October 17, 2024 • 18 mins
This is where Elaine and Tracie take a deep dive into the concept of "Worthy" and why so many people struggle with it.
As two heart centered, hustling fierce females who've been through a lot, share parts of their stories, laughing at the craziness of life, you will leave feeling uplifted and inspired to take action with the rest of your day!
Tracie Root is a dynamic speaker, coach, and bestselling author who transformed her life after personal tragedy. Following the loss of her partner to cancer and facing the strain of solo parenting, she left corporate life to create a fulfilling entrepreneurial journey. With over a decade of experience, she empowers women to take BOLD action through her coaching, masterminds, and immersive retreats for women leaders. As founder of The Gather Community, she shifted to online events in 2020, fostering a thriving community of business leaders. Based in Santa Cruz, CA, Tracie lives with her husband, teens, and their dog.
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(00:09):
I am here, this is Captivate theMic and I am here with the
fabulous and beautiful andamazing Tracy Root.
Tracy, I'm so glad you're here.
I'm so glad I'm here too.
I am I'm so proud of you forstarting your podcast and I'm so
honored to get to be one of yourspeakers.
Yes.
And you're one of the first, isone of them.
Yes.
(00:29):
Whatever.
One of my podcast ease.
I don't know.
Whatever the term we should,we'll come up with our own term.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mentioned your bio previous,Tracy, you've done so many cool
things.
You've been through a lot.
As a young widow and mother oftwo, and you have reinvented
yourself many times.
(00:51):
And I would love for you to tellus, one of your stories about,
your evolution, because thispodcast is for, women who are up
to big things.
When you're up to big things,you bump up against things.
So tell us.
Yeah.
I love that.
Well, the big origin is that I,I grew up in Silicon Valley.
(01:14):
I worked in corporate, I, had ahusband and two kids, not 2.
5, just two.
And that would be weird.
And and unfortunately myhusband, after my second child
was born when he was one and ahalf and the older one was four,
my first husband passed awayfrom cancer.
(01:34):
And I was, working, I was thebreadwinner.
I was working my job and thekids were getting dropped off in
the morning and picked up in theevening.
And I just knew that there hadto be something different in
life.
And that's when I foundcoaching.
I actually.
Was, looking for a solution formyself to re enter society post
(01:55):
grief fog.
And found a way to start feelingbetter about myself and taking
care of myself better and thatcame along with learning about
what a health coach and a lifecoach could do for me.
So as a result, I began coachingas well and really made some
significant changes in my life.
I left corporate, I became acoach full time.
(02:17):
And a few years later, I startedto really Try to figure out what
I wanted my business to looklike.
I had just been plugging alongwith what had been given to me
and was trying to decide what Iwanted to actually create in
this business.
And I found a coach of my owncause talk to any coach, they've
(02:38):
got a coach coaches needcoaches.
We all believe in the system,right?
It's the way it and realizedthat what I wanted to create, I
was feeling really hesitantabout formulating the marketing
and asking for money and askingfor people to pay me to teach
them these things that I hadlearned these last, say six,
(03:00):
seven years of coaching already.
And I realized my coach actuallywas okay, so if you're doing
this, then you should chargethis much money.
And I was like, like that wasmade me so uncomfortable.
I was just, how would people,why would people wanna pay me
(03:22):
that kind of money?
Why would people.
Pay me at all really, because Ihad worked in like a network
marketing system where I justgot commissions and I just
talked to people and I never hadto talk about pricing.
Cause I didn't set it, but onceI was setting my own pricing, I
had this real problem withidentifying my own worth as it
(03:42):
relates to dollars for myexpertise, as soon as I realized
that the worthiness piece waswhat I was having a problem
with.
Took a pen and I went to my wallnext to me here, my window and
on the window frame, I wrote,there's a lot of moms out there
(04:04):
and be like, don't write on thewalls.
I wrote in my office, you areworthy of the dreams you dream.
The world is waiting for you toshow up today.
And then we go and it's stillthere.
And I look at it every daybecause the, especially the part
(04:26):
about people waiting for us toshow up.
They're waiting for us to askthem to help move them forward.
