Ep 180: Four Metaphors for Turning 44 (a birthday episode)

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

June is my birthday month, and every year I create a personal episode for the occasion. This year, instead of waxing nostaligic or sharing what I've learned in the last year, I'm taking us on a journey. Of metaphors. I'm sharing four metaphors that feel especially apt for life right now: One Point (clap clap) At A Time There are years where you wander and years when you're on the road Accelerate through the turn You are not lost I hope you take something from this episode that helps you on your path. FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HERE MENTIONED in this episode: Ep 174: 3 Things I've Learned While Working with a Business Coach Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston JOIN SECRET STUFF for an exclusive invite to the Secret Stuff Summit SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook JOIN the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN the Secret Stuff Patreon BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you.
0:08.6	I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you. And you have 10 things to tell.
0:15.0	This show is about connection,
0:18.0	with each other and with ourselves.
0:20.0	And the hope is that the things we talk about here
0:22.0	will be fuel for better conversations and a personal awareness.
0:26.4	Each episode has a prompt or a topic that I want you to take to your journal, text to a friend,
0:32.0	or share on social media using the hashtag 10
0:34.9	Things to Tell You. This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our
0:39.4	stuff. I'll go first. June is my birthday month.
0:45.0	It is also the halfway point in the calendar year.
0:51.0	It is also the end of the school term at the beginning of summer.
0:57.0	June might represent a lot of things to a lot of people. For me it is kind of a melancholy month.
1:08.3	In our family this time of year has a lot of tenderness to it. It's peppered with a lot of sadness. We've lost two people
1:18.0	very dear to us in the month of June that makes those types of anniversaries tricky and emotional.
1:28.5	It feels like there's just a lot of emotion in June that maybe we are or are not ready for when we stumble out of spring and into this month.
1:41.1	I also have a lot of complicated feelings around my birthday, which
1:48.2	maybe everyone does. I'm not sure. It's not always world's biggest celebration, not because of the aging factor, but because I get extra nostalgic.
2:00.0	I get extra reflective.
2:02.0	And if you listen to the show show you know that that's my default
2:05.1	mode anyway like that's sort of already how my brain works so to get into a space where
2:12.3	there's more of that, it starts to tip into being a little bit
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