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Open Doors

Jul 18, 202440 minEp. 19
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Welcome back to another episode of the "I’ll Ask My Sister" podcast. Join sisters Ellen and Mads as they explore building passive income, navigating business relationships, resolving conflicts, and what to do when you feel stuck in your job! It's an episode stuffed with cosmic wisdom, practical advice, and warm sisterly banter. So, tune in and enjoy!

Ellen shares her journey of creating and launching her first digital product - a family meal planner and a pick-up and drop-off weekly planner. She talks about the initial motivation behind these products, as well as the investment in graphic design, the financial considerations., and the personal satisfaction derived from the project.

This week Mads asks Ellen to discuss an argument they’ve recently had, which leads to a bigger discussion around conflict and resolution. Working together on a creative project, like this podcast, can cause friction but they’re happy to talk it out. The sisters explore their different communication styles and decision-making processes. Ellen expresses her frustration when her ideas aren't embraced with enthusiasm, while Mads explains her need for thorough context and body-led decision-making.

  

Listener Question: This week's question comes from a listener who is caught between wanting to leave a monotonous job and feeling compelled to stay after fighting hard to secure the role.

Mads' Insights:

  • Consider whether your desire to leave is driven by fear or by a genuine interest in something new.
  •  Pay attention to your intuition! Even if you are unsure of what path to take, your body will guide you to the most aligned option.  
  • Use your curiosity and desire for improvement to explore new possibilities, even within your current role.

Ellen's Advice:

  •  While you’re exploring new job opportunities, you should also work on making your current job more enjoyable and fulfilling.
  •  Don’t limit yourself to your current industry or role. Identify transferable skills that could help you excel elsewhere!
  • It’s important to maintain a work-life balance. Make sure you prioritise joy and creativity in your daily routine, both inside and outside of work.

  

Key Takeaways:

Communication in Partnerships: Effective communication and understanding each other's perspectives is crucial when working on a collaborative project.

Trust Your Intuition: Mads emphasises the importance of becoming the authority in your own life and making decisions that align with your gut feelings.’

Job Satisfaction: Addressing boredom in a job starts with understanding your preferences and seeking roles that genuinely excite you.

 

Ask the Cards:

From the Moonology Oracle deck, we drew the New Moon in Leo card.

 Affirmation: Confidence is your key to success.

 

LINKS

Submit a question: https://www.askmysisterpod.com/question 

Check out the website: www.askmysisterpod.com 

 

Connect with us on Instagram at

@askysisterpod

@ellen.hooper.consulting

@madsmadswilliams

@lookingforairsigns 

 

Connect with us on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/i-ll-ask-my-sister-podcast

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenjhooper/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mads-williams-lfas/

 

Find out more at: 

www.ellenhooper.com

www.lookingforairsigns.com

Transcript

Hello and welcome to the, I'll ask my sister podcast, the advice podcast where the cosmic meets the corporate. I am Ellen Hooper, an executive coach, and I'm joined by my sister, Mads Williams, a human design coach. And I'm out of breath. Hello. I know. I don't know if you just said that so fast or if my computer glitched, cause you actually sounded like a chipmunk until like you're on double speed. , I do think I normally breathe in the middle somewhere. So I was like, let's go.

Let's Have you already introduced you and me? No. Yeah. Whoa. did. That was a real blur. Well. congratulations. That was that you beat your own record. Thank you so much. Thank you. I mean, I am a reformed trombone player, so you think I would have some better lung capacity. I. You're so cool. It's so cool. Hashtag cool. So have you had a Cosmic or a Corporate week? I've had a very Corporate week? I've got a lot of She hasn't thought about it. I have. I have thought about it.

I don't know how to articulate it. It's interesting. My word for this year has been investment. I guess to build like the next iteration of my career. And I was laughing with my husband , I think this morning or yesterday. 'cause I was like, I'm living my life. Like I have passive income, but I don't, haven't, like, I haven't built any of those streams. So actually, I launched my first ever digital product yesterday, which is now available at ellenhooper. com it is a small offering.

so ladies and gentlemen, if you are also trying to juggle, , a family and a parenting partnership, we don't hate each other. Good luck to everyone. , I have on my website is now two downloadables. One's a family meal planner, which doesn't just say what's for dinner, but who's cooking it's a So good. Can't believe like. Fucking K Mart doesn't have it. But anyway, honestly, if K Mart wants to start making them, great. Like,, yes, please spread it across the world.

