December 30, 2024 • 13 mins
Welcome to the final episode of Season 1 of The Finally Healed Podcast with Jessica Lundy! In this episode, Jessica dives deep into the importance of community in our healing journey. 🌸
✨ Episode Highlights:
- Support: Find out why having a circle of like-minded individuals can help keep your dreams alive and provide the encouragement you need.
- Accountability: Discover how to maintain discipline and consistency by leveraging the accountability that a strong community provides.
- Fresh Perspective: Learn how new viewpoints from your community can help you structure your ideas and turn them into actionable plans.
Jessica also shares her personal experiences, including how joining a community in her mid-20s transformed her life, business, and even her marriage.
She also unveils an exciting new venture – the Finally Healed Patreon Community! Get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, early podcast releases, detailed episode breakdowns, and much more! 🎉
Action Item: Evaluate your current communities and think about how you can contribute more to them and whether you should consider joining new ones.
Thank You for an Amazing Season! Jessica expresses her gratitude to all listeners and looks forward to delivering more valuable content in the coming year. Feel free to go back and watch any episodes you might have missed.
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Jessica Lundy (00:00):
I don't believe that we have to do this thing
called life by ourselves.
I knew very early on that I wasgoing to have to get around
some like-minded people to keepmy dream alive.
So I think having people thatcan support you, that can
encourage you, that can be yourcheerleader, that can champion
(00:21):
you, that is the power ofcommunity.
When a community is reallyspecial, it feels like family,
and I want you to be a part ofmy family.
Welcome to the Finally Healedpodcast, where we prioritize
(00:53):
mental health, self-care andembracing our healing journey
together.
Today we're talking about avery special topic the power of
community, and I just want tostart by thanking you for being
a part of this community.
(01:13):
I feel like we have allconnected over the last few
months with this podcast andbeing a part of such a special
group of women that watch theseepisodes every week.
I appreciate all of you forcommenting in the chat and
connecting, and I am a huge fanof community.
(01:37):
You know I don't believe thatwe have to do this thing called
life by ourselves, even thoughso much of our life is on social
media, but I really believethat when we're able to connect,
when we're able to network,when we're able to get offline
and be on even Zooms andvirtually hang out or hang out
(01:58):
in person.
I think that is so vital to oursuccess and so vital to our
mental health, and so todaywe're going to be talking about
the power of community and whyit is so important.
So I think there's three mainthings to think about when you
think about community.
The first one is support.
(02:19):
There are so many times whereyou might look at your family
and friends and you try to sharewith them your goals, your
dreams and your visions, andthey look at you like girl.
I don't know how you're goingto do all of that, because
they've never seen it donebefore, and one of the saddest
things is to tell your bigvision to someone that has a
(02:42):
small mind, big vision tosomeone that has a small mind,
and so I knew very early on thatI was going to have to get
around some like-minded peopleto keep my dream alive.
I believe that God gives usthese big dreams, places them on
our heart, and that we have toprotect it at all costs, and
sometimes we have to protect itfrom the people that love us,
(03:03):
because when God gave us thatvision, it was for us to see,
not for anyone else, and that'swhy it can be so challenging
when you're trying to share yourexcitement with people and
share your big dreams and yourbig goals and they don't meet
you with that level ofexcitement.
That can be heartbreaking.
And so I realized as an adultthat I get to choose the family
(03:26):
that I desire to be with as anadult, and I think that is vital
.
So I think having people thatcan support you, that can
encourage you, that can be yourcheerleader, that can champion
you, is vital.
Next up is accountability.
Trying to figure this thing outcalled life by ourselves is
hard, and trying to keepourselves accountable can be
(03:50):
challenging.
If we can be honest, a lot ofus don't really struggle with
creating dreams, creating vision, creating desires right, like,
we know how to do that.
But it's the accountability,it's the consistency.
But it's the accountability,it's the consistency, it's the
discipline, that's a structure,and when I got around people
(04:11):
that were checking in on me,like you said you were going to
do this, you know why aren't youdoing it like?
That really helped.
