Slowing Down to Speed Up: Lessons from 2023 & Visions for 2024

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[00:00:43] Welcome back to the Make One Day Happen Podcast friends. I'm your host, Shenna Jean.

[00:00:47] And today I've got a real cute guest if I do say so myself because it's me. We are kicking things off

[00:00:53] this year with a solo dolo podcast because I have got lessons and visions, maybe a little bit of

[00:00:58] tea to share with you. So what up 2024? We made it y'all. And I'll be honest, there were moments in 2023

[00:01:07] where I didn't know if I would or if I wanted to. Another thing I really didn't want to do was

[00:01:13] this podcast episode, this solo episode, real talk. I had such a vulnerability hangover from the last

[00:01:18] one. And I've actually been hearing to do this solo episode since October, October is when I got

[00:01:24] tapped and it's like, hey you're supposed to do this. I'm like, I'm not ready. I'm not ready. I'm not ready.

[00:01:28] And I've been putting it off ever since then. So I'm going to sit here and shake some things off.

[00:01:33] I'm going to

[00:01:38] take some deep breaths and trust that this is going to go exactly how it needs to. And

[00:01:45] my intention for this solo episode is to share my experience in service so that it might resonate

[00:01:51] with someone who really needs it. To be open about my journey knowing that we are all out here having

[00:01:58] this human experience together and that we all have so much more in common than society wants us

[00:02:03] to believe. So I pray that this touches someone right when they need it. And I same as last time,

[00:02:09] I know that part of my intention is sharing and being witnessed. I know that that actually sets us

[00:02:14] free from things that have been holding us back. So without further ado, let's fucking get it, shall we?

[00:02:20] So 2023. Huh! Really very excited to have that one behind me, to be honest. It was my year of faith.

[00:02:28] That was my word for the year, my intention that I set. And I got to lean into that one. I really

[00:02:34] got taught a lot about the polarity of intention setting and like faith sounds really good as a

[00:02:40] intention when you first started. And then you get into these situations in the year where like you

[00:02:45] really have to cling to your intention to get through whatever it is that life is presenting for

[00:02:49] you. And so thank God, literally, for faith and what it pulled me through because 2023 was very big.

[00:02:58] It was very confronting and it was all about healing and grounding foundations, really creating

[00:03:05] and birthing forth something that is so much bigger and beyond me. It was also really slow

[00:03:11] and very steady. Maybe the slowest and steadiest year I've ever had. It was really all about like

[00:03:17] slowing down to speed up. I recently had George Mumford on the show, y'all please tell me you've

[00:03:22] listened to that episode. George Mumford, you know like the George Mumford, okay so you might not

[00:03:26] know George Mumford himself. However, you probably know his like biggest clients of all time,

[00:03:32] MJ and Kobe. Yes, like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Yes. So his mindfulness coach came on to

[00:03:38] the podcast. We talked about so many different things but one of the biggest concepts that landed

[00:03:44] an integrated for me in this lifetime and this past year is this idea about slowest smooth

[00:03:50] is fast and it's a potent concept. It's very annoying to hear at first when you're someone who moves

[00:03:58] as traditionally fast as I move in life, I'm a manifesting generator, I like to go go go go go if

[00:04:04] you met me, you know that I move quick. I talk quick, I act quick, I move fast in life all of my

[00:04:13] life. I have been running at full speed sprinting, collapsing and then getting back up to do it again.

[00:04:17] That's you know on the last episode that I did solo, I really spoke to the burnout that I experienced

[00:04:23] from running too fast and what that was like to have to shut down a business around burnout.

[00:04:30] Don't recommend highly highly give it like zero out of 10 stars and it's it really opened my eyes

[00:04:38] to this pattern that I have that I've been running at full speed sprinting, collapsing,

[00:04:43] running, sprinting, collapsing, getting back up really good at the get back up part however

[00:04:49] it's some of that in between and that slowing down that I have really resisted my whole life because

[00:04:54] in a very transparent manner I felt like I've been running from something because I was subconsciously.

[00:05:01] So plot twists, I'm all about a good plot twist you could call them a challenge, you could call

[00:05:06] them a setback, you could call it, you know call it what you want and one of the biggest plot twists

[00:05:11] of my life came about in December of 2022. So almost a year ago now I was spending time with family

[00:05:19] over the holidays, I was recovering from this clinical burnout and listening deeply,

[00:05:25] deeply for what was next in life for me and in that process I had the delight of finding an

[00:05:33] uncovering repressed childhood sexual trauma that revealed itself and I'm gonna let that pause

[00:05:41] because I really just said that on my podcast and not something that I would have guessed that

[00:05:46] I'd be talking about at any point in my life much less on a public platform like this and here we are.

[00:05:52] I've really been sitting with praying over, listening for whether I'm supposed to be sharing this openly

[00:05:59] and I'm not gonna be sharing any details so no big trigger warning here however what I have really

[00:06:05] come to recognize is that sharing some of my process over the last year and healing through

[00:06:10] this repressed childhood trauma is really important. Again not something that I necessarily want to be

[00:06:17] doing in this moment however I have been working on my obedience when I'm hearing something that's

[00:06:24] coming from outside of me above me that I'm being called to do, being obedient to that and this is

[00:06:30] one of those things so I'm also as I mentioned manifesting generator that's human design if you're

[00:06:36] not familiar with it my profile is a 35 and in this moment of course I'm blanking on what that

[00:06:43] actually like the little quote for that is however that that combination of 35 part of my assignment

[00:06:49] on this earth is to go check things out try them on and report back to the world what I find

[00:06:55] and so in sitting with this revelation about my life and like do I share this do I not share this

[00:07:02] I was like I guess I'm supposed to share this I think there's also a reality that one in four women

[00:07:09] one in six men are sexually abused before the age of 18 so that means that literally 42 million

