Ep 49: An Open Letter on Opinion Culture
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford
Hilary Rushford
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
It’s taken me a year to speak out on this topic, but in doing so I feel lighter, safer, and stronger.
I’m confident this will leave you feeling the same in your online and in person relationships, with more compassion for all, especially anyone willing to vulnerably share their life with you.
UPDATE: Between recording and publishing, I realized there were some additional steps I could take to be empowered. For the time being I’ve saved them in a pinned Story here.
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10 Elements of Grace:
- Do I see LOVE in their life?
- Do I know them PERSONALLY?
- Have they ASKED for advice on this topic?
- Is there any chance there may be MORE to the situation than I know?
- What is the HEART of this message?
- The STARBUCKS Test
- Replying to vulnerability not with feedback, but VULNERABILITY yourself
- Am I feeling the need to put in any CAVEAT?
- Can I SANDWICH this to ensure there is zero misunderstanding of my tone?
- Look ahead to the next DOMINO, what might they reply?
The pinned Stories mentioned by another blogger (as long as they leave the link live).
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LISTEN: For more on this topic listen to: Ep 17. Am I doing Self-Love Wrong?
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SHARE: Would love to hear your thoughts below my latest post on Instagram @HilaryRushford.
P.S. Those travel frames we now pack with us thanks to my sweet assistant!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I want to start today by reading a review that Becca left because it perfectly ties into what we're talking about today. |
| 0:05.0 | She said, Fave Podcast. I've been following Hillary on Instagram for years, but this past year her podcast has been the best thing she's ever done and has honestly changed my life so much. |
| 0:14.0 | Last summer I was in a super low depression after a hard breakup questioning everything in my life |
| 0:19.2 | when I listened to one to her episode about embracing change and that one rocked my world. I decided to take a month |
| 0:34.2 | long trip and change jobs right after I listened to that episode and it was a huge thing for me that |
| 0:38.8 | literally changed my life. So Hillary, thank you. Your vulnerability and also your wisdom has impacted me more than you know, |
| 0:44.8 | and I credit you with giving me the tools to break out of that depression and make a massive |
| 0:49.2 | 180 degree change in my life. Love you so much, don't ever stop. |
| 0:53.0 | Becca, thank you so much for taking the time to share that because the topic we're talking |
| 0:57.1 | about today sometimes does make me want to stop for a minute and stories like yours |
| 1:01.9 | remind me of the work that I'm doing in the world. |
| 1:08.4 | You're welcome. What was that? You're welcome. With Hillary Rushford. Say it again. You're welcome. In advance. |
| 1:20.0 | Friends, friends, friends, friends. Today's episode is one that I have been writing in my head for about a year now. |
| 1:27.9 | I've been writing it in my head I've been ranting about it to my poor sweet husband Jeremy and I avoided actually talking about it because it's I guess it can |
| 1:37.7 | feel heavy personal and yet I finally shared about it on IG stories the other day. |
| 1:45.0 | And I realized that I was waiting for backlash. |
| 1:50.0 | Like I was expecting people were going to give me pushback and I sort of trepidaciously checked |
| 1:55.6 | my dMs later and there was none. And first of all, can we just pause? How often do we do that? We make something worse and bigger and |
| 2:04.0 | scarier than it is and we put it off and we think it's gonna be so heavy we think it's |
| 2:07.5 | gonna be bad and actually it's maybe completely totally fine and I think the reason I was nervous about sharing it is because I get |
| 2:16.7 | one criticism in the way we're going to talk about it today for every say 50 |
| 2:22.2 | messages that I check in my |
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