Ep 13. Confidence & self love after becoming a mom with coach Aliya
Confidence and self love for moms.
I discuss all things confidence and self love with Aliya. It is so common for women to lose some of their confidence after they become moms; Aliya talks to me about how we can build this back up. We discuss comparison and what impact that has on us and our confidence along with carving out time for yourself.
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hi mama you’re listening to the mama
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podcast it’s Sumayya here the co-founder
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of mama ME app
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mama me is the first app to exclusively
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connect mothers across the middle east
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connect with like-minded mamas and
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create lifelong friendships
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at mama we are all about connecting
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mamas to empower women
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so let’s join together and make this
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mission a reality
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this week we’re talking all about
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self-love
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and confidence i’m joined by alia who’s
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a
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coach and specializes in this area
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we talk all about mom guilt comparison
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and how to find a few minutes of peace
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to help grow our confidence
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let’s get stuck writing alia thank you
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so much for joining me on the mama
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podcast i’m really really excited to
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talk to you today
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thank you for having me i’m really
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excited as well
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so i’d be great if we start off with
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your journey and just a little bit about
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how you got to becoming a coach
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and then we’ll dig into why you sort of
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decided to specialize in confidence and
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self-love
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yeah sure definitely so my background is
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quite different to what i do
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now um so initially you know i studied
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biomedical science um at university and
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then i went in to do my master’s in
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public health
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and that was you know i was really
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interested in public health at that time
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and i really had a passion for
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it um and i worked in that sector so i
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worked at public health england
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um i was one of the managers for the
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national antimicrobial resistance
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program
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so i had a you know i moved my moved up
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quite quickly at a young age had a lot
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of responsibility which was just awesome
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um i went to the start that works for
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the charity
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but honestly for me you know it sounds
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really cliche sounds quite cheesy but
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it’s the reality of
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you know i was in this you know had a
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great role but i just kind of thought
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you know as much as i loved it i felt
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like
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i wasn’t making the difference having
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making the impact that i wanted to be
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having on a daily basis
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so you know i knew that somewhere down
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the line people were you know benefiting
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from my work
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but i wanted to do something a lot more
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meaningful where i could you know see a
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difference every day
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um so i i really kind of you know dug
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into you know what i’m passionate about
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what i’m interested in and i also kind
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of ask myself the question of where do i
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want to be
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in you know five ten years time and you
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know sitting in this office i was like
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do i want to still be here
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in five opinions do i want to just work
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my way up with the ladder and
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i just thought no like the answer that
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came to me was no like i want to just
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just i just want to do so much more um
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and so i i didn’t yeah i just kind of uh
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sort of like
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thought about what am i interested in
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what are my strengths and
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i’ve always been very interested in
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psychology and human behavior just for
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myself it wasn’t something i studied but
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it’s something i read a lot about
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um and then i came across coaching
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actually so i just kind of came across
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it online
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and there was a course that came up like
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a trial day so i went and attended it
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and i was like oh wow this is what i
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want to do
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um so yeah so i signed up to the program
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and i did my nlp training as well from
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an nrp practitioner as well
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and then i decided you know what this is
