October 17, 2024 • 36 mins
Imagine transforming chaos into happiness through the simple yet powerful practice of gratitude. That's the journey I embarked on, moving from a life filled with disorder to one illuminated by joy and fulfillment. Join me as I unfold my personal story of intentional living and self-love, and explore the mantra that has reshaped my perspective: 'I'm grateful that I get to live the life I've chosen.' This isn't just a story; it's a guide to recognizing privileges and shifting from feeling obligated to embracing the abundance around us.
Gratitude goes beyond just a feeling—it's a force that guides us in making choices aligned with our deepest desires. Through my own experiences, including a significant move back to France after years in Canada, I've learned the importance of pursuing dreams and savoring the present moment. We'll explore how gratitude is more than a concept; it's a practical tool for navigating life's challenges with resilience and grace. Whether it's responding to the crunch of leaves underfoot or taking a moment by the river, these moments anchor us during turbulent times, revealing the profound impact gratitude can have on our lives.
Facing emotional challenges from afar, especially during family health crises, can feel overwhelming. Yet, gratitude offers clarity and comfort, shifting focus from scarcity to abundance. I'll share personal struggles and the coping mechanisms that have helped me persevere, like finding joy and respite in a local bakery's treats. By practicing gratitude, we enhance emotional resilience, strengthen relationships, and appreciate the richness in our lives, regardless of adversity. This episode invites you to embrace gratitude as a transformative practice, enriching your journey and attracting more positivity into your life.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
welcome to pocket full of mojo.
Where you're, you and I'm steph, and we tune in here to dab
into some mojo.
And if you're new here andasking what's's Mojo?
Well, mojo is that feeling ofunshakable confidence, that
booming self-worth.
Like you're an unstoppableforce of nature.
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You know that feeling you getthat makes you want to strut
like a 90s supermodel, and I'mhere to show you how you can
have that feeling every singleday.
You see, I think I've crackedthe code to being happy.
I'm happy all the freaking time, every day, at least most of
the day, possibly to an annoyingdegree.
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But hey, I wasn't always thisway.
And not to flex, but I've hadmultiple breakdowns on multiple
continents and in two differentlanguages.
Three years ago, my whole lifewas a dumpster fire and today
I'm better than I've ever been.
How Well?
By paying attention and byliving with more intention.
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And I've curated this self-lovefirst aid kit and it's full of
amazing tools that help me levelup and navigate life with that
main character energy.
And I'm not here to gatekeep.
In fact, I'm on a mission tohelp you tap into your best
stuff and remember that you haveeverything you need to live
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your life on your own terms.
So settle in, we're here forsome positive change.
So let's dig in to where yourmojo meets the road.
In today's episode, I'm going toreview our mantra for the week
and then we're going to dig intotoday's main topic, and that
topic is the attitude ofgratitude.
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Just in time for Thanksgiving,and we're going to take giving
thanks from a holiday to a wayof life.
But, plot twist, we are nottaking it just on the road, but
we are taking it international.
We're going overseas once again, and today's episode is coming
to you in between bites ofcroissants and sips of wine, and
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I can't wait to tell you allabout it.
So you stick around, and I'mgoing to make sure that you're
glad that you did.
So.
Let's get started with today'smantra and get tuned in, tapped
in and turned on.
Hello and welcome to the 39thepisode of Pocketful of Mojo man
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39.
I can't believe it.
And once again, I'm Steph, I'myour Mojo Maven, I'm your
emotional Sherpa, and I'm soglad you're here.
Am I a therapist?
No, do I have a degree inpsychology?
Also, no, I'm a flawed humanand a recovering people pleaser,
and I just happened to havefigured out how to tap into our
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best stuff.
I'm here to reflect yourawesomeness and hook you up with
some inspiration and motivationto help you live the life that
you love and love the life thatyou live you in.
Let's go.
Let's start by digging intotoday's mantra, and today's
mantra is I'm grateful that Iget to live the life I've chosen
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.
Oh, my God, I think this may bemy favorite mantra, yet let's
unpack it together I'm gratefulthat I get to live the life that
I've chosen.
Now, you know I love a good, Iam mantra, and this one is no
exception.
It's a juicy one and it canprovoke some mixed feelings.
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So let's put it under themicroscope and look at what
we've got.
When we're talking aboutgratitude, it's a choice, it's a
conscious act, it's a way tosee the world, a way that we can
identify what's important to usand what we value.
The act or the practice ofgratitude.
It's more than justappreciation.
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Gratitude grounds you in thepresent moment and it anchors
you in strength and in optimism.
It really allows you to tuneinto the positive, the
nourishing feelings that comewhen you practice gratitude and
you get to be the author of thelist of things that you're
grateful for.
There's no right or wronganswers when it comes to your
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gratitude list.
When it comes to gratitude,there's no middle ground.
You're either grateful oryou're not.
It's like pregnancy you can'tbe a little bit grateful.
So when practicing gratitudeand making the list of the
things that you're thankful for,this is your cue to jump in the
deep end and truly embody thefeeling of gratitude.
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Feel it in every cell in yourbody.
I am grateful that I get tolive the life that I've chosen.
Tuning into this feelingreminds us how good it feels to
feel good, and when we do this,our brains will automatically
work on our behalf to get moreof these things in our life.
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Practicing gratitude willprepare you to receive and
accept more in your life thatyou're actually grateful for.
If you don't appreciate what youalready have, it can feel like
a struggle to get more of whatyou love in your life.
Imagine for a second that youdon't have to do anything, but
instead you get to do whateveryou want.
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Stay with me.
When you say the phrase I haveto make dinner tonight, there's
an oppressive resistance, asense of obligation and duty
that kind of takes the fun outof it.
But what if you said I get tomake dinner tonight.
Notice the shift.
Notice how it feels lighter,more fun and like it's a
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privilege.
When you see the world this way, the day gets a little brighter
just from making this gentleshift.
It means that you've tappedinto the power and the purity
that comes when you're living inawareness of how great life can
be.
I'm grateful that I get to livethe life that I've chosen.
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So let me guess this mantrafeels a little wonky, like it
doesn't quite fit, because youdon't feel like it's true, like
it's a statement that might workfor other people, but you don't
feel like you're in thedriver's seat and if it were up
to you, life would look a wholelot different, right?
