Episode 24
Ep 24: The 3 Invisible Leaks Making Content Harder Than It Should Be
Your content doesn’t feel heavy because you’re lazy, bad at batching, or unorganized. It feels heavy because your business is leaking energy in ways you can’t always see.
In this episode of the Heart-Led CEO Podcast, I’m breaking down the 3 invisible leaks that keep content creation harder than it should be:
✨ Content Paralysis — when too many ideas (and even AI) freeze you instead of freeing you
✨ Repurposing Roadblocks — when your best work dies after one post instead of multiplying
✨ Clarity Chaos — when your message is muddy and every post feels like shouting into the void
You’ll also learn my 1-minute Content Energy Reset ritual, a quick practice to ground your nervous system before you hit publish—so your content actually feels aligned, not draining.
If you’ve been feeling the weight of content creation, this episode will help you find clarity, flow, and relief.
✨ Want to go deeper? Join me inside the Alchemized Content Method™ (founder’s rate $97) or book a Business Vital Signs Strategy Call to plug the leaks in your business once and for all.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Why your content feels heavy
00:31 – Welcome + adrenal fatigue & burnout
04:44 – Content Paralysis
08:21 – Repurposing Roadblocks
11:32 – Clarity Chaos
14:21 – The 1-Minute Content Energy Reset
16:47 – The Alchemized Content Method™
24:01 – Final thoughts + invitation
🔗 Links + Resources Mentioned in This Episode
✨ Join The Alchemized Content Method™ — Repurpose 1 piece into 25+ aligned, magnetic assets without burnout → https://empowerherwave.com/acm
✨ Book your Business Vital Signs Strategy Call — A 90-minute deep dive to find and fix the leaks in your business → https://empowerherwave.com/businessvs
✨ Workshop replays + resources → https://www.facebook.com/groups/empowerherbizcollective/
💛 Stay Connected
🌊 Instagram → @empowerherwave
🌊 YouTube → Heart & Hustle Academy
🌊 Website → empowerherwave.com
👩🏽💻 Join the Heart & Hustle CEO Club community for women entrepreneurs who want aligned content, AI support, and burnout-free growth → https://empowerherwave.com/founders
Transcript
The reason your content feels so heavy is not because
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:you're bad at batching, you're lazy,
unorganized, or unfocused, it's
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:because your business is leaking
energy in ways you can't even see the.
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:That heaviness that you feel every
time you sit down to post, that's not
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:a flaw in you, my beautiful friend.
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:That's feedback.
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:And today I'm gonna show you
exactly how to lighten the load.
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:So grab your cup of coffee, your tea,
whatever's keeping you grounded, and
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:let's dive in into today's episode.
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:Speaker 3: Welcome to Heart LED CEO, the
podcast for women wellness entrepreneurs
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:who are ready to build scale and automate
their businesses without sacrificing
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:their soul, sanity, or authenticity.
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:I'm Anna Connie Walters, a
nurse turned entrepreneur.
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:Military spouse, first time mama in
my forties, and a recovering burnout
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:survivor who's making it a mission
to help heart led women just like
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:you, create thriving businesses that
really feel good, do good, and give
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:you the freedom that we all deserve.
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:Because here's the thing, you don't
have to hustle harder to succeed.
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:You don't have to drown in tech
overwhelm or try to do everything
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:alone, and I'm here to give you the
strategies, automation tools, and
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:mindset shifts that will help you
step fully into that leader, CEO, and
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:impact maker that you are meant to be.
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:If you're ready to grow your business in
a way that aligns with your values and
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:your life, you are in the right place.
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:Let's get into today's episode.
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:Speaker: Hello, my beautiful friend.
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:I hope wherever you are listening to
this, you are well, and I'm so excited
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:to be here because this month has really
been a big focus about adrenal fatigue,
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:adrenal health, burnout, and all the
things that people just don't talk about.
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:Or just are not aware.
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:And the truth is that I used to think
that I had a consistency problem when
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:it came to my marketing and my business.
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:I was continuously blaming myself for
not being disciplined enough or not
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:being good at batching because although
I want to be so good at batching, I
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:just struggle with it and I'm still
continuing to try to be better at it.
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:And I'm fine tweaking, but
it's taking a long time and.
