#30: Creative Confidence & Joy: How To Bring More Fun Into Your Flow Direct Your Life podcast

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This episode is a reflection I needed to record—not just for you, but for me. I noticed how missing just a couple episodes turned into a long stretch without any—and that broke a promise I made to myself. In this one, I talk about overchunking—how breaking things down too much can lead to not doing them at all . I share how I’m using snack bribery, shifting my environment, and creating a “Must Plan” around blocked outcomes to rebuild consistency. It’s not about doing everything. It’s about picking the next move and making it matter—even if it’s messy. Here’s what I get into: – Why overchunking can paralyze progress – How I caught myself in a momentum slump – Snack bribery: yes, it works – Blocking outcomes before building a plan – What to do when you’ve broken your own promise 🎯 Question for you: What helps you stay on track? What do you bribe yourself with when motivation fades? Leave a comment on YouTube, DM me, or share this with someone who’s in the same boat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation 🎯 Try My Free Weekly Newsletter 🧠 Join Our Mastermind Community : Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group 📺 YouTube: @TonySuriano 📸 Instagram: @TonySuriano 📘 Facebook: @TonySuriano 🌐 To book me for speaking, coaching, or creative directing, visit: TonySuriano.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don’t forget to subscribe, comment, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! 📝 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Direct Your Life on Apple…

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#33: Avoid the Blowfish Brain: How to Stop Stress Fast 16:12

21 days ago16:12

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In this BRAIN episode, I break down 3 essential ways to avoid an amygdala hijack—aka when your brain flips into survival mode and you react with fear, anger, or anxiety. You’ll learn how to: ✔ Recognize the moment your “Old Brain” takes over ✔ Rewire your response using awareness and breath ✔ Reframe the situation to stay calm and in control Whether it’s a tense conversation, a bad audition, or life just throwing chaos your way—these simple mindset tools will help you stay grounded, clear-headed, and fully in the director’s chair of your life. 🧠 If you’ve ever regretted how you reacted in the moment, this one’s for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: 🎯 Try My Free Weekly Newsletter 🧠 Join Our Mastermind Community : Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group 📺 YouTube: @TonySuriano 📸 Instagram: @TonySuriano 📘 Facebook: @TonySuriano 🌐 Book Tony for speaking, coaching, or creative directing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don’t forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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#34: The Cost of Speed — Choose the Journey, Not the Crash 7:09

21 days ago7:09

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What’s the point of getting there if you ruin the ride—or worse, hurt someone along the way? In this episode, I’m talking about something that hits close to home: the dangers of rushing through life. Whether you’re flying down the freeway or speeding toward your next goal, you risk missing what matters most. And sometimes, that rush leads to real setbacks—accidents, burnout, even regret. This episode is a reminder to slow down, take in the view, and trust the timing of your life. Don’t let impatience rob you of presence. Let’s talk about the power of the pause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: 🎯 Try My Free Weekly Newsletter 🧠 Join Our Mastermind Community : Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group 📺 YouTube: @TonySuriano 📸 Instagram: @TonySuriano 📘 Facebook: @TonySuriano 🌐 To book Tony for speaking, coaching, or creative directing, visit: TonySuriano.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don’t forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! 👉 Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts Thank you for tuning in! —Tony Suriano…

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#32: Sharpen Your Saw in the Wild: Walking with Purpose 17:05

6 weeks ago17:05

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Ever feel like you’re grinding through life without remembering why you started? In this impromptu episode, I take you along on a walk through the forest where I’m staying—and drop into the kind of reflection we all need more of. Inspired by Stephen Covey’s habit “Begin with the End in Mind,” I talk about: – Why “keeping the end in mind” changes how we move through burnout – What I’m personally fighting for right now – Why retreat isn’t weakness—it’s a strategy – How I’m sharpening my own saw to re-enter with purpose If you’ve been pushing hard and need a breath of clarity, join me on this walk. Let it remind you of what’s worth it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: 🎯 Try My Free Weekly Newsletter 🧠 Join Our Mastermind Community : Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group 📺 YouTube: @TonySuriano 📸 Instagram: @TonySuriano 📘 Facebook: @TonySuriano 🌐 To book Tony for speaking, coaching, or creative directing, visit: TonySuriano.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don’t forget to comment, leave a review/rate , and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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#31: How To Get Motivated - Direct Your life 13:53