And the dreams that I had thatwould propel me moving forward
were exactly the dreams I wantedthem to believe in for
themselves.
So why am I holding myself back?
(04:48):
So the dreams you are dreaming,the dreams I am dreaming, we are
absolutely, the dreams wouldn'tbe in us.
If we weren't worthy of havingthem, that's why they're there.
So step into it and realize thatthe world's waiting for you to
show up so you can go after thatdream that's been put inside you
for a reason.
So that was a huge realization.
(05:09):
It helped me to form my ownconfidence in creating my
business.
In building my community, thegather community, which, that's
a whole other, We'll do anotherepisode later, there is a follow
on story to this wholeworthiness thing.
And that's every time you try todo something new.
(05:29):
That is uncomfortable thatyou've never done before it.
The same thing keeps showing up.
It's that's why people stay intherapy for so long.
You got to keep working throughthe things that you thought you
healed from, but then it showsup again.
Yes.
So it's, it's true witheverything.
So last about a year ago, I knewI decided and I knew.
(05:51):
That the way that my coachingbusiness.
So I have this community, andit's an online community, people
around the country into Canadasome places else in the world.
And it's all online.
And people kept asking me, areyou going to do things in person
And I said, I'm not for thegather community.
But what could I do.
Because we can do things inperson again, of course, this is
(06:12):
all post COVID and, but if it'snot for that, what is it going
to be?
And I said to myself I didalways want to do retreats, so
maybe I should do a retreat.
And I started thinking throughit and I made some structure
around, but there's a weekend,but then we'll do a program
before it and follow on and allof this like big program with a
(06:35):
capital P around this retreat.
And it wasn't really what Iintended.
It just became this thing thatlike a monster, it just grew.
And over time, and I had acouple of people sign up, but I
was really struggling to getmore attendees signed on to join
(06:56):
us.
And we were getting close to thestarting of this program.
And I realized that the problemwas this.
That it wasn't aligned with whatI really wanted for my dream.
I wanted to have a retreat.
I didn't want to have a giantprogram that had a retreat in
it.
I wanted a retreat.
(07:17):
And I know that, you have to dosome before and after to get
people oriented and all of that.
What I needed was a retreat witha program that had a small P
instead of a big P.
Just a couple of callsbeforehand, make sure everyone's
ready, follow on call after tomake sure everyone is good
landing at home afterwards andremembers what they said while
(07:40):
they were there instead of, sixcalls before six calls after in
this giant year long thing.
So I changed it.
I said, you know what, we'regoing to change the retreat date
from June to September.
And I'm no longer going to havethis many calls.
It's going to be just these twodates before and this one date
after.
(08:00):
And for people who had signed uporiginally expecting this giant
program, I gave them somebonuses for the cost difference
of a big program versus asmaller program.
I said, I'm going to upgradeyour room and get this.
And everyone was happy.
They had longer to pay for ittoo.
And all of a sudden my energyaround how I talked about it
(08:21):
completely changed because itnow was aligned with what my
dream looked like.
And I immediately signed upthree more people because I was
no longer like fighting withmyself internally about what is
it that I'm trying to do.
And what is it that I want tocreate for my business?
(08:44):
Wow.
And it just felt so, and it wasamazing.
And getting to that point where,now we have enough people I
should say to have a viableretreat program.
And now I was really careful tocurate group that was there.
To make sure that it was forthem, right?
That it was still in line withthe dream of this event and the
(09:07):
purpose and the mission and thepromise that I had made to them,
and it happened three weeks agoand it was amazing and so fun
and so impactful and it justwent great.
And I'm thrilled and even goingout of this.
(09:28):
the next year, where I have amore substantial thing, for next
year, it all, I keep going backto where does it feel right?
Where does it mean that thedream is aligned with the
structure and the structure isaligned with.
What I'm trying to create asopposed to what I think it's
(09:50):
supposed to be.
And that was learning.
Oh, I love it.
Thank you, Tracy.
That's so great.
I think that's something I knowI have struggled with is being
uncomfortable out of my comfortzone that there's that.
And then sometimes I think, Oh,I don't want to do this.
