Stacey Lauren (host of the Do the Thing podcast) records a solo episode reflecting on why she’s delayed making individual episodes and how interviews provide accountability. She shares a personal boating story — joining a boat club after her divorce, crashing into a dock during a test drive, and subsequently avoiding driving boats — and describes deciding to try a slow electric boat to re-engage with the activity. The episode’s central lesson is that life stories we tell ourselves (e.g., “I’m not a good driver”) can be revised and that imperfect action (dipping a toe in) is better than no action when pursuing what matters to you.
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I do really believe 100% from every part of me that everyone has the capacity to be able to do the things that they want and not to be held back by the mental baggage that's in our head that we want to push through.
Welcome to the do the Thing podcast. In each episode, we get down and personal with people who go after the things they want to make all their wildest dreams come true. Join us as we unveil and dissect a formula for what it takes to do the thing. Here is your host, Stacy Lauren.
Hey, everyone. So here's the thing. I've really been struggling to do the individual episodes like I did in the beginning, and I've been. I have a list of ones that I really want to do, and I just haven't made the time to do them, probably because one of the reasons is I'm just enjoying the interview so much and getting a chance to talk to people about how they do the thing that I just haven't really carved out. I think it takes extra energy, actually, to do the ones myself, probably because my part of doing the thing is the accountability. And so I know when I have an interview scheduled, I'm not going to miss that, right? Because.
You know, it's scheduled and I'm not, you know, and I'm going to show up. So anyway, but for my. Myself, that's actually the thing that I still, I would say, struggle with. And that's why, actually, it was funny. I had my boyfriend on, and that was the number one thing that he has as a skill set, is always showing up for himself and talking through that integrity piece of being able to do the things that you want to do because they're for you and not. I mean, he's a very giving person, and he actually takes care of so many things in his life. But also he does make sure that he follows through on the integrity for things that he says he wants to do for himself. So, anyway, here I am walking. I'm actually excited because I'm about to take a boat out. I.
And this is kind of why I wanted to do this episode is because I was thinking about how cool it is that I'm actually going to take a boat out. I had. After my divorce, I had joined a boat club and never having considered ever driving a boat. It just looked cool when I had seen people on boats when I was at the beach one day and a friend had said, you know, there's boat clubs where you could, like, pretty much not own the boat, but use boats. Each Month. And I had never even heard that. So I had looked into it after that day and found one. I actually went to the boat club, like, consultation, and the guys had just opened up this boat club, and there's. They're all over the world, I think, or country, I don't know about the world. But he had just opened up that. They had just opened up this boat club. He was super patient. Somehow he got me to overcome fear of me driving the boat because I'm not the most technically savvy person, so I wasn't sure if I could do it. But he got me comfortable with the part of, you know, making mistakes and being okay and just honestly really believed that I could drive it. And then I drove it and I felt good. And anyway, they do training and I was driving the boat. I still was having trouble taking my kids on it, so I would hire someone when they were on. But I did take some friends out and took my cousin out one time, and I think I went a few other times. And then I was thinking I had actually moved to the water and was thinking of canceling the membership and buying a boat. And I was doing a driving lesson, or not a driving lesson, but I was doing a. A test drive with the boat, the person that owned the boat, to see if I liked it. And lo and behold, I hit a dock.
And no one was hurt. And it was a really minor thing, honestly, but as I was turning, I hit. I hit a dock. And then. Ever since then, I haven't wanted to drive a boat again. And then it's funny because I had Josh Grillo on. He's someone in my mastermind, and he has a huge sailboat. And he was actually talking about.
How he crashed a lot of boats. And, you know, now he's got this huge sailboat that he's just has a whole experience in, you know, like, transforming his life with being able to take these long weekends with his family and enjoying it. And so anyway, I just think I had. What. The story I had told myself because I had crashed the boat was that I wasn't good at this and I shouldn't be driving. And so anytime I would go on the boat, I would actually make sure there was someone else that was driving and actually wasn't even comfortable taking the wheel for, like, a little bit. So, man, did I make a really good story about that. So I decided.
I decided I really wanted to get back out there. And I'm still in the boat club membership because I do share it with some friends. And for the first time, I pretty much was like, okay, well, I don't think I'm ready to take out a motorboat. I think I'm gonna do an electric boat. Electric boat is like a really slow moving, like, 10 miles an hour. I mean, you could almost have a jet boat or jet ski, like, be faster than that, or I think you. But anyway, it's a very, like, you know, just casual boat. And I realized that this is such a good way to do the thing. It's like, go slow. You know, there's. Sometimes you want to jump in. And I was just thinking about that. And I'll record another episode on my fitness journey, because that's another thing that has gotten inspired from these podcast interviews is I'm going on a fitness journey. And I did jump all the way in for that, and I'll explain that at another one. But for this one, I'm like, I'm just casually kind of tinkling the. You know, the. The water by getting this electric boat. I'm actually not really even that nervous to do it, which is kind of weird because I thought I would be terrified. But I think because of Josh's story and hearing him in detail talk about these boat accidents, I'm just realizing that, you know, it does happen, and I'm no longer having that story for myself, that I'm not a good driver. So, anyway, wanted to share this with you guys. I'm not saying you should go drive a boat, obviously. I'm saying do whatever you want to do. And if it means going all in, then go all in. If it means just dipping your toe in and driving the electric boat, then do that. So it's just, what a good way to like, have us all realize that whatever.
It means to you to do the thing, do it doesn't mean you have to, you know, go balls to the wall and give up everything and do the thing. You can just dip a toe in and get started, and then once you get started, see how it feels. And then you can.
You can really start to grow from there. And whether you decide not to continue with that thing, then you don't have to continue. So, anyway, I hope this. Hope this makes sense. I hope you can hear this, because I'm literally recording this on my phone as I'm walking, and I'm already out of breath because I'm walking fast. But regardless, I wanted to make sure I got this out because I have been delaying doing these episodes. And if I'm going to have a podcast called do the Thing, I have to do the thing with everything. And if it means that it's not perfect sound or quality or what I say isn't perfectly aligned, perfectly messaged or spoken, then I just want to show you that being perfect or. What is it? Imperfect action. Imperfect action. What is that quote? Imperfect action is better than. Yeah, imperfect. Okay. I just wanted to show you that imperfect action is better than no action at all. So. All right, guys, well, have a great day. Go out and drive your electric boat. Okay, goodbye.
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