The Enya Principle: Success Without Following the Crowd

What if the very things that make you different are actually your greatest strengths? Today, I'm exploring a message I hope brings profound relief: it's okay to be different. While we logically understand this truth, our emotional need for belonging often leads us to dim our uniqueness, hide our authentic opinions, and conform to expectations that don't serve us.

I share my own experience launching this daily podcast against conventional wisdom. When successful podcaster friends advised weekly episodes with sponsors, something inside me knew I needed to create daily five-minute episodes without interruptions. This decision came from my conviction that powerful perspective shifts can happen in moments and that consistency transforms lives more effectively than duration. By trusting my instincts despite well-intentioned advice, I created something uniquely valuable that breaks industry norms.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Let it Be Easy with Susie Moore.
I'm coming to you today withsomething that I hope is very
soothing.
This, I hope, is a verysoothing message for you today,

(00:21):
and the message is this it'sokay to be different.
Let me say that again it's okayto be different.
I know, logically, you knowthis right.
Rationally, you're like ofcourse it's okay to be different
, everybody's different.
But in our hearts, in ournervous systems even, do we know

(00:42):
that it's okay to be different?
We often find safety in beinglike others.
We don't want to upset anybodyelse, we want to be included, we
want to be liked, and beingdifferent can or can seemingly
threaten that.
So we hide it, we tamper itdown, we dim it down.

(01:05):
We don't say what we mean.
We maybe don't even dress howwe want to dress.
We don't do the work we want todo in the world.
We do something that soundsgood or that other people think
is, you know, respectable.
What if it's really okay to bedifferent?
If you knew this, if thisreally sunk in, what might you

(01:27):
be doing differently now?
You know, when I started the Letit Be Easy podcast three years
ago.
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podcast too.
So please leave one if youhaven't already.
But when I started this podcastthree years ago, a lot of my
friends who are very successfulpodcasters told me I have to do

(01:48):
one episode, one or two episodesa week, maybe one during the
week, maybe one at a weekend.
And there's an algorithm andthere is a reason, and their
advice is very, very helpful andwell-intentioned and I'm full
of appreciation.
I'll take all the information,I will always listen, but
something in me said this has tobe every day.

(02:08):
It has to be five minutes everyday for a couple of reasons.
Number one I don't think ittakes a lot of time to
experience a shift.
To me, some of the sharpest,most powerful shifts in my
perspective, happen quickly,with something I hear, with a
thought that I have, or onequestion, and I want that for
you.
Right, let's let your life beeasier, better and more

(02:29):
beautiful.
And also, secondly, the reasonis I know that consistency is
what matters.
So it's proven right.
The research is very clear onthis.
It's what we do consistentlythat shapes our life, not what
we do.
One hour a week, I mean.
Look, one hour a week is stillfantastic.
But if you're listening and Iknow so many of you are every
single day for five minutes,after even just a couple of

(02:53):
weeks, I've heard so manypositive, incredible shifts in
your life.
But I'll tell you it'sdifferent.
Right, the way that I do it.
It's different.
I've also had my entrepreneurialfriends again, they're so
wonderful and smart say you needsponsors, you need commercials,
you need ads, you'll make XYZrevenue.
It is so wonderful to be socentered and almost quiet in

(03:19):
yourself that, even amongst theincredible advice and people who
are further ahead than youtelling you the right actions to
take, it is marvelous when youcan still just trust yourself.
Like, historically speaking,those of us who shaped the world
, we haven't done it cookiecutter style.
We haven't done it likeeverybody else.

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I look at all the incredibleartists and writers and thought
leaders in history, these changemakers.
They were different.
It might be the only thing theyhave in common.
The only thing was that theywere all different and unique.
I know, being different feelsscary, it can feel threatening.
But what if the opposite istrue?

(04:02):
I loved reading or finding outthis about Enya recently.
Remember Enya?
Enya sail away, sail away.
That's the most popular songshe has.
I think Enya has sold 80million records worldwide.
She never tours.
You can't go buy a concertticket to see her.
She doesn't do that.
She doesn't want to do that andshe lives alone in a castle in

(04:25):
Ireland.
Conventional wisdom would haveyou go.
Okay, if you want to be arecording artist, you need an
album.
You got to be here, you got tobe there.
You got to tour in your localtown.
You got to get on the tour busand go here and go there.
Then you got to gointernational.
She doesn't do that.
She does it her way and, frommy understanding, she is one of
the most successful recordingartists of all time.

(04:50):
Enya is different.
What about you?
If you knew, if you fullyinternalize it, it's okay.
Maybe your style of parentingis different, maybe how you
dress and how you think isdifferent.
Maybe how you want to spendyour life is completely
different, and maybe nobodyunderstands you.

(05:10):
It's not their job tounderstand you.
It's your job to be good withyou.
So if you struggle knowing thatit's okay to be different, or if
you'd like to be more yourself,but it just feels like oh
dangerous to be fully authentic,here's a mantra for you today I

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surrender.
I surrender to living up toother people's expectations.
To living up to other people'sexpectations.
I surrender it.
I surrender living up to otherpeople's expectations.
How does that feel?
Until tomorrow, my friends, somuch love and ease.

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