Hello there and welcome to this solo episode with me, Christa. I'm so excited to be here

with you. I know every single podcaster, that's how they start, but this one feels just so

ripe. I know it's ripe for me. I know what I'm going to be talking about today. I talk

about quite a bit with our community and I just feel like it's so relevant, especially

as we kind of cruise on in to 2023. And that is all about intention. If you're like me,

you hear the word intention and you're eyes glaze over and you're just like completely

bored. It's kind of how I feel when people are like you should meditate and I know that

meditation has changed my life. But we're going to be talking about intention and just

getting really practical and really thinking about our intention behind a lot of the things

that we do in the personal growth and self development space, which is a lot. I know

if you're listening to this podcast, you probably are doing a lot of work, a lot of personal

growth work, a lot of therapy, a lot of courses, a lot of programs. You're probably following

all the right quote accounts and all the right inspirational things, all of it, all of

it. But I really, really want to think about, especially in 2023, our intention behind

doing all of these personal growth and self development things because our intention

is truly everything. So something I've been thinking about a lot lately is when we're

doing these things and this is going to be the heater just right up front. This is the

this is the hot hot hot part of the conversation. Are you doing these things because you hate

yourself or because you love yourself? Are you doing all of these things because you

want to change who you are? You want to lose the weight? You want to be more successful?

You want to have the relationship? You want to be less broken? You want to be less traumatized?

You want to be all of these things? Or are you doing these things because there's this

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