Well, my friend, I've got somegood news and some bad news.
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The bad news is is that you'vebeen in charge this whole time
and it's your choices that havemade your life what it is today,
for better or for worse.
And the good news is thatyou're in charge.
The choices you make from hereon out will determine your
future.
How powerful is that?
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This moment is all that reallyexists and you get to be the
author, the director, thearchitect of the rest of your
life, even if your awarenessthat you've been in charge has
only occurred to you now.
The rest of your story isn'twritten yet.
So what does this mean?
Well, you don't have to blow upyour life in order to find the
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happiness that you're lookingfor.
Simply by seeing your lifethrough the lens of gratitude,
you can begin to shape yourthoughts, your beliefs and your
actions to be more in alignmentwith a life that you love.
I'm grateful that I get to livethe life I've chosen.
Now, don't get me wrong.
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Life can be chaos.
There's plenty of choices thatare made for us and there are
plenty of things in this lifethat happen daily that are
completely out of our control.
Facts are facts, but I'm hereto remind you that that's not
your cue to lie down and justtake whatever the world throws
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at you.
This is about empowerment.
This is about engaging in thechoices that you make and
reminding you that you mightjust have more control over the
choices you make than you think.
There may be a few limitingbeliefs kicking around the old
noggin that are limiting the joyand the pleasure in your life.
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What would your life look likeif you had more joy, more
pleasure in your day-to-day, andnot just on special occasions
Hot take.
It's through gratitude that weare able to collect and multiply
the moments that do serve andfulfill us, and it's through
gratitude that we can inventorythe things in our life that we
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hold dear, that fill our needs,that inspire our desires and
warm our hearts.
Now what if you made a simpleshift in perspective and
remembered that you are indeedin charge and steered your
choices towards sunny skies andhappier days?
I'm grateful that I get to livethe life I've chosen.
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Now you don't need to besuccessful to be grateful.
You don't need to have achievedthe goal in order to be
grateful.
You don't have to be perfect tobe grateful, and you don't have
to wait until you have all yourneeds met in order to tap into
your gratitude.
When you practice the art ofgiving thanks, you are shifting
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away from scarcity and remindingyourself that you actually do
have abundance in your life, andthis lays the path towards
having that abundance in moreareas of your life.
The fun part here is howgratitude allows us to tune in
to what we love about life andempowers us to begin to make
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choices that pave the way formore of what we love most in our
life.
After all, we're here for agood time and not a long time.
The goal Live the life you love.
Love the life you live.
I am grateful that I get tolive the life I've chosen.
Ermagird what a powerful andgame-changing mantra.
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I really love it because it's agreat gut check to see how much
I'm listening to myself and howmy day-to-day choices are
serving me, and you know whenI'm.
When we're talking aboutgratitude and our ability to
make choices and you know,loving the life that we are
living, that doesn't mean thatthe hard times and the bad times
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and the failures we want to begrateful for those things as
well, because those are thethings that nudge us back on our
path.
Those are the things that helpus learn what we need to learn
in order to get where we want togo.
So it's about loving all of itthe peaks, the valleys and the
journey in between.
Because when I think aboutlooking at my day-to-day choices
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and how they're serving me ormaybe how they're not serving me
and as soon as I feel that pangof being out of alignment with
what I really want, it helps meto tune in, to be more in touch
with what my needs are, and itmakes that change way easier
because the things in my lifethat are out of whack they're
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going to pop up immediately andhelp me take steps to get back
on track and let go of thethings in my life that are
holding me back and aren'tserving me or limiting my life
from being as great as it can be.
So I want to take you on alittle walk now.
I'm going to shoot it over.
We're going to do some mojo onthe go and we're going to go get
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some croissants.
So, without further ado, I passit on over to Mojo on the go.
Well, gobble, gobble, gobble.
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Welcome to Mojo on the Go, theFrench edition.
You and I, we are going to go ona little walk and discover how
the attitude of gratitude canmake a difference, and I've got
lots to share with you.
It's really that special timeof year we just wrapped up
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Thanksgiving in Canada and thenfor all my American friends it's
coming up in November.
So what a great time to talkabout a super fundamental
ingredient in mojo, and that'sgratitude and thankfulness, and
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I can tell you after the lastcouple of weeks that I've had,
that gratitude and thankfulnessare definitely the flotation
device that I've needed to keepgoing and I mean, hey, just
because I'm your Mojo Maven,doesn't that mean that my life
is nothing but rainbows andunicorns?
Life happens.
I am not beyond that.
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So what I want to share with youtoday is about gratitude and
how it's a tool and not just anidea, how it's an act, how it's
a mindset, and how it can reallyhelp us achieve those really
fundamental parts of mojo, whichare, you know, emotional
resilience and mindset, and thatthing that we're all chasing,
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which is overall happiness.
And that seems kind of hard totalk about when you're not in a
happy place, but that's okay,because what we're going to talk
about today is how to break itdown, how to look at it a little
bit differently what isgratitude, what it's not, and
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how this tool in our toolbox isreally going to help steer the
ship when there's stormy waters.
And my analogy might beinfluenced by the fact that I'm
walking by the river, because Ithought I'd take us for a little
walk today.
It's a beautiful day, it'squiet, I'm just walking
underneath a bridge next to theriver and I'm feeling all the
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crunchy leaves under my feet,and these are things that I'm
grateful for.
Right.
Being grateful really drops youinto that present moment and
helps you be in the here and now.
So, like I was saying, I've beenon the struggle bus a little
bit, so I'm going to tell youabout that, but first I want to
back up a bit.
So, as I mentioned, I'm comingto you direct from France.
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I'm back in my former hometown.
I used to live here from 2017to 2021.
And I really built someincredible relationships here
and this is kind of like cominghome.
I mean, in addition to theamazing people that I met, I
also really just love this city.
It just really feels like it'smy speed, my style, and it just
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feels really good to be here.
And ever since I left in 2021,I've wanted to come back and
I've been talking about comingback and I've been dreaming
about coming back and I've beenthinking about coming back and
then finally, I got tired ofhearing myself say I'm going to
come back and visit.
It just felt like I was someonewho talked about it, not
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somebody who did something aboutit.
