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Uniquely Brilliant Podcast
by Diana Bader / Becky Berry
The podcast with strategies for creative, quirky, and extraordinary people. Diana Bader and Becky Berry accompany you on the adventure of living life authentically. Learn to squelch the voices in your head that say you're wrong because you think differently and reclaim your best self. If your ideas and dreams are a little bit bigger than most people's and you're tired of feeling lost, frustrated or just plain wrong, this podcast is for you.
Episodes
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Episode 161 First and Equal
On this episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Diana Bader and Becky Berry discuss putting ourselves first and equal to the needs of others. When we forget to treat our needs as equal to the needs of others in our lives, we become stressed and frustrated. We prioritize their needs over our own and...
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Episode 160: March Slump
On today's episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Diana Bader and Becky Berry discuss the March Slump. Diana begins this episode by reminding us that two years ago at this time the whole world was shut down because of COVID, and our feeling that we're in a slump could be a trauma response. The pandemic…
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Episode 159: Smorgasborde
In this episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Becky Berry and Diana Bader discuss ways to approach the smorgasbord that is life. Diana starts by discussing her recent experience on a cruise where she learned cruises no longer put out smorgasbords of food like they did before COVID. She draws a parallel...
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Episode 158: Run the Dishwasher Twice
Diana Bader and Becky Berry discuss examining our assumptions about rules. Their conversation is based on an article Becky read that reminded her to question the rules. In the article a therapist told a client who was struggling with depression and being able to do the things she wanted to get…
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Episode 157: Recovery is Hard
In this episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Diana Bader and Becky Berry talk about the importance of resting, resetting, and recovering. They begin this episode by discussing how many people experienced the beginning of 2022 as a rough start. They talk about their feelings about Omicron, the latest...
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Episode 156: Be Uniquely Brilliant
In this episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Becky Berry and Diana Bader talk about the value of being our uniquely brilliant selves. When we embrace who we really are and how we really think, we embrace our unique brilliance! In their conversation, Diana and Becky recap some of the character…
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Episode 155: Word of the Year
Diana Bader and Becky Berry talk about their words of the year in this podcast episode! They choose words of the year as a means to focus their thoughts around their intentions for the coming year. In past years, Diana has selected bliss, blessed, and extraordinary, to name a few. She's been…
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Episode 154: Blow it Up
In this episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Becky Berry and Diana Bader talk about the value of blowing things up. There is still so much uncertainty in the world during this pandemic. It makes it hard to feel settled. Diana talks about her criteria for an event mask being mask worthy. Becky and Diana...
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Episode 153: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
Episode 153: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone In this episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Becky Berry and Diana Bader discuss the importance of getting out of our comfort zones. We don't always realize that we're coasting in our comfort zone, so it can become uncomfortable when we do. For example, it can…
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Episode 152: The Missing Step
The Missing Step? Savoring Our Work On this episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Diana Bader and Becky Berry talk about the missing step in our work and personal lives. Diana begins the episode by talking about a conversation she had with her son about how he was improving his life. She shared his...
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Episode 151 Presence v Focus
In today's episode, Becky Berry and Diana Bader talk about the difference between presence and focus. Being present is being fully engaged in the moment. It's taking the time to listen fully. Since energy flows to where our thoughts go, when our thoughts are scattered, our energy is also…
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Episode 150: Think
In this episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Becky Berry and Diana Bader talk about thinking, the third component of productivity from the book, Essentialism by Greg McKeown. Becky shares how she gets blocked when she does not think before she makes a big move. The precepts of Essentialism consist of...
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Episode 149: Sleep Baby Sleep
In this episode of Uniquely Brilliant, Diana Bader and Becky Berry discuss our absolute need for adequate sleep, how to get it, and the results of inadequate sleep. Good sleep is critical to our bodies performing to the best of their abilities. Sleep protects both our physical and mental assets....
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Episode 148: 5 Minutes of Play
On this episode of Uniquely Brilliant Diana Bader and Becky Berry talk about the importance of play. Lila is Diana's word of the year. Lila, which means playful manifestation in Sanskrit. She shares how she is enacting its spirit. They talk about the way spending 5 minutes in a day can change our...
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Episode 147: Go with the Flow Part 2
How do we know how to get to the next place when we don't know what the next place is? Becky Berry and Diana Bader cover this question in this episode of Uniquely Brilliant. Diana points out one way is to focus on the short term because we must get out of crisis mode and make a plan for the near...
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Episode 146: Soothe Yourself by Grounding
In this episode, Becky and Diana discuss what it's like to be living in today's world, including questions like: How do we deal with the new reality of not knowing if you should hug people or fist bump? Diana Bader talks about how everything is just a little disjointed. They discuss the…
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Episode 145: Build Your Own Adventure
Diana Bader and Becky Berry talk about a favorite topic: adventure! Diana refers to everything as an adventure. As a matter of fact, originally, each episode of Uniquely Brilliant was called "The Adventure of ....". As Diana says, "Life is an adventure because you never know what is coming." She...
