67: 7 Lessons from Women in My Life
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
March is Women’s History Month and in honor of that, we will be spending this month focusing on and appreciating the women who move us to move.
The women in Robin’s family had a very profound influence on her direction and purpose in life. They moved her to move, motivated her to live an active and purposeful life, and helped shape and create the woman she is today.
In today’s episode, Robin shares seven life-changing lessons she learned from the women in her family. She dives into the power of unconditional support. She talks about the power of living an active lifestyle and the value of keeping a sense of humor in tough times. She also discusses the women who paved the way for her generation and explains why we should never take our health for granted or let stigma and shame define us.
Robin hopes that acknowledging and celebrating those women and sharing some of the lessons they taught her helps motivate you to take action toward becoming the woman you would like to be. Stay tuned today as Robin highlights some of the transformative lessons she learned from the women in her family!
Show highlights: what you can look forward to in this episode!
- The practical ways in which Robin’s mom showed her what it means to be supported, even when it made her uncomfortable or was something she would not have done herself.
- How the unconditional support Robin received from her mom helped her kickstart her Pilates career.
- The way that Robin’s mom taught her that she could work and follow her dreams and still be an excellent mom.
- The powerful lesson Robin remembers learning from her late Aunt Judy.
- How her Aunt Judy modeled what it looked like to live an active lifestyle through all seasons of life.
- The lessons Robin learned from her remarkable grandma, Linda.
- How keeping a sense of humor can help you through the most challenging times.
- How Robin learned never to take her health for granted.
- Why you should never let stigma and shame define you.
- The power in bringing issues of mental health or addiction to light.
- Robin talks about the brave and strong women who paved the way for future generations.
Links in this episode:
Join Move Together: 5 days of Pilates + Motivation
The Balanced Life on Instagram
Episode 40: How I overcame paralyzing anxiety
Episode 62: Mental health check-in
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Balance Life podcast. I'm your host, Robin Long. I'm a Pilates instructor and founder of the Balance Life. And if you are new around here, welcome. Every other week, you'll hear honest conversations as well as |
| 0:22.4 | actionable tips that you can use to create your own healthy, happy, and uniquely balanced |
| 0:27.7 | life. Key word there is uniquely balanced. Here at the balanced life, we understand that we are all |
| 0:33.0 | in unique seasons. We have different needs. We are on different journeys, but we are all on the shared |
| 0:39.6 | journey of working towards becoming the healthiest versions of ourselves inside and out. |
| 0:44.7 | And I'm really excited about everything we have in store this month. In honor of women's |
| 0:49.5 | history month, this month on our social channels here on podcast, and in our online community, we are |
| 0:56.1 | focusing on women who move us to move. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm so excited about this. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm extremely passionate about this topic because the balanced life is a global community |
| 1:05.9 | of women. |
| 1:06.8 | We have women all over the world, all ages and life stages. |
| 1:10.2 | And we come together with a shared |
| 1:11.9 | love for Pilates and also a shared love for a grace over guilt approach to healthy living. |
| 1:18.0 | And we inspire one another and we encourage one another on our journeys, even though we are all |
| 1:23.6 | incredibly unique and even living in different parts of the world. |
| 1:28.4 | But today, in today's episode, I'm sharing five life-changing lessons from women in my life |
| 1:33.3 | who have moved me to move and not just on a physical level, but have really just had a |
| 1:37.6 | positive and life-changing impact on my life. |
| 1:41.8 | These women have had an impact on my life. |
| 1:43.6 | They've helped to shape and create |
| 1:45.4 | the woman that I've become and moved me towards some sort of action, direction, |
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