Today’s episode is to fill you in on what’s been going on with my life the last month that I haven’t been putting out episodes. Sometimes you start stuff just to see what happens and if you like it. And that’s what this podcast is, a fun project, or at least that’s what I thought it was supposed to be at first until I tried to turn it into something else. If it’s no longer fun, sometimes a reevaluation needs to take place and things are put on hold. I feel totally okay with this, as should you about things you do this to as well.

ALSO, thank you so much for listening to any and all episodes that you have listened to and that this will be more sporadic as I evaluate how I truly want to spend my time.

There’s too much pressure to be “the best” at something—at everything really. You can do things just for fun and explore. You can just enjoy living your life and doing what makes you happy. You don’t need to be the president, a Nobel Laureate, an astronaut, or an Olympic Gold Medalist.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Lessons from Barbie 🎀
• The extreme pressure to be great at something all the time
• BONUS: I sing a little bit of the Billie Eilish song “What Was I Made For?” for fun at the end 🙂

• Following Your “Passion” Is Overrated BS. Ep. 39
• How to Be “Enough:” Living a Life of Curiosity, Not Expectations, with Vicky Nguyen. Ep. 40

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We often get overwhelmed by our own schedules, commitments, relationship requirements—basically our lives. But it’s okay to change your mind and move things that no longer work for you. Busy schedule? Reschedule or cancel what you can until you feel more comfortable. No longer want to go to that Happy Hour you said you’d go to? Then don’t. We make our own choices and create our own lives.

In this episode we discuss:

• Extending the same understanding and compassion to ourselves that we extend to others
• Creating a schedule that works for you, when it works for you.

• Are You a “Quitter?” OR Did You Change Your Mind? Ep. 19
• Respecting Your Limits: Adapting to Life's Seasons. Ep. 36
• Showing Up Even When You’re Unmotivated & Uninspired, Ep. 41
• Not Everything Is a Priority, Ep. 47.

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It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when everything seems equally important and urgent. If this often seems to be the case for you, then all this lack of focus and sight of THE singular priority means that everything will flail with only increments of progress, fueled by lots of stress and anxiety. If everything is the top priority…then none of it is.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How we can only have 1 priority at a time. Priorities, plural, isn’t a real thing.
• It's easier to juggle multiple things at different points of your life than it is at other times and it's okay to drop the ball sometimes on things that aren’t THE priority
• Taking the time to live in a decision instead of reflecting and evaluating that decision AS you’re living/enacting it. It’s okay to pivot as needed, but make that call out of safety, not fear, lack, and anxiety.

• Respecting Your Limits: Adapting to Life's Seasons. Ep. 36
• Showing Up Even When You’re Unmotivated & Uninspired, Ep. 41

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It’s easy to lose sight of how far we’ve come because we’re always searching for the next rung in the ladder. But where you’re standing right now could be the exact place that someone looking up at you is inspired to be.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The power in being able to look back and be proud of how far you’ve come
• It’s okay to not have an end goal in mind and to follow the curiosity of things you THINK you might like
• There are usually distinct learning stages in every journey
• You could be an inspiration for someone and have no idea
• You’re never “done” your journey, not until you’re dead

• EPISODE 4: Your shine doesn’t dim mine. Other women are NOT your competition.
• The importance of being vulnerable & a little weird. Ep. 10
• How to Be “Enough:” Living a Life of Curiosity, Not Expectations, with Vicky Nguyen. Ep. 40
• Showing Up Even When You’re Unmotivated & Uninspired, Ep. 41

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It’s our default to take every decision so freaking seriously. But really, 99% of the time it’s not that big of a deal and we need to just get over ourselves. Even if it’s a “failure,” WE are not failures, we just have fail moments and the indecision and fear will stop us quicker than anything else so it’s best to just make a decision and run with it — You change your mind if you want to later, no biggie.

Join me and my guest Laura Aura as we discuss:

• How much “we underestimate how much power we actually have over our lives and our own ‘success’”
• Sometimes you need to have a “beautiful meltdown” so that you can build yourself back up
• Opportunities that are meant for you will not pass you by, so trust the process and the timing by consistently showing up
• “If we get out of our way of making all the details work, then the magic happens"

• Stop Waiting for Perfection Or An Invitation. Ep 27.
• How To Step Into Being The Leader You’re Meant To Be With Suzy Dickstein. Ep. 31
• Stop Being Proud of Your Perfectionism, with Guest Dawn Calvanisti Ep. 33

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I almost didn’t record an episode this week. This episode was scheduled to come out on July 4th and so I thought, “It doesn’t matter, it’s a holiday, and there will be WAY fewer people listening.” But I had to stop and think of myself in the not-too-distant future and ask, “Would future Amanda be happy with the choices made by present Amanda?” No. She would probably say, “Put out an episode because it doesn’t matter 3 years in the future that it was a holiday. It matters that you created something that can positively impact more people, which you cannot do if you only create and release things when you feel like it...” Sit down, record an episode, and move on to the next thing.

In this episode, we discuss:

• When possible, long-term thinking should win out to short-term feelings.
• The importance of working and thinking backward
• Your goal or vision seems so far away, but when you reach it, that beginning point will feel like forever ago. Time is relative.

• How to Stop Procrastinating and Start Living in Messy Action. Ep. 21
• Respecting Your Limits: Adapting to Life's Seasons. Ep. 36
• Showing Up Even When You’re Unmotivated & Uninspired, Ep. 41

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“It’s easier to be mediocre than it is to confront reality and quit”— Seth Godin. Today we talk about how freeing it feels to finally quit something that no longer serves you, never truly worked for you, the reward is no longer worth the effort, or you’re just plain average at.

It means you can shift your energy to something else, something better suited to you. But quitting is hard. It’s easier to ignore the truth that it’s better to quit and just continue hustling down a path you’ve already put so much effort into.

In this episode, we discuss:

• “Most people are afraid to quit and it leads to mediocrity.”—Seth Godin
• It’s easier to keep going with the status quo even if you’re unhappy and you’d be better suited to something else
• The importance of quitting at the “right” time instead of wasting your time
• It takes courage to quit and to face the unknown of what comes next, it takes guts to quit

• Are You a “Quitter?” OR Did You Change Your Mind? Ep. 19
• The Problem With Always Striving To Be "Better." Ep. 29

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