So not that long ago, I lookedat my bank account, I looked at
my environment and I was like,okay, it's time to do the thing,
it's time to stop talking aboutit and it's time to do the
thing.
It's time to stop talking aboutit and it's time to do the
thing because, as you know oneof my favorite mantras, thoughts
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become things.
So I finally put myself firstand I saw this as it really
being my turn.
This is my reward, this is methanking myself, this is me
owning my choices, this is mefinding balance in my life of
service Because for the lastthree years since I moved from
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France back to Canada to helpout with my dad after my mom
passed away, that has been mylife, a life of service and, of
course, rebuilding myself andprocessing my own grief and
creating Mojo Mastery, but withfamily really being a towering
value of mine.
It very much led and guided alot of my decisions and was very
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much my priority.
So now that things were stableat home, I knew that this was my
time.
I just had that intuition oflike being fed up with my own
self, of not doing the big thing, because trust me when I say,
when you limit your own joy inthe name of service, it seems
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real noble, but that turns intoresentment pretty quick.
So I booked everything whenthings were stable and you know
I could tell that my dad wasn'twas happy for me kind of, but
also really concerned forhimself and you know his care is
now in my brother's hands.
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So you know everything's goodthere and all the I's were
dotted and the T's were crossed.
But you know you can't planeverything in life and I knew
the risks.
I knew that there was going tobe a risk that something
happened to my dad when I wasaway, whether that was something
big or something small.
And I had to have some reallytough conversations with myself,
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like really give myself someparameters, like if I'm going to
be on this trip, I need toallow myself to be on this trip
and not try to be in two placesat once and not try to provide
care from across the AtlanticOcean.
It was really important for meto have awareness that something
could happen in my absence andnot feel guilt and just
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completely reject the idea thatI was responsible in some way
for his 86-year-old body takinga turn for the worse.
I have lots of superpowers, butinvincibility is not one of
them and I had plenty of reasonsto be suspect that something
was going to happen in myabsence.
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Because you know.
Again, I don't consider myselfa magic ingredient, but history
does dictate.
Like when I go on any like dogsitting jobs it doesn't happen
every time, but probably likeone out of every four times.
Probably like one out of everyfour times it'll happen that I'm
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away just up the street,sometimes doing some dog sitting
or cat sitting, and I get acall from dad that something has
happened.
I went away to the lake and Icalled to check in and see how
he was doing and he fell downand hurt his knee.
I was going to go to Minnesotato go see Madonna and that
morning I woke up to him callingthe ambulance because his
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defibrillator went off and theytook him to the hospital lights
and sirens.
So it's not beyond me thatsomething could have happened.
Like I was mentally prepared forthe reality that something
might happen while I was away,because I know that I've already
done so much.
I've curated an incrediblerelationship with my dad that I
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never had before.
I was very much of service andbeing able to keep him
comfortable as comfortable aspossible and helping him
maintain a quality of life thathe's worthy of, even if it is
limited.
I got to be a part of that andI'm really grateful for that.
I'm super thankful for thechoices that I've made, but that
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also doesn't lock me in to thatbeing my life and my lifestyle
for the rest of my life.
So I knew before I left that itwas really important for me to
give myself grace, to do what'sright in the moment.
So I didn't have to have all ofthe contingency plans worked
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out and figured out before Ileft, because the future is
fiction and I couldn't say tomyself well, if this happens,
I'll do this, and if thathappens I'll do that, because
that's just putting all myenergy in the wrong place.
So I rooted myself in gratitudethat I was able to take this
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trip.
I rooted myself in thankfulnessthat dad's health had
stabilized enough to allow me tofeel confident to make this
decision, to go on this trip.
So I pulled the trigger, boughtthe ticket, and I did it with
zero anxiety and with the trueintention to really live in the
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now and not a possible futurethat may or may not exist based
on my imagination, because yourimagination is going to tell you
anything.
Sometimes your imagination isgreat and sometimes it's a
stupid liar that just muddiesthe waters.
So it had been a week that I'dlanded.
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This was last Monday.
I was doing one of my favoritethings in the whole world with
some of my favorite people.
I went for a three-hour dinnerat one of my favorite
restaurants and we grabbed adrink first and then we had the
full three-course meal andshared a bottle of wine.
And so many laughs and so manygood times and we did some
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reminiscing and we caught upabout life and it was really a
really great moment.
And as we were leaving, myphone buzzed and I got somewhat
of a cryptic text from mybrother saying hey, steph, do
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you want an update?
Okay, and this was at 11o'clock at night, kind of
floating on air, and I roseabove my sassy instinct to reply
something clever or quippy andI just said yeah, how are things
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?
What's up?
And that's when I found outthat my dad had been admitted to
the emergency room withshortness of breath and a
possible lung infection.
And that's when the bubblepopped.
So there I was, caught betweenmy dream and my nightmare.
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So I sat down, I took a breath,I accepted a hug from my friend
and I just took a beat toprocess and to ground myself and
to observe my thoughts a littlebit and just kind of I know
this sounds weird, but kind oflike emotionally detach myself
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from the situation so that Icould objectively look at it and
say, okay, what are the facts,and maybe that's a coping
mechanism, maybe that's justdissociating Again.
Listen to the intro.
I'm not a psychologist, I'm nota therapist, but that's what I
did and besides, I had the winefrom dinner do a lot of the
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heavy lifting, so that was kindof helpful.
And so, god bless my brothers.
We've been in pretty closetouch ever since and they're
giving me updates on what'sgoing on.
But it all seems really hard tonavigate and uncertain.
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And in my own head ever sincethen I've just really felt
rattled.
I felt it's been really hard toget work done.
I feel like it's been reallyhard to concentrate.
I feel like I just want todissociate all the time and fill
my head with distractionbecause I feel somewhat
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paralyzed too.
I'm unable to show up and helpin that capacity.
I'm trying to figure out how Ican be supportive from so far
away, and I go back to themantra that I was using ever
since that moment, which is I'mnot at my best, but I'm doing my
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best and there's so much graceand comfort in there that the
second that I start to reel andstart to like get in my head, I
just take a breath and I saythose words to myself and it
lets me off the hook a littlebit and it lets me have a little
bit more clarity on how I wantto put one foot in front of the
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other.
