Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Georgie Stevenson. I'm a lawyer and health coach,
Speaker 1: social media influencer, wife and dog mum. On the Rise
Speaker 1: and Conquer Podcast, we dive deep into all things mindset, habits, career, health,
Speaker 1: relationships and more. This is a podcast for women who
Speaker 1: want to rise up to be the best version of themselves,
Speaker 1: who have big dreams in who are willing to put
Speaker 1: in the work to get there. I want to bring
Speaker 1: you the tools and actionable steps to feel confident in yourself,
Speaker 1: inspired to take bold action, and motivated to conquer your goals.
Speaker 1: Are you with me, girl friends, Let's rise and conquer. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: and welcome to another episode of the Rise and Conquer Podcasts. Today,
Speaker 1: I am coming to you with a solo podcast. It
Speaker 1: is Sunday morning. I've actually just done a bit of
Speaker 1: work in bed this morning with my coffee, which is
Speaker 1: something I love doing if I'm working on the weekend.
Speaker 1: And then I went for a really nice walk on
Speaker 1: the beach and I've actually been listening to this like
Speaker 1: tape with like mantras, and then I came back and
Speaker 1: did a little meditation I'm feeling very calm, very zen,
Speaker 1: and I just had this idea for this podcast, so
Speaker 1: not planned as usual with my solo podcast, but today
Speaker 1: I want to chat to you about honoring the season
Speaker 1: that you were in. So this has come about because
Speaker 1: I'm in a season. I don't know if I've actually
Speaker 1: told you guys this yet. I get confused what I have,
Speaker 1: but I'm currently in a season of slow and this
Speaker 1: is because was previously probably the last six months, I
Speaker 1: just had a very hectic schedule with the live podcast
Speaker 1: events like launching naked harvests and just a couple of
Speaker 1: personal things, and it really feels like I've been on
Speaker 1: this like automation, like I have not had time to stop,
Speaker 1: and I've just been like smashing out content, smashing out
Speaker 1: things really happy and I love doing that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But probably a good month ago I really felt this
Speaker 1: kind of like inner intuition feeling that I just I
Speaker 1: needed to slow down. And it very much felt like
Speaker 1: physically like I felt just very exhausted and drained. Mentally,
Speaker 1: I felt very creatively blocked. Actually I definitely did talk
Speaker 1: about this in my Creating Space podcasts, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: I really had this feeling of I just want to
Speaker 1: create space, I just want to go a bit slower.
Speaker 1: And for me that it was a very foreign concept because,
Speaker 1: like you guys know, like I'm a very fast paced person.
Speaker 1: I went straight from high school and to doing my
Speaker 1: law degree, and then while I was doing that, I
Speaker 1: was doing all my social media, and then I started
Speaker 1: a side business, and then I went full time, and
Speaker 1: then I started a podcast and then Naked Harvest and
Speaker 1: just going one hundred miles per hour all the time,
Speaker 1: and I love it. I really kind of feed off
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. My personality is like, that's me
Speaker 1: and that's amazing. But you can imagine how I feel
Speaker 1: when my body and mind is kind of like something
Speaker 1: inside me is just like you need to go slow.
Speaker 1: So it took me a while to even realize what
Speaker 1: I needed to do. But now I'm in this season,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, this is exactly where I need to be, exactly,
Speaker 1: this is exactly what I need to do. So it
Speaker 1: feels right for me. But in saying that, I do
Speaker 1: have these feelings that pop up that try and get
Speaker 1: me out of you know, this good feeling and this
Speaker 1: flow we'll call it. So stuff pops up like, you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm slowing down, does that mean that I'm going
Speaker 1: to get taken over by forgotten about? You know, a
Speaker 1: people are going to take my good ideas or you know,
Speaker 1: just is something going to happen because I'm slowing down?
Speaker 1: And I've realized that this is such a fear based
Speaker 1: mentality that I know we all get that really tries
Speaker 1: to take off this like aligned path where we're supposed
Speaker 1: to be. And I know you guys might also be
Speaker 1: in a certain season and you kind of you know
Speaker 1: you should be there, you know what you're doing, but
Speaker 1: this fear based mentality does come up, it rears its head,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like it puts self doubt in
Speaker 1: your mind. And so I really want to to talk
Speaker 1: about this and really create a podcast that's about, you know,
Speaker 1: telling you guys and telling myself really that when you
Speaker 1: are in a season and you know you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be in this season, of really honoring it. So stop
Speaker 1: looking around and feeling like you're missing out or you're
Speaker 1: doing something, you're not doing something you should be doing,
Speaker 1: and just really trust where you need to be, trust
Speaker 1: your intuition, and don't live in that fear based mentality.
