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Welcome to Unapologetically Wild with Katie Suntag, a woman's empowerment coach, healer, and your guide to embracing your most powerful, authentic, and unapologetically wild self.
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As a sergeant and physical training instructor in the military, I've spent over a decade thriving in a maldominated industry, pushing boundaries and helping people discover their inner strength.
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Beyond that, I'm a certified success and life coach, Reiki and Lightcoach healer, and NLP practitioner.
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I'm also a proud dog mum of my big fur V Piper, who reminds me daily to stay present and playful.
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And when I'm happy, you'll find me dancing like nobody's watching.
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Yes, I'm spiritual and bring a little bit of magic to everything that I do.
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This podcast is for high-achieving women ready to break free from social norms, reconnect to their strength and sensuality, and own their unique essence.
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Here we'll dive into topics that are often considered taboo, share personal stories and life lessons, and host empowering conversations with incredible guest speakers, all while keeping it real, raw, and relatable.
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Let's get wild.
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Tap into your feminine power and unapologetically lead your life on your terms.
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Hello, hello, and welcome back to Unapologetically Wild with me, Katie Sontag.
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What a juicy week it has been.
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And why I say this is because the universe and the world rewards you when you move without certainty.
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Why I want to speak about this this week is because movement creates this ripple effect.
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It either allows you to go into a space and you either found out if you don't, if you like it or you don't like it.
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And it also opens opportunities that you would not have thought of.
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And I want to speak into this because it's been very prevalent in my life this week.
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And I've spoken about how you can take steps and open up things by talking about them.
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And this is really powerful.
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And I've been looking to change one of my jobs for a while.
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And I've been opening to the universe that I want something that is more aligned.
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And because I have experienced a certain way of doing something in a certain job, I realize that that isn't the way I want to do it moving forward.
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And so I went to some people that I knew and I've kind of opened the conversation.
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And people have covers and different places that I could allow myself to move and pivot, which is one really beautiful because it's about the connections you make that open up opportunities that you can get, right?
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So going into the gym that I go to every day, and I know the beautiful owners.
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And I was like, oh, if you ever have covers, um, would you love to have me?
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And they were like, absolutely.
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And then through friends who work, you know, in the industry, I had them open up this beautiful opportunity to go to a certain gym.
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And I went there literally this week.
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No expectation.
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They had already hired a new coach, they weren't looking for anyone.
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It wasn't even on their or my radar.
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It was just a beautiful connection to go and meet someone, see what they're doing, um, see if I'd be able to support them with covers and if we're a good fit.
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And from that came an offer that I didn't expect.
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And I don't think they expected to open up to me either.
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And I think what the beautiful part about this is when you go in with no attachment, you also get to honor if it serves you and if it serves them.
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And here's the thing the offers come through, um, and I will still go and check out the environment and coach in it to have a look to see if it actually suits me, and they're going to watch to see if I suit their environment because we don't know that yet.
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And I think this is really powerful because months ago, when I walked into the first job I got, I had a different mindset.
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It was the first job I'd had sort of outside of Army that wasn't that was there to support me building my business.
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And the mindset was I just kind of took it and didn't really think about it or really have any understanding of what I wanted.
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And but I moved anyway.
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And I think that's beautiful.
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And also, though, the more I was in that job, I was like, oh, this all parts of it don't suit me.
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There are parts that do, but now parts don't serve me.
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And then walking into this next one with no expectation, it opened up an opportunity that I don't think any of us were thinking of.
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And now I'm walking in and we're both choosing each other, which is a very different space to come from.
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And it also means that both can walk away and there's no real piece there where we have to choose each other.
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making the choice.
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Is it a good fit for me?
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Is it a good fit for them?
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We won't know until that sort of first piece happens.
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And this is what I mean by moving before certainty, right?
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This morning I walked into a networking room, and I honestly did not know that I was gonna have to get up and speak about my business in a very quick way, not like, you know, this is my name, this is my business name.
