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Have the Audacity
[INTERVIEW] Mindful Living and Enjoying Your Life with Allison Noelle
In this episode, we cover:
- How to Be Mindful
- The Story Behind Allison's new creation of a prompted journal
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Can you believe they have the audacity? Welcome to the have the Audacity podcast. I'm your host, jacey Lawlin. I'm on a mission to empower women like you to live audaciously. What does it mean to live audaciously, you ask? Living audaciously means you're no longer available for living your life based on someone else's agenda, standards or boundaries. It's time to activate your power, use your voice and create the life you're meant to live. So the next time someone asks, can you believe she had the audacity, you can look at them and say, yeah, I did. Hey, audacious Human.
Speaker 1:I'm super excited for today's guest. I mean, I'm always excited for the guests because, like, I wouldn't have them on here if I wouldn't share this conversation with you, if I wasn't excited about it, but I'm excited for it nonetheless. I can't wait to introduce you to this awesome human that I was introduced through a mutual friend, allison Noel. She is an educator, a life mentor, a guided breathwork, meditation, sound healer and an author, and she recently this year has released a prompted journal and we're really going to dive into that. You know I talk about journaling, making gratitude lists, and how much that practice has changed my life in the last several years and how powerful of a tool it has been for my mindset and, because of that, changed a lot of areas of my life. So we're talking about being mindful and the story behind it and her story and how she's gotten to this point and what prompted the creation of a prompted journal. So, without further ado, let's dive on in how she's gotten to this point and what prompted the creation of a prompted journal. So, without further ado, let's dive on in.
Speaker 1:Hey, audacious Humans. I'm so excited for today's episode. We have such a fun guest. I would like you to meet Allison. Allison, thank you so much for being on. Have the Audacity.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you so much for having me, especially that word, audacity just definitely drove me to want to be on this podcast.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you. It's definitely all about just empowering women to live their own version of whatever their best life is and going after for what they want, and I think this is just going to be perfect for what we're going to talk about today. So, before we dive in, can you tell the listener a little bit about who you are and what it is you do?
Speaker 2:Sure. So my name is Allison Noel McGarrian and I am the creator of Motivating the Mindset. So it's mindset coaching, life coaching, along with some breath work, guided meditation, sound healing, and I've also just published a prompted journal that I'm really excited to share with you today. All the things, all the great things. So this definitely works out well. I think it's a perfect fit, because I'm all about empowering women, anybody that wants to just live their best life. You live one wild, precious life. I say that all the time and we deserve.
Speaker 2:We deserve it all and more. So excited to be here. Thank you again.
Speaker 1:No, and I totally just like agree with what you're saying. We do deserve to have it all and you get to have it all, and it's just from conversations like this of just showing women you can have it and giving that permission slip to them. So is this? Is this your first, because we met through a mutual friend? Um, yes, and is this your first book you've published?
Speaker 2:no, it's actually my second book, but my third publication. So I wrote a. Um, I'm also a full time music teacher in Brooklyn and when I was on this like self-development journey of wanting to create my own business, I was bringing my mindfulness practices into my classroom, and it was right before COVID. So then, during COVID, I decided to publish a like a mindfulness guide for teens, and I did it based on the practices I was doing with my kids in the classroom and online during COVID times or in the pandemic. And that was my first publication and I love it because I think that if we all had these tools when we were younger, we would also just be living very different lives or just have known more, you know, to expand a little more, a little bit younger. So I love being able to share that with them. Then I was also published in a business book for entrepreneurs. That's not my book, but I do have a chapter in that book. And now my journal, the prompted journal that just came out in January, beginning of January.
Speaker 1:So, all right, I'm ready to dive in and talk about this prompted journal. What, what? How did this come to be? Where did this idea come from? Like, give us the backstory. How did we get to this being out into the world?
Speaker 2:So I, when I was on my own self-development journey, I was told by many mentors that I should start journaling. And I thought it was BS. I was like I am not keeping a diary. I was like I'm not writing down my feelings, I'm not doing this. And I was really very strong feelings about this. And it's funny, I ended up winning a free journal at work one day and I was like God damn it, the universe is like here. Here's one day. And I was like God damn it, like the universe is like here, here's a blank journal, like you need to do this. And I said I said you know what? I trust the signs around me and I'm going to just dive in. So I just started writing and I just started feeling better. I really felt it as a different release for myself.
