Creating Her Best Life Podcast
Welcome to Creating Her Best Life Now, the go-to podcast for women ready to step into their full potential and design a life they truly love. Hosted by certified Master Life Coach Shannan Christiansen, this inspiring show is tailored for women who seek clarity, empowerment, and actionable strategies to overcome life's challenges and achieve personal and professional success.
Each week, Shannan dives into topics ranging from mindset mastery and goal setting to self-care and relationship building, providing expert insights and practical tools that empower listeners to take bold steps toward their dreams. Whether you're navigating a career shift, building confidence, or looking for ways to enhance your well-being, Creating Her Best Life Now delivers the guidance you need to thrive.
Join our community of ambitious women and discover how to rewrite your story, find your purpose, and create a life you’re proud to call your own. Because your best life isn’t just a dream—it starts now!
Ep. #187: Feeling In Control Around Food
In this episode you will discover how if you’ve been on the diet rollercoaster, and when you experience diets and gaining weight and losing weight, you may have had thoughts that you can’t control yourself around food.
When you start to have abundance with food, when you start to allow all the foods and tell yourself that you can have anything long term, you begin to heal your relationship with food.
I will give you my take on how to take back your own power over food.
In this episode…
≫[3:05] Have you thought that you can’t keep certain foods in your house?
≫[4:20] Food is neither good nor bad.
≫[4:41] This belief that you can’t control yourself around food is not true.
≫[5:01] This belief that you are out of control comes from lack and scarcity.
≫[6:23] One of the big pieces of healing your relationship with food is learning how to view it differently.
≫[7:30] Food either feels good in my body and it’s fuel or it’s not.
≫[9:15] Even if I have an overeat or ea
...Ep. #186: 3 Thoughts to Change to Lose Weight
In today’s episode, you will discover how changing 3 thoughts will lead to weight loss.
How you think of things and what you believe about things matters.
A magical food plan won’t solve this.
You have to understand your thinking, why you believe and how that is showing up in what you are doing.
I will give you my take on the three thoughts you have to change and how to change those thoughts.
In this episode…
≫[00:45] If you want to lose weight for the last time, you have to start to believe and think something different.
≫[2:05] There are thoughts you want to change when they come in.
≫[2:30] The word SHOULD.
≫[3:09] Staying in a confused mindset keeps us in inaction.
≫[6:14] Meet yourself where you’re at and focus on one or two things.
≫[9:48] You will go farther faster by doing less.
≫[10:21] You don’t take the simple step and you keep putting yourself off.
≫[11:05] What is one thing you can do for yourself?
≫[13:02] My take on how you change the 3 thoug
...Ep. #185: Is a Magical Food Plan the Answer?
In today’s episode, you will discover: Is there a magical food plan? We try all of the different diets, exercise plans and more to lose weight. We might have success at first, but it’s usually temporary. We want to do this without changing our thinking and beliefs. I’m going to give you my take on how to lose weight and heal your relationship with food.
In this episode…
≫[1:50] Over time, you start sabotaging your weight loss success.
≫[4:42] Why do I keep doing this to myself?
≫[5:20] Status quo
≫[8:26] We have to start to think something different and do something different #dsd
≫[9:17] When I start to think differently, feel differently, then I start to do things differently.
≫[9:39] There is no magic food plan.
≫[10:31] To lose weight and heal your relationship, this is what you have to do.
Ep. #184: How a Review Process Helped Me Lose Weight
In today’s episode, you will discover how I used a review process to help me lose my weight. This process has allowed me to live in a body that feels like freedom. It has allowed me to live a life that I have created, not one that someone created for me. Listen for my take on why the review process is important for your weight loss journey.
In this episode…
≫[3:31] The review process is a chance to look at where you’re successful.
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≫[3:41] The review process allows you to be in your dreams.
≫[5:39] Review of the data.
≫[6:54] Two parts of the review process.
≫[8:03] Using your thinking brain to plan.
≫[8:48] Choose one basic.
≫[9:21] Why do I even want to do this?
≫[11:08] My take of the review process.
Ep. #183: Living in Your Success is the Magic
In today’s episode you will discover how going to a bike shop made me look for my success instead of quitting. In any journey, you are going to have challenges. You will have times when you want to quit.
We think our past is evidence of our future, but our past is the bridge to our future.
Our past makes us who we are. I will give you my take on how to overcome your challenges and start finding your success.
In this episode…
≫[5:31] Living in your success and overcoming challenges and failures.
≫[6:31] How you start to overcome your challenges.
