What Nearly Stopped Me from Filming a Video of Myself Doing My Solo Podcast Episodes

INTRO: After generating over a million dollars in sales and selling one of her businesses with a single email, your host Kathryn Thompson takes an unconventional approach to marketing and sales. So if you're ready to tap into a more powerful way to be seen, heard, and a sought after entrepreneur in your industry, without having to spend endless hours marketing your business and chasing clients, you're in the right place.

Be The Sought After Entrepreneur Podcast is here to help you ditch the cookie cutter, one size fits all approach to marketing, and use your unique energy to effortlessly attract the most aligned clients. When you do this, You can spend less time marketing your business and more time doing your soul work and enjoying the richness of your life.

Welcome to Be The Sought After Entrepreneur Podcast. And here's your host, Kathryn Thompson.
Hey, hey, super stoked that you're tuning into this week's episode. I cannot wait to dive in today's topic [00:01:00] because I want this episode to be another self reflective episode where. As I'm sharing, as I'm talking, that you're starting to ask yourself some of these questions, that you're starting to maybe even journal out some of the things I'm prompting you to consider, to reflect on, to, you know, gain awareness on.

Kathryn Thompson: And this episode really is an episode where I'm going to share with you, One of the biggest excuses I've been making about why I'm not able to go live on video while I'm recording my podcast episode, so that I can share clips of me actually talking with my audience, with you guys, over on social media.

So that you can actually see me speaking, talking, that sort of thing, and sharing as part of my podcast episode. Because to date, what I have done is, when I have a guest on, of course we've been adding video, But when I don't have a guest on, I've just been putting words and voice over, uh, an image. [00:02:00] And what I know to be true, and I know if you're listening to this, you know this as well, that when we can connect with somebody visually, when we can look them in the eyes, when we can hear their voice and see their face at the same time, creates that deeper connection.

But I had been telling myself an excuse for why I wasn't able to do that, and why I was able to do it when I had guests on. But not as a solo episode. And my lovely assistant has been sort of nudging me because she helps me create the graphics for my social media and that sort of thing. And she'd kind of be nudging me to record myself on video as I did it.

Just set your phone up, Kathryn. It's easy. And just do what you do. And I had this Lovely excuse that I want to share with you because as entrepreneurs, as people, we often make excuses for why we're not able to do something, why we're not able to achieve the results that we want, why we're not able to take action a certain way in our business, why we're [00:03:00] not making the sales that we want in our business, why we haven't seen the growth in our business.

We constantly tell ourselves these stories for why it's not happening. And I want to share with you this one because I think it's quite common, but it's one of mine that I've had for a while now, and I'm rewriting it, and I'm rewriting it because I think it's really important for myself, but I also think it's really important that I do this and show others that it's possible because I think my excuse is probably one that a lot of people have, uh, when it comes to turning the camera on ourselves.

I think it's easy to pan over our hands while we're typing on a computer. I think it's easy to pan a coffee as we're walking down the street. I think it's easy to pan over a landscape. But when it comes to pointing the camera on ourselves, I There's lots of reasons why people don't want it and they shy away from it.

And I'm going to tell you [00:04:00] that this has nothing to do with me being somewhat of an introvert to some degree, me liking having my alone time, me enjoying not needing to document my entire life. However, I also do know that, again, as I get on camera and I share my face and and talk in this way, you know, it creates that deeper connection.

with all of you who are listening, who are hearing my words and whatnot. And what's funny about it is the very first video I posted, I had a client of mine comment saying, Oh my God, I love seeing you talk, right? Which was just a reminder that this excuse I was making Was just an excuse, um, because the thing that I was fearful of or the thing that I thought I needed to do in order to take action is something that nobody's commenting on, nobody's saying, nobody's, you know, making any sort of point [00:05:00] about it.

And so, As you listen to me share this, I want you to consider where you're doing the same, where you think you need to do something first in order to take the step, where you think you might need to get more prepared or more ready for it, because the biggest excuse that I was telling myself was that In order to set my phone up, and in order for me to video myself, it was going to take a lot more production.

