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Shameless Leadership

209: 3 Things To Do When You Feel Helpless

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7800 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The last couple weeks have been stressful for me on a few different levels. Anyone with me??? Here’s the deal - stress doesn’t have to be lonely and isolating. And we don’t have to sit in helplessness.  Because that sh*t does not feel positive or productive. I have had to do some serious coaching of myself to get out of my head and into action over the last couple weeks and I thought it would be helpful to share this coaching with you. Listen in to hear me share what I’m feeling helpless about, how I’m making strategic escapes, what kinds of productive plans I’m making, and how I’m dumping & processing with others so I don’t have to go it alone (NO ONE should ever have to go it alone!) Links Mentioned: March 14th Women’s March Walkout – a national 17-minute walkout March 24th: March For Our Lives (in Washington DC and other large cities) Thank you to our sponsors: Bissell: For the easiest and most mess-free way to bathe your dog at home go to: Get Bark Bath. Use the code SHAMELESS at checkout to get two FREE bottles of no-rinse shampoo with your order. KIND: For healthy, delicious snack bars go to Kind Snacks to get 10 KIND Bars for free – just pay shipping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.4

This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 209.

0:36.8

Show notes for this episode, including all links mentioned in this episode,

0:41.2

can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 209.

0:59.4

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,

1:04.0

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. I'm happy to be here with you today, but I'm going to be honest.

1:14.6

Things are rough right now. I say that laughing because some things are like real rough in terms

1:21.0

of like national grieving and things just are really, really intense right now. And then there's

1:26.2

other things that are rough along the lines of like,

1:28.4

I need a new alternator in my car and that's just really annoying.

1:32.1

So what I want to talk about today is things you can do when you're feeling helpless.

1:36.1

And this applies to a lot of different levels and layers of our lives.

1:39.5

And what inspired this episode for me is some transitions that I'm going through

1:43.8

in different areas of work

1:45.9

and different things related to the show here and the gym and all sorts of different things

1:50.7

along those lines where I just feel sometimes like I'm not in control. And that's a hard feeling

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