Remember to Live with Corean Canty
Remember to Live is a podcast born from a simple but profound realization: there is such a thing as too late. Through candid conversations with real people living intentional lives, we explore what happens when we refuse to postpone joy to some distant "someday."
Each episode showcases individuals who are putting the "living" back into "making a living" – people who've chosen presence over endless hustle, who understand that climbing the corporate ladder isn't worth sacrificing health, relationships, and moments that matter.
Inspired by my experience as a caretaker for my mother with dementia, my own burnout, and the eye-opening lessons from "The Five Regrets of the Dying," this podcast offers practical tools and honest insights to help you make small changes that lead to a big life.
Whether through guest conversations or solo episodes, you'll find actionable strategies to create a life with fewer regrets.
Join us on this journey to live a big, full, no-regrets life – because while it's never too late to dream, there absolutely is a "too late" to do.
ABOUT THE HOST:
Corean Canty knows firsthand there is such a thing as "too late." After years of following society's "shoulds" and pursuing titles and salaries at the cost of her health and happiness, her life changed forever when she stepped into the role of caretaker for her mother. This eye-opening experience taught her a simple truth: someday isn't guaranteed.
Instead of postponing joy to a distant future, Corean made the courageous decision to redesign her life on her own terms. Today, as an Idea Catalyst and TEDx speaker & Coach, she helps people find their voice, tell their story, and transform their lives and businesses.
Through the Remember to Live Podcast, Corean creates candid conversations with people who have chosen presence over endless hustle. She invites others to stop waiting for "someday" and start living now – because while it's never too late to dream, there absolutely is a "too late" to do.
Remember to Live with Corean Canty
The Power of Small Shifts: Your Guide to a Better Life
summary
Excited to kick off year two of the podcast. In this episode, I reflect on my journey over the past year, sharing insights on personal growth, the importance of choosing a word of the year, and the transformative power of small daily improvements. I review my previous words of the year, 'ease' and 'leap,' and how they shaped my experiences, leading to a focus on 'better' for the current year.
takeaways
- Reflecting on the past year helps set intentions for the new one.
- Choosing a word of the year can serve as a guiding theme.
- Investing in oneself is crucial for personal growth.
- Being present during experiences can lead to life-changing moments.
- Making difficult decisions for loved ones can be transformative.
- Living in the moment and enjoying life is essential.
- Small daily improvements can lead to significant changes over time.
- Understanding one's worth is a key part of self-improvement.
- The journey of self-improvement is ongoing and requires commitment.
- Engaging with the community can inspire and motivate personal growth.
Chapters
00:00
Reflecting on the Past Year and Setting Intentions
07:09
The Power of Leaps: Investing in Self and Life Changes
09:55
Embracing Better: Small Shifts for Daily Improvement
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Corean Canty (00:00)
Hello everyone, happy 2025. This is also year two of the Remember to Live podcast. I am here of course with my warm drink and I am ready to dig in.
Just about a year ago, I recorded my very first Remember to Live podcast episode on my birthday. My birthday is a week after New Year's, so I always spend this first week of the year really reflecting on and looking back at the previous year and being very, very intentional about what I want to create in the coming year. And one of my favorite practices to do this is picking a word of the year.
I use that word as an anchor, as kind of my theme for the year. I always have it where I can see it. It's a reminder of what I really want to get out of the year.
And on my birthday episode last year, I talked about my word for the year being leap. It is one of my most listened to episodes on the entire podcast so far. And the word the year before was ease. And there's a lot I learned in these past two years. The first being ease. It was my first year after leaving my corporate career. I really felt that I needed some downtime.
I needed to feel like things were easier. I always put a lot of pressure on myself as I was building my career in corporate, being a single mom of two kids, feeling like I needed to take care of everything and everyone. There was just this heavy pressure and weight and I just wanted things to feel easy. So I took a slow year. I allowed myself to ease into everything that I did. And after that year,
I kind of got a fire under my belt or whatever the saying is to do more. Because as I reflected during that down year, I realized that for most of my career, most of my life, I held myself back. I kept myself small. I kept myself in the boxes I thought I was supposed to be in to be successful.
to do all the things that society told me I should do. And I realized that far too many times I held myself back. And that's what led me to my word being leap for 2024. And leap I did.