(10:11):
And it's just because I'muncomfortable.
But sometimes I have pushed andforced things.
So it's like there's a right.
You have to there's a line,right?
There's a like, why?
Why am I uncomfortable?
Comfortable because I don't feelworthy.
Am I uncomfortable because it'smore money than I've ever
charged?
Or am I uncomfortable becausesomething's out of alignment?
(10:31):
And it's totally two differentthings.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Recognize that you're out of,like you're out of alignment
because you're doing things thataren't congruent with your
values.
That's a whole different thingthan saying I've never charged
this much.
Why would people pay me?
But if you have the personalvalue that you are great and you
(10:55):
have confidence and and you workthrough that, then The
hesitation around things likemoney or asking people for a
certain amount of time or totravel, right?
Those go away because it's notour job to decide for them
whether they can afford it orwhether they can get a flight or
whatever the obstacles might befor them that we're anticipating
(11:17):
and therefore thinking thatthey're not going to want to do
it because of that.
And it's a lot of times it's ourprojections onto them.
I love that theme thatworthiness and yes, you were
worthy to charge and youprovided and you delivered and
everybody signed up for yournext thing.
And it's, yeah, so exciting.
(11:38):
So exciting.
And I'm super grateful becausethe role of a coach is to
believe in you until you believein yourself in a lot of
situations.
Right?
And so my coach pushed methrough that and I do believe in
myself now because now I've doneit, but she saw it before I did.
And now I see it for all of ourretreat attendees and what
(12:00):
they're planning to do next.
I'm just like of course you'regoing to do that.
That's amazing.
And it's perfectly suited foryou and your people are going to
be loving it.
And that's what I love to beable to do with everyone that I
get to be connected with, likeyourself and, people who are
coming to mind that when all ofa sudden things like, Ooh, I'm
(12:22):
going to do this.
It just feels like this is whatI'm supposed to be doing feels
right.
then it's gonna flourish and beamazing and I can't wait for it.
I love it.
I love it.
Tracy.
That was beautiful.
Okay.
I loved your storytelling.
I loved your vulnerability.
(12:45):
I was with you in that, in thestruggle in the beginning and
the fogginess of the grief.
That's a beautiful phrase.
And then the sort of yourevolution I could see that
partially, and then I could see.
Like alignment, I think youcould even add next time you
(13:06):
tell this maybe, or some other,your performer, right?
Yeah.
All of a sudden, we can, we havethese beautiful bodies and hands
and and sometimes we don't usethem all that way.
Thank you for saying thatbecause I have built most of my
speaking here on zoom.
And of course now things areback in the world and I do some
(13:28):
in person stuff and I do have ahard time taking up the space.
Yeah, I'm six feet tall so Inaturally take up space anyway,
but to reach my arms out, butright now they're off screen
right so why would I do that.
So much of what I do is righthere.
Yeah.
And so when I'm in person, Iforget.
(13:48):
So thank you for that reallygreat reminder.
That's great.
And that's a great of if you geta chance to go in the room and
take up space and remindyourself, Oh, I'm not on camera.
This is different.
It's sometimes if I've beendoing comedy and then switching
over to speaking, sometimes Ihave to be It's okay.
They're not laughing.
This is, you're not doing comedyright now, because sometimes I
(14:10):
think, Oh my God, they're reallylistening.
And it's Oh, that's good.
It's funny, you're right.
I am a performer.
And I remember, I think it wasin February when we were in San
Diego, and we drove past Thisbig like bandshell thing.
We were on the trolleys.
And we drove around thisbandshell that was, and there's
like a whole grass park thing.
(14:31):
Do you remember going past that?
Yep.
And I remember saying to thegals in my trolley going, can we
stop?
I just wanna go walk up there.
'cause I wanted to get up onthat stage and stand there like
this.
Cause that was such a cool stageand the whole, like imagining
the audience, I really wanted toget up there.
And so to remember that feelingwhen I'm in a room networking
(14:54):
with 30 women and desire to beas bold as possible.
Yeah.
And it's just like that MarianneWilliamson, when you take a
space and give yourselfpermission to shine, you're
doing that for other people too.
