Leading With authenticity ✨. Creating space Part II

And I'm gonna see if it's working this time. Hopefully yes. So my name is Jean. Let's start there. If we haven't ever been together before, it's great to be here. I'm a coach. I have a dog who's causing mischief. He's like walking around. Getting into things. Hey, True North. Hey, Rose Day. Hello, everybody. How are we doing today? Good morning, good morning. My name is Jean Mitchells. If we have never been together, I'm Jean, and the sidekick over here is Major. Speak Wonder, welcome back. Major is now causing trouble.

He is the trusted advisor to all cadre calls that I'm on, just so that you're aware. So my apologies for earlier. I was in a spot where the Wi-Fi was trying to connect and then kept disconnecting. So fingers crossed we're in a better location this time. But today our topic, leading with authenticity, creating space for yourself. So I'm gonna go backwards to a little bit of what I shared earlier to come forward. So if you didn't get on the first one, don't even go back and watch it 'cause I think it was cutting in and out.

Hello, everybody. Here's my first invitation. When you come into this space today, assuming you're not driving a vehicle, tell me how you feel right now in this moment. Not 10 minutes ago, not yesterday, right now, today, how do you feel? So I feel a little groggy. I had a big weekend of events that I was leading and also very excited because the weather's nice and it's Monday. We're gonna do great things today. So how do you feel? It's always great to know how we start so that when we end, we can do another check to see what's changed, what's different.

So today in our conversation, it's about creating space for you. So when you hear that, what does it mean to you to create space for yourself? Speak Wonder in the first one, you typed a beautiful statement. If you wouldn't mind trying again, I would greatly appreciate it. Again, my apologies. But when I think about creating space, I look at it in two ways. The first way is creating space when I need to go into something. So for example, if I'm going to an event or I'm going to an interview or I'm going to a wedding or anything, I've noticed recently that because I'm going through a transformation in some of the work that I want to do and I've been applying for new consulting roles and I'm trying to attract and manifest a different type of work.

I wanted to just, I lose my words sometimes. And it's not that I'm in a brain fog, it's more of I don't always have that same confidence when we're in transition, right? So I've noticed that when I walk into some spaces, I feel small. And it's not about how tall I am or any of that stuff. It's that I'm walking into these spaces and I feel innately uncomfortable. Now, intuitively, I'm very high on path, so I'm really intuitive. And so sometimes intuitively, I might just cut out or I might start to feel a little small.

I don't know what's happening with my phone today, guys. I'm really sorry about that, but I'm going to try one more time to see if I can get into a better space with better Wi-Fi. But what I'm finding is that there are days that I feel small when I walk into spaces and And again, it's me. It's not that anybody is making me feel small. Nobody can really do that. They can. It's a whole different conversation. But it really is about me walking in, knowing my place, knowing my purpose. So creating space for myself.

I shared earlier, and I'm really hopeful that this isn't cutting out again. I shared earlier that we can call a hype person to get us really excited about what it is that we're walking to. You know that person who knows you so well and they will give you all of the props that you need to be your best self when you walk through that door. You can write some statements down that your height person would have said to you and repeat them to yourself as if they were saying them to you. So there's all different kinds of ways that we can try to help ourselves feel bigger again.

But mostly my invitation to you, and if you're still there and if I didn't totally cut out, just give me a heart or something so that I know and I can try again later today. But in those moments, we need to rely on ourselves and come back to our why, come back to our purpose. Or recognize that going into that space in that moment, maybe the purpose of you being there is just to observe and you're not meant, thank you for the heart, you're not meant to walk in as your boldest self. Maybe the universe, maybe your intuition is somehow guiding you that says, Maybe it's okay to walk in small today so that you can observe and find the space that you need.

So creating space when you're going into something. Now Speak Wonder says in here, creating space to her means showing up with intention, allowing herself the gift of being fully immersed in the moment. That is beautiful. Monumentous moments is the beginning of a haiku that she mentioned writing. No pressure. But the second possibility. I like that. I wonder how many moments I've missed. That is a really great question and I'm going to come back to that one.