Self-doubt is one of the biggest dream-killers on the planet.
Not because it means anything about who we are, but because we believe it does.

In Episode 155: The Self-Doubt Hack, we break down a simple, powerful three-step process to work with self-doubt in a way that stops it from derailing your ideas, your confidence, and your forward momentum. Instead of spiraling or shutting down the moment doubt pops up, you’ll learn how to meet it with clarity, curiosity, and strategy.

This is a practical episode you can return to every time you feel yourself wobble.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why self-doubt is a completely normal brain response—not a red flag
• The importance of learning the language your body speaks to give you information
• The process of allowing your doubt without fusing with it
• How to look underneath your doubt to understand what it’s protecting, what it’s afraid of, and whether any action is actually needed
• How to collect intentional evidence and support building your self doubt tolerance
• How evidence interrupts the doubt cycle and builds new, regenerative belief
• When to do nothing, when to do something, and how to tell the difference
• Why this process keeps your ideas alive long enough to become real

Self-doubt doesn’t disappear on its own, and it doesn’t need to.
But when you know how to work with it, you stop letting it steer your behavior.
You regain access to your creativity, your courage, and the version of you who takes brave, aligned action.

Try the hack.
Use it this week.
And watch what shifts.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Intentional Evidence Collection (Ep 152)
• The Practice (Ep )
• The Bloom Room + Moxie Mastermind — for women making their ideas real

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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In Episode 154, we have some big announcements for new content, programs and courses. We’re also breaking down how to get ahead of one of the most important pieces of human wiring you’ll ever understand: the Motivational Triad.

This ancient operating system—designed to help humans survive saber-toothed tigers and harsh winters—is still running the show inside our modern brains. And even though it once kept us alive, now it keeps us stuck.

In today’s world, this default wiring creates a net negative in our lives. Because while it kept early humans from being eaten, it does nothing to help us build relationships, set boundaries, grow businesses, create art, change habits, or pursue dreams.

This episode helps you see where the triad is running your life—and how to upshift out of it using the prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that can plan, align actions with values, and make intentional decisions.


What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• What the motivational triad is and why it no longer serves the life you want today.
• How the triad shows up in modern life through people-pleasing, overworking, scrolling, sugar, avoidance, and staying small.
• Why doing what’s easy often feels productive (like overworking) but is actually avoidance in disguise.
• How to shift from your primitive brain into your prefrontal cortex to choose aligned, intentional actions.
• A practical exercise to analyze your current goal through the lens of the triad—and design a plan that actually matches the outcome you want.
• Real examples from my students this week: parenting pressure, overwork-as-hiding, holiday family dynamics, business avoidance, and behavior patterns we all fall into.

Once you identify where the triad is steering you, you can interrupt the pattern. You can decide how you want to show up and rehearse that response ahead of time—so when the moment comes, you’re already prepared.

We’re getting out of the cave.
Off the couch.
Putting down the Pringles.
And building lives we’re proud of—on purpose.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Bloom Room — weekly application of these concepts, community, support and coaching
• Moxie Mastermind — high level experience for women turning ideas into real things
• Self-paced courses — access to it all on your own terms and timeline

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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This week, we’re getting practical.

In Episode 153: Problem Solving, I walk you through a real-life example of using multiple tools I’ve taught before on the podcast—and show you exactly how to apply them when life throws you a curveball.

Here’s the setup: I’m hosting a three-day Lovefest in the desert for 80 people—an outdoor celebration that’s been months in the making. And three days before it begins, the forecast calls for…rain. Buckets of it. No indoor venues, no easy backup plan, and a lot of people flying in from all over the world. Meanwhile, I’m still working full time, parenting, and running life as usual.

In this episode, I show you exactly what I did when my brain wanted to spiral into overwhelm—and how I used my problem-solving toolkit to navigate the chaos calmly, strategically, and creatively.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why the first tool we reach for isn’t always the right one for the job.
• How to know which kind of problem-solving approach to use—depending on whether you’re in the emotional, strategic, or tactical phase of processing.
• Three categories of tools you can choose from:
  1. Mindset reset – shifting your thinking when your brain goes negative.
  2. Obstacle prediction & strategy – anticipating challenges and creating grounded plans.
  3. Emotional processing & curiosity – handling your inner experience before taking external action.
• The critical reminder that we never use tools and teachings against ourselves—no self-blame, no “shoulds.”
• Why making requests of others is often the final step, not the first one—after we’ve done our own emotional and cognitive work.
• How to reflect after the storm passes—so every challenge becomes a blueprint for your next success.