100%.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Love it.
Love it.
So yeah, I'm just going to, I'mgoing to encourage you to play
(15:17):
more.
And then one other tiny thing,Tracy is, I know you can be more
resonant and I know it's the endof the day.
You've probably been talking allday long.
You may be having allergies,sometimes we can get a little
raspy and so I'm going toencourage you to keep playing.
Playing with your, that also youwere talking earlier about like
(15:38):
the caffeine and like the thingsthat sabotage you that you don't
think about until you recognizethat's actually what's causing
the problem.
And you're right.
I have been talking all day.
Do I have warm water here withme?
No.
What did I drink a diet Coke?
Because I just needed that pepexactly like you were saying, I
wanted a little pep, a littleflavor.
And my water is empty.
(16:00):
Cause I drank it all.
Yeah.
Just tiny tweaks, but that wasbeautiful.
I love the story.
I love the vulnerability.
And that's a really powerfulmessage that I needed to hear.
I'm cracking up because thispodcast, I'm making it, to help
other people, but theseinterviews have been helping me
so much.
(16:20):
And I'm like, laughing at Godokay.
I had an interview earlier andher story was, I was I needed to
hear that today.
And I feel like I needed to hearthat today about owning my
worth.
Aren't we so lucky to be able tobe in a community like this
where we get those messages allthe time?
Yeah.
(16:40):
Yes.
And, in closing, I got to be onthis yoga retreat in Costa Rica
and I was with two women.
I know really well.
And one woman who was new andshe was blown away and how
generous and supportive we wereof each other.
And she said, I kept waiting forthe cattiness and I, really felt
(17:01):
for her.
And I feel like we lifted her upby the end of the trip.
And I just want, I want that foreverybody.
To, have that experience ofbeing lifted up and lifting up
others.
And it doesn't have to be justwomen, so thank you so much,
Tracy.
So if people want to know moreabout you and your fabulous
things, what is the one placeyou should send them?
(17:22):
You can send them to.
Yeah.
The best place to go is what Icall my links page, because
what, if we've got things goingon, or if you just want to find
me on socials, it's all there.
It's Tracy root.
com slash links.
Tracy root.
com slash links.
I love that.
I want to do that.
Thank you so much, Tracy.
I love you.
(17:43):
I miss you.
You're just amazing and I can'twait to go on your retreat
someday soon.
Okay.
Bye everybody.
Thanks for tuning in.
Please share this, subscribe,rate and review and pass this on
to somebody who needs to hearit.
Okay.
Take care.
Bye.
I am here, this is Captivate theMic and I am here with the
fabulous and beautiful andamazing Tracy Root.
Tracy, I'm so glad you're here.
I'm so glad I'm here too.
I am I'm so proud of you forstarting your podcast and I'm so
honored to get to be one of yourspeakers.
Yes.
And you're one of the first, isone of them.
Yes.
(00:29):
Whatever.
One of my podcast ease.
I don't know.
Whatever the term we should,we'll come up with our own term.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mentioned your bio previous,Tracy, you've done so many cool
things.
You've been through a lot.
As a young widow and mother oftwo, and you have reinvented
yourself many times.
(00:51):
And I would love for you to tellus, one of your stories about,
your evolution, because thispodcast is for, women who are up
to big things.
When you're up to big things,you bump up against things.
So tell us.
Yeah.
I love that.
Well, the big origin is that I,I grew up in Silicon Valley.
(01:14):
I worked in corporate, I, had ahusband and two kids, not 2.
5, just two.
And that would be weird.
And and unfortunately myhusband, after my second child
was born when he was one and ahalf and the older one was four,
my first husband passed awayfrom cancer.
(01:34):
And I was, working, I was thebreadwinner.
I was working my job and thekids were getting dropped off in
the morning and picked up in theevening.
And I just knew that there hadto be something different in
life.
And that's when I foundcoaching.
I actually.
Was, looking for a solution formyself to re enter society post
(01:55):
grief fog.
And found a way to start feelingbetter about myself and taking
care of myself better and thatcame along with learning about
what a health coach and a lifecoach could do for me.
