In Episode 11, Jessica risks a Brené Brown “vulnerability hangover” and dives into the topic no one wants to admit to but everyone experiences in some way: failure. This episode covers professional and personal failures, when what looks like success is actually failure, how we forget to give ourselves credit for the successes we do have, and some secrets to *real* success. This is an episode for…everyone: the people who won’t admit they’re failing, everyone who struggles, and everyone who wants to succeed in achieving peace, joy, belonging, and meaning in their lives (isn’t that all of us?).

And amidst the heavy topic—yes, there is even some Taylor Swift singing and humorous feline interruption. 

Topic: Failure—Career, Financial, Emotional, Relational

00:30 The musical titular guest not on this episode

1:35 Failure: the thing no one wants to talk about

5:20 How most of us are failing in five big areas

8:50 When you can't see your forest of successes for the failure trees

11:52 A little secret to real success

14:33 Normalizing failure, and inviting it in for tea

Quotes:

“A lot of us, I think, don’t even want to admit the failures, and therefore don’t look at the lessons either. Because I think if you bypass one—meaning, really reckoning with our failure and vulnerability, I suspect you also bypass the real lessons and learnings."

"The thing is, we all want to feel successful, right? But there’s a little secret that I’ve learned—what we really want is the inner state of being that accompanies the successes we think we want.”

“It’s important to remember that there are many kinds of success. And there are many kinds of failure, and sometimes what looks like success is failure, and sometimes what looks like failure is a success in its own way. Maybe the person who looks like they’re failing professionally is succeeding massively in ways that the professional badass is totally failing at.”

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