≫[7:57] When you “should” yourself.
≫[8:16] We think our past is evidence of our future.
≫[10:33] ”Everything is figureoutable”.
≫[10:56] Look for and find your successes.
≫[11:12] Find one thing that you feel really good about that you think is a success.
Ep. #182: Why Going Solo is Keeping You From Losing Weight
Motivation is fleeting. It lasts 15-90 seconds. You wonder why you can’t figure out how to lose weight for good. Today’s reality is you don’t know your neighbors like you did growing up. Social media has given us a false sense of community and connection. You don’t have to do this alone and in shame. There are other women out there who are like you.
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In this weeks Weight Loss for Successful Women podcast episode I give you my take on losing weight solo vs having support.
In this episode…
≫[2:46] Why can’t I figure out how to lose weight?
≫[3:03] You don’t want to tell anyone you’re on a diet because it might not work.
≫[3:37] Being an introvert and on the diet roller coaster.
≫[5:05] You are not alone in carrying the shame about your weight.
≫[5:42] Motivation is fleeting.
≫[6:11] Social media gives us a false sense of community and connection.
≫[6:57] You can go solo, but it’s harder.
≫[7:46] Having a community of like-minded women.
≫[8:31] Extroverts on th
...Ep. #181: How Sabotage is Sidelining Your Weight Loss
Have you ever had things going well in your life and then all of the sudden, boom, things start going back down? You have lost weight, but then you start overeating, you start quitting on yourself, you say you’ll start again on Monday. Sabotage is something we all do.
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In today’s episode I will teach you three steps to handle your self-sabotage.
In this episode…
≫[1:18] What butterflies have in common with my business!
≫[3:22] Limiting beliefs, what they are and how they are sabotaging your success.
≫[4:50] How to stop future puddling!
≫[5:35] Just because you have a thought, doesn’t make it true.
≫[6:18] Shannan shares a limiting belief from when she was on the diet roller coaster.
≫[11:14] How to shine a light on it and recognize your limiting beliefs.
Ep. #180: What is Better Than the Scale in Weight Loss
In today’s episode, you will discover how the number on the scale is the least valuable predictor of your success. You will get my take on the number on the scale. You will get the tools to teach you how to look at the number differently and to disconnect that number from your worth.\
This weeks T-BOSS Take is meaty!
In this episode…
≫[5:14] Being obsessed with the scale.
≫[7:02] The number on the scale and your success.
≫[9:59] My take on the scale.
≫[10:49] Monthly, quarterly and yearly progress.
≫[12:58] Daily or weekly weigh-in.
≫[14:20] Disconnecting your worth from the number on the scale.
≫[16:39] Two different ways of looking at the number.Â
Ep. #179: Are You Having an Overdesire for Food?
In today’s episode Shannan teaches how to come into awareness and recognize over-desire for food. If you have been on the weight loss journey and the diet roller coaster, over desire and urges have shown up for you. Shannan teaches us about desire, urges and over desire and how they show up in weight loss. You will learn a three-step process that will help you to stop an urge and desire something less.Â
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In this episode…
≫ [2:30] Desire is a feeling and we take action on that feeling.
≫ [4:07] Urges are feelings that come from a thought.
≫ [5:03] You can have a feeling, an urge, and decide what you want to do next.
≫ [5:12] Over desire is when we over desire something that isn’t giving us the results we want in our life.Â
≫ [8:00] Understanding and building the evidence that you can desire something less starts with understanding and becoming aware of where you are over desiring something and why do you want to change it.Â
≫ [8:25] Awareness is the first step in
...Ep. #178: Eating to Feel Numb
In this episode you will discover how learning to process emotions will change your life. For so long, we have pushed down our emotions because we didn’t want to feel. We didn’t want to feel sadness, shame, disappointment. Not feeling the negative feelings kept us from feeling positive feelings too and as a result, we just felt numb. Many of us wanted to stay numb and we pushed those feelings down with food. Shannan and Jenn will teach you how to feel your feelings and process the emotions so that you can begin the process of healing yourself, healing your relationship with food, and lose weight for the last time.
In this episode…
≫ [1:22] Why do you overeat?
≫ [2:35] Society taught us to stop feeling emotion.
≫ [4:43] What is a feeling?
≫ [5:37] Feeling emotion is a skillset that can be learned through coaching.
≫ [6:59] Jenn’s take on feeling your feelings.
≫ [8:55] Creating stories out of fear of feeling the emotion.
≫ [10:30] Three ways to process emotion.
