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Build A Best-Friend Relationship With Yourself

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What if the fastest way to expand your life and creative work is to trust yourself first? We dive into the bold idea that the only limit is you and explore how that lens reshapes decisions, strategy, and self-expression. Instead of chasing the next big tactic, we talk about listening for the full-body yes, delegating the draining bits, and letting your inner authority be the final vote.

We share a practical way to build self-trust through monthly containers—simple themes that guide action and care. Think bestie vibes with yourself: small, generous choices that reinforce safety, clarity, and momentum. From navigating mentors and marketing trends to noticing when your body says no, we unpack how alignment becomes a skill you can feel, not just a slogan. Triggers and comparison get reframed as helpful signals; curiosity becomes the tool that loosens old stories and turns edges into growth.

Creativity sits at the heart of this conversation. We introduce Story World, our living membership space where writers and storytellers share poems, voice notes, fiction, and personal stories without the pressure to edit. Open mic moments cultivate courage and community, helping your words land with real people in real time. We also walk through simple practices for processing sadness and anger so you can move emotion through the body and return to the question that unlocks momentum: what do I want?

If you’re ready to claim your power, choose aligned strategies, and share your voice with confidence, this one’s for you. Press follow, share this with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a review to tell us the one desire you’ll move on today.

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome back to another chapter of The Daring Author. Now, today we're gonna be talking about limitless and that word. And that is like my container, my word for the year, which just feels yeah beyond. Like honestly, when you think of the word limitless, yeah, anything can happen, anything is possible from here, which is just feels so aligned with where I'm at with everything. And I want to share something that I heard and that has changed everything for me once again on this journey of life, this game of life that I'm playing here on earth as a human. And it was that the only limit is you. We have the power. You have the power within you. You can make decisions, you can move, you can say yes, you can look for opportunities, you can go out there, you can do whatever it is that you truly desire and is on you. No one else. And often we look outside of ourselves for the answer, for the power, for guidance, which is not wrong, is not anything wrong with that. Like when we look at mentors and everything like that, from a place of when you know you have the power, and then you speak to mentors or other people around you for advice and everything like that. What I want you to do is really check into okay, you're hearing this advice, and this could even go into like strategies for marketing, which something I'm doing at the moment. I'm in an intensive for 2026 and marketing trends and everything like that, which my if you're into human design, I have a one-line, which is very much all about education. Like I'm a sponge for learning new things. And then the way that I go about learning things now in knowledge and education is very much I will take in everything that I'm hearing and be really inspired by the stuff that actually feels good within me. I am so in tune with who I am, my body, the signals, the signs that when I hear a strategy and when I hear something that really lights me up, then I know that that's gonna work for me and that feels aligned, and that is what I'm gonna try and do. I will never, and I am not ever again, because I've done this so many times before, ever doing strategies and things that just don't feel good and are not aligned to who I am, and they and I can just feel it in my body when your body's just like, yeah, this feels really good. Like you can feel it, like you know that energy where it's like, this feels so good. I want to try this, this is exciting. I'm like, up, I can feel it in my bones. It's like that energy. And then when things don't feel good, but you're like, uh, yeah, that could work, but I just don't feel good. Or you could like those type of strategies and those type of things you can outsource to someone where that is there. They like light up on doing email marketing, for example. I'm getting a little bit off like track from where we're going, but when you really go back to having that power of being limitless and the only limit is you, it's like bringing that power back that you could do anything. If you want that dream job, if you want to climb a bloody, I don't know, mountain or something like that, you can do that. The only limit standing in your way is you. It's like that whole you versus you, like in this life and in this time, like the best advice that I could give you beyond anything else is building a relationship with yourself first. And this is what we need to be taught way back when we went to school and in the whole system. Instead of making friends outside of ourselves, having a relationship with ourselves first and really being in tune with ourselves, our thoughts, our feelings, and our emotions. Because when we're tapped into who we are, the way that we feel and processing, and we know how we know exactly who we are, then that has just the biggest ripple effect out on the world in the way that you move, in the way that you speak. The confidence that you have within yourself in everything that you do, because you know who you are, you know how to process things, you know how to move, you know how to, you know when things feel good, like you are so connected to yourself. Then you can build relationships, then you can