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Life is a winding road?
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No telling where it goes?
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Driving through days and nights?
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Won't stop for traffic lights?
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And I, I really want to
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know, really want to know?
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If I let me figure
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out where the road goes?
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Even if I'm falling down? I will keep on searching for
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my highs?
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You can say I lost my mind? I will keep on holding my
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head high? Even if the sky is
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falling down.
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hey, hey, hey. And welcome to
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another episode. We're diving into this new
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series unapologetically, you. And I'm excited about it
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because, you know, being yourself
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obviously is. Is the most amazing thing ever. And I don't know
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why it is that we feel that we have to
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wait to give ourselves permission to be ourselves. And,
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you know, that's one thing that I'm really loving about the series
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as we're working on it, because, you know, we should have
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never put those masks on to begin with, and a lot of us did, and
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there's a million reasons why that happened. But, you know, within
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this series, we're talking about ditching the masks and ditching the should
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haves, would haves, could haves, and talking about
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real life. You know, we're talking about messy growth as
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it actually happens and not the Pinterest perfect version.
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And, you know, today on this episode, we're going to
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go there. We are going to talk about what it means to
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be labeled too much, too loud, too driven,
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too sensitive, too direct, and why those things are
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actually your superpower. So go ahead, grab that cup of
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coffee, that cup of tea, or just throw this on during
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your, you know, school drop off, because this is
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the pep talk that I definitely needed a few years ago,
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and I want to kind of bring that to you all today.
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So, first of all, let's step into
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the realness of this topic because we
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live in a world that loves to box us
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in, especially women. You know, be strong, but not
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too strong. Don't be too bold. Speak up, but not
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too loud. Work hard, but don't forget to be
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perfectly present for every moment of motherhood.
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It's like, who even made these rules? I remember
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constantly shrinking myself, laughing quieter,
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trying to smooth my edges, trying to, you know, chill
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out a little bit. And spoiler alert, it didn't
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make me more successful. It didn't make me more loved. It actually made
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me tired, burnout, resentful, and all of those yucky,
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yucky emotions. And I hit a moment, and maybe
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if you're listening to this right now, you've had one exactly like
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this. But I Hit this moment where I thought, I
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can't do this anymore and if I'm going to burn out, I
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might as well burn out as me. So I decided I was
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going to stop apologizing for taking up space. I
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was going to stop explaining why I dreamed big. And I
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laughed loud. And once I let all of those parts of me
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out, the right people started to lean in and the wrong
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people started to see themselves out. Right.
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My people didn't need a filtered version of me.
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They needed the wild, fully present, multi
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passionate, Messy bun at 3pm version of me.
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So if you're sitting there feeling like maybe you're too much,
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let me just say this. You're not too much. You're just
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not meant for small spaces. You know,
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you're meant to do more things, and that doesn't always mean
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bigger and louder. That just means sometimes different, more
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purposeful. Something that your innate gifts and
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talents. And they're appreciated. They're
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needed. They're. They're needed so badly, actually,
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you know, this series, it's
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not about being polished and perfect.
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It's about being raw and real and radically
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honest with who you are and what you want.
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So let that too much energy out. Laugh loud.
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Let it echo those big ideas, Say
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them, do them, try them, fall down, pick yourself back
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up, try again. Because this is your space, and we don't
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do boxes here. All right, friend,
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I am also gonna throw this out here with this
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unapologetically you series. I've also challenged myself to dive back into
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doing these live streams like I did before. So I will be
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peppering in some of these solo episodes along with
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bringing on some amazing guests because that's something that I've missed. I love doing
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these series where we're talking about a specific topic, but I miss having my guests
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on because I want to hear your stories. I love them. And you all
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have so much to share. So if you're interested in being a
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guest on the show, shoot me an email.
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Infouccessfullychaotic.com I'd love to have you
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on. All right, friend, that's it for today. We're
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keeping this series honest, soulful, a little bit spicy
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sometimes. And hey, if it's in your heart,
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shoot me a dm. You know, drop a comment, shoot me that
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email, even if it's just to tell me about a moment that you stopped
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shrinking. And if you've got that story that you
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want to share on an upcoming live, you know, go ahead
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and shoot me that email. Or you can even go to successfullychaotic.com
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and, you know, fill out the form to be a guest there because you're
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not too much and you're just getting started. So let's talk soon.
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Life is a winding road
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no telling where it goes
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Driving through days and nights
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Won't stop for traffic lights
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and. I, I really want to
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know really want to know.