In this monologue‑style motivational podcast, the speaker frames resistance—not as a barrier but as a direct signal that growth is occurring. She explains that when we encounter hard moments—whether in business, personal goals, or relationships—the discomfort itself is the lesson that development is trying to teach. The talk warns against the easy impulse to blame external factors (coaches, strategies, mentors) or to abandon a project entirely when faced with difficulty. Instead, she urges listeners to examine whether the current partnership or venture still aligns with their core values and vision. The speaker emphasizes that continual hardship is a hallmark of genuine progress; a life without challenge likely indicates stagnation. To move forward, she proposes a ritual of self‑inquiry: identifying which part of oneself must “die” (e.g., lingering fears of rejection, old limiting identities) to allow new growth. She also highlights the importance of surrounding oneself with communities that normalize failure and iterative improvement, where members continuously tweak strategies rather than discarding them wholesale. The episode concludes with a reflective invitation to pinpoint the internal aspects one is willing to let go of in order to embrace the hard work that fuels transformation.
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So when we are faced with fork in the road of either resistance and this is hard and I am just kind of spinning my wheels, I'm running on this, on this treadmill, I just don't feel like I'm moving anywhere versus change versus expansion versus what is real and true and alive for me and what is required of me to move past this resistance. It can feel very heavy. It can feel as if no one can help you. It can feel as if no one has the answers or has the guidance or no one in the world knows this pain. And I know that because I have felt it. And I want to bring to our awareness that resistance is really just the lesson that growth is trying to teach us. So when we feel resistance, when we feel the hard, when we feel as if we are blocked by going to the next— of going to the next level, then I know that is by way of my growth. I know that if I move through this resistance, if I do the really hard thing, then it will lead to the growth. That is the growth. In fact, the growth is not on the other side of that. That entire process is the growth. And I think that it's It's, it's easy to walk away whenever something is hard. It's easy to blame the process. It's easy to blame the strategy. It's easy to blame the coach or the mentor or the, the, the thing that told you to do that, or the recipe or whatever it is. It's really easy. It's easy. It's easy to say, well, this doesn't work. I'm going to scrap it. I'm going to burn it to the ground and I'll start all over. With something else or somewhere else. I'll start a new business. I'll do a new thing. And it is really in that challenge and it is in that place of where you are face to face with yourself, where you have to say, okay, it's either this hard in this place where I've already gotten this far, or it's just going to be hard somewhere else. So this is the same with relationships. If you get to a point in a relationship and you're like, oh, this is hard, or I'm bored, or 'Oh, does this— this is hard. We're not communicating,' or whatever. Okay, it's hard, but what else is hard? The next relationship. And I think at that point, it's really an alignment of values. You know, you have to ask yourself, 'Does this partnership still align with my values and with the vision and the things that are real and true in life?' Right? So in business or achieving your goals or setting out for 2025 goals, you have to ask yourself, where did I face resistance this year that I'm willing to go headfirst into next year so that I can experience that growth, so that I can come out on the other side and I don't have to go back through that hard again? Okay, because the thing is, is that there's always going to be a hard— there will always be something hard that is going on in your life. And if there's not, then you're probably not growing. And you're not pushing yourself or you're not really invested, you're not actively engaged into your own development. If everything is just super smooth and easy and there's no lessons and there's no resistance and we— can we find joy every day? 100%. Can we find happiness? Can we create peace? Can we just be positive and we can look up and feel gratitude? Yes, all of those things. And we can also know that we are in a place of growth. So with that, I invite you to ask yourself what is real and true and alive, and that thing will likely be where you will face your greatest growth. And you know that in order to experience that growth, part of you must die. A part of you will have to be put to death, and it is probably going to be the little girl in you that was once rejected or neglected, and you are afraid of being rejected and neglected again. So therefore you don't put yourself out there like you should. Or maybe it is the fear that if I go all in on this goal, if I show up and I show out and people see me and they witness me and they witness me trying to do this thing again, I will fail and they will reject me. I will be kicked out of the tribe. They will kick me out of the tribe. And I think that this is actually where putting yourself in rooms and putting yourselves into communities and spaces and places where people are in a constant environment of growth is absolutely critical because then you're in a constant room of everyone's failing, everyone's failing all the time. And through that failure, they're actually growing and winning and progressing. But you have to be self-aware enough to look inward and say, oh, it's not that they actually only win all the time, it's that they're actually just pushing through the resistance and they're continuing to do the really hard thing and they're not burning their strategy down to the ground. They're actually just fixing one piece of it at a time. They're actually just tweaking this piece and then they go to that piece and, and they continuously improve and they continuously evolve and pivot. And it's not that we have to throw all of our goals away and start over from the beginning. It's like, no, we're just going to lean in and we're going to keep pushing and we're going to keep going forward because this is hard and whatever I, whatever I do next is going to be hard too. Okay? So I invite you to reflect on this. Ask yourself, what part of me must die? What part of me am I willing to let go of in order to experience that growth that comes through the process of pushing through the resistance? Have a great day.
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