[00:07:16] adult survivors of child sexual abuse are in the US right now and that's a lot so there is

[00:07:23] an extreme amount of trauma just in this one small area alone right and so if me sharing

[00:07:33] what I've been doing to work my way through this can help just even one person then the vulnerability

[00:07:39] hangover I'm about to have is so fucking worth it so this is not something I would wish upon

[00:07:46] anyone first and foremost let me just say that like obviously yes this is not a great situation

[00:07:53] however it has also been one of the most confirming revelations of my life I understand myself

[00:08:00] so much better now like I make so much more sense the reasons for being in the behaviors and some

[00:08:07] of the ways I've been stuck in life have all started to like click into place when this understanding

[00:08:12] of what happened to me at a young age and it's not something that the repressed side of it like

[00:08:19] that's a fucking plot twist you all to come they have that come out of nowhere is wild I'm also

[00:08:25] really grateful for the repressed nature I cannot imagine and I have so much more empathy and

[00:08:31] compassion for humanity knowing that there are so many people that carry the knowingness of abuse

[00:08:38] like this with them their whole lives and I cannot imagine what that's like I really do thank God

[00:08:43] every day that I didn't have that knowledge and that weight and that it has been hidden from me until

[00:08:50] I was at a point in my life where I am well equipped with tools and understandings of the body

[00:08:55] and the mind and how to move through this and heal through it in a pretty effective way also knowing

[00:09:02] that it's going to be something that is now with me for the rest of my life and so

[00:09:07] this is where we get to talk about it we get to normalize this we get to share some best practices

[00:09:13] that have been really supportive for me on this journey and I've been slowing the fuck down that's

[00:09:20] been the biggest thing for me I would say that has supported me and really been with this recognizing

[00:09:26] that I've been running from it subconsciously for so long now that it has come to light and getting

[00:09:30] to be with it I have been down the rabbit hole with the intention of healing three things specifically

[00:09:37] as a result of this trauma so first and foremost my relationship to God we'll get into that also

[00:09:43] another thing I did not ever think if you would have told me one year ago you're going to be talking

[00:09:48] about God and trauma on your podcast next year I would have been like look off that is the last

[00:09:53] things that I'll be talking about and here we are so first off the the thing I've been healing is my

[00:09:59] relationship with God the second thing I've been healing is my relationship with my body and

[00:10:04] the third thing I've been healing is the relationship with my mind and you know I love the idea from

[00:10:12] yoga about the coaches that we actually have five bodies and so really I've been working on

[00:10:17] different bodies right my spiritual body my energetic body my thought body my physical body

[00:10:24] have really just been undergoing this this healing process and so slowing down to eliminate all

[00:10:30] the unnecessary distracting parts of life so I can really just sit and focus and recognize what

[00:10:37] needed to shift has been what 2023 has been about so first off the whole God thing I grew up in

[00:10:45] the church and had some experiences that really jaded my view on God and what the church stands for

[00:10:55] how they operate all of it so I haven't really been fucking with church since I was in high school

[00:11:02] we got kicked out there's a whole thing and I can now see through the lens of my trauma that

[00:11:08] I actually got pretty pissed at God when I was five and had a lot of questions hatred very angry

[00:11:18] why is this fucking happening where are you God hello is anyone there and I was really five when I

[00:11:25] decided to shut it down with God and so coming back around now again like I said I'm so grateful

[00:11:33] that this has been repressed and I haven't been carrying these memories with me this whole time

[00:11:37] because that's heavy this shit so heavy and so I am recognizing that while I've been super connected

[00:11:45] spiritually to the universe and done a lot I have always had a connection with source creator

[00:11:55] whatever we choose to call it right I have been in this beautiful journey of reclaiming what God

[00:12:02] means to me and not through the lens of a church so that's been my first primary reason for slowing

[00:12:09] down and what I needed to heal recognizing that I've always been protected I was never abandoned

[00:12:15] in this and I never am alone and that's been a whole ass journey all I'm not gonna push God ever

[00:12:23] on anyone because I know how traumatic that's been for me in my life and what I will say is that there

[00:12:32] is absolutely beyond the shadow of a doubt something greater than us you can call it whatever you

[00:12:38] want to you can call it God universe source creator all uh anything take take whatever you need to

[00:12:44] call it just recognize that there is something bigger than us is and if you choose not to recognize

[00:12:49] that that's your journey to go for it life is way fucking cooler when you get into rhythm with God

[00:12:55] I will tell you that much and I believe that that does not have to look like it did for me in

[00:13:00] the past and so this year has been really a beautiful uh journey of returning to that and finding

[00:13:07] and defining my own relationship in a way that's really nourishing to my spirit and my soul

[00:13:14] so secondly I've been slowing down completely to reset my relationship with my body

[00:13:19] and what this looked like for me uh in the first six months of 2023 was having zero expectations

[00:13:26] of any kind on my body like I'm talking we did not work out we did not shave anything

[00:13:31] or we did not do nails or hair or anything at all in order to pay respects and honor the sacred

[00:13:39] vessel that just needed a fucking break especially for women there's so much pressure to look a

[00:13:46] certain way to dye your hair so you don't show your grays and keep your nails up and all of these

[00:13:53] things that I recognize have always been coming from a place of doing it more so for other people

[00:13:59] or to look a certain way for men and I just didn't want to fucking do that anymore

[00:14:04] I really just needed to be like no ma'am thank you you have done the most for me in this lifetime

[00:14:10] and um I also recognize that the level of disassociation which is really common in trauma

[00:14:17] survivors was very high for me I can think back to um specifically training with Suzanne Conrad

[00:14:25] she did a lot of queuing for body sensations and our trainings together and I never ever could feel

[00:14:31] anything as like what do you mean body sensation I don't feel shit in my body um and so this year

