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They intentionally
rearrange what they gave their
energy to in order to show up asthe best version of themselves
and in the best way to supporttheir needs, so that they're
able to better show up for thosearound them and better show up
for what they're creating inlife.
Hello, my loves, and welcome tothe Purposeful Lifestyle
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Development Podcast, where wediscuss all things thought, work
and manifestation, but we useneuroscience and the study of
the brain to do so.
I'm your host, tessa Spiesak.
I'm a board certifiedpractitioner, master life and
health coach and seasonedexecutive speaker.
If you're ready to create yourhighest value lifestyle and turn
your dream life into a reality,you're in the right place.
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Let's get right into today'sepisode.
Hello, hello, my loves, and bigbiggest welcome back to the new
and the improved podcastversion 2.0, updated to Tessa
Talks Purposeful LifestyleDevelopment.
I am so, so happy to be backafter a whole two months off.
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I've been doing some thingsbehind the scenes to make this
new year and this new seasoneven better than ever.
You might have noticed a slightchange in the title from purely
just purposeful lifestyledevelopment to Tessa Talks
Purposeful Lifestyle Development, just meaning I'll be expanding
some of our conversation toinclude all of the things that I
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work with my folks on,including the mind body
connection, nutrition, which ismy home, where I got started,
and all of this and as well.
I'll be using some of theanalytics from what you guys
have told me, what you've shownme through your downloads and
your questions and everything inbetween, just implementing that
more into the podcast and youmight also notice a new photo, a
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bit brighter, much more up todate with me now, not over two
years ago when we started thispodcast, and some more things.
We'll be rolling into someinterviews, discussions, and
I'll get into more into thatvery, very soon.
But I love a little rebrand, anintentional rebrand, to be more
specific, especially anytimethat has to do with self and
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being more aligned to the self,because when I say rebrand, I
want you to think of this Arebrand is a holistic approach
to rediscovering and showcasingyour truest self.
Remember that definition.
I'm going to repeat it it's aholistic approach to
rediscovering and showcasingyour truest self.
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So that doesn't mean you haveto completely revamp and redraw
everything, just becoming awhole new person overnight, but
it means that, making a minoradjustments that are more in
line with what we want to bedoing who we feel called to be,
or sometimes what our brain andour body are screaming at us to
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do.
And I never want anyone to bescared to make these adjustments
or to start that rebrandbecause they feel like there's
this some underlying idea thatthat means that there's
something wrong with you thatyou need to change Right Again.
I think that the practice of aquote unquote rebrand is a
really healthy practice of justbeing honest with you listening
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to and tuning in to what ishappening with you in your now,
in your right now.
So, for instance, here's anidea of how you can think about
this.
There could be someone who'slistening right now that to
everyone else.
Looking in at them, they wouldassume that this person has it
all together, 100%.
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You see them excelling in theircareer.
They may seem to be on top oftheir social game.
You always see them postingpictures with their friends
doing something fun.
Maybe they just seem to be theperfect parent and you describe
them as something like totallyon top of it, completely put
together, maybe even justsophisticated in life.
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I don't know, but you get thedrift.
This person just totally lookslike they're killing it, but
what you might not realize isfor them, you're not going to be
able to see them.
It might feel like being buriedunder people pleasing pressure
to get it all done.
It could be very on brand forthis person to be known as the
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one who says yes to everything,to maybe put others' needs in
front of their own.
Maybe they're kind of known toshow up to the meetings with a
notepad full of ideas, but theyalso tend to get spoken over by
the person with a loud mouth andhalf as well thought out ideas.
Right.
So for maybe for this person,there's absolutely nothing wrong
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with them.
But the rebrand that they'relooking for is to be someone who
is seen as, and sees himself as, someone with a powerful voice,
someone whose ideas that youwant to listen to, not just that
they're a good listener,someone who sets clear
boundaries and doesn't alwayssay yes, no matter what.
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You know.
This is something we talkedabout at the end of the year
before the break.
Definitely go back if you needa refresh, but again, a rebrand
doesn't have to come from aplace of wrong.
It can definitely just beturning toward something that
serves you more, and I like tothink of it like this Rebranding
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yourself means evaluating andpotentially reinventing how you
show up.
It means making a consciouseffort to change not only how
others see you, but how you seeyou and how you do you.
When you rebrand, you can evenjust be shifting focus from
another point of you to a pointof you that deserves more focus
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and more attention.
