Claudia von Boeselager: My guest today is Leighanne Champion, and we are here to share some of the key tips for mastering your mindset.

Leighanne is an experienced certified life and mindset coach with a demonstrated history of working in the professional training and coaching industry for over a decade and a half Leighanne is helping clients make life altering decisions and lasting changes as a health and wellness coach, certified life and mindset coach, master practitioner of energy leadership.

With her clients, Leighanne takes a deep dive into various topics like managing our minds. Relationships, self love, confidence, past focused versus future focused, boundaries, people pleasing and so much more. Welcome Leighanne to the longevity and lifestyle podcast. I'm so excited to have you on today.

Leighanne Champion: Thank you, Claudia.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Leighanne and I are colleagues, your audience, and we became friends. So it's been such a beautiful journey and we share so many passions, including around helping others be at their best, particularly around mindset.

Leighanne Champion: Yes, yes. I love nothing more than to help women soar and suffer less, right?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Exactly. We putthis special episode together for you, dear audience, because we wanna share five, even though we've got a lot, but we wanted to share five of our favorite mindset strategies for success, and to help you, be able to hopefully easily implement them into your life.

To kick off the mindset strategy. Number one we wanted to share with you is around self love and mindset. And here we really empower you to ask yourself or to do this sort of self-analysis the question, you know, do you spend more time beating yourself up than being kind to yourself? Do you practice enough self love?

And really just to think about this, but you need to decide to fill up your own cup first so that you can give to others from the overflow. And it's like they say on the airplane, right. You have to put on your own oxygen mask first before assisting others. So if you're a mess, how can you give from there?

Leighanne Champion: Mmm, Claudia. It's just so true. And you know, every time I still hear that oxygen analogy, my breath is taken away ironically, but I think that's a self care piece that women forget the most

Claudia Von Boeselager: mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: Is it okay if I share a few things that I love that have helped me?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: I use these when my energy is feeling a little depleted.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Welcome to another episode of the longevity and lifestyle 

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: I know we talk, I think people talk about meditation a lot, but it's a lot of times people tend to leave that out. Don't you think? But it's so centering and I think it's the best way to ground yourself.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And if all of your listeners might be familiar with the calm app, I don't know if you have that in your country or head space, right?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: They're just extraordinary if you're just starting off. And also, I remember learning from Oprah and Deepak back in the day. Um, but I think a lot of people are worried about the word meditation they're like, oh no, no, no, never been able to do that.

But I think there's so many amazing guided meditations that can get us to that place.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: You know, where we can just stop and be still and re-center. Yeah. Do you agree?

Claudia Von Boeselager: I completely agree. I think, and that the re-centering is the point as well. And I think with some people meditation, they're like, oh, I'm not religious and I always,

Leighanne Champion: oh no, no.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I'm like, it's not really, you know, yes. There are certain types of there are that have, you know, sort of a religious implication, but. It's almost like this going into yourself. Right. And we're, we're the whole time so external and we have this beautiful gift inside of ourselves and just finding that piece in common serenity and having those, you know, ideally I recommend to my clients as well, those regular check-ins. During the day to just refine that piece, that's within you carry it the whole time with you.

So all this crazy monkey mind going on and stresses in the outside world, but like you have this serenity and peace on the inside. So yeah I love that .

Leighanne Champion: Yes. The monkey mind. Oh my gosh. Yes but then, uh, you know, what's helped me a lot, um, is to come up with my own little mantra and you might, you know, it's like one of those things, like, what do you mean when you say that?

But it's just a personal sentence, right? That we say out. Loud and it's much to what we're talking about, but it it's the thing that you say perhaps out loud in the mirror, you look at yourself in the eyes or just in your mind quietly, but that it, it centers you, it settles, it settles you and mine for many, many years.

Was I'm, I'm strong, I'm healthy. Cuz I had recovered from lime. So I needed to sort of remind myself of that. I'm strong, I'm healthy and ready to fly. Um, lately I've been really busy. So my latest one is, um, I can do very hard things. So that's been a good one. Sometimes when our confidence is a little shaky, something like. I know this too shall pass

Claudia Von Boeselager: mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: You know, or you're going through something, you know, those kinds of things are very, very helpful. Do you have one Claudia?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah, I have a few different ones and depending on sort of inspiration I'm from different times. And I think, you know, especially when you have setbacks or, or things like that as well, I love one, like, you know, I'm unstoppable, like just remembering those type of things as well.

And then also like I can find a solution to anything, or there's an opportunity in every challenge.

Leighanne Champion: Love that!

Claudia Von Boeselager: And it's almost like a puzzle, like a quiz or a game, like, okay, what's the opportunity in this? Like, you think it's like a horrendous situation or whatever it may be and be like, okay, there's an opportunity here.

Like where is it? It's like finding, you know, the where's Wally where's Waldo, right? Like trying-

Leighanne Champion: Where's the opportunity.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Where's the opportunity in this? It's, you know, you train the neural path that you train your brain to look for that and be like, oh, okay, this is good. Um, as well, and you know, with the self love piece as well, I think, you know, just to be for people to really realize, like, if you're not gonna be your biggest cheerleader, Who is?

Leighanne Champion: Who is, absolutely!

Claudia Von Boeselager: And if we're beating ourselves up, it's, it's, it's almost binary, right?

So you can't be beating yourself up or whatever as well, and show up as your best. If you wanna show up as your best, you have to be like, you know what? Like I make mistakes, we're human. Like that's okay.

Leighanne Champion: We're all human.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I pick myself up again. Yeah, exactly.

Leighanne Champion: Love. I love that. And another one is I'm sitting here listening to you is humor, right?

 I don't think, I think sometimes we, we take ourselves so seriously and we forget to laugh.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm

Leighanne Champion: I don't think there's anything better than a good giggle or a good, I like the kind, when they get me in the stomach.