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Thank you for Matt for bringing me, because that was the guy that um introduced me to this group.
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Little did I know that there was a guy who used to play basketball that I knew who was in the group, who has his own business.
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So that was a really nice reconnection.
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And I got to see what other people do in business in Newcastle.
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And I also got to choose would this be a room that I would want to be in?
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At this point, no.
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Um, not because I don't think it's a great room, but at this point it wouldn't serve me.
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And that's for a number of reasons, right?
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But it's the choice of walking in and being grateful, you know, they served breakfast and it was really lovely, but I wasn't expecting to get up and I don't think I addressed it really well.
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And I realized that I wasn't talking about my business enough.
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I actually haven't been.
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Um, I haven't had a lot of people that ask me about it all the time.
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I haven't had practice in talking about it in 30 seconds or 45 seconds and selling and then asking for what I need, right?
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And that was really powerful to be in the room for that reason alone.
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And that doesn't mean that this group wouldn't fit me in the future.
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It could very well be, even for the skill of just talking about my business every week.
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And I think that's really powerful too, right?
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There are lots of little skills in life that unless we're constantly using them, we're not actually allowing ourselves to become proficient and competent in them.
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And it was a really beautiful eye-opener for me because I haven't been using those skills.
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I haven't been getting up talking about movies as often.
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When people ask me the question, I would stumble over things and I wasn't clear.
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And I also had run two PT lessons, so my brain was not in the space for that.
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And then I'd raced home and I'd quickly gotten dressed.
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But the difference is I put myself in the room.
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And this is the powerful part, right?
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There's no certainty of that room giving me anything.
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Um, there never is.
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Whenever you join a room, there's actually no certainty in the room that anything will come of it.
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There is, however, conversations that help you understand and help you move forward quicker.
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And by the time I got to the last conversation, I was a lot clearer on what I was saying about my business.
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But it also made me realize there were parts of my business that were really hard to understand from someone who was not in my field.
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So I call myself a leadership and embodiment coach.
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And what I realized is everyone's like, what does embodiment mean?
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And then you've got to explain embodiment, which leadership everyone gets.
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And then I was like, well, I'm actually a life and leadership coach.
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And sometimes it has to be that simple of marketing, but you have to move to allow yourself to open up the fact that you didn't realize that you weren't actually marketing yourself in a simple way to anyone that then could take that away.
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They may not need it themselves, but if they want to refer you, they need to be able to say really quickly what you do and keep it in their mind and remember it, right?
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That's how referrals work.
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It's like if someone asked if they needed a plumber.
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Like, oh, I know a plumber.
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Um, so that's kind of the beautiful piece.
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And then I came home and did this beautiful podcast with this incredible woman.
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And again, all I did was it came up in a Facebook group and it said, like, if you'd like to be on the podcast, um, fill out this form.
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So I did.
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And I got to get on a beautiful podcast and meet a beautiful woman in the world in business.
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And I'm grateful for that because it also got me another opportunity to talk about my business and why I created what I created and what I've been through and my story.
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And here's the piece: the more I've moved and put myself in any situation, there's so many things I've actually applied for that nothing has come from it.
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And but I've moved anyway, in a way that things, if they seem aligned, or if I think, oh, that'd be a really cool
opportunity, I've moved towards them.
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And this is the piece.
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A lot of the time, what happens is we get an intuitive nudge, right?
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A thing that says, like, go try this out, or go talk to this person, or this has come up for a reason.
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So when I started to put out to the universe that I wanted a different job, randomly I met, you know, had a friend who I worked with at that job.
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They're like, Oh, I work here, you should go and talk to this person.
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And they knew them, so they put a good word in for me.
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And then I was like, oh, well, I go to this gym, so maybe I talk to them.
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And it's amazing how all these little movements, right?
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They might not mean anything right now.
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They guarantee no certainty in any aspect, right?
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None of this is certain.
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But the piece is that I'm moving anyway.
