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Do you struggle to see yourself clearly?

I talk to a lot of humans about their dreams and goals, and it seems like the hardest thing for people to do is identifying what truly lights them up. 

Maybe you can relate. It's easy to say allll the things that don't light us up, but flipping that to the other side is a big challenge. In this episode, I'll walk you through an exercise that can help you get into both your mind and body to see and feel the things that light you up in your life. Because, like Jen Roth said in Tuesday's episode, this is where clarity truly comes from.

Listen to this episode to hear:

• How to visually recognize if something is lighting you up
• Why your enthusiasm is more important than "figuring it out"
• Why joy is the real strategy

So today, take three deep cleansing breaths, and ask yourself:

• If I had all the money in the world, and I still had to work – what would I do?
• What am I feeling when I do that thing?
• Where do I feel those emotions in my body?
• Can I memorize that feeling  and where it exists in my body? Can I make it grow and expand?

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In Thursday Threads, I pull a little piece out from the most recent guest episode. In this episode, I’m referencing season 4, episode 19 featuring Jen Roth.  

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

Is it possible to manifest a life that truly lights you up? Jen Roth’s deepest desire is to help you do exactly this.

I have known Jen for a while, and had been interested to learn more about how she she got started with her herbal tea company, Birds and Bees Teas, and grew it from a start-up to over two million in sales.

From massage therapist, to herbalist,  to coach, to CEO, her journey through line is offering support to women and encouraging them to care for themselves.

We spend a great deal of time in this episode speaking about her current passion — helping people get clear on their passion and mission so they can live a life that lights their soul on fire.

MEET JEN ROTH
I have a true passion for all things wellness. As the owner of Birds & Bees Teas and host of the Manifesting Clarity Podcast, I am committed to helping you care for yourself and your families in a natural, healthy way.

I am passionate about plant medicine, health, ethically run, sustainable businesses and caring compassionately for my clients. I have worked daily to build businesses that strengthen communities and empower people to make informed, intentional choices about their health & life.

Jen’s links:

• Website
• Instagram
• Manifesting Clarity Podcast
• Bird and Bee's Teas
• Join Jen’s spring retreat 
• Get the free Clarity Choice Point Guide mentioned in the episode 

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

Are you currently wishing for something better than what you have right now? If you don't feel satisfied with your life, if you're feeling like there's something more for you, and you're always trying to figure out what the next big thing is – listen to this episode.

Because future tripping is one of the most miserable trips you can go on. As I mentioned in the episode on Tuesday with Michelle Rios, achievers (like me and Michelle...and possibly you?) tend to find ourselves constantly seeking, striving, and wanting for the next best thing. This can lead us to being incredibly determined and motivated people – and to people who are never satisfied with the life they're living.

So, how do we fix this?
 
The answer is pretty simple, though I'll admit it's not easy for any high-functioning achiever or perfectionist to accomplish: Instead of always looking down the road for the next extraordinary thing to come our way, you have to feel the extraordinary happening right now.

Despite your hardships, despite your challenges, despite Kevin who won't stop heating up salmon in the break room microwave or Kari who clips her fingernails at 2:30 pm every Tuesday afternoon and the sound is so jarring you could punch a nun, your life is full of magic. Spectacular wonders are occurring inside and around you at every waking moment. Truly.

There is nothing bleh about life. You feel bleh because your awareness is not in the spectacular, it's in the wanting. So live the extraordinary life you're living. Like, really live it. Breathe it. Feel it. Taste it. Savor it.

The big life secret every future tripper is looking for is to simply allow yourself to feel the powerful magic that is in your life right now.  I


Listen to this episode to learn:

• Why actively loving your life right now (even if you don't feel like you love it) is the ticket to the future you want
• How to start having fun, even in a job you hate
• Why your enthusiasm is your superpower, and how to use it
• How to really feel into the present moment so you can magnetize more joyful moments into your life

My two affirmations from this episode (feel free to steal them!):

• When I choose the fun, the fun chooses me
• Money flows to me easily when I’m having fun

Your homework:
As mentioned in the episode, I would love to hear what fun thing you saw, did, or experience(d) today. Send me a voice note, 60 seconds or less, about it on Instagram @untetheredjen or via email [email protected]

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In Thursday Threads, I pull a little piece out from the most recent guest episode. In this episode, I’m referencing season 4, episode 11 featuring Kristin Svets.  

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

Hey there, achiever. This one's for you. 

