Ep.29 EmpowerMe Journey: Guided Steps to Redefine & Rise for Success and Self Discovery

Do you ever struggle with self-doubt or fear? If so, know that you are not alone. Join me, Smilie Filomeno Rodriguez, as I share my personal journey from self-doubt to self-discovery, and reveal how I overcame these feelings. My aim is to inspire and empower you to find your own path to self-love and confidence. By the end of our journey together, you'll have gained practical strategies that you can use to navigate through life's obstacles.

The journey towards self-discovery and personal growth can seem like a never-ending road filled with ups and downs. But don't worry, I'm here to help you navigate it. I'll share five actionable strategies to help you set achievable goals, use positive affirmations, learn from others without comparing yourself, and embrace lifelong learning. Additionally, we'll talk about the importance of having a supportive community that can help you achieve your goals.

But our journey doesn't stop there. Together, we'll explore how you can train your mind to handle change and develop a peaceful sense of control and mental resilience. We'll also discuss the power of self-awareness and how it can lead to a better connection between your mind and actions. Finally, I'll share my insights on motivation and how it can help you step out of your comfort zone and take action toward your goals.

Remember, this is your journey, and I'm here to guide you every step of the way. I can't wait to embark on this journey with you! I believe in you. You got this! 

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Hola, vos Chica. Welcome to the Smiley Empowerment Podcast. This is where we celebrate the strength, resilience and determination of Latina women and all women who are constantly on the go, pushing through challenges and achieving their goals. I like to call these women Vos Chica, like me, if you're a busy woman ready to be uplifted, inspired, empowered to take charge of your healing journey and be a Vos Chica, you've come to the right place. We can all agree, life can be hectic and overwhelming, but anything is possible with the right mindset, attitude, tools and support. Let me introduce myself. My name is Smiley Filomenos Rodriguez and I am a Latina Life Empowerment Coach and a social worker. I started this podcast because I know what feeling alone and overwhelmed with past wounds and challenges feel like. I want to help you with self-discovery, self-love and self-empowerment so you can grow and thrive. Do you sometimes feel alone? Te sientes sola? Well, you're not alone. No estás sola. You have me, your coach, smiley.

Speaker 1: 1:20

In each episode, I'll share personal stories of resilience, healing tips, practical advice, strategies for managing your time and priorities, for improving your relationship with yourself and others, and insights on cultivating a positive and fulfilling joyful life. So grab your earbuds and tea or coffee, take a deep breath and get ready to be inspired and encouraged. Let's begin this journey together and empower each other to become the best versions of our lives. Let's get started. You got this. Hey, me both, chica and my lovely listener. I want you to really get a sense of where you're at. Right now, I am working on myself. I am on an incredible journey of self-discovery. I'm redefining myself, I'm empowering myself and I'm very focused on personal growth and self-empowerment. How about you? What is your journey all about? Welcome back.

Speaker 1: 2:41

I hope that this episode helps you. I like to call it empower me, a journey about empowerment and personal growth. Wherever you are in your journey, I hope that you can really embrace your own self-love, your personal growth, your self-empowerment, just like I am doing. It's been quite a few months and I don't know about you, but it's been so hard with everything that's happening all over the world. Just everywhere, we see a lot of chaos and in the midst of that chaos, I have to say that there is love, there's still good people that help one another, and I want you to focus as we are about to close this year, 2023. I want you to hone in and focus on you for a moment, and when I say you, I'm not saying that you have to forget about everybody else and not be kind and aware of other people's needs and extend a helping hand, because I always encourage that. But I want you to take a moment to reflect on your journey. What is your journey all about?

Speaker 1: 3:55

Whether your journey is centered around self-love, personal growth or self-empowerment, I want to support you. I want to help you every step of the way. So let's talk a little bit more about empowering ourselves. It feels like an adventure. It really does. I don't know about you, but my journey lately has been quite an adventure. I'm going through different changes and it could be scary. And I don't know about you, but I know that lately I've been experiencing a lot of fear, painful thoughts that I've had to reframe and really work on myself, because a lot of what's happening around us we have no control. So I am dedicated to self-love and teach others how to self-love and empower myself and empower you. So I hope that you continue listening, because I want to offer some insightful, practical tips on how you can really continue to embrace yourself or begin to embrace yourself.