Speaker 2:Over time I made up my own prompts, you know, on how I felt and what would work best for me. I was always experimenting, because I love like trial and error, like I'm all about that, because you never know unless you try. So I tried all these different ways and then they even went out and bought some prompted journals, but I never liked them. They were either like very underwhelming or very overwhelming. So then when I created my business and I was mentoring one-on-one clients, I was testing these theories of these different prompts and I would just say to them like flat out, like, what do you guys think of this, what do you think of this? And I've had clientele builds up over the last few years, which is great. So I've had a lot of data.
Speaker 2:Like such a teacher, like collecting the data, I'm like all right, this worked, this didn't work. And then eventually I was like I just need to publish this because I that maybe are not, you know, are not with me. And I was also like I want this for myself, like I'm sick of writing out my own problems. I'm like I want to, I want to make this for the people. You know, I just want to help people and myself. Right, we'd show up for ourselves, we could show up for others. So that was kind of the journey of this whole journaling process and I've been getting very good feedback makes me over the moon because it felt so right to do it also.
Speaker 1:I love and I love your transparency and I appreciate that and I I laughed um when you said it, when you were like everybody was telling me to journal and I'm like no and then you get.
Speaker 1:And then you get a blank journal and you're like because, because I totally like, I totally get it and I feel like everybody who starts journaling like the truth is is that nobody, very few people start journaling and they're like this is the best idea ever. This is going to change my life. I'm so excited. You're like I'm going to do this to prove to you that this doesn't work.
Speaker 2:Basically, I was like it's not going to do anything.
Speaker 2:But there is something very magical about journaling, and I don't know if you journal yourself, but when I realized like you can talk to people till you're blue in the face about your feelings right, and I think it is important to vent and talk and you do need to process your feelings I truly believe that speaking is one way of doing it, meditation is another way of sitting in stillness, right, so I also teach meditation, breath work.
Speaker 2:But there's something about writing it on a piece of paper and seeing it mirrored back at you, where it's almost like you have to accept the reality of what's going on in your head, cause you can see it, you could talk and talk, that energy is just flowing. Then you feel like everybody's judging you around you. Then at that point cause I use Brett you said all all these things, but when you just sit by yourself within yourself and you let out that inner world onto paper, you can see it, and then you're like, okay, that's how I feel now. How am I going to change that? And that's kind of what the prompts walk you through how to get to that space, um, of just coming completely back to you, you know, and realizing that you are your greatest healer that that is so true and I I definitely can see that, like and echo that in my own journaling experience.
Speaker 1:I have also found that sometimes just writing it down and like actually physically writing it down, it makes it not so big and you're like, yeah, I was holding on to nothing, like you just needed to get it out. And getting it out in that way and it is very, you know, like the energetic transfer I really do feel like of like from you like to the paper, like you're literally getting it out of your body and you're just like on to something else and you're like, okay, this is not so bad, I can do this.
Speaker 1:Or I have had moments like you're talking about, where you're like, oh okay, this is a reality, what am I gonna do to fix this? So I'm really curious. Like, so this journal for the listener listening like okay, cool, like this is feels like a safe way to try and get into this. You know like, instead of just staring at a blank paper because people tell me I need a journal all the time and you're like where do I even start? Like is this a dear diary?
Speaker 1:situation like you know you're just like I don't know, because it is overwhelming when you start if you don't have it is and I like to explain the structure of the comps, um, so give like listeners a little bit of an idea.
