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Choose Better Thoughts
by Amanda Doyle
Join Amanda Doyle, Certified Life and Leadership Coach, as she helps high-achieving moms break free from stress, overthinking, and perfectionism so they can finally experience more confidence, ease, and control at work, at home, and with themselves. Each episode blends brain science, real-life coaching, and practical mindset shifts to help you feel more in control of your time, be more present in your relationships, experience more peace in your mind. Because when you change the way you think, everything else follows. Hit “Follow” or “Subscribe” so you never miss an episode!
Episodes
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How to Create Results with Zero Pressure
Busy weeks can make it hard to create what you actually want—or you create it by muscling through with guilt and pressure and everything feels heavy. Skill #6: Live as Your Future Self is the light way through. We’ll use a small future-you scene, pair it with a believable belief, borrow the…
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How to Stop Feeling Flat
Today we’re practicing the skill of unleashing desire and creativity, the antidote to feeling flat in a life that looks fine on paper. If you’ve wanted to leave a job but know you won’t, or you want to launch something real but can’t find ‘enough’ confidence, this one’s for you. We’re going to...
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The Second Sentence Is the Suffering
Pain is part of life; extra suffering is often a story we add. The first sentence is the fact—boring, security-camera neutral. The second sentence is our swift conclusion: “This means I’m behind…they don’t respect me…I always mess this up.” That add-on thought spikes emotion and narrows options.…
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When Your Body Says “No More Bulldozing”
You push through the launch, the big meeting, the recital—and then comes the strange, heavy quiet. Instead of relief, your body serves up flatness, irritability, or a fog you can’t shake. Nothing’s wrong with you; that’s your nervous system landing. This episode names the “post-push crash,”...
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Releasing Control Without Becoming a Doormat
If you’ve ever caught yourself silently grading a partner, colleague, or co-parent on how well they follow your unwritten rules, you’re not alone. We call it “the manual”—that invisible rulebook that promises safety but delivers resentment and exhaustion. In this episode, we unpack why...
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Bounce House Balls & Better Thoughts
In this episode, Amanda turns a big idea into an easy mental game: your thought creates your result. We walk through three everyday moments, hosting with bounce‑house balls and mysterious house piles, over‑prepping for a client, and late‑night wheat thins, and practice flipping the default story…
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Too Fast, Too Slow: Making Peace with Time
Today’s episode is about that strange paradox we all feel at some point: wanting time to slow down and speed up all at once. This morning, as I dropped off my youngest for her very first day of kindergarten, I felt both: the grief of how quickly she’s growing and the longing for six months from…
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Leadership Without Urgency and Grace Without Guilt
Most women are trying to move through their mornings and evenings with the same expectations, the same mindset, and the same energy, and it’s exhausting. Your body, brain, and emotional capacity are different at the start and end of the day. And you already know how to respond to that...
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Escaping the Trap You Didn’t Know You Built
When you were deep in people-pleasing and perfectionism, the urge was to control. You controlled your tone, your timing, your calendar, your image. You got good at managing how others experienced you. And for a while, it worked. But once you stop performing and start telling the truth, a new urge...
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Your Brain Is a Puppy: Give It a Chew Toy
You cleared the calendar. You created white space on purpose, but now your brain is filling that space with worry, busywork, or impulse clicks, and you’re wondering why rest feels so weird. In this episode, I share what’s really going on when we feel restless in the quiet, why your brain...
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When "I Should" Stops Working
If you're tired of using pressure and guilt to drive your goals, this episode is for you. I'm sharing a simple mindset shift, one that helped me go from “I should” to “what if I already was,” and how it completely changed the way I relate to my goals. We’ll talk about why “should” goals feel…
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Amazon Returns and Emotional Avoidance
This episode starts with a return you’ve been avoiding and ends with a different way of seeing yourself. We’re exploring why small tasks feel emotionally loaded, what your brain is really doing when you procrastinate, and how the patterns you reinforce in the little moments shape how you show up…
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The Power of Naming Your Mom Modes
You are not one version of yourself. You’re a whole cast of characters, each one with her own wisdom, energy, and role to play. In this episode, we explore the power of naming your mom archetypes and choosing, on purpose, who leads throughout your day. From Efficient Household Manager to Netflix...
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The Pressure Triangle
You can’t prioritize everything at once, and that’s not a failure, it’s life. In this episode, I share a practical tool for letting go of guilt when life feels stretched too thin. Inspired by a simple triangle framework, high-quality, efficient, and affordable, we explore how choosing two...
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Same Fight, Different Night: A Self-Coaching Journey
This episode is about one of those nights. The kind where something small, like a missing safe food at dinner, turns into something big. The kind where you and your partner have the same argument you’ve had a dozen times, and afterward, you don’t like how you showed up. I take you inside a...
