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Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Michelle Burkhard 1769 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

This podcast focuses on personal and professional growth by becoming more aware of your thinking patterns and intentionally choosing how you think. The host, Michelle Burkhard, invites listeners to join a community of thinkers dedicated to achieving desired results in life and work. Episodes encourage practical mindset shifts and self-awareness to create positive change. The show also provides ways for listeners to connect and support the mission.

Episodes

When A Skillful Coach Meets Emotion
When A Skillful Coach Meets Emotion Oct 14, 2026 00:11:42 What if the emotion is real, but the story attached to itisn’t the only story available? Our coachee’s employee is leaving, and she feels like she failed. But “she is leaving” is a fact. “I failed” is the meaning she has attached to that fact.In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens whenemotion meets the Skillful Coach. By noticing language, separating facts from meaning, exploring respo
When A Relational Coach Meets Emotion
When A Relational Coach Meets Emotion Oct 13, 2026 00:09:22 What do you do when someone you care about gets emotional? For many of us, the instinct is immediate: reassure them, make them feel better, or somehow make the emotion go away. But sometimes being relational means resisting the urge to rescue.In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens whenemotion meets the Relational Coach. Trust, safety, and presence create a space where someone doesn’t h
When A Structured Coach Meets Emotion
When A Structured Coach Meets Emotion Oct 12, 2026 00:11:13 What happens when the person you’re coaching suddenly starts crying, gets angry, or simply stops talking? Even a capable coach can have that moment of, “Oh my gosh, what do I do now?”In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens whenemotion meets the Structured Coach. Frameworks and processes can be incredibly helpful, but sometimes our desire to get back to the structure is really about maki
Integrated Coach: What Should I Do?
Integrated Coach: What Should I Do? Oct 9, 2026 00:10:58 So, does a great coach ever give advice? The answer may be alittle more nuanced than simply yes or no. In today’s episode, Michelle brings “What do you think I should do?” to the Integrated Coach, where the focus shifts from following a rule to using discernment.Sometimes a question is exactly what someone needs.Sometimes it is silence, reflection, or an observation. And sometimes our experience o
Transformational Coach: What Should I Do?
Transformational Coach: What Should I Do? Oct 8, 2026 00:10:11 What if “What should I do?” isn’t really about the decisionin front of you? What if the deeper question is about who you believe you are supposed to be?In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens when thisquestion meets the Transformational Coach. A promotion may look like success on paper, but what happens when our definition of success, growth, or potential begins to change? Sometimes we
Skilled Coach: What Should I Do?
Skilled Coach: What Should I Do? Oct 7, 2026 00:12:05 “I don’t want it, but I should want it.” Have you evercaught yourself saying something like that? In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens when “What do you think I should do?” meets the Skillful Coach and one little word opens the door to a much bigger conversation: should.By listening closely to language, energy, and even whathappens in someone’s body as they explore their options, a S
Relational Coach: What Should I Do?
Relational Coach: What Should I Do? Oct 6, 2026 00:10:59 When someone asks, “What do you think I should do?” they may not actually be asking you to make the decision. They might be asking for reassurance, permission, certainty, encouragement, or simply a safe place to say what they are really thinking.In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens when that question meets the Relational Coach. Trust and connection can create the safety someone needs
Structured Coach: What Should I Do?
Structured Coach: What Should I Do? Oct 5, 2026 00:10:40 “What do you think I should do?” It sounds like such asimple question, but for a coach, it can open up a whole lot more. Do you give your opinion? Ask another question? Toss it right back to them with, “Well, what do YOU think you should do?” and hope for the best?In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens when thisquestion meets the Structured Coach. Protecting someone’s ownership of thei
Integrated Coach: Repetitive Problem
Integrated Coach: Repetitive Problem Oct 2, 2026 00:13:02 What if seeing the same problem again doesn’t mean you’reback at the beginning? In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens when a recurring problem meets the Integrated Coach. Growth isn’t always linear. Sometimes we notice sooner, recover faster, stay stuck for less time, or make a different choice even while an old pattern is still trying to get our attention.Integrated Coaching isn’t ab
Transformative Coach: Repetitive Problem
Transformative Coach: Repetitive Problem Oct 1, 2026 00:12:17 What if the behavior that makes absolutely no sense from theoutside makes perfect sense from the inside? In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens when a recurring problem meets the Transformational Coach. Instead of asking, “Why do you keep doing this?” we become curious aboutthe beliefs underneath the pattern.Sometimes accountability and care have been placed onopposite sides of the equ
Skilled Coach: Repetitive Problem
Skilled Coach: Repetitive Problem Sep 30, 2026 00:13:00 What if the problem that keeps showing up isn’t really theproblem at all? In today’s episode, Michelle explores what happens when a recurring problem meets the Skillful Coach. Instead of treating each situation as an isolated event, this coach begins listening across conversations, noticing repeated language, behaviors, commitments, and responses that may reveal a larger pattern.But noticing the p
Relational Coach: Repetitive Problem
Relational Coach: Repetitive Problem Sep 29, 2026 00:09:31 What happens when someone keeps bringing back the sameproblem, but the problem might not actually be the whole story? In today’s episode, Michelle explores what changes when a recurring problem meets the Relational Coach. Instead of jumping straight into another solution, this coachslows down long enough to ask what the experience is actually like for the person.Because empathy and accountability

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