Part eight of the 10-part miniseries (episodes 98 to 107). This one ties in so beautifully with episode 104 that I'd recommend listening to them back to back. But as always, it stands alone too.
We are getting to the good bits now.
This episode is a celebration.
A full, unfiltered, no apologies celebration of every single part of you that someone once told you was too much.
Too intense. Too loud. Too direct. Too deep. Too out there. Too alternative. Too different. And here is the question I wish I had asked every single time someone said any of those things to me.
Too much compared to what?
Because being too much is never a you problem.
It is always a context problem. You were never too much.
You have just been in rooms that were not built for you.
Rooms full of people who were not ready for you, who were intimidated by you, who could not see the facets of the diamond they were standing right next to.
We get into:
The dial that someone once asked you to turn down from 15 to 5, and why you were never meant to be a 5 in the first place
Why every time you listened when someone told you to tone it down, you were scratching out a facet of the diamond that you came here to be. And what it costs you, and the world, every time you do it
The difference between being tolerated and being celebrated, and why finding the rooms where you are celebrated changes everything about how you move through life
Why shame cannot live in the light, and what happens when you start bringing those hidden facets out into the open and sharing them with the people who get it
The table conversation. What I did when I was not being given a seat at the table I had earned and was more than qualified for. Why I stopped waiting to be invited and built my own instead
What my Moon Circle Movement, my masterminds, my retreats, all of my work is really about at its core, because it has always been about this. Come as you are. Every single facet. No editing required.
You are not broken.
You do not need fixing.
You have just forgotten some of the parts of you that make you even more extraordinary than you already know yourself to be.
And this episode is here to remind you of every single one of them.
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