And if you've been in my world for a while, you know that I'm about taking the path of least resistance. I'm about taking the path that does not require a hundred more steps. I'm about efficiency. I'm about, you know, cutting out all the unnecessary stuff. And if I'm going to make something harder on myself.

I'm not doing it. And so I was telling myself I needed to, you know, this was going to cost a lot more production on my part and a lot more preparation, a lot more needing to get ready. And by [00:06:00] needing to get ready, I mean doing my hair, putting on makeup, you know, presenting myself in a professional way, whatever professional looks like to you.

Professional to me, in a lot of ways, I've shed a lot of that because professional was this identity that I had in corporate, right? That you would show up in an office with a suit on or a dress or some type of dress clothing and you would have your hair done and you'd have makeup on and lipstick maybe and jewelry and all of that and you were put together, right?

And so that part of that identity I have, I have definitely shed. But there still is a part there that was coming up for me that I needed to sort of address, and that was needing to get ready for the camera, needing to put on the makeup, needing to do my hair to some degree, needing to Where some type of mascara or maybe even jewelry or put on [00:07:00] a nice shirt and I needed to get ready and so that was going to hinder my ability to record my solo episodes because as you know, I'm somebody who does stuff very much in the flow and so.

When I'm doing these episodes, I'm, I'm very much in the flow. I do them within a week span. I'm not batched out for months in advance, although maybe my podcast editor would love that, I'm just not that person and I've never been that person. And so while I love to have some, what of a structure in my life and in my business, I also love to be able to move within that structure.

And so for me, that meant if I had to set the camera up. I would need to have more of a plan because I often will have my hair in a topknot. I often, you know, um, maybe didn't wash it that day. I don't wash my hair every single day, right? And so it was like this messy topknot. Lots of times I'm in a hoodie or a [00:08:00] workout tee or something like that.

I rarely get dressed up and so this notion that I needed to do that to get on camera Um, was this story I was telling myself, because the downfall of not doing that is not being taken seriously, right? Which is, again, a fear or pattern of mine, is that, oh, if I show up as my true authentic self, or I show up in the moment, unprepared, unedited, then will people take me seriously for what I'm saying, what I'm doing?

And so it's interesting because as my assistants encouraging me to do this, my assistants looking at me going, well, just. just talk, right? You're so unscripted when it comes to recording your stuff and writing your content that it's going to be an amazing video because you're just showing up and speaking.

And that's really beautiful and people will be able to connect with that. And I kept saying, but I gotta get [00:09:00] ready and it's production. And she couldn't really understand that. She's like, I don't get it. Like just. do it, you know, and why I'm sharing this with you, One is because there is a story that we tell ourselves in that excuse.

But on the other hand, if you're a coach or consultant, and you're working with somebody, and you're having this conversation with somebody on maybe something similar pattern, they have an excuse, they're making And you're Like just post, just create content and post and put it online, or Just write that email to your list, or Just Host the live Master Class, Like, what's holding you back?

You know, just do it. I don't understand what's so complicated about it. If you're a coach or a mentor, then there's this compassion that you can start to see, not only for your clients, because you're seeing it for yourself in a lot of ways, right? So if you flip it, it's like you can understand now why a lot of people don't take the step forward, or don't take the action, or don't achieve the things they want, because there's some underlying story they're telling themselves for why they can't [00:10:00] do it.

And for me, it was the hard work and the production of it. And it was the the flow that was going to be taken away, which is the thing I love, right? I don't want to push against the grain. I don't want to swim upstream. I want things to be easy. I want things to flow. I want efficiency. And so that story of not showing up on video because I didn't want to do my hair or makeup or anything Um, is.

You know, preventing me from just showing up and just talking and having the camera rolling and the other part of this that's so important to me in a lot of ways is that as women, you know, we often put so much pressure on ourselves to be put together and to be polished and that there's this. You know, message that if we're not wearing some type of makeup, mascara, or hair done, jewelry on, and a nice shirt, that somehow we're less put together, somehow we're less polished, somehow we're [00:11:00] less professional, and that God forbid someone show up like that.

