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Welcome back to the Legacy OverLabels podcast.
My name is Lauren.
I'm a business and competencecoach, a bold truth teller, and
someone who's fiercely loyal.
I believe in showing up 100% asyour authentic self always.
And I'm Brittany,
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your mindset mirror,
straight shooting strategy
girl, and co-founder of LegacyOver Labels.
I'm a coach, an encourager, anenergy bringer, and your go-to
hype woman for women chasing alife of freedom and
enlightenment.
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And we are so
excited for episode
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three.
Yes, because today we arediving deep into something every
woman faces, trusting yourselfwhen it feels the hardest to do.
But
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Okay.
So like you said, trustingyourself when it feels like the
hardest thing to do.
This has shown up in so manysituations for myself and
Brittany both.
But when we were writing outour notes for this episode, we
realized that one piece of ourlife really shine through.
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I don't want to even say shine.
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Really just drug us
through.
Yeah,
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definitely drug us
through.
But I think the first piece ofthis worth mentioning is
outsourcing your worth andspecifically looking for
validation and permission fromother people.
And even more specifically,other people that you do not
need to be seeking validationand permission from.
It could be people you don'teven know.
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Right.
And, um, I'll speak for myself,you know, obviously for me, the
one area of my life where thishas shown up more than any other
area is relationships.
Um, whether that be romanticrelationships or friendships,
like any kind of, um, closerelationship with another
person, because, um, I think, Idon't know why, honestly, I
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don't, I don't want to say Idon't know why, cause I do know
why I want to make people happy.
And I'm traditionally like agiver and And I feel like if you
are not friends or romanticpartners with the same type of
person that you are, then that'sthe reason why I would seek
permission and validation frompeople.
If that even makes any sense,we'll talk
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through it.
But I think that makes perfectsense because I think that's why
some people just don't align oraren't built, I guess, to be
your friend.
Because I think about that allthe time.
Like, People not having thesame common, what's the word I'm
looking for, characteristics asyou do, as to where you feel
like, well, I do this and thisfor them, but you also need that
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back too.
Yeah.
So if you find friends thatgive back what you need too,
then that, you know, it worksout better.
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Which is hard
because I think, you know, I
don't like, you shouldn't be ina relationship and set
expectations.
Right.
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Yeah.
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But like you said, I
think that's really hard
because when you are that personthat is a giver and you care
about people's happiness andcomfort and all the other
things, there's a fine linebetween giving too much and
losing yourself and doing yourbest for the relationship
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without any reciprocity.
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Yeah.
And I think everybody hasfriendships and different...
levels in a sense.
And I think you should takeyour friendships very seriously.
Just like you do your love typeof relationship as your spouse
and your partner, you wouldn'tjust date or marry anybody.
And I don't think anybodyshould just be your friend in
the sense of like who you sharedark secrets with, who you call
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when something exciting happens.
You can have acquaintances allyou want, but who you really
cherish closely is should besomebody that adds value to your
life too and treat you in theways you want to be treated too.
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And I think until
you actually have a friendship
or a relationship that is givingyou that reciprocity, you don't
really know what it feels liketo be like, oh, this is a good
friendship.
Oh, this is a goodrelationship.
And, you know, for me, italways showed up in
relationships and I would lookoutside of myself for validation
asking, you know, am I enough?
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Am I lovable?
Am I doing this right?
Am I making them I'm happyenough.
You know, it was almost like Ineeded permission to believe in
my own worth from a relationshipstandpoint.
But it was so strange to mebecause I don't do this in any
other area of my life.
Like, especially with work andmy career.
Like, I just do it.
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You're like confident.
Yeah.
Like, what do I always tellyou?
I'm like...
You do not need to ask forpermission.
You can ask for forgivenesslater.
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I'm like, should we
ask?
And she's like,
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no,
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we'll ask for
forgiveness later.
And now I live by this.
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No, tell them the
story at the gym.
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What at the gym?
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When we were, we
still had two sets
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left on the RDL
machine.
Oh, when we were at the gym.
Yeah.
So we were at the gym and wewere using two machines.
They had weights on them.
We were doing glute glutebridges, glute thrust, whatever,
hip thrust on the machine.
And then we were doing splitsquats on this other machine.
And this couple comes over andgets on the split squat machine.
And I'm just like, well, Iguess we're done.
