Ep 221: Embracing Discomfort for a Purposeful Career (and Life)

I'm Carla Hudson , brand strategist , entrepreneur and life coach . Whether you're on the corporate or entrepreneur track , or maybe both , decades of experience has taught me that creating success happens from the inside out . It's about having the clarity , self-confidence and unstoppable belief to go after and get everything you want .

If you'll come with me , I'll show you how . Hello , my friend , I hope you had an amazing week .

Today we're going to talk about something you probably don't want to talk about , I'm guessing if you're anything like most people , and that is we're going to talk about discomfort , specifically why we should try to , especially at midlife , get comfortable with feeling uncomfortable . And that can be a loaded topic , and I know it .

But I've got some interesting things to share , some interesting perspectives told through the lens of one of my private coaching clients who's struggling a little bit with something in her life , and I thought you would find it helpful and that it might help you take a look at your own life and ask yourself some questions around what are you avoiding and why are

you avoiding it , and what are the behaviors that are showing up because you're avoiding it and what is it holding you back from in your life . What are the behaviors that are showing up because you're avoiding it , and what is it holding you back from in your life ? These avoiding behaviors develop over our life .

There are certain things that we are more naturally geared towards , and there are other things that push against who we innately are . For me , I've not hidden the fact that earlier on in my career I did not like public speaking , and I'm not going to lie , I still don't like it , but now I'll do it . And earlier on there was literally no way .

We're talking extreme stage fright and a couple of not so great experiences , and that all added up to a big blinking red light , and so I would do anything to avoid it . We all have those things , whatever they are , in some areas of our life . We all have those things that we're avoiding .

We have that little voice inside that's telling us it's time to try this new thing , but we don't do it . Instead , we fill up our day and our life with other things and then we tell ourselves we don't have time .

It's just something that we do , and today I want to talk about why we don't want to live that way and how we might start getting comfortable with feeling a little uncomfortable , because the truth of the matter is it really is just an emotion that we're trying to avoid feeling that feeling of stage fright that I had earlier in my career it wasn't real danger .

I wasn't going to die if I stepped my foot on stage and even if I didn't do well , I still wasn't going to die . It would have just made me feel uncomfortable because I wouldn't have felt like I was at my best or I didn't fully express myself in the way I wanted to .

That's the point that I want you to take away today is that discomfort and running from it and filling our lives with things that distract us from having to think about the uncomfortable thing that we actually want to go do but we won't let ourself go do , is wasting a lot of energy and , honestly , it's keeping you from living your best life .

So enjoy this episode on the importance of getting comfortable , feeling uncomfortable . Today I want to talk about something that I know we're all very familiar with and that is discomfort , but I want to talk about it in a way that maybe you haven't thought about before .

I specialize in mid-career and midlife , and at midlife especially , a lot of the choices that we start to make in our life are about our comfort . They're about being comfortable and staying in our lane . I'm generalizing .

Obviously some people are more comfortable putting themselves out into the world in new ways , but in general it's easy at midlife , in those years between late 30s and 60 . And even beyond that , it is super easy to just coast and I think we can tell ourselves that by being comfortable we're just living the good life .

Right , we're sitting in the world of our accomplishments and our achievements , and every day is a day that we feel good in . But I just want to challenge that thought for a minute and on this episode , I want to talk about what I mean by discomfort and I want to also challenge this idea that many of us have .

I think that when we like to stay comfortable , when we like to just sit in a phase of life or a way of being that feels better to us , that that's living the good life . I want to challenge you to look a little deeper . Only you are going to know this for sure .

But I want to talk about comfort from the perspective that there are a couple of types of discomfort and I want to challenge this notion of being comfortable and I want to talk about it through a perspective of there's discomfort for many of us when we get too comfortable .

I know that sounds a little weird , but it's true Maybe not for everyone , but I think for many of us .

And so this came up for me today because I was coaching a client and she was talking about areas of her life where she feels very actualized , where she feels like she really had these dreams and she went for them and just practiced this continual self-evolution of putting herself out into the world in new ways and trying new things .

And she's made a lot of career moves that were unusual and it's brought her to this place where , in that part of her life , she feels very actualized . She feels like I said I wanted to do these things and I did them . I did what it took to make them happen . I was uncomfortable most of the time and look where it's brought me .

