In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler, featuring Ronna Detrick
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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.

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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

  • Sacred Readings

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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?)

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In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler, featuring Tara Gentile
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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

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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:

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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?)

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Show Up

We spend a whole lot of time worrying, wondering, fretting if they’ll show up or not.

The real question, of course, is will we?

That really is the real question. Will we leave ourselves? Or will we show up? For each other, for ourselves.

Of the many themes that recur in my work, "showing up," well, shows up. In every coaching call, speaking gig, interview it show sup — glaringly loud and proud.

Because in truth? 

There are no shortcuts to showing up.

This is a theme I've written about in at least one-fifth of the blog posts from the past ten years.

Because, and this bears repeating: There are no shortcuts to showing up.

Yep. Over the past ten years, I've beseeched you, dear reader, and myself to:

Show up with tenacity and beginners mind.

Show up. Tell the truth. Be fierce.

Show up when there’s no guarantee that anyone else will.

Show up and be your truest.

Show up because you are required to. 

Show up because that’s how you learn.

Show up even when it’s hard. 

Show up because we need you.

Show up because your tenacity is currency.

Show up even in the worry.

Show up to put yourself on the fast track of your own making.

Show up and expect a breakthrough.

Show up even when you are hearing crickets.

Show up and do the work you are in the world to do.

Show up in spite of fear.

Show up and take responsibility.

Show up because the backache of hard work feels gooood.

Show up and then run away to the beach.

Show up because YOUR PEOPLE will get it.

Show up and know you are not alone.

Show up and invite your friends to the party!

Show up and take stock.

Show up even if you don’t fit in.

Show up in the ordinary times.

Show up because the Impostor Complex likes to keep us isolated.

Show up no matter what demons you’ve wrestled.

Show up fully.

Show up because you are JUUUUUUST this side of something wonderful.

Show up. Wake up. Speak Up.

Show up and let your people help you succeed.

Show up and you can bet that the Impostor Complex will too.

Show up and don’t waste time on anything that doesn’t feel good or right for you.

Show up and create MAGIC.

Show up as an act of self love.

Show up intentionally.

Show up, because that’s what full-hearted people do.

Show up and raise your rates.

Show up and say the things that need to be said.

Show up and keep learning how to be curious.

Show up even if you don’t have it figured out.

Show up and thrive.

Show up and set a goal.

Show up and find your thing.

Show up and tell the truth.

Show up in the uncomfortable spots and stay to see what opens up.

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Tara Gentile, Founder of CoCommercial and one of my favourite people on this planet AND most trusted business advisers, has THIS to say about showing UP:

"People who show up--regardless of level of achievement, cool kid status, or jargon knowledge--earn the rewards.

They show up with questions, concerns, victories, ideas, experiences, and contributions.

They show up with confidence, with vulnerability, with fear, and with joy.

You don’t go from being an outsider to an insider to a leader by virtue of learning a set of skills or being tapped on the shoulder by a gatekeeper.

You go from outsider to insider to leader by showing up as you want to be seen:

  • If you want to be an insider, show up & ask questions about the inside scoop.

  • If you want to be a contributor, show up & contribute your story and experience.

  • If you want to be an influencer, show up & share your opinions.

  • If you want to be a community leader, show up & organize the community by connecting people, ideas, and events.

  • If you want to be a powerhouse, show up as the go-to resource, stand strong in your knowledge, be open to new ideas, and use your station to help others.

This applies in communities like ours, in communities like yours, and in the market you sell in.

The way you show up dictates how people see you, your company, and your ability to give them what they need.

Don’t wait for people to call on you, don’t wait until you have it all figured out, don’t wait until you’re cool enough."

Yep.

Show up. Because there are no shortcuts.

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In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler, featuring Molly Mahar
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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

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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:

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In the Spotlight with Tanya Geisler, featuring Randi Buckley
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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
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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:

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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!

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