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Welcome to The 1-800-GOAL-DIGGER Podcast. I am your host Mika Liu Chawla. This is a safe place where I share my personal goal-digging stories, life experiences, and struggles so you don’t have to.I am not an expert, a life coach, or a therapist.
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You Became Who You Had to Be. Now Who Do You Want to Be? Season 2 Highlights (opens the original)
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What if some of the qualities you think define you, being strong, independent, ambitious, capable, always holding it together, are not simply who you are? What if some of them are who you learned you needed to be? In this special Season 2 highlights episode of 1-800-GOAL-DIGGER, I’m revisiting some of the conversations that stayed with me most this season, from the emotional cost of being “the strong one,” to the beliefs we inherit, the armour ambitious women learn to wear, the difference betwee
He Was Rich, But He Wasn't Generous (opens the original)
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In this episode of 1-800-GOAL-DIGGER, I share a relationship from my younger years that looked generous from the outside. He was 23 years older than me, financially successful, owned two businesses, bought me expensive gifts, and took me to beautiful restaurants. But after five years together, I realized something I could not see clearly at the time: He was generous with what was easy for him to give. Money. Gifts. Dinners. What he was not generous with was his time, his emotional availability,
You’re Not Afraid of Being Seen, You’re Afraid of What People Think (opens the original)
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A listener left me a voicemail asking what advice I would give someone who has a meaningful project, business, or content she wants to share with the world, but is afraid of being seen. The timing of her question could not have been better. That same week, I had been feeling discouraged about the growth of this podcast. I wanted more people to see what I was creating. She was afraid of being seen at all. But the more I thought about her question, the more I realized we might be struggling with t
I Was Never a Gym Person, Mel Grauds on Reinvention, Burnout, and the Power of Slow Build (opens the original)
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Mel Grauds never thought she was a gym person. She avoided gym class, did not grow up athletic, and spent years believing fitness simply was not for her. Then she became a personal trainer. In 2020, after burning out as a registered nurse, Mel walked away from a stable healthcare career in the middle of a pandemic and started what would eventually become Melrose Training. She had no clients, no following, no formal business training, and initially kept the decision almost entirely to herself. Si
Look Up, A Story Of Stars, Survival, And A Life Rebuilt From Scratch (opens the original)
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From the outside, Chelsea’s journey looks like an extraordinary climb: an astrophysics degree, more than twenty years in finance and strategic planning, a move across continents, a coaching business, a family she calls her anchor, and a life she says she is deeply in love with. But her story began with a young mother, an abusive home, and two years living in a women’s refuge. In this episode, Chelsea shares how watching the stars with her grandmother gave her a sense of wonder beyond the circums
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