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Embracing Pain and Loss With Bevin Mugford


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Bevin is a dynamic executive with over 15 years of experience in leading people, building high-performance teams, and developing innovative sales/learning solutions. Known for her creativity, curiosity, high-energy and unwavering optimism, she is passionate about investing in others to facilitate human breakthroughs that drive high-performance business results. For the last three years, she has walked a personal growth journey after losing one of her children to a traumatic drowning incident. Learning how to address and talk about this painful aspect of her personal life has led her to discover the powerful impact of connecting with others from a place of authenticity and vulnerability in both personal and professional settings.  Bevin is Chief Growth Officer and founding team member for a culture-first, mission-driven,  venture-backed women’s apparel start-up, Peach. She is the host of a weekly podcast-style chat called “Thursday Thrive” based upon the tenants of Positive Psychology and author of a weekly  “Saturday Meditation” blog chronicling her journey through child-loss.



Episode Highlights:


  • How she got into the world of real estate. (4:24)
  • What is the worst thing that you can imagine in your mind? (9:56)
  • We are all lost travelers and everyone has lost. (14:53)
  • How are you? Is it a greeting or an assessment? (20:42)
  • How do we embrace external relationships that aren’t as close as your family? (26:27)
  • Give yourself permission to speak your truth in the moments where you need it. (32:06)
  • What got you here isn’t going to get you there. (37:19)
  • We all struggle to find the balance that creates happiness. (42:30)
  • What is the journey that you have to walk in order to get better? (46:46)

  • Key Takeaway:


    Journey in life includes inevitable pain and loss. However, there's no need to compare each other's tragedies as we have different various points of reference. We are so caught up in letting the pain go but the reality is that we should be able to maneuver things while feeling what we should feel. What's important is we put into conversation the things that unsettle us and learn how to handle them.


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