A blindspot by definition is something you can’t see… you don’t realize its there. Most of us have them and those who say they don’t, just haven’t found it yet :) In this episode, I walk through where these blindspots come from, how I discovered mine and how you can find yours too. Finding the blindspot can help us get different, more positive outcomes than ones we may be used to. 

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It is so liberating and freeing when you are okay with others not liking you. Not when you are being a jerk but in moments where you know you didn’t do anything wrong and yet they don’t like you. If people don’t like you when you are well-intentioned and being yourself then you have to detach from making them like you. Learn how you can remove so much clutter and confusion from your mind when you aren’t driven by what others think of you.

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It’s easy to forget that the lense through which we experience life is our own personal lense. It’s a customized lense influenced by our past, our pain, our experiences, our narrative, our judgments, our likes & dislikes, our triggers. And that’s ok, we all have it but what happens when we don’t even realize the lense is there? Can we ever break out of the negative patterns that occur in our life if we refuse to see life outside of our lense? I dive into all of this in this week’s episode. 

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I always had a feeling that when I was saying “I was too busy,” I wasn’t being completely honest with myself. Did I not have time or was I choosing not to prioritize other things in that moment? Seems like the same thing but the latter made me feel like I was in control of what my day or week was filled with. In this episode, I talk about why this subtle difference matters and why down-time is so important for our overall well-being.

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When I would hear people say “Find your purpose,” I would always get so overwhelmed and feel like it was out of reach. What does that mean? How do I find it? Do I have to become the next Oprah? In this episode, I unpack this big, scary thing - “purpose” into something that makes sense and is achievable. I had to this for myself and it has become more and more clear over the years. It’s not as complicated as people make it seem to be. Listen in!

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I’ve spent most of my life thinking “being understanding” meant sacrificing my own desires, ignoring my own feelings and just being silent. I saw others do this when I was younger and didn’t even realize I was doing the same thing until recently. I’m realizing that “being understanding” is about being loving and kind BUT also honest and vocal. It does not mean shoving our own wants or needs deep down. Listen in as I unpack this one.

A recent experience made me realize how much we bury negative self-talk in our minds. Sometimes we don’t even know its there. All we experience is the negative emotions but most of the time there is “not very nice” self-talk going on in our minds that it is stemming from. If we don’t take a minute to pause, we will never be able to get to the root cause, which is the constant chatter programmed into our minds based on past experiences. I dive into why we need to figure out what this talk sounds like.

Have you ever had something happen that you weren’t expecting, that threw you off, made you feel defeated? You feel like you just want to curl into bed and rebel against all the action you were supposed to take? Well I had this happen to me this week and I share what happened as I battled action versus inaction in my head. Every part of me wanted to go towards inaction to soothe myself but what happened reminded me of the power in taking action especially in those moments. Listen in as I share my experience with taking action when all I wanted to do was anything but that.

A lot of women today cringe when women are objectified but I couldn’t help but notice how often women on social media are asked where their dress or shoes or earrings are from when they are posting inspirational, informative content. I couldn’t help but go “wait, what is our roll here and are we a part of the problem?” Yes of course we will compliment other women and that is being supportive but what happens when we lead with that all the time? I dive into this in this week’s episode.

Have you ever felt like you had to allow someone’s bad behavior because you know why they are that way? Recently I resisted unpacking others in my life because I didn’t want to excuse the behavior. This led me down the path of realizing that it wasn’t an all or nothing type of thing and why I can and should do both. Ignoring bad behavior can give us a false sense of being compassionate and a peaceful relationship but in reality there is something greater on the other side if we are willing to have the hard conversation. 

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