Speaker 2:So the beginning of the journal it does walk you through like why you should start a journaling practice, and then it goes through each problem and gives you an example. I feel like sometimes when we see something, it could be so over, like I said before, very overwhelming and for me, I just I was like I want this to make sense and make people feel guided to want to do it Right. Like some people's journaling practices are different and I'm really big on that. Like there are days I don't journal because I don't feel the need to, like I feel like I need to, you know, go for a really long walk instead. So it's all about really knowing yourself. But the best way to know yourself is through journaling, cause you start, like I said before, about mirroring it back and just using it as you feel guided to use it. I think that's important. So it starts off with gratitude. Gratitude and fear can never coexist at the same time in your brain. So if you're starting your journaling practice on a high note, right, you're not half the stuff that's probably even going on in that very moment you're feeling very anxious won't even end up on the paper, because just the gratitude alone will shift your energy the other way. So gratitude is huge. So it's just writing down an example of whatever it is. You can say I'm grateful for my house, I'm grateful for the shoes on my feet, like sometimes. It's just writing down an example of whatever it is. You can say I'm grateful for my house, I'm grateful for the shoes on my feet, like sometimes. It's just really simplify that, like you said, all the stuff that's making us feel crazy, it can actually be really small. So focus on the beautiful things that are existing now.
Speaker 2:So then the next section is just a reflection section. This section can just be very raw, like reflecting on your day. I love journaling. At the end of the day, people like wake up and journal. I'm like no, I need to get out of my head what happened today. You know, like sometimes in the morning, maybe from my dreams or something that still upset me from the day before. But oh man, nighttime journaling and reflecting, like everything. And then you see it, I am mad that you know my coworker pissed me off today you know or?
Speaker 2:whatever it is, or like I'm upset with this, or maybe reflecting on, you know, I had this beautiful moment with this person and yada, yada, yada. So just again, just just really starting to rephrase and start to like reframe, so as I say that the next rock is to rephrze and to celebrate, so we all have different perspectives on what happens in our own day. We can go through the same thing, you and I, throughout the day, same exact experiences, and speak about them completely differently, right, yes, like I could say there was, you know, there was so little traffic coming home, but for you you're like, oh my God, it felt horrible. I don't know why, I'm just in a bad mood, so it felt bad. And it's like interesting, interesting, like we really all think very differently and I always tell clients this no-transcript journaling All right, now I'm going to rephrase that, like that wasn't the worst thing, or maybe I learned something from that, and then celebrate something that happens and I'm like sometimes I just celebrate that I washed my hair today and you know what, if that's the best I could celebrate, like then that's what it is and we make it so much more complex, right, like just simplifying, celebrating something, rephrasing. So that's another small section.
Speaker 2:The next session is just affirmation, affirm, affirm how you're feeling and affirm how you want to feel. I think a lot of times we're like we just get so stuck on this whole. Like I am, I am lovable, I am this, I am beautiful. It's like yes, of course, yes, those are affirmations, but like ones that you know in that moment, after you just wrote all that, what are the affirmations that are going to shift me and bring me to the next level? What's the next affirmation that's going to heal me from today? Not about an overall life, like I am wealthy and I am this and that Like yes, of course, I believe in all those as well, but there's something about making it an affirmation for your day, like today, I said to myself this morning and I wrote my story on Instagram.
Speaker 2:I said I am open to all opportunities, even the ones I don't know about, because you never know who you're going to speak to. And let me tell you that unknowing and that affirmation got me excited that there's something bigger out there than just my ideas, that maybe somebody else is going to be like see something else in me or I'll click with the right person. So I feel that affirming these things for yourself are going to shift your energy completely, especially if you believe in them. Okay, and then we have the last section, which so far this has been everyone's favorite section. It is the free write section and it says vent goals to do list. So I had the funniest people DMing me recently that have gotten the journal and they're like I love that Vents section. I'm just like talking crap about everybody in there.
Speaker 1:Everybody, I was- bad at.
Speaker 2:I'm just writing all my feelings out. But then I started setting goals based on all that stuff. That pissed me off and I was like uh-oh, because you got to get it out. Somehow people say they don't want to complain. I'm like it's not complaining, you got. You got to get these things out. But on paper, like we were saying before, it's a completely different feeling. So that section is great because I feel like it has a lot, of, a lot of freedom to do what you want in that section. The other stuff's a little bit more structured, but that section it could, could. It could be a lot of different things venting, just setting your goals, a little to-do list. Like you know, tomorrow I want to be able to do xyz, like, even if it's I need to go to the post office.
Speaker 2:We all know sometimes we need to write it down and and I think that's the way.
Speaker 1:I love that structure and I and I love like acknowledge the teacher in you. That is like there there's, there's an example, like I gave you an example of what it is Like. I was like that's the teacher in you.
