A little reality check...
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Are you saying 'no' more than you're saying 'yes'? Are you missing out? In this episode I talk about the reality check that made me ask these questions and have a bit of a word with myself...
Links from the show: Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of The Emma Gunn Show. Sorry, I didn't mean that to be so sultry. |
| 0:13.9 | I am your host, Emma Gunn Awardner, and in this mini show, I'm going to keep it real, |
| 0:19.7 | but only because I think it could serve a useful purpose. |
| 0:24.6 | Trust me, I have dismissed the idea of doing this episode. I tried to write other ones. |
| 0:29.9 | And I just kept coming back to it. Because I did think originally, I was like, is this just |
| 0:34.9 | navel-gazing, Emma? But I then chatted to a few friends about it, and enough of them felt or had felt, similar |
| 0:43.2 | or the same, which made me think it was worthy of a midweek episode. |
| 0:48.7 | And it's a combination of things, to be really honest with you. |
| 0:51.7 | On the one hand, you will have heard me talk this year on the podcast |
| 0:55.8 | about proving to myself that I'm capable and self-sufficient. My house move is a great example of that. |
| 1:02.2 | And then on the other hand, you have what happened recently, which was that I had a bit of a health scare. |
| 1:07.5 | And look, as it turned out, everything is fine. and I completely understand that's not everyone's reality |
| 1:12.6 | so I don't want to be insensitive but I had nearly two weeks of wondering and worrying about a different |
| 1:19.6 | outcome you know a worst case scenario and let's face it you know me well enough to know that |
| 1:25.6 | that meant a lot of soul searching and a lot of overthinking and a lot of wondering. And I wanted to try and take some good out of it. |
| 1:34.8 | So on the one hand, there was this brilliant feeling of independence of taking on more and more and more and more |
| 1:41.0 | to prove how capable I am or how you are, because this isn't just about me. |
| 1:45.0 | I think women especially are very good at load-bearing and you just take on more and more and more. |
| 1:50.7 | I know that there are men who listen, you're also great people too. |
| 1:53.7 | It's just that we've had a lot of women on this podcast talk about this. |
| 1:57.6 | And I, if I'm being really honest, I had been feeling a sense of confidence that I hadn't really felt before, which was great. |
| 2:05.7 | And I thought that that meant that I had made a really brilliant and impactful change. |
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