The Business of Being Yourself with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)

Just like a gap year between high school and college, a gap week is an intentional pause where you can explore new experiences or focus on a specific project.

Today, I’m sharing why and how to take a gap time, plus what I’m doing for my business during my gap week. For detailed show notes and more, visit www.tiffanyhan.com/blog/episode356.

Resources & Links:

Ep. 339: How (and Why!) to Take a Break

 Ep. 345: The 12 Stages of Burnout and How to Get Out of It

Ep. 324: But What About the Guilt?

Raise Your Hand Say Yes Inner Circle

Tanya Geisler’s Imposter Complex

Timestamps: 

[02:14] What is a Gap Week? 

[03:13] A Gap Week Is NOT a Break

[18:15] Why You Should Take a Gap Week

[27:26] Making Space

[29:24] Maintaining Space

[30:17] Honoring the Space

We often think that to get some momentum in our lives, we need to do and be more.

But what if gaining momentum actually required slowing down?

Today, I’m sharing how my guiding phrase of the year—bold and slow—is also how I approach momentum, plus how slowing down is how we can keep moving forward without ignoring our needs, desires, and all the things that matter most to us.

For detailed show notes, visit www.tiffanyhan.com/blog/episode355. 

Resources:

• Ep. 354: Tiptoeing Into Radical Self-Belief

• Ep. 353: Why I’m Letting Go of “The Business” and What I’m Doing Instead 

• Ep. 351: 4 Years of Sobriety: 5 Things I Got Wrong + 5 Things I Had NO IDEA About

• Ep. 350: Bold and Slow: My 2021 Guiding Phrase

• 100 Rejection Letters Tracker

Back in December, I asked my Instagram followers to tell me what they wanted to shift in their life in three words or less. One of the answers that really stuck out was this: radical self-belief.

Learning how to trust in ourselves and operate in this world from a place of love isn’t a one and done action, but it is so, so, worth it.

Listen in to find out how I’m defining radical self-belief and why choosing it day after day can change your life and the world for the better. For detailed show notes, visit www.tiffanyhan.com/blog/episode354

Resources
Register for my How to Be Workshop happening on Feb. 9, 2021 at 10 AM PST

Join the waitlist for the Inner Circle

Ep. 146: Ashley Nickels on Reinvention

Book Rec: bell hooks' All About Love

Timestamps
[10:41] Instagram Poll—What to Shift in 2021
[15:46] What Radical Self-Belief Means
[18:44] What Radical Self-Belief Encompasses
[21:37] How to Approach Radical Self-Belief
[31:21] Radical Self-Belief Can Feel a Little Wobbly
[38:40] Why I’m Inviting You to Cultivate Radical Self-Belief

This week, I'm sharing about how I recently hit a CEO-shaped wall in my work, what I did once I realized I was tempted to walk away from everything I've spent over a decade building, and why having this "burn it all down" moment was so important. 

Aaaaand (spoiler alert: I'm not going anywhere), I'm also talking about the identity I'm moving into as I ditch the CEO title and what the shift means to me as well as the different ways I think it will play out in my work this year! 

For full show notes and resources, visit: https://tiffanyhan.com/blog/episode353

Links: 

+ Join the waitlist for the Inner Circle

+ Register for my new class, How to Be, happening on February 9 at 10 AM PST

Timestamps: 

[05:25] Why I’m Choosing “Writer” Instead of “CEO” as My Title

[14:24] What the Transition from CEO to Writer Looks Like

[31:17] Mindset Shifts I’m Making: My “Instead Ofs”

Over the past few months, I’ve had some important epiphany moments about how I want to approach my own creativity. These epiphanies came from an unlikely pair of sources: Rob Bell and Taylor Swift.

Listen in to hear what I’ve realized about my own creativity and how it can apply to your life, too. For detailed show notes, go to www.tiffanyhan.com/blog/episode352 

• How to Be Workshop on February 9, 2021
• Ep. 335: Rob Bell on Everything is Spiritual and Apocalyptic Hope
• Home Podcast’s Interview with Rob Bell
• Rob Bell’s Writing Class
• Taylor Swift’s pandemic albums—Folklore & Evermore

• [04:04] Who is Rob Bell?
• [06:59] What I’ve Learned From Rob
• [09:41] Finding Joy in the Creative Process
• [12:40] The Backstory: My Break From Podcasting
• [19:34] Give Yourself Permission to Have Fun While Being Creative
• [21:48] What I’ve Learned From Taylor Swift
• [27:19] How Rob + Taylor Led Me to a New Epiphany

This week, I'm celebrating my 4 Years Sober milestone with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the things I've learned about myself, recovery, and who I really am.

In this episode, I'm sharing the things that I thought I knew about sobriety before I quit drinking but was super wrong about as well as the great surprises that I didn't even know to expect! 