Claudia Von Boeselager: So healing, I feel like that should be like a course in itself. Like how to laugh more,

Leighanne Champion: how to laugh?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Like humor in anything.

Leighanne Champion: Everything. You know, too. I was thinking this morning, like right before I, we met, I was, you know, I had the music on, but you know, it's always so nearby our music, but we forget it's just wild, but I don't think there is anything more powerful than to lift our spirits.

It changes our state.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Totally.

Leighanne Champion: Truly changes our states though.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: Yeah.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I love that as well. And I think music, but even like dancing because dancing is like somatic, right? So it gets you into the body and moving and it opens up kind of like the energy flow in the body as well. And you know, some people might like I'm self conscious or like, what if a neighbor sees I'm like, All the better.

If your neighbor sees you, you might inspire them or you might kill them or you inspire to start like dancing as well.

Leighanne Champion: They're gonna come over for some coffee.

Claudia Von Boeselager: They'll be like, Hey, this one, there is really fun. Like, let me join them.

Leighanne Champion: Yeah. I kinda wanna know her.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Exactly. She's always partying somehow. So I love that.
That's a really good point.

Leighanne Champion: and you know, then there's in times when it's been a little bit more of a go like, and you're going through the things, but when I'm really going through that, I'll set my timer. Now this is a little more intense, but it works.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: Sometimes I find that. I just need to remember to, I don't know about you.

Like, I can forget to breathe. Yeah. Crazy like deeply and profoundly, but when it, I set the timer then for on my phone, like every three hours and you'd think, oh my gosh, that sounds horrible. But what it's doing, it's reminded me to breathe.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And then it may, it reminds me to stop and sort of bring in what we've been talking about.

Three things within that window. That I'm grateful for. Yeah. So it's like a twofold mm-hmm and I'm like 3, 3, 3 of them, like, okay. Oh, look at that. You know, this went well, this, oh, look at this. And so I think it's strengthening that muscle that we all need to see the good.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: Right?

Claudia Von Boeselager: To see the good and I, I, it reflects again, back on the, the self love topic, right.

Because when you're able to see the good, you realize, like there's so much to be grateful for, there's so much to, to love as well. Like despite all the external perceived chaos, cuz it's always a choice, right? If you look for the opportunity, then it's like, oh, I love a challenge because there's opportunity in it.

Right? But that breathing is such a key tool and I, you know, I'm actually trialing this very cool new device called an arrow fit. Um, So for my listeners more to come on that, but it's retraining the diaphragm because particularly women start shallow breathing and like breathing from the upper chest, myself included.

Right. And then the bad habit. And if the desk isn't perfectly aligned, our shoulders are bit up and we breathe so badly. Right. And so. Taking that deep breath, that sort of Buddha, belly breath, as they, as they say, as well, even putting your hands on your, on your,

Leighanne Champion: on your stomach. Yeah.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Right. And breathing into that, which, you know, at the beginning it was such a struggle for me.

It was so funny. I couldn't do it. I was like, couldn't do it. I'm like reshaping my. Spine to try to try and get in there. Right. Wasn't working, but through the, the training and things like that as well. I mean, you just breathe better. I think diaphragms a muscle, right? So you just need to expand, getting it really, really strong as well and practicing those deep breaths over oxygenating yourself, checking in on your posture.

Reentering rebalancing into that inner tranquility is just so beautiful.
Leighanne Champion: Mm, I love that. I love that.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Let's jump to our next mindset strategy number two. And we touched on this a little bit, but gratitude and mindset.

Leighanne Champion: Yes, yes, yes.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And with gratitude, some people like, oh, you know, I'm grateful for my family.

I'm grateful for, you know, they're just kind of listing off a checklist of like, what could I be grateful for? And I think there's a real shift and a real change when you. Feel gratitude. Right? And just like connecting with that. And what I love is to start the day, you know, I did when there's some sunshine out, but if not just daylight, right?

And just presenting yourself and being like, you know, what do I be grateful for? Like, I have a bed to sleep in. Like, I'm so grateful for that. I woke up today.

Leighanne Champion: Yeah.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And I find, and really stressful times as well. I like go back to, okay, what can I be grateful for? And I just feel this. Shift right happen, almost like an energetic shift of being like, you know, I was so stressed about these other things and actually they don't even matter, like I'm alive today.

I'll find a solution for this. It's not a big deal. Sometimes I challenge myself, like what is the smallest thing I could be grateful for?

Leighanne Champion: Mm.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And what I find of, uh, is to be one of life secrets is that, um, when you can be grateful for the little things in life.

Leighanne Champion: Mm-hmm.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And more and more things to be grateful for start appearing.

Leighanne Champion: Yes. A little law of attraction there. Huh?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah. But, but it's because all of a sudden it's like, you know, you've had this tunnel vision on like the negative, the negative, the negative.

Leighanne Champion: Yes...

Claudia Von Boeselager: When you're start being like, oh wow. Like this is like, you know, I mean, okay. Electricity, like how, how amazing that we have electricity.
Right. I mean getting really basic.

Leighanne Champion: No.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I love the expression. You know, you complain about not having shoes until you meet the man with no feet. and we sometimes forget what a privilege. And I, I think, you know, a lot of people will be listening to this podcast, you know, live well or, you know, have at least a phone that they can listen to podcasts around the world or, you know, YouTube or whatever the case may be. And, um, you know, just finding little things to be grateful for and just to shift that, that mindset as well. So how much do we take for granted in a day? Right. And, you know, I just implore my audience to, to have a think about like, what are some things to just check in to be grateful for big things, of course, but like small things as well.

Right.

Leighanne Champion: Oh, I love that. Yeah, no, no. I, I found that it just a dedicated practice in the morning. I'm, I'm funny. I, I do definitely get up. I go straight to go get my whole coffee and I go straight back to my place. where I do get centered. And I go into prayer and turn off the noise and, you know, I think it's, it helps me to sit with those sounds of the early morning.