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When Adrenaline Wears Off: The Letdown Effect
Have you ever reached the end of something big—hosting, moving, launching, caregiving—and instead of feeling relief or joy, you feel... foggy? Flat? Off? That’s not failure. It’s not brokenness. It’s called the letdown effect, and it’s a real, biologically-rooted phase where your nervous system...
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How to Care Less
Caring is beautiful...until it becomes a unsustainable. When you tie your worth to outcomes, over-function to prove your value, or spin in fear of being misunderstood, you end up exhausted. In this episode, you’ll learn how to care differently. Not less because you’re disengaged, but less because...
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How To Want When You Never Learned How
You’ve done everything right. The career. The family. The checked boxes. But you still feel… unfulfilled. A little numb. Like something’s missing, and you can’t name what. In this episode, we explore what happens when high-achieving women realize they never really learned how to want, they only...
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"I Shouldn't Be Bored"
Feeling bored? Whether it’s during a long meeting, another round of pretend play, or a whole season of life that feels a little flat—this episode is for you. We’re unpacking the belief that “I shouldn’t be bored” and exploring why it feels so hard to just be still. You’ll learn how boredom is…
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"I'm Losing Myself"
Do you ever look in the mirror and wonder, “Where did the old me go?” In this episode we unpack the brain-and-hormone remodel that’s quietly reshaping ambitious moms—and prove it means you’re upgrading, not unraveling. You’ll learn a neuroscience-backed pause-and-label trick, craft a bridge…
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"I Have To Do It Myself"
In this episode, we aim at the belief “I have to do it myself.” You’ll see why a brain that can juggle only four things starts to melt down when you add “just one more,” learn a simple thought-to-result model that shows exactly where the stress begins and what it creates, and test a small...
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"I'm Behind"
If a friend’s promotion post has ever sent you down a doom-scroll rabbit hole of job tabs and self-doubt, this episode is your antidote. In just half an hour we’ll catch the “I’m behind” thought at the source, drain the panic in ninety seconds, and reframe every twist in your résumé as…
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"I Will Be Happy When..."
Ever told yourself, “I’ll finally chill once I snag that promotion, once the kids stay asleep past 5 a.m., once the scale moves down a notch”—only to move the goalpost again? Same. In this episode we get real about why our brains love that hamster wheel and how to hop off without losing ambition....
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"I Don't Want to Get My Hopes Up"
Ever catch yourself whispering, “Better not get too excited…what if it all falls through?” In this episode we unpack the hidden cost of guarding your heart and show why allowing full‑strength hope can actually increase your odds of success. You’ll learn to spot the invisible rulebooks you’ve...
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"I Need External Approval"
If you’ve ever caught yourself hesitating to speak up on a call, post on social media, or have confidence in an idea until someone else gives you the green light, this episode is for you. In “I Need External Approval,” we shine a light on the subtle ways we rely on others’ opinions for our...
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"I'm Not a Good Enough Mom"
Imagine you’re on a work trip, alone in a hotel room, scrolling through photos of your kids—and that familiar twinge of guilt stings your heart. In this episode of the Choose Better Thoughts podcast, we tackle the “I’m not a good enough mom” belief head-on, whether you’re traveling for business…
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"I Might Make the Wrong Decision"
If you ever catch yourself agonizing over every option – from switching jobs to picking tonight’s dinner spot – and wishing you had a magic crystal ball, this episode is your sign to pause. We’ll uncover the subtle ways “I might make the wrong decision” hijacks your peace, and I’ll walk you step…
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“When I Set Limits, I Lose Approval”
If you’ve ever dreaded setting a boundary or saying a simple “no” because you’re worried someone will think less of you, this episode is for you. We’ll dissect the sneaky, deeply ingrained fear behind that hesitation and discover why creating a clear limit doesn’t have to mean losing people’s...
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" I Have to Do Everything Perfectly"
Ever find yourself stuck, waiting for the stars to align before you dare speak up or tackle a project? This episode flips that script by showing how noticing and allowing your perfectionist urges can free you to take imperfect but meaningful steps. You’ll see why a little “mess” often leads to...
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"I Never Have Enough Time"
Feeling caught in the whirlwind of deadlines and never-ending to-dos? Want to get the same (or more done) with ease instead? In this episode, we’re digging into the belief that “I never have enough time.” We’ll uncover how it’s often our thoughts, not the clock, that drive our stress and rushed...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Join Amanda Doyle, Certified Life and Leadership Coach, as she helps high-achieving moms break free from stress, overthinking, and perfectionism so they can finally experience more confidence, ease, and control at work, at home, and with themselves. Each episode blends brain science, real-life coaching, and practical mindset shifts to help you feel more in control of your time, be more present in your relationships, experience more peace in your mind. Because when you change the way you think, everything else follows. Hit “Follow” or “Subscribe” so you never miss an episode!
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Join Amanda Doyle, Certified Life and Leadership Coach, as she helps high-achieving moms break free from stress, overthinking, and perfectionism so they can finally experience more confidence, ease, and control at work, at home, and with themselves. Each episode blends brain science, real-life...
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