Speaker 2:That's like here. But it's so helpful, think about it. It's so helpful Cause even as adults, we're sometimes like well, what do they mean by that? Like what does that mean? And when we feel like we don't know, we're not going to try it. And when we feel like we don't know we're not going to try it, we're really not going to do it. So I was like nobody's going to escape this. There's an example there.
Speaker 1:You know what to do you know exactly what to do and I and I love your intentionality about putting the venting section at the end, because I can see, like, why people love it, because you don't want to start with it, as somebody who, like I, have, like, I've been journaling for two years now and oh um, I did take like a break and I've like got back into it.
Speaker 1:So I was like, oh no, you know, this actually really does. Sometimes you gotta step away to really be like no, this is super really the client.
Speaker 2:The client had just left my house. We were just talking about that. I'm like sometimes you lose the value of what it is because you're doing it all the time and you kind of take a break and kind of just, you know, realign again. It's normal. So I'm happy that you said it like that too, because you know the value behind it even more now, because now watch when you do like, when you're doing it again, you're going to be like oh, this is really way more powerful than I thought.
Speaker 1:You're like oh no, I really did need this. Even just you know you get back up one day. The next day you're like oh, my whole day's been different and literally the only thing different I did was because I'm a nighttime journaler too. I like to do it at night and I was like oh, somebody else who does it, because everybody talks about the morning.
Speaker 2:You're like, and I do it in the morning sometimes I feel like on the weekends I have more time. So as a teacher, right, so like, maybe then I'll journal in the morning, but during the week it's nighttime and you get it all off your chest before you put your head down on your pillow, because you know it's always said like you don't go to bed angry. You know, I believe that concept a lot, so you really do get better sleep if you don't.
Speaker 1:I agree.
Speaker 2:But it's like getting it all, getting it all out and not having to sleep in the wake up with that same energy, right Cause that's the worst when you wake up with it again.
Speaker 2:Oh man, but it's funny. The venting section makes me laugh a little bit. I love how people are actually like talking about that section the most. I don't know what people. Would you never know what people are going to say right, you put yourself out there, you just go. I hope to help one person. That's always my saying help one person today I did my job. So, hearing people talk about the vent section, I'm like whoa so happy. And it's an entire page and section and the other ones are just broken up. No I do.
Speaker 1:And even with that, I think it's funny that you're like people are DMing me, that they like talking crap about people, and then they're making goals based off of what they were venting about. And I'm like, well, that's by design, because you just spent all of this time getting your head into your energy shifting into a positive place, getting your head into your energy shifting into a positive place so well. So now you're not like bringing in that negative energy, like sitting in it, you're more like getting it out. So then you're like, oh, I can see we can make this better. And it's not like getting on there like a burn book. You're like I hate this and you're like, and you're just like last, last page is actually a burn book if you take them all out, that's what it is.
Speaker 1:No, but it's just like you're in a healthy mindset to process whatever it is you're going through, and so I love that it's also behind that right.
Speaker 2:It's about going through it. Nobody wants to go through it. Think about everybody wants to get over it. They want to get old people. People say right, that term is so toxic. Telling somebody to get over something, that's the worst thing you can tell someone, because you're actually digging them deeper into their hole and they're never going to get over it. Because nobody should ever get over anything. They should get through it and come out the other side. So if you're letting it all out, you're going through it, you're processing, you're pushing through the emotions, whatever it is, and people don't want to feel right. So you got to. You have to get yourself through it to see the other side and then that's it. When you're through it, you're through it. When you're over it, you can go back over it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when you're over it.
Speaker 1:It's still still there, like it is the only way behind you. It's still right there and it's gonna follow you absolutely until you face it. And now it's gonna be an even bigger thing, especially if you've gone, if you've gone over several things. Now they're all together instead of you could have just went through it at the time. But I mean, it's true in our society, it's not. It's just like no, you push, you just push through, go get over it, you ignore it, you don't feel things, don't complain and you're like no right and it's funny, because there is such a difference between venting and expressing yourself and complaining.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and it's a very fine line that I realized, even for myself. I really never want to be a complainer in my life, but sometimes I'm like I need to talk through something and I know the people the mentors, my family, whoever it is that can hold that space for me, where I'm like, can you just give me two minutes so I can just get this off my chest. That's important. But if you still don't feel good after that, that's where the journaling comes in, like you got to keep going, you got to keep trying to get through it. If it's not working, it's okay to vent, forgive yourself, forgive whoever it is, accept it and that's it. You know, I think we make it a lot more complicated.
