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This is Your Kickass Life podcast, episode number 144.

This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen, a no BS guide to self-help and badassery.

Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass.

And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy.

Andrea Owen.

Hey, Askickers.

How are you?

This is a mini-sode, just a short little episode that I'm doing, kind of in the middle of the week.

Well, I guess it's kind of the end of the week that this is coming out.

And I wanted to just pop by your ears to tell you a quick story, obviously, with a lesson at the

end, as they always do. But I just wanted to tell you this quick story about when I first started

learning about how impactful negative self-talk can be and learning how to manage it.

So in early 2007, when my life had fallen apart for the second time in a year,

and it really sort of was when I started to throw myself into personal development,

when I drew the line in the sand and was like no more tolerating this anymore. One of the first

lessons I started learning about was about negative self-talk. And I didn't even realize

it at the time that I was really beating myself up like crazy. I was so mortified about where

my life had ended up. I kept telling myself things like,

you should know better. You are a grown-ass woman who didn't listen to your gut. I can't

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