April 23, 2025 • 17 mins
This week on Live Life Unapologetically, we are taking on productivity and reminding you that the most powerful thing you can do for your business today isn’t another task. It’s letting yourself feel.
In a world that rewards hustle and punishes emotion, women business owners are told to “check feelings at the door.” But Shannon’s here to remind you that your feminine energy in business is not only valid—it’s essential for long-term success, alignment, and overflow.
✨ Inside this episode:
- Why your nervous system is the foundation of your power
- How repressed emotions sabotage manifestation and business growth
- The toxic programming that ties productivity to worth—and how to break it
- What to do when you feel stuck, uninspired, or disconnected
- A simple but powerful shift to move from frustration to flow
If you've been caught in the push-pull of "doing more" and still not getting the results you want, this is your permission slip to pause and feel your way forward.
Ready to embody your vision without burnout?
Grab the Manifest Momentum Ritual to move from obligation to overflow—without the hustle.
You don’t build an empire by doing more; you build it by becoming more yourself.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Live Life Unapologetically
podcast.
I'm your host, shannon Kaye,and today I'm giving you full
permission to put down theplanner, step away from the
inbox and to actually feel yourdamn feelings.
And why is that?
Because the most productivething you can do today might not
have anything to do with atraditional to-do list.
We've talked a lot aboutshifting out of hustle mode and
(00:22):
building a business in flow.
This week we're going to goeven deeper, because if you want
to build a business fromalignment, you have to let
yourself feel, and not just whenit's convenient.
So I want you to grab yourfavorite drink, cozy up and
let's get into it.
Because here's the thing Ourentire society is obsessed with
(00:42):
output.
You get praised when you'reproductive.
You get rewarded when you'reproductive.
You get rewarded when you'rebusy.
You get promoted when you'reoverextended.
We've been conditioned to seefeeling as a weakness, as
unproductive, as something toshove down so we can get back to
work.
I remember when I first enteredthe workforce, they were always
telling us to check ourfeelings at the door, like that
was part of orientation.
When you work here, we checkour feelings at the door, like
(01:04):
that was part of orientation.
When you work here, we checkour feelings at the door, our
emotions at the door, yourpersonal life, you check it at
the door, and so that's aconditioning.
It's a conditioning to saydon't feel and just get back to
work.
If you're working 10 hours aday from a place of fear,
disconnection or confusion, thatenergy ripples out and that's
what you're building within.
(01:25):
So we really need to thinkabout how we have been
conditioned because once againand we've talked about this our
programming as a worker right,we've talked about the worker
versus the visionary Well, as aworker, you're told to check
those feelings, to just be busy,to just get to work, to
disconnect, and that's aprogramming that sometimes we
(01:45):
bring with us.
But if you took 10 minutes todrop into your desire to feel
the expansion, to tap into theversion of you who already has
it, you ship the frequency ofeverything you create.
That is the work, that is thestrategy, that is manifestation.
What if everything that youhave been chasing through effort
(02:07):
actually starts with embodiment?
Y'all know me, I love to flipthe script, I love to pull a
whole turnaround and do thingscompletely opposite.
Because if we're going to behonest again how we've been
doing things up to certainpoints in our lives really
didn't pan out the way wethought anyway.
(02:28):
So why not just do a complete180 and try something new?
Because this really may be newfor some of us.
I know when I first startedbusiness, this was new to me.
I thought I had to beproductive and kind of like you
know, a robot getting it done,and that served me not at all.
I thought I had to beproductive and kind of like you
know, a robot getting it done,and that served me not at all.
It was when I fell into feelingthat I began to expand, because
(02:52):
when you allow yourself to feelyou're not wasting time, you're
calibrating your system, you'reregulating your nervous system,
which is the foundation of yourpower.
Let me say that again yournervous system is the foundation
of your power.
Let me say that again yournervous system is the foundation
of your power.
If you're constantly in fight,flight, freeze or fawn mode,
(03:14):
you're not building a business,you're surviving it.
You can have the best strategyin the world, the most beautiful
brand, the fanciest funnel, butif your nervous system is
dysregulated, none of it lands.
