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In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler, featuring Ronna Detrick
This week's guest is Ronna Detrick. Ronna Detrick reconnects us with the sacred that exists all around us and especially within. She is a writer, a speaker, and a coach/Spiritual Director. She has been blogging for more than ten years, offering online products and courses for eight, and having rich, sacred, and provocative conversations longer than both of these combined. She has done a TEDx talk on Eve, creates and offers free weekly NotesFromHer, has an App called Sacred Muse, and offers SacredReadings, sort-of like Tarot, but with the ancient, sacred stories of women she so loves. She has most recently created a new offering called SacredWriting for writers, journalers, everyone! In the midst of all this, she drinks too much coffee, toasts “being enough” with champagne on Fridays, and is beyond proud to be the mom of the two most amazing daughters in the entire world.
In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler is a weekly live show that shines a light on some of the biggest mindset challenges facing leaders and entrepreneurs today in their lives and in their work.
This week's guest is Ronna Detrick. Ronna Detrick reconnects us with the sacred that exists all around us and especially within. She is a writer, a speaker, and a coach/Spiritual Director. She has been blogging for more than ten years, offering online products and courses for eight, and having rich, sacred, and provocative conversations longer than both of these combined. She has done a TEDx talk on Eve, creates and offers free weekly NotesFromHer, has an App called Sacred Muse, and offers SacredReadings, sort-of like Tarot, but with the ancient, sacred stories of women she so loves. She has most recently created a new offering called SacredWriting for writers, journalers, everyone! In the midst of all this, she drinks too much coffee, toasts “being enough” with champagne on Fridays, and is beyond proud to be the mom of the two most amazing daughters in the entire world.
WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT:
What is Sacred Writing?
The fear of being seen and heard.
A deeper experience of your own writing.
Opening yourself up to feedback
Ronna’s daily writing practice
The intersection between writing and the Imposter Complex
The know that you know, that you know voice inside.
How do we learn to listen to that still small voice inside?
The process of Sacred Writing
The one thing you can do today for your writing to be more sacred.
RONNA SAID//
When we step into self-reflective processes, when we have practices and disciplines and ways in which we can explore our very selves- that is the Sacred.
No matter what you do or how you write (in that space) it’s Sacred Writing.
When we’re seen and heard, everything changes. And that really scared us.
Other people can see what we can’t.
We say really smart things to other people that we can’t say to ourselves.
There are threads of the Sacred all over the place in everything that happens, that if I'm curious enough about and kind enough about I will learn something new and be drawn into a deeper place of wisdom.
The process of writing moves me to clarity and much less concern about what people think.
TANYA SAID//
My writing becomes sacred after it goes through this process.
When writing Sacred, it becomes truer. Not better.
We get a lot of input when we open ourselves up to it.
Just because someone else sees something in your writing doesn’t make it YOUR truth. It’s A truth.
Write through it.
It’s big because it matters.
What makes it sacred is seeing it and the truth.
LINKS + THINGS MENTIONED:
"Bad things don't happen to writers. It’s all material." -Garrison Keillor
FIND ronna
Each week Tanya and a guest star (an expert in their zone of genius) take on a topic that is UP in their work, or in the work of their clients. (Can’t step into your starring role when perfectionism, procrastination, boundaries, comparison, people pleasing, diminishment, and overwhelm are in the way, right?)
Listen to In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler on iTunes or where you listen to your favorite podcasts!
In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler, featuring Tara Gentile
Tara Gentile is the founder of CoCommercial, a digital small business community for entrepreneurs serious about making money, impacting their communities, and transforming the lives of those they love. She’s also the host of Profit. Power. Pursuit., a podcast that takes you behind the scenes of successful small businesses.She's the author of several books, a sought-after speaker, and a frequent CreativeLive instructor.
In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler is a weekly live show that shines a light on some of the biggest mindset challenges facing leaders and entrepreneurs today in their lives and in their work.
This week's guest is Tara Gentile and we're talking Showing UP in Community. Tara Gentile is the founder of CoCommercial, a digital small business community for entrepreneurs serious about making money, impacting their communities, and transforming the lives of those they love. She’s also the host of Profit. Power. Pursuit., a podcast that takes you behind the scenes of successful small businesses.She's the author of several books, a sought-after speaker, and a frequent CreativeLive instructor.
WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT:
What is showing up?
The anxiety that comes with showing up
The intersection of the Impostor Complex and Showing Up
The root of the fear of showing up
The link between showing up and resiliency
Showing up as an introvert
The difference in showing up for yourself and showing up for others
TARA SAID//
The answer to fInding success, influence, and power is showing up.
The choice we make to weigh in and to become visible, is one of the key factors to show up as an insider
There is no club. There is no in crowd. There are just people that are willing to show up and be visible.
Becoming visible feels very dangerous, but there’s not a lot of truth in that in today’s community and today’s economy.
This economy, this market, this community isn’t a zero sum game
The more you stay in the middle of the pack, the more you cement yourself in that position.
When you rise up out of the pack, you are in a new pack of leaders. Those leaders can take you so much further than the lurkers and observers.
People wait until they feel comfortable, but comfort never comes.
People that show up work the resiliency muscle. I’ve never seen anyone be worse for wear for showing up.
Showing up is a way to get support.
The more you show up, the more you do it, the more comfortable you get, the more resilient you get, the less it wears you down, and the more results you get from it
Showing up for yourself is valuable for other people.
TANYA SAID//
There’s a profound fear that you’ll be discovered or found out, that you don’t have the answers.
If you get too far ahead of the pack your back is exposed, if you get too far behind you get eaten.
We know for us to be successful in the work, we are required to to show up to the work.
The party is on the other side of the resistance.
I’m nervous to be doing this and excited because it matters.
We have to calibrate ourselves. Sometimes showing up is presence, sometimes it’s putting it all on the line, and sometimes it’s opting out.
It’s never about changing the message it’s about finding the right frequency
It’s easier for us to show up for others than to show up for ourselves.
We often raise our hand when it will be in service of somebody else.
LINKS + THINGS MENTIONED:
FIND TARA:
Each week Tanya and a guest star (an expert in their zone of genius) take on a topic that is UP in their work, or in the work of their clients. (Can’t step into your starring role when perfectionism, procrastination, boundaries, comparison, people pleasing, diminishment, and overwhelm are in the way, right?)
Listen to In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler on iTunes or where you listen to your favorite podcasts!
In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler, featuring Molly Mahar
This week's guest is Molly Mahar. She is an entrepreneur, mama and adventurer obsessed with the intersection of joy, authenticity and community. As the founder of Stratejoy.com, she and her team provide thousands of women useful and inspiring strategies to practice joy through The Joy Equation Course, Stratejoy Summer Camp, and the high-level Elevate Mastermind. Molly’s superpowers? Telling the truth kindly, drinking copious amounts of bubbly and gathering awesome women together. You can access her library of free resources or connect with her (and her adorable tiny humans) via Instagram.
In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler is a weekly live show that shines a light on some of the biggest mindset challenges facing leaders and entrepreneurs today in their lives and in their work.
This week's guest is Molly Mahar. She is an entrepreneur, mama and adventurer obsessed with the intersection of joy, authenticity and community. As the founder of Stratejoy.com, she and her team provide thousands of women useful and inspiring strategies to practice joy through The Joy Equation Course, Stratejoy Summer Camp, and the high-level Elevate Mastermind. Molly’s superpowers? Telling the truth kindly, drinking copious amounts of bubbly and gathering awesome women together. You can access her library of free resources or connect with her (and her adorable tiny humans) via Instagram.
WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT:
What is Joy?
Happiness vs Joy
Defining the underpinning values of Joy for you
How to get to joy when you feel very far away from it.
Finding the shorthand to get to Joy
Why do we struggle with aiming for joy?
How to feel joy when things are tough.
Using your guiding words for joy to make things more sustainable
Staying present and being able to enjoy the things happening around you
MOLLY SAID//
Joy is the lead. It makes everything better, juicier, deeper, more aligned with who I am.
If you look at our schedules, our grind, and what people are celebrated for, being happy isn’t something we celebrate in others.
How we interact with the world through our lens of JOY is totally in our control.
When I experience joy I am experiencing authenticity, gratitude, and presence.
Happiness is a reaction to an external event, joy is the lasting part.
Joy is a tool and happiness is a reward.
