06: Monique Melton: Healthy Relationships, Defining Your Worth and Creative Ways to Lighten Your Load
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In order to have a whole, happy, and fulfilling life that aligns with our goals we have to establish solid relationships not only with others, but with ourselves. Today’s guest, Monique Melton, is a relationship and racial diversity coach with a passion for creating unity. Monique encourages others to do intentional heart work that will break down boundaries in their spiritual, personal, and relational growth.
In this episode, Monique shares how she has personally let go of the pressure of perfection in her own life and how she’s changed her mindset to commit to her family and personal needs, not societal obligations. She also talks about how she has redefined motherhood for herself and established a better relationship with the gym, all while being an entrepreneur.
Show Highlights:
- What Monique’s faith and career look like currently
- A typical day in the life for Monique and her family
- Paralleling Monique’s current career to her childhood vision
- How Monique prioritizes important aspects of her life
- Things Monique has had to let go of obligations that don’t support her priorities
- Letting go of pressure and the mindset of perfection
- Disassociating your self-worth from your ability to do it all
- Recognizing your family’s needs and meeting them to the best of your ability
- Reflecting on experiences that have evoked fear and anxiety
- Allowing yourself to feel your emotions and taking action in a way that makes you proud
- Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
- Finding ways to incorporate health and fitness into your lifestyle
- Ways to incorporate leisure into a busy schedule
- Rapid fire session of Monique’s favorite products and daily go-to’s
Links:
Contact Monique:
Instagram: @Moetivate
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number six with Monique Melton. |
| 0:03.8 | Like if you're not taking care of yourself and making sure that you're eating well and you're sleeping well and you are just taking care of yourself mentally and spiritually and physically in all those ways, it doesn't matter what you do because you won't be able to enjoy it because you'll be sick. |
| 0:29.3 | Yeah. what you do because you won't be able to enjoy it because you'll be sick. I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and creator of the balanced life. |
| 0:34.2 | It's easy to believe that the women we follow online do it all. But the truth is, |
| 0:39.7 | they don't. None of us do. Here on the Balanced Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations with |
| 0:46.4 | inspiring women, sharing the real story of how they make their life work, what they do, and perhaps |
| 0:52.6 | more importantly, what they don't do, what they |
| 0:55.5 | prioritize and what they let go of. From food and exercise to work and family, we'll cover it all |
| 1:02.1 | and provide practical tips to help you create a beautiful, uniquely balanced life of your own. |
| 1:09.2 | This is the Balance Life podcast. Hey friends, I hope you're |
| 1:14.4 | having a good day right now. I got to tell you, over here, it has been a week. At the time I'm |
| 1:22.1 | recording this, it is a Wednesday at about noon, but I feel like I have worked and lived a full 10-day work week |
| 1:30.9 | in the matter of two days. Is that a thing, a 10-day work week? I don't think so, |
| 1:36.1 | but it is now. It's just been crazy, but all good. There are a lot of exciting things happening |
| 1:42.9 | at the balanced life right now. I just wrapped |
| 1:45.5 | filming for a new and exciting project coming your way soon. We filmed at the beach as we normally do. |
| 1:53.0 | And you guys, it was so windy. It was a windstorm of the century. It was insane out there, blowing sand, my mat was flying away, our camera equipment was barely |
| 2:06.8 | holding on. |
| 2:07.8 | It was a bit of a mess, to be honest. |
| 2:11.2 | But we did the best we could, took advantage of the pockets of time when the wind had died |
| 2:15.4 | down. |
| 2:16.6 | But man, it was a challenge. |
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