And it was really sweet.
My brother sent me a messagethe other day and he said I've
got a turkey in the freezer andwe'll enjoy it all together when
we're all back together.
Enjoy it all together whenwe're all back together and with
things being really touch andgo with dad right now, like he's
still in the hospital almosttwo weeks later and they don't
really know what to do with himand he doesn't need so much care
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that they can put him in afacility, but he needs more care
than what we can provide him athome.
So we're living in this reallyweird gray area and it's hard to
navigate, and it's really hardto navigate from 4,000
kilometers away.
Okay, we made it.
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We're at the bakery, let's goget some things.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Bonjour, bonjour, ficelle, aperro, l'ardon est
mentale.
S'il vous plaît, thingscroissant classique, ce serait
parfait.
Très bien, voilà, merci.
Merci beaucoup, madame.
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Bonne journée Bon.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
That was our little trip to the boulangerie, my
friends.
I hope you enjoyed that.
For those of you who need atranslation, I got a classic
croissant.
I got a almond croissant, whichhas this like really yummy
marzipan inside, and then theyput powdered sugar on top and
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it's very gourmand, verydelicious.
And then the ficelle aperitifit's like this teeny, tiny
little baguette and they stuffit with bacon and cheese.
So that's pretty dope.
Talk about girl dinner.
Talk about things to begrateful for, my goodness.
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So let's get back to gratitude.
Now that I've got a handful ofgratitude here in carb form, one
thing I want to share with youis something that I actually got
from Oprah.
If anybody knows what's up,it's that lady.
She says she's trained herthoughts so that the first thing
that she thinks when she wakesup is to say thank you.
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That's her first thought.
Because tomorrow is notpromised, my friends.
We make plans as though it is,which is wonderful, because
that's hope, that's faith, butwhen we start our day like
literal first thought beingthank you, we are already off to
the races to be rooted in whatwe're thankful for.
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So let's now talk about whatgratitude is, what it isn't, and
how it helps us build a happylife, even when things are hard,
because gratitude it's a dailypractice, it's a mindset shift,
it's an act, and the best thingthat it can do for you is it can
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act as a tool for youremotional resilience, because
emotional resilience is theability to bounce back, the
ability to rise above, theability to dust yourself off and
keep going.
But don't get it twisted.
When we talk about whatgratitude isn't, it is not
ignoring your problems.
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Problems are still going toexist, but it might put you on
better footing to be able toactually address the problems in
your life and navigate thestormy waters and have a little
bit of a better time controllinghow we respond and react to
things when they hit us out ofthe blue.
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Another thing that gratitude isnot.
Gratitude is not conditional onsuccess.
It does not need to wait foryou to win in order to be
grateful or to be thankful.
And I read an article the otherday that was really interesting
and it talked about howgratitude is not and they called
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it passive contentment.
And that's what really caughtmy eye and I dug into it a
little bit more to really seehow passive contentment is
settling.
It's saying to yourself.
Well, you know I didn't get thejob, but that's fine.
You know you can be grateful andstill want more.
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You can be grateful andthankful for everything that you
have and still know that youwant more, better, and that your
worthiness is maybe greaterthan the situation that you find
yourself in.
All those things can be true atthe same time, because when we
talk about how to usethankfulness and gratitude to
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build a happy life, it shiftsour focus from scarcity to
abundance.
It helps us stop thinking aboutwhat we don't have and
redirects that energy into aloving, grateful, thankful place
for everything that we do have,because we've made choices and
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decisions that have gotten us tothis very moment and has
brought us every single thingthat we've ever had, every
single experience that we'veever had.
And when you practice gratitude, it strengthens our
relationships.
It lets people know how we feelabout them and how important
they are.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Bonjour Vous avez rentré.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oui, est-ce que je peux vous accompagner?
Nous n'avons pas de nouvellesde M Ponce, qui habite dans cet
immeuble.
D'accord, son fils est inquietégalement.
Il nous a demandé de venir voirce qu'il.
Oh wow, that was something.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So I just ran into this lovely older couple who are
doing a wellness check onsomeone because they hadn't
heard from them in a really longtime.
Okay, so I think we got cut offthere, but I want to wrap this
up and bring it home.
Think we got cut off there, butI want to wrap this up and
bring it home because, yeah,gratitude and thankfulness
they're really just incrediblegame changers when it comes to
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enhancing your self-worth,acknowledging all that you've
accomplished, all the ways thatyou've grown, and it really does
boost your mental well-beingand and I know, as I say, that
there's also like an element oflike duh, because who doesn't
want to take inventory of allthat is great in their life?
Because that keeps us rooted inwhat we appreciate, in what we
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honor, in what we value and inwhat's important to us.
So what I know is that, fromhere, I am thankful that you
tuned in here today.
I am grateful that I've gotchoices in my life that allow me
to share this mission, share mystory and hopefully make a
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ripple effect that allows otherpeople to ground themselves in
thankfulness and gratefulness,so that we can go out into the
world and navigate the chaos andquiet the noise and stay rooted
in what's most important to us.
So, if Thanksgiving is in frontof you or behind you, remember
that giving thanks is somethingthat we can do every day,
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because to have one day a yeardedicated to love, that's not
enough.
Every day should be Valentine'sDay, every day should be
Thanksgiving, because there'salways room in your day for more
love, more gratitude and morethankfulness.
The world will never, ever, runout of those things.
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So, with that set, my gorgeousfriend here's to you, here's to
your mojo, and all of theblessings that we have to be
thankful for, go and have funmaking a list, because that is
one of the best exercises toelevate your mood, to raise your
vibration, to heighten yourmojo and to help you tap in and
tune in to all that is great inthis life, and that is what you
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deserve an abundance ofgreatness.
So, on that note, I'm going toshoot it back to the studio.
Thank you so much for joiningme on our little walk to go get
some pastries.
May your day be delicious andyour life be magic.
Ciao, for now, au revoir.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Bisous.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
And that was Pocketful of Mojo Road Trip
Edition.
Tune in next week for a veryspecial episode where we will
continue to keep itinternational, and I want to
wish all of my friends a happyThanksgiving, wherever you
celebrate.
