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The Kelsey Mercer Podcast

by Kelsey Mercer

Hosted by Kelsey Mercer, mom of six, grandma, wife of nearly 30 years, Life Coach, Pilates Teacher /Studio owner and Healer. This podcast delves into profound life experiences, exploring how pivotal moments, relationships, and core values shape our resilience, purpose, and ultimately, a meaningful and joyful life. It offers timeless wisdom and practical insights for navigating personal growth, fostering connection, and finding happiness in a complex world.

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Episodes

  1. Elizabeth Chappell: Building a life of intention

    In this episode, Elizabeth shares how her mother’s radical decision to "get off the carousel" and choose a sober path laid the blueprint for her own intentional framework. We dive into her 17 years balancing the high-profile reality of being a professional wife to a PGA Tour-winning golfer , her...

  2. Heidi Krueger: Choosing Adventure Over Comfort

    Today we are exploring the extraordinary life of Heidi Krueger—a wellness entrepreneur, multi-generational logger, and deep-sea sailor whose journey reminds us that life’s greatest adventures are rarely a straight line. In this episode, Heidi shares how an unconventional childhood in the northern...

  3. Peggy Murray & Active Parenting

    Today we are exploring the extraordinary life of Peggy Murray—a veteran teacher, social worker, and childhood development expert whose journey reminds us that life’s greatest adventures are rarely a straight line. In this episode, Peggy shares how growing up in a high-discipline household of…

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  4. Preston Mercer: Building a Legacy of Intentionality

    Preston Mercer is a dedicated family man, outdoorsman, and public servant with over 31 years of experience as a firefighter with the Forest Service. For more than 25 years, he has also served as a professional hunting guide, leading a life defined by adventure and high-stakes environments....

  5. Mark Mertel: From Thought to Winning Execution

    https://kelseymercer.com/podcast/mark-mertel-from-thought-to-winning-execution/ In this episode, Mark shares how his background as a college football "workhorse" and a blue-collar work ethic altered the entire design of his life. We dive into his prolific career launching more than 20 companies,...

  6. Elaine Grace Copeland: Clearing the Chaos and Creating Space

    Elaine Grace Copeland is a dedicated life and business mentor, executive coach, leadership trainer, and the founder of Intentional Living Consulting and the Reset Method. With over 35 years of experience, Elaine helps leaders and creatives align with their authentic purpose by blending strategic...

  7. Claudia Bement: Leading from Inner Alignment

    Claudia Bement is an executive coach, mentor, and friend with over 30 years of experience coaching women leaders. She specializes in helping women develop their vision and lead from a place of deep inner and outer alignment. Trained in somatics, Claudia focuses on helping leaders move past…

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  8. Dr. Sarica Cernohous: Healing Through Ancient Wisdom and Epigenetics

    Your genetic blueprint... doesn't have to be your reality. Sarica and Kelsey discuss how to move away from a "standardized" view of health and toward a personalized path that respects individual ancestry, blood type, and the body's internal signals.This episode serves as a reminder that healing...

  9. Levi Mercer: Navigating Masculinity and Purpose

    Levi Mercer is an entrepreneur and outdoorsman who, at just 18 years old, co-operates a multi-seven-figure business alongside his brothers. Raised as the third of six children in a faith-driven home, Levi’s "old soul" perspective was forged through a unique unschooled education that traded...

  10. The Reluctant Warrior: Redefining Strength, Healing, and Faith with Dr. Christina Hibbert

    Dr. Christina Hibbert is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and speaker. She is a survivor of breast cancer and chronic illness and a mother of six. Her work focuses on mental and emotional health, grief, and overcoming adversity.https://kelseymercer.com/podcast/dr-c...In this episode,...

  11. The Fire Wife Life

    If you’re married to someone who serves your community or your country, you know what it’s like to sacrifice life as normal for the benefit of those around you. As a fire wife for nearly 25 years, I know firsthand what it looks like to put your priorities, desires and wishes for life aside for…

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  12. Life is short I want to live it well.

