In this episode of the podcast, I'm being a bit reflective and sentimental, looking back on the life I've created and the little girl version of my who dreamt that it would one day be a “thing” to be a woman in business creating her own rules…
You see, Ive never been an “or” kind of girl ….
I'm more of an “and” type
So, as I kid I wanted to grow up and become a magazine editor, and a film director, and a radio host, and a lawyer, and a graphic designer, and a photographer, and a model, and a fashion designer, and a flight attendant, and a marketing expert, and an author and a CEO
One career path was never going to be enough for me
Waiting around for someone see to give me permission, to choose me … was never going to work for me
I gave myself permission
I choose MYSELF
And here we are today… I might not have officially ticked off every career I dreamed abut as an ambitious six-year-old, but I now realise all the time I spent playing “magazine editor” doing photo shoots for my sister or rounding up my friends to make our own detective movie on my mum's cam corder …
It all leads to here… today,
where I am paid to show up in the world and create, inspire, empower, do be and have ALL of this.
When my workday involves writing my next best selling book, creating beautiful graphics and ebooks for clients, one on one coaching, and business consulting, meetings, business lunches, events and yes even photoshoots that are now my new normal
I'm tempted to want to pinch myself because I “don't believe it”
But the truth is, I do believe it, I choose it, I decided it, I took inspired action every single day and I am so grateful to still every day to call this life mine.
6 year old me, who dreamed of “and” instead of “or” would be so proud.
So give yourself permission
Choose YOU
Create that dream job, that lifestyle you crave
If people can make 6 figures selling pictures of their feet online, there are no limits to what you can do babe
So go get it.
x Shona
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