Dena Patton (GenX) joins Yo in this episode to discuss her book, The Greatness Game and living a more inspiring life.
Dena Patton has been an elite business and leadership coach and consultant for the last 20 years. She works with world changing business owners and purpose-driven leaders to help them go from good-to-great in their leadership, income and impact. Her 3-Pillar coaching approach helps her clients to build: the systems to be a well-oiled company, the sales-strategy to be a well-funded company, and the greatness mindset to be a well-led company.
3 Episode Takeaways:
1. Greatness is all about mindset. We can learn tools to access it and when we do our greatness increases. It takes work!
2. We can look at our results and see/hear our beliefs in our language. We say smallness beliefs all the time.
3. Our smallness thoughts become our smallness “truths”. Somewhere along the way we agreed to this smallness statement. The good news is that we can come out of agreement and create a greatness “truth” instead.
As Mentioned in the Episode:
http://denapatton.com/free-downloads/ for free self-care downloads that will change your life.
Related Episodes:
Ep. 69 A Simple Model for Changing Habits
Ep. 70 Let’s Keep Digging Into Habits with Atomic Habits by James Clear
More about Dena:
As a key-note speaker and best-selling author of The Greatness Game, Dena has garnered over 60 media stories, and her vision, values, and purpose transformed her career from good to great, and she is passionate to help others do the same!! She is a mom and a law enforcement wife, and when she isn’t working she is giving back as the co-founder of The Girls Rule Foundation, an Arizona 501c3 that offers leadership and empowerment programs for teen girls nationwide.
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Hi there. Welcome to episode 91 of Girl
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Take the Lead. For each week we explore
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womanhood and leadership. And I'm your host, Yo Canny.
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Today we are joined by our guest Dena Patton to discuss her book
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The Greatness Game and Living a More Inspiring Life.
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After Our Sound Bite episode 90 about Steph Curry's documentary,
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we felt we needed to continue to talk about greatness, but this
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time related to ourselves. Dena offers us lots of great
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ideas about how to do that. Here's a bit more about Dena's
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background. Dena Patton has been an elite
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business and leadership coach and consultant for the last 20
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years. She works with world changing
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business owners and purpose driven leaders and helps them to
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go from good to great in their leadership, income and impact.
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Her three pillar coaching approach helps her clients to
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build the systems to be a well oiled company, the sales
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strategy to be a well funded company and the greatness
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mindset to be a well led company.
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We hope you'll enjoy the listen here you go.
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So Dina, welcome to Girl Take the Lead.
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And we're so excited to have you with us and to talk about your
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book and your thoughts about greatness.
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Why don't we start by you first just sort of introducing
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yourself to our listeners and telling them a little bit about
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the book? Yeah, absolutely.
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I'm super excited about being here in this conversation.
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I am inspired by this work by mindset, by greatness, the
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journey that we can be on, I was really inspired by.
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My own realization that we can master our mindset, and I think
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a lot of us listen to the negative, what I call the
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smallness, the survival side of our mindset a lot.
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And we don't know that we have the choice, that we're
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empowered, that we can listen to something else and in about 15
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years of research on. Greatness mindset.
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Why do some people succeed in the same exact environment and
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other people fail? Why do siblings some succeed and
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some fail? And what I've come to conclusion
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is it's all mindset. It's all mindset.
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And when we learn. Tools, which we all are born
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with our greatness, but we have to learn tools to access it.
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You know, our our life changes and our income goes up and our
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impact goes up and our joy goes up.
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And I was fascinated with that world and but I'll tell you this
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is it gets very complicated because it is a lot of
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psychology. It's a lot of mindfulness.
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It's a lot of work. But I wanted to bring it down to
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a very doable, elementary level that anyone could really get
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their head around. And so I wanted to write a book
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that was simple, small. It wasn't very long and hard and
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psychology, you know, base that just loses people.
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And so I just wanted to write a book that was.
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Fresh and makes these really hard concepts accessible so that
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people can live a life of greatness and create a life that
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they love. Yeah, well, you you talk about
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it too. This podcast is all about
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helping us find our voices and being centered in our voices and
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being able to talk about our issues and things that are going
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on for us. As I looked through your book,
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there were so many parts that were so inspirational that could
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lift anybody up at any time, no matter where we are, right in
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our journey. So appreciated your book very
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much for that. So many things that you say,
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like one of the things that really caught me was that our
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beliefs become our words. Our words become our actions.
