The Team Meeting Podcast

We are back. It Season and we are coming in hot with interviews this season. This is a solo discussion where I talk about my experience this summer in the ICU with my daughter who had a major surgery.

It was scary and I learned lessons more lessons about how I handle stress. I am hoping my lessons help you with whatever season you are currently in. You don't need to be a parent to benefit from this discussion. I'm hoping everyone, parents non parents, those not interested in being parents will listen.

We are seriously building this community who don't want to sit on the sidelines and watch their life, they want to jump in and take action, imperfect action, messy action that advances them in their life journey. You don't need to make perfect moves to progress in life. I am so imperfect but I am choosing to grow with every experience.

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It's time for Season 2, but before we get there I wanted to re-share an episode from Season 1.

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Let's start today's meeting!

Friends

What do we need to do to open ourselves up to good things, to gratitude, to optimism. It's not always a natural way to think. So, I think we can learn a lesson from my 3 year old daughter who's potty training. She has a watch that looks like an Apple Watch with an alarm that goes off every 30 minutes to remind us to go to the potty so we can sing songs and she can try. It's working in case you're wondering.  Stay with me here. What if we could remind ourselves to be optimistic, to be hopeful, or to find something to be grateful for during the day. Instead of going to the potty we could consciously think about good things in our life. Or we can take a few minutes to imagine having our dreams come true.

We have come to the end of Season 1. But I'm only taking a few weeks off to organize for Season 2 which will kick off in mid to late July. I'm so excited to be bringing you interviews in Season 2, but everything we do is still focused on common life issues that try to flatten us. We may bend but we won't break. Let's keep learning, laughing and growing together. 

Thank you for a great first season!

Let's start today's meeting. 

How uncomfortable is it to learn new things, do new things or to do something new and not be good at it. The only way through is to learn to be ok in new spaces, and in new environments. Let's grow together. 

Friends, we are soon ending Season 1 and Season 2 will be fresh with interviews from people who talk about overcoming their life struggles and of course we will laugh.

Let's start today's meeting. 

Friends, this one is simple. Let's talk about how to be kind, so kind that we ask people how to pronounce their names and say it right. I have lived with this issue all my life. My name is pronounced TAR RAH but it has been pronounced many different ways. As a little girl I was afraid to correct people when they said my name incorrectly. What a shame right? 

On behalf of everyone who has a unique name, can you do me a favor and ask us how to pronounce our names correctly.  Please and thank you so much.

Hi Friends

Let's make some mistakes and then learn from them. Let's stop shutting down and retreating when things don't go our way. We are so focused on being perfect that we aren't being real and we aren't living the life we dream.

I've made plenty of mistakes. I'm cool with discussing them with the hope that you can see there is a path forward.

Let's start the meeting. 

Scars mean you're healing or you have healed. Scars show you overcame it or survived it. Scars should not be looked with shame. I have a lot to say because I have a lot of scars.

Let's talk about it. 

Apologies can be tricky. We often ask children to apologize and they learn to say the words but not change their actions. Saying I’m sorry so they can move on not so they can stop doing the things that required the apology leads to more of the same as adults.

As adults we see so many in the public eye and in our homes who say hurtful or disgraceful things and sometimes they apologize well and it’s heartfelt and other times they decide to be defensive and don’t want to dig in to learn what they did was wrong.

In today’s short meeting we talk about ways to do it right.

Let’s start the meeting. 

Friends, let's talk about doing things scared. 

I'm referencing Luvvie Ajayi Jones' book Professional Troublemaker: The Fear Fighter Manual.  I highly recommend this book to you, its for men and women. It's a good book for humans. 

I will not tell you to be fearless. Instead I would say "do it scared." 

Let's start today's meeting. 

Friends, let's talk about happiness and what it means. Are you assigning your happiness to a person or an event, or a certain date, like when you become a millionare or when you get married and have children?

Let's talk about how to be happy now. Now not when x or y or z happens.

Let's start today's meeting.