So as a result, I began coachingas well and really made some
significant changes in my life.
I left corporate, I became acoach full time.
(02:17):
And a few years later, I startedto really Try to figure out what
I wanted my business to looklike.
I had just been plugging alongwith what had been given to me
and was trying to decide what Iwanted to actually create in
this business.
And I found a coach of my owncause talk to any coach, they've
(02:38):
got a coach coaches needcoaches.
We all believe in the system,right?
It's the way it and realizedthat what I wanted to create, I
was feeling really hesitantabout formulating the marketing
and asking for money and askingfor people to pay me to teach
them these things that I hadlearned these last, say six,
(03:00):
seven years of coaching already.
And I realized my coach actuallywas okay, so if you're doing
this, then you should chargethis much money.
And I was like, like that wasmade me so uncomfortable.
I was just, how would people,why would people wanna pay me
(03:22):
that kind of money?
Why would people.
Pay me at all really, because Ihad worked in like a network
marketing system where I justgot commissions and I just
talked to people and I never hadto talk about pricing.
Cause I didn't set it, but onceI was setting my own pricing, I
had this real problem withidentifying my own worth as it
(03:42):
relates to dollars for myexpertise, as soon as I realized
that the worthiness piece waswhat I was having a problem
with.
Took a pen and I went to my wallnext to me here, my window and
on the window frame, I wrote,there's a lot of moms out there
(04:04):
and be like, don't write on thewalls.
I wrote in my office, you areworthy of the dreams you dream.
The world is waiting for you toshow up today.
And then we go and it's stillthere.
And I look at it every daybecause the, especially the part
(04:26):
about people waiting for us toshow up.
They're waiting for us to askthem to help move them forward.
And the dreams that I had thatwould propel me moving forward
were exactly the dreams I wantedthem to believe in for
themselves.
So why am I holding myself back?
(04:48):
So the dreams you are dreaming,the dreams I am dreaming, we are
absolutely, the dreams wouldn'tbe in us.
If we weren't worthy of havingthem, that's why they're there.
So step into it and realize thatthe world's waiting for you to
show up so you can go after thatdream that's been put inside you
for a reason.
So that was a huge realization.
(05:09):
It helped me to form my ownconfidence in creating my
business.
In building my community, thegather community, which, that's
a whole other, We'll do anotherepisode later, there is a follow
on story to this wholeworthiness thing.
And that's every time you try todo something new.
(05:29):
That is uncomfortable thatyou've never done before it.
The same thing keeps showing up.
It's that's why people stay intherapy for so long.
You got to keep working throughthe things that you thought you
healed from, but then it showsup again.
Yes.
So it's, it's true witheverything.
So last about a year ago, I knewI decided and I knew.
(05:51):
That the way that my coachingbusiness.
So I have this community, andit's an online community, people
around the country into Canadasome places else in the world.
And it's all online.
And people kept asking me, areyou going to do things in person
And I said, I'm not for thegather community.
But what could I do.
Because we can do things inperson again, of course, this is
(06:12):
all post COVID and, but if it'snot for that, what is it going
to be?
And I said to myself I didalways want to do retreats, so
maybe I should do a retreat.
And I started thinking throughit and I made some structure
around, but there's a weekend,but then we'll do a program
before it and follow on and allof this like big program with a
(06:35):
capital P around this retreat.
And it wasn't really what Iintended.
It just became this thing thatlike a monster, it just grew.
And over time, and I had acouple of people sign up, but I
was really struggling to getmore attendees signed on to join
(06:56):
us.
And we were getting close to thestarting of this program.
And I realized that the problemwas this.
That it wasn't aligned with whatI really wanted for my dream.
I wanted to have a retreat.
I didn't want to have a giantprogram that had a retreat in
it.
I wanted a retreat.
(07:17):
And I know that, you have to dosome before and after to get
people oriented and all of that.
What I needed was a retreat witha program that had a small P
instead of a big P.
Just a couple of callsbeforehand, make sure everyone's
ready, follow on call after tomake sure everyone is good
landing at home afterwards andremembers what they said while
(07:40):
they were there instead of, sixcalls before six calls after in
this giant year long thing.
