The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

Managing work life and family life can be a challenge, and many moms end up giving up on their dreams or putting their own desires and interests on the back burner. My guest today, Sara Dean, knows all about this. Sara is the creator and host of the Shameless Mom Academy Podcast, a top rated podcast rapidly approaching 1 million downloads. Sara's biggest passion is helping women own their space. After enduring her own identity crises following the birth of her son, Sara took her background in psychology/health/wellness and rebuilt her identity, one step at a time. Sara motivates and inspires women to stop shrinking and start growing. She is on a mission to inspire women and moms, in particular, to live bigger, bolder, braver #everydamnday. Sara shares some of her struggles as a mom early on, coming to grips with the way her life was changing, and creating a new story for herself and her own life. She had been running a successful gym, but as she struggled to live a bigger and bolder life and create her own space in this world, she felt in conflict with helping women to shrink their own bodies and take up less space. So, she sold her gym (using curiosity to fuel this transition) and launched The Shameless Mom Academy and The Shameless Mom Academy podcast and began helping women "live bigger, bolder, braver every damn day." Sara says that a shameless mom is unapologetic, gracious, and tenacious. She makes space for herself, not by asking for permission but by having confidence around her needs, being vocal about her needs, and taking radical responsibility for building a life that makes her happy. She gives practical suggestions for how one can create space in one's daily routine, and how one can start the day proactively instead of reactively. Sara addresses -- and challenges -- some of the common assumptions about mothers and fathers and how they manage their lives and schedules and families, and provides a framework for helping moms feel comfortable with their choices to create space for themselves and for their own interests and passions. She also offers suggestions for alleviating anxiety and building confidence. To learn more from Sara, check out her podcast, The Shameless Mom Academy, and you can connect with her at www.ShamelessMom.com. Also, you can join her private Facebook group at www.ShamelessMom.com/Facebook, and follow her on Instagram (@ShamelessMomAcademy). It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunes and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

This episode kicks off a six-part series in which I take you through six different pathways to happiness, to human flourishing, and with each one I'll provide you with tools that you can use. This is all based on the current research through a framework called PERMA-V. In today's episode I'll teach you all about the P: Positivity, and every other week, when I do a solo episode, I'll be discussing another one of the 6 pathways. After you listen to each episode, I hope you'll practice the tools I'm providing so you can apply this to your own life. I start with a bit of background to help put all of this in context. I discuss a bit of the history of psychology in the twentieth century and the birth of the field of positive psychology, which stemmed from the recognition that we needed to focus on and learn more about wellness, and not just illness. A key idea in positive psychology is that the absence of illness is not wellness. Just because you don't have diabetes or cancer doesn't mean you're healthy, and just because you haven't been diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder doesn't mean you're thriving and flourishing. Positive psychology started developing the understanding that, more than the surface happiness, which, while it's pleasurable, is more fleeting, we should be learning to cultivate a deeper, more fulfilling happiness. I address the concept of the hedonic treadmill as part of the reason why the search for more money and a better job doesn't lead to true, deep, lasting happiness, and what Aristotle called "eudaimonia," or wellbeing and flourishing. The field of positive psychology has been studying what it takes to really cultivate our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others, and a recent theory has laid out 6 pathways to flourishing: PERMA-V. Positivity Engagement Relationships Meaning and Purpose Accomplishment and Achievement Vitality In today's episode I discuss Positivity, which does not mean being happy all the time and ignoring one's grief and challenging emotions, and sweeping difficult experiences under the rug. Positivity is about having more positive emotions than negative emotions, more gratitude than resentment, more joy than grief and rage. We all have negativity bias, we all go more easily towards the negative than the positive, and I offer an activity for you to do that demonstrates this. The pathway of positivity really comes down to understanding how your brain works, and to your mindset, shifting from reacting harshly to stressful triggers to responding to them, so that you can show up in the world as your best self. Negativity bias served a very important role in our own survival as a species, keeping us on the lookout for threats in our environment. This no longer serves us, though, and in fact it adversely impacts our wellbeing, but it did serve a purpose evolutionarily, and this begs the question: Why do we have positive emotions? Top researcher Barbara Frederickson has shown that positive emotions also played a key role in our survival in that they contributed to building relationships, which helped us fight threats. Positive emotions also facilitate increased creativity and problem solving, helping our brains broaden and build. We need more positive emotions in our day than negative ones, and a major way to do this is through gratitude, gratitude and appreciation for what it, and also holding a vision for a positive future. I discuss the upward spiral generated by regular practices of gratitude, why it's so important, and how to incorporate gratitude into your daily life. I talk about the pessimistic thinking style, which is characterized by the belief that challenges tend to be permanent, pervasive, and personal, versus the optimistic thinking style, in which we view challenges as temporary, isolated, and not necessarily personal. Shifting from a pessimistic thinking style to an optimistic thinking style will bring about profound improvements to your wellbeing, and research shows that having a pessimistic thinking style shortens one's life span by an average of 9 years! I end with a discussion of the cycle of thoughts leading to feelings leading to behaviors and back to a new thought, and how we can work with this cycle to change our thoughts and therefore change the feelings and behaviors that follow. This comes in part form the work of Byron Katie who teaches us to question our own thoughts. We can all change our brains, but it takes choice, discipline and practice, and to help with that I end with several Purpose Power Tips for you take action. And here are links for a few resources I mention in this episode: Barbara Frederickson's book, Positivity https://amzn.to/2QhlUgJ Carol Dweck's book, Mindset https://amzn.to/2QcZ89N Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology http://getcertifiedinpp.com Women's Global Happiness Day http://WomensHappy.com It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunes and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