go out and do because you know who you are. Like that is the biggest flex. Like that is the biggest piece of advice. Like, build this relationship bestie vibes. Like, this was my I'm having containers for each month of like what I want to focus on instead of when I look at the whole year. Yes, I've got big visions, desires for the year, but I want to break it into months so that I can have a context, a container for the month that is around a particular thing. So mine very much for January was bestie vibes with myself. Sorry, anything that I, if I had, if I was my best friend, what I would do for myself. And that's like just been the funnest game ever to have that relationship with myself, to be in it, to be like, yep, bestie vibes. What do I want to do? Okay, we're gonna go treat ourselves to a coffee. Or yeah, we're gonna go buy this particular thing, yep, we're gonna go for a walk, yes, we're gonna say yes to this, we're gonna sit in silence, I don't know, whatever it is that I wanted to do and be in that bestie vibe. And I think like that, that is the goal here. This relationship to ourself, and is something that I'm doing within Story World, which is my new membership container world, story world. It is epic, like it is honestly like Disney World, but for stories, and it is a place where there is open channels, open world, and it is all about expressing yourself through words, through your voice, through stories, through all of that. And it is, there's all different channels within there and places for you to share different things, whether it's poems, whether it's sharing voice notes, whether it is sharing like stories, nonfiction, fiction, whatever it is, it is a place for you to like step into your voice, your story, your words. And we have like open mic night for you to share like personal stories and just feel and be seen, heard, felt, all of that. Like, that is what Story World is about. And even I'm finding myself of like when I've got like words to share that are I just write in my phone or whatever it is, and sharing them, like poems and different things and the confidence, and there's no editing, there's no okay, we're gonna fix this, all of that. Like, it is literally self-expression without like any editing and like the liberating feeling of that, and the words and how the effect that they have on the people that are reading them, and like you know that as an author, when people read your words and they feel it and they're they're tapped into the character and they know what they're feeling, they they feel moved, they're like like they're invested in that story, they're invested in that character and how they move through the story arc and like what they're doing and their their meeting, like their end goal, like they're totally invested in that, and it's like yeah, it is a magical place. And what I want to say to you is if you write something down, write it on a sticky note. I've got this in my office. The only the limit, the only limit is you, you versus you in this game. It's you versus you, and when we think of that, it's like it opens up, and I'd love to know what you think of this of when you hear that the only limit is you. Does it feel exciting? What do you feel when you hear that? For me, it's just it's it's liberating in a way that I'm like, well, I can do anything then. If it's me, if I'm the only limit, then why can't I have this? Why can't I desire this? Why can't I move in this way? Why can't I have this experience when the limit is you, anything is possible, everything is possible. And then they're also it might be different for you too. I'm not saying that everyone will feel that way, but it's like it could be, and this is interesting, and this is this is where we learn and grow, right? It's like when you hear that the only limit is you, maybe you feel scared. Maybe that is a scary feeling of like, holy shit, like that is a lot on me. Like that feels a bit like whoa, heavy, or like a lot, and that is okay. Like that's where we move, that's how we actually grow, right? This is like the whole thing is like when we come up against edges, when we come up against, and edges are the same as like limiting beliefs, anything like that. When we come up against them, this is like the best thing. And we might feel challenged, and we might, and it's like triggers as well. Like when you feel triggered by something, you see something on social media, you might see another author who is doing something, and you feel a certain way about that, and it it and it makes you feel like uh maybe unworthy, or maybe oh, I wish I could do that, and that would never happen to me. Like all these things that come up, they're edges, right? So these are the these are like things that come up, and these are perfect because now we can get curious about that and be like, oh, okay, that's interesting. Why do I feel that way about that? Why is that triggering me? Why, why do I feel like I couldn't do that? Why, what's happening here? Getting curious about that, right? It's like getting curious and tapping into that, writing it all out of like, okay, well, why am I feeling this way? Let's have a chat. Me versus me. It's like this character within me is like, okay, I feel like I could never do that because I don't have X, Y, Z, or I don't feel like I could do that because she has way more money than me. Whatever, whatever the situation is. This is where we learn, this is where we grow, this is where we move. Instead of sitting in that, instead of sitting in that unworthiness and all those emotions and just letting it take over and to a point where it's like, okay, now that's my limiting belief. I believe that, that's it. I'm never gonna have success. I'm never worthy enough. I would never make that much money. I am blah, blah, blah. These are all limiting beliefs that if you just allow them to be there, they'll always be there. And you will never move. You will never move to that next spot. Or or you might