Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Hello, my friend. I have a fun message to share with you today.

A fun message that's permission giving, it's freeing, it's wonderful to dwell on,

especially on the brink of a new year. And I think, hmm, how can we apply this? How can we look at this?

How can we improve our lives with this simple truth?

Which is as follows.

The world doesn't need you to be nice.

The world doesn't need you to be nice.

It needs you to be authentic.

Now the word authentic I think is so wildly overused and frankly,

I shy away from using it because I find, just from my own observations, that a lot of people who speak about authenticity aren't authentic at all. I don't about being authentic, being authentic,

and everything's filtered and everything's polished and it just all seems a little bit too orchestrated for me. So the word

authenticity, I don't love to use, but in this context, to me, it seems inescapable. Think about

it. The world doesn't need you to be nice. It needs you to be real. It needs you to be you. It needs you to be authentically real,

authentically you. It's so easy as women sometimes to go through life being nice, being respectful,

putting other people's needs first. And I get it. Look, I can be stuck in that too,

depending on how I'm feeling. But when I'm real, when I'm myself, not only can the right people find me, but I live in this state of

contentment. I'm not living with regret. I'm not holding onto resentment, repressing how I really

feel, and having that show up in ways in

my life that makes me feel sick or angry or frustrated. If the world doesn't need you to be nice

and needs you to be authentic, how do we allow that to surface? How do we bring this to fruition? I think it's one thing,

maybe a couple of things, but really it's this. It's having your own priorities. Without

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