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TheUPside Podcast
Hosted by Theresa Flood · EN
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
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The Multitasking Myth: Why Doing Two Things at Once Is Costing You Everything
3d ago00:07:21Summary readyFor 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.
SummaryStop Blaming Your Willpower. Start Managing Your Energy
1w ago00:08:45Summary readyHave you ever felt like a failure because you cannot seem to say no to what is not serving you? In this episode of TheUpside, Theresa Flood breaks down the real reason willpower feels so unreliable, and it is not what you think. Drawing from the bestselling book The One Thing by Jay Papasan and Gary Keller, Theresa unpacks the famous marshmallow experiment and what it revealed about delayed gratification and long term success. She also shares research on how mental fatigue affects decision making, including a striking study on Israeli parole board judges that shows how much more often parole was granted earlier in the day than at the end. Theresa explains that willpower works like a phone battery. It drains throughout the day, but it is also renewable if you learn to manage it well. She walks through practical steps for auditing your own energy, including how to identify your peak focus times, protect your highest energy hours for your most demanding work, and set yourself up in advance for the moments when your willpower is running low. This episode is a reminder that discipline is not about being a stronger person. It is about being a smarter planner.
SummaryYou Can't Hold Anyone Accountable: What Great Coaches Know About Leadership: An Interview with Dick Licare
2w ago00:46:52Summary readyWhat 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.
SummaryWhat Theater Taught Me About Rejection, Confidence, and Showing Up: An Interview with Jillian Flood
3w ago00:26:38Summary readyWhat 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.
SummaryThe Flywheel Effect: How Small Consistent Actions Build Unstoppable Momentum
Jul 1400:09:20Summary readyYou 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.
SummaryThe Hidden Cost of Complacency: An Interview with Linda McKissack
Jul 700:50:05Summary readyLinda McKissack has been in real estate for forty years, but her story does not start with success. It starts with a $600,000 loss, a failing business and a marriage under more pressure than either she or her husband Jimmy had ever faced.In this episode, Theresa sits down with Linda, a former mega agent, two region owner within Keller Williams, market center owner and bestselling author, to talk about what it actually takes to build wealth and lead well under pressure. Linda shares how that early financial crisis pushed her into real estate, how a chance connection with Gary Keller changed the trajectory of her business, and the mindset shift that took her from chasing cash flow to building real wealth.The conversation covers Linda's belief that pressure is often the very thing that forces growth, why she has learned to always ask who knows how to do something rather than trying to figure it out alone, and how fierce conversations have shaped her as a leader. She also opens up about complacency, the difference between burnout and boredom, and the simple shift that helped her move from a 2x mindset to a 10x one.Listeners will walk away with practical wisdom on leadership, relationships and wealth building from someone who has lived every part of the journey she now teaches.
SummaryThe Halftime Huddle: What Your Midyear Scoreboard Is Telling You and What to Do About It
Jun 3000:13:47Summary readyWe are halfway through 2026, which means it is time to stop and do an honest assessment of where you actually are versus where you said you wanted to be.In this episode, Theresa walks you through what she calls the Halftime Huddle, a practical and honest reflection process for the midpoint of the year. Whether you are crushing it and want to build more momentum, or you are behind and wondering if it is too late to turn things around, this episode is for you.Theresa breaks down why winners use halftime to make adjustments and not excuses, how to interrogate your scoreboard beyond just the big numbers, and why the most important shift you make in the second half probably only needs to be one thing.You will walk away with a clear set of reflection questions to take into your own halftime huddle, and a renewed sense that no matter where the scoreboard sits right now, you still have time to affect how this year ends.The second half of 2026 starts now. You have not run out of time. You have got this.Subscribe at theresaflood.com to receive the free teaching guide with all the reflection questions from this episode.
SummaryYour Morning Routine is NOT About What You Think
Jun 2300:11:36Summary readySomewhere along the way, morning routines became a competition. Who gets up earliest, who journals longest, who has the most intense morning ritual. And in all of that, a lot of us either burned out trying to keep up or tuned out because it felt like something that was not for us.In this episode, Theresa reframes the whole conversation. A morning routine is not about how much you can fit in before sunrise. It is about managing your energy, not your time, and becoming intentional about your internal growth before the rest of the world pulls you in every direction.Whether you have newborns at home, a long commute, or a full house that does not slow down, this episode meets you where you are. Theresa shares her own story of building a morning routine through the toddler years, the truth about why your first thought of the day matters more than you think, and a simple framework for starting small and building something that actually sticks.The goal is not perfection. It is consistency. And it starts with just 15 minutes.If you have ever felt behind on your morning routine or like it was never quite good enough, this one is for you.Subscribe at theresaflood.com and share this episode with someone who needs a little grace around where they are right now.
SummaryStop Drifting. Start Living on Purpose. Dana Gentry on TheUPside
Jun 1600:52:47Summary readyHave you ever felt like you are just drifting through life, even when things look good on the outside? That was exactly where today's guest, Dana Gentry, found herself before everything changed.Dana is a former mega agent, Keller Williams operating partner, senior culture advisor for Keller Williams, and now a bestselling author. She sat down with Theresa to talk about what it actually means to live an intentional life and why most of us are closer to a breakthrough than we think.In this conversation, Dana shares how she went from feeling semi-successful and unfulfilled to building a life with real direction and momentum. She talks about the number one thing she had to get a grip on first, why saying yes to everything nearly cost her everything, and the momentum equation she has lived by for years.You will also hear the story behind the five yard line versus the fifty yard line and why that one idea might be exactly what you need to keep going right now.This one is for anyone who is in the gradually and wondering if the suddenly is ever going to show up.
SummaryLessons from Middle School: An Interview with Jett Flood
Jun 900:18:06Summary readyThis one is a little different, and it might just be one of the best episodes yet. Theresa has been trying to get today's guest on the podcast for over a year, and she finally said yes. That guest is Juliette Joy Flood, better known as Jett, Theresa's daughter, who just graduated eighth grade.In this conversation, Jett shares what she actually learned over three years of middle school. They talk about friendship seasons and finding your real people, what confidence actually looks like from the inside, how Jett handled drama and hard moments without losing herself, and what growing up with a lot of injuries taught her about mental toughness.Jett also tells the story of a science project that nearly broke her, a decision to not cut corners when she easily could have, and what it felt like on the other side of doing the hard thing the right way.There is wisdom in this conversation that a lot of adults are still working on. If you are raising a teenager, navigating your own hard season, or just need a reminder of what it looks like to grow from the inside out, this episode is for you.
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