And I love what you said that, about the little things that we really sometimes take. So for granted, I was thinking the other day, About, I mean, this is it's more the little, but it's our, like our eyesight. I mean, the ability to I'm looking at you right now, I'm seeing your beautiful face. I'm able to take in the nature outside.

There's just so much of that. And it's made such a tremendous difference in my life. I kind of go through. Things that I'm, you know, praying for and listing, but I'm also setting intentions for how I wanna show up every day. And I know you are a big believer in this as well.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm , mm-hmm

Leighanne Champion: and I, I, I take the time to sort of think about what maybe I, where, where I was yesterday, but what I wanna be today.

And it's, it's, it's very, very powerful. And I think this is, this is so big, this idea of gratitude and prayer, because it doesn't matter. What faith you are, it's your faith are, we're all different and unique, but this is it's this more, this intention of stillness and gratitude, right? It's just a practice though, as a kid, we're told to practice this, right, but we should be doing this as an adult.

Yeah, well, right. Having this practice teaches us how to settle and just, I think you said it earlier, it just helps us cope with anything. Right? That's thrown our way in a daytime. So yeah. Yeah. I'm with you on that. I don't really like to miss it in the morning. I feel a little off centered.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Well, this is it exactly. If I don't do my morning priming, like I, I just, the noticeable difference in the day for whatever is happening, but it just, it sets it up really to. To win and you have a different, I almost call it like a buffer. Right? Of like resilience that you, you build in versus one other, another one you're more reactive and just trying to do cool.

Leighanne Champion: Yes.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: Yes,

Claudia Von Boeselager: it was so beautiful.

Leighanne Champion: Hmm.

Claudia Von Boeselager: So our mindset strategy, number three, Jordan. So we wanted to share with you was around mindset and choice. So I love the expression. You want to be the thermostat, not the thermometer in your life. And, you know, why is mindset so important? Well, you know, mindset runs each part of your life.
and, you know, mindset is really your set of beliefs and attitudes and values about yourself and the world around you typically formed in childhood, unless you consciously analyze and look at your mindset and your limiting beliefs and your belief systems. And so one way to, to think about it is, you know, if you wanna be the thermostat in your life, not the thermometer, then you need to decide.

How you react to external events in environment, and the more steadfast you can be in that optimal state and that strong mindset, the happier and more enriching your life will be. And, you know, to know that you have a choice, right? You get to decide how you react or don't react to external situations.

And you have the choice to, to be that, that thermostat and not the thermometer as. And so it's starting with deciding who you want to be or what type of mindset you want to have. And, you know, by even writing it down, I think that's a really powerful, you know, the power of the pen, as they say, I love to type notes.

So I'm a big typer, but literally when I write things down, it's just this other form. I think it's cuz you're having the motion, whatever the, the power of it is, but writing them down. Choosing how you want to be. And then looking at limiting beliefs that you might have formed in childhood when you were three years old that are still running you to figure out how you can clear those out so that you are coming from a place of a much stronger, powerful mindset that doesn't react to somebody cuts you off in traffic to somebody's late to your meeting. And you've been sitting there for 15 minutes, how do you react to that? Well, you know, let's find a different meaning to the meaning of that as well. These are really powerful tools around deciding for yourself. And now we really wanna empower you to know that you have the choice and you can have a very strong growth mindset, um, by defining what that is for you looking, what's holding you back from implementing that and then really practicing that each.

Leighanne Champion: Mm. I thought that I love these tips and around the thermostat and all they're so good. One of the ones, if it, if it's all right to share, Claudia was called. That really, really helped me when I was first really looking at mindset and it was called the 50/50 of life. And it was just this idea. Many of us, I think since we were really little were raised to believe that the main goal of our lives is just to be happy all the time. When in reality, you know, let's face it. That's not the case and life's a mix right. Of both negative and positive. So I'm gonna break it down. It's gonna sound a little simplistic, but then I'll challenge you 50% of the time. Okay. This is just an idea. Just a concept, work on experience, right?

The difficult. Tough uncomfortable periods in our life, right? Those are the rougher times where we're gonna feel all the human emotions, you know, like anger and frustration and sadness overwhelmed, right? Disappointment, you know, to name a few. But the other 50% of the time we will be more joyful. We'll be happier and excited and we'll experience the emotions like creativity, piece, determination, all the things where we get things done.

Mm. But here's the thing, 50, 50, it's one that we think we know intellectually , but we don't really accept it very well in real time. Do we? no. Especially when we're in the midst of turmoil and we're often, I think we're often really appalled to at what's happening to us or around us, and we're responding with indignation and why is this happening to me?

This kind of thing. But. This lesson of the 50 50 was really a game changer for me because, and I'm convinced we all learned this for different reasons, right? Different times in our lives, cuz we're all uniquely wired. But for me.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: I realized that I had spent a lot of my life trying to feel good. and assume that I was doing something wrong.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: When I wasn't happy all the time. Does that make sense? Yeah. My dad asked myself, you know, what is happening here? What am I doing? What am I doing wrong? I'm sure you calling in all of your listeners can relate. I think often in our humanness, we become very resistant to any kind of negativity or negative emotion, but what was so cool about the 50 50 concept?

I felt as though someone had just given me permission or the green light, if you will, to just feel all my feelings.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: All my thoughts. Good. and bad. And then the past truly, I had tried to run away from the difficult parts of life instead of just processing them stopping.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah. Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: Taking a look, allowing, accepting, you know, and, and admitting my part.

Mm-hmm

in all the various scenarios, right?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: So, you know, this, the problems and the challenges, roadblocks, all that stuff. This is what we. They're gonna be there and it's hard to comprehend in real time. And, but, you know, for example, I think marriage really is a powerful example of the 50/50, there's this beautiful honeymoon phase in many marriages, right.