[00:14:37] has really been about reintegrating um coming back into my body teaching myself how to feel safe

[00:14:43] in my body again because again at the age of five I did not feel safe in my body I dipped the

[00:14:48] look on that situation and taught myself how to do that whenever I was feeling like something could be

[00:14:55] unsafe so I've spent most of my life dissociated um so if you're ever like oh remember that time when

[00:15:02] please do not be offended if I don't remember that time um I'm working on being wholly and fully

[00:15:08] present now and in the moment and that hasn't just always been the case for me so really

[00:15:13] slowing down to reconnect to learn how to listen to my body to learn how to hear

[00:15:18] how what it's telling me and how it's telling me things to give it a break to not put expectations on

[00:15:24] it and really coming back into the the last half of 2023 re-approaching working out and

[00:15:32] uh beauty standards and um just performance expectations in my body from a completely different lens

[00:15:39] has been oh the most refreshing thing ever ever and third the third way that I really have been

[00:15:49] coming at this healing journey is from the lens of reprogramming and all the shitty thoughts that

[00:15:54] embedded at age five so I was blessed enough to sit down and do a session with uh my girl Kate

[00:16:04] Kirsberger if you have not listened to one of those two episodes yet I highly recommend it she's

[00:16:08] my thought reprogramming mentor she's also a raky master and so we did a session where I was able to

[00:16:14] go back to that version of self and at five years old and really listen to what she was saying and

[00:16:19] what she was making everything mean and to pull out that string of programming that got embedded those

[00:16:25] limiting beliefs those lies of you can't trust your family you've got to do this on your own blah blah blah blah

[00:16:31] all these things that made sense in that moment and was me protecting myself however no longer make

[00:16:39] sense for me as an adult full grown version of Shina Jean to have that blueprint and really recognize

[00:16:45] oh wow these things all line up right now and are the exact blueprint for what I need to be reprogramming

[00:16:53] so being able to walk myself through my own process with the support of some trusted deeply

[00:17:00] respected humans that have also been down this path has been so rewarding in it takes time

[00:17:07] reprogramming your mind is simple it's also not easy and one of the things that tends to happen

[00:17:14] when we're in this deep healing work is there's going to be things in life that present themselves so

[00:17:19] you get to practice like have you really reprogrammed this let's see what happens when you're presented

[00:17:24] with the situation that pushes your little button like this are you gonna react in the same way or

[00:17:28] do you now choose a different way of being so between these three things and these three focuses of

[00:17:35] my relationship to something greater than me my relationship to my body my relationship to my mind

[00:17:40] has been where 2023 really kept me very slow moving very smoothly so that hopefully here in 2024

[00:17:50] we gonna be on a different a different level some things that really helped me along the way

[00:17:58] beyond a shadow of a doubt staying religious about my energy hygiene routine so energy hygiene

[00:18:02] is something that you're going to be hearing about so much more for me and what that really

[00:18:07] consists of is meditating journaling cold showers gratitude and conscious language like those are

[00:18:13] the five pillars of energy hygiene and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt when I am practicing those

[00:18:20] things daily I am in a pretty regulated unshakeable state when I start to slip away from those things is when

[00:18:30] you know things can get a little bit dicey so really really really staying just over the top

[00:18:41] committed and devoted to practicing my energy hygiene has been able to keep me in a really good space

[00:18:48] as I move through this healing process I'm also prioritizing somatic care so somatic is this as

[00:18:54] another word for body care what that's looked like for me is chiropractic y'all I think you know

[00:19:00] how much of a chiropractic stan I am and I will continue to be tell the day I die public service

[00:19:07] announcement chiropractors are not back doctors they are nervous system doctors and they are helping

[00:19:14] teach your body new ways of communicating with itself so if you're someone who like me has been

[00:19:20] dissociated and maybe messages are getting a little mixed up and you're holding a lot of stuck

[00:19:24] energy and trauma in your body go see a chiropractor go see a chiropractor that shit will help you 100%

[00:19:33] no ifs ands or butts about it go see principled chiropractor let me let me rephrase that just like

[00:19:39] in any industry there's all types of people out there right there's good ones there's bad ones you

[00:19:45] want to be looking for a principled chiropractor if you have questions about what that is like please hit

[00:19:49] me up happy to help you sort one of those out okay massage has been really important for me in my

[00:19:57] body sound healing sound healing it's so dope and there's going to be more and more sound healers on

[00:20:02] the podcast this year just to really help y'all understand like what's happening sound healing is

[00:20:06] like an energetic massage all right and so it is the thing that can without a whole lot of thinking

[00:20:13] about anything talking my thing you just lay there and receive and you literally get higher

[00:20:17] vibrations of energy put into your body on a cellular level it's so dope breathwork huge phana

[00:20:25] breathwork there is different states of consciousness that you get to with breathwork and sound

[00:20:29] healing where you're able to access and reprogram on a subconscious level that can quite literally

[00:20:36] change your life I also had psilocybin whoo that's a big word aka mushroom let's just call it what

[00:20:43] it is I had a mushroom journey of a lifetime y'all it released an insane I'm talking insane

[00:20:50] amount of energy that had been trapped in my body for 35 years that changed me it completely changed

[00:20:56] me so I truly believe in the forms of different somatic cares and plant medicines that can support

[00:21:06] these types of healing journeys versus having to go through some of the more traditional western

[00:21:12] medical systems another thing that I did it was really really helpful for me in this journey was

[00:21:18] I canceled I canceled so much my whole life I've had a pattern of hiding in plain sight in public

[00:21:25] and other people's homes that I could run subconsciously from this and I've kept my schedule

[00:21:30] hella packed I've always got a social plan I'm always hanging out with friends and going to their

[00:21:34] places and meeting people and traveling and doing the most yo your girl was all about doing the