And therefore we won't take them seriously, that we have to work so much harder to be taken seriously, right? If you look at men who show up and record themselves on their podcast, they'll have like a beanie or a toucan is what we call it in Canada, but they'll have like a beanie on and a hoodie, you know, and or they'll show up in like ripped jeans or something like that.

And they're in a, in a, in a. Rugged old t-shirt and maybe some stubble on their face. And, and yet they're taken seriously. And the thing about all of this is, is that it's not that I'm trying to be something that I'm not, I'm not trying to make a statement of, oh, well, I'm just not gonna wear makeup. I'm gonna go all natural.

I don't actually wear makeup. I don't wear a ton of makeup. If anything, I put some mascara on. I, I'm, I do not wear jewelry per, like, basically at all. Um, and I rarely, like, curl my hair or even blow dry it, [00:12:00] right? It's, it's, if you're watching this on Insta, uh, it's, it's, Wet. Like my hair is wet right now 'cause I just had a shower and so, um, I let my hair air dry and, and have for a long time since leaving corporate.

Um, and the funny thing about it is, in the latter years of corporate, I'd walk in with wet hair because I think I was so tired of having to put on this facade of like, I have to get up, wash my hair, blow dry my hair, do all the things right. Um, when again. A dude could roll out of the shower, put a hat on and walk out the door and, and, and still be viewed the same way, um, as professional, put together and polished and all those sorts of things.

And so, um, I'm sharing this with you because this is one of the biggest excuses for why I sometimes tend to hide behind the camera or don't go maybe live as much or on stories as much or anything like that. And also didn't, like I said, wanted to record a whole podcast episode where I'm being recorded that I'm not polished [00:13:00] or poised or whatnot.

And so, um, I'm sharing this with you because there's often a lot of excuses we tell ourselves. And I want to share with you some of the common ones that I hear in my work and in my line of work. And you, of course, can start to jot down where. You might be telling yourself a story that's preventing you from actually going after the thing you want and a really cool hack around that And it's a Byron Katie hack.

This is her work is is this true? That's a question she will ask that's a question and her whole process of helping you rethink and gain awareness Is this true? And what's interesting about this question is is that when you ask it It actually cuts through a lot of the noise because you have a moment to sort of pause and go, no, actually that isn't true.

And so I want to share with you some of the ones that I hear from a lot of [00:14:00] entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants that I can see clear as day is, is just a story that's sort of running in their mind that's preventing them from. the life they want, the business they want, the results they want. A big one is, is the industry, is the market too saturated?

Or, I feel like the market's too saturated already, so do I need to shift, change, pivot, you name it. And that one comes so prevalently in the work that I do, specifically in the coaching space, because I do think there are a lot of coaches out there. But In a lot of industries, there's a lot of people in that industry already, right?

And so what that can look like when we're contemplating saturation is constantly rejigging your business, your offer, your messaging, niching down, finding a new niche, right? Doing that niching exercise for the [00:15:00] 15th time because you want to land on one that You know, is going to work, so to speak. You want to get it right.

So you're spinning in this inaction and you're not taking action because you think it's already too saturated and so you're trying to find this original thought or this original idea or you're trying to come at it with something so unique. So that it works. And I'm not saying not to be unique and not to be original, but what I do know when we're contemplating this whole saturation piece of it is we spend a lot of time doing work that isn't out there in the world, that isn't being of service to the people, where, in my opinion, you actually learn the most, is in relation with the people you want to serve and help.

And the more conversations you have with them, the better off it is. And so to me, That is the story that some people tell, and then the pattern of that looks like doing a bunch of busy work behind the scenes trying to [00:16:00] find that diamond in a rough, so to speak, of the niche, or the market, or the angle, or the hook that's going to, you know, Cut through the noise and make you so much different than everybody else so that it works.

