129. Being Cringe
What’s the number one thing that stops you from going after your goals?
Is it overwhelm?
Fear of how hard it will be?
The nagging worry that if you put yourself out there, everyone in the entire world will think you’re deeply embarrassing and call you and your efforts cringey behind your back or even to your face?
I’ve coached a lot of people about going after goals.
Definitely dozens, maybe hundreds.
And all of these things (and many more) can be factors.
But this week, we’re talking about that last one: fear of being considered cringe.
Humans are social mammals. We want to fit in. We want to be accepted.
So of course we’re scared of being embarrassing. It makes sense.
But this fear doesn’t help you go after your goals, unless your goals are cookie cutter and super safe.
And your goals aren’t cookie cutter, safe little goals are they?
They’re big and wild and unweidly.
They involve you putting yourself out there, which will feel terrifying.
And … you want to do them anways.
Which means you need to know how to handle it when that fear of being cringe comes up.
And that’s exactly what we’re covering on this week’s podcast. Can’t wait to see you there.
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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE:
What being cringe means.
Why doing something new or bigger than we’ve ever done before often involves feeling cringe.
What happens if you’re not willing to be cringe or feel embarrassed.
How to handle the fear of being cringe in a new way.
What discovering your true genius requires of you.
The power of being willing to be cringe.
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This week we’re talking about being cringe.
You are listening to Love Your Job Before You Leave It, the podcast for ambitious, high-achieving women who are ready to stop feeling stressed about work and kiss burnout goodbye forever. Whether you’re starting a business or staying in your day job, this show will give you the coaching and guidance you need to start loving your work today. Here’s your host, Career Coach, Kori Linn.
Hey, y’all. Happy Wednesday. I’m so excited to talk to you about this week’s podcast because it’s one that I feel really passionate about. And let’s just dive in.
Okay, so I was coaching one of my clients and we talked about the idea of being cringe. And if you don’t know what cringe is, it’s super embarrassing, right? Awkward, like cringe worthy, but for some reason it’s been shortened to cringe. And honestly, I don’t know and I’m not super great with the slang, but I love the word cringe. So that one I have adopted.
So I was coaching my client, Maureen, who some of y’all know about because I read Maureen’s testimonial letter a while back on the podcast. Maureen is great, we love her. And Maureen is building a business and it’s bringing up a lot of emotions for her, especially a fear of being judged by her friends and family, I.e. like the topic of being cringe.
So she’s afraid they’re going to feel embarrassed for her if she talks openly about how building a business feels scary and that she has moments of doubt and shame and despair sometimes. Generally people think it’s embarrassing to feel those feelings in public, people think it’s embarrassing to be cringe. And many entrepreneurs do talk about how hard it was, or how many dark nights of the soul they had, but it’s all often in the after of like now they’re successful and I had these things, right?
I love this topic so much because it’s, to me, obviously, but maybe not obviously to y’all, it’s very near and dear to my heart because I’ve spent a lot of the time I’ve been building my business coaching myself on this or getting coached by other people. And I don’t know if y’all know this, but when I very first started my business, first of all, I couldn’t even get myself to post on social media for a few months, or maybe even many months.
And then when I would post on social media, I would type up a thing, it would take like 1,000 years. I would painstakingly scan it and scan it and reread it. And then I would post it and then I would throw my phone across the couch and then I would just lay down and sweat and maybe even cry because it felt so vulnerable. It felt so embarrassing. It felt so risky and weird to put myself out there.
So this is a topic very near and dear to my heart. And so when it comes up for my clients, I just love to coach them on it. And I want to talk to you all about it because I think it’s so relevant to like literally every kind of goal.
I do think it’s especially impactful for when you’re building a business and putting yourself out there online, but it can also be like if you’re trying to go to meetup events and make friends. Or it can also be if you’re trying to date, that’s something that can feel really cringy and terrible for most of us. Or even if you’re trying to reconnect with your long-term partner, that can even feel kind of cringe. So I think it’s such an important topic.
Oh, and by the way, I do have Maureen’s permission to share this. Oh, and also, if you want to follow Maureen and her new business, her business is called Narrative Drive. And she has a YouTube channel, that’s like her main deal. So it’s youtube.com/narrativedrive or @narrativedrive. I don’t really know how YouTube things work, but I’m sure if you search it, you can find it.