By the end of this episode, you’ll see how these tools come together in real time—and you’ll leave with a clear map for how to move from overwhelm to empowered action, no matter what kind of problem life serves up.

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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Every big change, project, or dream starts the same way: with a glimmer of possibility.

A spark. A flicker. A tiny inner knowing that says, Maybe this could be real.

But the second that glimmer appears, our automatic brain jumps in to challenge it. It points out everything that could go wrong. It shows us all the gaps between where we are and where we want to be. It offers scarcity thinking, worst-case scenarios, and doubt — not because we’re broken or unmotivated, but because our brains are wired to protect us from emotional risk.

So how do we stay committed to the idea?
How do we hold that glimmer long enough to make it real?

In this episode, we explore Intentional Evidence Collection — a simple yet powerful tool for strengthening belief, sustaining commitment, and keeping your idea alive through the messy middle.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why belief and sustained effort (not talent) are the greatest predictors of success
• How your brain naturally collects evidence against your ideas — and how to reverse it
• The science-backed role of visualization and future-self identity in making change happen
• How to anticipate obstacles and rehearse overcoming them before they arise
• The link between thought cycles, emotional states, behavior, and results (RT Model)
  How to use evidence collection to fuel aligned action instead of shutting yourself down

Your Invitation This Week

Choose a glimmer of possibility you want to nurture.
Write down every piece of evidence you can find for why it's possible.
Keep adding to the list.
Read it again and again.

Sustained belief + sustained aligned action = your idea becomes real. Every time.

And if you want support building the structure to do this work: jump into one of these

Start the Make Ideas Real Course — for bringing a meaningful goal to life
Apply for the The Moxie Mastermind — for women making world-shifting projects real in a sisterhood of the most amazing women you could ever choose to have by your side.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird
• Regenerative Thought Cycles
• Believe in the After
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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In this episode, we talk about the powerful truth that we are constantly training people how to treat us. Not through lectures. Not through convincing or explaining. But through the boundaries we set, the behaviors we allow, and the way we show up in our own lives.

Often, the patterns we feel frustrated by — being the go-to problem solver, the emotional container for everyone else, or the one who says yes more than we want — aren’t “just how things are.” They’re patterns we’ve participated in, usually because we were socialized to be helpful, agreeable, accommodating, or endlessly available.

The good news? If we trained people into the pattern, we can train them out of it.

With love. With clarity. And with zero drama.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• How we unintentionally teach people to expect more than we have capacity to give
• Why overgiving or overaccommodating often comes from subconscious beliefs about worth
• The difference between setting a boundary and trying to control someone else’s behavior
• How to shift patterns without guilt, resentment, or emotional explosions
• A simple sentence for kindly and clearly retraining expectations
• How choosing your needs doesn’t disconnect you — it creates cleaner, more honest, more loving relationships
• How the way we talk about our ideas sometimes matters more than the ideas themselves

Every time you say yes when you mean no, you’re training someone to believe your needs don’t matter. Every time you say no with love, you’re training someone to treat your needs as real and important.

You don’t have to become someone tough or closed to set boundaries. You don’t have to push people away. You simply have to tell the truth about what works for you — and stay consistent — so the relationship can reorganize in a healthier shape.

And every one of those things is true of the ideas we’re trying to make real. We are training people how to think about the things we create. We are creating reality with the words that we say and the energy we say it with.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
• Failure Tolerance
• The Bloom Room + Moxie Mastermind — where we build the internal capacity to lead our lives instead of reacting to them

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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Individuality is one of the greatest freedoms of our culture—and also one of its biggest traps.

The beauty of individuality is that it allows us to hear our own desires, define our own values, and express our unique contribution to the world. It fuels creativity, innovation, and self-discovery. But when the desire to be original stops us from taking action, it becomes an Achilles’ heel.

In this episode, we talk about the tension between wanting to be original and wanting to be effective—and why the world needs you focused on the latter. Because when we obsess over originality, we make our ideas about us. But the truth is, it’s not about us. It’s about helping, contributing, and using our unique voices to make the world better.

You’ll hear stories, metaphors, and examples—from surgeons to songwriters, from small community groups to global change movements—that illustrate this truth: the fact that you do the thing matters infinitely more than it being one of a kind.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• The difference between originality (ego) and effectiveness (impact).
• Why your contribution matters more than how “unique” it is.
  How chasing originality can paralyze creativity and delay action.
• Why it’s more powerful to focus on helping, healing, and building than standing out.
• A metaphor for how our individual actions can collectively turn the tide of humanity—like a flock of birds shifting direction together.

