The Contentment Creator
Welcome to The Contentment Creator Podcast – the ultimate podcast for conscious creators, mindful parents, and visionary entrepreneurs who are ready to embrace courage, clarity, and contentment in every facet of life. I’m your host, Ellen Broen – a certified life coach, professional singer, mom, and unapologetic fan of clever wordplay, cozy books, and adorable dogs. This podcast is your daily dose of inspiration to help you: ✨ Find clarity in your life vision and decisions. ✨ Ignite creativity and unlock your entrepreneurial potential. ✨ Cultivate contentment and balance in your personal and professional journey. ✨ Build thriving communities that feel like home. Each short, impactful epis...
Stop Waiting for Your Partner to Change
Are you waiting for your partner to change before you feel happy again? You’re not alone. When we place our happiness on hold, waiting for our partner to communicate better, show more affection, or finally “get it,” we disconnect from our own personal growth. True change in love starts within. This episode helps you move from frustration to emotional connection, from resentment to healthy communication, and from passivity to marriage healing.
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Why You Keep Having the Same Fight
Ever wonder why you keep having the same fight with your partner about dishes, money, or family and no matter how many times you “resolve” it? 💭
You walk away thinking it’s settled, only for it to pop back up again the next week. The truth is, it’s rarely about the dishes (or the bills, or the in-laws). It’s about what those moments represent — feeling unseen, unheard, or unappreciated.
Most recurring arguments aren’t really about logistics at all, they’re about unmet emotional needs, old wounds, and unspoken expectations. Until those deeper layers are seen, th...
How Friendships Strengthen Your Relationship
Marriage and friendship don’t have to compete, they can coexist beautifully. 💫 When we get married, it’s easy to fall into the we of it all — merging lives, social circles, and identities. But true connection thrives when both partners honor their individuality. 🌿
Because here’s the truth: the healthiest relationships are made up of two whole people and not two halves trying to complete each other. Maintaining friendships outside your marriage isn’t a sign of disconnection; it’s a sign of emotional maturity and trust.
Healthy space doesn’t weaken love, it strengthens it. It keeps desire al...
Heal Resentment and Reconnect in Your Relationship
Every relationship tells a story but are you writing one rooted in love or resentment?
Over time, even the most connected couples can find their love story quietly rewritten by disappointment, misunderstanding, and unspoken needs. What once sounded like devotion can start to sound like frustration. But here’s the truth: you have the power to rewrite your story. 🌿
This is your invitation to pick up the pen and begin again — to see your partner, and your love, through the lens of possibility instead of limitation.
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Transform Conflict Into Connection in Your Marriage
Conflict in marriage isn’t the problem but it’s how you fight that makes or breaks your connection. 💔❤️🔥When handled with awareness, conflict can become a bridge — a chance to understand your partner more deeply, to repair old wounds, and to build trust through vulnerability.
The strongest relationships aren’t the ones without conflict, they’re the ones where both people choose understanding over winning, repair over resentment, and connection over control.
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How to Create Your Next Breakthrough
Breakthroughs aren’t just about achieving goals but they’re about transforming who you are. 💫 True breakthroughs happen when awareness becomes aligned action, and that action becomes part of who you are.
True transformation doesn’t happen overnight; it unfolds through small, consistent choices that align your outer actions with your inner truth. Every time you act from a place of awareness, you reinforce a new identity and one that reflects your deepest values and vision. 🌿
A breakthrough is what happens when you stop waiting for change to happen to you and start creating change through you...
How to Align Your Energy, Parenting, and Productivity with Your Menstrual Cycle
Cycle planning changes everything about how you work, create, and parent. Instead of pushing through a linear 24-hour schedule, learn to align your energy with the menstrual cycle phases and finally find flow in both life and business. 🌸
When you understand how your body’s natural rhythm influences your mood, motivation, and focus, you can start designing your days around you, not outdated productivity standards. 🕊️
Each phase of your menstrual cycle offers unique strengths, moments of deep rest, bursts of creativity, and waves of confidence that can completely transform how you plan your projects, nurture your famil...
How to Rebuild Real-World Community in a Digital Age
Our bodies and hearts are wired for real-world community for touch, for eye contact, for moments that can’t be replicated by a screen. The irony of the digital age is that we have access to millions of people, yet so many of us feel unseen. That’s why rebuilding connection matters more than ever. It’s not just about socializing, it’s about healing loneliness, nurturing our well-being, and remembering what it means to truly belong.
You don’t have to rush it. The right people will meet you where you are. The important part is to begin t...
