111: A Reframe on Regret: How to Break Up with Your Rear-View Mirror Life

Reframe to Create

Have you ever felt stuck, replaying past decisions and beating yourself up about what you “should have known”?

I’ve been there—so much so that when I was learning to drive, I spent more time staring into my rear-view mirror than focusing on the road ahead.

In this episode of Reframe to Create, I’m sharing why regrets don’t have to break you or keep you stuck. Instead, they can become treasure troves of learning—if you know how to reframe them.

You’ll learn:

• Why regrets are not a bug but a feature of life.

• How beating yourself up about the past prevents you from learning.

• Two powerful perspective shifts to help you move from regret to growth.

• How to see your past as sealed as your future—so you can finally let go.

Regret doesn’t have to haunt you. It can teach you. It can guide you. It can even help you create something beautiful.

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations. Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy. This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future. It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.

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