Michelle Rios, high-achiever extraordinaire, is here to share how living a life of constant striving for the next extraordinary thing kept her from enjoying the precious moments of the actual extraordinary life she was living. 

Her story is pretty spectacular – filled with amazing moments, achievements, frustrations, and guidance. But the most amazing thing of all is the awareness and wisdom she gained when she allowed herself to stop striving, and to listen.

So buckle in for this one, because it's a fun ride through her extraordinary story. Then join me on Thursday as we pull out some of the beautiful threads and dive deeper into the takeaways.

Listen to this episode to hear:

• How constantly looking to the next amazing thing leads to an unfulfilling life.
• Why it's never too late to start living like the kid you didn't allow yourself to be.
• The ways you can breathe extraordinary moments into your every day.

Get to know Michelle:
Michelle Rios is a sought after motivational speaker, award winning communications leader & writer, and corporate executive. In her more than 25 year career, she has coached CEOs and individuals alike to optimize their performance, enhance team engagement, and live their best lives. Her latest role is host of the Live Your Extraordinary Life podcast. When not public speaking, podcasting, or traveling, Michelle enjoys spending time at home in northern Virginia with her husband, 15 year old son, and two Great Pyrenees dogs.

Connect with Michelle
Instagram: @michellerios1
Website: https://michelleriosofficial.com/ 
Podcast: Live Your Extraordinary Life With Michelle Rios

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

How do you know when you’re tethered?

Today, I share a story today of a realization that came to me while walking in a Portlandian snow storm.

The cultural, societal, relational, and personal tethers we hold are not always visible to us. Like the snow that lands on a spider’s web, sometimes it takes an event or question or shift in perspective for the tether to reveal itself to us.

Often, we find that the tether has been there for a while. Or it’s a recurring tether that keeps popping back up.

I hope this episode gives you a few things:

• Comfort - That you aren’t alone in your experience. 
• Validation - That your experience with a tether is real and unique.
• Acceptance - That it’s okay for tethers to be there. They get to exist. You get to brush them off. They get to come back. Allowing this can be a magical shift.

What did you think of this episode? I’d love to hear!

 XO Jen

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

How do you achieve your dreams when you don't even feel confident enough to take the first step? Kelli Thompson is on the podcast today to show us how.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, working in the corporate world, or you're seeking to completely change career paths, this is an amazing episode for understanding how to step into your next level of leadership with confidence.

With more than ten years of senior leadership experience in financial services and technology organizations, Kelli knows what it's like to be a woman working in male-dominated areas. Today, she uses her knowledge from navigating leadership roles to teach other women how to be seen and heard while leveling up in their careers – and how to practically navigate it all without waiting  to feel fully confident.

Listen to this episode to hear:

• Why you don't have to feel confident to take action on that big thing
• How to practically move forward while still lacking confidence
• Why doubt is a healthy emotion
• How to release the cultural tethers that hold us stuck in a life that's not serving us

About Kelli Thompson

Kelli Thompson is a women’s leadership coach and speaker who helps women advance to the rooms where decisions are made. She has coached and trained hundreds of women to trust themselves, lead with more confidence, and create a career they love. She is the founder of the Clarity & Confidence Women's Leadership Program, and a Stevie Award winner for Women in Business—Coach of the Year. She is the author of Closing The Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck.

Kelli holds an MBA, has served as an adjunct management professor, and has more than ten years of senior leadership experience in financial services and technology organizations. Her thought leadership has been featured in Forbes, MarketWatch, Parents Magazine, HuffPost, and FastCompany. Kelli is from Omaha, Nebraska, and her favorite roles are wife to Jason and mom to Hailey.

Connect with Kelli:

• Website: Kelli Thompson
• Book: closingtheconfidencegap.com/book
• LinkedIn: Kelli Thompson
• Instagram: @kelliraethompson

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

Ever wondered why the universe keeps serving you a stack of crap pancakes — even when you keep saying it’s NOT what you want?!

In this episode, I teach you how to place a new order.

I share a bit about my own journey and how I came to a realization in 2014 that the person I was primarily being  (a big Judgy McJudgerpants) was repeatedly placing the wrong order. 

Since that day, I’ve been on a quest to find the reasons why I was being so judgmental — and how to shift myself out of the throne of judgment and into the seat of curiosity.

This intentional practice has created space in my life for amazing people and opportunities to appear (like KJ from Tuesday’s episode!)

You can do this, too. 

You get to make little choices that bring more delight into your life by shifting away from things like overworking, perfectionism, and criticism — and into curiosity. This is where things like creativity and  fun and flow and play get to thrive.

