February 5, 2025 • 16 mins
In this episode of Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors, we dive into the power of trusting the universe, trusting your gut, and trusting yourself. Whether it's those quiet whispers during a walk or the big decisions that keep you up at night, learning to lean into those nudges can lead to breakthroughs you never imagined.
✨ Here’s what we’re diving into:
- 📍 Why trusting yourself is the ultimate game-changer
- 📍 How to honor your commitments (with compassion!)
- 📍 Simple steps to tune into your intuition and take action
- 📍 The truth about small wins and why they matter
- 📍 Erica’s personal journey with her 2025 word of the year: TRUST
💡 Plus: Erica shares the behind-the-scenes story of creating Her Collective and how leaning into trust helped her bring this dream to life.
👉 Ready to shatter those self-imposed ceilings and step into your best life? Tune in now and let’s smash through them together!
🌟 P.S. If this episode resonates, please share it with someone who needs to hear it. Don’t forget to leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review – it helps more women find this message!
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Yeti X & FaceTime HD Camer (00:00):
Have you ever ignored those little
(00:02):
nudges from the universe?
Me now I'm talking about thosewhispers that you need to hear,
even if it's not necessarilywhat you want to hear, or
sometimes it starts off just asan idea or inspiration or
something that comes to you andyou're out on a walk or
meditating.
And let me be real honest withyou.
I am guilty of not leaning intothose nudges all the time.
(00:24):
I'm guilty of not listening tothem.
Uh, because let's face it,right.
Those just seem to be nudges.
There's not scientific evidence.
There's not data to back thoseup.
But what I have really learnedover the past couple of years is
that those little nudges thatyou get, those ideas, those
whispers.
They're really just gifts if youlisten, and if you lean into
(00:48):
them, But I think it's so easythat we take those nudges and we
take those gifts and we say, No,it could never be me or why
would I ever do that?
Or I can't take that risk orthere's no way that I could
ever, because I'm not smartenough.
I'm not tall enough.
I'm not the right person forthat job.
But here's the deal.
Those nudges are going to keepshowing up and showing up and
(01:12):
you're either going to keepignoring them.
Or you're finally going to trustyourself to listen to those and
take action.
And that's what I want to talkabout today.
And that is trust.
Trust in the universe, trust inyourself, trusting in the
process.
And I want to talk about thatbecause trust has become my word
(01:33):
of the year and.
It's not one that I ever wouldhave expected or picked for
myself, but.
The more, I lean into this ideaof trust.
Right.
Trusting in the timing ofthings, trusting in my
decision-making.
The more I have learned.
(01:53):
What that really means for me.
What does trusting really meanfor me?
So today we're going to diveinto what that trust really
means.
I want to talk a little bitabout how I learned to lean into
those nudges and how you cantoo, and how you can build more
trust in your self.
You are listening to the glassceiling and sticky floor
(02:14):
podcast.
The podcast that will empoweryou to shatter limiting beliefs
and toxic behaviors to uncoverinfinite possibilities.
So you can live your best life.
I'm Erica Rooney and I'm on amission to bring more women into
positions of power and keep themthere.
I'm obsessed with all things,growth and abundance.
And I'm here to talk you throughthe tried and true secrets to
(02:36):
get you to level up your careerand your life.
We talk about the hard stuffhere.
Imposter syndrome,perfectionism, fear and burnout.
So pull up a seat, pop in a nearbed and let's dive in.
Hey, Hey, y'all welcome back tothe podcast.
I am so excited to dive intothis episode today because we're
(02:56):
going to talk about trust andtrust me on that one.
No pun intended.
Y'all.
This isn't the word that Ithought that I would pick for
myself.
But here we are.
Right.
So grab a cup of coffee.
Let's get those headphones onbecause I want to talk to you
about how, how did trust evenbecome my word of the year?
Because honestly, I didn't evenknow I needed it.
(03:18):
I thought I did trust myself.
Right.
Because I always tell people,you can only count on yourself.
Like you are your star player.
You are the one person that youcan count on.