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Our actions become our habits, and our habits become our
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results. If you can talk a little bit
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about those smallness habits and beliefs that we have and how
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they relate to us, especially those of us that are in our
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careers trying to get a raise or moms trying to raise kids at the
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same time going on. Yes, we have so much going on,
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right. It's just never ending the ways
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that we are pulled. And the different roles we have,
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you know, we have, you know, mom, wife, friend, daughter, and
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a lot of us have aging or ill parents.
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And then Oh yeah, we have to go to work and have an income or we
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build our business. So there's a lot on us.
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It's really important to understand that it it takes so
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much mindfulness and awareness. To where all these roles, where
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all these titles that we have and then give back to, you know,
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ourselves. So where are results?
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When? When?
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As a coach, when I talk to someone around their results, it
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could be around Your health, your money, your marriage, your
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career, whatever your results are right now in your life are
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reflection of your beliefs. And so when I look at when, when
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I talk to someone and say, you know, what is your self-care,
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how are you refueling your mind, body and spirit?
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And they say something like, well, I don't have time for
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that. Oh my gosh, no, no way.
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They're showing me their beliefs.
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Their beliefs are. I have so much going on.
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I don't give myself permission to make time.
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I'm not either worthy of it or can't do it.
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And so they I can just ask someone about the result and you
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can start to hear the belief behind the result, right?
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Someone's you know, well, why aren't you going for that
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promotion that you're up for? And they're like, Oh well, I
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could never do that. I didn't finish college.
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There's the belief, right? So when you can hear your
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beliefs in your language, we. Sure.
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We say our smallness beliefs all the time and when you are aware
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of them, you think that they are the truth.
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And that's the key to this is you think that belief you have
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called. I didn't go to college, so I
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can't get that promotion. That's a belief.
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That's not the truth. Because I can show you thousands
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of people who didn't go to college who are millionaires,
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billionaires. Successful people, they didn't
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have the belief called I have to stop at a I'm only worth a
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certain amount of money and I can't go for that, build that
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business or I can't go for that promotion.
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So here's the thing. Your smallness thought like I
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didn't go to college, so I'm worth less.
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But comes your truth. So our smallness thoughts become
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our smallness truths. And then once they become, you
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know what? What we believe is?
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Our truths. Our truths.
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I'm saying in quotes, right? And here's what I just want to
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get across to everybody who's listening, that belief that you
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have in place is not the truth. Somewhere along your journey,
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you've agreed with it, and it is now your truth.
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But here's the greatest, greatest news.
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You can come out of agreement with it.
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So when I came out of agreement with, I came from a very
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dysfunctional family where my siblings were drug addicts and I
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could well, I who am I to make something of myself, right?
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I come from this kind of family or I didn't go to college or I'm
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from the wrong, you know, city or I mean all these thoughts
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that we have become smallness beliefs.
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We believe them and then they limit us.
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And what's possible for our life?
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So when we know that we can then identify those small, I call
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them smallness statements, smallness beliefs, we can say,
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Oh my gosh, I'm in total agreement with this.
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I didn't go to college so I can't get VP right promotion.
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I'm going to come out of agreement with it.
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This is no longer my truth. I'm going to create a greatness
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truth, Greatness belief called I didn't go to college.
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It is a fact. It's just that it's not limiting
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you, right? I didn't go to college okay, but
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I have so many gifts and strengths that I can earn that
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VP position or I can go after those bigger clients in my
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business. So that's the difference is when
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we come out of agreement with the smallness and come into
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agreement with the greatness. Because your greatness is filled
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with your gifts, it knows your highest potential and is trying
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to get you to your highest potential.
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You're the one that's limiting it, right?
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They're always the problem. I'm always the problem.
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So we're, you know, we're always breaking through our limiting
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beliefs and starting to put our agreement to the greatness.
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Yeah. And I like, you know, I like
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blowing up the limiting beliefs. And the hardest part is
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sometimes is being able to identify it and go, ah, there it
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is because it's layered down there.
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It's, you know, do you think it's the foundation?
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Like at the very bottom of like you go through your emotions and
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you can be able to look at situations and they go, ah,
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there it is. That's the one that keeps
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showing up all the time. Yeah, I think it's the, you
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know, the work that we do that in our work that we do that's so
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hard. A lot of people are, you know,
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we get confronted. It's uncomfortable to look at
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your own limiting smallness beliefs that have, you know,
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kept you small And. And here's the here's the payoff
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of. Believe in your smallness.