Okay, so basically, I was coaching Maureen on this and what I said was like, what if you were just willing to feel completely embarrassed? What if you were willing for literally everyone you know to think it was cringe as fuck? So what? Why would that be such a huge problem, right? And I think this is a really interesting question because it sort of goes into what I, as the coach, call the heart of darkness, right?
So we could coach this a lot of different ways, we could be like, well, probably some people won’t think you’re cringe. Probably some people will think you’re brave. You’re going to change lives and isn’t it worthwhile to help people, even if you feel a little embarrassed. And we could go through all those angles, but I think sometimes it’s just really helpful to sort of cut to the center of everything.
To go into the heart of darkness and be like, let’s say that this thing your brain is telling you, that it’s going to be so cringe, let’s say it’s true. Asterisk, it’s probably not true. It’s probably your brain, feeling really scared. But what if it were true? Why would it be a problem? What’s so bad about being cringe? What’s so bad about being embarrassed?
Because in my experience, when we want to do something like build a business or create a really authentic, connected relationship or build new friendships in a new city like I’ve been doing for a few years in Sacramento, it often does involve putting ourselves out there. And it might involve being rejected, right? It often does involve doing things and not knowing which of the things are going to work out.
And if you’re not willing to be cringe, if you’re not willing to feel embarrassed, usually what that means is you don’t try things, right? So you don’t go to new kinds of events, you don’t talk to new kinds of people, you don’t try new hobbies. And if you’re trying to build a business, it’s certainly going to be hard to get yourself to post on Instagram or post on YouTube, or go to networking events, or pitch people on your work if you’re not willing to be embarrassed.
And listen, I’m not saying that embarrassment is fun or sexy or great. I don’t like it either. I sort of feel kind of pink and warm and a little embarrassed even having this conversation with you. And I think my point is like, what if that’s okay? What if it’s not a problem?
To me it’s also like, what could I accomplish in the world if I’m willing to feel cringe? And what might I discover? What might I discover about myself? What things might I discover to share with other people? How much fun could I have? To me, life is for living. And being cringe is part of living, or at least being willing to be cringe. If you put yourself out there, I’m not over here thinking you’re cringe, but you’re probably over there thinking you’re cringe.
So the thing is, for sure probably one person is going to think you’re cringe. But guess what? It’s you. Or in my case, it’s me, right? Like when I was putting myself out there in the beginning of my business, when I was doing my little Instagram posts and then having to lay down for 30 minutes, someone was telling me I was cringe, but it was me.
Here’s the thing, it’s also possible that other people thought I was cringe. Other people probably still do think I’m cringe. And I think that’s not super fun, but it’s tolerable. And it’s sort of a byproduct of living out loud, is that some people won’t like it.
Let’s also talk about this, what is the part that’s so bad? For most of us, the part that’s so bad is actually the part where we say mean things to ourselves inside our heads. I mean, and then it’s all those feelings, those sensations that come up in our body, right? It’s like, cringe, humiliated, embarrassed, shame. It’s all sort of like, I feel hot in my face, maybe I feel a little nauseous in my stomach and kind of worried. But that’s it, right?
It’s not a pleasant set of sensations, but it absolutely is tolerable. And a lot of it’s optional, right? I get to choose whether I call myself cringe or not. If I have total free will and choice, why am I spending so much time telling myself I’m cringe? What a weird thing to do with my own energy. And yet, this is what most of us do with our energy all the time.
And I’m saying like, what a weird thing to do, but not in a judgmental way at all. If you’re doing it, I’m obviously fucking doing it, too. That’s what I’m talking about right now. But let’s also take a minute to unpack why that is, right? Like what we talk about all the time on the podcast is like, we’re socialized a certain way, right?
So another way to look at this idea of fear of being cringe is it’s like, oh, I have this certain set of ideas about what it means to be okay in the world, what it means to be good, what it means to be behaving. And being cringe is often something that comes up when we’re not following those rules. And so the reason we’re spending our own time and energy criticizing ourselves in this way is because we’ve internalized messaging that used to be external, right?
And we talked a few weeks ago on the podcast about being too much versus being not enough, which I think is heavily related to being cringe because I think a lot of this stuff where we’re like, “Oh, I don’t want to be too much,” it could almost be synonymous with being cringe. But I do think they’re a little bit different, so I wanted to have a separate podcast on it.
But yeah, it’s like who benefited from that? Who benefits from the idea that if we put ourselves out there and share our ideas and share our vulnerable, authentic experiences, that that is going to be embarrassing or awkward? We don’t benefit from that.
