Episodes

Mary and Erin revisit this conversation, where they reveal the liberating act of setting boundaries in our lives. Drawing lines between what is ours and what isn’t. What we will and will not do. What we will and will not allow to happen to us. How we do and don’t want to use our time and energy. Mary walks you through defining boundaries that reflect your values and intentions and help you restore calm and sanity to your life.

We naturally expect people in our life to be good, smart, and do the right thing. We rightly fuss and fume when they do bad and stupid things that hurt and disappoint us. We wish they could and should be different than they are, but we can’t control that. Mary and Erin reveal how to stop tormenting yourself about the disappointing things people do, and how to get over our hurt feelings. (Revisited Conversation).

Getting out the bad memories, negative emotions, and crappy feelings that have been haunting you, is the beginning of the healing process. Honoring and expressing your true feelings passionately and out loud, is key to your emotional healing process. Don’t be afraid to have the messy cry! Or to yell your head off. Empty your heart of the stored-up emotion. Mary and Erin will show you how to do the releasing that refreshes, cleans you out, and helps you to heal. (Revisited conversation).

So you’ve decided it’s finally time to ditch the anger, resentment, disappointment, and sadness from a bad experience with someone or something. You want to be done with the pain once and for all. We revisit this conversation, where Mary and Erin help you define the change you want and help you make the strong commitment that’s absolutely necessary to do the work that will make that change happen, for real.

If you intend to heal a big wound from a bad experience and find relief from the pain of it, you will be making a significant change in your life. Are you ready for a change? Change isn’t easy for most of us. Fear can hold us back from making changes, even those we know are good for us. Mary and Erin provide the encouragement and the practical stuff you’ll need to do in order to get ready to make the change. It’s worth it! You will restore your sense of peace and joy – no matter how difficult a...

We revisit this conversation where Mary introduces her awesome recipe for getting through and getting over the inevitable losses, disappointments, and mistakes we all experience, and for peacefully coexisting with annoying and difficult people. Mary’s “Eight Steps to Freedom” is an indispensable tool and life skill for restoring a sense of peace and joy whenever you feel angry, resentful, disappointed, and hurt by situations and people in life, including yourself. Episode Highlights, Ideas And...

Can you move forward yet, post-pandemic? How do we deal with the changes, uncertainty, and psychological rubble and debris that is still in us and around us? Mary and Erin take the long view today and discuss the gifts of a pandemic in human evolution, the current rise of people willing to view what’s good, and the perennial tonic of forgiveness to heal our disappointments.

You don’t need a lot of money to be rich and to experience great abundance in your life, starting today. Enjoy this meaty and encouraging discussion as Erin and Mary explore “the mindset of abundance and success” and the simple and transforming thoughts and attitudes that chase away the experience of lack and scarcity. If you stop chasing success, and fully enjoy what you have and who you are, as you play with principles of success and abundance in your own life lab, you will inevitably create m...

Do you worry sometimes that you are playing “too small” in your life? Or do you hold yourself back from your fullest self because you were raised to be a humble and modest person and told not to call too much attention to yourself? Mary says, “If the Universe is asking you to step up and shine brighter, then it’s the humble thing to do that, and arrogant to refuse it.” Our topic today, Humility, is surprisingly rich and thick with good insights. A new understanding of what humility really is wil...

When we feel stressed, overloaded, or scattered, it’s usually because our boundaries are not in place. A boundary is the line we draw and maintain that delineates what we do and don’t want in our lives; it’s that important line between who we are and what we intend, and who we aren’t, and what doesn’t fit our intentions and our values. Mary and Erin explore the role boundaries play in our daily happiness and sanity. In this episode, we take a good look at the gift of boundaries, including Mary’s...

Explore the delightful “playground structure” of Mary’s framework about how we recognize and empower our purposes: the paradox of relaxing AND getting going at the same time … the different levels of purpose that inform the song of our life, whether simple like a piano sonata or majestic and complex like Beethoven’s ninth symphony. Reach out and put your hands and mind on the tools of purpose: humility, will, intuition, and good boundaries. Plus, can you learn your life purpose from someone who’...

Even for a moment? Our wild self is the part of us that does the unexpected – acts goofy, initiates a harmless joke, breaks a rule, leaves routine to go “Walkabout,” or submerges spontaneously in a wild river or a beautiful rain. Erin and Mary celebrate the breakout moments that refresh us and encourage us to shake things up a bit from time to time. Surviving our own weird moments well is confidence-building; we also explore the behaviors that build confidence with highlights from the book The C...

