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18: We Made It
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Somehow, someway, against all the odds, in the face of nothing but absolute madness, we made in out of the hell that was 2020. More at brittanygeneva dot com slash blog.
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Return and Motivation
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Hey, guys, it is Brittany Geneva, another episode of Geneva Savvy. I'm here. I got the camera set up. You can see my face in front of, well, sort of behind this microphone. You know, it's been about six months, something outrageous since my last podcast. But as usual, my resolution is to get a lot more consistent. So I am trying to start out the year
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focused and ready to actually really dig in to my content creation. I have friends and people in my life who are just going in like so dedicated, whether it's starting a business, creating content. And I mean, honestly, I'm hating. You know what I mean? Like I'm hating like, okay, like
00:00:59
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So I've been planning and trying to get this together for like three years and y'all just started this six months ago and you're already okay. All right. So obviously I need to get my shit together. So that is what I am doing. I'm going, I promise you all like hold me accountable. Look me in the eye right now. I'm getting serious. I'm creating my content. I am doing this because I care.
00:01:24
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I love this. I want to share with you guys. I want to talk with you guys. You guys tell me you missed the podcast. So I have to, I mean, I owe it to myself. I owe
2020 Challenges and Resilience
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it to you. Like we got to get serious about this thing in 2021. No games. 2020 threw us all the way off. Okay. So we need to have grace on ourselves and forgive ourselves for things that didn't quite work out the way we wanted it to. But now it's a new year. There's nowhere to go but up. I mean, truly.
00:01:54
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my God. So we're about to go all the way up like Fat Joe. Okay. Sorry, that was very funny. Um, today I just Oh, and this is the name of this podcast is Geneva says I don't think I said that before. Anyways. Hello. Hi. I am
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I just want to I just want to take some time to reflect. I mean, honestly, this one's probably going to be a little short and sweet because it's just a moment to pause and reflect on the fact that we made it through 2020. And I sort of can't believe it. Like I remember March, I had just gotten back from Dubai, like literally right before like every border got closed. So thank God I still got to make that trip.
00:02:42
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But I got back, my office said we closing. So I haven't been to my office since February because that was the first week of March. We started working from home, all of a sudden can't go nowhere, can't do anything. It's spring, summer, fall, winter, we still in the house. I just said, is 2020 ever gonna end? And thank God it finally did. And now we actually have
00:03:10
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at least what feels like new beginnings, even though, frankly, it's just, I mean, nothing is different from December 31st, but our mindsets are different. It feels like a new day, new mercies every day, hallelujah for my church people. And we're gonna make this feel new, even if it's not actually new. And we have to start with just giving ourselves a round of applause, honestly.
00:03:38
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This has just been the most outrageous shit that you could ever think of, like new outrageous shit happening every day. And we actually made it through and we actually survived. And if you survived and did not perish, then you actually had a great 2020. And definitely give yourself a pat on the back because unfortunately, a lot of people did not have that privilege. And I'm sad to see the number of people who are not
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reflecting on and realizing that people die from this disease.
Critique of 'LLC Twitter'
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And so it needs to be taken seriously. But regardless, if you took it seriously, and especially if you are here and you are surviving and making it day by day, then it's a great year. It's a great year for you. It's a great year for me, regardless of maybe the goals we didn't get accomplished or just the things that we had in mind that didn't happen the way we wanted them to.
00:04:35
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It's still, like we still did great. And I think, you know, one of the things that I've been seeing a lot, so, okay.
00:04:43
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Y'all know there's all these different places on Twitter. We got Black Twitter, which is a whole thing, but even within that, we have different sub-Twitters. And I have recently become aware of LLC Twitter. I don't personally follow anybody from LLC Twitter, so I haven't seen their foolishness. I didn't even know this was a thing. But people retweet it onto my timeline, and I'm like, wait, what? Who are these people?
00:05:13
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So LLC Twitter is trying to make people feel like this $600 stipend or stimulus check from the government. Don't use it for basic survival, like paying toward your rent or getting groceries. No, you need to start an LLC. I know you don't have a plan or a product or a service that you offer, but create a business. What?
00:05:41
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Huh? You can flip that 600 into more if you did it. Man, people are hungry. People are actually having to make a choice between eating and paying their household bills. So I feel like ease up. What are we doing? And I hate that for us, that there's always constantly this feeling of you should be doing more. And I know I experienced that a lot this year.
00:06:09
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It's a pandemic, so A, I should just be doing more because I'm home. And then I should still be able to achieve all the goals I had set out for myself before the pandemic, or I should be doing this, or I was supposed to be here in life. And even outside of the pandemic, just like I turned 31 in 2020, and it's like, oh, by 31, I should be doing this.
Struggles with Comparison
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I should be doing that. And I found myself like shitting the fuck out of myself like way too much.
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And really comparing myself to people like a lot, like way more than I feel like I have done before. And I'm like, why am I doing that? And I think maybe it's just because, you know, with the pandemic, like more time on social media, more scrolling through Instagram, I don't know what it is. But like, I was comparing myself to people like crazy and like literally feeling sad, like literally getting down on myself like, I should have done this. I should have done that. Like, girl,
00:07:07
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What? You should have lived another day. And if you did that, then you did fine. So if anybody else can relate to that struggle, let's please stop doing it to ourselves. I even noticed, like, OK, Christmas time, a lot of people posting things with their family or their significant other, matching pajamas, all this stuff. And I kept seeing tweets like, y'all got y'all matching pajamas. I can't even get a text back.
