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Don't Lose

著者： Karen Thrall
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Each week, author and executive coach Karen Thrall dives into one human tension that shapes how we live, lead, and connect. Through stories and conversations, discover how to hold onto your curiosity, your courage, your humanity, and your sense of purpose. Become more of who you are, not less.

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  • Don't Lose Your Ability to Change

    Don't Lose Your Ability to Change
    2026/10/16

    How do you know when change is in the air, even when you can't quite explain what's different? In Episode 7, Karen Thrall explores the early signs of change, how to recognize them, and why they're worth paying attention to.

    Transcript:
    00:01 Hi, this is Karen Thrall. Welcome to the Don't Lose podcast.
    00:05 Today's episode is Don't Lose Your Ability to Change.
    00:08 Behind me is the Pacific Coast in San Diego County. The waves are crashing in. It's a beautiful day.
    00:17 Personally, I've gone through a lot of change in the last year. That's compelled me to share some of what I've learned.
    00:31 Change looks different for all of us. I'm focusing on the workplace, but you can apply these ideas to your personal life.
    00:50 If you're going through personal change, remember that only you can change yourself. Change affects your relationships, environment, mindset, and beliefs. Ask yourself, "What do I need to change? What do I want to change? What am I ready to change?"
    01:23 Make sure you have a trusted friend or confidant. Change is messy. You need someone who'll listen as you process different perspectives, options, thoughts, and emotions. It's not a one-time conversation. Change takes time.
    02:04 Today, we're talking about the early stages of change. How do you know change is in the air? I focus on three things.
    02:16 First, is someone ready for change, or are they frustrated, annoyed, or disappointed with work?
    02:27 They might feel less fulfilled, have trouble enjoying their work, or feel unsure about what's happening. I listen closely to distinguish frustration from something deeper.
    03:12 Here's a question I ask. If your job and life stayed exactly the same five years from now, how would you feel?
    03:31 If their immediate reaction is "No way!" I know change may be on its way.
    03:49 So I narrow the timeline. What about three years? Is the reaction just as strong?
    04:21 What about one year? If they're disappointed rather than alarmed, we may have more time to work through it.
    04:44 Over 20 years, I've found that once change is activated, the cycle can take about 18 months. I'm trying to understand how much time we have.
    05:04 What's their tolerance? What's their bandwidth?
    05:09 Second, what kind of change are they looking at? More influence, a promotion, or greater responsibility in their current job? Have they reached a ceiling and need to move on? Or do they want an entirely new career?
    05:49 Third, what's their capacity for change? Do they really want it?
    06:00 Change is hard. It requires sacrifice, thinking differently, making different choices, challenging yourself, and getting uncomfortable. You're letting go of what's familiar for something less familiar, maybe completely unfamiliar.
    06:25 How big is this change? How much can they handle?
    06:32 I like using the four seasons to illustrate change. Nature is a wonderful teacher.
    06:50 Think of a time when everything at work is going well. You like your job, your boss, your pay. There's not much to complain about.
    07:01 Then one day, like leaves beginning to change color, you notice something feels different.
    07:08 You start asking, "Why do I feel this way? Something's off. Is it me? Why is it harder to go to work?"
    07:24 You liked the way things were. You wish they could stay that way. But now you're not so sure.
    07:41 That's your wake-up call. Pay attention.
    07:53 From the outside, the leaves changing color look beautiful. You notice the crisp air. But when you're the one going through change, it's not always beautiful. It can be scary.
    08:13 Next episode, I want to talk about fear, because that's where a lot of people get stuck.
    08:29 We ask fear-based questions. I'll show you how to turn them into better questions and why those fears show up.
    08:46 For today, I want to focus on the disruption. Something's changing, and you don't quite know what it is.
    08:59 I'll see you next week.
    09:02 Thanks for listening.




