What You're Craving with Molly Carmel
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What You're Craving with Molly Carmel
Welcome to The Daily Ascent. I'm Molly Carmel — and this is the podcast I always wished existed: a bite-sized, on-the-ground spiritual note that can shift your thinking and your outlook on life. Because sometimes, that's all it takes — a small shift in what we choose to believe — to make the day a l...
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Ep. 195 | How to Trust Yourself When Fear Won't Stop Arguing
In November I'm going to Bhutan, the one place that's topped my bucket list for years, where my singing bowls come from.
When the trip walked i...
Ep. 194 | [FAVORITE] When Compassion Becomes Too Costly
One of my closest friends has the biggest heart I have ever encountered. And it was hurting her.
She'd done the healing work after a painful re...
Ep. 193 | Why You Keep Rethinking a Decision You Already Made
After my episode on making hard decisions, a listener wrote in with the other half of the question: what do you do when you've already decided, but yo...
Ep. 192 | [FAVORITE] Why Casual Indifference Is Costing You the Life You Want
A friend read me one line from a Substack and I felt completely exposed. "Casual indifference protects you from joy."
This episode is about the...
Ep. 191 | What If You Just Thought Bigger?
My friend Eileen and I were making a very practical, very sensible plan for our trip to Nepal — and then I heard something a teacher of mine says abou...
Ep. 190 | Why "I Can Do It Myself" Is Keeping You Stuck
A woman said a sentence to me on a call last week, and it's the one I hear more than any other: "I think I can probably do this myself." She'd spent d...
Ep. 189 | [FAVORITE] Finding the Glimmers
The world was feeling heavy. My nervous system was doing what nervous systems do.
And then I looked out the window and saw Danny, flat on his b...
Ep. 188 | The Real Reason You Keep Score With the People You Love
I'm staying with friends whose older dog resource guards. We kept the food and toys put away, and he was still growling at my dog over nothing.
...
Ep. 187 |[FAVORITE] Balance Isn't Selfish
I spent five days with my godkids, which I love. And I came home steady, present, and not crashed. That had never happened before.
The differenc...
Ep. 186 | Why You Can't Get Good at Love by Waiting for the Right Person
I hadn't been on a date in seven months, and those were good months. I wasn't hiding, I just wasn't called to it. Then, packing for a few weeks in the...
Ep. 185 | Why You Remember Yourself as Less Loved Than You Were
For years I've told the same story about the three years I lived in Charlotte. Beautiful chapter, met my spiritual advisor, never really made friends,...
Ep. 184 | [FAVORITE] Honor the Body
This one is personal. I've struggled with eating disorders my whole life, and for a long time, my body and I were not friends.
A hip injury, a...
Ep. 183 | What to Do When Someone You've Put on a Pedestal Disappoints You
My teacher said something at the end of the retreat that knocked me sideways. What I wasn't expecting was what came out of me when it did. This episod...
Ep. 182 | [FAVORITE] How to Make a Decision When You Don't Know What's Right
I was watching Shrinking when Harrison Ford's character stopped me cold. One line. I paused the show and said out loud: that's the episode.
If y...
Ep. 181 | What I Told My Coach That Changed Everything About Social Media
My social media coach kept saying she couldn't guarantee results. After the third time, I stopped her and said she never had to say that to me again....
Ep. 180 | If You Believe in Toxic Energy, You Already Believe in Prayer
At a spiritual retreat this week, someone asked my teacher if she believed in the power of prayer. She didn't answer. She turned the question around:...
Ep. 179 | Why Unsolicited Advice Isn't Kindness (Even When It Comes From a Good Place)
I was on a spiritual retreat in Lourdes when a woman in my small group started doing unsolicited therapy on me. She was kind. She was well-meaning. An...
Ep. 178 | [FAVORITE] It's All Happening for a Reason" (and Other Things That Need a Second Look)
This one is a crowd favorite, and it might ruffle some feathers. I'm taking a hard look at one of the most overused phrases in spirituality, "everythi...
Ep. 177 | What 27 Strangers on Labor Day Weekend Taught Me About Belonging
My friend threw me a welcome party when I moved to Connecticut. It was Labor Day weekend, and genuinely thought nobody would come. Twenty-seven women...
