Climb Your Mountain
Life coach, mountaineer, and ultra runner Sarah Maurer shares her best endurance training strategies to help you climb your mountain or run your race — in any body at any age. Listen and learn how to eat, train, think, and above all live like a mountain athlete. Each week, Sarah will teach you practical strategies to overcome self-doubt, deal with training setbacks, save time, and stay happy and healthy through the long training season. Sarah earned her high altitude mountaineering certificate from Colorado Mountain Club in 2017 at age 41 and has since summited peaks in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and the USA, including Mount Rainier. She's also completed six (and counting) ultramarathons. She's living, breathing proof that you don't need to be 22 and have 6% body fat to be an endurance athlete. On this podcast, she shares her no-nonsense advice on fitness, (un)diet, motivation, and self belief to help you train for your goal. It's a mix of interviews and solo jam sessions you won't want to miss. So subscribe and get ready to blow your own mind.
Climb Your Mountain
#56 – The People Pleasing Episode (This One's for the Medicine)
My mom will tell you I was an easy, sunny, sweet baby.
What she really means: I never expressed any needs that were inconvenient, embarrassing, or made demands on others.
And if I'm honest, it took me into my 40s to really start taking my own needs seriously. (Better late than never!)
Being direct, setting boundaries, and telling people what I need are still wicked uncomfortable sometimes.
But you know what else is uncomfortable? Constant people pleasing. Making it easy for everyone else. Participating in my own disempowerment.
It's all still a work in progress.
And every once in a while, the universe likes to throw me an opportunity to deepen my mastery in this area.
Like my recent vacation!
In this week's episode, I'll share:
- A vacation update (because I know you guys sometimes like hearing what's happening behind the scenes!)
- People pleasing tips from two of my favorite podcasts
- Some common myths about people pleasing that trip people up on their personal development journeys
- A simple, two-part test to help you decide if your urge to please comes from love — or crappy programming
- Some of the ways coaching has helped me grow from a people pleaser to a more empowered woman — and some of the areas I'm still working on
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