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Ep. 79: Laidoff or fear of layoffs? 3 Uncomfortable Truths you need to know. · The Pausecast

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wow, we have a big topic to cover today, we're going to be
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talking about What to do next and how to handle a force pause
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or what is more commonly known as a layoff with the recent Tech
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turn that has had. So many companies laying people
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off the last couple months, me being an ex-googler, the news
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that 12,000 googlers were laid off seeing all the posts from my
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colleagues on LinkedIn and reading about where they are and
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their resilience. And all of that has really Ali
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prompted me to respond. And so to me this podcast, this
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podcast here, this episode is ideally, going to add a, add
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some value for you. If you were laid off, or if
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you're really struggling with that, transition of, where do I
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go from here? So, I hear you, I see you.
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And I just want to give you as much value as possible, and stay
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tuned towards the end because I've got some next steps for you
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to follow. Hi, I'm Rachel O'Meara, I'm the
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host of the podcast. I'm also the author of pause,
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harnessing, the life changing power of giving yourself a
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break, as well as a private coach for men and women who are
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struggling with, how to get out of overwhelm and reclaim their
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lives. The pause cast is dedicated to
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helping individuals, learn the tools and be more self-aware.
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That we can all be more capable of to live our best life, to
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reach our potential. Whether this is your first time
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listening or you're a regular, I invite you to download my free
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gift to you, which is a blueprint called the three keys
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to stay out of overwhelm and Thrive.
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The blueprint is available at my website, www.hiwayfx.com get it
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today. So you can start to implement
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these tools that we can all learn and that's what the The
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paws cast is all about. you're laid off now, what I want to
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talk about three uncomfortable truths about layoffs, and if you
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don't know me or my story, I wasn't laid off per se, but I
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could tell you, I've been in the room where I had the choice to
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be laid off back in 2008 double-click, I also took a
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leave of absence, because I feared being laid off, I feared
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being told that I wasn't going to make the cut in the future or
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that, I just wanted to beat them to it, so to speak before they
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laid me off and, and get out of my predicament, which really
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prompted. This whole turn of my career
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turn of my life was different as a result.
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And all of, this is what I'm sharing because I burned out of
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Google over 10 years ago now, but it really gave me a sense of
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a lot of things. I'm going to talk.
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In particular that you are not your job, you are not your
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identity as work. And what will you do if you
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don't feel aligned? And to me that's what I did.
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So for me, my story is a little different.
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I didn't get laid off per se, but a pause is an intentional
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shift in behavior and so I took a three-month unpaid break and 2
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and I really use that time to assess what I wanted and where I
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wanted to go. I was very intentional about it
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because I knew what I knew, I knew I and want to stay on the
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path. I was on, it wasn't working for
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me. I felt horrible.
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I felt like a failure most of the time completely and anxiety
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fear up and down the Wazoo. I just felt like this can't be
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it. This can't be the way that it's
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supposed to feel that I'm supposed to feel along all the
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time. And so today this is I think a
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way to think about things, you know, if I look at my story and
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then all the things I've learned, so I Studying emotional
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intelligence as a result of burning out because I was.
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So unaware of how I was feeling, because it got me into that
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predicament and I talked about all these different pauses in
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the book pause. So I actually think the book
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pause is a great resource. While you're on a force pause or
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you're in transition. So hey if you want to read that
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it's available in Amazon on audiobook.
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Grab it pause. You'll see it there.
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It's my My my contribution based on all the lessons that I
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learned and you'll learn and pick up so many tools based in
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emotional intelligence and stories, including one from my
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friend, Joe who was on a forced pause, this layoff from Time
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Warner at the time bash. So when I, when I think about
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pausing and layoffs, I talk about these four signs.
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You know, you need a pause, and the fourth sign is that there is
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a challenge. So you feel like you are You're
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in the headlights and there's this big challenge in front of
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you. Now it might be a layoff, it
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might be a Health Challenge, it might be a big decision.
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That is perplexing you. It could be a family crisis.
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Like it could be anything relationship but in that I would
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say a challenge in most cases and 99.9% is a layoff, right?
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You all of a sudden go from a structured world with with, with
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control over what you make over, how you show up your job, you
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have responsibilities It's actually a very tightly
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structured space usually and then all of a sudden you're just
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let go like boom released into the wild.
