Future You Is Already Here, Hear Me Out

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If you are the person that you are right now and there's a place that you want to be, that is like a future version of yourself.
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And it is really helpful to think about what that future version of yourself would be doing so that you can close the gap.
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Welcome to Flip the Inner Script, a podcast for female founders who are over their inner critic showing up when they are scaling to bigger things.
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This podcast is for the woman who has built something and still finds herself wondering why success doesn't feel the way she thought it would.
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We'll dive deep into inner stories, social conditioning, self-leadership, identity, and what it actually takes to master being the woman who meets her next level.
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This is your permission slip to finally flip the script so that you can unlock the success you dream about.
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Let's go.
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Hello, hello.
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Welcome back to another episode of Flip the Inner Script.
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I am your host, Andrea, and today we are going to be talking about future self-visualizations.
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But in true Andrea fashion, it of course is not going to be in the way that you are probably thinking about.
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But I just have to share this with you because I have been thinking about it since it happened to me.
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And I feel like there's a lot of like rising conversation around like meditations and visualizations and affirmations and how powerful they can be.
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And I mean that is because they can be incredibly powerful.
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But I I don't know.
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I just felt like this one in particular really surprised me.
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It really blew me away.
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And I want to share the story with you so that you can take this and you know, the next time you sit down for a visualization or a meditation, you can really just like open up to let whatever is going to come through to come through.
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And maybe you will actually be a little bit surprised.
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So the first thing that I want to say about this topic is before I even get into like the story that I'm actually gonna tell, is I have like, okay, so I have historically been someone who struggles with sitting still.
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Maybe you can connect with this.
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I struggle with sitting still, I struggle with like closing my eyes.
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I remember the first time that I did a sound bath healing experience.
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I was like, oh my gosh, that sounds so cool.
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Like I really want to go and experience that.
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And we had to lay there quiet for like a pretty significant amount of time.
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And I really struggled.
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My mind was like kind of all over the place, and I was having a hard time like staying in the room.
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I mean, the vibrations of everything also like activated some stuff happening in my body that I wasn't expecting.
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But I I sometimes, even to this day, actually, uh, sometimes when I sit down to do a visualization, I like just can't get into it.
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Like I can't quite settle and and be present.
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It's getting a lot easier, but it's kind of like hit or miss.
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And I I think that's okay.
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It just like it depends where we are in our head.
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It depends, like, you know, who the person is who is doing the the visualization.
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I remember saying to my coach, um, I was doing a nervous system informed coaching certification, and she had a visualization in that course.
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And for some reason, like for whatever reason, I sat down on my bed and I like closed my eyes to listen to the visualization and like I like that I'm snapping.
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I literally just dropped in so quickly.
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I was like, I don't know if it was your voice or if it was just like I do think that visualization and meditation really is like a skill that you have to like hone in on and practice to be able to, you know, get good at it.
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Um, but I wanted to tell you the story of this future self-visation um because this was one of those moments where it was really easy for me to drop in.
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And what came out of it as a result, I was so surprised.
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So this actually happened last year.
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A friend and I were getting together for a full moon ritual, and it actually lined up with her birthday last year in August.
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And so it was perfect because it was like, okay, we'll do this full moon ritual.
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It's your birthday, we'll do like some releasing, we'll get ready for like, you know, what's to come and and the fall, and you know, finishing out this year like incredibly.
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And so we get outside, we like start a fire, we gather all of the things for full mooning.
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We've got our workbook or our notebooks, we've got like some some Pelo Santo, you know, we've got the Oracle cards, we've got the whole thing.
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And um, and I was like, okay, like what you know, what do we want to do?
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What do we want to journal on?
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What do we want to visualize about?
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And so I actually asked um chat at that time.
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I was like, we're gonna do a full moon ritual.
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Um, it's August, you know, we have a birthday, like what sort of prompts can you give us to like move through this particular one?
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And so it actually gave us a prompt for visualization.
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So it was like, you know, visualize your future self.
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And and I hear about this a lot, right?
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Is it's like if you are the person that you are right now and there's a place that you want to be, that is like a future version of yourself.
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And it is really helpful to think about what that future version of yourself would be doing so that you can close the gap, right?
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I talk a lot about like closing the gap of like when you can create awareness of where you are and and where you want to be and where the gap is between what that version of yourself is doing and what this version of yourself is doing, then you have like a roadmap.
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We can't go anywhere unless we know how we're gonna get there, or like we can't get to a destination if we're not sure exactly where we're going, you know?
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Um, so I do really believe there's actually a lot of power in future self visualizations.
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Um, and so I was like, okay, like let's do it.