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I say this in two ways, because some of you have already started this journey of self-exploration, being self-aware, working on your dreams, and then there are others that have not started on that, or you might have experienced in the past a lot of failures and you have a lot of self-doubt. Now you can have self-doubt even while you are working on your dreams. And then there's the other self-doubt. That is when you're just not doing anything towards your dreams. Right, you've given up, and I want to bring you hope because you can start today. You can start today to reignite your dream, your passions, and really work on yourself.

Speaker 1: 5:43

I want you to explore what makes you happy. I want you to explore where are you in your personal growth? Right, are you achieving what you desire? And this is not what your mom, with your husband, with your partner, with your friend, with your bestie. This is not about what other people desire for you, which I know that we are surrounded and I hope that you are too that we're surrounded by people that love us and have the best intentions, but that's not what we need to focus on. We need to focus on what you and I want for ourselves.

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So, in this incredible journey that we're in, it's important to focus on our dreams and if you're doubting yourself. Understand that that's normal. It's very normal to self-doubt all the way to success. It really is, because as you're getting closer to your dreams, to your desires, you start thinking oh wait, wait, what could go wrong? You start thinking I'm not good enough. If I do succeed, then what?

Speaker 1: 6:45

Many of us are prepared for failure, because we may be used to failing more than being successful. So many of us are very comfortable with failing, believe it or not. Right, because we're like, yep, I knew it. But how about if it works? How about if you succeed? What about then? Right, what do you do?

Speaker 1: 7:05

So I want to prepare you with some tips, some practical tips that I believe are going to help you to redefine yourself and embrace your personal growth and achieve self-discovery. Why do I want you to achieve self-discovery? Because when we are self-aware, when we know what we want and why, that's when we go after our dream, right. When we know exactly what we want, we know why we want it and then we figure out the how. But more importantly, we have to be self-aware, okay. So I'm going to share five tips on how you can really begin or continue on your journey towards success. That doesn't mean you're not going to experience fear. That does not mean that you are going to stop self-doubt completely, but what it does mean with these tips, what it means that you're going to hold on to these tips and any other beneficial, healthy tips that help you in your growth. You're going to hold on to them, You're going to be reminded of them, you're going to write them down if you can Put them in sticky notes. You're going to work on these tips because that's how you are going to evolve, that's how you're going to start expanding your personal growth. And, yes, you're going to feel uncomfortable, because that's where we grow the most when we feel uncomfortable and we get out of our comfort zone.

Speaker 1: 8:33

Lately, I've been getting out of my comfort zone. I've been doing things that I typically don't do for myself, as I am practicing the self-discovery, as I'm answering those questions that I ask you Like you know, what do you want out of life? What is your journey? What does your journey look like, right? So I've been asking myself that and I've come up with some answers that I'm like wow, I really want to do that. And yes, and I know I'm not explaining exactly what I've been thinking lately, because it's a bit personal and I probably will share at a later time with you guys because I know that this is a loving community and I do want to share at a later time the process in which I am in now and in the future. Later I will look back and say, okay, I did that, this, this and that for this reason, and right now I have to say that in the present, I'm not sure what is going to happen in the future, but what I do know is that I am working on myself, and that's what I implore you to do and I am here to always guide is for you to have the best, the best life that you can in your terms right, not in my terms, but in yours.

Speaker 1: 9:56

However, we must work on our mindset and we must work on embracing our flaws as well as our virtues. Oftentimes, we want to just focus on the good stuff, on the things that we do well, and then we stay doing the same thing that we do well over and over and over, sometimes decades at a time, and that relates to our work or our business. How many of you are in a job that you are really good at and you're there for years and years and out of fear and comfortability. You don't move past that Yet in your mind and in your heart's desire, you want to do more, but you're afraid to take that leap. I'm here to tell you that, once you examine your thoughts, your desires, your plan of action, I want you to go for it, but you have to make that decision for you. When I say go for it, is that I'm rooting for you, for, whatever that decision is, that it's not going to be harming you, but the opposite, elevating you. Think about that when you are right now is that the best place to be for the moment? Right, because we can be for years in a job or in a business and then change, change careers, change paths. Right, some people reinvent themselves all. Completely right. There's some, some of you, that have gone through a divorce, a separation, because you understood, through your self discovery and through all of the pain, right and grief, that you want to change. What does that change? Look for you. So let's go.

