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Bloom Your Mind
by Marie McDonald
We all think and talk about what we’ll do someday, but what if that someday could start right now? If there’s a change you want to make in yourself, in your life, or an idea that you have that you want to make real … this podcast is for you. After 20 years leading and coaching innovators, Certified Coach Marie McDonald is breaking down how great change-makers think so you can do what they do and take your ideas out of your head and into the world where they belong. We’ll teach you how to stop trying to get other people to like you and your ideas, and how to be your own biggest fan instead. You’ll learn how to ditch the drama and have fun with failure, to stop taking things personally, and to get out of anxiety and into decisive action when you don’t even know how or what you’re doing yet. Marie has used this work to go from bar tender to Vice President, to create the family of her dreams, and to start a multiple six-figure business from scratch within eight months. Whether you want
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Blue Sky Thinking
Episode 191: Blue Sky Thinking Marie opens this episode with two stories. First: the time she wore a wig made entirely of live flowers for her brand photoshoot — heavy, fragrant, slipping sideways — and came away with the image that became the signature of this podcast. Second: the time she ended...
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Ep 190: Be Delusional
Marie opens this episode fresh from a weekend in Ventura watching her husband — torn meniscus and all, after barely two rehearsals — get on stage in front of over a thousand people and absolutely nail a reunion show in honor of a beloved friend they lost this year. Was it a little delusional to…
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Ep 189: The Buzz - How to Tap Into Your Internal Compass
This episode has been peeking around every corner, asking Marie to make it. It kept coming up in groups, in conversations, in the book she's writing. And today she's finally giving it its own space — because these stories and this practice are some of the most powerful things she's ever…
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Ep 188: Five Contradictions That Will Change Your Life and Change the World
Marie just got back from 8 days in Sardinia and Milan with 9 women — most of them strangers — celebrating one woman's 50th birthday in a villa on one of the most breathtaking islands in the world. She knew two people going in. She's keeping all of them. And somewhere between turquoise waters,...
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Ep 187: The Four Tools That Change Everything
After 187 episodes, Marie has noticed something. Every methodology, every thought leader, every spiritual practice, every goal-setting framework is essentially teaching the same three or four things. The problem? They tell you what to work on but rarely tell you how to actually do it. This…
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Ep 186: Follow the Niggle
Marie just said yes to writing her book. In six months. Alongside her daughter, who is also writing a book. And she's here to tell you exactly how that happened — and why the sequence of events that followed her yes was nothing short of magic. But first, she needs to talk about your elephant.…
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Ep 185: September Is the New 'New Year'
It's almost September — where are the fireworks? For most of us, fall is a much bigger New Year than January ever will be. In this episode, Marie makes the case for why September actually feels like the biggest reset button in the year, and what it takes to make sure that reset doesn't just get...
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Ep 184: Problems Are the Point
Marie is recording this one from a pink house in Sequim on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, with ocean out every window and a ten-year-old Jack Sparrow jumping off rocks on their own private beach. She's in full August mode — off, on the road, and completely in it with her kids. But she's got a story...
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Ep 183: Compounding Results
Marie is officially in August — aka her favorite month, aka the month she designed her entire life around so she could be fully present with her kids. She's headed to the Alicia Keys Hell's Kitchen cast party, a road trip up to Washington, Seattle, the Quillute territory, Portland, Bend, and...
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Ep 182: Chasing Validation
Marie opens this episode fresh off the final call of the first-ever Moxie Mastermind cohort — and she is FEELING it. The women were in tears. Every single one named the Moxie group as one of the greatest sources of positive feeling in their last six months. And almost all of them are coming back...
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Ep 181: Failure Tolerance
We open this episode on a yacht in San Diego Bay — silky robes, pirate ships, debating whether to jump into very questionable Coronado waters — deep in conversation with a brilliant restaurateur from a small town in Italy. He asked my advice and posed a question: I know I need to collect…
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Ep 180: The Blueprint
What are you actually building? Not reacting to — building. Marie opens this episode with a summer reflection on the people you spend the most time with, and what it means to be truly intentional about who and what you let into your mind, your energy, and your week. From there, she gets into the...
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Ep 179: The Metaphoric Two Step
What if you could transform a hard, spinning, overwhelming emotion into something useful — in as little as thirty seconds? This episode teaches exactly that. The Metaphoric Two-Step is a tool rooted in Marie's training as a hypnotist, and it's applicable to anyone at any age. It's how she helped...