10 weeks ago13:53

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Struggling to stay motivated? This episode of Direct Your Life is your spark to get moving again—with purpose. 🎯 We’re talking about how to tap into motivation even when you feel off, stuck, or unsure of your next step. I revisit a powerful framework that reconnects you to your why , your vision , and your worth . Because the truth is: you deserve to grow and expand—but first, you need to remember what you’re aiming for. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: 🎯 Try My Free Weekly Newsletter 🧠 Join Our Mastermind Community : Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group 📺 YouTube: @TonySuriano 📸 Instagram: @TonySuriano 📘 Facebook: @TonySuriano 🌐 To book Tony for speaking, coaching, or creative directing, visit: TonySuriano.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don’t forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thanks for tuning in, —Tony Suriano…

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#30: Creative Confidence & Joy: How to Bring More Fun Into Your Flow 10:08

12 weeks ago10:08

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In this inspiring episode of Direct Your Life , Tony Suriano delves into the transformative power of creative confidence and the pursuit of joy. Discover how embracing your creative instincts can lead to a more fulfilled and purposeful life. Key Takeaways: The importance of nurturing creative confidence Strategies to overcome self-doubt and fear Aligning your passions with your purpose Real-life stories of individuals who have reignited their creative spark Whether you’re an artist, entrepreneur, or someone seeking a more joyful existence, this episode offers actionable insights to help you tap into your creative potential and live with intention. 👉 Follow for more motivation: 👉 Follow for more motivation: 🎯 Try My Free Weekly Newsletter 🧠 Join Our Mastermind Community : Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group 📺 YouTube: @TonySuriano 📸 Instagram: @TonySuriano 📘 Facebook: @TonySuriano 🌐 To book Tony for speaking, coaching, or creative directing, visit: TonySuriano.com ⭐️ Don’t forget to comment, leave a review/rate , and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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#29: Focus. Meaning. Action. – How to Get Back on Track When Life Feels Off 16:29

13 weeks ago16:29

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In this episode, I break down the three pillars that shape your day—and ultimately your life: What you focus on, what meaning you give it, and what action you take. I share a recent moment in the sauna that caught me off guard (yes, it applies to your mindset too), a conversation that changed how I approach hard days, and a quick but powerful health tip to keep your energy aligned with your goals. If you’ve been feeling off, out of rhythm, or just need a reset—you’ll want to hear this one. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: 🎯 Try My Free Weekly Newsletter 🧠 Join Our Mastermind Community — Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group 📺 YouTube: @TonySuriano 📸 Instagram: @TonySuriano 📘 Facebook: @TonySuriano 🌐 Stop By My Website — Book Tony for speaking, coaching, or creative directing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don’t forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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#28: The “G” Word: Why Giving Up Isn’t an Option (And What To Do Instead) 14:35

14 weeks ago14:35

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I’ll be direct—I was this close to giving up LAST NIGHT. But instead, I paused, shifted, and realized that most of us never build fun or basic common sense into our plans and we ca burn out quick. This episode is your reminder to rework your checklist—not just with tasks, but with joy, sanity, and real-life strategy. We’ll cover: What to do when you feel like quitting The unexpected power of adding “fun” to your to-do list How to rebuild momentum when life drains your creative spark ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: 🎯 Try My Free Weekly Newsletter 🧠 Join Our Mastermind Community 📺 YouTube: @TonySuriano 📸 Instagram: @TonySuriano 📘 Facebook: @TonySuriano 🌐 To book Tony for speaking, coaching, or creative directing, visit: TonySuriano.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don’t forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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#27: Reframe Your Life with Better Questions 17:03

14 weeks ago17:03

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In this unscripted walk-and-talk episode, I dive into a simple truth most people miss: your life is shaped by the questions you ask. I explore how reframing moments, tracking what matters, and shifting the meaning you assign to experiences can radically change your direction. We touch on presence, patterns, and why so many people feel stuck—not because they don’t have answers, but because they’re asking the wrong things. This episode is raw, real, and recorded right near the train tracks… because sometimes clarity comes in motion. If you want to feel more grounded, more focused, and more in charge of your next step—start here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: Try My Free Weekly Newsletter Join Our Mastermind Community : Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group YouTube: @TonySuriano Instagram: @TonySuriano Facebook: @TonySuriano ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don’t forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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#26: Go. Play. Why Most People Watch Life Instead of Playing It 10:43

