Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the

Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group

to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at shamelessmom.com

forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.

Hello, shameless moms.

Welcome to One Shameless Thing.

I am bringing you this short form podcast, a little mini-sode, if you will, as part of a

limited miniseries that we're doing.

So if you love this short form content, if you love the addition of this little short short third episode each week, please let me know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.

If that's the podcast app that you're listening to right now, you just go into do a search for

Shameless Mom Academy and then you can scroll down to the ratings and review section, click on

write a review, and give me a sentence or two just letting me know that you love having a third episode each week or shoot me in message on Instagram and let me know that you love having a new episode

each week or a third episode each week because if we get lots of good feedback we might keep this up.

So this podcast episode, these one shameless thing episodes are created with just one thing in mind

to give you one thing, only one thing, just one thing

to make today a better day. My purpose here is to give you the hope, optimism, and power that

you need to make today whatever you want to make it, even if life is throwing you one

curveball after another. So today we're going to be talking about one shameless thing for you to shut down negative

self-talk. Ooh, this is a good one. So if you're listening to this today, maybe you're having a day

where that negative self-talk is really creeping in. And I got you. So I want you to think about

when you resort to negative self-talk, is it because it is a

pattern? Is it because it's something that you have gone to repeatedly in the past? And maybe it's

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