Speaker 1:And I've always thought about venting and complaining as being different, because they are different and I feel like people use them as that. They are the same and I love that you point out that they're not. Like the venting section is not a complaining section and it's almost like your intentionality behind it.
Speaker 2:It's like self-expression.
Speaker 1:People should be able to freely express yourself expression yeah, people don't should be able to freely express yourself. Yeah, like when you're venting to people that can hold space for you and your intention is just to get it out, your intention is not to like persuade them to believe something about whoever you know. If you're venting a person you know, your intention is like I just need to express my emotions and I don't want you to say anything or do anything, I just need you to be, whereas I feel like there aren't many people you can do that with no, and I feel like complaining is more of the intention.
Speaker 1:Like I'm going to complain to convince these people to be on my side, like we're choosing to make myself feel better about a situation that you're never going to get over, because you're never going to let yourself process or go through it. So I love that you pointed that out and distinguish that between the two, especially, like you know, like people- are loving the spinting section and you're like, yeah, because the intention behind it's just to get it out.
Speaker 2:You can yeah, you can also and the rephrase section I'm really big on. During my self-development journey way back a few years ago, I realized that like I I'm I am a very happy person. I've always been like this. Even through all the things I went through, whatever it was, I was really good at masking. So I didn't even believe I was fine all the time and I realized that I spoke so poorly to myself in my head when I started journaling I didn't even know like how mean I was to myself all the time. And that was when I realized how important mindset was with every aspect of your life, because when I started journaling and understanding how I was treating myself, I actually was also on this like weight loss journey, because I was at my heaviest weight and I lost 45 pounds between just learning about nutrition and journaling and doing meditation, because I realized when my mind was right, then everything else was able to follow through physically as well.
Speaker 2:So there's a lot going on there with all these like self-development practices of how you talk to yourself and the best way is if you journal and you see it for yourself. When you see it it's like a slap in the face Because, think about it people are not honest to themselves. Journaling it's harder to lie. In your journal I feel like writing it down the line. That never feels as good as thinking it in your head or saying it someone else. So it forced you to be honest with yourself and then, when you're aware, then you can change it. The only way you can change anything is if you're aware.
Speaker 1:That is so true and I love like this self-awareness piece because that is so I mean. I talk about it a lot all the time. You know, I feel like people in this space have the audacity came from me going through my own self-development journey and be like I need to share this with people Like I wish I would have known this. So when you're talking about making a teen guide and using that with your kids, I use mindset stuff with my elementary students Cause I'm like I wish.
Speaker 1:I would have known this. Like people didn't know this sooner. I know you know and I think that we're.
Speaker 2:We're here to break all that Right. You know, I think that like people like us, because there's a lot of us out there that have gone through our own journey and then decided we want to serve and help other people that went through similar things that we went through I think there's so much beauty in that. And think about the more and more people that are doing that in our generation, how we are going to change the future Right, and even just the people right now, and I think it doesn't matter if there's one or two of us. We know there's more. And that's so magical to me, like I'm, like this is purpose, like this is humanity right, like it's important it doesn't matter if you're in Texas and I'm in New York, like that almost makes it even better.
Speaker 2:You're helping them out there, I'm helping them here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's just like one of those things and to you know, just the heart of serving and just you need to get it out, and so this comes from though I'm like we both talked about how and I just love like bringing it back to the beginning. We were both like, oh, I mean, we both started our journey and we're like, yeah, this is dumb.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like I remember. Why am I doing this?
Speaker 1:and and I even started small with mine like I start my journey and I'm like I can't wait to have this journal because I'm like this pretty much is like the laid out of what I do.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, yes, I don't have to write my own prompts anymore, like every day, because I'm like I start with gratitude and I remember, if you've never had a gratitude practice, like, let's just talk about that, because you know like you go back to gratitude and fear can exist in the same, and I started mine in 2020 because we all know that, like you, could not hide from anything going on in your personal life then I feel like that was a big like purge time, like it's just out and there for you to deal with you faced with the reality of what was really going on and I remember being like I don't even know what to write down, because I was challenged with like find three things from today that you're grateful for.