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Mind you, it's six
in the morning and every other
piece of equipment is open andthey come over to ours.
My natural
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instinct is I'm a
people pleaser.
I'm like, it's fine.
They can just like have it.
And they're like, oh, are youguys done?
And Lauren's like, no, we haveone more set.
I
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offered for them to
to jump in with us, but there
was no way I had two more sets.
We were not done.
I did not come to the gym atsix in the morning to let
somebody else take my equipmentand not finish my sets.
No, perfect example.
Um, but you know, that's me,you know, quite the opposite.
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For Brittany, she kills it inrelationships.
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I mean, I don't need
validation in my relationship
because I already know you loveme.
That goes for Brock too.
I don't need that from him.
I tell him constantly.
I do not need to be told like,I'm pretty, that you love me,
that I'm doing a good job.
I'm a good wife.
Like, I know these things.
Of course.
I don't need that.
You want them.
Like.
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Okay.
But I just.
I'm going to defend Brock herebecause he tells you those
things all the time.
He tells
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me all the time.
And like I do.
It's nice.
But it does nothing for myinternal feelings.
Mine.
It's nice.
Quite the opposite.
Mine shows up in work.
I want my boss, my coworkers, Iwant them to be like, Brittany,
you're doing great.
Brittany, you're doingeverything I'm asking.
That fills my cup so much.
My clients, when my clients arelike, I love the workouts, or
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like, I love this that you sentme, that makes me feel good.
And that's where I seekvalidation is in my work and
what I'm doing.
And I think just because I careso much about it.
And I want people to be happywith my performance and how I'm
doing the job.
And even just starting atPrecision, like, I get so angry
when I make a mistake or when Idon't do something that I think
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should be done the right way andthey have to correct me or help
me.
But it's also realizing that'sa part of learning and I am
learning that and it is helpingto, you know, I think it helps
to put yourself in the situationwhere I'm like, do I get mad at
somebody else for making amistake or needing help?
No.
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Right.
As long as you had goodintentions.
As long as you have goodintentions.
But I am very hard on myself asfar as work goes.
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Yeah.
I mean, the crazy thing is, iswaiting for someone else's
approval felt like safety.
You know, that's how I wouldrationalize it, I guess.
But really, inside, I havecrazy anxiety.
Like, I'm always worryingwhether or not I'm enough for
that person in a friendship or arelationship.
And I...
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really learn to tone this down,but this is definitely like
something I struggle with.
I will...
Tell you the same.
You know this.
I'll talk about the samesituation over and over and over
and over again.
I'm like, maybe it's going tobe different this time.
I think that's that like salesaspect of me too.
Like, no just means no rightnow.
I'll
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ask tomorrow.
I'll ask a different way.
And you are like, I'm going tocall them right back.
I'll just call them tomorrow.
And I'm like, how do you dothat?
I cannot.
What if they say no?
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Well, you never know
unless you ask.
Which is good in a careerstandpoint and like for so many
types of situations, but infriendships and relationships,
if you are constantly seekingthat validation and that
permission, one, you're annoyingto people.
I know that, but it's like, whyare they not providing this to
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me?
But that's what I'm sayingabout you will find those
friendships and relationshipswhere you won't need to seek the
permission or the validation.
You will always feel metexactly where you are exactly
how you are and that's what youhave to remember if you are you
feel like you're constantlyanxious and constantly seeking
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that it's probably not meant foryou or if it's like adding that
extra pressure onto you did youseek validation from me No, I
never had to.
You always meet my crazy.
Just checking,
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just
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checking.
You never get annoyed.
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You're like, hmm,
okay.
Okay, I get it.
I think a big thing for me wasit wasn't until I started
trusting that the voice God gaveme was enough and that I
realized that I needed to commita vote to validate my instincts
and trust I didn't need other,like even now it's still just
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reminding myself daily that Idon't need validation from
others that God views meperfectly the way I am and how I
do things.
And I think that's just abeautiful way to look at it too.
Like even if you do mess up oreven if say you did something
wrong, it's still like, it's apart of your learning process.
It's a part of discovering whoyou are.
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Yeah, and you have
to start owning that, you know?
And so, like, you get to see mein those types of situations,
like the gym, and now you'vereally kind of, like, embraced
it.
Yeah.
And I'm still working onembracing
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it.
