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You Don't Have Imposter Syndrome, What We Have is some Bullshit!
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Imposter Syndrome is a hot button now, but what if I told you it's bullshit. What if I told you that the syndrome is a group of symptoms that was complexly projected on to you in so so so many different ways. Just the consciousness of this can free you up tremendously!
Let's dive in!
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Daily Reconnection with Purpose
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And I just want to encourage and invite us to every day reconnect with what that is. I know that sometimes events and circumstances um and even our own energy, particularly women, when we're in and out of our our menstrual cycles and things, we can, that when we're in the energy of comparison, when we're in the energy of, um,
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what I'm getting ready to get into, right? Imposter syndrome or or not enoughness. We can be thrown off of that alignment. the alignment with who you are and and who you came here to be and what you came here to change. And that's what I'm very specifically talking about here. You came here to change some shit.
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And definitely as we look at the world right now and things that have happened, we know that some shit has to change. It will not change unless we do it. Unless, when I say do it, I
Embodying Change and Presence
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mean be it. When we become, when we embody what it is that we are here to change.
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who we are here to be, unless we fully 100% embody,
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then the change that we are meant to affect, it's lacking our presence. It's lacking our power. It's lacking our magic.
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It's lacking what you alone came to do. Welcome to Freed and Powered Up. Here is where conscious female leaders who are taking their exit from the overly dominant male patriarchal energy, however you experienced it, can really start to break free from the energy that keeps us back from being who we came here to be and leaving the legacy we came here to leave.
Awakening Inner Power and Divine Feminine
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Every episode, I'm going to connect you to your inner power and awaken the divine feminine within you. I'm your host and your sister, Latoya Zavala. Let's go.
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I'm actually going to invite you in to do some breathing with me. um I know emotions, thoughts, feelings, energy has been up and down and all around.
Breathing Exercise and Imposter Syndrome
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And um today we're going to talk about um the fact that you don't have imposter syndrome. What we do have to deal with is a lot of bullshit.
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So before we get in, just want to shift the energy from whatever it is that you're coming from, wherever you're it wherever it is that you are watching um hashtag replay from. if you're driving, focus, obviously pay attention. But if you're in a space where you can just breathe your eyes closed and let's just take some nice full breaths, right? Not necessarily deep, right?
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Just full, right? Let's go in and out.
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And in.
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And breathing out, just being present.
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And
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And just exhale, being in your body.
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breathing your eyes open.
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And here we are. and what do i mean by here we are? i mean a lot of craziness is happening. I myself have been kind of shying away, staying away from a lot of social media, staying away from a lot of news outlets because there is a lot of craziness happening. I understand people who have been preparing for this shift ah for a while have had, you know, crazy mass messages going out and, know,
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sales feeding frenzy and just a lot of things. But here's what I know. Here's what I know with my whole body. Here's what I am convicted about. Here is why i am here speaking.
Women Showing Up Boldly
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um Here is why I'm showing up in social media, even though everything in me sometimes wants to just completely just go into the mountains and shut down.
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It is because I know what, if I don't know anything else, what I know is that it's time for us to show up in a bolder, in a brighter and in a new way. I do these Vedic chart readings.
00:04:46
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I take people into a very intimate space with their core selves, with their higher selves, with reconnecting with their divinity and with their energy. And what I know is there are so many women that have this power, that have this gifting, that have this spiritual gifting, this spiritual fire in this passion within them that doesn't have words.
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I know there's a lot of ah messaging coaches, business coaches out there that tried to help us give us the words, but the truth is the core of the energy is the energy and it doesn't necessarily have the right words.
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You know I'm saying? Like, When we're talking about there are certain languages out there that we have tried to translate English to and we don't have a direct translation. So we've we've got to go around it, right?
00:05:37
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We've got to get as close to it as is possible. And that's what I feel like it is with your passion, with your fire, with that true essence of the energy of your purpose. It doesn't necessarily have direct translation to words, but you know what the hell it is.
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When you're, when you feel it, when you're inspired, when you're motivated, when you're running on that motor of that energy, when other people are in your sphere, when you're in that energy, they feel it too.
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This is a power. it's It's a power. It's a gifting. It's a bestowing. And I just want to encourage and invite us to every day reconnect with with what that is.