You talk yourself out ofposting, you panic after
launching.
You'll second guess your prices, your voice, your worth,
(03:35):
because a lot of that is freezeor flight right.
When we're talking about thisin business, a lot of times
these examples are like flightor freeze.
But there's a fight example tooin business when you're
dysregulated, where you'regrinding, grinding, grinding and
you're doing, doing, doing.
It's not regulated but you'reputting out in force, always
(03:56):
hustling, getting into that.
Oh, to survive, I've got toconstantly be out there and
doing stuff, hustle mode,fighting for your business, but
not in a way that pays off inthe end, because even if you
hustle and make money, you endup burnt out.
At some point it breaks and wewant to build a business that
flows.
(04:16):
I want that for you.
I don't want you to besuccessful for six months and
then break down because you'reburnt out and all that progress
you made is for not anyway,because you just can't anymore.
You don't want to anymore, youjust want to lay in bed because
your body's like I need torecover, I'm tired.
The thing is deep down.
If your body does not feel safebeing seen, if it doesn't feel
(04:39):
safe receiving, if it doesn'tfeel safe resting, it will
sabotage anything that wouldrequire expansion.
Feeling is the doorway to safetyand when you start giving
yourself permission to feelwithout needing to fix, you
regulate, you build capacity,you create space.
(04:59):
And speaking of creating spacein a feeling of that is where
creativity lives, not inspreadsheets, not in strategy
docs, but in the silence thathappens after the tears, after
the exhale, after a laugh thatcomes from nowhere.
(05:21):
I've had those experienceswhere I've been meditating and I
just bust out laughing in joy,like a good joy, and that's
where creativity lives in thosemoments.
It's in the clarity that comeswhen you stop performing and you
just allow, when you stopmanaging every emotion and you
finally say this is what I feel,and that's okay, because
(05:44):
feelings make you honest andhonesty that's magnetic, it
makes your content better, itmakes your offers stronger, it
makes your business moresustainable because it's built
from truth and not performance.
And let's not forget aboutguidance, because your intuition
cannot speak louder than yourfear if you never slow down to
(06:07):
listen.
It's not that fear is morepowerful than your intuition,
it's just that you haven'tslowed down so your intuition
can become the louder voice.
Feelings create the channel foryour next level clarity.
So many times people say I knowI need clarity for
manifestation.
(06:28):
I know that is the first step.
But how do I even get clarity?
You listen to your feelings,you channel them.
They help you find your clarity, they help you find the vision,
they help you to pivot, theyhelp with the product idea, the
program that downloads in themiddle of a walk or while
journaling instead of the middleof grinding.
(06:51):
Have your best ideas really cometo you when you're grinding out
stuff?
Have they when you're sittingthere editing content or
creating content?
Is that when your best ideascome, or do they come in the
quiet moments where you're notnear your computer, you're not
near your phone and you're like,oh my God, I need to write this
down before I forget it,because they come in the midst
(07:15):
of slowing down and feeling.
If you want to build newsystems of wealth and ease, you
have to start building a systemthat allows you to feel, because
the old systems that we havebeen programmed in when it comes
to work and you've left thenine-to-five work right You've
left being the worker bee andnow you're the visionary of a
business this programming ofwork was designed around
(07:38):
productivity at the expense ofhumanity, and you're not
building your business in thatimage anymore.
Us women, we're building ourbusinesses for humanity, to
leave the world a better placethan when we found it.
To uplift our community,uplifting other women, helping
others.
We are not doing it at theexpense of productivity.
(08:01):
Sometimes people ask me why doesit seem like men are more
successful in business, or whydoes it seem like it's easier
for men in business?
And there's a lot of reasonswhy that is.
But I think one of the reasonsis because we approach business
like men instead of women.
And I'm not going to debate ondo men feel or women feel more
(08:22):
or the other, but I know me as awoman and my feelings and I
know how I've been told todisregard those, to be more
masculine.
But that time is done.
We do build from feelings.
We build our businesses so thatif something happens in our
lives, we don't have to check itin the door and still be a part
of the cog, that we have abusiness that flows.
