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One Foot in Front of the Other · WILD SOUL ALCHEMY PODCAST

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  There's a really cool overlook near my house that I lead night
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  hiking groups on, and one of my favorite is a little technical,
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  especially if you haven't hiked or not an avid hiker, and
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  definitely at night. One very particular hike. It was full
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  moon, and a group of maybe five of us, six of us, decided to
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  hike to this overlook. A few had been on that trail before, but
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  never at night. And there was a few who had never hiked at all.
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  So we start hiking and we go up without our headlamps. We
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  thought it would be cool, you know, fuck around, find out. And
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  so, but it was a full moon, and so we start hiking and we're all
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  like chilling out and enjoying our hike, and we get up past the
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  technical part, and we're kind of just trailing through the
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  woods. And the one who had never hiked before her, who wanted to
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  turn back and go home, she told me to not speak to her for three
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  to five business weeks for doing this to her. Although, in my
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  defense, I did warn her, and she did not want to believe me. She
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  swore she would be okay because she wasn't out of shape per se.
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  We kept going anyways because it was night, and we don't let
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  anyone hide by themselves, and we weren't turning around, so we
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  continue going, and we finally make it up to the overlook. And
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  they were all so happy that we didn't turn around because that
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  view at nighttime is spectacular. Even though that's
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  one of the more technical trails around me, and there's some
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  easier ones with pretty overlooks. This one is
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  definitely worth the work you put in to get to it at
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  nighttime. And they had only planned on staying up there for
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  an hour, and we ended up staying up there for four hours. It was
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  just magical. The energy, the view, the full moon, the
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  conversation, the people. It was just. It was better than
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  anything else they had experienced, and that's what
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  we're talking about today. Hey, hey, I'm Ginger, and welcome
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  back to Wild Soul Alchemy. Last episode we talked about what if
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  it actually fucking worked, and only one way to find out. Today
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  is for when you already know what you want, but it's really
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  huge, and you're just frozen at the bottom, not taking any
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  action. I mentioned last episode how this podcast had been a
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  thought for three years. This was my big mountain. I was
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  getting solid on the messaging, what this is about, and what
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  transformation I wanted to offer. And there's a lot. My
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  mountain, the peak of the mountain for me, looks like a
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  YouTube channel. It looks like a TikTok channel. There are so
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  many the things that retreats all of the things. And if I sat
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  here and waited until the peak was right in front of me, I'm
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  never. I would have never started this. You wouldn't be on
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  episode three of this show. So I just started taking and putting
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  one foot in front of the other. I am currently sitting at my
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  kitchen table with a microphone and an audio program that's on
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  my laptop. And let me say this is a lot of the things I am
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  running are free because I don't have all the money either.
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  That's another part of my mountain. And then when I'm done
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  recording this, I Google step by step on what all I need to do to
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  get it from an audio file on my computer that's raw with all of
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  the pauses and the mess ups to on whatever podcast streaming
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  app you're using right now, and then in between recording these
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  episodes, I am down working on the room that I'm going to use
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  as my recording studio. So I am still hiking my mountain. I
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  don't have to see the top. Currently, I'm standing at the
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  bottom, and when I look up, like I don't even see the peak, the
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  trees, the trail. It's all just out of sight. But that doesn't
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  mean that it's not there. And you can't climb the mountain all
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  at once. You're at the bottom and up a. Above those clouds is
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  the peak to the mountain, and you can't just like take one
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  step. I'm almost six foot. I got some pretty long legs.
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  I don't have to take as many steps, but like I can't get to
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  the top in just one step. So why do we try in one step everything
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  else? We need to put one foot in front of the other. That's the
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  whole secret. That's it. You don't need to see the top. You
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  don't need to know every switchback. Just the next step.
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  So when I'm taking people on the trails, leading these groups,
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  and they're wanting to quit, I just remind them that we just
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  have to keep taking one step in front of the other. And it's the
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  same as turning around. If you stop and turn around, you still
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  have to put one foot in front of the other. So instead of turning
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  back and heading back to the same spot you were in life, you
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  take that same amount of energy and put it going forward and
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  reach what you want to reach. One day you'll turn around and
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  you won't believe how far you've come, and a lot of times it's
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  only a couple months. Like you don't have to wait for years
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  when you get around those first couple switchbacks, and you turn
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  around and you're like, "Oh shit! I remember I was right at
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  the trailhead. It just seemed like one step ago." And look at
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  how far I've come already. And then you get a mile in, and then
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  you're two miles and three miles, and before you know it,
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  you are all the way at your peak. Remember that group. We
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  only planned on staying for one hour, and we ended up staying
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  for four hours up there. So just remind yourself that the
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  overlook is going to be beautiful, and even tell
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  yourself it's probably going to be better than what I imagine,
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  and use that to keep going. And you don't need every tool or
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  every answer before you go. I remember my first night hike,
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  and it was only the second hike of my whole life. I had been on
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  this trail one other time during the day and went in thinking,
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  oh, I've done this once. It'll be awesome. I want to see this
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  at night now. I have an infinity with the or a love for
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  nightlife, like life at night. And I went in with only my
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  phone. I had flip flops on. I remember the trail and was like,
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  yeah, like nothing's gonna cut my feet. I am a barefoot person,
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  so just having flip flops on was a huge improvement. And I ended
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  up because the flashlight on my phone. This was like 10 years
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  ago. It wasn't very bright, so I had to keep it like right in
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  front of my feet. This was not a full moon, and I ended up
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  getting lost. I actually like found my way off the trail,
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  which I was like, it's it's really mark it's marked well.
