This Is Not Your
Practice Life® Podcast
with Macie Renae Coaching
About the Show
Helping women transform
This Is Not Your Practice Life® is a podcast dedicated to helping women (and men) TRANSFORM. Through years of personal development and coaching, Macie, a Certified Life + Emotional Intelligence Coach is helping individuals uncover their limiting beliefs, overcome hardship, rewire their mindset, and step into who they have always wanted to be. In this podcast she will give you the tools, strategies, and support to help you step into your highest self.
Learn more about me and how I help women just like you!
The archive
All 299 episodes, by what they are about
Emotions and regulation 92
Understanding what you feel and what to do with it.
- Change can feel hard — and this is why.
- Are You Guilty of Buffering?
- The Power of Your Feelings….
- Holding Space
- Tackling Resistance
- Emotional Childhood vs. Emotional Adulthood
- Understanding Emotional Intelligence
- Embodying Your Highest Self
- Emotional Storage
- Are you guilty of BUFFERING? (PART 2)
- If you’re riding an emotional rollercoaster…
- It’s okay to feel whatever you need to feel…
- Manuals: Why we become frustrated by others at times.
- Being “triggered” isn’t always a bad thing.
- Our Inner Child, Adolescent, or Adult Response: Another method for strengthening our emotional intelligence.
- Intuition vs. Anxiety
- The lasting effects of trauma without keen awareness…
- “When emotions are high, intelligence is low!”
- Navigating YOUR feelings when you’re around people in THEIR feelings…
- Getting Curious with Yourself to Ask Powerful Questions
- GUEST Sheri Strzelecki on getting into your body, feelings, and more!
- Resistance to Vulnerability
- Moving Through Fear
- Battling stress?
- Resourcefulness / Everything is Figureoutable!
- Resisting Your Emotions
- Permission to want more AND be grateful for where you are.
- Deep Dive into Emotional Intelligence
- Self Awareness Around The Holidays.
- The Duality of Life
- Does our emotional intelligence change in certain situations?
- “That is THEIRS, and this is MINE.” Building Emotional Self-Awareness
- Rejection and Having Your Own Back
- Emotions, Kiddos, and Parenting
- Life is 50/50
- Expectations…what you need to know.
- Does faith or fear lead your subconscious belief system?
- Resistance to Feel
- The Locker of Feelings – What is in yours?
- Borrowed Emotions & The Holes Within Us
- UPCOMING: Don’t Miss BONUS WEEK
- BONUS WEEK: Why feeling grounded is vital and how to get there.
- Processing vs. Indulging In Emotion: How to Know the Difference
- Men, Women, & Emotional Unavailability
- Solid Self or Pseudo Self – Which one are you?
- Guilt & Overapologizing
- A Holistic Conversation Around Anxiety
- A Hack for Overcoming Your Triggers in the Moment
- Navigating Jealousy
- When the Stress, Overwhelm, or Anxiety Feels Like Too Much… A Message On *Emotional Regulation*
- When people don’t believe in you, here’s what to do.
- In a Funk? Depressed? Let’s talk and work through it together.
- Handling Criticism with Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional Regulation in Kids and Your Role As The Parent
- Owning the Life You Want (Without the Guilt).
- Feeling Scared and Doing “It” Anyway.
- If life keeps handing you storm after storm, make sure to avoid doing THIS.
- Being Raised by Emotionally Immature Parents
- Feeling Responsible and Burnt Out as a Caregiver to Everyone.
- Would you call yourself a “Busy Body”? Do you struggle with having extra down time?
- The Benefit of Aiming for “Impossible” Goals.
- Where do our emotionally explosive reactions come from?
- I am interviewed by “Two Mom Friends” Podcast. Join us as we talk about self-growth, mom guilt.
- What to do with your feelings.
- “I feel stuck.” If you’re saying this, let’s chat!
- Have you already given up? Let me help you turn it around.
- Walking on Eggshells with a Tumultuous Boss.
- “Have I hit a plateau? I feel like I’ve taken steps back or am failing in my self work.”
- When the Struggle is Real… How Do You Release Your Emotions?
