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Listen for These Key Points: cultivating your own internal compass exploring what to do when we feel our compass needs recalibrating the value of staying in the present moment vs living in past or future how we must balance internal and external feedback why perspective is a valuable calibration tool where there is a healthy place for black and white thinking the importance of having access to your own wisdom remembering that the only person's job it is to save us is our own CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

How less oversight impacts creativity….and distraction Learning how our messages can be translated to a broader audience Creating connection in an online world The negatives and positives of the new work world The distractions of working from home How to have boundaries when working from home Things that can tank our productivity The important keys to successful work from home experiences Ensuring that we don’t make transitionary situations our natural state The role of resilience and flexibility How our values have shifted Tools to help us get the most out of our day CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Right and left-brained thinking and how it impacts our interest and focus The value of being grounded in the world How assessments and tools can help us better understand ourselves (and which ones we like) The paradigms of structure and discipline and the flexibility required within them Why discipline can be nuanced and does not have to be as black and white as we all might think The gifts of embracing how you are naturally wired and using your strengths How the seasons and the cycles of nature can impact us How a temporary shift in environment can be key CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Listen for these powerful truth bombs: When we can go overboard and take TOO much responsibility for our role in a situation How it's appropriate to place anger at the feet of people who do harm Everything is not black and white right and wrong….and the skill required to tease out the grey Why anger is a positive emotion and useful in giving us the energy needed to make necessary and important changes Evaluating our own paradigms, thought processes and lenses through which we look, and change filters where needed The dark side of personal responsibility How being quick to take responsibility is sometimes a form of control so we don’t have to feel our feelings How taking the high road is sometimes a smokescreen for a wrong turn How to know if you are carrying more responsibility than is truly yours Understanding the feelings of others…knowing we don’t always have to understand them….but we do have to believe them The importance of enacting strong powerful boundaries even with people we love How we can love and still be sad and angry with someone Holding ourselves with a ton of compassion when we don’t get it right CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Listen for these insights: The win win, the win lose, and the lose lose Why integrity is not just about telling the truth or being honest What do we do when challenged What is required to keep ourselves whole and in integrity What happens when do fail to honor agreements Collateral damage and considering the one vs the many The necessity to widen our perspective and reflect on each situation individually without black and white rigidity Why many people don’t do the deep reflection on this What allows us to create and maintain wholeness What if it wasn’t about creating win win…but rather creating connection and wholeness How truth can be changing…and how threatening that thought can be How integrity, at its roots,  is an exploration of self How integrity is compounded learning….with layers of new learning giving us greater perspective CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Listen for these insights: How when we feel the need to banish we can pattern interrupt and open instead of contract and defend When a small ‘prayer’ can help Why we need to stop contracting and defending The necessity of self-trust Why expansion allows us to also extend our vision and perspective Vulnerability and its role How control and vulnerability cannot exist at the same time The of asking the deeper questions and getting curious about our own thoughts feelings and triggers What is required to heal What happens if we don’t heal History and its repetitions…how we tend to save things for later How can we meet the beast in the eye and not turn away What allows us to switch from banishing to exploring CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe 

Listen for these discoveries and insights: Why it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society How we are tricked into thinking we always have to know the answer, the way to go and what to do The gift in not just getting comfortable with the not knowing…. but EMBRACING the not knowing The gold of sitting in the not knowing How to trust that the next step is revealed. The lessons the caterpillar has for us How to relax into the process and not rush through it The importance of allowing yourself to BE in the in-between What a ‘lack of clarity’ has to teach us Why it's OK to not always ‘know’ the answers The perils of instant gratificationLonging….why we try to avoid it, but shouldn’t Finding the treasure in the darkness The sweet spot of resistance  The role of GRIT over talent and intelligence Please note in this episode we discovered, after the fact, that our audio was less than ideal. It was such a powerful conversation we hated to not share it.  Please forgive us for poor audio quality or audio disturbances…you just can’t recreate such things. Consider it proof we are keeping it real, always, and in all ways. CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Listen for expansion on these thoughts: The gifts of the dark night of the soul How watching others struggle is  sometimes more difficult than our own struggle How do we know when WE are ready? How do we know when OTHERS are ready? Why the struggle is necessary for the growth and strength for the next steps Listen for a lovely and poignant open from Rumi Acknowledging when suffering is present and Emotions are like storm clouds. Why both the shadow and the light are required The spectrum is different for everyone Why exploring the range is important to finding out what we're capable of Why getting stuck gets a bad rap…but it's vital to growth and maturity and is an ‘initiation’ of sorts How curiosity is the key to moving CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Listen for these ah-has and thought nuggets: Becoming physically aware of our bodies inability to grind in perpetuity The awareness required to listen The external search for worthiness and acceptance Knowing your innate wiring and drive Knowing our limits Knowing our triggers How to tune in Asking for help and our bullshit stories about being a burden Finding the balance between when to push and when to rest It takes a village How we have become disconnected from ourselves and thusly one another The importance of remembering who we are Showing up in imperfection The value of presence CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Epiphanies include: The illusions of safety Where these illusions come from The meaning of life and other questions How we create meaning The stories we create Moving from despair to inspired and empowered The gifts of collapse and how it’s necessary The illusions of limit and confinement The value of bearing witness to the struggle of others How growth often starts in the dark places and from decay Ways to come alongside and support one another better The lessons in our discomfort with other peoples pain CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