Healing from Toxic Mentorship: Reclaim Your Creativity After Burnout
Healing from toxic mentorship isn’t easy especially when your creative career once felt like your calling. 🎙️ As a former opera singer turned creative healer, I share my journey from passion to pain and back to purpose. If you’ve ever felt broken by your art, this conversation is your permission slip to begin creative healing and reclaim your joy.
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Therapist vs Coach vs Business Coach: Which One Do You Actually Need Right Now?
💬 Ever wondered what’s the difference between a therapist, a coach, and a business coach and which one is right for you? 🤔 Whether you’re healing from burnout, seeking emotional healing, or ready to level up your business strategy, understanding the distinctions between therapy, coaching, and business coaching will help you make empowered decisions.
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Burnout-Proof Finances: Finding Security Without the Hustle
Feeling financial burnout? 😩 You’re not alone and we are here to tell you how to achieve fear-driven hustle and rebuild a healthy relationship with money. 💸
👉 The truth: overworking won’t make you feel secure only aligned financial growth, rest, and self-trust will. Let’s dive into how to spot financial burnout, redefine what enough means, and build financial safety beyond your income. 🌿
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✨ Remember: money is a tool, not a measur...
Mindful Money: Simple Rituals for Clarity, Calm & Confidence During a Recession
Money is emotional, it’s not just numbers in your bank account. It’s power, freedom, fear, and worthiness all wrapped into one and how to build a healthy relationship with money through simple financial rituals that nurture awareness, gratitude, and abundance.
If you’ve ever felt anxious checking your balance or guilty spending money, this is your sign to reconnect. Learn how conscious spending and money mindset rituals can bring financial abundance and peace into your daily life.
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Purpose Over Panic: Turning Money into Mission in Uncertain Times
Money mindset isn’t just about making more — it’s about aligning your financial freedom with your purpose-driven business. If you’ve ever felt torn between making money and making a difference, this episode is for you.
We explore what it means to be a mission-driven entrepreneur — someone who sees wealth and impact as partners, not opposites. Whether your goal is to build generational wealth, support your community, or fund opportunities for others, this conversation will help you redefine success and reframe your money mindset.
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Self-Worth and Success in a Recession
If you're a creative or entrepreneur struggling to hold onto abundance and how to shift your money mindset entirely. 🌱 Before financial growth can happen, you must first expand your capacity to receive because your self-worth sets the limits of what you allow in.
Many creatives unknowingly block abundance by undervaluing their work, discounting their prices, or feeling guilt when success arrives and it will help your financial growth mirror your inner beliefs and how expanding your self-worth allows you to build sustainable abundance.
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Recession-Proof Your Peace: Healing Your Relationship with Money
Money mindset is more than budgeting, it’s emotional and energetic. Your relationship with money reveals how you see yourself. When we shift from scarcity to enoughness, we don’t just experience financial healing, we experience self-trust, peace, and creative flow.
If you’ve ever felt anxious about income, success, or stability, this conversation will help you ground your energy and trust that what’s meant for you will flow with ease.When you heal your relationship with money, everything changes from how you earn, save, and spend to how you value yourself.
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Stop Overanalyzing Parenting and Start Trusting Yourself Again
Parenting perfectionism can make us doubt our every move. 😩 We overanalyze, replay moments we snapped, and stress about “getting it right.” But conscious parenting isn’t about perfection, it’s about self-trust, connection, and compassion. 🌱
When we chase perfection, we disconnect from our intuition and model anxiety for our kids. By learning self-trust in parenting, we raise emotionally intelligent children who know mistakes are part of growth. 💬
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Why Good Parents Feel Like They’re Failing (And How to Heal It)
Parenting guilt and shame can make even the most loving parent feel like they’re failing 💔. If you’ve ever stayed up at night replaying something you wish you’d handled better, this episode is for you. 💬 You’ll learn how guilt can guide you toward growth, why shame destroys self-trust, and how to release guilt and shame in parenting by naming, forgiving, and choosing love.
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Parenting consistency isn’t about willpower, it’s about support.
Parenting consistency isn’t about willpower, it’s about support. If you’ve ever wondered how to stay consistent as a parent when you feel burnt out, anxious, or exhausted, this episode is for you.Parenting consistency isn’t about perfection. Parenting consistency is about presence. It’s not about pushing through; it’s about letting yourself be held. Discover how creative parenting, mental health awareness, and self-compassion can transform your family dynamic.
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Breaking Generational Cycles: The Healing Power of Conscious Parenting & Community
Parenting is one of the most powerful paths to conscious parenting, generational healing, and breaking family cycles. 🌱 When you practice conscious parenting, you’re doing the deep, brave work of breaking family cycles moving from punishment to connection, from shame to safety, from isolation to parenting community. This journey brings up guilt, grief, and doubt, but it’s also where emotional connection and transformation truly begin.