It does not help us build our businesses. It doesn’t help us make friends. It doesn’t help us get the relationship we want if we’re single trying to date. And it doesn’t help us reinvent the relationship we’re in if we’ve been with somebody for a long time, but we’re ready for the relationship to feel different.
And at the end of the day I think the thing about being cringe is, I think what it really is is it’s saying like, is it safe to be myself? Is it safe to show people who I actually am? Or when I show people who I actually am, will I be rejected? Will I be dismissed? Will I be judged? Will I be criticized? Will people think it’s bad or wrong or unpleasant or upsetting or inappropriate that I’m allowing myself to be seen in this way?
Here’s the thing though, when you put yourself out there and you’re willing to be cringe, often this other thing also happens where some people fucking love it. Some people fucking love you. Some people really resonate with what you’re sharing. And so if you are putting yourself out there and being willing to be cringe, for sure your brain, your own brain might tell you you’re being cringe. For sure other people’s face holes, other people might tell you out their mouth that you’re being cringe.
But other people might also love it. Other people might find it to be so valuable. And even if they don’t, maybe it’s worth it just to share what’s real.
Here’s one thing I know for sure, if you’re not willing to be cringe, if you’re not willing to put things out there, it’s pretty hard to discover your own true genius because the things that we put out there that don’t feel at risk of being cringe, usually the reason it doesn’t feel at risk of being cringe is because it’s like everything else.
We’re like, oh, I wrote this sentence, and it sounds like all the other sentences. Or like, I wrote this book and it’s like all the other books. That doesn’t mean it’s not a good book. It could still be a very good book, but discovering your own genius often involves doing something that everyone else isn’t doing or doing it in a different way. Or doing it in a really you, out loud way, right?
And so, I do think if you can develop this skill, and I do think it’s a skill, being willing to be cringe, because it feels fucking terrifying, right? The first few times you do it, you feel like you’re going to be destroyed and eaten alive from the inside. But it’s a muscle, it’s a skill you can build where the more you practice and develop this ability, the more you have a greater capacity for it.
And now I can share on Instagram, and once in a while it feels a little scary, but the stuff that used to feel scary just feels like any other, you know, it’s like a Tuesday, right? So that’s also a fun part of being willing to be cringe and developing this ability, is you’re going to get stronger and the things that used to feel really scary aren’t going to. And honestly, being willing to be cringe, and not cringe for its own sake, like not trying to be cringe on purpose necessarily. Although if you want to do that as a challenge to yourself, have at it. Be my guest, do what you feel.
But being willing to be yourself and put yourself out there into the world and being willing to be cringe as part of that, it’s going to develop the skill of courage. And courage is an essential ingredient for creating a wildly delicious, satisfying life and career. Because courage means that we can take action even when we’re afraid. And courage means we can go after things even if we’re not sure if we’re going to get them or we’re not sure how we’re going to get them.
Courage is what allows us to show up to events and make friends. Courage is what allows us to get on the apps and go on dates if that’s what we’re interested in creating a relationship. And courage is what allows us to turn to our long-term significant other and say, “I want to reinvent our relationship together.” Courage is what allows us to say to our kid, “I’m sorry, I lost my temper. Let’s try again.”
Courage is what allows us to even try cooking a new recipe, right? Whatever you want in your life, whatever you’re craving, probably courage is a key ingredient. And being willing to be cringe is one way to develop that skill.
And if you have no desire to do things that you think are cringe, then maybe this episode is not for you, but maybe it’s something else. Anything in your life you’re not doing, like for you maybe the word cringe isn’t it, but maybe you’re like, “Oh, who do I think I am?” That could be another version of this. Like, oh, I want to go after this senior job in my field, and instead of saying that would be so cringe or my cover letter will be so cringe, your brain might be like, “But who do I think I am?”
We could probably do a whole other podcast on who do I think I am as a thought pattern, and probably one day we will. But for now you can take everything I’ve said in this podcast episode and apply it to that as well. Basically what I’m saying is it’s okay to do things that feel scary, and it’s okay to do things that sort of make you feel a little nauseous with nervousness, if they’re aligned with who you want to be and what you want to build in the world.