00:07:36
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You know, y'all got your engagement pictures. I can't even get a date. And it's like, dang, why do we keep doing that to ourselves?
00:07:44
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They have their matching pajamas and their engagements, and you still also are poppin' in whatever way that you are. And we just have, ugh, like social media creates such a strong opportunity to just compare yourself to people all the time. And I'm like, we have got to liberate ourselves from this hell of comparison.
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And I find myself in it too. I have started to limit my time on
Celebrating Wins
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social media. I put the screen time things on my phone. And then I keep saying, give me 15 more minutes, like 100 times. So that's not good. But this month, starting on Monday, January 4th, I'm going to be fasting social media.
00:08:31
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And I'm just I got to just fucking chill because there is so like, I have never I don't ever remember a time where I compared myself to people this much. And where I was so down on myself, despite the fact that I'm actually winning, like, I just finished this is part of the reason why I kind of look nice right now is because I just finished getting sworn in for advisory neighborhood commissioner. So
00:09:00
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Um, won my election. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. And we just got sworn in. So I'm officially commissioner and not commissioner elect. Um, so I did, I won a whole election this year. Like what? And let me tell you, I did not come into the year or last year, I should say.
00:09:16
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I did not come into the year thinking, you know what I want to do? Run for office. Like it was very sort of like somebody suggested it and I said, OK, and then I did it and now I won. And I'm like, what's happening? So that happened this year. I like accidentally started my side hustle this year. I had I brought in like a decent amount of money from like work outside of my job on my job. I kept my job.
00:09:44
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People got laid off and I didn't. So that is the blessing in and of itself. And then got a little raise, even though, you know, things is tight, but they still threw me a few extra dollars. I was like, okay. So what, and then my personal growth has been crazy.
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between therapy and just all these other books that I've been reading and YouTube videos that I've been watching. And maybe I'll do another podcast on that to really talk about some of that stuff. But my personal growth journey has been amazing. I am becoming a new person, a much better person. I still have so much stuff that I need to work on, but I am really growing as a human.
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Nigga, I've been winning all 2020, okay?
Focus on Gratitude and Positivity
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And it's continuing into 2021. And we all have, we all have our own wins. We all have things that we did this year that may not seem as big in comparison to someone else, but is so important and is meaningful for you. So let's just try not to downplay anything.
00:10:54
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2021, the year of no more comparing, we gotta stop. And if that means getting off social media, if that means muting certain things on social media so that you're not seeing it, we just gotta chill with all this comparison because it is not good for our mental health. And it's just so difficult not to, but I personally feel like it has contributed a lot to me feeling sad when I didn't need to feel sad.
00:11:24
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I probably am not the only one for whom that is true. So let's liberate ourselves from comparison in 2021. Let's be grateful. Let's wake up every day and remind ourselves what we're grateful for and end every night and remind ourselves what we did that day, what we accomplished, even if the accomplishment was taking a shower, you know,
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moving, walking outside for a few minutes, whatever it is, like, let's just be so positive in 2021 and not compare ourselves and not feel like there's some mountains we need to be moving or some
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productivity guidelines we need to be following. Let's just be as good as we possibly can, knowing that we are very much still in a pandemic. We are very much still in COVID, and we are not out of the woods yet there.
Content Creation Plans for 2021
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So we will just do our best to
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survive every day. And doing that is actually amazing. So this is just a short and sweet little podcast to kick off the year. I promise you, like I said, hold me
00:12:41
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I am really serious. If for no other reason because I can't keep seeing all my friends pass me by and I'm like, well, damn. I am going to be creating. I have so many content ideas, you guys. I have so much stuff I want to do to the point where it overwhelms me. And that's probably why I don't end up doing anything. But I'm going to start with this podcast. But I have a lot more. I have a lot more.
00:13:09
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just in my spirit that I wanna just make and create. And if anybody would bother to watch it, it would just, I would be overdone with joy. I wanna do some like vlogs about, you know, my experience as ANC and I just wanna do, obviously I'm very focused on talking about like culture and society and politics and that's always gonna be like a big focus of mine. But look, you know, your girl is like,
00:13:37
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Look at my hair. Look at my makeup. Like I love beauty. Look at my room. I'm sitting in a pink room and like over here is my vanity that's like overflowing with makeup. So I also really like beauty. So I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate that. I love home decor, like home decor literally. I have sometimes asked myself, could I be like an interior designer? But I don't like anyone else's style. I only like my style.
00:14:01
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So I have thought about, do I want to do some content about my home decor and how I'm decorating my house? So I just have so many thoughts. I certainly need to rein it in and get some focus. But I definitely plan to figure out how to make it work in 2021. And then I also
00:14:22
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I have a separate channel that I will be working on later that is focusing on like marketing and branding and PR and the stuff that I do for living and bringing some of that expertise to entrepreneurs and like political candidates or small business owners, anybody who just needs to get a better understanding of how to market yourself, market your business.
00:14:48
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um, and grow your brand. So that's also something I'm working on. I mean, like the thing, the ideas is flowing. Okay. And, um, this is the year that I am definitely going to
00:15:03
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lean into them and not be so afraid of failure, not be so tied to trying to be perfect because that's a big thing that holds me back feeling like I have to be perfect before I start. So anyways, I'm letting all of that go this year. I pray that you do as well. And I will be back
00:15:24
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with another podcast very soon. I promise. This is Brittany Geneva. Geneva says podcast, find me on social media, Brittany underscore Geneva. And then you can also find me online at Brittany Geneva.com slash blog. Am I any other places where you should I think that's it. Okay, bye.