325. Are You Letting Your Inadequacies Stop You? Or Serve You?
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
What if the thing that you think makes you inadequate is actually meant to be a part of your impact? If you're willing to be grateful for the thing that is standing in your way and see it as your potential for even greater impact, you can start to take away its power and it will become less scary. I'm sharing my experience with confronting my insecurities and three reasons why you should absolutely reframe the things that are holding you back. You have the opportunity to prove to people that if you can do it, so can they. What's stopping you?
In this episode we talk about:
- The magic of empathy
- Why you're more relatable to your audience when you're still on the journey yourself
- Showing up in your imperfection
- Being the example that you wish you had
- My favorite story of Roger Bannister's four-minute mile
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EPISODE TIMELINE & DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
( 0:49 ) Welcome back to another episode of Powerhouse Women!
( 1:06 ) Lindsey introduces the topic of today's episode. What if the thing that right now you think makes you inadequate is actually meant to be a part of your impact?
( 6:14 ) Lindsey shares the first reason why it's important to reframe your insecurities: You can empathize with people who you want to serve
( 7:25 ) The second reason is you're actually more relatable sometimes when you're still on the journey yourself.
( 8:58 ) The third one is that you get to prove to people that if you can do it, so can they.
( 10:03 ) Lindsey shares the story of the four-minute mile.
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| 0:00.0 | When people can see that you're still in the work yourself, you're not trying to present this fully complete story that they can't see themselves within. |
| 0:08.6 | And sometimes we forget and we think that people want the finished product when they just want to see the journey. |
| 0:13.9 | Because then they know that they're not alone. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more. |
| 0:25.3 | I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, and together we'll unlock |
| 0:31.0 | the confidence and clarity you are looking for to help you get out of your own way and into action around your next big idea. |
| 0:49.1 | I have a really important question for you. And something tells me that if you listen to this podcast, you know you're meant for more. You have a really important question for you. And something tells me that if you listen to this podcast, |
| 0:55.5 | you know you're meant for more. You have a big idea, something on your heart that you know |
| 1:02.8 | you are being called to pursue. So here's my question. What if the thing that right now you think |
| 1:09.7 | makes you inadequate is actually meant to be a part |
| 1:15.6 | of your impact? |
| 1:17.5 | You heard me right. |
| 1:19.1 | What if the very thing that you feel is stopping you from being worthy, being the one, |
| 1:25.5 | being capable of pursuing that big idea. The thing that makes you |
| 1:29.4 | feel like you're not ready, you can't start yet, you couldn't possibly impact another person, |
| 1:35.2 | what if that thing is actually meant to be a part of your story so that it can be a part of your |
| 1:42.9 | impact? I'm going to just share with you one of the very real |
| 1:48.4 | examples from my own life that could have very well prevented me from ever getting started. |
| 1:54.3 | It could have prevented me from ever writing my book, ever starting this podcast, ever getting |
| 1:59.3 | started on any of this. And to be honest, had I let that |
| 2:03.2 | thing stay in my mind as the reason why I was inadequate, we would not be having this conversation. |
| 2:11.3 | It's kind of crazy to think about, right? I've been thinking a lot about this as the five-year |
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