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Audacity Activated, Washington D.C., DC (2025)

03/07/2023

Sometimes we forget where we have choice in difficult situations.

Most of our challenging situations can't be worse than spending 37 days lost in the Pacific as a family of 6 with little hope for survival.

This is what Dougal Robertson had to say once he and his family were rescued by a passing Japanese ship:

"You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative, as is good or bad management."

It's good to remember the spaces of choice in the middle of helplessness!

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02/22/2023

You read on LinkedIn all the best ways to get followers 🏃🏻‍♀️, start a business 👨‍💼, be awesome at sales 📣 , write brilliant content ✍️ , earn a 7-figure salary 💰 , be a great leader etc…

You read and absorb and go out there to implement but splat 💥 You hit a wall. And it feels like you’re failing 😞because it doesn’t happen the way they say it will.

It never does 🫤

Learning is hard 🤯 and it’s messy and it requires trial and error and reflection and more trial and feedback and more error and introspection and then more trial.

👉Be kind to yourself if you’re there today. A little self compassion can go a long way.

[In fact, research shows that self compassion ❤️‍🩹 can actually facilitate learning from failures.]

And if you’re in a good place, encourage someone around you who’s not rocking their goals yet to take it easy on themselves 🤗 and keep on keeping on.
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02/18/2023

I spent a good part of a week with 16 strangers.

I was in Costa Rica alongside transformational leaders from around the world.

After 3 days, we left as friends.

There is something very powerful about an authentic human connection created in a foreign environment.

The moment you are open, authentic and curious, it’s impossible not to create meaningful friendships.

As someone who lives in my head a lot, I sometimes forget just how important these moments are.

Leaders are especially vulnerable to isolating themselves because they have a misconception that they need to be stoic all the time. So they pretend that all is well, they build a wall, and end up feeling stressed, anxious and alone.

The saying, “it’s lonely at the top”, comes from somewhere.

Do you forget to forge real relationships with people? What other benefits have you found from being authentic? ................................………‬
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02/17/2023

When we experience a 'failure' early on in life: like not losing weight, not finding love, not selecting the right career..
We underestimate how happy we could be if we actually achieve our goals.

We tell ourselves that it's no big deal
We discourage ourselves by thinking, do I really want to be fitter? tied to someone starting over?

It's a self protection mechanism against feeling sucky.

But there are way worse things that feeling bad about not achieving a goal.
Namely regret: one of the most harmful feeling ever.

I'll take the pain of failure any day over
the sourness of unachieved goals
or the bitterness of regret.

Do you have goals you've been talking yourself out of?
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02/15/2023

You may not FEEL stressed (like many of my workshop participants whose biology showed stress but they didn't feel it at all!) but daily life is nothing less than stressful.

We need to go beyond learning how to manage stress, we need to build daily practices that reduce our stress!!!

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02/14/2023

There was a time I wished I were invisible. I didn't want to be seen, heard or spoken to. I had actually learned how to be completely UNassertive.

All kids are born assertive. They lose that skill through conditioning and other learned behavior.

Personally, I was unassertive because of all the above. Whatever your reasons are, being non-assertive is harmful to your career, your self-esteem and your loved ones.

Once I realized that, I made mega shifts in how I show up!!!

What stops you from fully showing up as you? Where can you make small changes today?................................………‬
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02/13/2023

When we aim for perfection, we are creating distance between us and those we care about.

Let me ask you this:

What do you get out of trying to be perfect?
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02/10/2023

Everyone is born assertive. We learn passive or aggressive behavior from the world around us.

They define aggressive behavior as that, “which violates the rights of others.”

They define passive behavior, “where we violate our own rights.”

How many times have you seen passive or aggressive behavior play out in meetings, boardrooms, salary negotiations, decision-making, relationships, and so on?

Where on the PASSIVE to AGGRESSIVE spectrum did you stand? Is it time to be more respectful of your boundaries? Of the boundaries of others?

If you're working on being more assertive, you can do it! You were born that way. (Cue: Lady Gaga!)
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02/09/2023

It was 5:03 pm. I shut down my computer and picked up my handbag despite the stern eye of my manager.

"Leaving so soon?" he asked.

"It's 5pm. I'm paid to be here until 5, right?"

"Oh, I never leave before 7," he bragged.

I do, I thought to myself. I'm only 22 but I have a life to live.
I made it two years before I ran from that job.

I later worked in all kinds of places abroad that made work not seem like a life sentence.

Twenty-something years later I thought I would grow up and be an employee again. Just as before, I barely made it two years before feeling suffocated, stifled, drained of creativity and the will to live.

This time around, I stopped feeling like failure. This time around I realized that sticking to work that you find miserable (or working with people you find miserable!) is not growing up, it's conforming in the most self-compromising way.

I decided I didn't want to play by the rules. I wanted to write my own. ESPECIALLY AS A WOMAN.

I can't tell you the number of people, the number of WOMEN, who were terrified by my choice. What about insurance? What about your kids? What will your partner say? How will you start a business?

I said this on Carolyn Christie's post today and I'll say it here:

"Growing up is less about learning to play the game and more about changing the rules."

Don't try harder to fit in and play someone else's game, try harder to figure out what rules you're willing to play by then start your own game. I can guarantee you it's 100 times more fun!
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02/08/2023

My grandmother and her sisters had to take over a soap factory in 1920s Lebanon when their father abruptly passed away.

Clients wouldn’t pay them because they were fatherless teenage girls and so they had to fend for themselves.

Each woman went her way to make ends meet.

My grandmother knew how to sew, so she she started out as a seamstress and eventually built a fill-on business, hired ladies to help sew trousseaus for wealthy Arab tourists who came to vacation in Beirut.

She was a woman of strengths, integrity and character and believed in doing things her own way.

She married late in life only after creating her own sense of self worth and later worked alongside my grandfather as they built a business in Jamaica.

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02/06/2023

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02/04/2023

As a high performer, you're at an even higher risk of burnout because:

- You have high motivation
- Your mind pushes your body beyond its limits
- Quitting is not an option
- You thrive on the bigger challenge

The World Health Organization officially categorized Burnout as a “syndrome” that results from “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”

The Pandemic put the spotlight on the value of slowing down, prioritizing meaningful work and building strong relationships.

What's the solution?

Don't change who you are, change what you do!

-> Learn skills and techniques that help with self-regulation and stress reduction

-> Develop a practice of mindfulness and self expression

-> Create and prioritize a supportive community that holds you accountable

This is easier said than done, which is why my friend Toni and I have put together a 5 day retreat where we teach all these things and create the community for you!

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