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And that allows you to open up your world and allows you to become clearer and allows you, and especially in business, because if you're not in rooms where you get to talk about your business often and you're not talking about your business all the time, you actually aren't always as clear.
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I find this, I find I'm not always as clear, even though I talk about it on social media.
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Because my business is so broad, I struggle to sometimes put it into a 30-second spiel.
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And so here's what I want you to know is whether it's business, whether it's your work, whether it's relationships, whether whatever it is, right?
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If you don't take the step and move forward towards it, you're not allowing the universe to open up and show you opportunities for that and how it can grow.
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And you're also not saying if it's actually the right choice for you.
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Because here's the thing: it's always about choosing opportunities, can come in and some of them aren't for you.
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And you can be like, oh, that's actually not for me.
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That doesn't work.
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No, thank you.
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But some we have to move to find out one, if it feels right for us, but two, sometimes we take the opportunity and it might tick some boxes, but we actually then find out, oh, it doesn't tick them all, right?
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With the job I took.
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There were some things I was like, yes, this is an alignment.
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I like this, I like this, I like this.
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And then I got to a point
where I was like, this does not serve me anymore.
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So I pivot.
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So I try something new, so I move towards something else.
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So I allow myself to open up.
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Same with business.
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There are now pieces in my business that I will absolutely kill because they don't serve anymore.
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And this is the beauty of it, because then some of my other pieces that I've been, you know, consistently running may then turn into something bigger.
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I had a beautiful download today, my beautiful She Remembers event that I run every month.
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I was like, oh, maybe it now gets to expand to be a full-day mini retreat.
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So here's the pieces, right?
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And every three months, not every month.
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So it's like we get to be with how does it evolve?
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How does it grow?
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What does that mean?
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And, you know, I even had to make some practical decisions, like cutting my VA's hours, because I was like, this isn't working right now.
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And you have to look at business in a strategic sense.
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And I think because I've seen a lot of people around me do the same thing, it's really opened my eyes to be like, okay, you also need to really look at this.
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You know, is that actually profitable right now?
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Is that working?
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You know, will this help if you do something to support yourself?
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Or, you know, looking into like, would I like to go to do psychology again?
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I don't know.
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Like, there's all of these different doors that you get to be curious about and you get to make movement towards, and if it feels right, keep going.
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If it doesn't, it'll redirect you.
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And that is powerful.
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And you have to allow yourself to be in a place where you choose, right?
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That's what gets us out of survival is making the choice instead of feeling like we have to stay or we have to do a certain thing because it keeps us externally safe, but not internally safe.
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And it's amazing how it aligns us with certain people and certain things that allow us to move to our next piece or maybe learn the skill that we needed, right?
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Today, of course, I had two beautiful, like had some beautiful connections.
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I didn't really go and talk to a lot of people, to be honest with you.
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I got up and I botched saying I was like, I'm an embodiment and leadership coach.
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Didn't say I was a woman's embodiment and leadership coach, but I reminded me that I need to keep learning the skill and keep talking about it and talking about it and talking about it and refining and being like, what do I do?
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And I recently changed my Instagram so it was more, so it was easier.
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Intuitive life and leadership coach, right?
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That is a lot more aligned with someone looking at it going, oh, I know what that is, than someone looking at embodiment and leadership or something else, right?
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It's allowing myself to be more concrete in what it looks like so someone can read it straight up and also allows people to connect deeper and want to look deeper because I then can talk about the rest of it in there.
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And I loved being able to talk about how I help women through their identity shift, through their changing, through their building self-trust when it's in the unknown and the uncertainty.
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Because when we make movement in the unknown and in the uncertainty, it's scary.
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And though, this is why I built Lead Your Life Collective.
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You can join the membership at any time, you can leave whenever you want, and you can be supported, celebrated, and held accountable in the things that maybe you're scared to do.
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There's something behind it, it might not be the actual action, but you actually get to be supported and loved in this membership.
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Get hot seat coaching on something that you need, and it's powerful because you're moving in the direction with support.
