We Go Boldly Podcast

All season long we are continuing our conversation around busyness and self-worth. We’ve covered a lot of ground already though I suspect we could spend an entire year talking about this subject. Today we are thrilled to continue our interview series advocate Alyson McNair.

Alyson was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She started her career at the age of 14 as an Office Assistant for East New York Betterment, a nonprofit that assisted the elderly. It was there where she learned how nonprofits are pivotal to helping change communities.  After years of government work and in the private industry Alyson realized even more about the hardships of people gaining employment after incarceration and decided to start a nonprofit to address the issue. She began conceptualizing and planning for Perfect, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides job training, job placement and lifestyle coaching for women who have been incarcerated. Alyson is passionate about creating a world where women who have been incarcerated can receive the proper support needed to become contributing citizens to society. She is an advocate for their dreams and visions to be and have all they were destined to have. Alyson is also a wife and mother.  Needless to say she knows something about busyness.  

We can’t wait to share this great interview with you today!

You can learn more about Perfect, Inc. by going to www.perfectinc.org or follow them on Instagram @Perfectinc129

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Let’s Go Boldly into episode 6 and cross off finding self worth in our productivity. This week Tovah and Rielly talk all about the notion that our value and worth as humans is captured in what we can produce in a day. The idea that the more we put on our to do list and cross off by the end of the day, the more worthy we are, the more worthwhile we should feel. 

Rielly and Tovah are spending all season tackling the concept of tying our own self-worth to external factors. This week the focus is directed at the idea that we become so enamored with and tied to our to-do lists that they can become a crutch and a way to hide from our reality. The more we bury ourselves in busyness and lists, the less we focus on our present lived experience.

Join the conversation today and consider all the ways in which you use your to do lists to avoid or deflect from what you really want out of your life. Don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe too!

GO BOLDLY HOMEWORK

1. Grab your journals. “How do you determine if your day was a success?” Do you think about it?  Do you take an inventory?  Do you make a list? 
2. Set a timer for 10 minutes.  Journal on “What a successful day looks like for you now?” Set another time for 10 minutes and journal on “What do you want a successful day look like for you?”

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Welcome back for our second interview on busyness and worth. We are in the middle of the season and the middle of some extra busy days.  This conversation feels more important now than ever. We are so excited to introduce you to author and daily mindfulness guru, Jennifer Walkup.

Jennifer Walkup is an award-winning author, artist, and positive psychology practitioner. A silver lining enthusiast, Jennifer is often found adventuring with her husband, sons, and beloved beagle. Jennifer also works as an English professor and editor and is an advocate for epilepsy awareness. 

You can follow learn all about Jennifer’s writing, and buy yourself a book, at her website: www.jenniferwalkup.com.

We can’t wait to share this great interview with you today!

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“Hustle culture carries this overarching belief that the more you do, the more valuable you are,” says Kate Northrup the founder of The Origin Company and the author of Do Less: Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management. 

This week Rielly and Tovah dive into the big discussion of work, busyness, and the ever present “hustle culture.” People use work and the hustle culture as the filler for something that is out of whack in their lives.  Outwardly, hustle culture seems like a high-energy-motivational movement that comes with expected rewards. For most people, working long hours is typically associated with moving up the corporate ladder faster, making six-figures in the shortest amount of time possible, or earning passive income due to around-the-clock hard work. It is the belief that you can succeed and achieve anything you want in life if you work hard enough.  And if you don’t then It’s FOMO, but for work.

The reality is, sometimes working hard isn’t enough, and chronic workaholism can be detrimental in the long run. If you aim for success and glory, whatever that may look like to you, know that working hard is part of it and not all of it.

We ask a lot of questions in this episode.  Why is everyone working so hard? What is influencing us to push harder, work longer, and beyond our limits? What are the consequences of working too much on our health?

Finally we discuss what we can try to do as a society and individuals to reject hustle culture. This is an important conversation and one we are excited to share with you. 

GO BOLDLY HOMEWORK

1. Pay attention to how often you see “hustle culture” show up in your day for the next week
2. Note how it makes you feel to see these concepts show up in your workplace, social media, friendships etc.
3. Reach out to your accountability partner and discuss! Share thoughts with us on social @goboldlytogether 

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It is here.  The first interview of season 6 and it is a good one!  We are so excited to introduce you to our dear friend and generally wonderful human being Sarah Stoeckel.

Sarah Stoeckel is a mom, a lawyer, and a community advocate. She is also an expert on what it means to be busy. Not only does she hold down a day-job running a small talent development consultancy, but she also volunteers her time as Vice Chair for the Board of Directors at Diaper Bank of North Carolina, Advocacy Chair for the Wake County PTA Council, and is also a member of the Board for the Cary Community Foundation.  Plus, she is a Girl Scout leader and she supports local candidates for political office by leading teams of mom-canvassers.  Woah!

You can follow Sarah on Instagram @votesarahnc and learn more about the great work of the the North Carolina Diaper Bank at https://ncdiaperbank.org/.

We can’t wait to share this great interview with you today!

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In this week’s episode Tovah and Rielly lay the groundwork for a discussion of self-worth throughout the upcoming season 6. They set out definitions and parameters around self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence. The underlying basis for the season is that our cultural focus on busyness keeps us trapped in thinking that our self-worth is tied to busyness and productivity.

