May 29, 2024 • 36 mins
Summary:
In the first episode of the Full Send into Adulthood podcast, host Cielle introduces the podcast and shares her vision for supporting young adults in their transition into adulthood. She emphasizes the importance of discussing the challenges and struggles of adulting that are often overlooked. Cielle shares her background as a professor and coach, highlighting her passion for supporting young adults in living fulfilling lives. She also expresses her desire to create a safe space for listeners to feel known, celebrated, and accepted. The episode ends with Cielle's excitement for the journey ahead and her hope to build a fun community with her audience.
Keywords:
podcast, Full Send into Adulthood, support, transition into adulthood, challenges, struggles, adulting, validation, support, young adults, community, love story
Takeaways:
- The Full Send into Adulthood podcast aims to support young adults in their transition into adulthood and address the challenges and struggles they face.
- The podcast creates a space where young adults can feel validated and supported in their journey.
- Cielle Amundson, the host, shares her background as a professor, coach, and lover of life, and expresses her desire to have a love story with life and with her listeners.
- Listeners are encouraged to support the podcast by subscribing, commenting, and suggesting topics for future episodes.
Chapters:
00:52 Introduction and Welcome 03:29 The Importance of Supporting Young Adults in Transition 05:55 The Consequences of Not Talking About Adulting Challenges 09:37 We are not Broken 13:57 Cielle's Background as a Teacher and Coach 22:21 Cielle's Journey to Coaching and the Podcast 27:14 Transitioning to Supporting Young Adults Exclusively 31:54 A Love Story with Life and the Audience 35:07 Engage and Connect with the Podcast 36:30 Supporting the Podcast Community
Appreciation Notes:
- A huge THANK YOU to the wonderful Brandon Ward for the intro and MCing
- The music in the Outro is Effin Groovy by the fabulous Bobbo Byrnes and Miracle Laurie
Socials: Come say hi on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook @cielleamundson
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Episode Transcript
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Welcome, welcome, welcome all of y 'all tothe first ever episode of Full Send into
adulthood, the podcast with me, CielleAmundson, Dr.
C, big sister almighty.
Anyways, there's a lot of names that I'vegone but this has been a long time coming
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and I am so freaking excited to be with y'all.
What a gift it is.
So if you are here, thank you.
If I forget to thank you at the end of theepisode, it is, I am just so grateful, so
grateful that you are here with me today.
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And what are we doing today?
On this episode, I really want tointroduce what the podcast is about, why
this podcast, what to expect, if anything,and who I am so that we can start to build
this thing called trust in therelationship that I hope will continue to
grow.
For those of you who don't know me yet,this is the beginning, I hope, of a long
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time relationship with y 'all.
And for those of you who do know me,
Let this be a continuation.
gosh, my heart, my heart is fluttering andit's so full and I just want to squeal and
hug you all.
So again, thank you so much for beinghere.
All right, so what is this podcast?
So this podcast, again, it's called FullSend Into Adulthood.
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It is specific and tailored towards youngadults.
And in my brain, young adults are agedabout 17 to 30.
Y 'all, but if
supports you, please, that's what we'rehere for, is to support each other and to
connect with one another.
And so that's what I hope that this is, isone source that supports you in living
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lives that just completely light you up.
My hope for all of us is that we get tothe end of our lives.
And if we do have that moment where wehave that flash reel that flashes before
our eyes,
that we can at that point say toourselves, we did it.
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That was a good life we lived.
Done.
What is that song?
I'm thinking of that Green Day song.
I can't think about it right now.
But basically that I lived a good life.
Yeah, so that's what I hope.
And that this podcast is to support.
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Really, it's that transition intoadulthood that we often miss out on, that
we often do not speak about.
And I think that it does a huge disserviceto our society, but also to the people in
our lives who matter so much who are inthat age range.
So we will be talking about what thattransition looks like, what adulting looks
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like, what struggles people are facingagain, because I don't think that we talk
about it.
enough.
It reminds me a lot of a romantic comedy.
And while I love a really good rom -com,the emphasis and the focus of the entire
film is usually the beginning of arelationship, the getting together.
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And then the movie ends with the kiss orwith the wedding scene.
And then what happens after that?
Roll credits.
And as an audience, we hope that thecouple stays together.
We assume that they do, hopefully it'shappily ever after, but we don't know.
And that is what we do, I believe, toyouth in our society, is we spend a lot of
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time and effort and emphasis on what to doin our youth.
In our youth, I mean, up to 18, right?
The structure, all of those things.
And then once you all hit 18, once you hit21, it's like, okay, roll credits.
We hope you have a fabulous life.
We hope you succeed.
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We hope you achieve at all things, butwe're not gonna show you how or talk about
it or talk about the challenges.
Good luck.
Peace out.
Is that not what it feels like a lot ofthe time?
There's just this expectation that y 'allshould know.
An expectation that we should all know howto adult and how to do this adulting thing
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without ever being taught.
And here's the consequence of that.
I mean, there's several consequences, buthere's a consequence that I hear often is
that when young adults actually do feelchallenges, when you don't know what to
do, when you're completely overwhelmed orwhen you're completely just out of ideas
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of how to take the next step and what'sthe right next thing for you and how do we
actually do this thing called life?
and adulting and the real world afterschool.
And when you're struggling and nobody istalking about the challenges, you start to
internalize and you start to think, theremust be something wrong with me.
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I must be the only one struggling herebecause we're not talking about it, which
then does what?
Y 'all aren't like, yay, I must be superunique and I love myself even more.
It's not what we tend to do.
We tend to then,
Belittle and bully and tell ourselves howawful we are for struggling.
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Okay, so this Podcast is honestly here tofill that gap of roll credits.
We are not Rolling fucking credits here.
We are Validating and we are saying yeswhen we hit adulthood when we are 17 18 20
22 27 We deserve to have conversationsthat support us
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We deserve to have conversations that say,yeah, this is hella hard.
Now what?
We deserve to have conversations thatbuild our foundations on ourself.
my gosh, that actually reminds me of oneof the, I just got goosebumps.
One of the reasons that I actually saidyes, I'm gonna do this podcast because I
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think I started having students, andagain, I'll do my introduction for those
of you guys who don't know, but I taught,
I taught university for over 20 years.
And it's been in the past couple of yearswhere students started to say, Cielle,
they called me Dr.