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The payoff is you're safe and you're surviving and you're in
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your comfort zone. And usually when we're in our
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comfort zone, we have things mastered, right?
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So mastery goes with our comfort zone.
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So all of that is the payoff is we stay in mastery, we stay in
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comfort, we stay safe and we stay surviving.
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And there's payoff in that. That's good, right?
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That's good. But.
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I'm calling, you know, with my work, my speaking, my coaching,
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my book. Not everyone is up for this work
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and not everybody wants to achieve their highest self, you
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know? Some people are like, I'm good,
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peace out. Thank you very much, I'm not
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desperate enough yet. I'm good with this smallness or
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this mediocre, you know, Ness. I just wasn't.
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And I was like, I'm going to find how.
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You master this and breakthrough this in in easier ways.
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And so yeah, you're right, it does take work.
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You know, I started my money breaking through with my
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relationship with money probably 15 years ago and 1520 years ago
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in in my 30s. And you know, every year I have
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more and more and more breakthroughs around money
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relationship with money. It used to be horrible.
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I'm limiting beliefs around money were so keeping me
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limiting and small and broke and you know, desperate for the next
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client. Like when you have a negative
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relationship with money, it shifts how you're showing up.
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And in the business world, if you're a business owner, what
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that looks like is you are always desperate for the next
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client. And where that desperation is
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coming from is your beliefs. You talk a little bit about the
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greatness trifecta. Taking that point a little bit
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more, you talk about money, voice and power, right, Being
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your biggest assets, you know. So I'm wondering how that would
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benefit our Gen. Z and Millennial listeners about
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that trifecta and talk a little bit about that.
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Yes. So in my book I talked about our
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trifecta greatness. You know, I think we hear a lot
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about, you know, our biggest asset is our money and protect
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your money and save your money and budget your money and invest
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your money, which we should do. Here's the thing that I have
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found is when you look around. Powerful people, successful
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people in different sectors, whether it's science or arts or
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politics or whatever sector you're in, it's way more than
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money. Money is an asset.
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But here's the other two that make your life not only
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successful, powerful, but meaningful.
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And I think a lot of us, we want meaning, you know, we want a
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joyful life. We want to make a difference.
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I want to not only just make a difference in my business, with
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my clients and what I do in my businesses, but in my life, who
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I am and how I'm showing up. And so the other two, which is
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so many as one voices two. And power is 3, as women
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especially. Is we have to empower ourselves
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to know how important our power and our voices.
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And so I encourage you to do this little exercise.
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It's a self audit and you write it.
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Take out a piece of paper, a notebook, and put across the top
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voice, money and power. So you have 3 columns and I want
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you to audit yourself. Where are all the places you're
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putting your power? Where are all the places you're
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putting your money? And where are all the places
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you're putting your voice and using your voice, Right?
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Our voice is so, so powerful. And for me, I had to learn how
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to speak twice in my life. So in 7th grade, I literally bit
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my tongue off and they had to sew it back on.
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So that was a rough, you know, year in my childhood that I had
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to learn how to speak again. And then at 27, I had a stroke
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and had to learn how to speak again.
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And that was rough, because I make my living speaking,
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coaching, speaking, podcasting. I am doubly.
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Grateful for my voice because it's been taken away twice, but
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I am very, very aware of what how I use my voice.
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We are so powerful. With our voice we can.
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We can change people's minds. We can lead communities.
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We can lead advocacy, We can lead our family.
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We can lead the world, right? If we're empowered around our
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voice and we know who we are and what we stand for.
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So in this audit you look at, you know, are you wasting your
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voice on things that don't matter to you or you don't
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really care about? You know what?
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If you used your voice for the things that are deeply, deeply
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important to you, and then you go deep with those, right?
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So, so that's your voice. And then of course, your money.
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What are you spending money on? That doesn't matter.
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This, this whole audit is all about you.
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This is a person very deeply personal.
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It it not only audits where you're putting your voice, money
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and power. But it's also making you very
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aware around what matters to you and what doesn't.
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And I hear from millennials in particular that it's hard to
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find your passions or and you know, which says to me maybe a
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little bit, it's hard to find your values, It's hard to find
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what you care about. And perhaps this exercise helps
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you uncover some of those things, right?
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In addition to uncovering, you know, you're limiting beliefs,
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your small beliefs there that perhaps you want to shift and
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you want to change, right? Is that what you're kind of
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uncovering with this? Yeah.
