Embracing Enough

What happens when you tell and live your truth? You are in fact disrupting the status quo. And it's scary as hell.

In this solo episode, Dina reflects on what she has been reflecting on the hard truth of being a disrupter and what it takes to tell your truth.

She talks about why so many women who are disrupters - within their careers, to their families, to even in front of the mirror disrupting their own toxic thought patterns - can relate to how hard it can feel. Because to be a disrupter requires you to live by your truth.

She shares one of her favorite quotes by Muriel Rukeyser:

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open."

Our work as women is to name our fears of the world splitting open if we hsare our truth and help others and outselves to do it anyway. To see the ways in which we are silenced NOT as character flaws but as learned behaviors in a world that wants us quiet, compliant, and endlessly serving others’ needs before and instead of our own.

It is understandable, even to be expected — your fear of what might happen when/if you tell your truth. Still and always, it deserves to be spoken

In this episode, Dina shares three reminders to be aware of when you are leaning into the discomfort of telling your truth and disrupting the status quo. Because knowing/anticipating the “havoc” that will potentially result when you DO tell your truth is all the data you need to know this is EXACTLY what is

What you fear serves you. It’s a powerful form of discernment AND it’s the evidence that you can trust yourself and your truth enough to speak and live it.

What if the only person standing in your way was YOU?

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In this episode, Dina sits down with Mandy Harvey, a leader in the field of trauma healing. She is an in-demand inspirational speaker and specializes as a healing guide for highly sensitive, chronically stressed and perfectionist leaders who are ready to transform their physical and emotional pain into purpose. 

Partnering with the largest corporations in the world, Mandy trains and coaches leaders to help them clear past trauma and stuck emotions from their body and respond to office triggers in a whole new way. She also shares a powerful process to replace chronic fatigue and stress with energy to show up more powerfully, personally and professionally, creating the impact they are meant to make.

Mandy’s extraordinary story of transforming her own life from devastating childhood trauma and a near death experience to courageously choosing to face the past, heal, own her impact, and design the life of her dreams, is the inspiration behind her bold mission to teach others that it is possible to do the same. 

What if the only person standing in your way was YOU?

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In this episode, Dina sits down with long-time friend, Lina AbiRafeh to unpack what led her to pursue a career in women's rights and speaking up against violence against women.

In all honesty, when Dina met Lina over 20 years ago, she embodied disruption and being your own blueprint. Sitting across from Lina in London over coffee while she was pursuing her PhD, Dina looked up to Lina in so many ways - mostly for her brazen, tell it like it is way - that is just purely infectious.

An activist, academic, and an aid worker with a 25-year track record in creating positive change for women in over 20 countries around the world - Afghanistan, Haiti, Central African Republic, Papua New Guinea, and more - Lina speaks and publishes frequently on a range of women’s issues – on global stages and in the international media.

Lina is a force to be reckoned with. She is someone who is integral to the very thinking and action in the field of woman's rights. Not only will she tell it like it is, she'll give you a healthy dose of wit. And if you're fortunate to be invited to her home, she'll put out a huge spread.

A feisty disrupter herself, Lina shows us in the episode what disruption has looked like over the course of a career spanning over two decades and what disruption looks like now.

She has the unique ability to pull together the right people, in the right place and time to make phenomenal change happen.

To learn more about Lina, head over to her website at www.linabirafeh.com or follow her on Instagram at @linaabirafeh

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What if the only person standing in your way was YOU?

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In this solo episode, Dina unpacks 4 of the 8 stories she has found that women tend to tell themselves - the stories that hold them back from pursuing the dreams they have and keep them playing small.

If you are interested in learning how to rewrite your story by unlearning toxic thought patterns, jump into The Unlearning Lab Community here: https://keap.page/jvg567/june-2023-the-unlearning-lab.html

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In this week's episode, Dina sits down with Cristin Babb to unpack her take on disrupting systems, workplaces, and even the thoughts in your own mind.

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Identity can be a weird thing. The way we think of ourselves, how we define ourselves, the story we tell ourselves about who we are, all of that comes together to create our identity.

But what happens when we reach a crossroads where we are clear that we have to let go of a certain part of our identity - or pehaps all of it entirely?

In this solo episode, Dina unpacks a topic that doesn't get enough attention, and that's grief. But not in the sense you would think. We talk about grieving the loss of an identity we have let go of in order to move forward.