Now, there was a season where Iwas trying to use, you know, my
husband as my accountabilitypartner, my mom as my
accountability partner, and whatI realized my accountability
partner and what I realizedabout family y'all is they give
you about one or two times tomess up and then they are not
going to keep you accountable nolonger.
They're like we didn't did ourjob.
(04:32):
You should have did what youwere supposed to do.
So I realized that I had tokeep coaches, mentors, trainers
around me and actually pay them,actually invest in it, so that
they would see it as a job andthey would take it serious.
And some of the biggest areas ofgrowth I've had in my life is
(04:52):
when I surrounded myself by theright people.
I think that is valuable.
And, last but not least, youhave to have a new, fresh
perspective.
So you might have phenomenalideas, like you might come up
with better ideas than anyoneelse in the entire world.
But if you don't know how tostructure those ideas, if you
(05:15):
don't know how to create actionplan for those ideas, you know a
lot of those ideas will notcome to pass.
And so when I surround myselfby like-minded people, I'm able
to really go deeper, maybe thinkabout stuff from a different
perspective than I thought about, even kind of use them
sometimes to'm able to really godeeper, maybe think about stuff
from a different perspectivethan I thought about, even kind
of use them sometimes to be ableto beta test different
information before I put it outthere.
(05:35):
That is what happens incommunity.
So when I think about the firstcommunity that I joined, I was
in my mid-20s and I had just gotmarried and I was supposed to
just go to this conference.
Right Like I convinced myhusband that I was going to go
to this conference with my momY'all.
I ended up calling in thehallway telling my very new
(05:59):
husband that we were not aboutto get this house, that we
wanted, that I was going to jointhis community.
For a minute he thought I wascrazy, but because he wasn't in
the room, like that's thehardest thing about wanting to
join a community or wanting tobe connected with something and
then you try to tell yourpartner but they weren't there,
right and so I'm trying to tellhim everything I experienced
this is the best time of my lifeand all of this stuff he's just
(06:20):
like what?
Like I don't get it.
But the last thing he said wasvital.
He said if you believe thatbeing a part of this community
will change your life, changeyour business, enhance our
marriage, then you have myblessing.
That's why it's so important tohave significant others that
(06:40):
are going to support you, thatare going to encourage you and,
at the end of the day, give youtheir blessing to invest in
yourself and invest in thethings that are important to you
.
And honestly, as a professionalspeaker and as a coach, I was
told this quote very long, longtime ago that you know it's hard
to ask for a certain amount ofmoney from a potential client if
(07:03):
you've never invested thatmoney.
And that was something that Inever forgot and it is so true
and I remember when I was a partof this community.
I feel like if you're going tobe in community, you should do
the most right.
So there's two different typesof people.
One are just like, hey, I'mhappy to be there and that's
fine, but the way that mypersonality is wired, I am team
doing the most anyways.
(07:24):
So I was showing up on all ofthe calls, coming in early,
helping, supporting, doing themost.
And you know what the amazingthing is when you put that out
in the atmosphere, it's going tocome back to you.
And when I think about the waythat people support me and rock
with me and the way that my teamsupports me and encourages me
(07:45):
and shows up and does the most.
They met me with the sameenergy that I was able to give
to somebody else.
That is the power of communityand lifelong relationship.
There were some people that Iwas in community with and in
different organizations, and theway in which that we stayed in
contact, the way in which one ofus might've been going through
(08:07):
something in our personal lifeand checking in that's one of
the most beautiful things aboutsocial media.
It allows us to put some eyeson people and bring them top of
mind and connect and network andreally build family.
When a community is reallyspecial, it feels like family
and I want you to be a part ofmy family.
(08:29):
I am creating the FinallyHealed community on Patreon and
I am so excited.
My team and I have been workingso hard behind the scenes to
create so many special momentsthat are going to go on this
(08:49):
platform so that we can reallyhave dialogue.
I can take you behind thescenes.
In my life there's so muchcontent that has never made it
to social media, never made itin this podcast, but I believe
would be a blessing to your life.
I know some of the videos wouldbring you pure joy.
Others would motivate you toreally go after everything that
(09:13):
life has for you.
So we're looking forward toputting that, giving you access
to early releases of podcasts,maybe even some special episodes
specifically for our Patreonfamily.
