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I read an article on psychologytoday.com today where Barbara Markway Ph.D. shared the 10 Reasons to Stop Judging People. She describes a story told often by Tara Brach, a psychologist and meditation teacher. The story goes as follows: Imagine you are walking through the woods and you see a small dog. It looks cute and friendly. You approach and move to pet the dog. Suddenly it snarls and tries to bite you. The dog no longer seems cute and you feel fear and possibly anger. Then, as the wind blows, the leaves on the ground are carried away and you see the dog has one of its legs caught in a trap. Now, you feel compassion for the dog. You know it became aggressive because it is in pain and is suffering.

This story will help you peel off the tag ‘judgement’ that you may be wearing as you uncover the way that nuances and details of someone’s situation. We have a tendency to make a snapshot assumption or judgement about other people and how they are choosing to live their lives without fully understanding or investigating the details behind the choices. We often forget that we are our own individual people who choose to live life according to our rule book and can’t always understand why people think differently then we do.

Today’s episode will help expose the ‘judgement’ tag that you may be wearing and how to start tearing it out.

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I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago with a new friend of mine, Mike Farr. He and his wife Kelley live only about 20 minutes from my home near Denver, Colorado, and the moment we connected, I recognized that we have similar passions. We all have a want and a need really for community, connection and supporting those who are struggling. I, have big dreams of getting people to recognize and understand the damage that labeling others can do and Mike and Kelley have a passion for helping home owners recognize how much more is there, in the home, that we aren’t valuing.

Mike, Kelley and I discussed the paralyzing overthinking techniques that cause us to pause and sit in our “I don’t know what to say” space. To me, I would call this my brand of stuck. I have a tendency to overthink into paralysis causing me to not move in any direction, especially forward. While I would call this #overthinking, Mike, with laughter, called it #speedybrainsyndrome. Though we wear similar tags regarding our content and personal life missions, we call them very different names.

Today’s episode will dive into the tags that we are wearing individually and how we can’t know what to say until we’ve said it. What does that mean? We all have ideas and dreams but if we don’t start putting them out into he world, we will never “know what to say”.

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We often refer to issues that arise in relationships as ‘red flags’, and just as often, we ignore those warning labels that are issued in our lives. We’ve uncovered the 6 things written on most tags in the pilot episodes of this podcast, but we haven’t yet, discussed the warning labels.

The negative tags that you wear are warning labels within themselves. There are pieces of your tags that are written in bright red or orange bold font telling you how the tags you’re wearing are harming you, holding you back and make you feel a brand of STUCK.

Today’s episode will help you begin to see how warning labels might be showing up on the tags that you’re wearing.

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There are just 5 days left in 2020 to set goals for 2021, reflect on this historical year and set priorities that will carry you through the next chapter of your life. Many of us make goals surrounding fitness, health, career, and money; but how many of us make goals surrounding relationship and connection with others?

This year, as we have faced a time like no other, we’ve watched the world lose connection as we were asked to socially distance, isolate and shut our world down for safety reasons. As we come out of this, whenever that may be, we will undoubtedly have a long road back with regards to relationships. What goals are you setting in 2021 around the connections, relationships and repairs in your life?

Today’s episode will highlight the need to both #listen and #receive from others in order to continue to grow in your own identity.

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The holidays are “supposed” to be filled with family, friends, celebration and fellowship but what if you’re alone this Christmas? Today’s episode is a special Christmas Day episode that shines a light on male loneliness. It may seem that today’s message is just for men but I assure you that women will benefit from listening to this as well. We all need to be a part of the conversation about how to love and support the men in our lives who may not feel they can lean on us. Our special guest, Jared Odle, is incredibly vulnerable and honest, as he shares what he is witnessing happening, in the world of men, cross culturally between Africa and the United States.