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Episode 144: I Don't Want to Talk to You
Becky and Diana talk about all the ways people feel about talking. Becky shares her experience in opening a second business (her coworking space for women, MAD! Workspace) and all of the feelings that go along with starting it up and keeping it going in a pandemic. She also talks about how she...
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Episode 143: Do It Differently
Today Diana and Becky talk about how they get to do it (everything) differently! It's hard to remember to rephrase the idea from "having to do it differently" to "getting to do it differently" but it makes a big difference in our mindset. "I get to do it differently" indicates agency and choice....
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Episode 142: The Art of Maintaining
In this episode, Diana and Becky talk about the Art of Maintaining. This is a great episode for people who are struggling lately or drowning in the shoulda, woulda, couldas. Becky and Diana bring it back to the present and ask hard questions about what is really important and how we NEED to take...
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Episode 141: Who Says We're Too Much?
Becky talks about the different times in her life when people have tried and succeeded in silencing her because they thought she was too much and she believed them. Becky and Dana discuss the difference between saying that they don't care about something instead of saying it's being important to...
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Episode 140: Life in Pieces
Becky Berry and Diana Bader discuss the importance of bringing our whole selves to everything. They also dig into what happens when people only want to interact with a piece of us. Some notes: Our whole self is more than our individual pieces! We all wear different hats in our lives, but that...
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Episode 139: Obey Your Energy
Becky Berry and Diana Bader talk about the critical importance of honoring our energy. Diana discusses the many issues she's had to deal with over the last year and how her expectations weren't met when she moved back to her hometown. All of these things have affected the energy level she can…
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Episode 138: I'm Done With Responsibility!
Recorded in May 2020. This was our final Pandemic episode. Becky and Diana are so tired of being responsible and having to overthink about everything! They chat about what we can do to lower our tension levels and bring as much ease as possible back into our lives. Becky talks about the coworking...
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Episode 137: Who Knows?
How do you make plans when no one knows? We recorded this in May. It's interesting/sad how the things we talked about still apply in February. Diana says she has had a hard time lately because she had planned on a lot of travel and connecting during this time in her life. She has been forced to...
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Episode 136: Even Introverts Need People
Becky Berry and Diana Bader talk about how prolonged isolation doesn't work for anyone. Diana begins this episode by talking about Harry Harlow's experiments with monkeys that proved everyone needs comfort, and without human contact, we fail to thrive. They also discuss the problem with texting:...
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Episode 135: Make It Work
Nature, mindset, kids. It's all covered in this episode. Choosing to make it work is a daily choice. We can choose to make it work five or six times a day. Even with friends, making it work is different now. By using FaceTime and Zoom for face-to-face calls, we can make it work. magazine did an...
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Episode 134: Trust Your Wisdom
"Let your heart be your guide on all things, but you have to listen closely because it speaks softly." ~ John St. Augustine Recorded April 22, 2020 Everything is NOT business as usual. All of the inconsistencies are frustrating. The uncertainty gives us an opportunity to rely on our wisdom....
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Episode 133: Go With the Flow
Not everything will go as you expect in life. That is why you need to drop the expectations and go with the flow of life. ~ Leon Brown Recorded April 14, 2020. What is the least thing we can do to make it better? Follow mother nature for cues on how to move forward. Surrender control in…
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Episode 132: It's OK to not be OK
"Faith is not about everything being okay. Faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out." ~ Unknown Recorded April 7, 2020 Be a phoenix not an ostrich. There is always another side to a crisis. This is real life right now. Embrace the imperfection. We are grieving. It cannot be…
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Episode 131: Are We There Yet?
"Faith is not about everything being okay. Faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out." ~ Unknown Recorded March 31, 2020 We can be a phoenixes and rise from the ashes of uncertainty. We can avoid being ostriches. It's important to remember there is always another side in a crisis...
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Episode 130: Essentialism and Coronavirus
"What if the whole world shifted from the undisciplined pursuit of more to the disciplined pursuit of less… only better?" - Greg McKeown (Essentialism) Recorded March 24, 2020 Essentialism helps us develop life skills. It adapts to life's seasons. We have the ability to build great relationships…
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Episode 129: What the Heck?
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." - Nelson Mandela This episode was recorded on March 10, 2020 during the Novel Coronovirus outbreak in the USA. What the heck! moments happen when it's hard to identify the truth. There are ways to take action using social media, but we may…
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Episode 128: Pause
Becky and Diana have mentioned the value of pausing in so many episodes they decided the concept deserves an episode of its own. Pauses allow us to gauge and check our perspectives. Stopping our momentum allows us to check where we are. A Vigilance Break allows us to stop before we start…
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Episode 127: Shift Your Perspective
Becky and Diana discuss how a change in perspective can change everything. Perspective is examining things from a particular point of view. Sometimes we need to change our perspective on a task before we can successfully accomplish it. Since other people's perspectives can shift ours, it's...