But at the same time , she describes another part of her life , which is her personal life , and she feels very stuck and , as we've spent a couple of months getting into it , the truth of the matter is that she feels stuck because she has done the opposite in this part of her personal life , which is really about relationships .

She has kind of retreated and she's stayed in her comfort zone and she hasn't practiced the same discipline of putting herself out there , of challenging herself to do things that were uncomfortable or to make decisions that were bold , maybe around parts of her life that weren't serving her and she wasn't really even connected with the fact that that part of her life

wasn't serving her . She was telling herself that she was just comfortable , you know , and she was kind of enjoying being more at peace and in the zone of her life . But the truth of the matter is that really she was hiding a little bit from problems that existed in the relationship part of her life and didn't do what she .

Probably , if she had a clearer perspective on it , as we think about it now , she wishes that earlier on she'd practiced the same amount of discipline in being uncomfortable , in making uncomfortable decisions , in doing some uncomfortable things , and she feels like if she had done that in the same way that she did it in her career , that she would be in a place

in her personal relationships and her personal life that looked a little more like what she wanted .

So this idea that sometimes we tell ourselves that we're comfortable , but really we're just avoiding the discomfort of having to do things that feel hard or that we don't feel good at or that we're honestly just not comfortable with , and so we stay in that zone and we can kind of stay stuck .

Like I know , a lot of my clients that I've coached in the corporate realm are very quote unquote comfortable in their jobs . But if you dig deeper into that , they've been doing the same thing for 15 years and they're bored . You know they're really bored . They'd love to do something else .

But they tell themselves all of these reasons why they just can't do that , why it's not a good idea . A lot of them will use their family as an excuse oh , there's no other opportunities for me in this place where I live and I just can't make a big change like that . It'll be too disruptive to my family , right ?

Or they'll say I'm at an age now where no one's going to want to hire me , or there's all kinds of stories we tell ourselves .

But the truth of the matter is that by avoiding trying , by avoiding putting ourselves out into the world in some way whether it's in our career or in our personal life the world in some way , whether it's in our career or in our personal life . We have to go a little bit deeper and ask ourselves what we really want .

Are we in this place , in whatever section of our life we're talking about ? Are we where we are because that's where we want to be ? Or are we where we are because we are comfortable , meaning we feel better , because we feel safe , because we're not stretching ourselves and putting ourselves out into the world ?

And one of the ways that you can identify whether you're where you are because that's where you truly want to be or whether you're where you are because you're operating from fear .

You're trying to avoid being uncomfortable by doing something , by putting yourself out into the world in a new way or trying something new that you might not be entirely sure you know how to do . One of the ways to know is by looking at your patterns of behavior , the things that you do .

A lot of times I talk on this podcast about getting in touch with what you're thinking , but I know sometimes it's tricky , right , even for coaches . I coach myself every day , do self-coaching , and sometimes it takes me talking to another coach to get coaching from the outside to really see what's going on in my brain .

So your brain can be a tricky thing , even when you're trying to practice the discipline of self-coaching and getting in touch with it . One of the best ways to know whether your thoughts and your decisions are serving you or not is by looking at some of the behaviors in your life . Right ?

So for this person that I'm coaching , like back to her story for a minute , because by talking about her it might help you understand how to look at some of the behaviors in your own life .

She told herself that she just wasn't ready to make some of the tougher decisions that she wanted to make , that she just wasn't ready to do anything with her personal life yet when she talked to me about it , she always said well , yet , that's a clue too , right . But what does yet mean ?

It means you really want something new , but you're just too afraid to do it Really . You're avoiding it , you're hiding from it , you're running from it , you're resisting it . That's where the yet comes from right .

And as we got into it , she saw that because we really examined some of the behaviors that she was demonstrating in her off hours and even a little bit of work . But in her off hours from work , if she was truly actualized in the personal part of her life .

If the things looked the way she wanted it to look , she would be able to fully live her life in a way that was aligned with what she wants , or a healthy life , but really a healthy life .

But really her personal life was full of behaviors , which is a clue , because we know that your actions come from your emotions and your emotions come from what you're thinking .

So if you're not in touch with what you're thinking , or if some of the you know , if your brain's moving too fast , or if some of the truths of your life are deeper and a little harder to get at sometimes , it takes sometimes a lot of coaching or therapy to really get into the layers of what's going on with us .