, but if you want to purchase one that you can print out or editable PDF form, it is 7. 70 because of GST plus angel numbers. Of that the most cosmic and corporate little mix you've ever heard? 7. 70. also there's a pick up and drop off weekly planner and I have made one for one, two or three children. So you can put your kids names And if you have any more than that, I judge you It is your fault.

No, shoot me a message and I'll ask the designer to make one For For that Brady Bunch out there, come on, slide into the DMs. That's so cool. it is cool, it is cool. I, thought about these in October. I paid the graphic designer, I'm going to have to sell a lot of them for them to be at all profitable, but that's okay. it wasn't that the graphic designer was expensive. She was very reasonably priced, , for her great skills. It was just like, Oh yeah, no one's going to buy these flightless.

But It's the first time ever that I have done something to make revenue that wasn't in some way attached to my time. And so that's the big step. That's a big investment step. gesture. And like, actually, you know, My teacher always says that the universe rewards alignment, whether it's tiny or huge. And so it's just really exciting. I I've been checking my email to see that the magic business owners, the magic square space,, order received email. Fuck. That feels so good when that comes in.

I love that email so much. Look, and no one has purchased one yet. So not so magic. I mean, I have done one Instagram story about, them, so, you know, it's not magic, but yeah. step in the right direction. um, Like often you take those kind of. brave steps, , even if they feel small, you know, they're still signaling to you that you're becoming the person you dream of. Like that's a big fucking deal. And then, you know, you're checking your emails and it's like, Oh, someone messages.

And it's like, can I actually have that service tailored to me in this way and work a different way? And you're like, Oh, okay. You yeah, it's kind of that thing of us, feeling like we're the directors of our life and then actually getting, cues from other places, I guess. yeah. And I think the reason why it was important to me is firstly, like it was in perfect, like I worked with a designer. I don't really love. the design. I think she knows that.

She does heaps of stuff for us at The Growth Collective so we, we really love working with her. But , I have this problem a lot with design because I'll be like, I don't like that. I know why I don't have the language for I couldn't possibly tell you how we could make it better. So it's not bad but it's like not, Like, oh yes, this is so beautiful and it's so connected to, how I want to present my brand visually, but also like it's done, you know. Have you had a cosmic or a corporate week?

I I'm finding that the more I dive into my business, the more cosmic my life is becoming. So like having a CC is kind of the current norm, hmm. is very cool.

And I think, had another word for aligned cause I'm sure it like loses meaning, but., To do something so aligned then is having kind of ripple effects elsewhere, but I do feel very much like this is the closest to motherhood that I've ever experienced where I feel very protective of what I'm creating and you know, it's a business that works a lot with.

I'm going to be talking about, um,, the two things that I find really important about my job is, uh, just like other people's energy and create holding space. And I'm like, there's a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of roles that we do that in. So it's, it's not unique, but I'm already introverted by nature. So, , yeah, become kind of like fiercely protective of my energy and my space and the business and and then just finding at the moment I'm not like requiring as much. from the outside world.

Cause there's so much kind of coming through and like onto the page. And yes, I go through stages of this anyway. So, , yeah, just like lots of really fun synchronicities. , it's crazy doing the podcast in real time. I feel like it's. I'm like seeing it show up in my life and then I'm like, do we always live like this, but we just don't reflect or like have, it documented to take note, but like, you know, we had, , two episodes ago, a moon card about doors that, you know, slam shut now.

And, and I feel like I've done enough. Nice, internal work that they don't feel like slamming doors. They just feel like the universe gently closing them behind me and being like, not here, baby girl, you don't need to go down there. , and like, even last week, you know, what I needed to get done. I did it. And the momentum that came on the back of that was like, so cool. So almost like the podcast is a little to do list or a checklist and I'm like, oh, this is really helpful.

And actually it's really moving my life forward. So quite grateful for that. So things that you were absolutely right about last week that I resisted you on? You're very lucky that I have a goldfish memory because I only know that I was correct about caveats. I don't know what the second thing was. Well, you told me I should do something. Oh, God, I didn't want to say it. That's for you to say. ha ha Nah, go on. I want to hear it from your ha! It was such a proud moment for me.

