Bloom Your Mind

Ep 174: Three Ways to Get Present, No Matter What's Happening Around You

What if the secret to your best work isn't trying harder — it's allowing more? In this episode, Marie shares a personal story from a recent retreat where she made a counterintuitive choice: instead of preparing by drilling her content, she prepared by protecting her energy. The result? The best coaching of her life. And it happened because she got deeply, radically present. This episode is a practical toolkit for getting present — no matter how wild and chaotic the world around you is What you'll hear in this episode: * The retreat experience that changed how Marie thinks about preparation, performance, and presence — and why she coached better by trying less * Why presence isn't about turning off your brain or your expertise, but about partnering with the parts of yourself you can't logically name * Three tools you can use anywhere, anytime — whether you're in a hard conversation, a chaotic day, or facilitating a room full of people The three tools: 1. Grounding A quick practice (can take 2 minutes or 10 seconds) using breath and visualization to root yourself, release what you don't need, and invite in the energy you want. Great for clearing other people's noise out of your system and filling back up with your own vibe. 2. Focus Out When self-consciousness or self-doubt creeps in, the answer isn't always to go deeper inward — sometimes it's to become a field of presence looking outward. Curiosity. Observation. Loving awareness.  3. The Body Anchor Learn the physical sensation your body produces when you're truly present — that specific buzz, that particular feeling — and use it as an anchor you can return to anytime. Your body has its own language. This tool is about learning to understand it and learning to speak it. Mentioned in this episode: * Moxie Mastermind + the Moxie Morning Routine (where Marie teaches her full meditation practice) * Walden by Henry David Thoreau How to connect with Marie: * On the Web | The Local Bloom [https://www.thelocalbloom.com/] * Instagram: @the.bloom.coach [http://www.instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] * All Things Marie on LinkTree [https://linktr.ee/thebloomcoach] JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM! We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach [https://instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

Ep 173: Let’s Go Bias Hunting

Your brain isn't broken — it's just running very old software on a very modern life. And honestly? For the savanna, it was excellent software. For navigating your inbox, your relationships, and the story you tell yourself about whether you're actually making progress? Less so. In this episode, we dig into five cognitive biases that quietly shape how you see yourself, make decisions, process hard things, and stay stuck. Not in a "you're fundamentally flawed" way — in a "oh wow, this explains SO much" way. Because these biases aren't signs of weakness or low intelligence. They're universal. Researchers who study them have them. Highly successful people have them. Your most clear-headed friend has them. The difference is just whether you can see them running. So let's see them. What you’ll learn on this episode:  * Expectation bias — Your brain is basically a hypothesis-confirming machine. Whatever you already believe about a situation (or yourself), it will dutifully find evidence for. This is why you can walk into the same meeting with different expectations and come out with completely different interpretations of what happened. We talk about how this shows up in self-perception specifically — and how our expectations about ourselves can become the very filters that make them feel true. * Attribution bias — This one is a whole family of related tendencies, and it explains so much conflict and self-criticism. The short version: we judge other people by their character and ourselves by our circumstances (when things go wrong) — and then flip it when things go right. There's also a sneaky cousin called hostile attribution bias, where we interpret ambiguous behavior from others as intentionally unkind. Spoiler: they probably just had a bad morning. * Negativity bias — The one that causes the most unnecessary suffering, full stop. Your brain is structurally wired to weight negative experiences roughly twice as heavily as positive ones. One critical comment, one bad day, one public stumble — and your nervous system is taking notes in permanent marker while your wins get written in pencil. This isn't a mindset problem. It's evolution. And once you understand it, you can actually do something about it (hello, proof practice). * Status quo bias — Why do we stay in situations that aren't working? Why does change feel so risky even when staying is also a risk? This bias is the culprit. Your brain frames the current state as neutral and any change as loss — which means inertia gets disguised as wisdom. We talk about the one question that cuts right through it. * The availability heuristic — You judge how likely or true something is based on how easily you can think of an example. Vivid, recent, emotionally charged things feel more real — which means your most memorable failures feel like better predictors of your future than your quieter wins. We break down why this matters for how you tell your own story. All five of these biases share a throughline: your brain is optimizing for survival and efficiency, not for accuracy, growth, or joy. The work isn't to fight it — it's to develop a real relationship with it. To learn its patterns. And to build the practices that help you work with your neurology instead of being unconsciously run by it. How to connect with Marie: * On the Web | The Local Bloom [https://www.thelocalbloom.com/] * Instagram: @the.bloom.coach [http://www.instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] * All Things Marie on LinkTree [https://linktr.ee/thebloomcoach] JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM! We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach [https://instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

