotional reactivity stems from unfinished business. The moment you find yourself being stressed out, it has far more to do with you than the other person in the situation.”  - Bryan Post
This week on Mastering Overwhelm:
<ul>
<li>Bryan’s background and his passion for helping adoptive families</li>
<li>Adoption and why it can be a traumatic experience for a child</li>
<li>Bryan’s definition of trauma and the basis of post-traumatic stress disorder</li>
<li>Society’s aversion to grief and other negative emotions</li>
<li>How practicing mindful breathing can help us manage fear-based anxiety and stress responses</li>
<li>The allostatic load and window of tolerance</li>
<li>Addiction as a trauma response</li>
<li>The physiology of stress and trauma reactions</li>
<li>How to help soothe a child having a tantrum in the supermarket</li>
<li>Navigating emotional highs and lows</li>
</ul>
Resources Mentioned:
<ul>
<li>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Brain-Mysterious-Underpinnings-Life/dp/0684836599/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+emotional+brain+by+joseph+e.+ledoux&amp;qid=1669099057&amp;sprefix=the+emotional+brain%2Caps%2C406&amp;sr=8-1">The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life</a> by Joseph Ledoux</li>
<li>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Peaks-and-Valleys-Spencer-Johnson-audiobook/dp/B001UL7NVM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=peaks+and+valleys+by+spencer+johnson&amp;qid=1669100147&amp;sprefix=peaks+and+vall%2Caps%2C378&amp;sr=8-1">Peaks and Valleys: Making Good and Bad Times Work for You - at Work and in Life</a> by Spencer Johnson</li>
<li>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Moved-My-Cheese-audiobook/dp/B07F7LS2ZW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=who+moved+my+cheese&amp;qid=1669100158&amp;sprefix=who+moved+my+%2Caps%2C317&amp;sr=8-1">Who Moved My Cheese?: An </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Moved-My-Cheese-audiobook/dp/B07F7LS2ZW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=who+moved+my+cheese&amp;qid=1669100158&amp;sprefix=who+moved+my+%2Caps%2C317&amp;sr=8-1">A-Mazing</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Moved-My-Cheese-audiobook/dp/B07F7LS2ZW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=who+moved+my+cheese&amp;qid=1669100158&amp;sprefix=who+moved+my+%2Caps%2C317&amp;sr=8-1"> Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life</a> by Spencer Johnson</li>
</ul>
Connect with Bryan Post:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.bryanpost.com/">Bryan Post Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://postwraparound.com/">Post Wraparound</a></li>
<li><a href="https://postinstitute.com/">Post Institute</a></li>
<li>Book: <a href="https://www.feartolovebook.com/misc-28687180">From Fear to Love: Parenting Difficult Adopted Children Using a Love-Based, Family-Centered Approach</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/postinstitute">Post Institute on Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/postinstitute_">Post Institute on Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanpost1/">Bryan Post on LinkedIn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bryanpostofficial/">Bryan Post on Instagram</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bryanpost567/?_rdr">Bryan Post on Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5-uTmUc1fDKFqVWHepuRQ">Bryan Post on YouTube</a></li>
</ul>
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Stress and Trauma in Adults and Adopted Children with Bryan Post

Simon Leslie is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ink, a global travel media company dedicated to connecting companies with travelers. Throughout the years, Simon and his team have worked to build the company to over $100 million—only for the COVID-19 pandemic to ravage its business and products. Nevertheless, Simon continues to rebuild Ink to be even larger and more profitable. In his book, Equanimity: The Diary of a CEO in Crisis, Simon shares all he’s learned from the pandemic. He is also the author of White Belt Thinking: The Hero’s Journey. A Story of Living with a Beginner’s Mind and There is no F in Sales: A Book About Selling in Every Market Condition.

Simon joins me today to share his wisdom, equanimity, and poetry. He describes how the COVID-19 pandemic turned his life and business upside down and how he remained equanimous through it. He discusses the work he has done to become more centered, grounded, and open-hearted. He also underscores the importance of improving your imagination and dreams and highlights the power of gratitude.

