LaurieTALKS

Teaching others how to treat you is serious business.  

Standing up for yourself and being assertive is not about being rude, pushy, mean, or aggressive.

It’s about finding a way for you to be comfortable when asking for what you want in a way that respects others and that others respect.

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What’s good, my friend? In this episode the TALK is:

1. Eleventh hour, checkmate level, family drama

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Tremaine Dance Conventions winter tour, 2021-22 has officially commenced.

We completed 2 cities weeks and I am noticing a new, heightened level of confidence (self-love) in teens.

More and more teens are sustaining hope in a creator economy and many are using dance as a medium to self-express to feed their lives.

They’re good enough for themselves. They know this truth . . .  on and off the dance floor.

Before closing this episode with a review of the benefits of remaining hopeful, I digress about people who over apologize. Sorry.

John Johnson @k.sound.audio created this episode's beautiful outro.

Thanks for listening.

I appreciate you.  Now - especially as it relates to you and your ability to create autonomy, freedom, and abundance.

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During the last few months, I’ve TALKed to several people who have expressed a similar concern: Maybe it’s too late for me to pursue my field of interest.

These creatives were counting themselves out because, in their minds, too many others were already doing what they wanted to do. Before giving themselves a fair chance, they had started making statements like these:

• It’s too late for me to get in.

The democratization of creativity.

Creatorship is on the rise. An ever-growing number of empowered individuals are using social media platforms as a marketplace for leveraging their skills and finding new ways to make a living.

Thanks to new tools and advances in consumer technologies, now anyone with passion and a smartphone can release authentic and engaging content to large audiences.

The reduced costs of producing, distributing, and promoting content without the support of traditional institutions and/or backing have resulted in more songs, books, TV shows, and movies being generated than ever before.

Agency and autonomy.

Lowered entry barriers result in more power going to individuals to monetize their handiworks, build a following, and earn a living selling directly to consumers . . . in other words, to create autonomy.  

Sustain hopefulness.

There’s no rulebook that states you can’t evolve or grow past a certain point. Nor is there an expiration date on your brand of fabulousness.

Hope acts as a source of strength—because when you’re hopeful you:

• Look for new opportunities, approaches, strategies, and solutions

It’s not too late.

You stand at the threshold of a new age—one in which there’s an increasing number of people designing jewelry, selling tee-shirts, creating courses, writing books, singing songs, and dancing their dance.

Keep listening to your inner voice. It knows the way of the dream tucked away in your imagination. Remain hopeful.

Life is filled with uncertainty. Sustain hope. 

Thanks for listening.

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TAP IN to Your Full Potential.

I created a super simple technique for keeping myself in check. Whenever I’m wondering “Why is my life not like I want it?” or “Why am I in the situation(s) I’m in?” – I go to my go-to practice:

I face myself in the mirror and ask, “What’s my motive?”

Asking this question presents me with the opportunity to rethink, reevaluate, and review my words and/or deeds.

Looking in the mirror to help you define your truth is a practice. Fortunately, it’s one that gets easier the more you do it. And with time, the need to carry out this practice noticeably decreases.

Looking in the mirror with the intention of honest self-assessment is a great step toward accountability, which is an important part of defining your truth. That’s because it helps you to:

·      take stock of where you are and reflect on your strengths and weaknesses

·      identify areas where you need to develop an adjustment plan for how to respond if you’re presented with a similar situation moving forward

·      acknowledge when you’re acting from personal biases or out of revenge, anger, spitefulness, entitlement, selfishness, insecurity, pettiness, envy, or jealousy - Feel free to add to this list.

·      limit prolonged periods of denial . . . you know, those times when your head is buried in the sand

·      enhance your self-trust, which results from asking yourself tough questions. (Asking the question suggests that you can handle your truth.)

Get to the point where “checking your motives” (whether you’re actually standing in front of a mirror or not) becomes second nature …. and you’ll soon discover that living your truth is a positive consequence of having defined it.

Thank you for listening. I appreciate you.

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A few days ago I was on the phone with one of my nieces. Somehow, somewhere in our long conversation, she suggested that I, LaurieTALKS, have little to show for all the years of effort I’ve dedicated to my career.

