105: Using Vulnerability to Let Go of Perfectionism and Become More Confident with Gina Brodtman
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Do you ever feel like everyone is watching and judging, and that you "should" parent a certain way or you're doing it wrong? Or that when things get scary or stressful you need to control the situation as perfectly as possible? Gina Brodtmann faced the same struggles as her son went through drug treatment.
In this episode, Gina explains what she learned through her struggles, including:
- The importance of allowing yourself to be vulnerable (and the authentic, deep friendships and connections that will come as a result).
- Why the most awesome things in life are on the other side of fear.
- How to stop comparing yourself and your family to other people.
- The secret to dropping anger and resentment for those hard people in your life.
- And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 105. |
| 0:05.6 | My guest today is Gina Brotman, who will be telling us how she let go of perfectionism and |
| 0:10.3 | fear and chose to embrace vulnerability, which made her way more confident. |
| 0:15.8 | You're going to love this episode. |
| 0:17.4 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:19.2 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast. Stories of Vibrant Women Living |
| 0:24.6 | Happy Lives. And now your host, Jen Ryday. Hey, welcome back to the Vibrant Happy Women |
| 0:34.2 | podcast. I'm Jen Ryday, mom of six. of six i know crazy town and i feel it sometimes but |
| 0:39.9 | i am here to help each of you listening to shift from a place of burnout and overwhelm into being |
| 0:46.8 | your most vibrant and happy self that's what this podcast is all about welcome to the show so today is |
| 0:53.9 | your last chance to enter to win a $100 gift card |
| 0:58.1 | from Amazon. And we're doing that to celebrate 100 episodes, which we hit a few weeks back. |
| 1:05.1 | To enter, simply go to genredi.com forward slash giveaway. We'll announce our winners on Thursday. So I love our call-in line, |
| 1:16.0 | and I'm grateful for my trusty friend Sarah Bates, who continues to call in, and she has good thoughts. |
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| 1:46.1 | Sarah said the following. |
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