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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This episode is about one of those nights. The kind where something small—like a missing safe food at dinner—turns into something big. The kind where you and your partner have the same argument you’ve had a dozen times, and afterward, you don’t lik...
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Have you ever reached the end of something big—hosting, moving, launching, caregiving—and instead of feeling relief or joy, you feel... foggy? Flat? Off?
That’s not failure. It’s not brokenness. It’s called the letdown effect, and it’s a real, bio...
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Caring is beautiful…until it becomes a unsustainable. When you tie your worth to outcomes, over-function to prove your value, or spin in fear of being misunderstood, you end up exhausted.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to care differently. Not ...
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You’ve done everything right. The career. The family. The checked boxes. But you still feel… unfulfilled. A little numb. Like something’s missing, and you can’t name what.
In this episode, we explore what happens when high-achieving women realize ...
