#40 Hope as a Discipline

In this episode, Roy and Catherine mark the show’s 40th episode milestone by asking how you actually nurture hope. Roy’s take is blunt: hope on its own isn’t a strategy. He breaks everything down into tasks and systems instead, using his own podcasting journey as the example, the first episode took forever to edit, cutting pauses and filler, re-listening, re-uploading, and improving each time, and now he’s running ten shows including this one. For him, discipline and systems are what actually produce results, not hoping health, money or success will just work out. Catherine agrees Roy’s disciplined, but pushes back gently, pointing out that he also carries a genuinely hopeful attitude, an underlying expectation that things can work, rather than the fatalistic mindset some people carry into everything they do. She argues hope as a discipline is really about practicing an attitude of possibility alongside the actual work, not instead of it. She shares advice she once received about marketing: if you’re sitting down to create promotional content while convinced it won’t work or feeling terrified, stop, go for a walk, take a bath, play with the cats, watch bad TV, anything else, and only come back to it once you’re in a mindset of offering something valuable rather than manipulating or stealing someone’s time. For her, hope as a discipline means practicing the ability to notice wonder and possibility instead of defaulting to doom and gloom, and when those doom-and-gloom moments hit, being able to notice them, laugh, and come back to center. Roy closes simply by saying how much he’s enjoyed all 40 episodes with Catherine, and Catherine reflects that starting this show at all, despite already running nine others, was itself a hopeful decision rather than an excuse not to. Roy Coughlan · The Podfather Network Website: https://roycoughlan.com/ Virtual Assistants: https://va.world/ Private Networking Group: Learn about a Private Networking Group in 50 US States & 47+ Countries with 700+ Members https://connectedleaders.academy Brain Upgrade: https://brainupgrade.org/ The Authority Alliance: A Foundation of Experts — community for entrepreneurs, coaches, and thought leaders to connect, collaborate, and grow their authority together: https://theauthorityalliance.com/ EMF Protection: https://protectfromemf.org/ Health & Wellness: https://podfather.thefrequencyawakening.com/ Make the most of your calling. Book an Exploratory Call with Catherine: https://beingspace.world/#explore 🤝 Join Catherine’s Being Space Community ✦ Website: https://beingspace.world ✦ Podcast: https://truthandtranscendence.com ✦ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinellewellynbeingspace/ ✦ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BEINGSPACEcatherinellewellyn ✦ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beingspace.world/ ✦ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeingSpaceWorld #DifferentPoints #HopeAsADiscipline #Podcast #BeingSpace #CatherineLlewellyn #RoyCoughlan