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Episode 126: Why do we set ourselves up to fail?
Becky and Diana examine how we set ourselves up to fail. It's never intentional. We over estimate our resources. Things either fall away because they have to or we can choose to let them go. We often take an all or nothing attitude. There is never a perfect time to do anything, so what can you do...
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Episode 125: The Games People Play
Becky and Diana explore the games people play even without realizing they're doing it. A game is anything that prohibits straight talk and honest exchange. We can cultivate the people around us who don't play games. Keeping personal information close and revealing it slowly isn't a game.…
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Episode 124: The Genius of a Fresh Start
Becky and Diana discuss how a fresh start can give new life to an old plan. You can just start over. A fresh start makes it easier to start and leave the history behind. When we step up and identify a different approach to a situation it opens us to even more approaches. A fresh start allows us…
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Episode 123: Gifts vs Skills
Becky and Diana talk about the different values we place on our gifts and skills. We're trained to give away our gifts (talents). Just because our gifts come easily to us doesn't mean they come easy to everybody. If our talents aren't valued by certain people, we don't feel valued by them either....
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Episode 122: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Becky and Diana challenge us to assess the stories we tell ourselves. Our stories are how we present ourselves to the world. All of our stories can be true, and we get to choose which one we live in. We can change the stories we tell ourselves. Communicating an attitude of gratitude in our…
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Episode 121: Can You Hear Me Now?
Becky and Diana discuss the frustrations of communication gaps. We have to learn the language of the people we want to communicate with. Personality differences often contribute to communication gaps. We need to embrace change to understand. People who are not entrepreneurial have a hard time...
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Episode 120: How Strong is Your Core?
Becky and Diana talk about Core Values and how they keep you, you. Core Values are the building blocks of who we are. Core Values help us stay aligned with what we need. We are more grounded when we have identified and adhere to our Core Values. Diana's core values are both her default and reset...
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Episode 119: This Works Except...
Becky and Diana challenge the notion that there is only one right way to do anything. Something might not work for us if: Should, have to, supposed to, are our reasons for doing it. We recognize it's not working. We become aware of alternatives. We hold on to the idea even when it's not working.…
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Episode 118: Sometimes you just gotta surf
Becky and Diana host their friend and sister coach, Tonya Harvey. They have a lively discussion about their words-of-the-year and a general overview of how their year is going. The podcast was simulcast as a Facebook Live video session and can be found on...
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Episode 117: The Funk
Becky is in a funk with a calendar full of positive events, so she and Diana hash out why. The Funk can occur even when everything is going great. When we leave no margin in our lives for downtime and reflection, we can slip into a funk out of sheer self-preservation. Happiness Hangovers occurs…
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Episode 116: It might be drama if
Becky and Diana challenge us to look at the drama in our lives and recognize areas where we might be contributing to it. Basic life stuff becomes drama based on how we react to it. We create most of our own drama. We can make a conscious choice to not join the drama. Drama happens when we try to...
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Episode 115: Live a Yes!
Becky and Diana talk about how saying yes to opportunities has influenced their lives, and how it can influence yours, too. If we don't say Yes to an opportunity right away, sometimes the opportunity keeps knocking until we do. Saying Yes helps us expand our lives. Sometimes we are nudged into a...
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Episode 114: Control vs Agency
Episode 114: Control vs Agency Becky teaches Diana about the value of agency and how it empowers us. Agency gives us more choice about the direction of our path. Believing in agency is a mindset. Agency gives us independence. We get to ask ourselves, "What can I influence?" When we have agency…
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Episode 113: A Podcast Changed My Life
Becky and Diana share how podcasts have influenced their lives. Hack The Entrepreneur was Becky's gateway into podcasts. It taught her she was awesome just as she is. Doing the Uniquely Brilliant podcast helped Diana find her voice. There are tons of rich content in podcasts. Podcasts help us…
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Episode 112: Both/And
Becky and Diana talk about the concept that we can live both/and lives. And reminds us that we are more than one thing. Both/And allows for flexibility. The Growth Mindset is enhanced with Both/And thinking. Either/Or is the opposite of Both/And. Either/Or assumes we can only choose one option....
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The podcast with strategies for creative, quirky, and extraordinary people. Diana Bader and Becky Berry accompany you on the adventure of living life authentically. Learn to squelch the voices in your head that say you're wrong because you think differently and reclaim your best self. If your ideas and dreams are a little bit bigger than most people's and you're tired of feeling lost, frustrated or just plain wrong, this podcast is for you.
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Diana Bader / Becky Berry
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