It was very apparent that things weren't going right for her or the way she wanted in her personal life because of the behavior she was exhibiting , and some of those behaviors for her were she would lose hours at night just vegging out in front of Netflix or Max or some of the other you know , amazons , many of the channels and there's nothing wrong with , like ,

enjoying a good movie or whatever , but when it's every night , all night , and you're binge watching by yourself instead of getting out into the world and interacting with people and living your life . That is a sign that you're avoiding something right ? Another one was her drinking patterns .

She would do that extensive vegging out while sipping wine , like she didn't see herself as having a drinking problem . She never blacked out or got drunk , but she drank a lot consistently by herself . Right , and that's another sign of I love a glass of wine .

But , like , if that becomes you soothing these emotions , you're trying to hide from the things that you really want because you're avoiding putting yourself out into the world .

Both of those behaviors those any over-consumption behavior , overeating , binge eating , eating certain types of foods in excess all of that is really what I call a consumption behavior and you've got to know why are you doing that . You're doing that because you're trying to soothe yourself .

And you're trying to soothe yourself because really you're uncomfortable , you're afraid , you're having some sort of negative emotion . It's either fear or it's regret , or it's sadness . It's some kind of emotion on the negative end of the spectrum .

So if you're ever wondering why you're doing these things that you know you shouldn't do , that you don't really want to do , it's because you're trying to soothe yourself , right ? So in her case , she was doing those things and telling herself she just enjoyed it , right , and she was just doing it for now because work is too busy .

And she had all these excuses . You know , work is too busy and when I come home I just want to veg out . I don't want to put myself out there . I live in the city , I don't know anyone . I don't want to go , have to join things , I don't want to have to go on the dating apps to meet someone . I just don't want to deal with it right now .

I'm just going to adjust to this job . You know , the truth is she's been in the job for a couple of years . She's been in the city for a couple of years . Granted , she's moved a lot and granted , if I said more about her personal life in the past , yeah , she's had some relationships that didn't go the way she wanted .

So , really , where we're getting to is that she was telling herself she was just comfortable with these behaviors in her personal life Because , you know , she was just busy right now at work or whatever .

But the truth of the matter is that she was just hiding from the discomfort of having to face where she really is in her life right now , which is settled in to a new job that she likes , in a new city that she's not sure about , in a new city that she's not sure about , and she just hasn't done the hard work of really building a life in that city .

This is something I can relate to . I think I've said before in this podcast , I have moved with my career and transfers and new jobs , and so I have moved . I don't I have lost literally . I'd have to think for a minute . I've lost count .

I think it's like 14 times and , if I'm honest with myself , every move that I made the earlier moves were easy , like they were an adventure , and sometimes it's combined with your state of mind as well as the environment of the city . Every city has a vibe . That's my take from living in 14 places .

They're different and sometimes you vibe with a place more than others , but the truth is , I believe you can build a life wherever you are .

But like for me to put it into my own life for a minute , you know earlier on when I first hit that hotspot in my career where I was just like people were calling all the time and I was like moving and doing all this stuff . I was just in adventure mode . I was about I was a hundred percent uncomfortable all the time and I was really on fire .

It was a great period of my life . It was fun and adventurous and it was kind of a time period where I thought anything was really possible .

Now , of course , there were periods or there were places in my life where I still could have optimized , like I think I've told you , I definitely have avoided other types of being uncomfortable , like speaking on large stages and things like that , and I had many opportunities to do that and I just said no .

So I'm not saying I was a total adventurer , but in many ways I really was . And in my personal life I could relate to my client a little bit . I had to struggle to kind of hold space for her and not enable her thinking , because I actually understood exactly what she was saying , because I had done the same thing .

Like earlier on , I definitely dove into both a new job , a new city and meeting people and socializing , like I was all in on both sides and then gradually I don't know when it was , maybe it was when I got to the seven or 10 city mark ? I don't know . I just thought this is really . This is exhausting .

It's hard enough , the higher up you go , to drop yourself into a new culture and you know as a leader and do the things you need to do in that business from the outside , where you don't have a big network inside the company , it's hard to be a new leader at that level .

I can appreciate , like , how she felt when she first got there , because she's a very senior level executive . It's tough , you know , and no one has your back and certain types of companies are more political than others and they can be a little dangerous backstabbing . You've got to be careful , right , and you're trying to drive change or do something new .

I'm not going to say that's easy , like I've lived that world and it's not easy , but by turning off completely her aspirations in her personal life , which I honestly think many of us do at midlife .

