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Hello and welcome.
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My name is Jennifer Wade, and this is 3D Authenticity, where we talk about all things related to building a life in the real world that authentically reflects your core being.
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No matter if you're a chronic people pleaser or you're knee-deep in a major identity crisis, or especially if you've given up believing you can have a deeply fulfilling life, it's time to learn how to love who you are and unapologetically live your one-of-a-kind life.
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Join me for a deep dive in how to do exactly that.
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Hello, my friends, and welcome back to another episode of the 3D Authenticity Podcast.
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I am your host, Jennifer Wade, and I am delighted that you have chosen to be here with me today.
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Thank you so much for your time.
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And if this is your first time listening to an episode, welcome.
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You've just happened to tune into what I think is the best episode yet for understanding the heart of what 3D authenticity is all about.
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So you picked it perfectly.
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And if you're a returning listener, first of all, please know it makes me so happy that you've chosen to come back again.
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And I cannot wait for you to dive into all the goodness that I'm sharing today.
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So without further delay, I want to start off with a little thought experiment.
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Okay, well, actually, I'm gonna ask you to do more than just casually think about it.
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I want you to really lean into this.
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So either now or when you have the time later, I really want you to take this episode as an invitation to explore some things inside of you that may not have had the opportunity to come into focus for you just yet.
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Let this be a chance for your subconscious mind to pull something magical out of the hat and show your conscious mind what desires you have that maybe you've had for a while, but just hanging out beneath the surface.
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Now I'm realizing right as I said that that this sounds a little bit like an intro to shadow work, which this episode is decidedly not.
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We can save that for another time.
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But for right now, I want you to imagine that I'm handing you a magic wand.
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And I want you to tap into your playful, creative mind.
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Yes, it's there, I promise.
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And I want you to wave this magic wand over your life and reorganize it.
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Rewrite this present moment of your life, this present season.
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Recreate it.
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With this wand, I want you to make it look however you want it to look right now.
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Make sure that it feels like you.
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Make it so that anyone watching this magic trick who knows and loves you would instantly recognize this magical version of your life and say, oh my gosh, yes, that is so you.
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I see it.
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It makes so much sense.
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Just take the time to imagine what you would conjure up with this wand.
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I want you to create the image or a picture of a life that would feel so good for you to actually be living in day-to-day.
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Now, by the way, I do want to offer a little caveat about this.
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We're not talking about the life that is just pure wish fulfillment here.
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We're talking about the life that would truly feel good to you and to your nervous system to be living in it for the foreseeable future.
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So take your time.
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What would need to change?
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What would need to be different?
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What's missing from your current life that you'd add in?
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And most importantly, what would be the very first thing you'd make sure that your wand erased about your current life?
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I think the answer to that question cannot help but be revealing.
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The thing that you'd go to first to change is an opportunity, my friends.
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Okay, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
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This little experiment is your chance to indulge in all of those secret adjustments you'd love to make because you know in your bones you would just feel more at ease, more comfortable.
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Now, also, by the way, holding this magic wand automatically means putting pause on the voice that's already creeping in about being unrealistic or not practical.
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Now is not the time for that.
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There's no space for that voice right now.
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Just let this magic wand paint you a picture that feels so good that you can even start to feel your body relax.
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Take your time.
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And whenever you're done waving this magic wand over every little corner of your life, first of all, I want to congratulate you.
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What you've done is actually beautiful and creative work.
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But I want you to let that vision take up some space in your mind and your heart.
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Put a bookmark there so you can come back to visit it.
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And for right now, I want you to come hang out on the sofa with me for a heart-to-heart.
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Let's have some real talk.
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When you compare the life you're actually living with that glorious one you just conjured up in your mind, how many things would need to change?
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Are we talking about just one or two big things?
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A handful of things?
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More than you're comfortable admitting?
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Are we talking about a major overhaul?
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I'm asking because I think this exercise reveals some of the most important information you have about yourself right now.
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In my experience, this is far more than a creative exercise or just a thought experiment.
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There's real magic happening here.
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This magic reveals clues to you about how to find more ease and enjoyment and fulfillment in your life.