(08:43):
So when things happen in life,we can stop and deal with those
things.
We don't have tocompartmentalize that.
We can be whole humans andyou're a shining light building
your business as a woman infeminine.
That is showing you can do itin a way that does not exclude
(09:04):
humanity, that you can be awhole human and be a successful
business owner, that you can bea whole human and feel and do
all the things and you don'tconstantly have to be on and
hustling.
One of the things I did to getto this place, to be honest, is
I shut out all of the voices ofmen when it came to running
(09:25):
businesses and being successfulin life.
I quit reading books from menor following men on social media
and I exclusively looked forwomen books, encouragement and
accounts.
And some of the women accountsmirrored the men's stuff because
they were like.
I learned this from insertman's name and I was like, okay,
that's not for me, because Ididn't want to do it that way
(09:48):
anymore and I'm talking aboutvery popular books and stuff
that I have on my shelf that Idon't read or implement.
And that is when my businessstarted to grow and my
creativity started to come outand the true clarity of what I
wanted happened and theoverthinking stopped and the
self-doubt stopped when I quitreading things like atomic
(10:09):
habits and said you know what?
No, that's not it for me.
I want to tap into somethingdifferent.
That's just me.
You can do what you like.
You can listen to whoever youlike.
I'm not here to tell you who tolisten to or not, but if you're
here, if you're on this podcast, if you follow me, we do things
different.
What is that difference for you?
To where we get out of this ideathat productivity must come at
(10:33):
the expense of humanity, that wehave to check it all at the
door.
We can't feel, and I'm sorry,but as women, we have been told
our whole lives that women aretoo emotional to lead.
Of course we can't have a womanpresident.
She would be way too emotionalto handle the hard stuff.
And that also is programming.
(10:54):
Whether you believe it or not,it's programming.
It's somewhere rooted in yoursubconscious and I think because
that has definitely been atheme, especially with women
running for office We've had twowomen who've run for president
and we hear that.
We hear it from people on thestreet with news people.
You know I'd like to, but womenare really emotional.
(11:15):
We hear it from the oppositionoh, women are so emotional that
we internalize that, even thoughwe get angry, probably.
I know I do and I'm like whatthe hell?
Women are too emotional.
Men start wars for crying outloud, but women are too
emotional.
Okay, like logically,consciously, we think that's
some bullshit.
(11:40):
But when you hear something overand over again, your
subconscious latches on whetheryou believe it to be true or not
, and I think a lot of womendiscount themselves or they feel
doubt.
Maybe you do, maybe your brainthat little 5% that operates in
consciousness is like women canlead and we can do it.
But your subconscious has beenhearing these type of messages,
things like this and similar,about how men really should be
(12:01):
leaders, not women, and thatholds you back in some capacity
from saying, oh, I don't know ifmy business can be that
successful.
Maybe if we just do it in a waythat aligns with our feminine
nature, all is well.
That's what I've really learned.
All is well when we do it inour feminine nature, because
feeling safe really is the keyto growth, and you feel safe
(12:25):
when you're able to be authentic, when you're not having to be
performative.
You can't grow what you don'tfeel safe holding.
That's why your nervous systemhas to be on board with your
goals.
Otherwise your body will keepyou small, even when your
strategy is trying to go big.
Small even when your strategyis trying to go big.
Safety is what lets you receivemore.
Safety is what lets youdelegate without micromanaging.
(12:47):
No-transcript Feeling is howyou start to teach your body
that it is safe to have what youwant.
There are moments throughout theweek because we build habits
right.
We build habits of productivity, we build habits of hustle.
We build all these habitsthrough our upbringing.
(13:10):
They're just habits and habitscan sneak back in right, and I
had one of those momentsrecently where I was just like I
got to get stuff done.
I got to get stuff done, but Irecognized it because awareness
is key.
So I recognized it.
I recognized I was trying toforce myself into action because
if anybody knows me, they knowI'm a very scheduled and routine
person and I need my routine.
(13:30):
My routine is important to me.
But I realized that my schedulesaid I should be doing things
and so.
