Pay Attention
Pay Attention
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As a kick-ass businesswoman turned teacher and spiritual guide, I've faced my own challenges with self-esteem and anxiety. My 20-year journey through neuroscience, psychology, spirituality, and Buddhism inspired me to create the P.E.R.L.O.V.E. Formula—a unique approach that's helped many understand how the mind works, harness the power of Paying Attention, and transform anxiety into a life of peace and fulfillment. In this podcast, I share practical tips and techniques to help you rewrite your stories, break free from old habits, and create space for positive change.
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The podcast focuses on mental well-being, personal growth, and spiritual exploration, with episodes exploring topics such as overcoming trauma, navigating divorce, and achieving high performance. For instance, guests like Dr. Don Wood discuss trauma-informed approaches and strategies for peak performance, while Sara Davison addresses resilience in the face of relationship challenges.
Pay Attention is a podcast dedicated to a journey from the chaos of the mind to the clarity of the open heart. As a seasoned architect turned teacher and spiritual guide, Holly McNeill spent two decades while working full time and as a single mom exploring neuroscience, psychology, Buddhism, and spirituality all to uncover the transformative power of the present moment. Here you’ll find practical tips and insights on how the mind works, why you get stuck, how to break free, how to create space for real change, and what lies beyond the chaos. All here to help you build a life of clarity, peace, and purpose.
In this final guest episode before the summer break of Season 2, Holly McNeill, the Mindfulness Architect, welcomes Austra Putnina — a Latvian-born, Estonia-based podcaster, coach, and multi-passionate seeker of growth.
Together, Holly and Austra explore what it means to pay attention early, to notice the thoughts and patterns that shape us, and to begin moving even before we fully know where we are going.
Austra shares how curiosity, basketball, discipline, resilience, and repeated action helped her transform self-doubt into growth, reminding us that change does not happen overnight, but through small, sustainable steps taken again and again. This conversation is a joyful, heart-opening reminder that we are not stuck.
We do not have to have the whole path figured out. Sometimes the most important thing is simply to get curious, take one small step, and trust that time, practice, and awareness will do the rest.
As Holly and Austra discuss, there is no finish line to becoming — only deeper and deeper layers of clarity, courage, and self-understanding.
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