Decision Ease

By Kirsten Parker: Decision-Making Coach for Overthinkers

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Tired of overthinking every decision - big or small? You're in the right place. The Decision Ease Podcast helps smart, high-achieving humans stop spiraling and start deciding with more clarity, confidence, and calm. Whether you're stuck between two career options, second-guessing your boundaries, or just want to stop spending 45 minutes to craft a text response - this show is here to help. Every week, Kirsten Parker, Decision Coach for Overthinkers, gives you simple, science-backed tools to improve your decision-making process - so you can make intentional choices and trust yourself more (without needing a spreadsheet or a pros/cons list every time). You’ll learn how to: 👉 Cut through mental clutter and clarify what matters 👉 Stop second-guessing and feel good about your decisions 👉 Build daily habits of confident decision-making 👉 Apply the Decision Ease Framework to real-life situations 👉 Have more self-compassion and quiet your yappy inner critic when it comes to mistakes or imperfection Episodes are short, conversational, and full of real talk — with no pressure to be perfect. If you're a high-functioning overthinker, recovering perfectionist, or just someone who wants to make better decisions with less stress, subscribe now and make Decision Ease your new normal!

Episode Date
#187: When Limitations are Stalling Your Decision
Apr 02, 2026
#186: Hate Networking Less with Laura Brennan (Expert Interview)
Mar 26, 2026
#185: Why Smart People Second-Guess More
Mar 19, 2026
#184: Are You Living in Decision Leftovers?
Mar 12, 2026
#183: The Solution to Option Overload
Mar 05, 2026
#182: Is Post-Decision Panic Normal?
Feb 26, 2026
#181: Is Righteous Victimhood Limiting Your Choices?
Feb 19, 2026
#180: What To Do About "Competing Priorities"
Feb 05, 2026
#179: Can "Competing Values" Complicate Decisions?
Jan 22, 2026
#178: How to Make Easier, Faster Decisions Using Core Values
Jan 15, 2026
#177: How to Hold Regret Without it Holding You Back
Jan 08, 2026
#176: How to Think BIG in 2026 (Even if 2025 Beat You Up a Bit)
Jan 01, 2026
#175: Decision Detox: How to End the Year Strong and Aligned
Oct 02, 2025
#174: Shame vs Guilt (and Why it Even Matters)
Sep 25, 2025
#173: The #1 Mistake People Make in Judging Their Choices
Sep 18, 2025
#172: 3 Tiny Decisions to Make Holidays Less Stressful (Yes, Now!)
Sep 11, 2025
#171: The Simplest Formula for Faster Decisions
Sep 04, 2025
#170: Why Small Choices Feel So Big
Aug 28, 2025
#169: When Staying the Course is the Smartest Move
Aug 21, 2025
#168: When Changing Course is the Best Move (and How to Do it with Less Drama)
Aug 14, 2025
#167: These 5 Decisions Cut My Daily Mental Load in Half
Aug 07, 2025
#166: Expert Interview! A Decision Checklist You'll Use for Years with Shannon South
Jul 31, 2025
165: Train Your Brain to Spot Good Decisions (and Make Good Decisions Easier)
Jul 24, 2025
#164: Expert Interview: How to Make Better Money Decisions with Financial Coach Christina Edel
Jul 17, 2025
#163: Satisficing: Your New Favorite Decision Shortcut
Jul 10, 2025
#162: A Simple Fear-Busting Tool You Can Use Daily
Jul 03, 2025
#161: How to Clear Mental Clutter with a Bottom-of-the-List Day (Close Those Open Loops!)
Jun 26, 2025
#160: Mid-Year Reset: Reflect, Recalibrate, and Reclaim Your Goals
Jun 19, 2025
#159: When Does Thoughtful Become Overthinking?
Jun 12, 2025
#158: The Costs of Overcomplicating Everything (and How to Stop)
Jun 05, 2025
#157: The Overthinker's Guide to Not Over-Planning
May 29, 2025
#156: Stop Second-Guessing Everything and Stand By Your Choices
May 22, 2025
#155: Own What You Want (and Care Less What People Think About It)
May 15, 2025
#154: From Coping to Choosing: How I Got Back in the Driver’s Seat (and a Tattoo to Remind Me)
May 08, 2025
#153: 3 Ways to Stop Maycember From Draining the Life Out of You
May 01, 2025
#152: How to Be More Decisive by Mastering Self-Regulation
Apr 24, 2025
#151: Be More Decisive by Dealing with Consequences Better
Apr 17, 2025
#150: How to Get More Decisive Using "Acceptance"
Apr 10, 2025
#149: When NOT Deciding is "Decisive"
Apr 03, 2025
#148: The Trick to Being More Decisive
Mar 27, 2025
#147: Job Change - LOGISTICS
Mar 20, 2025
#146: Job Change - QUITTING GUILT
Mar 13, 2025
#145: Job Change - OVERWHELM
Mar 06, 2025
#144: It's Time to Stop Asking "Am I Good Enough?"
