Strategy Game with Lauren Shippy

Bitterness, or resentment, is anger compounded over time.

Bitter roots can run deep. Bitterness doesn't just happen on the first offense, it simmers slowly and with each offense, it grows.

My therapist used to say that bitterness is like a cut. The first time you get a cut, it can heal pretty quickly. The second, third, fourth time you hit it in that same place, it's going to take longer to heal because the wound now runs deeper. Bitterness is the same; each time someone hurts us using the same pattern, in a similar scenario, or leaves us with the same feeling, it drives that bitterness or resentment down deeper.

You are going to a new place.

It won’t look like the places you’ve been before. You don’t need to bring anything with you, just yourself.

What you need for the new place is already in you, inscribed on the tablet of your heart, soul and mind.

When you start out, it will feel unfamiliar, but as you go, you will see fragments of where you’ve been before and you will know that you are revisiting those places to get healed. The time is being redeemed, what has been lost is being restored. Notice the turns, stop and observe the map when you need to, cross over into new spaces and come back often to refuel.

You are going to a new place.

The New Place Guide

Welcoming Lauren Cotton from Cotton Crews to the podcast today! She's a long time friend, fellow entrepreneur and I've loved watching her consistently build her business. Listen in as she shares the lightbulb moment that started her business, the top 3 things that have led to her success and the generational wisdom that she has carried with her.

For more on Cotton Crews - head to https://www.cottoncrews.com

The only person that unforgiveness holds captive is you.

In preparation for practicing a lifestyle of seeing, knowing and hearing others, a regular rhythm of releasing others and forgiving them will set us free. Forgiveness is simply an acknowledgment that you no longer hold the offense against them; you release them.

In other words, we no longer carry the burden of setting the record straight, righting their wrong, or holding them to expectations of repentance or justice. We set them free to let the offender work their own stuff out.

For more things StoryWork: ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/storywork⁠⁠

I'm going to be sharing a series of these words that have started interrupting my thoughts on a regular basis - when I hear them I run for the nearest piece of paper or note in my phone. These have encouraged me and I hope they encourage you too.

Loved having good friend and business leader Rick Maffett on the podcast! Rick has stepped into the role of leading the family business over the last 2 years and in this episode, we recount the journey of his career, the drastic change and how he absolutely knew he needed to make this change, among many other things.

If you're navigating transition, or feeling a pull to go in a new direction, this episode is for you.

For more things StoryWork: ⁠https://linktr.ee/storywork

Control can give us a false sense of security.

Controlling our schedules, time, and even other people is something we attempt to do in some way every day. Control can make us feel like we're on top of things - like we've got it together.

We pull things in a little tighter (mostly subconsciously) because we think doing so will give us a sense of peace or security. The problem with control, though, is that it's an illusion most of the time. We don't actually have control over much at all, other than ourselves and our own reactions.

Listen in as we unpack this "weed in the way" and highlight some questions that you can ask to get free of false control.

For all things StoryWork - head to: https://linktr.ee/storywork

I'm going to be sharing a series of these words that have started interrupting my thoughts on a regular basis - when I hear them I run for the nearest piece of paper or note in my phone. These have encouraged me and I hope they encourage you too.

For the NEW PLACE guide: https://www.storywork.co/you-are-going-to-a-new-place

We're going to start to weave in a new series on LEADERS - and this first one was so much fun to record! Long time family friend Jon Sharp and I talk through the diligence of staying in your lane, speaking the truth, and really being for others.

There is so much in this episode, including his story of taking over a third generation large company at age 30, and the strategy he has used for substantial business growth.

Stubbornness is clinging to something that has long passed. It’s the unyielding refusal to change your mind about a situation or person that negatively affected you. It’s easy to be stubborn about many things, but the longer I live and experience hurt in this world, I’m finding that there are very few things that are actually worth being stubborn about.