16 weeks ago10:43

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We were born to play , but somewhere along the way, many of us got stuck watching . In this powerful episode of Direct Your Life, I share about how it's so easy to zone out, eat the bread, and watch the circus… and how that mirrors a deeper problem in society: most people have the energy to participate, but instead, they spectate. If you’ve ever felt like you’re on the sidelines of your own life—this one’s for you. Discover how to reignite that childlike spirit, shake off the fear, and get back in the game . 🎯 Real talk. 🎬 Real stories. 🔥 Real action. Go. Play. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: Try My Free Weekly Newsletter Join Our Mastermind Community: Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group YouTube: @TonySuriano Instagram: @TonySuriano Facebook: @TonySuriano ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don't forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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#25: How to Keep Pushing When You’re Broke, Tired, and Talented as Hell 12:02

17 weeks ago12:02

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Most creatives—at some point—hit that “oh crap, I have no money” phase. I’ve been there. Rent was due, money was tight, and the dream felt miles away. I didn’t want to take a temp job because it felt like giving up. But eventually, I took a valet parking gig… which led to a concierge role… and that unexpected detour gave me the creative space I needed to finish a feature film script. That script helped me gain momentum—and got me back into full-time creative work. In this episode, I share: • The exact mindset shift that helped me say yes to a job I didn’t want • Why short-term “bridge jobs” aren’t selling out—they’re strategic • How to keep your momentum when life tries to knock the dream out of you 🎬 Whether you’re an artist, entrepreneur, or just in transition—this one’s for you. 💥 Challenge included at the end to help you take grounded action without giving up on your big vision. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: Try My Free Weekly Newsletter Join Our Mastermind Community: Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group YouTube: @TonySuriano Instagram: @TonySuriano Facebook: @TonySuriano ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don't forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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Skip the Small Talk: The Hidden Cost of Surface-Level Living 11:35

18 weeks ago11:35

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We’re diving deep this week—past the small talk, into the heart of what makes life meaningful. In this episode, I explore why so many people avoid deeper conversations, how it’s tied to fear, insecurity, and ego—and how it might be stealing your happiness. Plus, I’ll share simple ways to unlock real connection, one conversation at a time. And yes—we’re talking about one of the biggest regrets people have before they die… Start living a life worth capturing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: Try My Free Weekly Newsletter Join Our Mastermind Community: Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group YouTube: @TonySuriano Instagram: @TonySuriano Facebook: @TonySuriano ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don't forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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Don’t Cry Over Spilled Mi—Saffron! How to Embrace Feedback and Act Now 13:12

19 weeks ago13:12

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Ever caught yourself crying over spilled mi—uh, saffron? Life’s too short (and saffron’s too expensive) for that! In this episode, we dive into the power of putting yourself in growth environments, a little saffron story about potential overwhelm or not , and embracing positive feedback without defensiveness. It’s not about reacting to life—it’s about directing it. If you’re ready to shift from knee-jerk reactions to proactive moves that shape your future, this one’s for you! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: Try My Free Weekly Newsletter Join Our Mastermind Community: Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group Subscribe On YouTube: @TonySuriano Instagram: @TonySuriano Facebook: @TonySuriano ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don't forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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Are You an NPC? Plus, The Lost Art of Thinking & Slowing Down 16:35

19 weeks ago16:35

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Ever feel like you’re just going through the motions—stuck in the same conversations, the same routines, the same predictable responses? You might be slipping into NPC mode (Non-Player Character behavior), and it’s time to break free. In this episode, I dive into: 🎮 How to spot and escape the NPC autopilot trap 🌸 Why you need to stop and actually smell the flowers (seriously) 🧠 The lost art of thinking, daydreaming, and staring out the window like a creative genius It’s time to rewrite the script and take back control. Listen in and let’s wake up together. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Follow for more motivation: Try My Free Weekly Newsletter Join Our Mastermind Community: Monthly LIVE Coaching & Private Group YouTube: @TonySuriano Instagram: @TonySuriano Facebook: @TonySuriano ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ Don't forget to comment, leave a review/rate, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it! Thank you for tuning in! Tony Suriano…

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How To Avoid Burnout: A Wild Ride and 3 Tools To Stay Energized 18:49

20 weeks ago18:49