This may not be you , but I know it was me for a long time and I know many other people who are doing that , people who haven't moved as many times as I have . It's just easy to say I just don't feel like it . I don't want to put myself out there again . I don't want to go through all of that .

I don't want to experience all of the feelings I'm going to have to feel if I walk into the networking event as a new entrepreneur . I don't want to accept the speaking engagement and stand up on stage and have , you know , 500 sets of eyes staring at me , you know , while I try to remember what to say .

I don't want to go on the dating app and meet the people that I don't want to meet . I don't want to go on the bad date . I don't want to fall in love and have the person leave me or have the other person fall in love and have to leave them right .

I don't want to go to the neighborhood bunco game and try to meet 25 women who are already friends and try to indoctrinate myself into that , which is what my client was saying . I don't want to have to just wander around through life alone and try to plug in right .

And this can happen for many reasons , like maybe you were married for 30 years and your husband left , or your wife left , or maybe passed away , or something happened and now you find yourself alone , children are grown , or maybe , like me , you don't have children .

Life changes for all of us , either through the choices we make like me or my client , where you're kind of trying to actualize and you're moving and you're allowing yourself to be very uncomfortable and embrace it in one part of your life , but in other parts of your life maybe you're shutting down and you're soothing yourself and you're isolating yourself and you're

hiding or escaping from really what your true aspirations are Like . What she really wants is an active social life . She hasn't gone so far as saying she wants a personal relationship again with a man , but she definitely wants to meet friends on the local level and she has not done that .

She's got work friends , but for her she doesn't want to blend those two worlds . She really wants to have friends outside of her work . So I don't know if what I'm saying resonates with you . If you're at midlife or mid career , I challenge you on either side of the equation , whether it's on the career track or in the personal realm .

I want you to look at not necessarily your thoughts , because I think they can be tricky sometimes in this area . You can tell yourself no , no , this is exactly what I want , this is what I want to do . I want you to look at your behaviors .

For example , if you're in the corporate realm and you've been in this job for a while and you haven't really put yourself out there in a new way at work or tried to find another job or asked for the raise or whatever , I just want you to look at just how do you feel every day when you get up and get ready for work .

Like , how do you think about it ? Are you excited about the things you're going to do or do you just think , oh , I would rather like jab a pen in my eye , you know , like what are you thinking ? And when you're at work , what are you doing ?

Are you all in every day doing the best you can because you've got interesting hard things that stretch you , or are you bored and unmoved ? Do you spend your time surfing the internet or looking for ways to slough off a little bit , or are you a snacker at work ?

Are you feeding or soothing your boredom at work with food , with the candy on the desk or the candy left in the lunchroom or whatever ? You know ? That's one way to get in touch with it .

Are you hiding from your dreams of leaving the comfortable corporate job and starting your own business , which is such a huge trend in today's world and it's something that I help people with . I understand this dream . I'm kind of in a weird place in that I still love what I do in corporate and I'm standing at this business .

I've got two passions pulling at me , but I've allowed myself to go after them both and I figure I'll know the right time when it's time to choose one versus the other . Are you hiding from that aspiration versus the other ? Are you hiding from that aspiration Right ?

Are you not using your off hours to build structure around that business plan , but instead surfing the internet or Facebooking or Instagramming or watching other budding entrepreneurs and dreaming that someday that'll be you making yourself feel better by allowing yourself to watch other people versus doing it yourself and feeling uncomfortable about that ? Right ?

You're telling yourself things like it's too dangerous to put yourself out there , because you know you have a corporate job and you're visible in your corporate job . You know , are you doing behaviors that are causing you more angst ?

Because when you don't acknowledge what you really want and allow yourself to go after it , that's when the real angst , I think , begins . Like it's one thing to be uncomfortable , it's definitely doesn't feel great when you first get used to doing it .

You know you feel angstful , you feel fearful , you feel awkward doing things in any part of your life that you're not comfortable doing . That you aren't sure is a great idea , you know . But the more you do it , the more comfortable you get with being uncomfortable . I think I read somewhere there's a Navy SEAL saying like get comfortable with being uncomfortable .

I think I read somewhere there's a Navy SEAL saying like get comfortable with being uncomfortable . I don't know if that's true or not , but I think it's true that that's the way to live life . We have this life right now , and do you want to live it partially ?

