522: How To Lean Into the Layers Of Your Identity

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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If you were to sit down and make a list of all the identities you hold, what would be on your list? I made a quick list recently. I hold the following identities (in no particular order): woman, mom, wife, infertility warrior, anxiety manager, speaker, leader, hetero, cisgender, white, Seattleite, athlete, skier, writer, ally, podcaster, daughter, sister, business owner, child of divorce, 18 year entrepreneur, CEO, advocate I’m sure I could come up with even more layers to my identity if I gave it more thought. We are made up of SO MANY layers. This makes each of us a true unicorn. As we navigate our lives, we have the opportunity to embrace different layers of our identity in different ways during different seasons of life. What layers are you leaning into right now? What ones are most significant to you as we sit here in 2021? You get to choose which parts of yourself you really want to lean into at any time. So, how do you lean into the most powerful parts of yourself? Here are a few tips: Take responsibility for the stories you hold around your identities Call yourself by your titles - out loud in front of other people Find people who share your identities and be in community with them In this episode, I talk you through how to lean into the layers of your identity that mean the most to you and have the most potential to deeply impact the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.1	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 522. Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode,
0:22.0	can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 522. Welcome to the
0:32.1	Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate,
0:37.4	driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources,
0:40.9	and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives
0:45.6	every damn day.
0:47.1	One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community.
0:50.1	So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms
0:54.6	just like you. You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive
1:01.5	into today's episode. Hello, shameless moms. Happy Monday. As always, I'm honored to be in your ear, and I hope that you are doing well.
1:13.5	All right, we are going to dig into your identity and how to lean into the layers of your identity.
1:19.1	I wanted to talk about this because this was inspired by a couple of conversations I've had recently with some of my Tenacious Mamas.
1:25.6	So Tenacious Mamas is my business and leadership mastermind. It's this small group of women who I get to coach around building their businesses
1:31.5	and it's so much fun and it's so awesome. And I have the opportunity to see women decide to step
1:38.5	into the role of being CEOs and to own the title of CEO. And I see women earning six figures for the first time and owning
1:45.8	earning six figures in a year for the first time. And it's been so, so cool. But I've also seen on the
1:51.4	backside of this some resistance to owning some of the titles, the sense that they're not quite
1:57.7	sure they can fully embrace these new parts of their identity. And I think this is
2:02.3	common. And I think this can happen in a lot of different ways. I think that it's not uncommon for us
2:06.4	to be hesitant around some of our identities or to not know quite how to showcase them or how to
2:12.5	own them, especially if they're new. And then we have other pieces of our identity that maybe been with us
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