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Now, I know this might be a little hard to hear, or or who knows.
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Maybe you're here because you're absolutely ready to hear this.
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The number of things that your wand would change, and what those things are, is a pretty honest measure of how near or far you are from living a deeply authentic, deeply fulfilling life.
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A life that fits you.
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A life that feels like it was undeniably made with love and care for you and only you.
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The truth is that for a lot of us, the difference between the magic wand version of our lives and what we're actually living is so much greater than we'd like to admit.
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Or for some of us, it's not that there's a long list of differences, but the one or two items on the list feel like unicorns.
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So we just resign them to the never gonna happen category.
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Either way, we accept the gap.
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We talk ourselves out of believing that it's possible to bridge the gap, or we look at the gap and feel utterly overwhelmed by it.
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Or we just deny to ourselves that there's any gap at all.
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It's like avoidance 101.
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But my friends, things don't change or get better if we sit in avoidance or resignation.
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So what do we do with that gap instead?
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Well, often, for the type of person who is motivated to try to do something about it, so often they will pick a thing on the list and try to fix it.
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Which makes sense, right?
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They work on boundaries, or they work on their career, or their relationships, or finding the relationship.
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They work on one area of dissatisfaction at a time.
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And sometimes that genuinely helps.
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And sometimes that genuinely helps for a little while.
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What I've seen over and over again is that when you work on the symptoms of an unfulfilling life without addressing the root cause, the root issue, people very often end up right back where they started internally.
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They fall back into the same patterns of thought or behavior that kept bigger possibilities out of reach.
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Maybe it's a slightly different version of stuck, but they're still stuck nonetheless.
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You know, it's that old adage of wherever you go, there you are.
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You bring yourself with you, including all of your thoughts, all of your beliefs, your habits, and your conditioning.
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So here's the thing: the gap between your magic wand life and the life you're actually living for most of us isn't really about any one thing on the list.
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It's actually about something you probably wouldn't immediately name.
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It's about authenticity.
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Okay, bear with me here.
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I'm not talking about authenticity in that bumper sticker sense, not that whole just be yourself mentality, as if that's actually simple or even self-explanatory.
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But authenticity and the rewarding life that comes from it asks us to run the gauntlet of some of the biggest challenges that come from being human.
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And yet, when you understand what authenticity actually requires, what it's actually asking of you, it becomes the most clarifying and most liberating pursuit of your life.
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It just needs to be approached the right way.
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So for me, the journey of my life and my work has been coming to understand that authenticity means addressing three distinct but equally essential things.
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And if you're missing any one of those pieces, the magic doesn't really work.
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So the first piece is just knowing yourself.
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It's knowing the deeper architecture of who you actually are.
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That means knowing your genuine needs, your real values, not just the surface-level values that every one of us could just rattle off, but we don't live up to.
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I'm talking about knowing the belief systems that are driving your choices, often without you even being aware of them.
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In order to be authentic, you need to have an intimate relationship with the person who was there before the world started telling you who to be.
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Now, most good personal development programs start there.
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Although, if I'm honest, I'd argue that it's a rare program that takes you deeply enough into your sense of self and your identity.
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But they do exist, and this piece is absolutely essential.
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But knowing yourself isn't enough on its own.
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Because the second piece, and this is the one that people find harder to work with, that second piece is worthiness.
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The genuine, deeply felt belief that who you are and what you want for yourself actually matter.
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That you're allowed to want what you want.
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But more than that, you're allowed to have it.
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Now people tend to try to avoid this piece because it is messy, it's uncomfortable, it's hard work.
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Effectively, it's learning how to correct our long-standing patterns of self-abandonment.
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And we all do it in obvious and less obvious ways.
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The hard truth is that you can know yourself deeply and still systematically undermine everything you're trying to build.
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If, one, you don't have a high opinion of yourself, and two, if you believe other people's opinions of you matter more than your own opinion of you, even if that opinion is positive.
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I've seen it happen so often.
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I've lived some pretty painful versions of this myself.