But how often do we tellourselves that we're going to do
something, whether that'sworking out or eating healthier
or not drinking or getting, youknow, all of your emails,
inboxes down to zero, we tellourselves we're going to do all
(03:41):
those things.
And then we let our own cellsdown.
And we often do that becausewe're putting everybody else
ahead of our own needs.
Right?
We're putting our kids ahead ofourselves, our bosses, our
colleagues, our partners, ourneighbors.
I mean really since when do weput ourselves first, it really
is a struggle.
And I just recognized that.
(04:01):
I would set all these goals formyself and I would do my best to
get them all done.
But the ones that I didn't getdone were always the ones that I
was setting for myself.
And this word actually came tome when I was having to make a
financial decision on, did Iwant to invest?
And the question was reallylike, do I have the money to
(04:24):
invest or not?
And like, what do I do?
What is this going to do for meand my business?
And I didn't really have theanswers.
And if I'm honest with you, Istill don't really have the
answers.
But I just had this nudge.
They kept telling me it was whatI needed to do.
That that was the next step Ineeded to take.
And so I just decided that'swhat I would do that I would
(04:47):
trust those nudges.
And that I would make theinvestment.
And that is really hard to do.
When you are an entrepreneur,you don't have that regular
corporate salary.
And you're trying to pay thebills.
If you have to make a biginvestment, it's like, holy
shit.
I want to know what's going topay off.
But the problem is sometimes youdon't, sometimes you have to do
(05:07):
a million things and see whichone sticks.
Right?
Sometimes there's AB testing,who knows, but for me, I had to
trust.
Those nudges that I was getting,but it was the right decision.
And I don't mean like, oh, justtrusted.
The universe is always going togive you the right opportunity
because that's not the case.
But what I mean by trusting.
(05:29):
Is I really felt in my bones,that was the right business
decision for me to make.
And so for me, I needed to trustmy own gut and that is so hard
to do sometimes.
So I'm going to rewind it backin time, a little bit for you to
just a couple months ago, when Istarted thinking about what did
I want my word to be, right.
(05:49):
And I was probably aboutNovember of 20, 24.
And I'd done abundance before,and that really stood for
abundance of love, abundance ofmoney, abundance of purpose.
And that really resonated.
One of my words, one year wasundeniable, right?
I was undeniable.
This life was meant for me, thatI wanted.
(06:10):
And as I was leaning into 2025.
I thought I would pick anotherword like that, especially since
this is my first year as afull-on solo preneur.
Right.
And I wasn't sure, I mean,abundance sounded great, right?
I liked this idea of restedambition.
That sounded good, but nothingwas just like binding to my
(06:32):
heart.
And, and I feel like if you dothis word of the year thing, you
know, when it hits you, youknow, when the right word is.
But I just kept.
Missing out on whatever couldbe.
Right.
But I kept thinking, right.
I need to trust myself.
I need to trust myself.
And y'all that word trust wouldcome into my purview and then
I'd be like, that's a terribleword.
Don't ask me why.
I thought it was a terribleword, but I kept thinking it was
(06:55):
a terrible word.
Right.
Here's the thing though, lifehas a funny way of nudging you
towards what you need, even ifit's not what you think you
want.
Right.
So already the universe isnudging me.
Towards this word of trust.
So I finally trusted my gut.
I leaned into those littlemoments where, you know, my
(07:16):
intuition was whispering likeErica, Hey, pay attention to
this.
And that's when I said like,okay, I hear you let's do this.
And that's when I said, trust ismy word of the year.
So I want to talk about whatdoes it mean to trust myself?
And it's not just about trustingthe process, trusting, you know,
that what's coming to me is madefor me, which it's all of that.
(07:41):
But it really means in, itreally means for me, trusting
myself, trusting my gut,trusting the nudges that I get
about what is the next beststep.
Even if I don't have the fullplan baked, right.
Even if I don't have the wholeidea, I can still move forward.
And I'll give you an exampleabout this.
I really leaned into trust whenI launched the community, her
(08:05):
collective.
And if you follow me, I know youhave seen this all over the
place, but I recently launchedan online digital community aim
to empower women and amplifytheir voices and help them get
into positions of power withoutburning out.
