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Good morning. This is Laura.

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Today's episode is going to be a slightly longer one, part of the series where I interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any advice they have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome Tara Moore to Before Breakfast. Tara is a speaker, a coach, and the author of the book Playing Big. So Tara, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to have you here. Why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself?

Sure. Well, I am a very busy in the sandwich generation person. I am an only child of two aging parents. I'm a mom of three

kids. I'm a business owner and leader of a team and kind of the steward and host of a community

of many thousands of women that are working on playing bigger. So I feel like in this phase of my life, sometimes my

to-do list is organized by like stakeholder groups of my life for the first, this is the first

phase of my life where it's ever been really like that. And I'm really passionate about

how our inner lives can either shape our outer lives or really help us

cope better with what the outer world and its external circumstances are bringing us.

And so that's really where I like to work at that intersection of our internal space and then what we bring forward into the world.

So what does it mean to play big?

My definition of playing big is that it means being more loyal to your dreams than to your fears. So a lot of people

will hear the term playing big and have kind of a mixed reaction like, ooh, there's a part of me that

would love to play bigger. There's part of me that knows I'm playing small. And then there's another aspect to their reaction of like, that sounds exhausting.

That sounds like being a big puffed up ego and playing politics and going for the world's screwed up ideas about success.

So it's really an internal definition, you know, and I find for me my own playing big edges,

which I also always still struggle with. You know, I think we teach what we need to learn,

and I've had my own ways of being stuck in playing small. So a playing big edge for me could be,

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