Episodes

When Can Moving Forward Mean Stopping to Take a Pause? Whether you consider yourself to be an action taker or someone who tends to beat yourself up for not taking enough action, this episode is for you. In this day and age, we tend to equate physical action with productivity and progress. However, we often find ourselves overwhelmed or feeling stuck which can lead to anxiety, self-doubt and even depression. In this episode, my EPIC guest Jeffrey Williams and I talk about the critical (and often ...

Episode 24: When It’s Time to Let Go of Big Dreams with Sandra Nordstrom In this inspiring and thought-provoking episode, we dive into one of life’s most challenging questions: When is it time to let go of the big dreams we once held dear—and how can we embrace the next chapter in our lives with joy and purpose? Join host Meridith Hankenson Alexander and guest Sandra Nordstrom as they explore the emotional and practical realities of reevaluating long-held dreams while staying true to our authent...

Meridith Alexander's HOW TO CHOOSE TO LIVE podcast -- EP 23 A “Shero’s” Guide to Owning Resilience & Thriving Through Change Ever wished that you could meet a real live warrior princess? Well, today’s guest comes pretty close to making that happen! Meet Suzanne Lesko — often referred to as Xena. Her vast years of experience in the military combined with decades of study in the arenas of personal growth and leadership have given her a unique perspective on resilience and thriving beyond change. I...

How to Choose to Live podcast: Getting to the Heart of Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do with Special Guest, Dr. Mary Key Ever worried that you might end up taking your last breath wishing that you had dared to pursue more of those big dreams? How do we marry our skills with the passions that make our heart soar? Is it possible to incorporate both into our professional life? And as leaders, how do we set up those around us to not only reach their highest potential, but to fall in love w...

Meridith Alexander's HOW TO CHOOSE TO LIVE podcast -- Episode 21: The Recipe for Unstoppable Success with Guest David Habib of Yo’ Mamas Foods Is it possible for a 24-year old with a dream to launch a spaghetti sauce company based on his mother’s recipe and just 8 years later see his product land on the shelves of Walmart, Publix, Whole Foods and more? Join me, Meridith Alexander for Episode 21 of the HOW TO CHOOSE TO LIVE Podcast where David Habib, Founder of Yo’ Mamas Foods and I will share: -...

How to Recover and Respond to Impossible Hits and Challenges --Bonus Coaching with Meridith Alexander and her EPIC Side Chick Sandy Nordstrom There are hard hits and then there are those moments that feel so insurmountable that we wonder if we'll ever be able to breathe again without crying. Those are not moments when mere grit and resilience will make everything feel "all better". Those are not the times when "looking on the bright side" will make heal all. In this incredibly uplifting and insi...

Meridith Alexander's HOW TO CHOOSE TO LIVE podcast -- Episode 19 with Keith Anderson: Exploring the Alchemy of Uncovering (And Pursuing) the Real You Ever wished that you had been one of those who identified your purpose and passion early in life? Ever wondered if you’ll ever find that true purpose and passion? Is it possible that our purpose and passion change and evolve? Is it possible to fall out of love with something that used to light you up? In this week’s episode of the HOW TO CHOOSE TO ...

Limiting beliefs! If we don't know that we have them, how are we supposed to get rid of them. Most of them live deep inside our blind spots. In this clip from Meridith Alexander's HOW TO CHOOSE TO LIVE podcast, Meridith and guest Andrew Roby explore the #1 limiting belief that almost everyone has! Do you? Check out the full episode here: Ep 18 — Andrew Roby https://youtu.be/GotUqFpKkf4

How do we know when it’s the right time to pivot? How can we be sure that a big change will make our life better instead of worse? Many of us are afraid to pivot in our lives because we are afraid of failing or making a mistake. Often, the big change involves making some sort of investment and that can feel scary. Even when that investment is simply the commitment to believe in our own ability to succeed. When the investment involves time and money, that can feel like it increases the stakes (an...

Ep 18 The Pivot: From Biological Warfare to Fairytale Elegance & Events with Andrew Roby How do we know when it’s the right time to pivot? How can we be sure that a big change will make our life better instead of worse? Many of us are afraid to pivot in our lives because we are afraid of failing or making a mistake. Often, the big change involves making some sort of investment and that can feel scary. Even when that investment is simply the commitment to believe in our own ability to succeed. Wh...

Ep 17 How to Live a Never Give Up, Never Quit, Joy-filled Lifestyle with Meridith Alexander and special guest Travis Mills -- The HOW TO CHOOSE TO LIVE Podcast There are challenges that feel impossible. For some, we do our best to endure the stormy weather using grit and endurance. Eventually, most disruptive challenges do pass and we begin to rebuild our lives based on the new normal. In some cases though, there is no go backing to any semblance of “normal”. The change has been too life changin...

How Do I Forgive When I Can't Stop Thinking About It? Often, this means that we beat ourselves up for things that we now believe we should have done differently. In some cases, it's forgiving someone else or something around us -- perhaps an experience or event -- that we have no control over. Whatever the case, as an optimal performance coach who consistently works with high achievers, a topic that I often hear is "forgiveness." Here's the thing... It’s not your “external technology” that will ...