Speaker 1:And you're like, okay, something unique to the day that I'm grateful for. And like so to the person listening who's like okay, I'm gonna start this. If it's takes you a while at first, it's okay, it's normal and it's okay.
Speaker 2:And yeah, you're you're not alone in that either. But I'm big on simplify, like I do with kids, right, like we practice gratitude every day and I thought it's part of their June, that's part of their grade, which is even funnier. I'm like, if you can't tell me you're grateful for something, you're getting a zero. And they're like okay, I'm grateful for my shoes, but think about that. It's the littlest things you can be grateful for that are going to make you just feel better so quickly.
Speaker 2:And I feel like we're all kind of raised by our parents. You know they've said to us, like, aren't you grateful that you have this and that? Right? Like, but we don't. Actually we didn't actually adapt it as much into a daily practice the way we did with other things, which I think, as an adult, I find things so odd. Now I think back I have the most amazing parents in the whole world, like I love my family. I have three sisters, like one big, beautiful family. But I think I'm like I wasn't sitting there thinking about gratitude when I was a teenager. I was mad that I didn't have the new coach bag and I was mad that I didn't have this. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I wasn't grateful.
Speaker 2:I was an annoying teenager and I have annoying teenagers now that I'm forcing them to say they're grateful for their winter coat Because it's cold, cold. And then they sit there and they're like you're right, I'm like wouldn't it suck if you didn't have a coat? And they're like, yeah, it would suck and I'm like amping them up, but I'm like this is what it is like. We actually need to get more excited about being alive and on this earth right now. It's what we have. Not for any lack, and I don't know how much you're into um, you'd like study, like the law of attraction at all, but the minute you think lack, that's what you're living. You're living in lack, so able to practice gratitude. You're shifting. You're constantly shifting back into a higher vibration.
Speaker 1:You are going to attract the things you want in your life that you deserve yes, and I just you know, and really, if you're listening to this right now and you're like, wow, I definitely don't remember the last time I thought I was grateful, like I'm grateful for something, one that's normal because we raised, like I'm grateful for where we live, yes, but capitalism is driven on Our economy is driven on Not being grateful for what you have. I know, I mean like that just is what it is Like you know, like that's how our country functions is you need to have more. That keeps the economy going. So, yeah, nobody is out there. You're not going to see commercials of like be grateful for the car you have.
Speaker 2:That it runs and it's you know's. Like no, you need the new one right, you're a hundred percent right again, always looking for the next best thing, like that's not practicing gratitude. I always say I've manifested all the cars that I have based on being so accepting of what I already had. Every time I'm super accepting of what I have. Let's say, like I need like more money, right, this is a good one. And my own father laughs at me because he doesn't think like I do at all Opposite very opposite and I was like you know, my credit card bill's a little high from Christmas, right?
Speaker 2:Expensive time, right. We all spend a little extra money than we usually spend. I, my credit card bill is a little high from Christmas, right? Expensive time, right. We all spend a little extra money than we usually spend. I said I'm not worried, they'll all sign a new client. And he's like what are you talking about? How do you know that? You don't know that Next week I call him like I signed a new client. He's like what do you? How? I'm like I don't know, somebody found my Instagram. I signed a new client. You are truly a creator of your life and when you become, when you have that audacity to truly be yourself and lean into your beliefs of what you know inside of you and trust your intuition, and you lean into gratitude every day, you can have anything you want in this life. Is it a hard practice? Yes, people don't want to do the work. It's not always easy.
Speaker 1:So we need to vent.
Speaker 2:We need to go through it. We need to have multiple different types of practices, not just journaling. We have meditations, we have all these different things, and then it's like, huh, but look, I can create these different things in my life and oh, I am the one that designs, I am the creator. I think that's. I think that's where journaling becomes really cool, because I look back at my journals now from like a year ago and I'm like, oh wow, I'm different in a very good way that's my favorite part about journaling is I'm like because I hold on to them.
