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Season 3 - Episode 295 - Who are you really at your core? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So if I asked you the question, who are you really?
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  What would you say? It's an interesting question to
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  ask. And often times at the very
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  beginning of coaching, when I start with a client, it's one of
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  the first questions I asked them, well, who do you believe
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  that you are really? And often they're stumped.
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  They don't know. And we go through an exercise
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  where we dig into this and we say, well, we know we have
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  multiple roles. We all seem to have multiple
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  roles. Very rarely are we just, you
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  know, myopic in one thing. But there are multiple roles,
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  multiple facets, multiple parts of us, and they all blend in to
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  make the tapestry that we are. But how often do we examine this
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  tapestry? What threads was it made with?
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  What fabric was it made with? And does it form a picture that
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  we like or not? It's such a great way to think
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  about it because when you think of yourself as a tapestry,
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  what's the picture of you? Is it ultimate chaos on that
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  tapestry? Is it beautiful in design?
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  But it's, you know, all shades of all grey.
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  Like what is that tapestry of you look like?
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  And if here's the cool part, if you're not happy with your
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  tapestry, you can always go back and fix it.
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  But first you have to know who are you really.
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  So if you think of it like you're trying to sort through a
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  bunch of different emotions, thoughts, feelings, talents,
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  you're doing a brain dump of it. So if you if you do the exercise
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  that we're going to, I'm going to take you through right now
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  and you sit down, you know, in a quiet space.
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  I like doing it in a quiet space just because it allows me to get
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  all of it out. And my quiet space happens to be
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  a very big space. And believe it or not, when I
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  like to do these things, I like to whiteboard them because I
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  have to get it out big so I can see it.
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  I don't like using small paper. In fact, most of the time I
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  don't even write on small paper. I try to do 11 by 17 so that I
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  have big paper to work with or giant whiteboards in my studio.
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  So you do the brain dump of all those questions.
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  You know, who am I really is at the very top that you write
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  down. But then you say like, what are
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  my roles? That's a question you ask
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  yourself. What are my talents?
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  What are my beliefs? What do I think I bring to the
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  table? What are my primary, you know,
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  feelings of why I am here? You write down all these things,
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  just randomly dump it all out, get it out of your head.
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  And then you look at it and you say, OK, let me start to chunk
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  these things to figure out who am I like as a person?
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  Who am I? The first time I did this, I
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  realized that my side for creativity is insane.
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  Like it is so layered out. I have so many things on that
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  side. I started to notice as I was
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  chunking I I just have a massive list for that creative side of
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  myself and that that really is at the core of who I am.
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  That is it, my creativity, my imagination.
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  And this all started when I was very, very little.
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  And fortunately for me, it did not get ruined.
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  It had many opportunities to be ruined.
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  But for some reason the I was, I was not torn apart by it.
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  And when I say how I had many, many reasons because I was
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  judged for IT, people thought, oh, your ideas are crazy.
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  Or I was told when I was little, you know, you shouldn't have
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  because I had imaginary friends, Full disclosure, imaginary
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  friends, more than one, trust me.
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  And I had many comments from my family, not my mother, not my
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  father, but other family members who would say things that, you
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  know, you have to get rid of them.
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  My parents, my father tolerated it because he didn't understand
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  it. But my, and he would, you know,
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  engage with it, with me, to make me happy with it.
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  My mother was totally fine with it.
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  She didn't have a care in the world about it.
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  But I had other people who did say things to me about it.
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  And teachers said things to me about it when I was very little
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  because I had them when I was very little.
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  And I'll tell you, it could have squashed me, but they were part
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  of my creativity. They were part of my
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  imagination. They were part of that ethereal
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  world that is so magical and so enchanted.
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  And that's the part that I come from.
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  So if I had to say, at the very core of who I am, it's a magical
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  world. It's an enchanted world.
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  It's divine. It has so much sparkle to it.
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  It's crazy. And that is at the very center.
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  And from there, everything goes, everything else comes out.
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  Being able to do this podcast comes from that part.
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  But once I put it all up on the wall, I could see it and I could
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  say, wow, that is the core of who I am.
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  And if I stay focused on this as well as I still have to do the
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  other things. But if I make that my focus, I
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  can feel empowered every day. That's why we're shooting a
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  podcast from a chicken coop, my friends.
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  So try this exercise. I promise you it will enlighten
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  you, it will open up things, and it will let you see where you
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  want to grow, just like it did for me because there are other
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  parts of me that I always want to grow.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have fun white boarding this
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  and I will talk to you tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.