For many women, they have planted the seeds of courage to go after their truth and what truly matters to them. But it's not a process that is without its moments of uncertainty and doubt. It's a veritable rollercoaster of emotions. Mourning the loss of the person you used to be, the relationships that you built around that identity and the dreams that no longer serve you. And all the while, realizing that letting go is the only way to grow.

Dina shares how taking the time to reflect on your identity is not only necessary, it's a radical act of self-determination, acknowledging pieces that will never be the same and establishing new pieces of the self that are built on things that came before.

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In this week's episode, Dina sits down with Andrea Nakayama and unpacks her journey of starting the Functional Nutrition Alliance, arriving at this major pivot in her career in the most unique and unexpected of ways. After losing her young husband to a brain tumor in 2002, she discovered a passion for using food as personalized medicine and is now regularly consulted as the nutrition expert for the toughest clinical cases in the practices of many world-renowned doctors. She trains nearly four thousand practitioners each year in her methodologies so that they too can become the last stop for their clients and patients as well as a trusted referral partner for doctors in their area.

Andrea is a Functional Medicine Nutritionist and educator, who has led thousands of clients, and now teaches even more coaches and clinicians around the world in a revolution reclaiming ownership of both their own and their clients’ health. As the host of the 15-Minute Matrix Podcast and the founder and former CEO of Functional Nutrition Alliance, Andrea draws on systems biology, mental models, root cause methodology and the therapeutic partnership to offer long-awaited solutions for the rapidly growing chronic illness epidemic.

To follow Andrea's amazing work, follow her on Instagram at @functionalnutritionalliance or @andreanakayama and learn more about her amazing work at www.andreanakayama.com/

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In this week's episode, Dina sits down with friend, Michelle Madrid, an author, coach and motivational speaker. As an international adoptee herself, Michelle listens deeply to women and adoptees to help them get what they really want out of life, as they renew their joy and reignite their radiant light. In her own words, Michelle says: "I’m here to guide you to the abundance that you deserve, as you align yourself in mind, body, and spirit with your truest voice and identity."

Dina and Michelle talk about everything in this episode: from learning to love yourself, to getting off the hamster wheel of accomplishment and chasing what everyone expects you to chase, to letting go of the belief that "you should just be happy already", to being your most unapologetic self. We talk about what it took for Michelle to disrupt her own path to pursue her life's mission. 

Michelle will be releasing her new book in October 2023 through New World Library and more can be read about her on her website www.themichellemadrid.com

Follow Michelle on Instagram @themichellemadrid and on Facebook @letherbegreater

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Be sure to rate, review and subscribe to Embracing Enough and join the conversation with Enough Labs on Instagram @enoughlabs and via the website at www.enoughlabs.com and remember, never stop DISRUPTING!

For as long as I can remember, I have been the stereotypical “good girl.” While it's something I used to take pride in when I was younger, I'm now realizing how problematic it has been - in my friendships, in my relationships, and in my career. Being the good girl, or telling yourself you have no other choice comes at a cost: an immense amount of pressure, most of it self-inflicted.

As a person who has always strived to improve (mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, socially), I have often fallen into the trap of attempting perfection, which always ends in failure. People get disappointed with good girls - because it's impossible to be good ALL the time. Because being a “good girl” comes with a lot of pressure to be well-behaved, kind, generous, modest, enthusiastic, polite, and friendly at all times.

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In this week's episode, Dina sits down with Eleena Katz, a Certified Success and Life Coach who works with people to redefine their relationship with money and abundance. Dina and Eleena talk about why making more money doesn't create more safety for you, that wealth is a mindset, and how to recognize what enough looks and feels like without attaching a number to it. You're going to love this conversation!

As a Certified Success & Life Coach, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnotherapy Practitioner, Eleena is dedicated to utilizing her training, ever-evolving experience, and intuition to help people break free from money blocks keeping them in stress and lack, and feel empowered, confident, and calm with money, so they become truly financially unf*ckwithable.

When she's not helping her clients get empowered with money, Eleena loves hiking in the Colorado desert, spending time with her partner and pup, and letting her inner child play at weekly game nights with friends.

Join Eleena on March 23 for a Money Visioning Party! https://bit.ly/3T83pNB

And be sure to connect with Eleena on her website www.eleenakatz.com and on Instagram and Facebook @eleenakatz. Also, be sure to check out her podcast, Choose Abundance, available everywhere!

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