Speaker 1:I'm like same, but oh, yeah, I have a tub. Yeah, you know, I always joke that I'm like when I am gone, when I'm old and gone like they're having an estate sale they're gonna have an estate sale and be like what the heck is this giant tub of like 200 journals?
Speaker 1:I love that Leave me alone, because I like hold on to them and I don't hold on to a lot of things, but those I do because you're just like. You can pick it up and be like, wow, I'm so grateful for that version of me who kept going, because I'm not that person anymore and like, thank goodness, I'm evolving, like you know, but it's just one of those things. But you're just like, oh, or you can look back and see this is what I wanted. Or or even like you know, you're talking about the affirmations for, like your day, and I always think of people who write like, write down your dreams every day. Like that's another form, because you know there's tons of journal.
Speaker 2:So many different ways.
Speaker 1:And a lot of things you'll come to find out. Or even like your clients, who are like venting and writing goals about what that is. You know, in six months you may look back and be like I didn't actually want that I. You may look back and be like I didn't actually want that. I thought.
Speaker 2:I wanted that. Or you look back and you're like clearer, it makes you become clearer. You get a lot of clarity from writing.
Speaker 1:And like the reflection part of it too of like, just even like, going back and looking like. You're like, oh, I've been venting about my co workers every day for two months, but then I quit. So you like start going back and look like this hypothetical example for my coworkers listening. But but, like you know, you're just like, oh, griping about it, griping about it, and then you move on to something else. But then you go back and you're like, you know, I actually wasn't even what I was griping about, wasn't even the thing that was bothering me, so much awareness.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love seeing, like, how far I've come. That's my favorite. Like, if you told me a year ago that I published a journal a year, like a year ago, I would have laughed at you. And that I used a publisher, I laugh even harder. I would have told you no way. I would have looked at you and no, that's not happening. Not happening.
Speaker 2:And even the evolution of how this all came about. Like I wrote it last March and I didn't publish it because I went through a really bad breakup at the same time and I put it on hold and I was journaling myself like crazy to figure out my own brain and what process what I went through. And then, all of a sudden, I was like you know, the world needs this, it's time for me to like to do something else. And I I called, I texted Christina and I was like hi, it's October, I want to put this out in January. Are you down for the challenge? She goes hell. Yeah, I am.
Speaker 2:And we did it. Like, when things are supposed to work out, they work out so smoothly, no matter what roadblocks get in the way, and you're going to see that through your journaling practice. You're going to see the good days, the bad days, the hard stuff that you talk yourself through and that you're able to turn around and still know that you're putting yourself first by journaling, which means that you are living your most authentic self to live the best life of your dreams, and tying it all together is you can't build the life of your dreams if you're not aware what those dreams actually are.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. People are so unaware and they don't have clarity right. Even myself sometimes I'm like I think I want this, but I'm not sure. I'm going to wait, I'm going to journal, I'm not going to force things and it's going to come to me. And actually I already came up with my book idea that I've started already because when it comes, it comes. So I'm a big tell people you want to do something and something inside of you telling you to do it, do it. Don't worry about how it's going to happen, it'll all align. It's knowing why you're doing something.
Speaker 2:I knew this journal would help so many people. I knew that. So I was like I'm doing a disservice now by not putting it out. And now that I'm in a better headspace that I know I can like I can be behind it and be speaking about it and even sharing my own. Like how much I journaled this year through the breakup was insane. I mean like books. But that's okay.
Speaker 2:You know like things are always going to get better. You have to believe that there's a very big life, beautiful life ahead of you and if you just sit back and you don't process and you don't reflect, you don't sit in gratitude right, you don't affirm a better future If you don't vent and get it out. Where is it all going? It's being stored in your body and your poor nervous system and your brain, but then you're not speaking nicely and it's like this whole negative spiral that so many people are living in on a daily basis, letting everyone else control their emotions and their dreams. Right, so it's.
Speaker 2:It's really really incredible. When you watch somebody, or even I know, for both of us, I'm sure you like, when you like, stand back and you go I chose, chose me, like I did this for me. I didn't do this for my parents. Love you, mom and dad. I didn't do this for anyone else but myself and that and I think that's what self-development is all about it's like just coming back to you and this tool, I say, saved my life. I'm convinced journaling saved my life.