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:It wasn't because I wasn't hustling hard
enough, but it was what I was feeling
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:internally and what I eventually realized
and what I see in so many of my clients
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:is that consistency is, has nothing
to necessarily do with discipline.
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:It's about safety.
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:And I was like, what?
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:That doesn't even make sense.
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:But your nervous system has to feel
safe before it will ever let you show
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:up consistently if you suffer from
staring at that blank screen and having
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:a writer's block or creative block
for me, which sometimes comes up where
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:I'll be on my game one day and then
all of a sudden I, when I really need.
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:To I'm on a deadline.
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:I've had life happen and
I need to get stuff done.
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:It's like everything turns against
me, it feels and I just cannot be.
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:I cannot stay focused.
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:Things are, I'm struggling to get
my words out, to come up with ideas.
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:Nothing sounds good.
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:I'm just like, I don't know.
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:Now, thank goodness for ai, because
it does help with some of that.
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:It gives you that boost to like,
okay, well just think just.
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:Like brainstorm, and then something
might just come up when you're having
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:the conversations with your AI employees.
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:But when your business is
leaking energy, it's like you're
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:trying to fill a cracked bucket.
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:Now my son who's three, he has these
toys where they're literally buckets,
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:but on the bottom of the bucket it
has little different shaped holes
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:so that he can see the difference
in the water and how it drains.
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:Some will drain super fast,
some will drain super slow.
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:Some of them will, the water,
the way the water looks.
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:It's supposed to be, I
think, a sensory thing.
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:But either way, guess what?
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:He gets frustrated because he continues
to fill it up, fill it up, fill it up,
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:and then he gets like, I don't wanna
play this no more, because none of
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:these buckets are holding the water.
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:And so no matter how much effort you
pour in, it's never going to feel enough.
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:You are never gonna feel, yeah.
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:And energized enough, creative enough,
it, it is just not gonna feel good.
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:And then you're just gonna get frustrated
and you're just gonna be like, F this.
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:This is not worth it.
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:Now there are three invisible leaks
that I see the most, so make sure
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:that you stay tuned for all three.
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:Now, the first one, and it is more
profound now with AI than ever before.
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:The first one is content paralysis,
because if you've suffered from being
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:multi-passionate, having, neurodivergency
having a hundred ideas swirling.
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:But when you go to post, you
basically freeze because now you
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:have so much content overload
in your mind, so many ideas.
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:You have trouble figuring out which
one to go with, what to put in, and
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:you default to basically nothing.
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:And now.
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:With ai, some, especially in my alchemized
content method, I was noticing a pattern
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:with my students being like rock stars
at using my custom GPTs to create seven
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:weeks worth of content in three minutes,
but then not actually following through
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:and putting the content out there.
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:Why?
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:Because it was just content overload.
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:What I was having to then do in our
live trainings is now is not the time.
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:ChatGPT pt specifically sole job is
to make you happy and it will continue
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:to give you, like, here's your stuff
now, would you like, like a PDF or a
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:presentation or would you like another,
like three more weeks of content?
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:Now most people's like,
yes, heck yeah, free stuff.
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:But it's no, no, no.
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:We need to be intentional now when
we're using AI because it is intended
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:to give us this slew of things.
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:And if you are not careful, you
are going to end up in that same
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:content paralysis where you're
now going to have so much amazing
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:information and content that you're
like, I don't know what to post now.
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:It's like the sword with two blades.
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:So you really need to be intentional.
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:And I'm super, super proud of myself
because I was running into the same
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:thing, not as bad as my students, but
I was noticing some similar patterns.
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:And so what did I do?
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:I created.
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:Canva template to go along with what
custom GPTs that I've built are giving out
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:so that it is literally a plug and play.
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:And so you have, you pick your day.
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:We do a lot of.
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:Energy cycling.
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:So whether it's through the moon or your
menstrual cycle, you notice what part of
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:the month or in your cycle you should be
doing that creative work because it is
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:where your hormones will help you, your
body and your mind be at the optimal
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:for certain activities, and you hone in
into that space and you spend that day
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:or those few days where you're in those
blocks to do brand, the custom Canva
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:templates that I've given you to your
brand, your tone, your pictures, your
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:your fonts, everything so that it looks
like something that should fit with you.
