The Fab Life Project
By Amber J Adams
Hosted by writer, traveler, coach, and self-proclaimed "strategic risk-taker," Amber J. Adams, this show is filled with powerful conversations, inspiring interviews, and the push you need to believe you can live fabulously on your terms in every aspect of your life. Let’s go!
The Fab Life ProjectFeb 22, 2022
Is This Your Year To Grow or Sow?
Are you feeling a bit off about the direction of your year? You’re not alone! In this video, I show you the power of identifying whether you are in a planting or blooming year.
By the end of this video, you’ll know how to navigate your year, whether you’re sowing the seeds for something new or reaping the rewards of hard work. Let’s unlock your potential!
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The Weight Of Your Potential
Have you ever felt as if you weren’t “living up to your potential?”
The “p-word” is dropped a lot these days, but when was the last time you took a step back to actually think about not only what potential means to you, but what you WANT it to mean to you?
Well, friend, today is that day.
In this episode, we’re talking about how and what is driving the pressure we feel to “reach our potential” and how complicated that gets when we’ve been taught to ONLY see our potential through the lens of “traditional success”
But, you know your girl has other ideas and ways for you to redefine “potential” on your terms.
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Who Are You Without All The Things?
For the next month, I’ll be living in Albania, and guess what?
I only brought a carry-on suitcase and a small backpack. #Dasit.
Now, I know this isn’t for everyone, but I’m a lady who likes to pack light because I want to be able to move around as much as possible without anything holding me back and down.
As an American, taking a chance to divest myself from all of the material things we’re taught to want is an experience. And it’s inspired some deeper reflection which leads me to the question I have for you today: Who are you without all the things?
It's Okay to GO SLOW
There are times to step on the gas, moments when you need to coast in neutral, and of course, recognizing when you need to step on the brake.
On today’s show, we’re talking about why it’s “Okay to GO SLOW” in any area of your life so that you can make progress and move with more intention and enjoy your life along the way.
Success in our society is often depicted as such vast dichotomies. Either it’s all or nothing: total sacrifice or supreme laziness.
It’s just not true! This episode is about pushing back against that and giving yourself permission to take the scenic route. If you've been struggling with trying to balance enjoying the life you have with working toward the life you want, this episode is for you!
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Your Job Is NOT Your Worth
If you’ve spent any time on LinkedIn over the last few months, you’ve probably seen several of the shocked/angry/upset posts that people have made as they found themselves on the negative side of a layoff.
So many of these posts came from the place of feeling a loss of identity because the individual had lost the sense of “individual’ and melded with their job so closely. They had stopped seeing their value as something that is to be brought to the job, not something derived from the job.
When you give over your identity and your sense of worth and value to something (or someone) else, where does that leave you?
It's easy to accidentally allow your job to be the main thing defining who you are and your relation to the world, but today we're fighting back against that.
I don't know who needs to hear this today, but your job? Can never, ever, equate to your intrinsic value and worth.
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Is It Too Late To Start Over?
In this week’s episode of the podcast, you will hear me discuss how the universe sometimes shows up to give us the push we need to go in a different direction.
But, what do you do when you’re feeling resistant to the nudge?
What if you feel like it’s too late for you to make a change or start over?
In this episode, we're going to talk about how to handle your emotions around the potential of starting over, making a change, or exploring something new!
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Leave Room For Magic
Though I find “manifesting” to be the sparkly, glitter-wearing cousin of “goal setting” it’s still easy to fall into a space where we want to control every aspect of the outcome.
As a coach, I’ve had many conversations with clients that center on the disconnect that can happen when someone has a very prescriptive, defined idea of how we think our careers and lives are supposed to play out. When life starts to life (as life does), internal chaos can break free.
It’s rare that someone can plan and control absolutely everything. And even if you do, there are so many times when you can discover that the plans that were made and so strictly enforced never adhered to what YOU really wanted.
How can we intentionally leave space for magic in our manifestations, visions, and goals?
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When It Feels Like Everyone Else Has Succeeded
We all know that comparison is the thief of joy, and yet, as humans, we find ourselves irresistibly drawn to comparing our lives with those around us.
In this week’s episode, we’re diving deep into exploring how comparison can block our personal growth and impact our joy if we let it.
Comparing our lives and our perceived success is a struggle that we ALL go through and I’m sharing some ideas for how you can find contentment and joy with where you are even if you’re in the thick of comparison chaos.
During this episode, I share three invaluable tools that can empower you to navigate the crappy feelings of comparison and unearth your authentic aspirations no matter where you are in your journey.
