Comfort Is the Enemy of Your Calling

Most of us are going to choose comfort over our calling. And we think we're protecting ourselves, but we're really delaying the version of us that we're meant to become. And that's where the pain is. Every time you choose the scroll, every time the overthinking and the I'll do it later, and this needs to be perfect. You basically are saying, I'm not ready to evolve yet, and you're handing over that big dream. You are ready. You're just afraid of what's required. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the earn your happy podcast. It's time for another quickie because there's always time to fit in inspiration. And I'm so excited because today we launched our new glossy flavors. You guys, you now have access to strawberry, hibiscus and watermelon flavors. We have variety packs, 30 count variety packs. We have 15 counts. We have gorgeous new branding. We have taken. We still have the name glossy, which is our brand name, but we changed skin and gut to glow and debloat. 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And of course, you know, we just have some just very exciting things coming up for the holidays as well. So definitely go check that out. Go get your gifting on. And I'm so grateful for you for being a part of Glossy and thank you to all of the loyal subscribers. I literally don't know what I would do without you. You are the foundation and base of this business. We're going to be starting some really fun stuff here in the new year, including some glossy walks that will be starting in Newport Beach. But we hope to have some ambassadors who'll be doing walks on the same days with their local community because is truly everything. And I'm going to be starting a lot of different popups with workout studios, Pilates studios, all sorts of fun stuff like that. Med spas. So stay tuned for the new year. And I am also in a fundraiser right now, so if you know anybody who loves product companies like this or would love to be a part of this company with Natalie Ellis and I of Boss Babe, if you're an accredited investor, we would love to have a chat around fundraising because we are putting all of of that money into hiring and marketing, especially with this brand new product. We're so excited about it. So you guys, I'm so grateful for you. Thank you so much for just being a huge support in that launch. All of the shares and all of the love, all of the feedback, all the before and afters, they all matter. It's what makes up a company that will win. So it's all because of you and I'm grateful for you and thank you for your continued support. So today. Oh man, this is a big one. We're talking about resistance. And resistance is the sign that you're ready for your next level. A lot of times resistance can feel really scary. It can feel heavy, it can feel like stuck. It can. It feels like cement. If I'm being honest, it feels like you're trudging through cement. So lately it's been showing up in every corner of my life, which I can only view as my next level. Just literally calling me up because if I view it any other way, I Feel like I'm gonna suffocate. I feel like I'm in a pressure cooker. And you guys are always gonna know how I'm feel feeling. I'm going to be completely honest with you. And I feel right now like I am in a pressure cooker and I can't get out. And I know it's because I need some support around a few things that I have to do myself. It's another thing about resistance. You typically have to make sure you're taking really, really paying really close attention to it and figuring out where you need the help and implementing that help, because no one is coming to save us. So, like I said, showing up in every corner of my life. And if feel like you're fighting yourself lately, if you feel like you're in a face off with yourself, like, I do, like the lower part of yourself that just doesn't want to get even more uncomfortable again, like, what the. I'm here again. Like, can I just have some comfort in my life? That's how I feel right now. If I'm being totally honest, like, can I just, like, go on a vacation and not stress out? Like, that would be amazing. But also, you're not crazy because you're just on the edge of your next level. And I know that I've asked for this. I know that I've called this in. And if some of you are thinking like, Laura, you need to, like, maybe you need to chill, maybe you need to relax, Maybe I do. But I also know that this is one of the most pivotal points in my life where I get the opportunity to really look at this and say, I've asked for this. I've asked for this company. I've asked for everything that's going on in my life. It's all coming in at once. And I have to figure out how I'm going to not only maintain it, but grow it and become the person who can handle this level of pressure. So Steven Pressfield says a quote that I absolutely love. He says, the more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more resistance we will feel towards pursuing it. I'm going to read it again. The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more resistance we will feel towards pursuing it. So for me right now, resistance looks like facing off with myself over content. It looks like actually getting better at it instead of just kind of winging it. And even though I have a plan to go and film it, when I go and film it, I Kind of think of a script. I kind of feel like, well, I need five posts this week, so none of them are going to be great. They're all just going to get up, right? So now I'm starting to think, okay, I need to really put some time and thought into this if I want this to like, really hit. And that's where we're at with