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If that's like, the byproduct of it is you get clarity around how
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you're using your voice, money and power and where you're
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wasting those 3 assets on things that don't matter or they used
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to matter and now they don't matter to you anymore, right?
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You're in a different season of life.
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What? Mattered in my 20s.
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Didn't really matter in my 30s and didn't matter in my 50s,
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right. So it's we change and and what
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becomes important to us. So in this exercise it's so deep
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because you do get what what's important to me right now and
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how am I applying my voice, money and power to those things.
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But you're also what you just brought up, which is so good, is
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you're also seeing your smallness of like.
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You know, I'm not using my voice in powerful ways around things
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that really, really matter to me.
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And maybe that's, you know, a charity work.
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You know, I my passion is women and girl empowerment.
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And I started my own nonprofit, Girls Role Foundation, because I
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got really clear where do I want to put my voice, money and power
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when it's it's outside of. I know my family and then I know
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my. Faith and I know my business.
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Those aren't the three. But outside of that, where do I
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want? And 20 years ago when I did this
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exercise, I got really clear women and girls advancement in
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the world and empowerment, leadership is where I want to
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put those things and that's where I put those things.
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And all of a sudden your life becomes really clear around the
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one or two or three things that you want to solve in the world.
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You know that you want to make a difference at Denton, right?
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So it's it's so good because it does help you come out of
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agreement with smallness stuff and cut things that don't matter
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and you start to focus and go you know what, these things
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really excite me and inspire me and I'm going to put my voice
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around that or my money around that or my power and energy
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around that and your life becomes so much more clear and.
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You become, you know, back to my book name is you start winning
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your greatness game because now all your choices are from a
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place of greatness versus this smallness.
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Like, I don't have a voice. I'm just one person.
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If I believed that, which I did, trust me, I spent 27 years in my
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smallness. But when I got, when I got that,
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you know what changes the world one person at a time.
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And I was like, you know what? All I can do is get passionate
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around the things that I'm passionate about.
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And you know, 20 years getting passionate around girls and
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women, I have. I have made a difference for
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literally half a million women in the work I've done and the
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charity work I've done. So and that's one little person,
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right? That just is my.
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Little person. Right, One little piece of a
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puzzle. So.
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We have to come out of agreement that we're just one person.
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And who am I and what could I do?
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You know what? You can do a lot.
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A lot. And in the beginning, I'll just
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address this because some people are like, well, I don't have
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money, right? I didn't have money in my
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twentiesish early 30s. I mean, that's when you're just
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starting to make your money. And you know what I did instead?
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I didn't have a lot of money to write charity checks.
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I threw events because that's part of my gifting.
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You know, I'm like, well, I can throw events that 100 people can
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come to and they can give, right?
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And so you that's a greatness decision of I'm going to use my
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gifts and my greatness to make a difference.
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And I used my voice and my power to throw events and we raised
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hundreds of thousands of dollars for girls and women's charities.
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And a lot of that was not my own money, but it was my own doing,
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right? So use your own.
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Get creative and believe that your gifts and greatness are not
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only going to make an incredible career where you're going to
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make a difference in your career, but outside of that, as,
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you know, a wife or a mom or a citizen or maybe you go into
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politics or leadership, etcetera.
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So, yeah, so many good things there, things that and we spoke
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before that were really great that you put out there.
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I just want to just say them for our listeners because I I
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thought they were really good. Remembering no is a complete
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sentence. That was great and leadership is
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an action, not a title. That was really good too.
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And then then you talk about the 10/10/10 idea.
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Do you want to talk a little bit about that one before we go?
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So all three things that you just talked about are a form of
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selfcare. Yeah.
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And as someone who has, I've been coaching leaders and
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business owners for 20 years. And one one thing that we all
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have in common is burnout and overwhelm.
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And you know, somewhere along your journey, I had to have a
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stroke to learn my my own. Bad habits were my my business
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was killing me and I didn't even know that I had habits that were
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just killing me. And it's really important as a
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as women. But men too, we love to
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overwhelm ourselves, and untreated overwhelm becomes
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burnout and it usually looks very slow, like it's not very
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evident right and. Until it compounds and compounds
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and then all of a sudden you're at your last straw.
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So I'm a big advocate for selfcare and you touched on
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three things. No is a complete sentence.
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We have to be empowered to say no.