- How to Tell the Truth When The Consequences Could Be Devastating
- How to Maintain EQ during Crisis, Loss, or Emergencies
- How to Stop Giving Up
- What Causes Lack of Emotional Connection?
- Worrying for “False Protection”
- How to work through FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) or Not Fitting In/Feeling Unwanted
- My Top 5 Tips for Becoming An Entrepreneur or Starting a Business!
- Catastrophizing Ahead of Time {The Anxious Thinkers}
- Are You A Realist, or A Dreamer? Let’s talk about both.
- Are You Experiencing Anxiousness, Hyper-vigilance, or Intuition?
- The Fear Of Wasted Time: How To Trust That Your Growth Is Never In Vain
- When the Odds Are Stacked Against You
- Why People Struggle with Emotional Awareness & Social Cues — And How to Get Better at It
- How to Stop Applauding Yourself for Recognizing Problems You Still Aren’t Willing to Solve
- Mental Health Awareness – What May Actually Keep You Stagnant Even If Your Self Aware!
- The “Christmas Tree” Effect: How Chronic Stress Impacts Your Health
- Does Your Life Feel Like a 10 out of 10?
- How to Romanticize Your Life (and Why You’ll Want to)
- When Women Crave Emotional Depth
- Loneliness: An Emotion We Don’t Talk About Enough
- How to Regulate Your Emotions and Get Back to Baseline
- Why Emotional Intelligence (Without THIS Skill) Has a Ceiling
- What Vulnerability Really Teaches Us (2 Major Things)
Self-concept and identity 43
Who you are, what you want, and the woman you are becoming.
- “Be Realistic”
- Creating desired results = battling your mind
- Creating a CLEAR vision and manifesting it!
- Let’s talk all the things…
- The basics of EGO
- Failing ahead of time
- Choose Your Hard
- How to be more intentional with your dreams and desires. Welcoming 2021!
- Feeling disconnected from yourself & wanting external validation
- Are you changing who you are for other people?
- Writing Your 5-year Vision Statement
- What it takes to become more confident.
- Creating Your Own Life By Design
- The Human Part of Success
- BONUS WEEK: Why your brain may be resistant to dreaming big and why some people may struggle to support your dreams.
- Wanting to Rescue Others
- What if you were just honest with yourself about your desires?
- “Unsettled” Goal Setting Vs. “Grounded” Goal Setting
- Improving Your Self-Confidence/Self-Worth. What You Need to Know.
- The Consequences of Hustle
- Are You “Shoulding” On Yourself?
- How to Stop Comparing
- Success Intolerance
- Insights on How to Love Yourself.
- Reflections on The Hybrid Experience Program and Retreat.
- Comparing Yourself To Other People’s Lives
- Get to Know Macie
- What causes low self-esteem?
- Why We Try to Control Others {AND} Why Others Try to Control Us
- What is “Self Concept”? Also *NEW PROGRAM COMING IN JAN 2025*
- SPECIAL GUEST: Navigating the Step-DAD Experience with Franco Zavala
- “Is This What I Really Want – Or Just What I’ve Settled For?”
- Real Confidence Feels Like Loss First
- How to Know the Difference between Empathy vs. Holding Other People’s “Stuff”
- Your Metaphorical “Beeper” and Why You Should Program It.
- BONUS: 10 Years of Coaching Wisdom – Delivered in One Year
- Using “Delusion” to Your Advantage for Success
- You’ve Changed. They Don’t Like it. Now What?
- The Self-Protective Mechanism of Being “All-In” vs. “Half In”
- The Dial — How and Why We Lose Ourselves Unintentionally
- Working Through “‘I’m NOT Good Enough’.”
- You’re Not Avoiding The Hard… You’re Choosing Which Hard.
- Are You Creating Your Own Misery?
Self-trust and follow-through 16
Closing the gap between knowing and doing.
- Preparing for 2020
- The sneaky way our past trauma shows up in our subconscious decisions NOW.
- The Soul’s HELL YES and HELL NO.
- DECIDING to get everything you came for.
- How to Make Decisions That Will Change Your Life
- The Root of Procrastination
- How to Stay Disciplined, Committed, and Stop Procrastinating.