And then the worst off scenario or case scenario is that you don't do anything and that you go back and get a job because you've told yourself this story that it's too saturated and um, you're not going to be successful and so you go back and do something else. The other big one that I see is And so a lot of time is spent in this idea that I don't have the clarity.

I'm lacking clarity, right? So that's the story that's running. I'm lacking clarity. I need more clarity on what I do, who I help, all those sorts of things. And what ends up happening is, is that we never actually take action because we're waiting for the clarity, clarity to arrive. And similarly to the saturation piece of it, to me, clarity comes from the action.[00:17:00] 

But there is no such thing as certainty when it comes to business, so to speak, there really is no certainty in life. Nothing is really certain. So when we sit there in this lack of clarity, to me, it's just a state of mind, a story that we're telling ourselves, I need to get more clear on the people I serve.

Well, how do you do that? In my opinion, that's working with people that's not sitting in your house, You know, going through exercises of who your people are and trying to nail down who your people are without talking to anybody. Because the only way we really get to understand and know somebody is by talking to them and listening.

Not by doing a messaging exercise in your house, where you're like, this is my person, and this is the, you know, lifestyle they live, and these are the books they read. Like, that's all just made up, in my opinion, that the nuance of really understanding somebody is, is listening to them. And hearing what they have to say.

And so if you're stuck in this inaction [00:18:00] of clarity, you know, lack of clarity, I need more clarity before I can take action, then you actually need to take action to gain the clarity, you actually need to have more conversations to gain the clarity, you need to trial and error things, you need to experiment in order to Find the clarity for yourself in order to have things become clear.

And then, another really big one that I see, that comes back to sort of age, looks, like being a woman is, you know, one, I need to be polished, poised, perfected on camera, I need to get ready, I need to have everything all perfect in order to just go live, and that's again an illusion. But the other one is age.

I have a lot of people that come into my world who are not necessarily younger than me, but older than me and who want support in their business, which I think is absolutely beautiful. But one of the stories I often hear is, I'm [00:19:00] old and therefore I can't do X, Y, and Z like the young people. And now, don't get me wrong.

I believe the young people out there are, you know, might be more advanced in some areas and whatnot. However, I was just having a conversation with somebody recently, and they said that, you know, um, I think it was Forbes that did an article about it was like Some of the most successful and wealthy women are over the age of 50.

And so, we can tell ourselves this story that we're too old, or we're gonna take a slower path because we're older, or we're gonna take this, you know, it's gonna take us longer, it's gonna take us more work, it's gonna take us more effort to learn it because we're older. And my question is, is that true? Is that true?

Is that true that, you know, uh, creating content for social media takes you longer because you're [00:20:00] older? I know some people who are older than me that are far more phenomenal at creating content on social media than I am. The question is, is if you desire it, right? Because that's a whole other ballgame.

You know, I don't want to be a content factory, and I don't want to show up consistently on social just creating content for the sake of selling. That is not my jam at all, right? Because content creation for me is a creative expression. And so To me, creativity and creative expression isn't something that you mold into a time frame.

It's not something you can put the restraint around that goes, okay, what has to be created at this time and this time and this time, we've got to post it this time and this time and this time. That's not creativity. Creativity to me is like, non linear. Sometimes it might look a little chaotic, right? It might be sporadic.

It's not something that you just sit and force yourself to do for the sake of doing. And so for me, that's my value. My values align with the fact that my, what I [00:21:00] put out into the world, the podcasts I record, the content I create, or all of creative expression, I need to enjoy the process of creating it.

And if I don't enjoy the process of creating it, Then for me, it's not worth it, right? Other people are wired differently. And so again, when you, when you say, I'm too old, I'm not, I'm not able to, you know, adapt or adopt this thing because I'm old, um, and they're, and younger people have a better chance.

