I know that this community is filled with big dreamers who have big plans for 2020.

And here's the deal.

In order for us to achieve those big plans, it's definitely going to require us to grow in the process.

And I know from first-hand experience that the resistance that comes along with leveling up can feel super uncomfortable.

But I've also learned that the fastest way through the discomfort isn't to run from it.

It's to lean fully in.

Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more.

I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, and together we'll unlock

the confidence and clarity you are looking for to help you get out of your own way and into action

around your next big idea.

I can hardly believe we are at the end of 2019, our final episode, and I thought this would be a good chance to just share something

that I've been thinking a lot about, especially as I go into a new year. And I have this

realization that I think is super funny. I think this will be a really good test to see if we could

be friends in real life. If you think

my sense of humor is funny and you find this amusing, then I think you're really going to,

you and I can hang. But I was thinking a little bit about this whole concept of growth. And I mean,

this is nothing new. We know that as we're taking on new things and new challenges, you know, that comes along

with resistance. And resistance can feel freaking uncomfortable. And for a long time, you know,

pre-powerhouse women, I was very good at doing just enough, working just up to the point of resistance, and kind of stopping

there, not being willing to lean full on in and actually go through what was necessary in order

to grow, in order to learn what I needed to learn to take things to the next level.

And that was a really, it was just as uncomfortable to live that way because, you know,

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