It's an amazing concept.
And when it first popped into myhead, I of course had these
ideas of like, you don't knowhow to do that.
(08:26):
That's going to take six monthsto launch.
Like, what do you know aboutthis Erica?
All of those little self-doubts,but I just leaned in and I
started working and I startedleaning into what would this
look like and brainstorming andthinking.
And.
I didn't know how it would turnout.
I really did not.
But what I will tell you is it'sbeen a lot easier than I thought
(08:49):
it would.
Don't get me wrong.
It has been a lot of work.
There've been, you know, acouple of tears behind the
scenes, but mostly excitementand it's all coming so easily
and naturally, and I thinkthat's happening because I
trusted myself.
So I wanted to share thatexample with you.
Oh, by the way, all foundingmember slots, they're almost
(09:11):
full.
I only have a few more left.
So like what I'm doing, it'sworking.
But I wanted to share that withyou in case you have this big
idea for something at work or athome or in your business, and
you just aren't sure that youshould do anything with it.
Trust yourself to take that nextbest step.
And in doing so in trustingyourself to take that next best
(09:34):
step, you can then take the nextone.
And the next one and the nextone.
And maybe it brings you down avery clear marked path, right.
That you know exactly how it'sgoing to end up, or maybe it
totally takes you down a paththat you've never walked.
But as the most gorgeous andstunning and breathtaking view.
So again, trust yourself.
(09:55):
Show up right.
Now if you're like me though,you're probably like, I'm not
sure how to trust myself.
Like I think I do.
And I will tell you full on.
I thought I fully trusted myselfuntil I realized how I was
breaking my own promises tomyself.
But here's how we're going to doit.
I've got three things, threeways that you can work on
(10:18):
trusting yourself.
The first one is going to behonoring your commitments to
yourself, but with a dose ofcompassion and I'll get into
that.
The second one is listening toyour intuition, trusting your
gut.
And then the third one is allabout taking the small steps.
So let's rewind it back to that.
First one, honoring yourcommitments to your self.
(10:38):
This one is the hugest it'sgoing to make the most massive
difference for you.
But basically, if you say you'regoing to do something.
Even if it is as simple asdrinking more water or taking an
afternoon walk.
Show up for yourself.
Right?
Do what you said.
You're going to do, drink thewater, lace up your shoes, get
out there and do the walk.
Okay.
But here's the kicker and thisis a big one and this is the
(11:01):
game changer for me is do itwith compassion.
So for example, If you're likeme, you got the intentional
workout every single day, butyou know, let's be real like
after a rough night at nightsweats and hello, peri-menopause
like, I see a girl.
I don't always have it in me todo that.
Instead of, you know, talkingtrash and all that junk.
(11:22):
I just take a deep breath and Iadjust, right.
I give myself the grace.
And then I move forward becausetrust is not about perfection.
All the time.
It's about consistency and it'sabout kindness.
And if my goal was to have akick ass workout in the gym, but
all I have in me is a walkaround the block.
I'm going to take that walk.
(11:43):
I'm gonna do what I can do.
So honor your commitments.
If you tell yourself that youare not going to use your phone
when you're laying in bed atnight.
Put your phone somewhere whereyou can't use it.
Or tell your partner who theycan then hold you accountable,
right?
Put boundaries in place foryourself, guard rails, if you
need so that you do stay true toyour commitments with yourself.
(12:05):
Now, the second thing is allabout listening to your
intuition.
And I want to know.
How often do you ignore thatlittle voice that is deep inside
of you?
You know what I'm talking about?
The one that says, Hey girl,this is not the right decision.
Or maybe that little voice thatsays get after it, go, go, go,
go do the damn thing.
(12:25):
I want you to start tuning in.
And one thing that has helped mereally kind of tune in is to get
quiet.
So I'm that kind of person like,I jump up and in the morning I
start my day and I immediatelydive into reading a different
material.
When I feel like I'm reallystruggling with a decision.
Or a question in the businessthat I'm having.
(12:46):
I try to sit down with myjournal actually, and just take
a little bit of time tomeditate, or sometimes I get out
and do walking.