And one thing that I want to dothat I haven't seen any other
communities do is I want tocreate some resources for you,
(09:34):
like actually break down theepisodes in a way that's very
actionable, so after you watchthe episode, you know exactly
what to do next as a result, howto apply it to your life, and
then us have some meetups in thefuture.
So just big picture, but I amsuper excited.
(09:54):
We're going to have someinformation in the show notes
about it, but I think it's goingto be an absolute blessing.
My desire when I came up withthe concept of Finally Healed
was getting a group ofphenomenal women together to
prioritize their mental healthand their well-being, for them
(10:17):
to understand that they areimportant too and their
happiness and their peace andtheir joy deserves to be a
priority.
So I would absolutely love tohave you be a part of my
community and finally embraceyour healing journey.
Now we have to get to ourhealing moment, where I give you
(10:40):
an action item for what you canimprove on this week, and I
wanted you to evaluate thecommunities that you're in.
I want you to think about likeare they an asset to you?
Have you gotten what you neededout of community?
Are there certain communitiesthat you need to join and be a
part of?
And then I want you to thinkabout the community that you
(11:01):
have meaning, like your family,your friends, the actual
community that you live in.
How are you contributing?
What more can you do to serveyour community?
This last year, I've gone a lotdeeper with the community that I
live in being a part of theChamber of Commerce, connecting
with their schools, giving back,you know, showing up to local
(11:22):
events.
You know there's so much valuein our local communities that we
don't really give it as muchcredit as we should.
I have been really big onshopping local, dining local and
supporting these localbusinesses because I know it
makes a difference.
You know we choose whatcommunities that we live in, so
I think it's important to beable to support them, like
(11:45):
financially support thecommunities, like you could go
to a big chain, but why not goto a smaller restaurant?
Like you could go to a bigchain to get you know your
coffee or your tea, why not goto a smaller coffee shop?
You know so there's so manyways in which we can support our
local community as well.
I just want to say, as we areclosing out, this is our last
(12:06):
episode of season one of theFinally Held podcast with
Jessica Lundy and it has been anabsolute honor.
I'm so grateful.
I read all of the comments.
You know I actually interact.
It's not my team, it's actuallyme responding to all the
comments.
I appreciate everyone who'swatched, shared, listened and we
(12:28):
have some exciting things onthe horizon for 2025.
So make sure you stay tuned.
This has been another episodeof the Finally Filled Podcast.
If you enjoyed this episode,please share it with a friend.
If there's any episodes youhaven't seen yet, make sure you
binge watch them and give us afive star rating and take the
(12:52):
time to leave a review.
Reviews really, really help thepodcast to be able to grow and
remember you got this.
I don't believe that we have to do this thing
called life by ourselves.
I knew very early on that I wasgoing to have to get around
some like-minded people to keepmy dream alive.
So I think having people thatcan support you, that can
encourage you, that can be yourcheerleader, that can champion
(00:21):
you, that is the power ofcommunity.
When a community is reallyspecial, it feels like family,
and I want you to be a part ofmy family.
Welcome to the Finally Healedpodcast, where we prioritize
(00:53):
mental health, self-care andembracing our healing journey
together.
Today we're talking about avery special topic the power of
community, and I just want tostart by thanking you for being
a part of this community.
(01:13):
I feel like we have allconnected over the last few
months with this podcast andbeing a part of such a special
group of women that watch theseepisodes every week.
I appreciate all of you forcommenting in the chat and
connecting, and I am a huge fanof community.
(01:37):
You know I don't believe thatwe have to do this thing called
life by ourselves, even thoughso much of our life is on social
media, but I really believethat when we're able to connect,
when we're able to network,when we're able to get offline
and be on even Zooms andvirtually hang out or hang out
(01:58):
in person.
I think that is so vital to oursuccess and so vital to our
mental health, and so todaywe're going to be talking about
the power of community and whyit is so important.
So I think there's three mainthings to think about when you
think about community.
The first one is support.
(02:19):
There are so many times whereyou might look at your family
and friends and you try to sharewith them your goals, your
dreams and your visions, andthey look at you like girl.