C a lot of times, Dr.
C, it's time for you to do a podcast.
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Can you please?
Can you please do a podcast?
Now I knew at that point that I wasn'tready, but sometime I believe in the fall
of last year, I was driving and I waslike, all right, I'm feeling like I should
do this podcast.
now but why am I going to do this podcast?
Is this really now?
Is it not?
Is this where I'm going?
I still have those doubts y 'all.
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Welcome to adulting by the way.
So I was asking myself those questions inthe car and the song, The Bones by Maren
Morris came on and I was so overwhelmed bythis feeling because there's the words
that go, when the bones are good.
the rest don't matter, right?
And then it's like, the house don't fallwhen the bones are good.
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there's a part about the crack in thefoundation.
I want to talk about that real quick.
But it's like the house don't fall whenthe bones are good.
And I was like, that's it.
Like, what if I get to just support youngadults in y 'all knowing or creating
foundational bones that work so that youknow that no matter what,
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what changes in life happen, no matterwhat struggles show up because they will,
that you trust yourselves enough to handleit.
and that's that lyric, there's a lyric inthe song and that's the one that sort of
broke me because I was like, okay, I'm in,I'm doing it.
It's, when there ain't a crack in thefoundation.
So that one, and I was like, how amazingwould that be?
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And I interpreted that.
that sort of line two ways.
Number one, so when there ain't a crack inthe foundation, what if people actually in
the world more and more got to see thatthey're not a crack, that all of us in
being human struggle, we have failures,there's things that we don't know, there's
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things that we're learning aboutourselves.
Those aren't necessarily cracks, right?
Meaning like there's nothing wrong withus, there's nothing,
to fix, because we ain't fucking broken.
Again, society and oppressive systems anda lot of, you know, we can talk about
those, make a shit ton of money out of usbelieving that we are wrong and broken and
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need to be fixed.
But if we could all just own that we'renot, how amazing would that be?
The other thing that it makes me thinkabout, right?
So, and again, y 'all,
Y 'all will learn I live in the gray.
I know that there's a lot of like blackand white.
I love the gray area.
That's what we're going to stay.
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Various perspectives.
The other way that I think about thecracks is of course we all have cracks in
our foundation.
It's called being human.
Of course we've all tried things thatdidn't work.
Of course we've all hurt people.
Of course we failed at things.
Of course we have cracks.
And yet those cracks are the goodness.
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Is it not true that when you...
I'm thinking of romantic relationships,but it can be any relationship, a
friendship, right?
Whatever it is.
When somebody shares with you things thatintimidate themselves, intimidate them
about themselves.
Let me try to say that again.
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When people...
Take a moment to share theirvulnerabilities.
When people take a moment to sharesomething that they're actually scared and
nervous to share with you, because it'snot perfect, because it showcases
something that they're afraid to showpeople, that they've been masking for a
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lot of their lives, that they're worriedthat they won't be lovable because if they
share this thing, you're gonna realizethat there's this not so perfect, I...
aspect to them and you may leave rightthat part when they are willing to trust
you with that information.
How do you feel usually?
How do you feel?
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Do you sit there and are you like, mygosh, so awful, bad and wrong, done with
you?
Usually not.
Usually if it's somebody who has trustedyou with that information, it's somebody
that you also care about.
And then what happens?
You tend to feel so connected.
Do you not?
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You tend to feel like it's a gift thatthey've shared with you.
you tend to trust them a little more.
That's what I mean by the good stuff, y'all, is we tend to think that these
cracks in our foundation, these strugglesthat we have, these failures that we have,
these things that aren't perfect arewhat's actually gonna separate us from
people.
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But y 'all, that's actually what brings ustogether.
That's the connection.
There's the humanity to it, that thingthat most of the time on social we're not
showing, where we have this like perfect,whatever, filtered face.
All the time.
That's not the stuff that createsconnection.
That's not the stuff where we feel deeplyloved and seen and heard and known.
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Where I actually hope that this podcast isa space for people for that.
That is something that people say in mypresence that they feel like is, well,
here's what I hear often about myself.
Then I should probably do an introductionabout who I am and what I've done in my
life.
so y 'all could start to trust me a littlebit more.
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People tend to say that they love myenergy, And they're like, my gosh, I just
love being around you.
Often people will say that they love beingaround me because afterwards they do, they
feel lighter or they feel like I'm a safespace.
I've been hearing that a lot recentlyactually, that I feel like a safe space.
So they feel that they can like let theirmasks down and actually just share who
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they are.
I've had a lot of friends and family, butalso old students and clients sort of just
share their emotions with me recentlybecause of that and say that they feel
that there's a safe space.
So there just feels like a relief or a letdown.
Y 'all, if I could be that for y 'all letme do that because that's something that's
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not, that does come naturally to me.
Like I love loving people.
I taught university again for over 20years and I would read every single at the
end of the semester comment that studentswould write to me and the most prevalent
note that I got was I knew that you cared.
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I knew that Cielle cared and is thereanything better?
I am so glad that you all know that I careabout you and your lives and what life is
like and
and being here for you.
And I think that I do have, at least Ihope that y 'all can hear it over the
airwaves too, is that I'd love to be aspace for y 'all to just feel known and
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loved and accepted just as you are.
So when we're going around in our livesand in the frenzy sometimes or in the
struggle or in the challenge or sometimesjust in the excitement and we want to be
celebrated.
that this can be a place where you can geta little jolt of like, -huh, yep, okay,
good to be me in the world, yep, totallyaccepted for who I am, do not need to mask
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up, do not need to make myself less than,do not need to quiet myself, we're gonna
fucking go.
Full send.
Okay, so that is my intention amongstothers.
So who the heck am I?
Here's what I want you all to considerwhen I'm introducing myself, is I am going
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to have a perspective.
I'm going to have a bias based on where Ihave lived and who I've grown up as and
all of the different systems that haveprivileged me or not.
I am made up of a variety of componentsand some of them may feel very familiar to
you, similar to you.
Some of them may not.
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And that's okay.
I want y 'all to get a sense that I'mgonna have a perspective that may not fit
with you.
I'm gonna have ideas that may not fit withthe way that you see the world.
And in our relationship, in this case,please know that you win.
Every time.
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We are so used to discounting ourselvesand asking for advice from other people
and giving power, abdicating, how aboutthat?
