Are you truly living your life, or just going through the motions?

If you’re a high-achieving professional woman, it’s possible you’re feeling overwhelmed by the delicate balancing act of motherhood and career. The pain point here is the hidden mistake of living without intention, which can leave you feeling disconnected and unfulfilled.

But what if there’s a way to transform your life and find true alignment with your values?

🌟 By the time you finish listening to this episode, you’ll learn:

• The fundamental principles of intentional living and how they can reshape your existence
• A step-by-step guide to crafting a comprehensive life plan that mirrors your core values and dreams
• Why living intentionally is the key to personal fulfillment and holds the power to create a brighter future for all
  
  

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Professional Bio

Are you a high-achieving, ambitious professional working mother, feeling trapped in the whirlwind of your demanding career and family responsibilities? Overwhelmed by stress, busyness, and societal expectations? Drained of energy and struggling to find balance while silently battling guilt and unfulfillment?

Welcome to a transformative journey a certified lifestyle medicine physician, experienced yoga and meditation teacher, and a mother of three. In this immersive podcast, she provides a path to authenticity, purpose, and vitality. Through tailored coaching programs, Dr. Libby Schanzmeyer equips you with the tools and strategies to regain balance and create a life aligned with your true self.

Our listeners, our clients, are high-achieving professional working mothers who have successfully transformed their lives with life design. They’ve overcome stress, found peace within their careers and personal lives, and are thriving.

Discover how to harmoniously balance your professional and personal life, relieve stress, and find your true purpose. Learn time management techniques, prioritize self-care, and regain meaning in life. Join Dr. Libby Schanzmeyer and begin your journey towards a life of ease, vitality, and impact, where authenticity leads the way.


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PODCAST EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Unraveling the mystery. Unraveling the mystery, living true by design. What does that really mean?

Join me as we embark on a journey of self-discovery.

Where we will understand the essence of intentional living.

Get ready to redefine the way you perceive your life. Get ready to redefine the way you perceive your life’s path and purpose.

I became a life design coach after I went through life design as a client. And I came to it, I feel like I was in a way tricked into it because I was just had one big problem. But my problem was my life and it was just a lot of things going on and my mother was ill and terminally ill and I had young kids and a.

Busy professional career. So it was a lot of pressure. And I thought, well, I just need to deal with this one problem. I don’t remember specifically, but it was thinking I had one problem that needed to be solved, but the thing was every week it was one problem. And I didn’t understand at the time fully that how you do anything is how you do everything.

And so I thought I could just do one thing at a time. And my plan was to go meet with my coach and figure out a little strategy for the next week. And then the next week come back with another problem and figure out the next strategy. And that’s not what happened. What happened is I came out of my coaching when I was a client, I came out of that with a whole plan and vision for my life. It was basically…

It wasn’t anything really radically different from what I had an idea of, but it was so concrete and well-defined that it gave me so much hope and direction for my future. And it helped me understand my own purpose and path on the planet while we’re here.

So instead of going every week and having one small, instead of going every week and addressing one situation at a time and the next week a different situation, it was a more all-encompassing stand in life is what I ended up learning and stepping into, and I’m still stepping into it. That’s a part of it as having a vision that’s a little bit larger than you.

But yet not so much that it feels like it’s too far away. So, but it became a way to function instead of addressing every small problem. And then I found that the way you do anything is the way you do everything. So every small problem could be addressed in a similar way. It’s magical.

So living true by design is what happens when you design your life. So the name living true by design is about someone who wants to design their life and live that out. And so living true by design is all the different ways that we can live a designed life. And we talk about a designed life, that means it’s intentional.

It’s not a default life. And a lot of us, you know, live this like a default life because it’s what we were taught when we grow up. It’s just our programming. It’s what we’ve seen. And we don’t see a lot of other options. It’s just what we know. And it’s not as intentional as maybe we would like. And so instead of living a default, a designed life is intentional. And it’s really looking at who we are and where we want to go.

Design can be a lot of a mindset, right? Of empathy, there’s different schools of thought about how to define design, but some of the words that come up about that are empathy, optimism, iteration.

Ideating, experimentation, creative confidence. These are all areas that we use to set the stage for the design and we use design principles to look at our life, to create the life intentionally that we’re wanting to live. So those are some principles of design and.

Through using those principles, I came up with my own design idea of, it actually is combining coaching and pathology together because in pathology, we use microscope and light. And so in design, in designing our life, we show up, focus and shine. And those are the three major steps of the process and the whole coaching process and the whole life design that you can put together when you do the coaching.

But those are show up, focus and shine. And so show up is defining where your life is in the moment, where, and it’s also looking at some of the background things that our programming is. So just recognizing that and deciding intentionally, is this something I wanna carry forward and continue this belief, or is it something that it doesn’t really fit me anymore? And that’s not who I am at this point in my life.

We change, you know? So that’s showing up. And then focus is when we ideate and we really figure out where we wanna go and what our goals are and what our vision is and what our mission is. And so that’s focusing, getting very, very clear. And we have concrete tools to do this. And then shining is when you go out and you do the prototype. You try it out, see if it’s gonna work. And iterate.

If it doesn’t work, do it again, and that’s okay. But it’s all based on very much internal motivation. It’s not for the external accolades. It’s more for fulfilling your own personal purpose and mission and concrete ways to do that.

So one way I came up with, one way that I define.

One way that, another way, another way that I define living true by design and life design is a.