Do you want to live it in a way that is I don't want to say lazy , but just where you're not giving it your all ? This is your life . Like , wouldn't you rather live it from a place of every day you're doing something that's kind of new , that's putting yourself out into the world in a different way . It doesn't have to mean blowing anything up .

You can just walk into work tomorrow with a new frame of mind , asking for a new assignment , doing something in a new way , putting your point of view out into a meeting in a different way , carrying yourself differently , pulling yourself together differently in just your physical presentation to the world . Why settle for being comfortable ? I do think it's settling .

I think we lie to ourselves and tell ourselves it feels good when in reality , sometimes there are parts of our life where we want something different and we're not allowing ourself to go get it because we have all of these excuses that we're not necessarily even in touch with , because what we're trying to do is we're trying to avoid being afraid , we're trying to

avoid rejection , we're trying to avoid judgment , we're trying to avoid failure . And so we tell ourselves I'm just comfortable here , I'm going to stay in my zone and I want to challenge you today .

What if you challenged yourself for the next month that you were going to show up in your life in a new way , in some way every week , like how could you start to move more towards what you want ? So if you want to get the promotion , how do you show up every day , every week , for the next four weeks in a different way ?

Or people at the end of that time would look at you and say , wow , different way . Or people at the end of that time would look at you and say , wow , you're really , you know , you're really on right now , you know . Or if it's in your personal life , like my client , what could you do every week for the next four weeks ?

That would start to put you into situations where you're meeting people that you want to socialize with , that you'd like to become acquainted with , hoping to find your peeps , like , how could you do that ? There are ways to do it , you just have to try , right ? There are apps . I think there's a Bumble .

I mean , there's a dating part of that , but I think there's a or at least there used to be anyway . I think there's a part of that app where you can actually try to meet friends Great opportunity for a new city meetups , right . Networking groups , church groups if you're into the religious thing , neighborhood groups , right . There are all kinds of things .

I enjoy fiction writing . I belong to two writers clubs locally , like . There's things like that . There's all kinds of hobbies , right , get in touch with it . Take knitting lessons , take photography lessons , like , do something that you're interested in and that will be a way that you meet people .

Or , if you want to move from what you're doing now into running your own business , build a plan and start working on the plan . Like , if you're not sure how to do it , join a group , go to networking events , buy a course , follow the course , do the things and put yourself out into the world gradually in a new way .

I think if you did that for one month and you allowed yourself , every single time you wanted to be uncomfortable and not do it and wanted to avoid it . If , instead , you did it and just said , hey , listen , I'm probably going to be uncomfortable , it's okay , it's okay If I feel that way . I'm not going to feel that way the entire time .

I'm just going to feel that way walking through the door or starting up the conversation or whatever . The thing is that you have to do , doing the live Instagram or whatever it is . It's like just do it , do it and see by the end of that time period how much easier it is to feel uncomfortable . You know you don't , after a while , even think about it .

Like I remember the first time that I moved across country and really away from the Midwest . It was scary , you know . I didn't know anybody where I was and I wasn't even 100% sure that I was going to like the job , and what I learned was it was fun to see a different part of the country . It was fun to get the vibe of the city .

It was fun to meet a couple of women to have cocktails or dinner with and get to know them a little bit , that were so different and had been raised so different , had a different life than the life that I knew , back where I was .

The life that I knew back where I was and that great experience very quickly turned into an immediate maybe and many times a yes , when recruiters would reach out with new opportunities . I was no longer scared . I was like all in . I moved to places I thought I'd never want to live and loved living there .

Like I think I've said before in a podcast , like somebody called me for an opportunity in Philadelphia earlier on in those days and I wasn't sure I'd never been to Philadelphia , it never seemed like a place that I should live .

But I visited there for the you know the one of the final interviews and I have to tell you like I fell in love and I lived there for a year and I'd probably still be there . But that company then transferred me to Charlotte . They were moving a base of their operations to Charlotte and I resisted it . I did not want to leave Philadelphia , right .

And then I went to Charlotte and I love that too . So those experiences taught me this is fun , you know . So from then on I was all in . But that's really what it's all about is .

It's about just doing it for the first time , letting yourself feel uncomfortable , and not doing anything to buffer that , not doing anything to take the edge off of that discomfort , just to say , hey , I feel uncomfortable and that's okay . That is okay .

