This is a super short and sweet episode with a simple message – call your people – and the story behind why this message is on my mind. 

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If you want connect with me on getting through burnout, I would love to chat with you about a coaching spot in the fall. Email me to schedule a call to see if we’re a good fit: joanna@joanna-platt.com. 

Quotes:

It’s good to connect with your people.

It’s good to ask for help. It’s OK to ask for help.

Your inner critic will say “they’re probably busy” or “I don’t want to bother them.” Don’t listen.

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Lara Zielin is an author who realized that she could use the process she uses to create stories for her characters to create the life of her dreams. In this episode, she shares that process with us.

Listen in to hear…

• The simple writing exercise Lara used to change her life method and how you can do it too,
• Three science based reasons why this writing practice works,
• How this practice can save you from self-sabotage,
• A breakdown of the Hero’s Journey framework and,
• How the Hero’s Journey applies to your pursuit of your dreams

Meet Lara

Lara Zielin is a published author, editor, and the founder of Author Your Life. Her debut young-adult novel Donut Days was selected to the Lone Star Reading List, and her romance novel And Then He Kissed Me (written as Kim Amos) was nominated for a Romantic Times Reader’s Choice Award. Her magazine articles have appeared in Writers Digest, Culture, Medicine at Michigan, and more. Her nonfiction book Author Your Life is about using the power of writing to create a better story for yourself. She lives in Michigan with her husband and dog, and her goal is pretty much to eat all the cheese.

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Book

Books mentioned:

• Lara’s book Author Your Life Now
• Witch by Lisa Lister
• A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron 
• Loving What Is by Byron Katie
• You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
• Blood and Ivy: The 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins

Quotes:

• “You don’t have to plot out your life like a book.” – Lara
• “One scene at a time” -Lara
• “May my eyes be open to see, my ears be open to hear, my heart be open to feel what the universe is trying to tell me.” -Lara
• “I think of every day like a new chapter.” -Lara
• “All good stories take time.” -Lara

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My friend Stacy and I pretty much have the same job. But, we have different bosses and those bosses give us credit for different things. A conversation we had around this inspired today’s episode.

Listen in to hear…

• What Stacy and I give ourselves credit for (and why this made me turn my head in a side-eye)
• How we can change the rubric
• My #1 goal for the next 60 days

Announcements:

This is the first episode of July and that means that there are a new round of Coffee + Coaching sessions available for later this month. Coffee + Coaching sessions are one-time sessions to chart your vision for a particular area of your life. joanna-platt.com/coffee

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Links:

• Stacy Campesi, Leadership and Executive Coach, slccoaching.net
• A Heart to Heart on Goals
• 90x Goal Planner
• Coffee + Coaching

Quotes:

• Feeling like a failure is a huge energy drain.
• Giving yourself credit for what you’re already doing, and recognizing that you are not a failure, can seriously change the world. 
• The way you are already living your life is enough.
• I will prioritize my own needs and speak and act accordingly.

Journal Prompts

• What do you give yourself credit for?
• What would you like to get credit for?
• If you created the rubric, what would it look like?

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In this episode Kate Northrup and I discuss…

• What it really means to do less
• What Kate’s inner critic has to say about doing less
• Kate’s Do Less rules
• What the “old rules” were
• How Kate and I became interested in the menstrual cycle
• Using the menstrual cycle as a way to practice self-love
• Limiting beliefs around things being “easy”
• How to navigate working less as an employee
• How to navigate working less as a leader of a team
• Kate’s favorite experiments from her book “Do Less”

Meet Kate Northrup:

As an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and mother, Kate Northrup has built a multimedia digital empire with her husband, Mike Watts, that reaches hundreds of thousands globally. They are committed to supporting ambitious women to light up the world without burning themselves out in the process. Kate teaches data-driven and soul-driven time and energy management practices that result in saving time, making more money, and experiencing less stress. Kate has a membership of over 1,000 entrepreneurs called Origin® Collective that’s about infusing more feminine energy into your business and reclaiming your time, and she has also helped over 5,000 students heal their relationship with money with her signature Money Love Course. Her first book, Money: A Love Story, has been published in 5 languages, and her second book, Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms, is now available wherever books are sold. Kate’s work has been featured by The Today Show, Yahoo! Finance, Women’s Health, Glamour, The Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Wanderlust, The Huffington Post, and more. Kate lives with her husband and business partner, Mike, and their daughters in a cozy town in Maine.

Website | Instagram | Podcast | Book: Do Less

Links:

• The Female Brain
• Woman Code
• Wild Power
• Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
• Lisa Lister
• Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
• Drop the Ball

Journal Prompts:

• When do you feel most like yourself?
• What could doing less look like for you?
• How can you be ruthless about protecting your time and energy?
• What is causing stress in your life and how might you get rid of those things?
• Where in your life can you do less?
• What is one thing you could take out of your life to simplify it?