My reaction to this bomb my niece dropped on me? To spontaneously record this episode.

My dear Big Dreamer, one day you may encounter someone who doesn’t know what you know. Or see what you see. Or both.

When that someone proceeds to share their opinion of you, remember this: You know what’s possible for your life — because you hold the vision for transforming your dream into a reality. 

Here are a few more takeaways.

Your voyage is personal. Another person’s point of view, their thoughts and opinions, have little to do with you — especially if these leave you feeling low. Or depleted. Or broken. 

When a person gives you feedback, if your response is to constructively self-explore, that’s one thing. If you respond by doubting yourself, that’s entirely different.

Even when the person’s intentions are noble, if their feedback leaves you disbelieving your own everything, you absolutely must drawback from a potential cramp in your roll. 

Exploring and sharing your creative voice requires patience . . . patience with the aspects of the world around you that you can’t control.

If you occasionally ask yourself, “How am I going to make it?” or “Can I really build a life and a living around my artistry?” — you’re not alone. These are questions many artists have had at one time or another. 

And finally, remaining brave is part of the process. It’s through trying, testing, and experimenting that we sometimes learn what we don’t want in life.

Regarding that phone call and my niece’s comment about what I have and haven’t accomplished to date . . .  it was perfect.

Because it brought me right here to this moment. Right here and now — with you. 

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The other day, my niece, Elle Brown, and I was chatting by phone. At one point, Elle conducted a quick interview, asking me questions like . . .

1. What’s the one thing nobody knows about you?

In this episode, you’ll find out . . .

1. How the Covid-19, stay-at-home period led Brie (my wife) to notice that I’m the same person I’ve always been

Thank you for listening, my friend. I appreciate you.

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This is my second recording of Episode 28. I posted the first version and realized 24 hours later that I’d forgotten to make my point.

During the first recording, I was so committed to sharing the details of my favorite organizational program, called Trello, that I failed to explain why it’s important to give some attention to how we organize our lives.  

Access to additional and diverse resources have made creative entertainment industries like fashion, modeling, and the performing arts more democratized. There are new opportunities to chart new courses. As a result, the individual is more empowered than ever before. Creatives of all ages and backgrounds have greater options for forging the life of their dreams.

Yet the democratizing of creative industries … the new opportunities and greater options … have brought about massive changes in the work-life model. And for people encountering these changes, now’s a good time to ramp up their life management organization. 

Test new organizational programs that will help you accomplish this. I do love Trello. My Trello boards were primarily all I TALKed about on the first posted version of this podcast episode.

Organization (on any level and in any area) boosts productivity, reduces stress, provides clarity of thought, and increases your peace of mind. Even when just a small part of your life is organized, you get all the benefits.

With the way the world is operating now – nonstop distraction – it’s critical that we use our mental bandwidth intentionally.

Remain deliberate. Direct your life where you want it to go.

TAP IN to Your Full Potential

Thanks for listening. 

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Sarah Anindo Marshall say that “Art is medicine” because it pulls from real-life experiences. Whether you write, sing, paint, act, dance, or play an instrument, the arts help you tell your story.

For Sarah, the idea of art being medicine became a kind of seed. And that seed became a dream … a dream to help children in her hometown of Luanda, Kenya, get an education in the arts and sciences. Now she’s tending—or caring for—her dream, just as a gardener tends a garden: Sarah is building that school in Luanda.

Your “seed” may simply be an idea you wrote years ago on the back of a napkin. But that’s something. Make that seed become a dream. Then keep that dream alive by nurturing and loving it as if it were a garden.

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Andrea Liebross is consistent, focused, and disciplined in her own life and I asked her how she does it. Her reply? Time management begins with mind management. How you manage your time is a direct reflection of how you manage your mind.

Listen in as Andrea provides useful mind management tips to help you figure out what to do with the 60 to 70 thousand thoughts you have on average every day.

Andrea Liebross is your accomplishment coach, trusted partner, and strategic ally. She provides clients with sustainability tools to define and achieve success. 

I've worked with a few coaches. I'm a fan. 

https://andrealiebross.com

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