Uh, just like think tanks withmyself or with a friend where I
talk through the question or theproblem that is in my mind.
And I do that because the quiethelps, but also movement helps,
right?
People don't get these greatideas for things.
(13:07):
And they certainly don't tune inwhen they are knee deep in
emails or like doing all thesecrazy things around the house.
Right.
You get, you get real clearduring those quiet moments.
So get, get quiet.
Listen in, tune up.
Your gut will never steer youwrong.
And then the third step that Itold you about is all about
(13:29):
taking small steps, but I alsowant you to celebrate your wins.
Because when I say trustyourself, it doesn't mean like
go all in it.
Take these giant leaps of faithall the time.
Sometimes it really is justabout the small steps.
Y'all I'm gonna be real clear.
I've been putting off thispodcast for like two weeks.
(13:49):
And you know what it does.
Then it just keeps showing up onmy to-do list every single time.
So sometimes that small step,like for instance, the one in
recording this podcast was like,let me just get my ass upstairs.
And put myself in my podcastingseat and do the damn thing.
Okay.
That's all it takes.
Sometimes it's as small assaying no to getting coffee with
(14:12):
a friend, because you know, it'sgoing to stretch your free time
and you just don't have any togive.
Right.
Those are the moments thatmatter.
Those are.
The moments where you can reallystart to build trust in
yourself.
So here's what I've learned.
Y'all.
When you trust yourself when youreally trust yourself.
(14:33):
You align with your truest path?
You start to feel lessoverwhelmed because you're not
fighting yourself.
It's not you against you, right?
You begin to see that you don'thave to have all the answers all
the time.
That sometimes you just have totake the next best step.
(14:53):
Now y'all listen.
Trust is not just a word.
It is a practice.
It is a daily decision for youto lean in.
To listen and to believe inyourself and speaking of trust,
y'all I just want to say I'm sograteful that I did trust myself
to lean into creating hercollective.
And if you were listening todayand you thought, okay, I need a
(15:16):
double tap on that.
Or what are the.
The kids say DoubleClick feesdays, mean double click on that.
Hit me up message me.
Let me know if you want to jointhe community, but we will all
be working with each other tohelp each other lean into
trusting our grads, trusting thenext best step.
And.
Just trusting that this is allgoing to be the best fricking
(15:36):
year yet.
Right.
Are you with me?
Hell.
Yeah.
So.
That's it for today.
Thank you so much for listening.
And if this episode resonatedwith you, please do me the favor
of sharing it with a friend.
Or someone you don't even knowbecause it really helps it land
in the hands of the woman thatneeds to hear it most.
But until next time, let's stopplacing a ceiling on what's
(15:59):
possible and start smashingthrough them.
Have you ever ignored those little
(00:02):
nudges from the universe?
Me now I'm talking about thosewhispers that you need to hear,
even if it's not necessarilywhat you want to hear, or
sometimes it starts off just asan idea or inspiration or
something that comes to you andyou're out on a walk or
meditating.
And let me be real honest withyou.
I am guilty of not leaning intothose nudges all the time.
(00:24):
I'm guilty of not listening tothem.
Uh, because let's face it,right.
Those just seem to be nudges.
There's not scientific evidence.
There's not data to back thoseup.
But what I have really learnedover the past couple of years is
that those little nudges thatyou get, those ideas, those
whispers.
They're really just gifts if youlisten, and if you lean into
(00:48):
them, But I think it's so easythat we take those nudges and we
take those gifts and we say, No,it could never be me or why
would I ever do that?
Or I can't take that risk orthere's no way that I could
ever, because I'm not smartenough.
I'm not tall enough.
I'm not the right person forthat job.
But here's the deal.
Those nudges are going to keepshowing up and showing up and
(01:12):
you're either going to keepignoring them.
Or you're finally going to trustyourself to listen to those and
take action.
And that's what I want to talkabout today.
And that is trust.
Trust in the universe, trust inyourself, trusting in the
process.
And I want to talk about thatbecause trust has become my word
(01:33):
of the year and.
It's not one that I ever wouldhave expected or picked for
myself, but.
The more, I lean into this ideaof trust.
