I still can decline invitations if it's not feeling fully aligned with me in favour of being

able to pour from overflow so that when I do say yes to those friend invites, when I do say yes to those

events, those gatherings, I'm going from a place of

overflow. I feel like I have more to give, not I feel like I'm really scraping the barrel

to be able to show up.

Welcome back to the Boss Bade Podcast.

Welcome back to the Boss Bade Podcast. I'm Natalie Alice and I'm your host for this mini episode.

I wanted to try doing mini episodes again because I love just getting to jump in for a quick 10 minutes share something with you and hopefully it supports you in your week in your personal and professional life and this morning something hit me that I just felt like I needed to come on and have a conversation with you about.

Maybe this is going to come across a little bit as tough love, but stick with me because it's coming from a good place.

So last night, well yesterday afternoon I sat down and I started going

through all of my unread voice notes, text messages, emails and I set myself 30 minutes to get through as many as I can and then I'll

get through the rest in my next time block that I give myself.

And I just wanted to share with you because I feel like so many of us can feel really guilty

for not replying to all of the texts right away, for not dropping everything to listen to that

two minute voice note, which by the way thank God for these

transcripts that now come through you know not saying yes to that Zoom coffee not saying

yes to going out with that friend for brunch or you know letting emails pile up in your inbox and I really

think feeling guilty about that is complete BS and I think we have to move through that.

We live in a world now, like it's very abnormal, this constant communication.

It is very, very abnormal to us as human beings to communicate with this many

people this frequently

between your dms, zooms, inbox, text, phone calls,

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