Welcome back to the podcast. I am Dr. Edie Wadsworth, founder of Life Mentoring School and host of the

Life Mentoring School podcast. We are so glad you're here. We specialize in helping high achieving

passionate women uncover their extraordinary God-given gifts. Welcome to the podcast. Let's dive in.

I am three days out, three days, four days out from running

half marathon and I've been going to the gym this week, but I decided today I needed a day off.

Mama is still recovering, but the race was amazing and we're going to talk about it a little bit today because

we're going to talk about three tips for taking ownership of your life and how it will set you

free. I love this topic. This is part of our series on becoming more your true self. And I think that ownership and sort of taking responsibility for yourself sometimes can get a

bad rap, but I'm telling you, it has literally changed every part of my life since I decided

to take ownership of everything, even things that we think sometimes we can't take ownership of, like even,

you know, your experience of your past for me, my experience of childhood, feels like something

that's just true that I can't take responsibility for. But what I have learned is that you

always can take responsibility for how you interpret things,

for how you respond.

And since I have learned how to do that, it has made my life infinitely better and more enjoyable.

And I want to sort of tie that in to the race.

So I want to talk a little bit about running this race.

So I have run several half marathons before.

And this was the first one that, no, this was the second one of actually run with my son,

my son Taylor.

For those of you who don't know, or who might be new to me,

he's an amazing guy, and he's actually a physician doing a spine fellowship at Vanderbilt in Nashville.

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