So I started doing more for somereason and I just paused and I
was like no, because I don'twant to do it like this.
I sat down, I breathed into mybody.
I was on the porch on a niceday, I just let the sun hit me.
(13:51):
I have this beautiful big treein my front yard.
It's expansive.
I love to look at it.
It's like the most calmingthing to me.
I was feeling frustrated, I wasfeeling impatient, but the
desire for more ease was there.
So I just went to that placethat felt good to me and I just
fell into it and 10 minuteslater, clarity dropped because
(14:12):
it wasn't forced and it waschanneled and it started with
feeling.
It started with feeling thefrustration and the impatience
and then shifting into more ease.
So here's what I want you totry today, so that we build with
flow and not force.
Just don't push yourself, don'tforce it, don't force it.
(14:35):
Just pause and ask what am Ifeeling right now?
What do I desire to feel?
And then I want you to act fromthe second answer and not the
(14:55):
first.
What am I feeling right now?
That was me.
I was feeling impatient andfrustrated.
That was the now feeling.
And what do I desire to feel?
And I acted from the second.
Ease and flow was how I wantedto feel.
This isn't a break from yourbusiness.
This is your business, and Ithink that's where a lot of us
get it confused.
Oh, shannon, I can't take thosekind of breaks from my business
(15:16):
.
This is not a break from yourbusiness.
This is your business Because aregulated, safe and embodied
you.
That's the woman who buildsempires, and if you want a daily
practice to help you embodythis, this is one that I use
every single day.
I've been using this practicefor almost three years now To
stay aligned, to stay grounded.
(15:37):
This keeps you really in yourpower, no matter what the
calendar says, and it's calledManifest Momentum.
It is a five-minute ritual thathelps you to track your energy,
your desires and your alignment, because momentum doesn't come
from hustle.
It comes from belief, fromembodiment, from repeating what
works and feeling what's working.
(15:58):
You can grab it in the link onthis podcast.
I promise you it's not just atracker.
It is a whole new way to buildyour business.
Like, if I don't do anythingelse in my business in a day, I
do that.
If it is a day where I'm likeI'm nothing, I trust the
universe that my business isgoing to do what it needs to do
(16:19):
without me interfering, but I dothe ritual.
That's it.
I do it for all things.
As we wrap up today, I reallywant you to understand that you
don't need to be more worthy.
You don't have to prove yourvalue through exhaustion.
You're allowed to build yourbusiness from a place of
softness, of stillness, offeeling.
(16:39):
So give yourself space today,feel everything and watch what
flows through, when you stoptrying to control the outcome.
I'll chat with you next week.
Welcome back to the Live Life Unapologetically
podcast.
I'm your host, shannon Kaye,and today I'm giving you full
permission to put down theplanner, step away from the
inbox and to actually feel yourdamn feelings.
And why is that?
Because the most productivething you can do today might not
have anything to do with atraditional to-do list.
We've talked a lot aboutshifting out of hustle mode and
(00:22):
building a business in flow.
This week we're going to goeven deeper, because if you want
to build a business fromalignment, you have to let
yourself feel, and not just whenit's convenient.
So I want you to grab yourfavorite drink, cozy up and
let's get into it.
Because here's the thing Ourentire society is obsessed with
(00:42):
output.
You get praised when you'reproductive.
You get rewarded when you'reproductive.
You get rewarded when you'rebusy.
You get promoted when you'reoverextended.
We've been conditioned to seefeeling as a weakness, as
unproductive, as something toshove down so we can get back to
work.
I remember when I first enteredthe workforce, they were always
telling us to check ourfeelings at the door, like that
was part of orientation.
When you work here, we checkour feelings at the door, like
(01:04):
that was part of orientation.
When you work here, we checkour feelings at the door, our
emotions at the door, yourpersonal life, you check it at
the door, and so that's aconditioning.
It's a conditioning to saydon't feel and just get back to
work.
If you're working 10 hours aday from a place of fear,
disconnection or confusion, thatenergy ripples out and that's
what you're building within.