Abdicating our power to other peoplebecause society has said that they know us
better than we know us.
I don't believe that.
Okay, so let's be real clear about that.
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I do not believe that.
I believe that you know yourself best ofall.
And if you don't believe that yet, staywith me.
Let's build that trust and that confidencein yourself.
Because nobody is going to care about youas much as you care about you and your
needs and your desires and your goals.
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Nobody knows your needs and your goals andyour desires as much as you do.
So please don't abdicate any power to me.
I'm just gonna, I'm gonna say some thingsand if they resonate with you and they
have you feel lighter and they have youfeel seen and known and being able to make
whatever next steps totally light you up,awesome.
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And if you're like, Cielle, that one, notso much.
Okay, permission to just freaking let itgo and trust yourself here and be like
that, that just does not fit me and that'sokay.
All right.
Alrighty, so let's see, let's start with Iam a biracial white, cisgender,
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heterosexual, American, able -bodied,neurotypical woman.
I feel like I've hit them all, but I'msure I've forgotten some.
And when I say biracial, American,Filipino, so my mom is Filipino and my dad
is American.
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I was born in LA in California, quicklymoved to Calgary, Canada, and I lived
there till I was seven, and then I movedto...
Michigan and I was there for several yearsuntil eighth and ninth grade.
I did my eighth and ninth grade inStrasburg, France and I loved it so, so,
so much.
Came back to Michigan to do my highschool, went to Indiana to do college and
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I did my undergraduate and my master'sthere.
And then I moved to Lille, France and Itaught at the University of Charles de
Gaulle over there.
Came back.
to Indiana, I'm trying to think ofgeography here, came back to Indiana,
which is where I met my husband to be,ooh, cutie pie that he is, and we moved
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here to Colorado, which is where I amcurrently a long ass time ago and we have
stayed.
So there's the geographic background.
Because of this, I did, I spent a lot ofmy younger years traveling.
to Europe and to the Philippines
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Of course, that has shaped the way that Iinteract with people in the world.
All right, let's I knew I wanted to workwith young adults.
I was 13 or 14, I think.
I watched a movie, A Mirror Has Two Faceswith Barbra Streisand.
And in it, I remember that she, at thevery beginning of the movie, she's
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lecturing to a hall of college students.
and I saw that scene and I was like,that's it.
That's what I wanna do.
And I did it fast.
So I was teaching before I could drink andI remember that because I remember my
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colleagues would be like, all right, let'sgo celebrate at the bar.
And I'd be like, can we go get pizzainstead?
so that must have been 19 or 20.
I did my undergraduate and my master'sfast.
So I got them both in comparativeliterature.
I believe I had a double major in Frenchand I also had a minor in international
studies.
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I believe that's it.
I ended up getting a terminal master's incomparative literature.
I actually...
was at Indiana University is the placethat I went to, but I was there to do the
PhD program, but got to basically ABD,which is all but dissertation.
I got super disillusioned with thedissertation ideas and processes and
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trying to, I just felt like I was going tobe, what is that word?
Pigeon hole?
I had to take all of the interests that Ihad and put it into one dissertation that
would then affect me the rest of my lifeand I could not do it.
I couldn't do it.
So I decided to get a terminal master'sand I was graduating with my master's at
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the same time that my friends that I hadstarted with freshman year were graduating
with their undergrad.
So when I say I used to move fast, I didthings fast.
So I knew at 14 that I wanted to be acollege professor.
I was doing that.
Once I got that master's, I got a positionas a lecturer at the University of Charles
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de Gaulle in Lille, France, and I wentthere for a little bit.
And that is actually, okay, so I loved it,first of all, but that was also actually
where I realized I had the rest of my lifeand was I going to be teaching for the
rest of it?
It's like I worked so hard for this goalof being a professor, and then at 21, I
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was like, okay.
I've got my dream job, I'm teaching inFrance, can it get any better?
Or is this what I'm supposed to be doingfor the rest of my 80 years?
I didn't know.
And at that point I decided to trydifferent things out.
I knew I loved teaching.
So here's what I want y 'all to rememberis I just started teaching at that point
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and I haven't stopped until two years agowhere I decided to retire myself.
I feel like after 20 years I said I'mgonna get away from.
education system and go on my own withcoaching.
my gosh, I keep going back and forth inany case.
I have a girlfriend who's like, time, whatis it even?
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Apparently in my synopsis of myself,that's how I'm feeling.
I can actually remember the moment whereI'm sitting on my bed in my apartment in
Lille, it's rainy and gray, and I ampreparing for classes.
And I wonder, is this it?
I'm living the dream, I've lived what mygoal is.
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Will I have no more goals the rest of mylife?
Do I just do this for the next 80 years?
And so that sort of started this path of,
trying different things.
So I knew that I loved teaching.
I knew that I was good at it.
I knew that that was where I was supposedto be.
And so I continued y 'all for like thenext 20 years, just know that I was always
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teaching at some universities, somecollege.
But then I said, well, I'm curious about alot of other things.
Let me try those things out too and justsee.
So tried book editing for a little bit.
I didn't love that.
I was a barista.
I still love that.
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Just didn't pay the bills very was aprofessional ballroom dancer, so my
husband and I taught ballroom dance for awhile.
And while I love, love, love to dance,especially with him, making money from it
was not something that I really loved todo.
So I didn't do that.
I became a principal at a
language immersion elementary school inthe area and then went, continued
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administration, because I did really enjoythat and became a dean at a college.
And I was doing that until I had my firstson and realized that working 70 to 80
hours and coming home at midnight didn'twork very well with having a newborn.
So I stopped that and again, stillcontinued to teach.
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So then I started an international weddingplanning company, which did really well
within the first year.
It was voted top, I think it was top fivein Denver and I don't know the accolades
internationally.
So I did that for several years and thenrealized I didn't love the wedding
planning business as much as I loved beingin the classroom and teaching.
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So I ended up gifting the company toamazing women who worked with me.
and I think that was when I went full timeinto the classroom so that was when I went
full time as a professor here in Coloradothere I stayed through COVID.
I'm realizing I forgot to tell you allthat I have a second child.
So as I was teaching and running a weddingplanning company, I have my second son.
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They're phenomenal.
