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WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Are You Ego’ing? What IS the Ego? Do You DO It, or Does It Do You?

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The ego… your shadow… is a POWER PORTAL.

For years, I thought I had to punish all my ego-centric’isms—manipulating to get my needs met, constant striving to burn my karma, pretending to behave. But actually? I’ve needed to assimilate… embrace… and talk sweetly to my shadows.

The ego is the unhealed part of us. More precisely, “it’s the way our unhealed self acts.” It’s not a villain—it’s a pattern. And that “pattern” is always trying to protect you from heartbreak or rejection.

What if, instead of saying That’s my ego I need to get in check… we just said:

“Whoops, I was ego-ing. I can get back to Loving.”

Because ultimately: Light, shadow, light.

In this episode:

  • A liberating definition of the ego (that’s not outdated personal growth dogma)
  • Why bravado and deep insecurity are both ego disguises
  • “Ego’ing” vs. Loving—how to tell the difference
  • Why ego is not your enemy—and what it’s really asking for

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0:00.0

Are you egoing? Lego my egoing. What is the ego? Do you do the ego or does the ego do something to you?

0:14.3

I'm doing a series, three parts. This is part one in the What in the Woo, woo, whoa, whoa, whoa series. I'm traveling

0:23.7

for the next few weeks. First up, I'm going to Egypt, maybe someday you will come with me,

0:29.8

because I think I'm going to keep going. But right now, when this recording drops, I will be

0:35.2

en route to kissing the sphinx. I will send you some photos from

0:40.3

the temples. So I'm going to roll out this three-part series, What in the Woo? We're going to cover

0:45.5

the ego. We're going to do that right now. The inner child. And we shall conclude with some

0:52.1

fun with karma. Big twist on it.

0:55.2

So are you egoing or are you loving?

0:59.8

I want to kick this off with a diamond liberating reframe of the ego.

1:06.1

You ready?

1:07.1

This might feel amazing.

1:08.5

I hope it feels amazing.

1:09.5

Here it is.

1:15.1

The gift of the ego is to show us who we truly are.

1:30.5

It's like got a bow on it. Struggle with it most of our lives. But it all leads to our divine nature. It's a gift. It has divine utility. The ego is not your evil twin. Not really. I mean, maybe it is like your evil twin, but metaphorically. It's not a curse. The ego is your shadow and your shadow

1:38.3

is your power portal. Isn't that the best news ever? I feel so much relief. This took me a long time to figure out. I'm here to

1:47.6

flatten your learning curve because for the longest time, I thought I needed to punish all of my

1:56.2

egocentricisms. My arrogance needed to be told a thing or two. I thought, meet my arrogance with

2:07.5

even bigger arrogance. My neediness needed to be squashed. I felt really ashamed of my,

2:15.2

really my deepest needs. My fear of the future. What a loser,

2:20.8

uh, manipulating to get my needs met, which really, not in my defense, but with realism for

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