In this episode of Positive Solutions 4 Life, Peggy Meyer challenges one of the most common (but misleading) pieces of advice: “Fake it till you make it.”

You’ll discover why faking it doesn’t lead to true confidence or success — and how it can actually keep you stuck. Peggy shares 5 practical mindset shifts you can make today to stop pretending and start becoming the confident, capable, and successful person you’re meant to be.

Whether you’re in sales, leadership, network marketing, entrepreneurship, or just trying to grow in your personal life, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you build confidence and success from the inside out.

✅ Why faking it creates insecurity, not confidence ✅ How to “act as if” by modeling the behavior of successful people ✅ Why copying success is not cheating — it’s smart ✅ How posture, energy, and voice shape your success before you speak ✅ Why your identity must align with your desired outcomes ✅ How small, consistent shifts lead to lasting transformation

✨ 1️⃣ Faking It Creates Insecurity, Not Confidence Confidence comes from competence and aligned action, not pretending. “Act as if” means aligning your behavior today with the person you want to become.

✨ 2️⃣ Success Leaves Clues: Modeling Is Not Cheating Modeling successful behaviors shortens your learning curve. Copying in life and business isn’t cheating — it’s strategic and wise.

✨ 3️⃣ Your Energy, Posture, and Voice Matter More Than You Realize People feel your energy before they hear your words. Lead yourself first with confidence, posture, and presence.

✨ 4️⃣ Faking It Keeps You Tied to the Wrong Identity Shift your identity to match your future success. Speak and act like the person you’re becoming, not the person you’ve been.

✨ 5️⃣ Small, Consistent Shifts Lead to Real Transformation Success is built on habits, not hacks. Model successful people’s behaviors in your money, mindset, health, and habits.

Identify one area where you’ve been faking it — confidence, leadership, posture, saving money, etc. Ask yourself: “How would the most successful version of me show up right now?” Then go model someone who’s already there. Learn. Adapt. Apply. Stop faking. Start becoming.

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In this empowering episode of Positive Solutions 4 Life, Peggy Meyer sits down with Mel Ferguson, a self-leadership coach, speaker, and mentor, to explore what it truly means to lead yourself from the inside out. Mel shares her powerful journey from being a teenage mom of four to experiencing a medical wake-up call that forced her to re-evaluate how she was living. Like many, she had spent years putting everyone else's needs first—until she realized the cost to her health, identity, and well-being.

Mel now helps others shift from burnout and overgiving to conscious leadership of their own lives—starting with self-awareness, emotional intelligence, healthy boundaries, and redefining rest. This conversation will help you reflect on how you show up for yourself and empower you to make intentional changes.

💡 Key Takeaways:

• Self-leadership begins with awareness and choice: How are you leading yourself today?

• Rest is essential, not a reward. Define what rest looks like for you—and give yourself permission to take it.

• Boundaries are self-respect in action. Start small, build clarity and confidence over time.

• Learn to regularly check in with your emotions and needs using tools like non-violent communication.

• Align your rest, work, and play in a way that works for your season of life—these aren't separate, but interconnected.

🛠️ Tools & Practices Shared:

• Developing emotional intelligence and practicing non-violent communication

• Using self-reflection questions: What do I feel? What do I need?

• Starting with one small boundary and celebrating progress

• Creating a “rest list” personalized to your lifestyle (e.g., walks, baths, nature, music, movement)

• Understanding how your self-leadership affects your family, teams, and impact

🌿 Final Reflection: "Leadership starts with you. When you lead yourself with care, intention, and self-respect, your life—and the lives of those around you—transform."

📲 Connect with Mel Ferguson: 🌐 Website: melanieferguson.co.uk 📸 Instagram: @meljferguson 💼 LinkedIn: Mel Ferguson on LinkedIn

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In today’s episode, we’re exploring how self-reflection is the key to winning your inner game and living with clarity and purpose. Life is like a game — whether you realize it or not, you step onto the “field” every day with a mindset, an attitude, and an approach that either moves you closer to the life you want… or further away.

Drawing on relatable sports analogies and real-life examples, Peggy walks you through the three essential phases of self-reflection — Pre-Game, Playing the Game, and Post-Game — and shows how each stage helps you show up better, stay present, and grow stronger in your mindset and resilience.

You’ll learn: ✅ Why self-reflection isn’t just important — it’s essential for personal growth, clarity, and emotional well-being ✅ How to use intentional questions to prepare your mind and body before important conversations, challenges, or even your daily routines ✅ How mindfulness during the “game” keeps you focused, resilient, and aligned with your values ✅ Why post-game reflection is where the real growth happens — and how to use it to break patterns and step into your best self

Peggy shares practical strategies and reflection prompts you can use right away to start bringing more awareness, courage, and purpose into your everyday life.

Whether you’re an athlete, a parent, a professional, or simply someone looking to live more intentionally, this episode will help you master your inner game — so you can create positive solutions for your life from the inside out.

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🎧 Tune in and start winning your inner game today!

In this enlightening episode, Dr. Theresa Smith joins us to explore the powerful connection between our thoughts, emotions, and physical health. With the insight that "95% of dis-ease is from what you think and feel," Dr. Smith shares how this realization led her on a journey to understand the mind and its ability to manifest health, success, and purpose.

We dive into practical tools and deep wisdom on how to move out of ego and into alignment with the heart, shift subconscious programming, and recognize where emotional pain is stored in the body. From grief in the lungs to anger in the liver, our bodies are speaking—are we listening?