- Honoring Your Word As Law
- Is this my intuition? Or my ego?
- How to Make Decisions From Your Highest Self
- How to Stop Caring What Other People Think
- “I Don’t Know” Is Not Always the Truth: Uncertainty vs. Avoidance
- When to Wait… and When to Go: How to Know the Difference Between Self-Protection & A Need to Pause
- The Trap of “Learned Helplessness”
- The Self-Sabotage Spiral (and How to Stop It)
- Addressing The “Stories” We Tell Ourselves
Relationships and communication 30
The people closest to you, and how you meet them.
- For the love of Boundaries…
- Not Everything You Own Serves You…
- The Importance of Self Care
- For my people pleasers!
- Every time you are tested, listen to this. The “Prove It” Concept.
- Little White Lies
- What is your commitment level?
- PTSD from a clinical & coaching viewpoint with GUEST, Lena Suarez-Angelino, LCSW
- The Benefit of Curiosity
- Navigating Narcissism From Your Highest Self
- Navigating Relationship Differences
- Changes are on the Horizon *Don’t miss the news*
- How to Get Along with Anybody
- Are You Guilty of “Parenting” Your Partner?
- Defensive Vs. Non-Defensive Listening
- How to Stand Up For Yourself As A People Pleaser
- Creating Balance and Boundaries as an Entreprenuer
- Maneuvering family gatherings when you’d rather not attend.
- How to “Have Your Own Back” and What It Will Look Like When You Don’t.
- Navigating An Unsupportive Partner (or Someone Close to You) As You Work On Yourself
- How to stop bringing up your “ex” in your new relationship
- Navigating Adult Friendships, Mean Girl Mentality, Triggers, and Our Personal Work
- SPECIAL GUEST: Navigating the Stepmom Experience with Certified Coach, Mindy Kyle
- Attachment Styles: Why you Love, React, Or Pull Away the Way You Do In Relationships
- Changing Your Relationship with Money
- The Difference Between Support and Emotional Labor in Friendships
- The Residual Effects of Toxic Relationships & Healing From It
- Listening to Respond vs. Listening to Understand
- Common Mistakes Made When Setting Boundaries
- Trying to Rescue Someone Who Won’t Change. A Relationship In Shambles.
Agency and self-leadership 7
Choice, ownership, and leading your own life.
- Are you embodying (100%) who you say you are when no one is watching?
- The importance of taking radical responsibility in your life.
- Are you taking ownership of what is NOT yours?
- Victim Mentality
- Energetic Labor vs. Energetic Integrity: What You’re Carrying (That No One Sees)
- How to Stop “Owning” What Isn’t Yours
- My Go-To Question When My Brain Tries to Ruin My Day
Thoughts, beliefs and change 48
The stories underneath the patterns.
- Is your mind sabotaging you? The energy around thoughts!
- “I’m trying to grow but everything keeps going wrong!”
- Understanding Energy and How It Relates to the Mind
- The Inner Workings of MONEY!
- Why we should QUESTION every thought that enters our mind!
- Managing Your Mind and Energy during COVID-19
- Is your mind actually confused? Or is it using “confusion” as a sneaky escape route?
- Investing In Your Transformation
- Internal focus vs. external focus when it comes to results.
- Why we want others to change: their thinking, their beliefs, and more.
- Growing Pains
- What the Heck is Life Coaching All About?
- Mindset Prep for the Holidays
- Limiting Beliefs
- Is self-care selfish?
- You’re not exempt from being human and having thoughts!
- Are you in FULL belief with your goals? Or does your brain sabotage you before you get there?
- Of all the thoughts you can choose, why are you choosing THAT one?
- A Real Life Example of Managing Your Mind
- Beliefs and Reality
- Mindset & Weight Loss
- Life Changing Lessons
- How our mindset becomes fixed with time and why “our work” is so vital.
- “The story I’m telling myself is….”
- Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
- When you want to fix people…
- A Powerful Question to Ask Yourself to Stay In Growth
- Taking Inventory of the People You Surround Yourself With
- 95% vs. 5% of Your Brain Power
- BONUS WEEK: The “I need to clean that up” thoughts…
- Signs of Perfection Mentality
- Money “Ceilings”, Beliefs, Traumas, and Fears.
