How to Listen Within, Align and Become Your Authentic Self

You are listening to the Awakening Woman on

the Rise.

If you are a woman who is seeking

to live a more authentic life but are

feeling not enough to step out fully just

yet, you are in the right place.

If you are a woman who is looking

to live your personal truth and make the

impact you truly desire, you are in the

right place.

I'm your host, Wendy Yacboski.

Let's step out in this together.

So what I'm feeling called to remind us

about is the willingness to question what we

have thought is the truth up until now.

And how you'll know how it needs to

be questioned or whether it needs to be

questioned is if things aren't going well in

your life in terms of what you're wanting

to do, how free you're feeling to do

what you want to do.

Because if you're not feeling free in what

you want to do, then there's a belief

behind that.

There's an experience behind that that is still,

how can I say, grabbing onto you in

some way, wanting to keep you smaller.

And maybe not to get that truth of

yours that is your soul truth out into

the world.

There's so many other things that I think

are so important to remember.

And that is that if we're wanting to

find our truest answer, our authentic answer, we

need to find it within.

You'll remember me saying that in order to

find that true answer within, we need to

pause.

We need to pause, we need to become

still, and then we need to listen.

It's amazing, you know, I'm just reminded of

when I've done various exercises in groups that

I've been in, and they say, you know,

list the top 20 things that are most

important to you in life, the things that

you want to achieve.

And, you know, you write and write and

write.

What I learned was that the first 20

are what I always think.

It doesn't go down further.

So the top 20 things that we think

that we really want in life or to

do in life are really just scratching the

surface.

And when we can allow ourselves to push

beyond 20 and to be more still within

ourself and see what bubbles up that, oh,

yeah, I really want that.

And it's a whole different feeling in the

body.

It's like the body is saying, yes, yes,

this is what it is.

This is what it is.

So we need to be willing to push

out.

We need to be willing to question and

we need to be willing to push out,

but not with the force of the mind,

but to be open to feeling within and

remembering what it is that's important to us.

I know that when this podcast became a

gleam in my eye, do you know what

brought me to it?

Remembering a fantasy I had, a fantasy that

even though you're hearing me solo these few

times to get to know me better, what

I remembered in this fantasy was that when

I would watch an interviewer interviewing people, which

I will be doing further on in the

podcast, I thought to myself, it was as

simple as I could do that.

I want to do that.

But at that time it was on television

and I had a belief that television is

not in my lot in life.

So give it up, Wendy.

But times change and now there's video, which

makes it more accessible to not only me,

but to everyone.

So now I can do that interviewing, mining

the gold in others and helping others to

have a new thought about themselves, a new

belief about what's possible.

Because if we're not listening to others about

maybe what they've come through and is now

possible or what they used to believe would

never be possible and is now like, oh

my God, it's possible, we can never change.

And change is normal because life is changing

all the time.

So why wouldn't change be normal for you

and me?

It is normal.

And that is one of the things that

is so important to me about this podcast

in each episode is to remind us that

life is alive and we are, and there

is so much more possibility than we could

have ever, ever known.

Now, one of the other things that's really

important to remember is that unintentionally, I believe,

that we grew up learning our parents, our

teachers, perhaps our clergy's belief about what was

right in life, what was possible in life,

and what was right and possible for each

of us.

But if you have gotten anything from these

podcasts so far, you may remember that I

shared about how at one point at some

younger age, maybe in my, my, you know,

maybe around 15 or whatever it was, but

I just felt like I had maybe a

two-foot radius like around, around my body.

And I just thought, this is what I've

got.

This is my life.

You know, you step inside the circle, you

stay inside the circle, there's nothing that's mine

outside the circle.

And I can only tell you now that

that was the biggest untruth ever, but I

didn't know better.

So once I had the help to be

able to question what I believed about myself

and what was possible for me, my life

started to change.

Something that's really important for me to tell

you, because I was afraid to question myself

for the longest time, probably because it was

scary.

I didn't know who I'd be if I

wasn't living the way I've always lived.

But when you're with your people, and I

hope I'm one of your people, but when

you're in this podcast series, you can always

be safe in questioning yourself.

Because I believe that when you question yourself

with as much self-compassion as you can,

as much courage as you can to be

able to move out and up and to

connect with your soul and your intuition, those

parts of you that call to you, even

when you try to push them down, they

can call to you.

But there's no judgment.

There's no judgment in the pure universe, whatever

it was that got us here.

I don't believe there's any judgment.

There's only opportunity.

There's only opportunity to go, what if I

could?

You, my friends, are essential.

You are absolutely what this world needs to

uplevel, to shift in a way that is

a win-win.

I believe that women are brought into this

world with a heart, with compassion, with consideration

for others, on win-win.

And I will say, I'm not in a

soapbox here, but I will say that I

think erroneously, we have believed that in order

to succeed, we need to do things how

men do it.

But the thing is, is we bring our

feminine power into it.

We bring our heart into it.

We bring, I believe we bring a greater

world picture that we hold within us.

We can hold that.

And I think that the world needs every

woman who is willing to not only question

what she's come to believe about herself that

is making her small, but that there's a

courage within there.

There's an inspiration.

There's a passion.

There's a soul inside that has something absolutely

what the world needs.

Absolutely what the world needs.

We have such a great capacity within ourselves

to help co-create a world where everyone

wins.

And that's what I want to see for

the world.

And I invite you to join me in

this because as one grows, I believe we

all grow.

And so let's grow together in courage, in

what's possible, and what's beyond what we might

think is realistic right now.

Truly, the world needs every one of us

to become the better world that serves everyone,

that represents everyone.

I am focusing on women because at this

point, I believe that women have been less

supported in being vocal, in being active in

what's important to them, in living their life.

In this, I am going to be creating

a membership for women and all who are

sensitive to living our life to the fullest,

listening to our soul, bringing forth what's a

win-win for everyone.

And so as we move along, I invite

you to let me know if you and

when you are interested and ready to step

forward into a community that will really value

you, really support you, see your strengths and

help you to know you are so welcome

beyond this podcast.

You are welcome in this world and it's

going forward.

I really, really value you and I look

forward to meeting with you in community as

we move forward together in making this world

a better place for all.

Thank you for being here.