(01:25):
So we really need to thinkabout how we have been
conditioned because once againand we've talked about this our
programming as a worker right,we've talked about the worker
versus the visionary Well, as aworker, you're told to check
those feelings, to just be busy,to just get to work, to
disconnect, and that's aprogramming that sometimes we
(01:45):
bring with us.
But if you took 10 minutes todrop into your desire to feel
the expansion, to tap into theversion of you who already has
it, you ship the frequency ofeverything you create.
That is the work, that is thestrategy, that is manifestation.
What if everything that youhave been chasing through effort
(02:07):
actually starts with embodiment?
Y'all know me, I love to flipthe script, I love to pull a
whole turnaround and do thingscompletely opposite.
Because if we're going to behonest again how we've been
doing things up to certainpoints in our lives really
didn't pan out the way wethought anyway.
(02:28):
So why not just do a complete180 and try something new?
Because this really may be newfor some of us.
I know when I first startedbusiness, this was new to me.
I thought I had to beproductive and kind of like you
know, a robot getting it done,and that served me not at all.
I thought I had to beproductive and kind of like you
know, a robot getting it done,and that served me not at all.
It was when I fell into feelingthat I began to expand, because
(02:52):
when you allow yourself to feelyou're not wasting time, you're
calibrating your system, you'reregulating your nervous system,
which is the foundation of yourpower.
Let me say that again yournervous system is the foundation
of your power.
Let me say that again yournervous system is the foundation
of your power.
If you're constantly in fight,flight, freeze or fawn mode,
(03:14):
you're not building a business,you're surviving it.
You can have the best strategyin the world, the most beautiful
brand, the fanciest funnel, butif your nervous system is
dysregulated, none of it lands.
You talk yourself out ofposting, you panic after
launching.
You'll second guess your prices, your voice, your worth,
(03:35):
because a lot of that is freezeor flight right.
When we're talking about thisin business, a lot of times
these examples are like flightor freeze.
But there's a fight example tooin business when you're
dysregulated, where you'regrinding, grinding, grinding and
you're doing, doing, doing.
It's not regulated but you'reputting out in force, always
(03:56):
hustling, getting into that.
Oh, to survive, I've got toconstantly be out there and
doing stuff, hustle mode,fighting for your business, but
not in a way that pays off inthe end, because even if you
hustle and make money, you endup burnt out.
At some point it breaks and wewant to build a business that
flows.
(04:16):
I want that for you.
I don't want you to besuccessful for six months and
then break down because you'reburnt out and all that progress
you made is for not anyway,because you just can't anymore.
You don't want to anymore, youjust want to lay in bed because
your body's like I need torecover, I'm tired.
The thing is deep down.
If your body does not feel safebeing seen, if it doesn't feel
(04:39):
safe receiving, if it doesn'tfeel safe resting, it will
sabotage anything that wouldrequire expansion.
Feeling is the doorway to safetyand when you start giving
yourself permission to feelwithout needing to fix, you
regulate, you build capacity,you create space.
(04:59):
And speaking of creating spacein a feeling of that is where
creativity lives, not inspreadsheets, not in strategy
docs, but in the silence thathappens after the tears, after
the exhale, after a laugh thatcomes from nowhere.
(05:21):
I've had those experienceswhere I've been meditating and I
just bust out laughing in joy,like a good joy, and that's
where creativity lives in thosemoments.
It's in the clarity that comeswhen you stop performing and you
just allow, when you stopmanaging every emotion and you
finally say this is what I feel,and that's okay, because
(05:44):
feelings make you honest andhonesty that's magnetic, it
makes your content better, itmakes your offers stronger, it
makes your business moresustainable because it's built
from truth and not performance.
And let's not forget aboutguidance, because your intuition
cannot speak louder than yourfear if you never slow down to
(06:07):
listen.
It's not that fear is morepowerful than your intuition,
it's just that you haven'tslowed down so your intuition
can become the louder voice.
Feelings create the channel foryour next level clarity.
So many times people say I knowI need clarity for
manifestation.
(06:28):
I know that is the first step.
But how do I even get clarity?