Happy, healthy, thriving relationships don't happen by chance. They take effort and intention, they're well worth that effort, and my guest today is literally an expert in how to create this kind of relationship in your own life. I am thrilled to welcome Suzie Pileggi Pawelski, MAPP, an author, speaker, and well-being consultant specializing in the science of happiness and its effects on relationships and health. Her 2010 Scientific American Mind cover story, "The Happy Couple," was the catalyst for the book, Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love that Lasts (Penguin Random House, 2018) that she co-wrote with her husband, James. Together, they give Romance and Research™ workshops around the world. She has a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She is passionate about helping individuals and couples make better food and lifestyle choices. We exist in relationship with others, and having happy, healthy relationships is one of the most important things when it comes to wellbeing. There are plenty of books that focus on what's wrong in relationships, books that focus on the problems, but through the lens of positive psychology, Suzie felt called to put out a book that focuses on what's right about healthy, thriving relationships, and how we can incorporate this into our own lives. "Happily-ever-after" relationships don't just happen. We need to work on developing healthy habits and the skills that can make us happy together. Just like working out our bodies is an ongoing process, we need to build muscle and flexibility in our relationships. And just like you wouldn't do the same exercises in the gym every day, every week, every month, you need to vary the ways in which you work on your relationship, because what works now might not be the most effective practice in the future. Suzie looked at the research to determine how this can be applied to our romantic lives. Continuing with the metaphor of physical exercise, it's important to understand that working on a healthy relationship is like working out at the gym. It might be tough at first, but once you build the habit it becomes something you'll want to do, because you know how good it is for you, and you'll soon see the rewards of practicing healthy habits with your partner. She also prefers to think of it as practice, and not work, and the focus should be on what you want in your relationship, as opposed to what you don't want. Suzie discusses some of the things that you can do to build a healthy relationship, including going on "strengths dates," (To learn about your own strengths, you can take a free assessment called the VIA, which you can find at https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu) and she emphasizes the importance of nurturing curiosity about ourselves and about our partners. Suzie also addresses the change in passion that we might feel for our partner over time and a healthy way to think about this, as well as the importance of savoring (and the different types of savoring) and of acknowledging and appreciating our partners. To learn more about Suzie Pileggi Pawelski and her work, go to https://www.buildhappytogether.com, her Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/buildhappytogether/), and check out her article in Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happy-together). Also, Suzie recommended the book, The Nichomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, which you can find at Amazon (https://amzn.to/2QfBQjz). It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunes and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

I LOVE receiving emails from listeners all over the globe who tell me they listen, they share the podcast with their moms or girlfriends or sisters, and that my message really connected with them, that it helped them through a tough time, that they felt that someone gets what they're going through. Sometimes I get questions from listeners, and I love this, too! In today's episode I want you to know that your comments, your thoughts, your questions all matter to me, and I'm going to take the entire episode to answer questions from my listeners. And if you have a question for me, please email me at carin@carinrockind.com, and I'll try to answer yours in an upcoming episode. In today's episode I answer the following questions from listeners: Are you always happy? How do I help someone else to be happier? How do I set boundaries when people in my life are very negative? What do I do if I hate my job but I can't leave? I thought my life would be different. I'm just unhappy and I don't know where to start. I can't get my mind to quiet. I know what I want to do but I don't have the courage to take the leap. Where can I learn more of the stuff you teach? In the answer to one question I mention a book by Marilee Adams, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, which you can get at Amazon: https://amzn.to/2NvGOMj I also mention the CAPP (Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology) program, which you can learn about here (http://getcertifiedinpp.com), and if you sign up for CAPP, use the code carinr27 and receive a $150 discount. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunes and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