You change how you show up foryourself, highlighting what you
want associated with you.
Maybe it just means a newchapter, a changing area of life
.
There are so many ebbs andflows for each and every one of
us as we move through life.
That is something that I willrepeat and shout from the
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rooftops to the end of my days.
Ebs and flows are perfectlynormal and natural and we want
them, and there are so manytimes that we can pick up
behaviors and habits thattotally serve us for a season,
but when we move out of thatseason, that's no longer needed
or maybe it becomes a disserviceto us.
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So, for example, here's one Ithink a lot of people listening
in can relate to.
I work with a lot of folks whosuffer through burnout.
I do a lot of coaching and Isee this cycle First, and
obviously this is verysimplified, but there's
something that's causing aburnout and a person is
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recognizing it and they'retaking the steps that they need.
Maybe that's to slow down, tore-anchor, to realign themselves
, and that's exactly what wewant.
But then the burnout subsidesand these habits that might have
at one point helped themre-anchor now can cause anxiety
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because their needs have changed.
So, say, being in a constant gogo go state caused someone to
burn out.
So the solution was to startsaying no at times, to take a
few more nights at home, to bemore inwardly tuned Again.
We know there's way more to itand healing burnout, but just to
keep the point simple.
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But once that burnout subsides,maybe the lack of stimulation
and lessening the daily tasklist that starts to get boring,
and the energy that they'vesaved for themselves now really
feel like it needs a creativeoutlet, whatever the case may be
.
So we need another pivot, weneed a bit of a rebrand.
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So, as you can look at that,the busy body burning out had to
rebrand to someone who is morefocused on themselves, who is
more conscious of their ownenergy expenditures.
But now, in the next ebb andflow, they need to find more
passion.
They learned what they shouldbe giving less energy to.
They intentionally rearrangewhat they gave their energy to
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in order to show up as the bestversion of themselves and in the
best way to support their needs, so that they're able to better
show up for those around themand better show up for what
they're creating in life.
And when you notice it, whenyou feel it that you've changed,
things have changed, your needsor ideas have changed, when you
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know you want to show updifferently, honestly and I
don't think people realize this,but the hardest part isn't
actually doing it, it's thedecision point, it's deciding to
do it.
The most difficult part, thehardest part of the hill here,
is getting past the one part ofthe brain that makes change hard
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.
Long story short, the amygdalawithin our brain interprets
change as a threat and itreleases hormones that cause
fear or fight or flightresponses.
And then we have theventromedial prefrontal cortex.
So just think the front of thebrain behind your forehead.
It's likely to assume failuremore than success as a means to
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protect us from threats.
This is old school part of thebrain, hunter-gatherer part of
the brain.
So, as a result, our brainstill interprets change as pain,
and I come back to that a lotbecause when we know this.
It gives us the power and putsus in the driver's seats to
basically tell our brain oh hey,I realize what I might feel
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like in my body.
It feels like this is scary orharder than it seems.
My brain seems to be giving me50 million excuses not to do it,
but I'm aware that's just mybrain trying to keep me safe and
I'm choosing not to listen toit.
And the more you choose not tolisten to it, the more your
brain learns that this ispotentially exciting or energy
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giving, or at least means thatit's not the danger zone, right.
So, with that being said, here's, honestly, where I want you to
start is with the easiest things.
I am a big believer.
This is deeper than just, oh,do the simple stuff.
But no, I am a big believer andI coach everyone that I talk to
on an individual basis.
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That here's the way you wannathink of it.
When you're creating change Isthis change should make total
sense to you.
You want to understand both whyyou are doing it, but also make
it as easy as possible, andyou'll notice what the easy
things are.
Start to grow and grow and grow, and that list becomes longer
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until you look up and everythingyou wanted is now easy.
So, as someone who again, wetalked about this in a little
bit of the rebrand I talk a lotabout health, so let's just use
that as our overall umbrellaexample here.
If you want to rebrand yourselfas someone who focuses more on
their health and you wanna focusyour brand to be a
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health-focused person, I do notwant you to change absolutely
everything overnight.
Don't plan for it, don't thinkabout it, don't fantasize it.
We don't need to discuss itfurther.
We know that doesn't work, justlike the old saying diets don't
work.
You're not changing your wholehealth overnight.
What I want you to do instead,to start is make a list of all
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of the smallest things that youcan do that make you feel more
health-focused, the things thattake little to no time and
little to no energy.
Start there.
