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EP 153: A Tool For When You Can't Give Everything Your Best
What do you do on the days your best isn't available?
If you're a high performer, you already know the feeling. You gave a solid effort, you got the work done, and you still ended the day convinced you fell short. Amanda has coached hundreds of leaders through that exact loop, and there's one tool she reaches for before the burnout comes. A client started raving about what it did for her life, which is what finally made Amanda dedicate a whole episode to it. In this one she walks you through what the tool is and exactly how she's using it in her own life right now.
Key Takeaways:
The advice most coaches give high performers about lowering the bar on hard days, and the reason Amanda watched it fail with clients.
A simple three-tier tool that keeps your standard of excellence fully intact while making room for the season you're actually in.
Amanda's own real-time example: which single area of her life gets her best right now, and what she's deliberately letting sit lower.
Two questions to sit with: where are you demanding your best right now, and what would a win look like in that area if you defined it in advance?
Resources:
Join my 7 Days To A Better Life Challenge (https://wakeuptoyourlife.myflodesk.com/cirqrm537r)
Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack (https://amandakfoust.substack.com/)
Wake Up To Your Life Coaching (https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/)
Highest Potential Planner (https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/highestpotentialplanner)
Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co (mailto:support@wakeuptoyourlife.co) and let's connect!
Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_ (https://www.instagram.com/wakeuptoyourlife_/)
7 Aug 2026
EP 152: The Sneaky Reason You Never Feel Caught Up (And What Your Brain Has to Do With It)
What if being busy has less to do with how much time you have and more to do with how much time you're using? In this episode, Amanda unpacks why her calendar opening up this summer left her feeling just as busy as when she was running a business, homeschooling, and finishing her Master's degree all at once... and the research-backed reason behind it.
Key Takeaways:
Capacity isn't fixed. It bends to whatever time you hand it.
Parkinson's Law explains the pattern. Work expands to fill whatever time is available, and researchers have tested this directly.
Learn a trick that works with what we know about Parkinson's Law
Find time leftover at the end of the day, even on your busiest days.
Resources:
Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook (https://wakeuptoyourlife.myflodesk.com/expectations)
Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack (https://amandakfoust.substack.com/)
Wake Up To Your Life Coaching (https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/)
Highest Potential Planner (https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/highestpotentialplanner)
Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co (mailto:support@wakeuptoyourlife.co) and let's connect!
Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_ (https://www.instagram.com/wakeuptoyourlife_/)
23 Jul 2026
EP 151: How to Repair a Relationship After a Conflict (The Brain Science Behind It)
Why do some couples grow closer after a fight while others slowly drift apart? In this episode, Amanda shares a real moment from her own relationship and then breaks down what's actually happening in your brain in the minutes after conflict.
Key Takeaways:
Understand what a rupture and repair cycle looks like
The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry frames rupture and repair as essential to real connection, and ties repeated unrepaired ruptures to mistrust, resentment, and distorted beliefs about the relationship or yourself.
How a rupture can knock both people out of a regulated state, and repair is what brings connection and co-regulation back.
Repair isn't one-size-fits-all. Knowing what your partner actually needs to feel repaired matters more than following a script.
Resources:
Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook (https://wakeuptoyourlife.myflodesk.com/expectations)
Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack (https://amandakfoust.substack.com/)
Wake Up To Your Life Coaching (https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/)
Highest Potential Planner (https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/highestpotentialplanner)
Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co (mailto:support@wakeuptoyourlife.co) and let's connect!
Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_ (https://www.instagram.com/wakeuptoyourlife_/)
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