Speaker 1: 11:35

Let me give you the five tips that I promise. So here are the five tips to help you in your journey, and I want you to be very clear of these tips. The good thing about listening to a podcast is that you can pause. You can rewind over and over, you can fast forward, which I don't want you to fast forward now. It's too early on, but you have choice. You could pause and come back to it, but I want you to really focus on these five tips. So if you want to focus on one of them at a time and take your time with it, that is great, okay.

Speaker 1: 12:10

So tip number one is to start by taking time for self reflection and setting clear, achievable goals. Okay, I want you to self reflect. Self reflection can really help you to understand your aspirations, and goal setting directs your journey towards the personal growth and self discovery that is so important. Setting those goals Now, when you set your goals, I want you to be very realistic with your goals. Don't put goals that are unrealistic for you. They might be realistic for someone else, but for you they're unachievable. So you have to start with achievable goals. Okay, those goals are going to help you in your personal growth and in your self discovery. The more that you are self aware, the better that you can really redefine what those goals are. Why do you want that goal Right? What's your why? What's your driving force? And then, little by little, you start unpacking the steps to get that goal and you don't have to wait till December 31st or January 1st. You can start now and go into the new year already, walking or running.

Speaker 1: 13:28

I say this because everybody's at a different pace. Don't think that if you see someone else running off the bat, real fast off the gate, that you have to do that. Some of us take baby steps. Some of us crawl little by little. The next thing you know we're standing up and we're taking more steps, right. So you have to see where you are at. Don't compare yourself to me, to no one else. You need to work on you. What you could do with other people that are around you, you can learn from them, especially if they're successful already in something that you would like to achieve or they just overall successful people. You can learn from them, but don't compare.

Speaker 1: 14:07

Tip number two incorporate positive affirmations into your daily routine. These affirmations can really work to boost yourself confidence and boost your self-esteem and help you to rewire your mindset. This is essential for your self-redefinition, right, and your empowerment. It's so important. Now I have some of you that may think oh, positive affirmations, that's all baloney, that's whack. But it's not, because every statement that you make to yourself on a daily basis, we're doing it, we're affirming, whether we're doing it negatively or positive. That's just what it is.

Speaker 1: 14:46

There's statements that come about from our belief system, right? So many of us walk around all day long when we're at work, wherever we're at, and we are saying statements. Pay attention to what type of statements you are affirming by incorporating these statements on your day to day. Right? Some of us may be into the habit. Have you ever heard yourself or someone else be like I'm so stupid, I could never get that? You're right, not me. I'm not lovable, right, those are all affirmations, but those are negative affirmations and those are negative beliefs, limited beliefs that you may have. So what I am talking about and so many of my colleagues, fellow social workers like me or life coaches like me what we're talking about are positive affirmations. Those are statements that you're telling yourself, right, and if you at first don't believe them, it's okay. The more you say these statements, you will, in time, affirm them and believe them. Sometimes you may doubt those affirmations that are positive because you have limited beliefs, but the more you work on saying out loud to yourself or writing them out positive affirmations, you start getting used to speaking more positive and gracefully to yourself. Okay.

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Tip number three I want you to embrace a commitment to a lifelong journey of learning. Okay, Because when we continue to learn and apply new skills and knowledge not only foster personal growth, but also adds depth to our self-discovery and journey. I have found that through learning new skills and knowledge, it really has expanded my personal growth, and what it does is it boosts my confidence. So I want that to happen for you. Okay, because sometimes, when we don't know a certain skill, when we don't feel confident, oftentimes it's when we don't know how to do something, or we're comparing ourselves to someone else who knows how to do what we don't and we could admire it, but then we become very conscious of our own knowledge and limited beliefs that we may have Right. So I say the more that you commit yourself to learning and it is a lifelong commitment. It's a lifelong commitment because you can acquire new skills and obtain more knowledge that's going to inform you on what to do next and how to do it better and be better equipped for opportunities when they arise.

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So commit yourself to learning a new skill, gaining new knowledge that may be going back to school. That may be taking a course online, that may be you looking at a lot of YouTube videos or self-healing or books that are of interest to you. But that provides knowledge, that provides a skill set that's going to help you thrive. That's going to help you to be more marketable. If you want to change careers Right. If you want to open up a new business, there's so much that you have to learn about it, right. So when you're in the journey of self-improvement, going to get your dream right, oftentimes you have to learn new skills or you have to learn something or a few things that can help you to be more confident and to be successful.

