275: 4 Ways To Let Your Freak Flag Fly

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Like most women, I spent a lot of my life trying to blend in. I wanted to be the same as all the people around me. In fact, I hated that I had red hair and freckles for my entire childhood. I didn’t like looking different. However, today, as a 42-year-old woman, mom, wife, entrepreneur, I LOVE standing out. I love being my own unique person. I love being recognized for what makes me different. I love my red hair and freckles (and I get super offended with certain skin care companies say they have creams to minimize/lighten freckles – WTF?!? Not cool.) I’ve come a long way in owning my differences, embracing my oddities, and sharing my true self. And the result has been magical – as now I attract all the best people into my life. When I was trying to blend in I had a lot of relationships that were NOT satisfying. Sometimes I felt misunderstood and like I needed to hide parts of myself. No more. Now I let my freak flag fly and the people I attract people have many of the same values as me, and often the same interests (Real Housewives, entrepreneurship, fitness, personal and professional development, mental health awareness). I actually build friendships around geeking out on common interests instead of pretending to like what someone else likes. And, it’s SO MUCH BETTER. Who knew??? Listen in to this episode to learn 4 ways you can let your freak flag fly and how flying your freak flag will change the dynamics of your relationships. Thank you to our sponsors: Fabfitfun: To get $10 off your first subscription box (making it only $39.99 for $200 worth of products) go to Fabfitfun and use the code SHAMELESS at checkout. RXBAR: RXBAR is offering you an exclusive pack of 6 adult bars and 4 kids bars + 25% off your first order when you go to RXBAR and enter the code SHAMELESS at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 275.
0:04.4	Show notes for this episode, including all links mentioned, as well as any discount codes from our sponsors, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 275.
0:18.2	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our
0:38.4	free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over
0:43.8	at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
0:57.9	Hello, Sham shameless moms.
0:59.2	I'm so happy to be here.
0:59.9	Happy Monday.
1:07.3	So this episode is going live just after I've come back from spending my mom's 80th birthday with her.
1:08.8	And I am sure there will be photos on Instagram and Facebook. And I'll just
1:14.0	let you know now. My mom is like 80 going on 62. She's kind of a badass. And I'm super excited to be
1:21.4	celebrating her milestone birthday with her. And I don't know. I mean, maybe it'll inspire a whole
1:26.6	separate podcast episode later. But anyways, that's what I'm going to be doing. And I don't know. I mean, maybe it'll inspire a whole separate podcast episode
1:27.8	later. But anyways, that's what I'm going to be doing, what I will have just done when this
1:32.0	episode goes live. And then a couple days after that, so two days from now, I go to New Orleans
1:37.9	for the first time. So my husband surprised me with this trip for our anniversary and we're going to
1:43.1	New Orleans. So our 10 year anniversary was in
1:45.1	September and he gave me the surprise in August. Let's just dive into like let your freak flag fly right now.
1:52.1	He had to give me a surprise in August so that I could prepare for the surprise from August to October
1:58.6	because he knew that if he surprised me with a trip and was like,
2:02.5	pack your bags, we're leaving tomorrow. I would like lose my mind. So I so appreciate that after 10
2:09.5	years of marriage and 15 years together, that he knows that like a surprise trip on 24 hours
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