The people we surround ourselves with can either help or hinder our success in life. They’re the ones who provide support and offer words of encouragement when we need it.

And they’re not afraid to challenge us when we’re stuck.

Our support system helps us see our strengths and acknowledge our weaknesses because they know that true growth comes from action, not perfection.

Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment Ⓡ, Blake welcomes Anne Marie Anderson, a three-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, keynote speaker and author. Taking bold moves in her career has helped her become one of the most experienced female play-by-play announcers in the country. Her book, Cultivating Audacity, shares how she found her “front row” support system and thus, gained the confidence to create change and ultimately, find true growth and success.

In this episode, you’ll learn the importance of bolstering your support system and investing in yourself. You’ll hear how cultivating audacity and aligning with your values can help you overcome fear and doubt.

What You’ll Learn:

• (7:31) Being held back by fear

• (13:42) Claiming your audacity

• (18:37) The value of investing in yourself

• (25:26) Knowing who’s in your front row

• (37:27) What changes when you take control of your life

Favorite Quotes:

1. “Audacity is in the action, not in the outcome.” –Anne Marie Anderson

2. "Don't expect to eliminate your barriers. You're never going to conquer fear or own time, but you can learn to manage it and work with it once you're aware of how it's affecting you." –Anne Marie Anderson

3. "I had to learn how to invest in myself and how to only take advice from people who had achieved what I wanted to achieve." –Blake Schofield

4. “The big problem, I think, for a lot of people is they don't want to put a voice to it. They're afraid to say aloud what it is they want.” –Anne Marie Anderson

Additional Resources:

Buy the book: https://a.co/d/3nDO0qq

Sign up for book updates: https://annemarieanderson.com/book/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-marie-anderson-3557ab39/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annemarieandersontv/

Does “the most wonderful time of the year” feel less like a holiday and more like overwhelm?

Feeling stressed or anxious during the holidays is unfortunately all too common.

But busyness isn’t a badge–It’s a warning that something needs to give.

Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment Ⓡ, Blake shares the importance of recognizing that busyness is not a badge of honor but rather a warning sign that stress and overwhelm are taking over. By shifting existing belief systems, you can start to reduce stress and achieve personal growth.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to identify the sources of stress in your life and truly understand which systems are contributing to your overwhelm. You’ll learn how to overcome busyness through small, actionable steps and create necessary boundaries so that you can begin to prioritize what truly matters.

What You’ll Learn:

• Challenging conventional wisdom by confronting busyness (0:33)

• Why tactics and boundaries alone won’t create real change (4:16)

• Identifying the core belief that’s holding you hostage (5:07)

• Actionable steps to shift your behaviors (5:55)

• A real-world example of how this works (9:09)

Favorite Quotes:

1. “How you do one thing is how you do everything. Meaning whatever the belief systems are tied to some of the problems going on in your life, I can promise you that they're tied to multiple problems going on in your life.”

2. “Change happens through a series of small steps. But when you actually can address these things at a deeper root, change happens exponentially.”

3. “Our fear is if we stop doing so much, we'll be seen or judged as lazy. We won't be able to produce the same types of results we've produced in our career... And it is those fears unexamined that steal our joy, that steal our impact, that steal our presence.”

4. “When we can start to see that our view of things is limited, that we have blind spots, that maybe we're creating our own stress and anxiety, that maybe the things that we really care about aren't as critical for somebody else, the weight can begin to be lifted.”

Additional Resources:

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com

If fear and uncertainty are holding you back from making the changes you want in life, then there’s only one hurdle you need to overcome.

Yourself.

For most of us, the limitations we create are self-inflicted. They are merely perceptions that can be overcome by making one simple change.

Make the decision that you CAN.

No matter what your unique challenges are, the key is to simply make the decision that you CAN overcome limitations, that you CAN push past your limits, and that you CAN build resilience.

And if you think it can’t be done, then today’s guest has a message for you.

Today on The Bridge to FulfillmentⓇ, Blake welcomes Mark Black. He is a resilience expert, coach, and author. His impressive feats of having survived a heart and double-lung transplant and the subsequent completion of 4 marathons are an inspiration to embrace possibility.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to flip the script of your limiting beliefs and begin to look at what is still possible versus what you think you can't do. You’ll learn how to push the limits rather than believe your assumptions. You’ll also hear how to begin to embrace the inevitability of change earlier in the process so that you can reap the highest rewards.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right.” –Henry Ford

What You’ll Learn:

• (6:29) How Mark learned early in life to build resilience

• (13:01) Pushing beyond the fear to take a leap of faith

• (17:44) The opportunity cost of waiting for change to happen

• (23:40) What you can learn from his life experience

• (30:35) The real power that coaching provides

Favorite Quotes:

1. “Everybody's got stuff. Somebody else's stuff is different than yours. But that's not the reason why you can't. It just means you have to adapt in different ways to deal with it.” –Mark Black

2. “Most people don't achieve the happiness, fulfillment, joy, peace of mind balance that they want for their life because of the things that they believe are true that actually aren't.” –Blake

3. “There really are far deeper levels of things that sometimes we struggle to see because we don't want to admit that where we are maybe isn't where we really want to be. But when you can really be honest with yourself about that, that's where the power really lies.” –Blake

4. “What am I showing my kids that a career should look like? What am I showing them that adult life should look like? Do I want to show them that being an adult means slogging my way through something that I hate so that I can pay bills because that's what adulthood is? Or do I want to show them that valuing my own thriving is important because that's going to make me a better human, which makes me a better parent, which helps them?” –Mark Black

5. “Most of us are far more limited by our perception than we are by our ability or our capacity. ” –Mark Black

Additional Resources:

Web: markblack.ca

Facebook: www.facebook.com/IAmMarkBlack

Instagram: www.instagram.com/IAmMarkBlack

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iammarkblack

Get clarity on where you are on your journey to career fulfillment, where you’re headed, optional paths to get there, and the right next step to take.

Start your complimentary, Personalized Career Fulfillment Plan by going to www.thebridgetofulfillment.com/pcfp

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com