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And I believe in the graceful no.
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We can say, you know, thank you so much for that invitation, but
00:23:28
I have plans on Saturday to go to a retreat or go get a massage
00:23:33
or that's my day off of rest. But I would love to see you next
00:23:37
week right. We can say no gracefully and
00:23:41
protect our boundaries and so I believe in the word and and
00:23:46
because we can be graceful and I think a lot of women are are
00:23:50
scared to say no because they'll look bad.
00:23:53
Well, what also looks bad is burnout.
00:23:55
So no is a a complete sentence. Boundaries you have to have
00:23:58
margins in your life, so that is you know, work time.
00:24:03
Self-care time. I have a self-care.
00:24:06
I believe in a a self-care plan and that is daily, weekly and
00:24:11
monthly template that I created you.
00:24:15
It's a. Free download on my website
00:24:18
amazinggreatness.com. Grab it there and just print it
00:24:22
out and it's your 30 day self-care plan.
00:24:24
You fill it in. You fill it in with the things
00:24:29
that you say are going to fuel your mind, your body and your
00:24:34
spirit. And you're the the point is to
00:24:37
be intentional and purposeful around these things because
00:24:41
they're no one else's responsibility, right?
00:24:44
No one else is responsible for taking care of you.
00:24:47
So when we click into that mindset of selfcare as a mindset
00:24:51
first, like I deserve it. I'm worthy and I need it and.
00:24:56
If I think like that, then my actions are I create a selfcare
00:25:01
plan and I stick to it and I schedule it because success is
00:25:05
scheduled. Ladies, we know if it's not on
00:25:09
our calendar, we don't do it. I hear you.
00:25:12
So my massages, my workouts, everything is on my calendar and
00:25:17
we book around it. So I'm a mom.
00:25:20
I'm a law enforcement wife. I have two businesses and.
00:25:23
I have. Huge amount of boundaries around
00:25:28
my self-care because I have to, especially when you're out to
00:25:32
make a difference in the world. So boundaries.
00:25:35
And then the third thing that you mentioned is the 10/10/10.
00:25:37
This is a book, Susie Wash's book, and it's a brilliant
00:25:43
little concept and I just think it's really great for parents
00:25:46
especially who work, because I think we.
00:25:49
Get tied up between work things and kids things and Oh my gosh,
00:25:54
I have guilt of not being at my son's karate or my daughter's
00:25:58
volleyball game. And so the concept is this, it's
00:26:02
10/10/10. It's okay.
00:26:06
I have now a scenario where I have to be at a work conference
00:26:09
or my daughter's final volleyball.
00:26:16
Tournament of the year, right? That's those are two really big
00:26:19
decisions. What you think about is, will my
00:26:22
daughter cry for 10 minutes, 10 months or 10 years?
00:26:28
Like, is this a thing that 10 years from now she's going to be
00:26:31
like, you weren't at my volleyball tournament, right?
00:26:34
You can talk to my girl, probably.
00:26:36
For 10 minutes and she's going to be over it, right, so.
00:26:40
Whether you make that decision or you actually get in a
00:26:42
conversation with your spouse or your kids about that, it's just
00:26:47
a little way of thinking, you know, I oh gosh, she's going to
00:26:53
be resentful and bitter if I'm not there.
00:26:55
I This is the one that I have to be there.
00:26:58
And it makes decision making and honoring boundaries easier
00:27:02
because there's going to be a lot of things where she might
00:27:05
cry for 10 minutes. It's okay.
00:27:06
I have to choose the conference, right?
00:27:08
But there's certain things as parents we have to be at or
00:27:13
they're going to be resentful for 10 years.
00:27:15
So that's that concept. I love that concept.
00:27:17
And it just goes along with this theme of selfcare boundaries and
00:27:23
being in integrity with your word around it, don't set a
00:27:28
boundary. It's so easy to say, all right,
00:27:30
every Tuesday and Thursday, I'm going to go to the gym at 5:00.
00:27:35
I'm going to leave work, and I'm going to go at 5:00.
00:27:37
And then Tuesday comes around and there's work, and you just
00:27:41
break that boundary. You have to honor your boundary
00:27:44
before you ever expect someone else to honor your boundaries.
00:27:47
So I think that's the hardest part is upholding the boundaries
00:27:52
that you put in place, right? But when we do, it's worth it.
