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Mar 2023
38m 31s

#243 - “The Ultimate Self-Esteem Toolkit...

Tarryn MacCarthy
About this episode

In today’s episode, Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy welcomes, once again, for the third time, Licensed Therapist and Productivity Coach Risa Williams. They talk all about her new book, The Ultimate Self-Esteem Toolkit, as she shares how you can build your self-esteem through the things that you do each day. Raising your self-esteem may take a lot of time and requires consistent work, but don’t put too much pressure on yourself – small changes can make a big difference.

Risa Williams is a licensed therapist (LMFT) and productivity coach practicing in Los Angeles. She's been featured as an expert in Business Insider, Bustle, PsychCentral,  Wired, Parade, and HuffPost, and she writes for Breathe Magazine, Cultural Daily, and LA Parent Magazine. She's the book author of The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit: 25 Tools to Worry Less, Relax More and Boost Your Self-Esteem, which is in stores now and provides 25 tools based on cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, and positive psychology to help readers feel more empowered to change their thinking patterns.


Learn more about Risa:
Website: http://www.risawilliams.com/therapy
IG: https://www.instagram.com/risawilliamstherapy/

Grab a copy of her new book: https://amzn.to/3KfZ2NE

Listen to her podcast: http://www.risawilliams.com/motivationmindset

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Show notes:
[2:18] On how she wrote her new book
[4:43] The book cover and its connection to self-esteem
[8:27] The self-talk meter
[15:35] Using imagination to introduce emotional uplift in the body
[19:39] Join The Radical Happiness For Practitioners Program to rediscover happiness within your profession and life. Check out https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/radicalhappiness
[22:44] Waiting for outside validation of ourselves
[35:40] What’s her definition of happiness today?
[37:45] Outro


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