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Like whoa. So first know that that is a
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sign even even if you didn't even if you're still reeling in
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shock or if you don't know what to do, next know that this is an
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opportunity, It's actually an opportunity for you to think
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about things in a little different way.
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We're going to get into that so just know that really This is a
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challenge as we all know, but it also means okay.
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Wow, I am an intentional shift in Behavior right now and I can
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do something different. And I think that that's a really
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important thing to remember, because a lot of times we just
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think we got to move on, push them clouds through to do
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something different. And that's just not the case.
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In fact, that's probably the worst thing that you can do
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because you're in shock, your in trauma, there is healing to
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happen. Whether that just means, even in
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a way, grieving the loss of what you were doing, right?
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And even if it doesn't even matter if you loved or hated
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Your Role. Like it's and Could be anything
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like that but it's an opportunity for you to take a
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time out literally and pause because that's what can be
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different. So I want to read to you a
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little bit just because it's in this book, I got the book pause
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in front of me so sign for right?
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I just talked about this a major life event challenge or change
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happens. And I read this as a reminder
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because even when I read it, now here I am years later, reading
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this book, I'm like, oh yeah, that's so important.
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And so, I just pass this along, right?
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So change is inevitable and pausing to assess your options
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or before your next move is a prime opportunity to Choose
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Wisely. Pauline is one way to allow
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yourself the space to evaluate your choices and aligned with
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what matters to you. I think that's really key.
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It could be driven by your yearnings.
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Or what is most important? These yearnings are your deeper
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desires or maybe it's an opportunity to do something
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different, right? The key.
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She is that you allow yourself this time to pause.
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It might be a breath. It might be taking the week to
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really figure out what you want. It could be several months and
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like maybe your, you're fortunate enough to have a
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severance package, but the idea is that you create a new
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opportunity for thoughts and emotions and new Behavior to
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emerge. The bottom line is, when we do
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pause, can have a really profound effect on what flows
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from there. So that's from the book, and
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that's I just kind of read page 25, maybe that gives you some
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some thought, some inspiration to know that things can be
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different. But if we're intentional about
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it, then we can actually shift our own energy into what we
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want. And now I'm going to get into
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that in a little bit towards the end to about what we put out
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there as we express, as we share, as we do, and go about
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our business can be completely going, go in another Direction.
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And if we really intended to be received, well, alright, so now
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that you know what, a, what a pauses and a force pauses and
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talked a little bit about my story.
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I want to get into these uncomfortable truths about
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layoffs and I think the first thing is A big one and it's a
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hard truth. And the first one is your
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identity is not your work and say that one with me, my
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identity is not my work and just take a breath into that and just
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feel your body like where do you feel that tension and even if
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you weren't laid off, right? Like that's a that's a universal
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fact, but I think, as, as awesome Achievers, taipei's
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people who've done really well and successfully made made a
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mark for themselves, it's so easy to get wrapped up in that,
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but that's the thing we have to remember, your identity is not
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your work, you can be proud of your work, it can be something
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you put out there in the world and see as a tangible.
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Object like, hey look, I done this.
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Like this is a result of who I am and what I've contributed but
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it is not. You you are so so much bigger,
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so much greater than just what is defined in a cord job and I
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think we forget that. I know that's why I burned out.
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I thought that was everything. And all of a sudden, I felt
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horrible. I felt like a failure.
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I felt like I was always in a mental tailspin because my whole
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identity was wrapped up in what I what I did mostly and even if
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it wasn't I thought temporarily that it was because It was so
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much of my own Focus so know that your value is far greater
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than work. And this particular job,
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whatever you are doing right now in your career is like is like a
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stepping stone. It's, it's where you're at now.
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It's a point in time and you are infinite.
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Whether it's your power, whether it's your thoughts, whether it's
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what you want to do, and your dreams, and Zone of possibility
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and even Beyond Death, your infinite, right?
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You have a soul and your energy is felt by others.
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I mean, that's like what we're really getting to write.
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And I'm getting a little bit metaphysical here, but just
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know, I think the biggest thing is your identity is not your
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work. And I think if you're feeling
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that shock and the Aftershock of a layoff or maybe you were, the
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one doing that as a manager or director and you're feeling just
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tremendous guilt, right? Just know that this is not Not
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about you. This is you as a person, this
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is, this is about what the business needs.