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I know that sometimes events and circumstances um and even our own energy, particularly women when we're in and out of our our menstrual cycles and things, we can, that when we're in the energy of comparison, when we're in the energy of um what I'm getting ready to get into, right?
00:06:34
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Imposter syndrome or or not enoughness, we can be thrown off of that alignment. the alignment with who you are and and who you came here to be and what you came here to change. And that's what I'm very specifically talking about here. You came here to change some shit.
00:06:48
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And definitely as we look at the world right now and things that have happened, we know that some shit has to change. It will not change unless we do it. Unless, when I say do it, I mean be it. When we become, when we embody what it is that we are here to change.
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who we are here to be, unless we fully 100% embody,
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then the change that we are meant to affect, it's lacking our presence. It's lacking our power. It's lacking our magic.
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It's lacking what you alone came to do. So whatever that is, baking, cooking, um um cleaning. I met a cleaner who who who wants to bring a sense of mental um peace and stability through through his cleaning services.
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you know ah Whether it's, like I said, the cutting the grass or speaking or coaching or helping people make more money or helping helping people love themselves or have people, like whatever it is, you know, deep, deep, deep within your soul. And I know that, you know, because i have been doing countless um chart readings and Reiki sessions. And when we get to the heart space and we get to that core, that core, that higher self, that divinity self, that I am center, I know that, you know, so what has happened?
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some bullshit. That is what's happened. There's an article, you've heard me mention it probably before. um it's It's by the Harvard Business Center. I think I got it off of LinkedIn. If you're interested in the link, let me know. But the title of the article is Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome.
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So let me just get, I just did a talk on this for UC Berkeley last week. And i and i the fire is still burning. So here we are.
Understanding Imposter Syndrome
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The definition of imposter syndrome, right?
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As it is defined, the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's own efforts or skills.
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The inability to believe. Listen, imposter syndrome, as they call it, I i call it imposterism or imposter projection because that's really what it is.
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The inability to believe. It's not the inability to do. oh no, you know how to do. Many of you experts in your field, many of you highly overqualified even and still looking for more degrees and certifications.
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I know. So it's not the inability to do. It's not the inability to measure up. It's not the inability to compare. Because oftentimes if you actually do the comparison, you end up on top.
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It's the inability to believe.
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Right? It's here.
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And not the but inability to believe that you're capable. It's the inability to believe that you deserve. Now, how messed up is that?
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That you legitimately achieved. Some of you out there have your PhDs. Your masters, whatever degree, associates, you know what you went through to get that.
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You know the life experience. I remember when I was pastoring and I remember hearing a preacher say, it didn't take an hour or two hours to create your sermon. It took a lifetime. You know what your life has brought you through and for you to be here where you are right You deserving. You are deserving.
00:10:58
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And what you have achieved, unless know something I don't know, unless you unless you did do some illegitimate shit, that's that that's a whole different thing, right? Unless you did falsify and you did those things, then that's a whole different realm.
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Come do some Reiki with me. Let's talk about that. But other than that, you're deserving and you have legitimately achieved what you you have legitimately achieved this moment here, right now.
00:11:27
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But the persistent inability to believe is what causes perfectionism, is what causes self-sabotage, is what causes procrastination, is what causes for you to have that innovative, creative idea and then to sit on it only to be ah dismayed and disappointed when someone else comes out with it.
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You know what I'm talking about. It's happened to me. It's happened to you.
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The inability to believe.
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Imposter syndrome in itself, right, as it's so called. I've heard Maya Angelou talking about it and saying that she experienced it. I've heard the greats. I've heard Michelle Obama. I've heard but like big achieving women talk about experiencing ah Viola Davis. They might find me out.
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Suppose they find me out.
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how many people look up to and and revere and honor and consider them you know spiritual mentors. and And every time I listen to a particular poem by Maya Angelou, I'm weeping.
00:12:38
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I played a video of her reading it for um my my speech to UC Berkeley. And they were... um emotionally moved, and yet they experienced the same thing.
00:12:51
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So let me say, because the articles, when you go out and read, and you go out and read the definitions, and you go out and read the articles, what they tell you is this is not a this is not a real diagnosable mental illness, right?
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But yet they're still calling it a syndrome and telling you that you have it. This syndrome, the word syndrome, right, is the collection of these different symptoms. And when you have a collection of different symptoms, then they get to give it a title. And that title gets to take on a totally different energy and and hijack your life.
