Daily 1% x 228: Be Awesome
The Davina Podcast
“BE AWESOME” A couple of years ago that 👆quote was being said everywhere Posters were being made It was a thing It was trendy to have stuff that SAID: be awesome. What does it even mean to BE AWESOME? Let’s make a list: Know who you are Show up big Do hard things Be on fire Create epic stuff Be willing to do scary ideas Not back down Stay positive Have courage Don’t listen to haters Keep going All of these are good. Inspiring. What about: 🌟Loving yourself even when you...
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Daily 1% x 227: Date Yourself
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WARRIOR WOMEN TIP: TAKE YOURSELF ON A DATE I spent the day at the: Mint Art Museum Walking around all by myself, looking at all the exhibits is my favorite… No one to rush me or wonder why I’m taking so long. My favorite is getting to witness the way a piece was created or the life long work of an artist. Both types of exhibits remind me: NOTHING HAS GONE WRONG Even if… •It seems like figuring something out is taking too long •Life feels frustratingly like a hamster wheel •My...
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Daily 1% x 226: You Don't Have To
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You don’t have to do anything the way everyone else does. I KNOW this may sound obvious It’s more HIDDEN than you might think, though. STORY TIME: 📖 Just recently, I was talking to one of my coaches about doing one hour consults. When I seemed like I didn’t really like doing them she asked… Why do you do them? I said: Because it’s the way it’s done in the industry. WHAT?!? Here I am the… ‘Break The Rules’ ‘Live Unapologetically’ ‘Be A Warrior Woman’ ‘March...
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Episode 90: The Power of Taking Selfies
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I got to be on ’s podcast talking about: The Power of Taking Selfies! If you do not know Lydia, once you listen to this podcast episode, you are going to want to follow her and be her bestie. She’s effervescent, vibrant, straight talking, real, fierce, and fearless all while being relatable and ICONIC at the same time. I highly recommend signing up for her next Pleasure Salon: Elemental Courtesan. Lydia’s words from this podcast episode conversation: Selfie Siren with Davina Fear! Y'all ready to break the internet (and your...
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Daily 1% x 225: Brainiac Maniac
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Warriors! Our brains want to cancel/ignore all of our awesomeness!! Don’t let it! This week I’ve done so much brave and bold stuff! YOU HAVE, TOO!! Last night as I was prepping for bed, my brain was like: Wow. You’ve not accomplished your goals. You didn’t get 50 new clients. (Mind you, my goal was not 50 new clients but my brain likes to be VERY dramatic.) I said to my brain: Hold it right there, Brainiac Maniac. You are wrong. W-R-O-N-G I know you like to scan for what’s...
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Daily 1% x 224: Be Your Own Magic
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What if you could… 🤔🤩 Be your own magical 💫 : •YODA who compels you to do the hard thing, take the risk, and 100% believes in you even when you doubt •KINDNESS ADVOCATE who doesn’t let you say mean things to yourself •PERSON WHO SAYS to you “I’m here for you, no matter what you’re going through, no matter what you’re feeling” •SWEET & LOYAL DOG who stays by your side and sits with you when you’re sad •MOM who rubs your back while you cry about feeling like you have no friends •BEST FRIEND who tells you all...
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Daily 1% x 223: You're All That
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You’ve done something you’re totally proud of, at some point, right? Like totally thought you rocked it? And then…. Bum bu bummmm…. Your brain comes in like a freight train T-boning a car sitting on the tracks and says: Wow. You sure messed that up. What were you thinking? Why did you say that? You took over the conversation. You are so selfish. You don’t ever think about other people. You only think about yourself. You’re too much. You’re over the...
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Daily 1% x 222: Sabotaging You
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Have you ever said, “I feel like I’m sabotaging myself?” You’re right. Kind of. It’s not your fault, though. Here’s why… Brains have two parts: Primitive Pre-frontal cortex They basically like OPPOSITE things. If you sometimes feel like you’re fighting with yourself or constantly torn between two things… Guess what? Nothing has gone wrong AND You are not a mutant. One part of our brain loves routine. It gets all giddy about doing the same thing over and over and over again. This part of your brain loves familiarity, comfort,...
