How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

From checking society’s boxes to rocking her Big Gay Overalls, Lisa Kirkman gets real about self-acceptance, coming out at 46, and living authentically. Learn how to stop protecting everyone else and start living YOUR best damn life

From Others’ Expectations to Living Authentically: Self-Acceptance & Coming Out Later In Life

Love Your Damn Self

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Stop giving fucks about things that just don’t matter to YOU! Learn how to protect your energy, set boundaries, and live YOUR best damn life. A no-BS guide to becoming a fuck-giving connoisseur

The Art of Giving the Right Fucks: A No-BS Guide to Protecting Your Energy & Living Your Best Life

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

Discover the life-changing art of protecting your energy and setting boundaries. Learn how becoming a connoisseur of giving the right fucks leads to living your best damn life

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✨ You Should Listen If… If you’re like 100% of people, shame has held you back or still is holding you back from living your best life in some way, shape, or form. Shame shows up as doubting ourselves, second-guessing our decisions, being vulnerable with others and asking for support when we can really really […]

Managing Shame To Live Your Best Life: Insights from Shame Expert Karen C.L. Anderson

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✨ You Should Listen If… Ever feel like you’re too old, too gay, or too <insert your flavor of self-doubt here> to chase your dreams? Like your ship has sailed? You’ve been put out to pasture? Whatever lame metaphor you can think of? If so…this episode is going to light a fire under your ass […]

Feeling the Self Doubt & Do the Damn Thing Anyway

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🎧 LISTEN IN TO LIVING YOUR BEST DAMN LIFE 🎧 Are you tired of cookie-cutter advice about “living your best life”? Sick of Instagram-perfect portrayals of success that make you feel like you’re falling short? It’s time for a reality check. Let’s talk about what living your best damn life is NOT, and more importantly, […]

The Unfiltered Truth: What Living Your Best Damn Life Is (and Is NOT)

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🎧 LISTEN IN TO LIVING YOUR BEST DAMN LIFE 🎧 Are you tired of living the life you think you’re “supposed” to have instead of the one you actually want? Welcome to Living Your Best Damn Life One ‘Fuck Yeah I Did!’ At A Time, where we dive deep into what it means to be […]

The Cycle Breaker’s Manifesto & How to Break Free and Live Your Best Damn Life

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🎧 LISTEN IN TO LIVING YOUR BEST DAMN LIFE 🎧 TURNING SOMEDAY DREAMS INTO REALITY Hey there, Bold AF’er! Ready to turn those “someday…maybe?” dreams into “Fuck yeah, I did!” realities? I thought so :). Welcome to “Living Your Best Damn Life One ‘Fuck Yeah I Did’ At A Time” – the podcast that’s about […]

Introducing Living Your Best Damn Life: A Podcast for Bold AF Dreamers and Cycle Breakers

Best Damn Life Pod

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Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right. ~ Henry Ford Have you ever found yourself in a seemingly endless cycle of ‘what ifs’ (especially as you lay awake at night desperate for sleep) with a stack of mostly unread self-help books by your bedside collecting dust? The books you bought with […]

Enough Reading, Start Doing: Turning Your ‘What Ifs’ into ‘Why Nots’

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

Joyful elderly woman with big blue sunglasses and yellow hat, smiling brightly, with text 'Turning Your ‘What Ifs’ into ‘Why Nots' by Life Design Coach Jen Vertanen against a pink background

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Are you feeling like you’re trudging through your days, stuck in a midlife funk? My friend, you are not alone! Not by a long shot. Many of us hit a point where life feels a bit more monotonous, a tad less colorful, and a whole lot of WTF-ness. In fact, research shows that we hit […]

Handle Your Midlife Funk With These Tips

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

Concerned middle-aged woman with hair rollers looking anxious, with text 'How to Navigate a Midlife Funk' by Life Design Coach Jen Vertanen

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Success is the progression of a worthy ideal. ~ Earl Nightingale How would you answer the question, “Are you successful?” which begs the question, “How do YOU define success and is your current definition helping or hurting you?”? Would someone on the outside looking in consider you to be an overall “successful” person? Maybe you […]

How Do You Define Success? Discover Your Personal Definition

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

A woman writing in a journal with a blue circle and the words How to define your own version of success

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tl;dr With specificity, define your version of a fulfilling life Use this specificity to find ways to make your day-to-day life more fulfilling Live with intentionality, at least most days In no way am I going to pretend I have all the answers or that I have the answers for YOU…because I don’t. But what […]

What Are The Keys To Living A Deeply Fulfilling Life?

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

A funny older woman standing on a beach with a flamingo floatie and an orange circle with the words The Keys To A Deeply Fulfilling Life with Life Design Coach Jen Vertanen

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. ~ Mark Twain Each of us leads a full life but…are you living a FULL life? That is the question and it’s an important one because life is too. damn. short. AMIRIGHT?! A life […]

How Full Is Your Life & Is It FULL Of What Is Most Meaningful To You?

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

An older woman with a smile on her face smelling her coffee and a blue circle with the question Are You Living a Fulfilling Life Or Just A Full Life with Life Design Coach Jen Vertanen

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