[00:21:40] most same yes yes yes and this is a year that I canceled hellish it like I canceled dating that

[00:21:45] was it that was off I canceled trips I canceled community I canceled it all and the name of being

[00:21:51] still and the name of being grounded in my body and just with myself with God with family and it was

[00:22:00] so healing it was so so so healing I never realized how much um canceling plans would really

[00:22:10] change things for me so um those are some of the things that have been really helpful for me and I

[00:22:20] think back to what 2023 was and um I'm so grateful for the people who have been supporting me in

[00:22:29] this journey I'm so grateful for patients for the love for the encouragement um and for

[00:22:36] the ability to move through this in a way that feels just really supported and so if you are

[00:22:44] finding things bubbling up from your past that you didn't realize were there or maybe you

[00:22:48] stuffed down or maybe you've been carrying all of them just know how much I love you and that

[00:22:52] you are not alone there are so many ways to be supported in this recovery journey that if I can

[00:23:00] ever ever ever be of help to you please please please reach out and let me know um this year has

[00:23:06] brought me so many lessons so many lessons and as I reflected on 2023 I was like okay okay yes 2023

[00:23:16] you taught me the most even though it hasn't been the most fun I'm a first and foremost

[00:23:20] faith y'all I have I've always been obsessed with this quote that says um have faith in your self

[00:23:26] in your future and I think it's like I don't even know it's sitting here somewhere but um Robert

[00:23:33] F Kennedy is that right or am I thinking of that guy because he's running for president I can't

[00:23:37] I can't quite tell um any who faith in myself in my future is something that I have leaned into

[00:23:43] heavily I love me some future self as you probably are aware and I also got to really redefine faith

[00:23:52] this year and find God again in a way that aligns with my soul that is sensitive to my religious trauma

[00:23:59] and it's turned everything upside down on the best way possible for me and I also learned about

[00:24:08] the sacred power of no from canceling everything I really recognize that I was such a yes girl such a

[00:24:16] yes girl and that can be really fun for a while it's also really fucking exhausting and when I

[00:24:22] realized that I was saying yes from scarcity not from abundance like there's there's a distinct

[00:24:27] difference when you say yes from scarcity and yes from abundance there's also a distinct

[00:24:33] difference when you say no from scarcity and no from abundance so I really encourage y'all

[00:24:39] to check yourself like where are your yeses in your notes coming from are they coming from abundance

[00:24:44] are they coming from scarcity I realized that I had my shit mixed up I was saying yes from scarcity

[00:24:51] and that had got to and I was never saying no but let's also be clear I say no was really a very

[00:24:57] challenging part of my vocabulary as someone who teaches conscious language and word diets

[00:25:02] no for me was something that I really had to lean into this year and so this was my season of no

[00:25:08] and passing up all expenses paid trips to Scotland and saying no to best friends of a lifetime

[00:25:15] in celebration saying no to celebrating my 40th in the way that I had envisioned for the last 10

[00:25:22] years saying no to so many things and from a place of abundance trusting that I was right where

[00:25:28] I needed to be and that by saying no I was going to gain so much more than I would from saying yes

[00:25:34] was an edge it was a fucking edge y'all and it was powerful I'm not scared to say no anymore

[00:25:43] hey winning and be really being able to check that undertone what is the frequency of the energy

[00:25:50] that I'm saying yeses and knows from has been so powerful I also so if you've if you've been hanging

[00:25:57] with me muscle testing has been something that I've been into for a while this year has gone

[00:26:02] through the roof with muscle testing and really learning how to listen for the hell yes and the

[00:26:07] hell no in my body and leaning into my body's sacred intelligence versus just staying in my mind

[00:26:13] all the time that's one of the things that from human design my type specifically is supposed

[00:26:18] to be listening to my gut and getting out of my head when it comes to making decisions I don't

[00:26:23] know about y'all but I will spend hours on some dumb shit like an email that like why am I

[00:26:30] reading this for the 13th time it's fine just press send like I can overthink the shit out of

[00:26:35] some stuff like this podcast episode that has been sitting on the tray for how many months is

[00:26:42] this now four months I overthink the shit out of some things and so being able to use my body

[00:26:48] to get out of my head has been so powerful there's a book called power versus force ironically

[00:26:54] didn't mean to do that and there it is power versus force by David Hawkins that really talks about

[00:27:01] a the scale of consciousness how emotions and frequency of emotions are trapped in our bodies

[00:27:06] and how we can get up and raise our vibration through them and through the power of muscle testing

[00:27:13] which is based in kinesiology learn how to get yes or no answers that's connected into this

[00:27:18] greater intelligence that we're all plugged into so that's a good plug for that book I love it so much

[00:27:24] highly recommend you check it out um okay what other lessons that I learned in 2023 let's see oh

[00:27:32] that slowing down to speed up thing truly change everything I've been able to root in grounds

[00:27:37] so that I can rise again turning 40 happened this year and I'll be honest I was not stoked about it

[00:27:44] at first I got to sit with a lot of resistance a lot of avoidance um to turning a number that

[00:27:52] doesn't really feel truly aligned with some parts of me um also we live in a society that for women

[00:27:58] turning 40 is like k-buy you're basically walking off to your your deathbed now whereas I feel like

[00:28:07] men are like oh yeah you're distinguished now let's see your grades for women it's not quite

[00:28:12] not quite the same experience and I also had done a guided visualization literally almost 10 years

[00:28:19] ago about my 40th birthday and what it would be like and it was not what it was appearing to be

[00:28:27] in planning it and so I was in the season of nose and canceling everything so I could really

[00:28:31] say focus on the things that I had been prioritizing and saying yes to and it became more and more

[00:28:38] clear to me that stained and Tulsa for my 40th was exactly what I needed to do and I fucking hated

