If you are ready to think bigger, act bolder, and lead a more fulfilling life – this is the show for you! Your host Anna Gibbs is a business leader, coach, consultant, author, and speaker who has dedicated her career to helping others succeed both personally and professionally. She is also doing the work – chasing her curiosity, learning ways to be better, failing forward and growing past her limitations – just like all of us. On this podcast, she will share the tools and resources you need to create your own path and build your life by design. Join Anna every Monday morning when a new episode is released and jumpstart your week with relevant and thought-provoking content and guests to help you create a vision and action plan that will inspire you like never before! Regardless of what business you might be in or personal path you might be on, Monday Morning Mojo will equip you with the tools you need to take it to the next level.
Episodes
7 days ago
7 days ago
If you’re heading into the new year with a full calendar, a half-finished business plan, and a brain that won’t shut off… this episode is for you.
In this episode I share the exact 5-step year-end system I use every December to reset my mindset, realign my life, and walk into January feeling grounded, clear, and ready to lead at a higher level.
By the end of this episode, you’ll:
- Know how to run a powerful year-end reflection ritual so you stop repeating the same patterns and start learning from them
- Be equipped to use tools like your calendar, photos, and the Wheel of Life assessment to see the full picture of your year (not just revenue and metrics)
- Have a simple process for choosing your Word of the Year so it becomes a compass for your identity, leadership, and decisions all year long
- Understand how to set personal goals that support your business goals without overwhelming yourself
- Understand how to build a 12-month personal growth plan with 1–2 key actions each month that line up with your vision
This is an episode you’ll want to sit with a notebook for, and come back to again and again.
Resources Mentioned in the Show:
Journal Prompts:
- What professional goals do I want to achieve in 2026?
- What personal goals do I want to achieve?
- What does the Wheel of Life exercise reveal to me?
- What are my initial thoughts about choosing a Word of the Year?
Connect with Anna:
Monday Morning Mojo Facebook Group
Watch the Monday Morning Mojo Video on YouTube
To learn more about coaching with Anna visit coachannagibbs.com
To learn more about the supplements and products Anna uses to improve her overall health and well-being visit: https://plexusworldwide.com/annagibbs
Monday Dec 08, 2025
Monday Dec 08, 2025
There’s a powerful advantage available to every leader right now: reflection. And it may be the missing step in your planning process.
This time of year there’s a unique opportunity on the table—a moment to pause, look back with intention, and create the clarity you need to move into the new year stronger, more focused, and more aligned than ever.
If you use both the good and bad that happened this year to your advantage heading into next year listen now to learn:
- How to turn your experiences—good and bad—into actual insight you can use to grow
- The mindset shift high-performing leaders make in December to avoid overwhelm and step into January with clarity
- John Maxwell’s “Law of Reflection” and why it’s essential for personal growth
- Gary Keller’s 10 annual reflection questions—the exact framework he uses every December to evaluate his life, goals, beliefs, and future direction
Whether you’re planning your goals, refining your vision, or simply trying to reclaim some mental space before the year ends, this episode gives you the tools, structure, and guidance you need.
Resources Mentioned in the Show:
- Gary Keller’s Top 10 Questions
- The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware (book)
Quotes to Remember:
- Fear is false evidence appearing real.
Journal Prompts:
- How can I make time for reflection?
- What brings me joy?
- How can I prioritize the things that bring me enjoyment?
Connect with Anna:
Monday Morning Mojo Facebook Group
Watch the Monday Morning Mojo Video on YouTube
To learn more about coaching with Anna visit coachannagibbs.com
To learn more about the supplements and products Anna uses to improve her overall health and well-being visit: https://plexusworldwide.com/annagibbs
Monday Dec 01, 2025
Monday Dec 01, 2025
Are you starting most days in reaction mode? Checking emails before you’re even out of bed, racing the clock, and wondering why your goals feel harder than they should?
In this episode Anna breaks down how to design the first 60 minutes of your day so you stop living in a constant state of “catch up” and start leading from clarity, focus, and control.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- The science-backed time of day that your brain is most creative, focused, and strategic and how to take advantage of it
- A simple way to start getting up earlier without shocking your system or overhauling your entire life overnight
- How to design a first-hour routine that fits you, even if you’ve never thought of yourself as a “morning person”
- How to structure your evening habits and sleep environment to set your morning up for success
This isn’t about becoming a perfect 5 a.m. person; it’s about creating a morning plan that gives you more energy, more productivity, and more ownership of your time.
Resources Mentioned in the Show:
- Ep 91: Own Your Energy Before You Own the Day
- Monday Morning Mojo Journal (pdf)
- Harvard study by Christoph Randler
- Stanford study by Dr Andrew Herberman
- Sleep Foundation research
- The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod (book)
Quotes to Remember:
- The antidote to chaos is always clarity.