And, even if you aren't sober or sober-curious, this episode has a ton of lessons for anything that you might be holding on to in your life. Enjoy, enjoy! 

Happy New Year! To kick of 2021, I'm sharing my guiding phrase for the year (it might be different from what you're expecting!) as well as sharing realizations, discoveries, and insights from my podcasting break.

AND: I have a new training happening on 1/12/21: How to Be -- Get all the details and register here! 

What I Said: 

"If we start with the being, and then navigate the doing from that place, that is when things come together."

"Once you allow the unfolding of what you're looking for, things become even more expanded."

Those Timestamps:

01:36 - New training coming up next week!!!

03:37 - Guiding phrase for 2021... and realizations during my break

19:08 - What becoming BOLD and SLOW looks like

Show Notes: 

1/12/21: How to Be training

Connect with me on Instagram

My website & the Agency Archetypes quiz! 

In a world full of people telling us how they can revolutionize our businesses and that we need to leap and hope with all we have that our nets will appear, how can we be so sure that the move we're going to make is The Right One?

This week, I'm taking you through my journey (starting Freshman year in college) of so many Raise Your Hand Say Yes career moves that eventually got me to the place of starting my coaching practice, going full time, and starting this podcast.

There are twists. And turns. And backtracks. And pivots. As is to be expected by life. But, there was also so much learning - which I'll share as well. 

Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, and remember: you're doing great. You're not alone. Keep going. 

What I Said: 

"We are meant to evolve, and sometimes we evolve beyond the confines of our current situation."

"How to start from scratch? You just start."

"You are capable of more than you realize."

"If you're on the precipice of something and you feel that nervous excitement, it is okay to take a small step."

"Don't let that questioning convince you not to take the step because it's the step that makes all the difference."

Those Timestamps: 

03:16 - Episode intro...

06:45 - A look back to my college life

17:39 - My first 'official' job

26:50 - The move to San Francisco... and creative discovery

35:31 - Teahouse studio, coaching, and blogging

46:13 - Going full-time with coaching & podcasting

Whether you're ready to dive headfirst into the new year or you're still trying to wrap up the last one, I've got you covered with this episode. We're going to talk about endings, beginnings, and the questions I want you to consider as you think about the start of the year. (And also: wherever you are is beautiful and wonderful. YOU ARE DOING GREAT.)

Aaaand in case you need them for reference, here are the questions for you to consider: 

*How do you want to feel? 

*Where are you finding meaning? 

*What's going to bring you peace?

*What are you ready to release?

*What are you ready to find your way back to?

What I Said: 

"Beating yourself up in order to live your best life doesn't work."

"The thing that brings you peace might also bring with it some temporary disruption."

"Transformation hangs in you doing the work to get to the bottom of where you want to be."

Those Timestamps: 

03:25 - Cycle of consumption - "The Skittles aren't good enough anymore."

08:56 - When (and how often) should you do evaluations

17:01 - Relation of beginnings and endings

21:26 - The idea of embracing grace

26:31 - #1: How do you want to feel?

32:33 - #2: Where are you finding meaning?

37:12 - #3: What's going to bring you peace?

39:37 - #4: What are you ready to release?

40:53 - #5: What are you ready to find your way back to?

Show Notes: 

New Training! 1/12/2021: How to Be (So You Can Do!)

Connect with Tiffany on Insta (https://www.instagram.com/thetiffanyhan/)

Get Tiffany's newsletter and stay in the know (http://tiffanyhan.com)

What do you think about when you hear the word "enough?"

In this episode, I’m going to tackle what I see as two different (and often competing!) realms of being and doing enough and then offer ways to help you redefine the word according to your own standards. (Amen and hallelujah to that, right?!)

First: Am I enough? This is all about YOU and how it feels to be you in your life and showing up to yourself. 

Second: Am I doing enough? AKA why having a strong value of service does not mean you have to sacrifice your humanity in order to show up for the world. 

I also cover the power of your values, self-alignment, the importance of not measuring your worth based on somebody else's standards, and why those tiny little steps are the way to start. Oh! And then I wrap it all up with talk of seeds, harvest, and how to make an orchard with your life. 

Things I Said: 

"If an idea won't leave you alone, it's a sign that you are the person being gifted with that dream."

"Being of service does not mean that you have to sacrifice your humanity."

"The only starts that we can make are small starts...one step at time."

"Don't let that voice that tells you 'You are not doing enough' keep you from doing anything at all."

Those Timestamps: 

04:30 - The realm of 'being enough'

14:16 - Reckoning with discomfort

18:14 - The realm of 'doing enough'

21:58 - Values and self-alignment as a compass

25:31 - Who's deciding what you're capable of?

31:17 - The power of small steps

34:46 - The apple seed metaphor

Show Notes:

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