I don't know how you're goingto do all of that, because
they've never seen it donebefore, and one of the saddest
things is to tell your bigvision to someone that has a
(02:42):
small mind, big vision tosomeone that has a small mind,
and so I knew very early on thatI was going to have to get
around some like-minded peopleto keep my dream alive.
I believe that God gives usthese big dreams, places them on
our heart, and that we have toprotect it at all costs, and
sometimes we have to protect itfrom the people that love us,
(03:03):
because when God gave us thatvision, it was for us to see,
not for anyone else, and that'swhy it can be so challenging
when you're trying to share yourexcitement with people and
share your big dreams and yourbig goals and they don't meet
you with that level ofexcitement.
That can be heartbreaking.
And so I realized as an adultthat I get to choose the family
(03:26):
that I desire to be with as anadult, and I think that is vital
.
So I think having people thatcan support you, that can
encourage you, that can be yourcheerleader, that can champion
you, is vital.
Next up is accountability.
Trying to figure this thing outcalled life by ourselves is
hard, and trying to keepourselves accountable can be
(03:50):
challenging.
If we can be honest, a lot ofus don't really struggle with
creating dreams, creating vision, creating desires right, like,
we know how to do that.
But it's the accountability,it's the consistency.
But it's the accountability,it's the consistency, it's the
discipline, that's a structure,and when I got around people
(04:11):
that were checking in on me,like you said you were going to
do this, you know why aren't youdoing it like?
That really helped.
Now, there was a season where Iwas trying to use, you know, my
husband as my accountabilitypartner, my mom as my
accountability partner, and whatI realized my accountability
partner and what I realizedabout family y'all is they give
you about one or two times tomess up and then they are not
going to keep you accountable nolonger.
They're like we didn't did ourjob.
(04:32):
You should have did what youwere supposed to do.
So I realized that I had tokeep coaches, mentors, trainers
around me and actually pay them,actually invest in it, so that
they would see it as a job andthey would take it serious.
And some of the biggest areas ofgrowth I've had in my life is
(04:52):
when I surrounded myself by theright people.
I think that is valuable.
And, last but not least, youhave to have a new, fresh
perspective.
So you might have phenomenalideas, like you might come up
with better ideas than anyoneelse in the entire world.
But if you don't know how tostructure those ideas, if you
(05:15):
don't know how to create actionplan for those ideas, you know a
lot of those ideas will notcome to pass.
And so when I surround myselfby like-minded people, I'm able
to really go deeper, maybe thinkabout stuff from a different
perspective than I thought about, even kind of use them
sometimes to'm able to really godeeper, maybe think about stuff
from a different perspectivethan I thought about, even kind
of use them sometimes to be ableto beta test different
information before I put it outthere.
(05:35):
That is what happens incommunity.
So when I think about the firstcommunity that I joined, I was
in my mid-20s and I had just gotmarried and I was supposed to
just go to this conference.
Right Like I convinced myhusband that I was going to go
to this conference with my momY'all.
I ended up calling in thehallway telling my very new
(05:59):
husband that we were not aboutto get this house, that we
wanted, that I was going to jointhis community.
For a minute he thought I wascrazy, but because he wasn't in
the room, like that's thehardest thing about wanting to
join a community or wanting tobe connected with something and
then you try to tell yourpartner but they weren't there,
right and so I'm trying to tellhim everything I experienced
this is the best time of my lifeand all of this stuff he's just
(06:20):
like what?
Like I don't get it.
But the last thing he said wasvital.
He said if you believe thatbeing a part of this community
will change your life, changeyour business, enhance our
marriage, then you have myblessing.
That's why it's so important tohave significant others that
(06:40):
are going to support you, thatare going to encourage you and,
at the end of the day, give youtheir blessing to invest in
yourself and invest in thethings that are important to you
.
And honestly, as a professionalspeaker and as a coach, I was
told this quote very long, longtime ago that you know it's hard
to ask for a certain amount ofmoney from a potential client if
(07:03):
you've never invested thatmoney.
And that was something that Inever forgot and it is so true
and I remember when I was a partof this community.
I feel like if you're going tobe in community, you should do
the most right.
So there's two different typesof people.
