Silk Strong

This week on the Silk Strong Podcast I talk about battling fear.

There is so much around us that is unknown, uncertain, scary.

But that doesn’t mean we have to live in a state of fear where the negativity wins.

This means we get an opportunity to practice our peace, practice winning, accomplishing things-no matter how small.

Now is the time to push to love, to take care of ourselves, to win the day.

Now is the time to become stronger than yesterday.

I truly believe that your schedule should reflect you, your values and your priorities. Right now looking at your schedule what does it reflect? Does it reflect how much of a family person you are, how much you prioritize yourself through self-care, how you value your relationship? What needs to change on your schedule so that it aligns with you?

This week I got kicked out of therapy. Not really but that’s how it felt! I had to trust in myself to begin a new chapter, on my own, before I felt ready to do so. But that’s where the magic happens.

Learning how to bypass the stage of being a dreamer and a planner to become a hustler is the single most important thing you can do to achieve a better life. You can dream the dream and you can plan the goals all day long but until you become a hustler and take action nothing happens. You must take action on the life that you want for yourself. That means becoming a hustler and developing a good work ethic and a strong internal motivation.

When ever you take that next step to enter that new level of your life you will inevitably be faced with new challenges. You have to overcome and persevere through those new challenges to learn and enter that next level of your life that you are wanting so badly. Nothing gets better until it gets harder.

I give you a prime example of how what if thoughts are affecting my life decisions in real time. I also explain why what if thoughts are one of the scariest things to me. And how to break through them!

Someone needs to hear what you have to say. You just have to be brave enough to say it. Or express it. Or show it. Don’t waste your life living in fear of anything. Choose bravery.

This week I have a very special guest joining me. My life partner and boyfriend Jake. We talk very openly about our experience with couples counseling. Including the highs, the lows and what we learned.

Now more than ever it is up to us, our responsibility to create our own happiness. I share a couple ways that I am working on creating my own happiness and I encourage you to find your own. When you have these specific things that can instantly bring you happiness you can hold onto those and rely on them to get you through harder seasons. Life is too short to rely on other people to bring YOU happiness.

My sister and I sit down as two white women to discuss current events. How we are impacted, what we can do, what we should do, how to educate ourselves and those around us. Raw, unfiltered, and us just learning how to be better. Saying the wrong thing is often better than saying nothing at all. So here’s our try.