Worthfull Project

"The technology keeps changing, but connection and trust are what still work. Ideas that spread, win. Ideas that stick are worth even more. You can race to be first on a new platform, but it's far better to be the voice that we would miss if you weren't there."

It's the beginning of Season 5! I took a good break over the holidays and into the new year and now I'm ready for a new season -- which means a new theme and a new format for the episodes. I'm excited to dedicate a whole season of this podcast to the thing thing has been top of mind for me for a while: owning my worth in my work and encouraging others to do the same.

As I'm learning how to be a better business owner, service provider, sales person, marketer, and human being who gets paid for her skills, I have so many new thoughts about how to own our worth in our work . . . and how not to. That's what we'll be exploring this season! Subscribe on your favorite listening app and let's begin.

"Let's remember that our worth has been with us throughout this entire season and probably supported us in ways we didn't fully realize."

It's the end of Season 4! Wow, what a year this was and what a gift committing to making these affirmation episodes has been to me. There were many weeks this year that I didn't think I had it in me to record another affirmation from my worth, but I did it anyway and I'm grateful.

I'm recapping what I learned this year from this creative project and what I have in store for Season 5. I hope you experience a beautiful end to your year and a deep reconnection to your worth.

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"Maybe you've been going at your very highest pace for a very long time."

The phrase "grace for your pace" descended into my mind a few weeks ago, and I saved it for a worthfull affirmation episode. It seems that the times we live in are a constant pull on our pace. There's always a request for us to go faster or to give more, but that isn't always what's actually needed. Our pace is often just fine, or a little too fast already, and giving ourselves grace for that makes all the difference.

This worthfull affirmation is a reminder to check in on the grace you are giving yourself. For your pace, for other's pace, and for the greater community's pace. Could you give a little more grace for that pace? Give it a try.

• Music Credit: These Times by Blue Dot Sessions

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"How well are you stewarding yourself?"

I get to edit my friend Tiffany Peterson's podcast, which is a delight. Recently on her show, she posed the question, "How well are you stewarding yourself?" It struck me immediately because I'd never thought about self-care in that way before. Then I started to think about how this relates to our worth.

This worthfull affirmation is an opportunity for you to ask yourself the same question. If our worth is the best steward we can ask for, are we letting it fill that role? What would happen if we did? I think we'd experience the best care we can imagine, and we can decide to do this starting right now.

• Tiffany Peterson
• Music Credit: Idle Ways by Blue Dot Sessions

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"You are known by the best parts of yourself."

I love reading Esther Perel's monthly email letters. She's a world-renown relationship therapist that teaches about how important it is to be connected to our aliveness, the fact that we are seen and known. I've been thinking about how powerful it is to know that we are known. Not just by others, but by ourselves, and by our worth.

This worthfull affirmation is a reminder to you that you are known. For all of your best qualities and choices and efforts. And that you are known for who you really are by your worth.

• Esther Perel
• Music Credit: Crumbling Dock by Blue Dot Sessions

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"Change nothing except the amount of love you give to yourself." - Sarah Blondin

I heard this beautiful phrase while listening to a meditation a few weeks ago, and it sunk right into my heart. I hadn't ever thought that the only thing that might need to change in my life is the amount of love I give to myself. I loved exploring this idea and asking myself the question, what would happen if I only increased the amount of love I showed to myself?

This worthfull affirmation is a reminder to you, and an invitation, to change the amount of love you give to yourself. To increase it wildly. And to believe that when we change nothing except the amount of love we give to ourselves, we change everything.

• Music Credit: A Palace of Cedar by Blue Dot Sessions

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"I know that you're working your very hardest at being the kind of person you wish you were."

As usual, I recorded this affirmation for myself, because it's what I needed to hear. I read a snippet somewhere recently that started with, "I know that life is . . ." and it felt so comforting to hear someone else acknowledge the circumstances I was feeling. One of the best ways I've found to soothe myself is to speak to myself through the voice of my worth. So that's where this affirmation is coming from.

This worthfull affirmation is a comfort for you. A chair to sit down on for a minute. A warm cup of tea to sip. A beautiful scene to take in. It's a reminder that all of your effort and all of your demands are seen and known. And that you don't have to carry the weight of the world, even if it feels like it.

• Music Credit: Morning Colorwheel by Blue Dot Sessions

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"What can I do to make this mountain taller so the women after me can see farther."

Rupi Kaur

It's been a heavy and overwhelming week in the world. Crises in Afghanistan, Haiti, and so many places as a result of the Earth's climate crisis and humanity's crises around politics and social justice have all hit at once. I've been doing my best to educate myself on how to help and also to understand what we've let happen to get us here. I know that worth is at the center of the way forward. It always is.

This worthfull affirmation is a tribute to the women in Afghanistan, and around the world, who have built the mountain taller for those who come after them, and the pain they are experiencing right now as it appears to be swept away.

• Music Credit: Flor Vjell by Blue Dot Sessions

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"Maybe when it hasn't happened yet, it's because the very best version of it hasn't quite been birthed."

I've been working on something for a long time that hasn't happened yet. It's felt like a marathon that's lasted months, maybe years. It's a really good thing that I know will be good for everyone involved. It's the thing I really care about right now. And it hasn't happened yet. I'm starting to see the wisdom in this wait; it's a time for my worth to really come to the surface and reveal herself to me.

This worthfull affirmation is a reminder that when it hasn't happened yet, it's not because your worth is on the line. In fact, it may very well be because your worth needed to remind you that nothing you are waiting on will add to your worth.

• Music Credit: Watercooler Quiet by Blue Dot Sessions

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"Being the best, when you're in a class of one, is a privilege and a joy."

I recently found a card I wrote to myself years ago. It was a simple pick-me-up, a reminder for a rainy day. On the front of the card it said, "You're the best," in lovely gold scripting. I set it on my desk for a nice little reminder. And then I started thinking about that idea. What does it mean to be the best at being ourselves? Isn't that what's at the heart of living worthfully? I think so.

This worthfull affirmation is a reminder that you are the best at being you. You're in a class of one. Being the best comes with no burden, no competition, and no hierarchy. It's just the truth.

• Music Credit: So Go We by Blue Dot Sessions

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