The Better Balance Podcast

Hi loves, here's a little voice memo of my thoughts one morning this week from my backyard. Listen to the birds and hear some thoughts on big changes, underestimating routines, and your mindset creating your reality.

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Carly is the author of her book Once You Go In, a cocktail enthusiast, and a mother of three. Carly and I got to know each other during the pandemic when she started dropping off her special craft cocktails at my doorstep! She's ambitious and creative, which is why I wanted to have her on the podcast. To talk all about pursuing passions, the process of writing her book, and how she created this cocktail-book-loving podcast, Huckleberry Gin.

Key Takeaways

• Her relentless pursuit of writing a book, even when other writers told her she was too young to write a memoir.
• Following your ambition and wanting it more than anything else.
• Recognizing when passion fades that it's better for you and others to release it. 

"I know how I feel when I'm not creating, when I'm not investing myself in something ambitiously creative. I feel this vague emptiness when I'm not. It's like I can't not [create]."

Links

• instagram.com/carlygelsinger
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huckleberry-gin/id1556767205

Lauren is a nutritionist, personal chef, podcast host of the Life Uplifted Podcast, and founder of Total Body Nourishment. She educates and encourages women to reclaim their energy and overall well-being through holistic nutrition, a toxin-free lifestyle, and mindset work. 

I love that Lauren shows us that healthy living can be an easy choice that everyone gets, even as a mom and entrepreneur. 

5 Pillars of Overall Wellness

• Hydration 
• Digestion
• Liver
• Nutrient Consumption
• Mindset

Quotes

"You can't really get healthy in other ways without the food. It can be that you're eating really healthy but you have a stressful lifestyle. Your emotions affect the physical body."

"You have to do it every day. It's not like you do it once and it's done."

"The mindset behind healthy eating is that you get to do this for your body and you get to honor the physical body you've been given."

Links

• Check out the Energy Equation here: https://tbnourishment.kartra.com/page/energywaitlist
•  www.totalbodynourishment.com
• instagram.com/totalbodynourishment
• https://lifeuplifted.buzzsprout.com/

I'm sharing some big family news with you in this episode!  Big, life-changing decisions require faith that it's the right decision, trust in yourself, and alignment with your core values. What are your core values? Have you ever compared them to your life right now? It can be a hard question to answer for yourself if your life isn't in aligned with your values. 

Key Takeaways 

• Our big family news! 
• How to make hard choices even when it's the right one.
• Discovering and defining your core values.
  • Step 1: Answer these questions
    1. What brings you joy? 
    2. What gives your life meaning and purpose?
    3. What do you want to achieve?
    4. What's a priority for you?
  • Step 2: These questions can reveal a pattern of beliefs that you can begin to recognize so start a brain-dumped list of sorts. 
  • Step 3: Attach meaning to the values and how they impact others (through your behavior)

Quotes 

"Core values are useful for understanding yourself, though they are not an exercise in navel-gazing. When your core values are developed well and can clearly represent you, people will be drawn to you, not just because you have some nifty phraseology in your pocket but because you’ll look like someone who’s grounded in self-understanding." —  Sara Sutler-Cohen, Ph.D., Core Values: What they are, why they matter, and how to define yours

You know the feeling of putting off something...you've got a million reasons (cue Lady Gaga). This episode is about taking action in micro ways to help get your macro results. And remember, messy...imperfect...bold...it's better than none at all.

Here's some things you can start doing today to take that bold, messy, imperfect action:

1. Start small - choose things that you can accomplish quickly to start momentum
2. Have accountability
3. Schedule blocks of time - season 1, episode 9 and season 2, episode 6
4. Stay off social media & decide who's opinion matters most
5. Mantras & Journaling

Journal prompts 

• What is the worst thing that can happen?
• What's the best thing that could happen?
• What's the most realistic result of my actions?
• What am I feeling right now about these actions?

Mantras:

• I take bold, imperfect action.
• I am getting better every day.
• I attach myself to the outcome of done, over perfect.
• I am taking aligned action towards my dreams.