She also introduces key concepts from her upcoming book, The Success Zones, a workbook designed to help you understand how your mind works, identify your ego’s tricks, and live from a place of alignment and desire.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

💭 Why your words and beliefs affect your physical health 🧠 How the ego tries to protect you—but can keep you stuck ❤️ How to identify and follow your true heart’s desires 🧘‍♀️ The emotional connection to body parts (e.g., lungs = grief, liver = anger) 📓 How to use daily visioning and journaling to stay focused and empowered 🌳 The “Manifestation Tree” and why you don’t need to know how—you just need to desire 🎯 The power of choosing between victim and power mindset 🔴 Why journaling with a red pen can bring powerful closure to incomplete loops in your mind 🌟 Why there is nothing wrong with you—just awareness, love, and the opportunity to choose again

Key Quotes:

🗣 “Stop telling your body where to hurt.” 🗣 “There is nothing wrong with you. You are not broken.” 🗣 “When you align with yourself, the struggle dies.” 🗣 “Thank you, ego, for your concern—but I’m going with what my heart wants.”

Dr. Theresa’s Tools & Practices:

• Enneagram to understand how you operate

• Clarity Process to ask: “What would I rather have?”

• Daily Vision Practice to stay aligned with desires

• Completion Journaling in red pen for closure

• Manifestation Tree to dream big and release the “how”

• Heart vs. Ego discernment and inner alignment

Coming Soon: 📘 The Success Zones – A powerful book and workbook to help you direct your mind, align with your heart, and manifest what you truly want.

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In this eye-opening episode, Peggy unpacks the real meaning of abundance—far beyond the financial definition. From the way we connect with others, to how we experience nature, grow personally, and nurture our spiritual lives, abundance is everywhere... if we learn how to see it.

You’ll learn: 🌟 What abundance truly means (and doesn’t mean) 🌱 How nature, senses, and simple joys can shift your perspective 📚 Why personal growth and creative experiences are key to a rich life 💞 The importance of emotional, social, and relational abundance 🙏 How spiritual abundance leads to peace, purpose, and inner joy 🧠 The difference between scarcity and abundance mindsets ✅ 8 powerful ways to develop and live an abundance mindset

“Abundance isn’t something you chase—it’s something you cultivate. It’s a way of seeing, believing, and showing up in the world.”

💡 Peggy also invites listeners to join her for Deepak Chopra’s 21-Day Meditation Challenge on Abundance—follow along on her Facebook page all month long!

Resources Mentioned:

• Deepak Chopra’s 21-Day Abundance Meditation (Available on YouTube)

• Connect with Peggy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PositiveSolutions4Life/

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In this inspiring episode, Peggy Meyer is joined by Pia Leichter, creative mentor, founder of Kollektiv Studio, and bestselling author of Welcome to the Creative Club. Pia shares her deeply personal story of transformation after the sudden loss of her mother—a moment that served as a wake-up call to live boldly, courageously, and creatively.

Pia dives into the importance of recognizing that we are the creative directors of our lives. Life is short. So the real question becomes: If not now, when? Through candid conversation, she challenges us to rethink fear, redefine success, and reclaim our creative agency, especially during life’s pivotal and “sticky” moments.

Key Themes in this Episode:

• How grief became Pia’s catalyst for courage and change
• Why fear often shows up right before a breakthrough
• The power of seeing life as a limited series—you get to choose your next scene
• Redefining success through the lens of feelings, not outcomes
• The danger of deferring dreams while “adulting”
• How to create evidence of your ability to change your life
• Why it’s essential to practice inhabiting the life you want—right now

Pia encourages listeners to step into the director’s chair of their own life. Ask yourself: 🎬 What’s the next scene you’re ready to create? 🎵 What’s the soundtrack? 🎭 What’s the wardrobe change? 💬 What’s the script? And most importantly—what’s the feeling you want to create?

This episode is a powerful reminder that you don’t need permission to live the life you dream of. Start now. Be curious. Celebrate small wins. And know that success is not a destination—it’s a state of being.

📘 Learn more about Pia’s book Welcome to the Creative Club, a beautiful guide to becoming the creative force in your own life.

🎧 Tune in and then share your #ConsciousCreativeMoment—What’s the scene you’re ready to direct in your life?

Connect with Pia Leichter: Website: kollektivstudio.com Instagram: @kollektivstudio

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In this episode of Positive Solutions 4 Life, Peggy Meyer invites you to take a closer look at what success truly means—for YOU.

Success is often portrayed as a lofty destination, tied to wealth, titles, or external praise. But what if success is actually a moment, a mindset, or a feeling you create for yourself every day?

Peggy challenges the traditional definitions and guides you to uncover your personal, evolving, and emotional definition of success. From recognizing small daily wins to identifying the deep emotional states we chase through goals, this episode gives you the tools to redefine and reclaim success on your own terms.

What You’ll Learn:

✅ Why the dictionary definition of success might not serve you ✅ How success is both internal and external ✅ The value of both short-term and long-term wins ✅ Why small daily choices count as success ✅ How your version of success changes throughout your life ✅ The emotional truth behind our goals—we're chasing feelings ✅ Key questions to help you reflect and redefine success for yourself

Reflection Questions to Explore:

• What does success really mean to me?
• Is my definition truly mine—or inherited from others?
• What small wins have I already had today?
• What feelings do I want to experience more often—peace, joy, pride, freedom?
• How do I know when I’ve truly succeeded?

💡 Key Takeaway:

"Success is not just about achieving something visible or long-term. It's about the small, intentional choices we make daily—and the feelings we create in the process."

📣 Call to Action:

Pause and reflect on your wins today—big or small. Define your version of success, and celebrate what you’ve already accomplished. Then share your thoughts with Peggy on Instagram or Facebook @positivesolutions4life!