The Own It! Powercast is all about personal growth. It’s about taking time to learn, grow and change, with You in the driver’s seat. Life coach, counselor and teacher Mary Baker will walk you through the necessary ingredients to have great self-confidence, live with purpose and on purpose, and finally start to love your life. This is a show about taking charge of your personal growth, and about taking your fear and turning it into powerful choices that will create sustained changes. Finally understand what’s been in your way all along, and the tools you need to get to where you want to be. So if you’re serious about transforming your relationships with yourself and others, then this is the podcast for you!
In Episode 21 the focus is on defining your Truth…what defines who you are and what you stand for.
In this episode, after learning last week how negative messages can create limiting core beliefs, we…
Welcome to episode twenty where we explore how early messages about ourselves helped form core beliefs that have been driving our choices and behavior.
In this episode I explain how the early message…
Welcome to episode Nineteen, as we explore the idea of self-concept and how it is formed early in life.
In this episode we talk about the origins of our self-concept in childhood, and how the emotion…
Welcome to episode Eighteen where we wrap up the conversation around boundaries by exploring just how to set and maintain them.
In this episode we get into the nuts and bolts of how to articulate you…
Welcome to episode Seventeen where we talk about boundaries in our behavior and compare healthy versus unhealthy ways of acting.
In this episode I talk about boundaries in our behavior – how we act…
Welcome to episode Sixteen where we explore the idea of Boundaries in our communication – because how we speak to one another is how we demonstrate healthy boundaries or not.
In this episode I get in…
Welcome to episode Fifteen, where we explore the concept of Internal Boundaries – or Self Discipline. We talk about why this is the “Internal Half” of boundary work, and give you some tools to get s…
Welcome to episode fourteen where we get into what manipulation and control look like, their destructiveness in relationships, and how they relate to healthy boundary setting.
I believe manipulation…
Welcome to episode thirteen, where we explore the concept of griefwork when setting boundaries in relationships. Being able to detach and grief is essential to have hope and healing.
This work can…
In this episode we focus on what loving detachment is, what it isn’t, and how it is so integral to setting and maintaining healthy boundaries in relationships. Letting go is not easy, yet it is the …
Welcome to episode Eleven, where we look at some of the symptoms you may struggle with if you have poor boundaries. This is an important episode for you if you are tired if feeling worn-out, frustrat…
Wow we’re at episode ten and starting out the month defining the concept of boundaries, one of my favorite topics! Boundaries are the underpinning of empowerment, and healthy relationships are not po…
EP 009 Taking Responsibility for Getting Needs Met
Welcome to our ninth episode, where we finish up our month talking about taking full responsibility for what we need – and for practicing self-care.…
We have two types of needs: tangible and intangible ones. Learning to identify, validate and express those needs in a healthy way to others is our main focus here. If we cannot do this naturally ther…
Welcome to episode seven where we delve into the concept of unmet needs. Here we look at why some of our needs were not met and the impacts on our lives today. The earlier these experiences took pla…
Welcome to episode six where we start the new month talking about one of the most important aspects of self-confidence and healthy relationships: Needs. Here we define them and explore why they matt…
Welcome to episode five where we dig into the ideas of responsibility and commitment to yourself as you set out to become who you truly want to be. We identify ways we can allow others to hold us ba…
This episode is all about wrapping up the idea of empowerment with defining the gap between the person you want to be and how you see yourself today. We get into the relationship between you and you…
This episode is an introduction to an important aspect of self-confidence: Finally facing and grieving unhealthy messages and unmet needs from early experiences that are still impacting us today.
In…
So what is self-confidence…really? Self-esteem is one of the most misrepresented and misunderstood concepts in our society….and the most uncomfortable to talk about! And it is at the core of most r…