Episode 706: Overwhelm, Emotional Resilience, and Real Courage with Kate Swoboda

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We’re talking about what it feels like to live in a world that just won’t let up and how to stay connected to yourself when everything around you feels chaotic. Returning guest Kate Swoboda is here to dig into fear, overwhelm, and the emotional fallout of constant crisis. Kate is the creator of YourCourageousLife.com, Director of the ICF-accredited Certified Life Coach Collective, and author of The Courage Habit. She’s spent years helping people break fear patterns and practice courage in real, everyday ways and she brings that wisdom straight into this conversation. Together, we unpack the toll nonstop stress takes on your nervous system, why doomscrolling feels like quicksand, and how courage has nothing to do with muscling through. Instead, it’s about capacity, self-regulation, and the internal stories that shape how you move through the world. Kate and I also talk about overwhelm, somatic support, and why the smallest emotional shifts often end up being the most life-changing. In this episode, you’ll hear: How to stay informed about a messy world without getting emotionally pulled under (3:44) What it really takes to build resilience and courage in daily life (14:53) Where to start when overwhelm takes over and you can’t see a way out of the spiral (21:01) What to consider if you’re drawn to becoming a life coach during your own growth journey (31:57) Resources from this episode: Join me for my workshop: Live Like You Give a Damn (As the World Burns) Certified Life Coach Collective (CLCC) Insight Timer Kate’s website Kate on Instagram Book recommendations: I love a good personal development book, and you do too, right? I’ve compiled a list of book recommendations, as mentioned in past episodes. Check out these amazing book recommendations here. Happy reading! MSN is supported by: We love the sponsors that make our show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: andreaowen.com/sponsors/ Episode link: http://andreaowen.com/podcast/706 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	And then the second thing that I would say about these troubling times is that I think we really
0:35.9	have to move out of these places that I think we
0:39.8	all kind of went to of moral outrage and moral compartmentalizing and picking aside.
0:47.2	And we have to instead go, okay, what is within the circle of my own control?
0:53.4	You're listening to Makeson Noise Podcast episode number 706 with guest Kate Swaboda.
1:02.4	Welcome to Make Some Noise podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.
1:14.1	I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur life coach since 2007,
1:19.4	an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries.
1:26.3	Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson that will help you maximize unshakable confidence,
1:31.9	master resilience, and make some noise in your life.
1:35.9	You ready?
1:36.8	Let's go.
1:40.7	Hi, everyone.
1:41.9	Welcome to another episode of the podcast.
1:43.5	I'm so glad that you are here. It is
1:46.3	Pub Week over here. Pub Week is the term that we use, the week that our book comes out. If you
1:55.0	have a book where you are publishing it out into the world, whether it is traditionally published
2:00.0	or self-published,
2:01.1	you get a pub week, and mine is this week.
2:04.7	December 9th, 2025, Live Like You Give a Damn, was released out into the wild, and I hope
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