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Finding Purpose When Your Dreams Don’t Come True with Rianna Hijlkema
Join Karaleigh in a remarkable interview with Rianna Hijlkema. Rianna is a multi-passionate serial entrepreneur living a nomadic life for the past 11 years. Traveling to 40+ countries and working on four continents has taught her to approach life (and business) with resourcefulness and resilience.
But, nothing could have prepared her for involuntary childlessness. The rollercoaster of emotions is hard to grasp for the outside world.
Nowhere could she find women who understood the challenges she was facing, so she went through most of it alone. Rianna figured out how to thrive and made it her life’s mission to help others do the same through speaking, writing and her walking & hiking retreats for women who are childless not by choice. Favorite takeaways: 1. He said something that I’ll never forget. He said, “You can do hard. You’ve done hard before.” 2. Accept. Acknowledge the situation. Focus on what you can control. Have expectations with compassion. Create positive feelings. Find your tribe. 3. It doesn’t look the way I wanted it to, but there is still a gift in this. There is still beauty in it even though it looks a different way. 4. Start chasing feelings instead of goals. 5. You cannot wait for other people to make you happy- it just doesn’t work like that. It needs to come from the inside, so you need to go inside and see what lights you up. 6. This is not the end. This is not the end of your story- there is so much beauty in the future. 7. Choosing is so powerful. Live a created life and don’t live by default. Really be conscious how you want to create your life, what you want it to look like, and do that. 8. We have only one lifetime and life is too short to waste it. This is now my time to start living. There’s gonna come a moment where you’re gonna step up and say now it’s time to live again. 9. I’m creating an extraordinary life despite not having what I wanted the most. It’s both. And it’s ok now. 10. We need to be heard in our stories, we need to be heard in our pain. That’s how we begin to dissolve it- as we are able to express it and be heard. Find more from Rianna at http://Riannahijlkema.com and Karaleigh at karaleighgarrison.com.
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Join Karaleigh in a remarkable interview with Rianna Hijlkema. Rianna is a multi-passionate serial entrepreneur living a nomadic life for the past 11 years. Traveling to 40+ countries and working on four continents has taught her to approach life (and business) with resourcefulness and resilience.
But, nothing could have prepared her for involuntary childlessness. The rollercoaster of emotions is hard to grasp for the outside world.
Nowhere could she find women who understood the challenges she was facing, so she went through most of it alone. Rianna figured out how to thrive and made it her life’s mission to help others do the same through speaking, writing and her walking & hiking retreats for women who are childless not by choice. Favorite takeaways: 1. He said something that I’ll never forget. He said, “You can do hard. You’ve done hard before.” 2. Accept. Acknowledge the situation. Focus on what you can control. Have expectations with compassion. Create positive feelings. Find your tribe. 3. It doesn’t look the way I wanted it to, but there is still a gift in this. There is still beauty in it even though it looks a different way. 4. Start chasing feelings instead of goals. 5. You cannot wait for other people to make you happy- it just doesn’t work like that. It needs to come from the inside, so you need to go inside and see what lights you up. 6. This is not the end. This is not the end of your story- there is so much beauty in the future. 7. Choosing is so powerful. Live a created life and don’t live by default. Really be conscious how you want to create your life, what you want it to look like, and do that. 8. We have only one lifetime and life is too short to waste it. This is now my time to start living. There’s gonna come a moment where you’re gonna step up and say now it’s time to live again. 9. I’m creating an extraordinary life despite not having what I wanted the most. It’s both. And it’s ok now. 10. We need to be heard in our stories, we need to be heard in our pain. That’s how we begin to dissolve it- as we are able to express it and be heard. Find more from Rianna at http://Riannahijlkema.com and Karaleigh at karaleighgarrison.com.