That, that's a story. Right? That's an excuse. I was also just, uh, I landed on someone's, um, feed on Instagram, and I think he's 60, and he's an artist, but a self taught artist, and he basically taught himself how to draw, sketch, I think via pencil. Might be marker. Anyways, he's 60 and he grew his account to well over 100k.

It's probably growing. It's probably more than that now, but he did this video that was basically that. I'm 60 years old. I think he lost [00:22:00] his job and he became a self taught artist where he just had to probably watch YouTube videos or something. I don't know, but he self taught himself and he documented his process.

So if you go back on his feed, you can see the early days of him drawing. And, and then. to date, like the improvement that he's made and all of that. But the thing that he mentioned was is that like, I also learned how to create content for social media. Like I'm a 60 year old man who lost his job, self taught artist, and now has taught myself how to grow this beautiful community that he has on Instagram now.

And again, He's 60, right? And so we can continually say we're too old, um, not young enough, whatever it might be, but that's ageism and in so many ways, right? Is that's the story that our society and our culture wants to tell us that it's downhill from here, that we're, you know, that we're not going to be as fit, blah, blah, blah, all the things, right?

Our looks are going to go. That's ageism. That's [00:23:00] a story. And that's a pattern. And you have the choice to sort of rewrite that. And sometimes when my patterns really, really Thick. I'll go look around and go, is that really true? Because my mind might go, well, yeah, it is true. Right? But then I'll go look around and I'll find an account like this man's that I stumbled across who's 60 self-taught artists, and you know, crushing it on Instagram.

And I'll go, huh, it actually isn't true. That story of. You know, I'm not as tech savvy as a 20 year old on TikTok, um, therefore I won't be successful or that my success is gonna run out because I'm not gonna be able to keep up with all the advancements that are coming. Again, not necessarily true. So, those are some of the really common ones, and then obviously, like I said, the polish, the looks, needing to have your hair done, makeup, all the things, rather than just showing up, how you normally do.

Now if, if you love putting on makeup and getting ready and curling your hair and [00:24:00] getting dressed in fancy clothing and all that jazz, then that's, that's the expression, right? It's not about that that is wrong, and that, you know, going all natural is right. That's not what I'm trying to say is, is that I was telling myself that I couldn't do it because I was having to go against my natural way to get ready to produce to to have everything all set up perfect when in reality I could just show up.

As I normally do, um, and it's, it's a lot less production, right? Um, and another one that I often will hear is, is that I'm not ready yet. So I need to get that one more thing. I need that certification. I need those names behind my name. I need to have a website launched. I need to have, you know, my Instagram handle picked out.

I need to have my, who I am and my iHelp statement. And the funny thing about that, and I, and I get a little bit humorous about it, is because [00:25:00] if you've been in business for a while, I want you to just ponder right now, how many times have you changed your IG handle or bio or whatever? Not, maybe not handle, but the bio of it.

I just want you to ponder that for a second. Because I know, hands down, I have changed my, I haven't changed mine in like well over a year now, but prior to that, I was changing it all the time. I was changing it all the time, and I see other people doing the same. Accounts that I follow, that I see, they're constantly changing that iHealth statement, and they're in this like, what is my iHealth statement, what should I write, da da da da da, all the things.

And what's interesting about that is, is that That is, like, when you look at that, right, so if you're not taking action because you want to get the perfect bio down, let's just say, and the perfect label down, like who you are and what you do and how you serve people, then you would think that you would just never have to change it, but that never [00:26:00] happens, because the more you work with people and the more you put it out there and the more you evolve and grow, the more that all is going to evolve and grow.

So this notion that you have to have everything ready again is an illusion, but it's also in a story that you're telling yourself. Cause are you ever really going to be a hundred percent ready? It's not a one or done. It's not like, okay, if I, if I nail my messaging, I'm never going to have to look at that again.

If I nail my IG bio, I'm never going to have to touch it again. If I create my website, I'm never going to have to do anything with it again. That is not true. You could probably ask any other business in the world and they've changed their website. Probably a handful of times, maybe not like a hundred times, but again, colors, uh, evolve.