- Live by design, not default.
Journal Prompts:
- If I had 1 full hour to myself each morning, how would I use it? What could I gain from that hour?
- What is my WHY for protecting my morning energy?
- What friction prevents me from starting my day with intentionality?
- How would a morning routine change me? Who would I become?
- What activities will nourish my mind, body, and spirit?
Connect with Anna:
Monday Morning Mojo Facebook Group
Watch the Monday Morning Mojo Video on YouTube
To learn more about coaching with Anna visit coachannagibbs.com
To learn more about the supplements and products Anna uses to improve her overall health and well-being visit: https://plexusworldwide.com/annagibbs
Monday Nov 24, 2025
Monday Nov 24, 2025
If your life feels out of balance, this episode is your wake-up call. Too many leaders are planning for bigger revenue, bigger teams, and bigger impact in 2026… while quietly dragging the same old limiting beliefs, burnout patterns, and misaligned partnerships into a new year.
In this special “hot seat” episode, Anna flips the script and lets Rita Gildersleeve, who works behind the scenes at Monday Morning Mojo interview her about the real story behind her mindset, leadership, and growth – and how you can design a business that actually serves the life you want.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- The simple mindset shift Anna uses to choose solutions over stress (without pretending everything is perfect)
- How to spot when old programming and limiting beliefs are quietly driving your decisions and sabotaging your next level
- The real difference between having a leadership title and actually being a leader people want to follow
- What to look for in business partners and key hires so your vision, values, and growth plans stay in alignment
If you’re in business planning season and you’re ready for a year where your personal and business goals finally point in the same direction, this conversation will give you the clarity, courage, and practical perspective to make it happen.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
Journal Prompts:
- What are my strongest leadership qualities at work and at home?
- What leadership qualities do I need to develop? What resources do I have available to help me with that?
- What can I do to shift my mindset when I am feeling limiting beliefs creep in?
Quotes to Remember:
- Your world is shaped by the way you think. The way you think is the way you act.
- The greatest project you can ever work on in your lifetime is yourself.
- When you jump, the net shows up.
- Leaders grow other leaders.
Connect with Anna:
Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/mondaymorningmojo
Email: agibbs2@kw.com
Facebook: @CoachAnnaGibbs
Instagram: @CoachAnnaGibbs
YouTube: @Annagibbsatkw
Coaching: coachannagibbs.com
To learn more about the supplements and products Anna uses to improve her overall health and well-being visit:
Monday Nov 17, 2025
Monday Nov 17, 2025
As high-achieving leaders, we often pour energy into planning for the business—revenue goals, team growth, new strategies—while quietly neglecting the most important asset in the equation: ourselves.
In this episode of Monday Morning Mojo, Anna flips the script on traditional goal-setting and challenges you to plan on purpose—so your business goals and personal life finally move in the same direction.
You’ll learn how to:
• Align your daily actions with your values to create clarity and fulfillment
• Use the “Three P’s” framework to bring focus to what matters most
• Identify and eliminate the four thieves of productivity that silently sabotage your goals
• Reclaim control of your time and energy by learning to say “no” with confidence
• Build healthy habits and environments that fuel sustainable success
Whether you’re in the thick of business planning season or just feeling stretched too thin, this conversation will help you design a year that feels as good as it looks—one that’s guided by purpose, not pressure.
Resources Mentioned in the Show:
- The One Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan (book)
- Wheel of Life assessment (pdf)
Quotes to Remember:
- What's the one thing you can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary? - Gary Keller, The One Thing
- Living with purpose is aligning your daily actions with your core values.
- Your first step to change is awareness.
Journal Prompts:
- What is my purpose in life? What am I passionate about?
- Do my daily actions align with my core values? What are my core values?
Connect with Anna:
Monday Morning Mojo Facebook Group
Watch the Monday Morning Mojo Video on YouTube
To learn more about coaching with Anna visit coachannagibbs.com
To learn more about the supplements and products Anna uses to improve her overall health and well-being visit: https://plexusworldwide.com/annagibbs
Monday Nov 10, 2025
Monday Nov 10, 2025
What if your next level of success produced more peace, profits, and personal freedom? This week’s guest is giving us his simple formula to do just that.
Executive coach Jordan Freed is known for helping top performers break conditioned limits and build businesses that feel as good as they look.
In this conversation you’ll hear:
- How to determine what freedom actually is for you
- What your “out-of-alignment” notifications look like
- How to replace the high achiever’s dilemma with a saner, stronger fuel source
- Strategies to practice radical acceptance and surrender without giving up your ambition
- The simple way to train your mind like a guard dog so it reacts to real threats, not imagined ones
If you’re ready to trade the high achiever’s dilemma for a saner, stronger way to win, this one’s for you. Press play on The Freed Life Formula, share it with a friend who’s on the verge of her next breakthrough, and leave a quick rating so more leaders can build businesses that feel as good as they look.