What a great time to besurrounded by things that lift
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you up, fill your cup and reallyimmerse and drown yourself in
all the beautiful and messyparts of life that make this
moment what it is.
Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode.
We'll be back next week withanother episode and in the
meantime, if you feel like yourmojo could use a little tune up,
there's plenty of ways that wecan do this again sometime.
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Ciao for now, mwah.
welcome to pocket full of mojo.
Where you're, you and I'm steph, and we tune in here to dab
into some mojo.
And if you're new here andasking what's's Mojo?
Well, mojo is that feeling ofunshakable confidence, that
booming self-worth.
Like you're an unstoppableforce of nature.
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You know that feeling you getthat makes you want to strut
like a 90s supermodel, and I'mhere to show you how you can
have that feeling every singleday.
You see, I think I've crackedthe code to being happy.
I'm happy all the freaking time, every day, at least most of
the day, possibly to an annoyingdegree.
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But hey, I wasn't always thisway.
And not to flex, but I've hadmultiple breakdowns on multiple
continents and in two differentlanguages.
Three years ago, my whole lifewas a dumpster fire and today
I'm better than I've ever been.
How Well?
By paying attention and byliving with more intention.
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And I've curated this self-lovefirst aid kit and it's full of
amazing tools that help me levelup and navigate life with that
main character energy.
And I'm not here to gatekeep.
In fact, I'm on a mission tohelp you tap into your best
stuff and remember that you haveeverything you need to live
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your life on your own terms.
So settle in, we're here forsome positive change.
So let's dig in to where yourmojo meets the road.
In today's episode, I'm going toreview our mantra for the week
and then we're going to dig intotoday's main topic, and that
topic is the attitude ofgratitude.
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Just in time for Thanksgiving,and we're going to take giving
thanks from a holiday to a wayof life.
But, plot twist, we are nottaking it just on the road, but
we are taking it international.
We're going overseas once again, and today's episode is coming
to you in between bites ofcroissants and sips of wine, and
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I can't wait to tell you allabout it.
So you stick around, and I'mgoing to make sure that you're
glad that you did.
So.
Let's get started with today'smantra and get tuned in, tapped
in and turned on.
Hello and welcome to the 39thepisode of Pocketful of Mojo man
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39.
I can't believe it.
And once again, I'm Steph, I'myour Mojo Maven, I'm your
emotional Sherpa, and I'm soglad you're here.
Am I a therapist?
No, do I have a degree inpsychology?
Also, no, I'm a flawed humanand a recovering people pleaser,
and I just happened to havefigured out how to tap into our
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best stuff.
I'm here to reflect yourawesomeness and hook you up with
some inspiration and motivationto help you live the life that
you love and love the life thatyou live you in.
Let's go.
Let's start by digging intotoday's mantra, and today's
mantra is I'm grateful that Iget to live the life I've chosen
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.
Oh, my God, I think this may bemy favorite mantra, yet let's
unpack it together I'm gratefulthat I get to live the life that
I've chosen.
Now, you know I love a good, Iam mantra, and this one is no
exception.
It's a juicy one and it canprovoke some mixed feelings.
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So let's put it under themicroscope and look at what
we've got.
When we're talking aboutgratitude, it's a choice, it's a
conscious act, it's a way tosee the world, a way that we can
identify what's important to usand what we value.
The act or the practice ofgratitude.
It's more than justappreciation.
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Gratitude grounds you in thepresent moment and it anchors
you in strength and in optimism.
It really allows you to tuneinto the positive, the
nourishing feelings that comewhen you practice gratitude and
you get to be the author of thelist of things that you're
grateful for.
There's no right or wronganswers when it comes to your
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gratitude list.
When it comes to gratitude,there's no middle ground.
You're either grateful oryou're not.
It's like pregnancy you can'tbe a little bit grateful.
So when practicing gratitudeand making the list of the
things that you're thankful for,this is your cue to jump in the
deep end and truly embody thefeeling of gratitude.
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Feel it in every cell in yourbody.
I am grateful that I get tolive the life that I've chosen.
Tuning into this feelingreminds us how good it feels to
feel good, and when we do this,our brains will automatically
work on our behalf to get moreof these things in our life.
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Practicing gratitude willprepare you to receive and
accept more in your life thatyou're actually grateful for.
If you don't appreciate what youalready have, it can feel like
a struggle to get more of whatyou love in your life.
Imagine for a second that youdon't have to do anything, but
instead you get to do whateveryou want.
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Stay with me.
When you say the phrase I haveto make dinner tonight, there's
an oppressive resistance, asense of obligation and duty
that kind of takes the fun outof it.
But what if you said I get tomake dinner tonight.
Notice the shift.
Notice how it feels lighter,more fun and like it's a
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privilege.
When you see the world this way, the day gets a little brighter
just from making this gentleshift.
It means that you've tappedinto the power and the purity
that comes when you're living inawareness of how great life can
be.
I'm grateful that I get to livethe life that I've chosen.
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So let me guess this mantrafeels a little wonky, like it
doesn't quite fit, because youdon't feel like it's true, like
it's a statement that might workfor other people, but you don't
feel like you're in thedriver's seat and if it were up
to you, life would look a wholelot different, right?
Well, my friend, I've got somegood news and some bad news.
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The bad news is is that you'vebeen in charge this whole time
and it's your choices that havemade your life what it is today,
for better or for worse.
And the good news is thatyou're in charge.
The choices you make from hereon out will determine your
future.
How powerful is that?
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This moment is all that reallyexists and you get to be the
author, the director, thearchitect of the rest of your
life, even if your awarenessthat you've been in charge has
only occurred to you now.
The rest of your story isn'twritten yet.
So what does this mean?
Well, you don't have to blow upyour life in order to find the
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happiness that you're lookingfor.
Simply by seeing your lifethrough the lens of gratitude,
you can begin to shape yourthoughts, your beliefs and your
actions to be more in alignmentwith a life that you love.
I'm grateful that I get to livethe life I've chosen.
Now, don't get me wrong.
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Life can be chaos.
There's plenty of choices thatare made for us and there are
plenty of things in this lifethat happen daily that are
completely out of our control.
Facts are facts, but I'm hereto remind you that that's not
your cue to lie down and justtake whatever the world throws
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at you.