    God teaches us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. The only day were really given is this day, but even more than that, is this moment.. What would it look like to see your life as a gift and to appreciate each breath as the moment that reminds us of what is truly most…

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  13. What’s the KM podcast all about?

    Discover how we will look at life’s greatest pillars of faith, family, fitness, fun and focus with the M3 methodology approach while learning, growing and living in the messy to to reveal the greatest message of the miraculous mystery of the divine story of purpose and destiny God has given each…

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  14. FUN Boys to FUNctional Young Men

    On this week's podcast we are joined by our 3 teenage boys to share some real life experiences during a recent adventure guiding coues deer hunts for 3 weeks in Mexico with their dad, Preston Mercer and guide, Jay Scott Outdoors. They share some insight into what life looks and feels like as they...

  15. What Are You Relying On And Reliable For?

    Did you ever consider the very fact that our reliability on God for everything including our next breath proves EGO is bogus? Have you ever thought about how God can rely on you- are you consistently reliable to replicate the same results of good or bad functioning in life, work, relationships?…

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  16. What do we do with Regret and Guilt?

    The choice is ours… To stay in the shame of regret and guilt or ask for wisdom to design and define our life from the lessons learned. The mindset that transforms regret and guilt into action and accountability comes from acknowledging where we are on the journey with a commitment to where we are...

  17. Are you Focusing on the Happy Life or Fulfilled Life?

    It’s January and the familiar, sometimes rote and most often times sincere wishes of a “Happy New Year” are exchanged. Yet after our epic 2020, when we are honest many of us are wondering will it be a Happy or A Happy Crappy New Year? Can I really feel happy? If I felt “happy” would everything be...

  18. FOCUS | Priorities & Principles

    "The only real mistake is the one in which we learn nothing. Peace with the past allows provision for your future. Thank the teachers of your past no matter how hard the lessons were. Benefits of Focus Clarity- Filter for decisions- To have focus you must have discipline- dis. Is a verb because…

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  19. 2020 is Hindsight

    What we’ve learned about ourselves, others, our world and LIFE in 2020 Ultimately the process is progress. I really like being at home Our life was covid 19 before it was One day at a time- one step at a time Control is an illusion. -The risk of losing it all is still ok - Daily bread is enough...

  20. When life is measured in breaths

    13 years later.... For years I couldn’t sleep without checking on our 3rd son Levi, to make sure he was still breathing and alive. Hear the story of how when Levi at only 19 days old quit breathing multiple times, would fight for every breath and ultimately overcome RSV after a week in ICU at...

  21. Mercer Hunting Adventures 2020

    Hunting with the Mercer clan isn’t your everyday adventure! Preston and I discuss what is involved in the hunting logistics, the family dynamics and the formation of boys becoming men through challenge. Hear the stories behind hunting, harvesting and helping get the job done with Preston Mercer....

  22. Retelling the stories of Vietnam with my Dad; my hero.

    Growing up as an only daughter of a United States Marine offers its own unique opportunities for discipline, duty and determination. Growing up with a Vietnam Vet and the reality of PTSD offers another whole world that bounces between chaos, compassion and curiosity in seconds. Meet Jim Bennett…

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  23. Anxiety. Guided Meditation

    Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes? Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own- Matthew…

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  24. A Day in the Life of Kelsey Mercer

    Many of us spend most of our life trying to discover who we are, no less defining who we are with a title. One of the most challenging questions I have to answer is defining what I do. Although I am a fitness instructor I find myself going against the grain of the industry's messaging and...

  25. Unleashed...,Religion. Relationship. Church. Unchurched.

    If you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the scriptures say, ANYONE who trusts in him will...

  26. A day in the life of a Wildland Firefighter.

    With our world in a state of mass destruction and chaos, hear first hand what it's like to be on the line and in the mind of a Wildland Firefighter! Meet, Preston Mercer, a wildland firefighter for almost 25 years, from his first job in high school as a hot shot, to repelling into fires from a...