Right.
Trusting in the timing ofthings, trusting in my
decision-making.
The more I have learned.
(01:53):
What that really means for me.
What does trusting really meanfor me?
So today we're going to diveinto what that trust really
means.
I want to talk a little bitabout how I learned to lean into
those nudges and how you cantoo, and how you can build more
trust in your self.
You are listening to the glassceiling and sticky floor
(02:14):
podcast.
The podcast that will empoweryou to shatter limiting beliefs
and toxic behaviors to uncoverinfinite possibilities.
So you can live your best life.
I'm Erica Rooney and I'm on amission to bring more women into
positions of power and keep themthere.
I'm obsessed with all things,growth and abundance.
And I'm here to talk you throughthe tried and true secrets to
(02:36):
get you to level up your careerand your life.
We talk about the hard stuffhere.
Imposter syndrome,perfectionism, fear and burnout.
So pull up a seat, pop in a nearbed and let's dive in.
Hey, Hey, y'all welcome back tothe podcast.
I am so excited to dive intothis episode today because we're
(02:56):
going to talk about trust andtrust me on that one.
No pun intended.
Y'all.
This isn't the word that Ithought that I would pick for
myself.
But here we are.
Right.
So grab a cup of coffee.
Let's get those headphones onbecause I want to talk to you
about how, how did trust evenbecome my word of the year?
Because honestly, I didn't evenknow I needed it.
(03:18):
I thought I did trust myself.
Right.
Because I always tell people,you can only count on yourself.
Like you are your star player.
You are the one person that youcan count on.
But how often do we tellourselves that we're going to do
something, whether that'sworking out or eating healthier
or not drinking or getting, youknow, all of your emails,
inboxes down to zero, we tellourselves we're going to do all
(03:41):
those things.
And then we let our own cellsdown.
And we often do that becausewe're putting everybody else
ahead of our own needs.
Right?
We're putting our kids ahead ofourselves, our bosses, our
colleagues, our partners, ourneighbors.
I mean really since when do weput ourselves first, it really
is a struggle.
And I just recognized that.
(04:01):
I would set all these goals formyself and I would do my best to
get them all done.
But the ones that I didn't getdone were always the ones that I
was setting for myself.
And this word actually came tome when I was having to make a
financial decision on, did Iwant to invest?
And the question was reallylike, do I have the money to
(04:24):
invest or not?
And like, what do I do?
What is this going to do for meand my business?
And I didn't really have theanswers.
And if I'm honest with you, Istill don't really have the
answers.
But I just had this nudge.
They kept telling me it was whatI needed to do.
That that was the next step Ineeded to take.
And so I just decided that'swhat I would do that I would
(04:47):
trust those nudges.
And that I would make theinvestment.
And that is really hard to do.
When you are an entrepreneur,you don't have that regular
corporate salary.
And you're trying to pay thebills.
If you have to make a biginvestment, it's like, holy
shit.
I want to know what's going topay off.
But the problem is sometimes youdon't, sometimes you have to do
(05:07):
a million things and see whichone sticks.
Right?
Sometimes there's AB testing,who knows, but for me, I had to
trust.
Those nudges that I was getting,but it was the right decision.
And I don't mean like, oh, justtrusted.
The universe is always going togive you the right opportunity
because that's not the case.
But what I mean by trusting.
(05:29):
Is I really felt in my bones,that was the right business
decision for me to make.
And so for me, I needed to trustmy own gut and that is so hard
to do sometimes.
So I'm going to rewind it backin time, a little bit for you to
just a couple months ago, when Istarted thinking about what did
I want my word to be, right.
(05:49):
And I was probably aboutNovember of 20, 24.
And I'd done abundance before,and that really stood for
abundance of love, abundance ofmoney, abundance of purpose.
And that really resonated.
One of my words, one year wasundeniable, right?
I was undeniable.
This life was meant for me, thatI wanted.
(06:10):
And as I was leaning into 2025.
I thought I would pick anotherword like that, especially since
this is my first year as afull-on solo preneur.
Right.
And I wasn't sure, I mean,abundance sounded great, right?