I'm the youngest of three, and when I was a little girl my parents used to tell me that they got it right the third time, that I was the perfect child. They meant well, but this set me up to strive for perfection and to fear failure because it would mean others would find out that I wasn't, in fact, perfect. I've spent a lot of time working through this, and on today's episode I have the "perfect" guest to discuss issues around perfectionism and how to combat it. Petra Kolber is a leading happiness, movement, and fitness expert, and her new book is called The Perfection Detox: Tame Your Inner Critic, Live Bravely, and Unleash Your Joy, (available on Amazon). When I was younger, perfectionism was all about being the perfect daughter; for Petra it was about being perfect on the outside so she could hide the chaos of her family life that was inside of her. Petra talks about how she came to understand her own perfectionism and recognize that, instead of making her a better person, it was actually holding her back and making her world smaller. Petra discusses "enoughness" and how this leads to so many doubts, and to the fear that we're going to be discovered as a fraud. These doubts hold us back, they push us into waiting versus doing, or watching instead of taking an active role in our own life. And it's important to realize that fear and anxiety can sometimes be a sign that you're about to do something very meaningful to you. What's important is recognizing what's under the fear and then figuring out what action we need to take to address the source of the fear. Petra's book is full of practical techniques for eliminating the harmful effects of perfectionism, and one of the earlier things she teaches is how to notice the "noise," the critiques we say to ourselves frequently, and then she gives practical strategies for addressing these thoughts. The most frequent self-critiques are often tied to the same root belief; for Petra they tended to be around her sense of "enoughness," that she wasn't smart enough. More recently it tends to be around, "Am I young enough?" But being able to recognize this allows her to work with and eventually dismiss the impact of these thoughts. There are no quick fixes here – this takes work – but Petra shows us how we can actually do this successfully. By being kinder and more loving to ourselves, we're better able to be kind to other women because we're less competitive and making fewer comparisons with them. It strengthens our sense of community with other women, we can talk more openly with other women about our struggles, and we're better able to help and support other women, and in return they'll be able to support us when we need it. Perfection doesn't allow for spontaneity, for creativity, for curiosity, for failure, so how can we live bravely perfectly? We can't. Perfection doesn't allow us to live bravely. And Petra's book is a wonderful tool for combatting perfectionism and the limitations it brings, and for living a braver, more fulfilling life. To learn more about Petra Kolber and her book, please go to http://www.petrakolber.com http://www.perfectiondetox.com And near the end of the episode, Petra mentions The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, which you can find at Amazon. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunes and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

I don't think of myself as old. I'm not old. And yet, I've had to deal with the impact of my age on my own fertility. In recent years I've wanted to become pregnant, have a health baby, and be a mom, and twice in the last two years I've experienced the intense heartbreak of a miscarriage. Despite the fact that I teach others about happiness and life satisfaction, I have my own struggles and I've always been very open about my struggles. It's so important that we be real about what we're going through so we can normalize it for others, which allows us to support each other when we're in need. By hiding our struggles and only posting the happiest snapshots of our lives on social media, we deny the reality that we're all experiencing and we make it harder to support each other, which is what we all need. After dealing with my own grief around my miscarriages, and my struggles with depression, I began researching the many reasons why women are statistically more depressed than men, and I realized that there are ways to address each of these. There really are things we can do. And out of this research and my soul-searching about what I am here to birth, came the idea for an event to combat women's depression: Women's Global Happiness Day! To learn more about it, go to www.womenshappy.com, or email me (carin@carinrockind.com). I also explore the idea of the mid-life crisis, how it manifests differently in men and women, and how I'm grappling with my own age and what it means to be in my mid-forties. I end with Purpose Power Tools around our age and how we feel about it. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunes and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