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But one of the biggest things is, you know, when you feel like other people are supporting you, and maybe you hear a woman say that she's scared to do something, you know, because that's fear is most of the things that hold us back.
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You actually get to realize you're not the only one.
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And this is what the collective is about: showing that we are a collective consciousness and that we all have collective fears, we all have things that we struggle with.
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It may not all be in the same area of our life, but that's what lead your life is about.
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It's about holding all of it, being with ourselves in all of it.
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There are going to be times where your health might be the thing that you want to work on.
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There are going to be times when your business is going to be the thing you want to work on.
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There's all these pieces, right?
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And when you
start to allow yourself to be held in a really safe space to express what you need to move through to actually get to where you want to go, that opens the door and should and allows you to step through it powerfully, do the thing that's going to move the needle instead of the thing that you need, think you need to do, but what's behind it?
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I had a beautiful woman and she was like, I'm going to start my coaching business in six months, right?
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And I was like, Why six months?
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My head, I'm like, that makes no sense.
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When you could start it right now.
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And I was like, what is it going to cost you if you start in six months' time instead of tomorrow?
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And she was like, Whoa.
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Right?
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Because coaching is about asking the right questions.
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I don't need the answers.
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I'm here to support you by asking you some powerful questions.
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So you know the answer.
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You know what you need.
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And we got to the nitty-gritty of the fact that she was scared to tell her mum.
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And I was like, okay, this is the piece.
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It's not about starting your business, it's about being seen or being about the fear of judgment, the fear of being seen, the fear of all of these pieces, right?
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Especially when it comes to our loved ones.
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I'm the same.
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We've all done it.
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We've all been like, I'll just stay small.
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I won't do the thing because people around me won't get it.
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Right?
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And so the piece to that is that if you keep doing that, you're the one that loses out.
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You're the one that gets disconnected from yourself because you're living a life that everyone else wants you to live.
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Fuck that.
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I did that for most of my life.
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Do you know what it did?
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It caused me burnout, it caused me to be unhappy, caused me all of these things, right?
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I'm not saying though that it wasn't part of my last purpose to do what I did.
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Absolutely great things came out of it as well.
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And though, if I hadn't chosen to leave the army, I would not be where I am now.
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I would not be have all the opportunities I have, and I would not have been through the uncomfortable season of the identity shift of being a PTI sergeant
to running a business by Marseille with my beautiful VA.
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I should acknowledge her incredible presence and the beautiful people that assist me on the podcast.
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But the piece here is that I had to make the move to create capacity, I could open the space, to call in the things that I truly wanted.
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And the same with this job.
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I was like, it's no longer serving me.
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I want to move into a space where I feel actually valued.
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And there's a piece here.
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I walked into this gym, and I have not met these people ever in my life.
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They'd never met me either.
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And when you come out of being in the army, you don't have a lot of qualifications technically in CV world, right?
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But you have all these skills and you're incredibly talented in a lot of areas.
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But people don't see that on paper.
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It's an interesting thing to go in and try and put a resume into a job.
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And this guy decided that he wanted me to come in and meet him and Sarah, um, his offsider.
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And um they sat me down and we had a conversation.
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We generally talked about like what I had done, what they had done.
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And if we hadn't have had the conversation where it opened up what we both knew, what we, you know, what I could bring to the table, what they could bring to the table for me, we would not be in a position where we're looking at what that looks like.
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And that's really powerful because unless you put yourself in the room, I would have never known if that opportunity was possible.
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And if they hadn't have opened, like decided to meet me anyway, when they knew that they didn't really have a lot to offer apart from covers, maybe every now and then, we wouldn't be in the position we're in.
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Now, something may come of it, something may not, right?
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We get to choose that still.
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We're still in the phase of learning if it is a right fit for both of us.
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But the point of it is if we didn't open the door and move and be open to the possibility, then we wouldn't be sitting where we are right now.
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And if I didn't open myself to move and get out of the defense force, I wouldn't have had the opportunities that I've had since leaving.