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Episode 89: Warrior Women Series: Éowyn
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I love The Lord of the Rings. I've not read the book. I've watched the movies MANY times! Eowyn is one of my favorite warriors in this series. I decided to research more about her and discovered some awesomeness. No surprise. Enjoy this episode! If you'd like to bring out your Warriorness more, click . Let's chat! Previously published .
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Daily 1% x 221: If You're Disappointed
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Maybe you’re disappointed… In you. In the way you’re showing up. In who you are being. Knowing what you’ve been thinking, feeling, doing or NOT thinking, feeling, doing... It makes you want to: Be hard on yourself… Beat yourself up… Say a few mean things to yourself. You and me… We are human. Our brains do this. They think they are helping. The truth is… What really helps, is this… Notice you’ve been judging yourself. Thinking unhelpful or unkind or unloving thoughts about you or maybe about someone else. ...
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You’re right. Kind of. It’s not your fault, though.
Here’s why…
Brains have two parts:
Primitive
Pre-frontal cortex
They basically like OPPOSITE things.
If you sometimes feel like you’re fighting with yourself or constantly torn between two things…
Guess what?
Nothing has gone wrong AND
You are not a mutant.
One part of our brain loves routine.
It gets all giddy about doing the same thing over and over and over again.
This part of your brain loves familiarity, comfort, pleasure, and it does everything it can to avoid pain.
We love this part of our brain!
It’s what keeps our heart beating regularly and all of our blood flowing like it’s supposed to.
It the part that does everything it can to keep our body at the exact same temperature all the time.
It does all of this without you even being aware.
It all happens under the radar.
So when we get a fever, it freaks out until it gets us back into the same old, boring, keeping us in, you know…
Loving, breathing, homeostasis mode.
If you’ve ever said, “I just did that without even thinking.”
You were most likely operating from this part of your brain.
This is the place you drive a car from if you’ve been driving for years.
It’s basically the auto pilot of your life.
Not as helpful when you’re trying to stop eating crap. 😫😕
Or start loving your dreams of being a writer or starting a business
You know…the stuff that scares you a little or is NOT routine.
It’s kind of the whole “old dog that doesn’t want to learn new tricks” mode of your brain.
Second part of your brain: Pre-frontal cortex
It LOVES novelty, new things, growth, new opportunities, spontaneity, change.
It’s the part of your brain that lights up when you feel a new feeling, do something new.
It’s not as reliable as your primitive brain but it can be trained.
This is the puppy version of your brain. Excitable but trainable.
Both parts are capable of change but one part is more willing than the other part.
If you’re trying to:
•Change your eating habits
•Create a new routine
•Do something you’ve never done before
•Meet new people
•Go to an event by yourself
•Stop being bugged at your close family
•Start working out
•Create a business
•stop doing some habit you want to quit
•…you get the idea…
Your primitive brain is going to lay on the floor, basking in the sun and give off the vibe:
Don’t fix what’s not broken.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Or get a bunch of attitude and walk away from you and lay down in another sunny spot where it doesn’t have to listen to you.
On the other hand your pre-frontal cortex is going to be jumping around barking and saying:
Yes! Yes! Such a good idea!
Let’s go!
This is the most epic plan ever.
I’m all in!
You’re the best!
I love you!
You’re so awesome!
You’re a genius.
So….
If you feel like your brain is always sabotaging you…it probably is.
These two parts of your brain, when left to themselves, end up making you feel like you’re in a never ending hamster wheel of trying to start new things only to fail again and again.
It’s not your fault.
This is what we do in coaching:
Train that puppy brain of yours so the old dog part of your brain doesn’t feel so annoyed when you attempt to make those awesome changes. 👍
We watch the old dog part, see all the patterns and things it does on auto pilot.
The daily ways it acts and the vibe it gives off.
We notice it’s attitude.
That awareness is the starting point.
It makes a MUCH bigger difference than you would think to be able to see all of its patterns out in the wild.
Suddenly, they don’t seem wild or untamed at all.
You see exactly what that old dog is doing and it kind of makes you laugh how tame it is.
And at how it likes to hide behind making you think it’s so wild and untame-able.
The truth is…
It just wants to be seen.
Old dogs (primitive brains) CAN learn new tricks!
I promise.
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