It's beautiful and lovely and romantic and all the things, but then life goes on. There's so many commitments, there's so many challenges. There's much joy. And pain. Right? You wouldn't trade it, but it's still a roller coaster, right? Yeah. And the, you know, people all go through this, even if you don't see it on social media, right?
Claudia Von Boeselager: Anyway, you see on social media a lot of the time. Yeah.
Leighanne Champion: But another example of 50/50 would be parenthood you're in it. I mean, you've got those precious little ones right now. They're so cute. but remember the joy of welcoming as child in the world. And then you're like, oh my gosh. You don't even know what to expect, but do, will I ever sleep again again?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: Well, no. Will worrying ever stop? No, no, no. But, the list goes on and on, and then they, you know, then I always am telling you then they launch and go off to college. Can you imagine how that's the audacity of them to leave us but that's a beautiful 50/50 overall experience. When we look at it. So much love so much joy, but a lot of things in between.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: Right? So,

Claudia Von Boeselager: I love the 50/50, and I love the simplicity of it as well. And I think that it's such a handy tool for people to understand as well that like, oh, I'm in the 50% of the negative space right now, but like what's the learning here or what's the, what's the opportunity for growth? Because, that totally is well, like, I mean, I grew up with, you know, you have to have a facade, everything has to appear good, whatever as well, like bad mode suppress them, et cetera.

I mean, a it'll make you sick.

Leighanne Champion: that's right.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Not a good idea.

Leighanne Champion: It's not gonna be pretty.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And they, as B is that if you ignore them, they actually don't go away. They have a way of like festering and finding themselves to, to just, you know, pop up their head at another time as well. Through the work that I've done over the years as well, that just sitting with that and like trying to curiously and without judgment kind of analyzing, why did a certain situation, you know, make me feel angry or what was that triggering in me?

Yes. Doing that analysis. And maybe it's 10 minutes, maybe it's an hour. Maybe it's longer. Maybe you have to sit a few sessions depending, obviously on the situation, but. By naming it. Coming to terms with it. It de powers the emotion it's there to teach you something.

Exactly.

 Just appreciating that as well and just see it as an opportunity for growth as well.
And even though it's uncomfortable, we don't wanna be uncomfortable. Right. We wanna be in this like happy state, as you said as well, but. We learn the most from the challenges. Right.

Leighanne Champion: Yes. And we wanna also feel all the emotions out there.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And sometimes we think we're not like, I think about your country right now.

And I think of what everybody is going through, their grieving the loss of the queen. Right. And that's a collective grief, I would imagine, but that's what you're choosing right now to feel right. You want to be able to choose that emotion of grief.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And feel that all the way through. Yeah. You know, and so it's interesting, this idea, you know, we wanna have the full gamut, I guess, is what I'm saying, the full gamut of emotions in our lifetime, cause that's how we're gonna stay healthy to your point.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah, exactly. And I think. Embrace it! Before I was like, you don't cry. That was my thing, You don't cry. And now, one of my, like, mommy I'm finish, I'm like cry, let it out,

Leighanne Champion: let it rip.

Claudia Von Boeselager: So much better after . It's good.

Leighanne Champion: So true.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Just get in touch with that as well. And I think it's so important, important to use the different, you know, things. So for example, you know, we went to leave flowers at Buckingham palace with the kids on Sunday rather Sunday morning. And there was a lady in the queue who overheard us. I was explaining some things about the queen and what she did, and she turned around and she'd like tears streaming down her face.

And she's like you know, this is end of an era. The queen meant a lot to her. Just to let her like be. And my children, like why is she crying as well? But just to understand that there was the emotional attachment and now is the time to grieve.
Right? And I think when it's-

Leighanne Champion: so beautiful.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Go through experiences, use the time to grieve. To really feel it. Feel that pain as uncomfortable as it is. And enjoy the depth of being a human being.

Leighanne Champion: Yeah.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Strange as that sounds. Yeah, of being able to grieve. There's not a cheetah running around the Savannah, that's that's able to cry. Right? Or whatever it is. Right. So I'm talking about just animals in general. They don't, they don't have the spectrum of emotions that we as humans do.

Leighanne Champion: But a precious moment, you had there with the girls to share that with them and explain that to them. That's amazing.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah, cause I mean, they're still little, right? But just to understand like why would somebody cry about that? Cause obviously they assumed they didn't know the queen right? Directly personally, but we learn, you know, day by day and again, it's like seeing the opportunity in it and the beautiful experience that it can be as well.

Leighanne Champion: Totally.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah. Totally. So our mindset strategy, number four. Is around limiting beliefs and are limiting beliefs and fears holding you back. So we touched a little bit on this before, but it's really just to bring light to the awareness around limiting beliefs and you know, how to face fears and how to reframe things.
How do face fears? If you think of fear this way as. What do you want? What you desire is at the other side of fear. So your ego is typically the fear that's holding you back. I dunno, maybe it's, you've started a new business and you have to cold call people. Like the fear of that, like how the shame, the embarrassment, like we build up all these scenarios in our heads, but like, how could you reframe that?

Be like, you know, what the product or service that you're launching with your new. I am there to like really help these people who are struggling with the problem. So I'm actually, you know, sales as a service, for example, right? So I'm, I'm really here to help the person and resolve their problem. So, you know, how can you refr reframe something that you are fearing?

To do it in a different way. And you know, whatever that fear, fear may be understanding. Is it coming from a childhood limiting belief, like really dig into, sit with it, be like, why am I so fear, like might be fear of flying or whatever. It may be public speaking. Where is that fear coming from? And then, how can you reframe it in a way that, you know, if you public speaking, for example, if to go up on stage, you've got this amazing invitation to speak in public. Well, maybe make it about serving the people who need to hear your message and not about yourself, right. Of the shift that shift, that focus as well. Knowing that what's keeping you from being the best version of you are typically these limiting beliefs made up in your mind and childhood.

