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Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

Release Date: 12/13/2021

#216: Bringing your small business into web3 show art #216: Bringing your small business into web3

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

I believe that ​​our education systems and how our society is structured traps us. We are taught to fit within a mold so that we are ‘employable’ and can hopefully find a job that allows us enough pay to live comfortably and gives us a few weeks off a year. ⁣   ⁣ Yet inflation is skyrocketing, the cost of living is outrageous and people feel disconnected from things that genuinely make them come alive. ⁣ ⁣ We need change. ⁣   I know for many of you reading this, you feel that way too as entrepreneurship is about taking a step away from all of that.  ⁣ For...

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#215: Anticipation vs reality is never the same show art #215: Anticipation vs reality is never the same

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

Have you ever found yourself anxiously anticipating something? Maybe it’s small like a task you need to complete or maybe it’s a large goal that requires you to push big-time out of your comfort zone. No matter the gap between where you are now and where you want to be, anxiety, fear, doubt, all exist primarily in the anticipation of something- not the act of it. Why is that? It’s mostly because when we’re in the act of doing something we’re present and in action mode - which leaves little cognitive space for fear and anxiety to show up. This means that when we’re doing hard things...

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#214: Self sovereignty is connected to community care show art #214: Self sovereignty is connected to community care

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

If you’re on social media and work in the space of  entrepreneurship and/or spirituality you’ve most likely heard the term self sovereign over the past few years.    I wanted to dive a little deeper into what I feel it means and why it is directly connected to community care - because sometimes when I hear people use it, it just comes off as inherently selfish and not empowering at all.    Self sovereignty and community care are highly interconnected. The more empowering and expansive a community is, the more sovereign you become. Why is this? It’s because they...

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#213: Becoming the person who accomplishes your wildest dreams show art #213: Becoming the person who accomplishes your wildest dreams

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

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#212: Crypto is more than money: web3 + you could change the world show art #212: Crypto is more than money: web3 + you could change the world

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

I believe that ​​our education systems and how our society is structured traps us. We are taught to fit within a mold so that we are ‘employable’ and can hopefully find a job that allows us enough pay to live comfortably and gives us a few weeks off a year. ⁣   ⁣ Yet inflation is skyrocketing, the cost of living is outrageous and people feel disconnected from things that genuinely make them come alive. ⁣ ⁣ We need change. ⁣   I know for many of you reading this, you feel that way too as entrepreneurship is about taking a step away from all of that.  ⁣ For...

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#211: Stuck in the inbetween show art #211: Stuck in the inbetween

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

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#210: Intro To The Fundamentals Of Web3 show art #210: Intro To The Fundamentals Of Web3

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

I am getting a lot of people in my dms saying they are very interested in learning more about web3 - blockchain - nfts - crypto, but have no idea where to start.  They are telling me they grasp that there is potential in this emerging space but truly do not understand most of it.  If you fall into this category, that is totally okay and let me tell you why. You do not need to understand on a fundamental level how this technology works, you only need to know how to use it.  Most of you are probably reading this email on your phone. If you listen to my podcast or follow me online,...

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#209: NFTS on Instagram and other web3 things coming show art #209: NFTS on Instagram and other web3 things coming

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

  A few weeks ago IG announced it was beta testing integrating NFTs onto its platform and so far things are going well.  Youtube, Meta (aka facebook), Amazon, Shopify, Stripe and other content hosting platforms and commerce based businesses now officially all have web3 teams who are using, building, and integrating blockchain technology.    What the heck does this mean?!   It means that many of the platforms, applications and tools we use in our businesses are taking web3 seriously - which means that we should too.    This doesn’t mean drop everything and...

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#208:There is no future ‘you’… show art #208:There is no future ‘you’…

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

It is very common for us to view ourselves as 3 separate people. There is our past self, our current self, and our future self. The reality though is there is only one us.    This isn’t to say we stay the same, we know we are constantly changing. What I mean though, is that without changing something today, nothing will change in the future - except that time itself has passed.    Sometimes by thinking our future self will somehow be more equipped, more motivated, more responsible than our current, self tricks us into forgetting who we are right now has to make the shifts...

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#207: You Are Not In a Race. show art #207: You Are Not In a Race.

Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

Many of us can feel as though we’re in a race to reach ‘the finish line’ in our business and lives. We look to those around us to determine if we’re ahead or behind and this can create a sense of urgency. The reality is that we aren’t actually in a race, we will most likely never feel like we ‘crossed the finish line’ and we aren’t competing with anyone either.    When this feeling is used in a healthy way to motivate us it can be motivating, however many of us use it to stress ourselves out.    There are so many different ways to build out and get to where...

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One of the main things drilled into us throughout our lives is that we need to ‘obtain’ safety + security, through a series of events. 

 

A good stable paying job with benefits, saving for retirement, marriage, a house, kids, and other forms of social and material status. If you ‘achieve’ these you’ve done something right… but have you? 

 

Safety and security truly cannot come from something outside of us (a job, a relationship, money), because by its very nature it's meant to actually prioritize something that isn’t just you. 

 

Learning how to ride the various waves of life, the good, the bad, the inbetween with curiosity, openness and a knowing you’ll be alright no matter what - that is true safety and security. 

 

As we close out 2021 and move into 2022, I wanted this year's last podcast episode to be something that helps us all build a tool for a better future, and that tool is ourselves. 

 

Sometimes we give up the very things that could liberate us in the most beautiful of ways, because we’re afraid to give up some sense of safety + security (S+S). We always need to ask ourselves if what we’re giving up is worth what we’re getting in return. 

 

I don’t know if doing work that feels draining, daunting and unfulfilling for most of my life is worth any amount of S+S, but that's just me and you don’t need to agree. 

 

On this weeks (and the final of 2021) podcast episode we discuss…

 

  • How the fear of shame traps us + what do to liberate ourselves from it 
  • That meeting ourselves in our lowest and darkest moments is how we cultivate real safety and security (and what that looks like)
  • That risk isn’t just about the risk of doing something, it’s also about the risk of doing nothing at all 
  • A reminder that you are not your job title, the amount of money in your account, your marital status or anything else you feel ‘defines you’ and keeps your safe
  • That progress is really what we want to focus on with our goals and dreams and that you’re probably doing a better job than you’re giving yourself credit for. 

I hope you have a lovely holiday season. I am signing off for a few weeks and will be back in the new year. 

 

You’ve got this my friend! 

 

  • Lana 

 

If you enjoy these conversations, check out The Lighthouse Collective. It’s a community for socially and spiritually conscious entrepreneurs building a better world together. We talk about topics like this in even more interactive and supportive ways.

 

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