I think it feels good to admitit, too, when, like, when I'm at
work and they're like, youknow, I mess something up and I
go to them and I'm like, hey, Idid this wrong.
Can you help me?
And then they show me how to doit correctly.
And I'm like, well, now I knowhow to do it.
And I get confident.
Right.
And it feels good.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
Which leads us into our nextpart, you know, rebuilding trust
after you do make mistakes.
Yes.
You know, it doesn't matter howlittle or how big they are.
How do you go about rebuildingthat trust?
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Especially within
yourself.
One of the biggest momentswhere I didn't trust my gut, and
I really, really should have,was definitely with the gym.
You know, Me and Brock had thisvision and we had this plan and
we already had this thing thatwe were going to do.
And we had somebody come to usthat wanted to join.
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And it was, you know, a reallygood friend and they were going
through a situation.
And my heart, I, you know,wanted them to be a part of it
too.
I wanted to help give them apurpose to life and all sounded
great.
But there was always thislittle thing in my gut where
it's like, this is somethingwe've dreamt about and we're
allowing somebody else in.
it backfired on us.
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And I should have listened tomy gut then when I listened to
my
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heart instead.
Well, I think you wanted it sobad that it was like, well, you
know, this is my opportunity toget that thing that I want and
not have to wait as long as Ithought I would have to wait,
even though that person wasn'tnecessarily the right person for
the job.
Yeah.
I mean, we didn't need the
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person at all, but
we allowed them in.
And...
There were lots of lessonslearned and I don't regret it at
all.
Like everything we wentthrough, I don't regret it.
It has helped me realize justthat gut feeling and my own
natural instincts that I need toreally listen to.
Yeah.
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I mean, the same
thing with me for relationships.
You know, I have ignored thered flags.
I don't know how many timesbecause, you know, you want to
see the best in people becausewhatever, insert reason here,
why...
I see the potential in thisperson, which is another great
word, potential.
It's like if they are notfollowing through, that's your
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gut telling you red flag, redflag, red flag, right?
And I've sacrificed so many ofmy own goals and values.
And again, not necessarily inmy personal life or like career
wise, but in a relationship, youknow, like...
looking at the potential eventhough my gut is telling me like
this isn't the one you know andgetting cheated on or um just
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being disrespected or andtolerating that i
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think it's a big
fight constantly between your
gut your heart and your mindyeah your mind's trying to
puzzle it all together and likemake sure you're not making
mistakes your heart wants tobelieve the good in everybody
And then there's your gut thatlike knows the truth.
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Well, right.
And then you get to that pointwhere like it's crystal clear
and you're asking yourself, howdid I get here?
How did I let myself get here?
The self-talk.
How did I not see this?
And it's like, you saw this.
You saw
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it.
You knew.
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You knew.
You knew the whole time.
You just
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hoped.
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Yeah.
You kept rationalizing.
Well, he did this because thisor whatever.
And we'll go back to your gymsituation.
Well, It'll
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get better.
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There
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was a lot of
forgiving situations in that
situation, too, where we justkept hoping.
Yeah.
It would get better.
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And you know what?
Honestly, I don't, like yousaid, I don't regret any of the
situations that I went through.
Do I wish maybe sometimes thatI would have left those
situations sooner?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, one of my favoritephrases is, you are what you
tolerate.
You are what you tolerate,right?
You are in the situation youare in because you are
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tolerating whatever that is thatyou do not like.
And it's up to you.
to make the hard choice a lotof times, right?
The uncomfortable choice,whatever it is, but to have the
hard conversation.
If you're not willing to havethat hard conversation, if
you're not willing to makemoves, sometimes you don't need
an answer.
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And I think that's anotherthing that I always want to,
like, I want a straightforward,direct answer.
Sometimes
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you're not going to
get it.
Speaker 00 (15:55):
Right.
Well, if they're not answeringyou.
That's your answer.
that is your
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answer.
Exactly.
Or when you start seeking outother people to verify what you
already know.
Speaker 00 (16:04):
Absolutely.
Why I tell you stories 10 timesover, because I just want you
to tell me, Lauren, stop, leave,knock it off, quit trying.
You know, I think a big thingtoo, I will say, I don't really
struggle with this a lot.
I think you do more, you'rehard on yourself and a lot of
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your things come from andprobably why I'm just like,
don't ask for permission typething.