I'm telling you, the secrethere is that this list grows.
But what is it now?
Is it to drink more water?
To grab fruit and nuts insteadof a more processed snack?
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To have a system to take yourvitamins?
Take a walk on your lunch break?
Listen to a podcast?
Is it to read instead of scroll?
Maybe opt for cherry juiceinstead of wine at nighttime.
What are the little things thatyou can do that make you feel
like a more health-focusedperson?
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For me, it's basically all ofthose things, but some of my
silly ones.
It makes me feel healthy tohave something green in the
morning, to drink somethinggreen whether that's an actual
green juice, greens powder,matcha that makes me feel
healthy.
Right, I like it.
I like to get some sort ofmovement before my first meal of
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the day, but at least before mysecond.
I know that that keeps myenergy center.
To get some movement, even ifit's as small as a stretch, yoga
, a walk, something like that.
I also do like to walk everyday.
You know that the weatherpermits, right, I'm not one to
go out in the rain or if it'slike frozen outside, but every
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chance I get I like to walkevery day and, honestly, it
makes me feel really good andreally healthy to start at least
with no headphones, hear thebirds, take notice of the sun,
things like that.
I personally feel healthier whenI put greens and lettuce and
salad and basically all of mymeals, regardless of what I'm
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eating.
I put greenery or, as myhusband calls it, my leaves, but
that makes me feel like I'madding to my health is eating
something green as much aspossible.
I also finally found theperfect system to never forget
my vitamins.
That took a lot of trial anderror, but every time I get it
right it reaffirms to me that Iam taking steps to keep my
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identity or keep my brand as ahealthy person.
My personal brand is a healthyperson as a health coach, and
that makes me feel aligned.
And, of course, there's so manymore parts and facets of me,
but that's one I really honorand I like it.
And these things that are on mylist you know they wouldn't work
for everyone and I don't expectthem to, but that's why I'm
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saying what is the easiest thingfor you that make you feel like
, yes, I got it.
You want to be healthy.
This makes me feel healthy.
You want to be this.
This makes me feel this.
What are the easiest things youcan start doing?
Because I promise, once youstart doing the easier things,
that list grows and what mightseem just totally improbable,
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like you could never do it, giveit enough time.
Add more things to this listand you're going to look up and
that's going to be the easiest,most in line thing to do so
start there.
What's the easiest thing thatyou can do?
To move the needle in thedirection that you want?
To go, figure those out andstart there.
Because here's the trick whenwe start moving in the direction
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that we want, even when it's sosmall that if there was someone
watching us they might not evenpick up on it.
Even if it only puts you onedegree closer to the rebrand
that you want, it pushes youinto doing instead of wanting.
It puts you into acting insteadof wishing, and that's the key,
because what felt like fear toyour brain now instead feels
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familiar.
You're doing instead of wanting, and acting instead of wishing,
and this is the bonus here.
This changes the most importantsentence for you.
You're not someone who wants tobe a healthier version of you
or the film, a blank version ofyou.
You are someone who is.
You are someone who is activelydoing it.
You are doing the work.
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Therefore, you are healthier.
You are a fill in the blank,more so version of you.
If you want to be someone who ismore of anything, less of
anything, what are the tinysteps you can start right now
that take no more or little tomore energy than what you're
already using.
What can you do to make thisslight change?
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Get in that doing mode from thewanting mode and you are
effectively my friends in aproper rebrand and don't dismiss
the power of intention and thepower that your mind has behind
you.
That's our driving force and ifwe can get our brain on our
sides, like I always say, thatis where we win.
So next week, that's wherewe're putting our focus on that
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mind body connection as a driverfor you to become who and what
do you want, because you know,if you desire it, I believe it's
for a reason and something thatyou deserve more than you
realize.
You owe it to yourself tobecome exactly who you want to
be and know that your big dreamsare closer than you realize.
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It only takes a one degree shifteach day.
So all of my love to each andevery one of you.
Next week will get deeper intosome of my favorite studies on
that mind body connection andgetting your brain on your side.
I send you through the weekwith all of my love, but all
right, my loves, that's whereI'll leave us today.
I want to thank you so much forjoining in on this conversation
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with me and each week, everyMonday, we're going to be
posting a new episode, going alittle bit deeper into the
conversation, of what you can doto train your brain on purpose
to really allow for thelifestyle that you want to live.
Until next time, my loves.
In the meantime, here's to yourhealth and your happiness.