[00:28:43] that I didn't I was like what why I like I want to go traveling I need to get out of here I haven't

[00:28:49] done anything for myself this year like let's go do something let's go rally a lot of people and I

[00:28:55] had zero bandwidth to do any of that any of it and once I saw that Tulsa was like planning me this

[00:29:01] whole esporthy party right here without having to go anywhere and could bring some of my most favorite

[00:29:07] humans here to celebrate with me it started to fall into place and I really got to see and practice

[00:29:14] and be in that idea that it's never about what we're doing it's always about what we're being

[00:29:20] it's what we're being y'all and when I could relax into the idea of 40 being a level a that's

[00:29:27] always my favorite thing fuck age let's get on levels I'm on level 4.0 now and it's dope you wake up

[00:29:34] when you turn 40 and I've had this conversation with multiple four year olds there's this flip

[00:29:39] that switches when you turn 40 that I don't give a fuck flip and I think that there's like a

[00:29:45] crescendo maybe of the energy of giving way too many fucks about turning 40 that happens

[00:29:50] and that energy that starts to build right before it and then you just wake up and I was like

[00:29:54] huh oh my god I really don't give many fucks right now and it's gorgeous big fan of 40 now big

[00:30:04] big fan of 40 now and I got to celebrate here in Tulsa and there's a sneaker sware it was for

[00:30:12] a Friday we got to look at art we got to really just celebrate here in this community that has

[00:30:21] been so generous I am so for wreaking grateful for the humans and the community here that have

[00:30:28] welcomed me warmly who have opened up the doors they've pulled out chairs for me in Tulsa it's been

[00:30:35] I was a little I was a little hesitant I didn't know if I was gonna stay I didn't know if I was

[00:30:39] gonna like it after experiencing some fresh community trauma and Phoenix in the sense of

[00:30:48] it hurts to get really intimate with the community and then have to leave right and so I know

[00:30:56] that there was resistance for me and not wanting to get too close here in Tulsa I've met some

[00:31:02] incredible people and also I'm like am I gonna stay here is this gonna be am I gonna be here for

[00:31:07] a little while if so then okay I'm more open to this idea if not I don't know if I really want to

[00:31:12] like do that whole thing again and so it's been I've been really gentle with myself in where I would

[00:31:18] typically like dive in and do all the social things and get out there blah blah blah that hasn't

[00:31:23] really been my mo in Tulsa and I am just really really grateful if you're listening y'all know who

[00:31:31] you are for holding me down for welcoming me with open arms for making introductions and really

[00:31:38] just sweeping me into this this community in such a organic way I'm oh so grateful thank you

[00:31:48] it's also Tulsa's provided a lot of clarity for me that I did not see coming all right y'all

[00:31:53] a lot of clarity coming in hot from Tulsa and it really has to do with with make one day happen

[00:32:00] and who make one day happen is for one of the things in business and marketing that if you are

[00:32:06] going down that road you get talked to a lot about is nichin down nichin down nichin down who knows

[00:32:12] how to actually say that and it's something I've resisted for a long time because what I teach

[00:32:18] within my content and coaching is actually so applicable to just like humans across the board

[00:32:23] that I've been like no I can do this with anybody and the reality of it is I have actually as I look

[00:32:32] back over these last 10 years of my life and like okay what have I been doing who have I been serving

[00:32:37] how have I been helping what's lit me up the most I can finally see what's been right in front of

[00:32:43] me the whole time and it took Tulsa and a special group of humans to really point this out for me

[00:32:51] in an unconscious way then no idea they were doing it but founders I serve founders y'all

[00:32:56] I serve founders who give a fuck about their own development their people and their company culture

[00:33:02] and that's what I've been doing since my days and the women that's what I've been doing and all

[00:33:06] of the startups that's what I've been doing and my coaching for the most part most of my clients have

[00:33:12] all been entrepreneurs founders people who are setting out in the world to create a company that

[00:33:20] changes things and wow am I so grateful for that clarity and it's so funny right because it's like

[00:33:27] right in front of you the whole time and feels like my little my little glasses got a little

[00:33:33] white that I'm like oh okay thank you Tulsa thank you for helping me see this yeah the idea of

[00:33:39] you know closing a business due to burnout that really taught me so much more than I could ever

[00:33:45] want to know and now I also see how divinely planned that all was having that lived experience

[00:33:52] and now having the journey back from burnout it's been the biggest setup of my life because now

[00:33:58] I get to help people avoid that same thing like please let me give you some success codes so that

[00:34:05] you do not burn out and have to shut down your baby it sucks it's the worst feeling in the whole

[00:34:10] wide world I don't wish it upon anybody and I can really see how my journey is really just

[00:34:17] divinely guided to be able to help people avoid that same fate help founders who understand that

[00:34:23] they're creating something bigger than themselves avoid making some of those mistakes that I have so

[00:34:28] really really extra grateful for the clarity that Tulsa in its community has brought me

[00:34:35] in 2023 it's also caused like a huge pivot slow down to speed up moment within make one day happen

[00:34:43] and my business so that's that is also a plot twist that I did not see coming in 2023 I've been

[00:34:51] making my way through 2023 building some things getting really clear on how to organize my content

[00:34:58] how to teach it what it's all about and to have this this final piece of like who it's really for

[00:35:04] drop-in was just it was so perfect thank you thank you 2023 I also got real into my zone of genius

[00:35:14] this past year if you have not read the book the big leap by gay Hendrix man I really had to think

[00:35:22] about that one there I'm like am I about to say the right thing uh the big leap is one of my all time

[00:35:27] favorites all time favorites all that favorites and I was revisiting it in 2023 and uh he

[00:35:34] talks about the zone of genius the zone of excellence the zone of competence there's another one

