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Start your day steady and ready. Sparked delivers daily bursts of motivation from author and performance coach Cara Bradley. Through quick, powerful messages, real stories, and proven tools, you’ll feel grounded, confident, and ready to take bold action.
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Becoming Nobody (opens the original)
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One of the bravest things you can do every day is spend a few minutes being nobody. I've been playing with this for the last couple of years, and it keeps opening up more room than I expected — room to hear myself underneath all the noise. In this episode I talk about what it means to drop the costume of you, why nature makes it easier to let go, and why becoming nobody is actually how I keep finding my way back to everything. Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@sparkedwithcara More from Spar
What Am I Avoiding? (opens the original)
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Every few months I ask myself one question for two weeks straight: What am I avoiding? I write it at the top of my journal every morning and let the answers come, gently, without judgment. In this episode I talk about why avoidance becomes a habit, why kindness is the way in, not more self-criticism, and what happens when we finally give the truth some air time. Try it for ten days and see what surfaces. Subscribe to Sparked on Substack: https://carabradley.substack.com More on YouTube: https://
Get Over Yourself (opens the original)
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I believe one of the greatest gifts we can give the world is to get over ourselves: to put down the backpack of stories, roles, and identities we carry every day. In this episode, I share three simple practices I use daily to loosen that grip: time in nature, rhythmic music, and grounding chores. None of it is complicated. It just takes trust. Subscribe to Sparked on Substack: https://carabradley.substack.com More on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sparkedwithcara?sub_confirmation=1 Website: h
Be the Example (opens the original)
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What's left for me to do? That question shows up in my journal almost every morning. In this episode, I share where I've landed: be the example. I walk through the three practices that keep me grounded in that: being kind, starting with how I talk to myself; being grounded, using a simple finding your feet practice to slow down; and being happy, through a real gratitude practice that shifts how I show up for everyone else. Subscribe to Sparked on Substack: https://carabradley.substack.com More o
A Simple Way To Meditate (opens the original)
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Most people quit meditation because they start in the wrong place, eyes closed, focused inward, fighting distraction from the first minute. In this episode, Cara shares how she actually built a daily meditation practice: not through breathwork or apps, but by anchoring her attention on ordinary things, two trees outside her porch, the silence of a drive, the process of chopping vegetables. She unpacks the real meaning of meditation (the Tibetan word gom, "to become familiar with") and offers a s
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