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Ep 178: Own Your Past, Own Your Present, Own Your Future
In this episode, Marie goes straight to the part most people skip when they're trying to make an idea real — that moment when the voices in your head start telling you it's not realistic, you don't see anyone else doing it, and you're not sure if you have what it takes. She breaks down exactly…
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Ep 177: Deciding on Purpose
In this episode, Marie unpacks one of the most powerful habits a person can build: deciding on purpose and ahead of time. She kicks things off with a behind-the-scenes look at the summer bucket list she just built with her family — and why that one ritual is setting them up for a collaborative,...
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Ep 176: Be Your Own Ride Or Die
Marie is back from a week in the Catskills (and a stroll down the High Line) and diving into a concept that keeps showing up everywhere in her life — in her therapy, at the retreat she just led, in her coaching groups, and in the books she's been reading. When she mentioned it in both the Bloom...
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Ep 175: The Triumvirate of Belief
You can have a bulletproof work plan. You can take massive action every single day. You can believe in the impact your idea will have once it's out in the world. And you can still stay completely stuck — or keep repeating the same frustrating patterns without understanding why. In this episode,...
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Ep 174: Three Ways to Get Present, No Matter What's Happening Around You
What if the secret to your best work isn't trying harder — it's allowing more? In this episode, Marie shares a personal story from a recent retreat where she made a counterintuitive choice: instead of preparing by drilling her content, she prepared by protecting her energy. The result? The best...
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Ep 173: Let’s Go Bias Hunting
Your brain isn't broken — it's just running very old software on a very modern life. And honestly? For the savanna, it was excellent software. For navigating your inbox, your relationships, and the story you tell yourself about whether you're actually making progress? Less so. In this episode, we...
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Ep 172: The Five-Way Mirror
What if the world around you — the people in your circle, the environments you spend time in, your subconscious mind, and the face in your bathroom mirror, - was constantly trying to show you something about yourself? In this episode, Marie explores five powerful ways that mirrors show up in our...
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Ep 171: Stop Taking Yourself for Granted
In this episode, Marie shares a behind-the-scenes look at preparing for her very first Moxie Retreat in La Jolla — and a realization she had mid-workout that cracked open today's topic: we apply hedonistic adaptation to ourselves. We celebrate other people's wins, build gratitude practices for…
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Ep 170: Code your Energy
Many of my clients come to me with a clear vision of what they want—connection in their relationships, growth in their business, confidence in their body—but when we look closely, the energy they’re putting in doesn’t match what they’re trying to create. And most of the time, they don’t realize…
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Ep 169: Fighting For vs. Fighting Against
What if the thing you're rallying against is actually a signal pointing toward something you deeply value? In this episode, Marie explores how to reframe your energy — moving from fighting against what you don't want, toward fighting for the life, relationships, and work you actually want to...
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Ep 168: Reverse Aging
At some point in life, many of us quietly stop imagining. We make the big decisions—where we live, what we do for work, whether we partner or have kids—and then without realizing it… we start maintaining instead of creating. We stop setting bold goals. We stop asking who we want to become next.…
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Ep 167: Do Less Be More
Ever notice how sometimes, when you have the smallest margins and the most to do in a small period of time…for some reason that seems to be exactly when the tire is flat, the dog gets out, or you start getting that tickle in the back of your throat? It was one of those weeks for me; with two back...
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Ep 166: Five Mindset Hacks That Bloom Your Love
If you’ve ever thought that focusing on the good in your relationship is “cheating” or “fooling yourself,” this episode is your reset. Because the truth is: this is exactly what the most successful, long-lasting, deeply fulfilling relationships are built on. In this episode, we dive into five...
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Ep 165: Imposter Syndrome
We’ve all felt some version of it at some moment in our lives; some more than others. Often, the people who experience it most intensely are the people you would least expect. Imposter syndrome can come for leaders. Founders. Experts. High-achievers who are objectively doing incredible work. And...
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Ep 164: Compassionate Observer
What does it really mean to become the compassionate observer of your own mind? In this episode, we explore the practice of stepping back and watching your thinking instead of becoming consumed by it. Because here’s the truth most of us forget: you are not your thoughts, and you are not your...
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Ep 163: Dream Work Partnerships
In this episode, I interview Maggie Roach Black in a live conversation about the partnership Maggie and I have built over 18 years of working together. We talk about what makes a work partnership not just functional — but dream-level aligned. The kind of partnership that makes better work, deeper...
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Ep 162: Stay in Your Model
Today we’re revisiting one of the most powerful frameworks I teach: the Regenerative Thought Model — and then taking it one step further into real-life application inside relationships, leadership, and everyday human interactions. At its core, the model is simple: There are factual circumstances…
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Ep 161: Thinking Yourself Into Better Relationships
Relationships are not actually about other people. They are about the thoughts we think about other people. And that is incredible news. Because it means that even when another person doesn’t change, even when circumstances don’t shift, even when history is complicated… you still have agency. You...