Ep. 176 | [FAVORITE] The 15-Year-Old Who Taught Me the Hardest Spiritual Lesson
This one is a crowd favorite, and honestly, I think you'll see why. My goddaughter was 15. One dinner-table moment and I was catapulted straight out o...
Ep. 175 | How to Actually Leave Something Behind (Not Just Say You Will)
A client of mine had a really hard year. When she told me she was heading out on a hiking trip to celebrate making it through, I told her to give it t...
Ep. 174 | Why Stepping Back Was the Most Sacred Thing I Did in Lourdes
I went to Lourdes with a plan. I was going to do the bathing ritual. I was going to get dunked in the sacred water and it was going to be transcendent...
Ep. 173 | You Said a Sacred Yes (Even When You Want to Take It Back)
When I arrived in Lourdes for an eight-day spiritual retreat, my first thought was: I made a terrible mistake. This happens to me every single time I...
Ep. 172 | Why "I'll Try My Best" Is Holding You Back
A coaching client said something to me recently that I have heard a hundred times in a hundred rooms, and I finally want to say out loud what it actua...
Ep. 171 | The Smallest Way to Build a Self You Can Trust
I used to tell myself I was going to put away the laundry before I went to sleep. And I knew, even as I was saying it, that I wasn't going to. That sm...
Ep. 170 | You Don't Have to Keep the First Thought You Have
I was on my way to Lourdes, sitting next to a man who coughed the entire flight, and I was catastrophizing at altitude in a way that was decidedly not...
Ep. 169 | What Happened When I Finally Asked to Be Held
The night before I left for Lourdes, I was depleted in a way I hadn't fully admitted to myself. I went to my women's circle and I did something I don'...
Ep. 168 | Why Asking for Help Feels So Hard - And What Changes When You Do It Anyway
I did something recently that was genuinely hard for me — not complicated, just vulnerable. I needed to ask about ten people for something, and every...
Ep. 167 | The Difference Between What You Fear and What You Know
Last week I sat in coaching session after coaching session hearing people make declarations about their lives with complete certainty — certainty that...
Ep. 166 | Why You Can't Speed Up the Things That Actually Matter
I have been saying the same thing to people for twenty-five years — in treatment rooms, on retreats, seventeen miles deep in the forest with someone w...
Ep. 165 | Why You Can't Stop Once You Start (It's Not What You Think)
Last week Danny, my seventy-five-pound lab mix, accidentally ran a little experiment for me. I had been giving him these yak milk bones and then takin...
Ep. 164 | Why You Don't Need a New Hobby, You Need a Relationship with Downtime
In today's episode, I'm sharing a conversation I had with my best friend during her surgery recovery week, when the house unexpectedly went quiet and...
Ep. 163 | The Quiet Grief of a Friendship That Ended
In today's episode, I'm sharing something I have been carrying for a long time and have not really known how to talk about, the loss of a friendship t...
Ep. 162 | Why You Should Follow the Inner Nudge Even When It Makes No Sense
In today's episode, I'm sharing the trip I almost didn't take, the inner voice that told me I had to go anyway, and what was actually waiting for me o...
Ep. 161 | How to Build the Kind of Community That Shows Up When You Need It
In today's episode, I'm sharing what I noticed while I was with my best friend the week after her major surgery, and the moment when one of our friend...
Ep. 160 | Why Unsolicited Advice Hurts Even When It Comes From Love
In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened the day my calmest friend in the world finally yelled, after the accumulated weight of all the well-mean...
Ep. 159 | The Pattern That Hits Right After You Make a Big Decision
In today's episode, I'm sharing the call I made to my spiritual advisor twelve hours after I drove my new car off the lot, the way she gently laughed...
Ep. 158 | How to Choose Freedom Over Being Right When Someone Has Hurt You
In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened the day a recruiter called for a reference on the assistant who'd stolen from me and refused to talk to...
Ep. 157 | How to Look Honestly at a Hard Chapter Without Flogging Yourself for It
In today's episode, I'm sharing something I've never talked about on the show, what happened with my last assistant, and the deep inventory work I was...
Ep. 156 | How to Give Yourself the Runway to Find Your Flow
In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened when I heard a wildly successful comedian say something so honest about his early days that it made me t...