What if you wake up someday, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your memoir novel written,

or you didn't go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly,

and you had a nice, big, comfortable tummy? Or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing

that you forgot to have a big, juicy,

creative life of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid.

It's going to break your heart.

Don't let this happen.

Anne Lamotte.

Hello and welcome to the Taking Back Your Power podcast. I'm Isabel Palacios and I specifically

created and designed this podcast to empower, inspire, and help you cultivate a powerful mindset

to build your best life and live out your dreams. May you always remember your true beauty, your true worth,

and your true power always come from within. So get your coffee, smoothie, or wine ready,

and let's get started. Hello everyone and welcome back to this week's episode of taking back

your power and we are officially in February, the month of love,

of romantic love, of platonic love, of self-love. And that is what I will be focusing

most of my content on this month up until about the 14th. And I think that self-love is so

important, which is why I started this podcast with the quote

at the beginning by Anne Lamott.

And this quote, I read it because it actually woke me up when I first read it a couple years ago,

when I first came across it.

And any time I feel insecure or I doubt myself, I go back to that quote and what it taught me.

All the times I was scared to go for something or to start something or I kept putting something

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