But what's your self-talk looklike when like, you know, you
are hard on yourself and youare, you know, mad or angry that
you made a mistake?
I think a lot of people, which
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is rather funny to
me, even, I mean, Brock does it
too.
Like they think, I don't know,it's not like a persona I put
out, but like, I think peopleview me as like this very
outgoing, happy type personwhere like my self-talk can be
very negative, but that also,transfers into me being like who
I am because I am so hard onmyself.
I will be so negative.
And even with the gym stuff,like when we lost it, I was
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like, it's my fault.
I shouldn't have done that.
I should have done this.
I failed like all these thingsrunning through my head.
But that also projected me intobeing like, no, I'm not going
to let this hold me back.
I'm going to keep goingforward.
It's like I, what's the wordI'm looking for?
I do that to myself because Iwant to prove myself wrong.
So I'll negative talk myself.
so that I'll be like, watch.
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It's like fuel.
Yeah.
I'm like, no, I'm not.
I'm not what you think I am.
It's like, The Gemini, 20personalities in my head.
That's the Gemini coming out?
I literally have conversations.
You're awful.
No, I'm not.
Yes, you are.
Watch me not be awful.
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But I think the
turning point for both of us
really was no matter whatsituation we're going through,
no matter how hard it is, it'sjust continually focusing on
becoming the best version ofyourself.
It's not that you're ashamed ofyourself.
You just have fueled to bebetter and you do really good at
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self-reflecting.
I think both of us do.
And we're very...
I mean, I have a lot ofhumiliation and I can be humbled
like...
I have learned over the years,guess what?
You know nothing.
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Yep.
Don't ever think you know atall.
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Yeah, exactly.
And if you're just constantlyfocusing on becoming the best
version of yourself, whetherthat is, okay, where can I learn
this new skill or this skillthat's going to prevent me from
making a mistake in the future?
Same for relationships.
Like I just constantly have tofocus on, I want to be the
person that I would want todate.
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Yeah.
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You know?
So, and if someone's notmeeting me there, it is time to
move on.
It is
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time.
And I think one of my biggest,we were talking about your
mantras.
One of my biggest mantras wouldbe God doesn't give you more
than you can handle.
And I think about like, that'sgot me through so much where I
feel like things are super,super heavy.
And I'm like, he never gives memore than I can't handle.
So like, I've got this.
And I think, you know, justhaving something like that to
fall back on, God, your faith,things like that will get you
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through so much throughout yourlife.
and never feeling alone orhaving sort of
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explanation.
Well, I like what you said onour last episode.
I forget who you said you werespeaking with, but they were
like, no matter what you've beenthrough, guess what?
You've gotten through all ofit.
There's never a time where youdidn't get through it.
If you kept getting up andpushing through and taking baby
steps, you know, whatever it is,you got through it.
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You're here right now.
I'm
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always like, it's
never going to go away.
So why are we going to sulk init?
Speaker 00 (19:42):
Yeah.
How long do you want to dealwith it?
Right.
Because that's exactly what itis.
It's like the longer you taketo deal with it.
The
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longer you're in it.
The longer you're going to sitin it.
I'd rather not.
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But just to
reiterate, like we're not
looking for the most approvedperson, the most liked, the most
aligned.
Like this is you.
It's you versus you.
Yep.
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Trying to be the
best version of yourself.
And for me personally, justevery time I felt isolated,
every time that I didn't knowwhat the next move was, like I
said, my faith has been the onlything that's ever kept me
steady.
Speaker 00 (20:18):
Yeah.
I mean, I think because whenyou can trust, when you can't
trust the world and you can'teven fully trust yourself, you
can trust the person that madeyou, you know?
And I think that's it is like,uh, Whenever we're disappointed
with ourselves, whenever we'vemade a mistake, we are highly
emotional, okay?
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Well, when you're highlyemotional, you are not very
logical, okay?
And so when you're notoperating from logic and you're
operating from emotion, youtypically can't trust what
you're going to say or do allthe time.
That's why it's always good touse the 24-hour rule or give
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yourself some time to at leasttake a deep breath.
breath.
One of those things.
A little processing time.
A little processing time.
And maybe you're not like that.
Maybe you are a verylevel-headed person that doesn't
need a lot of processing time,which is great.
But I think that takes time towork on.
It definitely took me years toget to the point where I'm not
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just reacting emotionally.
Yeah.
To
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actually sit with
something.