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something that i want to you know do
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more of and that’s how it started really
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that’s so exciting i really resonate
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with that because i think that’s
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the kind of conversation i had with my
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with myself in my head
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that do i want to do this when i’m 50
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years old like as a dentist do i want to
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be
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in a dental practice doing what i’m
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doing right now every single day
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when i’m 50 and the answer was no so
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it’s really interesting that you
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actually
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had the same kind of experience yeah
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it’s a powerful question to ask yourself
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for sure
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when you decided that actually this is
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the new route that you want to go down
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into surely wasn’t as easy as hey i want
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to do this right i’m going to quit my
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job and then
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there must have been some level of self
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self-doubt and like you must have
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questioned your own confidence in that
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right
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100 um yeah 100 i mean it was just it
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was just an idea and i had it
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i mean i think looking back it wasn’t
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something i really planned to do i
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wasn’t like right i’m going to start my
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own business in this and this is what i
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want to do for the rest of my life not
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at all it was
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you know i started enjoying the course i
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started the training
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and then i started you know coaching
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clients as well and i started enjoying
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that and i was like oh hey this is cool
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you know i’m getting really positive
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feedback
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um and then at the time i actually
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decided to work with a coach as well
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because i think it’s really you know
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important as a coach to have a coach to
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help you
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to you know reach um achieve your goals
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and get out of your comfort zone so i
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started working with a coach
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and it was through working with a coach
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that he asked me these questions
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and got me to you know think big and got
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me to really think about what i wanted
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to do with this and i was like
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oh wow i’ve never i’ve never really
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thought about this before
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and so from then having those kind of
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conversations i enabled me to start
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dreaming big
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and thinking about what i could do and
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so
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so what i did was yeah i was still
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working full-time um i was doing my
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training on the weekends and i was
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seeing clients in the evening
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so i was really kind of building it up
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um you know for a while so i did that
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yeah for
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almost around six months and then i just
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kind of got to the point where i was
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like
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i just had it in me where i was like you
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know what i just want to take six months
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out
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um i just want to go and fill in for six
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months and just see and if it doesn’t
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work out that’s
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fine um and i can always go back to my
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career but i kind of got to the point
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where i said let me just try it so
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that’s when i decided to sort of go all
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in at that point and kind of see where
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it goes from there
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um but yeah it definitely hasn’t been an
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easy road for sure
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do you still have a coach um i do yeah
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i have a coach that i work with
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definitely i think it’s just important
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because
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you know we do have blind spots you know
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we have blind spots
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and i think it’s important um you know i
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am someone who likes to challenge myself
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as well
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and you know i think the more when you
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start to challenge yourself
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and you know i think it’s just you know
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it just has
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just yeah i mean at the end of the day
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i’m a coach but i still have times when
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my confidence dips
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or i’m like oh can i do that or you know
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i try to play it safe so i think having