Speaker 1: So for example, I actually have a friend at the
Speaker 1: moment and she is saving, well, she's not saving for
Speaker 1: a house. Her and her partner have already they've already
Speaker 1: got a mortgage and they're building a house, but they
Speaker 1: currently live in a rental house, so they're having to
Speaker 1: you know, pay the mortgage they're building a new house,
Speaker 1: or the expenses plus pay rent. So basically she can't
Speaker 1: do too much because she's got to save money for that.
Speaker 1: And we were discussing how, you know, she does feel
Speaker 1: like she's missing out on things because she's literally having
Speaker 1: to say no, I can't afford that. And she is
Speaker 1: a social butterfly, so she's kind of she used to
Speaker 1: always doing stuff with us, always coming to the events,
Speaker 1: and you know, kind of doing whatever she wants to
Speaker 1: do in regards to money. And she kind of said
Speaker 1: that she was feeling like isolated and she was feeling
Speaker 1: like she was missing out. But we had a big
Speaker 1: discussion about it, and then she said, you know, this
Speaker 1: is my current season, and instead of looking outwards and
Speaker 1: feeling like I'm missing out and feeling isolated and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, I need to trust that the
Speaker 1: season I'm in, I need to kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: be in this season and do it. And I know
Speaker 1: when I'm out of this season, I'll have money to
Speaker 1: you know, come and do whatever I want to do
Speaker 1: or hang with my friends and imagine how great I'm
Speaker 1: going to feel because I've been in that previous season
Speaker 1: of saving money. And I feel like we can all
Speaker 1: have seasons. So you know, you might be complete opposite me,
Speaker 1: and you might be in this season of just getting
Speaker 1: shit done, like Boss girl mode, getting stuff done, and
Speaker 1: you might be going one hundred miles an hour, and
Speaker 1: then you know you might be feeling like, oh, should
Speaker 1: I be slowing down? You know what am I doing?
Speaker 1: The self doubt comes up. But if you really feel
Speaker 1: aligned in what you're doing and it almost feels easy
Speaker 1: to be in that season of get shit done, like
Speaker 1: that is where you're meant to be. This can also
Speaker 1: be a season of you know, maybe training and eating.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're in a season of it's just not a
Speaker 1: priority at the moment. You're not training as much as
Speaker 1: you usually would or eating as healthy as usually would
Speaker 1: maybe work as the priority. And I think you need
Speaker 1: to realize that things ebb and flow so at the
Speaker 1: moment because you're training and eating isn't necessarily a priority,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it never will be. And if you
Speaker 1: really need to be in a season where you know,
Speaker 1: work or whatever it is, is a parity, then you
Speaker 1: need to trust in that. Or maybe it's something like
Speaker 1: you aren't seeing your friends as much at the moment
Speaker 1: because you're so busy, and you know, you have these
Speaker 1: feelings of guilt and you know, will they be there
Speaker 1: when I'm finished or anything like that, and maybe this
Speaker 1: just isn't your season to be social. Like I know,
Speaker 1: I literally had two years, two full years where I
Speaker 1: just really did not see like even my best friend,
Speaker 1: I barely even saw her. But then I had this
Speaker 1: year after where I was like this social butterfly and
Speaker 1: I was like going out, I was seeing everyone. And
Speaker 1: I think it's about honoring that, because a big thing
Speaker 1: for me is realizing that everything ebbs and flows. And
Speaker 1: if you're currently in this season and you're almost like
Speaker 1: pushing against it and you're not honoring the season that
Speaker 1: you're in, it will feel really hard and it will
Speaker 1: not feel good. So for example, like maybe you're really
Speaker 1: trying to push something, so you're really trying to push
Speaker 1: an idea or push in a like a relationship and
Speaker 1: it's just not working. And so I think you need
Speaker 1: to take a step back and realize in my life,
Speaker 1: where am I not listening to my intuition, aligning with
Speaker 1: where I meant to be, and honoring the season that
Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm definitely that person who previously, you know,
Speaker 1: if I wanted something or wanted to do something or
Speaker 1: anything like that, like I would just push and push
Speaker 1: and push. But now I've realized that that just doesn't
Speaker 1: work and things don't have to be so hard. And
Speaker 1: that was a big thing for me actually with training
Speaker 1: and eating, Like I would go through seasons where it
Speaker 1: was just so easy to get like forty five minute
Speaker 1: work in every single day, to eat healthy, like it
Speaker 1: just was seamless, and then there was seasons where it
Speaker 1: felt so difficult. And I always find like when things
Speaker 1: are so difficult and if they're just not working, I
Speaker 1: would then turn my attention to something else, focus on
Speaker 1: where I needed to align myself as something else in
Speaker 1: my life, and like I said, things will ebb and flow,
Speaker 1: so then that would come back again in the future.