00:13:29
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So, of course, you would have issues with deservedness. You would have issues with believing that you have legitimately achieved if they continue to tell you to your face that you are not enough. A lot of people had issues, not necessarily so much that um that Kamala Harris wasn't select selected as the president, but the fact that people kept saying that she was not qualified when, in fact, she's one of the most qualified um ah candidates that we have ever had.
00:13:58
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having served in all three branches. So when you are being looked at and said, no matter what your qualifications, no matter what your certifications, no matter what your degrees, no matter what your experience, no matter what your life experience, when they look at you and question your ability consistently, then of course we're placed in a position where we are persistently feeling what they call imposter syndrome. And really what it is, again, is imposter projection.
00:14:29
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This idea of illegitimate achievement has been projected onto us for millennia.
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So we don't have. We don't have an illness. That's diagnosable. And what they say, you know, is that is it's not that it's not an illness that's diagnosable, but you, you know, but you, you still get to be, have treatment. So what the,
00:15:05
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how about we treat the root?
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How about we treat the projection of illegitimate achievement? How about we treat the projection of non-deservedness?
Addressing the Root of Imposter Syndrome
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How about that?
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Does that make sense? Let's treat that instead of telling us that we get to manage. What are we talking about? We get to manage these symptoms. Oh, we get to have confidence in what we do as we manage the symptoms. What we're talking about then this dual identity.
00:15:45
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So, so identity so We don't have imposter syndrome. What we have is some bullshit projection. That's what we have.
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And we get to not manage. We get to clear. We get to move into those divine feminine practices that existed before the other organized religions came over to the Western world. We get to practice.
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We get to practice these these tools and these techniques and these practices so that we can clear the bullshit. not manage them, clear them so that we can not only increase in confidence in what we do, but really increase in the knowing of who we are, the knowing of our power, the knowing of the magic and the innovation and the creation that we came to bring to the world.
00:16:46
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We get to know, embody, embrace, and walk, and act in it, and not manage the bullshit. We get to treat the projection
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of imposter. You know what the word imposter means? Do you know what word imposter means? It means... a person who is taking on another identity in order to deceive.
00:17:10
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And yet when you have the so-called imposter syndrome, you're the one actually being deceived. Wait, wait, wait one second, goddess. Before we finish this juiciness, let's chat. I know you, you've been doing a lot because you know you're here to have hella impact. So you've been doing therapy, YouTube manifesting practices, business coaching, mindset books, podcasts, and coaches. And there's a spot that all that stuff is just not hitting. It's not getting to the feeling, the knowing, and the being in your power, in your own ah authority over your time, your body, your emotions, and your money.
Unlocking Potential and Purpose
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You're the one being deceived because you're being projected upon that you are not enough. What am I talking about? talking about when I graduated from my bachelor's and asked for a job and the man told me, oh, this job that men get at bachelor's.
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As a woman, I'm just going to tell you the truth. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But as a woman, you have to have your master's to get the same job that they get with their bachelor's. I'm talking about the projection of illegitimate deservedness. Do you understand what I'm saying?
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When I am sitting in a class and I have more qualifications that I'm the only woman in the class I'm talking about the my first Naval Chaplain School. I'm the only woman in the class and and i am I am more qualified because I'm talking about the postgraduate credits that I have.
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And I am now questioned by my peers. So what makes you think you were called to this position? What makes me think I am called when I have more years of experience and more postgraduate credits?
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I'm talking about imposter projection. I'm talking about the projection onto you that you are not deserving and that your achievement is illegitimate. This is not something we manifested in our minds from somewhere. It was projected onto you. You don't have imposter syndrome. it's that You don't have an illness to treat.
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We get to now treat the root.
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And it is the projection of bullshit.
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So now, yeah, Lisa, makes no sense.
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We get to stop telling ourselves that we have this thing. We get to stop telling each other how to manage it. We get to go in and do the energetic work and clear it.
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Release it, dismantle it, detach it, dissolve it, and send it back to hell wherever it came from. That's what we get to do.
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That's what we get to do.
00:20:46
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Danielle, this is exactly what happened to me at my job. Oh, thank you. Thank you. And many, many, many, many other women around you. Let me read this from the article from from the University of Cincinnati.
Imposter Syndrome and Systemic Issues
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Let me read this because can tell you what I'm telling you, what I know.