Better to have the discomfort of actualizing , of allowing yourself to grow towards the thing that you want , and feeling the discomfort that goes along with putting yourself out into the world in new ways .

Then the discomfort of not doing that and instead of feeling the discomfort of going for it , you're trying to comfort yourself by doing all the behaviors that we do in the modern world , the overconsumption behaviors , and there's many types gambling , pornography , food , alcohol , drugs , even just TV .

There are all kinds of things we do to make ourselves feel comfortable because really we're uncomfortable , because we're hiding from the things that we really want , or we're not making the changes we need to make , or in some way we're trying to just avoid those negative emotions . So that's what I mean by the two types of discomfort .

My client and I are still working through this , but I have given her that challenge , the four week challenge of do something new every week and challenge yourself in ways that are meaningful to you , not random things . Do something that's really going to make you uncomfortable because it's meaningful to you , not random things .

Do something that's really going to make you uncomfortable because it's meaningful to you . Like for her , she really wants to increase her social circle , so it doesn't necessarily have to mean going on the dating apps because she hasn't really gone there yet with me . It's like , okay , well , let's just say you want to meet other people to socialize with as friends .

Let's start figuring out what are the ways that you could do that and identify a set of things and then just take it one at a time over the next four weeks and just know , when you walk in the room you're going to feel super , super uncomfortable and let that be okay .

And you probably will meet a lot of people that don't vibe with you , but you're going to meet eventually the ones that do .

And that's how it's done , a little bit at a time , and the last thing that I'll leave you with is the more you do this , the more you allow yourself to get clear on the things that you really want and then to go do those things wherever they are in your life and to feel uncomfortable with doing them . The more comfortable you'll get with being uncomfortable .

And I think , like if discomfort is a spectrum of zero to a hundred , the less uncomfortable you even feel , because it's probably what the Navy SEAL thing is about . It's like the more you get comfortable with being uncomfortable , the less uncomfortable you actually get .

Do it , the drama , the mind drama , the resistance , the fear , the angstful all the stuff just kind of diminishes in intensity and you're able to walk through your life in a way that's very meaningful and in a way that allows you to be very actualized , and isn't that a better life than hiding from it ? I just don't think comfortable is a great thing .

Probably even with the parts of our life that we really like , like if we really have a great marriage or whatever . Do we really want to just get comfortable ? I don't think so . I think we should always be growing and trying new things and growing together . Like that would probably be the challenge you know with . That is okay .

Well , how do we keep making this even better . Do we just want to coast with our life or with our relationships or with our career ? I don't think so .

Always be heading towards excellence , always be heading towards actualization and staying in tune with the areas of your life that aren't exactly the way you want , and giving yourself permission to go after something new and letting it be okay that it's a little uncomfortable .

It be okay that it's a little uncomfortable , and I think it's kind of like going to the gym . You know the first week or two is kind of miserable if you haven't done it for a while , but those muscles get stronger and pretty soon . That's something you look forward to . And that's kind of where I got to with all the change in my life .

I saw it as a big adventure and I got judged by a lot of people . They're like are you ever going to stop moving and doing stuff ? And I have . I've been in Dallas for 10 years , but listen , I'm sure I'm not done moving yet . I'm not sure this is where I want to be forever .

It's a nice city , but for me , when I think about that , I think about like , hey , where do I want to go ? There's zero discomfort . It's just like , let's pick a place and let's do it . But for now I'm trying to be very purposeful and I have a corporate job that keeps me here , so it's totally fine because I like Dallas , just fine .

But my point is pay attention to how comfortable you've allowed yourself to get in all the different areas of your life relationships , your job , your weight , your image , all of it , everything and just ask yourself do you want to stay there or do you want to start pushing yourself a little bit in a healthy way ?

If so , take the four week challenge , like I've challenged my client to do . Allow yourself to do something that makes you uncomfortable every week , but make sure it's something that's meaningful to you , not just something random , not something easy . Make it be something that you really want and that's meaningful .

Identify something you can do that's new and that pushes you a little bit , and then go do it . I think you'll find when you finish the month , it doesn't feel so uncomfortable anymore and maybe that thing that you really want is starting to come into fruition in your life .

So that is what I wanted to talk about today and until next time , make it a great week . My friends , do you have a life coach . If not , I'd be so honored to be your coach . I've created a virtual coaching program and monthly membership called Next Level . Inside we take the material you hear on this podcast , study it and then apply it .

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