Athena Brownson
speaker
330 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard May 2025
Athena Brownson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
how do we create our toolkit of things that we know are going to get us through every day even when we don't want to there's never a day that i i want to get out of bed i i feel horrible absolutely horrible but i know that if i put on some of my favorite music or podcast
and just blast it and grab one of my, make myself a great cup of coffee, that those are things that are just gonna get my day started. And every little, I always try and find little hacks for how I can get through each part of my day. I really do believe that having something that you're passionate about
that can take your mind off of what you're going through a little bit and keep your eyes motivated looking forward. That's the key because it's so easy to just get stuck in the mud, give up. And I believe that when your mentality is in that place of wanting to give up and just stay in bed or maybe stop looking for different solutions, different doctors, different treatments.
There's such a wide variety of treatments all over the world that you have to be your own biggest advocate. I believe that a huge component of that is mental. So understanding how you can pivot your mentality from this disease is taking over, ruining my life, to... How can I use this to become a better, stronger, grittier version of myself? How can I use this to be the best version of me?
And how am I going to do that? And it's usually by the people that you're surrounding yourself with and the coaches that are in your life or your your family members or whoever it may be, but you have to find those anchors that keep you grounded to really push forward and not give up because you have to be your own biggest advocate.
And I think that's the case with any adversity or challenge in life is Nothing ever goes to plan, but you're your own biggest advocate. You are the one that can take the reign and say, even when things are not going right, I'm going to figure out a way to make the best out of it and to be the best version of myself.
Does that feel accurate? You couldn't say it better. I think that is a beautiful way of putting it. I completely agree. I believe that the mental aspect of it is at least 50% of the challenge.
Does that feel accurate? You couldn't say it better. I think that is a beautiful way of putting it. I completely agree. I believe that The mental aspect of it is at least 50% of the challenge.
Our brains are wired in a way that if we continue to think a certain thought, whether that's I'm in pain or I don't want to do this, I don't feel good, I don't want to get out of bed, when we're continually reinforcing those thoughts, we will have those thoughts because when you're in pain, you're in pain and your brain notices that. And unfortunately, that's an unavoidable truth.
But when we pair that with How am I creating new neural pathways? How am I creating positive affirmations in my life? How am I surrounding myself with positivity? What am I ingesting when it comes to what I'm listening to? What information I'm taking in? The people that I'm spending time with. For me, having Routines is huge. So I talk about having your toolkit to get through challenging times.
Something for me that is really critical for my mental health and thus my physical health because they do go so hand in hand. is having my morning and evening routines. And that involves doing breath work and meditation. That involves having time to journal and write out my affirmations and write out my goals. I'm constantly writing out like I am healthy. I am healing my body.
My body feels great because I want to tell my brain that I am doing OK. I want to convince myself that.
that my body can get through this because when I can convince my mind and nervous system that I'm going to be okay and that there's an end goal and I keep my eyes on really looking forward instead of downwards into the current state that I'm in, that is where we're able to keep... I really believe that you're able to...
create more healing in the body physically when you're mentally working on strengthening your mentality. And I have many doctors, like my pain doctor, for instance, last week we did a class on breath work and there's been a huge number of studies done that show that when you're in pain and your nervous system is activated and
is in fight or flight mode so frequently due to illness or pain, whatever you're going through, it's easy for your brain to get stuck in that pattern. So it's up to us to make sure that we're doing the work to teach our brains and our nervous system that we're okay. And we're going to get through this. And it's a challenge. And like I said, there will be good days, there will be bad days.
But I believe that having routines and being able to stay goal oriented in any aspect of your life is absolutely critical for overcoming adversity.
I love this, yes. So I firmly believe that I would not be where I am today in business, in life, in anything without the people that I am surrounded by. And as an only child and a professional skier, I was a one-man sport, a one-person activity all the time. Being an only child, I didn't have siblings to delegate or... really understand how delegation works.
So for me, building out the right team was something that I continued to work on was a huge challenge for me because I was a athlete that believed that I could get everything done myself, that it was my job to make sure that I did everything perfectly. The truth of the matter is there is absolutely no way of getting through
any of anything in life by yourself, let alone a real estate career, which is extremely taxing. I would say there was, you could work 24 hours a day and still have a 24 hour to-do list easily. And then taken me a lot of coaching, a lot of surrounding myself with people that have taught me really the art of delegation and the art of understanding that we are not alone.
going to always be the best at everything. We need to know what our strengths are and what our weaknesses are because we all have strengths and we should be focusing on those. Our strengths might be someone else's weaknesses or their strengths are weaknesses. So by assessing really who we are, what we're good at, what we're not good at.
Showing 241–260 of 330 · page 13 of 17
← Previous
Next →