¶ Embracing Authenticity in Podcasting
I'm so glad that you're here . You are listening to what the fuck did she just say with your host ? That's me , sandra Priestly . I'm all about living our best life and finding our zone of brilliance and then removing the resistance so that we can go all in .
I say random , crazy shit , which is why I called this podcast the way that I did , and I really hate long drawn out intros , so let's fucking go , okay . Right before I recorded this , I went to my my podcast app . Um , the podcast recording platform thing that I use is Buzzsprout .
So I just figured out , just realized that Buzzsprout has an app , so I downloaded this app . So then every day , I get to go on the app and I got to see like . So then every day I get to go on the app and I got to see , like , who listened to me , how many countries listened to me PS , 210 countries have listened to me .
Me , the chick from , like , alberta , canada . Is that the coolest freaking thing ever ? It's the coolest thing ever . I get to see where people are are listening from , I get to see which people or not which people , but like where people are listening from every day , and so I can see my friend from Cape Town . That is like , seriously , my twin sister .
I can see when my client from Grand Cache or someone from Grand Cache is listening in . I can see when my friend from Lloydminster is listening , and it just feels like the coolest frigging thing ever . It is the coolest frigging thing ever . It is the coolest frigging thing ever . Why have I not done podcasting daily before ?
Actually , I'll tell you why because I had it in my brain that it had to be . It had to be perfect .
I had it in my brain that I needed to um , make sure that the audio was perfect , make sure that I took out all the pauses and the ands and the ums and the buts and the you know things that didn't really make sense , because when you're just talking , sometimes it's not perfect , it's not . I'm not writing a fucking script here .
In fact , I don't have anything written down , and this is going to be a fire episode , like I'm just talking , just like if you and I were having coffee . This is what it looks like .
What's interesting , though , is that I had it in my brain that it had to be a certain way , and a lot of times we get so stuck , we pigeonhole ourselves into doing something .
In one way , it's almost like this subconscious plant that we have and then that holds us back when we can just take a step back a little bit and think how can I do this in my most me way , how can I show up in my most me way , how can I be most me ?
A couple of weeks ago , I was telling you that my husband was listening to my podcast one day and he said it doesn't even sound like you .
Now , part of this , I do think , is the microphone itself and probably because I'm in this room , which is a little bit echoey and I am like speaking to my computer , it's possible , but a lot of it was just , I was just so focused on like what are you hearing me say ? And you know does is this making sense ?
And so , you know , when I just started to do it messy , it became so much more like me and I realized that most of us do this , most of us think it has to be this way or no way , you know .
And when I look back , there's so many things in my life that I have done my own way and felt like free and just felt natural , and then there's things that I sort of have these subconscious plans of like this is the way it has to be . It has to be perfect , it has to be .
The audio has to be perfect , and when I've given myself permission to just do the dang thing the easiest fucking way for me , it works . It just works .
¶ Personalized Self-Development Strategies
I was thinking this morning about how I had my human design read . If you haven't had your human design read , it's super cool . You can do it online and get sort of a freebie one I can't remember what . Just go human design free reading and put in your birth date and your time and your place and you'll get it . It was super .
Each time I have my human design reading done , and so the most recent time that I had it done , it was for business , and my really good friend from France had done it , and she said that in order for me to live my human design , I need to use my voice . And so after that she said , like , do a live video .
And so what was crazy was I heard use my voice . I related it to the live video and in my brain it was live video , live video , live video .
And in my brain it was live video , live video , live video , live video , live video and I just didn't feel aligned to live video lately , and what's crazy is that I'm using my voice right now and this feels so much easier than live video . Journaling was the same . I had it in my mind . I was constantly being told journaling will change your life .
Journal , journal , journal , journal , journal . And I would like try to journal . I would sit there and I would think , okay , what do I want to journal on ?
I need a journal prompt , because that's what everyone tells me I need is a fucking journal prompt , and so I need a journal prompt , because that's what everyone tells me I need is a fucking journal prompt , and so I need a journal prompt . What am I going to do ? What is a journal prompt , what ? And then I'm just like , seriously , I could journal on .
What journal prompt will be the best ? Because that's all that's going on in my mind what do I need for a journal prompt ? What can I use for a journal prompt ? And it just frustrated the fuck out of me and then I would just go and eat a sandwich .
I needed to do journal in my own way , and so I started journaling just as a way to release it , in awareness of how I was feeling and what was my next step ? And so I just started journaling your universe . This is how I'm feeling now , and if I felt like shit , I would journal it out to release it .
And then I would always have this I release this all now and I step into . Or I release this all now and I choose to believe , like I always would sort of not just like bitch about my life on paper and then burn it and still be pissed off .
It was bitch about how he was feeling or whatever it happened to be in order to release it in that sitting and then say I release this all now . What are my next steps ? I release this all now and I choose to believe . I release this all now and I step into my higher self . Blah , blah , blah . This is what it looks like Sometimes .
It looks like just journaling out my limiting beliefs and changing them as I write them out , and I choose now to not use journaling prompts but journaling strategies . Meditation is the same . I couldn't stand meditations where they say just get into the zone where you're not thinking about anything . I'm a fucking classic overthinker .
I'm always going to be thinking about something , like if you cannot think about something good for you . But like that ain't me . You know , I'm always thinking , and so I kept feeling like I was doing it wrong . I kept feeling like I don't want to see my thoughts in a cloud that float by . I'm thinking what kind of cloud is that ? Is that a cumulus cloud ?
I should have paid more attention in my university geography class it was called weather and climate , by the way and I couldn't understand the prof because his accent was really strong and I think he spoke five languages , but English was not one of them and it's my only language anyway . So I just neutralize my thoughts . It's not going to work .
It doesn't work for me . But what does work for me is guided meditations , where I'm trying to connect into my intuition . Those are fire . They feel amazing , and I became just obsessed with meditation by doing it that way , with podcasting by doing it this way and with journaling by doing it my way , journal strategies over journal prompts .
And I think that too often we get it in our heads that we have to do something in one way . We don't . We just need to figure out our way . What works for us ? If it works , do it more . Didn't I do it ? Did I do a podcast called that .
Anyway , it's true , keep trying , keep trying , keep trying things on , see if it works for you , see if it feels good for you , if it is fucking easy , it is the path for you . Do it more . Thank you so much for listening .
I hope you've had some laughs , maybe some ideas , and that you've been inspired to take some type of action toward the life you've always dreamed of . If you feel so called , I would love it if you would share with your besties . Leave a review down below . I look forward to bringing you along on this journey and I will see you in the next episode .