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Let's, I I also believe they're like a good kind of like check-in of like, because there's so many, there's so many visualizations out there, there's so many conversations about future self, and there's so many prompts about things you could be doing and and things you want, you know, how you want your day to look like and all these sorts of things.
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And so it's it's really valuable to like figure out what you want that to look like.
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And also that can change over time.
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So when you have these like regular opportunities where you get quiet with yourself and you think about what you want that to look like, then you can kind of get there and know like where, you know, if you have to like reroute or redirect the GPS to to where you're going.
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So it prompted us to do this visualization and it was like very simple, basic.
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It wasn't like what is this whole lavish life look like of this future self-visualization, but it very much was like a okay, what is this version of you doing day in and day out?
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So it was like all of these prompts that I find actually to be really helpful.
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So if you're sitting down thinking about, oh, I it's you know, it's my time to do uh future self-visualization, like maybe you can note some of these things from this particular prompt.
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So it's like, you know, what are where are you?
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What are you doing?
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What are you wearing?
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What are you thinking about?
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What are you excited about?
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Like how is she in that moment in time?
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How is she conducting her days?
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Like, what is she doing when she wakes up in the morning?
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Like kind of like building a day.
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So that's what we did.
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So we, you know, put on some tunes, we sat down, we like really got into the zone, and and I kind of just let it flow.
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And so it was like, imagine it starts off with imagining yourself in a field.
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This is what I this is what I do often, I feel.
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And you know what's funny?
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Um, little sidebar story here is I actually went to a launch event for a friend of mine who launched um uh Oracle Deck, and she did a visualization with us, and she had us visualize this field.
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And since that moment, every time I start a visualization and I have to visualize this field, I actually go back to that exact same field in my mind, not consciously, like unconsciously.
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Cause when we did that visualization, you know, uh my dog came through to me in that moment and it was like a really special.
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Oh, I'm getting choked up a little bit.
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It was a really special reunion that her and I had in that visualization, and I like felt her, like I felt every ounce of her in my body at that moment.
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Wow.
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We're gonna just take a minute for these because you know, that's what we do.
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We allow the emotions to come through.
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Okay, so anyway, every time I do visualizations, I go back to that same field.
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So it was like, okay, you're in the field, and then there's a door.
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And then when you go through that door, you're going to meet that future version of yourself in all of those prompts that I shared earlier, right?
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Like go into the day.
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What is she doing?
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What is she saying?
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What is she wearing?
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So I'm I'm walking through this path in my mind.
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I'm really, I'm really settled, I'm really centered within myself.
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And I see myself walking up to the door and I open the door handle.
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And when I open the door, I saw myself exactly where I'm sitting right now as I record this podcast episode.
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I saw myself at my desk doing this exact thing that I'm doing with you right now.
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Now, last year I had been thinking about the podcast and wanting to bring it back.
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I had no idea what that would look like and how I would make that happen and who I would have to pull in to support me to produce this podcast.
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Um, but it was something that has has been on my heart, like I shared with you, you know, since I put it down in 2023.
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And so I saw myself at my desk talking into my microphone.
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I was wearing a pink t-shirt that I so I when I went and did my retreat in Punta Cana, I went shopping.
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Obviously, I went and bought a few outfits that I knew that I wanted to wear for certain activities because of course I was gonna be photographed and I just like wanted to feel my best in those moments.
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And so in this visualization, I was wearing this like pink t-shirt.
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It's this hot pink t-shirt, and on the back, there is like a beautiful picture of a sunrise, and I was like, I am gonna wear this shirt when I do the sunrise visualization on the beach, like the alignment of that is so perfect.
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So I'm sitting at my desk wearing this shirt, and I looked at myself, and you know, she was I was excited talking about the podcast episode, like talking about whatever I was talking about.
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Shit, maybe I was literally doing the episode of this visualization.
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That would be like inception.
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I'm having an inception moment right now, a total deja vu.
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I'm not wearing that shirt though.
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Um, I should have worn that shirt.
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Okay, anyway.
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So I'm recording of the podcast and I'm like, okay, what else is she doing today?
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And I was reflecting on, you know, the clients that I would be seeing that day.
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And what else did I do with my day?
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She had like a slow morning.
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Like, you know, I'm looking at the body of the woman that is sitting in this, in this position.
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And all of a sudden, I I had this realization of like, oh my gosh, you know, this is me.
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Like I am she, like this future version of myself that I see doing the things that I want to do.
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Like, she's here, she's here already, and I see her, and she's doing the things.
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And I just like I've, you know, I felt myself smiling like so big.
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And it was, it was just this like lock-in moment of like we are always looking to the future, right?
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It's like, you know, what else can I do?