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    9 分
  • Don't Lose Your Influence Through Mirror Neurons

    Don't Lose Your Influence Through Mirror Neurons
    2026/09/11
    We’re constantly picking up on the energy around us, but we don’t have to absorb all of it. This episode explores how mirror neurons can help us recognize what’s ours, what isn’t, and how our own presence can influence the room. TRANSCRIPT:00:00 I am in beautiful Calgary, AB, Canada and behind me is the view of the city.00:05 It's a gorgeous view.00:07 I'm up on a hill and I just had to show it to you because this is where I'm going to do the podcast today.00:15 Hi, I'm Karen Thrall, welcome to the don't lose podcast.00:19 Today's episode is don't lose your influence through mirror neurons.00:23 I'm learning a lot about how much impact.00:27 Who I am has.00:30 I think we spent a lot of time focusing on communication.00:34 I do have to be a better communicator, nerd out on the topic all the time.00:40 And I think where my focus is shifting, not changing, but just shifting a little bit.00:48 Is not what I say.00:50 But how I show up?00:52 I want to remind us, and me especially, that there's so much I can do in my influence without saying anything.01:03 And when I sense something, I can change what's going on by my presence.01:09 And I think all of us, it would be so great if all of us would look into our lives and say, what is that influence I have without saying anything.01:21 This is the biggest part of my topic today.01:25 It's not in saying something.01:26 It's a space that you create.01:30 That people enjoy.01:33 And I don't know if we talk about that enough and what I love.01:39 And please do e-mail me, text me.01:42 What do you create that is enjoyable for other people?01:47 What do you notice?01:49 That you are.01:53 That people respond to, that you're being that people respond to.01:59 Really, genuinely being.02:02 And I think of.02:04 Puppies, because I find they're like the best.02:06 If you're having a bad day and you go sit down in your chair, a puppy, they'll come over and they'll put their, their chin on your your knee and they'll look up at you.02:17 They're they're aware that your energy's off.02:22 And they are shifting.02:26 The energy around you.02:29 And so my question to you is, what is yours?02:33 What is the thing that you're not saying anything.02:37 You're, you're being something that creates wonderful energy that people mirror their their mirror neurons activate and they emulate it.02:47 That's something to be really, really proud of in yourself.02:51 Something I learned about mirror neurons is it's cells in your brain that are responding to somebody elses behavior, moods, energy, and you mirror it.03:01 And of course there's the negative one and the negative one is usually in fighting and arguments, that one person will get heated and so it will escalate and then the other person will match it.03:15 If you're exploding and you're reacting and you're talking very loud and argumentative.03:21 The mirror neurons in other people.03:24 Their defenses go up and now03:26 They want to talk defensively and argumentatively.03:29 And so or they may, they may seethe, they may seethe on the inside and they're holding it all in.03:36 It's still energy, but one energy activates another energy.03:39 Neither one are good.03:40 The way I describe it is two puppies walking. Puppies.03:43 It's all about puppies.03:44 Two people, two puppies are walking and they're walking towards each other calmly.03:48 They're enjoying their walk, they're loving, they're sniffing, they're having a great time.03:53 They get near each other and all of a sudden they go.03:56 And then they continue walking as if it never happened.04:00 And you're like, what was that?04:02 You know, they, they, they're so good and sweet and kind04:08 And that was the trigger of mirror neurons.04:11 Between them, that happens in us.04:14 We'll be one minute fine next minute04:17 We're not.04:17 Have you ever had that happen?04:20 One minute you're fine, next minute you're not.04:22 What changed?04:24 And a lot of times we take responsibility that it's something in me got triggered, sure.04:31 And there's times where it was your mirror neurons, it wasn't you at all.04:38 Which one is it?04:39 Is it you?04:41 Getting triggered?04:42 Or is it your mirror neurons emulating somebody else's?04:46 And I got to tell you, this has helped me a lot.04:53 I am emotional.04:56 And I can get upset about things, but sometimes I'm not upset and I'm fine.05:03 And I'm thinking, why am I all of a sudden upset?05:09 And it has helped so much for me not to take responsibility for somebody else's mood.05:17 If it's their mood, it's their mood.05:19 I don't have to participate in it.05:22 I can still be me, and that's taking practice when I'm in an environment where, for example, if someone's cold and aloof with me, which I don't like, I don't like coldness, but if someone's cold and aloof with me, I.05:40 I, I feel it and I respond to it and I have to say, but I'm not cold.05:47 I'm not aloof.05:48 This ones not me.05:50 And it I readjust and ...
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    8 分
  • Don't Lose Your Yes-And