You listen to your feelings,you channel them.
They help you find your clarity, they help you find the vision,
they help you to pivot, theyhelp with the product idea, the
program that downloads in themiddle of a walk or while
journaling instead of the middleof grinding.
(06:51):
Have your best ideas really cometo you when you're grinding out
stuff?
Have they when you're sittingthere editing content or
creating content?
Is that when your best ideascome, or do they come in the
quiet moments where you're notnear your computer, you're not
near your phone and you're like,oh my God, I need to write this
down before I forget it,because they come in the midst
(07:15):
of slowing down and feeling.
If you want to build newsystems of wealth and ease, you
have to start building a systemthat allows you to feel, because
the old systems that we havebeen programmed in when it comes
to work and you've left thenine-to-five work right You've
left being the worker bee andnow you're the visionary of a
business this programming ofwork was designed around
(07:38):
productivity at the expense ofhumanity, and you're not
building your business in thatimage anymore.
Us women, we're building ourbusinesses for humanity, to
leave the world a better placethan when we found it.
To uplift our community,uplifting other women, helping
others.
We are not doing it at theexpense of productivity.
(08:01):
Sometimes people ask me why doesit seem like men are more
successful in business, or whydoes it seem like it's easier
for men in business?
And there's a lot of reasonswhy that is.
But I think one of the reasonsis because we approach business
like men instead of women.
And I'm not going to debate ondo men feel or women feel more
(08:22):
or the other, but I know me as awoman and my feelings and I
know how I've been told todisregard those, to be more
masculine.
But that time is done.
We do build from feelings.
We build our businesses so thatif something happens in our
lives, we don't have to check itin the door and still be a part
of the cog, that we have abusiness that flows.
(08:43):
So when things happen in life,we can stop and deal with those
things.
We don't have tocompartmentalize that.
We can be whole humans andyou're a shining light building
your business as a woman infeminine.
That is showing you can do itin a way that does not exclude
(09:04):
humanity, that you can be awhole human and be a successful
business owner, that you can bea whole human and feel and do
all the things and you don'tconstantly have to be on and
hustling.
One of the things I did to getto this place, to be honest, is
I shut out all of the voices ofmen when it came to running
(09:25):
businesses and being successfulin life.
I quit reading books from menor following men on social media
and I exclusively looked forwomen books, encouragement and
accounts.
And some of the women accountsmirrored the men's stuff because
they were like.
I learned this from insertman's name and I was like, okay,
that's not for me, because Ididn't want to do it that way
(09:48):
anymore and I'm talking aboutvery popular books and stuff
that I have on my shelf that Idon't read or implement.
And that is when my businessstarted to grow and my
creativity started to come outand the true clarity of what I
wanted happened and theoverthinking stopped and the
self-doubt stopped when I quitreading things like atomic
(10:09):
habits and said you know what?
No, that's not it for me.
I want to tap into somethingdifferent.
That's just me.
You can do what you like.
You can listen to whoever youlike.
I'm not here to tell you who tolisten to or not, but if you're
here, if you're on this podcast, if you follow me, we do things
different.
What is that difference for you?
To where we get out of this ideathat productivity must come at
(10:33):
the expense of humanity, that wehave to check it all at the
door.
We can't feel, and I'm sorry,but as women, we have been told
our whole lives that women aretoo emotional to lead.
Of course we can't have a womanpresident.
She would be way too emotionalto handle the hard stuff.
And that also is programming.
(10:54):
Whether you believe it or not,it's programming.
It's somewhere rooted in yoursubconscious and I think because
that has definitely been atheme, especially with women
running for office We've had twowomen who've run for president
and we hear that.
We hear it from people on thestreet with news people.
You know I'd like to, but womenare really emotional.
(11:15):
We hear it from the oppositionoh, women are so emotional that
we internalize that, even thoughwe get angry, probably.
I know I do and I'm like whatthe hell?
Women are too emotional.
Men start wars for crying outloud, but women are too
emotional.
Okay, like logically,consciously, we think that's
some bullshit.