[00:35:38] underneath that and we all we all kind of vacillate between these different zones and most of us are

[00:35:46] in a zone of competence as like a generalization for humanity humanity is living in the zone of

[00:35:51] competence there's some of us that make it to the zone of excellence and the zone of excellence

[00:35:57] is a really tempting place to be because it's way better than the zone of competence and like you

[00:36:01] feel comfortable there like you're finding success you're really in your zone if you can make it out

[00:36:06] to the zone of genius it's a terrifying leap to make that's why he calls loop the book the big leap

[00:36:11] and you have to get over some of your own bullshit some of your own programming all that good stuff

[00:36:15] to even get there but when you do things open up to a whole different playing field and so

[00:36:24] as a manifesting generator one of the things and the biggest traps that I can get myself into is

[00:36:29] being stuck in the zone of competence and excellence because mg is like doing everything we love learning

[00:36:34] and we love trying new things and so it's like oh well I could figure out how to build this website

[00:36:39] so let me just build my own website or oh I can like I can figure out Canva good enough

[00:36:43] or oh I can figure out how to do this and do that and so I've I've been doing the most in my business

[00:36:51] and that's a big part of starting any entrepreneurial journey is you gotta do shit that you don't

[00:36:56] want to do that is for sure and recognizing what is my zone of genius where do I actually want to

[00:37:01] be where is it most productive for me to be spending my time and my energy and I can gotten really

[00:37:10] clear that there's a few parts of my business that I've been doing over the years that I just

[00:37:15] am really ready to pass off to other people who it's their zone of genius because social media

[00:37:22] website design creative assets yes I can be good at them and that's where it gets tricky right

[00:37:29] I have so many people that are like oh but your brain is so great and like yeah I know thank you

[00:37:34] well I agree I'm so proud of my branding and where it's gotten me to and it doesn't match the vision

[00:37:40] in my head and what I know it's capable of because that's actually not my zone of genius and

[00:37:45] and so I am I'm really excited for what's what's to come in this journey of learning how to

[00:37:54] accept support receiving support another fatty lesson from 2023 learning how to receive support

[00:38:02] as someone who has been hyper independent like to the point where it's just it's not even cute anymore

[00:38:10] has been a big lesson and a big stretch for me is learning how to receive support

[00:38:16] and yo I'm out of your doing it I'm out you're receiving the support of family and loved ones bringing

[00:38:23] people into my business so that I'm not doing the things that I'm actually not the best at and

[00:38:28] it's been liberating it's been so liberating I really really enjoyed collaborating creatively

[00:38:36] there's something I uncovered this year that I'll be honest I've never really called myself or

[00:38:42] seen myself as like a creative that's just not something that I've traditionally identified with

[00:38:47] and it's a lie mainly because now I see very clearly that we are all creatives like as a human

[00:38:53] your birthright is to create that is literally what we're here to do we create shit that's

[00:38:58] that's all we do right with our language with our thoughts with our energy we're just all out

[00:39:03] you're creating and generating shit that's so being able to step into that and then also

[00:39:09] recognizing that like me telling myself I'm not that creative has been a big block in limiting

[00:39:14] belief that that one's that one's gone reprogrammed that shit and we are stepping into all the creative

[00:39:20] flow and all the collaborative creative flows right bringing people who zone of genius is

[00:39:27] um has been oh it's been such a treat it's been such a blessing I have some incredible humans

[00:39:35] in my life that have been supporting me in getting these creative projects out into the world

[00:39:40] first and foremost juju juulius hintin we're speaking to you sir and this is not for you to edit out

[00:39:47] this is very much for you to leave it you've been my producer since day one rocking with me since

[00:39:52] 2020 on this podcast and sir thank you I am so grateful for you I know that

[00:39:59] wrangling creatives is not an easy task and I am just really grateful for the support that you

[00:40:06] provide I would never do a podcast if it wasn't for you so thank you for allowing me to be in my

[00:40:12] process be it my flow I'm excited to add more systems and organization to this so I can crank out

[00:40:17] more of this for y'all in 2024 excited for the team that will support me in doing that I

[00:40:22] also want to give a shout out let me just shout out some people right now so shout out some of my creative

[00:40:27] collaborators uh Brian Johnson aka BJ the Dreamer y'all might remember him from I think he was maybe

[00:40:34] episode two of this podcast uh thank you so much for your hype your hype since the first day we

[00:40:40] met has meant the world to me thank you for seeing me uh seeing what I have to offer the world and

[00:40:47] really pulling me into the book writing process I almost said pushing me into it um I'm not

[00:40:52] gonna say pushing even though I just felt like that sometimes um you opening the door to writing a

[00:40:57] book for me is something I did not see coming in 2023 and I'm very glad that it did thank you

[00:41:04] for trusting me in my creative process recognizing that I needed to go back to the drawing board once

[00:41:08] I got so much clarity in this past year and I know that I'm gonna I'm gonna make you real proud with

[00:41:14] this book that's coming out um so thank you thank you thank you BJ I also

[00:41:22] Hannah Mae and Maria Camila these two ladies y'all oh there's some fucking real ones I'm in the

[00:41:28] middle of a brand revision right now and these two women are really really in the ring with me

[00:41:35] on birthing a whole new creative identity for make one day happen and when I tell you how insanely

[00:41:41] talented these two women are it it humbles me I'm like am I really working with these people like wow

[00:41:49] it has um called me forward in my own vision and my own creativity and to be surrounded by their talent

[00:41:56] by their vision by their creative eyes has just been oh it's it's a level up coming it's a level

[00:42:04] and I'm so so so so so so excited to show y'all what's on the way please stay tuned there are

[00:42:11] some big drops in 2024 and yeah I'm gonna pause right now and I'm gonna I'm gonna do our boy