    Don't Lose Your Yes-And
    2026/09/03
    Yes-And is the practice of letting confidence and doubt, courage and fear, exist at the same time without letting the negative fear cancel out the strength in you. In this episode, Karen shares how this simple shift has helped her make hard decisions, take more risks, and keep moving even when uncertainty shows up.TRANSCRIPT:00:01 Hi, this is Karen Thrall.00:03 Welcome to the Don't Lose podcast where I share a story that is meaningful, inspirational life lesson.00:09 And I'm really fortunate because today I'm filming this at Lake Louise, Alberta.00:14 And for those of you who watch on YouTube or Instagram, I'll add the photos.00:20 And it's such a stunning place to be.00:24 Today's episode is Don't Lose Your Yes-And.00:27 It's something that I've been practicing for years and as I practiced it over and over again, I just get more and more seasoned and and what I noticed this year is that it's becoming something that I do almost on a regular basis.00:44 And even this week, this week I was noticing, I was practicing it several times.00:49 An example of yes, and would be let's say you're super confident about something and then all of a sudden you question it or you have an anxiety about it.01:00 And what we tend to do is we'll allow the anxiety to overpower the decision we make or will allow the anxiety to overpower our confidence and then it cancels it out.01:12 And if you're anything like me, when I'm confident about a decision I'm making and I have anxiety that creeps in or fear or doubt, it stops me.01:22 And so I see myself like at a base of a mountain.01:25 My goal is to get up the mountain.01:28 And I'm confident I'm going to get up the mountain, but then I doubt myself.01:33 And then I'm just running the base of the mountain just aimlessly because a negative and a positive, they cancel each other out.01:41 Yes-And for me is saying both exist at the same time.01:46 Yes, they're in conflict.01:47 Yes, they contradict each other, but they are allowed to exist at the same time.01:53 I can be really confident about a decision I make and I can feel anxiety.02:00 I can do both.02:01 I can feel really good about a direction I'm going to take and I can be really afraid as well.02:10 Yes-And they're working together.02:12 This has helped me tons in my life because I find it empowers me and it just gives me fresh perspective.02:21 It grounds me it it keeps me standing.02:25 So I'll give you an example this week.02:28 As a business owner, there are times where I have to make really serious decisions.02:34 And they're heavy decisions because I have to weigh it out.02:38 And out of the blue, one of the leaders I work with, and we're really close, we've worked together for years, She sends me a text and it says, your career is thriving with all these exclamation marks.02:51 And I thought, what?02:53 What made her send me that and I realized when I read it that that was true.03:01 So here I am.03:02 My career is thriving and I have to make some really serious business decisions.03:08 But what was happening is the big decision that I'm supposed to make scared me, worried me, created anxiety in me.03:16 It made me doubt to the point where I thought is, am I done?03:23 Is this is this a sign that the chapters closed on my company?03:28 No, it's that I am thriving in my career and I'm afraid or I'm doubting.03:34 Both exist at the same time.03:37 And that's OK.03:38 The goal is when you feel doubt or anxiety, you don't let it cancel out the confidence and the strength and the groundedness that you have.03:50 And that's what we tend to do.03:52 Think of things in your life that you're really positive about, where you're really confident about. It could be your job, it could be a relationship you're in, it could be a dream you have, it could be a vision for your life that you really want to see to happen.04:11 And then these negatives come in and they creep in.04:14 Do they shut you down?04:17 Do they influence you to the point where you start to just freeze and decide maybe you're not going to go ahead with it after all because it got hard.04:30 That's when the Yes-And comes in because you go Yes, I'm determined to chase after my vision, my goals, and I doubt myself.04:42 Both can happen at the same time.04:44 Social media.04:45 I I have been told for years to be more myself, that yeah, yeah, yeah.04:52 I post things about coaching and business, but who are you and why don't you just be yourself?04:59 And it's terrified me.05:01 There have been many, countless times I have created a post that's just normal, just about who I am.05:08 Nothing.05:09 And I delete.05:10 But I second guess myself.05:13 This year I have been practicing Yes-And.05:16 Yes, I'm posting more of myself and awkward and and flawed and imperfect and all those things and I'm terrified yes-and.05:25 And I'm OK with that.05:28 I'm OK with that.05:30 The biggest thing that yes and has taught me is it all belongs.05:36 It all matters.05:38 Two things ...
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    7 分
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