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Choose Better Thoughts Podcast

The Choose Better Thoughts Podcast

Join Amanda Doyle, Certified Life and Leadership Coach, as she helps high-achieving moms break free from stress, overthinking, and perfectionism so they can finally experience more confidence, ease, and control at work, at home, and with themselves.

Each episode blends brain science, real life coaching, and practical mindset shifts to help you feel more in control of your time, be more present in your relationships, experience more peace in your mind.

Because when you change the way you think, everything else follows.

Listen on Apple, Spotify, and Android.

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Episode 28: The Second Sentence Is the Suffering
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Episode 28: The Second Sentence Is the Suffering clean and dirty pain Nov 06, 2025

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Pain is part of life; extra suffering is often a story we add. The first sentence is the fact—boring, security-camera neutral. The second sentence is our swift conclusion: “This means I’m behind…they don’t respect me…I always mess this up.” That ad...

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Episode 27: When Your Body Says “No More Bulldozing”
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Episode 27: When Your Body Says “No More Bulldozing” letdown effect Oct 28, 2025

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You push through the launch, the big meeting, the recital—and then comes the strange, heavy quiet. Instead of relief, your body serves up flatness, irritability, or a fog you can’t shake. Nothing’s wrong with you; that’s your nervous system landing...

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Episode 26: Releasing Control Without Becoming a Doormat
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Episode 26: Releasing Control Without Becoming a Doormat boundaries Oct 28, 2025

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If you’ve ever caught yourself silently grading a partner, colleague, or co-parent on how well they follow your unwritten rules, you’re not alone. We call it “the manual”—that invisible rulebook that promises safety but delivers resentment and exha...

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Episode 25: Bounce House Balls & Better Thoughts
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Episode 25: Bounce House Balls & Better Thoughts self-coaching model Oct 03, 2025

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In this episode, Amanda turns a big idea into an easy mental game: your thought creates your result. We walk through three everyday moments, hosting with bounce‑house balls and mysterious house piles, over‑prepping for a client, and late‑night whea...

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Episode 24: Too Fast, Too Slow: Making Peace with Time
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Episode 24: Too Fast, Too Slow: Making Peace with Time grief impatience time Sep 26, 2025

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Today’s episode is about that strange paradox we all feel at some point: wanting time to slow down and speed up all at once. This morning, as I dropped off my youngest for her very first day of kindergarten, I felt both: the grief of how quickly sh...

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Episode 23: Leadership Without Urgency and Grace Without Guilt
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Episode 23: Leadership Without Urgency and Grace Without Guilt grace leadership Aug 19, 2025

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Most women are trying to move through their mornings and evenings with the same expectations, the same mindset, and the same energy, and it’s exhausting. Your body, brain, and emotional capacity are different at the start and end of the day. And yo...

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Episode 22: Escaping the Trap You Didn’t Know You Built
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Episode 22: Escaping the Trap You Didn’t Know You Built people-pleasing perfectionism trapped feeling Aug 11, 2025

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When you were deep in people-pleasing and perfectionism, the urge was to control. You controlled your tone, your timing, your calendar, your image. You got good at managing how others experienced you. And for a while, it worked. But once you stop p...

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Episode 21: Your Brain Is a Puppy: Give It a Chew Toy
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Episode 21: Your Brain Is a Puppy: Give It a Chew Toy vacuum effect Aug 04, 2025

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You cleared the calendar. You created white space on purpose, but now your brain is filling that space with worry, busywork, or impulse clicks—and you’re wondering why rest feels so weird.

In this episode, I share what’s really going on when we fe...

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Episode 20: When “I Should” Stops Working
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Episode 20: When “I Should” Stops Working goal-setting self-identity Jul 28, 2025

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If you're tired of using pressure and guilt to drive your goals, this episode is for you. I'm sharing a simple mindset shift, one that helped me go from “I should” to “what if I already was,” and how it completely changed the way I relate to my goa...

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Episode 19: Amazon Returns and Emotional Avoidance
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Episode 19: Amazon Returns and Emotional Avoidance emotional avoidance procrastination Jul 21, 2025

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This episode starts with a return you’ve been avoiding and ends with a different way of seeing yourself. We’re exploring why small tasks feel emotionally loaded, what your brain is really doing when you procrastinate, and how the patterns you reinf...

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Episode 18: The Power of Naming Your Mom Modes
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Episode 18: The Power of Naming Your Mom Modes mom archetypes self-awareness Jul 15, 2025

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You are not one version of yourself. You’re a whole cast of characters, each one with her own wisdom, energy, and role to play.

In this episode, we explore the power of naming your mom archetypes and choosing, on purpose, who leads throughout your...

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Episode 17: The Pressure Triangle
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Episode 17: The Pressure Triangle burnout priorities Jul 08, 2025

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You can’t prioritize everything at once, and that’s not a failure, it’s life.

In this episode, I share a practical tool for letting go of guilt when life feels stretched too thin. Inspired by a simple triangle framework, high-quality, efficient, a...

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