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a coach really just helps me to kind of
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you know push a little bit and say oh
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maybe i can do that as well
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and help me to see those blind spots so
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is it that a coach sort of
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they don’t just motivate you right they
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kind of give you tools
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to achieve your goals is that right
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so as a coach for me it’s really i mean
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it’s different for every person
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and so it isn’t that i you know sit
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there and give advice to someone it’s
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really about
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asking powerful questions okay so when
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i’m with my clients you know i
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work with women and help them to build
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their confidence and you know love
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themselves more and so for
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each woman when they come to me it’s
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really about finding out you know what’s
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going on for them right now
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really digging in for them because you
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know if it was just about giving tips
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and advice
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everyone could do that right we just go
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on google and be like okay here’s some
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you know tips
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but it’s about identifying for each
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person like okay what’s going on for you
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right now
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you know what’s holding you back right
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now what’s going on inside your mind
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so coach really helps you to you know
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ask the questions that you don’t
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necessarily ask yourself
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and then you know guides you along and
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and taking those first few steps
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that’s um really interesting and what
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made you get into
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confidence and self-love as a category
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within sort of coaching
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so i think part of it is was my own
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journey
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um as well so when i was when i started
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my career
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you know um my confidence wasn’t so
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great you know i didn’t really think i
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could do much
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um you know i knew that i had the
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knowledge um and
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skills but you know putting myself out
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there was definitely a no-no
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um but you know i was lucky in the sense
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that i had you know managers at work
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that actually believed in me and they
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saw my potential
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and so what they did from early on is is
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they decided to like give me that little
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push
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and you know for example there was a
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time where i had to there was a
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conference that came up and
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you had to speak in front of like 200
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people and you know my my boss is like
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right okay you’re gonna speak at this
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national conference and i was like no
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i’m not she was like yes you absolutely
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can
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and she’s like you know i was like no
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i’m not so it happened a few times in my
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career
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and you know they kind of gave me those
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sort of pep talks in a way to say you
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know
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you can do this you can do what you put
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your mind to and so
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after kind of following their guidance
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and starting to do that my confidence
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really really you know grew massively
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and it helped me to realize that you
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know it’s all within me all the tools
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are in
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with me it’s just it’s just having that
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you know sometimes we can’t see within
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ourselves
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sometimes we just do need someone to see
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something within ourselves that we can’t
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see and
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so from having that you know having
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people help me with that
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i basically was like wow i would love to
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be able to do the same for other women
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so i really help women to you know bring
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out what’s inside of them bring out that
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fire that’s within them
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and you know help them to take those
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steps as well
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it must be so exciting to have a woman
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you see her potential
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through a conversation with them and
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then you could really sort of
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ignite that fire that must be so
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rewarding for you
