The whole thing here is deciding that you are okay, feeling left out and doing what nobody else is doing, because you've decided that authority and agency over your space, the way that you feel, the way that you are going to wake up tomorrow and show up for yourself tomorrow.

And the way in which you're going to create your life is more important to you than what other people think of you or small moments of discomfort when you're not doing what other people are doing.

Hey guys, you're listening to the Big Conversations podcast. I'm your host, Haley Hoffman Smith.

I'm an entrepreneur, a best bestselling author, and a Forbes most

influential speaker. You're in the right place if you're ready to step into the bigger life

that you were destined for because we're about to get real on how to do so. So let's get started

with today's big conversation. Hi, my friends and welcome back to big conversations. I am really looking forward to this podcast

episode. Okay, I feel like actually I say that every time. I'm like I am really looking forward to it,

but I want you to know I genuinely am. Every single time I sit down to record anything for this

podcast, it's only because I am so pumped about what it is

that I'm about to say and what it is that we are conversing about. I tend to do my podcast different

than most podcast hosts do theirs in the sense that I don't have this big content calendar

where I sit down in content batch so I have

enough content for months. Like maybe that would probably be the business savvy thing to do.

But I really let my intuition speak to me on, okay, I have a podcast episode that needs to go

live every Tuesday at noon. I need to get it to the editor by Thursday night. So what is it

that I want to say today?

What's on my heart today? Because I want it to be timely. You know, I don't want to say, oh, today's episode that's scheduled to be released is about blink, even though that feels like it's not really on my heart anymore. So when I say I'm excited, I really am excited. I'm not trying to use that as a filler word. And I also thought that could be kind of cool as you're behind the scenes of what goes on thought-wise when I'm sitting down to record. I always have ideas, but things are always percolating. And I can always just tell what the collective needs to hear. And by the collective, I mean you. So I feel like there's part of you that needs to hear this. And that brings me to

the title of today's episode, the episode that you need to listen to that you probably don't

want to listen to. And I titled it that because this isn't necessarily a divisive topic,

but it's definitely a topic that I wouldn't have wanted to listen to a few months ago. And it's going to be a

topic all around doing what you need to do, even if you don't want to do it. Taking out of your

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