Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism,

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your

host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Paura Lowenthal.

Hello my chickens, how are you? It has now officially been two years of the podcast,

which means it's been three years of my business. And it has been a wild ride. Let me tell you.

And for those of you who are new around here and wondering why is the year view happening in April,

which is a random time for it, it's because April 2016 was the date that I officially left my

last legal job, which was running a think tank at Columbia at the law school, to start my coaching

business. So for me, my year goes April to April. And in the last year, my business has doubled

and tripled in some ways. My revenue has more than doubled my employees and independent

contractors are more than doubled. And so today, I want to talk to you about the top three lessons

that I have learned this past year. I like to do this episode once a year to kind of teach you

guys what I've learned over the past year and kind of help you see behind the scenes and see where

I am in my own thought work and journey because I think that's so important right. No one has

reached enlightenment and no one is perfect. And I for sure, I'm still learning and growing. And

my commitment is always to share that with you guys so that you know that wherever you are is perfect.

It's normal and we're all on this journey together. I might just be a little bit far ahead from

someone who, which is a good thing and that's why I'm your teacher if you listen to this right

and my teacher is you know ahead of me. So here are the top three things I've learned this year.

Number one is what you can imagine now is nothing near what you can actually achieve.

You have to watch for these plateaus in your thought work because they create plateaus in your

life even when you've come a long way already. I talked about this a little bit in the massive

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