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:And then on the cycle part of your energy
cycle where you are more like, driven
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:for statistics and information, that
would be the day that you would then
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:use that information and bring it over
and you would try to do this for the
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:month in front of you and just do what
you can for the month that you're in.
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:And then that way it
is like magic you guys.
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:I'm actually batch creating and
I'm super proud of myself and I'm
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:so excited for my students now.
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:The second number two, VI invisible
leak is repurposing roadblocks,
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:and it is one of the things that
I built the Alchemized Content
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:Method, which is my signature course.
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:From you create one big, beautiful
webinar, podcast, blog training,
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:YouTube video live video, whether
it's a live on your Instagram or
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:your YouTube, or not a YouTube.
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:It'd be a YouTube video, but
like a Facebook Live if you go
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:live into your community groups.
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:And then what happens?
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:It just dies there.
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:We don't really take
the time to send it out.
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:We hope that the universe is gonna help
us, or the algorithm is gonna catch
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:on to one of our SEOs or the metadata
is gonna help with our hashtags or
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:whatever, and we just, we leave it there.
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:We might promote it when we are,
it's fresh when it's like that first
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:week and then we never go back to it.
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:Now the method that I teach you is that we
are constantly sending people back to it.
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:We are no longer feeling this
hamster wheel of reinventing.
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:What do I, what should I post about today?
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:I like, oh my gosh, like I've, I feel
like I've talked about everything
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:in my business, and I don't know
what else I can create that's new.
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:No, no, no, no.
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:Instead we multiply.
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:What we've already created.
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:It's, it, if you do it the way most people
do, instead of multiplying your content
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:so that it is continuously feeding off
of that one beautiful main like creation
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:that you've already spent so much time
on, and then it just sits lonely in
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:that corner of, the web or social.
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:We create a system where you are
constantly psyching people through that,
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:cycling through it, and it's beautiful.
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:It's like this beautiful
ecosystem and like you don't
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:have to have that much content.
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:So it's specifically awesome for
people who are new to the business
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:to focus on creating like this
initial power content that then
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:they can just constantly pull from.
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:While they're trying to catch up
and really start to answer questions
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:or so make, create content to.
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:Solve solutions for their clients in
a current situation because sometimes
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:it does take time for us to learn
what exactly do our clients need?
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:What do they actually need help with?
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:What are they actually willing to pay
that I can give them a solution to?
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:Sometimes that part takes time, and
so when you have this cyclic system.
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:Of content that you know is like the
basis of what all people in your niche
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:are gonna be looking for, whether
you're a birth worker or a yoga
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:instructor, a yoga therapist, a fitness
instructor, a water sports instructor.
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:You already know like the basic
things, the most common questions
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:that you get asked, especially if
you're already like teaching an
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:in-service based business thing.
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:And then the third one is clarity, chaos.
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:When you are not a hundred percent
sure who your message is for or what
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:you're building towards, then every
single post feels like you're just.
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:Shouting into this big void on the web,
like it's, you're just like out there
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:like shouting into this empty space.
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:You're not getting likes,
you're not getting views.
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:People are have, you
have a high skip rate.
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:No one's messaging you, you're
not connecting with anybody and
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:you're not getting new followers.
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:And I had that problem when I was
literally taking all of my beautiful
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:business ideas and putting it into one.
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:I had fat mermaids, PHAT, which is
my standup paddleboard business,
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:the first business that I started,
and I was sticking everything.
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:Military life, gardening, young,
living essential oils, holistic,
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:lifestyle changes, cooking
pre and postnatal pregnancy.
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:And it was like, no, I was
like crickets, like nobody was.
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:Reaching out, uh, it was, I was
confused myself as to what to
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:post eventually because I was
like, I don't know what to post.
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:Like, what did I just recently post?
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:This is supposed to be about
standup paddle boarding, and it just
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:kind of became this huge cluster.
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:But when I separated and I created
an umbrella brand, and underneath
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:that umbrella brand, I had a separate
brand for each of my focus points,
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:pre and postnatal and women's health.
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:My standup paddle boarding and
mindset and now, my uh, burnout
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:and business coaching for content
creation, AI and automation strategy.
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:It's like very specific.
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:Now.
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:When I look at my Instagram, I'm like,
I'm only getting reached out to by
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:either people who are in my industry.
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:And I don't ever see them as competitors.
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:They're like my, what my coach has
taught me to call them as my power
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:partners or they're actual like students.
