The Renew Your Mind Podcast
by Renew Your Mind Institute
The Renew Your Mind Podcast, hosted by Master Certified Life Coach Diana Swillinger, teaches practical skills to help you think differently, manage your emotions, and change how you show up in your life and relationships. Learn how your thoughts influence what you feel and do, how to find thoughts that are both believable and true, and how to take responsibility for what's within your control. Grounded in practical coaching tools and Christian principles, this podcast will help you build confidence, strengthen relationships, live by your values, and experience more peace, joy, and hope in your everyday life. You don't have to change everything around you to change your life. Start by renewing your mind.
Episodes
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You Are Worth It
Christie went from feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and paralyzed in life to experiencing more joy, peace, and contentment than she thought possible. Through Renew Your Mind Group Coaching, she learned how to change her thinking and, in turn, change the way she experiences her life. Her relationships...
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The Change We Resist is The Change We Need
We often want our lives to get better, but we resist looking at what we can do differently because we're focused on what someone else needs to change. We can influence people, make requests, and offer alternatives, but we can't make other people do what we want them to do. When we keep trying to...
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Focus on What Could Go Right
We spend a lot of time thinking about what could go wrong when we're considering a change, but what if we gave just as much attention to what could go right? In this episode, I talk about how focusing only on potential losses can keep us stuck, limit our creativity, and prevent us from seeing...
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That Makes Sense
"That makes sense" can be a powerful way to understand yourself and others without adding judgment, shame, or excuses to the situation. Our beliefs, reactions, and patterns make sense when we consider the experiences, influences, and adaptations that shaped us. From that place of understanding…
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Stop Betraying Yourself by Knowing Your Values
Knowing your values is about more than having a list of words that sound good—it's about knowing what matters to you well enough to actually live by it. When your choices, boundaries, relationships, and everyday actions move away from your values, it's easy to slowly betray yourself and lose…
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Your Values Are Your Why
Your goals can tell you what you want, but your values tell you why you want it. When you connect with your values on a deeper level, you can uncover the why that gives you something to come back to when things get hard, motivation fades, or the path gets messy. Your values can fuel the choices,...
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Guilt Free Self-Care is Possible When Guided by Values
Self-care isn't always about doing something fun or avoiding discomfort—it can be about making choices that support the life you actually want. When you know your values, taking care of yourself can become less about guilt and more about living in alignment with what matters to you. From rest and...
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Boundaries Are Easiest When Guided by Values
Boundaries are much easier to maintain when you know what they are protecting. In this episode, Diana explains how connecting your boundaries to your values can help you follow through without getting stuck in guilt, fear, or worrying about someone else's reaction. You'll learn how to use your...
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Deciding Is Easiest When Guided by Values
Knowing your values can make decisions much clearer by giving you a guide for what matters most to you. Instead of making choices based on pressure, other people's expectations, or avoiding discomfort, you can consider which option lines up with the life you want to create. Your values won't...
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Fighting for the Truth in Your Own Head
Mind renewal isn't about forcing yourself to think positive thoughts; it's about learning to recognize what you're thinking, search for what is true, and find thoughts your brain can actually believe. Diana shares how her lifelong interest in truth connects to the work she teaches through mind...
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Do You Think Like That All the Time?
Learning coaching skills doesn't mean walking around analyzing everyone's thoughts or trying to coach your friends and family. Diana explains the difference between having a coaching mindset and actually stepping into the role of a coach, including what it means to hold space, guide someone…
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They Didn't Just Get Certified: From Learning the Skills to Living the Skills
What happens when you learn practical skills for renewing your mind—and then start using those skills everywhere? I'm talking with three women who became certified life coaches through the Renew Your Mind Institute, and their stories are all different, but they have one thing in common: the...
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What To Do When You Think — I Want More
Wanting more doesn't mean you're failing or that the work you've already done hasn't been enough—it means you're still growing and participating in your own life. This episode is about identifying what you want more of and finding one next step instead of waiting until you have the whole plan....
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I Keep Making Bad Choices - Diana Coaches Julie
This week's podcast is a recorded coaching session from Coaches Club, where Diana coaches Julie, a Renew Your Mind Institute certified coach, through a real-life challenge around second-guessing herself. You'll get to hear what coaching can actually sound like and how having a coach can help you...
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Are You Asking Others for Advice or Reassurance?
Getting input from people we trust can be helpful, but there is a difference between asking for advice and looking for someone else to make us feel certain. Diana shares her simple process of gathering input, considering it, separating from other people's opinions, and then making her own…
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I'm Exactly Where I'm Supposed to Be Right Now
You aren't supposed to be anywhere else but where you are in your life today, right now, in this moment. This is where you're supposed to be right now. Accepting reality in this way creates more peace, possibility, and freedom. Learn how letting go of the pressure to be somewhere else allows you…
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When You Feel Stuck
Feeling stuck can be frustrating, especially when you've been trying to shift your thinking and nothing seems to be working. Sometimes the problem isn't that you haven't found a helpful thought, but that some part of you doesn't actually believe it yet. Learn how to find the sneaky "yeah, but"…
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Positive Thinking Doesn't Work
Positive thinking isn't the answer—and it may be the very thing keeping you stuck. This episode explains why your brain rejects thoughts it doesn't believe and how shifting to one believable thought can completely change how you feel and what you do. You'll learn practical tools to loosen painful...
