{"podcast":{"title":"Create Your Future","slug":"create-your-future-6384356","podcast_index_feed_id":6384356,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/create-your-future","website_url":"http://mandymackowiaklifecoach.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vEPyqfJPtZxTJm3VIavv9W_DVmIZhFsmRgWLNprau54/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNjY0LzE2ODQz/NDUxNjAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"Mandy Mackowiak","episode_count":172,"summary":"Create Your Future is your guide to living your best life, thinking bigger, and becoming your Future Self. Hosted by Mandy Mackowiak — founder of the Athentis app and firm believer that you have the power to design a life you’re obsessed with — each episode delivers powerful insights, inspiration, and actionable tools to help you unlock your potential, achieve your biggest goals, and step fully into your Future Self. If you’re ready to grow, achieve, and align with your highest self, you’re in the right place. This podcast will inspire you to stay motivated, make massive progress, and become the person you’re meant to be. Your future starts now. Let’s dive in and make it happen.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-12T02:17:59.372540+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-your-future-6384356"},"episode":{"title":"You Are Your Best Investment","slug":"you-are-your-best-investment","published_at":"2026-06-26T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-your-future-6384356/you-are-your-best-investment","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-your-future-6384356","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/a91f075c","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/a91f075c/4b64b096.mp3","summary":"Early in my coaching career, I learned a concept that completely shifted my orbit: intentional self-investment . True self-investment isn't a single, massive transaction; it is a daily energetic deposit. Raising your capacity to give to yourself completely revolutionizes how you see yourself, the goals you set, and your willingness to create a life you love living. In this week's episode, we focus on the three core pillars of self-investment that have had the most profound impact on my life and on the lives of my private coaching clients. What We Cover in This Episode: Pillar 1: Growing Your Self-Concept - How we cast \"votes\" for the person we wish to become through our daily beliefs, style and appearance choices, fitness and health habits, and the intentional stretch goals we set. Pillar 2: Strengthening Your Mindset - How to become the active watcher and chooser of your thoughts. We talk about \"thinking bigger,\" shifting into useful, optimistic perspectives, and the non-negotiable value of professional coaching. Pillar 3: Feeding Your Mind & Intellectual Life - Why your identity and your intellect exist in a beautiful, generative ecosystem. I share an update on my own impossible goals—including this podcast, company offerings, and graduating last month with my Master’s Degree in I/O Psychology and Leadership Coaching Certificate—and how setting impossible learning goals reinvents who you are. The Science Behind the ROI - The undeniable research-backed proof of why this works, diving into the behavioral science of enclothed cognition , the neurobiology of neuroplasticity , and how continuous learning builds your self-confidence and invaluable human capital . An Invitation to Your Next-Level Growth: Give yourself more than you are currently used to. Invest in yours…","meta_description":"Early in my coaching career, I learned a concept that completely shifted my orbit: intentional self-investment . True self-investment isn't a single, mass…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":748,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/create-your-future-6384356/episodes/you-are-your-best-investment/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-your-future-6384356/you-are-your-best-investment.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}