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:People that I've met through challenges
that I've been like an ambassador for
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:or my own students who continuously,
you know, get inspiration or whatever.
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:Or new people that are looking and
they're just kind of on that waiting
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:list and waiting for that right
content to hit them, to give them
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:that courage to say that final.
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:Yes.
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:So if any of does it, if any of this
sounds familiar, I would love to hear it.
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:Whether you comment on this
podcast episode or you reach out
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:to me privately on social or if
you're in our Facebook group, you
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:know, saying, I listened to this.
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:Episode, and this is kind of where,
this is the leak that I'm stuck with.
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:And so I wanna give you a quick one,
and I call it the content energy reset
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:because it only really takes one minute.
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:It's not that long.
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:And I want you to just, if you can,
if you're driving, don't do this, but
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:place, put one hand on your heart.
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:And you can put two or one depending
on what you're doing, and I want you to
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:just take that full deep breath into your
nose, into the belly, into the ribs, then
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:that last little breath into your chest.
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:And as you start to exhale, ask
yourself when you're creating your
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:content, does this post move me closer
to clarity, connection, or conversion?
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:Does this post move me closer to
clarity, connection, or conversion?
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:Now, if the answer is like
a hell yes, then share it.
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:But if it is not, then
you need to let it go.
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:You need to shake your hands out, let that
energy go and just say thank you, goodbye.
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:And either use chat, PT,
or go on to your next idea.
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:And that's it.
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:It takes one minute.
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:If it doesn't feel good to you, when
you look at your business, when you look
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:at who you're supposed to be making the
content for, who your dream client that
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:you are trying to attract, then you know
you need to be find that intentionality.
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:And that's really where.
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:You find that machete to cut through the
heaviness of creating content, because
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:I think we're, we spend so much time
trying to create the perfect caption
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:and the perfectness, and sometimes what
people really need to see is rawness and
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:realness, relatability, and they need
you to talk to them in their language
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:and help them solve the problems that
they're looking for, the solutions to.
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:It's so much simpler, but we
have the tendency to make simple
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:things, I think complicated.
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:And so if you're like me and you
thought, you know, you needed to post
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:more and hustle more and work harder
and never feeling like enough, know
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:that you don't need any of that.
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:What you need is clarity.
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:And that's what I offer you in
the Alchemized content method, a
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:clear blueprint and step-by-step
handholding course that is
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:self-paced where I help you map out.
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:S the, the buying beliefs that
you need to help instill inside of
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:your dream clients and help them.
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:You know, you basically create
content that follows the client
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:journey cycle that's specific to your
business and what you offer, and.
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:Who you're trying to attract, and you
have a very clear picture by the end of
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:that course who, who you are, what you
offer, who you are trying to off, you know
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:who you, you serve, and how you do it.
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:Because when you really have quick
answers to those things, then the
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:rest of it really falls into place.
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:Then you can literally create
an entire month of powerful
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:magnetic content in a few minutes.
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:And you can then in one afternoon,
take that in all the templates
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:that I give you and really batch,
create your entire month of content.
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:And then when you feel the power or
the energy or whatever the inspiration
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:to go live or create a reel or do some
more advanced stuff, the energy is there
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:because you are no longer feeling, I
mean, you're no longer serving from.
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:Within your cup, you are now
serving from that overflow.
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:You're like, oh my gosh.
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:Normally I would be like still
struggling trying to create content
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:and I'm just kind of sitting here
like, what should I do with my time?
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:What should I do with my day?
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:That is the most beautiful feeling
and I wish that I could give it
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:to everybody, and guess what?
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:I can.
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:You just have to take that
first initial step and say yes.
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:Because it does not have anything to
do again, with a lot of the things
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:that we get caught up with, you know?
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:And I think once you have that
clarity and then you start creating
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:with ease and not from burnout.
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:Or stress, then you become actually more
disciplined because you finally have a
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:framework that, again, what's the whole
purpose of the alchemized content method?
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:And what I teach is to help
your nervous system feel safe.
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:And that's the magic of alignment.
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:It truly will make your content
feel lighter, your business feel
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:lighter, and your life feel lighter.
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:You're gonna be more full of energy,
you're gonna be more inspired,
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:you're going to have more time
to connect with clients that
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:actually wanna buy stuff from you.