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The Willingness to Be a Beginner
Feeling awkward, inexperienced, or unsure has stopped many of us from trying the very things that could make our lives richer. This episode explores why being willing to be a beginner is one of the most important skills for creating more joy, adventure, confidence, and fulfillment. You'll learn…
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What Our Emotions Are Telling Us
Your emotions aren't problems to solve—they're valuable sources of information. They can reveal unmet needs, unhelpful beliefs, and opportunities for healing and growth if you're willing to get curious instead of pushing them away. Learn practical questions to help you understand what your…
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Their Emotional Experience Is Theirs, Let Them Have It
You were never meant to be someone else's emotional manager. Trying to protect people from disappointment, frustration, or discomfort may feel loving, but it often leaves you carrying emotions that don't belong to you. This episode explores the surprising connection between people pleasing and...
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Freedom to Think Whatever We Want
Freedom is more than something we celebrate once a year. It's something we can practice every day inside our own minds, but we aren't practicing it enough! The stories we tell ourselves shape our emotional experience, and many of us spend years rehearsing thoughts that create discouragement,...
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Renewed Minds, Real Stories
In this special 300th episode, you'll hear directly from listeners who share what they've learned from the Renew Your Mind Podcast and how they've applied those lessons in their own lives. From upgrading beliefs and processing emotions to taking ownership of thoughts and discovering the power of...
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I Just Want to Be a Good Person
People pleasing is not always about wanting other people to like you. Sometimes it's about trying to be a good person, a faithful person, a dependable person, or a servant-hearted person. When over-functioning becomes part of your identity, it can be easy to miss the fear, guilt, or pressure...
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Life After People Pleasing
The life you've been looking for—more energy, more love, less stress, less frustration, more fulfillment, and more feeling like yourself—is waiting for you on the other side of people pleasing. When your attention, energy, and love finally come home to you, you stop existing as a resource for...
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Beautiful Traits You've Been Using Against Yourself
People pleasing is often fueled by some of the most beautiful qualities within us: loyalty, kindness, generosity, and a genuine desire to care for others. The problem isn't those traits—it's what happens when fear, guilt, and the need for approval start driving them. When that happens, strengths...
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The Difference Between Love and People Pleasing
Love and people pleasing can look very similar on the outside, but internally they are coming from completely different places. Healthy love includes honesty, choice, boundaries, and your humanity too, while people pleasing is often fueled by fear, guilt, pressure, and emotional self-abandonment....
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The Exhaustion of Being "The Reliable One"
Being "the reliable one" can feel meaningful, but over time it can also become exhausting. When your identity gets wrapped up in always helping, fixing, carrying, and showing up for everyone else, it becomes easy to lose connection with your own needs. This conversation explores the difference...
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The Cost of Not Forgiving
Holding onto resentment can quietly drain your emotional energy, keep painful memories active, and make it difficult to experience peace in the present. Forgiveness is often misunderstood as approval, trust, or reconciliation, when really it can simply be a way to stop carrying so much emotional...
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It's Okay If They Don't Understand
Making decisions for yourself when other people don't understand can be very challenging. But maybe we don't need to explain, and instead we need to start trusting the choices we are making for ourselves. This is about releasing the need for approval and allowing others to have their thoughts…
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A Painful Christian Marriage – Part 3
In this final episode, I'm sharing the last part of the interview I did with Melissa Radke for her podcast called The Radke Show, where I finish telling the story of leaving a difficult marriage and what came next. We talk about what it looked like to heal, learn through pain, and start creating…
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A Painful Christian Marriage – Part 2
In this deeply personal episode, I'm sharing part two of the interview I did with Melissa Radke for her podcast, where I continue opening up about the difficult marriage I was in and the journey of leaving. I talk about what it looked like to stop using alcohol to cope, and the willingness it…
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A Painful Christian Marriage
In this deeply personal episode, I'm sharing part one of an interview from The Radke Show where I open up about the difficult marriage I was in and the decision to leave. This is the first time I'm sharing with you that I got divorced during the six years of this podcast, and I talk honestly…
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You Are Supposed to Feel All the Things
This episode is for the moments when you think, "I don't like feeling this way," and want out of it as fast as possible. We talk about what it looks like to let that feeling be there and to see it as part of being human, not a problem to fix. This is the part where you feel it, process it, and…
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The Pressure to Feel Better
In this episode, we look at the pressure we put on ourselves to feel better—and how it can keep emotions stuck instead of helping them move through. I walk through three places that pressure comes from: other people, your own self-talk, and the beliefs you've picked up over time about what it…
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When Someone Else Is Causing Your Emotions
In this episode, I walk you through what's really happening when it feels like someone else is causing your emotions, and why that experience can feel so instant and out of your control. I break down how to catch that moment in real time and use it as an opportunity to name, accept, and process...
