Hi there and welcome back to the Jasmine Starshow. Today we're talking about the five barriers that are quite possibly stopping you from pursuing your dreams.

I mean, wow, how about that? We're hitting the ground running. That's right, Boo Boo. I'm going to lovingly call you out because I believe you've been made to do more.

So let's dive in to the five barriers that might be stopping you from pursuing your dreams. And I got to say a little something right here real quick.

I am talking about these five barriers because I face them and occasionally every once in a while still face them.

I've been known to say that I teach the things I need to learn. So this is me admitting to you that I have struggled and on days occasionally still struggle with a little bit this.

So I'm making a podcast that on those dark days when I'm just like I'm not sure if I could push through. I'm going to listen to this. So this is made from my heart to yours.

All right.

Barrier number one, we ask ourselves, who am I to do this? Who am I to become a photographer? Who am I to create an online course? Who am I to sell jewelry? Who am I to be a nanny? Who am I to be a professor? Who am I to be an accountant? Who am I to start a business?

And whenever you ask yourself that, please hear me on your shoulder like Jiminy Cricket. Please hear me like Mr. Miyagi. Please hear me as somebody on your path.

Alatina Yoda, who says who are you not to share the thing that you're passionate about? Who are you not to be a graphic designer? Who are you not to be a realtor? Who are you not to be an influencer? A fitness professional? Who are you not to sell shampoo? Who are you not to sell essential oils?

You look to others and say they can. And every time you point, there are fingers pointing back at you saying you should. But the only person who is stopping you is you. Please do not ask who am I to do this? Please ask yourself, who am I not to share the thing that I am passionate about?

The second barrier that sometimes stops us from pursuing our dreams is, what if I get found out? Right? So we like comfort zones. We feel like the more we position ourselves as an authority, the more we open ourselves to being found out that we aren't qualified enough, smart enough, educated enough, whatever it is that you think you're not enough of. So then all of a sudden we live in this fear of being discovered.

Like somebody is going to find out that I don't what? That you don't what, boo? That you don't have all of the answers 100% at the time? Huh? Welcome to the club. I don't know who does. Baby boo, the only person who has the power to stop you from doing the thing you want to do by quote unquote getting found out is you. If you are the one to call yourself out on the weaknesses, then no one can

say anything you haven't said yourself for years. I would walk on a stage and be so consumed with fear that I did not belong on that stage. There were other people in that room who had more had done more were more talented were more successful had more credibility. And so I lived in this fear that somebody was going to stand out and say you.

Broad sit down do the work I was so afraid of that and you want to know the thing that I proudly say on a stage. I say I don't know what I'm doing.

But I'm doing it anyway. You might have a question for me and I might not have the answer.

You might have been in the game longer than me no more than me have more than me do more than me and yet I find myself here. So while I might not have all the answers my promise to you is that I remain committed to finding the answer and following up if I get to that point.

The minute you come out and say you ain't all that. But you're self aware and humble enough to know that you will work towards it and find it and honor them hot dang. Hey, nobody can say anything about that.

The third barrier that's stopping many of us from pursuing dreams. You might tell yourself well it's all been done before. Okay, I'm going to be real. Everything has been done.

Before everything. So if you take a second, you let that like settle in everything has been done before. Just say that. So there's no fear in it. Everything that you want to say or do or think or create has been made before.

So if you just say that and you acknowledge, okay. I want you to think about three M's to empower you to stick out even though it's been done before. Right. Because I can create a podcast and I can stand on the stage. I can create a video. I can write a blog post. I can create a post. And I can say X and you could say, you know what I really wanted to say X but Jasmine already said it.

Baby boo, somebody needs to hear from you in only the way you speak and you know how to connect. In fact, it's not about me and you. It's about me, you and 10,000 other people who want to say the same dang thing on the same dang day in the same dang hour on the same dang minute.

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