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Why do so many New Year’s resolutions fail — even when we genuinely want to change?

In this solo episode of Rewired, Tiffany Grimes explores the neuroscience of goal-setting, habit formation, and sustainable behavior change, and explains why willpower alone isn’t a reliable strategy for personal growth.

You’ll learn how your brain is wired for safety and efficiency (not sudden change), how micro-habits and identity-based goals create real neuroplasticity, and why nervous system regulation is a critical — and often missing — piece of lasting transformation.

This episode offers a compassionate, science-backed approach to creating goals that feel aligned, achievable, and authentic — without burnout, self-judgment, or pressure.

🌱 A Simple, Brain-Smart Goal-Setting Practice

Tiffany walks you through a gentle, practical, brain-based process you can use to create goals that truly stick.

👉 Download the worksheet here:
A Simple, Brain-Smart Goal-Setting Practice
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q4KSkNsI71Et-z04Yyhzqges6nMmuINL/view?usp=sharing

This practice will help you:

• Clarify what truly matters in this season of your life
• Shift from outcome-based goals to identity-based change
• Create tiny, repeatable habits that your brain can sustain
• Measure progress through awareness and self-compassion instead of perfection

🤍 Want more support?

If this episode resonates and you’d like deeper support, here are two ways to continue the work:

• Explore individual coaching with Tiffany:
  Tiffany is only opening up 1-2 spots so don't wait! Learn more or schedule a free conversation here:
  👉 https://yesempower.com/
• Become a professional coach or deepen your coaching skills through the Empower Coach Training Academy (CPEC):
  👉 https://yesempower.com/coach-training-academy/

As always, thank you for being here, for being curious, and for doing the brave work of becoming.

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In Episode 20 of Rewired, Tiffany sits down with Nanor Ohanesian, PCC — ICF-certified coach and Senior Faculty at Empower’s Coach Training Academy — to explore one of the most transformational (and misunderstood) skills in coaching and leadership: the coaching listening filter.

Most of us move through conversations wearing invisible filters — as problem-solvers, helpers, leaders, consultants, or fixers. While these roles are valuable, they can unintentionally limit insight, agency, and growth. The coaching listening filter is different. It’s a way of listening rooted in presence, curiosity, and partnership — and when activated, it changes not just conversations, but brains.

Together, Tiffany and Nanor unpack:

• What a coaching listening filter is — and what it isn’t
• How it differs from a consultant, manager, or caseworker listening style
• What’s happening in the brain when we shift into presence and curiosity
• Why this way of listening creates psychological safety, insight, and empowerment
• What pulls us out of the coaching filter (urgency, stress, and the desire to fix)
• Simple, practical ways to activate your coaching listening filter in real time

Nanor also shares personal stories from her own coaching journey and offers concrete micro-practices listeners can try immediately — whether you’re a coach, leader, helping professional, or simply someone who wants deeper, more empowering conversations.

✨ Listener Invitation
Have a question you’d love to hear explored on the podcast? Send it in! We’re now featuring listener questions in upcoming episodes.
Email your question to: Tiffany@YesEmpower.com

🎓 Interested in Becoming a Professional Coach?
Learn more about Empower’s ICF-aligned Coach Training & Certification Program (CPEC):
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🤝 Want to Work with a Professional Coach?
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If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who could benefit from listening with more presence, curiosity, and care. 💛

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Episode 19 dives into one of Tiffany’s favorite brain-based tools: TEB — Thoughts, Emotions, and Behaviors.

Before we get there, today’s listener question (answered beautifully by Professional Empower Coach, Satya Beneventi) explores a challenge many couples know too well: “Why do we keep arguing about the same thing over and over?” Satya breaks down what’s really happening beneath the surface and offers a grounded, compassionate path forward.

Then Tiffany takes you into a solo teaching session on TEB, a simple but powerful map for understanding how our reactions form and where real choice lives. You’ll learn why the brain moves so quickly from meaning-making to emotion to action, how this pattern shows up in everyday life, and how to use TEB to interrupt automatic reactions and create alignment.

This episode is both practical and surprisingly calming—an invitation to meet yourself with more awareness and far less judgment.

