Ep 35: Be The Light — Thriving in Uncertainty

This episode has been sitting in my drafts since February.

I kept questioning if I wanted to share my political views, whether it was contributing enough, and whether it even needed to be said. The world kept changing and things felt uncertain and I kept asking myself if I was ready.

And then I realized: this is exactly the point of this conversation. Showing up imperfectly, being vulnerable, and moving forward even if you don’t feel ready.

I sat down with my friend and fellow Certified High Performance Coach Shawn Buttner — host of the Input/Output Creator System for Experts podcast — to talk about something we’d been circling in our private coaching conversations for weeks: what do you actually do when the world feels like it’s on fire?

How do you stay resourced? How do you keep showing up for the people who need you — without running yourself into the ground in the process?

Somewhere in the middle of this conversation, I said something I didn’t plan to say:

Looking for the good allows you to also be part of the good.

That’s not a tagline. That’s something I’ve learned through putting it into practice — in the hard seasons, in the moments where it felt easier to scroll into despair and just stay there. It became the heartbeat of everything we talk about in this episode.

In this episode, Shawn and I talk about:

* Why your energy is contagious — and why that means it’s also your responsibility

* The difference between a fight-or-flight reaction and a grounded response — and how to create space between them

* Why the people who lead well in hard times don’t have it all figured out — they’ve just done the inner work first