One are just like, hey, I'mhappy to be there and that's
fine, but the way that mypersonality is wired, I am team
doing the most anyways.
(07:24):
So I was showing up on all ofthe calls, coming in early,
helping, supporting, doing themost.
And you know what the amazingthing is when you put that out
in the atmosphere, it's going tocome back to you.
And when I think about the waythat people support me and rock
with me and the way that my teamsupports me and encourages me
(07:45):
and shows up and does the most.
They met me with the sameenergy that I was able to give
to somebody else.
That is the power of communityand lifelong relationship.
There were some people that Iwas in community with and in
different organizations, and theway in which that we stayed in
contact, the way in which one ofus might've been going through
(08:07):
something in our personal lifeand checking in that's one of
the most beautiful things aboutsocial media.
It allows us to put some eyeson people and bring them top of
mind and connect and network andreally build family.
When a community is reallyspecial, it feels like family
and I want you to be a part ofmy family.
(08:29):
I am creating the FinallyHealed community on Patreon and
I am so excited.
My team and I have been workingso hard behind the scenes to
create so many special momentsthat are going to go on this
(08:49):
platform so that we can reallyhave dialogue.
I can take you behind thescenes.
In my life there's so muchcontent that has never made it
to social media, never made itin this podcast, but I believe
would be a blessing to your life.
I know some of the videos wouldbring you pure joy.
Others would motivate you toreally go after everything that
(09:13):
life has for you.
So we're looking forward toputting that, giving you access
to early releases of podcasts,maybe even some special episodes
specifically for our Patreonfamily.
And one thing that I want to dothat I haven't seen any other
communities do is I want tocreate some resources for you,
(09:34):
like actually break down theepisodes in a way that's very
actionable, so after you watchthe episode, you know exactly
what to do next as a result, howto apply it to your life, and
then us have some meetups in thefuture.
So just big picture, but I amsuper excited.
(09:54):
We're going to have someinformation in the show notes
about it, but I think it's goingto be an absolute blessing.
My desire when I came up withthe concept of Finally Healed
was getting a group ofphenomenal women together to
prioritize their mental healthand their well-being, for them
(10:17):
to understand that they areimportant too and their
happiness and their peace andtheir joy deserves to be a
priority.
So I would absolutely love tohave you be a part of my
community and finally embraceyour healing journey.
Now we have to get to ourhealing moment, where I give you
(10:40):
an action item for what you canimprove on this week, and I
wanted you to evaluate thecommunities that you're in.
I want you to think about likeare they an asset to you?
Have you gotten what you neededout of community?
Are there certain communitiesthat you need to join and be a
part of?
And then I want you to thinkabout the community that you
(11:01):
have meaning, like your family,your friends, the actual
community that you live in.
How are you contributing?
What more can you do to serveyour community?
This last year, I've gone a lotdeeper with the community that I
live in being a part of theChamber of Commerce, connecting
with their schools, giving back,you know, showing up to local
(11:22):
events.
You know there's so much valuein our local communities that we
don't really give it as muchcredit as we should.
I have been really big onshopping local, dining local and
supporting these localbusinesses because I know it
makes a difference.
You know we choose whatcommunities that we live in, so
I think it's important to beable to support them, like
(11:45):
financially support thecommunities, like you could go
to a big chain, but why not goto a smaller restaurant?
Like you could go to a bigchain to get you know your
coffee or your tea, why not goto a smaller coffee shop?
You know so there's so manyways in which we can support our
local community as well.
I just want to say, as we areclosing out, this is our last
(12:06):
episode of season one of theFinally Held podcast with
Jessica Lundy and it has been anabsolute honor.
I'm so grateful.
I read all of the comments.
You know I actually interact.
It's not my team, it's actuallyme responding to all the
comments.
I appreciate everyone who'swatched, shared, listened and we
(12:28):
have some exciting things onthe horizon for 2025.
So make sure you stay tuned.
This has been another episodeof the Finally Filled Podcast.
If you enjoyed this episode,please share it with a friend.
If there's any episodes youhaven't seen yet, make sure you
binge watch them and give us afive star rating and take the
(12:52):
time to leave a review.
Reviews really, really help thepodcast to be able to grow and
remember you got this.
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