Living with Intention Podcast

Host Emily guides listeners through an encouragement audit that explains why our brains favor negativity and how to rewire self-talk for growth. The episode covers the biology of the inner critic, three pillars of self-advocacy, and practical strategies like celebrating small wins and adopting a beginner’s mindset.Listeners are encouraged to speak kindly to themselves, observe thoughts instead of reacting, and practice saying one thing they’re doing right each time a negative thought appears.

This episode teaches you how to stop living by the decisions of your past and take control of your present. Emily explains the difference between the master (shame) and the teacher (growth), and shows how forgiveness and meaning free you from old patterns.She shares three practical shifts — a vocabulary change (I have experienced), mirror work (be a student of life), and one small win — so you can drop mental weight, create momentum, and design the next chapter of your life.

Emily flips the common idea that trust must be earned, arguing instead that trust is a gift that fosters growth while mistrust should be what’s earned. She contrasts starting relationships and jobs with zero trust versus giving trust first, showing how trust encourages authentic improvement rather than performance.Using examples from her coaching practice and a story about her dog Teddy, Emily offers practical guidance: give trust intentionally, use missteps as data to set boundaries, and practice affirmations to lead with good intent. She ends with a simple challenge to offer trust to someone you’ve kept at arm’s length and information about her life coaching at LifeCoachingLWI.com.

A guided session that invites you to release control and comfort, cultivate trust, and open to spiritual alignment. Through breath, reflection, and gentle visualization you learn to loosen attachment, listen to intuition, and act from intention.
Short practices help you soften tension, notice what holds you back, and move from gripping life to cooperating with it—finding greater clarity, presence, and peace.

This episode explains why kindness and patience are powerful leadership skills, not soft traits. Emily offers practical frameworks (KIND and PATIENCE), real-life scripts, and a seven-day challenge to help you stay regulated, preserve dignity, and hold people accountable with respect.Listeners will learn how to pause under pressure, invite perspective, set clear standards, and communicate next steps to create safety, trust, and lasting growth in teams and relationships.

In this episode, host Emily Estrada explains how your habits quietly shape your identity and direction in life, and how repeated small actions become who you are. She breaks down the habit loop—cue, craving, response, reward—and shows how beliefs and identity form through repetition.Emily shares practical strategies to build lasting habits using four principles (make it obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying), habit stacking, and simple tracking. She also covers how to break unwanted habits by reversing those principles and replacing them with healthier alternatives.The episode contrasts systems with goals, emphasizing identity-based change: decide who you want to be, take small consistent actions, and design environments that support the habits that reflect your highest self.

In this episode, coach Emily teaches the STOP method — Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed — a brief, practical tool to create a pause between emotional reaction and intentional response. You'll learn why reactions are biological, how the nervous system prioritizes safety, and how breath and observation restore choice.The episode includes reflection prompts, real examples, and a guided nervous-system reset to practice in real time, emphasizing embodiment over perfect control and encouraging daily use to build emotional agility.

In this episode Emily explores how your beliefs quietly shape every part of your life and why your life reflects your beliefs more than your potential.Learn simple mindfulness tools to notice and question limiting beliefs, practical reframes to grow new, supportive beliefs, and a guided visualization exercise to step into a more empowered version of yourself.This episode offers compassionate, actionable steps to reclaim your power and choose beliefs that allow you to expand.

Pause and consider: do you believe life happens for you or against you? This episode shows how your interpretation of setbacks shapes your confidence, choices, and growth, and guides you to shift from feeling victimized to seeing setbacks as setups.Learn simple practices—breathe, reframe questions from “Why me?” to “How might this be for me?”, and journal past rejections—to reclaim authorship of your life and use resistance as training for the next level.

This episode explores people-pleasing—the learned habit of saying yes to stay safe or accepted—and the hidden costs it creates: resentment, burnout, and loss of identity.Emily offers simple reframes and gentle ways to say no, plus practical steps to rebuild boundaries and self-trust so you can choose yourself without guilt.