Do you have any idea how wonderful you are? Or did you forget how good you are somewhere along the way when life got hard? Stop beating yourself up and depriving yourself of “your beautiful life,” and join Mary and Erin again this week as they explore the power of a commitment to self-love and to the active habit of self-forgiveness.

Erin and Mary lean in a little closer, a little deeper, into matters of the heart. Our capacity to know and accept ourselves enough to be transparent and trusting of another person is one of the essential abilities to cultivate in “your beautiful life.” Let your heart be nourished by this conversation – let our podcast continue to be part of your growth and flourishing!

The Beautiful Life class moves ahead in Module 2 into the vital and tender territory of Self-Love. What are the behaviors of healthy self-regard? Do you dare to firmly plant the new belief that you are “a cherished child of the Universe,” and experience the goodness that grows from that? What is “The 80% Rule”, and how will it help us to relax? Cuddle up with your darling self and this podcast and see how good you can be with being good, just as you are. https://maryhayesgrieco.com/

We continue our exploration of the topic of Intuition this week, with gusto for the subtle magic that abounds in everyday life; Erin and Mary give each other encouragement to let the magic be real, let it be good, and open up all of your perceptive senses to enjoy it. Hang out with them soon in The Benevolent Universe, and enjoy a conversation that pushes some edges about the things we don’t understand, but remains grounded in goodness and common sense.

In this episode, Mary and Erin chomp into and savor one of their favorite self-mastery topics – Intuition. What is it? How does it operate in you? Is it scary? Can you trust it? Can you figure out if you’re interpreting it accurately, and can you make it clearer and stronger? We explore some delicious questions, a practical framework, and good stories about your sixth sense. Find “My Beautiful Life” class on Mary Hayes Grieco’s website: https://maryhayesgrieco.com/

Erin and Mary hang out after class together, and jam on some of the ideas taught this week in the My Beautiful Life class, an ongoing zoom class with Mary that focuses on aspects and tools of spiritual mastery and living purposefully. Today we explore the power of role models, and the opportunity we have to grow when we actively admire the light and mastery of another person. We give a loving nod to the gifts of the Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, who passed away recently, and we appreciate “the co...

The “My Beautiful Life – Self Mastery and Life Purpose” class series begins this week with Mary Hayes Grieco and students from near and far on zoom on Saturday mornings this winter. Mary and Erin take time after class to jam on the podcast about a few of the highlights, the “golden nuggets” in her weekly talk. This week we set the table for a clear understanding of what it means to live like a master and some of the tools and attitudes that cultivate mastery. As the Buddha said, “Be a Light.” ...

Mary Hayes Grieco continues her Spark your Sparkle 2022 talk and riffs off on some of the astonishing data about women and confidence in the book, “The Confidence Code” by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. Reflect on the value of acting and failing and acting again without getting lost in rumination and perfectionism. Also, two other confidence-builders: bring alive again the energy of the best moments of you, since childhood, and dance freely just before you do something important that requires con...

Here’s an excerpt from Mary Hayes Grieco’s talk at the recent New Year’s Workshop for Spirited Women – “Spark Your Sparkle for 2022.” These good thoughts about what we are learning together in pandemic times transcend gender, so come on in, everybody, and enjoy Mary’s simple and inspiring point of view for this point in time. Enjoy the lovely visualization at the beginning of the talk about building a safe space in community to explore new thoughts … and imagine other people out there listening ...

Mary and Erin enter the dance of the New Year together with their Word of the Year (what’s yours?) Kick-off 2022 in good company with these two friends who support each other to become “soul-illumined people.” And hey! Mary’s got two classes coming soon on zoom: Spark Your Sparkle New Year’s Workshop for Spirited Women – January 8th, 2- 4:30 PM. My Beautiful Life class – 16 weeks on Saturday mornings 10-12:30 – open to everyone. Self-mastery, soul connection & intuition, loving yourself, and l...

It’s the New Year! Such a great time for the re-start, the re-boot, the re-set … but how do you stick with it for the long term? Maybe you gave up making a New Year’s resolution a while ago because you always fail at sticking with it. (Doesn’t everyone? How is it that we can FORGET our best intentions so quickly?!) Try this: boil your New Year resolution down into one word: your Word of the Year. This is a throwback episode from our first season. Coming soon: Mary and Erin discuss our words of...

At this time of year, as the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus, it’s a great time for seekers of all stripes to reflect on the consciousness that Christmas time is holding and renewing for all of us, year after year. Gain support for a renewed sense of human unity. This episode is from our first season when our podcast was called Life Gets Better Now. Here’s Erin Warhol and Mary Hayes Grieco.