10 Jun 2020
How to Embrace Destruction + Trust Change In Your Life, Business And The World
Welcome back to Walk With Me, post-pandemic, my love. The world is beginning to reopen and I’ve begun to walk again. Of course I have been walking since the last time we connected but I haven’t been taking you with me and although there was a method to my madness, I did miss you.
For the *first time in forever* (quick did you catch the Disney reference? - it’ll make sense soon, I promise) I had a moment of emergence, a true desire to bring you on a walk with me, so I put on my walking shoes and braved the new world.
I really wanted to talk through my tumultuous relationship with structure. Structure is comforting, structure is safe, structure is something that I’d been taught time and time again as a means to a successful end, but structure can also be limiting.
Over the last year the changes in my life have been endless, spanning from mourning the death of my mother, welcoming my daughter Autumn into the world to weathering the storm of a global pandemic, facing white privilege even more head on with action and do you know what has always been my north star? Structure.
But these experiences have forced me to toss structure out the window and has left me in a position to face destruction with a new approach.
Everything I’ve learned coaching women from around the world has taught me what I needed to allow this virus and the war against oppression to truly take root in my own life as a resource for change.
I’ve had to trust in the unseen order that has washed over us all with this pandemic, and what I’ve learned through this time is that when you burn down your structures, your systems, your policies and procedures, a fresh landscape develops. One of nourishment, creativity, innovation and freedom to explore concepts and ideas that were otherwise starving in the shadows of what has become overgrown.
From a business perspective I’ve had to ask myself and my clients;
How can we find balance between home life and work life when it comes to our weekly schedule?
How can we use our voices and our autonomy to make a difference in our community?
What is it we want to accomplish with this next chapter of our business? And what has to change in order for there to be space for these new ideas and style of leadership?
From a personal perspective I’ve had to ask;
How has my “cultural training” influenced the way I act in my life, business and in my relationships?
Do I trust that our best interest and well-being are being considered by those in charge?
How can I better understand my relationship with racism, mass media and consumerism in America?
What is it that I have to offer myself when it comes to my own development?
As a female entrepreneur, the act of self-reflection is more complicated than it is for most, and during this quarantine I’ve really tried to understand how connected growth in my personal life and growth in my business really are.
I invite you to listen to my latest episode to understand how I am evolving from the Lone Sprinting Warrior Queen to the Divinely Guided Mother Nature Queen, and how this change coincides with the seasonal change that my business is going through. It might change the way you think about breaking patterns in your life and creating certainty in your business.
Love, Jey
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One book everyone should read is Untamed by Glennon Doyle, available here: https://untamedbook.com
In the beginning of the episode I reference an Instagram Live (now on IGTV) that I did in April, talking about the Sisterhood Collective watch it here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_FtrbfDKem/ (https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_FtrbfDKem/)
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I’m currently taking on a few new one-on-one coaching clients. Do you feel a call to implementing a new way of being and leading in your life or business? Send me an email to let me know you’re interested in one-on-one coaching at jey@jeannineyoder.com.
Show notes, links for this episode, and sisterhood with other listeners can be found at https://jeannineyoder.com/ (https://jeannineyoder.com/).
