Hey, what's going on? Welcome to the Astro Hustle. I'm Cori Allen. It's great to talk to you today. I am grateful to speak with you today. How are you doing? You know, are you feeling all right? Are you risking being you? That's a big thing, you know. Risk being you without a risk there's no reward. And it's tough to allow yourself to be

yourself to not only get out of your own way as they say as to not overthink only get out of your own way as they say as to not overthink the arising

cornell of your intuition so much that you think yourself into a state of paralysis

or in opposition to your instincts but also in a sense of allowing the fullness of who you are come through.

You know, we have all these compartments in our minds of the different pieces of who we are in different times and places and around different people. But even though that each of those

parts of who we are are truly us, really because we generally only feel comfortable exposing some aspects of our personality at certain times,

we tend to trick ourselves into believing that that's all we are or that that's who we are, especially in that moment.

But truly all of us are symphonies.

We're an orchestra of experiences and thoughts and feelings and emotions and ideas.

When you allow all of the instruments to play together, they make an incredibly

rich, beautiful, sound. But fear and insecurity and negative self-talk generally keep us from

letting all of that out.

And of course an ironic aspect of the human's ability to be self-aware is that it is our own self-awareness

that tends to lead to these types of anxieties and fears.

We have an idea about what everyone else's idea of us is,

and we allow our imagination of that idea to control how we act,

how we behave, and who we allow ourselves to be out in the world.

The irony of course is that we really have no idea what other people are thinking, yet we choose

to believe our imagination of it is true.

My guest today, Matt, put up a really fitting quote by Sylvia Plath of it like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully if only you were interested in them.

While this is true, and if we give our attention and our patience and presence to others, it will allow them to feel comfortable and let the symphony of themselves emerge and come out.

I think it's also wise to turn that around on ourselves.

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