So I changed it.
I said, you know what, we'regoing to change the retreat date
from June to September.
And I'm no longer going to havethis many calls.
It's going to be just these twodates before and this one date
after.
(08:00):
And for people who had signed uporiginally expecting this giant
program, I gave them somebonuses for the cost difference
of a big program versus asmaller program.
I said, I'm going to upgradeyour room and get this.
And everyone was happy.
They had longer to pay for ittoo.
And all of a sudden my energyaround how I talked about it
(08:21):
completely changed because itnow was aligned with what my
dream looked like.
And I immediately signed upthree more people because I was
no longer like fighting withmyself internally about what is
it that I'm trying to do.
And what is it that I want tocreate for my business?
(08:44):
Wow.
And it just felt so, and it wasamazing.
And getting to that point where,now we have enough people I
should say to have a viableretreat program.
And now I was really careful tocurate group that was there.
To make sure that it was forthem, right?
That it was still in line withthe dream of this event and the
(09:07):
purpose and the mission and thepromise that I had made to them,
and it happened three weeks agoand it was amazing and so fun
and so impactful and it justwent great.
And I'm thrilled and even goingout of this.
(09:28):
the next year, where I have amore substantial thing, for next
year, it all, I keep going backto where does it feel right?
Where does it mean that thedream is aligned with the
structure and the structure isaligned with.
What I'm trying to create asopposed to what I think it's
(09:50):
supposed to be.
And that was learning.
Oh, I love it.
Thank you, Tracy.
That's so great.
I think that's something I knowI have struggled with is being
uncomfortable out of my comfortzone that there's that.
And then sometimes I think, Oh,I don't want to do this.
(10:11):
And it's just because I'muncomfortable.
But sometimes I have pushed andforced things.
So it's like there's a right.
You have to there's a line,right?
There's a like, why?
Why am I uncomfortable?
Comfortable because I don't feelworthy.
Am I uncomfortable because it'smore money than I've ever
charged?
Or am I uncomfortable becausesomething's out of alignment?
(10:31):
And it's totally two differentthings.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Recognize that you're out of,like you're out of alignment
because you're doing things thataren't congruent with your
values.
That's a whole different thingthan saying I've never charged
this much.
Why would people pay me?
But if you have the personalvalue that you are great and you
(10:55):
have confidence and and you workthrough that, then The
hesitation around things likemoney or asking people for a
certain amount of time or totravel, right?
Those go away because it's notour job to decide for them
whether they can afford it orwhether they can get a flight or
whatever the obstacles might befor them that we're anticipating
(11:17):
and therefore thinking thatthey're not going to want to do
it because of that.
And it's a lot of times it's ourprojections onto them.
I love that theme thatworthiness and yes, you were
worthy to charge and youprovided and you delivered and
everybody signed up for yournext thing.
And it's, yeah, so exciting.
(11:38):
So exciting.
And I'm super grateful becausethe role of a coach is to
believe in you until you believein yourself in a lot of
situations.
Right?
And so my coach pushed methrough that and I do believe in
myself now because now I've doneit, but she saw it before I did.
And now I see it for all of ourretreat attendees and what
(12:00):
they're planning to do next.
I'm just like of course you'regoing to do that.
That's amazing.
And it's perfectly suited foryou and your people are going to
be loving it.
And that's what I love to beable to do with everyone that I
get to be connected with, likeyourself and, people who are
coming to mind that when all ofa sudden things like, Ooh, I'm
(12:22):
going to do this.
It just feels like this is whatI'm supposed to be doing feels
right.
then it's gonna flourish and beamazing and I can't wait for it.
I love it.
I love it.
Tracy.
That was beautiful.
Okay.
I loved your storytelling.
I loved your vulnerability.
(12:45):
I was with you in that, in thestruggle in the beginning and
the fogginess of the grief.
That's a beautiful phrase.
And then the sort of yourevolution I could see that
partially, and then I could see.
Like alignment, I think youcould even add next time you
(13:06):
tell this maybe, or some other,your performer, right?
Yeah.