📄 Download the Mindful TEB Practice:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zmVI8SnXZsuXwFVD40A-Ynw4dK3RADz9/view?usp=sharing

💬 Have a question you’d like answered on a future episode?
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— your question may be featured on Rewired.

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What makes ICF certification the gold standard in coaching?
In this episode of Rewired, Tiffany sits down with Nancy Hauschildt, PCC, ICF Orange County Chapter Board Member (and future president) and Senior Faculty in the Empower CPEC Coaching Training Academy. Together they explore why the International Coaching Federation plays such a vital role in elevating the coaching profession—and why aspiring coaches should consider an ICF-accredited pathway.

Nancy shares her personal journey into coaching, what inspired her to pursue ICF accreditation, and how the ICF Core Competencies have shaped her identity, confidence, and impact as a coach. From the neuroscience behind professional presence to the ethics that create deep trust, this conversation demystifies the certification process and highlights what realcoaching looks like when it’s aligned with global standards.

Whether you're a new coach, a leader using coaching skills, or someone curious about advancing your practice, this episode is packed with insight on building credibility, mastery, and an empowered coaching mindset.

And if you’re loving the Rewired Podcast, please subscribe, share, and send us your listener questions at Tiffany@YesEmpower.com
— your questions may be featured in a future episode!

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In this episode of Rewired, we explore how the brain, nervous system, and early life experiences shape two of the most emotionally charged areas of our lives: relationships and money.

We begin with our very first listener question, focused on recognizing and untangling codependency. Guest coach Theo Morrison joins Tiffany to break down what codependent patterns look like through a neuroscience and nervous-system lens—and shares grounded, compassionate tools for building self-trust, boundaries, and emotional regulation.

Then Tiffany sits down with Money Mindset Coach Kelly Zúñiga to unpack how our money stories are formed, why even high-achievers struggle with money anxiety, and how to begin rewiring your money mindset in ways that feel sustainable, embodied, and shame-free. This conversation moves beyond budgeting into identity, regulation, and aligned decision-making.

This episode is for you if you want to:
• Understand how your nervous system responds to stress, boundaries, and money
• Heal money anxiety, scarcity thinking, or avoidance
• Build a more regulated, empowered relationship with both people and finances

🎧 In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Practical steps for shifting from over-functioning to shared responsibility
• The neuroscience behind money stress, avoidance, and financial self-sabotage
• How childhood experiences and family beliefs shape money mindset
• Simple, actionable tools to start regulating your nervous system around money and relationships

💌 Have a question you’d like featured on Rewired?
Email your question to Tiffany@YesEmpower.com
to be considered for a future listener segment (anonymous option available).

🔗 Guest Resources:
Kelly Zúñiga – Money Mindset Coach
🌐 https://kellyzuniga.com/

🔗 Stay connected & keep rewiring:

• Learn more about Empower Coaching & Training and upcoming workshops at YesEmpower.com
• Explore the Empower Coach Training Academy and CPEC certification pathway
• Share this episode with someone navigating boundaries, money stress, or relationship burnout
• Follow, rate, and review Rewired on your favorite podcast platform

Understanding our brains gives us access to new choices. Rewriting our stories creates room for a life that feels calmer, clearer, and more aligned.

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Urges are part of the human experience.

The urge to snap.
The urge to shut down.
The urge to over-function, people-please, or abandon a boundary you worked hard to build.

In this solo episode of Rewired, Tiffany explores Surfing the Urge through the lens of neuroscience, self-coaching, and nervous system awareness. You’ll learn what’s actually happening in the brain when urges arise, why short-term relief so often leads to long-term regret, and how building awareness creates choice.

This episode is about reclaiming agency in those charged moments—learning to stay with discomfort long enough to reconnect with your values, your boundaries, and the person you want to be.

Because while both options are hard…
Only one builds self-trust, emotional resilience, and aligned relationships.

The 4-Part “Surf the Urge” Tool

Use this simple, powerful self-coaching practice when an urge shows up:

1. Name the urge “I’m noticing the urge to…”
2. Locate it in the body Where do you feel it — chest, jaw, shoulders, gut?
3. Breathe and stay Slow the exhale and allow the urge to rise and fall without acting.
4. Reconnect to values Ask, "What am I protecting if I don’t act on this urge?" and/or “Who do I want to be right now?”