Leighanne Champion: Mm-hmm.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And that there are strategies like the reframing that will allow you to step into the new you step into the stronger, faster, better, whatever you wanna call it you.

Leighanne Champion: Yes.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Really enjoy life at a whole nother level.

Leighanne Champion: Yes. I love that. You know that's so key. This is, I get all passionate around all this kind of topic because, I immediately go to, what are we thinking? And you, Claudia, have you ever heard that saying we are what we eat?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Of course. Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: Mm-hmm, which is kind of a depressing one but it's reality is really, I think,

Claudia Von Boeselager: yeah.

Leighanne Champion: but I think the reality is really much more if this makes anybody feel better. We are what we think.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: And I just think it's so incredibly fascinating, just to reflect on all the negative emotions that we as humans share. You know the anger, the jealousy, the pride, the envy, frustration sadness. But they're all rooted. Where? And what we're thinking about, right?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah. Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: And so to your point, so this awareness that you're speaking of is it's all about our thoughts. It's so crucial. It's the first step in taking responsibility for what we're choosing to think. We often believe it's all the things outside of us or the circumstances. Right?

In our lives that dictate our feelings and reactions. And this is a bitter truth pill to swallow, but it's always our thoughts. That we've chosen to think that are causing our emotional response. People don't really like to hear that one, but it's really true. And you know, that this better than most Claudia neuroscientists have been able to demonstrate that every thought we have is sending signals.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: Electrical signals throughout our brains affecting every cell in our bodies.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And it it's affecting our sleep, our digestion, chemical makeup of our blood, right?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah. The fight or flight pattern as well. So you could be living in this high stress state where you assume that every horn that honks is someone like honking, you know, whatever it may be because you're in this hugely stressed way.

Cuz you're interpreting it is that everyone is against you and the world is against you. And I have to survive this day versus like today is a gift. Like I get
Leighanne Champion: Today is a gift.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Shift that, right?

Leighanne Champion: Could shift outta that. Exactly. And I just think it's important too, that people understand how many thoughts we actually have flying through our minds.

I think research is a little confused on this, that whatever you read is somewhere between 6,000 and 50,000 thoughts that we have a day. Which is a lot. And I kind of laugh at the 6,000 cause I'm pretty sure I've already had 6,000 by breakfast, but I guess it just depends on our brains, but if we really think that through that's really either really good news or bad news. Because every thought we're having right, is either moving us towards or potential or away from it.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: Yes. Every thought we have either is moving us. I believe towards our God given potential or away from it. There's this quote by Tommy Newberry, that kind of blew my mind when I heard it. I had to like what?

But he said. He wrote the secret conversations that you hold in the privacy of your own mind. Or shaping your destiny little by little.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: It's like what? So I think we really need to think about that one. Right. And ask ourselves, where are we mentally shining our spotlight currently, right?

Claudia Von Boeselager: So is that negative self talk or is it that being your best cheerleader and being like, okay, I've had a trip up today, but I got this, I can totally do this and you know, who can I reach out to whatever to help me, like I am solution orientated. And I got this, like I can.

Leighanne Champion: And it's beautiful when we catch ourselves.
Isn't it? It feels great. You're like, oh, look at me, go down the rabbit hole.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Exactly.

Leighanne Champion: No, no, no.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I'm smarter than that.

Leighanne Champion: I am smarter.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I love it.

Leighanne Champion: No, but I always say, turn your spotlight on your future self. Right? I encourage people to consider. Their future self in five to 10 years from now. Who, who have you become?

What have you created get excited about that?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm

Leighanne Champion: I don't know. We will have to have another conversation sometime around the future self. I love to take my clients on a journey of letter writing to, as to what their future self would say to them right now to give them.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Can you expand a bit on that? Just for my audience's. I love the idea of that. Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: Yes. Well, it's this idea that our future self has the wisdom. So it's actually saying we actually, if we can listen long enough to our future self, they're going to give us the advice that we know intuitively already, but we haven't quite accessed.

So if you take the time, as you say, put pen to paper, And think of yourself 10 years from now and I'm think dearly am. I know that you will have achieved this dream. You have, you've been working hard and da, da, da, and now you're at a place where, and you get such marvelous advice. When you think of yourself.

In a future place. It's really a lot of fun.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I really love that. And also, just what immediate comes up is so many things then get put into perspective and things that you think are like a big deal or a big decision you realize like in 10 years time, I'm gonna look back at like, will I even remember this as well?

Leighanne Champion: Huh. So good.

Claudia Von Boeselager: So I have what some people call like the rocking chair test, right? So like when I'm 95, looking back, am I gonna be like, proud that I. Stepped out of my comfort zone and did this, or am I gonna look back and be like, oh, I missed opportunity. Right. And so I wanna be doing the things where I'm like, oh cool.

I did that. And oh yeah, I was brave enough to do that. And, oh my gosh, that was super uncomfortable, but I did it and I loved it. And that was amazing as well.
Leighanne Champion: You loved it.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I've had a few those experiences in my life and each and every one of them have just confirmed the more discomfort it was to actually go and do it the, the bigger, the upside, if you will.

Leighanne Champion: Exactly. And isn't it interesting too. It's something that we are sort of. Tapping back into that. We were so good at as children, but when we're writing from our future sales, we're, you know, we're using our imaginations again. Right. And we're also our intuition.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And our we're being our best encouragers. It's, it's fascinating. We're kind of employing a lot of different things that are very helpful to us.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I love that.

Leighanne Champion: Bringing imagination back.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I heard once from an interview with Debbie Millman. She was saying she would encourage her students. So she would teach at the university of New York and she would encourage her students to write the perfect day in 10 years time.

But like in such minute detail and write it down and then go back each year and reread it. And then watch, she said, it's crazy scary that typically the things will unfold.