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Too many programs don't want to go there because it's hard and it isn't quick, and it requires a leader to know how to sit with someone in discomfort and to completely trust to know that with support, the student is strong enough to handle the discomfort, that the student can and will learn from it and will grow from it.
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I can't stress enough how important this worthiness piece is for an authentic life and how frequently overlooked it is.
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All the supports for building the bridge over that gap come from this work.
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And then now we have the third piece.
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It's alignment.
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It's the life design piece.
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It's taking everything you've discovered about yourself and all the ways you've learned to show up for yourself, and then actually constructing yourself a one-of-a-kind, beautifully authentic life from those things.
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Out in the real 3D world.
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Alignment is creating a vision and a plan and committing to a way of living that reflects the real you rather than some expected or accidental version of you.
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That's what authenticity takes.
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That's how we close the gap.
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Identity, worthiness, and alignment.
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All three, each one supporting the other.
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And that's the 3D authenticity framework.
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That is the architecture of everything I do with the people that I work with.
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Each pillar is profound and strong and essential.
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Which brings me to why I wanted to record this episode today.
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It's because right now, up until midnight, May 4th, 2026, the next 3D Authenticity Small Group Coaching Cohort is open for enrollment.
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This is my sincere invitation to you to step into a program that does give you a magic wand and the know-how to wave it over your life and make it more like what you want it to be.
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Each cohort is only six to ten people, which means it's incredibly intimate and personal, and everyone is seen as an individual.
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And it's eight months long, which is long enough to make a real difference.
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I'm recording this episode because I want you to understand what this program is actually for and what it looks like on the inside in the most personal, real way I know how to describe it.
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I mean this from the bottom of my heart.
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This is the program and the container that I would have given anything to be a part of a little over 10 years ago during truly the toughest season of my life.
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And it isn't lost on me that I've been steadily building what I so desperately needed back then.
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And I can't tell you how gratifying it is to have it out in the world because I know others need it too.
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I know there are people looking to feel more whole, more authentic, who want a life that has more ease and pleasure and satisfaction and meaning and purpose, all the things.
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So the way the program works is basically this.
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Once a week, we meet live on Zoom as a group for a teaching session where I'll go into the framework and I'll talk about the pillars.
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And if you can't make it some weeks, that's fine.
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There's always a video replay so that you don't have to miss anything.
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These teaching sessions are structured and they will walk you through the concepts that create real change.
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Sometimes we do the exercises together in the classes, and sometimes we have discussions.
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Yes, sometimes there's homework.
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But these teaching sessions are where the framework really comes into focus.
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But the teaching is not the only part of it, right?
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You can learn something profound in a class and then what straight back into your life and have no idea how to apply it to your actual situation.
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So that's why we also have multiple coaching calls every month where you come and talk through everything that we've been exploring in class and bring it directly into the reality of your life, your specific circumstances.
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Whatever your unique challenges are or whatever your unique vision is, we talk about that, not generics.
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And what I think is so special is that even by listening to your fellow cohort members be coached, even if there's a week when you're feeling good and you don't need to talk directly with me, just by listening to others, something might click for you.
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And you might have an insight that gives you a whole new perspective on something you're working on that you wouldn't have even thought about to ask.
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I love this so much when it happens.
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And that's part of the power of community.
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This group is small by intention.
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It's truly only six to ten people maximum.
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But because it's small, you don't get lost.
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You become known and seen.
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And I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching people who started off not really knowing each other become some of the most meaningful presences in each other's life.
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It's a really special experience for everyone who lives it.
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So for the people who decide to take part in this cohort, that's going to be your experience too.
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And for this time around, there's going to be more.
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Even you'll get two one-hour private sessions with me over the course of the eight months.
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And additionally, after the eight months are over, after your cohort has finished, you'll still be invited to attend certain coaching calls to help keep you on track.
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You don't have to feel like suddenly you're left without any support.
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But the thing that I think is most important for you to know is that after eight months together, you will have a clear, compelling vision for your life and a concrete plan for how to get there.
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You will also have the skills so that you don't have to just leave all this information on the shelf, that you can actually apply it.