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How to Build Child Confidence & Emotional Connection Through Awareness
Conscious parenting isn’t about perfection, it’s about presence. Our instinct as parents is to correct, to explain, to fix, to teach. But conscious parenting asks us to pause. To notice. To find the “yes” before the “and.” This small shift transforms correction into connection and builds deep child confidence.
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🧠 When we choose gentle parenting, we open space for curiosity and creativity to thrive. Every word we say refle...
Protecting Your Relationship from Chaos: Creating Emotional Safety in Uncertain Times
Emotional safety, nervous system healing, and conscious connection are more essential than ever. In a world filled with chaos and uncertainty, protecting your relationship from outside stress isn’t just wise and it’s healing.
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Your relationship is not the outside world, it’s the world you build inside. Yet in these times of social tension, political pressure, and constant information, our nervous systems are overwhelmed. Many couples...
How to Stay True to Yourself in Marriage: Growing Together Without Losing Your Identity
Marriage growth, relationship trust, and personal identity. How can you stay true to yourself in marriage while growing alongside your partner.
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Far too often, love is confused with self-abandonment but the truth is, the best relationships thrive when both partners stay rooted in individuality. 🌿
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Marriage growth doesn’t mean merging identities but it means supporting each other’s evolution.Relationship trust is built by al...3 Powerful Ways to Reconnect with Your Partner
Emotional intimacy, connection, and communication are the heartbeats of a healthy relationship. ❤️ When we feel disconnected, irritability and misunderstandings take over but emotional intimacy can always be rebuilt. Whether you’re married, dating, or simply wanting more emotional connection, these practical tools will help you create a relationship rooted in empathy, understanding, and presence.
💡 Emotional intimacy is built through micro-moments of love, attention, and care. Learn to speak your partner’s love language, respond to bids for connection, and lead with vulnerability.
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How to Feel Truly Seen in Your Relationship
Most of us walk through life feeling unseen, not just by others, but by ourselves. We get polite “thank you’s,” but rarely the kind of acknowledgment that truly lands and makes us feel seen for who we are, not just what we do.
There is a difference between surface-level appreciation and heart-level acknowledgment. Shifting from “doing” to “being” can transform your relationship, your self-worth, and your emotional intimacy.
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Why Trying To Fix Your Partner Never Works
Conscious communication is the key to relationship growth and not perfection. It talks about how to stop trying to fix your partner and start building emotional connection through healthy boundaries and heart-centered dialogue.
When we stop seeing our partner as “broken” and start seeing opportunities for relationship growth, everything shifts. 🌿
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💬 Whether you’re navigating marriage advice, building healthy boundaries, or learning conscious communication, this episode will help yo...
10 Out-of-the-Box Self-Care Rituals Every Burnt-Out Entrepreneur Needs
Entrepreneurship and self-care often don’t coexist but they should. From rage rooms to float tank therapy, Reiki, and sound baths, discover how these powerful practices can help you heal burnout, restore your nervous system, and reconnect to your creativity.
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🧘♀️ Whether you're scaling a business, navigating stress, or craving calm, these holistic healing tools will help you recharge your energy, release tension, and rebalance your mind-body connection because true entrepre...
How to Create Winnable Goals for Business Success | Avoid Burnout & Redefine Growth
We’re unpacking why traditional goal setting often fails and how you can reframe your process to design winnable goals that actually lead to business success and personal growth.
If you’ve ever felt trapped in all-or-nothing cycles, this conversation will help you create sustainable rhythms, recover from burnout, and find momentum again as a creative entrepreneur.
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🔥 Whether you're scaling your business or seeking more balance, this epi...
Stop Selling. Start Enrolling: How to Build Connection That Sells Itself
Enrollment isn’t about closing the deal, it’s about connection, authenticity, and creating a sense of belonging that inspires transformation. In this episode, we explore how to stop pushing for sales and start enrolling people in a vision that aligns with their hearts. 💫
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💬 When your connection to your mission is strong, you don’t have to “sell.” You simply invite. This is the power of enrollment and when your vision...
The 4 Types of Creativity: How Great Leaders Think Differently
When we hear the word creativity, most of us think of artists, writers, or musicians but creativity is so much more than making art. 🎨 It’s how we solve problems, build businesses, and lead with vision.
We dive into the four types of creativity identified by neuroscientist Arne Dietrich annd how each one shapes the way we think, lead, and innovate. Discover how deliberate, spontaneous, cognitive, and emotional creativity work together to unlock your full leadership potential.
