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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.
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Ep. #154: Weight Loss Q&A Part 1

Dec 31, 2024

Ooh, we have a very special episode for you this time. Coach Jenn is joining me in this two-part series where we are going to answer some questions around losing weight.

You will learn how what I teach is very different from all the diet culture out there. No more diet trauma here.

I know most of us have been taught things like restriction, food plans, move more to lose weight. But I will show you a better way. No food plans here.

I will dive deep into topics like how to reconnect with your body, and how allowance actually leads to weight loss.

Are you ready to be reconnected with your body again?

And please leave us a review so we can reach more women to help them to learn to lose weight for good.

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • How meeting yourself where you are at is so important in weight loss
  • Physical hunger versus emotional hunger
  • How to listen to your hunger cues and what they mean
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Ep. #153: The COST of Losing Weight Part 2

Dec 31, 2024

This is the second part of a two-part series where I teach you what the COST of losing weight is and it won’t be what you think it is. If you missed last week, go back and listen to it, episode 152.

Last week I taught you to get off the diet roller coaster for good that there is a cost – there is hard work, but it is the best work of your life. You learned what the C &O was.

Today I will dive deep into the S &T.

We as women work tirelessly for everyone else and show up for everyone in our lives. Isn’t it about time you show up for you!

Getting off the diet roller coaster for good and losing weight for the last time just requires one small decision and action after the next. Are you ready to make that one small decision?

 

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • How showing up means doing the hard work and committing to yourself
  • Why it’s so important to talk to yourself more than you listen
  • How to lose weight for good by just making one...
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Ep. #152: The COST Of Losing Weight For The Last Time

Dec 31, 2024

This is the first episode in a two-part series where I teach you what the COST of losing weight is, and it won’t be what you think it is.

We think of the COST of weight loss as money, maybe time invested. We have spent hundreds of hours, thousands of dollars on this “diet roller coaster.” It has cost us a lot.

Join me in this episode as I will go a little deeper and talk about what I think the COST of losing weight is, self-love and really living your best life in a body you love. 

Learning how to invest in yourself, learning the cost of losing weight for the last time – it is work, it is the best work of your life.

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • What is truly hard about losing weight, and how we get to choose our hard
  • What caring for your physical, mental, and emotional health really means
  • How being honest with yourself about where you are and where you want to go will lead to weight loss success
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Ep. #151: You Never Have To Start Over Again

Dec 31, 2024

We have these limiting beliefs that we need to start over, we are behind, we should do it all. These keep us stuck on the diet roller coaster.

We have learned through diet culture that what we are doing is not good enough and that we need to do more, restrict more, and that leaves us feeling frustrated and hopeless.

Join me in this episode where I teach you what to do so you never have to start over again. 

 

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • How you never have to “start over”
  • How making the next best decision and then taking action from that place is easy
  • How to lose weight and live your best life from just the tiny decisions you make – not big sweeping ones
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Ep. #150: The Basics of Weight Loss Success Tips

Dec 31, 2024

Join me in this special episode where Coach Jenn will be joining me and we will be talking about my basics.

Now my basics are 4 fundamentals that I teach to get you off the diet roller-coaster for good.

I know for most of us, we have tried all the diets out there, looking for that magical pill or solution, exercise plan, etc. But I teach you a different way.

How to meet yourself where you are at, find your successes, change your thoughts, and slowly up level.

We will dive deep into these 4 fundamentals, including lots of tips on how to lose weight in a way that you can always do.

Our bodies really are amazing. We just need to start paying attention to them again.

Are you ready to stop being a member of the “clean plate club” and learn to just listen to what your body needs?

 

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • How meeting yourself where you are at leads to your success
  • How to become the scientist of your own body
  • How to change your thoughts from that...
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Ep. #149: The Fear of Gaining It Back

Dec 31, 2024

Join me in this episode as I dive dep into the fear around gaining the weight back and how to believe new things.

To get off the diet rollercoaster you have to start becoming aware of your thoughts and then learn to believe new things.

Whether you are fearing gaining your weight back, or if you haven’t even lost a pound, or you’re on a plateau, or you’ve lost your weight, I will give you 5 tips around that fear of gaining the weight back.               

Believing new things, learning how to heal your relationship with food, it is the way to long term weight loss.

Because you are beautiful and amazing right now today. The number on the scale does not define you or your worth.

If you want to take this work deeper than go take my free course at freebosscourse.com.

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • How your thinking will always be the determining factor in your results, in your outcomes
  • ...
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Ep. #148: How to Start Losing Weight for The Last Time

Dec 31, 2024

Join me in this episode as I dive deep into how to start.

For most of us I am sure we have been on the diet rollercoaster for a very long time. And if you are anything like me, I know you are so tired of it.

I will teach you about my process – one that is filled with success and failure.

I know we have all been searching for that magical pill, potion or diet.

I will explain how the magic is within you!

If you want to lose weight for the last time, then you have to do it slowly, you have to change your mindset – what you believe along the way.

And if you want to go deeper in this work, take my free course at freebosscourse.com

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • How to stop putting yourself off
  • How doing too much in the beginning only causes you to quit
  • What up-leveling is and how slowly up-leveling leads to success
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Ep. #147: Reinforcements from Soundtracks by Jon Acuff

Dec 31, 2024

You will not want to miss this episode!

Join me in this episode as I dive deep into the 5 concepts I learned from the book Soundtracks by Jon Acuff that really reinforce what I teach about weight loss.

I will explain what these broken soundtracks are and how they do not serve you.

For so long, for many of us, we think the reason we cannot lose weight is outside of us, but I will teach you how this is just not true.

 We will always have these broken soundtracks, these thought errors, but I show what you can do when those thoughts come in.

I will give you 3 simple questions to ask yourself to challenge these old broken soundtracks.

You know, I failed in weight loss so many times – until I didn’t.

Are you ready to learn a different way to get off the diet rollercoaster for good?

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • Just because you have a thought does not make it true
  • How to talk to yourself more than you listen
  • How awareness leads to your weight loss success...
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Ep. #145: How to Lose the Guilt

Dec 31, 2024

Do you put everyone else above you on your “to do” list?

Have there been times where you do something for yourself and feel guilty about it?

We as women have been taught that we must put everyone else about our own self.

It happens subtly until you don’t recognize your own life.

Until you don’t even know how to dream any more.

And it shows up as extra weight on your body, you are stuffing your dreams and goals down with food.

This episode is a must for every woman – Sr. Weight Loss Coach Jenn Taylor and I have a really vulnerable conversation on being a woman and how to take steps forward to begin showing up for yourself.

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • Why we as women carry so much guilt and shame of showing up for ourselves.
  • How it affects us and how it keeps us stuck
  • How to start showing up for yourself, simple tips.
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Ep. #144: Two Critical Things to Your Success in Weight Loss

Dec 31, 2024

Join me in this episode as I explain the type of coaching that I do and why it is so important.

How it can help you reach new heights by breaking through some of those roadblocks and challenges you are having.

You also need a community – a tribe who is there to love and support you on your journey – no judgments.

I will teach you why this is so important.

You do not have to do it by yourself.

Coaching and community are critical in losing weight for the last time – Having someone help you to see what has been holding you back and then having a community of women who support you and inspire you – well it is everything.

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • What coaching is and why it is so important
  • How your thoughts are keeping you stuck
  • How being part of a tribe helps in weight loss
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