Joy doesn’t hold value in our patriarchal society like success does.
Things feel sustainable when birthed in my brand of joy.
TANYA SAID//
When I experience joy I am experiencing connection, gratitude, and generosity.
Connection is at the base of all of our desires and fears.
It doesn’t feel safe to celebrate or be in joy, what if I’m standing here alone and no one else shows up. It feels like we might trigger others with our joy.
When you’re clear on how you can create joy, happiness has an easier time finding you.
If we aren’t able to stand in our truth when we know what is true, how can we change a damn thing?
LINKS + THINGS MENTIONED:
"Joy is the hardest emotion to be with." - Brene Brown
FIND MOLLY
Each week Tanya and a guest star (an expert in their zone of genius) take on a topic that is UP in their work, or in the work of their clients. (Can’t step into your starring role when perfectionism, procrastination, boundaries, comparison, people pleasing, diminishment, and overwhelm are in the way, right?)
Listen to In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler on iTunes or where you listen to your favorite podcasts!
In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler, featuring Randi Buckley
This week's guest is Randi Buckley. Randi's clients are women who sense that their personal identity is in flux in unsettled situations and big life decisions. Her work points toward exploring one's own divinity, in support of forging a personal identity that merges head, heart, and intuition. She offers a support suite of self-study solutions, as well as personal coaching in an intimate one-on-one setting, including Maybe Baby and Healthy Boundaries for Kind People.
In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler is a weekly live show that shines a light on some of the biggest mindset challenges facing leaders and entrepreneurs today in their lives and in their work.
This week's guest is Randi Buckley. Randi's clients are women who sense that their personal identity is in flux in unsettled situations and big life decisions. Her work points toward exploring one's own divinity, in support of forging a personal identity that merges head, heart, and intuition. She offers a support suite of self-study solutions, as well as personal coaching in an intimate one-on-one setting, including Maybe Baby and Healthy Boundaries for Kind People.
WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT:
- The intersection between boundaries and the Impostor Complex
- What poorly modeled boundaries look like
- How to convey our boundaries to others
- The 5 underlying causes of leaky boundaries
- Energetic practices to seal up boundaries
RANDI SAID//
- People haven’t seen healthy boundaries modeled, so they don’t know what they look like.
- People are hesitant to cultivate or nurture boundaries because they feel like it’s a life long commitment.
- Boundaries need to bend and flex to support you.
- Boundaries are like a spine, it gives us form but also allows for movement.
- Boundaries are there to honor what you value and what is important to you.
- People are frustrated that their boundaries are being crossed, but they aren’t honoring their boundaries themselves
- Healthy boundaries are an instruction book for people to get you at your best.
- Our values are the Northern Star for seeing where our boundaries lie and how to work with them.
TANYA SAID//
- The universe has a funny little way: the moment we decide we know a lot about something, we must be challenged with it on the daily.
- When we’re feeling like an Impostor we do whatever we can to reestablish connection to the group and that often means we allow our boundaries to leak.
- The places I’ve been challenged with boundaries are my greatest strengths.
- Boundaries are like a dog park. There can be so much joy within that space, but things can also go batshit crazy. But the boundaries are required.
- We have the BEST neighbors on both sides, but we also have FANTASTIC fences.
- Boundaries are an internal job first, before you can start expressing them.
LINKS + THINGS MENTIONED:
- Boundary Bolstering Webinar
- Untying the Binds of the Impostor Complex Webinar Series
- “Good fences make good neighbors.” ― Robert Frost
- “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” ― Markus Herz
- “You can’t expect gallon sized love from quart sized people.” ― TD Jakes
- “I hate the term ‘role model’...but I do like the term “possibility model.’” ― Laverne Cox
- Amy Cuddy’s TEDtalk
FIND RANDI
Each week Tanya and a guest star (an expert in their zone of genius) take on a topic that is UP in their work, or in the work of their clients. (Can’t step into your starring role when perfectionism, procrastination, boundaries, comparison, people pleasing, diminishment, and overwhelm are in the way, right?)
We’ll take your questions and bring our best answers. It’s part coaching, part exploration, part Q+A, all delicious.
It is hosted on Crowdcast and simulcast to Facebook Live.
Listen to In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler on iTunes or where you listen to your favorite podcasts!