Work with ICF Accredited, Empower Coaches

If you’re ready to deepen this work with support, Empower’s trained coaches help clients build self-awareness, emotional regulation, aligned boundaries, and values-based change.

👉 Learn more about coaching with Empower:
https://yesempower.com

Upcoming Training: The Boundary ToolKit

Struggling to hold boundaries under pressure? This live, neuroscience-informed masterclass blends coaching tools and brain science to help you protect your energy without guilt or over-explaining.

👉 Learn more and register here:
https://yesempower.com/better-bondaries-masterclass/

Become a Certified Coach: CPEC Coach Training Academy

If you feel called to support others in this kind of transformation, Empower’s Certified Professional Empower Coach (CPEC) Training Academy offers a neuroscience-based, ICF-aligned pathway to becoming a professional coach.

This program blends rigorous skill development with personal growth, mentoring, and real-world application—so you graduate confident, grounded, and ready to coach with integrity.

👉 Explore the CPEC Coach Training Academy:
https://yesempower.com/coach-training-academy/

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What if understanding your why could rewire the way you lead, love, and live?

In this episode of Rewired, Tiffany sits down with Mariah Wickham, a multi-certified Life & Empowerment Coach and Enneagram educator who helps individuals and organizations use this powerful tool to build greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and compassionate leadership.

Together, they explore:

• The neuroscience behind personality patterns and why motivation matters more than behavior.
• How the Enneagram reveals our stress responses and shows us how to return to regulation.
• What happens when leaders understand their type — and the types of those they lead.
• How to use the Enneagram ethically (without labels or boxes) to create trust and connection.

Mariah’s grounded wisdom and sense of humor bring this ancient framework to life in modern, brain-smart ways that anyone can apply to relationships, teams, and self-growth.

Resources Mentioned

🧭 Free Tests:

• Truity – Enneagram Personality Test
  
  
• Eclectic Energies Test
  
  

💡 Paid Tests:

• $12 – Enneagram Institute RHETI Test
  
  
• $60-120 – Integrative9 Report
  
  

📚 Book Recommendations:

• The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron
• The Journey Toward Wholeness by Suzanne Stabile
• The Honest Enneagram by Sarajane Case

Connect with Mariah Wickham

🌐 www.mariahwickham.com

📱 Instagram: @mariah.wickham

🗓 Book a First Call Here

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In this solo episode of Rewired, Tiffany explores one of the most transformative tools for emotional wellbeing, leadership clarity, and personal freedom: boundaries.

Grounded in neuroscience, Tiffany unpacks why the brain craves clear limits, why setting them can feel so uncomfortable, and how healthy boundaries regulate the nervous system, protect energy, and deepen our relationships. You’ll learn the difference between internal and external boundaries, how to identify the subtle cues your body gives when a boundary is needed, and evidence-based practices you can use immediately.

Whether you’re a leader, a parent, a coach, or someone who’s tired of over-functioning and over-giving, this episode will help you begin rewiring your relationship with boundaries—from something that feels hard, scary, or “selfish,” to something that brings calm, clarity, and peace.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why unclear boundaries send the brain into stress mode
• The neuroscience behind the discomfort of saying no
• How internal boundaries shape self-trust
• Tools to set healthier limits with others
• Coaching approaches that help clients navigate boundary challenges
• Simple, practical boundary practices you can start today

If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, overwhelmed, resentful, or simply ready for more peace, this episode is for you.

✨ Ready to Go Deeper? Join the Better Boundaries Masterclass

If you want practical tools, scripts, frameworks, and coaching strategies to build stronger boundaries without guilt or conflict, join Tiffany’s Better Boundaries Masterclass.
➡️ https://yesempower.com/better-bondaries-masterclass/

✨ Work With an ICF Certified, Professional Empower Coach

If you’re ready to strengthen your own boundaries, reduce overwhelm, and live with more alignment and ease, explore 1:1 coaching through Empower.
➡️ https://yesempower.com/coaching/

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