Speaker 1: 18:17

Tip number four this is one that's very important and that is to prioritize your self-care. Consider a self-care ritual for yourself. In that ritual, I suggest for it to encompass physical, mental and emotional well-being, because self-care is the foundation for an empowered you. It is a foundation for you to self-reinvent yourself. Self-care is the foundation for empowerment and self-redefinition, reclaiming yourself from yourself, if that makes sense, and when I say that's because sometimes we self-sabotage. So, reclaim yourself from yourself.

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Rescue yourself from the you that is negative, the you that is doubting, the you. That stops you Rescue her. Some of us are focused on other people rescuing us, but you know that you can be your own hero. You know that you can rescue yourself. That doesn't mean you may not need help from people, but it really starts with you making the decision, making the choice to say you know what? I'm going to learn that new skill, you know what? I am going to go to therapy to face some of the trauma that I have. Or I'm going to go to therapy to really work on myself, on my relationships that I have. That might be. They might not be as successful as I want them to be or as close as I want to be, right? How many of you have relationships, friendships, dad relationship, issues, right? So it's important for you to really take care of yourself.

Speaker 1: 20:07

And self-care can look very different for many different people, right? Some people they go get their their. Some of us, right, we go get our mannies and pedis. But I'm talking beyond that, beyond the massages, which it's also part of your self-care taking time for you to pamper yourself, to give yourself massages, to meditate, to self-reflect, to go out and take a walk by yourself and think. Right, so having self-care rituals is so important. It's very important as you are empowering yourself and rising up rising up from your challenges, because we all have challenges.

Speaker 1: 20:49

And the last tip for today that I want to share with you, as you are embracing your empowerment and your self-care and you are empowering yourself right I want you to take very seriously these tips, and in tip number five is to surround yourself with a supportive community. That is so important. Surround yourself with people that are good for you. Okay, having experiences and insights with others on a similar journey can really provide guidance. It can provide motivation, a sense of belonging. It's so important to feel that you belong for all of us. Everyone wants to belong somewhere, right? So be mindful of the company you're keeping, be mindful of the community that you're in. The Smiley Empowerment community is a community of love and kindness, and it's amazing, right To see folks in the community here on the podcast. I thank you for listening, my boss, chica, my listeners I love you all. Also on my Instagram, right, I go live every Thursday, live at 7 pm Eastern time, and that's a community there over there that it's empowering.

Speaker 1: 22:14

Smiley Empowerment is all about that Love, love, personal growth, right, giving you the tools that you need to rise to success, but you have to do the work, and I hope that, as you start your week, or if you're in the middle of the week or in the weekend whichever part of the week of the seven days you're in when you listen to this episode, I want you to really incorporate these tips and think about your daily life. How are you showing up, how are you speaking to yourself? More importantly, what are you thinking about yourself, what do you believe about yourself? Because you can empower yourself to become the best version of yourself and achieve your dreams, your visions, through self-discovery, your personal growth. Right, resetting yourself and, at times, pausing, taking time for the self-care. But you have to do this on your terms, right, I can offer you the tools.

Speaker 1: 23:24

There are many podcasts. There's so much information out there. We're living in the time of technology and, yes, nothing in excess is good, but it's so important to tap into the resources that you are coming across and doing the work. We can listen to podcasts, we can read books, we can do so much with the knowledge that we are learning, taking it in, but we have to put it in action. We have to do a plan for ourselves, and sometimes it could be very overwhelming. That's why I say take it one step at a time at your pace.

Speaker 1: 24:04

Now, with that, I want to say that one of the things that I am doing is I'm reading a book. It's called Cleaning Up your Mental Mass and this book is by Dr Caroline Leif and I want to read to you. Before I close this episode, I want to read to you an overview of her chapter nine. It's called Directing your Brain for Change. This is very powerful. So please take a listen to this and if you can get her book I mean I'm not sponsored, it's just the book I'm picking up that it's helping me to reduce anxiety, stress and toxic thinking. So, dr Caroline Leif, on page 187, chapter nine, directing your Brain for Change In her overview she shares four bullets that I found them to be very interesting and they're very supportive to what I've been talking about empowering ourselves and working on taking action.