Feb 27, 2025
#143: Trying to Make Non-Makeable Decisions is Keeping You Stuck *Revisit*
Feb 20, 2025
#142: The Real Reason You're Afraid of People's Reactions *Revisit*
Feb 13, 2025
#141: How to Achieve Goals WITHOUT Perfection *Revisit*
Feb 06, 2025
#140: How to Not Get Stuck Thinking "If only..." (aka The RAUL Episode) *Revisit*
Jan 30, 2025
#139: "I'm so behind" *Revisit*
Jan 23, 2025
#138: Core Values *Revisit*
Jan 16, 2025
#137: 3 Ways to Save Mental Energy in 2025
Jan 09, 2025
#136: The 4 Keys to Setting the Best Goals (and SUCCEEDING) This Year
Jan 02, 2025
#135: 5 Standout Lessons from 2024
Dec 26, 2024
#134: 3-Minute Checklist to Cut Your To-Do's (and Your Stress)
Dec 19, 2024
#133: Decide In Advance
Dec 12, 2024
#132: How to Influence What People Think
Dec 05, 2024
#131: Two Spins on Gratitude You Haven't Heard Yet
Nov 28, 2024
#130: Don't Make These HUGE Mistakes with Your Next BIG Decision
Nov 21, 2024
#129: Perspective-Taking and Delayed Gratification (Cognitive Biases Pt 5)
Nov 14, 2024
#128: Negativity Bias (Cognitive Biases Pt 4)
Nov 07, 2024
#127: Causal Attribution (Cognitive Biases Pt 3)
Oct 31, 2024
#126: Confirmation Bias (Cognitive Biases Pt 2)
Oct 24, 2024
#125: The Fluency Effect and Planning Fallacy (Cognitive Biases Pt 1)
Oct 17, 2024
#124: This is an IshYOU, Not an IshME (aka: When an issue has nothing to do with you)
Oct 10, 2024
#123: How to Make a Decision an “Experiment”
Oct 03, 2024
#122: The Key to Succeeding at Your Plan (instead of Judging It)
Sep 26, 2024
#121: Time to Update Your Core Values
Sep 19, 2024
#120: Committing to a Plan When Everything Isn't Perfect
Sep 12, 2024
#119: How to Make Big Decisions Quickly (Real-time Tips!)
Sep 05, 2024
#118: Planning for Periods of Change or Uncertainty
Aug 29, 2024
#117: 5 Ways to Decrease Overwhelm THIS Week
Aug 22, 2024
#116: EXPERT INTERVIEW: The Truth of How Your Style Connects to Your Mental Health with Kelsea Neal
Aug 15, 2024
#115: EXPERT INTERVIEW! Own that You're a "Creative" - It'll Change Your Life with Paige Ray
Aug 08, 2024
#114: The Courage to Communicate a Choice
Aug 01, 2024
#113: How to Decide HOW to Decide
Jul 25, 2024
#112: 3 Keys to Deciding On the Spot
Jul 18, 2024
#111: Honest vs "Realistic" Self-expectations
Jul 11, 2024
#110: The Decision to Have FUN
Jul 04, 2024
#109: Do Your Standards Match Your Season?
Jun 27, 2024
#108: What's the Worst that Could Happen?
Jun 20, 2024
#107: Mini Mid-Year Decision Audit
Jun 13, 2024
#106: Detox Your Decision Process
Jun 06, 2024
#105: "Yes, and" - The Improv Tool for Making Good Decisions
May 30, 2024
#104: Self-Compassion in Everyday Decisions
May 23, 2024
#103: How to Act with Self-Compassion (the "Fierce" kind)
May 16, 2024
#102: How to Talk and Think with Self-Compassion
May 09, 2024
#101: The Truth about Self-Compassion
May 02, 2024
#100! Build Self-Trust (in Under 10 Minutes)
Apr 25, 2024
#99: Selfish vs. Self-Honoring Decisions
Apr 18, 2024
#98: The Most Useful Question You're NOT Asking Enough
Apr 11, 2024
#97: 4 Tactics for When You Don't WANNA Do the Thing
Apr 04, 2024
#96: Why Separate "Decision Time" from "Doing Time" (Psst: It's to Save Energy)
Mar 28, 2024
#95: How to Use High-Quality Questions to Be More Decisive
Mar 21, 2024
#94: Why You Need to Change How You Think about GOALS
Mar 14, 2024
#93: 4 (no, 5!) Things I Wish I'd Known about Emotions Sooner
Mar 07, 2024
#92: Dealing with Fear in the Decision Process: The DO's
Feb 29, 2024
#91: Dealing with Fear in the Decision Process: The DON'Ts
Feb 22, 2024
#90: How to Cut Decision Time in Half When You’re Confused
Feb 15, 2024
#89: So You Decided to Do a Thing But You Aren't Doing It...Now What?