Is burnout a symptom of self-neglect and how do we avoid it? In our quest to live a life that we can say that we have truly lived, to show up each day committed to unleashing the most EPIC version of ourselves, how do we view the boulders that drop into our lives uninvited? How do we know when we should be taking risks or making changes? How do we find the courage to say, “it’s time”? How do we forgive ourselves for the times that we took the leap —and fell flat — and then repeated that “mistake...

Episode 14: Turning Instinct, Intuition and Intention Into Your Super Powers (I.E. Becoming Unstoppable) with Roben Graziadei If we aspire to consistently show up as the best version of ourself, if we want to live a life that we can say that we truly love, how important is “learning to follow our intuition” in the mix? Especially when it comes to making important decisions in our careers and professions, isn’t relying on instinct dangerously close to the boundaries of the “woo woo” — and possibl...

Success and happiness mean different things to different people. It can also mean different things in different times of your life. But let's face it: there are definitely times in our life when we don't feel successful and we don't feel happy. What then? How do we know how to choose to live so that we can start feeling truly alive and excited by the day ahead right here, right now? And what role (if any) does this quality called grit play in that process? Join me in this conversation with bests...

There can be a million reasons why the boulders in life leave us feeling anything but magnetic or charismatic. It can be the things that we haven’t yet achieved, things that we have experienced (or have not experienced), abrupt changes, disruptions — or something as basic as the thoughts that we think or the way that we interpret the words that are said. And yet, what if we can boost our personal magnetism but simply nurturing one quality in particular? Today, I’m excited to release another #bon...

In this episode we explore: The Myth of Resilience -- Are There Times When Being Resilient Still Leaves You Stuck. I remember the moment in the weeks after the boulder struck my daughter when I was sitting in Jackson Memorial Hospital with my daughter fighting for her life in the ICU. It was an epiphany moment for me because I realized that all the resilience in the world would not be enough. There would be no returning to the sense of normal that I had known in the past. There would be no stepp...

EP 10 Harmony or Disease — Demystifying Your Natural Potential to Heal, Enrich and Ignite Your Own Health with Dr. Payam Hakimi It’s said that our bodies are our temple, but for many of us, there are times when it can feel like our bodies are our adversary — a ticking time of hereditary illnesses and afflictions beyond our control. In today’s episode with the esteemed director of Body of Harmony in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Miami, FlaDr. Payam Hakimi, you’ll learn about: -- The harmony (or dis-...

From Dreaming to Doing: Solving The Mystery of the “HOW” with Marisa Murgatroyd -- Episode 9 of Meridith Alexander's HOW TO CHOOSE TO LIVE PODCAST “Choosing to constantly make choices outside of your comfort zone is a lifestyle.” How do you keep taking action even during those “stuck” moments? My guest today is an absolute expert in the science of inspiring people to take action so that they actually get excited about changing their life. Yes, even when the path ahead is unfamiliar and way outsi...

Ep 8 -- How to Find Your “IT” In Times of Chaos and Confusion with Jeffrey Edwards There’s a saying that you become the average of the 5 people that you spend the most time with— so how does that work in an age when we’re surrounding ourselves with hours of social media? …Especially when we’ve been trained to associate anything that we see in media as fact? Or when we become so skeptical that we don’t know how to identify truth from fabrication? And if we can’t find our truth or our trust for th...

What if you could never work a day in your life? To paraphrase the famous quote from Peter Pan, when you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. So how do you find work that you love? Or is that the wrong question to be asking? Can we find something we love in anything that we choose to do? In today’s episode, I have an EPIC conversation with Steve Farber, one of the original leadership experts who began advocating beyond the popular misconception that business isn’t personal. In fa...

Figuring out our purpose -- our "big why" -- can be frustrating and confusing. How do we know what will make our heart sing -- especially something that might even translate to a career where we can actually make a thriving living? In this episode, Katie and Meridith explore how our perspective might play a more profound role in uncovering our purpose and passion than many might imagine. What does it mean to understand our ikigai and use it to make our mark in our profession? And how can we lear...

How to Choose to Live In the Midst of Change, Unpredictability & Disruption. Some disruptions just require us to stay resilient and allow the storm to pass. Others demand that we go much deeper and find the Shero/Hero within ourselves. These are the boulders that change our lives forever -- and yet, from the dust of that pain and chaos, we may just learn the secret of how to come deliciously even more alive. February 19, 2016 was "that day" for me. A random boulder that had been on the side of a...

"The ground that I've been trying to attain my entire life by hustling more and doing more and achieving more... it's the ground that I've been standing on this entire time, but I was never still enough to see it." Caleb Campbell Join us for an inspiring conversation with former NFL player and West Point graduate, Caleb Campbell, as he shares his powerful journey from chasing external success to winning the inner game of life. Caleb opens up about his experience reaching the pinnacle of professi...