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You will have a level of self-knowledge that you have never had before, even those really self-aware people.
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You will know your values, you will know your genuine needs, you will have named your non-negotiables, you'll have a sense of direction and know what infuses your life with meaning.
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And you will have already begun moving toward that vision.
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You have already started taking action.
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The life you want after eight months will be less of a mirage and more of a concrete tangible possibility.
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And you will have people who know you and support you and will walk alongside you even after the program ends.
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So, with all the tools and the internal shifts and community and support and self-knowledge and self-acceptance, I promise you will feel more at ease being yourself.
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You will make choices that actually suit you.
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And then if your vision for life changes or something comes up that we can't even predict for right now, you'll still be able to pivot.
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These skills and this information you'll use for the rest of your life.
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I really hope that sounds compelling to you.
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I want you to be a part of this.
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I believe in what is possible for you.
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And I want you to have all the goodness that comes from this program.
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So here's the deal.
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The next cohort kicks off on May 11th.
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Enrollment closes on May 4th.
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And I've put the link to the program in the show notes so you can reserve your spot there and learn about more about how the program works.
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And of course, if you have questions or if you want to talk through it with me before you decide, you can email me and we'll set up a time for a conversation.
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My email is also in the show notes.
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Now the thing is, this does have to be the right fit.
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I'm not here to pressure you to do anything.
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This has to be something that makes sense for you.
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But I want you to feel free to be the amazing person you are, and I want you to have a life worthy of that being.
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I don't want you to keep waiting for some distant set of circumstances to happen by accident to make this possible for you.
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Doing this work and helping people get there, this is what gives me purpose.
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So I will leave you with this.
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That magic wand life that you imagined at the beginning of this episode is an invitation.
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Look honestly at the gap.
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Trust that you can close the gap, and then take the courageous step of choosing yourself.
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That's what this work always is.
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Choosing yourself, trusting that that matters.
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That's what I do, and it would be an absolute honor to help you do it too.
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So until the next time, my friends, please take care of yourselves, be well, and bye for now.
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Hello and welcome.
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My name is Jennifer Wade, and this is 3D Authenticity, where we talk about all things related to building a life in the real world that authentically reflects your core being.
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No matter if you're a chronic people pleaser or you're knee-deep in a major identity crisis, or especially if you've given up believing you can have a deeply fulfilling life, it's time to learn how to love who you are and unapologetically live your one-of-a-kind life.
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Join me for a deep dive in how to do exactly that.
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Hello, my friends, and welcome back to another episode of the 3D Authenticity Podcast.
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I am your host, Jennifer Wade, and I am delighted that you have chosen to be here with me today.
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Thank you so much for your time.
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And if this is your first time listening to an episode, welcome.
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You've just happened to tune into what I think is the best episode yet for understanding the heart of what 3D authenticity is all about.
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So you picked it perfectly.
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And if you're a returning listener, first of all, please know it makes me so happy that you've chosen to come back again.
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And I cannot wait for you to dive into all the goodness that I'm sharing today.
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So without further delay, I want to start off with a little thought experiment.
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Okay, well, actually, I'm gonna ask you to do more than just casually think about it.
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I want you to really lean into this.
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So either now or when you have the time later, I really want you to take this episode as an invitation to explore some things inside of you that may not have had the opportunity to come into focus for you just yet.
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Let this be a chance for your subconscious mind to pull something magical out of the hat and show your conscious mind what desires you have that maybe you've had for a while, but just hanging out beneath the surface.
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Now I'm realizing right as I said that that this sounds a little bit like an intro to shadow work, which this episode is decidedly not.
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We can save that for another time.
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But for right now, I want you to imagine that I'm handing you a magic wand.
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And I want you to tap into your playful, creative mind.
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Yes, it's there, I promise.
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And I want you to wave this magic wand over your life and reorganize it.
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Rewrite this present moment of your life, this present season.
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Recreate it.
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With this wand, I want you to make it look however you want it to look right now.
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Make sure that it feels like you.