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The ideas that I think the bottom line.
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We just forget that especially if we're if we really like what
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we do or we are contributing in ways where it's like a lot of
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what we're about these days, right?
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And that's why it's so important to know that you can expand what
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you think of as your identity Beyond work.
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Big-time and pausing is one really powerful way to do that,
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right? Even if that's just journaling
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Big, big fan of journaling because it's an opportunity to
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get your unconscious mind unraveled a little bit to get
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thoughts down on paper that you wouldn't otherwise have
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realized. So then you get new insights and
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like, oh holy cow! I didn't even know that I felt
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this way and I encourage you, and this is an invitation, you
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know, just to take a journalist, I would, I would actually say,
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don't do it on electronics. Don't put it in a dock, it
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electronically. Don't type it, your mind.
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And your brain are wired so that when you actually use a pen or
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pencil on paper, you are thinking in processing
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differently than your thoughts when you're typing, it's a
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different effect. So go old school, take a journal
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and write, I am such a big fan of that and it's for you.
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You don't have to share with anybody.
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And even just set a timer for two minutes, just try it.
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You know, there's been studies done and I talked about this in
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the book as well. But even journaling for 42
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minutes, over four days about Thing emotional, meaning that
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matters to you, improve mood. I mean, that's a pretty big
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deal, right? Four days.
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Two minutes, A total of eight minutes.
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So there's a lot there. I think that we can glean from
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so knowing that you're not your work, right?
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This is what I want you to think about.
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You get to design your path from this point forward, and maybe
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you've already done that cool. Now, you get to take the next
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step, intentional shift in Behavior, right?
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So that you can journal on to. But the idea is that, remember
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you Like we get so wrapped up in work that we think that is us an
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individual's. But the reality is we are simply
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here doing these jobs that we need to do and they are valuable
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and they're great and they succeed the sustain our
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lifestyle and we contribute, and we can feel valued and seeing
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and make a difference and all of these things.
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However, it's just not all of you, but we forget that.
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So, I'm here to remind you, that your identity is not your work.
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That's the first uncomfortable truth and it's a big one.
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So if you need time, Time to process that if you're noticing,
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you want to stop this podcast right now and forget about it.
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That's a great noticing awareness to to know that.
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That resistance just means there's there it is
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uncomfortable. There's fear here, just notice
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how you're feeling right now. Maybe you're feeling Joy because
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you're like, hey oh my God, thank you for saying that.
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Look, I don't want it to be my identity.
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So we have a choice and we get a choice to think about how we
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want to move forward. And that's the beauty I think of
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a pots, right? Okay, so let's get to the second
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uncomfortable truth, right? You ready for this one?
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This one's a big one and I think in the corporate world it's a
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little different and challenging to think about.
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But what I like to say is, you cannot think your way out of an
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identity crisis. Just can't think it out of your
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way or out of, you can't get out of it, just thinking
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intellectualizing this and that would be like a forced to pause.
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Right. What do I mean by that?
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And what do you think about that?
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I'm curious. Do you feel like that's just
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like Easy, or are you getting what?
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I'm picking up, what I'm putting down now, why can't you think
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your way out of it? So so we have what we call a
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body, being a little silly here but you know we are intellectual
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especially working in corporate check and if you're a corporate
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leader, an executive, you know, we live from the neck up, a lot
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of times from the in the, in the day job, right?
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I don't know. This is a rough.
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Like, if you're an athlete, if you use your body great like,
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but I'm not talking about that because we have a full body from
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the neck. Chuck down.
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We have an entire landscape where we can connect and Q in
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and see how we're feeling so that we can respond to others in
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a, in a way, that moves things forward so that we can know
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where we're at. So we might need a minute to
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regroup, or we might choose different responses if we're
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able to actually understand where we're at in a quick moment
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to not just knee-jerk react or defend ourselves but to do
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something different, so you can't think your way out of an
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identity crisis. So you can Journal You want, you
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can do all these things and that's a really good thing.
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I'm not saying, don't think about it.
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What I'm saying is we need to heal and it's somatic, meaning,
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it's our. It involves our bodies, our
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bodies store at a cellular level, in the fascia.
