Flow Into Authenticity

In this episode, we interview Tara Clark, creative entrepreneur and founder of Tara Shakti, a company that creates stunning ski suits with the purpose of building confidence, connection, and community. Tara is an incredible inspiration, we talk about:

• How Tara navigated her atypical creative and entrepreneurial journey
• How to discover and follow your uniqueness
• Why sitting in the unknown is important to the journey
• How we can stand firm in our truth when others around us doubt us
• Why getting out of our comfort zone is so important

Links

• Tara Shakti website www.tarashakti.com
• Tara's IG TaraShakti (@tarashaktiski)
• Intuitive goal-setting workshop - www.flowintoauthenticity.com/courses
• Esther's IG - instagram.com/estherloopstraart/
• Esther's YouTube Channel youtube.com/estherloopstra
  
• Leslie's website www.leslieblu.com
• Allison's website www.allisonhenrich.com

Editing by James Whetzel

“Crushing it” is overrated - Creating your personal mission statement
The old model of goal-setting teaches us to look outside ourselves and set goals based on what others have done. Having a personal mission statement can help us to decide what we want and intuitively move toward our intentions.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why the old model of goal setting doesn't work for many people
• Why personal mission statements matter
• Why setting intentions helps us to guide decision making
• How to intuitively create goals
• How to discover your personal mission statement
• Why connecting with your values matters

Show notes links:

• Mission Statement https://blogs.ams.org/mathmentoringnetwork/2020/04/23/a-mathematicians-mission-statement/
• Intuitive Goal Setting Workshop - https://www.flowintoauthenticity.com/intuitive-goal-setting

In this episode, we talk about Core Values and how they guide us on our path to getting unstuck and creating a life we love.

We discuss:

- How to identify core values
- Why our values help us
- Examples of our values and how they help us navigate life
- How Covid helped us recognize our core values
- How we can pivot when we realize our values
- Our values can help us make time for what's important in our life

“I’m a much better version of myself when I have less on my plate” — Leslie Blumenstein

Links:
learn what your values are with this FREE WORKSHOP - https://flowintoauthenticity.teachable.com/p/values

Crisis suicide life line - 988

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https://www.flowintoauthenticity.com/
https://www.instagram.com/estherloopstraart/
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As we head into the winter season (in the northern hemisphere) we wanted to talk about how to navigate the dark seasons in our life. Are you going through a difficult time right now? If we think of our lives as seasons of growth and expansion, in winter, it’s normal to feel depressed, unmotivated, confused, frustrated, or like nothing is ‘happening’ but actually, this season is the very first step in creating something new in your life!

In this first episode of Season 2, we talk about:

- What feeling stuck is trying to tell you
- How our culture shies away from talking about darkness
- Reimagining our 'dark' times as the winter season
- What wants to bloom next from you?
- What to do and not do in these frustrating times
- How curiosity and exploration can be the first step
- How each one of us has used meditation and other resources during our dark times

Suicide and crisis lifeline: 988
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Once you’ve gotten clarity about what you need and have explored your options, done your research, and made connections with people who can help you start to see what your next step looks like, there’s only one thing left to do: Work it! In this episode, we talk about:

⭐️Moving from dreaming and learning to taking the first concrete step on your new path
⭐️Building capacity for taking bigger risks
⭐️Letting go of the idea of achieving a specific outcome
⭐️The importance of learning from failure

Getting to a better place in your life might not look like how you imagined it. Sometimes, when we open up to new possibilities, we find authentic ways of pursuing our passions that we had never dreamed of before. In this episode, we talk about the importance of opening up, expanding our ideas about what is possible.

In this episode we talk about:
⭐️ How to transition to living a more authentic life using the FLOW process
⭐️ How opening up to possibilities helps you find focus in your life
⭐️ Allowing life to support you in the phase of your life
⭐️ How knowing your values helps you find your next step
⭐️ Creating community to support us during this transition
⭐️ How not get stuck in overwhelm
⭐️ Listening to your intuition to what’s next
⭐️ Doing the prep work to know what you want so that the universe can help bring it to you

Everyone needs to take a little mental health break sometimes, including your Flow into Authenticity hosts. In this episode, we hit pause and talk about anxiety, depression, chronic illness, parenthood, grief, and more. What happens when "life gets too life-y"? How do we keep moving forward when we're struggling? How can we reconnect with our creativity, our passions, and our values? (Hint: Find the F!)
In this episode we talk about:
⭐️ How to achieve your goals when you have chronic illness
⭐️ Depression, anxiety, neurodivergence, and hard times
⭐️ How do we keep moving forward when we are struggling?
⭐️ How to re-think working in a traditional way
⭐️ Seeing creativity as a process
⭐️ Leaning into the thing that’s blocking you
⭐️ How your values can get you through hard times
⭐️ Why quiet and meditation help creativity
⭐️ How to use ‘curiosity questions’ to find solutions
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Find out more:
https://www.flowintoauthenticity.com/
https://www.instagram.com/estherloopstraart/
https://www.youtube.com/estherloopstra

Are you procrastinating on something in your life? Feeling guilty about it? Maybe you shouldn't. In this episode, we'll be talking about why we procrastinate, what we can learn about ourselves from noticing our behavior, and what we can do to move forward.

In this episode we talk about:
⭐️ Why procrastination could be a good thing
⭐️ The deeper meaning of procrastination
⭐️ Why pushing through doesn’t always work
⭐️ Building in time for procrastination
⭐️ How to work with the seasons of life and your creative process
⭐️ How productivity culture contributes to procrastination
⭐️ How listening to your body helps you to get out of the procrastination cycle
⭐️ Why fear and trauma keep us procrastinating
⭐️ Creating a support system to help
⭐️ How do we do things we don’t want to do

Jay Shetty’s 4 Steps to Break Procrastination Patterns
https://jayshetty.me/blog/jay-shettys-4-steps-to-break-procrastination-patterns-2/

We all have assumptions about what we can and can't do. This can hold us back from dreaming bigger or opening up to what is possible in our life. We are aware of some of these, while others are so deeply embedded that they're like the air we breathe. In this episode, we explore why we have assumptions and the benefits of letting go of some of them.

⭐️ How our bias helps and hurts us
⭐️ Identify limiting beliefs and assumptions–what’s the story you tell yourself?
⭐️ Interrogation of your fears
⭐️ Binary thinking traps–leave room for the magic!
⭐️ How to stop comparison
⭐️ How to shift your beliefs to reach your goals
⭐️ Why it's important to find role models
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Resources:
Byron Katie- 4 questions
https://thework.com/2017/10/four-liberating-questions/

Free ‘Get Unstuck Challenge’
https://www.flowintoauthenticity.com/unstuck-creativity-challenge
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😜 A note to our regular listeners: A previously released version of this episode contained editing errors. If you have automatic downloads of Flow into Authenticity, you may have received this unpolished version of the show. We apologize for the mistake.

In this episode, we give an overview of the FLOW framework, and how you can use it to get unstuck and create a meaningful, authentic life.

In this episode we talk about:
⭐️ Using the FLOW framework to find focus and joy in your life
⭐️ How to go from being a beginner to finding your flow
⭐️ Why 'think positive' or spiritual bypassing is not the answer
⭐️ How our brain has evolved to keep us safe
⭐️ How to stay open, even when facing challenges
⭐️ Why making authentic connections is so important in this journey
⭐️ Accepting your own timing

The Art of the Impossible - Steven Kotler
https://tinyurl.com/2u5ntmhb
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Find out more:
https://www.flowintoauthenticity.com/
https://www.instagram.com/estherloopstraart/
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