[00:42:19] juju a favor and so that I don't have to also record a whole separate ad for this I'm gonna tell

[00:42:25] you about the intentional AF workshop so this is one that I've done before and it's happening

[00:42:30] on Wednesday January 17th at 6 30 pm central standard time all right I want you to consider that

[00:42:40] setting a one word intention for your year could completely change everything for you it's

[00:42:46] something I've been doing for the last 10 years uh something that I teach often with my clients

[00:42:50] and workshops is intention setting I know it sounds kind of woo woo or weird and in this workshop I'm

[00:42:55] gonna break down how to use intention setting in your business without sounding woo woo or weird

[00:43:00] that's what we're gonna do uh there is so much research that has now caught up to intention setting

[00:43:06] uh so it's really fun I like breaking it down helping you understand the how and the mechanics of

[00:43:10] it we're going to actually get you a one word intention that you can start to use and really talk

[00:43:16] through some of the benefits on why you would want to bring this into your business how to actually

[00:43:21] do that specifically as well so um one of the cool things and the upgrades to this workshop this year

[00:43:27] is that I recorded a virtual intentional AF sound journey that goes along with this so when you

[00:43:33] register for the workshop you will immediately get the sound journey so that you can do that on your

[00:43:38] own time I recommend doing it before you do the workshop and you do you boots choose your own adventure

[00:43:44] you'll be able to end that sound journey it's a guided visualization with the sound bath I

[00:43:48] parrot together and you will reflect on 2023 very get very complete and hold with that and then

[00:43:55] we will jump into 2024 and listen for your word of intention for the year and how that's playing out

[00:44:00] for you then you'll get to come to the workshop on January 17th we'll do some activation we're

[00:44:06] really going to ground it in with a semantic exercise which is why I do recommend the sound journey

[00:44:11] before the workshop and like I said it's not that big of a deal so um if you're listening I will share

[00:44:16] the link in the show notes uh you can come and do this with us it's going to be a lot of fun

[00:44:22] of course there's going to be recording if that time doesn't work for you because 2024 and I feel like

[00:44:28] every online workshop has a recording these days so yes I will send that to you because

[00:44:33] I want you to have this I want you all to have this so much that I'm doing this for free it means

[00:44:38] more to me that more people understand how important intention setting is and being intentional

[00:44:43] with a word and your energy and it does to put a price tag on this at this point so free 99

[00:44:50] come to the intentional AF workshop let's get your 2024 to be all that and then some y'all okay

[00:44:58] okay great now speaking of 2024

[00:45:06] this is where the vision part comes in so we just did all the lessons now I'm about to tell you

[00:45:10] about my visions for 2024 my word for 2024 is drumroll please

[00:45:18] and for five I don't know how that's gonna come out on the audio so let me just say it normally

[00:45:23] my word for 2024 is amplify I have spent so much of my life let's see here how do I want to say this

[00:45:32] and make sure it's in conscious language um plain small yep yeah that's it it's plain small

[00:45:37] and going back to the idea of the big leap uh what gay hindricks really calls it is the fear

[00:45:42] about shining um the fear about shining has been really really potent for me all of my life

[00:45:48] and had a death grip on me that's kept me playing small it's kept me building everyone else's businesses

[00:45:54] about my own it's kept me people pleasing and self-sabotaging it's done quite a bit right it's kept

[00:46:02] me from really sharing my message and who I am with the world are on a more vulnerable level

[00:46:09] and so 2024 is a year that I'm about to amplify everything I've been birthing and creating in 2023

[00:46:17] healing healing healing healing in 2023 and so now we're ready to get out here and play

[00:46:23] we are going up in 2024 and I have this vision for make one day happen when it started it was

[00:46:33] never going to be about me I think when you know for those of you who may be in the online coaching

[00:46:38] space considering it getting into it is like okay yeah hey it's sheena jean the online coach

[00:46:45] and I know at first glance when you look at make one day happen right now it's definitely giving

[00:46:49] online coach vibes there's this happy go lucky white lady dancing and yakner face off about

[00:46:54] all sorts of shit and in my creative process this past year I've realized the opportunity to really

[00:47:01] like go back and this is where that slowing down to speed up like let me step back now that I have a

[00:47:07] really clear tangible language around who it is that I serve a founders hey founders and leaders

[00:47:14] let's be real I love founders and leaders I'm not going to discriminate and if you're not a

[00:47:19] founder leader p s you can still be in this crew like I still love you and you can still benefit from

[00:47:24] what we're gonna do and for marketing purposes we are going to really be speaking into founders

[00:47:30] and leaders going forward so there's that and I it was really coming down to as I was concepting the

[00:47:38] book last fall I was feeling an immense amount of frustration and going back to my human design

[00:47:45] one of the key distinguishing energies for generators and manifesting generators to watch out for

[00:47:50] his frustration if you are experiencing frustration in your life and you're one of those two

[00:47:54] designs like that is a big red flag that you are supposed to be stopping you are supposed to be

[00:48:01] kind of pulling back seeing which different direction you can go and so that's what happened

[00:48:05] last year I was originally going to call the book what's wrong with me and otherwise I told myself

[00:48:10] and it was going to be very memory and going to be about some personal development lessons I've

[00:48:17] learned along the way from the memoir and then I was in the book cover process and recognizing that

[00:48:26] this just was not it the same it and it's tough because when you start to put stuff out online you

[00:48:32] feel like you're committed to it people are seeing it they're like when's the book coming and oh my

[00:48:36] gosh is it ready and it's like no no I really don't know what's happening so I got to pull back

[00:48:42] from that and start to really sharpen and focus my vision for make one day happen as a whole

[00:48:48] and the book itself so this book journey has been a real one and I'm so excited

[00:48:57] I am in the complete opposite of frustration now with this book because it's just really clicked

