Majo Molfino: ...the importance of learning self-compassion

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Majo Molfino, Stanford University-trained designer and women’s leadership expert, joins us to talk about how women can improve their self-worth and build creative confidence.

As children, most girls are to "be good" and learn that conforming to societal norms leads to praise. However, that usually leads to a lifelong quest for unattainable perfection and comes at the expense of them sacrificing their unique voice.

As the daughter of immigrants, Majo wanted to make her parents proud more than anything, but realized that she also wanted to live her life on her own terms. In this episode, she teaches us how to find our own unique feminine power and dismantle old rules once and for all.

Her new book, 'Break the Good Girl Myth', comes out on July 28th. It is is published by HarperCollins and is available for pre-order now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. If you're looking for ways to
0:17.7	increase your self-worth and confidence, you have come to the right place
0:21.6	as we talk with our guest, Maho Mofino. Maho is a Stanford University trained designer and
0:27.6	women's leadership expert who uses her knowledge and training in design to help women build
0:32.8	creative confidence. And she is the author of the new book, Break the Good Girl Myth. How to Dismantle
0:39.2	outdated rules, unleash your power, and design a more purposeful life. Maho, thank you so much for
0:45.5	joining us. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you. What is the good girl myth and why do you
0:51.8	want to break it? Great question. Yes. the good girl myth, well, you know,
0:58.3	the book is called Break the Good Girl myth, but there are actually five of them that I argue
1:02.8	every woman needs to break in order to step into more power. And they are the myth of rules,
1:14.2	the myth of perfection, myth of logic, myth of harmony, and myth of sacrifice. And so these five good girl myths are what I call subconscious programs
1:22.1	and beliefs that stand in our way that maybe we learned as girls in our younger years but are no longer
1:30.1	serving us in adulthood. Can you talk to us a little bit more about each one? Absolutely.
1:35.9	I have literally been thinking about this for the last three years. So it's just been like
1:41.6	finally I'm getting to talk about this. Sure. So myth of rules is when we basically
1:50.4	follow external authority instead of trusting our own opinions and our own needs and desires.
1:58.2	So that's something that we pick up as little girls and obviously stays with us.
2:03.9	Myth of perfection is when we are basically trying to perform at a high level without breaking a
2:08.8	sweat. So we're putting on that illusion. Myth of logic is when we're really focusing on our head
2:15.8	and our intellect instead of tapping into our intuition and other forms of
2:22.2	emotional intelligence. Myth of Harmony is one of my favorites. That's the one when we are going with
2:28.0	the program, people pleasing, being easy to get along with, not really saying how we feel. And so as a result, we give up our
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