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Be Like Tina: The Mindset You Need To Rebuild Your Life
It always hits hard when we lose a legend, but losing Tina Turner is more than a loss because of her extensive musical legacy; it’s also the loss of a light that illuminated what it looks like to hit rock bottom in your story, and fight your way back to not only rebuild but to go on to create a next chapter that is beyond anything she could have dreamed of. THIS is the story that I feel never got enough attention.
But this episode isn't about Tina, it's about YOU.
Your mindset is especially important if you know that you want to show up bigger and bolder than you have before.
Building the courage you need to rebuild your life or hit 'em with a plot twist is some of the hardest work you can do. If you're in the middle of writing a new story, thinking you need a new story, or feeling fearful, yet froggy, this episode is for you!
Join me in discussing the three mindsets you need as you create your next chapter.
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Jump Start Your Creative Renaissance in 2023!
Did you sit on the sidelines in 2022 wishing that you had tackled the creative projects you've been dreaming of?
WELL! This convo is for you!
Joining me today are Yaminah Mitchell owner of Healing is Work Coaching and Sana Childers, children's book author and the founder of the podcast, Co-Signs & Tangents. Both ladies got their creative pursuits off the ground and rolling last year and they are here to inspire you to Jump Start Your Creative Renaissance in 2023!
How To Release Your Job (Strategically)!
Is Beyonce being reckless or starting a revolution?
Queen Bey recently dropped her new song “Break My Soul” in which the words “release your job” are repeated enough times to make even the happiest of employees ponder their life.
But what about folks that are feeling on the edge of drafting up that two-week notice?
In this episode, I give you my top three tips for how you can quit your job strategically, so you can make a break for it, without winding up broke, scared, and full of regrets!
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Millennials, There Is No Blueprint!
For millennials, it seems that our entire adulthood has been spent thinking about how drastically different our lives are compared to what we were told they would be when we were growing up. By any comparison, our generation lags behind in the procurement of all of the "traditional" markers of adulthood.
But, what if we look at our situation through a different lens?
Instead of wandering about what we don't have, what if we look at what we've got: a whole lot of freedom to create the lives we really want to live.
In this episode, we're going to discuss why our generation needs to let go of the idea of having a blueprint for success, and instead, embracing the unique opportunity we have to build one for ourselves.
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The Grief Episode
For those of us who have grieved the loss of a person, we know that the experience changes you. In this episode, we are exploring life after loss and talking through ways we can use the energy of grief to inspire a part of your lifestyle design journey by letting it guide us toward finding or attributing meaning in some way.
You'll hear me say that this is Episode 3, but it is indeed Episode 5 of our podcast. I recorded this one earlier, but I wanted to wait to share it until this time of the year which can be painful and complicated for those of us who have experienced parental loss.
Is Hustle Culture Really Dead?
Over the last 10 years, we’ve been caught up in a hustle storm. I'm not exactly sure how or when it happened, but for the last few years, everything in our life has been all about working faster and harder. Doing more, more, more, and rising and grinding.
Whew, chile! Just writing about it has me exhausted!
But, in the last two years, our global situation had another effect: people were forced to slow down and in the process think about the toxicity of hustle culture. Many have declared hustle culture officially dead. But is it? And if so, what would be in its place?
Let's talk about it!
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The Pressure of Prestige
Fears around money aren't the only thing keeping millennials stuck and blocked from designing their lives. It's also the fear of losing the perception of prestige that we have been groomed to chase, revere, and hold on to with all our might.
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What's Your Word Of The Year?
If you’re the type of person who believes your year should have a “theme” then this episode is for you! In this episode, we’re talking about how we can choose and lean into our “word of the year.”
Your word can be meaningful to you for a number of reasons:
-it can be an intention you want to set for the year
-a lesson you want to learn
-applying a lesson you have already learned
-or the secret word that reminds you to keep going.
You’ve got options! And today we’re going to discuss them all.
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WTF Is Lifestyle Design?
We were all taught the same thing: go to school, get a job, work there for years no matter how it makes you feel, and don’t complain about any of it. But in the last two years, the world around us has changed massively. All of this change is inspiring millennials all over the globe to look at our lives and think, “Is this really how I want to be living?
In this episode, we’re exploring the concept of “lifestyle design”. You’ve probably heard about it in some way, but we’re going to get into the nitty-gritty of what it means, and most importantly, what it can mean for how you reimagine the way you want to live.
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Welcome to The Fab Life Project Podcast
Welcome to The Fab Life Project Podcast!
Our goal is to help millennials live courageous and unconventional lives by supporting their quest to define happiness and success on their terms. In each episode, we’ll be asking the questions and having conversations that will challenge you to craft a life that intentionally aligns with who you are. This show is hosted by writer, speaker, and world traveler, Amber J. Adams.