And listen, this show it’s not for the faint of heart. So if you’re struggling to do it on your own, you’re not alone. I get it and nothing’s wrong with you. One of the fastest ways to speed this work up is to hire a coach because, one, coaches can see your blind spots. And two, coaches have a lot of experience supporting people doing stuff like this.
I do currently have a few spaces for some new one on one clients, and I also have another round of my small group, Satisfied As Fuck, opening up in the fall. So come on over to my website, sign up for a consult call, and let’s have a conversation about how you can develop this skill in your life and what will be possible when you do. All right, that’s what I have for you this week. I will talk to you next time. Bye bye.
Thank you for listening to Love Your Job Before You Leave It. We’ll have another episode for you next week. And in the meantime, if you’re feeling super fired up, head on over to korilinn.com for more guidance and resources.
You are listening to Love Your Job Before You Leave It, the podcast for ambitious, high-achieving women who are ready to stop feeling stressed about work and kiss burnout goodbye forever. Whether you’re starting a business or staying in your day job, this show will give you the coaching and guidance you need to start loving your work today. Here’s your host, Career Coach, Kori Linn.
Hey, y’all. Happy Wednesday. I’m so excited to talk to you about this week’s podcast because it’s one that I feel really passionate about. And let’s just dive in.
Okay, so I was coaching one of my clients and we talked about the idea of being cringe. And if you don’t know what cringe is, it’s super embarrassing, right? Awkward, like cringe worthy, but for some reason it’s been shortened to cringe. And honestly, I don’t know and I’m not super great with the slang, but I love the word cringe. So that one I have adopted.
So I was coaching my client, Maureen, who some of y’all know about because I read Maureen’s testimonial letter a while back on the podcast. Maureen is great, we love her. And Maureen is building a business and it’s bringing up a lot of emotions for her, especially a fear of being judged by her friends and family, I.e. like the topic of being cringe.
So she’s afraid they’re going to feel embarrassed for her if she talks openly about how building a business feels scary and that she has moments of doubt and shame and despair sometimes. Generally people think it’s embarrassing to feel those feelings in public, people think it’s embarrassing to be cringe. And many entrepreneurs do talk about how hard it was, or how many dark nights of the soul they had, but it’s all often in the after of like now they’re successful and I had these things, right?
I love this topic so much because it’s, to me, obviously, but maybe not obviously to y’all, it’s very near and dear to my heart because I’ve spent a lot of the time I’ve been building my business coaching myself on this or getting coached by other people. And I don’t know if y’all know this, but when I very first started my business, first of all, I couldn’t even get myself to post on social media for a few months, or maybe even many months.
And then when I would post on social media, I would type up a thing, it would take like 1,000 years. I would painstakingly scan it and scan it and reread it. And then I would post it and then I would throw my phone across the couch and then I would just lay down and sweat and maybe even cry because it felt so vulnerable. It felt so embarrassing. It felt so risky and weird to put myself out there.
So this is a topic very near and dear to my heart. And so when it comes up for my clients, I just love to coach them on it. And I want to talk to you all about it because I think it’s so relevant to like literally every kind of goal.
I do think it’s especially impactful for when you’re building a business and putting yourself out there online, but it can also be like if you’re trying to go to meetup events and make friends. Or it can also be if you’re trying to date, that’s something that can feel really cringy and terrible for most of us. Or even if you’re trying to reconnect with your long-term partner, that can even feel kind of cringe. So I think it’s such an important topic.
Oh, and by the way, I do have Maureen’s permission to share this. Oh, and also, if you want to follow Maureen and her new business, her business is called Narrative Drive. And she has a YouTube channel, that’s like her main deal. So it’s youtube.com/narrativedrive or @narrativedrive. I don’t really know how YouTube things work, but I’m sure if you search it, you can find it.
Okay, so basically, I was coaching Maureen on this and what I said was like, what if you were just willing to feel completely embarrassed? What if you were willing for literally everyone you know to think it was cringe as fuck? So what? Why would that be such a huge problem, right? And I think this is a really interesting question because it sort of goes into what I, as the coach, call the heart of darkness, right?
So we could coach this a lot of different ways, we could be like, well, probably some people won’t think you’re cringe. Probably some people will think you’re brave. You’re going to change lives and isn’t it worthwhile to help people, even if you feel a little embarrassed. And we could go through all those angles, but I think sometimes it’s just really helpful to sort of cut to the center of everything.