  27. A telling conversation with my dad about mom; 25 years later....

    A powerful conversation through life and death from the eyes of a grandchild, daughter and spouse. It was only 25 years ago some days and a life time others, when Kelsey at a tender age of 16 had to decide with her father to pull the "life plug" and say good bye to her mom at only 37 years old....

  28. Earning your PHD on life Part IV. The "S" ..... Scars and Trophies

    Along the journey of this beautiful life, the reality is, scars often teach us more than trophies, however each serves its purpose in the ultimate plan when we understand our purpose in the process. We discuss how in the process we discover who we are and what we are made of in both the trials…

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  29. Earning the "D" in our PHD's. along the journey to deliverance in relationships and real life.

    On this Father Day, we share a deep discussion about the journey we have with our fathers, as a father and the relationship men and women share with their earthly father and heavenly father. Along the journey of earning our PHD of life, one of the most important aspects is our relationships with...

  30. The H of PHD'S. Hide it. Hard it. Hope it.

    Preston and I open the vaults of our hearts to expose times when we have experienced great challenges and even loss in the journey of processing pain in order to find the greater purpose in the plan. The real temptation in life's lessons are to run and hide, face the hard or become "hard" or find...

  31. Wellness Wednesday Q & A. Weight Loss

    Does Pilates help with weight loss? Short answer - Yes, Long Answer- Yes, Life Answer- Yes Learn why and how "weight loss" is about a Mindset of not "loosing" but gaining your life back. It's not just about exercise and eating; its about enjoying a vibrant, healthy and energetic life. Nothing...

  32. Earning your PHD on life. Part 1

    We learn. we teach.....we love. we live. And the cycle repeats. In our journey through life there is a process we follow from point A to B. Every experience is not the same and every process is unique in it's purpose. While some life lessons can be life long, others can be short lived. Every...

  33. How to communicate with a Visionary or Pragmatist

    Learning to communicate with your spouse, boss, children, friends and family can be challenging enough, but when you see life not only through your unique style but with a different lens it makes it that much more interesting and sometimes downright discouraging. In this episode we discuss 3...

  34. Control vs. Connection

    Are you a goal setter, dreamer, driver and doer? Perhaps you're like us and COVID-19 gave you a quick face to face with the stark and shocking reality of our fragile relationship with control. While we seek the security we think control brings, when it's gone we realize how safe we never really...

  35. Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

    When you feel like the entire world is not only crashing down on you but falling out from underneath you what do you do? Preston and Kelsey share the unique journey of life traveled on a Mercer Mile in March 2020. From multiple health crisis, to financial distress, business collapse and…

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  36. Constitution, Solutions & Slavery

    The threats we are experiencing as a country go much deeper than a virus. The threat of government control and regulation in the name of "protection" is exactly what our forefathers fought England to be freed from. History not known, will be history that repeats itself. First Amendment: "Congress...

  37. OUR FIRESIDES Start

    Thank you for joining us on today’s OUR FIRESIDES podcast. As we continue to strive to bring you relevant content feel free to communicate with us with any, questions, comments or thoughts. Any resources or helpful tips will be included in our show notes. We look forward to hearing from you, and...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Hosted by Kelsey Mercer, mom of six, grandma, wife of nearly 30 years, Life Coach, Pilates Teacher /Studio owner and Healer. This podcast delves into profound life experiences, exploring how pivotal moments, relationships, and core values shape our resilience, purpose, and ultimately, a meaningful and joyful life. It offers timeless wisdom and practical insights for navigating personal growth, fostering connection, and finding happiness in a complex world.

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Hosted by Kelsey Mercer, mom of six, grandma, wife of nearly 30 years, Life Coach, Pilates Teacher /Studio owner and Healer. This podcast delves into profound life experiences, exploring how pivotal moments, relationships, and core values shape our resilience, purpose, and ultimately, a meaningful...

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