Brilliant Balance

In today's episode, we're diving into the topic of ageless ambition. Is it ever too late to pursue your dreams? Cherylanne reflects on her own dreams and aspirations that may have fallen by the wayside. But here's the thing - it's never too late to start dreaming and working towards those goals.

We will explore common beliefs that hold us back from chasing our dreams and discover why it's never too late to start pursuing what sets your soul on fire. Get ready to be inspired, motivated, and reignite your ambition. Let's be brilliant together!

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Show Highlights Include:

• Is it too late for my dreams? [00:01:16]
• Am I still cut out for this? [00:05:47]
• Investing in personal dreams: Is it worth the risk? [00:06:52]
• What will everyone think? [00:07:52]
• These successful women defied age expectations [00:11:38]
• What's holding you back from your dreams? [00:16:15]

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In this episode of the Brilliant Balance podcast, Cherylanne welcomes Dr. Dawn Mussallem, a remarkable woman who has triumphed over stage four cancer and a heart transplant. Their conversation is filled with inspiration, resilience, and a profound perspective on living a healthy and fulfilling life. Dr. Mussallem shares her own experiences and offers valuable insights on nutrition, spirituality, and the transformative power of organ transplantation.

This episode is a must-listen for women seeking motivation, guidance, and a reminder of the strength we hold within ourselves.

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Show Highlights Include:

• Transforming adversity into inspiration: Meet Dr. Dawn Mussallem [00:00:08]
• How do inherited emotions affect our well-being? [00:14:03]
• Overcoming tragedy and finding strength within grief [00:18:30]
• How a near-death experience can unlock beautiful stillness and love [00:21:47]
• Why a plant based diet is good for your health [00:32:37]
• The mysteries behind food choices and their consequences [00:37:02]
• The risks and benefits of different lifestyle choices [00:39:15]
• Why fitting into your old jeans might not be enough [00:42:17]
• What can you do to improve your health? [00:47:35]
• Perfect isn't necessary, but how important is it? [00:48:50]

Resources referenced in this show: https://www.mayoclinic.org. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-mussallem-do-dipablm-2b360b57/ https://lifestylemedicine.org/overview/. https://www.lisamillerphd.com.

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Have you ever been called "superwoman" and felt a burst of pride in your ability to get everything and anything done? But realize later that the feeling was overrated?

While considering yourself a "superwoman" gives you a short-lived rush, it also burdens you with heavy and unrealistic expectations.

These unrealistic expectations can riddle you with guilt. It can feel like you're failing at your job. But you're not. Because doing everything is not your job.

Here's the truth:

When others give you the "superwoman" tag, it gradually—then suddenly—takes a toll on your career, your relationships, and your health.

So, how do you balance your drive to overachieve with the real-world consequences of "Superwoman Syndrome."

In today's episode, you'll discover how to overcome your "Superwoman Syndrome" before it wrecks your career, relationships, and health. Plus, I reveal how to set realistic expectations so you don't fall into the trap of overachievement.

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Show Highlights Include:

• The 5 unrealistic characteristics of a 'superwoman' (and why you must quickly act to get rid of this burdening tag). (2:35)
• 5 drastic side effects "Superwoman Syndrome" has on your health, career and relationships. (6:44)
• Why these seemingly positive compliments can reinforce traditional gender stereotypes (and over-burdens you with unequal responsibilities). (12:45)
• 3 steps you can take to break free from unrealistic expectations put on you by society. (16:52)
• Why the 'superwoman' tag is not a compliment (how you can start to challenge it and save yourself from a cycle of overachievement). (20:33)

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There's a behavior almost all of us exhibit.

We delay decisions, because we're not sure what we want yet. And so much time flies by without any action taken, because we're still unsure, saying 'maybe'.

It could be an important decision to change careers, pick a course to study, or even something as simple as changing the furniture in your living room. But since you're unsure, you don't do it.

You say 'maybe'.

What you don't know is that your inability to say 'yes' or 'no' holds you back from achieving the level of transformation and growth possible for you. It's impossible to grow by saying 'maybe' and not committing to any one decision.

You have to say 'yes' or 'no'. You have to take that step forward. Because only you possess the power to change your life with a simple decision.

So what can you do to break out of that behavioral cycle of constantly saying 'maybe', and start making decisions that move your life forward?

