Empowerment makes it easier to handle challenges and stress, push harder on your goals, strengthen your relationships, and positively impact all areas of your life. But what happens when you don’t use it? This episode of the Empowered Educator Mom podcast addresses the hidden costs of disempowerment.

Ever feel like you're a puppet and other people are pulling your strings? If you want to feel more in control in your life, to feel more empowered, this episode will teach you where and how to get started. Empowerment (or lack of it) makes a real difference in how you approach your life, the different roles you play, and your relationships, so it’s worth your time to figure out how to have more of it.

In this episode you'll learn a 3-step strategy to calm down, ID solutions, and feel more confident when handling unexpected challenges.

Learn how you can increase your cognitive flexibility to improve your creativity, resilience, problem-solving, and quality of life.

Most people struggle with difficult coworkers at some point. Listen to hear mindset ideas and a 5-step process to resolve conflict.

Everyone experiences hard things in life. Listen to learn a strategy to reframe how you think about challenges so they're easier to handle.

We think quick progress is good and slow is bad. Listen for another way to think about slow progress that will motivate you to keep going.

Most people abandon resolutions within a month or two. Learn a different way to think about goals that will make them easier to achieve.