I'm Jodie Moore and this is Better Than Happy, episode 216, Agency.

This podcast is for people who know that living an extraordinary life is not easy or comfortable.

It's so much better than that. This is Better Than Happy and I'm your host Jodie Moore.

Hey everybody, welcome to episode 216.

I am looking forward to talking to you about Agency today.

I want to start out by mentioning that if you have a request for a podcast topic, I would love to hear it.

So I was wrapping my head around, how do I gather these requests?

What's going to be the best way and what I decided is that if you could go to Instagram and direct message me, that will be awesome.

And I or my staff will go and gather them and we'll add them to the list.

I have a really long list. I keep in the notes section of my phone because sometimes a random conversation or something triggers an idea for me and I capture it in my phone.

And I went, wait at the bottom of the list and found Agency on there and I thought, hmm, I don't know why I haven't made that podcast yet.

That's how he chose today's episode. But I really want to hear about the topics that you guys are interested in that you want help with.

And I will get busy making some more podcasts.

So anyway, we're going to talk about Agency and I want to begin by having us think about what Agency even is.

So in the Mormon Church, I mean the Church of Jesus Christ of Letters De Saints in our religion, we talk about Agency quite a bit because we believe that it is something that Heavenly Father gave us when He sent us here to Earth, which is just the ability to make decisions, to make our own choices.

Right. It's the ability to choose how we're going to behave and how we're going to think and how we're going to feel and basically which models we're going to be operating from at any given time.

And he gave that to us as a gift and it was a really necessary essential part of our journey here on Earth.

Because Agency means that we are the creator of our life experience.

Now, I grew up in the Church and so I grew up being taught about Agency and I understood what it was and I remember thinking duh, that's a pretty basic idea.

I don't know why we keep reviewing it. And so it wasn't until I got a little older that I think I understood some of the power of Agency and I still have so much to learn.

But I had an experience many years ago when I was a newer coach, I was doing one-on-one coaching at the time was probably four years ago or so.

And I was coaching a client who's not a member of the Church but is a practicing Christian, she's very strong in her own Christian faith, but slightly different belief system than I had.

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