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it is it is really lovely because you
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can see a lot of time it’s like
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there it’s like itching to get out you
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know there’s so much but they’re just
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like oh
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but once you give them that push that
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little kind of gentle push then they’re
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just like they just go for it and do
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amazing things you know and
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a lot of them like they say like you
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know i’m a leader inside like there’s so
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much i can do and i just
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it’s just kind of yeah it’s really
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lovely it’s really rewarding and
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and the thing is as well you know the
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one of the reasons as well
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for um why i specialize in this area is
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because
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i think there’s so much emphasis now on
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the skills that you have and the
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knowledge and yes you go to a good uni
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you have a degree and you have the
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skills but at the end of the day if you
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don’t have your confidence alongside
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that
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then you’re going to always hold
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yourself back you know having all the
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knowledge and the skills
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it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re
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you’ll move upwards and you’ll move
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ahead so
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if you don’t have the self belief you’ll
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always be you know kind of missing out
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on opportunities and and yeah
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holding back yeah but being able to put
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yourself forward for things is so
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important not just like
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in your career but in life as well right
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like being aware of the opportunities
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that are coming
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like in front of you and being able to
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like grab them with both hands
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do you know i mean i don’t know if there
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is a study or if there’s information out
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there but
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is there information as to why women
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struggle with confidence more than men
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do
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yeah there’s i mean there’s a few
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reasons i think by the way there’s this
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really interesting study i don’t know if
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you’ve
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um heard of this stat it’s by um hp
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and they found that uh when it came to
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applying for
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uh a job um men you’ve heard of this men
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yeah
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men applied when they um
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met 60 of the criteria whereas women
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applied when they had when they met 100
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of the criteria
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and you know that’s just huge and that
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just that just shows that it’s not
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necessarily a difference
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in competency and being good enough for
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the job
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but it’s about the confidence so they
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just didn’t believe that they
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you know were they didn’t have that
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confidence to put themselves out there
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and say hey i can you know potentially
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go for this
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um you know one of the reasons is you
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know upbringing for sure you know the
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difference in upbringing
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um you know with boys and girls you know
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girls are
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um and again i know times are changing
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which is really great
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um but it’s just like you know boys kind
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of in school kind of
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you know um being a bit more boisterous
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i think um
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boys kind of saying things and being
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more blunt than you know than boys and
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obviously being softer to girls so
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there’s all of that as well
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i think also um with beauty standards as
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well
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you know that plays a huge part in in
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our confidence and you know
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unrealistic expectations of how we
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should look and what we should do and
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the different roles we should play in
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our lives
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so yeah it’s a number of factors and
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play a part
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i think yeah you’re right i think i
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think people are more aware of these
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changes and all these um the impact that
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this can have on
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sort of younger children and i’m hoping
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that as generation as the new generation
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grows