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Make it so that anyone watching this magic trick who knows and loves you would instantly recognize this magical version of your life and say, oh my gosh, yes, that is so you.
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I see it.
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It makes so much sense.
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Just take the time to imagine what you would conjure up with this wand.
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I want you to create the image or a picture of a life that would feel so good for you to actually be living in day-to-day.
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Now, by the way, I do want to offer a little caveat about this.
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We're not talking about the life that is just pure wish fulfillment here.
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We're talking about the life that would truly feel good to you and to your nervous system to be living in it for the foreseeable future.
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So take your time.
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What would need to change?
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What would need to be different?
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What's missing from your current life that you'd add in?
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And most importantly, what would be the very first thing you'd make sure that your wand erased about your current life?
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I think the answer to that question cannot help but be revealing.
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The thing that you'd go to first to change is an opportunity, my friends.
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Okay, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
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This little experiment is your chance to indulge in all of those secret adjustments you'd love to make because you know in your bones you would just feel more at ease, more comfortable.
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Now, also, by the way, holding this magic wand automatically means putting pause on the voice that's already creeping in about being unrealistic or not practical.
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Now is not the time for that.
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There's no space for that voice right now.
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Just let this magic wand paint you a picture that feels so good that you can even start to feel your body relax.
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Take your time.
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And whenever you're done waving this magic wand over every little corner of your life, first of all, I want to congratulate you.
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What you've done is actually beautiful and creative work.
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But I want you to let that vision take up some space in your mind and your heart.
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Put a bookmark there so you can come back to visit it.
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And for right now, I want you to come hang out on the sofa with me for a heart-to-heart.
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Let's have some real talk.
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When you compare the life you're actually living with that glorious one you just conjured up in your mind, how many things would need to change?
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Are we talking about just one or two big things?
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A handful of things?
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More than you're comfortable admitting?
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Are we talking about a major overhaul?
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I'm asking because I think this exercise reveals some of the most important information you have about yourself right now.
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In my experience, this is far more than a creative exercise or just a thought experiment.
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There's real magic happening here.
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This magic reveals clues to you about how to find more ease and enjoyment and fulfillment in your life.
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Now, I know this might be a little hard to hear, or or who knows.
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Maybe you're here because you're absolutely ready to hear this.
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The number of things that your wand would change, and what those things are, is a pretty honest measure of how near or far you are from living a deeply authentic, deeply fulfilling life.
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A life that fits you.
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A life that feels like it was undeniably made with love and care for you and only you.
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The truth is that for a lot of us, the difference between the magic wand version of our lives and what we're actually living is so much greater than we'd like to admit.
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Or for some of us, it's not that there's a long list of differences, but the one or two items on the list feel like unicorns.
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So we just resign them to the never gonna happen category.
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Either way, we accept the gap.
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We talk ourselves out of believing that it's possible to bridge the gap, or we look at the gap and feel utterly overwhelmed by it.
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Or we just deny to ourselves that there's any gap at all.
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It's like avoidance 101.
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But my friends, things don't change or get better if we sit in avoidance or resignation.
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So what do we do with that gap instead?
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Well, often, for the type of person who is motivated to try to do something about it, so often they will pick a thing on the list and try to fix it.
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Which makes sense, right?
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They work on boundaries, or they work on their career, or their relationships, or finding the relationship.
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They work on one area of dissatisfaction at a time.
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And sometimes that genuinely helps.
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And sometimes that genuinely helps for a little while.
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What I've seen over and over again is that when you work on the symptoms of an unfulfilling life without addressing the root cause, the root issue, people very often end up right back where they started internally.
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They fall back into the same patterns of thought or behavior that kept bigger possibilities out of reach.
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Maybe it's a slightly different version of stuck, but they're still stuck nonetheless.
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You know, it's that old adage of wherever you go, there you are.
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You bring yourself with you, including all of your thoughts, all of your beliefs, your habits, and your conditioning.
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So here's the thing: the gap between your magic wand life and the life you're actually living for most of us isn't really about any one thing on the list.
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It's actually about something you probably wouldn't immediately name.
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It's about authenticity.
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Okay, bear with me here.
