Welcome to Style Your Mind, a podcast for women who want to design their thoughts, empower themselves, and build a beautiful life.

I'm your host, Kara Al-Waleba, best-selling author and master life coach.

I am obsessed with women on the edge of change, and I've worked with hundreds of those women all around the world to help them unlock the best

version of themselves and fulfill their potential.

If you're ready to style your mind and transform your life, then you're in the right place.

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Hello, hello, and welcome back to style your mind. This episode is sponsored by my book, Stripped,

a collection of inspired writings for the evolving woman. Stripped is a collection of poetry and

inspired writings that celebrate the power of vulnerability and the magic that occurs when we

decide to live authentically, commit to our own personal

evolution, and bear it all. You can find stripped on Amazon.com. All right, guys, so on the topic

of stripped and vulnerability and bearing it all, I wanted to just hop on for a quickie today

and tell you a story that happened to me earlier this

week and kind of share some thoughts that I had about it because I was doing a lot of reflecting

before and after and I just felt like there was definitely some lessons learned within my experience

that I wanted to share with you. So as I mentioned in the last episode, I am shooting my book cover next week.

So I've been in kind of a state of excitement, nervousness, anxiety, just kind of curiosity,

not really knowing what's going to go on, but like really, really looking forward to it.

And presented with lots of new things on my plate that I have not been presented with before, that I haven't had the opportunity to experience or go through. And it's been a learning curve. And I'm learning to, you know, work with a team now on my books, which is something that I had never done in the past. I've been a lone wolf, kind of done everything on my own. And even though I've hired people, it's all sort of been under my umbrella. But now with my publisher, I have like an entire team working with me,

helping me really grow my brand, grow my books. And it's been an awesome experience. But again,

I'm just not used to it. You know, so when they reached out to me last week and, you know,

we booked the cover shoot, which is happening Tuesday,

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