Resilience starts with Mental Fitness

Mental fitness is a measure of your mental muscles, your sage (positivity) versus the negative. Saboteurs react to challenges in ways that generate negative emotions. Your sage handles challenges through positive emotions. The relative strength of your positive sage versus negative saboteurs is called PQ. The positive intelligence quotient and PQ is a measure of mental fitness. It’s a predictor of how happy you are and how well you perform relative to your potential.

Research shows that PQ significantly increases with practice and habits.

Are you struggling with…

  • Feeling like an imposter

  • Increased stress & uncertainty

  • Emotional dysregulation

  • Trying to control people or situations

  • Saying yes when you want to say no

  • Judging yourself or others

  • Avoiding difficult conversations

  • Procrastinating more than you think you should

  • Feeling overwhelmed

  • Overall negativity or a critical spirit

  • Fear and hesitation that is holding you back

The source of these problems is NOT a lack of training or skill; it is a lack of “Mental Fitness,” the ability to respond to life’s challenges with a positive mindset.

This is Kingdom mindset work!

This is the foundation to tap into Kingdom Resilience.

Most training creates short-lived positivity that fizzles soon after the event.

Here at Her Catalyst Coaching, we are passionate about transformation over transaction!

Breakthroughs in neuroscience and behavior management have revealed a proven process for bringing out the best in people consistently and bringing increased resilience to their work, life, and relationships.

The best news is, science is finally giving us proven new ways to harness powerful truths that radically change how YOU show up in the world.

Your mind is your best friend. But it can also be your worst enemy.


Positive Intelligence (PQ) Coaching

  • Saboteur Interceptor Muscle

    Week 1

    Through a breakthrough process called PQ® Reps, you get to boost your Self-Command muscle. Each PQ® Rep only takes 10 seconds and can be done with eyes open or closed. With each PQ® Rep, you develop greater mastery over your own mind, quiet the negative, and activate the positive region of your brain.

    * There is no obligation. The button below will also take you to our partner’s website for the assessment.

  • Self Command Muscle

    Week 2-3

    You get to intercept your top Saboteurs the moment they try to hijack your thoughts, feelings, and actions. In preparation for this practice, you get to expose the lies, limiting beliefs and damage of your Saboteurs, so they can no longer fool you into thinking they are helpful to you.

  • Sage Muscle

    Week 4-6

    You get to practice the Sage Perspective that every problem or challenge can be converted into a gift and opportunity. And you get to generate the gift through the 5 Sage Powers of Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, and Activate.

  • Grow

    Week 7-8

    Use your sage’s navigation and activation powers to take clear-headed, laser-focused, decisive action aligned with meaning and purpose. Discover how your sage generates your highest performance while enjoying every step of the process.

    Learn to continue using your PQ tools for a variety of work and life applications to solidify peak performance, effective communication, stress management, conflict mitigation, and relationship building.

You have authority over your thoughts

Scientists and psychologists are now able to pinpoint the regions of the brain involved in producing different thoughts or feelings and identify the neural functions involved with the activation of positive and negative thoughts in PQ. If your negative thoughts have become an automatic habit, that’s a saboteur.

Your saboteurs generate all your negative emotions including…

  • Saying yes when you want to say no

  • Judging yourself or others

  • Avoiding difficult conversations

  • Procrastinating more than you think you should.   

Mental fitness requires the ability to intercept and discredit the saboteurs.

Start increasing your Positive Intelligence by taking the free saboteur assessment. This assessment will tell you which of your saboteurs are most active for you personally.

* There is no obligation. The button below will also take you to our partner’s website for the assessment.

What is Positive Intelligence

You may have gone through trainings that created short lived positivity that fizzled soon after you’ve completed it, but our program is designed to last a lifetime by empowering you.

Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and behavior management reveal a proven process for bringing out the best in people consistently and bringing an increased resilience to their work through mental fitness.

From Surviving to Thriving

Research has revealed that there are 10 negative response factors (10 saboteurs) and only 5 positive response factors (5 sage powers). Understanding these root factors dramatically simplifies both personal and professional development because we’re rewiring the brain at the root level rather than treating symptoms.

How are you currently dealing with:

  • anxiety

  • stress

  • self-doubt

  • anger

  • shame

  • guilt

  • frustration

Are you simply surviving with negative emotions that are only helpful for a second as they alert you to dangers? Staying in these emotions limits your ability to see clearly and choose the most impactful response.

Wouldn’t you rather live with positive emotions while handling life’s challenges? Those emotions include:

  • empathy

  • compassion

  • gratitude

  • curiosity

  • the joy of creativity

  • calm, clear-headed, laser-focused action

Wire your brain for creativity and big picture awareness of what’s important to discover your best course of action.

Resilient Mindset Boot Camp

Resilient Mindset Boot Camp

If you’re ready to dive into an 8-week program that will support your ability to react positively (rather than negatively) to any of life’s challenges, you’ve come to the right place.

I’m grateful and excited for the opportunity to offer the flagship Positive Intelligence® program on Mental Fitness as part of my coaching practice.

Quick FAQ’s

Is this the right program for me?

This is the right program for you if you are:
a) committed to improving your performance and effectiveness dramatically while reducing stress,
b) looking for a science-based and trusted system to make it stick, and
c) willing to put in the initial effort to rewire years of mental habits that don’t serve you.

Aren't negative emotions sometimes helpful?

Some people believe that negative emotions are helpful. For example, they think stress gives them their performance edge, or beating themselves or others up is helpful for continual improvement.
Feeling pain for a split second when your hand touches a hot stove is indeed useful, delivering an important alert. But your Saboteurs keep your hand on the hot stove, continuing to feel negative emotions which harm both performance and happiness.
In this program we learn to use negative emotions as a helpful alert, and then quickly shift to the positive region of the brain that has the calm clarity, objectivity, and creativity to handle the challenge most effectively.

How much time and effort is required?

You’d be committing to watching a 1-hour video once per week and doing a combined total of 15 minutes per day of practice guided by the Positive Intelligence app exclusively designed for this program. In addition, you’ll have a weekly accountability group meeting that will last no more than an hour.

This might sound like a lot of time. In fact, cumulatively, it constitutes less than 2% of your awake time for the duration of the program. Please consider that your Saboteurs are costing you far more than 2% of your time, effort, energy, and productivity. Consider how much more than 2% of time and productivity this eight-weeks investment will save for years to come.

Who will lead the Positive Intelligence® Program?

Amber Schumacher and assistant coach Kristina Erickson will personally facilitate each of the accountability group meetings and will be available to you at all times to answer questions.

Shirzad Chamine, author of Positive Intelligence, will conduct each of the weekly video sessions. Shirzad will also participate daily in the exclusive online community of the program participants to answer questions, provide coaching, and cheer you on.

How is this different from reading the book?

You’d never learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book about it. You’ll be asked to read the first 8 chapters of the book while participating in the program. The book provides the research foundation and introduces the tools. The video session guides you through experiential exercises that help you personalize the tools to your own personality and needs. And the app coaches you to practice one tool at a time in the context of your own daily work and life challenges.

Get rooted in resilience and harness your superpowers to live an abundant life in every scenario