This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 169.

Show notes for this episode can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 169.

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.

I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms

the tools you need to

bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to help you be

a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily

proud of, what kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in. Hello, shameless moms.

Happy Monday.

So I'm recording this a little earlier than normal.

I will have just returned from a three-day trip, four-day trip to Las Vegas to celebrate

my mother's 79th birthday and see Celine Dion when this episode actually goes live. So I will have just

returned. So I'll have to do a whole episode just on that. That should be pretty fun and

exciting. I tried to convince her to go to Share instead of Celine and she was not having it.

So we're going to Celine. So I'm sure there will be pictures on Instagram. If you want to go

check it out on Instagram at the

Shameless Mom Academy, I will do my best to post some fun pictures from my sister and my mom

and I's weekend in Las Vegas to see Celine. So, okay, what we're going to talk about today,

we are going to talk about three ways to stand in your power. And some of this is, actually all of this

is motivated by events and conversations I've been having recently. So one of the things that I have

been talking a lot about in interviews is stories. So I'm going to go here with number one.

Own and embrace your stories. This seems to keep coming up. So I think I need to talk about it more

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