People, you know, change their brand colors after a certain amount of years in business. So it's not a one or done. And I think that's that mentality of like, I have to have everything on my ducks in a row. I've got to get everything all sorted. I've got to have [00:27:00] all the things in order. in order to, you know, take a step forward.

And that can't be further from the truth. And then the final one that I want to share with you, because this is also one of mine, is the seriousness of business. And that we have to take business uber seriously. And that when we're not taking it seriously, I would say, well, business is serious. We've got to take it serious.

We've got to know where our clients are coming from. And I was just this like very serious human being when in reality, Outside of business and outside of my corporate, I'm like the most goofy, funny, jokester, playful person you could probably meet. Honestly, I'm like, I don't really take life that seriously.

I've, I never really [00:28:00] have and yet I would get into business and I'd be this other person trying to make things super uber serious and all of that because somehow that reflected my commitment and so when I wasn't doing that again I would tell my story to myself that I wasn't going to be successful because I wasn't taking things seriously or taking the job seriously or doing a serious job and That couldn't be further from the truth when I rewrote that story, the playfulness, the fun, the, you know, laid back, the not really taking that much serious, because in business again, and in life, I often say this, the only thing that's consistent is the fact that everything's going to change around you all the frickin time.

And you see this in the world now, you see this going into 2024, you see this with AI and tech, you see this with the energetic and planet alignment, right? Um, Jan 20th. I'm not a huge astrology person. I don't know a ton about [00:29:00] it. Let's just say I'm not an expert in it, but I follow it and I read about mine and I understand my stuff, but, but I'm not an expert in it.

But on Jan 20, we shifted from, you know, Pluto and Capricorn Pluto in Aquarius, which is the first time since 2008 that we've shift, we've had this massive transit happen and now for the next 20 years, that's what's happening. Like we're in that sort of energy, right? So again, nothing's really consistent.

There's always things changing, um, whether that's a life cycle, right? Whether that's like a 2008 to now, whether that's a yearly cycle, whether that's a monthly cycle, like we're constantly changing and evolving. And so, Why try to grip and be really serious about something or even have the notion that you have to be?

That, you know, that you can't have the playfulness and the fun and the humor and the joking and the laid backness about it. And the releasing and the letting go of it. And so, you know, I, again, I wanted this [00:30:00] episode to be one of self reflection of like, where am I telling stories about why I can't achieve something?

Where am I telling stories about? Why I need to do something a certain way in order to achieve something, or that I just need to do something a certain way to just exist and be in the world, right? That I, that I need to maybe hustle hard or grind, or that maybe I'm not lucky. Again, another story, right?

That I'm not lucky enough to do. You know, have the business of my dreams, whatever that looks like for you, and for all of us, it's different. But like, where are you telling yourself your story, and where are you limiting that story? Where are you limiting it? Where are you preventing yourself from making a deeper connection with your audience and your community?

Where are you limiting yourself from, you know, collaborating on or collaborating with? Somebody that you admire. One of the things that I was [00:31:00] told years and years and years ago, and I truly believe this, is that when we gravitate or resonate to somebody that we admire, or somebody we look up to, or somebody that we're like, wow, I love what they are doing, There's something within them that we hold within ourselves.

And what's interesting about this is that there's a few people that I follow that I'm like, Oh, I love what you do. And I love your expression and how you show up in the world. And I recently did a quiz and it was funny because the three people that I. have similarities based on my quiz results with are three people that I genuinely genuinely love like following their content and and love following what they do because they're so in tune with themselves but they're also this creative expressive person that's like Showing up authentically, but also knows that showing up authentically is, is an ever evolving, changing thing, that sometimes what we believed and [00:32:00] thought and wanted two years ago no longer looks the same, and that there is an acceptance in that, and that is okay, that what we stood for a year ago might look different today, which is why when I say, you know, I'm hiding behind the camera and didn't want to maybe go on camera, that doesn't mean I'm not authentic.