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Emotions from everything. Whether they, you know, whether
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they've been recent or in the past that still needs to heal,
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and we're adding that, in, in a big event, like this, if you are
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laid off, right? So we need to acknowledge what's
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going on in our bodies and that's where we see things like
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physical. Ailments show up by all my back
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hurts. My lower back is killing me.
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I can't figure out why I'm not moving the way I used to move or
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I don't feel like I want to do anything, right.
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That's that's a motivation issue but it's also physical motion.
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Sometimes so we have to do things to not just do
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intellectual things, which are great and helpful, but we need
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to complement it with help in healing, from our neck down
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because we are a holistic self, right?
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You are not just your thoughts, you are not just your mind, you
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are a full person, you are a human, right?
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So I work a lot in the modality of breathwork breathwork is Way
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to heal trauma and the body. And it can be so simple and
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effective and Powerful because you change the chemistry of your
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body, your blood oxygen levels, change your intentional, you're
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bringing your energy online as opposed to autopilot, when we're
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just breathing normally. And, and so that's a wonderful
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tool and if you're in, and there's other ways, as well,
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right? So, there's meditation, there's
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getting outside in nature, but what I'm saying is we're doing
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Do you notice this in your body and maybe you can't even feel
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anything in your body? Like you don't know where it is,
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you just feel maybe a little bit sad or angry, right?
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Like like all of this is important data I think of it as
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data. I have a practice on Mondays
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called mindset Mondays it's a 30-minute usually breathwork
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specific free webinar that I do and it's part of my other
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organization. The startup incubator Basic at
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your studio but I'm inviting all of you who do listen to this to
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join us. It's on Eventbrite and you can
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sign up and I'll put the link in the show notes, show notes.
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But it's the first three Mondays of every month for breath work.
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Then I also do private, one-on-one sessions.
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I do workshops, I do every Friday in my Facebook group, we
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do a little bit of breathing, so the key is just to introduce it
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to yourself. There's a lot going on in that
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world. It's actually one of the most
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popular fast accelerating Oh dalit.
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He's and a lot of times, like the biggest thing I hear is, oh,
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I don't have time. Like I don't think breathing
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hurt solves anything. Like what do you what do you
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mean? Like breathing.
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I'm I breathe all the time. Well yeah you do and nothing.
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Nothing wrong with that. However when we make it
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intentional and again this is a pause.
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Right? This is conscious breath.
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We're actually moving energy. We're moving our own state of
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being. So maybe we go from feeling all
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frumpy and sad too expansive and liberated, right?
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That's All normal reaction, sometimes.
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It just depends in every experience is unique, but the
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bottom line is, no, that you can't just think your way out of
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an identity crisis or out of a layoff because we have these
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bodies where we're going to remember this shock, and it's
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going to come back unless we really acknowledge what's going
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on. And I can tell you as an
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executive coach, as a leadership coach.
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Most? Well, not most, but I'll just
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say there's many, many individuals, who, just don't
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think it's important. Portent to acknowledge that body
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part like your own body and then you know what the research is
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telling us more and more now that we have MRI scans and you
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know the power of learning about our body and healing trauma, is
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we've now been able to in the in the land even like the last 20
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years in research and Neuroscience and things like
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that is that you know, they're there is this mind body and it's
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like a tuning fork. So whatever we're experiencing
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gets stored in the body unless we address.
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Is it and can actually allow it to be completed, whether that
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means expressing feelings, just saying them out loud or things
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like breathwork, okay? So that's an uncomfortable truth
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to how you feeling about that one.
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Take a deep breath with me. I don't like that one myself.
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I'm like what do you mean? I can't think my way out of it.
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A lot of us are as my old coach Bob Wright would say smart rats.
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We are smart rats. We love to think and, and we
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wouldn't be where we are today with.
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We weren't smart, right? So, the key is to know that
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there is so much more of you that is intelligent.
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And yes, it is your thoughts, but it's also your body.
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You have a gut brain, your heart brain, all of these things need
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to work together and if we ignore those, we are leaving
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part of us behind and that's where we end up.
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Getting sick, we get diseases, illnesses kick in because we're
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not really honoring our full on self in my opinion.
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That's really where I stand with that.