Right now, the world feels heavy to many people. That’s exactly why your contribution matters. Every positive action you take—every group you start, every song you write, every piece of art, blog, class, or community you build—helps counterbalance the negative.

Your voice will land with someone that no one else’s can. Your work will reach people that no one else could reach. And when each of us focuses on being effective, we turn the whole flock toward something better—one small action at a time.

Be one of the birds that turns the flock. Get your idea going. The world needs what you have to give.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Episode 1: You’re the one we want
• The Moxie Mastermind — for women turning their ideas into real, world-changing projects.
• Harvard Happiness Study — the link between contribution, connection, and well-being.

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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Most of us were taught that failure is bad. That if we fall short, it means something about who we are—our worth, our capability, our potential. But what if failure isn’t a problem at all? What if it’s the path to everything we want?

In this episode, we unpack what I call failure tolerance—the skill of building your capacity to try, fall short, feel the feelings that come with it, and keep going anyway. Because here’s the truth: when we avoid failure, we actually fail on purpose. We choose inaction to dodge discomfort, and that turns a 50% chance of failing into a 100% guarantee.

You’ll learn how to flip that pattern—how to stop avoiding failure and instead get good at it. When you do, everything changes. You stop seeing failure as evidence of your worth and start seeing it as iteration. Each “failure” becomes a puzzle piece in building something extraordinary.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why avoiding failure is actually a form of guaranteed failure.
• How to expand your failure tolerance so you can take bigger risks with more freedom.
• The two key skills that make iteration possible (and fun):
  1. Evaluating what worked, what didn’t, and what you’ll tweak next time.
  2. Learning to feel your emotions when things don’t go as planned.
• Why mastering these two skills opens every door—to creativity, impact, and possibility.
• A behind-the-scenes look at how I do a live “retro” (retrospective) on one of my own recent attempts, breaking it down step by step so you can apply it to your own projects.
  
  

We’ll also celebrate an exciting milestone: the first few women joining the Moxie Mastermind before enrollment even opened! This six-month experience is for women ready to turn one powerful idea into something real—with community, coaching, and deep transformation along the way.

Because when you build failure tolerance, you stop being afraid of getting it wrong—and start building the life, business, and legacy that’s been waiting for you all along.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Moxie Mastermind — 6-month group program starting in January for women ready to bring their big ideas to life.
• Retros are Everything — for a deeper dive into the reflection skill that powers iteration.
• The Practice — for building your emotional capacity to feel and process failure.

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

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So many of my students reach a point in life where they’ve checked all the boxes: career, marriage, kids, home, stability. They’ve climbed every rung of the ladder they were told to climb. And then one day, they look up and think—now what?

In this episode, we explore that moment of disorientation that comes after meeting all of life’s early milestones. You’ll hear why so many of us feel stuck once the path runs out, and how we can begin to build our own ladders, guided by passion, purpose, and authentic desire rather than social expectation.

I’ll share how I discovered the concept of chrononormativity—the belief that our lives should follow a standard, linear timeline of education, work, marriage, kids, and retirement—and how this subtle cultural force can keep us trapped in patterns that look “successful,” but feel hollow.

You’ll hear stories from my own life—dropping out of college to heal, having kids before marriage, walking away from a prestigious leadership role—to illustrate what it looks like to step outside of the “normal” timeline and into a life designed from the inside out.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• What chrononormativity is and how it quietly shapes our decisions and expectations.
• Why so many high achievers feel lost or bored once they’ve met society’s milestones.
• How to recognize when you’re living by someone else’s timeline instead of your own.
• A powerful exercise to create your next vision from a place of wild, authentic possibility.
• How allowing yourself to imagine something “ridiculous” can lead to your most fulfilled and aligned life.

By the end of this episode, you’ll be invited to question the rules you’ve been following—and to ask yourself where the “acceptable” timeline might be limiting what’s possible for you. Because when you trade expectation for imagination, you unlock the kind of freedom that makes your life feel worth every moment.

Write your vision. Let it feel bold, maybe even a little ridiculous. Because all great ideas do—until they become real.

Mentioned in this episode:

Chrononormativity — a term originally coined by Elizabeth Freeman

How to connect with Marie:

• On the Web | The Local Bloom
• Instagram: @the.bloom.coach
• All Things Marie on LinkTree

JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM!
We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!