Where does professionalism end and where does perfectionism begin? I believe the word perfectionism is just another fancy word for professionalism. You often feel like you have to do everything perfectly in order to achieve success in your life and business. You want to be the perfect human, have the perfect business, never make a mistake that when you do you are so ashamed of yourself. But your relentless pursuit of excellence and your obsession for perfectionism is what is causing you unnecessary anxiety, slowing you down, and is standing in the way of success.

Today on The Dream Big, Live Slow, I want to get real with you. I want to take an honest look at how addiction to perfectionism is causing suffering in your life and in your business. This has been so true for me and it’s my hope that by showing you how to use the power of compassion as a way to combat your perfectionism, you can start alleviating that anxiety and stress so you can start living your best life.

In this episode you’ll discover:

- How perfectionism can show up in your personal life, in your business, and in your mindfulness journey and how it can create a lot of anxiety

- My own personal experience with perfectionism and what I’m doing to overcome the suffering it has caused me

- How you can stop clinging onto the belief to the obsessive pursuit of perfection and use the powerful tool of compassion to combat it

- Why you need to stop seeing your mistakes as a failure. Instead, switching your mindset to love and seeing what lesson you have gained from the experience

- The deeper meaning behind compassion and how we are all connected in our imperfections and in our humanness

- My guided meditation for you this week is to help you break the habit of self-judgment, loosen up and let go. Allowing you to find peace, despite missteps and stumbles along the way. It will teach you self-compassion so you can forgive yourself for making mistakes and know that it is ok.

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DREAM BIG, LIVE SLOW SHOWNOTES: https://www.tialorae.com/blog/perfectionism-doesnt-equal-professional-success

Thanks for listening! I’d be so grateful for your support by leaving a review on here, subscribing or sharing your biggest takeaways on your Instagram story so that more soul-filled entrepreneurs are able to find these powerful interviews, mindful practices and tips they need so they can hustle less while still dream big. Don’t forget to tag me @tialorae so I can thank you personally.

Is modern marketing ethical? There are so many marketing strategies and tactics out there that are purely product-focused and sales-driven. And as entrepreneurs, we are taught all these different marketing approaches that we know are crucial for us to be able to sell our products, our services and our offers so that we can grow our business. But often, selling feels crummy and icky to you and it just doesn’t sit right. It makes you feel like crap and you aren’t getting the sales or the results you want because it isn’t aligned with who you are. It isn’t coming from a place of authenticity or human connection. In this episode, my goal is to teach you an alternative approach to your business marketing - Mindful Marketing. One that feels aligned with who you are. I’m going to let you in on the marketing techniques I learned and I know works! I will share with you the 3 key principles of mindful marketing so that you can start becoming a magnet in attracting your dream clients and still feel good about selling.

In this episode you’ll discover:

- The common fear-based marketing practices you are taught that make you feel icky about sales and are unaligned with who you are

- What is sales psychology and how businesses are using this tactic to trick people’s minds into persuading them to buy

- Why you should be laser-focused on creating your art from deep within your soul

- The power of human connection to build your community

- Discovering the why of your business so you can lead with intention, passion and purpose to better serve your people, the world and create positive change

- This week’s guided meditation is from one of my favorite books by Jon Kabit-Zinn. The Mountain Meditation will encourage you to seek inner stability and peace, even in the face of unpredictable change and chaos.

CONNECT WITH ME OVER ON INSTAGRAM: @tialorae 

DREAM BIG, LIVE SLOW SHOWNOTES: www.tialorae.com/blog/mindful-marketing-strategies-to-attracting-dream-clients

Thanks for listening! I’d be so grateful for your support by leaving a review on here, subscribing or sharing your biggest takeaways on your Instagram story so that more soul-filled entrepreneurs are able to find these powerful interviews, mindful practices and tips they need so they can hustle less while still dream big. Don’t forget to tag me @tialorae so I can thank you personally.

We all go through our struggles in some form or another leading us down a hole of emotional turmoil and suffering. These struggles all stem from the same thing - attachment. It’s human nature for us to hold on to things in an effort to find happiness and comfort. But how do you let go of these attachments when your mind is clinging so tightly, you don’t want to let it go because you really want it to go your way? In today’s episode, my goal is to help you detach yourself from these beliefs. I’ll teach you simple, yet practical ways that will result in contentment in being in the present, creating better relationships, letting go of outcomes, and having less procrastination and distraction so you can create a rhythm of flow in your life and business.

