Be Yourself, Because Everyone Else Is Taken
Yes, Girl!
ESSENCE PODCAST NETWORK
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
How can you be your best self if you’re not being true to who you are? All month, we’re helping you do the work of getting to know and love who you are in 2019.
Look out for these bonus self-care episodes, all month long. This week, Yes, Girl’s Yolanda Sangweni (@yolizma)…aka our Yo-prah meets with artist, author and speaker Neycha (@neycha) to discuss authenticity and how we can be true to ourselves. From code-switching and imposter syndrome to the social media trap, Neycha has ways for us to face the person in the mirror. Psst…stay to the end of the episode, we have some self-care homework for you.
- Yes, Girl! Hosts: Cori Murray @corimurray; Charli Penn @charlipenn; and Yolanda Sangweni @yolizama
- Producer: Tiffany Ashitey (@misstiffsays)
- Bookings: Rorna Richards
- Audio Engineer: Anthony Frasier (@AnthonyFrasier)
- Music: Gold Standard Creative (@gscdotnyc)
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| 0:00.0 | All right, y'all. It's Yolanda Sanguine. This is Yes, girl, the bonus episode. |
| 0:11.6 | And this month, January, January were all about resetting and refreshing our |
| 0:17.2 | goals writing down our dreams and really manifesting some greatness in 2019. So each week I will be speaking to |
| 0:25.8 | different women in my life who I feel really have you know the keys they hold |
| 0:32.4 | the keys, they hold the keys to being better as black women as human beings. |
| 0:39.4 | One of the people I really wanted to get to have a conversation with is my girl Nature. |
| 0:45.0 | Nature is a celebrity life coach and author and a musician and a frequent |
| 0:50.5 | contributor to essence.com. Nature's going to talk to us today about |
| 0:55.4 | authenticity and really transparency on all levels of our lives. Welcome. Thank you. You gave me that. Mm. Yes. |
| 1:07.0 | Transparency just is, you know, it's such a juicy word. It's so rich. It makes me think of so many things right off the bat. Yeah |
| 1:16.1 | How I'm gonna give you a big big broad question. Okay. How does a woman ensure that she's living an authentic life? |
| 1:25.0 | I think it starts by developing a practice where we can be mindful and centered |
| 1:32.0 | because we have to spend time with ourselves. |
| 1:35.0 | Because in the silence, for everyone, this is not an exception, |
| 1:40.0 | there is a quiet inner voice that exists within all of us and when we quiet our lives |
| 1:47.4 | that inner voice has an opportunity to express its desires, its convictions, what it wants us to be responsible to. |
| 1:57.4 | And I think that when we check in with that and we find that we conduct our lives in a way where every day you're making the kinds of choices |
| 2:06.9 | that mirror what that inner voice is speaking to you, then you're on your own authentic life path. |
| 2:15.0 | So it starts with cultivating the time to get quiet and commune with this inner self, |
| 2:21.0 | which is really difficult. |
| 2:22.6 | We weren't raised to do that, particularly as black women, |
| 2:27.3 | but in general in Western culture, |
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