Extraordinary is a choice. Take that in, soak it up because the hustle, grind, repeat mantra

that society's been touting for decades, it had it all wrong. I'm Tanya Dalton. I'm a seven-figure

entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, mom, and rule breaker. I'm here to help you live to your fullest potential. That's what

this podcast is all about. The intentional advantage is doing life on our own terms, defying the

status quo and seeing ourselves outside of the tidy definitions society's made for us.

It's intentionally choosing to step back away from the chaotic

rush of your everydays and choosing. Choosing to see that it's your world and it's filled with

opportunities. Let's challenge the bedrock beliefs that so many have wholeheartedly trusted

because we were told they were truths. Let's have a healthy disregard

for the impossible. Let's choose to be extraordinary. Hello, hello, and welcome to the

Intentional Advantage podcast. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. This is episode

258. We are into our season on taking ownership, really reclaiming who we are and what it is we want

to do in this life. This season, we're going to be talking about a lot of different parts of our

lives that we can really reclaim. And one of the things I knew I wanted to dive into this season

was this idea of owning our stories, really looking at the stories that we tell ourselves,

and taking ownership of those, dismantling them,

taking them down, really taking a good look to decide, is this even my story? Is this the story

that I want to tell? Am I happy with this story? All of those questions are things that I want

you to be diving into as we talk about this idea of taking ownership.

So when I thought about talking about stories, I knew that I wanted to have Lisa Oliveira

on the show. Lisa is a writer and a therapist who shares her work that's centered around this

idea of radical acceptance, really cultivating compassion

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