Join Rielly and Tovah as they examine the root of self-worth, how to dig into your own understanding of self-worth, and your connection to the larger world. The ability to recognize your worth as an intangible in existence regardless of action, regardless of doing, and merely because of your place as a being in the universe is fundamental to self-worth. 

Listen in as we walk through how self-worth is and importantly, is not, determined in our own lives. Think through how you experience and express your self-worth and what attachments you have to external sources of validation. Consider how your own busyness is tied to your understanding of worthiness and self-worth. 

GO BOLDLY HOMEWORK

1. Time to have a heart to heart with yourself and do some serious journaling. This may take days or weeks.  That’s okay. Ask yourself:
   1. How would you describe your self-worth right now?
   2. What words would you use to describe yourself?
   3. What value did you place on yourself or aspects of yourself?
   4. Were your descriptions generally positive, balanced, or negative?
   5. Where did your messages around your worth come from?
2. How did that feel?  Head over to our social or reach out to your accountability partner to share your what that felt like. 

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“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” — Lily Tomlin

We have made it to season 6 and we are excited to be here!  Busyness and worthiness are two subjects we are very interested in talking about and discussing with you.  At a foundational level, busyness is the experience of feeling like we have more to do than we have time or energy – that there is not much “space” in our lives. We are running from one task or meeting to another, often repeatedly throughout the day.  Sound familiar?

How did we get here as individuals?  Or a society?

Since the turn of the 20th century we, Americans, have begun to use busyness as a status symbol, despite knowing that this does not make us happier. We keep doing it.  We define our worthiness by our productivity. We create our own busyness. We create it and thus we can make a change!

The pandemic gave us a unique opportunity to see what happens when we can’t make ourselves busy, even if we wanted to.  Although we did our best to try (sourdough starter anyone?).

Rielly and Tovah kick off the new season with a discussion about all about busyness and worthiness.  Don’t worry, we don’t just focus on the bad, we also focus on what we can do to step off the hamster wheel. We are excited for this season filled with hard conversations.  We know you’re ready too!

GO BOLDLY HOMEWORK

1.  Time to check in with yourself. Feel free to journal or just think to yourself. Do an honest review of your life and ask: What is contributing to this sense of busyness in my life? Then ask: Who made the decisions that led to these commitments? And finally, ask (and answer): What can I do to reduce the busyness I’m experiencing?
2. After spending time journaling, talk to your accountability partner.  
3. Head over to social media to share your thoughts with us.

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We Go Boldly continues our discussion of phase two of our inner voice work. How do we accept ourselves once we weed out the negative influences to our inner monologue, and do the deep dive into who we are at our core? 

Tovah and Rielly talk through methods for working on accepting all the facets of our person, allowing ourselves to be whole humans. Once we clear out the clutter of the noise around us, we can take time to look at the way that we talk to ourselves, the way that we feel about ourselves, and what to do with those feelings. 

Processing our emotions and allowing them to happen without judgment helps us to accept ourselves. That acceptance is a fundamental step in bringing our full and worthy selves to bear on our own lives. This kind of acceptance allows us to be prepared by our past rather than ruled by it.

GO BOLDLY HOMEWORK

1. Take the Back to You course! 
2. Listen to our original Inner Voice podcast.  
3. Sign up for our workshop on the 18th where we will dig deep into all things inner voice. 

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We have spent over a year talking about listening to your inner voice but what we really meant was that we should hear our inner voice and then we should work on listening to it.  That is easier said than done.  We are taking a mini-season to focus on the listening.  

Listening to our inner voice & hearing it are different. When you first hear your inner voice is not the same as hearing it and following it. We want to help transform your inner monologue.  

We dig deep into the science of it all to help find our way.  Join us this week as we take our inner voice conversation to the next level.  

GO BOLDLY HOMEWORK

1. Take the Back to You course! 
2. Listen to our original Inner Voice podcast.  
3. Sign up for our workshop on the 18th where we will dig deep into all things inner voice. 

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Did you enjoy this episode? We would love to hear your thoughts. Head to Apple Podcasts and then rate, review, and subscribe. This way you will get notified once a new episode goes live.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goboldlytogether/

Website: www.goboldlyinitiative.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Go-Boldly-Together-105942584706928

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/go-boldly-initiative

YouTube: http://bit.ly/boldlyyoutube

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/goboldlypodcast

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wegoboldly

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Join us today in Going Boldly on our last episode of Season 5. We wrap things up with a look into how we lean into faith during times of trouble. Rielly and Tovah spend this last episode wrapping up the season asking questions about how people utilize their faith in different ways in order to weather troubling times.  

The hosts plunge into the depths of what it means to lean into faith when transformations are rocky and times are troubled. How do we lift ourselves up by turning to faith, community, certainty or even doubt? Tovah and Rielly talk through some of their own experiences of how faith has lifted them up and helped them through dark times.  

GO BOLDLY HOMEWORK

1. Journal about how faith comes into play in your everyday life.  How do you incorporate it into your life?  Do you have a sense of faith?  If it helps you set a time for 10 minutes.  
2. On another piece of paper write out where would you like faith to be?
3. Reach out to your accountability partner to have a discussion and share your thoughts with us.  

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Website: www.goboldlyinitiative.com

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LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/go-boldly-initiative

YouTube: http://bit.ly/boldlyyoutube

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/GoBoldlyTogether/_saved/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/goboldlypodcast

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wegoboldly

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