be, it's gonna be like a snail, right? It's gonna be slow, it's gonna be an uphill battle because you're coming up against yourself, you're letting that part win, you're letting the edges win. Instead, being curious, tapping in, okay, why do I feel like that? And why, why, why, why, why? Going deeper, going deeper. And it's hard. This is the work though. If you want to grow and you you want to have this better relationship with yourself and grow in this world and just live the most epic adventure of your life, and that that's what living is, right? When it's never linear, we're always going to come up against ourselves and come up against these edges. And when we actually tap into them instead of pushing them down, and I've been there, like I've done this a lot of times, and then now the more I'm curious about it, the more I'm tapping in, getting curious about it, asking why, why, why, and then it's like, ah, okay. That's that's funny. Like, I understand that now. And then that limiting belief is like, okay, we're safe, we're okay, we don't have to feel that way because we've got this, that blah, blah, blah, blah. We can do this. I've got my own back. The limit does not, I am the only limit, like all of this, reassuring. Okay, now that limit limiting belief can like go. Goodbye. It's gone. And then we're up leveling. And I always think of life as a game of life, and it's like, oh, cool. Now I'm up level. I'm up this to the next level of life. I've just had this whole experience, me versus me, me meeting my edges, and now we can grow and move and expand and open up. And like, this is literally the game of life. This is like the experience. And even with emotions and feelings, it is okay to feel sad. It is okay to feel angry. I think we're often taught that we want to feel happy and joy all the time. Like, that is the ultimate feeling. That is the ultimate, that is what we want to feel. And if anything else, if we feel anything else, it is wrong. We are broken, it is not correct, we don't want to feel that wrong. That is like the biggest lie that we can ever be taught. And I'm gonna tell you why. Because it is what it is to be human, to feel if you feel sad, feel sad. Feel sad. It is okay. You are not broken, you are not damaged anyway. Like, this is literally what it is to be human, to feel, feel sad, feel angry, feel jealous, feel envy, feel the anxiety, whatever it is, feel it, but don't let it like take over everything. Okay, so there's like a process that I go through where it's like, okay, I'm feeling sad. Let's be in sad. I feel I feel sad. Okay. I'm sad. It's okay, we're safe, be sad. It's okay. Cry, express, I've got you. You are safe. You are safe to be sad. I've got you. And it's like this pep talk with yourself. And I'm like, this is a character within me of like, okay, sadness. And this sounds crazy, but it's like it's a way that I process and it's a way that I understand these different parts of me and build that connection with myself. So it's like I feel into sad and I let that emotion wash over me, and I'm feeling it. Okay, let's just be sad for our for however long I need today. Yep. I might be sad for an hour, I might be sad for like the rest of the day, whatever it is. And then it's like, okay, what do I need? What do I want to make me feel better? What do I want? What do I desire? And it's like all of this goes back to just this relationship with yourself. You see how I'm so connected to exactly what I want, exactly what I need in these moments. And it's like be it's bestie vibes, it's building like okay, what do I want? Okay, you can have that. It's okay, you can have that toy from the shop or whatever it is. Like, you're allowed that. I give that to you. Oh my god, thank you. Like, I can't like that. I love you, thank you, you know, and then it's like, yeah, we feel into the motion, we're feeling it. Okay, what do I want? What will make me feel good? Okay, I want some ice cream. Okay, you've got that. Or I want to just sit here and watch a rom-com and just cry because I'm like, they're so in love and I love it and it's beautiful, and then it's like feeling, and you know what? You're gonna sm you're gonna ex when you give yourself exactly what you want, that sadness, like I'll be sad, and I'm watching the romance, and then I'm like laughing, biggest smile on my face, crying, and then the emotion turns into like happiness, and like feeling really good. And then it's like, okay, cool. And then also the same with like anger. You know, if I'm angry, and I think when I pro everyone processes feelings different, but like having like, okay, what do I want? And when I'm angry, I probably want to like write things out, I want to express myself in certain ways, whatever it is that I desire, or I might want to move. Like, I actually might want to go for a big walk where it's like moving these emotions, moving it, expressing it in whatever way that feels really good for me. And it's it that goes back to like, okay, what do I want? What do I want? What do I want? Like, that is the best question you can ask yourself every single day, and then get curious why, why, why, why, why, why, why? Like, this is it. This is like the magic of it all. And I hope, I hope that you got something from this and that you can move in this way and be in bestie vibes, and that is like the themes that we're having in Story World as well. We're having con a context for the month and having a theme, and then writing on that theme, expressing on that theme, and I'm in there sharing transmissions, sharing different things, and it's just Story World is alive and full of stories, and it is just a magical place that I'm absolutely obsessed with. And this container is just yeah, epic, epic. So if you feel the call, I invite you to come in, be with us in Story World, be us with us in fantasy world, and share your stories, share your words, share your voice, and feel in that power of who you are. And remember, you are the only limit.