The Liberated Life - Hard Conversations Worth Your Courage

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Show Notes

Confusion is a pretty common feeling, especially lately. It's normal to have moments of confusion but confusion can also become a habitual way of being. Why? Because confusion can be an excuse or justification for inaction. 

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What creates the feeling of invisibility for you? Is it tied to something external or internal feelings of worthiness or....?

How do we foster being seen and appreciated by others? Listen in and explore the feeling of invisibility and how to resolve it. 

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How do you deal with criticism? Criticism is a tough one because it lands right in our most tender spots - where we already hold judgment for ourselves. 

Robin shares a personal story ( 😅) and then leads you through questions to ask yourself when you feel criticized. 

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If this episode resonated with you, you might enjoy our free People Skillz community — a structured space to practice steadier, more intentional communication. We also created a short Communication Patterns Quiz to help you identify how you respond under pressure. You’ll find both here. 

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Show Notes

Are you easily offended? When we're offended, somewhere down deep our belief system has been challenged. 

Asking questions about what is 'beneath' the offense is a great way to begin to excavate where offense originated and resides. 

You can use the questions Robin presents to journal and explore the emotion of 'offended'.  

If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com

If this episode resonated with you, you might enjoy our free People Skillz community — a structured space to practice steadier, more intentional communication. We also created a short Communication Patterns Quiz to help you identify how you respond under pressure. You’ll find both here.

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About Sandra: 

Give Sandra Halling the business equivalent of a 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and she can make it look like the picture on the box. As founder of The Data Mavens, she’s dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and executives design their workflow and systems to feel organized, have peace of mind and prioritize what matters to them. Sandra is an expert on platforms like Deltek Vision, Notion, and ClickUp but her real priority is helping you develop better work habits by achieving Aligned Productivity—that is to say, aligning your work with your values.

Show Notes: 

Our goals represent our values.  When what you do during the day doesn't line up with your goals, the solution is to align your work with your values. 

Systems may work but aren't the solution to productivity. 

Systems don't adjust for the seasons of your life or for the actual day-to-day living and unexpected situations that happen. 

The idea of 'consistent output all the time'  doesn’t leave space for humanity.

A question to ask is how do we FEEL about what we’re focused on?

We need to give ourselves permission and space to figure out what we want to focus on.

It usually takes someone on the outside to help us to see what we value but we can also look at our calendar and our budget to help us see what we are valuing. 

When you deviate from your plan to be productive, it's good to notice how what you chose to do supported you and your goals and how it supported your boundaries. 

We thrive in community. Having others to support us in our goals is critical to our success. 

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If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com

If this episode resonated with you, you might enjoy our free People Skillz community — a structured space to practice steadier, more intentional communication. We also created a short Communication Patterns Quiz to help you identify how you respond under pressure. You’ll find both here. 

Show Notes: 

We all have patterns of behavior that are passed down by our families (parents).  Those patterns supported us, but may be outdated now.

Our parents did their best and wanted to keep us safe, but not all patterns support us in living with peace and joy today.

We have a choice. We can choose to continue in our patterns (martyrdom, victim, overdoer, people pleaser, etc) or, when they reveal themselves, we can choose to behave or believe something else. 

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About Dr. Fred Blum

Dr. Fred Blum helps his clients - from world-famous professional athletes to high-performing executives and business owners - create peace, clarity, and happiness without sacrificing productivity or effectiveness. Dr. Fred's background includes a variety of training and experiences that led him to his current profession. With degrees in psychology and chiropractic, he's also studied human transformation with some of the most brilliant minds in the world. In addition to his "mainstream" training, he's trained in martial arts for over 40 years, raised an amazing son, lived in a spiritual community, and performed in an Off-Broadway comedy troupe. He's also been bullied as a kid, declared bankruptcy, and been divorced...

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘴, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦."

Show Notes

We create an identity for ourselves when we are about 2 years old. We think of it as The Ego. 

Our Ego helps to keep us safe but it is not actually us. 

When we recognize that our ego is NOT us, if we are willing to pay attention and become aware, the ego can become the servant, not the master (your True Self can be the Master). 

Your True Self is already there. It gives you access to peace, clarity, freedom, happiness, and love.

As our True Self, we can be in our life creating from our peace and clarity.

We no longer have to find our worthiness through our accomplishments (per The Ego).

The work is waking up to our true self. It's a gradual process of learning to see through the illusion of self we’ve created. Dr. Fred calls these moments 'glimpses'. 

To begin, slow down. Notice your feelings. Get more clarity about the feelings you have.

Your True Self isn’t mystical. It’s who you are.

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Show Notes:

If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com

There are at least 40 emotions that can cause us to get derailed as we go through our day. Many of these emotions are triggered by communication, including emails, app notifications, and text messages. 

These triggers invite us to pay attention to what's below the surface. If we feel anger, what is beneath the anger? Is it indignation or injustice, or disrespect? 

It's good for us to begin to notice what's bothering us or triggering us. Once we notice something, we can choose what we want to do (or not do) to resolve the feelings and remove the trigger. 

If this resonated, there's probably an open loop of your own worth closing. My free Close the Loop tool walks you through it in about 15 minutes — a gentle place to start. 💛 → closetheloopsnow.com