Author Your Life
Author Your Life
Welcome Back! What to Expect from Season Two
It’s good to be back!! This minisode includes: real, honest talk about why I took a break, what it took to get started again, the value of stepping away to gain perspective, and what you can expect from season two.
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Welcome to author your life, a podcast about making bold moves and big changes. Living life powerfully on your own terms, outside social norms and expectations. Through conversations with inspiring individuals who forge their own path in life, we'll explore what it takes to face your fears and go after your dreams. You are not a victim of circumstance, you can always begin again, start a new chapter and rewrite your story. This is author your life. And I'm your host, Julie B. Let's get the conversation started. Friends Hello, and welcome back to Season Two of author your life. I have been procrastinating like crazy over getting back to this. So I want to give you guys a little backstory, if you noticed, we've taken a bit of a hiatus from the podcast. Today's episode is actually about taking a break and honoring your needs. And also give you a little preview about what to expect as we head into season two. So I launched the podcast in July of last year, it was a dream of mine for at least a year to put it off forever thought it was going to be such a big deal. So much work. And then finally, you want to say I almost got fed up with myself and said, You know what, I'm just doing it. And I did it. And just like I said, July 30 2021, I launched and we released 15 episodes between July 30. And October 30 2021. And October 30 is the last time an episode of author life came out. So what happened, I took on this project that I had no idea how I was gonna manage. And I couldn't figure out how to manage it. The first part is always, it's always the fun part. It's exciting, Everything's new. And like you're seeing you see results and you see progress. And it's just great. Then, you know, very, very quickly, it kind of evolved from something that I really, truly wanted to do, and is something that I felt like I had to do. And all of a sudden, this project that's supposed to be so much fun. And it is. But suddenly it felt like work. And as soon as it felt like work and like something that I had to do, I was putting it off like crazy. All of a sudden, I didn't even want to do it anymore. And it's ironic because I did want to I love it, it's so much fun. But as soon as I felt obligated, it was like there was too much pressure, and then I just couldn't do it anymore. So I decided to release myself from the implicit pressure that I put on myself to just continue showing up until you doing the podcast, take a step back and just take a breather and get a little perspective basically and say, What am I doing with this? How do I want to proceed? How much can I realistically manage? What can I realistically tell you guys that you can expect from me? And how can I show up consistently and reliably and deliver like a great podcast on a regular basis. Then we get into the holidays. And admittedly The holidays are personally my time to take it easy. December is pretty much when I take a break from life. I actually took a month off of Instagram at the same exact time. I was just really truly feeling called to take a step away, just to take some time for me to quiet out the noise to tune in words. And to just kind of recenter almost restart again from the ground up. And that was December. And then you're moving into January and January. I actually continued my break from December it was going so well. It was so wonderful, like get a good night's sleep every night, cook good meals at home, create a new morning routine, read books. I even meditated a little bit which is very new for me. And it was just such a great quality of life very slow, very simple, but really, really fulfilling. It felt so good. So just continue knew that into January, worked on a lot of like routines, daily habits, which I will get into in the next couple solo episodes. And then we're looking at a two, three month break already. And now I'm like, I want to get back to the podcast, I want to get back to it. But when? I don't know, I feel like I have to, it's already been such a long break, like people probably forgot about it. Or they're like wondering, did I give up like, Am I coming back? I don't know. And admittedly, like, it's kind of embarrassing. Because I didn't give any warning, I didn't give anyone a heads up, I just kind of disappeared. And I don't want to do that I want to be accountable and reliable. And true to my word. What you can expect from me this time around is two episodes a week, every week, on Tuesdays, we're going to have a solo. So it's going to be me, just sharing my thoughts on life, about what it takes to be the author of your own life. Just kind of things I'm learning things, I'm discovering things I'm thinking about things I'm experiencing, that I know are going to resonate with so many people out there. It's just a matter of me getting over myself, and showing up and doing the thing, which is sitting at the microphone and talking to you guys. I gotta tell you, I fought with myself a lot just to sit down today. You know, it's like getting over the inertia is always the hardest part. It really is. Anytime you stop a habit, the more days that you accumulate, of not having that habit, you're actually creating a new habit of not doing the thing. And I was very quickly slipping into the world of I'm not doing a podcast anymore. I did not want that. I promise you, I knew I was coming back to it. I still have like 12 guest interviews that are so amazing that I am so stoked to share with you guys. And if nothing else, I owe it to you to get those interviews out. And then to keep going. My goal for 2022 is to grow author your life. And it's going to be a lot of fun. I have so much in store for the podcast this year. I want to get more people to understand and know you can change your life in any moment. You always have that power. I want to pull as many people as possible into this conversation, and even create a community so there's so much to look forward to that's going to happen this year. That's season two, coming atcha Welcome back, friends. It's so good to be back. I will talk to you again very soon. Thank you so much for joining this conversation. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to leave a review a five star rating. Be sure to hit subscribe to catch all future episodes. I would love to know who's listening and your biggest takeaway from this episode. If this podcast was valuable, please share with a friend. Take a screenshot and post to your social media. Hashtag author your life podcast and tag me. It's Julie B underscore Your support helps this podcast grow. Until next time, friends. Keep writing your story and author your life