So fast forward to COVID, we were thefamily who bought an RV and decided to
school and work on the road while visitingdifferent things.
And while it was crazy and fun and hecticand a lot, was on one of those long roads
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and I'm driving the RV and I'm going downthis long road and I actually can picture
the mountains sort of in the foreground.
and I'm listening to another coachingpodcast and it hit me.
Huh, I could actually go into coaching.
And then as I sat with it, I realized I'veactually been doing coaching and putting
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myself in coaching classes since I wasseven years old.
I've been always sort of in this.
self -development, personal development,whatever.
Like I've loved that world.
And again, as I'm driving this big ass RVon the road, I'm realizing that's actually
one of the reasons that I love theclassroom.
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I didn't start teaching, and I taughtEnglish, y 'all, literature and English.
I didn't start teaching because I was soexcited about people learning how to do
thesis statements.
Like, do I love reading and writing and...
thesis statements, fine, yes I do, butwhat totally turned me on about teaching
and what kept me coming back to the giftthat is teaching is that I got to support
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people in living their lives and that'sthe way that I structured the freaking
class.
And it actually showed up, hold on, I havea text from somebody who actually said, I
wonder if I can get to it.
All right, so I actually found somethingthat a previous student wrote and he
messaged me and said, I felt every time Ileft your class, I learned something about
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life, not just how to write a paper.
And I realized how connected those were.
And so that was the first time that Ireally thought, maybe coaching can be a
thing.
Maybe I can sort of morph.
And at that point, I didn't know if I wasgoing to continue to teach in the
classroom or just do coaching.
And it was, I think, a year and a halfafter COVID.
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It was the first time that we got back toclasses in person fully.
And I stepped foot on that campus aftertaking the light rail, and I realized that
I felt really complete with teaching.
and that I was ready to go fully intocoaching.
And so that's what I've done.
So the past couple of years, I have been acoach, not necessarily just for young
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adults.
That has been a transition for me, tryingto figure out sort of whatever this niche
thing is that people talk about, but Idefinitely started life coaching and it's
been such a joy because now I get toactually support you all in your lives
without also talking about thesisstatements.
And I actually was able to transition orknow that I was gonna transition to
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supporting young adults basicallyexclusively.
I was on a beach in Puerto Rico last year,I'm sitting there and I'm like, y 'all, I
just want to support young adults.
I want my niche to be an age range, but Ididn't hear that.
In the life coaching sort of circles,there were all these like, there was like
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empowerment coach and mindset coach and awomen's.
leadership coach and there were all ofthose things, but it wasn't necessarily
age related.
And I'm sitting on that damn beach and I'ma little frustrated and I'm like, damn it,
why I see any young adult coaches?
Why is it always kids?
And then of course, when you're sort oflike middle aged and older, why, where's
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the young adults?
And then...
Y 'all, it seriously was like a movie.
It's like the clouds parted, and I couldtotally be making it up, but it's like the
clouds parted and the sun started beamingdown.
And here's what I heard in my brain.
It was like, of course there's no youngadult life coach because it's yours.
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It was always meant for you.
Like in my body, what it felt like waslike no shit.
there's nobody else in front of you to dothis because this is yours and it has
always been yours.
And that it just sort of goes along withsort of this feeling that I've had in my
life often.
So I've always felt, which is probably whyI love the book Against the Grain, is I've
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always felt like I've done thingsdifferently.
I've gone against the grain on a lot,especially choices I've made related to my
career.
And I was like, of course, this is justanother one.
I get to just lead the way here.
So that was at the beginning of last year.
I've had my work to do internally to beable to get to the point where I could
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actually be speaking with you about it andto really own it.
And that can be a conversation for anothertime.
But basically that's where I'm at.
And that's why I'm here with y 'all isbecause I just love being with you.
If you ask me my why, which several peoplehave, like, why are you starting this
podcast?
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Of course it's to support y 'all, it justfeels like it's always been my purpose.
The reason, one of the reasons that I'mplaced on this planet.
Also, I have the most freaking fun withyou.
Just other thing with my two boys and myhusband, right?
Like I love being with them, but I feellike my best self.
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I have so much fun with y 'all.
You bring out the best in me.
You energize me.
So y 'all, there are some selfish reasons.
If there were not selfish reasons to doingthis podcast, let me just say I wouldn't
be doing it.
If it didn't feel good to me on alllevels, it wasn't happening.
And it reminds me of long live.
There was one time where I was with agroup of students.
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We were meeting virtually and it was atthe end of the year.
And I said,
y 'all whenever I hear the song long live,I do love me some Taylor Swift.
So as soon as as long as whenever I hearthat song, I always think about you and
that.
I have the time of my life with you.
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And I said that and there was a studentwho piped up and he goes, of course you
like Long Live, you fight dragons with us.
I felt so known and seen at that point.
I was like, my gosh, y 'all get me.
It's like, yes, okay, let's fight somedragons.
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I don't mind fighting dragons with
I actually have the time of my lifefighting dragons with you and I'm ready.
my gosh, now there's another song.
Are you all ready for it?
Because I am.
All right, so let's have this be the endof episode one.
I know that I had seven million otherthings that I wanted to include in this
episode.
And I'm thinking, you know what?
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This is just the beginning of thisrelationship, of this podcasting
relationship, whatever it turns into.
And I have time.
I was actually thinking about y 'all on aplane.
I was coming back from Europe two weeksago with my eldest son, feeling so
grateful to just...
be in this space, in this life, the waythat I get to do it.
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After a lot of freaking work, y 'all,let's just, mm -hmm.
too many people talk about how hard it isto actually live the kind of life that you
want to and the behind the scenes workthat it takes.
Now it can also be fun, because you havethese moments like I did in that plane
where I felt really excited and reallygrateful.
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And I was thinking about,
my life and we were to categorize it, likeI do love literature and I love books, and
if I, if my life became a genre, what kindof genre would I want it to be?
And without a doubt, I want it to be alove story.
I want it to be a love story with life.
Yes, Cielle loved life.
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and was in relationship with life in away, or I was in relationship with my
partner whom I just freaking adore dearly,or a relationship with my family and my
kids.
I have a lot of love to share.
And I realized that the overflow of lovethat I have, it's like I do want to have a
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love story, a relationship with y 'alltoo.
And I don't know what this relationship isgoing to turn into.