And actually I was talking to one of my best friends and she was like, that must have been really validating, but to know that Ellen trusts you. And I was like, it actually has nothing to do with me. And she she really didn't. she got to the edge of her, to whatever the saying is, um, me too hard. Yes. But you took my advice and you turned down the client. I did And then you launched your own passive income stream.

Look at you becoming guys, I need a few of those 7. 70 to make up for opera house is going to be calling in no time. do you have a question for me? Do would like you to talk me through why you've been mad at me for the last three days. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. want to know why? Yeah. It's because I got my period early today. Oh my also had a massive fight with my husband about Okay, cool. And because I've got the app, I've got the Stardust app, but it didn't remind me because it's early.

is there anything you would like to hash out though? because I thought my justification was really sound, About what though, sorry? you can't give the listeners half. You got to go all in So this is my take on it and then you let me know your take on it. So in building out this project we have a lot of fun and it's quite easy in the sense that We are very clear on the parts of the project we like doing, and it's really nice. It's like the opposite. So that's been awesome.

But we do have slightly differing opinions when it comes to growing the podcast. And just because purely I try to live out of my head and in my body. And if my gut's like not excited, I'm like, well, why push it? And so you have a more strategic approach. And when I'm not excited about it, and I'm very honest about that in a way that I don't think is very layered, it's just like, Oh yeah, body's not excited yet. You've often thrown at me, I wish you would trust my judgment more. And I have two.

like reasonings for that. One is just like the body's not excited yet. So it's, it's like not really about you. And the second, cause it came up again this week was, I realized like I was actually talking to you in a really calm way. Like it hadn't spiked any judgment or adrenaline, or I didn't realize we were in conflict until I got that message back. And In responding over text, I realized that, oh, it's just my blue dot communicator. I just don't have the context.

I just don't know why you want to do that thing. like, it's not even convincing me. It's just, once I know it, it's like, Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay, sure. So now that you've heard that, can you kind of reframe how you think I view your take on strategy? Or are you still in your cancer as your shell up and you're like, no, fuck you. No, it's really interesting. Cause I've got three key partnerships right now. And this pattern plays out in all of them.

And In really different ways, but it's the pattern of like, I want to do something and the other person doesn't. And in that dynamic, like the status quo person always wins. So my husband and I, when we bought our first house, I was like, this fence is a piece of crap. I really want to replace it. And he was like, I don't want to. It's like, that's a waste of money. So it's pretty bullshit to be like, you know, I'm going to actually go and replace it anyway.

That's a pretty dysfunctional step to be like, I've heard you, not only will I ignore you, like I'll go take this big thing that you don't want to do. But apart from replacing half the fence, like there isn't that much of a middle ground. And so, I have a feeling in my partnerships, which is like, I've got energy around something and I want to go and the other person doesn't. Which I kind of then weigh up in the business endeavors that I do by myself.

Which like hilariously like they stagnate and have procrastination. then I think there's something interesting for you to consider, which is like, well, that doesn't feel good in your body. Like, why can't I just go and do it? Why can't I do it? Like things that I have wanted to that you haven't wanted have been like media outreaches. We fight a lot about having guests on, that's, that's fine. Like we have to get a middle ground there because you have to be involved in that.

And then the other thing that you do that's specifically annoying, which is how you respond, which might be very calm. But you'll be like, , you are inconveniencing me, so here are the three obstacles I will set for you. it's more for me, like I've learned that I work like this. So to get the best results out of like how I function, can we hit these criterias? It's not a like ultimatum. It's like a, can you please help me? Yes, I didn't think of it as an ultimatum.

I Just like, Just disinterested. Yeah, and I think there's always a thing about, why kind of pull this thing uphill that the other person's not interested Yeah, and that's what I was saying like at the earlier in the episode, like, actually, if we look at that as a strength, then we're like covering a lot of ground rather than dropping the defensiveness. So it's like, yeah, you'll pull us there because you're interested and I'll pull us here because I care about that.