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Speaker 1: now let's get straight back into the episode. Another thing
Speaker 1: that I'm doing differently is previously in my business, I
Speaker 1: was kind of like logical, So if I was deciding
Speaker 1: on a partnership or a next step or a new project,
Speaker 1: I would ask myself, you know, to suit my business,
Speaker 1: is it a good opportunity. Rather, now I'm getting really
Speaker 1: clear and asking myself does it excite me? And does
Speaker 1: it spark joy? Because I really feel like I'm in
Speaker 1: the season where that's my end goal, Like that's what
Speaker 1: I want the result to be. So they're the questions
Speaker 1: I want to ask myself. So maybe things feel really
Speaker 1: difficult and really hard at the moment because you're not
Speaker 1: aligning with your true, authentic and result, like maybe you
Speaker 1: need to start asking yourself different questions of what you
Speaker 1: really want. I know I keep saying this, but I
Speaker 1: really love this concept of everything ebbs and flows. So
Speaker 1: if you're in a season of slow maybe you have
Speaker 1: creativity blocks, trust that soon or somewhere in the future
Speaker 1: that it's going to come back. So if there's anything
Speaker 1: lacking in your life now, don't live in the fear
Speaker 1: mentality of you're never going to get it. Just have
Speaker 1: faith and trust that you know it's not happening at
Speaker 1: the moment. That's all good. I'm going to focus on
Speaker 1: what needs to be more aligned in my life and
Speaker 1: just kind of I call it surrendering. And this is
Speaker 1: something that has been quite hard for me because I
Speaker 1: am someone who I'm just such a control freak, Like
Speaker 1: I'm a tipaid control freak. So I've had to learn
Speaker 1: this process of really surrendering the outcome, surrendering and just
Speaker 1: going Okay, what do I need to do, like guide
Speaker 1: me universe. And it's actually funny because I don't talk
Speaker 1: about this too much, but I love doing meditation at
Speaker 1: the moment and I have this really cool mantra that
Speaker 1: I say, so for example, I'll often do a meditation
Speaker 1: where I sit down and I recite a mantra. I
Speaker 1: put on some really nice like meditation music, and I
Speaker 1: set my alarm for five or ten minutes and I
Speaker 1: get my breath really long and you know, relaxing, and
Speaker 1: then I just recite this mantra for the whole time,
Speaker 1: and I say, I trust the universe is guiding me
Speaker 1: exactly where I need to be. And so I'll often
Speaker 1: do this if you know those kind of the fear
Speaker 1: mentality is popping up, if the self doubt is popping up.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys, but so for example,
Speaker 1: I'm in this season of slow, and then I'll go
Speaker 1: on Instagram and I'll see that, you know, some girl
Speaker 1: is doing this big new project and it seems really exciting,
Speaker 1: and you know, this thought pops up and I'm like,
Speaker 1: maybe I need to do a new project or start
Speaker 1: this or do that. And then I've got to kind
Speaker 1: of push it down and stop kind of stop comparing
Speaker 1: myself and stop looking outwards and just go, no, I'm
Speaker 1: honoring the season of slow. I really need to be here,
Speaker 1: like my intuition is telling me I need to be here.
