The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams and Stevon Lewis: The Phases of Progress

What’s a sustainable pace that you can maintain for any given project? Risa Williams and guest co-host, Stevon Lewis, talk about finding your own unique pace and acceptin

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Making Mistakes - Stephanie Van Schaick

When you make an everyday mistake, do you tend to beat yourself up unnecessarily and for too long afterwards? Do you tend to view yourself overly harshly if you don'

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: DBT Skills for Dating - Dr. Marcus Rodriguez

How can people use dating apps in a more mindful and intentional way? Risa Williams talks with DBT expert Dr. Marcus Rodriguez about how Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: The Cost of Good - Stevon Lewis

We often want to do big and impressive things - but do we ever stop to think about what the cost will be of actually accomplishing those things? Or even all the things we

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Everyday Self Care - Lea Didion

Do you find yourself rushing through self-care activities only to feel just as stressed afterward? Why do so many of us struggle to slow down and truly reconnect with our

The Motivation Mindset: Summer Slow Down - Erica Curtis, Darrin Kagele, Risa Williams

Are summer plans throwing you into a frenzy of rushing around to too many things and places? Summer often gets us fired up to do a lot; however, sometimes in all the plan

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: The Invisible Mental Load - Lori Oberbroeckling

Do you often feel like you're holding up a bunch of spinning plates in the air and if you step back for a second, they will all crash down? Do you feel like you need

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Everyday Life Skills - Katie Kimball

How can we teach kids and teens everyday life skills in ways that actually stick? In this episode, Risa Williams talks with life skills expert Katie Kimball about a simpl

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Tiny Life Tweaks - Jodi Wellman

Do you have that one cluttered desk drawer that's always driving you crazy? Or that old can opener that just doesn't work any more but you keep trying to use it

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Doomscrolling - Dr. Scott Waltman

With the constant onslaught of fear-inducing news coming at us each day, how can we keep ourselves regulated and calm enough to do what we need to do? Risa Williams is jo

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: The Tiny Wins Practice - Ezra Werb, Judy O'Kelley, Kelsey O'Kelley

In this special episode, Risa Williams invites participants from the Tiny Wins Workshop to join her in a conversation about how tracking their small daily wins over four

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: ADHD Inertia - Diann Wingert

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a rut, unable to motivate yourself to take the next step forward? Risa Williams talks with ADHD-ish host Diann Wingert about navigat

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: The Good Enough Zone - Stephanie Van Schaick

Do you ever feel like your work is never quite “good enough,” so you keep pushing yourself until you’re completely burned out? Do perfectionistic tendencies sometimes mak

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Managing Everyday Fears - Dr. Mary Poffenroth

How can we learn to better navigate and manage the fears that arise in everyday life? Risa Williams speaks with fear expert, biopsychologist, TED Talk speaker, and author

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams - Communication Skills for Couples - Dr. Marcus Rodriguez

Where do couples tend to get stuck and bogged down in their daily communication with each other? How do we fall into the trap of criticizing and nagging when we actually

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: The Rescuer Trap - Dr. Scott Waltman

Do you tend to fall into the role of "rescuer" in your relationships? Or are you the one who tends to need the rescuing? Risa Williams talks to Dr. Scott Waltman about th

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams - Tiny Wins Workshop

In this special episode of The Motivation Mindset, Risa shares a tiny sample of her new online workshop, The Tiny Wins Workshop, which is live today!  What if making pro

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams, Erica Curtis & Darrin Kagele: New Tools for the New Year

Happy 2026, everyone! If you're listening to this episode, you made it to the new year, and that's a wonderful thing! Risa Williams talks to fellow therapists,

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams - Validation - Dr. Marcus Rodriguez

When someone's behavior or emotional state is bothering us, how do we take a pause and validate what they are feeling without judgement? This can be tricky to do! Dr

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams - Holiday Time Tools - Jenny Layton

Every so often, Risa Williams runs into someone on the show who has a tool that is very aligned with one of her own! This was the case in this episode, Holiday Time Tools