S5 Ep133: Showing Up for Your Life with Brian Dixon
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie Koppa is joined by Brian Dixon, author of Start with Your People: The Daily Decision that Changes Everything. Brian has a passion for coaching people to find clarity and pursue their goals and lives with intention. He and his wife Julie live in North Carolina with their three children. Today MacKenzie and Brian talk about showing up and focussing on the people in your life, including:
- MacKenzie shares an example of how the message of Start with Your People has impacted her own business and podcast community
- Brian talks about how we can’t see ourselves the way others see us
- How Brian’s own “360 assessment” led him to change and inspired him to write this book
- The importance of engaging with the people and relationships in your life instead of just coasting through your days
- Taking control of your habits, routines and philosophy for your home so that you can face challenges with intention instead of constantly putting out fires.
- Changing the vision for your marriage, family and work to make more of the time you have
- Embracing our “lovely limitations” and focussing on the legacy you are leaving for the future
- Brian shares the how and why of life mapping
- Being strategic about positioning yourself for the life that you want to live
- Choosing to make one small change to get to where you want to be a year from now
- What happened when Brian started a habit of gratitude
- Asking for help and taking action on what you are learning
- Being part of the solution by serving others in small ways
- Visit StartwithYourPeople.com to see book bonuses and videos
- A typical day for Brian
Brian: watching his espresso machine work every morning and using that time to take some deep breaths and be grateful
MacKenzie: honing in her morning and evening routines to make the most of the time she has
Resources Mentioned- Books: Movies: Find Brian-You can find Brian on his website, BrianDixon.com, or listen to his podcast, The Clarity Podcast. You can also follow him on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family-friendly podcast The Same Page!
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe you need a little bit of older brother guidance today. |
| 0:02.6 | You know, you're listening right now. |
| 0:04.3 | And I got to tell you, there are tools, there are strategies, there are habits, there are solutions to most days. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to Collating the lovely. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. |
| 0:33.9 | And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. |
| 0:38.0 | So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, |
| 0:42.9 | and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. If you want to find out more, |
| 0:47.8 | you can go to our website at cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my |
| 0:52.9 | favorite places to interact with all of you. |
| 0:54.9 | You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. |
| 0:57.0 | Thanks so much for joining me today. |
| 1:00.5 | Ladies, this is another one of those rare episodes where we break away from the all-female guests |
| 1:06.7 | and we get a guy in here. |
| 1:09.1 | Today I have on Brian Dixon with his brand new book, Start with |
| 1:12.8 | Your People. I was really intrigued by this book because it's a lot of what I've been trying to do |
| 1:17.8 | with you guys. I've really wanted to focus on getting to know a lot of you better. And I've |
| 1:22.7 | been so thrilled to see that happening. Ever since really we started up the morning show again, it's been making such a difference in the Patreon community. I really feel like I've been getting to know those ladies. We've been sharing prayer requests and having a ton of wonderful things going on over there, which by the way, if you want to be a part of that, it only takes $3 to get in. That's the lowest level and you can be there for the daily lives and everything |
| 1:45.2 | going on and you can just go to patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely to find us there. But I've also |
| 1:51.0 | started doing a twice a week morning show on Instagram. If you guys have been missing this, |
| 1:56.2 | you need to come join me. It's so much fun. It kind of harkens back to those old periscope days how this |
| 2:02.2 | whole ship got started sailing. Last week, we did lives all about fending off the stress in our |
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