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I wouldn't have met certain people, I wouldn't have had certain experiences, I wouldn't have learnt, you know, new things and built a whole new level of self trust.
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In me to hold myself, even after a career that held me for so long, that I can do it for me, that I get to create safety, that I get to meet beautiful, incredible people, that I get to build something really powerful to help women lead their lives powerfully.
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Because I have gone through another identity shift and used all the tools and all the things that I have learned over my period, and there's plenty more to go to help me hold this on my own.
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I'm not saying I haven't needed help and been supported.
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And I haven't, I'm not going to say that I didn't white knuckle things because I've realized in my career in the army, we're really good at white knuckling and getting through it ourselves.
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And that is something that that can be a real thing that comes up that I didn't realize I was really good at.
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And though by allowing people to help me, it's been really powerful, right?
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Because I've then had all these other opportunities and things come up through their networks.
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And that's a beautiful thing because then you move into rooms that you don't really know what's going to happen, and you start to stop expecting things.
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You kind of open yourself up to move and let it go.
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And if it feels right, you do it again, or you don't, or you sign up, or you don't.
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And it means that it allows you to see the next step in the path, or it redirects you somewhere else.
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And that's a powerful thing because in a world where we want to control everything or we want to know every step until we get there, that would be bloody boring, by the way.
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I think it sounds attractive, but imagine if you knew the date you were gonna die.
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Like, do you know what I mean?
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Like all of these things.
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I don't think that would be very exciting.
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Some other people could probably argue that it is, but I like the mystery of life.
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And I enjoy that I don't know what's coming next.
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And I also don't enjoy it.
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But it gives that beautiful mystery.
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And the more I allow my intuition to guide me and I allow myself to trust the universe and honor the times that are tough for me to learn lessons, skills, all of these things, what I want, what aligns with me, what that looks like, um, the more it opens up my world to understanding how we get to operate in it.
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Because, you know, I see my patterns, I see how they play out, I see how I didn't value myself in that space either, even
though I didn't have the accreditations.
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Well, I did, but no one knew what that meant.
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Then I started to meet all these people that did trust me and did see how much I had grown and how much I knew and trusted me completely, right?
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But I relearned that self-trust in myself.
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So then it appeared on out into the world, and that's what made these opportunities possible.
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And so I want to ask you, where in your life are you not moving at all?
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Like where are you stagnant or stuck?
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Because even if you make one small move today, and I want you to allow yourself, you know exactly what that is.
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So if I ask you right now, what is that one small movement or thing to do or that you have been avoiding or not listening to, or deciding that no, that doesn't make any sense, what is it?
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What's that one thing?
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And we'll be honest with yourself.
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That's sometimes the hardest part.
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What is it?
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What is that one thing?
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I want you to move powerfully towards it.
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I want you to do that one thing.
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If that's all you do this week, that one thing you've been avoiding, that one thing that you know your intuition is telling you to move towards, that is going to get you out of being stuck or stagnant or a rut.
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Do it.
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Even if it seems ridiculous, even if it makes no fucking sense, even if it is like me running going on a run and randomly finding this beautiful track in the bush, even if it's walking into a networking event that you have no fucking idea about, after you've run two PT classes, been up since 4 a.m., and hope to dear god you don't fuck it up, right?
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Totally fine.
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And then fuck it up.
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Say a million things when you're like, I actually know how to say this, but for some reason my brain and my mouth are not connected.
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You know, go on a podcast where you've never met the person.
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Put your business out there in a way that you've never done it before.
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Allow yourself to move.
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One thing.
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Not a thousand.
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Cut your to-do list.
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Cut it up, fucking put it in the bin.
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One thing.
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Because that movement of that one thing will show you the next thing.
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Which when you do that thing, it'll show you the next thing.
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That's how movement works.
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Right?
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It's like progression in a movement in fitness.
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So before I do a pull-up, I'd like to learn how to retract my scapulars, right?
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Because I want to know the first part of the pull-up.