 

In this episode you'll discover:

- What attachment means and the harm and pain it is causing you

- How attachment keeps you in a closed state of mind - shut from love, acceptance and compassion

- Examples of unhealthy attachments and how it creates unnecessary suffering

- How to find the root of your attachment by reverse engineering the process

- How to use meditation to pay attention to the present moment so you can learn whatever you were attached to is simply a story, a narrative and not your truth

- Finding compassion so you can end your suffering and transform yourself from being stuck in your attachment

- Instead of giving you a guided meditation for this week’s solocast, I thought we could tune in to the practice of repeating a mantra and incorporating it into your daily meditation so you can see your suffering, your beliefs and the story you’ve been telling yourself.

 

CONNECT WITH ME OVER ON INSTAGRAM: @tialorae 

DREAM BIG, LIVE SLOW SHOWNOTES: www.tialorae.com/blog/attachment-causes-suffering-in-our-lives

Thanks for listening! I’d be so grateful for your support by leaving a review on here, subscribing or sharing your biggest takeaways on your Instagram story so that more soul-filled entrepreneurs are able to find these powerful interviews, mindful practices and tips they need so they can hustle less while still dreaming big. Don’t forget to tag me @tialorae so I can thank you personally.

You feel like these days the work-life balance can seem like an impossible reach and the whole reason you started your own business was to create that freedom lifestyle right? But as a solopreneur, how do you achieve that balance between managing your ambition and wellbeing to be able to reach your potential and achieve success in your work and life without leading to burnout? Today, I’m bringing in our guest expert Sharon Cleere who is on a mission to help you transform stress, declutter your mind and find meaning in your life through meditation, mindfulness and self-care practices that are pragmatic and approachable so you can have the confidence to show up to the world and in your business.

 

In this episode about you'll discover:

- How not listening to your emotion can cause stress in your body

- Why you should be creating a stress-free work environment in your workspace

- How to implement simple systems in your business so you can stay organized and create a streamlined workflow to prevent overwhelm

- The 3 key elements to consider when creating self-care routines in your everyday life

- What is decision fatigue and how we all struggle from distractions that affects the way we focus

- How to overcome the scarcity money mindset and the tools you can start using to eliminate those fears

- How to let go of perfectionism

- Creating healthy mindfulness habits to shift those limiting thought patterns so you can become present, centered and focused in your life and business

 

CONNECT WITH ME OVER ON INSTAGRAM: @tialorae 

DREAM BIG, LIVE SLOW SHOWNOTES: www.tialorae.com/blog/mindfulness-habits-achieving-a-work-life-balance

Thanks for listening! I’d be so grateful for your support by leaving a review on here, subscribing or sharing your biggest takeaways on your Instagram story so that more soul-filled entrepreneurs are able to find these powerful interviews, mindful practices and tips they need so they can hustle less while still dream big. Don’t forget to tag me @tialorae so I can thank you personally.

As women, we are constantly in a dynamic state of change having to deal with our ever-fluctuating hormones day by day and during our menstrual cycle. And we want to be able to work with our body, work with our flow, not against it so we can achieve the results we want in our life and business. In today’s episode of Dream Big, Live Slow, I’m chatting with Quinn Clayton who specializes in helping women perform at their fullest potential through syncing their life and work with their menstrual flow. We talk how you can understand your menstrual cycle to avoid burnout, feeling depleted and how it can help you achieve balance and flow in your life. In this episode you’ll discover:

- What is cycle syncing and how does it affect your productivity and happiness

- Understanding the four phases of the menstrual cycle are and how it influences your mood, energy and metabolism

- How you can best support each phase to promote balance and flow in your life and business

- How to track the different phases of the menstrual cycle so you can plan what projects to prioritize, what workouts, social engagements, self-care and relationship activities to engage in

- How you can use your menstrual cycle to feel empowered so you can start making educated decisions about your health and wellness journey

- Practical ways you can support yourself when you need to be slowing down, but life can’t

- Finding joy in every day of your life so you can learn to support yourself and find stillness

 

CONNECT WITH ME OVER ON INSTAGRAM: @tialorae 

DREAM BIG, LIVE SLOW SHOWNOTES: www.tialorae.com/blog/cycle-syncing-your-life-and-business

Thanks for listening! I’d be so grateful for your support by leaving a review on here, subscribing or sharing your biggest takeaways on your Instagram story so that more soul-filled entrepreneurs are able to find these powerful interviews, mindful practices and tips they need so they can hustle less while still dream big. Don’t forget to tag me @tialorae so I can thank you personally.

