End the Hustle

Just like nature has seasons so do our lives. When we learn to work with our own seasons amazing things happen. Surrendering to our winter seasons knowing that summer will come is life changing. 

Learning to rest in our winter seasons gives us the energy and insight for our summer seasons. 

Stephen Pressfield- The War of Art
Kate Northrup- Origin Community

There are so many AHA moments in this episode I don't know where to begin I just urge you to listen. Make sure you're not distracted because you won't want to miss a minute of this conversation. How do you block out the noise to sit, relax, feel the moment and sink into your me-time? Today’s guest, Dana Inouye, shares her journey as a parent and the tools she uses to seek full feminine energy amid the toxicity of life under the patriarchal society.

Dana is a mother, Activation and Empowerment coach, and a mentor. As an active member of the Rewilding group, she helps women from all walks of life- mothers, homemakers, entrepreneurs- to achieve their highest potential, be the best versions of themselves, and tap into the giant that resides inside.

TAKEAWAYS:

1.   Introducing Dana. (00:00:42)

2.   Standard Interview. (00:02:03)

3.   “Mom-identity”. (00:03:05)

4.   The idea of “doing from doing versus doing from being.” (00:07:06)

5.   Where does your inspiration come from? (00:07:25)

6.   How Dana helps people end the hassle thru her work? (00:19:47)

7.   “…Do it with attention and intention, and savor it.” (00:20:36)

8.   The reason why going into the wholeness of emotional spectrum is so vital. (00:21:16)

9.   The “high-vibes.” (00:21:50)

10.   “Anger serves a purpose.” (00:22:38)

11.   We have emotions for a reason! (00:23:36)

12.   The problem with a “culture of toxic positivity.” (00:24:40)

13.   “Getting off of what we don’t want in order to get what we want.” (00:29:34)

14.   The exercise or tools to start baby steps. (00:35:37)

15.   Trauma gets trapped in our body! (00:41:39)

16.   Where to find Dana. (00:47:20)

Today's guest is Dr. Sweta Chawla - a speaker, an author, and a life and leadership coach for highly driven professionals. Her experience includes a very successful decade long career as a professor of pharmacy. 

Join us as she reflects on her journey helping other women deal with their daily struggles to achieve their best possible life along. She also shares some tools she uses for her clients.   

TAKEAWAYS: 

1. Introducing Dr. Sweta (1:00) 
2. “Anyone who’s grown up as an immigrant knows that hard work is like the number one value.”  (2:58) 
3. “I birth him, but he gave me life!” (5:06) 
4. We just get so caught up in the rat race that the thing that we’re missing is ourselves. (7:48) 
5. So many women, especially hassle women, tend to be focused on other people and outer goals. (9:10) 
6. My season of success framework. (10:22) 
7. “When you go deeper into the heart and when you go bigger into kind of looking at how life is leading you, it feels incredibly elusive.” (10:43) 
8. Holy bridge. (11:46) 
9. “Our structures are created by men but we don’t operate like men.” (13:52) 
10. Powerful ideas to reflect on. (15:02) 
11. Creating with frequency over forms. (19:28) 
12. The false sense of security. (21:48) 
13. You can do scary things with support. (22:20) 
14. “At some point, we just need to learn how to be with the fear.” (22:41) 
15.  Connecting more with ourselves. (26:05) 
16. Get[ting] more intimate with yourself…. gives some attention to parts of yourself that never got to be expressed. (40:21) 
17. How to ignite a vision. (41:37) 
18. “When you hassle less, you free up so much energy that you start to become creative.” (55:00) 
19. Creativity is part of nature. (56:56) 
20. “Give yourself permission to disconnect from the outer noise so that you can connect to your own inner wisdom, your own inner space.” (59:33) 

REFERENCE: 

1. BOOK: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For. Now What? (21 Days to Clarity and Confidence) by Dr. Sweta  
2. BOOK: She’s Got This! by Dr. Sweta 
3. WEBSITE: https://www.drswetacoach.com/seasonsgifts 

EPISODE#03 

Claire Crum, Founder and CEO of Calm Ops, will help you switch from an existence that merely react to a life that fulfills. 

Join us in this episode as we discuss the Importance of Delegating or Outsourcing tasks others can do better, Intentionally Pausing for a moment to gain clarity of mind, and saying “No” to opportunities not aligned with your goal.   

TAKEAWAYS: 

1. It’s about being intentional with what you’re doing with both your monetary budget as well as time budget. (7:54) 
2. Introducing Claire. (8:31) 
3. Unravel the spaghetti in your brain. (10:41) 
4. Strategic mapping. (11:29) 
5. Client support and care management. (11:36) 
6. “The Master Mind”. (13:10) 
7. The success journey of Claire’s business. (18:52) 
8. Where to invest as solo-entrepreneur. (21:00) 
9. “Some people can see the whole forest but having a hard time focusing on individual trees.” (24:59) 
10. Everybody thinks about things in different ways. (25:17) 
11. “My pauses have been my greatest gift.” (31:44) 
12. “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.” (34:44) 
13. “Out of a hundred things I was asked to do, I say no to 99 of them.” By Warren Buffet 

REFERENCE: 

1. https://clairecrum.com/ 

EPISODE#02: INTERVIEW WITH SANDA SKORO 

“We have to realize that we are part of nature and that nature has its cycle.”  - Sanda Skoro 

Tune in this episode as Sanda and I discuss the Four Seasons of life: its importance and how it affects 

other aspects such as business, and what we can do during specific seasons like winter (dark) and the 

menstrual (bleeding) cycle. We also delve deeper into understanding the feminine energy. 

TAKEAWAYS: 

1. Introducing Sanda Skoro. (00:40) 
2. You’re okay the way you are. You’re enough! (2:19) 
3. We teach what we need to learn. (2:33) 
4. “Each one of us is a powerful creator.” (3:28) 
5. We can’t be on all the time. We have to rest and we have to respect our nature.  (3:40) 
6. Our business is just an extension of who we are. (3:49) 
7. Everyone defines success in a different way. (4:27) 
8. How can somebody easily gets started with working with the cycle and how to keep it simple? (6:00) 
9. “We have to realize that we are part of nature and that nature has its cycle (4 seasons).” (6:06) 
10. The menstrual cycle. (9:07) 
11. “We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be learning.” (15:08) 
12. “Surrender.” (18:50) 
13. Control is just an illusion. (19:21) 
14. “Whenever there’s a lack of something, there’s also an abundance of something else.” (25:00) 
15. Advice for those experiencing winter season in their lives. (27:10) 
16. Give yourself some grace. (27:10) 
17. Comfort is over rated. (27:25) 
18.  You are not a human doing, you are a human being. (31:58) 
19. What does it mean to work with the feminine energy and how to incorporate it in our lives? (33:10) 
20. Feminine energy is all about allowing and not demanding. (33:49) 
21. It’s all about collaborating! We’re not supposed to create everything by ourselves. (35:44) 
22. We should heal before we proceed. (46:04) 
23. You have to feel the feeling first. (26:27) 

REFERENCE: 

1. BOOK: Do Less By Kate Northup 
2. BOOK: The Gentle Sleep Book By Sarah Ockwell-Smith 

In this episode your host Angela Accomando will introduce herself, tell you a little bit about her and what to expect from this podcast moving forward.