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Showing Up Unpolished: Why Commitment Beats Motivation For Midlife Women · Get It Got It Girl: Midlife Rebuild

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your transformational coach and emotional intelligence strategist, and this is the part of the story you didn't get to see.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: The part where I wasn't polished.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't even ready, and I definitely wasn't motivated, but I showed up anyway today.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the truth motivation didn't get me into that studio.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: It didn't get me here.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't anywhere in the room.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: What got me here was commitment, commitment to everybody who listens to my podcast, and most importantly, commitment to myself.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: That quiet, steady kind that doesn't even care if you're tired or overwhelmed or holding on by a thread.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: In midlife, I know we us women, we know that better than anything.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: We know that feeling.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: We're experts at holding it together for everyone else or even for ourselves or pretending that we are held together just not to cause any kind of, you know, I don't know.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: We just want to act like we're fine.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: But the part that we just don't talk about is showing up in perfect imperfectedly.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm perfectly not perfect.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Imperfectedly.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: I can never say that word, but just show up as you are, as real as you are.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: Your voice still matters.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes I feel like maybe that's a better message that you're sending to people.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I feel inside.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like I want you to know that okay, I'm not always ready to just talk.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have it all put together.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: This is all new to me.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: This is still exciting.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: I still get nervous.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh boy, do I get nervous?
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: But once I push that button, I feel so great.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like, oh my God, my voice does matter and my presence is still counting.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: So if that's you, like your effort still shifts something inside of you.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like it still matters.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, today wasn't pretty, it wasn't polished, but I can definitely assure you that it was real.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: And those are the moments that actually transform us.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Those are the moments that it feels so good to admit exactly where you are.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I hope this helped you.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: This is my quick little bonus.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: I know in the first episode I shared some of the backstory so you guys kind of know about how it was to get to the studio.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: But that's it for this week.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Follow, share, and just keep emerging.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Tina, your transformational coach and emotional intelligence strategist.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: You guys have a great week.