3 Reasons For Self Sabotage
The Jo DeVoe Show
Joanna DeVoe
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder why you trip up, flake out or suddenly lose interest in something you really-really want right as things finally start going your way?
Or maybe you’ve watched in awe (or horror) as someone you love keeps bailing on themself like that.
Seriously… why?
Why is this even a thing?
That is the question I aim to answer in this week’s episode of the podcast, diving heart-first into the messy, oh-so-human habit of self-sabotage.
“Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn’t happen.” -Alyce Cornyn-Selby“What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.” -Nathaniel Brande“You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.” -Emma Kate Dawson
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Spring, friends, spring has sprung. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to episode number 36 of the Joe DeVos show. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm your host, Joanna DeVoe, but you can call me Joe, |
| 0:13.6 | and I am here to uplift and support my fellow creatives, |
| 0:18.5 | lovable weirdos, and makers of magic, which I forgot to say in the last |
| 0:24.1 | episode because I was too dang excited to be back to podcasting and flapping my gums |
| 0:30.9 | about what to do if you suspect you might be in a shitty relationship but don't yet have the courage to start looking for the exit. |
| 0:41.2 | That is something that I personally had a really hard time with in the past. |
| 0:47.1 | And if I can say anything to help anyone else in that situation feel a little less stuck |
| 0:53.3 | or a little more self-compassionate, I am all about it. |
| 0:59.0 | And that's pretty much what I'm all about these days in general because I am in my 50s now. |
| 1:05.0 | And wisdom. That's what you get in exchange for your tight young body. You get wisdom, which in my case has been hard one through a harrowing clown show of personal trials. |
| 1:21.6 | And if there are any fans of human design listening right now, shout out to my fellow three lines. |
| 1:28.7 | I know you know what I'm talking about. |
| 1:31.1 | And for those of you who are not human design fans, the three line represents the energy |
| 1:37.4 | of learning through trial and error and making lots of mistakes along the way. |
| 1:43.7 | We three lines, I think this is true of everybody, I don't know. |
| 1:48.0 | Probably we all have this energy in us somewhere going on, but we learn and develop |
| 1:53.9 | wisdom through experimentation and this willing to fail pioneering spirit. |
| 2:02.0 | The three line is sometimes called the pioneer or the martyr. |
| 2:07.2 | I feel like when you're in it, when you're young and you're in that energy, |
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