Stories That Keep Us Stuck with Carrie Rowan

Is the story you’re telling yourself helping you bounce back—or keeping you stuck?

A disappointment becomes a prediction. A setback becomes a statement about your worth. Before you know it, one difficult experience starts writing the script for what you believe is possible.

This week on Look for the Good, Carrie Rowan continues October’s resilience series with a revealing look at the stories running beneath our everyday lives. Through relatable examples, humor, and practical insights, she explores how those familiar inner narratives can make adversity feel heavier—and how to begin opening the door to something better.

Tune in to discover:

• Why an old story may still be making decisions in your adult life

• How one disappointment can turn into a prediction about your entire future

• What separates a story that keeps you stuck from one that builds resilience

• Why changing your story doesn’t have to mean forcing yourself to believe something you don’t

• A simple practice to help you start seeing possibilities you’ve been missing

If you’ve been replaying the same discouraging thoughts about your relationships, career, or next chapter, this episode will help you consider what else could be true.

Tune in Friday at 1 p.m. Pacific on KMET Radio—1490 AM and 98.1 FM in Southern California—or find Look for the Good wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!

Because it’s not you, it’s your story…

For the past three weeks, Look for the Good has been exploring happiness from every angle—challenging the biggest lies we’ve been taught, uncovering why the brain resists happiness, and revealing simple ways to raise your daily happiness factor. Now, Carrie concludes September’s Happiness Series with special guest and happiness expert Pam Garramone, who brings the entire month together and ties it up with one big, bright, joyful bow!

Drawing from the work of some of the world’s leading happiness researchers, Carrie and Pam explore:

• The surprising factor that may influence your happiness more than anything else

• Why building happiness also strengthens your resilience when life gets hard

• Small daily shifts that can retrain what your mind notices

• The powerful connection between your body, your words, and your emotional state

• Why creating a happier life doesn’t mean feeling happy all the time

Packed with wisdom, laughter, and practical inspiration, this high-vibe conversation will leave you feeling empowered to create more joy in the ordinary moments of your life.

Tune in to Daily Hacks for Happiness That Last with Pam Garramone and discover just how much influence you have over the happiness you experience every day.

Tune in Fridays at 1 pm PST on ABC News Affiliate, KMET Radio—on the dial in Southern California at 1490 AM and 98.1 FM—or find Look for the Good wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!

Learn to look for the good, and watch the good start to look for you!

How to Keep Your Sparkle When the Lights Dim: A Tribute to Yolanda Cellucci

How do you keep finding joy when life gives you every reason to lose your sparkle?

Boston’s First Lady of Fashion, Yolanda Cellucci, knew both extraordinary success and heartbreaking loss. In this special tribute, Carrie Rowan revisits their 2024 conversation to celebrate Yolanda’s life, generous spirit, and wisdom about continuing to embrace life through its hardest chapters.

We open October’s resilience series with the voice of a woman who, at 89, was still learning, creating, and finding meaningful ways to give back.

Listen in to discover:

• How a homemade prom dress sparked something far bigger than a fashion statement.

• What Yolanda discovered about fulfillment that success alone couldn’t provide.

• How she honored her daughter Linda’s memory while making room for joy.

• The simple ways she kept purpose—and a little sparkle—in her everyday life.

This episode features a shortened version of our conversation. Listen to the full interview with Yolanda here.

Her sparkle lives on in the lives she touched—and in the stories we continue to share.

GET Yolanda’s book about her life, Beyond the Glitz and Glamour, here: Amazon

Find her children’s book series in her daughter Linda Petrosian’s memory here: Lindy Lou and Her Dancing Shoes

5 Ways to Build Resilience Despite Adversity

When life knocks you off balance, how do you find your footing again?

Whether you’re facing a major life change or everyday frustrations that are wearing you down, resilience can help you bounce back and adapt. But what does that look like when you’re right in the middle of something hard?

This week on Look for the Good, Carrie Rowan shares five practical ways to build resilience through her memorable AS FAR framework. With relatable stories and insights inspired by Tony Robbins, Brené Brown, and leading resilience experts, Carrie helps you discover possibilities when moving forward feels difficult.

Tune in to explore:

• Why being resilient doesn’t mean feeling strong all the time

• Small shifts that can help you feel more capable when life feels overwhelming

• How to recognize when to keep going—and when to change your approach

• The important difference between resilience and grit

You don’t have to see the whole way forward. Go AS FAR as you can today.