We all want to be there for our loved ones, to show them our love, give them our attention and make them feel as special as they are to you. But you find yourself falling short and spreading yourself thin because you're falling into this vicious thought cycle of the fear of what other people’s opinions are about you and creating unrealistic expectations that don’t even exist. Today on Dream Big, Live Slow, I am diving deep into the 4 habits you can start implementing that will help you break this obsessive thought pattern by using the healing power of love so you can finally free yourself from all those fears, worries, and expectations and start embodying the state of love to feel inner calm, peace and alignment. Love is a superpower. Love is so much more than a feeling. It is a state of being. To radiate love is to free ourselves of fear - fear of what others think of us. In this episode you'll discover:

- How you can use the healing power of love to transform your relationships with your loved ones and yourself

- Habit #1: Stop Creating assumptions and non-existent expectations

-Habit #2: Finding the connection between love and compassion

- Habit #3: Letting go of fear and worry so you can start releasing the guilt you feel in your relationships

- Habit #4: Finding acceptance that you cannot control what other people think of you, even your loved ones

- This week’s guided meditation is called the Energy Bubble Visualization. It will help you boost your vibration, exclude any unwanted energies from getting to you so you can see, feel and access that state of love within you

 

CONNECT WITH ME OVER ON INSTAGRAM: @tialorae 

DREAM BIG, LIVE SLOW SHOWNOTES: www.tialorae.com/blog/healing-power-of-love

Thanks for listening! I’d be so grateful for your support by leaving a review on here, subscribing or sharing your biggest takeaways on your Instagram story so that more soul-filled entrepreneurs are able to find these powerful interviews, mindful practices and tips they need so they can hustle less while still dream big. Don’t forget to tag me @tialorae so I can thank you personally.

On this episode of Dream Big, Live Slow, Moji Igun of Blue Daisi consulting shares how to live more sustainably and run a more sustainable business. She explains how adopting a zero waste mindset has created more slowness and intentionality in her business and life. She dives into...

- How and where to start living more sustainably

- How to not get overwhelmed by the zero waste concept

- How our connection to the planet is a reflection of our connection to ourselves

- How a zero waste mindset creates slowness and intentionality in business

- How climate change is systemic and what we can do as individuals to challenge those systems

And so much more...

Work with Moji through small business sustainability coaching at Blue Daisi Consulting. Download your free roadmap to zero waste here!

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In this episode of Dream Big Live Slow, host Tia Curran sits down with Lindsay Stockhecke owner of Deliciously Ordinary, an event design studio based in Southern Illinois that specializes in fresh florals. Lindsay is sharing how she has built a business that puts family at the forefront. She shares how she finds slowness in the chaos by focusing on finding beauty in the mundane and how her floral shop has helped her see the beauty in all parts of life.

Lindsay and Tia also dive into the importance of limiting accessibility as entrepreneurs by creating healthy boundaries for communication with clients and vendors.

One of the biggest themes of the episode is that inner work is not linear but a never ending journey that requires revisiting daily in order to create slowness.

Lindsay opens up about how becoming alcohol free allowed her to go inward in a way she couldn't with alcohol.

You can find Lindsay on Instagram at @missblisslinz Or work with her at deliciouslyordinaryevents.com

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On this episode of Dream Big, Live Slow, host Tia Curran sits down with Kee Rose to dive into how to show up consistently online while still protecting your mental health. Kee Rose is a content creator and recent graduate with a masters in clinical mental health counseling. Kee is bringing awareness to mental health in the online space by promoting authenticity.

On this episode, Kee shares how to be vulnerable online by owning your story. She tells her story of making the shift from creating for others to creating for herself and how letting go of the opinions and judgement of others helps her create from a place of authenticity.

She explains the healing power of sharing your story online and how it fosters genuine connection online.

She dives into the importance of preventative self care practices and the tools she uses to make sure she's caring for her mental health.

You can work with Kee Rose by reaching her via email at [email protected] and find her on instagram @lifewithkeerose

Connect with Tia on Instagram @tialorae and come hang out with us on the Dream Big, Live Slow Instagram page.

On this episode of Dream Big, Live Slow, host Tia Curran shares how an obsession with future goals and dreams can keep us from enjoying the present. She dives into how she noticed her obsession with planning and working towards her goals ultimately robs her of experiencing peace and joy with what she already has.

Stay tuned to the end for journal prompts and a free guided meditation on feeling content with what we have.

Connect with Tia on Instagram @tialorae and come hang out with us on the Dream Big, Live Slow Instagram page.