In this week's episode you get to learn a little bit more about Claire's story, how she got here, how The Universal Needs was developed and how she learned to fill a bucket with a hole in the bottom.

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In this episode we cover:

• How working a job that most people would have given anything to do was sucking the life out of Claire
• What it was like to completely quit my life
• The tale of two six months
• How Claire was so exhausted she started to worry for her health
• The thunderclap of clarity that helped Claire understood how she had got to rock bottom and how to ensure she never got there again
• The things that Claire has found the most challenging when it comes to needs
• How The Universal Needs helped Claire survive a category 5 hurricane, being run over by a truck and a global pandemic.
• The key to empowerment and liberation
• How to feel wanted, desired and chosen in your relationships
• What is the one thing that Claire would want everyone to know about needs
• How Serena thought she understood what needs meant...and then realised she was wrong!

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In this episode Serena tells a story about her husband's frustration about not sharing the detail of The Universal Needs with him.

In this episode we cover:

• Why Serena wouldn't show her husband her needs practice
• Why that created a 'What the duck' moment
• Why she wouldn't tell him what his Universal Needs are
• Why doing so was her caring FOR him, not being mean to him
• Why Claire wouldn't share The Universal Needs with Serena even when she first started working for The Universal Needs
• Why the way we're conditioned to meet our needs means that learning what they are can sometimes work AGAINST us, and leave us more drained
• Why when it comes to needs, a little information can be more problematic than no information at all
• What you need to know for The Universal Needs to really serve you
• How to short cut your understanding of The Universal Needs
• Why The Universal Needs is kind of like a chain saw

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In this episode we cover:

• Why boundaries are so difficult
• How people pleasers struggle more than most with boundaries...and how we are recovering people pleasers
• How we've struggled with boundaries in the past
• Why we resist saying 'no'
• What boundaries are (and are not!)
• Why boundaries are essential to not just getting our needs met, but keeping them met
• How boundaries bring us closer together
• What are the different kids of boundaries we have
• How we set and manage our boundaries
• Why if you don't respect the door, you get the gate...or the street!
• The key things that will help you to set healthy boundaries

"Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.” – Prentis Hemphil

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In this episode we cover:

• How Serena has struggled with her Universal Needs...
• What is rollercoaster self-care?
• Why do we need consistency?
• How vacations from work can sometimes drain our needs more than meet them
• How consistently meeting your needs has a ripple effect on everyone and everything around you
• How to create consistency?
• What are the 4 things you need to build a habit of meeting your needs
• How the Universal Needs practice is vital even to the person who even developed it!!
• How running late can sometimes meet your needs...

"Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent." - Hamza Yusuf

BJ Fogg's TED Talk "Forget big change, start with a tiny habit": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKUJxjn-R8

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Today we're going to talk about two of the most important things when it comes to meeting our needs, interconnectedness and equity.

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In this episode we cover:

• How ignorant we used to be
• What we mean by interconnectedness
• What happens if we meet our needs in ways that negatively impact others
• What happened for us personally when we ignored interconnectedness
• How we don't live in an equitable society
• What that means for the meeting of our needs, other people to meet their needs, and the affect that has on OUR needs being met too
• Serena's personal experience of being on two different sides of a systemic inequity
• How we're being conditioned by the media to perpetuate these problems

This are the TED talks we reference in the episode:

The Urgency of Intersectionality by Dr Kimberlé Crenshaw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o

I've lived as a man & a woman -- here's what I learned by Paula Stone Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYx7HaUlMY&t=34s

Some more resources on some aspects of systemic privilege:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/121uE187yIWuw1QA_sORr7RS0lTe6-f3YHYAYu_uhuog/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nw8OjUhKPWlOBiV_E5cTJILo2FCti1iCk7hbM0S2PJ0/

“But I was poor growing up, I didn’t have any privilege” - Often the term ‘privilege’ doesn’t resonate with people who did not have wealth or class privilege growing up. This article explains this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person_b_5269255

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In this episode, we cover:

• How it's possible to meet a lot of your own needs for yourself
• Why most people are walking around like emotional toddlers without even realising it
• Which needs you can't meet for yourself
• Why meeting your needs is a little like being intimate with someone new for the first time
• What happens when our needs are unmet
• How to discover your superpower
• What Spiderman teaches us
• How to take your power back

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In our third episode, we cover:

• What is The Universal Needs tree?
• What are the 4 groups of needs that we all have?
• Which needs did we think were met or not met when we started learning about needs?
• Why being focused on achieving, acquiring, perfecting is costing us
• How to discover the ways of meeting the needs that work for you
• What is the red-green spectrum?
• Why meeting your needs is kind of like being at a food festival
• Why the ways of meeting your need that work for you are constantly changing

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In our second episode, we will explain how Joey Tribbiani actually got it right for once!

In this episode we cover:

- Is it better to be Selfish or Selfless?

- What does being Selfish and Selfless really mean?

- Why both are problematic

- And why Selfirst is the alternative we are all looking for

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In our first ever episode, we give a mini crash course in understanding how and why the industry standard when it comes to understanding needs, Maslow's Hierarchy is not only ineffective, but also in some ways harmful too.

In this episode we will cover:

• Why do we need something new?
  • The 7 keys to getting all of your Universal Needs consistently met
  • Some of the biggest issues with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
  • The ripple effect of learning to meet your own Universal Needs.

Our first Episode is a little longer than usual - most of our episodes will be 30-40 minutes long, but as today is a bit of an introduction it's a little longer and jam-packed with content!

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Welcome to the Well Sh*t. It really is that simple Podcast! In order to get the most out of this podcast and to find the best content here for you, we’ve created this little introductory episode in order to help. In this episode we share advice we give to all new listeners in order to discover the best of Well Sh*t. It really is that simple! This is definitely the episode to watch first…

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