Enoughness with Lisa Carmen Wang

Lisa shares a few of her important reflections from 2020 and how she has shifted her mindset to live powerfully and purposefully in 2021 in a conversation with David Nebinski from The Portfolio Podcast. She discusses:

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Everyone’s felt it. The voice in your head reminding you that you don’t belong. That voice can be quiet at times and deafening at others, and it seems that the only way to shut it down is by gaining the validation of others. When someone validates you, those negative thoughts are silenced, but only temporarily. The real remedy is to commit to living consciously. In other words, to actively choose how you live your life without allowing others’ opinions to dictate your priorities.

My guest today is Cat Hernandez. She is a Partner at The Venture Collective and a long time operator and investor. She believes that venture capitalists are responsible for investing in companies that are creating a positive impact and reducing inequality in society.

In this episode, we discuss:

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Ally Brooke first burst onto the music scene as a member of Fifth Harmony. Since then she has embarked on a solo career, releasing her own hit singles, joining the twenty-eighth season of Dancing with the Stars, and showing people everywhere the rewards of hard work and faith. In this episode, Lisa and Ally talk about overcoming the pressure to be perfect, overcoming body shame, and how to stay true to yourself while in the face of external forces. They discuss:

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The fear of failure is often more paralyzing than actually failing. Fear is what holds us back, not failure. Fear keeps us from living our truth and acting on new ideas. Failure gives us the opportunity to learn from our mistakes and apply our learnings to something better. Where would any of us be if we always let the fear of failure be bigger than the opportunity to succeed?

When we visualize the future, our anxieties can feel so physically heavy on our shoulders that it keeps us stagnant. Often, we look at other people, and deeply believe that we could never do what they did. In this Enoughness episode, Lisa chats with Tina Cheng, a serial entrepreneur and mother, about how she’s shed the fears of starting a new business and how she’s allowed herself to explore the unknown. They explore how building multiple businesses and experiencing both success and failure shaped her into the woman she is today. They discuss:

Traditional love stories make us believe that two people fall in love and live happily ever after. The reality of modern dating is the exact opposite -  failed communication, suboptimal timing, bad texting, cheating, and misunderstandings - every once in awhile a love story succeeds, but now, even the definition of a successful relationship is up for interpretation. A ring on her finger and a nice house are no longer the ultimate goals, and as more women prioritize their careers and become financially independent, what does a real partner look like? 

In this episode, Lisa chats with award-winning storyteller Vika Viktoria about how they are reclaiming their voices and re-writing their own life stories - romantically, professionally, and personally. They discuss:

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Every narrative we tell ourselves benefits us in some way - even the negative ones. It's easy to take the role of the victim. When we normalize negative self-talk and blaming other people for our problems, we forsake the burden of responsibility for our own lives. It's easier to sit back, but in doing so we also give up our #power and #agency.  

In this week's episode of the #Enoughness podcast Lisa conducts a live coaching session with several female leaders in her coaching program. Learn more and work with Lisa at Lisawang.co/coaching

Without realizing it, most of us fall into the rat race. Chasing a life that we believe is shinier, better than our present one. But what is it that you're chasing? Is it more money? More recognition? More awards? And if so, what would attaining those things bring you? Would it make you feel validated? Would it make you feel powerful and successful? 

In this episode, we discuss how to examine our goals and release our attachments to external validation and ego. Once we do, we can discover that these are sensations and feeling states that we already have within us. Nothing external can categorize or define us. 

Shalini Sarena Bahad is an international mindset coach, yoga teacher, holistic healer and entrepreneur. She believes deeply in the importance of taking care of yourself and keeping healthy along your growth and ascension journey.  We discuss:

Maitland Ward is a pornographic actress, formerly known as Rachel on the popular 90’s TV show Boy Meets World. When she hit her 30's, Maitland started feeling Hollywood’s pressure to suppress her sexuality. Instead of accepting the roles forced on her, she made the decision to dive into the adult film industry and reclaim her sexual power. Maitland is the recipient of XBIZ Award for Best Actress in a Feature Movie, based off her most recent film Drive. Today she is building the bridge between mainstream and pornographic entertainment, releasing women from the sexual shame that has pervaded society for far too long. In this episode you will hear about:

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Lisa realizes she has been contradicting her own advice around enoughness. In her first public confession as an overachiever, she owns up to the reality that she continues to struggle with not feeling good enough, and even when she thought she overcame the feeling, it came back to slap her in the face. In the midst of trying to scale her business, write multiple books, and launch several new projects, Lisa faces the hard fact that sometimes trying to do it all doesn’t lead to more success, just more exhaustion. She discusses:

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What does it take to win? What does it take to become one the most legendary teams in history? If there’s one team that can answer that, it’s the Chicago Bulls. Known as one of the NBA's greatest dynasties, the Bulls won six NBA championships between 1991 and 1998 with two three-peats. The Bulls are the only NBA team to win multiple championships while never losing an NBA Finals series in their history.

Today’s guest is Bill Cartwright, he is a retired Chicago Bulls Player and Head Coach. He played 16 seasons for the New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls and Seattle SuperSonics, and helped the Bulls capture three consecutive championships.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

- How to have a winning mindset at any stage in life

- The importance of appreciating your teammates and coaches

- The untold story of The Chicago Bulls in Michael Jordan’s ‘The Last Dance’ Documentary

I hope this episode reminds you that you have capability to win at whatever you pursue, so long as you want it badly enough.

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