Bringing Out Your Badass After Abortion
This week’s guest is Melanie Childers- The Enlightened Badass. She is helping women “Smash the Patriarchy, and Get Shit Done”. She is a Master Coach with a shit ton of experience and wisdom and she’s helping others make their mark in the world.
Melanie’s Website: http://www.melaniechilders.com/
Follow Melanie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theenlightenedbadass/
Show Notes:
0:39 That fun moment when you pronounce your guests name wrong- Classic Amanda
1:09 Melanie’s self-introduction
3:38 Many of us ask- How do I make this easier for other women?
4:07 How do I show up as a Badass?
4:28 The Episode with Kassi Underwood
6:24 “I was brought up to believe that there’s no decision here, you have the baby, but…”
9:36 “I get to decide”
10:06 “I made a solid decision for me. PERIOD.”
10:44 Recognizing how powerful you are and then what… how else can we take charge of our lives...
12:00 Breast Cancer at 34- “empowering and terrifying… which wolf do you feed”
12:54 “It’s when we’re able to decide what all that means, and what we want it to mean about us, and then take steps deliberately on purpose out of that, that continue to build our power, or continue to erode our power…”
12:43 “What do I want to do with this?”
16:00 “Once I’ve taken ownership… then what do I want to do with that power?”
16:56 “Hi, Staci, if you’re listening”
19:54 “We do need women running for office who are pro-choice…”
20:26 “There’s so much room here for us to create”
20:48 “You get to feel empowered about it…”
22:11 Top three things to do to release your inner badass after abortion:
1- Mine your past for evidence that you are already a badass- everything counts!
2- Brainstorm from your future self
3- Just go do it!26:00 Act > Reflect > Adapt
26:50 “You can just decide you’re a fucking badass; TODAY.”
27:37 We also get to decide to just like ourselves
29:09 “Decide that you are amazing exactly how you are and choose to love yourself on purpose…”
30:55 How could I have felt so good about what I needed when everyone else is telling me…
31:19 “You get to decide that you trust yourself...you get to decide to have your thoughts and opinions about you…”
32:33 “...when we embody some of that for ourselves, we run the world…”
33:12 “shine the sunshine on the shame… when you take ownership the shame doesn’t get to live anymore…”
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