353: How To Build Social Support Systems That Serve You

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As you grow and evolve in different areas of your life it is imperative that you build support systems that serve you. This doesn’t typically happen by chance. It happens by design. While this takes effort and often vulnerability, the value of safe and sacred support systems is immeasurable. It is common to make the mistake of leaning on one person or one group for all your needs. If you want to be really well supported it’s important to have multiple networks and support systems to lean into. Here are some of my networks/support systems (in random order): Mom friends Female entrepreneur friends Podcaster friends Running/workout/training friends Forever Friends (high school/college) My marriage The purpose of these different support systems is that you need different networks to connect with people who are in the same place at the same time with the same needs, dreams, and interests. As you listen to this episode, you’ll learn why it’s not reasonable or wise to lean on one person or one group for all your needs. It’s so important to build these support systems because: You must have a place to shine You must have a safe place to be seen as you grow You must have sacred places to connect with like-minded people All of this preserves your mental health, improves your sense of worth, and helps you build a more dynamic identity. AND all of this helps you minimize and mitigate loneliness, isolation, depression, and anxiety. Listen in to learn: How to build support systems that serve you How to release relationships that don’t allow you to shine Why some people are no longer your people and how to be ok with that Where to find your squad and how to connect with them Thank you to our sponsors: Get access to MOMENTUM Mamas and Shameless Mom Con 2020 during our wild & crazy Christmas in July event (starting July 20!) Get on our newsletter email list for full details: News Letter Scary Mommy Speaks podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 353. Show notes for this episode, including any links
0:06.2	mentioned in the episode, as well as any discount codes from our sponsors, can be found by going
0:10.3	to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 353. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:24.0	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:30.1	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:35.5	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us
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0:43.6	us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
1:11.9	Hello, shameless moms. Happy Monday. Happy summer. I'm sitting here in the middle of our third day of rain in Seattle. So this is what summer's like in Seattle. I hope it is sunny and lovely wherever you are. By the time you get this, I will be just two days out from a quick trip to the Red Rocks in Colorado. I don't know. Is it called Red Rocks or The Red Rocks? I might sound
1:17.1	really uncool if I'm calling it The Red Rocks and it's just Red Rocks. But anyways, I'm going to
1:21.4	Red Rocks or The Red Rocks for a concert on Wednesday night. And this is such a bucket list item. So shout out to my friends,
1:30.6	Katie and McKenzie, who invited me to join them to go see the head and the heart. Oh my gosh.
1:34.6	I'm so, so, so, so so excited. Even though it's not summary here in Seattle, it's going to be
1:40.0	summary there. It's supposed to be like 90 degrees at this outdoor concert at Red Rocks. And I think it's going to be gorgeous and stunning. And this is something I wanted to do for so long.
1:47.8	So I'm very excited. What I want to talk about today, and actually this kind of ties into
1:52.8	social circles and support networks, the girlfriends I'm going to Red Rocks with are two women
1:58.6	I've known since college. And so I'm going to be talking about
2:02.8	different social networks today in our episode. And you'll hear me reference different kinds
2:08.9	of relationships and how it categorize different kinds of relationships in your lives.
2:13.0	And I think it's important that you have different categories. And so these two women, who I'll be
2:18.4	traveling with this week, are women that I know from college, from living together in the dorms,
2:24.0	and we're bonded for life because when you live with someone in the dorms and then later in a
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