Launch Your Life Podcast

Launch Your Life with Dr. Michelle Gordon is the only mindset podcast that provides weekly actionable insights for lasting happiness and change for high achievers who are ready to bounce back from burnout. 

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Episodes (7)

August 30, 2022 ∙ 12 mins

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 7 – Hometown Racism and Christmas (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 168)

There’s no easy way to talk about racism. It’s a learned behavior and hard to unlearn without a relaunch to thinking patterns.  I didn’t know anything different. But I actively worked to see how I was raised and change this.  And I’m still a work in progress. Today on the Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m […]
August 23, 2022 ∙ 16 mins

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 6 – Toxic Shame (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 167)

In my experience, sexualization caused extreme toxic shame.  Merriam-Webster has a descriptive definition: “A painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety, the susceptibility to such emotion, a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute.” On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about shame, my mother’s secrets, generational trauma, discovering […]
August 16, 2022 ∙ 12 mins

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 5 – Lost Memories (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 166)

On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I continue with my childhood, reveal some alarming statistics, talk about the time I “woke up” in 5th grade, and more. What’s Discussed in This Episode:   00:00 Intro 02:29 Some alarming statistics 06:45 Disassociation 07:53 Waking up 08:32 Shame and guilt 09:16 The torture lost […]
August 9, 2022 ∙ 17 mins

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 4 – Nuns, Ballet, and Embarrassments (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 165)

Growth work is change work. It’s not only uncovering beliefs from childhood, but all the beliefs stacked through life experiences and anything we think is “true.” On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about the process of change and why it can be so hard as well as some anecdotes from […]
August 5, 2022 ∙ 13 mins

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 3 – A New Medical Diagnosis (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 164)

On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I share how I developed a deep love of travel, a childhood illness, more stories of the House of Many Horrors, a recurring night terror, and much more. True growth is uncovering the beliefs and stories you created as a child to make sense of perceived […]

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Launch Your Life with Dr. Michelle Gordon is the only mindset podcast that provides weekly actionable insights for lasting happiness and change for high achievers who are ready to bounce back from burnout. 

  • Memoir Series: Growing Pains 7 – Hometown Racism and Christmas (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 168)

    There’s no easy way to talk about racism. It’s a learned behavior and hard to unlearn without a relaunch to thinking patterns.  I didn’t know anything different. But I actively worked to see how I was raised and change this.  And I’m still a work in progress. Today on the Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m […]

  • Memoir Series: Growing Pains 6 – Toxic Shame (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 167)

    In my experience, sexualization caused extreme toxic shame.  Merriam-Webster has a descriptive definition: “A painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety, the susceptibility to such emotion, a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute.” On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about shame, my mother’s secrets, generational trauma, discovering […]

  • Memoir Series: Growing Pains 5 – Lost Memories (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 166)

    On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I continue with my childhood, reveal some alarming statistics, talk about the time I “woke up” in 5th grade, and more. What’s Discussed in This Episode:   00:00 Intro 02:29 Some alarming statistics 06:45 Disassociation 07:53 Waking up 08:32 Shame and guilt 09:16 The torture lost […]

  • Memoir Series: Growing Pains 4 – Nuns, Ballet, and Embarrassments (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 165)

    Growth work is change work. It’s not only uncovering beliefs from childhood, but all the beliefs stacked through life experiences and anything we think is “true.” On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about the process of change and why it can be so hard as well as some anecdotes from […]

  • Memoir Series: Growing Pains 3 – A New Medical Diagnosis (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 164)

    On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I share how I developed a deep love of travel, a childhood illness, more stories of the House of Many Horrors, a recurring night terror, and much more. True growth is uncovering the beliefs and stories you created as a child to make sense of perceived […]

  • Memoir Series: Growing Pains 2 – Self-Sufficiency, Independence, and Competition (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 163)

    In this episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I discuss childhood beliefs, competition, feeling heard, and much more. What’s Discussed in This Episode: 00:00 Intro 01:50 My first pivotal year  02:05 Deep self-sufficiency 03:55 Competition  06:16 Feeling heard 08:14 Why I’m a doctor    Resources: Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous […]

  • Memoir Series: Growing Pains 1 – My First Experience With Patriarchy (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 162)

    In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I want to share my story to help you understand where I’ve come from and how I’ve relaunched my life over and over as I’ve dealt with trauma, adversity, setbacks, and surprises. Back in 2018, I wrote over 60,000 words of a memoir and I’ve just […]

  • Most replayed moment: What your wearable is really telling you | Dr Malcolm Finlay

    From smartwatches to fitness trackers, more of us than ever are monitoring our health in real time. With just a glance at our wrist, we can check our step count, sleep quality, heart rate and, more recently, something called HRV. But what do these numbers actually mean? And more importantly, how can we use them […]

  • 235 | Want Less Belly Fat? Stop Throwing Away Your Good Weeks

    What if the healthy habits you’re tempted to dismiss are already changing your body? You planned three workouts but finished two. You ate well most of the day, but dinner went sideways. You walked three times instead of every day. When the week wasn’t perfect, you decided it didn’t count. But it did count. In […]

  • 354 🪞 How We Lose Ourselves in Love: Trauma Bonding, Self-Abandonment & Breaking Free with Jessica Anne Pressler, Author of “Traitor Within”

    Have you ever looked back at a relationship and wondered, how did I lose myself like that? In this powerful episode, Wendy sits down with Jessica Anne Pressler — a Columbia-trained psychotherapist, hospice grief counselor, and author of the new psychological suspense novel Traitor Within — to talk about self-abandonment, trauma bonding, and the hidden […]

  • Why I changed my coaching process for women over 50, in menopause.

    I’ve completely changed my mind about how I approach fat loss for women in menopause, and my only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. I used to believe slow, steady weight loss was the best and only sustainable approach. But I kept watching women struggle to maintain a calorie deficit for months, then […]

  • Begin Again Moments: Growing Up With A Narcissistic Parent

    In this episode of Begin Again Moments, Simon Squibb and psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton examine how the behaviour of a parent can shape the person you become long after childhood is over. Simon shares the reality of growing up with a mother he describes as a narcissist, from being left to find his own way home […]

  • Liz Houghton: Losing My 20-Year-Old Son & How To Keep Living When Your World Ends

    How can you really support someone you love when they’re going through unimaginable loss? In this moving episode of Begin Again, Mint Velvet co-founder Liz Houghton joins Davina McCall and shares the heartbreaking story of losing her 20-year-old son Will after a cycling accident, and the moment she learned his injuries were unsurvivable.  She opens […]

Launch Your Life Podcast

Launch Your Life with Dr. Michelle Gordon is the only mindset podcast that provides weekly actionable insights for lasting happiness and change for high achievers who are ready to bounce back from burnout. 

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