Now, a reminder that judgment is not all bad. It’s actually quite helpful in many ways. People with a keen sense of judgment have cultivated the ability to notice things others might not. The world needs this skill, particularly when it comes to applying it to find solutions to real problems!

But when our judgment is “overactive,” we can direct it at ourselves and others in harmful ways. 

So today, I encourage you to notice who you are being. Are you being open and curious and playful? Because who you are being is what you are attracting. 

And when you shift who you are being, you get to shift what you are attracting. 


After listening to this episode, ask yourself.

• What am I focusing on? 
• How is that focus showing up in the world around me?
• What’s the next best emotion I can choose to focus on?

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In Thursday Threads, I pull a little piece out from the most recent guest episode. In this episode, I’m referencing season 4, episode 13 featuring KJ Nasrul.  

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

Have you ever burst into tears while standing in front of the ocean? Maybe at a sunset, or when a band goes on stage? It's possible that, in these moments, you've experienced a remembering.  

In this episode, psychotherapist KJ Nasrul helps us interpret these moments and what they could mean – by following the unexpected clues communicating with us in a language made of things other than letters and words. 

Listen in to learn the importance of speaking languages outside of the expected, and how dropping into your inner knowing can help you interpret and speak outside of the obvious tells you regularly see around you.

Listen to this episode to hear:

• What deja vu really is
• Why certain moments make us cry
• How to follow the clues back home to ourselves
• How to speak the language of the Magical Mucous (seriously! haha)

MEET KJ NASRUL
KJ is a licensed healing arts practitioner on a mission to help people recover the hidden healing artist within them. She shows people the way to embedded medicine to heal wounds and uplift communities. Our mission is permission: slow down and recover the hidden (neglected, ignored) healing artist within byway of compassionate conversations and artful expression.

KJ is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, musician, speaker, and collector of stories. You can find her on the windswept San Francisco Beach or gnoshing at Oakland’s Mac + Cheese shop Homeroom, hosting retreats in Cali or Bali, and teaching the creative arts all over the world.

KJ is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (which means, she studies and counsels on relationships), a musician, a speaker, and a collector of stories. She's also a Psychological First Aid Responder with extensive experience providing mental health support to families impacted by disasters, both natural and man-made.

Join her retreat (in freaking BALI ya'll)
Visit her website, Bliss Begins Within Psychotherapy & Consulting
Stories of Astonishing Light Podcast

Connect with KJ on social:
@musingsonother
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Also mentioned in this episode: @iamsahararose

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

Moira from Schitt’s Creek was right: when one of us shines, all of us shine.

The more each of us is willing to step into our gifts, the more joy we feel. And even more than that, as we light up, we give permission for others to do it, too.

When you shine, it doesn’t steal someone else’s shine. This is a massive limitation so many of us are CHOOSING to live with. Put it down!

There is enough pie for everyone. And in fact, when you take your slice, it automatically refills. (Maybe the pie even becomes more delicious than it was before — so every new slice taken is more and more delicious.)

You can’t shine when you’re choosing to live tied down by your tethers. Which one can you let go of today?

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In Thursday Threads, I pull a little piece out from the most recent guest episode. In this episode, I’m referencing season 4, episode 11 featuring Kristin Svets.  

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

How do you find your purpose? Is there a yearning inside of you, but you can't put your finger on exactly what it is?

Kristin Svets is on the podcast today to guide you back to your inner light so you can finally step into your calling and live with purpose – in business and in life.

Kristin and I have a lot in common, from loving the color purple to being middle children, and as coaches who care a lot about you shining your magical unicorn light. This conversation spans many of our favorite topics on this podcast, including our least favorite tether that holds us back: judgment.

We also talk about being middle children, and the protection mechanisms we formed as to keep ourselves safe in childhood – but don't serve us as adults.

Finally, Kristin generously shares some great tools and strategies for using your breath to calm your nervous system.

Listen to this episode to hear:

• How dimming your light does more harm than good
• Why finding your purpose is meant to be more fun than we make it
• What it really means when someone is judging you
• How to make room for both your inner critic AND your dreams
• How changing your actions by one degree can change the course of your life

Meet Kristin
Kristin Svets is a Life Design Coach, meditation and breathwork teacher, Abundant by Design podcast host, and the author of the book Designed to Shine (release 2023). Empowering women to release overwhelm and self sabotage so that they can Light Up their Purpose in Life & Career.

Visit Kristin's website
Follow her on Instagram
Listen to her Abundant by Design Podcast

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