This week's highlights and wisdom snacks include: Exploring the definitions and trigger around discipline Harnessing the power of how we are naturally wired to take action Why it's important to find your own balance The importance of staying out of resistance and burnout The difference between being internally vs externally driven The kinds of discipline and how they can be connected to our value of freedom Masculine vs feminine Energy..when each serves us over the other Knowing your individual core energy and operating from it Why it's important to experiment Understanding we are always a creative work in progress Applying curiosity vs judgment How to stop treating it like a job CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Listen for these thought bombs: The importance of bustling systems around the things we choose to change Why willpower alone is not enough. The power of aggregating and compounding efforts How do we show up in a systematically better way each day Looking at big goals and breaking them down so we can create sustainable effort vs burnout Why being imperfect but consistent is always better than perfection once The things that undermine our success How to cultivate greater self trust to stay consistent CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Listen for these pearls of wisdom: The perils of perfectionism Recognizing where we are on the timeline. Knowing the filters through which we are viewing the world at any given time and the influence those filters have on what we experience How resistance can cause pain The role trusting yourself plays in the stories we tell and the meaning we assign The difference between pain and suffering How we can not make pain ‘a big deal’ What causes us to collapse How a lack of trust is often at the heart of our struggles Going through the breakdown to be able to breathe What happens when we get fixated on the destination vs the journey CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know. 

Keep your ears open for these wisdom snacks: The stats on resolutions The place we should engineer our resolutions  from Where the heart of our goals comes from  Our bigger ‘why’ and how we get to that. Why we have to ‘dig deep’ to sustain our efforts The importance of being pulled forward vs pushing and driving Perspectives about ‘will power’ that help us view it differently Why we must have a sane perspective about our resolutions Setting ourselves up for success The power of incremental vs sweeping change Stretching without snapping The role of supportive accountability CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Listen for these elements: The damage that comes from living in fear Reasons why we withhold and hide  Times when it's good to share and times when it’s not How withholding our pain and struggle from one another keeps us separate Our tendency to censor ourselves and why we do it The stories we tell that keep us in hiding The role judgment plays in hiding Why we must be fully enrolled in our own truth to push past hiding The fears we have that cause it all The perils of secrecy CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Instagram - CarlaRoyalCoach Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Wisdom nuggets to keep your ears open for: Why it's easier to people please The difference between ‘niceness’ and ‘kindness’ How it can feel like it’s easier to be pleasing vs living as our most authentic self Why it's often a case of ‘alignment’…or rather ‘misalignment’ The importance of having a lot of compassion for self What we are afraid of that leads us to the people-pleasing in the first place How biology wires for pleasing The things in our current day world that make us more susceptible to pleasing How social media plays a role What we need to be aware of to avoid unhealthy amounts of pleasing What skills help us overcome it The learning we need in order to move past pleasing and into healthier interactions Who we have to be in order to not people please The startling truth that others don’t really like it when we people please Learning not to ‘over’-explain. How to make it clean and clear Understanding It’s not about being nice….(hint: we tell you what it IS about) What it means to be an authentic human being…(spoiler alert: it's not pleasing) The superpower we already possess that is kryptonite to pleasing CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Instagram - CarlaRoyalCoach Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Listen for theses truth bombs: -The one universal constant of decision making-Why it's easy to make commitments but hard to follow them through-Even making a bad decision is a gift..and taking the car out of park-How there are always other decisions around the corner-The best kind of light that comes from a burning bridge-Decisions that are not final..and how we can change course-Failure as the path to success-Understanding that there IS time to sit back and wait-Why pushing never works-What happens if we don’t push through resistance points-An important question to ask ourselves in the face of challenges-The benefits of trading up for better quality problems-How to know the difference between commitments we need to see through and those we need to let go of and no longer serve us. CONNECT WITH CARLA Carla is a mindset & performance coach working with high-achieving, high-performance entrepreneurs who are dealing quietly with too much stress. Website - CarlaRoyal.com Facebook - Carla Royal Coach Linkedin - Carla Royal Instagram - CarlaRoyalCoach Sign up to receive Carla's weekly newsletter for inspiration, motivation, and tips for living with more ease and flow - Subscribe  CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Jennifer is an intuitive business strategist working with spiritually-minded business owners to help them create a scalable business that acts as a container for their soul's purpose. Stop by and get a bit of inspiration and guidance with our online oracle deck- Subscribe Website – TheBalanceMaven.com Instagram- TheBalanceMaven Facebook - TheBalanceMaven CONNECT WITH US! If you love The Riffing on Realness Podcast, rate the podcast and/or write us a review!  You can do that HERE ! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on new episodes dropping every week. And don’t forget to share it with your friends! Thank you for listening and being a part of this community! It means a lot to us! Finally, are there topics you'd like us to cover? Please let us know.