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Simon Leslie

This week on Mastering Overwhelm:
The many failures in Simon’s life
Ink’s business in travel advertising and how COVID-19 impacted the company
Why Simon started writing poetry
How poetry became a creative escape for Simon during the pandemic
How Simon found equanimity amid the COVID-19 crisis
The relationship between problems and opportunities
Why Simon thinks people who don’t want problems aren’t living to their fullest potential
Living in the downside and the lifelong process of becoming grounded and centered
Having a miserable life despite being successful and wealthy
Radical candor and training the bravery muscle every day
Why the pursuit of happiness is unhappiness
Becoming more compassionate and open-hearted

Connect with Simon Leslie:
Simon Leslie Website
Ink Global
Book: Equanimity: The Diary of a CEO in Crisis
Book: White Belt Thinking: The Hero’s Journey. A Story of Living with a Beginner’s Mind
Book: There is no F in Sales: A Book About Selling in Every Market Condition
Ink on LinkedIn
Simon Leslie on LinkedIn
The Motivational Poet on Instagram



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Simon Leslie is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ink, a global travel media company dedicated to connecting companies with travelers. Throughout the years, Simon and his team have worked to build the company to over $100 million—only for the COVID-19 pandemic to ravage its business and products. Nevertheless, Simon continues to rebuild Ink to be even larger and more profitable. In his book, Equanimity: The Diary of a CEO in Crisis, Simon shares all he’s learned from the pandemic. He is also the author of White Belt Thinking: The Hero’s Journey. A Story of Living with a Beginner’s Mind and There is no F in Sales: A Book About Selling in Every Market Condition.
Simon joins me today to share his wisdom, equanimity, and poetry. He describes how the COVID-19 pandemic turned his life and business upside down and how he remained equanimous through it. He discusses the work he has done to become more centered, grounded, and open-hearted. He also underscores the importance of improving your imagination and dreams and highlights the power of gratitude.
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Simon Leslie
This week on Mastering Overwhelm:
<ul>
<li>The many failures in Simon’s life</li>
<li>Ink’s business in travel advertising and how COVID-19 impacted the company</li>
<li>Why Simon started writing poetry</li>
<li>How poetry became a creative escape for Simon during the pandemic</li>
<li>How Simon found equanimity amid the COVID-19 crisis</li>
<li>The relationship between problems and opportunities</li>
<li>Why Simon thinks people who don’t want problems aren’t living to their fullest potential</li>
<li>Living in the downside and the lifelong process of becoming grounded and centered</li>
<li>Having a miserable life despite being successful and wealthy</li>
<li>Radical candor and training the bravery muscle every day</li>
<li>Why the pursuit of happiness is unhappiness</li>
<li>Becoming more compassionate and open-hearted</li>
</ul>
Connect with Simon Leslie:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.luckyleslie.com/">Simon Leslie Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ink-global.com/">Ink Global</a></li>
<li>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Equanimity-Diary-Crisis-Simon-Leslie/dp/1916105130">Equanimity: The Diary of a CEO in Crisis</a></li>
<li>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Belt-Thinking-journey-beginners/dp/1916105122/ref=pd_sbs_sccl_1/260-7665832-4089824?pd_rd_w=tLGoV&amp;pf_rd_p=c07415a0-09a7-4604-aaca-c3fcee246443&amp;pf_rd_r=G8DQGDR1JS5RBRQWA6BP&amp;pd_rd_r=5aca5b26-29e0-44f5-a3dd-78838282451f&amp;pd_rd_wg=vzwsV&amp;pd_rd_i=1916105122&amp;psc=1">White Belt Thinking: The Hero’s Journey. A Story of Living with a Beginner’s Mind</a></li>
<li>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/There-Sales-selling-market-condition/dp/1916105106/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=no+f+in+sales&amp;qid=1566911923&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1">There is no F in Sales: A Book About Selling in Every Market Condition</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/222962/">Ink on LinkedIn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-leslie-b252b92/">Simon Leslie on LinkedIn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/themotivationalpoet/">The Motivational Poet on Instagram</a></li>
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