Leighanne Champion: Yeah, that's amazing. That's almost like the, the same effects as a vision board when you take the time, right?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: That's amazing.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And were saying, if you can imagine it, you can become it or you can do it, you know? And so I think that's it as well. It's stopping those limiting beliefs. Right? It's coming to that the only thing holding you back is because you think someone's gonna say something or whatever, that it's all in your head and this other person might never even have had the idea.
To criticize or make a comment on it as well. So you're holding yourself back for no reason. Right?

Leighanne Champion: Absolutely absolutely.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Your audience myself, and them would love to empower you to just do it, just go for it. Right. And-

Leighanne Champion: absolutely. Exactly.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah. So our mindset strategy, number five that we wanna talk about is mindset and neural pathways.

I love the expression neurons that fired together, wired together. And basically what you really wanna be doing and thinking about is rewiring those neural pathways. And if someone's like, oh, what is this? And I don't understand it. Right. So neural pathways, normally what I tell, you know, my clients is you can imagine you have like a jungle path in your mind.

Those are the pathways that you don't use very often. Right? And you need almost like the old school machete is to like cut through the jungle, vegetation that you've got going on there. And then the other one is like a high speed highway. Right? High speed highway. And those are maybe the negative thoughts that you're constantly going down.

So anything you do triggers you to go down that highway to the same conclusions and the same reinforcing those limiting beliefs. Right? So again, this is back to choice. You choose at any single moment to either go down that super highway of negativity or to cut through the jumbo path and start clearing it.

I mean like, you know what, I'm gonna choose to see the good in this. I'm gonna choose the positive side of this. I'm gonna choose to be my biggest cheerleader today.

Leighanne Champion: Yeah.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And the more you go down that. Jungle path, the more that becomes the super highway and the more the negative super highway becomes a jungle path, which is what you want. Right? So it's rewiring those pathways in your mind and it's it's habit, right? So just set yourself the goal, maybe do a 30 day challenge with yourself. How do I have, you know, zero negative thoughts or if I have one, it goes quickly back to a positive thought to rewire those neural pathways. That's just the place that you come from. You just see the good in things.

Leighanne Champion: I love that. I love the idea of the super highway. That's such a good visual for me. I love that. And you know, one of the things that we just have to laugh, and again, this is the humor part, but so many of our thoughts that we have every day, once you start to learn is cloudy or say you catch them.

If you just know that 90% of them are repeats from yesterday or the day before, it's like, what.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Oh, I love that.

Leighanne Champion: That's such a waste of energy. What?

Claudia Von Boeselager: I have no negative thoughts like.

Leighanne Champion: Oh, I know you're just old hat. You're old hat get out of here, but I just love what you're saying. We can kick those negative ones to the curb.
And by doing this, we're creating that. I love that highway visual. That is like, it's a new neural. Have it. Yeah, we have a choice it's so powerful.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And one hack, I love around it as well. I think you know, another topic and maybe too much for today's conversation, but is around NLP-NeuroLinguistic Programming and the words that we use.

And it's so important to just check the words you're putting out there. Like the worst thing you can say to yourself is like, I'm so stupid. I can't do this. It's not possible. Or it's impossible. Et cetera. Right?

Leighanne Champion: Right.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Like all this negativity, you're putting a block in front of yourself for nothing, right?

Leighanne Champion: Right.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And I'm said so very simple with the whole I have to get up at seven and then I have to bring my kids here and then I have to do this. And then you have to go to work. And then, you know, I have to get to my workout done. It just seems so heavy and like, oh, you know, who wants to do that?

So just swap those words for, I get to, I get to get up at. I get to take care of my kids. I get to bring to school. I get to go to the gym. I get to go to work. Right? I mean-

Leighanne Champion: mm-hmm.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Just for anyone to just test it and, and try that as well. Just to feel the kind of shift and energy, the power of words and the power of empowering words as well, and also the negative power of negative words as well.
So just to be really wary of the words coming out of your mouth, the words you choose to use-

Leighanne Champion: mm-hmm.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And just choose better words. So a little to try as well.

Leighanne Champion: How comes back to gratitude too? You know that's a choice, in a way what words are you gonna choose? I love that really good.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: So nice.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I'm gonna shoot some rapid fire questions at you. As you know, I love to do. So thinking of the words successful, who's the first person who comes to mind and why?

Leighanne Champion: Hmm. I think, yeah, this is one that I haven't thought of before, but I think Oprah probably for me, because I think that she just found her way through tough circumstances and then became such a light out in the world.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And she just was all about service and really wanting to help other people.

And you could see her life trajectory just talking about all the things that people never really ever wanted to discuss. God bless her. So she was really, in my opinion, just such a forward thinking light out there that has just done so much. Good.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yes. I agree. Do you have a favorite quote or piece of advice? That's been a real game changer for you.

Leighanne Champion: I love some of the quotes by Wayne Dyer who's passed on. But he's just extraordinary but peace. And this is a lot about what I think about in the things that I love to teach around peace. His quote was peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is-
mm-hmm.

Rather than, as you think it should be. I loved that one. And if I could cheat also, I had one other one, Mary Oliver.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Uhhuh.

Leighanne Champion: Just because I think it's a really along the way. I love to help people. And her quote is something to the effect of tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Gotta love that one.

Claudia Von Boeselager: That's really good, because again, it makes forces you to hone down on one thing. And that become the number one priority. And again, with the stuff I teach as well, like having that true north knowing exactly and having that clarity and taking the time to get to that point of clarity, which I, I go through with my clients.

It allows you to say no to so many things that are full off in your life that are making you frazzled and pulled in thousands of directions. So even just knowing that one thing is just really phenomenal.

Leighanne Champion: Yeah, it's precisely. I agree so far.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne, what are some of your daily and weekly routines that have helped you perform at such a high level?