00:27:57
It is, and it feels really good. I know I've put some boundaries
00:28:02
down myself and you really do begin to listen to yourself
00:28:08
differently. And you're, I think that the
00:28:13
that our intuitive self has space and you can definitely
00:28:20
hear that quiet voice coming in. You know, I declined something
00:28:26
just the other day. It just didn't.
00:28:29
And I couldn't figure out why I was declining.
00:28:32
And then I realized, you know what?
00:28:35
This doesn't fuel you. This just this doesn't sound.
00:28:39
And if I were to go, it would be a should.
00:28:43
And then maybe how dangerous shoulds are, right, exactly.
00:28:48
So when I start hearing, should I'm like, oh, oh, red flag, this
00:28:53
isn't, this isn't singing to you.
00:28:56
This is really obligation. And and sure enough there are
00:29:00
sometimes we have to do those things for whatever reason.
00:29:03
But I had a choice and I just could decline it was good to to
00:29:07
do that. To hold, you know, to hold
00:29:10
yourself in that right regard. And you know, I know it when we
00:29:16
start putting boundaries in our life and we start saying no and
00:29:19
we start to honor our trifecta of where we want to put our
00:29:25
voice, power and money. And when I say power, I mean
00:29:29
it's it's our energy, right? And.
00:29:33
And all of a sudden your life becomes very clear and you're
00:29:37
not giving it away to everybody and it's quality over quantity,
00:29:43
right. And it's a different life and it
00:29:46
you get different rewards. And I think that it's amazing
00:29:50
that you just did that and you are aware of woo I have should
00:29:55
hear obligation forcing myself. It's like no, no.
00:29:59
And you have so much awareness of, like, no, I'm not going to
00:30:01
do that to myself again. It's a lesson and it's practice
00:30:05
and sometimes we are really good about it and the more you do it,
00:30:09
the more you're going to master it and then it just is going to
00:30:12
be natural, right and. It's going to be uncomfortable.
00:30:15
I think sometimes you you find yourself, it just sort of pops
00:30:19
out so quickly and you go, whoa, that was very powerful.
00:30:24
Where did that come from? Right, right.
00:30:26
Since I do. Yes, I love that and we're kind
00:30:30
of at our our time, but is there anything that you would like to
00:30:34
tell our listeners before we and today?
00:30:37
I would say listen to your greatness voice it.
00:30:43
The more you listen to it, the more empowered and loud it will
00:30:47
get. And your smallness voice will
00:30:49
get quieter and quieter and. That journey of your greatness
00:30:55
game, Keep listening to it, Keep mastering it.
00:30:57
Keep believing it because it believes in you and your highest
00:31:00
self. It is through your daily choices
00:31:03
that you will master it. I just say believe in yourself.
00:31:07
You have so many gifts and so much greatness to give when we
00:31:14
believe that. We make different choices.
00:31:16
So greatness game, I love it warmed my heart feel I can feel
00:31:21
it. Well, thank you so much for
00:31:23
being with us today. We sure appreciate it.
00:31:25
You and your book and I think our listeners will definitely
00:31:30
want to be in touch with you. So what's the best way for them
00:31:33
to reach you? Super easy is my name Dina DENA
00:31:37
Patton patton.com and you can find my book there.
00:31:44
Learn about my my coaching and speaking and also get my free
00:31:48
downloads. There's some really great, great
00:31:51
free downloads, especially around self-care and mindset.
00:31:54
Excellent. Make sure it's all in the show
00:31:56
notes. Thanks again being here, Dina.
00:32:00
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at Girl take the lead. So here are the three takeaways
00:32:32
from this episode. One greatness is all about
00:32:36
mindset. We can learn tools to access it,
00:32:40
and when we do, our greatness increases.
00:32:44
But it takes work. Two, we can look at our results
00:32:49
and see and hear our beliefs in our language.
00:32:54
We say smallness beliefs all the time.
00:32:57
And three, our smallness thoughts become our smallness
00:33:02
truths. Somewhere along the way, we
00:33:05
agree to this smallness statement.
00:33:08
The good news is that we can come out of agreement and create
00:33:13
a greatness truth instead. Next week we'll have Bessie
00:33:17
Graham, awardwinning entrepreneur, as our guest to
00:33:20
talk about emotions, discernment, powering through
00:33:24
clarity and body connection. Wow, we had a lot to talk about.
00:33:31
We sure hope you'll join us for that.
00:33:32
Listen, and thanks for being here.
00:33:36
Talk to you soon. Bye.