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that we’ll see less of that sort of um
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between the two genders because it is
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something that as a parent i’m
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a lot more conscious of as well to know
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that you know you’re not
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categorizing a person because of their
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gender so i have a daughter and i don’t
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want to categorize her
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into like doing things that girls do so
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you know it’s okay to play with dolls
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but it’s also okay with to play with
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trains and cars and dinosaurs you know
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it’s not
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things aren’t gender based and they
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shouldn’t be gender-based because we
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should allow them to flourish in what
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they do well and i think it is something
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that’s becoming more and more
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um talked about so hopefully as as time
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goes on that will be something that will
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that will sort of stabilize and settle
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in in years to come but it is something
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that we still deal with right now
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um just bringing it into sort of
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motherhood and parenting
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it’s really common for women to
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lose a lot of their confidence after
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they become moms um
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just because like i don’t really know
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what the reason is and i guess
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it’s probably different from person to
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person and why they lose confidence but
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it’s such a big transition
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so going from like not having any
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responsibilities and
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not having someone to look after to then
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and then going to work every day having
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your own sort of
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um outlet to going from that to then
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having responsibility having a child
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doing everything around their routine
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etc
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has a big impact on your confidence and
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i know you work with women in general so
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you work with moms and
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women is there anything that we can do
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to sort of pick
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ourselves up in terms of confidence are
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there any set like one or two things
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that we can do
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to just sort of work on our confidence
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after having a child
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yeah for sure and like you said it’s uh
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it’s a transition isn’t it
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um and it’s it’s going from one place of
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like
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you said having the time having the
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flexibility doing what you do and then
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suddenly there’s you know a baby and
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there’s you know life has completely
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changed so it’s really having that
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um period of adjustment and
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i think really it’s about starting there
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as well it’s actually
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you know kind of having that kind of
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faith in yourself that you can we’ll get
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through it you know that’s just kind of
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as a start
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but i would say um really it’s about
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small steps
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because i think especially as women as
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well what we can end up doing is putting
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so much pressure
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on ourselves you know feeling like we’re
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gonna be it’s right all or nothing like
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either gonna be the best or it’s gonna
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be like this or just forget it
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and so you know really it’s about you
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know taking small small steps every day
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and i know
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for example um you know a lot of moms
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you know i know the challenge is time
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right like you’re really strapped for
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time and you’re just it’s very difficult
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so i’d say one thing is you know start
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really really small
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um you know uh think about what you if
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you have like
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pockets of five minutes in your day just
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five minutes throughout the day where
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you can do something
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that’s just for you that you know kind
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of picks you up
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so i talk a lot about morning routine um
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and in the power of starting your day
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off
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intentionally positively and it really
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helps to build your confidence
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as well you know doing a few things in
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the morning so again what comes up from
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mumsa is well i don’t have time in the
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morning you know my kid rushes in