I liked this idea of restedambition.
That sounded good, but nothingwas just like binding to my
(06:32):
heart.
And, and I feel like if you dothis word of the year thing, you
know, when it hits you, youknow, when the right word is.
But I just kept.
Missing out on whatever couldbe.
Right.
But I kept thinking, right.
I need to trust myself.
I need to trust myself.
And y'all that word trust wouldcome into my purview and then
I'd be like, that's a terribleword.
Don't ask me why.
I thought it was a terribleword, but I kept thinking it was
(06:55):
a terrible word.
Right.
Here's the thing though, lifehas a funny way of nudging you
towards what you need, even ifit's not what you think you
want.
Right.
So already the universe isnudging me.
Towards this word of trust.
So I finally trusted my gut.
I leaned into those littlemoments where, you know, my
(07:16):
intuition was whispering likeErica, Hey, pay attention to
this.
And that's when I said like,okay, I hear you let's do this.
And that's when I said, trust ismy word of the year.
So I want to talk about whatdoes it mean to trust myself?
And it's not just about trustingthe process, trusting, you know,
that what's coming to me is madefor me, which it's all of that.
(07:41):
But it really means in, itreally means for me, trusting
myself, trusting my gut,trusting the nudges that I get
about what is the next beststep.
Even if I don't have the fullplan baked, right.
Even if I don't have the wholeidea, I can still move forward.
And I'll give you an exampleabout this.
I really leaned into trust whenI launched the community, her
(08:05):
collective.
And if you follow me, I know youhave seen this all over the
place, but I recently launchedan online digital community aim
to empower women and amplifytheir voices and help them get
into positions of power withoutburning out.
It's an amazing concept.
And when it first popped into myhead, I of course had these
ideas of like, you don't knowhow to do that.
(08:26):
That's going to take six monthsto launch.
Like, what do you know aboutthis Erica?
All of those little self-doubts,but I just leaned in and I
started working and I startedleaning into what would this
look like and brainstorming andthinking.
And.
I didn't know how it would turnout.
I really did not.
But what I will tell you is it'sbeen a lot easier than I thought
(08:49):
it would.
Don't get me wrong.
It has been a lot of work.
There've been, you know, acouple of tears behind the
scenes, but mostly excitementand it's all coming so easily
and naturally, and I thinkthat's happening because I
trusted myself.
So I wanted to share thatexample with you.
Oh, by the way, all foundingmember slots, they're almost
(09:11):
full.
I only have a few more left.
So like what I'm doing, it'sworking.
But I wanted to share that withyou in case you have this big
idea for something at work or athome or in your business, and
you just aren't sure that youshould do anything with it.
Trust yourself to take that nextbest step.
And in doing so in trustingyourself to take that next best
(09:34):
step, you can then take the nextone.
And the next one and the nextone.
And maybe it brings you down avery clear marked path, right.
That you know exactly how it'sgoing to end up, or maybe it
totally takes you down a paththat you've never walked.
But as the most gorgeous andstunning and breathtaking view.
So again, trust yourself.
(09:55):
Show up right.
Now if you're like me though,you're probably like, I'm not
sure how to trust myself.
Like I think I do.
And I will tell you full on.
I thought I fully trusted myselfuntil I realized how I was
breaking my own promises tomyself.
But here's how we're going to doit.
I've got three things, threeways that you can work on
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trusting yourself.
The first one is going to behonoring your commitments to
yourself, but with a dose ofcompassion and I'll get into
that.
The second one is listening toyour intuition, trusting your
gut.
And then the third one is allabout taking the small steps.
So let's rewind it back to that.
First one, honoring yourcommitments to your self.
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This one is the hugest it'sgoing to make the most massive
difference for you.
But basically, if you say you'regoing to do something.
Even if it is as simple asdrinking more water or taking an
afternoon walk.
Show up for yourself.
Right?
Do what you said.
You're going to do, drink thewater, lace up your shoes, get
out there and do the walk.
Okay.
But here's the kicker and thisis a big one and this is the
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game changer for me is do itwith compassion.