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Okay? And so let's get to the third
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uncomfortable truth. Oh my gosh, this one is his
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business. Such a good one.
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I love this one. So the third one is man.
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Okay, you are in the pause menu are laid off your in this
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unknown. You're basically in the unknown.
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Right? Well, what is that all about?
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So You're in the unknown. What is the feeling that you
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feel? As I say that?
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I know for me and most other people, the unknown is really
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scary. It's not comfortable, and it's
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out of our comfort zone because we can't control anything.
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We are a lot of us interested in controlling things, right?
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So I talked about how much courage it takes to pause in
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this world, so just know that you are so courageous right now,
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knowing you're not in a structured environment, if you
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were laid off or that you are going to be soon.
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Like, maybe with Severance running out.
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Something. And I also talked about this in
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the book pause because we are so afraid to be with ourselves.
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Sometimes, this is such a crazy uncomfortable, truth, like,
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whose group squirming in their seats right now, or walking.
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Its you listen to this. And, and one of my one of my
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scholar practitioners, I studied, you may have heard of
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Paul tillich and he wrote a book called courage to be and he's an
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extent, existentialist philosopher.
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He talks about courage, which is defined as the ability to do
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something that you know, is difficult or dangerous.
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Courage is the ability to do something that, you know, is
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difficult or dangerous brene Brown talks about courage, that
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you, it's, you have, it's required to be vulnerable to be
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courageous, right? To put yourself out there to do
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something, dangerous is being vulnerable, so automatically
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courage, takes vulnerability, and it takes knowing that you're
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doing something difficult or dangerous.
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And so to me that pause process, this layoff world is courage.
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It means you're okay, knowing You're in that uncertain
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outcome, it means letting go of control and surrendering to this
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present time, your present moment, right?
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Whatever that might be, this is a tremendous Act of Courage.
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And to talk about it takes courage to take action to
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journal takes courage. Like just give yourself some
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credit, a lot of times. It's so easy to think of
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shameful thoughts or eyeballing it.
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I do to deserve this. We can get into self-pity mode,
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man, all of that is very likely possible outcomes but go back to
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the snowing, you have a choice saying, hey, you know what,
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like, this is actually pretty courageous.
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I don't know what I'm going to do.
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I don't know how I'm going to get through this.
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I don't know what that, what lays on the other side, but
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you're in that blank space of a pause of this layoff.
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Entrust yourself to know that even though it feels scary,
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there is another side, you are going to come out on the other
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side, you are a capable competent, individual who can do
24:05
something different. And when we feel rattled a
24:08
little bit example, right? Being laid off, then we get our
24:12
confidence gets a little little bit just Disturbed and then we
24:18
all back when we decide, okay forget that, I'm not going to Do
24:22
something. I'm not saying don't do what you
24:23
want to do and this is why it's so important to do the things.
24:25
I'm talking about, like journaling, do things with your
24:28
body. Like it's going to bring in new
24:30
insights for you, because your brain is making conscious
24:33
unconscious connections with your conscious 95% of your brain
24:38
is programming subconscious programming.
24:40
So we need to do things to bring things up, that will help us
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move through this in a good way, right?
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So those are the three things, you know, Sokka.
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So knowing that you're in the unknown know that you are
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Courageous. It takes courage to be yourself
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and be like, who am I? Okay, I'm not my job.
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What do I want? What would fit my world now,
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right? And maybe you're in an
25:03
environment where you don't have a big crazy choice and you're
25:06
going to do the same thing. That's okay, it's all good.
25:09
Just know that this is also choice in for what is next for
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you. You always have a choice.
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You have a choice to defer, looking for a job for two weeks,
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because you're grieving this process, right?
25:23
You are you have a choice to share an Press and and that's
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what I actually really think is important during this time,
25:32
right? So real quick recap, the
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uncomfortable truth. One is you are not your work and
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you say that one out loud with me.
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I am not my work. Number two, you can't think your
25:42
way out of an identity crisis. Number three is, you are in the
25:47
unknown and you can come on out of it, the other side and
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they're all probably resonant fourth feelings like feeling
25:56
fear. Doubtful, maybe, sad hurt, angry
26:02
mean. These are big, big, big things.
26:04
And so how do we handle all of this, right?
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So this is, I think so important, right?