Speaker 1: And then I'll often do this meditation and so like
Speaker 1: I said, I trust the unit, I'll say I trust
Speaker 1: the universe is guiding me exactly where I need to be,
Speaker 1: and I'll keep reciting that, and then after i will
Speaker 1: get this feeling of calmness and I'm like, yes, no,
Speaker 1: this is exactly what I'm meant to be doing. This
Speaker 1: is this season I'm meant to be in. So kind
Speaker 1: of like clarity, which is something I always seek. And also,
Speaker 1: like I said, if things don't feel aligned at the moment,
Speaker 1: if things like if your intuition is not lining up,
Speaker 1: or you don't feel like you're connected to your intuition,
Speaker 1: or if things are really painful and hard, maybe there
Speaker 1: is something that needs to be realigned in your life.
Speaker 1: So start looking where things aren't going well, where you're
Speaker 1: having to really push things instead of flow, and then
Speaker 1: look to areas of your life where things are really flowing.
Speaker 1: So something that I don't know if you guys have noticed,
Speaker 1: but if you have me on Instagram, which is just
Speaker 1: at Georgie Stevenson, I'm really talking a lot about not
Speaker 1: even talking, but you'll see from my Insta stories like
Speaker 1: every single day I'm really seeking joy, which is something
Speaker 1: I never used to do. I don't know, it just
Speaker 1: never occurred to me that I should be enjoying every
Speaker 1: single day. I realize that sounds a bit traumatic, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. So, for example, I've got this series
Speaker 1: on my interest stories where I really want to do
Speaker 1: a front flip and like land on my feet, and
Speaker 1: so me and Tim will go down to the beach,
Speaker 1: or I'll go down to the beach the body my
Speaker 1: little nephew, and like we'll jump off the sand dunes
Speaker 1: and I'll try and do a ford flip, and I
Speaker 1: usually am like just stacking it and like me and
Speaker 1: Tim are laughing, and then he tries, and the whole
Speaker 1: experience is very like in a child, and we're just
Speaker 1: out there. There's nothing, like we're not doing that for
Speaker 1: anything except joy. And so I'm really seeking joy. And
Speaker 1: I realized that that was an area in my life
Speaker 1: that things were really just flowing. Like the days where
Speaker 1: I was getting the joy in, they were like really
Speaker 1: good days. I was having a really productive day at work.
Speaker 1: And then the days where I wasn't getting joy in
Speaker 1: and I wasn't focusing on joy, things were feeling really
Speaker 1: hard and tough. So I kind of was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to start adding in more joy. And it's
Speaker 1: funny because like these downloads that I like to call them,
Speaker 1: they were they would just come to you when you
Speaker 1: are getting more in tune with how you feel. And
Speaker 1: the first step is just being aware. So if as
Speaker 1: I was saying rambling on as I do with these
Speaker 1: solo podcasts, if straight away you thought of something that
Speaker 1: does not feel aligned, maybe have a look of how
Speaker 1: you can change that in your life, or you know,
Speaker 1: baby steps of how you can start doing less of
Speaker 1: it or outsource it, or have a conversation if it's
Speaker 1: a relationship or anything like that. And then also I
Speaker 1: guarantee when I was talking about feeling aligned, something popped
Speaker 1: in your head about what feels really aligned to you
Speaker 1: at the moment in your life, like what is bringing
Speaker 1: you joy, what is feeling in flow? And start doing
Speaker 1: more of that. I'm going to finish the podcast, but
Speaker 1: for me, I'm just really honoring the season I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking around. I'm not looking what others are
Speaker 1: doing or you know, logically thinking what I should do.
Speaker 1: I'm really trusting what feels good and what feels aligned,
Speaker 1: and I'm leaning into that rather than leaning into the
Speaker 1: fear and the self doubt. And it feels good. It
Speaker 1: feels really good, and just so I wanted to touch
Speaker 1: on it today. But I hope you have a lovely
Speaker 1: day or night whenever you are listening, and I'll chat
Speaker 1: to you in my next episode. Bye for now. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for listening into this week's episode. If you
Speaker 1: love to Rise and Conquer and you're craving more community,
Speaker 1: I have got your girlfriend. I was feeling the exact same,
Speaker 1: so I'm very excited to announce that we have made
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Speaker 1: minded women who are searching for a safe and positive
Speaker 1: space for us to share our stories, to ask for
Speaker 1: advice and interacting. Lastly, if you know someone who would
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Speaker 1: want to go beyond this episode, check out our official
Speaker 1: instagram at Rise and Conquer dot podcast, or my personal
Speaker 1: instagram at Georgie Stevenson. I hope you have an amazing
Speaker 1: day or night whenever you're listening by for now and
Speaker 1: talk to you soon