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I'm not talking about authenticity in that bumper sticker sense, not that whole just be yourself mentality, as if that's actually simple or even self-explanatory.
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But authenticity and the rewarding life that comes from it asks us to run the gauntlet of some of the biggest challenges that come from being human.
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And yet, when you understand what authenticity actually requires, what it's actually asking of you, it becomes the most clarifying and most liberating pursuit of your life.
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It just needs to be approached the right way.
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So for me, the journey of my life and my work has been coming to understand that authenticity means addressing three distinct but equally essential things.
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And if you're missing any one of those pieces, the magic doesn't really work.
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So the first piece is just knowing yourself.
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It's knowing the deeper architecture of who you actually are.
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That means knowing your genuine needs, your real values, not just the surface-level values that every one of us could just rattle off, but we don't live up to.
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I'm talking about knowing the belief systems that are driving your choices, often without you even being aware of them.
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In order to be authentic, you need to have an intimate relationship with the person who was there before the world started telling you who to be.
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Now, most good personal development programs start there.
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Although, if I'm honest, I'd argue that it's a rare program that takes you deeply enough into your sense of self and your identity.
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But they do exist, and this piece is absolutely essential.
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But knowing yourself isn't enough on its own.
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Because the second piece, and this is the one that people find harder to work with, that second piece is worthiness.
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The genuine, deeply felt belief that who you are and what you want for yourself actually matter.
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That you're allowed to want what you want.
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But more than that, you're allowed to have it.
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Now people tend to try to avoid this piece because it is messy, it's uncomfortable, it's hard work.
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Effectively, it's learning how to correct our long-standing patterns of self-abandonment.
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And we all do it in obvious and less obvious ways.
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The hard truth is that you can know yourself deeply and still systematically undermine everything you're trying to build.
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If, one, you don't have a high opinion of yourself, and two, if you believe other people's opinions of you matter more than your own opinion of you, even if that opinion is positive.
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I've seen it happen so often.
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I've lived some pretty painful versions of this myself.
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Too many programs don't want to go there because it's hard and it isn't quick, and it requires a leader to know how to sit with someone in discomfort and to completely trust to know that with support, the student is strong enough to handle the discomfort, that the student can and will learn from it and will grow from it.
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I can't stress enough how important this worthiness piece is for an authentic life and how frequently overlooked it is.
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All the supports for building the bridge over that gap come from this work.
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And then now we have the third piece.
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It's alignment.
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It's the life design piece.
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It's taking everything you've discovered about yourself and all the ways you've learned to show up for yourself, and then actually constructing yourself a one-of-a-kind, beautifully authentic life from those things.
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Out in the real 3D world.
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Alignment is creating a vision and a plan and committing to a way of living that reflects the real you rather than some expected or accidental version of you.
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That's what authenticity takes.
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That's how we close the gap.
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Identity, worthiness, and alignment.
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All three, each one supporting the other.
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And that's the 3D authenticity framework.
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That is the architecture of everything I do with the people that I work with.
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Each pillar is profound and strong and essential.
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Which brings me to why I wanted to record this episode today.
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It's because right now, up until midnight, May 4th, 2026, the next 3D Authenticity Small Group Coaching Cohort is open for enrollment.
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This is my sincere invitation to you to step into a program that does give you a magic wand and the know-how to wave it over your life and make it more like what you want it to be.
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Each cohort is only six to ten people, which means it's incredibly intimate and personal, and everyone is seen as an individual.
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And it's eight months long, which is long enough to make a real difference.
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I'm recording this episode because I want you to understand what this program is actually for and what it looks like on the inside in the most personal, real way I know how to describe it.
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I mean this from the bottom of my heart.
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This is the program and the container that I would have given anything to be a part of a little over 10 years ago during truly the toughest season of my life.
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And it isn't lost on me that I've been steadily building what I so desperately needed back then.
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And I can't tell you how gratifying it is to have it out in the world because I know others need it too.
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I know there are people looking to feel more whole, more authentic, who want a life that has more ease and pleasure and satisfaction and meaning and purpose, all the things.