And, and we're like diversifying, but I think it's also important to kind of be able to say like, this is really important to me. Yeah. as like, a framework and yeah, sure, it would be great if we didn't need it. But I think when we are able to communicate that it's like, okay, well then like, I'll definitely get around it. I mean, mostly it was that it. was a day before my appearance. Like, mostly that was it. Yeah, just like, just to go back.

it's so interesting because yesterday I was like, what is wrong with me? Which I think is the Question I actually was going to ask you today. So I will ask you this question. Are you ready? So as I was asking myself those questions, it's like no part of my brain was like, do you think you might be about to get your period? Like, why? It's such a design flaw. Hmm. does that happen to you? And like, do anything about it?

Or do you just find that once again you're like, I hate my life and I don't know why. Yeah, it's interesting as well, cause I have been out of a relationship for like two and a half years now. So I'm like, I can't actually remember if I used to cause conflict at that time. Cause how it presents now is I feel like the saddest girl in the world. I'm like, I am so lonely. So I actually think I used to default to lonely. Like I've talked to you about feeling lonely in my life.

Since I moved to Melbourne. Like, so I must've felt lonely when I was younger too. I run high conflict anyway, as we've just worked out. Just throw your grenade in and be like, Oh, why was that weird? it just doesn't bother me. I think there's so much juice there. You learn so much about the other. I'm curious, like there's not much someone I love. Could say to really trigger me. Whereas if a stranger, if I had conflict with a stranger on the phone, I would literally die. I would die.

I would absorb it Just making a phone call Oh gosh, I hate conflict with Fuck, I was meant to call someone today. Dammit. it certainly happens to me. I kind of, I have a really annoyingly short cycle. So like, mine's like between day 18 and day 21, and sometimes it will be like a day, sometimes it will be like three days. What do I do about it? I always end up on the phone to mom and she's always like, are you about to get your period? And I'm like, ah, thanks mom.

so one thing I just did, literally today, was I added my husband to my app. Maybe I should add you too. Yeah, good idea. especially when we're making decisions. What phase of the cycle is good for long term decision making as a team? god, I don't know. Probably the like, post bleed like, that's like the creative ideas phase.

But it is interesting because when we were talking not to drag us right back, but you know, you said you were having that dynamic with all three of the like partnerships in your life. And the first fight we ever had over the podcast, you sent a message that was like, I'm just annoyed or sad that no one will do what I say . And I think though, it's really worth looking at.

Like, you know, all this about communication style, you're very good at understanding the other, but I wonder if actually it is just like, Oh, everyone just needs something more to get them over the line. Because of course, then we like hired, um, a very lovely, but expensive PI to help us and she was like, you should have guests. And you were like, what a good idea. That's not true. I, it wasn't coming from someone else.

It was just like, if I have to, How exciting for our, our guests when we have them on. No, no, but again, if I'm excited, yeah, but at that point I wasn't, it was, it was how I feel about my business, you know, it was still something that needed so much protection and things have changed. It's walking now, you know, Okay. Our listener question today comes from a three, five generator. The same as Ellen. And it reads, Hey Queens, I had a really rough time of things for quite a while in my job.

It got really rough. I was crying every day, low key depressed, felt like I couldn't get anything right. Felt like my bosses hated me, wanted me gone. The good news is things have eased up majorly. I still do too much over time, but am more comfortable and confident in my role. The problem now is that I'm realizing without all this shit, I'm actually bored as fuck for the most part. There are aspects to it I really don't like, and some I do, but I don't have as much time for those.

I'm constantly contemplating finding another job. As if it's that simple, my industry is currently tumbleweeds rolling through a dusty ghost town. But I also don't want to leave. Now I have a handle on things. I actually do want to stay in the company. I fought hard to be here. but I just don't want this job. I don't even know quite what my question is here apart from, got any advice? What a journey! What a journey. What a great question. dive in with anything, Once, I asked Dad.

to share with me how he saw me, what he thought I did well, what he thought I could improve on and what his concerns were. He was part of a coaching program hmm. and I really enjoyed it. And his response I've never forgotten was, I'm worried that you don't live in the real world. How right he was! So, and in that moment, I remember thinking like, Oh my God, thank you for saying that you have freed me of any tension I had been carrying. Because actually it's true.

