My name's Aaron Skykelly. I'm an award-winning and bestselling author, though I don't usually introduce myself that way, not at parties anyway. This is Carrie Blakeney. She's my best friend and we host a podcast called Get the Hell to Debt because we want to help you take control of your finances with no guilt, no shame, and no boring money talk. Yeah, and there might be like a teeny bit of laughing, too, mostly by me.

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Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress. Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is a hug and a kick, a series where I share a short excerpt from my extensive podcast archives, one carefully selected to give you the validation and or motivation you need for the weekend.

You probably know people in your life who you feel like aren't showing you their full,

real authentic self.

And it's a lot harder to form a connection with those people because you're not really seeing who they are.

But somebody who's willing to show you who they are, even the stuff that's not pretty,

you know, the things they struggle with. That's when you form a connection with somebody.

So to me, that's the best part of authenticity. It's just the relationships and connection that

you can form as you are more authentic. You know, when you're more full of yourself, you have more to give from.

And it feels different, too.

I feel like you have a different capacity to give.

Absolutely.

When you are more full yourself.

Well, and you're choosing it for yourself more.

You're not doing it because you should or because you're supposed to,

but you're choosing that you want to give or share or connect. Yeah. There's a collective of women who are discovering this, this act of what a

gift it is to be your authentic self. So let's talk about what is in the way. And this is actually

going to be the bulk of our of our discussion today is why is this happening? And like I said early on in

our interview is it's so rampant and yet it's also so confusing because it's different for

each person why this is happening. And you're going to break this down for us in ways I think

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