Speaker 1:I'm convinced journaling saved my life. I will agree with that and say that. You know, journaling changed the whole trajectory of my life. Love that. I'm like my life today, like if, four years ago, me, when I started journaling, knew that we were having this conversation now and I was doing what I do and working with the clients that I do. They'd be like what, we have the space to do what? And we're like it's so cool, right, just because you picked up a pen or a pencil and you wrote some things down. So, allison, this has been such a beautiful conversation and I'm like it's just been so easy. How can the listener connect with?
Speaker 2:you. So I'm very active on Instagram. I do motivational rants a few times a week which are highly entertaining. For many people it's an oxymoron right, a motivational rant, but I really that's what I do in traffic on my way to work. Traveling to New York City is a good time. So Instagram is really where to find me, at alisonnoelle, underscore, and also I have a website, motivatingthemindsetcom. You can contact me there as well. My two main places.
Speaker 1:I love that. Now I just have two and I will link all of that in the show notes for you, for listeners, so it's super easy to access. Just have two and I will link all of that in the show notes for you, listeners, so it's super easy to access. I have two final questions. Okay, I ask every guest that comes on. So the first one this is how that dusty podcast what does the phrase have the audacity mean in your life?
Speaker 2:Have the audacity means to me being my true self, with no fears and no judgment, and really being that person that I, that I'm meant to be, confidently.
Speaker 1:I love that. The last one is is you know some? Some podcasts have playlists and things that their guests add songs to. I have a self-care guide and every guest that comes on shares their go-to self-care, and I love it because there's been over 50 guests and they're every single one of them is different, and so I love asking this question. This is like my my favorite thing from this podcast. Asking this question, this is like my my favorite thing from this podcast. So what is your like?
Speaker 2:go-to self-care, like I have so many of them, but one of my favorites is I live on the beach in on Long Island in New York and I love going out there, no matter what the weather is, putting in my AirPods and walking for miles, miles, listening to whatever music that lifts my spirit at that moment. I'm very. I'm a music teacher, I'm a singer, songwriter, um, and that's what it is. For me, it's just feeling music, but being in nature at the same time being with the water, the sands, no matter what the weather is. I was out there with my Uggs and my winter coat I don't care, I'm still out there or from my bikini walking, but to me that's the ultimate. I feel so recharged and refreshed and alive after that, so I think that's my ultimate favorite.
Speaker 1:I love that so much, Alison. Thank you so much again for being on. This has been such a beautiful conversation.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for having me. You are a wonderful soul and I'm happy that you're out there doing this for women. Thank you, grateful to be a part of it.
Speaker 1:I really hope that you got as much out of that conversation as I did, and I know Allison would love to hear your takeaways, as would I, so take a screenshot of this episode, share it on your Instagram tag both of us or DM both of us. Let us know your takeaways. You can send me the text. You can click the send text message button in the show notes and shoot me a text message with your takeaways, your favorite part of it. I will share it with Allison so that she knows the value you got from this conversation. But one cool thing that I can't forget to mention before I go is that, allison, after we recorded this episode, allison did a TEDx talk on reclaim your love of teaching, and I leaned in the show notes. It's 12 minutes. It's so worth it. If you loved Allison, you need to give this a listen plus like give it a listen, cause being on the TEDx stage is huge, so I just want to congratulate her on that. Join me in congratulating her huge accomplishment, but I really hope and I can't wait to hear, like, the value you got from today.
Speaker 1:First, I want to say thank you so much for listening to today's episode. It truly means so much to me that you were here and that I got to be a small part of your day. I have three things to tell you before you go, though. First, please rate and review this podcast. It truly helps this podcast grow and get the message out, and is such a simple thing that you could do to support this show. Thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1:Second, share this episode with somebody right now that you know needs to hear it, or take a screenshot. Tag me on social media and let me know what you loved about this episode. I love getting to connect with you. And the third last thing I have is I cannot let you go without sending you off into the rest of your day with the reminder that I want you to always remember you are worthy, you have value, you get to take up space in this world simply because you exist. Don't let anyone, including yourself, convince you otherwise, and if that idea or vision for your life is in you, it is for you. Living with this phrase in mind in today's world is such a truly audacious thing for you to do so. Until the next time I talk to you, remember, have the audacity.
