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Hey, Becky. Welcome to the show. Hey, Ella. Becky, could you tell us who you are and what you do?

I'm a corporate dropout. I'm a yoga teacher. I'm

somebody who's super passionate about empowerment and choice. And so kind of to bring all that to

life, I write about it, I talk about it, I teach classes and lead workshops about it. Okay. And you

wrote a great book called You Are Not Stuck. And I've not only just enjoyed reading it,

I've enjoyed applying it. I wanted to talk to you about some of the principles in that book,

but really at the end of the day, Becky, we're talking about both of our life's work, right?

Which is just helping women operate intentionally, helping women get off of autopilot so that their life makes sense to them and

isn't just happening to them. Does that resonate with you? Oh my God, completely. I mean,

so much of the first four decades of my life was spent in large part just doing what I thought

I was supposed to do next without really pausing to take stock of,

was this what I really wanted? Did this fit with, you know, the longer term vision I had for myself?

It was all just, you know, so narrowly focused on achievement and being, you know, being the best at

whatever I was doing, whether that was at work or whether that was, you know, being a mom.

I just wanted to be the best at that. And it took me a long time to realize that I might have been doing things well, but I was kind of killing myself slowly in the process.

And so when I took the time to look around and, you know, look forwards and backwards and

sideways and up and down, I realized there are different choices to be made here, no matter,

you know, kind of no matter how much energy and time I've invested in getting where I am,

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