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Being vs. Doing: How to Create Success Without Losing Yourself
We live in a world that glorifies hustling, striving, and pushing for results. But if doing were the only factor in success, we’d all be where we want to be by now.
Discover how to balance being vs. doing so your goals feel aligned, your results feel fulfilling, and your success feels like you. Learn how to embody confidence, presence, and self-trust so achievement no longer costs your peace.
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How to Let Go and Forgive: The Practice of Releasing What No Longer Serves You
How to let go and forgive — not just once, but as a practice of peace and healing. Whether you’re moving through old pain, releasing resentment, or learning self-forgiveness, this moment helps you reconnect with yourself and choose freedom, one breath at a time.
💫 Discover how to release emotional weight, reclaim your energy, and practice forgiveness that feels real and embodied. You’ll learn how to process, reflect, and release without bypassing your feelings and building lasting inner peace.
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How to Set Aligned Goals That Stick: Build Success Without Burnout
Learn how to create aligned goals that lead to sustainable success — not burnout. Whether you’re a creative entrepreneur, coach, or visionary, this guided process will help you redefine achievement so that consistency comes naturally and your goals feel like you.
🔥 Discover the 4-step method to set aligned goals that bring fulfillment, joy, and lasting consistency. Learn how to break free from external metrics, reclaim your motivation, and design your own version of sustainable success.
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How to Build True Belonging & Deep Connections Without Burnout
Discover how to create belonging, connection, and meaningful relationships while growing your life and business without burnout. 🌿 In this episode, we explore self-awareness, community, and authentic relationships, guiding you through 20 reflective questions to deepen your sense of belonging. Learn how to show up fully in relationships, foster connection, and build a supportive community that aligns with your values.
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Find Your Zone of Genius: Stop Burnout and Reclaim Your Creative Energy
Discover how to find your zone of genius and finally break free from burnout! In this episode, we explore how identifying your zone of genius supports burnout recovery and smarter energy management for creative entrepreneurs who are ready to delegate what drains them and focus on what fuels them.
Learn the difference between your zone of competence and zone of genius so you can stop overworking, start delegation, and create more space for creativity and flow. Whether you’re a coach, founder, or creative entrepreneur, these simple mindset shifts can change how you lead and live.
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Guided Meditation for Calm, Clarity & Inner Peace
This guided meditation invites you to reconnect with your body, calm your mind, and feel deeply grounded like the roots of a tree. Through gentle relaxation breathing, you’ll release tension, restore inner peace, and plant seeds of clarity and calm for the week ahead. 🌿
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Breathe in deeply… exhale slowly… and let this grounding meditation return you to the present moment. As you visua...
How to Expand Your Capacity Without Burnout | Be a Better Parent, Partner & CEO
Expanding your capacity doesn’t mean doing more, it means becoming more. In this episode, we explore how to expand your capacity as a parent, CEO, leader, and partner without falling into burnout. Discover how to set boundaries, prioritize presence, delegate tasks, and build support systems so you can show up fully for what matters most.
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How to Stay Calm, Set Boundaries, and Build Trust with Your Kids
Parenting consistency is one of the most important gifts we can give our children. 💡 Consistency in parenting helps build trust, stability, and emotional safety but staying consistent isn’t easy when life feels overwhelming. In this episode, we dive into conscious parenting, setting boundaries, emotional regulation, and how to parent with intention when you feel tested.
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✨ Whether you’re raising toddlers or teens, consistency in parenting isn’t about...
How to Build Your Parenting Village | Conscious Parenting, Support Systems & Finding Your People
Your parenting village should feel nurturing, not draining. We’ll talk about creating a support system that celebrates your wins, helps you through challenges, and gives you space to breathe. Discover how conscious parenting shifts the way you think about community and why the right parent support systems are essential for your mental health, emotional well-being, and your child’s growth.
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Parenting and Creativity: How Parenthood Fuels Inspiration
Parenting and creativity are often seen as competing forces but what if parenthood actually makes you more creative? 🌿✨ Whether you’re a writer, artist, entrepreneur, or parent trying to honor your creativity, this episode offers encouragement, practical tools, and a reminder that your creative spark doesn’t disappear when you become a parent and it transforms.
💡 Creativity and parenting don’t cancel each other out, they fuel one another. Join us as we reframe the story and celebrate the magic in the overlap.
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Conscious Parenting: Build Deeper Connection with Your Child
Expanding your capacity doesn’t mean doing more, it means becoming more. In this episode, we explore how to expand your capacity as a parent, CEO, leader, and partner without falling into burnout. Discover how to set boundaries, prioritize presence, delegate tasks, and build support systems so you can show up fully for what matters most.
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