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Judgment is easy. Our innate animal sense wants to keep us safe. However, most of the judgments we have today are not about keeping us safe as much as comfortable. Here's the truth: Self-Love and Confidence aren't always comfortable. We dig through our own ickiness in order to open our eyes to new truths, opportunities, and growth. Your perspective is limited. Curiosity is about being open to new ways of seeing the world and yourself. 

You deserve to rethink your judgments. You deserve to be curious about yourself. You might find that you are not broken or unworthy, you've just been a butterfly in a world of hornets. Enjoy your unique gifts - but you can't find them all if you judge rather than offer curiosity.
 

Show topics:

• How judgment helps us & goes overboard (2:06)
• What discomfort has to do with it (4:01)
• How curiosity can help (6:30)
• 5 questions to become more curious (17:52)

Self-Love Quiz here. 
 

Bonus blog post: Visualizing more Curiosity (https://christina-smith.com/being-curious-of-the-unknown/)

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Before we do anything, we need to gather the clarity we have. We may not know all the information, and there are always some key questions we can ask ourselves to keep our focus on what is most important. 

I want to make it easy and give you 4 easy questions to get you to clarity and then go even deeper and proclaim those intentions with a little ritual for you. 

In this episode:

• When seeking clarity isn't so helpful (1:06)
• The question that grounds me out of my internal chaos (2:47)
• How fear impacts clarity & the questions you need to create a more realistic view (6:47)
• The important question you need the most in any moment (12:30)
• Why ritual is important (18:14)
• Example ceremony (or ritual or alignment) to help you lay claim to your clarity (19:07)

Self-Love Quiz:  Find a self-love ritual specific to you!

Here's the full transcript. 

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Self-compassion is essential to self-love and especially, to our confidence. 

We are not perfect and we aren't meant to be. 

That's not the point of the journey. 

It's how well we manage the imperfections of life.

In this episode:

• Why compassion for ourselves is essential (1:05)
• What happens when we have compassion for ourselves (2:28)
• How self-compassion helped women I know - their stories (5:35)
• 4 Small shifts that make big changes (11:30 -)
• 2 mini-visualizations to ground and bring in more self-compassion

Self-Compassion tools here. (No sign-in needed!)

Visualize. Journal. Bring it into your body.

Self-Love Quiz

Get what you need right now for more self-love.

Previous episodes referenced:

Episode 5: Confidence Busters

Episode 6: Shifting from Perfection to Confidence

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We all have a version of what life would be like if we could be perfect… but it'snot realistic. We aren't built that way. 

We can be confident though, and to me, that's better.

In this episode we uncover:

• How I've learned to have 'perfect' vacations (2:29)
• How intention changes everything (4:50)
• The symptoms of perfectionism in case you don't think this applies to you (6:46)
• The differences between perfection and confidence (9:07)
• The benefits of perfectionism and confidence (11:44)
• How we shift into more confidence (18:19)

Bonuses:

Self-Love Alignment Quiz

We can use self-love every day. Find out which self-love ritual serves you best right now in this 40-second quiz. 

Inner Child Visualization

Tune into that little part of you so you can feel whole and ground into your adult you for more confidence and less fear. 

 
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In this episode, we're going to talk about the top 3 confidence busters. You know all those blocks that we have when we want to move forward on our goals, dreams or passions. 

These are things that we all do naturally - so if you find yourself feeling familiar with these ways we sabotage ourselves, you are not alone. I've personally been stopped by each of these before and even still experience them come up.

• Noticing the blocks that stop us (0:00)
• Mini-visualization to tap into the blocks (1:30)
• Discomfort & Growth (5:00)
• Buster #2 and it's toxic influence in the age of Instagram (9:49)
• Waiting for motivation? (15:47)
• Wrap-up (20:44)

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SUPERPOWER QUIZ HERE.
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What happens to interrupt our most confident days?

What keeps us from starting on those big dreams?

What stops us from taking that next step?

Fear. Today we talk about how to manage our fear so we can move forward toward what we want. 

1. You'll hear a story about one of the most life-changing choices I ever made. (00:47)
2. Defining courage and how it impacts confidence. (5:00)
3. Our default attitudes towards fear. (7:15)
4. The difference between safety and discomfort. (9:04)
5. Mini-visualizations to shift the fear. (13:40)
6. Confidence in having hard conversations (a Susie story) (20:22)
7. How we manage our fear - the steps. (26:10)

Superpower Quiz here. 

Inner Critic Bonus! Visualization, journaling prompts & an alignment to help you build a better relationship with your inner critic.

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SHOW NOTES:

I get asked all the time about confidence. Is that what I really want? What if you just want to feel okay? We'll talk about what my clients have found confidence to be, how they've shifted into more confidence and what they are still working on.

I appreciate Jamie and Erica for being so open to discuss their work over the past year and to share it with you so you can hear the shifts that happen when we focus on our intentions.

Join us to talk about what confidence really is.

Superpower quiz here.

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Special Guest: Joanna Klein

Show notes:

If friendships are something you crave more of you aren't alone. Yet many of us have wounds from our girlfriend relationships that leave us hesitant to trust and connect to other women on the levels that we want to.

Today's show is how we can have better friendships and be a better friend with a special guest.

Superpower Quiz here.

Full transcript here.

Learn more about Joanna:

Joanna Klein has been a leader in personal growth and development programs for more than four decades. Now she brings her insights and wisdom into an inspiring legacy writing course designed to nurture women towards self-reflection, self-appreciation, and self-acceptance.  Journey To Legacy helps women thrive in their third act of life by using the healing power of life story writing to feel good about the life they’ve lived, the years ahead, and the legacy they’ll leave behind.

Free gift from Joanna here!

Ready to rethink and write your story? Learn more about Journey to Legacy here. 

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Take a new look at what confidence is -- especially if you think it's merely a feeling you get when you get good at something. This new definition is actionable and employs confidence even if you don't think you have any… you do!

• A new definition of confidence (3:10)
• What confidence looks like (5:00)
• What Confidence doesn't look like (10:00)
• Tapping into the feeling of confidence (6:30)
• The cycle of confidence according to science (16:38)
• The complete how-to when it comes to stepping into confidence (24:28)

Full Transcript here.

Bonus Download here.

Archetype Superpower Quiz here.

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