571: Sarah Stevens: How to Take Up Space and Love Yourself in the Process

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, Sarah left a successful, decade-long career in corporate healthcare in favor of work that better aligned with her passion and purpose. After serving for two years as a freelance consultant to small businesses and start-up nonprofits, Sarah founded The Beautifull Project - a storytelling collective that invites women back to their bodies and into a world where they belong with substance and with strength. Sarah is a gifted storyteller with a skill for using her own experience as a woman navigating the world in a fat body to invite her audience to encounter the parts of themselves they hide away from the world - the parts they believe to be “too much”. Addressing everything from too-big bodies to a fear of failure that cripples confidence, Sarah amplifies a message that moves beyond a body positive sentiment and creates a movement that makes room for everybody to tell their truth and take up space. She draws out confidence and courage. She believes in being free and full. And she will make a believer out of you, too. Sarah was a guest on the show a couple years ago. That incredible conversation led me to asking her to be a part of our 2021 Shameless Mom Con Collective. As I predicted, Sarah blew us away with her poignant and powerful storytelling. I was so moved by her talk that I asked her if I could share this conversation with you all. I’m so delighted and grateful that she said yes. Listen in to hear Sarah share: How her Ted talk landed her naked on stage The rules and limitations that are put on bodies - even as we embrace a wider range of “acceptable” body types The constant conflict of taking up space Her process of ending her marriage, starting her entire life over again - and finally saying yes to her body and her sexuality The power of letting your shoulders down and letting go Her 3 tenants of taking up space Links mentioned: SMA Ep 366 with Sarah Stevens: The Beautifull Project: The Truth About Fatness and Thin Allies Connect with Sarah: The Beautifull Project or By Sarah Stevens Sarah on social: @bysarahstevens and @thebeautifullproject Thank you to our sponsor: Thrive: Start thriving and help women in need today by going to ThriveCausemetics.com/shameless for 15% off your first purchase! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 571 with Sarah Stevens.
0:05.3	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 571.
0:17.1	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:22.6	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:28.7	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:34.1	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free
0:37.6	private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over
0:42.7	at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
0:57.0	Oh, Mamas, you are in for a treat today. Okay.
0:58.0	So Sarah Stevens was a guest on the show a couple years ago, way back when, episode
1:05.0	366, so over 200 episodes ago.
1:08.0	And when Sarah came on the show, I was just super touched with how she
1:13.9	talks about bodies, how she shares stories. She's just this really beautiful, talented storyteller,
1:18.9	but every word that she says is just like dripping in truths that you don't quite know how to
1:24.9	put in towards yourself. And you're like, yeah, that's how I've been trying to say it my whole life. And that's just Sarah. That's everything she puts on
1:30.6	Instagram is just exactly the thoughts that are in my head that I can never get out. She's a
1:35.4	word smith and a storyteller and just amazing, incredible, beautiful human being and teacher.
1:42.3	And so she was on the show a couple years ago. At that time,
1:45.1	I was super blown away with her, really enjoyed having her as a guest. And when we went to do the
1:49.9	Shameless Mom Con Collective this last spring, I immediately was like, oh, I want Sarah to come.
1:54.8	Part of the fun of the Shameless Mom Con Collective was we were doing it virtually. And I was like,
1:58.9	I can just ask these people no matter where they live
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