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You could even go even less than that, right?
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And not do it.
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You first you could just do it.
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How do you retract them by standing up?
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Arms over your head.
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Then can you do it with a bar?
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I mean, with a a band.
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Then can you do it holding onto a barbell?
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I mean, sorry, a rack.
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A bar and do it.
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Then can you start to use a band or do stand on a box and eccentric, like load on the way down slowly?
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Like there's so many ways, right?
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To regress and progress.
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A pull-up, a push-up, all the things.
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And so I guess what I'm saying is like you can't do one step.
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You can't go and do a pull-up before you can even retract your shoulders.
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Like that's not a thing.
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Right?
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If you've never done a pull-up and you have no strength, you can't just go do one magically.
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So it's building the progression and regression and progression and regression.
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It's taking the step to move to the next step.
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So you can show be shown the next step.
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And yes, I just told you all the steps in a pull-up, so of course you know the next one.
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But in life, it's not the same.
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You take it and then you see if the next step is what you think it is, or if it takes you a completely different direction.
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And that is powerful.
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And it's been happening for me all week.
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Right?
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So many doors have opened up because I kept showing up.
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I was consistent.
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I asked for what I wanted in the universe.
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And I kept moving one step at a time.
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That's it.
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We think that it's there's a magic elixir or formula for life.
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It is believe in yourself unlike delusionally.
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Because sometimes what we can do is we can write out our manifestations and I'm guilty of this.
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And then as soon as we don't see it in our external reality, oh we go into deep sadness.
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And like, it's never gonna happen.
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And this like thing where fear takes over again.
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What if you hold the vision, even if it isn't there, but you learn how to do that?
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And I'm doing that one step at a time.
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I'm trying to make sure I notice when I do go into oh my god, it's not happening, and be like, hang on a minute.
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Look at all this evidence around you that may not look the way you want it to look, right?
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Because that's some that's my big thing, is I'll look at it and be like, oh, it's not going the way I thought it would.
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Course story caddy maybe open up the opportunity for it to go away that you didn't think it would.
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But unless you hold the vision and you hold on to what that looks like, the bigger vision, the me on stage, like Tony Robbins, changing people's lives, right?
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Unless you hold that bigger vision and just and delusionally, no matter what shows up in your reality, if you keep going back and forth on your order, if you go to McDonald's and say, I want a burger and fries and a Coke, and then two minutes later you go, Oh, actually, I don't want the burger.
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Oh, two minutes later, actually, I don't want the fries.
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Oh, actually, now I want to soft serve.
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Right, make up your fucking mind.
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The universe is like, excuse me, what do you want?
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We haven't even made it now because it's not even worth it.
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Or hang on, can you let us give us you something better?
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Can you be open enough that you can hold the vision and the dream?
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Move, take a step, move towards it, allow it to not look like a straight path, but to be like the most random thing that you've never known, and it to take you off into these different ways so that you can gain the skills and meet the people and do all these things that are going to get you to wherever you want to go.
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Can you take the step?
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Can you move without certainty?
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Because the only way that you actually create a life that is what you're truly asking for unless you want to live inside the box, which nothing wrong with that.
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But if you have a box you want to live inside, and even then though, some people will still go to uni to go become a certain degree, and then maybe their life will change, right?
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Maybe it won't look the same as what they think it was gonna look like.
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So they go do something else.
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They have an identity shift and they start to trust or learn to trust or want to trust.
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So they have to take steps which put them into uncertainty, which is where all the fucking magic happens.
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Trust me.
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So, what is that step for you?
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I would love for you to share it in the comments.
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There is behind the scenes in there.
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There's a whole nother episode about me leaving the Defense Force, what that looked like, navigating that whole transition.
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And yes, other bits and pieces.
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So if you'd love to be a part of that, I would love to have you in there.
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And I hope that you are unapologetically wild today in the movement that you make, and keep being unapologetically you.
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I love you.
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Have a wonderful, wonderful day or night, and I look forward to being in your ears next week.
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