I don't know what it's going to look like,but I'm so curious and excited to see what
it becomes.
So.
I guess that's it in a nutshell.
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I'm sort of blanking on all of the thingsthat I said in this episode, but I'm going
to trust that it's enough because that hasbeen on a very personal level.
If you're wondering like how I'mcelebrating myself and doing this podcast
and how I'm stepping up.
been a lot of work related to, first ofall, trusting that I am valuable and have
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value no matter what.
Trusting that I can say my truth, that Ican speak my truth out loud to the world,
and that I'm worthy enough to do that.
and trusting myself.
Trusting that I'm here for a reason,trusting that I'm saying the things that
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matter to y 'all that may land.
a lot of trust.
So once again, I'm so thankful to be herewith y 'all.
Thank you so much for many of you who havebeen on this journey with me already.
I just want to wrap my arms around you andgive you a huge hug.
And for those of you who are just startingthe journey with me, I cannot wait again
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to see what this story becomes.
So ::MUAH::.
Welcome, welcome, welcome all of y 'all tothe first ever episode of Full Send into
adulthood, the podcast with me, CielleAmundson, Dr.
C, big sister almighty.
Anyways, there's a lot of names that I'vegone but this has been a long time coming
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and I am so freaking excited to be with y'all.
What a gift it is.
So if you are here, thank you.
If I forget to thank you at the end of theepisode, it is, I am just so grateful, so
grateful that you are here with me today.
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And what are we doing today?
On this episode, I really want tointroduce what the podcast is about, why
this podcast, what to expect, if anything,and who I am so that we can start to build
this thing called trust in therelationship that I hope will continue to
grow.
For those of you who don't know me yet,this is the beginning, I hope, of a long
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time relationship with y 'all.
And for those of you who do know me,
Let this be a continuation.
gosh, my heart, my heart is fluttering andit's so full and I just want to squeal and
hug you all.
So again, thank you so much for beinghere.
All right, so what is this podcast?
So this podcast, again, it's called FullSend Into Adulthood.
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It is specific and tailored towards youngadults.
And in my brain, young adults are agedabout 17 to 30.
Y 'all, but if
supports you, please, that's what we'rehere for, is to support each other and to
connect with one another.
And so that's what I hope that this is, isone source that supports you in living
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lives that just completely light you up.
My hope for all of us is that we get tothe end of our lives.
And if we do have that moment where wehave that flash reel that flashes before
our eyes,
that we can at that point say toourselves, we did it.
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That was a good life we lived.
Done.
What is that song?
I'm thinking of that Green Day song.
I can't think about it right now.
But basically that I lived a good life.
Yeah, so that's what I hope.
And that this podcast is to support.
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Really, it's that transition intoadulthood that we often miss out on, that
we often do not speak about.
And I think that it does a huge disserviceto our society, but also to the people in
our lives who matter so much who are inthat age range.
So we will be talking about what thattransition looks like, what adulting looks
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like, what struggles people are facingagain, because I don't think that we talk
about it.
enough.
It reminds me a lot of a romantic comedy.
And while I love a really good rom -com,the emphasis and the focus of the entire
film is usually the beginning of arelationship, the getting together.
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And then the movie ends with the kiss orwith the wedding scene.
And then what happens after that?
Roll credits.
And as an audience, we hope that thecouple stays together.
We assume that they do, hopefully it'shappily ever after, but we don't know.
And that is what we do, I believe, toyouth in our society, is we spend a lot of
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time and effort and emphasis on what to doin our youth.
In our youth, I mean, up to 18, right?
The structure, all of those things.
And then once you all hit 18, once you hit21, it's like, okay, roll credits.
We hope you have a fabulous life.
We hope you succeed.
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We hope you achieve at all things, butwe're not gonna show you how or talk about
it or talk about the challenges.
Good luck.
Peace out.
Is that not what it feels like a lot ofthe time?
There's just this expectation that y 'allshould know.
An expectation that we should all know howto adult and how to do this adulting thing
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without ever being taught.
And here's the consequence of that.
I mean, there's several consequences, buthere's a consequence that I hear often is
that when young adults actually do feelchallenges, when you don't know what to
do, when you're completely overwhelmed orwhen you're completely just out of ideas
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of how to take the next step and what'sthe right next thing for you and how do we
actually do this thing called life?
and adulting and the real world afterschool.
And when you're struggling and nobody istalking about the challenges, you start to
internalize and you start to think, theremust be something wrong with me.
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I must be the only one struggling herebecause we're not talking about it, which
then does what?
Y 'all aren't like, yay, I must be superunique and I love myself even more.
It's not what we tend to do.
We tend to then,
Belittle and bully and tell ourselves howawful we are for struggling.
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Okay, so this Podcast is honestly here tofill that gap of roll credits.
We are not Rolling fucking credits here.
We are Validating and we are saying yeswhen we hit adulthood when we are 17 18 20
22 27 We deserve to have conversationsthat support us
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We deserve to have conversations that say,yeah, this is hella hard.
Now what?
We deserve to have conversations thatbuild our foundations on ourself.
my gosh, that actually reminds me of oneof the, I just got goosebumps.
One of the reasons that I actually saidyes, I'm gonna do this podcast because I
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think I started having students, andagain, I'll do my introduction for those
of you guys who don't know, but I taught,
I taught university for over 20 years.
And it's been in the past couple of yearswhere students started to say, Cielle,
they called me Dr.
C a lot of times, Dr.
C, it's time for you to do a podcast.
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Can you please?
Can you please do a podcast?
Now I knew at that point that I wasn'tready, but sometime I believe in the fall
of last year, I was driving and I waslike, all right, I'm feeling like I should
do this podcast.
now but why am I going to do this podcast?
Is this really now?
Is it not?
Is this where I'm going?
I still have those doubts y 'all.
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Welcome to adulting by the way.
So I was asking myself those questions inthe car and the song, The Bones by Maren
Morris came on and I was so overwhelmed bythis feeling because there's the words
that go, when the bones are good.
the rest don't matter, right?
And then it's like, the house don't fallwhen the bones are good.
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there's a part about the crack in thefoundation.
I want to talk about that real quick.
But it's like the house don't fall whenthe bones are good.
And I was like, that's it.