For years I've been supporting women to be happier and to live more fulfilling lives, and I've only recently come to understand just how important sex and sensuality is to living a truly happy and complete life, and to being our true selves. To discuss the importance of sex and sensuality and how we can embrace it in our lives, I am joined by Beth Liebling, luxury boutique owner, host of the radio show Love and Laughter with Beth on ESPN Houston, and the author of Love and Laughter: Sexy, Meaningful Fun For Everyone (which you can get at Amazon here). The subtitle of her book is a nod to the importance of being able to laugh about and find humor in sex and sexuality. Sometimes sex is intense and grandiose love-making, heartfelt in every way, slow and tender. Sometimes it's raunchy and "dirty" and hard and fast. In the middle is where we recognize the significance, the meaning, the joy, the pleasure, the intimacy, and the humor, and this approaches a truly divine connection with another person. Sometimes we want these other extremes, and that's perfectly fine, but we should be able to experience a wide variety, shifting from one to another according to our needs and desires. Sadly, many women don't enjoy a healthy, pleasurable sex life, and according to Beth, this commonly stems from their childhood. Women often see two paths before them when they're young: They can be a good girl, or they can be a slut. In addition, they're told to love, and that women should be loving, but that this should really only be from their heart and not from their bodies, because once they start enjoying love with their bodies they're labeled sluts. When Beth works with women she emphasizes the distinction between sensuality and sexuality, and she stresses the importance of getting in touch with one's own sensuality before working on their sexuality. She also addresses the sensitive topic of how parents can talk to their children about touching themselves. We hire coaches for our golf game but we don't think about hiring coaches for intimacy and sexuality, and many of us would truly benefit from exactly that kind of coaching! There's so much more to sex than anatomy and biology, and we have a lot to learn, and this learning can be very pleasurable. Part of this learning is learning about our own needs. Sometimes women engage in sex when what they're really craving is emotional intimacy, and getting in touch with what we truly need and desire is an important part of a fulfilling life of sexuality and sensuality. Beth explains why she prefers the term "romantic props" to "sex toys," and what each phrase implies about our sex lives. Her mission with her store, Darling Way, is to put fun and laughter and beauty back in sex and intimacy. She fosters a sense of community with her customers, and encourages conversation and connection. You can learn more about Beth and her boutique at https://darlingway.com, and about her online course, From Good Girl to Sexy Siren: The Secrets to Being a Great Lover here. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunes and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

Women play a huge role in our society and our economy as a whole, and in our families as well. In many ways, women in a traditional heterosexual couple and family dynamic are the leaders of the family. And yet, too many women suffer from low self-confidence. On average, this is an issue that tends to adversely affect women more than women. Why would women who have every reason to be confident still feel so insecure? We all pick up things from a wide variety of sources –- our parents, our families, our peers, the media, and elsewhere -– and some of this can be very harmful, although that may not have been the intention. Some women learn that if they appear too confident they'll be perceived as arrogant, whereas many men don't seem to have this limiting belief. A KPMG study showed that 86% of women recalled being taught to be nice to others when they were growing up, while only 34% recall being taught to share their point of view. Taken too far, this can lead to being overly concerned with others to our own detriment, valuing the wellbeing and success of others above ourselves. As it turns out, these "soft skills" of compassion and empathy are turning out to be more and more in demand in leaders as it's becoming better understood that they're important qualities in successful leaders. And so as women, we should really embrace our own kindness and compassion and empathy and recognize them as critical strengths; we don't need to be aggressive and arrogant and hard in order to be successful. In Episode 22 (http://carinrockind.com/episode22) I talked all about fear, where it comes from, and what we can do about it. Some of our lack of confidence stems from a fear that developed growing up, that, in order to be loved and accepted by our family or our peer group, we need to do things in ways in which others approve. Listening to this fear made us comfortable as a young child, but now it holds us back. We need to question fears like these and learn to listen to our own inner wisdom instead of that old fear voice. Richard Petty, a researcher at Ohio State, conducted a massive study of 150,000 people and he found that as confidence increases, so does income. Petty defines confidence as "the stuff that turns thoughts into actions." He also showed a fascinating link between our physical actions and postures, and our own confidence. To broaden our understanding I discuss the definitions of self-confidence and self-esteem. I also discuss several studies that have shown that women in medical school and in nursing showed significantly lower confidence than their male counterparts despite having comparable levels of competence. A study conducted by HP showed that men were willing to apply for jobs for which they were qualified for 60% of the requirements, whereas women would only apply if they were qualified for 100% of the requirements. All of this is to say that confidence, not competence, is the issue for many women. The best way to build your confidence in your competence is to get out there and start doing, start taking actions. They don't have to be huge actions, but start somewhere, start where you are, start with some small actions, recognize and value and celebrate your actions, and build on that. I end with several Purpose Power Tips to help you start building your self-confidence today. In one of them I refer to a TED talk by Amy Cuddy, which, if you haven't watched it, I strongly suggest you do so. In another I talk about a tool – the VIA, Values in Action – that you can use to learn more about your own strengths. (To take the VIA for free, go to http://www.viacharacter.org.) I also announce the first annual Women's Global Happiness Day, held on October 18, 2018, which, at the time of the recording of this podcast, will be held in over twenty cities around the world! For more information on this, please go to http://carinrockind.com/wghd! It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunesand leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagramand Facebook, and click hereto receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

