87: 2016 Did Not Suck

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 801 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

You can look back on 2016 as the BEST year or the WORST year. If you choose to look back on it as the BEST year, you get to own every amazing experience you had – the moments when you pushed your limits, reached a new high, felt magic, saw beauty, learned something new, had a shift in perspective, totally rocked a challenge, modeled strength to your kid(s), and felt power in your core being. If you choose to look at 2016 as the WORST year (as I see a lot of people doing on social media), you negate and dismiss everything above. You walk away from an entire year of your life in defeat, without power. I get it – 2016 threw us for a loop. A big effing loop. I’m right there with you. My year did not go as planned. I’m not pregnant right now. Our next president will not embody a single value of mine. I see pain and suffering at every turn, nationally and internationally. BUT – I did a lot of great things this year. So did you. I grew this year. So did you. I found silver linings that I never even thought to look for. You can too. I am better for 2016. So are you. Let’s celebrate everything 2016 was to us. Let’s have a freakin' party. Let’s own the heck out of our wins. I deserve that. You deserve that. Cheers to a BIG year of challenges and growth and newfound strength & pride. Let’s carry all of this forward into 2017, shall we? We ROCK. Every damn day. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Tune in to hear my biggest wins of the year, in spite of some of the biggest losses of my life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.4	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 87.
0:45.3	Hello, Shameless Moms. It's almost the new year. And it's also the day after Christmas. So I'm recording this a few days before Christmas. So I can't fill you in on all the chaos that will be
0:50.2	Christmas with a four-year-old. But I definitely look forward to getting back to you on that.
0:54.2	My mom sent me an email last night telling me that one of my aunts, so we're going to be
0:58.0	visiting my mom and staying with my mom over Christmas, and one of my aunts wants to stop by
1:02.9	the day that we get in town because she has seven gifts for my child.
1:07.8	Because what four-year-old doesn't need seven gifts two days before Christmas just to kick
1:11.8	things off a little bit, like just to really set the stage for like crazy greed, right? So I think
1:19.3	they're small gifts, but still I was like really, my mom in her message, she goes, maybe we could like
1:23.6	set a timer for every 10 minutes. He could one and I was like oh my god this is
1:28.1	going to be hilarious but I know my mom is so excited and my aunt is so excited to see Vinny so
1:33.4	um one of the benefits of to being one of the youngest my youngest my cousins and so our children are
1:40.0	among the youngest as well of the second set of cousins.
1:50.2	And so the, like, great benefit to that is that everyone thinks that you are adorable and that your sweet child is adorable because even though I'm 41, I'm still like, oh, it's
1:54.4	just little Sarah.
1:55.5	And my sister's there.
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