content creation, you guys. If you're like, wow, my content's not hitting people, it's not working like it used to. It's because we were lucky, we were lucky before that we could just put some mediocre content out and it would go to a much larger audience. We're in a different time right now where the people who are putting more time in and getting more clear on their messaging, they're going to win, they're going to get the eyeballs and the people who say, I don't know, it's just hard, it's the algorithm and blame other things but don't actually choose to get better, they're going to fall away. And what's going to happen is it's actually going to get easier for the people who are putting a lot more time into their content and deciding to get better and becoming a master of this because the masses are going to fall away who aren't willing to do the work. And so if you've been thinking that it's gotten harder, you're not wrong. It has gotten harder because you've had to get better to get that attention. So I will say though, the very, very promising thing of this is that if you're willing to become a master of it and really put time in over content, over a good hook, over how to keep attention, over how to write a script, over making yourself sit down and face off with yourself and get that fucking video filmed, you're going to win and it's going to take some practice and it's going to take some time, but it also might not. You also might actually be good at it and you might not even realize it. So right now resistance is looking like facing off with myself over sitting down and doing these things that I know need to get done in order to go to the next level and continue to get the eyeballs that are needed in order to fill our events, in order to get attention for glossy, it looks like dialing in my many chat flows, it looks like making sure my opt ins really, really work for the things that I want to sell. So if you guys don't know what an opt in is, that is when you give a it's like a freebie. So from your Instagram reels or your posts, you say, you know, drop the word blank, drop the word glossy and I'll send you my, you know, five step skincare routine or my must have products for glowing hydrated skin or prep for an event or whatever that is. And then that would sell glossy. Now, when you're doing an opt in, if you have a business mastermind for early entrepreneurs, but you do a freebie for how to make sourdough bread, even though you got their email from the freebie, if you're then sending them to a page about a business mastermind, that's obviously not going to work. There's going to be a massive disconnect there. So you're going to need to create a freebie around a question that people would have who would be looking for a business mastermind. So you're going to want to be solving a problem for the same customer who would want that mastermind. Does that make sense? It also looks for me resistance around hiring and training a sales team for Mentor Collective Mastermind. So Chris and I obviously do a lot of our launches with our team, but we also now want to be hiring a sales team to follow up with people in our world to get them into our mentor Collective mastermind because we know what an incredible product that is. That's for anyone 500k and below who are looking to grow their business business this year and need some support and need some accountability and know that they cannot keep going the way that they are because maybe they feel stuck. Maybe your content feels stuck. Maybe you don't know what to do. Maybe you don't know how to get to the next level. You don't know who to hire for your team. You don't even realize that you need to raise your prices. You don't realize that your prices are too low. You don't realize that your landing pages aren't great. You don't realize that what your conversions are. You don't realize how many eyeballs you need. You don't know what your top of funnel is and how you're attracting people. You don't understand audience acquisition. That's who Mentor Collective Mastermind is for. We have a coach for every single area in there, but Chris and I also teach in there and we're also like really, really making sure that you are held accountable. We hired individual accountability coaches that are assigned to you every single week. So we know that once you get into this container like people's Lives are changed, their businesses are changed. We literally can't. We just finished up one of our first cohorts from the beginning, and we cannot believe what drastic changes and positive outcomes have come. We just did a huge round of wins on our last call, and I was basically in tears over the fact that this is making such massive changes so fast because of what this container is. So I know that we need to hire a sales team for Mentor Collective Mastermind to get this in front of even more people than Chris and I can get in front of and really explain exactly what this is. And so we have that in the works. And I just have to sit down and make sure that the sales team is truly, like, getting trained the way that they need to understand how incredible this container is so that they can go and help people make the decision to get in there. So I will say resistance is also coming in the form of launching two masterminds at once. We have Mentor Collective Mastermind, which is 500k and below, and then we have the elite entrepreneur Mastermind, which is 500k and above. We have a lot of seven and eight figure businesses in there and a lot of people who are just reaching that seven figure business as well, which is so exciting. And for me, holding the energy of both of these masterminds, if I don't