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  Like as long as I stay on the trail, I can't get lost. And I
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  had made a couple like there were a couple times that I like
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  stopped and spun around and was like, "Is this really the trail,
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  or did the trail like go somewhere else?" So it kind of
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  looked like it had been walked before, and it kind of looked
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  like it was a rocky path. But then there was a lot of grass,
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  and it just kept getting worse and worse. To where like I was
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  literally like, I stopped and I was like, "Wait a second! Like,
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  how did I even like? Where is the freaking trail? And I spun
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  around and spun around. I was like, "Fuck, I'm lost!" And
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  thankfully, like the universe has always been on my side
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  looking back. And I had service, so I opened up Google Maps, and
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  it actually had it was the Appalachian Trail that I had
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  wandered off of, and so that Balachan Trail was actually on
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  Google Maps, and it shows me like way off into the cut. I was
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  a mile off of the trail, like into the thicket, and so I just
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  faced a little arrow to the trail, and I walked straight to
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  it, and I did not care. Like I, there were some brambles, like
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  thickets, thorns, rock, some little like rocky things. I had
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  to climb up, and remember, I'm only in barefoot by this point.
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  But I was so afraid that if I tried to find my way around
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  these like difficult parts that I would actually get further and
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  further. Like I started panicking. I'm like, oh shit,
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  we've got to call on the National Guard to come save me.
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  This is going to be embarrassing. I'm going to make
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  it to the front page of the newspapers tomorrow because a
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  helicopter had to come in and pull me out. And I was really
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  nervous. I had a friend who had stayed the night, and she went
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  to bed early. And so I was like, "Hey, keep an eye out for the
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  kids. I'll be back before you have to get up and leave at 5
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  a.m." And so I'm getting really nervous that I'm not going to
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  make it back. I'm going to mess up my friend's day. My kids
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  aren't going to see me when they wake up, which was very
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  important. That I was always there when they woke up, and so
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  all of these things, and I'm like, fuck it, I'm just heading
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  straight to the trail. I need to get off this mountain, and I
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  finally made it back to the trail because when you're in the
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  moment, you just figure it the fuck out. I am always a fuck
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  around, and I usually do find out. But one thing I've learned
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  through this is I have always found like figured it out, and
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  so now I don't even really make a plan. Plans are just make
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  believe situations to me. Most plans that I've put a lot of
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  energy and effort into went wrong, and they didn't go wrong
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  in ways that I had like had all these backup plans for, and so
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  plans are just a waste of time to me now. And the pattern of
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  all of the times I've messed up before is I've always figured it
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  out in the moment. So you don't have it to have it all figured
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  out at the bottom. You just have to figure it out on the trail.
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  If part of what's stopping you is I'm not really sure that this
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  is what you want to do. Like I'm pretty fucking positive that the
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  podcast is what I want, so I just keep taking step after step
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  up this massive mountain. But if the reason that you're still
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  hesitating is because maybe a podcast isn't like truly part of
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  your purpose, and you're just oh I want to like see if this is it
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  because there's only one way to find out. How about you just
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  start smaller mountains? You don't have to go up the massive.
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  So my so my mountain really isn't the podcast. My mountain
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  is the YouTube channel, and so if I wasn't sure that that's
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  what I wanted to do, I would just start on a little mountain
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  and be like, "Okay, let's try podcasting." And if that's
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  successful and a lot of people love hearing me, then then I can
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  try out new mountains. Like a lot of hikers aren't as extreme
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  as me, and they start out smaller, less technical paths. I
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  love technical and figuring out as I go, so that's why I jump
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  for the big mountains. And I know my purpose is to be a coach
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  and a motivational speaker, so that's why I'm just tackling my
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  massive mountain. So see how it feels. Build your legs on the
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  smaller mountains, and then you can shoot for the bigger one.
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  Every big climb starts with a smaller one, and always remember
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  that your kids are off watching. They see you standing at the
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  bottom of your mountain, and they're watching whether you're
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  going to turn around or if you're going to start hiking.
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  They need to learn what it is to do it. Anyways, like that's the
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  biggest gift we can give them is a mom who keeps climbing no
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  matter how scared we are. So go pick your mountain, whether it's
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  the big thing, a little thing, and just forget what's at the
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  top. What's the next step? Jot down step by step what you can
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  see in just the next 20 feet. Make it small. It it might be
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  super silly.
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  Is like put one foot in front of the left, the other left, right,
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  left, right. Write it in one sentence, and then take that
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  step. Come tell me on Instagram at Wild Soul Alchemist what your
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  mountain is and what your first step is. I'll be cheering you
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  on, and would like to take this hike with you. The next episode
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  is about how we were on the same train but different views. Stay
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  curious, wild soul. Toodles.