All of a sudden, we can, we havethese beautiful bodies and hands
and and sometimes we don't usethem all that way.
Thank you for saying thatbecause I have built most of my
speaking here on zoom.
And of course now things areback in the world and I do some
(13:28):
in person stuff and I do have ahard time taking up the space.
Yeah, I'm six feet tall so Inaturally take up space anyway,
but to reach my arms out, butright now they're off screen
right so why would I do that.
So much of what I do is righthere.
Yeah.
And so when I'm in person, Iforget.
(13:48):
So thank you for that reallygreat reminder.
That's great.
And that's a great of if you geta chance to go in the room and
take up space and remindyourself, Oh, I'm not on camera.
This is different.
It's sometimes if I've beendoing comedy and then switching
over to speaking, sometimes Ihave to be It's okay.
They're not laughing.
This is, you're not doing comedyright now, because sometimes I
(14:10):
think, Oh my God, they're reallylistening.
And it's Oh, that's good.
It's funny, you're right.
I am a performer.
And I remember, I think it wasin February when we were in San
Diego, and we drove past Thisbig like bandshell thing.
We were on the trolleys.
And we drove around thisbandshell that was, and there's
like a whole grass park thing.
(14:31):
Do you remember going past that?
Yep.
And I remember saying to thegals in my trolley going, can we
stop?
I just wanna go walk up there.
'cause I wanted to get up onthat stage and stand there like
this.
Cause that was such a cool stageand the whole, like imagining
the audience, I really wanted toget up there.
And so to remember that feelingwhen I'm in a room networking
(14:54):
with 30 women and desire to beas bold as possible.
Yeah.
And it's just like that MarianneWilliamson, when you take a
space and give yourselfpermission to shine, you're
doing that for other people too.
100%.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Love it.
Love it.
So yeah, I'm just going to, I'mgoing to encourage you to play
(15:17):
more.
And then one other tiny thing,Tracy is, I know you can be more
resonant and I know it's the endof the day.
You've probably been talking allday long.
You may be having allergies,sometimes we can get a little
raspy and so I'm going toencourage you to keep playing.
Playing with your, that also youwere talking earlier about like
(15:38):
the caffeine and like the thingsthat sabotage you that you don't
think about until you recognizethat's actually what's causing
the problem.
And you're right.
I have been talking all day.
Do I have warm water here withme?
No.
What did I drink a diet Coke?
Because I just needed that pepexactly like you were saying, I
wanted a little pep, a littleflavor.
And my water is empty.
(16:00):
Cause I drank it all.
Yeah.
Just tiny tweaks, but that wasbeautiful.
I love the story.
I love the vulnerability.
And that's a really powerfulmessage that I needed to hear.
I'm cracking up because thispodcast, I'm making it, to help
other people, but theseinterviews have been helping me
so much.
(16:20):
And I'm like, laughing at Godokay.
I had an interview earlier andher story was, I was I needed to
hear that today.
And I feel like I needed to hearthat today about owning my
worth.
Aren't we so lucky to be able tobe in a community like this
where we get those messages allthe time?
Yeah.
(16:40):
Yes.
And, in closing, I got to be onthis yoga retreat in Costa Rica
and I was with two women.
I know really well.
And one woman who was new andshe was blown away and how
generous and supportive we wereof each other.
And she said, I kept waiting forthe cattiness and I, really felt
(17:01):
for her.
And I feel like we lifted her upby the end of the trip.
And I just want, I want that foreverybody.
To, have that experience ofbeing lifted up and lifting up
others.
And it doesn't have to be justwomen, so thank you so much,
Tracy.
So if people want to know moreabout you and your fabulous
things, what is the one placeyou should send them?
(17:22):
You can send them to.
Yeah.
The best place to go is what Icall my links page, because
what, if we've got things goingon, or if you just want to find
me on socials, it's all there.
It's Tracy root.
com slash links.
Tracy root.
com slash links.
I love that.
I want to do that.
Thank you so much, Tracy.
I love you.
(17:43):
I miss you.
You're just amazing and I can'twait to go on your retreat
someday soon.
Okay.
Bye everybody.
Thanks for tuning in.
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