And think about it and not actwith emotion.
Speaker 00 (21:33):
Yeah.
Well, and realize like youdon't, there's no reason to take
it personally.
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No.
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Most of the time
people are saying and doing
things that have nothing to dowith you.
It has everything to do withthemselves.
And when you react out ofemotion and you, you know, maybe
you have a sharp tongue ormaybe you are aggressive or
whatever, that's what gets youinto trouble.
We don't want to get introuble.
Yeah.
And it turns, you know, a badsituation into a really bad
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situation.
Yeah.
Especially when we're talkingabout, are we at work?
Are we in a relationship?
Did we lose
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our temper?
In any situation, you shouldalways take yourself and take
yourself out of the situation ina sense and view it from the
outside instead of reacting sopersonally to something.
And I think you'll see a lotdifferent view.
Speaker 00 (22:22):
Yeah.
Well, and I think, you know,you...
made a really good point aboutGod in general.
If you are operating from yourfaith, then whose permission and
validation are you looking for?
Your plan's already
Speaker 01 (22:37):
set.
And just like we were talkingabout with your gut feeling,
things you've been through, thethings you go through will help
you throughout your entire life.
I was just in a situation whereWhere had I not been through
what I'd been through with thegym, I would have gotten to
another not so great situation.
Yeah.
But from what I had learned andthe things that I took from
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that and processing it, I savedmyself from a situation that
wouldn't have been so great forme.
Speaker 00 (23:02):
I mean, that's it.
It's like there is novalidation or permission slip
more powerful than the one Godalready gave you.
Yeah.
And if something does not feellike it's aligning with God's
plan, take a step back, giveyourself 24
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hours and reevaluate
the situation.
Speaker 00 (23:16):
Right.
Give yourself as long as youneed.
You know, you might have totell the person, Hey, can we
revisit this tomorrow?
Can we revisit this X day, Xtime, whatever it is like,
that's okay.
Yeah.
In any relationship, work,personal friends.
Well, and very rarely are, uh,I don't think that someone is
going to tell you no, unlessthey're trying to pressure you
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or rush you into somethingthat's not good for you.
And that's kind of whathappened to you in that recent
situation.
It's like, he's like, well,what's wrong?
Why can't you do this rightnow?
Very pushy.
Red flag, red flag, red flag.
We could talk about that later,but that's a good story.
Bottom line though, I think thelast part is the confidence to
do it.
You know, kind of like wementioned earlier, I have
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confidence in some things thatyou don't, you have confidence
in some things that I don't.
But confidence doesn't comefrom having all the answers.
It comes from making a move.
Yes.
The first time I
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decided to move
forward on something before I
was ready, I thought I was goingto throw up.
Thank God I didn't.
This is her at the gym.
She thought she was going tothrow up as I'm telling these
people to give us our equipment.
But you know what?
Action built the confidence andconfidence didn't come first.
Speaker 00 (24:30):
Yeah.
Confidence is built by action,period.
Yep.
You show up scared.
You show up messy.
You show up anyway.
That's how you start trustingyourself again.
So if you're struggling totrust yourself, start by keeping
one small promise to yourselfevery single day.
You know, another favoritephrase or mantra, keep your
promises.
If you told yourself last nightthat you were going to get up
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and go to the gym at 5 a.m.,you're going.
And let me tell you, Brittanycan tell you how many times I
show up so flippant.
tired, but I told her I wascoming.
So I'm coming.
Keep your promises to yourself.
That's very, very important.
Yeah.
And I think, um, One thing,too, is like when you're
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thinking about all of this, nomatter what it is, no matter
what struggle, you know, kind oflike you mentioned earlier,
God's never going to give youmore than you can handle.
And something I got, I'm goingto shout out Taylor Frazier
here.
She got this quote from her momand she lives by it.
She talks about it.
And now I say it.
And there's another story thatgoes with it.
But keep it short and sweet.
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You can get there from here.
You will make it througheverything.
No matter where you are rightnow, if you get started, you
will make it there from here.
You just have to be
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patient, trust the
process, pray when you need to
pray, trust in God's plan, andeverything will be okay.
We thank you guys for listeningtoday.
Don't forget to tag us, LegacyOver Labels, and tell us what
small move are you going to maketoday to rebuild your trust in
yourself?
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Take that step.
Move forward.
Let us know.
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