Creating Her Best Life Podcast
Welcome to Creating Her Best Life Now, the go-to podcast for women ready to step into their full potential and design a life they truly love. Hosted by certified Master Life Coach Shannan Christiansen, this inspiring show is tailored for women who seek clarity, empowerment, and actionable strategies to overcome life's challenges and achieve personal and professional success.
Each week, Shannan dives into topics ranging from mindset mastery and goal setting to self-care and relationship building, providing expert insights and practical tools that empower listeners to take bold steps toward their dreams. Whether you're navigating a career shift, building confidence, or looking for ways to enhance your well-being, Creating Her Best Life Now delivers the guidance you need to thrive.
Join our community of ambitious women and discover how to rewrite your story, find your purpose, and create a life you’re proud to call your own. Because your best life isn’t just a dream—it starts now!
Ep. #182: Why Going Solo is Keeping You From Losing Weight
Motivation is fleeting. It lasts 15-90 seconds. You wonder why you can’t figure out how to lose weight for good. Today’s reality is you don’t know your neighbors like you did growing up. Social media has given us a false sense of community and connection. You don’t have to do this alone and in shame. There are other women out there who are like you.
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In this weeks Weight Loss for Successful Women podcast episode I give you my take on losing weight solo vs having support.
In this episode…
≫[2:46] Why can’t I figure out how to lose weight?
≫[3:03] You don’t want to tell anyone you’re on a diet because it might not work.
≫[3:37] Being an introvert and on the diet roller coaster.
≫[5:05] You are not alone in carrying the shame about your weight.
≫[5:42] Motivation is fleeting.
≫[6:11] Social media gives us a false sense of community and connection.
≫[6:57] You can go solo, but it’s harder.
≫[7:46] Having a community of like-minded women.
≫[8:31] Extroverts on th
...Ep. #181: How Sabotage is Sidelining Your Weight Loss
Have you ever had things going well in your life and then all of the sudden, boom, things start going back down? You have lost weight, but then you start overeating, you start quitting on yourself, you say you’ll start again on Monday. Sabotage is something we all do.
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In today’s episode I will teach you three steps to handle your self-sabotage.
In this episode…
≫[1:18] What butterflies have in common with my business!
≫[3:22] Limiting beliefs, what they are and how they are sabotaging your success.
≫[4:50] How to stop future puddling!
≫[5:35] Just because you have a thought, doesn’t make it true.
≫[6:18] Shannan shares a limiting belief from when she was on the diet roller coaster.
≫[11:14] How to shine a light on it and recognize your limiting beliefs.
Ep. #180: What is Better Than the Scale in Weight Loss
In today’s episode, you will discover how the number on the scale is the least valuable predictor of your success. You will get my take on the number on the scale. You will get the tools to teach you how to look at the number differently and to disconnect that number from your worth.\
This weeks T-BOSS Take is meaty!
In this episode…
≫[5:14] Being obsessed with the scale.
≫[7:02] The number on the scale and your success.
≫[9:59] My take on the scale.
≫[10:49] Monthly, quarterly and yearly progress.
≫[12:58] Daily or weekly weigh-in.
≫[14:20] Disconnecting your worth from the number on the scale.
≫[16:39] Two different ways of looking at the number.Â
Ep. #179: Are You Having an Overdesire for Food?
In today’s episode Shannan teaches how to come into awareness and recognize over-desire for food. If you have been on the weight loss journey and the diet roller coaster, over desire and urges have shown up for you. Shannan teaches us about desire, urges and over desire and how they show up in weight loss. You will learn a three-step process that will help you to stop an urge and desire something less.Â
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In this episode…
≫ [2:30] Desire is a feeling and we take action on that feeling.
≫ [4:07] Urges are feelings that come from a thought.
≫ [5:03] You can have a feeling, an urge, and decide what you want to do next.
≫ [5:12] Over desire is when we over desire something that isn’t giving us the results we want in our life.Â
≫ [8:00] Understanding and building the evidence that you can desire something less starts with understanding and becoming aware of where you are over desiring something and why do you want to change it.Â
≫ [8:25] Awareness is the first step in
...Ep. #178: Eating to Feel Numb
In this episode you will discover how learning to process emotions will change your life. For so long, we have pushed down our emotions because we didn’t want to feel. We didn’t want to feel sadness, shame, disappointment. Not feeling the negative feelings kept us from feeling positive feelings too and as a result, we just felt numb. Many of us wanted to stay numb and we pushed those feelings down with food. Shannan and Jenn will teach you how to feel your feelings and process the emotions so that you can begin the process of healing yourself, healing your relationship with food, and lose weight for the last time.
In this episode…
≫ [1:22] Why do you overeat?
≫ [2:35] Society taught us to stop feeling emotion.
≫ [4:43] What is a feeling?
≫ [5:37] Feeling emotion is a skillset that can be learned through coaching.
≫ [6:59] Jenn’s take on feeling your feelings.
≫ [8:55] Creating stories out of fear of feeling the emotion.
≫ [10:30] Three ways to process emotion.
Ep. #177: Using the Pause Button in Weight Loss
How the power of the pause can help you make a better decision for yourself. So much of the time you are in your automatic brain and Coach Jenn and I will teach you how to get into your thinking brain more.
Listen in to learn how this will help you lose weight.
Ep. #176: Is Good Bye Eating Showing Up and Wrecking Your Efforts
What goodbye eating is and how it is keeping you on the diet rollercoaster. You get my take on what to do so you can have success this year. Losing weight is about doing something different and thinking differently about how to do it.
You do not need to stop eating food you like to lose weight. You can lose weight by meeting yourself where you are at and giving yourself time to change from the inside out.
Ep. #175: Exercise Can Sabotage Your Weight Loss Efforts
Why you don’t need to exercise to lose weight. Why it is just a myth and something we have been sold on. Why it can actually hinder your weight loss and what to do about it. You don’t want to miss this one.
Ep. #174: I Feel Out Of Control When It Comes to Food
How this thought “I am not in control around food,” is sabotaging your weight loss journey. How to think that you are in control and make decisions for your best self.
You will learn a decision that I made that is one of the core decisions that has helped me keep my weight off.
Ep. #173: How to Stop the YOYO of the Diet Roller Coaster
How allowance and restriction have played a part in your weight loss journey. How restriction has kept you on the diet roller coaster and how the only way to lose weight for the long term is through allowance.
If you have ever thought “I will be good tomorrow when I start my diet”, then this episode is for you.