I do not live in your world, dad. And I would much rather live in my world. but this is the world I, I don't even know if it's chosen to live in, but it's, it's my reality. And. So what jumped out at me was like the tumbleweeds thing, the fear in that, and , the collective fear mongering. Because when I moved to London, everyone was like, Oh, rental markets are shit. so how to find a place, blah, blah, blah, blah. So expensive.

I found a place that was like, Half the price that all my friends paid in a beautiful house in the suburb that was like the most desirable because for me I was like, I don't accept that truth I don't believe that what's that saying, be realistic, believe in a miracle or something, you know, like we can also, heard that, never. And like, algorithm is very different to mine. Yeah, yeah. So I would do some reflection there on like, what is actually, like, what have we absorbed?

What can we like, leave behind? Cause also, it can be really fucking fun to be in the drama and the victimhood of it. Like, it's safer and easier to be like, oh, nothing's happening because It's not going to because, and so it's just like looking at, has that shown up previously? Like, is that a narrative you've kind of exist with? but yeah, interesting to, to also like last week we joked about, you know, like I'm miserable, but I'm showing you.

So that notion of like, okay, well you actually do want to stay where's the resistance coming from then?

Because is it like, I want to stay because I'm scared of trying something outside of this, or like, no, okay, if I like, with full power, accept I want to stay, then like, I can be on the same page with myself and not have to play the victimhood, but play more an action mindset, and this, this listener actually, her greatest gift is all about, like, wanting to improve, but there can also be some fear or judgment on authority and what happens is then you can often like pedestal people and put

them above yourself. But what it's asking you to do is like really become an authority on your own life. So it might be that this is like this workplace is like mirroring back where it's asking you to like step up and take the reins for yourself. And again, that could be. Just by implementing a different mindset, but I think it's worth knowing, like, maybe that's why you don't want to leave as well.

Cause you can see that there is like space for change and that like, you could be really responsible for the one that brings that. I'm really surprised by the 3 5 profile actually, cause the thing that came to mind when I was listening to that question, is it, We've all got different preferences for change. So some of us, are really fine with change, and some of us feel really stressed by change.

I don't know, my experience of like, the kind of experimenter profile, is that it's often about like looking for the next thing or kind of, where else can I play or what else can I figure out. My conventionalism that I just think is really important is that if a workplace isn't going very well for you, like, always start looking. And when I say start looking, I don't mean scrolling fucking sick and being depressed that there's not any jobs with your job title. that's like the worst place.

To be doing a job searching. When I say start looking, I mean, start telling people that you respect and admire what you're looking for and see what comes through your network. , my industry is such an interesting concept as well. We all have transferable skills. Like I just, don't know, like, unless you're a pilot or a doctor, you don't really have an industry. you have skills that you like to use and things that. you like to do.

So, like, having a more expansive view about where you could work and the types of things you could do, I think would be really, helpful as well. Yeah, and it's interesting that like, I don't want to leave cause I have a handle on things Mm. and I not, I love it here. That's a sunk cost.

That's a sunk cost, you know, fallacy, So, if you knew that the next workplace wasn't going to put you through hell, wasn't going to make it so hard for you to kind of find your feet and connect to people, like, would you still want to stay? I get that it's hard in most of our experiences with workplaces, but that's what it's been like.

And even more so than testing the industry, like, if you have just kind of gone from place to place in a specific industry and had the same experience over and over again. Like, how could you take your skills and work in a different type of workplace where you didn't have to keep dealing with those same kind of patterns? what's the expression? Wolf in shiny clothes. It's not that, is it? Is it? It's like the empire has no clothes or a wolf in sheep's clothes. yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. So I like has someone mean who pretends to be sweet. yes. And like, I've had a series of those kinds of characters show up in my life and. it was easy just to kind of be like, oh, villain, villain, villain. But one kind of recently I've been like, no, I love them. I love them. I love them. And then, actually talk about slamming doors, you know, I feel very protected and supported by the literally just slammed where I am. Oh, wow. but you may have heard it on the audio. That's so cool.

God, yes, I love that. because the door slammed so aggressively, it kind of actually really like pulled me up and I went like, why was I clinging to like. I love them. I love them. I do love them so much. And look, I will continue to send love because that's like who I want to be. But I think that connection and dynamic kept me safe because it kept me from reaching like my actual potential.