Leighanne Champion: Well, I think we talked a little bit about it earlier. I think sort of my dedication to getting up and getting centered with gratitude.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And prayer and all. I think that's probably my main secret sauce thing that I don't like to leave out. That's the first thing that's coming to my mind.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Okay. Very fun. In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no, to be it distractions or invitations and what new realizations and or approaches have helped?

Leighanne Champion: Yes, it has been intentional for me to be excited about my purpose. And so I've had to get small in the sense of maybe not extending myself maybe the way I used to, and be out there and try to be a little bit of a people recovering people pleaser here. so to sort of harken into, just to get very clear on what it is that I wanna do in the world and to sort of let go of those extraneous things like people pleasing, not saying no to a million different things and actually really kind of getting a little smaller, a little more focused and dedicated.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I think that, that too. And yeah, recovering people pleaser here. amongst recovering.

Leighanne Champion: You too. Oh, that's another topic.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Exactly. I mean, I love people, but it's having that time and it comes back to self love as well, like prioritizing your time. And also one hack I love around that is so two things, I think this is from Derek Sivers who mentioned once. You don't know how busy you're gonna be in six months time, but you know how busy you are right now. So if you get an invitation for something in the future and pretend it's for next week, Tuesday. So you know what your schedule is, right? If it isn't a heck. Yes. If it isn't a eight, nine or 10 out of 10 and you would accept that invitation no matter what then say no.

because your time is more valuable than something that's mediocre. And just to be really, really strict on that as well.

Leighanne Champion: I love that. So you, you pushed me to the next level that thank you.

Claudia Von Boeselager: you're welcome. Again, work in progress.

Leighanne Champion: Absolutely. Hundred percent.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah. What has been your most exciting purchase in the last six months?

Leighanne Champion: Well, I'm such a nerd. So I would, this would probably be something you would love Claudia, but, um, I found a great new. app, Z Z app. And it's this great portable version of the rife machine. Now see Claudia, when we first met, we definitely geeked out on all the things, health and wellness, cause that was my first coaching certification.

So we love all this stuff, I believe your listeners would love it and it's free. You can try it for free, you can run a sound frequency towards healing for almost anything you can think of.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Wow. And that's amazing that they offer it for free as well.

Leighanne Champion: Yes, yes.

Claudia Von Boeselager: ZZ app. Okay. We're gonna link that in the show notes for sure, dear audience.

Leighanne Champion: And there's young group of entrepreneurs. I believe they're in, um, RAIC.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Amazing. Um, what is the book that you have most gifted Leighanne?

Leighanne Champion: Well, I think I probably have most gifted Eckards, a new earth. Which is an epic book, but really, probably not the book I should have been gifting.

Cause it's a book that you should be finding on your own at the right time.

Claudia Von Boeselager: It finds you. Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: It finds you. It found me at the airport sitting there on a, on a seat.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Wow.

Leighanne Champion: So that I probably gifted that with the wrong, you know. Too soon for too many people. But the Four Agreements is probably the other one and I don't think we can ever give that one away enough.

Have you read that one to Claudia?

Claudia Von Boeselager: I have not read that one. Expand a little bit. I haven't read yet. Writing this down.

Leighanne Champion: It's Don Miguel and Ruiz. It has truly had stood the test of time. It's a guide. I believe to personal freedom. It looks at what we're talking about today. It looks at the self-limiting beliefs that may cause just too much suffering and unnecessary suffering.

It's just a gem, the powerful little book. And you should just, it's one of those ones you just wanna pick up every two to three years again.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: Because it's got, it's just filled with so many gems, you know?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah. Well, I'm going to be ordering that ASAP. So thank you for that.

Leighanne Champion: Sure.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Leighanne in the past five years, what new belief, behavior or habit has most improved your life?

Leighanne Champion: Well, absolutely hands down this idea that we're talking about managing my thought life and that's also. I teach a lot around this idea of emotional childhood and adulthood. And, and a lot of that is just letting go of ideas that we can control other people and letting go of manuals that we have for other people. Which are like our own little personal instruction, guides for people for how we think they should behave.

But all this kind of work, I believe that since I have been through. It's been so profound for me that I can be so much better of a teacher because I really had to learn these. Powerfully. So, and I'm still learning them. I'm still learning them in real time, but those are absolutely hands down managing my thought life.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Ahh, of course.

Leighanne Champion: It gets me excited about everything as you were saying earlier, there's so much potential when we are doing that of growth, right?

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah. That's so exciting. Leighanne. If you could metaphorically speaking, get a message out to a billion people. What would it say and why?

Leighanne Champion: I love you. You don't go small. Do you Claudia? None?

Claudia Von Boeselager: But think big

Leighanne Champion: a billion. Well, I'll bottom line. Your thoughts really do matter. And thinking thoughts as we were talking about earlier that create confidence. That's a skill.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: But you can do it. You just have to decide to do it. You have to decide to work at it. And deciding that I. It is a term that I use in my business. This idea of healthy mind management.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: That is equally as important. As working out or going to a gym. And I don't think a lot of the world looks at it this way. You and I look at it this way.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: Because we know how important it is.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: But I love to see the world make their emotional wellbeing, their emotional intelligence, that much of a priority.

Claudia Von Boeselager: You almost even more, right?

Leighanne Champion: Yes.

Claudia Von Boeselager: If you have a positive mindset, then you're gonna take care of your body and you're gonna eat. Right.

Leighanne Champion: Perfect. Exactly.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Number one. And then.

Leighanne Champion: And then number two is the workout.

Yes. Well, see, we just, just figured out that problems of the world, but there's, there is a great quote that people do not decide their futures. They decide their habits.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And their habits decide their future. So to your. So let's get our minds cleaned up and then our habits we're gonna get to that gym.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Exactly. And then make it a habit and then just automate it as, as what I love to do. So think once and then roll it up from there. exactly

Leighanne Champion: totally, totally

Claudia Von Boeselager: Uhhuh. . What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you've ever made Leighanne? And this could obviously be money, but also time and energy.