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So the way the program works is basically this.
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Once a week, we meet live on Zoom as a group for a teaching session where I'll go into the framework and I'll talk about the pillars.
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And if you can't make it some weeks, that's fine.
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There's always a video replay so that you don't have to miss anything.
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These teaching sessions are structured and they will walk you through the concepts that create real change.
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Sometimes we do the exercises together in the classes, and sometimes we have discussions.
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Yes, sometimes there's homework.
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But these teaching sessions are where the framework really comes into focus.
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But the teaching is not the only part of it, right?
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You can learn something profound in a class and then what straight back into your life and have no idea how to apply it to your actual situation.
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So that's why we also have multiple coaching calls every month where you come and talk through everything that we've been exploring in class and bring it directly into the reality of your life, your specific circumstances.
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Whatever your unique challenges are or whatever your unique vision is, we talk about that, not generics.
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And what I think is so special is that even by listening to your fellow cohort members be coached, even if there's a week when you're feeling good and you don't need to talk directly with me, just by listening to others, something might click for you.
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And you might have an insight that gives you a whole new perspective on something you're working on that you wouldn't have even thought about to ask.
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I love this so much when it happens.
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And that's part of the power of community.
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This group is small by intention.
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It's truly only six to ten people maximum.
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But because it's small, you don't get lost.
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You become known and seen.
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And I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching people who started off not really knowing each other become some of the most meaningful presences in each other's life.
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It's a really special experience for everyone who lives it.
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So for the people who decide to take part in this cohort, that's going to be your experience too.
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And for this time around, there's going to be more.
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Even you'll get two one-hour private sessions with me over the course of the eight months.
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And additionally, after the eight months are over, after your cohort has finished, you'll still be invited to attend certain coaching calls to help keep you on track.
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You don't have to feel like suddenly you're left without any support.
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But the thing that I think is most important for you to know is that after eight months together, you will have a clear, compelling vision for your life and a concrete plan for how to get there.
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You will also have the skills so that you don't have to just leave all this information on the shelf, that you can actually apply it.
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You will have a level of self-knowledge that you have never had before, even those really self-aware people.
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You will know your values, you will know your genuine needs, you will have named your non-negotiables, you'll have a sense of direction and know what infuses your life with meaning.
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And you will have already begun moving toward that vision.
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You have already started taking action.
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The life you want after eight months will be less of a mirage and more of a concrete tangible possibility.
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And you will have people who know you and support you and will walk alongside you even after the program ends.
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So, with all the tools and the internal shifts and community and support and self-knowledge and self-acceptance, I promise you will feel more at ease being yourself.
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You will make choices that actually suit you.
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And then if your vision for life changes or something comes up that we can't even predict for right now, you'll still be able to pivot.
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These skills and this information you'll use for the rest of your life.
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I really hope that sounds compelling to you.
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I want you to be a part of this.
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I believe in what is possible for you.
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And I want you to have all the goodness that comes from this program.
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So here's the deal.
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The next cohort kicks off on May 11th.
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Enrollment closes on May 4th.
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And I've put the link to the program in the show notes so you can reserve your spot there and learn about more about how the program works.
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And of course, if you have questions or if you want to talk through it with me before you decide, you can email me and we'll set up a time for a conversation.
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My email is also in the show notes.
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Now the thing is, this does have to be the right fit.
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I'm not here to pressure you to do anything.
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This has to be something that makes sense for you.
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But I want you to feel free to be the amazing person you are, and I want you to have a life worthy of that being.
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I don't want you to keep waiting for some distant set of circumstances to happen by accident to make this possible for you.
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Doing this work and helping people get there, this is what gives me purpose.
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So I will leave you with this.
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That magic wand life that you imagined at the beginning of this episode is an invitation.
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Look honestly at the gap.
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Trust that you can close the gap, and then take the courageous step of choosing yourself.
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That's what this work always is.
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Choosing yourself, trusting that that matters.
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That's what I do, and it would be an absolute honor to help you do it too.
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So until the next time, my friends, please take care of yourselves, be well, and bye for now.