- Why Powerful Rooms Matter… Takeaways from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
- Powerful Mind Shifts to Change Your Life
- Self-Growth Triggers
- The Power of Your Beliefs
- The Power of Your Mind & Your “Circle”.
- “A Year from Today” Lessons from the Power of Saying “YES”
- Why We Want Other People to Change
- Allowing Your Life to Be Good
- Law of Attraction: Getting the Opposite Result of What You’re Asking For
- Manuals 2.0: What types of manuals might I have?
- My “Secret” to Fast Track Growth
- What are you being invited to grow in?
- Our Big Cross Country Move and A Re-Invention of 1:1 Coaching
- It’s Time to Grow Again, New Adventures in 2026
- Change Requires Contact With Reality
- How to Live Your Best Days Now (NEW FREEBIE Coming Soon)
Rest, energy and hard seasons 28
Exhaustion, resilience, and the seasons that ask a lot.
- Vulnerability: Living Our Truth and Healing Along the Way
- Protecting Your Energy Around the Holidays
- A Glimpse Into My Life: My personal examples of “the work”
- What your “State of Being” means and a discussion about INNER MASTERY!
- Masculine Vs. Feminine Energy
- Showing Up Messy vs. Not at All
- A conversation about repeating cycles
- Navigating Grief and Trauma
- Healing, Therapy, and Coaching
- What To Do With Energy “Vampires”?
- Stagnant Energy, Chakras, & What it all means.
- Healing Isn’t Linear
- The Discomforts of Outgrowing the “Old You” to Step Into Your Next Level
- How to Heal When the People Around You Are Not.
- Survival Mode Vs. Living
- When People Don’t HEAL Their Trauma, They SPILL Their Trauma.
- Some Truths About Feeling Resentment.
- What Is Your “Winning Energy”?
- How to Push Through Hard Things
- Your Testimony Might Be Someone Else’s Survival Guide.
- Internalizing vs. Processing vs. Healing
- Macie Tells All (Part 1) – Your Questions Answered
- Why Burnout Can Be Your Greatest Wake Up Call
- Resentment Is the Receipt for Where You Betrayed Yourself
- Safe People, Strong Mirrors: What We Really Need In Hard Seasons
- What We Don’t Heal From, We Will Continue To Attract
- Silent Resentment: The Weight of What Goes Unsaid
- When “OVERWHELM” takes over YOUR LIFE.
Everything else 35
- Welcome to the FIRST episode!
- Action: Most of the time we know what we should be doing…so why aren’t we?
- Life is always happening for us… even in the midst of a storm.
- Brand New Program + Something BIG I realized recently!
- How our programming has led us here….
- Inaction due to Self-Serving Stories
- The Freedom in Living Your Truth
- Setting goals that inspire you to take action
- How our “inner mean girl” (or guy) shows up and what to do if she/he does.
- Toxic Positivity
- The “Mishap” In Goal Setting
- External Validation
- Taking Risks….plus our BIG news!
- Breaking Cycles
- Who before How (Plus Life Updates!)
- Entitlement around Highest Self work
- You are the Creator of Your Results…Which is GREAT News!
- BONUS WEEK: Using Blame for Good
- BONUS WEEK: Should we “fake it until we make it”?
- Gossip Behavior – Why we do it & what to do about it.
- The Mirror Effect
- Following Your Own Path with IFBB Pro, Julia Rene
- The Part of Your Brain That Can Make or Break You.
- How to Navigate LACK OF SUPPORT From Loved Ones.
- How to Make New Friends As An Adult
- Your Most Valuable Asset.
- Mentors… Valuable or no? And How Are They Different From A Coach?
- “Petty Betty”, Is That You?
- The Power of Vulnerability
- What is “Shadow Work?”
- Macie Tells All (Part 2) – Your Questions Answered
- What I Offer As A Coach… Let’s Explore the 4 Ways I Work with Clients.
- Bonus: Quick Little “Life Update” – Why I’ve been MIA.
- If You’re Struggling With Your Circumstances..
- Romanticizing Your Life