Quotes

You have to believe beyond our current circumstances. Brooke Castillo says,

"When you think big for yourself and when you believe in that dream, it requires the skill of believing in yourself. It requires the skill in believing in possibility and believing in things beyond our current situation and beyond our current programming ...it requires effort and requires skill. The better we get at believing things that are not yet true, the better we get at believing things that are not yet true.“

“If the first thing you do in the morning is to eat the frog, then you can continue your day with the satisfaction of knowing that this is probably the worst thing that will happen to you all day” - Mark Twain

"When you're not spending any time worrying, you're spending time executing." - Gary Vee

Links

• Time Management with 4 Biz Moms - Podcast Episode
• Productivity & Time Management - Podcast Episode

I loved this conversation with Amy, she is so wise about how to connect with your inner dialogue! Incredibly insightful about how to connect & listen to your intuition, even when your mind is overwhelmed with fear. 

Amy's advice to breaking down your limiting beliefs and listening to your intuition:

1. Get quiet with yourself, find stillness in your mind.
2. Find clarity with your desires.
3. Write down and get honest with what's on your heart.
   • Also write down the mean girl thoughts that come up.
4.  Don't judge yourself, make friends with your ego...What does she need right now? She's just scared. What would you tell her?
5. Collect evidence (for your subconscious) that it's possible for you. 

"Ask yourself, 'what brings me joy?'"

"Intuition lives in the body, fear lives in the mind. Your Intuition is your inner guidance system." 

Links & Resources

• Join the Start Your Podcast Accelerator 
• Feminine Frequency Podcast with Amy
• Amy's Website
• Amy's Instagram
• Follow Majesta on Instagram

Your mind is your only limitation. There's always a reason to not go after a goal or dream but the truth is, you're the only one who can make it happen. You can always find the time, energy, and resources if and when you decide. Just like your mind is your biggest limiter, your resourcefulness is your biggest asset. I believe in you. But the secret is this: you have to believe in yourself too.

• Mindfulness is a huge asset to figuring out WHY you're limiting yourself.
• Planning will help you identify HOW to become unlimited.
• Surrounding yourself with like-minded people is WHO will support you when your mind "goes there"

"You know what's equally hard and freeing? Realizing that I'm not all the things I thought, was told, or learned I was...and then embracing the unknown-me."

Links & Resources

• Join the Start Your Podcast Accelerator Waitlist
• Follow Majesta on Instagram

Today I’m sharing my interview with Emily Kurth from Coco & June, which is Emily’s product company that’s dedicated to spreading positivity through her art & lifestyle goods. Emily has THREE teenage boys (insert emoji) and when her stress reached a pique, by doctors orders, Emily had to make a huge lifestyle change to DESTRESS. 

In the episode:

• Emily’s health scare that led her to a holistic approach to stress management.
• Her simple stress relief system: Frazzled to Free.
• How important self-compassion is for moms in this generation.

“As a mom of teenagers who has been in your shoes, I try to tell moms of young kids this: it’s okay to screw up as a mom. It teaches your kids that they’re not the center of the universe, that their moms are not perfect. Their moms are human beings.”

“If it doesn’t bring me peace, I really don’t want it in my life.”

Emily is now a product launch coach and helps other makers launch & profit, without adding unnecessary stress as a solo-entrepreneur. You can check out her program here: The Product Shop Launch League.

Links & Resources

• Frazzled to Free System
• https://www.instagram.com/majestapatterson/
• Join the Magnetic Memo List

I started to become more and more overwhelmed this week while I launched Start Your Podcast Accelerator and still maintaining my other responsibilities and goals. So as I was feeling intuitively that my creativity was suffering, I listened to this chapter in Greg McKeown's book, Essentialism, and it inspired me to get creative in a new way.

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I wrote this episode on a day I forced myself to rest on the couch. My mind hated it, my body needed it. As I was writing it, it felt like a sad realization - that I didn't feel loved by myself enough to rest when I knew I needed it. After recording the podcast episode and experiencing self-love, I now know that there's one way to truly show ourselves self-love.

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