246: The Unsustainability of Inauthenticity with Erin Weed
Dec 1, 2023
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Entrepreneur Erin Weed discusses the tragedy that launched her journey into entrepreneurship and the importance of not sticking with something that is no longer aligned. She shares about her unique process, The Dig®, and the benefits of volunteering and setting intentions. The podcast explores living authentically, selling a business, and the challenges of growth, as well as the significance of authenticity in relationships and embracing one's true self.
Living in alignment with our true selves is crucial for long-term sustainability and well-being.
The DIG process, developed by Erin Weed, helps individuals clarify their purpose, simplify their message, and amplify their truth.
Deep dives
The Importance of Authenticity in Finding Alignment
Authenticity is about remembering who we were in the first place and deconstructing the programming that gets in the way. Living in alignment with our true selves is crucial for long-term sustainability and well-being. When we are authentic, things work out and we experience fulfillment. Being someone we are not is ultimately unsustainable and detrimental to our health and success.
Unearthing Your Purpose and Living in Alignment
The DIG process, developed by Erin Weed, helps individuals clarify their purpose, simplify their message, and amplify their truth. By distilling down recurring themes and finding the one-word frequency that characterizes their life path, individuals can align their actions with their authentic selves. Living in alignment with their word leads to fulfillment and success while veering off course leads to struggles and breakdowns.
The Unsustainability of Inauthenticity in Business
Inauthenticity and misalignment in business can have dire consequences. Going against our true nature and offering products or services that do not resonate with our energy leads to a lack of sustainability. It can manifest as poor financial returns, draining energy, and even health problems. Staying true to our authentic selves is essential for long-term success and well-being in business.
The Power of Choosing Alignment and Authentic Expression
Choosing alignment and authentic expression empowers us to live our lives to the fullest. By being radically honest with ourselves and acknowledging the facts, emotions, and desires surrounding a given situation, we can move towards authenticity. This shift brings clarity and a sense of personal power, allowing us to make choices that align with our true selves and lead to fulfillment and success.
What do you do when a business area becomes energetically draining, or the income isn’t flowing? Today’s guest has many intuitive superpowers, and one of them is “following the data points of truth.”
In this episode, Erin Weed and I discuss why you shouldn’t just stick with something that is no longer aligned; the tragic event that launched her journey into entrepreneurship; the moment she knew it was time to release her first business; how she came up with her unique process, The Dig®️ (then later trained a dozen facilitators to help conduct sessions); volunteering as one of the best ways to try on new business ideas; and setting intentions with a word of the week and for the year, in addition to your core word at the center of who you are.
⛔️ For listeners who wish to avoid sensitive content: This episode contains a story about violent crime.
More About Erin: Erin Weed is an intuitive communications expert with a passion for truth and storytelling, dedicated to helping leaders discover their purpose and express it succinctly. With a background in PR and documentary production, she has a wealth of experience. Erin's journey took a transformative turn when the tragic murder of her sorority sister inspired her to launch Girls Fight Back!, a global women's safety education company. Erin is also renowned 22-year professional speaker who coaches TEDx and TED speakers using her unique approach, The Dig®, to distill their messages down to simple words.
🌟 3 Key Takeaways
Core values are something you’re choosing, and how you want to show up. The Dig is about excavating the past and remembering who you already are, deprogramming what’s getting in the way of expressing that.
Why do you do what you do? Erin’s Dig process boils down to one word, a frequency. Your word is not a descriptor, it’s about the life path you’re here to learn and teach about, the lens through which you see the world, stories or our life so we can be better teachers.
Resonance meter: 0 to 100, how true does this feel? No one is authentic or inauthentic; the more we’re authentic, the more we will be aligned. The authentic truth of who you are is always moving. The work is to know thyself so deeply that when your resonance meter starts to dip, you’re so attuned to it that you’re able to stop and ask why. What’s happening?
📝 Permission
Be radically honest with yourself. Try Erin’s Head Heart Core framework: Pick a topic that is alive for you, or one that has been challenging for you. Share your truth by naming the factual truth, what is undisputedly true. Then name your emotional truth, then name what you really, really, want.
✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next
Take out a pen and paper and reflect: When is the last time I was out of alignment, and how did it feel in my body? How did it show up in my thoughts? How did it show up in my life expression?