#130 - Farewell...For Now.

The title says it all. 
I've been called away from coaching and podcasting, at least for a time. 
Please allow me to thank you and to say good-bye. 

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Episode Transcript

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I'm jamielynn Stephan and thisis want to want it episode

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number 130 farewell for now.
Welcome to want to want it apodcast for women of the church
of Jesus Christ of latter daysaints who are ready to ignite
not only their sexual desire,but all of their desires to
create a more fulfilling lifeand marriage.
I'm jamielynn Stephan, I'm acertified life coach, a wife,
and a mother of seven children.

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I'm excited to share my personaljourney to desire with you and
teach you how to desire more aswell.
Hello, everyone so happy to behere today and to have the
opportunity to share with you ajourney that I've been on for
the last few months.
Back at the end of February,beginning of March, I decided
that I really needed to look atmy business and decide what I

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wanted it to look like goingforward.
Now in truth, it wasn't that Ihad a business I didn't want,
but I hadn't been verydeliberate in deciding on
purpose.
What I really wanted it to looklike for me.
I had built what I had beentaught to build and what I felt
like was the right thing tobuild.
And now I wanted to make itsomething that I truly desired.

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And I have spent the last twoand a half years preaching on
this podcast about allowingyourself to desire and going
after what you desire.
And I realized that I reallyhadn't done that in my business.
So I really prayerfully startedto consider what I wanted for my
business going forward.
And that meant that everythinghad to be on the table.
I could start working 40 hours aweek and start pouring more

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money into my business andreally make it explode.
Or I could completely walk awayfrom it and never looked back
and everything in between thosetwo possibilities had to be
considered.
And I really sat with all ofthat.
And I certainly found it hard toconsider anything that was
outside of my comfort zone orwhat I thought was the right,

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the quote unquote right way tolook at it.
But I required myself toconsider it all.
And after much thought andprayer and a beautiful
conversation with my husband, Irealized that right now, I
wanted my business to be smalland simple so that I could still
give most of my time to where myheart is.
And that's really in my family.

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Perfect.
I thought.
All right.
I'm just going to continue as Iam right now, a handful of
clients, a weekly podcast, andenough time to be with my most
important people.
And I felt so much peace aboutthis decision.
Well, fast forward to the firstweek of April.
So only about three weeks afterall of this work came to an end.
Right.
I'd made this decision.

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I'm getting ready for my day andI feel distinctly the words.
You will be done coaching forgood in June.
And I was stunned and I thoughtlike, what done in June?
And then my next question was,but what about my podcast?
And the thought just came.
You're just going to do afarewell episode now,
admittedly, I was confused as Ihad just done all of this soul

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searching.
But ultimately I was actuallyfilled with complete peace and
total assurance that this wasexactly what I should do.
So I sat with all of this for afew weeks before I even said
anything to my husband about it.
And then I sat with it for a fewmore weeks until I had a mini
breakdown where I started tobelieve that the reason that God

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was calling me out of mycoaching practice was because I
hadn't done what he needed me todo, that I hadn't been bold
enough or brave enough.
And so he was essentially firingme from being a coach.
And I felt so sick about all ofthese thoughts because they just
felt really true.
So I took this story to my coachwho listened to me and then
offered me the option to believethat.

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Whatever lessons and work I hadbeen called to do was now
complete.
And that it was time to openmyself up to what is coming
next.
And again, I felt peace andassurance, and I realized that I
needed to be open to whatever'scoming next and hold onto the
belief that it will be evenbetter because it's going to be
the next perfect step for me.

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And so I held this revelationclose and quiet to myself until
the middle of June.
Before I started to really shareit with clients and friends and
family.
And now it's time for me toshare it with you, my listeners.
So first I just want to thankyou for being on this journey
with me.
Thank you for letting me serveyou this way.

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Thank you for listening.
Thank you for sending feedbackand encouragement.
Thank you for making somethingthat felt very vulnerable to do
become something that I reallyloved.
And like I have said to myclients, I still want to be a
coach.
I still want to coach.
I want to serve people this waywhen I can.
So I am not going to have aformal business, but hopefully.

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A few opportunities at differenttimes, we'll come around to be
of help and service to people.
And I have called this podcastfarewell for now, because I
don't actually know what iscoming and maybe in a few months
or a year or two, I'll be back.
I am just really trying to beopen to whatever possibilities
are on their way for me.
I really hope that by sharingthis story of how I got here,

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that it will actually be helpfulto someone out there.
Remember to not just letyourself desire.
Sometimes you have to actuallyrequire yourself to desire.
Like I did when I was decidingwhat I wanted my business to
look like.
I wouldn't let myself fall intothis.
I should do this because that'swhat other coaches are doing or
what the experts say should do.
I required myself to really tapinto what I wanted and accept it

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and tell myself that my desireswere valid and good and worthy.
It really wasn't that I wasn'tletting myself have what I
desired.
I wasn't even considering what Idesired.
So I had to really requiremyself to actually.
Dig deep and find out what Idesired.
Also be open to direction fromGod or the universe or whatever,

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higher power you look to be opento the possibility that they
have a path to lead you on thatyou have never considered.
Remember that even when we feelled or are doing what we know in
our hearts is good and right,our brain is going to offer us
negative stories.
It's going to tell us we aren'tcapable that we're quitters,
that we failed in some way thatwe can't possibly do it.
So don't be surprised when yourbrain does this, but don't

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believe it either.
I hope you always remember thatwhat you focus on, you create
more of that.
Your thoughts are the firstthing you have control of, and
they create your feelings, whichfuel your actions, which give
you your results.
Remember that you are alreadyworthy of love and goodness, and
nothing changes that nothing.

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I hope you will allow yourselfto desire.
Allow yourself to want to wantit, want to want the things you
want.
Your desires make you so muchmore of you express them and go
for them.
And lastly, I sincerelysincerely pray for each of you.
That your lives will be blessedand happy and that you will
always find the help you needwhen you need it.

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God bless you all.
Thank you so much for this by.