Jared Odle guides people over mountains in their lives as a cross-cultural entrepreneur, writer, and communities development worker. He is a Connector, helping others intentionally connect with themselves, family, communities, and other cultures in West Africa and the United States. The entire world is changing and men are getting stuck and just don’t know what to do. Jared is focusing his skills gained as a pastor, speaker, and copywriting career to dealing with male loneliness on his blog found at https://www.jaredodle.com .

You can also find Jared on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jared.odle.5/

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You're racing around, trying to get everything done in time to celebrate Christmas Day... peacefully. How ironic is this?

Every year during the holidays despite my planning or preparation, I always end up feeling overwhelmed the week leading up to Christmas. This morning I was thinking about the saying, 'the calm before the storm', and I realized that this year has been more like the storm before the calm. As I now get to step into the calm that comes when the storm dissipates. I hope that you can tear out your own tag of overwhelm as these beautiful Christmas moments fall around you. 

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Today is Christmas Eve Eve and today we’re going to uncover the gift of tags. This show is called Tear Out the Tags, which focuses largely on negative tags that you might be wearing and how to remove them in order to get un-stuck in your life. However, tags can be ripped out or attached in a moments notice. We choose everyday whether or not we want to wear a label or toss it in the trash.

My friend, Stephanie Hendrick, recently published her first book, Meant for More. She wrote it to help business professionals pursue their passions and figure out their true purpose. With amazement, I watched her attach the tag author the day that she published this month. Though she, with ease, attached that tag (that can NEVER be taken away), she worked long hours for many days to achieve this unbelievable goal. Today’s episode will highlight the gift of tags and the hard work that stands underneath these momentous occasions where we get to attach or tear out tags.

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I went to lunch last week with a good friend who owns a successful business in my city. We were discussing how the mask wearing of 2020 has affected her business and how strictly they are enforcing them in her location. She shared how, for the most part, they are relaxed about the masks because they are concerned for their customers social and mental health in addition to physical health and said that she feels that they practice other measures for social distancing so that they can be more relaxed for the customers who are in need to not wear them.

She then went on to say that for the most part people have been kind and understanding and explained that it hasn’t been a problem except for ONE lady. After she told me what happened with her, she said, “ugh, she was such a Karen”. We both laughed but the truth is, even though I have heard this saying many times recently, I had no idea what it really means. When I got home, I went on a hunt to figure out what it means when someone says this. What I found made me sad for the people in this world named Karen. Today’s episode highlights how a name, in itself, can be a ‘tag’.

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Alex Honnold, an American solo free climber, successfully scaled the sheer rock face of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan in 2017… Without ROPES! I live in the land of the 14,000 ft mountains, Colorado. I’ve climbed two of these massive mountains and can’t begin to imagine what it would feel like to climb a sheer rock face without ropes.

When you walk through unimaginable struggle in your life, it’s a lot like climbing a large mountain, straight up-hill. When I went through my divorce several years ago, I remember feeling the weight of my failure and my two children who relied on me to keep climbing through the discomfort and frustration of our family crumbling apart.

Kelsi Kraus, a vivacious, inspiring, free spirited, mother is currently in the middle of her own climb. Though there are many ‘tags’ that I would give Kelsi, one of the biggest would be ‘climber’. She’s bravely lifting herself out of immense pain and heartache with resilience, strength, community, faith and perspective. Today’s episode will inspire you to think differently as 2020 comes to a close.

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Are you a fan of Kanye West?

I’ve never understood his fashion, music or content. I’ve never been a raving fan seeking out his innovative art beyond the random song on the radio that might get my foot tapping. However, that all changed when I heard him on David Letterman’s new show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. Kanye was funny and authentic as he shared different intimate aspects of his life. It was an interview that opened some of the windows into the unknown world of this misunderstood person.

Towards the end of the interview, Kanye shared an idea that rattled through me, as it relates to the Tear Out the Tags message. He described his fans loving his crazy music, his crazy fashion and his crazy ideas. He then paused briefly before sarcastically alluding to the fact that all those things, that people love, come from crazy. He then went on to describe how medicating the human that these wild innovative ideas come from will also medicate the ‘crazy’ too.

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