Welcome to the Hustle Saintly Podcast, a show that equips you to get organized and boldly

pursue your wildest dreams.

Around here, we believe it is totally possible to pursue our goals without feeling burnt out, overwhelmed, or sacrificing our mental health and relationships.

I'm your host, Jess Massey. Now let's get into today's episode.

Hey friend welcome back to the Hustle Saint Lee podcast. I am so

dang glad that you are here. We are heading right in to

week three of the Holiday Hustle Series. It is no secret that this time of year is a little bit wild for most people long

to do list jam-packed calendars the whole shabang so we are taking at the next couple of weeks to just talk about ways that we can be more

intentional and more mindful throughout this holiday season. Last week we talked about how you can

choose joy even when you're busy,

which is all the time because we're all always busy.

And this week I wanted to talk about how to say no without feeling guilty.

So last week we talked about how we have to purge our task list.

And so sometimes that means saying no to people who we don't normally say no to or saying no to things that we've never

said no to in the past. So that's kind of what we're going to dive into today is what you can do to not feel guilty because you shouldn't feel guilty when you say the word no, okay?

So let me ask you a question. Do you ever struggle with saying no?

Maybe you're afraid to let someone down

or cause someone to get upset,

but here's the deal.

No is not a cuss word.

In fact, I think it's the opposite. It needs to be a commonly used word in your

vocabulary. Today I want to talk about how you can say no without feeling guilty because let's be real. You cannot say yes to everything and remain a sane

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