To go into the heart of darkness and be like, let’s say that this thing your brain is telling you, that it’s going to be so cringe, let’s say it’s true. Asterisk, it’s probably not true. It’s probably your brain, feeling really scared. But what if it were true? Why would it be a problem? What’s so bad about being cringe? What’s so bad about being embarrassed?
Because in my experience, when we want to do something like build a business or create a really authentic, connected relationship or build new friendships in a new city like I’ve been doing for a few years in Sacramento, it often does involve putting ourselves out there. And it might involve being rejected, right? It often does involve doing things and not knowing which of the things are going to work out.
And if you’re not willing to be cringe, if you’re not willing to feel embarrassed, usually what that means is you don’t try things, right? So you don’t go to new kinds of events, you don’t talk to new kinds of people, you don’t try new hobbies. And if you’re trying to build a business, it’s certainly going to be hard to get yourself to post on Instagram or post on YouTube, or go to networking events, or pitch people on your work if you’re not willing to be embarrassed.
And listen, I’m not saying that embarrassment is fun or sexy or great. I don’t like it either. I sort of feel kind of pink and warm and a little embarrassed even having this conversation with you. And I think my point is like, what if that’s okay? What if it’s not a problem?
To me it’s also like, what could I accomplish in the world if I’m willing to feel cringe? And what might I discover? What might I discover about myself? What things might I discover to share with other people? How much fun could I have? To me, life is for living. And being cringe is part of living, or at least being willing to be cringe. If you put yourself out there, I’m not over here thinking you’re cringe, but you’re probably over there thinking you’re cringe.
So the thing is, for sure probably one person is going to think you’re cringe. But guess what? It’s you. Or in my case, it’s me, right? Like when I was putting myself out there in the beginning of my business, when I was doing my little Instagram posts and then having to lay down for 30 minutes, someone was telling me I was cringe, but it was me.
Here’s the thing, it’s also possible that other people thought I was cringe. Other people probably still do think I’m cringe. And I think that’s not super fun, but it’s tolerable. And it’s sort of a byproduct of living out loud, is that some people won’t like it.
Let’s also talk about this, what is the part that’s so bad? For most of us, the part that’s so bad is actually the part where we say mean things to ourselves inside our heads. I mean, and then it’s all those feelings, those sensations that come up in our body, right? It’s like, cringe, humiliated, embarrassed, shame. It’s all sort of like, I feel hot in my face, maybe I feel a little nauseous in my stomach and kind of worried. But that’s it, right?
It’s not a pleasant set of sensations, but it absolutely is tolerable. And a lot of it’s optional, right? I get to choose whether I call myself cringe or not. If I have total free will and choice, why am I spending so much time telling myself I’m cringe? What a weird thing to do with my own energy. And yet, this is what most of us do with our energy all the time.
And I’m saying like, what a weird thing to do, but not in a judgmental way at all. If you’re doing it, I’m obviously fucking doing it, too. That’s what I’m talking about right now. But let’s also take a minute to unpack why that is, right? Like what we talk about all the time on the podcast is like, we’re socialized a certain way, right?
So another way to look at this idea of fear of being cringe is it’s like, oh, I have this certain set of ideas about what it means to be okay in the world, what it means to be good, what it means to be behaving. And being cringe is often something that comes up when we’re not following those rules. And so the reason we’re spending our own time and energy criticizing ourselves in this way is because we’ve internalized messaging that used to be external, right?
And we talked a few weeks ago on the podcast about being too much versus being not enough, which I think is heavily related to being cringe because I think a lot of this stuff where we’re like, “Oh, I don’t want to be too much,” it could almost be synonymous with being cringe. But I do think they’re a little bit different, so I wanted to have a separate podcast on it.
But yeah, it’s like who benefited from that? Who benefits from the idea that if we put ourselves out there and share our ideas and share our vulnerable, authentic experiences, that that is going to be embarrassing or awkward? We don’t benefit from that.
It does not help us build our businesses. It doesn’t help us make friends. It doesn’t help us get the relationship we want if we’re single trying to date. And it doesn’t help us reinvent the relationship we’re in if we’ve been with somebody for a long time, but we’re ready for the relationship to feel different.
And at the end of the day I think the thing about being cringe is, I think what it really is is it’s saying like, is it safe to be myself? Is it safe to show people who I actually am? Or when I show people who I actually am, will I be rejected? Will I be dismissed? Will I be judged? Will I be criticized? Will people think it’s bad or wrong or unpleasant or upsetting or inappropriate that I’m allowing myself to be seen in this way?