Feb 08, 2024
#88: How Self-Talk Impacts Your Decisions
Feb 01, 2024
#87: 5 Secrets to Steal from Decisive People
Jan 25, 2024
#86: Part 2: The Problems You Really Need To Solve if You Always Feel Behind
Jan 18, 2024
#85: Part 1: The Problems You Really Need To Solve if You Always Feel Behind
Jan 11, 2024
#84: Ditch the "I'm Behind" Mindset (for good)
Jan 04, 2024
#83: 3 Thoughts I'm Leaving in 2023 and My 2024 Mindset
Dec 28, 2023
#82: How Coaching Works (+ a 3-Step Framework for Getting Help)
Dec 21, 2023
#81: Achieving Goals Without a Perfect Routine or Going 110%
Dec 14, 2023
#80: How to Make a Money Decision You Trust
Dec 07, 2023
#79: EXPERT INTERVIEW! There's More than One Way to Career Pivot, with Coach Shyloh Brown
Nov 30, 2023
#78: From Stuck to Decided in 3 Simple Questions
Nov 16, 2023
#77: 3 Mistakes to Avoid, to Guarantee a Great Holiday Season
Nov 09, 2023
#76: Decision Style #4: The People-Pleaser
Nov 02, 2023
#75: Decision Style #3: The Perfectionist
Oct 26, 2023
#74: EXPERT INTERVIEW! Embracing Experiments, Imperfection and the Ivy Identity with Lauren Balukjian
Oct 19, 2023
#73: Decision Style #2: The Procrastinator
Oct 12, 2023
#72: Decision Style #1: The Overthinker
Oct 05, 2023
#71: Motivation Doesn't Work How You Think
Sep 28, 2023
#70: The Antidote for "I Don't Have a Choice"
Sep 21, 2023
#69: When you’re afraid how someone will react (What’s REALLY going on)
Sep 14, 2023
#68: How to make authentic choices when you have FOPO (fear of people’s opinions)
Sep 07, 2023
#67: How is FOPO (fear of people’s opinions) costing you your agency?
Aug 31, 2023
#66: The Etymological Reason “Deciding” is Hard (+ 4 Steps to Freedom From Indecision)
Aug 24, 2023
#65: Food Decisions & Thoughts About Your Body w/Victoria Yates, Intuitive Eating Coach
Aug 17, 2023
#64: How to Prioritize When You’re Unclear On Your Goals
Aug 10, 2023
#63: How to Prioritize When You Have Competing Intentions
Aug 03, 2023
#62: How to Prioritize When You Don’t Know Where to Start
Jul 27, 2023
#61: How to Escape the Productivity Police (and still get stuff done)
Jul 20, 2023
#60: Mid-Year Reflect & Reset (Downloadable Exercise!)
Jul 13, 2023
#59: 4 Things To STOP Talking Yourself Out Of
Jul 06, 2023
#58: How to Cut Your Frustration in Half (The Resistance Scale)
Jun 29, 2023
#57: "I'm so behind"
Jun 22, 2023
#56: 2-CLIENT INTERVIEW! The Best Coaching Tools for Entrepreneurs
Jun 15, 2023
#55: Manage Your Self-Expectations
Jun 08, 2023
#54: Guilt! Let it Serve You or Let it GO.
Jun 01, 2023
#53: A Quick Fix for People-Pleasing
May 25, 2023
#52: The 6 Keys to BELIEVE in Yourself
May 18, 2023
#51: Stop Skipping the Celebration!
May 11, 2023
#50: 3 Things to Quit so You Can Honor Your TIME Better
May 04, 2023
#49: I Need to Decide & Don't Wanna Regret It…Now What?
Apr 27, 2023
#48: How to Stop Living in Fear of Regret
Apr 20, 2023
#47: How to *Eliminate* Dinner Decision Fatigue!