Resources Mentioned in the Show:
- The Freed Method (program)
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Dr Gabor Maté (book)
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink (book)
- A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (book)
- Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss (book)
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (book)
Quotes to Remember:
- Your constant need to make shit happen all the time isn't productivity; it's compulsion and illness in action. - Jordan Freed
- Success is knowing what you want and getting it.
- You cannot manage time. You can only manage your choices around how you use your time.
Journal Prompts:
- What are the notifications I have been ignoring that I’m out of alignment?
- Is the strength of my vision strengthening me or sacrificing me?
- Would I consciously teach my kids to approach my life and business the same way I do?
- What would the hero version of me do right now? (Ask yourself this throughout your day when making decisions).
Connect with Jordan:
Connect with Anna:
Monday Morning Mojo Facebook Group
Watch the Monday Morning Mojo Video on YouTube
To learn more about coaching with Anna visit coachannagibbs.com
To learn more about the supplements and products Anna uses to improve her overall health and well-being visit: https://plexusworldwide.com/annagibbs
Monday Nov 03, 2025
Monday Nov 03, 2025
If you want to make AI your unfair advantage, so you think faster, decide smarter, and free up time for the high-impact work only you can do, this episode is for you.
Leaders who thrive in the new AI era won’t be the most technical; they’ll be the most adaptable. That’s why in this episode Anna shares practical ways she uses AI as a strategist to ideate, plan, analyze, and coach.
Listen to Learn:
- The steps to building an adaptive leader’s mindset that will keep you relevant in a fast-changing market
- The first prompts to use when you’re just starting out (and how to “train” your AI to create in your tone and voice)
- How to use AI to uncover blind spots on your team that are holding you back
- To design a weekly workflow to stay in your high-leverage priorities while AI handles prep, synthesis, and first drafts for you
Don’t wait until everyone else has mastered the tools—get curious, get hands-on, and let AI become part of your growth strategy. After you listen, take a screenshot of the episode, share your biggest aha moment on Instagram, and tag me so I can cheer you on as you become an AI-driven leader.
Resources Mentioned in the Show:
- ChatGPT
- The AI Driven Leader by Geoff Woods (book)
Quotes to Remember:
- AI will augment and automate some of our processes but it won’t automate you. It’s not going to replace you.
- You’re more than what you do in a day.
- Your aha moment is your opportunity for inspiration that can lead to positive change.
- FEAR stands for False Evidence Appearing Real.
Journal Prompts:
- What is one thing I need to think through this week that I could use a thought partner?
- How do I feel about using AI in my business? What are my hesitations?
- Am I shifting in ways that help me stay relevant?
Connect with Anna:
Monday Morning Mojo Facebook Group
Watch the Monday Morning Mojo Video on YouTube
To learn more about coaching with Anna visit coachannagibbs.com
To learn more about the supplements and products Anna uses to improve her overall health and well-being visit: https://plexusworldwide.com/annagibbs
Monday Oct 27, 2025
Monday Oct 27, 2025
The rules of business have changed, and what got you here won’t get you where you’re going.
If you feel like your old playbook isn’t moving the needle anymore, this episode is your opportunity to develop the four capabilities that will keep you relevant, competitive, and positioned to hit your goals in 2026.
By the end of listening you’ll be able to:
• Understand How to read the market early, pivot quickly, and stay resourceful under pressure
• Hire and reward adaptability on your team to create speed and resilience
• Demystify AI and use everyday tools to save time, think better, and execute faster
• How to Treat AI as a thought partner to sharpen strategy, research, and decision-making
• Craft signature stories and client wins that make your offers memorable
• Align roles to strengths, tap into personal motivation, and grow leaders around you
This isn’t theory—it’s a practical roadmap to help you work smarter, stand out in a noisy market, and develop the kind of team that grows with you.
Resources Mentioned in the Show:
- 12 Week Workbook (pdf)
- DISC Assessment (pdf)
- The AI Driven Leader by Geoff Wood (book)
Quotes to Remember:
- Leaders are influencers and leaders create change.
- Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. - John Maxwell
- When you develop other people, that is when you’re really fulfilling your opportunity to be a great leader.
- All of our actions are based on motivation.
Journal Prompts:
- Am I adaptable or stuck in my ways? How can I improve my adaptability?
- How can I use AI to leverage my skills and/or increase my productivity?
- How can I consistently learn and develop as a leader?
- What can I do today to impart my wisdom and knowledge on other people?
Connect with Anna:
Monday Morning Mojo Facebook Group
Watch the Monday Morning Mojo Video on YouTube
To learn more about coaching with Anna visit coachannagibbs.com
To learn more about the supplements and products Anna uses to improve her overall health and well-being visit: https://plexusworldwide.com/annagibbs
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