What if your to-do list is actually holding you back from the life you really want? 📝💀

In this powerful and playful episode, bestselling author + behavioral change expert and VIP Karen Salmansohn joins Rachael to explore how mortality awareness can help high-achieving leaders pause, realign, and make bold, values-driven moves — before life forces the pivot.

Here’s what’s inside:
✨ A guided "Stop & Swap" Pause to reset in real-time
💡 How writing your own eulogy can clarify your values and next steps
🔁 Bridge habits that help you close the gap between your current life and your to-die-for life
🧠 The hidden flaw in every to-do list (and how to rethink it)

👉 Learn the 3-D Marble Mortality Method (It's powerful!)
🧭 The 7 core values Karen uses to design a more intentional life
🧱 Identity-based habits for sustainable change
🎭 Frank Sinatra, Aristotle, and… terror management theory?!
💔 Supportive tools for navigating #grief and major life transitions

This one’s for you if you’re:

→ Overthinking what comes next

→ Feeling stuck in "someday" mode

→ Ready for more clarity and connection to what really matters

🎧 Tune in now and give yourself the gift of perspective + possibility

Why you need to know Karen - she's quite incredible

Karen Salmansohn is a multi-bestselling author and leading Behavioral Change Expert with over 2 million books and online courses sold – plus the creative force behind the popular personal development website ⁠NotSalmon.com⁠. Her career began in New York’s top ad agencies (remember the Crossan'wich - thats her), leading her to a successful transition as a thought leader in personal development. She's been blessed by Madonna, talked on the TEDx stage, and is a very funny woman we all need to know.

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