Decision Masters

Decision Masters

Hosted by: Kirsten Parker

How do you make decisions? How do you feel about your choices? This podcast will help you SIMPLIFY decision making and empower you to TRUST every choice you make. (Yaaaas!) I've been coaching big-brained...

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#138: Core Values *Revisit*

This may be a revisit of a previous episode (#121), but January is a perfect time to update your Core Values! Whether you're going through a big life change or you've simply experienced an internal "season shift," now...
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#137: 3 Ways to Save Mental Energy in 2025

We hear a lot about physical fitness around New Year's, but what about mental fitness? Particularly — making the most of your mental ENERGY? Today we're covering 3 ways you're going to save mental energy this year, so...
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#136: The 4 Keys to Setting the Best Goals (and SUCCEEDING) This Year

We all love a good goal-setting sesh at New Year's, right? But are you setting the BEST goals?  And are you setting yourself up to succeed or fail? There are 4 keys to setting goals you'll truly love achieving this...
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#135: 5 Standout Lessons from 2024

Want to know my biggest lessons (as a Decision Coach) this year?   Here they are! And they can all help YOU too. From people-pleasing to defining success, from boundaries to self-trust - Starting next year with these...
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#134: 3-Minute Checklist to Cut Your To-Do's (and Your Stress)

Get ready to revisit this episode ANY time you need, friend. Too much to do with not enough time? Stressing about all of it?  These are the questions to ask yourself! Make sure to listen to all 16 minutes to know how...
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#133: Decide In Advance

Whether you're worried something will be hard, convinced it will be terrible, or just nervous about how it'll go... Deciding in advance is a skill you want! Visualization, confirmation bias and target fixation have...
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#132: How to Influence What People Think

Ever agonize over how people will react to what you say? Does the anticipation of people's reactions ever cause you to change what you share...or even what you do? I've worked with so many people who make inauthentic...
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#131: Two Spins on Gratitude You Haven't Heard Yet

Happy Thanksgiving, real-time listeners! Today, and going into the final season of the year, I want to give you two of the most accessible and life-changing tools in the Decision Mastery arsenal: "Inquiry" (aka "The...
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#130: Don't Make These HUGE Mistakes with Your Next BIG Decision

Thinking through my recent BIG decision to move (which I made quickly with relatively little friction*), I realized I need to call out some BIG mistakes people can make in situations like these. *Note: "little...
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#129: Perspective-Taking and Delayed Gratification (Cognitive Biases Pt 5)

Meet the final two Cognitive Tendencies and Biases in our series! Perspective-Taking and Delayed Gratification. 🙌 This episode will help you better understand: Why you misinterpret other people's meanings Why other...
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#128: Negativity Bias (Cognitive Biases Pt 4)

Ok...we have a pretty good sense of Negativity Bias at the surface. Negative information has a greater impact than positive information, when it comes to cognitive processing. But do you know exactly how and why this...
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#127: Causal Attribution (Cognitive Biases Pt 3)

How often do you assume you know WHY something happened? How quickly do you land on a conclusion about why something DIDN'T happen? Turns out, we humans are great at assigning "causes" to things.  We're just not great...
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