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i don’t have a time where i can start
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the day so what i’d say that is
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even if it’s just as small as little
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five minutes where you do something
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every morning
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just to be really intentional about
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having you know a good day ahead
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and that could be for example you know
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um giving yourself a little pep talk you
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know doing some breathing
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giving yourself a pep talk in the mirror
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like you know what today is a good day
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you know i’ve got this
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um you know saying some kind words to
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yourself like hey i’ve got this i’m
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gonna do you know
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great today i’m you know i’m feeling
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positive i’m feeling great something
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like that
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or maybe it’s a bit of breathing maybe
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it’s a bit of gratitude as well i think
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starting the day off with gratitude is
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really really powerful and throughout
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the day as well just you know boosts
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your moods
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um so i just say that that’s like the
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first thing i’d say is just kind of
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do it doesn’t have to be like an hour or
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two hours
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just think about how you can do things
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for like five ten minutes in the day
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for yourself and then like and then i
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guess as
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the child grows you have they become a
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little bit more independent and so
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you can find slightly longer pockets of
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time to sort of focus on
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um it’s really interesting you mentioned
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that you should just find
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like have a morning routine and i think
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just speaking from a mom perspective
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when they’re really young that can be
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quite challenging because often you’ve
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had a really sleepless night so
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you know you try and like catch all the
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sleep that you can so you might sleep
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till the point that the check the baby
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wakes up
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and but what i found really helped for
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me was when they’re quite young
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when like especially when they’re sort
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of five six months old
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in that sort of early six months they
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sleep a lot so
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often they go down for their first nap
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really early in the morning and my
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daughter would sleep around half eight
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nine o’clock so at that time
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i would like it didn’t matter what else
17:03
needed to be done for the day i would
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dedicate that sort of 15 20 minutes to
17:07
going in for a shower
17:08
getting dressed like combing my head you
17:10
know the basic things that you normally
17:12
would
17:12
have taken for granted before you had a
17:14
child because you know
17:16
you don’t have time for those things but
17:17
really making time so
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just prioritizing that that’s that’s
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amazing that’s amazing that you did that
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and
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and you know like you said it’s it’s
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about prioritizing as well isn’t it
17:26
every there’s probably always 100 things
17:28
to be done
17:29
but you’re like yes the other things can
17:31
just wait for now just but
17:33
those 10-15 minutes will make i mean did
17:34
you find that they made a big difference
17:36
to your day
17:37
absolutely like you just go from like
17:40
feeling like disheveled and tired to
17:42
like just feeling
17:43
so much fresher and like right i can
17:45
start my day now i’ve got this you know
17:47
like having that 10 minutes made me so
17:49
much happier
17:50
and if i could have like it didn’t
17:52
matter if the dishes weren’t done
17:54
yeah and and i’m sure that had an impact
17:56
on the people around you as well
17:58
like you’re you know for your your baby
18:00
if your husband
18:01
other family members or friends around
18:03
you you just felt you know calmer
18:04
as well as everything you did as a
18:06
result falling on from that
18:08
you just you did from a better place
18:10
than if you were still like you said
18:11
kind of rolled out of bed you hadn’t
18:12
showered your hair was a mess you’re
18:14
just kind of scraping throughout the day
18:16
so it’s just 10 minutes for you and it
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made a huge difference
18:18
yeah it’s my one piece of advice that i
18:21
say to every single
18:22
like pregnant woman that’s due to give
18:24
birth just 10 minutes and
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you know the first six months are
18:27
challenging because that transition is
18:29
and it varies from person to person but
18:31
for some people it can be quite
18:32
challenging and so it does get easier in
18:35
the sense that you’ll have a little bit
18:36
more time
18:37
as they get bit older but in those first
18:39
six months you could really eat like
18:41
it’s quite easy to just let yourself go
18:43
six months later find yourself in this
18:45
position where you’ve lost all your
18:47
confidence and
18:48
you know you you feel like a completely
18:50
different person because you’re really
18:51
not focused on yourself at all
18:53
yeah sure and that’s why i talk a lot
18:55
about you know creating a lifestyle
18:57
as well and so it’s you know instead of
19:00
and of course i empathize with the fact
19:01
that of course when you have a baby
19:03
things are completely out of you know
19:04
completely flipped upside down
19:07
but again it doesn’t need to take a lot
19:08
of time even if it’s things that you do
19:10
for like five minutes in your day that
19:12
help you to just feel good about
19:13
yourself
19:14
you know like you said rather than
19:15
feeling you know what i’m gonna exert
19:17
myself and
19:18
do everything that needs to be done
19:19
whether it’s the dishes all this all
19:20
that
19:21
you know i’m just gonna say no that’s
19:23