So we can get kind of like addicted to like, Oh, well, I'm going to cling on here because like, it's scarier , without this baggage., so that was just another thing of like, too dramatic a word, but like we brainwash ourselves a little, or we, we just spin the narrative that means like we don't have to take as much action, but Ellen's right. Like the three, five really does like. to experiment with life.

And so sometimes I like to think, you know, which one is, which one, if you, especially as a generator, this or that yes or no, giving yourself those options. So if Ellen, you know, as she said, if you, if you knew the next job, wasn't going to have that, or even just the idea of it, Are you more drawn to going or staying and imagining them like two different doors? And if you close your eyes and you imagine your body walking itself, which one does it open? Which door do you lean towards?

I mean the practicality of that is, you know, unless you have built your fuck off fund really well. Most of us aren't prepared to, I'm not going to say can't cause we can all choose, but most of us aren't really prepared to just walk out of the job. So I quite like the parallel paths thing, which is, all right, I'm going to put some energy. I don't know. It's really hard to look for the next job when the current job is working you really hard.

and it's also then hard to do the other strategy, which can happen when you've got a job that's a bit imperfect, which is that kind of idea of do we live to work or work to live? You know, where can you find joy not at work? Can work just be your patron for your creative pursuits or like your investor in your, like, in your life? And unfortunately, a lot of, uh, actually have workplaces that end up working so hard that that's not really a great strategy.

But the parallel of, alright, how can I start looking for something that's going to be better and at the same time, how can I start molding this workplace into being what's going to be interesting or exciting for me? One really good tip is to do your work first. So the thing that you love the most like do that first in the day so that if anything's going to get time crunched it's the stuff that you don't like as much.

that's also a really good tip if you're building like a side business or a business while you're working is to like give yourself the best time, your best time, your most productive time. glad you kind of clarified that because I also when I'm talking about that exercise about which door I'm in no way saying jump off the cliff and quit your job, like at all.

What I'm saying is at the moment, your question is kind of like, but I think I want to stay now, even though I've told you why I kind of hate it. So like, that's what I mean about, you're still in the indecision of like, do I, don't I, even from a mindset place. So that's where like actually just getting really clear on like, Oh no, I am being drawn to stay. Or I am being drawn to go because you are a generator. So you will get that intel from within you.

Once you have that information, like that's the first step. And then you keep getting information and you keep seeing what you're drawn to and you keep, you know, like Ellen saying, like having the conversations or like seeing like things on the bus where you're like, Oh. Like industry or this person just mentioned it at a dinner party and you keep seeing like, what's my response, what's my response.

And That's the cosmic dialoguing and action taking is like paying attention to what you're revved up over. So. Yes, absolutely. Like please don't, , misinterpret that as like quit Unless you want to. Exactly. Always if you want to and you got the funds, like we love a quit a quitting story. And is it Nelly? Who's like, just joking. Unless you're going to do it. Is that, is that Nelly's song? That's, it's getting hot in here is the song. unless you're gonna do it. Extra. Extra. Mm. Read the news.

Um, I thought you meant Nelly fdo. I was like, I don't know. Well she is like a bird And she's going to fly away. So maybe that's a little in for you of slamming doors, I was just to. So, maybe that's what you need. Don't worry about the moon cards today. You have got your answer. we like to keep all our listeners anonymous, but I'm really curious. how much ego is here? So if it didn't have the social currency, would you want to be there?

going back to the main gift of that kind of improving, but also kind of pedestalling, it'll be really interesting to see if this is a hierarchical company, because actually like then, there's a lot of room to flex your strength. and like step into your own authority, but on a bad day, like be in the shadow and be putting people above you, feeling like , it's not getting better, feeling like no one's respecting you, being in the fear of it.

what's your tips for getting in alignment with that gift? Cause obviously from what the listeners told us, it doesn't sound like she's really tapped into that gift right now. I would say where have you outsourced that someone has authority over Mmm. Because. , the fact that we go to each other for advice is a sign we have handed out inward authority, our intuition over to someone else, which is often because we're in our mind.

