This Earn Your Happy podcast episode (host Lori Harder) is a short inspirational monologue focused on stepping through fear, prioritizing imagination over knowledge, and showing up authentically ("leave your representative at the door"). Lori promotes her live event, the Bliss Project (notes past sellouts and invites listeners to join the waiting list at blissproject.info or contact customer service@loriharder.com), encourages trusting that action will bring support, and emphasizes daily practices of inspiration. The transcript also includes sponsor reads for Blinds.com (promo: $50 off purchases of $500+ with code 'earn') and Shopify (call-to-action to start selling in 2026 with a trial/promo referenced at shopify.com/happy).
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Welcome to the Earn your happy podcast. I'm Lori Harder, founder of The Bliss Project, 3 Time Fitness World champion, fitness expert and cover model, turned self love junkie, lifestyle entrepreneur and author.
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Or a thought that will help you bust through your fears, connect to your soul and get focused and clear so you can elevate your life, business and relationships. We don't wait until we're ready for someone to tell us we're good enough. We take what we want and we anoint ourselves. Get ready to earn, own, and unapologetically rock your happiness every single day. Are you with me? Here we go. Welcome back to the Earn your happy podcast. And it's time for another quickie, because there's always time to fit in inspiration. And inspiration is one of those things that for me, every single day, I seek it out. I want to be surrounded by it, I want to read about it, I want it in my ears on podcasts, amazing music, girl power anthems, pump up songs, whatever that looks like. I just feel feed myself the good stuff so that it is all that I'm focused on. Because what we focus on grows, right? And what we're feeding ourselves, we become. So you are what you eat, you are what you think. All of the above. So a quote that I heard that I've been thinking about a lot because I am two days out from the Bliss Project right now. By the time you hear this, it will literally be the next day.
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Or by the time you're listening to this, maybe you'll be at the Bliss Project. Maybe I'll get to meet you, maybe we'll get to chat. Or maybe I will just be at the Bliss Project and you guys can catch up with me on social media. I will be doing a bunch of Facebook lives along with Insta stories, so you can see all of the goodness that we're doing there. So make sure you go and follow me on Instagram at Lori Harder and you can see all of the live updates on all the good stuff that we're doing. So quote by Albert Einstein, imagination is more important than knowledge. I love this quote. Because knowledge is what is. Knowledge is the study of what is. Knowledge is knowing what is. But imagination is the possibility of what could be. Right? It's the possibility, it's the idea. It's bringing something that does not yet exist into your reality. And I truly believe that that's more important as I'm prepping for Bliss Project, because Bliss Project came out of something that I desired so create what you wish existed, right? So I wanted a place where a tribe of women could come together and talk about ideas, talk about dreams, create them, bring them into reality, use each other, support each other, make all of these incredible things come in to existence, right? I also wanted a soft place for people to land. So when maybe people in their family don't agree with their new beliefs or the things that they want to do, or maybe when people say, who do you think you are? Or you really think you're going to do that? Or they question you know, what you're doing. Or maybe you're feeling rejected by a friend, maybe you're feeling rejected by a peer group that they could have a place where they unapologetically show up as themselves and share what it is that they want. So I love the book Love Warrior, and when Glennon talks about the author, she talks about sending in your representative, right? So I wanted a place where we're not sending in our representatives, and that means sending in the person that you think everybody wants, the person that you should be. But we are showing up as our authentic selves, open heart, saying, here I am. Love it or leave it. And this is, you know, who I am. This is the place that I can create from. This is the person that I can move forward and create these dreams and really connect in and be the most authentic human so that you can connect with me, right? So when you are leaving your representative at the door, when you're checking her at the door and showing up as your authentic self, guess what that does? It opens the way for all of the right people to come in on your journey and all of the wrong people to exit. Now, I am not saying that this is not gonna hurt. It's not an easy process. But the other side is so beautiful, you guys. The other side of stepping in and stepping through your fears is so beyond anything that you can possibly imagine that I'm here on the other side with all of these women at the Bliss Project, waving you forward, saying, yes, yes, yes. Keep going, keep going. It gets so good that you literally have to start asking yourself, how good can you take it? Because our old selves, our old stories want to step in and sabotage, because we don't believe life could actually be this good. But I am here to tell you, it just gets better every single day. So, you guys, I am beyond thrilled to be stepping into this weekend just knowing that I'm so supported and so connected, and I'm thrilled to meet all of you. And, you know, as much resistance as has come around this event and always the challenges that come up and always the resistance for me that comes up around, you know, the nerves, the anxiety, the wanting it to be, you know, perfect and knowing that I just have to give it up. I have to let it go. I have to know that I am being supported and all will be divinely taken care of and trust in the fact that when you say yes, when you say yes, all will divinely conspire in your favor. And it does. I have proof. This is my fifth one and I always feel this way every single year and then it always turns out even more beautiful than I could could have ever possibly imagined. So this is your reminder to have faith. All feelings are normal and I just want to send my love to you guys. So follow me on all of my social media outlets if you want to see what the Bliss Project is all about. Otherwise you guys, it sold out in a week last year. Go to the blissproject.info and you can get on the waiting list so that you are first to be notified when tickets go on sale. Or you can go to customer service@lori harder.com so that you can make sure that you bring your whole girl tribe or if you don't have one yet, that you get to connect into this epic, monumental place where these women are all gathering. So I will see you soon and sending you so much love and until next time, earn your happy. Bye everyone.
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