This is about empowerment.
This is about engaging in thechoices that you make and
reminding you that you mightjust have more control over the
choices you make than you think.
There may be a few limitingbeliefs kicking around the old
noggin that are limiting the joyand the pleasure in your life.
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What would your life look likeif you had more joy, more
pleasure in your day-to-day, andnot just on special occasions
Hot take.
It's through gratitude that weare able to collect and multiply
the moments that do serve andfulfill us, and it's through
gratitude that we can inventorythe things in our life that we
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hold dear, that fill our needs,that inspire our desires and
warm our hearts.
Now what if you made a simpleshift in perspective and
remembered that you are indeedin charge and steered your
choices towards sunny skies andhappier days?
I'm grateful that I get to livethe life I've chosen.
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Now you don't need to besuccessful to be grateful.
You don't need to have achievedthe goal in order to be
grateful.
You don't have to be perfect tobe grateful, and you don't have
to wait until you have all yourneeds met in order to tap into
your gratitude.
When you practice the art ofgiving thanks, you are shifting
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away from scarcity and remindingyourself that you actually do
have abundance in your life, andthis lays the path towards
having that abundance in moreareas of your life.
The fun part here is howgratitude allows us to tune in
to what we love about life andempowers us to begin to make
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choices that pave the way formore of what we love most in our
life.
After all, we're here for agood time and not a long time.
The goal Live the life you love.
Love the life you live.
I am grateful that I get tolive the life I've chosen.
Ermagird what a powerful andgame-changing mantra.
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I really love it because it's agreat gut check to see how much
I'm listening to myself and howmy day-to-day choices are
serving me, and you know whenI'm.
When we're talking aboutgratitude and our ability to
make choices and you know,loving the life that we are
living, that doesn't mean thatthe hard times and the bad times
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and the failures we want to begrateful for those things as
well, because those are thethings that nudge us back on our
path.
Those are the things that helpus learn what we need to learn
in order to get where we want togo.
So it's about loving all of itthe peaks, the valleys and the
journey in between.
Because when I think aboutlooking at my day-to-day choices
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and how they're serving me ormaybe how they're not serving me
and as soon as I feel that pangof being out of alignment with
what I really want, it helps meto tune in, to be more in touch
with what my needs are, and itmakes that change way easier
because the things in my lifethat are out of whack they're
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going to pop up immediately andhelp me take steps to get back
on track and let go of thethings in my life that are
holding me back and aren'tserving me or limiting my life
from being as great as it can be.
So I want to take you on alittle walk now.
I'm going to shoot it over.
We're going to do some mojo onthe go and we're going to go get
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some croissants.
So, without further ado, I passit on over to Mojo on the go.
Well, gobble, gobble, gobble.
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Welcome to Mojo on the Go, theFrench edition.
You and I, we are going to go ona little walk and discover how
the attitude of gratitude canmake a difference, and I've got
lots to share with you.
It's really that special timeof year we just wrapped up
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Thanksgiving in Canada and thenfor all my American friends it's
coming up in November.
So what a great time to talkabout a super fundamental
ingredient in mojo, and that'sgratitude and thankfulness, and
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I can tell you after the lastcouple of weeks that I've had,
that gratitude and thankfulnessare definitely the flotation
device that I've needed to keepgoing and I mean, hey, just
because I'm your Mojo Maven,doesn't that mean that my life
is nothing but rainbows andunicorns?
Life happens.
I am not beyond that.
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So what I want to share with youtoday is about gratitude and
how it's a tool and not just anidea, how it's an act, how it's
a mindset, and how it can reallyhelp us achieve those really
fundamental parts of mojo, whichare, you know, emotional
resilience and mindset, and thatthing that we're all chasing,
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which is overall happiness.
And that seems kind of hard totalk about when you're not in a
happy place, but that's okay,because what we're going to talk
about today is how to break itdown, how to look at it a little
bit differently what isgratitude, what it's not, and
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how this tool in our toolbox isreally going to help steer the
ship when there's stormy waters.
And my analogy might beinfluenced by the fact that I'm
walking by the river, because Ithought I'd take us for a little
walk today.
It's a beautiful day, it'squiet, I'm just walking
underneath a bridge next to theriver and I'm feeling all the
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crunchy leaves under my feet,and these are things that I'm
grateful for.
Right.
Being grateful really drops youinto that present moment and
helps you be in the here and now.
So, like I was saying, I've beenon the struggle bus a little
bit, so I'm going to tell youabout that, but first I want to
back up a bit.
So, as I mentioned, I'm comingto you direct from France.
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I'm back in my former hometown.
I used to live here from 2017to 2021.
And I really built someincredible relationships here
and this is kind of like cominghome.
I mean, in addition to theamazing people that I met, I
also really just love this city.
It just really feels like it'smy speed, my style, and it just
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feels really good to be here.
And ever since I left in 2021,I've wanted to come back and
I've been talking about comingback and I've been dreaming
about coming back and I've beenthinking about coming back and
then finally, I got tired ofhearing myself say I'm going to
come back and visit.
It just felt like I was someonewho talked about it, not
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somebody who did something aboutit.
So not that long ago, I lookedat my bank account, I looked at
my environment and I was like,okay, it's time to do the thing,
it's time to stop talking aboutit and it's time to do the
thing.
It's time to stop talking aboutit and it's time to do the
thing because, as you know oneof my favorite mantras, thoughts
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become things.
So I finally put myself firstand I saw this as it really
being my turn.
This is my reward, this is methanking myself, this is me
owning my choices, this is mefinding balance in my life of
service Because for the lastthree years since I moved from
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France back to Canada to helpout with my dad after my mom
passed away, that has been mylife, a life of service and, of
course, rebuilding myself andprocessing my own grief and
creating Mojo Mastery, but withfamily really being a towering
value of mine.
It very much led and guided alot of my decisions and was very
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much my priority.
So now that things were stableat home, I knew that this was my
time.
I just had that intuition oflike being fed up with my own
self, of not doing the big thing, because trust me when I say,
when you limit your own joy inthe name of service, it seems
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real noble, but that turns intoresentment pretty quick.
