Join Karaleigh in an interview with the unstoppable Jen Underwood.

In this episode we talk about living the life you were meant to live, waking up to our actual lives, and learning to pursue our dreams.

Jen Underwood has spent 20+ years working in a basement hiding her true gifts and passions from the world.  It wasn’t until the last couple of years when she was writing a book to her son for his 18th birthday that she realized she wasn’t living a life of passion and purpose.  She set about to change that by starting a podcast called Shake Me Awake to share her journey of finally WAKING UP to her true potential.  She wants to take others on this journey with her. She is working on her coaching certificate to become a certified life coach, and a digital course on crafting a written legacy for your children.  Jen works full time, has two teenagers and a pug and way too many hobbies.  She loves thrifting, sewing, reading, writing, watching the same movies over and over, making lists, journaling, manifesting, buying office supplies, and coming up with new ideas for businesses she’ll never have the time to start. 

Favorite takeaways:

1. When you feel like no one is listening, when you feel like no one is watching, just wait. Because they are, they just aren’t announcing their presence yet. You have a bigger impact than you think you’re having.

2. We need to hear those same truths over, and over, and over, and over again. We need them pounded into our head: You can do it. It’s possible for you. Those dreams that you have in the back of your mind that you don’t think could ever possibly work- guess what. They can. You can have everything that you’ve ever wanted. It’s possible for you too. You are worthy too.

3. It takes inner work, but it also takes outer work. Community is so important, because if you’re operating in a vacuum and trying to create this new dream for yourself, you will get lost, you will spin out and you will spin down to I can’t do it, this is too stressful, I don’t believe in myself. But if you surround yourself with a community of people that are doing similar things, that are walking similar paths, like working on themselves and focusing on their future, those people will guide you and pick you up. When you’re in the deepest darkest, those are the people who shine the light.

4. You gotta wake up. You have to wake up and start living a life where you’re not shutting out the majority of you, and start living a true life, start living in your true spirit.

5. What am I doing with my life? What if I found out that I only had a year to live- how would I live my life differently? I have been sleepwalking through my life. It feels like I have been shaken awake by this experience that I went through and I can’t go back to sleep.

6. It’s time for us to wake up to what our actual dreams are for our lives. What do we want to do and who do we want to be? Stop sleepwalking through life. We are going to reach this point where we’re like, what happened? What happened to my life? Where did it go? It’s time to start living the life we want to live, like now. Like today.

7. Go where the energy leads you and you’ll never go wrong.

Be sure to listen to Jen’s podcast, “Shake Me Awake,” on your favorite platform now. You can also check out her website, www.shakemeawake.com and follow her on Instagram @ShakeMeAwakePodcast.

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