So for example, If you're likeme, you got the intentional
workout every single day, butyou know, let's be real like
after a rough night at nightsweats and hello, peri-menopause
like, I see a girl.
I don't always have it in me todo that.
Instead of, you know, talkingtrash and all that junk.
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I just take a deep breath and Iadjust, right.
I give myself the grace.
And then I move forward becausetrust is not about perfection.
All the time.
It's about consistency and it'sabout kindness.
And if my goal was to have akick ass workout in the gym, but
all I have in me is a walkaround the block.
I'm going to take that walk.
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I'm gonna do what I can do.
So honor your commitments.
If you tell yourself that youare not going to use your phone
when you're laying in bed atnight.
Put your phone somewhere whereyou can't use it.
Or tell your partner who theycan then hold you accountable,
right?
Put boundaries in place foryourself, guard rails, if you
need so that you do stay true toyour commitments with yourself.
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Now, the second thing is allabout listening to your
intuition.
And I want to know.
How often do you ignore thatlittle voice that is deep inside
of you?
You know what I'm talking about?
The one that says, Hey girl,this is not the right decision.
Or maybe that little voice thatsays get after it, go, go, go,
go do the damn thing.
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I want you to start tuning in.
And one thing that has helped mereally kind of tune in is to get
quiet.
So I'm that kind of person like,I jump up and in the morning I
start my day and I immediatelydive into reading a different
material.
When I feel like I'm reallystruggling with a decision.
Or a question in the businessthat I'm having.
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I try to sit down with myjournal actually, and just take
a little bit of time tomeditate, or sometimes I get out
and do walking.
Uh, just like think tanks withmyself or with a friend where I
talk through the question or theproblem that is in my mind.
And I do that because the quiethelps, but also movement helps,
right?
People don't get these greatideas for things.
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And they certainly don't tune inwhen they are knee deep in
emails or like doing all thesecrazy things around the house.
Right.
You get, you get real clearduring those quiet moments.
So get, get quiet.
Listen in, tune up.
Your gut will never steer youwrong.
And then the third step that Itold you about is all about
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taking small steps, but I alsowant you to celebrate your wins.
Because when I say trustyourself, it doesn't mean like
go all in it.
Take these giant leaps of faithall the time.
Sometimes it really is justabout the small steps.
Y'all I'm gonna be real clear.
I've been putting off thispodcast for like two weeks.
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And you know what it does.
Then it just keeps showing up onmy to-do list every single time.
So sometimes that small step,like for instance, the one in
recording this podcast was like,let me just get my ass upstairs.
And put myself in my podcastingseat and do the damn thing.
Okay.
That's all it takes.
Sometimes it's as small assaying no to getting coffee with
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a friend, because you know, it'sgoing to stretch your free time
and you just don't have any togive.
Right.
Those are the moments thatmatter.
Those are.
The moments where you can reallystart to build trust in
yourself.
So here's what I've learned.
Y'all.
When you trust yourself when youreally trust yourself.
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You align with your truest path?
You start to feel lessoverwhelmed because you're not
fighting yourself.
It's not you against you, right?
You begin to see that you don'thave to have all the answers all
the time.
That sometimes you just have totake the next best step.
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Now y'all listen.
Trust is not just a word.
It is a practice.
It is a daily decision for youto lean in.
To listen and to believe inyourself and speaking of trust,
y'all I just want to say I'm sograteful that I did trust myself
to lean into creating hercollective.
And if you were listening todayand you thought, okay, I need a
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double tap on that.
Or what are the.
The kids say DoubleClick feesdays, mean double click on that.
Hit me up message me.
Let me know if you want to jointhe community, but we will all
be working with each other tohelp each other lean into
trusting our grads, trusting thenext best step.
And.
Just trusting that this is allgoing to be the best fricking
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year yet.
Right.
Are you with me?
Hell.
Yeah.
So.
That's it for today.
Thank you so much for listening.
And if this episode resonatedwith you, please do me the favor
of sharing it with a friend.
Or someone you don't even knowbecause it really helps it land
in the hands of the woman thatneeds to hear it most.
But until next time, let's stopplacing a ceiling on what's
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possible and start smashingthrough them.
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