EP 17- 🗽10 Things I Learned Legit Making it in NYC on my Own 🗽

Wabi Sabi - The Perfectly Imperfect Podcast with Candice Kumai

Candice Kumai

Health & Fitness, Education, Health, Wabisabi, How To, Nutrition, Mental Health, Wellness

4.9 • 793 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Eight years ago, September 2010: I packed up one suitcase + I moved to NYC, I had nothing except my smile, my character & my consistent hard work. I slay all day, even when shit got tough, I stood up with grace. 8 Straight Never Took One Break Welcome the Ten things I learned "making it in NYC" Be gracious, honour yourself first + you'll better be able to honour all others Remember people will hurt you, grace and resilience will be key Expect nothing from anyone -- no hand outs Play hard, play fair, always be honest Patience is the highest virtue: it will take a great deal of both time and $$$ You will gain friends and lose some - learn from this. Try to do mostly the things that you love + that make you feel good + make time to be bad-- date all the men/women you want, stay out late, never a regret Surround yourself with the smartest people you know, drop the dead weight + watch out for social climbers Never ever change, because who you are is so so brilliant and so special basic is so so boring -- please don't compare Gaman - to endure with grace and resilience is your secret weapon BONUS: Remind yourself why you do this - for me it is to help others -- please be in the present as much as you can BONUS: if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere- its true, Frank! Now, get out there, share this pod with two friends! POST it on IG!! Go make something incredible with your one life! xxx 20 days, NY NY xx ck Pick up my book Kintsugi Wellness + improve your whole life Sign up for my Newsletter: CandiceKumai.com + follow me on Instagram for all new upcomings and the Wabi Sabi Tour xxx ck

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0:00.0	Hi guys, welcome to the Wabi Sabi Pod. It is Monday. I'm recording in the morning, which I never really do. And I just announced that I have 20 days left in New York.
0:32.2	This is going to be hard pod to get through for many reasons.
0:40.7	So I thought it was really appropriate to start rounding out all the corners of my life with you to help you.
0:47.4	Because if I am not of service to you, then what is the point of living in New York City?
0:58.5	A small town San Diego Beach girl doesn't end up here for fun, even though I had a fucking blast.
1:08.5	All right. Today we're going to talk about the 10 things I learned making it in New York City.
1:16.9	First, I want to say to be gracious and honor yourself first,
1:20.4	because when you honor yourself and when you're good to yourself, you can be really good to everybody else.
1:24.9	So number one is to remember to be very good to you and to practice more gratitude and love
1:34.1	and being really kind to yourself when i moved here i was still in my 20s and i was really young
1:43.4	and naive and i thought people owed me things and even though I struggled,
1:49.7	I came here, you know, with one suitcase and I lived on an Avenue C walk-up apartment next to a
1:56.8	squat house with a bunch of druggies and they were actually really nice. They're probably on drugs.
2:04.4	But I also, you know, had really good best friends who were here when I first moved.
2:11.0	Michelle, who now moved out of here and so did Meredith. Michelle is traveling the world and Meredith is a designer in Hong
2:21.7	Kong and then I'm actually falling out with another one of my friends I think before I even moved
2:28.3	here. So I came and had to meet new friends along the way. So after a few years here, I ended up meeting Janelle and Molly and Alyssa,
2:36.9	who became three of my other best friends in New York.
2:40.7	But I pay a debt of gratitude to them because I am not the same person that I am
2:46.0	from the day that I came here eight years ago in September.
2:52.5	Be kind to yourself because you're really the only person at the end of the day that you've got to love wholeheartedly.
3:01.0	It's a lot easier when you say, I love you, you're brilliant and kind and gentle, And you're a good person. So just continue to be
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