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Removing Limiting Beliefs + Finding What You’re Good At · Natty Unfiltered

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  Foreign. Welcome to Nettie Unfiltered,
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  the podcast for moms who love their kids, but know they
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  were meant for more. I'm Natty, a mom of three, real estate
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  agent and online entrepreneur. And this is where we talk
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  confidence, mindset, money, and building a life that
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  actually feels like yours. Today, I want to
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  talk about something that quietly controls so much of your life.
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  Your limiting beliefs and how to
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  actually figure out what you're good at.
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  Most of your beliefs aren't even yours.
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  So before we even get into what's holding you back, I want you to think
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  about this. A lot of the things you believe about yourself
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  didn't actually start with you. They came from
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  things you heard growing up. What your parents
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  had, teachers, society, even just watching how
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  other people lived. Things like be realistic.
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  That's not stable. You should play it safe.
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  People like us don't do that. And over
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  time, you don't even question it anymore. It just becomes your truth.
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  But here's the thing. Just because you've believed something
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  for a long time does not make it true.
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  It just make it familiar. And sometimes we stay stuck
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  in familiar, even when it's limiting us.
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  I know that I had to work on
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  my limiting beliefs. My fear of failure
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  because of my childhood,
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  because I did not believe in myself, because I did not have
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  that encouragement. There's so many things that just
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  prevented me from going after things without any
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  fear. But good thing that at some point I realized
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  that and I needed to work on it because I wanted to
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  succeed in life. I wanted more than I
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  was doing. And so limiting beliefs sound like
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  facts, but they're actually not. This is where it gets tricky,
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  because limiting beliefs don't sound like fears,
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  they sound like facts. I'm not good in
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  the camera, not business minded. I don't have time.
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  I'm not that type of person. I'm not intelligent
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  enough. I. I'm not beautiful enough. So on and on.
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  It feels real, it feels logical. It feels like this
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  is just who I am. But what if just a
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  story you've repeated so many times, you stop questioning
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  it? Because think about it. Were you born thinking
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  you. You're bad on camera? No. Were you
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  born believing you can make money? No. Those beliefs were
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  learned, which means they can be unlearned.
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  And I'm not saying it happens overnight, but the first step
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  is catching yourself when you say those things.
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  So instead of I'm not good at this, shift it to I'm
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  not good at this. Yet that one
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  word changes everything. It's all about changing
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  Your mindset, how you approach things, how you approach your thoughts
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  when they get into your head. Do you always look at things from
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  the negative standpoint or when you catch yourself thinking
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  negatively, you flip that switch in your head,
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  in your mind and you start thinking positively.
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  And that's something that you have to put in the work and
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  which is going to be paying off. And I know this because
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  I went through it, I've done the work and
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  I continue to do the work because I want
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  always to be a different outcome. I don't want
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  to be dwelling on things, I don't want to be dwelling on the things from
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  the past and looking at myself and preventing myself
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  from being successful. Being able to
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  have that financial freedom, being able to have the doors open
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  up, you know, to me because I'm living,
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  limiting myself and second guessing myself and questioning
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  myself. You don't find your thing,
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  you built it. I think this is one of the biggest misconceptions,
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  especially online. We see people who are successful,
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  confident, doing their thing and it looks like they just,
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  just found their purpose. Like one day they woke
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  up and were like, this is it. That's not how it
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  works. Nobody starts out great in anything.
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  They try something, they're not amazing at it,
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  they keep going, they get better.
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  And somewhere in that process they realize, okay, I actually
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  enjoy this or I'm getting good at this. And I
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  tell you that I've seen number of moms who start
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  on social media doing this kind of one niche
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  and I think it was more aligned with like fashion and
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  they were growing and everything, but once
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  they switch their kind of like
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  niche, they actually found their calling.
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  They just started blowing up on social media and business
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  and getting deals with brands because
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  they really aligned with what they felt.
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  Passionate. And I like, I have a couple of moms who they both
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  went to different directions and they've
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  been doing so well and so many moms can relate
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  to them. And yes, there's still those haters
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  there who always have to put a common negative
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  comment or something hateful, which I don't understand.
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  Like they forget about this saying,
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  if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.
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  Why? What gives you pleasure of putting something negative
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  and putting somebody else down? To me, that's something wrong
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  with you and you have to look within yourself of why
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  are you doing it? Because there's another person on
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  that screen who's going to read that comment. So would
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  you like somebody else to give you that comment?
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  Probably not. So why are you doing it? Somebody else
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  so that's something that's just. I could never
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  understand. Your thing is built through
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  repetition. It's built through trying things that don't
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  work, through moments where you feel unsure, through figuring it out
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  as you go. So if you're sitting there thinking, I just
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  don't know what I'm good at, it's not because you don't have something.