Listen live Fridays at 1 p.m. Pacific on KMET 1490 AM / 98.1 FM in Southern California, or find Look for the Good wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.

Learn to look for the good, and watch the good start to look for you!

What if you didn’t have to wait for something good to happen to feel happier?

Most of us begin the day reacting—to the news, our phones, our schedules, and everyone else’s needs. Before we know it, the world has decided where our attention goes and how we feel.

But happiness isn’t only something that happens to you. It’s something you can influence through the small choices you make every day.

In this uplifting episode of Look for the Good, Carrie shares four surprisingly easy practices that can help you shift your state, direct your focus, and create more moments that genuinely feel good—without changing your entire life.

Tune in to discover:

• Why the way you begin your morning matters more than you may realize
• The everyday habit quietly stealing your happiness
• How one small shift can change both your mood and momentum
• A playful way to train your brain to enjoy the journey—not just the finish line

You may not be able to control everything that happens around you, but you have far more influence over your happiness than you think.

Stop waiting for happiness to find you. Start creating it—one easy choice at a time.

Why Your Brain Doesn’t Want You to Be Happy

Have you ever gotten exactly what you wanted—only to find yourself wanting something else almost immediately?

What if happiness doesn’t disappear because you’re doing something wrong? What if your brain is actually working against it?

This week on Look for the Good, we’re uncovering the surprising reason your brain acts more like an overprotective inner mom than your biggest cheerleader—and why the harder you chase happiness, the farther away it can feel.

Tune in to discover:

• The hidden pattern that keeps moving your happiness finish line
• Why the things you once dreamed about can suddenly stop feeling like enough
• What your brain is really searching for—and why it isn’t happiness
• Two simple practices you can implement in your life today to experience more of the happiness already available to you

Could the real secret to happiness be learning how to stop chasing it?

And don’t miss next week’s episode: Four Things to Do Every Day to Increase Your Happiness Factor...

What if the gap between your company’s goals and its results has less to do with strategy—and everything to do with the widening generation gap companies are facing today?

From a winners-versus-losers mindset to the everyone-gets-a-trophy era, when you were raised shapes not only how you relate to others on the job, but every relationship in your life—including the one you have with yourself.

This week on Look for the Good, Carrie sits down with Sandra Coker, founder and CEO of Human Power Solutions, for a lively conversation about what each generation brings to the table—and why understanding where people come from may be the secret to bringing out their best.

Sandy knows a thing or two about reinvention. Her diverse career has taken her from hospitality to owning a fitness center to building a seven-figure professional development company. She even earned her motorcycle license after 50, becoming what Carrie affectionately calls a motorcycle grandma.

Tune in to discover:

• Why we train dogs—but develop people
• Why Gen Xers might be secretly jealous of Gen Zs
• Why listening for what isn’t being said can increase trust in all relationships
• How unplugged weekends and motorcycle rides can make you a better leader

This fun and thought-provoking conversation wraps up our August series, Better Relationships, Better Life, with one powerful reminder: understanding generational differences might just close the gap between where your company is and where it wants to go. Those same insights may even help you better understand the people sitting around your own dinner table.

Tune in to Look for the Good every Friday at 1 p.m. PT (4pm est) on KMET Radio—or enjoy it today wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!

Learn to look for the good, and watch the good start to look for you!

You can choose your friends—but you usually don’t get to choose your boss, your coworkers, or the personalities you spend eight hours a day with. Is it any wonder work relationships can feel so difficult?

Sometimes, the workplace can feel a lot like the school playground—complete with cliques, gossip, power struggles, and that one person who gets under your skin. But what if you’re not reacting only to the person in front of you? What if you’re reacting to everyone they remind you of?

In Week 3 of the Better Relationships, Better Life series, Carrie reveals how old stories and past experiences can follow us into the workplace, influencing whom we trust, how we communicate, and what we assume about other people.

You’ll discover:

• Why work relationships can trigger such powerful emotional reactions
• How your brain may label someone before you truly know them
• The Three B’s for Better Relationships at Work
• One powerful shift that can help you connect across personalities, generations, and backgrounds

It’s time to check your stories at the door. There’s no room for playground drama when we’ve got a job to do.

And tune in NEXT WEEK on Look for the Good, Carrie brings the entire Better Relationships, Better Life series together with Sandra Coker, CEO of Human Power Solutions. They’ll unpack one of the biggest relationship challenges in today’s workplace: how different generations think, communicate, and define success—and what it takes to turn those differences into stronger teams, better performance, and a workplace where people actually want to stay.