Unpacking Myself

In this episode, I talk with my former CEO who took his start up from a garage to being worth a little under $1B by always keeping people & positivity at the forefront. We talk about conscious leadership where uplifting others and seeing them on a "soul" level yields much more long term success than focusing on profits. We talk about the current consciousness level in the business world. We touch on how meetings, reacting to mistakes & motivation can look a lot different when leading with love.

You may be confident in all aspects of your life but somehow parenting can manage to bring out self doubt. Have you ever wondered why that is? In this week's episode I talk about why this happens to us. It is normal and we all feel it as parents. I share what I have done to help shake the insecurities & temptation to compare because I don't want to spend 20 years of my life in a place of fear. I'm sure most parents would agree!

If believing in ourselves starts with others believing in us, does that become unreliable? I don't think so. In this episode, I share how others believing in us can help us find more confidence in who we are. We all need this external support to clearly see who we truly are & I will help you reflect on how impactful this has probably been for you in your own life. I also talk about what happens when we do this for others & how we should never underestimate the power of our compliments or encouragement.

Isn't it funny that every single person makes mistakes yet we are so hard on ourselves as if we are the only ones making them? Mistakes are a part of our lives - at work, at home, with our friends, with our kids. Our mind makes us think we should keep our mistakes safe with us but in this episode I talk about all the reasons why taking responsibility for our mistakes & fessing up is the better route. Our mistakes don't define us but how we respond can.

There are a lot of opposing views right now. Sometimes you feel like screaming at people who don't understand your perspective - it feels emotional and personal at times. But when I unpacked this, I realized that reacting may feel good in the moment but it doesn't get us anywhere. The cancel culture is powerful but can be dangerous if we are not responsible with it. How do we provide criticism that is productive & has a goal of getting to a place beyond the disagreement? That's what we need right about now.

This year has really highlighted how polarized people are on issues such as the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, climate change, politics... the list goes on. I started wondering why we are so polarized. Do we actually consume and process information or just gravitate towards the information that aligns with our existing beliefs? If so, aren't we giving our power to think away? I dive into all of this in this episode.

It took me a minute to embrace my feminine traits & learn how to use that as a superpower versus adapt to men dominated environments. I'll talk about how I did this & why I was even caught up in this confusion in the first place. I also dive into what we women need to do to really lean in when it comes to supporting & helping other women. There are some under the radar things we do to each other that hurt women as a whole and until we change these things, we can't expect the world to treat us differently.

We often squirm and get really uncomfortable around this topic that, ironically, is the one sure thing in life. Can you relate? I got to the point where avoiding it and not forming my beliefs around this topic made me more uncomfortable than actually diving into it. In the process of unpacking, I also found a way to see life through the perspective of death so I could make better decisions and make sure I don't have regrets at the end of my life.

I get up close and personal on this one! I talk about how my relationship with my sister-in-law went from not speaking to a genuine, loving relationship. It's so easy to get trapped into a mindset where you think your relationship with someone in your family will never improve or get better but sometimes the mindset is the barrier. I share what worked for us and how we got on the other side of this challenging time.

Has the way our parents learned life principles through religion become outdated based on how we like to learn and how our kids will learn? These days a lot of people want logic, the science and to understand the why. I dive into whether the "HOW" we learn these life principles truly matters or not. When we choose not to learn through religion the way some of our parents did, are we making sure we have some other way to learn the principles of compassion, charity, giving, love, hope, trust in life.