Whether we're conscious of it our not, our ancestry has played a role in shaping our own lives. In today's episode you'll learn more about, and work with, your own ancestry, so that you can heal and grow and increase your wellbeing. I'm joined by my very special guest, Carolin Hauser-Carson, a naturopath doctor, humanistic psychotherapist, and family constellations facilitator. She's the author of Blossom: Your Seven Step Journey to Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse and Creating Your Dream Life, which is available at Amazon. Carolin starts out telling us her own personal journey dealing with a severe eating disorder and dropping out of high school, having a brush with death, and getting her life back on track and studying and training to become a naturopathic doctor. We discuss family constellations work and how Carolin benefitted greatly from it, and why she now facilitates it herself. We also discuss the idea of soul agreements as it pertains to the challenges we face in our lives. Carolin discusses her new project, the Pleasure IQ, which is a measure of someone's ability to allow pleasure in all areas of their lives. Mots of us have a very low Pleasure IQ and an underdeveloped pleasure intelligence, and Carolin has created a system to help people develop a higher Pleasure IQ, which involves releasing shame and guilt, integrating the feminine and masculine, connecting to and healing your core sexual energy, and how to create a high vibrational state. To learn more about your own Pleasure IQ, go to Carolin's website, WomenInTheflow.com, where you can take a test and learn steps you can take to improve your own Pleasure IQ. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunesand leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagramand Facebook, and click hereto receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

Despite my work uplifting women and doing motivational speaking, and my experience studying and teaching positive psychology, I have a number of fears that I deal with regularly. I share some of my fears in this episode, and I invite you to think about some of the things that you fear. Fears are not only natural, they serve a purpose in terms of evolutionary biology. I discuss negativity bias and the "fear brain," also known as the "reptilian brain," and how our ancestors needed to perceive threats in their environments in order to survive. In addition, the "fear brain" is physically closer, more closely connected to our brain stem and our central nervous system, which means that a relatively small amount of fear can feel huge and can impact us greater than the more rational part of our brain. A principle called confirmation bias describes the way that our brain notices and gives more weight to things that support our fears, and dismisses or gives less weight to things that contradict our fear. Our brain does this with lots of our deeply held beliefs, but it's certainly true of our fears. Fear served as a protection mechanism for our distant ancestors, keeping us safe, but now fear can serve to hold us back, prevent us from taking healthy risks, and keep us from going after our dreams. Fear can keep us small, and you were not born to be small! Carol Dweck, a researcher from Stanford, does a lot of work with mindset and identifies two main types: Fixed mindset and growth mindset. Put simply, a fixed mindset believes that either you're athletic or you're not, either you're smart or you're not. A growth mindset believes that you can become more athletic with practice, that you can become smarter through effort. People with growth mindsets tend to become more successful because they don't see certain setbacks as failures, they see them as opportunities for growth. People with a fixed mindset are more likely to be paralyzed by fear, not wanting to be seen as failing at anything, and end up living small and live a less happy life. If you are afraid of failure, think about it this way: There is no such thing as failure, because we can always learn from the experience, which will inform our next efforts and help make them more successful. Another technique for combatting fear is to detach from the outcome, which I address in this podcast as well, using one of my own fears as an example. I wish I could tell you that you can stop feeling fear, but that's just not the case. Instead, the big question here is, what can you do about it? How do we exist with fear but not let it take the driver's seat, not let it control us and control our actions? To answer this question I offer several Purpose Power Tips, specific, actionable tools, to work with your fear emotionally and rationally. Fear leads us to play small, and your playing small does not serve the world. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to iTunesand leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagramand Facebook, and click hereto receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!