Another way that I define living true by design and life design is an intentional and holistic life plan with tools and strategies to make major decisions, plans and goals in all areas of your life. And that sounds huge, but it’s possible and we do it and it’s so fun. And so here are the areas of your life. If you’ve ever used the…

A circle of life satisfaction, that’s part of it. But there’s all the different areas of your life that are included in there. And those areas of your life are career, finance or money, play, recreation, spirituality, physical health, family, friends, areas of relaxation. And so when we’re designing a life, we don’t want the life to be just an absence of disease or an absence of agitation or anger.
It’s just, it’s not about the absence of bad stuff. We want to focus on where we wanna go and an uplifting energized life, a vital wellbeing. So it’s all about getting into a state of relaxed but energized wellbeing. And then.

Incorporating that relaxed and energized wellbeing into all of those areas of your life. And then the outcome of that is vital wellbeing.

Okay.

So that’s basically what the life design is, is that it’s an overlap of mindset, mission, values, goals. It’s like a Venn diagram that has a lot overlapping and at the center is the life design. And that’s, you know, like it, it’s like a Venn diagram that has circles of life of mind.

It’s like a Venn diagram that has all these overlapping circles that include mindset, health, communication, relationships, and they’re all overlapping. Career, of course, they’re all overlapping and at the center is you with a designed life. So it incorporates all these things and boils it down and it comes from your core, your

Intuitive knowing and your wisdom.

And these things, they’re nonlinear, right? And so it can get kind of big, but we have tools and strategies that we can break it down and make it manageable, so it’s not too overwhelming.

And finally, what is, you know, we talk about this, finally, we talk about intentional living and why is that important? It is so important. That’s another thing that came to me when I was looking at the microscope about being how powerful all of us are and each individual. I was looking at the scope one day and I was looking at my slides, thinking about the cells that I was looking at and how…

Each individual cell is like its own universe. But yet they’re all interconnected and the different cells, different types of cells have different kind of connections, but they interconnect, kind of like they hold hands, right? And individually, they’re their own universe and so powerful and complex, and together they form this whole unified field.

And so I started calling my coaching one high power field because I believe that each of us is a high power field. You are, I am, everyone is a high power field. And also together, we are a high power field. And I could not, I believe from the bottom of my toes with everything in my being that right now on the planet, the…

I believe with everything in my being that right now on the planet, each of us living the most intentional life we can live is our hope for the future. There’s a lot of chaos and destruction happening in our world. And if we can go back to who we truly are and live intentionally and sustainably and vital lives, that…

Is our hope to create a future for future generations. And it’s the most powerful and I think possible thing that we can do. But that takes everybody participating. That takes everybody being interested in it and wanting to do it. There has to be a willingness. And that’s actually a difference.

In thinking culturally, because it’s not being forced. You know, it’s something that people can do by choice.

So I am quite passionate about people living intentional lives and how much we need everyone. It’s the clients that I’ve worked with when part of our work is doing personal mission statements and they’re incredible to listen to people’s mission statements they come up with and they’re so unique and they’re so them, you know? And every time we do a mission statement, it solidifies.

My belief in intentional living and the uniqueness of us all and how important it is for each of us to stand in our power and our knowing and our intuition because it creates this beautiful symphony of hope and creation for the future.

So I think intentional living is critical at this point. And I would love for you to follow along and join in our community because I believe in it so deeply. And I believe that it can be such a gift for your life but also all the people that you love and depend on you.

Yeah, it can be a gift. I believe living intentionally is not just a gift for you, but it’s also for all the people that we love, our families, the people in our homes, everyone in our communities, and then extending into the world too.

So.

I’d love to hear about, share your, share with the moment you felt like.

So come join the Facebook group for Living True by Design. I would love to hear an area of your life that you would like to live more intentionally. If you have made any changes recently in the areas you’re living intentionally, I would love to hear about that. We have a great supportive community and we would love for you to be there.

Create a path and then raise the value of the light.

So I would encourage you this week to maybe take a look at those different areas of your life, of your family, career, finance, spirituality, physical well-being, family, friends, relaxation and recreation and play, fun. Take a look at just maybe pick one area, the one area maybe that feels a little bit more pressing than others and think about some small steps that you might take.

That would put you in alignment with your own deepest values. That’s when we stand in our own power and that’s when we shine. That’s showing up, focusing and shining. And that’s the biggest gift we can be to each other in the world.

And then this is the teaser for the next episode.

In the next episode, I’m going to read this twice. In the next episode, we’ll unravel. In the next episode, we’re going to talk about the art of effective decision making and how it shapes the course of our lives. Get ready to explore practical strategies for making impactful choices and discover the secrets of navigating complex decisions with confidence and ease.

In our next episode, we are gonna look at the, in our next episode, we will be talking about the art of effective decision making.

and how making good decisions can really have a huge impact on our lives, and how making effective decisions can have a huge impact on our lives.

Get ready to explore a lot of, get ready to explore practical strategies.

Get ready to explore practical, get ready to learn. What is it? Explore practical strategies and discover secrets for navigating complex decisions. Discover secrets.

Get ready to explore practical strategies. Get ready to explore practical strategies for making decisions. You know what? I can put this here.

In our next episode, we are going to unravel the art of… In our next episode, we’re going to take a look at the art of effective decision-making. And we’re going to…

In our next episode, we are gonna unravel. In our next episode, we’re gonna talk about the art of effective decision making and how it shapes a course of our lives. Get ready to explore practical strategies for making impactful choices.

And discover secrets for navigating complex decisions with confidence and ease.

Thank you for joining us today. Can’t wait to see you next week. We’ll see you over in the Facebook group, Living True by Design.