Leighanne Champion: Hmm. Well, truly I just think, Any education, any growth is worth it. Friendships, the time that you spend really developing true, true friendships, my faith, let's see my family, the time that I've given my family right by far.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: By far the most important investments, for sure.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Wonderful. Yeah, it just it's, you know, the gift that keeps on giving it, uh, gives so much back as well. And it's not just for giving back, but when you can learn to love just by giving. then you don't need even anything back as well. So yeah.

Leighanne Champion: Number one thing. I agree. Yeah. Oh my gosh.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Leighanne, what advice would you give a smart driven student, maybe finishing highschool or finishing college about to enter the real world. And what advice should they ignore?

Leighanne Champion: Hmm, ignore. Yeah. Oh, I love that. Well it's along the lines of what we're talking about. I would really like to get into actually a highschool nearby me and talk to the seniors. They really need to pay attention these days to their emotional wellbeing. For sure.

They need to have classes now in school, around this. They need the healthy mind management. And it's a shame that this isn't a priority, but I think it's going to become a priority. I'm very hopeful, Claudia. I really think that the world is such, that we're going to really, really make this more important, but I don't think there's anything more important.

They need to get off their cell phones and learn to engage again.

Mm-hmm.

I see so many that are not able to communicate. I to get off the phone and learn how to just talk again and also to realize that all their experiences. The whole idea of failing is just a privilege. Really? It's just part of life's process.

It's nothing to fear. You need to kind of congratulate yourself and say, Hey, I'm putting myself out there. If you fail. That just means you're trying, which is epic.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yeah.

Leighanne Champion: And they just need to learn how to be okay with discomfort because it's gonna come out. But that's the key to, if you can make friends with discomfort. You were gonna kill it.

Claudia Von Boeselager: This is it like discomforts, your friend, cuz you're pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. You're growing, right?

Leighanne Champion: That's it.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I love something that Sarah Blakely said, the founder of Spank. She said that part of her success. For those who don't know was the, I think she was at the time, the youngest ever female billionaire. Right? And she said that part of her success was because fear was just never an issue. Why? Because her father at the dinner table every night would ask herself and her brother, what did you fail at today? Or what did you fail at recently? And if you can say nothing, well, then you didn't push yourself out of your comfort zone?

Leighanne Champion: Not then.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And you didn't try hard enough. I try to implement this with my kids as well. They're sometimes wondering like mommy, but the problem with the school system is you're taught not to make mistakes.

Leighanne Champion: That's right. I love that, that you're rewiring their brains at home.

Claudia Von Boeselager: I'm trying these. Probably kids are so confused, like what my teacher said, but my teacher said like, what did I fail at today? Like what should I do? So trying to balance it, both of them as well, but I think it's just so important to see failure and fear is just growth and growing. And if you see. I think there's what is the statistic Michael Jordan said, like how many thousands, hundreds of thousands of baskets did he miss? Right. It's just that repetition practice, practice, practice, you know?

Leighanne Champion: Yes.

Claudia Von Boeselager: How many people had failed book deals? Beyonce was rejected from music studios, you know, and now look at her, you know, it's just, don't give up if this is your dream. Just go for it as well.

Leighanne Champion: Don't, give up that's it. And stay to your passion, right. Stay to what you love.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Yes, exactly. Leighanne for my listeners. Interesting. In understanding mindset better, what online resources or books would you recommend to start with?

Leighanne Champion: Well, Carol Dweck has a book on mindset that it's just sort of a classic.

I'm sure you've read it, but it's this idea of really understanding the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. I believe that that is a classic that everyone should have on their bookshelves. I have, uh, I'll be bold here. I have a new course that I've put up on mastermind.com called learn to break your negative thought patterns. And it's a eight module course.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: Where I do get very in to teaching how to train your thoughts.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And. And in doing it, you get to transform your life.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And where can people find out more about you and what you're up to, and also more about your course, Leighanne? What's the easiest way for people to connect with you?

Leighanne Champion: Well, you could reach out to me. There's my website. It's Leighanne . It's spelled a little interesting. Just think of, uh, Vivian Lee, L E I G H. So Lee Ann, one word, A N N E Leighanne Champion. That's the easy part coaching, or just type in, champion your life. And you'll be able to find me. So I'm on Facebook and Instagram and to talk YouTube all under Leighanne Champion Coaching.

Claudia Von Boeselager: So amazingly.

Leighanne Champion: Email me, you can.

Claudia Von Boeselager: We'll include these all in the show notes as well. So thank you.

Leighanne Champion: Yeah. Thank you,

Claudia Von Boeselager: Leighanne, do you have a final ask, recommendation or any parting thoughts or message for my audience?

Leighanne Champion: Well, first off, I just wanna say thank you to you, Claudia. I love what you're doing with your podcast and how you are talking to so many experts in this field, right. Of Longevity and Lifestyle, but there's just so much to it. Your heart's so big. I love this impact that you're making on the world, but this topic around mindset is so important. And I love I'm so honored that you had me on here.
Claudia Von Boeselager: Pleasure.

Leighanne Champion: I think we just need to remember that if we have a growth mindset, we're just going to be so open, right. To a variety of new experiences and we're gonna be willing to take risks and we're gonna be more resilient when faced with failure. So this is one of those important things that we need to constant be looking at constantly be considering.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Mm-hmm.

Leighanne Champion: And on my podcast, I always say, what do we have? We have one precious life. Let's do this.

Claudia Von Boeselager: And I'm on that note. Thank you so much, Leighanne . This has been so much fun. I really enjoyed coming on. I hope your audience, that you found lots of keen golden nuggets of learnings that you can implement as well. So Leighanne , thank you for your time was so great to have you on today.

Leighanne Champion: Ah, thanks again, Claudia.

Love you dearly.

Claudia Von Boeselager: Lots of love.