The story I was telling myself was that I didn't want to do that because it was too much of production and I am somebody who wants to go against the path of least resistance. And then when I re looked at that, I realized that I was actually creating the resistance. I was creating the resistance because I was telling myself this story that I had to be something else, something, some other person that I'm actually not.

And so the resistance that I was creating was actually my soul, myself going like, Well, it is a production. It is a production to be somebody that isn't you. It is a production to show up [00:33:00] and have your hair done and jewelry and makeup and, you know, uh, dress clothing when that actually isn't how you live.

99. 9 percent of the time. And that is the message I want you to walk away from from this episode, is that we tell ourselves these stories and we make these excuses, but when we can start to unpack why we're doing it, is it resistance because we're going against the grain of who we are, or we're trying to be something we're not?

Is that why the resistance is there? Or is it our subconscious trying to keep us safe from showing up? And in this case, for me, it wasn't. It was the fact that I was trying to be something I wasn't, or I was, I was telling myself I needed to be something I wasn't in order to be taken seriously, in order to be viewed as professional, in order to be viewed as somebody worth listening to.

And that isn't true. Because [00:34:00] Without the camera, without the video that, the clip that's going to go on Insta. Y'all listen to my episodes, I hear from you all the time how impactful they are. I hear all the time how moving, or how much insight, or I've heard from people that it's like a mini course in and of itself.

That literally I'm, I'm sharing and, and you know, so much wisdom in these episodes. And there wasn't a camera on me. And so Again, what is true and what are the stories we're telling ourselves and if we're willing to get clear about it, if we're willing to gain awareness and sort of do that inner reflective work, which is why I wanted this to be a reflective episode.

is because when we start to pinpoint where the resistance is coming from, is it soul going, hey, there is an easier way. You could just show up on camera and not worry about it, right? [00:35:00] Or is it resistance because we're trying to stay safe and play small? In the case of, oh, I'm too old to learn this, I'm too old to move quicker, I'm too old, right?

These stories we tell, that, that is a, That is a cultural conditioning. That's the culture imposing that, that like life after 40 is downhill or life after 50 is downhill. When I've just shared some examples of how that is so not true, you know, having women, most of the women earning lots of really great success over 50.

That man who was an artist who started his, you know, Instagram account a couple years ago and has grown it to well over 100k and more and had no clue how to do Insta or even how to, wasn't even an artist at that point, but always loved. drawing when he was a kid and that sort of thing and had desire then.

And so [00:36:00] revisited that at 60. And this is the piece that again, I want you to walk away with that is like, it's never too late to reinvent yourself. It's never too late to go after the thing that you want. You haven't missed the boat, though. It's not too saturated out there. Your creative, authentic expression, the thing that's flowing through you, is the thing that's going to have people be magnetic to your work.

It's not the cookie cutter, the one size fits all, it's not trying to fit yourself into the mold, it's not the same same, it's not, it's that individualistic, you know, way of doing it, your unique perspective, the way you look at the world, the way in which you express yourself through the world. That is unique to you, and that is what your people ultimately want to hear and want to see.

And it doesn't matter if you're wearing a messy topknot and haven't washed your hair in a day, or [00:37:00] if you're out on a run, or, or, you've got a beautiful ballgown on and a tiara. Like, it, it's, as long as that's you. As long as that's you. So. With that, I want you to walk away, hopefully you're walking away, with some really poignant reflection on where you're telling yourself a story, and where you're preventing yourself from growth, and where you're limiting yourself, and ask yourself how you can rewrite that, and ask yourself, where is that resistance coming from?

Is the resistance coming because I feel like I need to do something that isn't actually me in order to be successful, or am I actually? is my subconscious trying to keep me safe and small. So I'm going to leave you there, but I hope you've enjoyed this episode. I cannot wait till next week. Subscribe so you don't miss when it drops.

Cheers. Thanks for listening. We'll see you right back here next [00:38:00] time. You can also find us on social media at creativelyowned and online at creativelyowned. com. Until next time, keep showing up as your authentic self.