Apr 13, 2023
#46: Expert Interview! Stress Management for Over-Stretched Professionals w/Coach Jackie de Crinis
Apr 06, 2023
#45: Your Shortcut Menu of Solutions for Decision Fatigue
Mar 30, 2023
#44: The (Surprising) Truth about Decision Fatigue
Mar 23, 2023
#43: 3 Steps to Prep for a Challenging Conversation or Situation
Mar 16, 2023
#42: The One Question to Ask When You're Overloaded
Mar 09, 2023
#41: Expert Interview! Don't Love the Work You're Doing? Change the Narrative You're Living In - with Coach Winn Clark
Mar 02, 2023
#40: Expert Interview! One Decision Starts the Upward Spiral to Your Ideal Life: with Brazen Coaches Calley Hewes & Valerie King
Feb 23, 2023
#39: This'll Change How You Think about Confidence Forever
Feb 16, 2023
#38: When You're Constantly Disappointed with Yourself
Feb 09, 2023
#37: Save Energy by Making *Faster* Decisions (Go!)
Feb 02, 2023
#36: 4 Steps to Process Making a Mistake at Work (Personal Story!)
Jan 26, 2023
#35: Client Convo! What REALLY happens when an "Indecisive Person" Works with a Decision Coach (with Andy Greene!)
Jan 19, 2023
#34: The Key to Creating the Year You Want (the VISION episode)
Jan 05, 2023
#33: A Decision-Focused Year-End Reflection (that's also FUN!)
Dec 29, 2022
#32: How to Tune into the GOOD of this Moment (Even if Your Brain is Saying “It’s Crap”)
Dec 22, 2022
#31: 4 Tips for Making Friction-Free Joint Decisions (Happy Birthday Kenny!)
Dec 15, 2022
#30: Expert Interview! How to COMMIT to Being On Your Own Team w/Life Coach & Astrologer Sarah Paasch
Dec 08, 2022
#29: The Cure for "If Only..." Agony
Dec 01, 2022
#28: The EASIEST Gratitude Practice You'll Ever Do
Nov 24, 2022
#27: 3 Pro Tips to Take Charge of Your Decisions at the Holidays
Nov 17, 2022
#26: Expert Interview! How to End People Pleasing Drama with Coach Sara Bybee Fisk
Nov 10, 2022
#25: We are the Meaning Makers (Happy Halloween)
Nov 03, 2022
#24: Are you hiring the wrong people for the wrong jobs?
Oct 27, 2022
#23: The 5 Habits that Make Me Good at Decisions
Oct 20, 2022
#22: Expert Interview! The Best Way to Pitch Your Project or YOURSELF with Laura Brennan
Oct 13, 2022
#21: Expert Interview! How We "Type A" Women can Thrive in Our Marriages w/Coach Maggie Reyes
Oct 06, 2022
#20: Client Convo! How to Stop Living Under Nonstop Pressure w/Nina Harada
Sep 29, 2022
#19: Coaching Sesh! When you think "Something terrible has to happen to balance the scales" with Ariell Ilunga
Sep 22, 2022
#18: Client Convo! Leaving the "Carved Path" & Learning to Talk to Fear w/Ariell Ilunga
Sep 15, 2022
#17: Client Convo! How to Not Get Stuck in Other People's Opinions with Kirsten J. Parker
Sep 08, 2022
#16: The 4 FEAR Questions to Guarantee a Powerful, Authentic Choice
Sep 01, 2022
#15: Surprises, Failures & Feelings: The 3 Essentials MISSING From Your Game Plan
Aug 25, 2022
#14: The Decision Audit: A Cure for End-of-Year Anxiety
Aug 18, 2022
#13: How to get Instant Clarity & Create your Decision Anchor
Aug 11, 2022
#12: 2 Clarity Myths Busted & 3 Things to Stop Doing if You Feel Unclear
Aug 04, 2022
#11: What Happens When You Decide to Go After Your Dreams
Jul 28, 2022
#10: YAY we get to make decisions more efficient! (SIMPLE Principle #6)
Jul 21, 2022
#9: What to Do When You Feel Like You Don’t Have a Choice (SIMPLE Principle #5)
Jul 14, 2022
#8: How to Prioritize YOU in Your Decisions (SIMPLE Principle #4)
Jul 07, 2022
#7: Stop trying to make Non-Makeable Decisions (SIMPLE Principle #3)
Jun 30, 2022
#6: 2 Constructive Ways to Deal with Stress When There’s a Decision to Make (SIMPLE Principle #2)
Jun 23, 2022
#5: When You Wanna Decide ALL THE THINGS at Once (SIMPLE Principle #1)
Jun 16, 2022
#4: The Overthinker’s Checklist: 6 Essentials to Simplify Decisions
Jun 09, 2022
#3: How to Know You’re Making the Right Choice
Jun 09, 2022
#2: Get Outta the Gap (Permission to Stop Overthinking)
Jun 09, 2022
#1: From Overthinker to Decision Master: Your 3 New Favorite Skills
Jun 09, 2022
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May 23, 2022