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She, very specific here, talks about directing your brain for change. The first bullet she says we have within us the ability to tap into a state of self-awareness that allows us to develop a sense of peaceful control, a mental space necessary for coping and overcoming. It is very important, as I said, to be self-aware, and see how she explains that being self-aware allows us to develop a sense of peaceful control, a mental space necessary for coping and overcoming. That is deep. Then she goes on to bullet two and she says essentially, when you use your ability to stand outside of yourself and observe your own thinking and she put in parentheses the MPA your senses can tune in to the detail of the and she quotes now moment an enriching experience that will help you feel happier and more at peace. That's very powerful. It's very powerful to observe our own thoughts, and that's how she explains that. Doing that, your senses can tune in to the detail of the now moment. Right, it's the present moment. And that is amazing how she says that an enriching experience that will help you feel happier and more at peace. And that's what we're all looking for. Right, to be happier, to be at peace.

Speaker 1: 26:37

In bullet three, she says this the discomfort zones are the physical, emotional and informational warning signals from physical, emotional and informational memories. In a thought, these warning signals are invitations to look inward. If you cannot sit with them and listen to them, you run the risk of losing the opportunity to gain priceless information that will help your healing. Now, that's powerful, right there. And that's when we ignore, right, what's happening within us, when we notice that we are not comfortable, whether that's in the physical state, the emotional, as she says, right, the informational warning signals, right, that our body gives us, our emotions give us these warnings, as she's saying, and sometimes it's so uncomfortable we don't want to sit in them, we want to ignore them, we don't want to listen to them, we want to run away from them, right, and be in denial. Dr Caroline Leaves says that if you cannot sit with them and listen to them, you run the risk of losing the opportunity to gain priceless information that will help you with your healing, because that's the part of being self-aware. But with self-awareness, not all the time is comfortable feelings that come up, emotional feelings could come up that don't feel that good, right. But if we learn to learn more about ourselves and those emotional, physical discomforts, that's when we can really gain more information, as she says. That will help us with the healing. And I agree Now in this overview, the fourth bullet and last bullet, in directing your brain for change.

Speaker 1: 28:24

Dr Caroline Leif says not only can we rewire our brain, but we can regenerate it as well. Changing our mind and brain is also much easier to do and more common than we think. In fact, our brain is always changing and we drive the direction of change that is deep. This is from the book Clean Up your Mental Mass Five Simple, scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, stress and Toxic Thinking by Dr Caroline Leif. I just read the overview, the four bullets from chapter nine. If you could get the book, that's great. I am reading it and really working on my own mental mass, because we all have that right, most of us at different times. You know life is messy, life can be messy. So I hope that these five tips that I gave and a little bit of the overview that I gave from Dr Caroline Leif's book, they can really guide you and help you to start at least thinking, thinking.

Speaker 1: 29:36

Thinking about where do you want to improve? What do you need to be healthy overall, emotionally, physically? What do you want to work on right? Is it the people that surround you? Is it meeting new friends, because you don't have your old friends? Right?

Speaker 1: 29:59

I just saw a quote, actually, that a family member of mine put up. It's not their quote, but it was something about when I was at my worst or when I was always in trouble, when I was at my worst I'm just paraphrasing there were so many friends. But then, as you're doing better now, as you are succeeding and doing better and you're not in all that hot mess, you have less friends or you see less people looking out for you or looking for you. And what I responded in the comments to that family member of mine with that comment that they put it was actually very deep, it's pretty deep and I was just paraphrasing and what I said was to this person was like, hey, you're doing great because the relative of mine that I'm speaking about, they're doing really good, right, but you will notice that sometimes your circle shrinks as you're climbing the ladder of success or as you're making those positive changes.

Speaker 1: 30:58

Right, misery loves company and sometimes when we are in a rut or in a lot of negativity or not going the right way, we may find ourselves to have more people around us. Have you noticed like people when they gossiping or they have juicy stuff to say, there's so many people involved, so many people want to know they're into it. But when folks are talking about progress and about how dreams and moving forward or doing things different. You may notice less friends being on your corner. You may notice less people being there rooting for you or even making time to talk to you about your dreams, and sometimes that could be I've heard other people talk about this that when we are in a circle of people growing up or just in different stages or lives and we're all in the same type of journey, going the same way it could be getting married, buying a home or moving out the different things stages that you do in common with your fellow friend, right, so everybody's kind of doing the same thing or very similar.