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It is very important to note. I didn't say that. University of Cincinnati said this. Cincinnati, excuse me, said this. It is very important to note, though, that imposter syndrome does not impact everyone equally.
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Hold on. What are we saying? It doesn't impact everyone equally. Evidence shows that imposter syndrome impacts minority individuals at a higher rate overall.
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This includes racial, ethnic minorities, sexual, gender minorities, minorities, right? And essentially all groups of individuals who are in some way underrepresented within their professional or academic environment. How many of you have been the only woman or the only the only oh my minority, the only brown or black, right?
00:21:56
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How many of you have been in that position or in that space? Evidence shows that imposter syndrome impacts minority individuals at a higher rate overall. on, you ain't telling me nothing i we couldn't figure out.
00:22:11
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That's because it didn't manifest somehow magically within ourselves. It was projected onto us that we somehow are not enough and will never be.
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My endorser, former endorser, when I've submitted my, when I was, mm, whoo. He didn't even let me submit. When I was submitting my package after he gave me the guidelines and I followed them to a T, even more so because a lot of us are like that. We're overachievers.
00:22:40
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Even more so. And he sat on the phone and told me you will never be enough. What I'm telling you is we've been through some shit. We don't have imposter syndrome. We have imposter projection. We haven't been trying to deceive anyone, yet we have been made to believe that that they might be deceived by our achievement.
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Now, you can tell me if this ain't no mindfulness. Because what's actually happening the projection is being placed onto you so that you are deceived. You are deceived about your power.
00:23:18
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You are deceived about your achievement. You are deceived about how enough you are, how more than enough you are. You are deceived about the impact and the innovation and the creation that you actually are making. Right.
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it just Exactly, Lisa. That's exactly what i've been what i've been what I've been bringing up in the beginning. It just happened with President ah Vice President Harris who
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they look at her and say that she is not enough when in fact she's one of the most qualified candidates that has ever happened.
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You don't have imposter syndrome. then You don't have no damn syndrome. You don't have an illness.
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What we have is some projected onto us bullshit. And it has been going on for generations and generations and generations and millennia.
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And what has happened is our subconscious has taken it and decided that it will create some protective mechanisms because it feels unsafe out in this piece.
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It feels unsafe. So that's why we delay procrastination. That's why that's why we stop ourselves, self-sabotage.
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That's why we sit in the office until 8 a.m., 9 a.m., 10 a.m., excuse me, 10 p.m., right? 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m., 11 p.m. with my sick son in the corner.
00:24:59
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I know what I'm talking about. overachieving and perfectionism. That's why. That's why.
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So if you have felt in some way that this so-called imposter syndrome has been keeping you back and you have been questioning, am I enough? Because...
00:25:23
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because I don't look like this or sound like this, or I'm not out here like this, or my messaging is not like this, or my wording is not like this, or my hair is not like this, or my shape is not like this, or my lips are not like this.
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What has happened is some projected onto you bullshit.
Empowerment through Clearing Undeservedness
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And now we get to work with the symptoms as we dive deeper and the root.
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And as we clear and heal and release and detach and dissolve the root within us, knowing without doubt who we are, how powerful we are, and what we came here on this earth to do,
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and we act in that every day,
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We will change some shit.
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It's inevitable. That's what we came here to do.
00:26:34
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So, all that being said, i am sending you so much love and power always. You know this. opening the doors to the Goddess Collective in January, where we get to know, know, know, without a doubt who we are, what we're here to do, and how we get to act on that from a place of power, from the pace from the place of the I am, um the doors open in January. 90 day, it's a 90 day program. And I have two spots open for one-to-one VIPs. So I would be remiss if I didn't share that with you.
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um
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But really my heart came to share this imposter bullshit that we get to release now. And so if you have felt touched or blessed, I invite you to share this with a sister that you know, because what we know now, what we've always known, what we know times a hundred, right?
00:27:34
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Times a hundred, what we know today. is that we have some work to do. I feel like that's my new mantra. We have some work to do and we get to do it now.
00:27:46
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So have a fantastic Tuesday. Have a fantastic week. Please share, if not the video, the message with someone um so that we can be free and in our power and we get to change some shit. i again, I'm sending you so much love and power always.
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me play my...
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outro that my son created and um have a powerful day. Let's go. Let's do this.
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