Can you have grace for a wide range of views or do your heels dig in causing stress and misery. This is an unfiltered riff on Both/And – expansion and range in our thinking and being.
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Hey, Hey. Allison Crow, Better Life Better Work podcast, episode number 69, which always makes me think of my high school boyfriend because he thought it was so fucking funny to have that as his football number. This is an unfiltered riff on both/and. Here’s what we’re doing today, I am recording this live on Facebook. It is noon on Friday, and I like to have my podcast recorded by Wednesday. I have had this wonky week. I’m coming off of Soulie Weekend away, and in my brain, I was thinking that this episode was about Soulie Weekend away. I’ve got some of my own thoughts processing, and I’ve got some of my clients’ thoughts processing to share with you, and we will do that in a later episode.
I didn’t get it done Wednesday. I thought I would do it yesterday. So this morning I had it planned to do it, and still, I’m coming up against all this resistance. Part of the resistance that I am experiencing in my mind is a lot of conversations I’ve been seeing and paying a little bit too much attention to is rubbing up against my self-trust, and then also this obligation I put on myself to create the next week’s podcast for you guys. I’ve made a commitment to show up every single week. I will tell you it is working. I am meeting new people. I am getting new clients.
Today’s podcast episode recorded live on Facebook … Hi, Facebook watchers. Thank you. I’m not going to be as interactive as normal since I am recording for the podcast. But, I am modeling imperfect commitment and imperfect leadership. The reason I went live is that as I calmed my fucking brain down and got into my body, I heard “connect with your people.” Sometimes recording the podcast here in my office and studio with my dogs, I feel like I’m just talking to the microphone. And as your names and faces, whether you stay or not … I mean, I’d love for you to stay, but I get that you have a life. As your names and faces come on the screen, I feel the connection – that is the reason I do this.
Today I have not … Let me just forewarn you. I am in the process of thinking through some experiences I’ve had. I have done an episode before of both/and. The theme of Camp Star Heart next year is “Both/And.” Clearly Spirit and life are teaching me this concept of range and both/and. And sometimes it’s wildly liberating and sometimes it’s so frustrating. This is another both/and episode because this conversation keeps coming up, and it’s dynamic. It’s always changing.
The first thing that happened was … So I have a marketing team, you guys. I have a marketing team, and there is somebody on my marketing team that watches and listens to everything I do and say. She listens to my formal stuff. She listens to my podcast. She watches my live videos. What I love that she does is she takes things that I say and turns them into content in places that I don’t normally run around. So my Twitter feed, if you’re following me on Twitter, is a combination of my far left Trump frustration, watching too much news, and life coaching shit, and awesome stuff.
I have a few people that I interact with, some of my clients and some of my colleagues that I interact with there on Twitter. And last week, one of the tweets that came up with something that has come out of myself and it said, “What if you didn’t take things personally?” This is coming from this concept from