Speaker 1: 32:13

But if one of you decides to go a total opposite direction or doing something that no one else would even think that they could do, then all of a sudden people start seeing you different and maybe your presence make them feel uncomfortable and not all the time is that people are hating on people. I have to say that I know we're big on that as a society to say, oh, you're hating and everybody's hating on me. But sometimes people are really having a hard time with the new you, and that could be a whole other episode I was just thinking about. That came out spontaneously now as I record this. Some people have a hard time with the new. You right, it could be things that you're doing or you're speaking about that they have no business knowing anything about that.

Speaker 1: 33:04

And instead of learning more about what you're talking about and asking questions that are not questions about questioning you like in a sarcastic way come on, why are you doing this? Could you really think you could do this? No Legit questions that are about hey, what are you doing? Show an interest. Let the person tell you, right, what are they working on, if they want to share a little more. But sometimes we don't share because it's not as comfortable with another person who's not going in that same direction, and that's why it's always important to it's not to drop your old friends or family members that are not in your same journey or speaking the same lingo, I would say, as you. But I would say, try to find more like-minded people that are in your journey, because they will have a better understanding of where you're at and you could work together to build and to lean on each other. And this is something that I'm just adding at the end of this episode, because it just came up as I'm speaking to you and I don't know who needs to hear this, but in my spirit I feel like somebody out there needs to hear that If you are doing all of the self exploration and you are on a new path, on a new journey, whether you're changing careers, whether you're leaving a job for a new one or for your own, or finally launching your business or getting out of a long-time marriage or going back to school, whatever that is, make sure that you ground yourself and that you really take notice how you're feeling and be very mindful who you share how you're feeling and your dreams with, because not everyone will have an understanding of where you're at and that's quite okay because everybody's in their own journey.

Speaker 1: 34:53

But it's important to have a supportive community because you can't do it alone. You can't do it alone. No one climbs the ladder of success alone and no one climbs the ladder of success in one, two, three, real quick. For the most part, if you're born into success, that's a different story. But even then you have struggles and setbacks and falls. They might be different, they may look different. So make sure that you are in the right community with the right set of people for you and those that don't understand your journey. But you love them and they've been around you for many years. They're your family, they're your friends, your closest friends. It's okay as long as they're not distracting you or busting your bubble of your dream, as long as they're not dream killers.

Speaker 1: 35:41

You have to be very careful because that, my friend, can be dangerous among your circle when you have someone or people that are dream killers and Dream killers are just people that their own dreams didn't work out. They were too afraid, they didn't do it, and now that they're seeing you on your path, it's scary to them and it also feels very foreign, like who's this smiling now. But down deep inside you and I are the same people, authentic. It's just that we are going after our dreams and we're doing things that we probably, at one point we're too scared to do, and we're doing it now through the fear. It doesn't mean that we have no longer have fear. It just means that we're doing it through the fear we're, we're going forward. So be mindful of that.

Speaker 1: 36:31

I hope that these tips help. I hope that you continue to be in your journey. Be kind to yourself. That's an extra tip there. Be very gentle. Practice grace. Keep your faith. Don't lose hope. You got this. It may not seem like you do, but you do Think of a time where you didn't think you would make it. And now you look back and you did. How did you do that?

Speaker 1: 36:59

Many of us are gonna say the power of prayer, the power of believing in myself. Others may say, wow, it was other people Believing in me and helping me to start to believe in myself, because some of us lack belief in ourselves. And you may have that one person that speaks over your life and says you can, let's go, you've got this, let me show you the way, let me offer you the tools, and that's someone that you can follow and that you can trust in your journey. We all need guidance. We all need a little motivation and guidance and support. And Motivation is not garbage.

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There are some people out there that may say Motivation is not. You know it's motivation is garbage. No, motivation can really help many people get out of their rut. Then you must I know that then you must have me. You must work on yourself and take action. You're not just gonna be motivated and not do anything, but motivation gives you that spark to get going. So I hope that I've been able to motivate you and offer you the guidance. Continue on your personal growth. You got this. Have an amazing week. Be kind to yourself and to others. This is your coach, smiley signing out. Take care of yourself and of each other, pesitos.