The Company You Keep: Designing Your Social Environment - E6

Health coach Victoria Lyon explores how the people and communities we choose shape our habits, beliefs, and sense of possibility. Rather than judging friends as good or bad influences, she invites listeners to notice who they are when they’re with different people and what activities or norms spring up in each relationship. Drawing on concepts like Bandura’s self-efficacy and the idea of possible selves, she explains how seeing others do things provides vicarious evidence that those paths are attainable. The episode ends with practical prompts for auditing your social environment and suggestions for where to find people who model the lives you want. Connect with Victoria on Instagram @sweatshalom To see coaching offerings, visit @lyonstrong in IG Resources: About self efficacy: https://www.simplypsychology.org/self-efficacy.html Article referencing the first study I learned about related to social impact on health outcomes: https://www.scienceholic.org/post/your-friends-define-who-you-are-the-contagion-of-obesity