[00:49:02] into place the title wait for it make one day happen I know brilliant right like again coming back

[00:49:12] to sometimes things are just really right in front of us and sometimes we be overthinking the

[00:49:16] shit out of them and make one day happen is the name of the book the subtitle is it's time to bring

[00:49:21] woo woo to work it is a playbook that is going to help elevate your performance your energy and your

[00:49:27] purpose at work and in life one of the things that I've always been super passionate about helping

[00:49:32] people really destigmatize is the idea that personal development and professional development are

[00:49:37] actually just one and the same thing we like to try and separate them I've tried to separate them

[00:49:42] and it just doesn't work because what's showing up in one area is showing up in the other

[00:49:48] and when we try and divide the two it just makes it harder to actually solve for it when we

[00:49:53] recognize that like oh I'm actually the same person in both areas of life and if I'm not the same

[00:49:58] person in both areas of life there's something there to explore right and so make one day happen

[00:50:05] the book is really just going to be everything that it's my methodology it's energy hygiene it's

[00:50:11] thought reprogramming and it's elevated leadership and so much of my healing journey from my trauma has

[00:50:16] really been being in the trenches with my energy hygiene being in the trenches with my thought

[00:50:22] reprogramming and with my leadership recognizing how much I get to bring how much more of myself I

[00:50:29] get to bring to this now that I've really sat with healed and made space for my leadership to come

[00:50:34] back online so I am stoked for the book my goal is to have a presale for you in hopefully end of

[00:50:43] Q1 is what we're shooting for here and they have an actual book live in in the hands in Q3

[00:50:50] I'm like getting that vulnerability thing because then now I'm out here speaking things into life

[00:50:56] and we'll find out what else do I have to tell you all about maybe I'll read you the back cover

[00:51:01] cover is this how we show up at work is a reflection of how we're showing up in life so it's time

[00:51:08] to stop pretending that it's not personal development and professional development are one in the

[00:51:12] same and you can accelerate and amplify your performance energy and purpose when we collapse the

[00:51:17] two and start centering people development in the companies that are blazing a path forward

[00:51:22] in a world that is moving into a new era of technology and automation there's so many founders

[00:51:27] and companies that say one day they're going to prioritize themselves and their people why do we

[00:51:31] wait to start implementing people development and prioritizing ourselves until we make it what if

[00:51:36] we started prioritizing it as companies as a foundation to accelerate the growth and sustainability

[00:51:41] now we believe that strong people development strategy is a must have for any company that's serious

[00:51:47] about attracting and retaining top talent accelerating performance engaging and preparing teams

[00:51:52] for a substantial growth it actually giving a fuck about its people so the playbook that you're

[00:51:57] holding in your hands is a candid judge free zone to help you work on your shit because we've all

[00:52:01] got some if you're human the question is are you ready invest are you ready to invest some time

[00:52:06] and energy into yourself to do something about it do you care enough about your company and the people

[00:52:11] on your team to invest in them in order to reach new levels of growth and success and a rapidly

[00:52:16] changing workplace with simple exercises evidence based practices and real life examples this desktop

[00:52:22] and night stand worthy resource helps founders leaders and teams create time and space to invest

[00:52:27] in themselves in order to get ROI's beyond their wildest dreams using our proprietary methodology

[00:52:33] what does that you might ask it's energy hygiene thought reprogramming an elevated leadership so

[00:52:41] there's your teaser on the book it's coming it's coming y'all in the meantime I have an app for you

[00:52:47] and it's not even an app it's really not even an app it's actually a membership that is hosted

[00:52:51] on an app platform is a better way to be describing it and in my mangeness and juggling all the projects

[00:52:58] in all of the healing in all of the creative birthing it has been a very exciting thing to see this

[00:53:08] see it come to life right so you can literally go to the app store and type in make one day happen

[00:53:13] and there's a whole last after and I'm really excited to share more about what the membership is

[00:53:18] if you're interested in personal and professional development not quite sure where to start

[00:53:23] this is a place for you it's a monthly membership and there is a group coaching call there's access

[00:53:30] to the energy hygiene that that reprogramming all of my boot camps live in there there's a sound

[00:53:35] library in there so you can get these healing tones in your ears whatever you need to there's

[00:53:41] tracking there's accountability you can gamify it together so I am really looking forward to launching

[00:53:48] that in a much bigger way here in q1 and that's a little teaser for you

[00:53:57] let me see if there's anything else I want to share thank you thank you thank you thank you

[00:54:00] from witnessing me thank you for if you are at the end of this who you are a real one I love you so

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[00:54:29] journey starting this podcast in in 2020 I'm as my little covid covid baby if you will was

[00:54:38] one of the most rewarding things I've ever done and the journey to get this far has been

[00:54:45] a grind it's been an uphill battle and I wouldn't have it any other way I'm so grateful for where

[00:54:52] it's taken me and how it's been a part of so many people's journeys and their healing journeys

[00:54:58] in my own and this year in 2024 we about to amp-blow by a lot we're bringing in support

[00:55:05] we're getting systematized y'all we are turning up the notch on what it means to truly make your one

[00:55:12] day happen you do not have to wait right like we can get into our one day energy immediately and

[00:55:19] the world would be a much different place if we did that right if we were all living in this space

[00:55:25] of like I'm actually making the one day thing happen that I want to happen happen it'd be a different

[00:55:31] place so thank you thank you thank you I love you so much and look forward to bringing on some epic new

[00:55:42] guys don't worry I'm not gonna be doing solo podcasts that often talking about grad and trauma

[00:55:48] because it's uncomfortable as fuck for me too I am probably going to go nurse my vulnerability

[00:55:55] hangover with a bath with some abs and salts you know we're gonna just like really judge it up get

[00:56:02] me a sound bath as well take care of these energetic bodies thank you again for witnessing me

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