fully, like, compartmentalize and create a good plan, this is a challenge for me. And I will say that it's the resistance around sitting down and creating the plan. So now that I know that there's massive resistance there, I told Chris, I'm like, babe, we have to meet on Saturday. Like, we need a 911 meeting for me so that I can have such clear plan around. Just like the marketing and exactly what I'm creating in my messaging, in my reels, on my podcasts, so that I can feel better about holding these two energies and it doesn't feel so chaotic for me. So, you guys, if you're resonating with this, if there's resistance somewhere, it's trying to tell you something, because I understand. I'm being so honest with you that I get how heavy this is. Some mornings I wake up and I feel like I can't breathe if I don't have a plan. And number one, one of the most important things that I can tell you is say a prayer when this happens. God, take this from me. Give me the strength to understand that this is just my chaotic brain. It doesn't have a plan. I need to balance things. I'm gonna go work Out. I'm gonna put this in your hands. But I'm also going to actively create a plan. You guys, my workouts are vital right now. If I do not go work out and have a plan, I'm a mess. I'm a mess. And after I work feel so good, I feel so capable, I feel so strong. And it also helps me just kind of go, okay, you're okay. Like, your chaotic monkey brain is just freaking out right now in the morning. And I'm also cutting back on coffee because caffeine is like the devil when you're having experiences like this in your life where there's a lot at once. And so some days, like I said, it's heavy, but I know exactly what I need to do. I need a plan. And resistance is telling me. And that, that resistant feeling, that feeling of stress, that feeling of chaos, it's telling me I don't have a plan. Because if you do, you just follow the plan. Like the last podcast where I was quoting Layla Hermosi, like, your feelings follow the plan. If you don't have a plan, your feelings are crazy. And you guys, if you don't have a plan, guess what happens? You choose distractions and busy work and numb scrolling instead. Or you choose, like I said, busy work. That just makes you feel better, but it's not actually at the end of the day moving the needle and it' actually going to make you feel worse. That's the sabotage part. So every time I choose it, I know I'm choosing sabotage. And I'm like watching my goals and my evolution kind of like slip through my fingertips. And that's where the disconnect is and that's where the anxiety comes in. So the truth about resistance is it's not the enemy. It's the literal compass to what you should be doing. But you have to pay attention to it. You have to dig in, you have to journal around it. If something didn't matter to you, you wouldn't. Wouldn't feel resistance around it. So the next time you feel that, oh, I don't want to do this. Like, this hurt. This is so hard. I felt it so hard yesterday. I was writing scripts and tweaking the script and all I wanted to do is be done with this stupid ass script. And I was like, it's not good. It's not good yet. Like, it's not gonna hit yet. All I want to do, I'm such a fast start, you guys. I don't know if you can relate to this. Like, I want to film be done and put it up. Like it's hard for me to even batch content because I want to get, get everything up and done. Like if I film four videos, I want to put all four up that day. I'm like, chill out, Lori. Like that's how fast of a start I am. I could start businesses in my sleep overnight, keeping up with them, integrating and implementing totally different story. 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I've had the frustrating moments where I throw up my hands, have a little spaz attack, cry, freak out, like, I understand you probably more than you can ever imagine. And I need you to know that you are capable. I have done it. I have seen so many people who I drastically underestimated. I'm just gonna have an moment here where I have had people in my life where I'm like, oh, they don't have the it factor. Like, they're never gonna be able to do this. Like, everyone's gonna scroll past them. Like, they are the most average person. Meaning, like, there's no, like, anything there that's gonna make someone stop and scroll or be interested. I have watched those same people, literally, like, five people in my life that I have had for long periods of time where I'm like, they're like, you feel bad because they're putting in so much work for so many years, and you just want to be like, my God, maybe you should go get a job. I've watched them pop off. I've watched them become so good at what they do. I've watched them become experts. I've watched them become interesting. I've watched them become inspirations to me, I love being so wrong about people and knowing that with work, anyone, anyone that you've underestimated or been like, how you gonna do this? Like, you're a small town Joe Schmo who literally is like, got nothing going for you right now. You haven't figured out how to grab attention. Your videos are getting like two views and they suck. Like, being honest, I have watched these people pop off into millions of followers and incredibly interesting people who now have so many different things going for them and so many different offers. Like, my mind is blown. So whenever I get down on myself, I think of these examples of people that I know and I'm like, oh, my God, if they can do this, I can pay some fucking attention and learn some things and dedicate my evenings or an hour, an evening, or two hours an evening to becoming the expert and getting out