In this episode, you'll discover why you're addicted to 'maybe.' You'll also figure out how to get yourself to eradicate indecision and finally take the steps that transform your life.

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Show Highlights Include:

• 3 recognizable patterns that keep you stuck at 'maybe' (and how these patterns slow your progress to a halt). (3:45)
• How having more than one option to choose from can paralyze you (and how to break out of this paralysis and make a decision). (4:05)
• How even your own brain works against you and keeps you from making bold choices that move the needle.(6:18)
• The 'time trap' most of us fall into when making decisions (and why you must develop the skill to make decisions now). (8:02)
• 3 techniques to eliminate the 'maybes' (so you can make decisions that give you consistent progress towards your goals). (10:44)
• The "Small Decisions" secret for achieving consistent progress (and why this works better than making big commitments). (16:03)

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You can be at the top of your career, successful, and great at what you do, and at the same time feel unsatisfied.

There's a time that comes when success is no longer enough. You could have achieved everything you'd ever dreamed of, accumulating wealth and accolades along the way, and it still may not be enough to satisfy you. You'll feel there's something more you could be doing.

Why?

If you're not making the impact you know you could be making on your family, yourself, and the world in general - despite the weight of your success, it could leave a bland taste in your mouth.

So when you get to that point, what do you do? How do you pivot and transition successfully into a career that allows you to create impact? How can you seek the life of significance that you crave?

That's what my guest today, Traci Barrett, will help us answer.

Traci is one of the co-founders of HGTV, and was involved in it right from the start, long before it exploded. She's a published author, speaker and a coach. She's worked in corporate America and has been a part of multiple successful startups, all while being an involved and present parent.

In this episode, Traci shares her core message about how to seek and find a life of significance using her own experience, in which she walked out of a very high paying job, and leveraged her existing skills to build a successful business.

Traci reveals how you can recognize when it's time to slow down when you're spread too thin, the best things to prioritize when choosing a career or building a business, and how to choose your next fulfilling path the right way.

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Show Highlights Include:

• This mindset trick every entrepreneur should adopt in order to be successful.(16:02)
• How to recognize when it's time to slow down at your career/business. (17:00)
• How Traci leveraged her existing skills to build a successful consulting business (and how you can do it too). (22:40)
• Why money and prestige is simply not enough, and what to prioritize in your career to ensure you feel successful and content no matter how much you make. (26:40)
• An actionable tip you can implement today to help you make the right choice on the next step to take in your career. (32:58)

For a discount on Traci's course, follow her on Instagram at instagram.com/tracisbarrett and DM her the word "Cherylanne"

To find Traci online visit her website at:

https://tracischubertbarrett.com

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Relaxing is an important, objectively beneficial activity to the human body.

But most of us can't take a proper break without feeling guilty. Somehow it always feels like there is something we've missed that needs to be done…urgently.

That's why we have to learn how to make the time to unwind and hold that time as sacred.

You can't do this until you unhook from a few false beliefs you might have about relaxing. These beliefs are things we tell ourselves that keep us from enjoying leisure time without feeling guilty.

It's not your fault. These beliefs are lodged firmly in us by messages we've absorbed over the years. Eventually, we start to believe them as the truth.

If you're having a hard time relaxing, I want you to think about your relationship with these messages and how they might be affecting you.

In this episode, you'll learn what they are and how you've absorbed them over time. You'll also learn how you can reprogram your mind with more helpful messages, so you can enjoy more fulfilling and rewarding leisure experiences.

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Show Highlights Include:

• 7 messages you may have absorbed that deny you proper relaxation (and how to reprogram your mind to get rid of them). (5:33)
• Why being constantly busy is viewed as a status symbol (and how this affects your ability to relax). (5:43)
• A harmful core belief you might have that makes you unable to accept help from anyone else. (7:26)
• The wide-spread 'self-soothing' coping mechanism among women that stops them from relaxing (and how to create your own tolerance against it). (8:37)
• Why you run a huge risk if you tie your self worth to productivity. (10:30)
• How your definition of leisure might be hindering you from being able to take a satisfying break (and what it should be instead). (13:43)

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We all experience difficult seasons in our lives.

It could be losing your job through downsizing, or significant health issues in your family or even a child leaving for college (sniff).

These hard experiences are just a part of life, and they won't stop coming our way even when we want them to.

They will always be there to challenge us.

