TheUPside Podcast

Welcome to TheUPside Podcast! TheUPside Podcast is where we help you get unstuck in your life and business by provoking meaningful change from the inside out. 🌟 Join host Theresa Flood as we dive into mindset, success, productivity, and leadership strategies designed to inspire and empower you. In each short value packed episode, you’ll discover actionable insights, real-life stories, and expert advice to fuel your growth and help you create the life and business you truly want. ✅ Topics include: *Overcoming burnout and staying motivated *Balancing career and family *Time management and achieving goals *Leadership, team building, and creating momentum *Finding purpose and breaking through limits Subscribe now to start transforming your life and business — one decision, one action, and one day at a time. When you invest in your growth every day, it will yield great returns. #TheUPside #GetUnstuck #GrowthMindset #Leadershi

TheUPside Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Theresa Flood, with 80 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Theresa Flood hosts TheUPside Podcast, a education show with 80 episodes published.

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  The Upside of Hard Times: Six Things Every Challenge Is Trying to Give You

  Aug 18, 202611 min

  Challenges are usually treated as something to avoid, survive, or get past as quickly as possible. In this episode, Theresa Flood makes the case that hard times are not just obstacles. They are opportunities in disguise, and learning to see them that way can change the entire trajectory of a season. Theresa walks through six specific things that challenges have the power to build in us: resilience, personal growth, confidence, problem solving, adaptability, and stronger relationships. She shares a personal story about giving herself an unapologetic three hour pity party, talks about the difference between a bad moment and a bad day, and explains why courage always comes before confidence rather than the other way around. This episode is for anyone currently in a hard season who is tempted to just white knuckle their way through it. Instead of rushing past the pain, Theresa offers a different question to ask: what is this challenge trying to give me? Listen in for a mindset shift that can turn your hardest moments into your greatest growth.

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  The Multitasking Myth: Why Doing Two Things at Once Is Costing You Everything

  Aug 11, 20267 min

  For years, Theresa Flood believed multitasking was one of her greatest strengths. In this episode, she breaks down why that belief was wrong, and why it is wrong for most of us. Pulling from a Stanford University study that separated self identified high skill multitaskers from low skill multitaskers, Theresa unpacks a surprising finding: the group that considered themselves great at multitasking actually performed worse across the board. What we call multitasking is really activity switching, and the cost is steep. Research shows we lose nearly 28 percent of our day simply moving between tasks, and that switching leaves us with unfinished projects, distorted time estimates, more mistakes, and higher stress. Theresa introduces the concept of flow, the state where focus deepens and time seems to disappear, and lays out the three conditions required to get there: a task that challenges you without overwhelming you, a clear goal, and uninterrupted time. She challenges listeners to pick one task this week, remove the distractions, and protect real focused time to experience the difference for themselves. This episode is a practical reset for anyone who has ever worn multitasking as a badge of honor and wants to trade it in for real productivity and less stress.

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  You Can't Hold Anyone Accountable: What Great Coaches Know About Leadership: An Interview with Dick Licare

  Jul 28, 202647 min

  What does coaching high school basketball for nearly 30 years have to do with leading a top performing real estate office? More than you might think. In this episode, Theresa sits down with Dick Licare, owner of four Keller Williams offices and one of the most respected leaders in the company, for a conversation about what great leadership actually looks like up close. Dick brings a perspective that is equal parts old school and timeless, shaped by decades of coaching, building teams, and learning from the people around him. They talk about why talent demands talent, what it really means to hold people accountable, and why the shift from setting goals to making commitments changes everything. Dick shares how the 12 Week Year and the Four Disciplines of Execution transformed the way he coaches people, why he stopped thinking he could hold anyone accountable and what he does instead, and the one piece of advice that has stayed with him through every season of life and leadership. This is a warm, honest and genuinely fun conversation between two leaders who have known each other for over two decades. The Boston accent is a bonus. Subscribe at theresaflood.com to get new episodes every week.

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  What Theater Taught Me About Rejection, Confidence, and Showing Up: An Interview with Jillian Flood

  Jul 21, 202627 min

  What if some of the best lessons on rejection, confidence, competition and showing up came from a teenager who has spent five years on stage? In this episode, Theresa sits down with her daughter Jillian Flood, a high school freshman and passionate theater kid who has racked up roles from Charlie in Willy Wonka Jr. to Uncle Fester in the Addams Family, and has learned a whole lot about life along the way. Jillian shares what it really feels like to audition for a role you want and not get it, how she learned to love the part she was given instead, and why competition does not have to be the enemy of connection. She talks about what it takes to build real confidence on stage and off, why feedback is something to lean into rather than run from, and the biggest lesson five years of theater has taught her about not letting anyone put you in a box. This conversation is warm, funny and surprisingly deep. Whether you have a kid in theater, you are the adult who is too afraid to audition for the next big thing in your own life, or you just need a reminder to stop playing small, this episode is going to leave you smiling and thinking. Subscribe at theresaflood.com to get new episodes every week.

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  The Flywheel Effect: How Small Consistent Actions Build Unstoppable Momentum

  Jul 14, 20269 min

  You do not have a knowledge gap. You have an action gap. In this solo episode, Theresa Flood gets honest about one of the most common traps that learning based people fall into: consuming information constantly while doing very little with it. If you have ever felt busy growing but not actually moving, this episode is going to challenge you in the best way. Theresa breaks down why learning and doing are two sides of the same coin, why confidence never comes before action, and how the small consistent steps you take every day are what actually build momentum over time. She shares the GPS principle for when you cannot see the full roadmap, the flywheel concept from Jim Collins and how it applies to your goals, and why inaction does not just result from fear, it actually creates it. This is not a complicated episode. It is a direct, honest conversation about the one thing that separates people who grow from people who just know a lot. You already have enough knowledge to change your results. The question is what you are going to do with it today. Subscribe at theresaflood.com to receive the free weekly teaching guide every Thursday.

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