okay it can wait i mean something like
19:24
that i look at that as an act of
19:26
self-love
19:27
you know that’s an act of self-love
19:28
because you’re like you know what i’m
19:29
just gonna prioritize me right now and
19:31
it’s small things like this throughout
19:32
the day that really you know
19:34
are acts of kindness towards yourselves
19:36
it’s not about thinking about the big
19:37
thing i’m gonna get to a point where
19:39
i’ve
19:39
completely like you said let myself go
19:41
and i’m just exhausted and burnt out
19:42
if you can just take five to ten minutes
19:44
throughout the day it can make such a
19:45
big difference
19:47
i think that’s yeah it’s a really good
19:49
way of looking at it because i think
19:50
just the thoughts of like
19:52
all this stuff that needs to be done and
19:53
also i now need to add time for
19:55
self-love if
19:56
it could feel quite overwhelming i
19:57
couldn’t like i can imagine if you’re
19:59
not used to doing it it can feel quite
20:00
overwhelming
20:02
and and that’s why i think of you know
20:04
thinking of the boring things of
20:05
self-love right so it doesn’t need to be
20:07
like right okay now i’m gonna
20:08
practice self-love i don’t have time no
20:10
it can be you know what now i’m just
20:11
gonna pause for five minutes that’s
20:13
self-love you know it’s just doing yeah
20:14
the little
20:15
little things yeah or have a cup of tea
20:18
and actually spend time just drinking
20:19
the tea
20:20
and or like whatever like just little
20:22
things i’m sure
20:23
i think when we look at it that way
20:25
there’s so many little nuggets of time
20:27
that we could probably find
20:28
yeah i mean even just you know um
20:30
practicing mindfulness like with
20:32
whatever you’re doing as well
20:33
let’s say you know you have got that
20:35
five minutes to drink a cup of tea like
20:36
you said just being fully present
20:38
in that cup of tea you know enjoying
20:40
that cup of tea or coffee
20:41
and like that’s it you know being
20:43
mindful as well and that will help you
20:44
to feel so much
20:45
calmer as well throughout the day yeah
20:47
and it’s so much better for the children
20:49
right like being
20:50
a happier you is is better because they
20:52
they really do feed off your energy
20:54
so it’s great to be like a more
20:57
energetic happier positive person and
20:59
it’s not the same every single day
21:00
because some days are really challenging
21:02
as a mom
21:03
but you know as much as we can do we
21:05
should try and do i i
21:06
i feel um let’s talk about comparison
21:10
so it’s quite easy to compare yourself
21:12
to other moms and things that you see on
21:14
social media and other
21:15
like you know other mom posting things
21:17
on social media do you have a take on
21:19
that because that takes away from your
21:21
self-love surely because you’re
21:22
comparing yourself to somebody else
21:24
yeah definitely and like you said with
21:26
social media as well it’s just so
21:28
you know easy to see all the other
21:30
people all the other moms who
21:32
just like like wow okay they they’re
21:34
flowing
21:35
like through life they look amazing
21:37
they’re in shape they’re this they’re
21:38
that
21:38
how are they doing it all you know and i
21:40
think that you know with anything
21:42
whether you’re a mum or not social media
21:43
really can have that impact
21:45
um and i think it’s it’s just really uh
21:48
i’d say a few things
21:49
with um comparison first of all if we
21:51
are talking about social media or even
21:53
on social media
21:54
um you know people show you you know
21:57
what they want to show you at the end of
21:58
the day
21:58
so just because someone looks like they
22:00
have it all together
22:02
and everything is is fine and they’re
22:04
happy it doesn’t necessarily mean that
22:06
so i think it’s just kind of having that
22:07
awareness
22:07
um first of all it’s like it’s just a
22:09
snapshot of their day
22:11
that’s not necessarily the true reality
22:14
um
22:14
and then i mean how often do you know we
22:16
post pictures of us
22:18
where we haven’t had any sleep or you as
22:20
a mom you haven’t had any sleep you’re
22:21
crying from being stressed
22:22
you know you’ve got food everywhere i
22:24
mean you don’t really post pictures of
22:26
that right
22:26
so it’s like with anything it’s a
22:28
snapshot um
22:29
and i think you know just because i
22:31
think it’s you know when it comes to
22:32
other people as well it’s like
22:34
you know they might seem like they have
22:37
it all figured out now and everything’s
22:38
good for them now but
22:40
you know maybe it was it’s likely that
22:42
it wasn’t always like that for that
22:43
person
22:44
you know i think we we’re all on our own
22:46
journey and i think if we compare
22:48
ourselves to others
22:49
then it’s gonna completely you know um
22:52
strip us of building our confidence of
22:54
self-love as well always feel like we’re
22:56
not good enough
22:57
and i think it’s just knowing that we’re
22:59
on our own journey on our own timeline
23:01
and if anything i think you can look to
23:04
these people
23:04
and think okay cool what can i learn
23:06
from them
23:08
because there’s always two ways we can
23:09
either look at other people and you know
23:11
feel bad about ourselves if we if we
23:13
think that they’re doing better than us
23:15
or we can you know take a proactive
23:17
approach and be like okay cool
23:18
what’s working for them you know what
23:20
can i learn and implement into my life
23:22
as well
23:23
so i think taking that perspective just
23:24
helps to build um
23:26
your confidence as well rather than kind
23:27
of beating yourself up
23:30
so i love that so taking it as
23:32
inspiration rather than
23:34
taking it as they’re better than me
23:37
that’s incredible
23:38
yeah i love that um you’re doing
23:40
something really incredible right now
23:42
you’re doing um you’re working on sort
23:44
of a group of you’re working with a
23:46
group of women
23:47
in the women who flourish which i think
23:49
is really
23:50
like amazing so there’s a there’s a
23:52
group of women that are together
23:54
all like-minded and they i’m assuming
23:56
they can all bounce off each other as
23:57
well but there’s tons of
23:58
learning for them and growth as well
24:01
this was a mom that’s interested
24:03
would it fit into a mom’s schedule would
24:06
it be something that they could do
24:07
for sure so we have a few moms that have
24:09
joined that are joining it’s the launch
24:11
week this week
24:12
and i’ve really created it based on a
24:14
lot of feedback
24:15
and the fact that you know um a lot of
24:17
women are moms
24:18
you know that this feedback does come up
24:20
of well i don’t have a lot of time
24:22
i don’t think i can commit um to it you
24:25
know very much right now
24:26
and so i created in a way that can be
24:28
very flexible as well
24:30
um with their time and so it’s a program
24:32
so we you know we have a group session
24:34
you know once a month at the end of
24:35
every month
24:36
and really that’s about kind of you know
24:38
delving into the month i think it’s nice
24:39
to kind of
24:40
kind of keep track and see where we are
24:42
i think it’s really great for confidence
24:43
like okay what went well for us this
24:45
month
24:46
you know what yay what have i learned
24:47
how have i grown what have i found
24:49
challenging
24:50
and being able to talk about that with
24:51
other women as well what can i learn
24:53
from that and sort of setting intentions
24:54
for the month ahead
24:56
so that’s really it’s just once a month
24:57
and then at the same time
24:59
you can dip into like the facebook group
25:01
there’ll be some like challenges in
25:02
there live q and a’s
25:04
recorded sessions and again that’s for
25:05
you to do in your own time so i’ve
25:07
created it to be you know in a very
25:08
flexible way um yeah
25:12
that’s amazing and if our listeners want
25:14
to find you where’s the best place to
25:15
find you
25:16
yep so you can find me on instagram um
25:19
so it’s coach underscore alia a-l-i-y-a
25:22
um and uh you can find me on facebook as
25:25
well alia raja
25:27
that’s amazing i’ll link all of your
25:29
details in the show notes so the
25:31
listeners will be able to find you
25:32
quite easily great thank you thank you
25:35
so much for joining me i really enjoyed
25:37
our conversation and i’m sure the
25:39
listeners will
25:40
learn something from what we’ve talked
25:41
about likewise thank you so much for
25:43
having me
25:43
it’s been lovely
26:03
you
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