Featured points to listen for and ponder: Why it is important to reflect on the year that was and plan for what is to come The fear associated with making changes in how we ‘have always done it’…and doing it anyway Why it is paramount to find ways to take good care of yourself The tension point between making changes and living the changes The toxicity of always trying to be ‘producing’ in your business The value of slowing our roll and creating balance and rest points. How leadership plays a role The practice of exploring our edges and learning from them and growing through them and passing it on Why experimenting is OK…practice makes better.  It’s not about perfection The myth of quarters….time and the stories we have created and why they aren’t real Why being aligned and in coherence with the Universe to BE-come our best selves starts with BE…then we can DO and Have Ways to be in your truth Looking at our stories and our perception of reality being skewed when we are the only one to dialogue with our own mind The value of looking at our internal landscape Tools for us to explore that internal landscape and BE-come the greatest version of ourselves What we can let go of to avoid the grind and stay in the joy while creating change

Sparkley highlights include: -Non-traditional ways to explore the holiday season -Giving ourselves permission to do it ‘our way’ and create new traditions that honor ourselves first. -How the ’expectations’ can turn it all into a job -The irony of how thoughtfulness  and gifts can get lost in the holiday shuffle -‘Net Gain’, ‘Net Neutral/Zero’, and ‘Net Loss’ as a tool for evaluating what to say yes to and commit to during holidays -The value of recognizing creating an experience for others doesn’t have to feel lie it costs you -How sometimes making grand sweeping change to our traditions is easier than incremental change -Being mindful about getting caught in the stories of how its ’supposed’ to be -Being empowered to create change by choosing a different narrative in advance of the holiday stress -How the words ‘always’ and ‘never’ can be so dangerous -Why it is important to learn from our past holiday experiences, but not get trapped into the dogma that we must repeat them -How ‘tradition’ is peer pressure from dead people -Seeing versions of ourselves through other people and looking with curiosity without judgment -The importance of understanding the ‘essence’  and ‘operating systems’ of those we love -Honoring thyself first and getting the support you need to make this your best holiday season to date

Listen for these truth bombs and wisdom nuggets: -Sometimes it’s simply about recalibration of our purpose and our souls work -Why sometimes everything needs to fall away and feel like its breaking down in order to breakthrough -When doing less better is actually ..more -How the beauty of ‘blankness’ can bring about higher vibrational frequency and be more aligned -Seeing the breakdown and beauty vs burden -The stories we tell based on the external world -Why we must slow down to speed up -It isn’t alway about letting a goal go, but rather re-defining it -Why being brave does not mean without having fear -Being ‘The Archer’ in your own life and how the ‘tension’ serves us -The point at which we want to turn back is when we are the closest to lift off -Why we must attach our well being to our bottom line -How we can have a successful business AND take great care of ourselves -Going deep on the internal landscape lets us go deep in our business. -Don’t miss the valuable ‘Questions worth asking ourselves’ near the end to explore with curiosity your own edges -Obstacles as opportunities for growth -The danger in too much tension and not knowing how to let go