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Ep 160: Out of Negativity
We love the romantic idea of inspiration striking. The muse arrives. The energy shifts. We suddenly feel like creating, reaching out, working out, having the hard conversation, writing the email, going on the date, taking the leap. But real artists, real writers, real leaders, real change-makers,...
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Ep 159: How I Built a Million Dollar Business
Lately, I’ve been getting the same question over and over: How did you become so successful, so fast? And when people ask that, they usually mean the numbers. Yes, I left a career in the innovation field, started my own coaching and leadership practice, and made $360K in my first year. Four years...
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Ep 158: Finding Your Mentors
We start the year—or a new chapter of life or a new project—with a vision. We know what we want to create, who we want to become, and what we want to move toward next. And then…we stop there. In this episode, we talk about why having a vision isn’t enough—and the single factor that determines...
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Ep 157: Yearly Reflection — The Questions That Matter
Every year, I used to get an email that stopped me in my tracks. It would land in my inbox, and I’d feel this immediate sense of clarity and groundedness. The email came from the CEO of the company I worked for at the time—a brilliant, mission-driven leader whose work focused on transforming...
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Ep 156: Giving Positive Feedback
Most of us are much more practiced at pointing out what’s not working than naming what is. And even when we do give positive feedback, we often keep it vague: “You did great.” “That was awesome.” “Nice job.” In this episode, we explore why specific positive feedback is one of the most powerful...
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Ep 155: The Self-Doubt Hack
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...
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Ep 154: BIG NEWS & Outthinking the Motivational Triad
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...
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Ep 153: Problem Solving
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...
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Ep 152: Intentional Evidence Collection
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...
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Ep 151: Teaching People How to Treat Us
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...
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Ep 150: Being Original
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.…
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Ep 149: Failure Tolerance
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...
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Ep 148: Chrononormativity
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...
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Ep 147: Power Over, Power Under, and Power With
This week’s episode dives into something we all experience but rarely talk about— embracing all of our weird social reactions. The feelings that rise up when we’re around other people: self-doubt, comparison, superiority, inferiority, grasping, withdrawing, fixing, or trying to prove ourselves.…
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Ep 146: Saying No to Say Yes
The more we put ourselves out into the world, the more people come to know us by the value we add—and the more they begin to depend on us. This is beautiful…until it isn’t. Because over time, the value we add and the strengths we command become commodities people want more and more of.…
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Ep 145: Thought Bridges
Last week, I hit pause. A middle-of-the-night migraine, a body that said “nope,” and—after three straight years of weekly episodes—I let myself skip a week. Not because I didn’t care, but because I chose health over hustle for this week. That tiny, honest shift is exactly what today’s episode is...
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Ep 144: Regenerative Thinking
In this episode of the Bloom Your Mind Podcast, we unpack the cycles of thought that either move us toward the life we want—or pull us away from it. Just like a garden, our minds are always growing something. Some thoughts regenerate possibility and growth. Others are degenerative—reinforcing…
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Ep 143: Transitions
Seasons change, and so do we. Sometimes we’ve literally got one foot in the next season, as we change from spring to summer, summer to fall. Other times we’re transition a personal season of life, from one era of ourselves to another. This episode is guides you through a process for transitions.…
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Ep 142: Conflict Convo Cheat Sheet
Conflict isn’t a detour. It’s the road itself. And if you’re out there making ideas real, you’re going to hit it—whether you like it or not. This week on the Bloom Your Mind Podcast, we’re wrapping up our 3-part conflict resolution series with a quick-and-dirty cheat sheet. Think of this episode…
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We all think and talk about what we’ll do someday, but what if that someday could start right now? If there’s a change you want to make in yourself, in your life, or an idea that you have that you want to make real … this podcast is for you. After 20 years leading and coaching innovators, Certified Coach Marie McDonald is breaking down how great change-makers think so you can do what they do and take your ideas out of your head and into the world where they belong. We’ll teach you how to stop trying to get other people to like you and your ideas, and how to be your own biggest fan instead. You’ll learn how to ditch the drama and have fun with failure, to stop taking things personally, and to get out of anxiety and into decisive action when you don’t even know how or what you’re doing yet. Marie has used this work to go from bar tender to Vice President, to create the family of her dreams, and to start a multiple six-figure business from scratch within eight months. Whether you want
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We all think and talk about what we’ll do someday, but what if that someday could start right now? If there’s a change you want to make in yourself, in your life, or an idea that you have that you want to make real … this podcast is for you. After 20 years leading and coaching innovators, Certified...
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