Ep 172: The Five-Way Mirror

What if the world around you — the people in your circle, the environments you spend time in, your subconscious mind, and the face in your bathroom mirror, - was constantly trying to show you something about yourself? In this episode, Marie explores five powerful ways that mirrors show up in our lives, and how we can use each one intentionally to elevate who we're becoming. The Five Mirrors 1. New Environments as Mirrors Stepping into an unfamiliar room, city, or community shows you things about yourself that your regular environment can't — because your usual environment has you on autopilot. While our everyday life reflects the choices, ways of being and circumstances of the past, we can choose environments that mirror back possibility for the future instead. 2.  Social Circles as a Mirror The people around you reflect back who you are — your beliefs, your habits, your ceiling. Choose to put yourself in circles that reflect back the possibility of the future you’re building, and reflect back your best qualities instead of your worst. Your circle is data. 3. Being a Mirror for Other Women There's a shadow that runs through how women relate to each other in our broader culture: comparison, competition, subtle diminishment. Marie talks about what that shadow looks like, why it persists, and how each of us can consciously become the antidote — the good medicine that calls out something better. When you show up authentically — fierce, honest and playful — you give other women permission to do the same. We have more power to reflect possibility back to each other than we often realize. 4. Your Subconscious Mind as a Mirror Your subconscious is constantly reflecting your deepest beliefs back to you through your results, your patterns, and what you keep creating in your life. Learn to prime your mind to mirror back the future, instead of the past.  5. The Literal Mirror Your actual reflection. How you relate to it, what you think when you see it, and how to use images of your younger self and the face you see when you look in the mirror to bring out the best in you.  You'll Love This Episode If... * You've been thinking about the quality of your relationships and whether they're calling you up or keeping you comfortable * You want to be a more powerful, positive presence in the lives of the women around you * You're curious about what your own patterns and results might be trying to tell you * You're ready to see yourself — all of yourself — more clearly Ready to Experience This for Yourself? The Moxie Mastermind is where women come together to do exactly what this episode is about — reflect the best in each other, tell the truth, and make their ideas real, one after another.  If you're ready to be in a room (or a retreat) with women who will mirror back your highest self and hold you to it, apply to  the Moxie Mastermind and save your spot! How to connect with Marie: * On the Web | The Local Bloom [https://www.thelocalbloom.com/] * Instagram: @the.bloom.coach [http://www.instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] * All Things Marie on LinkTree [https://linktr.ee/thebloomcoach] JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM! We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach [https://instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

Ep 171: Stop Taking Yourself for Granted

In this episode, Marie shares a behind-the-scenes look at preparing for her very first Moxie Retreat in La Jolla — and a realization she had mid-workout that cracked open today's topic: we apply hedonistic adaptation to ourselves. We celebrate other people's wins, build gratitude practices for the world around us, and then completely skip ourselves. Marie explores what hedonistic adaptation is, how it shows up as constant gap-chasing, and why turning your gratitude practice inward is one of the most powerful (and most overlooked) things you can do for your health, your productivity, your presence, and your relationships. What You'll Learn * What hedonistic adaptation is and how it quietly shapes the way you see your own life * Why your brain's negativity bias keeps you focused on the gap instead of the growth * The health, creativity, and presence benefits of a gratitude practice aimed at yourself * How recognizing your own work makes you more likely to keep doing it * The ripple effect: how appreciating yourself trains your brain to appreciate the people around you * A simple weekly practice for noticing where you've been taking your own awesomeness for granted This Week's Assignment Look at where you've been taking your own awesomeness for granted. * Where have you been taking yourself for granted? * Look back at yesterday, last week, and as many weeks before that as you can. * What are you grateful for yourself about? What have you accomplished that you're proud of? * Take a moment to recognize even the tiniest things. * Notice the ripple it creates across your life and the lives of the people around you. Memorable Quotes "I take myself for granted. And I watch my clients do this day in and day out." "That vision for what we are creating and who we are becoming is never a measuring stick." "If I don't notice it for myself, it's gonna go unnoticed." "As we train our brain to look for what we like… we're going to do that with other people too." "When we see and acknowledge the unique, special people in the world around us… it creates reality for them." Mentioned in This Episode * The Moxie Mastermind — next round starts in September. A special perk is being announced Saturday for anyone who signs up by next week. DM Marie on Instagram or reach out directly  * Related episodes: * Look How Far You've Come — on measuring progress against where you started, not against the ideal * Retros Are Everything — on building reflection into your iteration process How to connect with Marie: * On the Web | The Local Bloom [https://www.thelocalbloom.com/] * Instagram: @the.bloom.coach [http://www.instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] * All Things Marie on LinkTree [https://linktr.ee/thebloomcoach] JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM! We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach [https://instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!

Ep 170: Code your Energy

Many of my clients come to me with a clear vision of what they want—connection in their relationships, growth in their business, confidence in their body—but when we look closely, the energy they’re putting in doesn’t match what they’re trying to create. And most of the time, they don’t realize it. In this episode, we talk about how to code your energy on purpose—so that what you’re putting into your life is aligned with what you actually want to experience. What You’ll Learn in This Episode * Why misaligned energy is one of the biggest reasons we don’t create what we want * How to define energy as the combination of your thoughts + your feelings * A recap of the regenerative design cycle and how energy moves through it * Why the energy you put into an idea determines what comes back to you * How to intentionally “code” your energy to match your desired outcome * Practical examples of how this shows up in relationships, business, health, and social life Energy isn’t vague—it’s specific. Your thought + the feeling it creates in your body = your energy. And that energy is what you’re putting into everything you do. In the regenerative design cycle: * You have an idea you want to make real * You put energy into that idea * That energy moves out into the world * And then the world reflects that energy back to you So if you want something different back… You have to code your energy differently going in. You change your life by changing the energy you bring to it. When your thoughts and feelings align with what you want to create, everything starts moving faster. So this week, ask yourself: What energy am I putting in—and does it match what I want back? And then… code it differently. How to connect with Marie: * On the Web | The Local Bloom [https://www.thelocalbloom.com/] * Instagram: @the.bloom.coach [http://www.instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] * All Things Marie on LinkTree [https://linktr.ee/thebloomcoach] JOIN THE BLOOM ROOM! We'll take all these ideas and apply them to our lives. Follow me on Instagram at @the.bloom.coach [https://instagram.com/the.bloom.coach] to learn more and snag a spot in my group coaching program!