26:09
And remember, like, I just so see you and feel you right now
26:14
because you're only like, we are all human and we have feelings
26:18
and yours might have felt a little trampled on, right?
26:21
Or you feel rage because what the heck?
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I work for this company for 20 years and now I'm not.
26:27
Even there and I just didn't even get a gun anything other
26:29
than like, sorry, you're gone. Right?
26:33
So we got a handle our energy in a way that really serves us.
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And I'll try to wrap this up quickly here, but also overall
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know that your energy is what's received in the world.
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So if you are complaining, bitching, blaming shaming,
26:52
justifying, whatever, whatever is going on for, you know, that
26:55
that's what's received. So, You're probably, you know,
26:58
what comes around goes around, right?
26:59
So we need to allow ourselves to shift out of that.
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And again, you have a choice to act responsibly to to, to share
27:08
responsibly. I'm not saying that that's not
27:11
valued, but allow yourself maybe two minutes, right?
27:14
Give yourself the time or two minutes to complain or I'm going
27:17
to I'm going to like stop around my house for a minute and I'm
27:21
gonna have a good cry. Like whatever that is for you
27:23
and then say okay it's not about me.
27:27
Me while, I mean, in my own, pity, or, or feeling victimized
27:32
because that's just not going to serve you.
27:33
And that's actually really, really draining of your energy.
27:36
The idea is to keep expressing but just name those feelings.
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It's so so important. I feel angry.
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I feel hurt. I feel upset, I feel sad.
27:45
I feel terrified. Whatever.
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Is coming up for you. Just put that in your Journal,
27:50
rip out the pages, tear them up, throw them, you know, throw them
27:52
out, if you want to let go of those feelings but know that
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that's part of the process. Assessing, right?
27:57
And that's why pausing is so key because you can't just move
28:00
through that stuff. That's what gets stored in your
28:01
body if you don't pay attention. So keep expressing naming those
28:06
feelings and then I'm also so, so such a fan of gratitude and
28:11
that practice where we Orient thinking towards the positive
28:15
and that is so hard right now, right?
28:16
But here's the thing, and I love sharing this, you are, it's
28:21
actually physiologically impossible to feel anger and
28:27
gratitude at the same time, like you body, your brain will not
28:30
cannot process that. So if you are feeling angry, The
28:34
antidote is to not acknowledge that and then turn it towards
28:38
gratitude. Transmute that anger into.
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What am I going to do differently now?
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Okay, I'm going to be grateful for three things.
28:43
When I wake up in the morning, right?
28:45
We can all be grateful for that. Gratitude is so powerful.
28:50
And if you need support or in your energy because this is
28:53
hard, right? This is behavioral change.
28:56
This is changing our thoughts. This is navigating the - our
28:59
critic mind. That is so, so important.
29:03
And that's that's That I spend a lot of my time coaching my
29:06
clients in and I'm happy to share more about that if you'd
29:10
like, just like that direct message me and I can send you
29:13
some tools, just direct message me energy like that word energy
29:16
and I can follow up. So this brings us to next steps
29:19
which is basically a messaging if you want more support this
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podcast, you know, I would like this comes out weekly every
29:26
Tuesday. And I really holding these
29:30
messages for corporate leaders and Executives who are ready to
29:33
rise to their the next level level of leadership.
29:36
And again, the sign of a layoff is maybe a sign for your next
29:39
level of leadership. Whether that means being more
29:42
authentic, getting a new job, maybe it's a lateral move, maybe
29:45
it's a new company, maybe it's going out on your own.
29:48
It's all good stuff. You don't have to dismiss
29:50
anything right now. Right.
29:51
But the idea is that these podcasts are here for you.
29:55
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30:29
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30:30
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30:33
It's really good. Good for just touching base if
30:36
you want to regular Cadence of learning things about how to be
30:40
more, feels confident, calm, energized, things like that.
30:45
So I just gave you a lot. A lot of info.
30:47
I hope this was helpful for, you know, that you are not alone.
30:50
I see you and I am with you and you'll get through this.
30:56
This is actually maybe the Silver Lining is the gift where
31:01
you get to redesign your life in this.
31:04
Pause period. This Force pause because you
31:07
realize there are there is more for you or there is something
31:11
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31:14
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