Here’s the thing though, when you put yourself out there and you’re willing to be cringe, often this other thing also happens where some people fucking love it. Some people fucking love you. Some people really resonate with what you’re sharing. And so if you are putting yourself out there and being willing to be cringe, for sure your brain, your own brain might tell you you’re being cringe. For sure other people’s face holes, other people might tell you out their mouth that you’re being cringe.
But other people might also love it. Other people might find it to be so valuable. And even if they don’t, maybe it’s worth it just to share what’s real.
Here’s one thing I know for sure, if you’re not willing to be cringe, if you’re not willing to put things out there, it’s pretty hard to discover your own true genius because the things that we put out there that don’t feel at risk of being cringe, usually the reason it doesn’t feel at risk of being cringe is because it’s like everything else.
We’re like, oh, I wrote this sentence, and it sounds like all the other sentences. Or like, I wrote this book and it’s like all the other books. That doesn’t mean it’s not a good book. It could still be a very good book, but discovering your own genius often involves doing something that everyone else isn’t doing or doing it in a different way. Or doing it in a really you, out loud way, right?
And so, I do think if you can develop this skill, and I do think it’s a skill, being willing to be cringe, because it feels fucking terrifying, right? The first few times you do it, you feel like you’re going to be destroyed and eaten alive from the inside. But it’s a muscle, it’s a skill you can build where the more you practice and develop this ability, the more you have a greater capacity for it.
And now I can share on Instagram, and once in a while it feels a little scary, but the stuff that used to feel scary just feels like any other, you know, it’s like a Tuesday, right? So that’s also a fun part of being willing to be cringe and developing this ability, is you’re going to get stronger and the things that used to feel really scary aren’t going to. And honestly, being willing to be cringe, and not cringe for its own sake, like not trying to be cringe on purpose necessarily. Although if you want to do that as a challenge to yourself, have at it. Be my guest, do what you feel.
But being willing to be yourself and put yourself out there into the world and being willing to be cringe as part of that, it’s going to develop the skill of courage. And courage is an essential ingredient for creating a wildly delicious, satisfying life and career. Because courage means that we can take action even when we’re afraid. And courage means we can go after things even if we’re not sure if we’re going to get them or we’re not sure how we’re going to get them.
Courage is what allows us to show up to events and make friends. Courage is what allows us to get on the apps and go on dates if that’s what we’re interested in creating a relationship. And courage is what allows us to turn to our long-term significant other and say, “I want to reinvent our relationship together.” Courage is what allows us to say to our kid, “I’m sorry, I lost my temper. Let’s try again.”
Courage is what allows us to even try cooking a new recipe, right? Whatever you want in your life, whatever you’re craving, probably courage is a key ingredient. And being willing to be cringe is one way to develop that skill.
And if you have no desire to do things that you think are cringe, then maybe this episode is not for you, but maybe it’s something else. Anything in your life you’re not doing, like for you maybe the word cringe isn’t it, but maybe you’re like, “Oh, who do I think I am?” That could be another version of this. Like, oh, I want to go after this senior job in my field, and instead of saying that would be so cringe or my cover letter will be so cringe, your brain might be like, “But who do I think I am?”
We could probably do a whole other podcast on who do I think I am as a thought pattern, and probably one day we will. But for now you can take everything I’ve said in this podcast episode and apply it to that as well. Basically what I’m saying is it’s okay to do things that feel scary, and it’s okay to do things that sort of make you feel a little nauseous with nervousness, if they’re aligned with who you want to be and what you want to build in the world.
And listen, this show it’s not for the faint of heart. So if you’re struggling to do it on your own, you’re not alone. I get it and nothing’s wrong with you. One of the fastest ways to speed this work up is to hire a coach because, one, coaches can see your blind spots. And two, coaches have a lot of experience supporting people doing stuff like this.
I do currently have a few spaces for some new one on one clients, and I also have another round of my small group, Satisfied As Fuck, opening up in the fall. So come on over to my website, sign up for a consult call, and let’s have a conversation about how you can develop this skill in your life and what will be possible when you do. All right, that’s what I have for you this week. I will talk to you next time. Bye bye.
Thank you for listening to Love Your Job Before You Leave It. We’ll have another episode for you next week. And in the meantime, if you’re feeling super fired up, head on over to korilinn.com for more guidance and resources.
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