And so like fundamentally it comes back to building your trust muscle with your own intuition. So with this listener, it's about the gut response, but Like it can just be really fun to go like, Oh, I'm having a wobble around here. Cause I'm outsourcing. And that's fine. I do it all the time. You know, like there was like one text message I wanted to send, to somebody this week and I like messaged like a zillion people about it, spoke to them about it, like made a big drama.

And then I was like, wait, why am I asking? I was like, Oh, because I haven't worked out like my perspective on this. And as soon as I did, I was like, cool. I know exactly the tone of voice I'm coming from. I know exactly what I want to say. Like it flowed really easily. I sent it in a second. So, like, even the fact that, you know, asking all these questions can be a sign of, like, needing to bring authority back for us.

It's so great you brought that up because that's actually something I'm like have done a lot of experimenting with sometimes I just do try to say to myself like I am the authority in my own life is a really useful affirmation. The other thing I try I had a little practice about last year was practicing getting into trouble because when you're really Interested in authority. It's like, okay, well, what's the worst that can happen?

And honestly, for me, it was like getting in trouble is a terrible feeling. I'm part of a bunch of groups, but this one group that I was part of and kind of only recently joined. You know, young, like, so newest member, youngest person there. So like, that's just a breeding ground for me to be like, I'm worthy. I'm worthy. Like everyone else is an authority. And this person who I really respect and trust and we do similar work.

She wrote to me and it was like just the loveliest message and it was a message that was full of like respect and good intention because she could have just not told me how she felt to the detriment of our relationship. So there's absolutely nothing from her but the feeling of getting into trouble like I feel it. Same with the client I said no to last week. Like as soon as the email comes in from them, like my body's flooded. I feel it physically so much now.

So it was interesting when I was practicing getting into trouble, like deliberately, you know, like I got a parking ticket and. Some old lady drove past me around her window down and told me I should have indicated. And it was just really interesting, like all these kind of things were coming in, , to be able to practice that. because if, if I am actually the authority in my own life, I'm not bothered by those things.

Like, why does it matter that someone else would have done it differently or that someone's disappointed in me or, you know, what? would it be like, to then be able to go into a new workplace and be like, I'm sure everyone will love me because I'm lovable. Yeah, it's interesting. I remember the first time I booked flights, without informing anyone was last year to go to Bali and being like,, do I have to ask mom and dad? And I was like, what the hell?

Like you're 31. So it's really, it is a practice to like be completely your own boss, like in charge of your own decisions and be the authority on your own self. So yeah, it's always really like being gentle, but a really fun playground. and like I imagine, you know, if you've got lots of dynamics or, use all the dynamics as a, as the playground to learn and try it. And even if it's just like today, I was a bit more in my own authority today, today, today.

Like that's a win like Ellen and her meal planner, you know, like it's the little steps that were like, yes, , building into our alignment. One last thing about this chart is that she has kind of my sore spot, like she has this channel that's all about newness, creativity, putting things out into the world, but it's connected to her throat and in a way of marketing. So she's really good at marketing projects, but also marketing herself.

So like if there is space for, you know, entrepreneurship, I'm like, you got a baby, but also like that can be funneled into anything, anywhere she goes. , but it's just owning like actually that market here. , energy is strong. Let's hear from the moon card. So I've got here new moon in Leo and it says confidence is your key to success. This is really interesting. Cause the attune to the moon is make time to have fun.

And I think that's a really good place to start whenever we're in workplaces that we're not loving. Maybe that's in work or out of work, but making time to have fun. Uh, , additional meanings to this card. It's time to show the world what you've got. Shine your light, have some pride, spoil yourself you've earned it, and you've turned someone's head.

This card heralds the start of a new cycle for you, when you're going to look and feel more gorgeous, more in the spotlight, and more like you have something worth showing off. you want someone's attention, this card says it's coming. However, this may not happen all by itself. You have to be willing to do your bit. That means being proud of who you are and what you have to offer. Think of yourself as the king or queen of the jungle and carry yourself accordingly.

This card is also a great omen if you're asking about a creative project you're working on. Alternatively, it can herald good news or a new start for your children. There you go keep writing in listeners, please. Head over to askmysisterpod. com and click on the listener question button. Okay, I'll talk to you later. love you Okay, love you too. Bye. Bye.

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