Happier Summer Series Part 1: How Your Words Are Keeping You Stuck (And 2 Phrases to Get Unstuck) with Nicole Kernohan

About this episode

Ryann Watkin and Nicole Kernohan discuss how language and mindset affect happiness and personal growth.

What if the way you speak to yourself is quietly shaping how happy you feel every single day? In this episode of Raising Wild Hearts, Ryann Watkin sits down with TEDx speaker, high-performance coach, and bestselling author of Audacious Joy, Nicole Kernohan, to explore how language, mindset, and daily habits influence happiness, emotional wellbeing, and personal growth. After a multiple sclerosis diagnosis left her partially paralyzed, Nicole began studying performance psychology, positive psy...

People in this episode

Host: Ryann Watkin

Guest: Nicole Kernohan

Topics covered

• language
• mindset
• happiness
• emotional wellbeing
• personal growth

Keywords

• self-talk
• performance psychology
• positive psychology
• multiple sclerosis
• daily habits

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Audacious Joy

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