Hello, welcome to emotional badass where Moxie meets Mindful.

I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist, and on today's episode,

I'm going to define some terms that we use on the show.

Music. Hello, y'all.

We have been really experiencing a growth spurt, so I want to welcome new listeners.

The last two weeks, I have released some very personal and vulnerable stories about my life.

I've been talking about how I escaped extreme manipulative abuse.

And I just want to use the moment to really thank you.

And I want you to know that as much as I'm committed to being transparent,

to teach genuinely is my calling,

to use my life and my story in a healing capacity,

for me to offer it to you as an example of healing and growth

and what we can overcome. It doesn't mean that it's not scary. And on your path, you're going to face,

you've already faced many scary things too. I don't ever want to make it look or seem like I'm not scared sometimes.

The goal really isn't to be fearless.

Rather, it's to feel the fear, the fear of judgment, the fear of possible retaliation, the fear of

possible rejection, the fear of judgment from our own inner perfectionist that can pick anything apart and focus on the imperfection.

So often in life we are called to feel the fear and move forward anyway.

I want to thank you for the supportive feedback I've already received. It's so easy to hear

all the negative stories about being out there online and on the internet, so much negativity,

so much harshness. But I have had an overwhelmingly beautiful amount of support since the first

day that emotional badass went out into the universe.

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