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What else can I accomplish?
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What big goals do I have?
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Like, where do I want to be?
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And it was this reminder of like that woman that you want to be is already present inside of you.
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And it's less about becoming this other version of yourself and more about like returning to the things that really make you feel most grounded in who you are.
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So we came out of the visualization, and then I was just like writing about all the things that I saw and all like the realizations that I had, and um, and it was like such a beautiful moment.
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And you know, I actually thought about the reason that I'm recording this podcast episode today, almost a year later, because it is actually over a year later, because it it connects with me so much still, is that one of the things that I've been really trying to do more regularly is getting into a journaling practice.
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Like I really love writing.
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Obviously, I've you know been published seven times.
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I've written two books.
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Like I love to write, and I love the idea of journaling, like bringing a pen to paper, being alone and quiet with your thoughts.
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And sometimes I still find myself sitting down to journal and I'm not quite sure like what to write about.
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And so I got this book from chapters.
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Um, it's a Brianna Weist um, like journal prompt, and it's on the front it says, I am the hero of my own life.
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And it's you know, over a hundred pages, but there's a lot of like prompts inside.
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So there's like a prompt at the top of the page, and then there's like lines where you can just like journal and and and reflect on whatever she's writing about.
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Um, and so one of the pages was asking, you know, like when what does the most embodied version of you, something along these lines of like what does, you know, that most embodied future version of you look like?
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And I found myself in that moment again thinking about this visualization that I had, where I was going into it thinking that I was doing a future self-visualization, but instead I was just seeing myself as I am right now in this moment doing the things that I love.
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And and it again, it struck me and it reminded me of like sometimes we're reaching for those, those better, more evolved versions.
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I don't want even actually even want to use the word better, but sometimes we're reaching for this like really evolved embodied version of ourselves, and we forget to like pause and look at the version of ourselves that exists now.
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And maybe it's likely, actually, not maybe, it's likely that there are elements of her that already exist in your reality right now.
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There's so many elements of like who I envisioned the most authentic, the most embodied, the most evolved version of myself.
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Like those so many pieces of her exist now.
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Um, and I I would put money on the fact that there's also a lot of elements of her that exist in you right now.
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But I think what happens for a lot of us is we have this authentic version of ourselves that exists within us, and then the stories or the inner scripts that we have adopted throughout the course of our lives, then block that, right?
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So it's like, I know what I want and I know what I want to ask for, and I know where I'm going.
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Boop, up comes that story.
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Oh, actually, no, you're not doing that, or we're not doing that, or I was having a conversation with a friend recently, and and she's got some stuff going on in her business.
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And um I asked her, I said, Do you something I don't remember the exact question that I asked her, but essentially she was talking about a challenging situation that she's in.
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And I said to her, I said, if there was none of these factors on the outside and none of your stories and scripts existed, would you know what the best thing to do for yourself in this situation is?
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And she said, Yeah, I know exactly what I need to do in this situation.
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And so then I said, Okay, but why aren't you doing it?
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And then it was like, oh, well, because of this and because of that, and because of this, and it's like all of these other stories that are blocking her from just moving forward in a way that makes the most sense for her and is the most aligned for her of where she wants to go in her growth and in her business.
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And isn't that true for so many of us?
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It's like we know what we need to do, we know how we want to move, but then we create all of these reasons, all of these excuses.
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We negotiate with ourselves about, you know, how much we're actually gonna do or how much we're, you know, it's okay if if I allow this or I allow that.
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But the the reality is is that that future you that you are striving to become, or, you know, you look at other women and you're like, oh my gosh, I wish that I could do that.
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I wish that I could have that success.
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I wish that I could show up and sell, I wish that I could, you know, implement and keep that boundary.
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You can that that version of you is there.
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She can do that, but we have to remove all of these stories and all of these scripts that prevent us from getting to that spot.
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So I hope that in sharing this future visualization story with you that I had over a year ago that is still continuing to blow my mind, that it inspires you to number one, maybe you need to do a little bit of a visualization today.
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Maybe it's been a while.
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And number two, perhaps looking at or exploring the potential that that version of you that you want to be, who is showing up in her business the way that you want to show up, is showing up in her life the way that you want to show up.
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She knows what she needs to do.
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She's already in you.
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You just have to explore and examine and challenge the scripts that are playing when you're looking at making those decisions or moving that way, because that is the key.
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Girlfriend, when you can flip that script and master your mindset, you will become absolutely unstoppable and you will allow that fullest version of yourself to come out because she is already inside you.
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Thank you so much for tuning in and listening to this episode today.
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I just love you so, so much.
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I hope you have a fabulous week.
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That's a wrap on today's episode.
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