If you’re like me, you know you aren’t the same woman you were a year or even a month ago. In this episode, I’m inviting you to make a powerful shift—to make decisions like the woman you're becoming, not the one you’re outgrowing.
I’ll talk about how easy it is to default to comfort zones, old identities, or the opinions of others, the pitfalls of letting those steer our lives, and why that keeps us playing small. Let’s explore how tapping into the insight, courage, and vision of our future selves can lead us to choices that have the power to excite, stretch, and fulfill us.
This episode is a practical invitation to recalibrate, break free from old patterns, and start making decisions today that your future self will thank you for! Let’s craft our next chapters—one intentional decision at a time.
Show Highlights:
- Are your choices aligned with your evolving identity? [00:46]
- A reflective exercise to do with your 16-year-old self. [04:30]
- Why present-moment decisions are a trap at life’s inflection-points. [07:22]
- Meet a VVIP—your future self. [10:18]
- Five common drivers of current decisions. [11:04]
- How to harness vision to question familiar patterns. [17:31]
- The power of “possibilities” thinking vs. constraints. [18:36]
- What story do you want to tell with courage over fear? [19:12]
- Tap into long-term satisfaction in the painful now. [20:00]
- Learning to honor the opinion of your future self. [21:09]
- Share your present and future story with us or DM for support. [22:16]
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