AP 694: From Lice to Layoffs: How to Navigate the Unexpected Using the Curve Method || Wise Women Series with Anna Dearmon Kornick

About Progress

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode we dive into how to handle life’s unexpected curveballs with the amazing time management coach, Anna Dearmon Kornick. We all know that life is full of surprises, and whether it’s dealing with small crises like lice or big ones like layoffs, Anna shares her powerful Curve Method to help us navigate through them with grace and intention. Prepare to walk away with practical tips on maintaining control, understanding your situation, gathering the right resources, focusing on what’s vital, and enlisting help when you need it. Plus, enjoy some great personal stories and insights from both Anna and myself on staying adaptable and resilient. BEST SUMMER EVER Workshop: ⁠aboutprogress.com/summerworkshop⁠ Sign up as a Supporter to get access to our private, premium, ad-free podcast, More Personal. Episodes air each Friday! Leave a rating and review Check out my ⁠workshops⁠! Follow About Progress on YOUTUBE! Book Launch Committee Free DSL Training Full Show Notes This episode is brought to you by AirDoctor, use code MONICA at http://airdoctorpro.com/ for up to $300 off air purifiers; and by goPure Beauty, get 25% off @goPure with code PROGRESS at https://www.goPurebeauty.com/PROGRESS #goPurepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When we are hit with some kind of a curveball, something that was unforeseen, we can launch ourselves
0:08.1	into overdrive. We can go into panic mode. We can be frantic and scattered. Or we can take a step back,
0:16.8	take a deep breath, and then walk through a really intentional and simple thought exercise
0:23.4	that's going to get us to the other side of this curveball.
0:33.4	Hi, I'm Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about progress made practical.
0:42.8	One of the most common everyday stressors are the unexpected curveballs that get thrown our way.
0:50.5	This happened to me just the other week. I had a full day with a lot of to-does all plotted out.
0:56.0	I knew what I needed to do as soon as I got up to when I went to bed.
1:00.1	But when my kids woke up for the day, my first grader came upstairs from his basement bedroom with a full body rash.
1:09.1	I have never seen a rash that bad on any of my kids, and I knew right away
1:13.7	that my whole day was about to change. Luckily, we got him into the doctor right away,
1:18.7	and it turned out to be an allergic reaction to a virus he had fought the week before, but it was
1:23.7	totally normal, didn't need any treatment, and would go away on its own. Even with that
1:28.0	happy ending answer, my whole day had to be rearranged with tasks reprioritized and others totally
1:34.3	deprioritized. I'm not only guessing you can relate, I know you can, because this is life, especially
1:41.9	so as women. We need to better expect the unexpected.
1:48.0	But as part of that, we can also better navigate these types of curveballs in ways where we have the wherewithal and the grace to do so in ways where we feel like ourselves.
2:00.2	This is why I asked time management coach and expert
2:03.6	Anna Deerman Kornick to share her wisdom as part of my Wise Women series where I interview
2:09.1	women in the personal development field on topics they're super passionate about. With her unique
2:14.9	curve method, Anna shares some practical steps to remain calm, prepared, and proactive.
2:21.3	Steps that can be applied to outbreaks to job layoffs. This method is not so you navigate curveballs
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