Did you know that your discomfort is a GOOD thing? When you feel overwhelmed, uncomfortable like you want to blame someone, or you feel gross, weird, awkward AF, all of those are signs that you are teetering on the edge of a new way of being.

A new identity awaits on the other side of everything that makes your ego want to scream and run away, hiding under the rock of its excuses.

You see your ego will want to keep you small.

It may take the face and voice of others, cajoling, nitpicking, or deriding you for how you do things, chipping away at your confidence.

It may take the face of people you love, who give you horrible advice like, “That’ll never work” or “isn’t that risky?”

It may take the form of your kids, using them as an excuse not to grow beyond.

It may take the voice of your partner, looking like “the voice of reason” to all your “crazy” ideas.

It may take the form of people on the interwebs, spewing hate, or...

Holy moly! My TEDx Talk came out this past week and it brought out all the feels. From all the friends, colleagues, acquaintances, people on the interwebs who watched it, messaged me, posted, shared it…from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU!!!

Honestly, this experience of it releasing into the world was one that literally PROVED my TEDx hypothesis.

The basis of my TEDx Talk was this:

YOUR LIFE IS A TESTIMONY OF POSSIBILITY. AND PEOPLE ARE WATCHING. 

Why?

Because it’s showing what’s possible for THEM too!!!

Mirror, mirror neurons, baby!!

When you see other people achieve their dreams, even if it’s something that you don’t desire or want for yourself, it inspires YOU to believe that your dreams are possible for you too.

People want to see your dreams come true because you are literally teaching them that it is possible for THEIR dreams to come true.

You are the example.

You are the testimony.

You are the pioneer.

The way-maker.

For every single human...

I have waited for this day, with bated breath for a month!!!! It felt the same as I waited those extra weeks for Colton to come, nearly three weeks past his due date.

Pregnant with purpose. Pulsating with potential. 

IT’S BEEN A PROCESS OF TRUSTING, RELEASING, BREATHING DEEP, AND KNOWING IT WOULD HAPPEN.

Knowing that the possibility was in me, I’d birthed it and it was going to come…period…perfectly in its divine timing.

The mind is funny when dreams are realized.

The night I gave my TEDx Talk, I came off stage and balled my eyes out. 

I’d thought the sound was funky and within minutes of a truly life-liberating experience, suddenly all the self-limiting stories of fear started to come up.

I could feel my fear-based mind running with a story of…

Yeah, the talk was good but…[INSERT ANY AND EVERY SELF-LIMITING BELIEF]

I constantly had to check myself these past few weeks and remember to practice what I preach:

TRUST and...

Your voice is your superpower.

And it’s needed more than ever.

If there has been a message stirring on your soul, begging you to unleash

One the motivates

Inspires

Challenges the status quo

Champions others to new heights

Connects.

Is born from your deep heart of service…

From your primal human need to connect…

NOW is the time.

There is no more “waiting to be ready,” or more prepared.

THE PREPARATION IS BRED FROM PRACTICE.

The practice of going out…

Sharing your message…

Using your voice…

Day in and day out…

Doing it.

To put yourself out there.

To make the choice:

STAND OUT FEARLESSLY 

Or blend into the background.

Be in front.

Leading.

Serving.

Being the example.

Being the change.

Or the herd. 

The sheep of colossal consumers glutinously gasping for purpose… and still starving. 

YOU KNOW YOU WERE BORN TO STAND OUT. 

To lead.

To reignite and redefine your industry.

To rewrite the rules of how...

Having coached leaders and entrepreneurs for the past 5 years, I have seen a direct correlation of income to the amount of time the leader is spending in their zone of genius.

So let’s say, for example, your zone of genius is sharing your story and connecting in a powerful transformative interview. BOOM! That is one money-making hour of depth, transformation, and relationship building that could turn into a client, a referral, a strategic partner, an affiliate, a customer!

YOU FEEL ALIVE, INVIGORATED, EMPOWERED COMING OUT OF THAT INTERVIEW, BUZZING FROM BEING IN A STATE OF EASE AND FLOW - THAT’S HOW YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN YOUR ZONE OF GENIUS.

But then…

Because you have your own podcast…

And you don’t have a team or an editor…

You spend 10 hours editing your podcast, which…if we’re being honest…is in your Zone of competence. 

Meaning, you CAN do it.

You’re OKAY at doing it.

You’ve LEARNED how to do it.

...

We are living in a world right now where, now, more than ever, cultivating a skillset of communication skills is vital to the survival of our species. 

We have learned how to argue, complain, berate, share evidence and communicate a side of which we believe we are beholden to be “right” about. 

Now, more than ever divisiveness is circulating, instead of diversity and curiosity. 

Black and white, right and wrong, good and evil  - “sides” prevent us from seeing the bigger picture, or holding a bigger vision for our future.

And it’s because of people not knowing HOW to deeply communicate. 

It’s not our fault. We haven’t been taught. We’ve been taught WHAT to think without question, now HOW to think differently.

Communication is a skill set that every known monarch, politician, and leader MUST cultivate in order to rise.

No matter who they are, the ones we see leading companies, cultures, and countries have...

Is Your Comfort Zone REALLY Killing You?