Quotes:

• Do less of things that drain you – Kate
• My value is in who I am not what I do – Kate
• It felt like a return to myself and my body – Kate
• I was desperate for something to depend on and I could depend on my body and my cycle. – Kate
• Imagine if all women could feel held by their menstrual cycle instead of being at the effect of it. It would be amazing. The whole world would change. – Joanna
• I can’t think of anything more practical to love yourself than to actually pay attention to your cycle than to treat your body as it would like to be treated at different times of the month. – Kate
• We are all cyclical beings. – Kate
• Explore your own relationship to work and time. – Kate
• Tune into your energy and notice where there is friction. – Kate
• Where there’s friction we need change. – Kate
• Make small changes over time – Kate
• Changing your relationship with doing is a lifelong relationship – Kate

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A short, sweet story about a little boy in the pizza shop who delighted me while following his sparkle.

In this episode I talk about…

• Following your sparkle
• Going with your impulses
• Learning the rules and then choosing which ones to break

Journal Prompts:

• Where can you be a little bit out of your mind
• How can you intentionally get out of your mind
• What would it look like if you followed your impulse
• What level of joy or freedom would you experience if you followed your impulse

Quotes:

• When you’re little your mind has not been trained yet to know certain unwritten rules
• Follow your sparkle
• Charge toward the things that delight you
• As a grownup you get to choose what rules you follow
• Go with your impulses
• Once you know the rules you can break the rules

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Each month we do a Q+A style episode called a Heart to Heart. This month is a Heart to Heart on sex. In this episode, we talk about staying celibate when dating, creating space for open and honest conversations about sex and having sex more often with your partner.

Questions:

• How have others broached the conversation about potentially staying celibate for an undetermined time in a romantic relationship?
• I feel very inexperienced when it comes to sex. How can you have an open and honest conversation when you are really starting to date?
• How can I get my partner to have more sex with me?

Links:

• Mating in Captivity (Book)

Journal Prompts:

• If you’re wanting to stay celibate – ask yourself why
• What do you like and not like (in bed)?
• How can having little experience in bed be a good thing for you?
• Who do you want to be sexually?
• How can you see sex as an adventure and not as a place where you’re lacking
• Is your sex life another place you feel you have to please and perform?
• How can you allow your sexual relationship to be completely should-less?
• Are you not having sex (physically) or are you just feeling like you’re not having sex?
• What do you need to feel to be open and available for sex?

Quotes:

• Start the conversation with yourself first
• You don’t always have to be DTF
• Be open and honest with your needs
• Believe you can attract a partner who will respect your boundaries, requests and desires
• Inexperienced doesn’t have to be bad – it’s like having a blank slate
• Honor where you and your partner are in each other’s sexual journey
• There are several factors that can stifle sex drive
• Be a safe place for your partner to show up in bed as they are
• Your sex drive can be different based on your cycle
• Focusing on what you’re not having is only going to reinforce it
• You can have vanity metrics in your sex life
• Be a person your partner wants to have sex with

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In this episode of Love Always, Jo, I’m talking about how to avoid burnout in the pursuit of having it all. I’ll be sharing the 6 things you can do to avoid burnout by decreasing your output or increasing your input. Listen to this episode to hear more about avoiding burnout.

Ready to avoid burnout and start shining more in your life? The doors to Sparkle Collective are open now until midnight on Friday, May 10. Sign up at https://joanna-platt.com/sparkle.

In this episode, you’ll hear…

• What does it mean to have it all
• Why do you want to avoid burnout
• What is burnout
• How to prevent burnout
• Why you’re getting burned out in the first place
• What to do next
• What is Sparkle Collective

Links:

• Join Sparkle Collective
• Calm Your Inner Critic Class

Journal Prompts:

• Why do you want to avoid burnout
• What are you going to increase or decrease in your life to avoid burnout
• What are you actually responsible for in your life

Quotes:

• You can’t outrun your inner critic by overloading your life
• It’s okay if your “why” is you
• Take appropriate responsibility and let go of everything else
• You don’t have to be numb with busyness
• Your inner child can point you to your essence
• Work and rest are not opposites, they fuel each other
• Avoiding burnout isn’t about fixing your schedule
• If avoiding burnout was easy you’d be doing it already
• You shine when you set priorities and fuel your soul
• Avoiding burnout is deep, soul work

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In this short and sweet bonus episode of Love Always, Jo, I’m sharing two things you will NOT hear me say in my workshop How To Avoid Burnout in Your Pursuit of Having It All.

Register for the free, live workshop at joanna-platt.com/burnout. Can’t wait to help get you off the cycle of burnout so you can show up and shine in every aspect of your life.

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