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  It's because you have not given yourself enough chances
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  to discover it. And it's okay for you to start with one thing
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  and then make a shift. And you can make probably a couple of shifts
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  until you find your calling, until you find something that
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  just clicks. I know. For me, it also took me some time to actually
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  really figure out, okay, what is it that I
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  want to concentrate? Because I do love a lot of different things. I love
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  fashion, love cooking, I love motivational. There's so many things that I
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  love. But it took me some time to figure
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  out and find what actually was giving me
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  real joy. Something that I wanted other moms,
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  other women to experience, something that I wanted
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  to share through my life. Experiences that
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  I've learned and I continue to learn. And you
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  will figure that out too. So you don't have to worry about, like,
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  oh, I have to pick something and just stick with it. Because you change.
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  Like, you change as a person.
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  Your messaging is going to change, and that's totally
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  fine. Stop comparing your beginning to someone else's middle.
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  This one, I see it all the time. You try something
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  new and within minutes you're already comparing yourself
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  to someone who's been doing it for years. And you can think about like,
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  oh, she's confident, she's so good at this. I could never do
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  that. And it shuts you down because you even give yourself
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  a chance. But what you're seeing is not where
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  they started, it's where they are now. You didn't see the awkward
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  videos, the uncertainty, the trial and errors, the all the comparisons
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  themselves starting out from zero, the judgment.
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  You comparing your first step to someone else's like,
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  like a hundred step. And that will always make you
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  feel behind. Instead, compare yourself to who you
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  were yesterday. That's the only comparison that actually matters.
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  And I know it's hard. I know that you get
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  on social media, doesn't matter what platform, and when
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  you start scrolling and you seeing the success and you seeing the comments
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  and you seeing the likes and the views, you can't
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  help but feel insecure. And you start judging yourself because
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  you're not there. And yes, they started
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  from where you are now. So if you look
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  at yourself and say, hey, I'm further along than I was
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  yesterday, a month ago, two months ago. You have to give
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  yourself a clap because you started, and you continue
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  pursuing what you started.
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  So what actually, naturally, what comes naturally to you
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  is your clue. Here's something I want you to really
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  think about. What comes easy to you that
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  other people struggle with? Because a lot of times we overlook
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  our strength because they feel normal to us. Like, if you're a great
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  cook and it comes natural to you, come up with recipes,
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  anything. Like, you cook, it's good, you just whip things out.
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  And for somebody else, it could be daunting.
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  They're like, no, I rather order it, have takeouts,
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  maybe order food service, that the food just comes.
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  All I need to do is reheat. I cannot do what she's
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  doing. So you take your strengths for granted without
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  realizing that, hey, there is a whole
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  lot of people, a whole lot of women, moms, who actually will
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  benefit from what you can share, which you think that,
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  oh, this is nothing. This is just like a normal thing that I do on
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  a daily basis. And you might think,
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  oh, that's nothing. You know, anyone can do it, but not
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  everyone can. Maybe you're, you know, like, also naturally
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  connecting with other people. Maybe you explain things in a simple way.
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  Maybe you have an eye for style, like organization,
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  business. I mean, whatever it is, those things
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  matter. And instead of chasing what looks trendy or what
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  everyone else is doing, lean into what feels natural
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  to you. That's where your confidence grows faster,
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  because you're not forcing it. You're doing it because
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  you've been doing it all, all along. You don't need to
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  have it all figured out to start. I think we put so much pressure on
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  ourselves to have this clear path. Like, I need to know exactly what I'm
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  doing. I need to know this will work. I need to know where this
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  is going. I need to know what camera to use. I need to know what
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  angles. I need to know how to edit the videos and
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  on. And that pressure keeps you stuck. Because the
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  truth is, clarity comes from action, not from sitting
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  there thinking about it. You figure things out as you go.
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  You adjust, you pivot, you learn. But you
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  can't do any of that if you just never start.
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  And you are allowed to evolve. And one
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  more thing that I think a lot of moms need to hear,
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  you allowed to change. As I've mentioned before,
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  I'm sure you're not the same person as you are teenager, not the
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  same person. You are in 20s or 30s, you continue
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  to evolve and change and your content
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  can do the same. You allowed to
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  try something and then decide it's not for you.
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  You're allowed to grow into different version of yourself.
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  Just because you've always been one way does not mean
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  you have to stay that way. And just because something worked for you before doesn't
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  mean it's what you want now. So you need to give yourself
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  permission to explore that, because that's how you actually get closer
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  to who you were meant to be. So if you're sitting there
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  feeling like I don't know what I'm good at or maybe this
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  is just isn't for me, I want you to challenge that.
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  Start questioning the beliefs you've been carrying.
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  Start trying things without needing them to be perfect.
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  Because you're not stuck. You've just been operating from old
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  stories. And if this episode spoke to you,
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  send it to another mom, another woman who needs to hear this.
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  And don't forget to follow and subscribe to Nadi Unfiltered
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  because we're breaking through those limiting beliefs
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  together. Until next time.