Like, what if I get to just support youngadults in y 'all knowing or creating
foundational bones that work so that youknow that no matter what,
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what changes in life happen, no matterwhat struggles show up because they will,
that you trust yourselves enough to handleit.
and that's that lyric, there's a lyric inthe song and that's the one that sort of
broke me because I was like, okay, I'm in,I'm doing it.
It's, when there ain't a crack in thefoundation.
So that one, and I was like, how amazingwould that be?
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And I interpreted that.
that sort of line two ways.
Number one, so when there ain't a crack inthe foundation, what if people actually in
the world more and more got to see thatthey're not a crack, that all of us in
being human struggle, we have failures,there's things that we don't know, there's
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things that we're learning aboutourselves.
Those aren't necessarily cracks, right?
Meaning like there's nothing wrong withus, there's nothing,
to fix, because we ain't fucking broken.
Again, society and oppressive systems anda lot of, you know, we can talk about
those, make a shit ton of money out of usbelieving that we are wrong and broken and
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need to be fixed.
But if we could all just own that we'renot, how amazing would that be?
The other thing that it makes me thinkabout, right?
So, and again, y 'all,
Y 'all will learn I live in the gray.
I know that there's a lot of like blackand white.
I love the gray area.
That's what we're going to stay.
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Various perspectives.
The other way that I think about thecracks is of course we all have cracks in
our foundation.
It's called being human.
Of course we've all tried things thatdidn't work.
Of course we've all hurt people.
Of course we failed at things.
Of course we have cracks.
And yet those cracks are the goodness.
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Is it not true that when you...
I'm thinking of romantic relationships,but it can be any relationship, a
friendship, right?
Whatever it is.
When somebody shares with you things thatintimidate themselves, intimidate them
about themselves.
Let me try to say that again.
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When people...
Take a moment to share theirvulnerabilities.
When people take a moment to sharesomething that they're actually scared and
nervous to share with you, because it'snot perfect, because it showcases
something that they're afraid to showpeople, that they've been masking for a
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lot of their lives, that they're worriedthat they won't be lovable because if they
share this thing, you're gonna realizethat there's this not so perfect, I...
aspect to them and you may leave rightthat part when they are willing to trust
you with that information.
How do you feel usually?
How do you feel?
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Do you sit there and are you like, mygosh, so awful, bad and wrong, done with
you?
Usually not.
Usually if it's somebody who has trustedyou with that information, it's somebody
that you also care about.
And then what happens?
You tend to feel so connected.
Do you not?
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You tend to feel like it's a gift thatthey've shared with you.
you tend to trust them a little more.
That's what I mean by the good stuff, y'all, is we tend to think that these
cracks in our foundation, these strugglesthat we have, these failures that we have,
these things that aren't perfect arewhat's actually gonna separate us from
people.
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But y 'all, that's actually what brings ustogether.
That's the connection.
There's the humanity to it, that thingthat most of the time on social we're not
showing, where we have this like perfect,whatever, filtered face.
All the time.
That's not the stuff that createsconnection.
That's not the stuff where we feel deeplyloved and seen and heard and known.
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Where I actually hope that this podcast isa space for people for that.
That is something that people say in mypresence that they feel like is, well,
here's what I hear often about myself.
Then I should probably do an introductionabout who I am and what I've done in my
life.
so y 'all could start to trust me a littlebit more.
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People tend to say that they love myenergy, And they're like, my gosh, I just
love being around you.
Often people will say that they love beingaround me because afterwards they do, they
feel lighter or they feel like I'm a safespace.
I've been hearing that a lot recentlyactually, that I feel like a safe space.
So they feel that they can like let theirmasks down and actually just share who
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they are.
I've had a lot of friends and family, butalso old students and clients sort of just
share their emotions with me recentlybecause of that and say that they feel
that there's a safe space.
So there just feels like a relief or a letdown.
Y 'all, if I could be that for y 'all letme do that because that's something that's
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not, that does come naturally to me.
Like I love loving people.
I taught university again for over 20years and I would read every single at the
end of the semester comment that studentswould write to me and the most prevalent
note that I got was I knew that you cared.
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I knew that Cielle cared and is thereanything better?
I am so glad that you all know that I careabout you and your lives and what life is
like and
and being here for you.
And I think that I do have, at least Ihope that y 'all can hear it over the
airwaves too, is that I'd love to be aspace for y 'all to just feel known and
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loved and accepted just as you are.
So when we're going around in our livesand in the frenzy sometimes or in the
struggle or in the challenge or sometimesjust in the excitement and we want to be
celebrated.
that this can be a place where you can geta little jolt of like, -huh, yep, okay,
good to be me in the world, yep, totallyaccepted for who I am, do not need to mask
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up, do not need to make myself less than,do not need to quiet myself, we're gonna
fucking go.
Full send.
Okay, so that is my intention amongstothers.
So who the heck am I?
Here's what I want you all to considerwhen I'm introducing myself, is I am going
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to have a perspective.
I'm going to have a bias based on where Ihave lived and who I've grown up as and
all of the different systems that haveprivileged me or not.
I am made up of a variety of componentsand some of them may feel very familiar to
you, similar to you.
Some of them may not.
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And that's okay.
I want y 'all to get a sense that I'mgonna have a perspective that may not fit
with you.
I'm gonna have ideas that may not fit withthe way that you see the world.
And in our relationship, in this case,please know that you win.
Every time.
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We are so used to discounting ourselvesand asking for advice from other people
and giving power, abdicating, how aboutthat?
Abdicating our power to other peoplebecause society has said that they know us
better than we know us.
I don't believe that.
Okay, so let's be real clear about that.
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I do not believe that.
I believe that you know yourself best ofall.
And if you don't believe that yet, staywith me.
Let's build that trust and that confidencein yourself.
Because nobody is going to care about youas much as you care about you and your
needs and your desires and your goals.
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Nobody knows your needs and your goals andyour desires as much as you do.
So please don't abdicate any power to me.
I'm just gonna, I'm gonna say some thingsand if they resonate with you and they
have you feel lighter and they have youfeel seen and known and being able to make
whatever next steps totally light you up,awesome.
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And if you're like, Cielle, that one, notso much.
Okay, permission to just freaking let itgo and trust yourself here and be like
that, that just does not fit me and that'sokay.
All right.
Alrighty, so let's see, let's start with Iam a biracial white, cisgender,
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heterosexual, American, able -bodied,neurotypical woman.