of this pain of knowing that the pain is the disconnect between who you know you are and who you're not showing up as. That's the pain. That's the pain. It's knowing that you need to get better at something and it's going to be hard and it's going to require attention. You guys, our little iPhones are training us to scroll and have attention spans of a frog. I don't know if they have attention spans. I doubt they do, but it's bad. It is bad. And the more that we are moving forward with AI and on our phones, our attention span is getting even worse. And the people who fight against that are going to be the ones who win. I can't even begin to tell you how many people are winning right now. And I don't just mean winning. They're winning the biggest they've ever won, like getting the most amounts of money. In my circle, the people who are paying the most attention to getting better at reels, getting better at content, getting better at writing, getting better at figuring out how to capture attention. You guys, you need to become a master in something. You must. Or it's going to get harder and harder and harder and there's going to be more and more noise and you're just going to fall away into the noise. And I don't want that to happen to you. I don't want that to happen to you. So I need you to start paying attention to this resistance because. Because most of us are going to choose comfort over our calling. And we think we're protecting ourselves, but we're really delaying the version of us that we're meant to become. And that's where the pain is. Every time you choose the scroll. Every time the overthinking and the I'll do it later. And this needs to be perfect. You basically are saying, I'm not ready to evolve yet, and you're handing over that big dream. So you are ready. You're just afraid of what's required. You're just afraid of what's required. And that's okay. So am I. Resistance is the proof that something sacred is trying to come through you. That's real. Resistance is the proof that you are meant to do this very big thing. So I want to give you some framework to move through it. I want you to name it. I'm feeling resistance around what? Journal it. Get specific. Don't let it stay vague. Literally, like, make it so, so clear. And then you need to reframe it. This resistance means that this thing is deeply important to my soul's evolution. It doesn't mean you suck, doesn't mean you're bad. All of these things are distractions. And while that may be true, I need you to stop getting distracted and looking around for things to blame or reasons why this is. I just need you to name it. And I need you to say this means it's deeply important to my soul's evolution. Number three, I need you to break it down. What's one tiny move you can make right now? Is it send an email? Is it write the post? Is it write the script? Is it film that thing? Is it get your ass on TikTok? Is it raise the price? Is it make the call? What is it? Number four. I need you to do it anyway. I need you to say out loud, I move even when it's uncomfortable. You don't need confidence. You need movement. Confidence comes after the movement. I need you to get that. Confidence comes after the movement. You just have to move. You need to. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Mel Robbins. That it works. Just do it. Let yourself feel stupid. Let yourself show up like an idiot. It doesn't matter because you're either going to be in pain and you're not going to be able to do your dream, or you're going to move. Those are the only two choices that we have right now. So number five is reflect and reward. How did you feel after that? 99% of the time, you're going to feel lighter, you're going to feel more proud, you're going to feel more aligned. So you guys, resistance is never going to go away. It literally just evolves because resistance is the thing that Helps you evolve and tells you where to go. It's the X that marks the spot. So the next level will always have its own literal flavor of resistance. And that's how you know you're continuing to grow. And the people that you admire just got better at recognizing their resistance and moving anyway away. So you can't pray resistance away. You literally partner with resistance. You say, okay, this is literally here for me and I'm going to ask it exactly what I need to be doing in order to move through it. So can thank it for showing you what matters to you. So, you guys, I really want to know, like, what's the one thing you've been avoiding right now that could change everything for you? What's the one thing you have been avoiding? Writing that could change everything for you? Is it getting good at content? Is it getting better at writing? Is it reaching out and asking? Is it joining a mastermind that you know you're supposed to be in? What is that thing with it? I am going to invite you, whether you are 500k and above or 500k and below. Please reach out in my DMs with any questions. Like, send me a voice note if you're interested in one of them. Because we would love, love, love to work with you. We'd love to help push you through the resistance and get a plan this year that makes you feel really. And we're with you. Like, I am always growing. I am always challenged. I am in masterminds of my own. I will not give up what is working. And that's one of the biggest things in Masterminds, is take the shortcut to know what is actually working right now instead of throwing spaghetti at the wall, wasting time and a whole lot of marketing dollars in order to try to figure it out yourself. So, you guys, I'm sending you so much love. I'm so grateful for you. And until next time, earn your house happy. Bye, everyone.