And the truth is, the way we process experiences like this makes a huge difference in how well we move through them.

There are two sides we experience when we encounter situations like this. We tend to lean into one of them, but the key is to use both to effectively go through these hard experiences.

In this episode, you'll learn what these two sides are and how you can use them to process hard experiences, heartaches and disappointments.

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Show Highlights Include:

• Two primary lenses we use to process difficult experiences (and how you can leverage them to effectively overcome these experiences). (5:04)
• The best way to leverage the first lens (and what not to do when you're using it).(7:47)
• What to do if you can't easily access either of these two key lenses. (12:43)
• How we turned my uncles' heart attacks into a teachable moment, and how you can do the same for yourself. (14:17)
• How to use this second lens to feel a sense of agency over your life and future (18:42)

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Women generally hold themselves to certain standards that keep us seen as 'good' in the eyes of society. We try to play safe and only exhibit certain 'accepted' behaviors because of this.

But why?

Why do we hold ourselves to these standards and deprive ourselves of our essential wants, desires, and even dreams?

Elise Loehnen helps us dig deeply into that today. She's the owner of the podcast Pulling The Thread, a podcast dedicated to pulling apart the stories we tell about who we are and putting them back together. She's also the former host of the Goop podcast and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.

Elise helps us reconsider the origin of our desire to be seen as good, as girls and even as women. She challenges a number of long held beliefs, the historical context behind them, and whether it's still right to follow those structures.

She also reveals how you can break free of these high and unreasonable standards and expectations set by society for you, and trust your natural instincts, so you can live a more balanced, peaceful and spiritual life.

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Show Highlights Include:

• How women tend to be harder on women than men (and how it affects us negatively). (06:22).
• How you can flip your envy to a net positive and gain from it (instead of constantly simmering with jealousy). (14:32)
• The disparity between how society treats men vs. women (and how it's destructive). (17:34)
• The shocking origin of the seven deadly sins, and how it influenced our view of religion and the sexes today. (18:42)
• How we set high, unreasonable standards for what a good woman is for ourselves (and expect every other woman to live up to it). (29:07)
• The health effects of constantly denying yourself your essential needs and wants. (36:55)

For Elise's Book and Substack, link to:

https://eliseloehnen.com

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If you're listening to this, you probably procrastinate. Maybe in all aspects of your life, maybe in just one, but you do.

Because even if you have everything running on time and seemingly perfectly in your life, there are still areas in which you might procrastinate.

The truth is there are some psychological patterns that actually drive procrastination. And we don't always recognize them.

So we keep blaming ourselves and the wrong things for our constant procrastination.

But you don't have to anymore.

In this episode, you'll discover 5 little known patterns that bring procrastination into your life and how to work with them to snap out of that procrastination cycle.

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Show Highlights Include:

• 5 little-known patterns that drive procrastination. (2:34)
• Why it's not always a lack of self-discipline that makes you procrastinate (and a system you can implement to help your defeat procrastination) (2:59)
• Why we really put off starting new things (and how to know if this phenomenon is what makes you procrastinate) (6:16)
• How huge projects can completely 'paralyze' you (and what to do to snap out of this state) (10:17)
• How gunning for perfect outcomes keeps you from actually executing anything. (13:38)
• The first step you should take to help manage your procrastination. (20:35)

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The whole world has been abuzz about one movie for the past several weeks.

Barbie.

My entire team has been talking to me about it, my friends have been chattering about it, and my kids couldn't wait to see it, so I finally got myself to a theater to see what the hype was about!

And it was a beautifully produced, impressive movie.

I wasn't necessarily blown away in the theater, but after breaking it down more "book club style" with a few people, I realized Greta Gerwig (the director) is a genius. The level of sophistication with which she threaded important messages into this movie was next level.

Today I'll reveal three insights I picked up from the Barbie movie. See if they help you out here in the real world.

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Show Highlights Include:

• The striking similarity between Barbie's growth and the evolution of women over the years. (6:18)
• America Ferrera's exceptional monologue (and how it encapsulates the struggles of the average woman in today's society) (7:47)
• How you might make the mistake of giving away agency and control over your life (and Barbie's advice on how to seize it back). (9:43)
• A priceless resource you can use to navigate difficult areas in your life and leverage to accelerate your progress. (14:54)
• How the Barbie movie brilliantly uses satire to pass across these hidden messages and analogies. (16:38)

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