09: Jessica Honegger: Respecting Seasons, Releasing Shame and Choosing Connection Over Comparison
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It’s easy to create unrealistic expectations when it seems like everyone around you has it figured out but you. Today, Jessica Honegger shares her own personal journey with comparison as a mother, wife, and entrepreneur. Jessica not only stays actively involved with her 3 children but balances her businesses, Noonday Collection, and the Going Scared Podcast, and recently released a book, The Imperfect Courage.
In this episode, Jessica discusses how she’s learned to surrender her perfectionism and embrace her current season of life. She provides an empowering anecdote of an encounter with another mom, how she’s managed to adjust to major life transitions, and how to let go of control. Join Robin Long in this intimate and encouraging interview.
Show Highlights:
- Jessica discusses her current career and the different projects she’s working on
- How Jessica started her own company while balancing being a mother and wife
- Learning to appreciate the present moment and enjoying the season you’re in
- The progress of Jessica’s office space and cultivating an office culture
- How to adjust to different business systems during different life transitions
- Letting go of perfectionism and releasing control in order to validate yourself
- Dictating what to prioritize and what to release
- Choosing celebration and connectivity instead of comparison
- What a self-care regimen looks like for Jessica
- Approaching exercise as a positive process as opposed to a punishment
- The journey of acceptance and the process of transformation
- Advice to live a fulfilled and balanced life
Links:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/jumpstart/
Instagram: @thebalancedlife
Contact Jessica:
Instagram: @Jessicahonegger
Jessica's Going Scared Podcast
References:
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Imperfect Courage by Jessica Honegger
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number nine with Jessica Honiger. |
| 0:03.4 | You know, we're in the summer season, which is normally just a slower season in general. |
| 0:07.7 | And instead of feeling frantic about that or, oh my God, there's no fire for me to be putting out just to instead just really be enjoying it. |
| 0:15.4 | Because I know that things pick up again and things change. |
| 0:18.1 | So I think that's what I've learned over the years is to just |
| 0:21.3 | embrace the present moment, the season that I'm in. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and creator of the balanced life. It's easy to believe that the women we follow online do it all, but the truth is they don't. |
| 0:43.9 | None of us do. |
| 0:45.5 | Here on the balanced life podcast, you'll find honest conversations with inspiring women, |
| 0:51.1 | sharing the real story of how they make their life work, what they do, and perhaps more |
| 0:55.9 | importantly, what they don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of. From food and |
| 1:01.9 | exercise to work and family, we'll cover it all and provide practical tips to help you |
| 1:08.0 | create a beautiful, uniquely balanced life of your own. This is the |
| 1:13.1 | Balance Life podcast. Hello and welcome back to the Balance Life podcast. Oh, I am so excited |
| 1:20.0 | to share today's conversation with you. I'm not going to talk too long because I just want to |
| 1:24.5 | dive right in, but there are a couple of key things that I want to |
| 1:29.0 | make sure you pay attention to in this episode because, gosh, they were really an encouragement |
| 1:33.9 | and really gave me something to think about. The first is when Jessica mentions running in |
| 1:40.9 | to another mom from her kid' school at a coffee shop. |
| 1:50.6 | Mom's women in general, it's so easy to compare ourselves to others, right? |
| 1:57.8 | It's so easy to see other women who have beautiful homes or successful careers or they're traveling the world with their kids or they're the ultimate homemaker, throw |
| 2:01.7 | amazing birthday parties, whatever it might be. It's so easy for us to see these women |
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