So I booked everything whenthings were stable and you know
I could tell that my dad wasn'twas happy for me kind of, but
also really concerned forhimself and you know his care is
now in my brother's hands.
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So you know everything's goodthere and all the I's were
dotted and the T's were crossed.
But you know you can't planeverything in life and I knew
the risks.
I knew that there was going tobe a risk that something
happened to my dad when I wasaway, whether that was something
big or something small.
And I had to have some reallytough conversations with myself,
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like really give myself someparameters, like if I'm going to
be on this trip, I need toallow myself to be on this trip
and not try to be in two placesat once and not try to provide
care from across the AtlanticOcean.
It was really important for meto have awareness that something
could happen in my absence andnot feel guilt and just
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completely reject the idea thatI was responsible in some way
for his 86-year-old body takinga turn for the worse.
I have lots of superpowers, butinvincibility is not one of
them and I had plenty of reasonsto be suspect that something
was going to happen in myabsence.
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Because you know.
Again, I don't consider myselfa magic ingredient, but history
does dictate.
Like when I go on any like dogsitting jobs it doesn't happen
every time, but probably likeone out of every four times.
Probably like one out of everyfour times it'll happen that I'm
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away just up the street,sometimes doing some dog sitting
or cat sitting, and I get acall from dad that something has
happened.
I went away to the lake and Icalled to check in and see how
he was doing and he fell downand hurt his knee.
I was going to go to Minnesotato go see Madonna and that
morning I woke up to him callingthe ambulance because his
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defibrillator went off and theytook him to the hospital lights
and sirens.
So it's not beyond me thatsomething could have happened.
Like I was mentally prepared forthe reality that something
might happen while I was away,because I know that I've already
done so much.
I've curated an incrediblerelationship with my dad that I
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never had before.
I was very much of service andbeing able to keep him
comfortable as comfortable aspossible and helping him
maintain a quality of life thathe's worthy of, even if it is
limited.
I got to be a part of that andI'm really grateful for that.
I'm super thankful for thechoices that I've made, but that
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also doesn't lock me in to thatbeing my life and my lifestyle
for the rest of my life.
So I knew before I left that itwas really important for me to
give myself grace, to do what'sright in the moment.
So I didn't have to have all ofthe contingency plans worked
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out and figured out before Ileft, because the future is
fiction and I couldn't say tomyself well, if this happens,
I'll do this, and if thathappens I'll do that, because
that's just putting all myenergy in the wrong place.
So I rooted myself in gratitudethat I was able to take this
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trip.
I rooted myself in thankfulnessthat dad's health had
stabilized enough to allow me tofeel confident to make this
decision, to go on this trip.
So I pulled the trigger, boughtthe ticket, and I did it with
zero anxiety and with the trueintention to really live in the
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now and not a possible futurethat may or may not exist based
on my imagination, because yourimagination is going to tell you
anything.
Sometimes your imagination isgreat and sometimes it's a
stupid liar that just muddiesthe waters.
So it had been a week that I'dlanded.
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This was last Monday.
I was doing one of my favoritethings in the whole world with
some of my favorite people.
I went for a three-hour dinnerat one of my favorite
restaurants and we grabbed adrink first and then we had the
full three-course meal andshared a bottle of wine.
And so many laughs and so manygood times and we did some
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reminiscing and we caught upabout life and it was really a
really great moment.
And as we were leaving, myphone buzzed and I got somewhat
of a cryptic text from mybrother saying hey, steph, do
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you want an update?
Okay, and this was at 11o'clock at night, kind of
floating on air, and I roseabove my sassy instinct to reply
something clever or quippy andI just said yeah, how are things
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?
What's up?
And that's when I found outthat my dad had been admitted to
the emergency room withshortness of breath and a
possible lung infection.
And that's when the bubblepopped.
So there I was, caught betweenmy dream and my nightmare.
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So I sat down, I took a breath,I accepted a hug from my friend
and I just took a beat toprocess and to ground myself and
to observe my thoughts a littlebit and just kind of I know
this sounds weird, but kind oflike emotionally detach myself
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from the situation so that Icould objectively look at it and
say, okay, what are the facts,and maybe that's a coping
mechanism, maybe that's justdissociating Again.
Listen to the intro.
I'm not a psychologist, I'm nota therapist, but that's what I
did and besides, I had the winefrom dinner do a lot of the
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heavy lifting, so that was kindof helpful.
And so, god bless my brothers.
We've been in pretty closetouch ever since and they're
giving me updates on what'sgoing on.
But it all seems really hard tonavigate and uncertain.
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And in my own head ever sincethen I've just really felt
rattled.
I felt it's been really hard toget work done.
I feel like it's been reallyhard to concentrate.
I feel like I just want todissociate all the time and fill
my head with distractionbecause I feel somewhat
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paralyzed too.
I'm unable to show up and helpin that capacity.
I'm trying to figure out how Ican be supportive from so far
away, and I go back to themantra that I was using ever
since that moment, which is I'mnot at my best, but I'm doing my
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best and there's so much graceand comfort in there that the
second that I start to reel andstart to like get in my head, I
just take a breath and I saythose words to myself and it
lets me off the hook a littlebit and it lets me have a little
bit more clarity on how I wantto put one foot in front of the
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other.
And it was really sweet.
My brother sent me a messagethe other day and he said I've
got a turkey in the freezer andwe'll enjoy it all together when
we're all back together.
Enjoy it all together whenwe're all back together and with
things being really touch andgo with dad right now, like he's
still in the hospital almosttwo weeks later and they don't
really know what to do with himand he doesn't need so much care
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that they can put him in afacility, but he needs more care
than what we can provide him athome.
So we're living in this reallyweird gray area and it's hard to
navigate, and it's really hardto navigate from 4,000
kilometers away.
Okay, we made it.
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We're at the bakery, let's goget some things.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Bonjour, bonjour, ficelle, aperro, l'ardon est
mentale.
S'il vous plaît, thingscroissant classique, ce serait
parfait.
Très bien, voilà, merci.
Merci beaucoup, madame.
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Bonne journée Bon.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
That was our little trip to the boulangerie, my
friends.
I hope you enjoyed that.
For those of you who need atranslation, I got a classic
croissant.