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But when you hear something overand over again, your
subconscious latches on whetheryou believe it to be true or not
, and I think a lot of womendiscount themselves or they feel
doubt.
Maybe you do, maybe your brainthat little 5% that operates in
consciousness is like women canlead and we can do it.
But your subconscious has beenhearing these type of messages,
things like this and similar,about how men really should be
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leaders, not women, and thatholds you back in some capacity
from saying, oh, I don't know ifmy business can be that
successful.
Maybe if we just do it in a waythat aligns with our feminine
nature, all is well.
That's what I've really learned.
All is well when we do it inour feminine nature, because
feeling safe really is the keyto growth, and you feel safe
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when you're able to be authentic, when you're not having to be
performative.
You can't grow what you don'tfeel safe holding.
That's why your nervous systemhas to be on board with your
goals.
Otherwise your body will keepyou small, even when your
strategy is trying to go big.
Small even when your strategyis trying to go big.
Safety is what lets you receivemore.
Safety is what lets youdelegate without micromanaging.
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No-transcript Feeling is howyou start to teach your body
that it is safe to have what youwant.
There are moments throughout theweek because we build habits
right.
We build habits of productivity, we build habits of hustle.
We build all these habitsthrough our upbringing.
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They're just habits and habitscan sneak back in right, and I
had one of those momentsrecently where I was just like I
got to get stuff done.
I got to get stuff done, but Irecognized it because awareness
is key.
So I recognized it.
I recognized I was trying toforce myself into action because
if anybody knows me, they knowI'm a very scheduled and routine
person and I need my routine.
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My routine is important to me.
But I realized that my schedulesaid I should be doing things
and so.
So I started doing more for somereason and I just paused and I
was like no, because I don'twant to do it like this.
I sat down, I breathed into mybody.
I was on the porch on a niceday, I just let the sun hit me.
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I have this beautiful big treein my front yard.
It's expansive.
I love to look at it.
It's like the most calmingthing to me.
I was feeling frustrated, I wasfeeling impatient, but the
desire for more ease was there.
So I just went to that placethat felt good to me and I just
fell into it and 10 minuteslater, clarity dropped because
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it wasn't forced and it waschanneled and it started with
feeling.
It started with feeling thefrustration and the impatience
and then shifting into more ease.
So here's what I want you totry today, so that we build with
flow and not force.
Just don't push yourself, don'tforce it, don't force it.
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Just pause and ask what am Ifeeling right now?
What do I desire to feel?
And then I want you to act fromthe second answer and not the
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first.
What am I feeling right now?
That was me.
I was feeling impatient andfrustrated.
That was the now feeling.
And what do I desire to feel?
And I acted from the second.
Ease and flow was how I wantedto feel.
This isn't a break from yourbusiness.
This is your business, and Ithink that's where a lot of us
get it confused.
Oh, shannon, I can't take thosekind of breaks from my business
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.
This is not a break from yourbusiness.
This is your business Because aregulated, safe and embodied
you.
That's the woman who buildsempires, and if you want a daily
practice to help you embodythis, this is one that I use
every single day.
I've been using this practicefor almost three years now To
stay aligned, to stay grounded.
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This keeps you really in yourpower, no matter what the
calendar says, and it's calledManifest Momentum.
It is a five-minute ritual thathelps you to track your energy,
your desires and your alignment, because momentum doesn't come
from hustle.
It comes from belief, fromembodiment, from repeating what
works and feeling what's working.
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You can grab it in the link onthis podcast.
I promise you it's not just atracker.
It is a whole new way to buildyour business.
Like, if I don't do anythingelse in my business in a day, I
do that.
If it is a day where I'm likeI'm nothing, I trust the
universe that my business isgoing to do what it needs to do
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without me interfering, but I dothe ritual.
That's it.
I do it for all things.
As we wrap up today, I reallywant you to understand that you
don't need to be more worthy.
You don't have to prove yourvalue through exhaustion.
You're allowed to build yourbusiness from a place of
softness, of stillness, offeeling.
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So give yourself space today,feel everything and watch what
flows through, when you stoptrying to control the outcome.
I'll chat with you next week.
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