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:And so for some of you, you can totally
take this and run with it and self,
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:fix yourself and, and patch all the
leaks to your business, to your life
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:because it's not just your content that
is leaking, it's your whole business.
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:It's your whole life and you need to look
at where you're having those problems.
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:But for some people, they are
saying yes, and you're laing along.
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:To this podcast, but you're not
sure where those leaks actually
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:are, and that's where my business
vital signs strategy call comes in.
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:It's 90 minutes.
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:I basically talk to you and then help
you find those leaks, and then we find
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:the solutions to plug them so that you
can have that reset plan that actually
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:supports you and not gives you more things
to do to then continuously drain you.
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:But if you're ready to like really
master repurposing your content in
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:a beautiful system that I teach,
the doors are open right now for
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:the Alchemized content method.
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:It is still at the founding
member price of only $97.
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:It will eventually go up, but I really,
really want this to go to more people.
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:I've seen crazy, crazy transformations
from everything from a yoga therapist to
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:a reiki master, to a standup paddleboard
instructor and a holistic beauty.
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:Um, she creates, like lotions
and like a beauty care skin line.
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:Sorry, that was what I was
trying to come up with.
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:It works across all niches and so.
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:That's my invite to you.
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:That's where you'll learn how to really
take that one piece of content and turn
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:it into 25 or more aligned magnetic
binge-worthy pieces without that burnout.
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:Or if you are completely new and you're
just starting your business and you
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:have no content, this will give you
that spark to really start creating
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:badass content from the get go.
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:So just real recap from
what we talked about today.
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:Again, the heaviness in your content
is most likely because you have
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:invisible leaks and you need to take a
self-audit of your business and yourself.
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:Remember that consistency
is not about DI discipline.
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:It is about creating that safety.
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:Just like in your yin yoga
practice, I teach yin.
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:I don't like it myself, but I know it's
what I need and that's how I teach it to
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:my students because it is in that moment.
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:Where we are trying to resist the
urge when your body's right at that
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:tipping point where it starts to get
uncomfortable, and our natural urge
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:is to let go because it's getting
too hard and all our body needs.
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:Is for us to continue to breathe and
create that environment to make it
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:feel safe to regulate our central
nervous system so that our body
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:will naturally relax into the pose.
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:And that is where that elasticity
in our muscles comes in.
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:And it's a beautiful transformation
to see people's body relax when
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:I watch them in the yin practice.
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:And then.
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:If you're really struggling, your
quick win was to do that one minute
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:content energy reset before you go
and put publish on your next post.
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:And I would suggest that before you
even go into Canva or before you go and
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:create that reel, if you are already
at that place, you have some drafts
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:that you're like looking at and you
haven't necessarily pushed publish
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:'cause you're scared or whatever,
take that reset, um, sequence and
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:then see if you can get some clarity.
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:So that's your action step.
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:Before you publish your very next piece
of content, I want you to pause and ask
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:yourself again, does this move towards
clarity, connection, or conversion?
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:And if your answer is no, then give
yourself permission to let it go.
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:And if you need somebody else
to tell you, I am giving you
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:the permission to let it go.
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:And that's all I got for
you, my beautiful friend.
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:I hope that this was helpful.
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:If there's any information or
aha moments that you got, I
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:would love to hear from you.
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:As always, it would mean the world
to me if you can take a few moments
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:to write this podcast so that it
helps reach other, um, women wellness
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:entrepreneurs, um, and military community.
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:Also leave me any comments,
especially if there's content that
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:you would love to hear me teach
about that I haven't gotten to yet.
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:And as always, continue to be
you, continue to be beautiful and
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:continue leading from your heart.
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:I will catch you in the next episode.
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:Speaker 2: All right, beautiful.
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:That's a wrap on today's episode,
but before you go, let's talk
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:about something really important.
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:You are not just another entrepreneur
trying to figure things out alone.
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:You are a wave leader, someone whose work
is meant to create real impact, touch
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:the lives of others, and make this world.
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:Better, and I want you to know
you don't have to do it alone.
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:If today's conversation resonated
with you, I'd love to keep this energy
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:going inside of my free Facebook
community, empower Her Biz Collective.
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:It's where we take these conversations
deeper with life trainings, tech
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:walkthroughs, and real heart-centered.
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