Each and every one of us is born with a unique set of gifts that we're here to express during

our time on Earth. Look, God doesn't make any extra peeps and when we hold back our gifts,

we truly are stealing from those who need us most.

Hey, it's Marie Porleo and welcome back to Love Letters to Creative's

a special series we've been doing for the last few weeks here on the Marie Porleo podcast

to inspire and encourage all of you, our creative listeners. And guess what? This is our fifth

and final week and we're going to wrap up with the topic of bravery because look, no matter what

you're creating, you have got to be courageous with your creations because no matter who you are

or what you do, some people are just not going to get it. They're not going to get you.

They may look at your business or your podcast or your book or what you're trying to create and say,

ugh, I don't know about that. Why would you ever think of investing your time or your energy

or your money into that? Well, in this clip that you're about to hear,

Brenny Brown is going to help you deal with all that and then some. You're going to learn how to

know that yes, you are enough, no matter what kind of garbage that people toss your way

and how to keep doing the work that you were born to do.

What I found is that true belonging is a spiritual practice and it's about the ability to find

sacredness in both being a part of something but also the courage to stand alone and the people

for those of us who struggle to have the courage to stand alone, especially when we know that it

we're risking that sense of being a part of something because we disagree because we have a different

opinion because we love something different. That is the mark that's the mark of true belonging

to be able to say yes, I am a part of something bigger but I also will stand alone when I need to

and then it was like, oh, shit, you belong everywhere and nowhere and that is liberation.

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