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Why You Keep Avoiding Your Emotions (Without Realizing It)
Most of us think we know when we're avoiding our emotions—but a lot of the time, we're doing it in ways that look productive, responsible, or even helpful. In this episode, I walk you through the sneaky ways we avoid feeling—like overthinking, fixing, staying busy, or focusing on everyone…
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Naming, Accepting, and Processing Your Emotions
Emotions can ruin the day when we don't know what to do with them. In this episode, I walk you through a simple three-step process: name the emotion, accept it, and process it—so feelings stop overwhelming you or leaking out in ways you don't want. You'll learn why expanding your emotional...
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The Keys to Building Trust in Your Important Relationships
Diana interviews communication expert, Pat Quinn in this special episode! When trust is missing, conversations feel tense, guarded, or surface-level. We second-guess each other's motives, overanalyze tone, and walk away feeling misunderstood or unseen. At work, it shows up as micromanaging or...
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Exhausted, Numb, and Ready to Give Up
There was a time I wanted to get in my car with nothing and disappear to some tiny town in New Mexico where no one would think to look for me. I was raising four kids, working two jobs, going to school, living with anxiety, depression, and a cruel husband — exhausted, numb, and in excruciating…
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How to Take Care of You - Bonus Episode
Are you exhausted from always putting yourself last? Is taking care of you a mystery or an afterthought? In this episode, we talk about why your needs matter, how you may have learned to ignore them, and how to start taking care of yourself—physically, emotionally, and mentally—without guilt....
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Pulling Back the Curtain on Personal Growth
The biggest shift in your personal growth isn't going to come from trying harder—but from learning how your mind actually works. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on mind renewal and how learning life coaching skills can change your life in ways you never expected, starting with your...
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When It's Time to Take a Step Forward
It happens to all of us—overthinking, second-guessing, feeling mentally stuck. It's exhausting. In this episode, we break down five reasons it may be time to take the next step in renewing your mind—and why trying harder on your own often isn't enough. We talk about how to manage your thoughts...
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You Are Not Behind in Life
Feeling like you're behind in life is one of the most common thoughts I hear, even from people who are thoughtful, growing, and fully engaged in their lives. In this episode, we slow that belief way down and question the imagined timelines, comparisons, and measuring sticks that quietly steal…
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Following Your Passion - The Coaching Series
In this episode, you'll hear a real coaching session with guest Miles Carmichael as he works through self-doubt and hesitation around stepping into his passion and joining the Renew Your Mind Institute Coach Certification Program. We talk honestly about the fears that come up when you feel called...
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We Need More Male Coaches
In this episode, I'm joined by life coaches and friends Zach Spafford and Joey Mascio for an honest conversation about why they became coaches and what drew them into the mind renewal space. We talk about why we need more male coaches, especially in work that helps people understand their…
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The Coaching Series: Fear of Failure
In this episode, I coach a client who wants to start her own career and business, but keeps getting stopped by thoughts about money, rejection, and "what if it doesn't work." You'll hear how we unpack these fears, separate real decisions from imagined outcomes, and help her move forward without...
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Time to Invest in You!
This episode is a reminder that now—not someday—is the perfect time to invest in you, because waiting for life to calm down only keeps you stuck. You'll hear why renewing your mind is the most powerful, practical way to change how you feel, how you show up, and what you create in your life…
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Having Christmas Presence
This holiday episode is your invitation to let go of managing, fixing, and performing—and simply be present this Christmas. We'll talk about releasing the pressure to make the day meaningful or perfect, and how real peace comes from allowing the moment, the people, and your emotions to be exactly...
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You Don't Need to Fix It
As we head into the holidays, this episode is a reminder that peace doesn't come from managing conversations, situations, or people—it comes from letting go of the urge to fix. We'll talk about why fixing feels so urgent for helpers, fixers, and people pleasers, and how that urgency is often…
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About this show
The Renew Your Mind Podcast, hosted by Master Certified Life Coach Diana Swillinger, teaches practical skills to help you think differently, manage your emotions, and change how you show up in your life and relationships. Learn how your thoughts influence what you feel and do, how to find thoughts that are both believable and true, and how to take responsibility for what's within your control. Grounded in practical coaching tools and Christian principles, this podcast will help you build confidence, strengthen relationships, live by your values, and experience more peace, joy, and hope in your everyday life. You don't have to change everything around you to change your life. Start by renewing your mind.
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