I feel like I've hit them all, but I'msure I've forgotten some.
And when I say biracial, American,Filipino, so my mom is Filipino and my dad
is American.
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I was born in LA in California, quicklymoved to Calgary, Canada, and I lived
there till I was seven, and then I movedto...
Michigan and I was there for several yearsuntil eighth and ninth grade.
I did my eighth and ninth grade inStrasburg, France and I loved it so, so,
so much.
Came back to Michigan to do my highschool, went to Indiana to do college and
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I did my undergraduate and my master'sthere.
And then I moved to Lille, France and Itaught at the University of Charles de
Gaulle over there.
Came back.
to Indiana, I'm trying to think ofgeography here, came back to Indiana,
which is where I met my husband to be,ooh, cutie pie that he is, and we moved
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here to Colorado, which is where I amcurrently a long ass time ago and we have
stayed.
So there's the geographic background.
Because of this, I did, I spent a lot ofmy younger years traveling.
to Europe and to the Philippines
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Of course, that has shaped the way that Iinteract with people in the world.
All right, let's I knew I wanted to workwith young adults.
I was 13 or 14, I think.
I watched a movie, A Mirror Has Two Faceswith Barbra Streisand.
And in it, I remember that she, at thevery beginning of the movie, she's
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lecturing to a hall of college students.
and I saw that scene and I was like,that's it.
That's what I wanna do.
And I did it fast.
So I was teaching before I could drink andI remember that because I remember my
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colleagues would be like, all right, let'sgo celebrate at the bar.
And I'd be like, can we go get pizzainstead?
so that must have been 19 or 20.
I did my undergraduate and my master'sfast.
So I got them both in comparativeliterature.
I believe I had a double major in Frenchand I also had a minor in international
studies.
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I believe that's it.
I ended up getting a terminal master's incomparative literature.
I actually...
was at Indiana University is the placethat I went to, but I was there to do the
PhD program, but got to basically ABD,which is all but dissertation.
I got super disillusioned with thedissertation ideas and processes and
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trying to, I just felt like I was going tobe, what is that word?
Pigeon hole?
I had to take all of the interests that Ihad and put it into one dissertation that
would then affect me the rest of my lifeand I could not do it.
I couldn't do it.
So I decided to get a terminal master'sand I was graduating with my master's at
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the same time that my friends that I hadstarted with freshman year were graduating
with their undergrad.
So when I say I used to move fast, I didthings fast.
So I knew at 14 that I wanted to be acollege professor.
I was doing that.
Once I got that master's, I got a positionas a lecturer at the University of Charles
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de Gaulle in Lille, France, and I wentthere for a little bit.
And that is actually, okay, so I loved it,first of all, but that was also actually
where I realized I had the rest of my lifeand was I going to be teaching for the
rest of it?
It's like I worked so hard for this goalof being a professor, and then at 21, I
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was like, okay.
I've got my dream job, I'm teaching inFrance, can it get any better?
Or is this what I'm supposed to be doingfor the rest of my 80 years?
I didn't know.
And at that point I decided to trydifferent things out.
I knew I loved teaching.
So here's what I want y 'all to rememberis I just started teaching at that point
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and I haven't stopped until two years agowhere I decided to retire myself.
I feel like after 20 years I said I'mgonna get away from.
education system and go on my own withcoaching.
my gosh, I keep going back and forth inany case.
I have a girlfriend who's like, time, whatis it even?
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Apparently in my synopsis of myself,that's how I'm feeling.
I can actually remember the moment whereI'm sitting on my bed in my apartment in
Lille, it's rainy and gray, and I ampreparing for classes.
And I wonder, is this it?
I'm living the dream, I've lived what mygoal is.
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Will I have no more goals the rest of mylife?
Do I just do this for the next 80 years?
And so that sort of started this path of,
trying different things.
So I knew that I loved teaching.
I knew that I was good at it.
I knew that that was where I was supposedto be.
And so I continued y 'all for like thenext 20 years, just know that I was always
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teaching at some universities, somecollege.
But then I said, well, I'm curious about alot of other things.
Let me try those things out too and justsee.
So tried book editing for a little bit.
I didn't love that.
I was a barista.
I still love that.
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Just didn't pay the bills very was aprofessional ballroom dancer, so my
husband and I taught ballroom dance for awhile.
And while I love, love, love to dance,especially with him, making money from it
was not something that I really loved todo.
So I didn't do that.
I became a principal at a
language immersion elementary school inthe area and then went, continued
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administration, because I did really enjoythat and became a dean at a college.
And I was doing that until I had my firstson and realized that working 70 to 80
hours and coming home at midnight didn'twork very well with having a newborn.
So I stopped that and again, stillcontinued to teach.
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So then I started an international weddingplanning company, which did really well
within the first year.
It was voted top, I think it was top fivein Denver and I don't know the accolades
internationally.
So I did that for several years and thenrealized I didn't love the wedding
planning business as much as I loved beingin the classroom and teaching.
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So I ended up gifting the company toamazing women who worked with me.
and I think that was when I went full timeinto the classroom so that was when I went
full time as a professor here in Coloradothere I stayed through COVID.
I'm realizing I forgot to tell you allthat I have a second child.
So as I was teaching and running a weddingplanning company, I have my second son.
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They're phenomenal.
So fast forward to COVID, we were thefamily who bought an RV and decided to
school and work on the road while visitingdifferent things.
And while it was crazy and fun and hecticand a lot, was on one of those long roads
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and I'm driving the RV and I'm going downthis long road and I actually can picture
the mountains sort of in the foreground.
and I'm listening to another coachingpodcast and it hit me.
Huh, I could actually go into coaching.
And then as I sat with it, I realized I'veactually been doing coaching and putting
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myself in coaching classes since I wasseven years old.
I've been always sort of in this.
self -development, personal development,whatever.
Like I've loved that world.
And again, as I'm driving this big ass RVon the road, I'm realizing that's actually
one of the reasons that I love theclassroom.
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I didn't start teaching, and I taughtEnglish, y 'all, literature and English.
I didn't start teaching because I was soexcited about people learning how to do
thesis statements.
Like, do I love reading and writing and...
thesis statements, fine, yes I do, butwhat totally turned me on about teaching
and what kept me coming back to the giftthat is teaching is that I got to support
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people in living their lives and that'sthe way that I structured the freaking
class.
