Walking in the Messy Middle with Alison Faulkner
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Alison Faulkner is a writer, speaker, and “self-proclaimed nonsense dancer,” who knows all about “walking in the messy middle.” She has worked with Fortune 500 companies and has been creating content for over 10 years. She built a business on throwing 900 person female dance parties, and found that the behind the hoopla, she was crashing and burning. When she couldn’t figure out how to scale the business and preserve her sanity, she took a step back and started doing the things she wanted to do. Thus, The Alison Show was born, as well as Alison’s podcast Awesome with Alison and Allison’s Brand School. Now, she’s not ashamed to share the times “she break downs and cries under her desk, the times she fails, the times she wants to quit.” Even after a recent car accident, Alison has been pushing through the pain to embrace possibility. Alison’s mantra is: Only you can be you, and you’re already as awesome as you need to be.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jessica Honegger, founder of the socially conscious fashion brand Noonday |
| 0:07.1 | collection. Welcome to The Going Scared Podcast. Welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. Today's episode is really in response to you guys |
| 0:19.0 | because I heard from so many of you |
| 0:21.0 | when I was starting off just three short months ago by the way to please include |
| 0:26.6 | stories of the messy middle. |
| 0:29.0 | Often podcasts are people who have made it or they have a name or they're somewhat familiar to you and |
| 0:34.8 | you ask me to please include people in the messy middle. |
| 0:38.8 | While Allison is certainly well known but from her own brand |
| 0:43.9 | called the Allison Show. |
| 0:45.6 | She makes her living blogging, teaching online courses, |
| 0:48.6 | posting on social, speaking at events, |
| 0:51.1 | and podcasting. |
| 0:52.9 | You probably know her from the Lifestyle Brand |
| 0:55.1 | and website called the Allison Show. |
| 0:57.9 | She is in a messy middle right now. |
| 1:01.0 | She recently was hit tragically by a car. |
| 1:05.9 | And I have seen her response to this |
| 1:10.1 | with such courage and resilience. I think that when you are |
| 1:17.2 | intentional about walking and courage, about creating a brand and a business, which she really decided to scale this past year. |
| 1:27.0 | And then she got completely set back. |
| 1:30.0 | It would be easy to push a pause button for a really long time. |
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