I invested more in myself last year than I have in my entire life. I'm talking about all areas, but especially financially. See, as my kids were growing up, I didn't hesitate to find whatever way I needed to, to invest in the things I thought were important to them, to invest in their experiences, to invest in their learning, to invest in their development. But when it came to me,
I always found an excuse not to spend the money on myself. I always found a reason why I didn't deserve it or I put it on my someday list.
And so during my year of leap, I said yes and took the leap on everything that I wanted to do. Everything I wanted to learn, every program I wanted to invest in, every trip that I wanted to take, every experience that I wanted to experience. I just said yes.
And I did it without my big corporate paycheck, without the feeling of a cushion. I did it while building two businesses, while the back of my mind whispered, you shouldn't do this. I took the leap and I invested in myself.
And by doing so, I had experiences that transformed who I am.
I also traveled out of the country more than I ever have in one year in my life.
And the funny thing is I realized that all of the vacations I've ever taken in my entire life while I had a corporate career, I never actually took the vacation. I never actually shut down. And so being on these vacations where I wasn't constantly checking emails, I wasn't constantly checking in on a team, I wasn't constantly thinking about what could be going wrong or who needed me in the back of my mind.
that I allowed myself to just be there and be present and be in the experience was also life-changing.
I also took a different kind of leap. I've been a caretaker to my mom for several years. And at the beginning of last year, I knew that I could no longer take care of her or myself in my home. Her health and her dementia was getting to a point where she needed better care, but I also realized she needed a community. She needed more social interactions and she just wasn't going to get that sitting at home in her chair with nobody around.
And so I made the leap of finding a really great place for her to move into assisted living. Something that she never wanted to do, that I told her I would never do, but I did.
and it's been the best thing for her at this stage in life.
though she continues to lose her independence and she continues to lose pieces of herself, she still has the ability to go play bingo every day and go socialize and laugh and have friends and live a life. And that's what it's all about, right?
Even though...
The idea of having to pay for assisted living and the ridiculousness that elder care is in America felt like a huge leap. I knew it was the thing that I needed to do for not only my mother, but for me.
And so that leap was also life changing.
I also invested the most in my home that I've ever invested. All those big projects that sit on the someday list in the one day when I'm going to do this, I'm going to redo the basement, I'm going to paint the house, I'm going to all those types of projects. I just went ahead and did them. And I realized that I'm living in my house now. I'm not holding the house over there for some day when I'm going to move in and be in the house that I want. Like I'm actually living in it now.
And so I wanted to create the space that I wanted to be in now. I live here, I work here, I experience every day here. And so I invested in the things that I wanted to do to create the space that I wanted to be in.
And I also took some big leaps in my businesses, trying out new things, pivoting based on my gut.
allowing myself to fail and fail forward so I could get the clarity on the work I really wanted to do in this world. And I got so much clarity this year. I am so excited about all of the things that are going to be birthed in 2025.
And while all these big leaps had a huge impact on my life, I also realized that the little ones did too.
Tiny shifts. The small daily decisions.
the first steps, all these little shifts that also made my life so much better.
And that's what led me to my word for this year, which is better.
Because that's what we're all really trying to do, right? Is be a little bit better every day. Find these small ways to make our lives better. Find these ways to feel better, to be better.
The verb definition of better is to improve.
And that's my focus for this year, to improve myself a little bit every day, to be a little better every day, to make my life a little better every day, to show up a little better every day, to leave the people in the places that I touch a little better than I found them.
hold myself to a higher standard each day because I've finally reached the point in my life where I feel that I'm worthy. I've finally reached the point in my life where I truly understand my worth and my value. But I also know that it doesn't end there, that the work continues, that the journey is the thing.
So my goal is to be a little better every day and to help you do the same.
I even started a newsletter focused on better. So check out the show notes if you're interested in that.
And so my question for you as we head into this new year is, what are the little things you can do to make your life better?
What are the small things and the tiny shifts you can do to make each day better, to make each interaction better, to make each moment better?
And also, what's your word for the year? What's resonating with you? What is your theme going to be?
I'd love to hear it. Send me a DM on IG, it's just my name, Corean Canty, or find me on LinkedIn, or email me, or in whatever way you feel like reaching out. I would love to hear and be inspired by you.
So that's all as I kick off this second year of the Remember to Live podcast. Thank you to everyone who has spent the first year with me. Thank you for the notes and the feedback. I so appreciate this community.
I'm so excited about the topics and the guests that we have lined up for this year.
Life is too short to end up with a pile of regrets. Let's remember to live.
Wishing everyone an amazing 2025.