Emotionally Uncomfortable

"There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you're useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose." - Sabaa Tahir

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." Carl Jung

" Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong." N. R. Narayana Murthy

"I'm Not Hurting You, I'm Healing Myself." - R.Reddy

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit" ― E.E. Cummings In this episode, Gio and I talk about: How to embrace who you really are Having the courage to speak your truth How perception of others isn't always reality Gio Petrucci is the human behind GIOGRAFIK, a one-person creative operation he brought to life in 2017. Thanks to hard work, persistence and luck, his artistic career path has wound through a plethora of industries, including experiential design, fashion, fitness and politics. Gio's work today is instantly recognizable by his empathetic approach to creativity as well as his desire to tell his clients' stories with compelling branding and design. Over the past decade, Gio's desire to push his creativity beyond the corporate world has manifested several community-driven collaborations. Whether it's marketing and branding a grassroots voter-series aimed at engaging millennials, or designing a limited-edition Pride t-shirt to raise funding for affordable housing for people living with HIV/AIDS, Gio is consciously working to be part of a greater social narrative through design. Check out his website: https://www.giografik.com/ Continue the conversation on Instagram @momisincontrol

"Children need models rather than critics." — Joseph Joubert In this episode, I talk about: How to get the tools to help your kids Why it's important for you to do hard things How to do the inner work to help your children Continue the conversation on Instagram @momisincontrol

"I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update." - Susie Orbach In this episode, I talk about: How to dive into what your body needs How to recognize how you want to feel in your life How to get to a place of alignment Continue the conversation on Instagram @momisincontrol

"You say you're 'depressed' – all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective – it just means you're human." ―David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas In this episode, I talk about: How to take back control of your own life Why depression is not a disease, but a symptom How to recognize what you really need Continue the conversation on Instagram @momisincontrol

"It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives." - Jose Angel Gurria Continue the conversation on Instagram @momisincontrol

"Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it … Start doing it." - Jocko Willink Continue the conversation on Instagram @momisincontrol