And it actually showed up, hold on, I havea text from somebody who actually said, I
wonder if I can get to it.
All right, so I actually found somethingthat a previous student wrote and he
messaged me and said, I felt every time Ileft your class, I learned something about
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life, not just how to write a paper.
And I realized how connected those were.
And so that was the first time that Ireally thought, maybe coaching can be a
thing.
Maybe I can sort of morph.
And at that point, I didn't know if I wasgoing to continue to teach in the
classroom or just do coaching.
And it was, I think, a year and a halfafter COVID.
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It was the first time that we got back toclasses in person fully.
And I stepped foot on that campus aftertaking the light rail, and I realized that
I felt really complete with teaching.
and that I was ready to go fully intocoaching.
And so that's what I've done.
So the past couple of years, I have been acoach, not necessarily just for young
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adults.
That has been a transition for me, tryingto figure out sort of whatever this niche
thing is that people talk about, but Idefinitely started life coaching and it's
been such a joy because now I get toactually support you all in your lives
without also talking about thesisstatements.
And I actually was able to transition orknow that I was gonna transition to
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supporting young adults basicallyexclusively.
I was on a beach in Puerto Rico last year,I'm sitting there and I'm like, y 'all, I
just want to support young adults.
I want my niche to be an age range, but Ididn't hear that.
In the life coaching sort of circles,there were all these like, there was like
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empowerment coach and mindset coach and awomen's.
leadership coach and there were all ofthose things, but it wasn't necessarily
age related.
And I'm sitting on that damn beach and I'ma little frustrated and I'm like, damn it,
why I see any young adult coaches?
Why is it always kids?
And then of course, when you're sort oflike middle aged and older, why, where's
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the young adults?
And then...
Y 'all, it seriously was like a movie.
It's like the clouds parted, and I couldtotally be making it up, but it's like the
clouds parted and the sun started beamingdown.
And here's what I heard in my brain.
It was like, of course there's no youngadult life coach because it's yours.
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It was always meant for you.
Like in my body, what it felt like waslike no shit.
there's nobody else in front of you to dothis because this is yours and it has
always been yours.
And that it just sort of goes along withsort of this feeling that I've had in my
life often.
So I've always felt, which is probably whyI love the book Against the Grain, is I've
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always felt like I've done thingsdifferently.
I've gone against the grain on a lot,especially choices I've made related to my
career.
And I was like, of course, this is justanother one.
I get to just lead the way here.
So that was at the beginning of last year.
I've had my work to do internally to beable to get to the point where I could
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actually be speaking with you about it andto really own it.
And that can be a conversation for anothertime.
But basically that's where I'm at.
And that's why I'm here with y 'all isbecause I just love being with you.
If you ask me my why, which several peoplehave, like, why are you starting this
podcast?
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Of course it's to support y 'all, it justfeels like it's always been my purpose.
The reason, one of the reasons that I'mplaced on this planet.
Also, I have the most freaking fun withyou.
Just other thing with my two boys and myhusband, right?
Like I love being with them, but I feellike my best self.
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I have so much fun with y 'all.
You bring out the best in me.
You energize me.
So y 'all, there are some selfish reasons.
If there were not selfish reasons to doingthis podcast, let me just say I wouldn't
be doing it.
If it didn't feel good to me on alllevels, it wasn't happening.
And it reminds me of long live.
There was one time where I was with agroup of students.
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We were meeting virtually and it was atthe end of the year.
And I said,
y 'all whenever I hear the song long live,I do love me some Taylor Swift.
So as soon as as long as whenever I hearthat song, I always think about you and
that.
I have the time of my life with you.
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And I said that and there was a studentwho piped up and he goes, of course you
like Long Live, you fight dragons with us.
I felt so known and seen at that point.
I was like, my gosh, y 'all get me.
It's like, yes, okay, let's fight somedragons.
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I don't mind fighting dragons with
I actually have the time of my lifefighting dragons with you and I'm ready.
my gosh, now there's another song.
Are you all ready for it?
Because I am.
All right, so let's have this be the endof episode one.
I know that I had seven million otherthings that I wanted to include in this
episode.
And I'm thinking, you know what?
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This is just the beginning of thisrelationship, of this podcasting
relationship, whatever it turns into.
And I have time.
I was actually thinking about y 'all on aplane.
I was coming back from Europe two weeksago with my eldest son, feeling so
grateful to just...
be in this space, in this life, the waythat I get to do it.
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After a lot of freaking work, y 'all,let's just, mm -hmm.
too many people talk about how hard it isto actually live the kind of life that you
want to and the behind the scenes workthat it takes.
Now it can also be fun, because you havethese moments like I did in that plane
where I felt really excited and reallygrateful.
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And I was thinking about,
my life and we were to categorize it, likeI do love literature and I love books, and
if I, if my life became a genre, what kindof genre would I want it to be?
And without a doubt, I want it to be alove story.
I want it to be a love story with life.
Yes, Cielle loved life.
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and was in relationship with life in away, or I was in relationship with my
partner whom I just freaking adore dearly,or a relationship with my family and my
kids.
I have a lot of love to share.
And I realized that the overflow of lovethat I have, it's like I do want to have a
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love story, a relationship with y 'alltoo.
And I don't know what this relationship isgoing to turn into.
I don't know what it's going to look like,but I'm so curious and excited to see what
it becomes.
So.
I guess that's it in a nutshell.
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I'm sort of blanking on all of the thingsthat I said in this episode, but I'm going
to trust that it's enough because that hasbeen on a very personal level.
If you're wondering like how I'mcelebrating myself and doing this podcast
and how I'm stepping up.
been a lot of work related to, first ofall, trusting that I am valuable and have
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value no matter what.
Trusting that I can say my truth, that Ican speak my truth out loud to the world,
and that I'm worthy enough to do that.
and trusting myself.
Trusting that I'm here for a reason,trusting that I'm saying the things that
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matter to y 'all that may land.
a lot of trust.
So once again, I'm so thankful to be herewith y 'all.
Thank you so much for many of you who havebeen on this journey with me already.
I just want to wrap my arms around you andgive you a huge hug.
And for those of you who are just startingthe journey with me, I cannot wait again
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to see what this story becomes.
So ::MUAH::.
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