I got a almond croissant, whichhas this like really yummy
marzipan inside, and then theyput powdered sugar on top and
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it's very gourmand, verydelicious.
And then the ficelle aperitifit's like this teeny, tiny
little baguette and they stuffit with bacon and cheese.
So that's pretty dope.
Talk about girl dinner.
Talk about things to begrateful for, my goodness.
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So let's get back to gratitude.
Now that I've got a handful ofgratitude here in carb form, one
thing I want to share with youis something that I actually got
from Oprah.
If anybody knows what's up,it's that lady.
She says she's trained herthoughts so that the first thing
that she thinks when she wakesup is to say thank you.
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That's her first thought.
Because tomorrow is notpromised, my friends.
We make plans as though it is,which is wonderful, because
that's hope, that's faith, butwhen we start our day like
literal first thought beingthank you, we are already off to
the races to be rooted in whatwe're thankful for.
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So let's now talk about whatgratitude is, what it isn't, and
how it helps us build a happylife, even when things are hard,
because gratitude it's a dailypractice, it's a mindset shift,
it's an act, and the best thingthat it can do for you is it can
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act as a tool for youremotional resilience, because
emotional resilience is theability to bounce back, the
ability to rise above, theability to dust yourself off and
keep going.
But don't get it twisted.
When we talk about whatgratitude isn't, it is not
ignoring your problems.
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Problems are still going toexist, but it might put you on
better footing to be able toactually address the problems in
your life and navigate thestormy waters and have a little
bit of a better time controllinghow we respond and react to
things when they hit us out ofthe blue.
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Another thing that gratitude isnot.
Gratitude is not conditional onsuccess.
It does not need to wait foryou to win in order to be
grateful or to be thankful.
And I read an article the otherday that was really interesting
and it talked about howgratitude is not and they called
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it passive contentment.
And that's what really caughtmy eye and I dug into it a
little bit more to really seehow passive contentment is
settling.
It's saying to yourself.
Well, you know I didn't get thejob, but that's fine.
You know you can be grateful andstill want more.
(29:53):
You can be grateful andthankful for everything that you
have and still know that youwant more, better, and that your
worthiness is maybe greaterthan the situation that you find
yourself in.
All those things can be true atthe same time, because when we
talk about how to usethankfulness and gratitude to
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build a happy life, it shiftsour focus from scarcity to
abundance.
It helps us stop thinking aboutwhat we don't have and
redirects that energy into aloving, grateful, thankful place
for everything that we do have,because we've made choices and
(30:34):
decisions that have gotten us tothis very moment and has
brought us every single thingthat we've ever had, every
single experience that we'veever had.
And when you practice gratitude, it strengthens our
relationships.
It lets people know how we feelabout them and how important
they are.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Bonjour Vous avez rentré.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oui, est-ce que je peux vous accompagner?
Nous n'avons pas de nouvellesde M Ponce, qui habite dans cet
immeuble.
D'accord, son fils est inquietégalement.
Il nous a demandé de venir voirce qu'il.
Oh wow, that was something.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So I just ran into this lovely older couple who are
doing a wellness check onsomeone because they hadn't
heard from them in a really longtime.
Okay, so I think we got cut offthere, but I want to wrap this
up and bring it home.
Think we got cut off there, butI want to wrap this up and
bring it home because, yeah,gratitude and thankfulness
they're really just incrediblegame changers when it comes to
(31:53):
enhancing your self-worth,acknowledging all that you've
accomplished, all the ways thatyou've grown, and it really does
boost your mental well-beingand and I know, as I say, that
there's also like an element oflike duh, because who doesn't
want to take inventory of allthat is great in their life?
Because that keeps us rooted inwhat we appreciate, in what we
(32:18):
honor, in what we value and inwhat's important to us.
So what I know is that, fromhere, I am thankful that you
tuned in here today.
I am grateful that I've gotchoices in my life that allow me
to share this mission, share mystory and hopefully make a
(32:38):
ripple effect that allows otherpeople to ground themselves in
thankfulness and gratefulness,so that we can go out into the
world and navigate the chaos andquiet the noise and stay rooted
in what's most important to us.
So, if Thanksgiving is in frontof you or behind you, remember
that giving thanks is somethingthat we can do every day,
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because to have one day a yeardedicated to love, that's not
enough.
Every day should be Valentine'sDay, every day should be
Thanksgiving, because there'salways room in your day for more
love, more gratitude and morethankfulness.
The world will never, ever, runout of those things.
(33:22):
So, with that set, my gorgeousfriend here's to you, here's to
your mojo, and all of theblessings that we have to be
thankful for, go and have funmaking a list, because that is
one of the best exercises toelevate your mood, to raise your
vibration, to heighten yourmojo and to help you tap in and
tune in to all that is great inthis life, and that is what you
(33:45):
deserve an abundance ofgreatness.
So, on that note, I'm going toshoot it back to the studio.
Thank you so much for joiningme on our little walk to go get
some pastries.
May your day be delicious andyour life be magic.
Ciao, for now, au revoir.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Bisous.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
And that was Pocketful of Mojo Road Trip
Edition.
Tune in next week for a veryspecial episode where we will
continue to keep itinternational, and I want to
wish all of my friends a happyThanksgiving, wherever you
celebrate.
What a great time to besurrounded by things that lift
(34:45):
you up, fill your cup and reallyimmerse and drown yourself in
all the beautiful and messyparts of life that make this
moment what it is.
Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode.
We'll be back next week withanother episode and in the
meantime, if you feel like yourmojo could use a little tune up,
there's plenty of ways that wecan do this again sometime.
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Make sure you take a couple ofminutes to subscribe to this
podcast and extra good, juju, ifyou leave a review.
You can follow me on Instagramat moststefinately and you can
check me out for some dailymantras and positive
affirmations to keep your mojoon top of the to-do list every
single day.
You found me at a reallyexciting time.
(35:27):
I've got so much more mojo todeliver and I'm excited to bring
you along for the ride.
Check out the show notes forall the links to all the fun
things.
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So if you struggle with ADHDand you're looking for a natural
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I've been taking them for threemonths and I've got a special
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you guys.
So make sure you tune in nextweek and until then, stay classy
, stay kind and put love ineverything you do.
Ciao for now, mwah.
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