Lessons I learned from Six The Musical [271]

The lessons I took away, because everything is content and there's always a learning opportunity in everything we do, even when we are out living life.

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Tonight, even I went to see six musical in Columbus. And if you have not listened to the soundtrack, like, if you're on Spotify or somewhere like go listen to it now, six, the musical soundtrack. It's amazing. We started listening to it and like fell in love, probably 2018 2019. And so in December of 2018, I bought Ava and myself and we were wanting to friend and her daughter tickets to go to New York City to see them on Broadway. Well, obviously, the show was in June of 2020, we no that didn't happen. So they refunded our money. And we actually were in New York in August. But it was my all about my daughter and Harry Styles. And it was a one night trip. And it was so fast and just gonna happen. So we got tickets for six and musical in Columbus, Ohio, and saw them and it was totally amazing. And when you listen to the soundtrack, you get a gist of like, what the show was about. But seeing it in real life is just so much more amazing. But the story is basically about the lives of Henry the ACE wives. And he had six wives, by the way, and how they each think they had the most tragic story. So at the beginning of this show, they're all trying to win the competition for having like the worst experience the hardest life by telling each other stories about how bad they had it, like, two were beheaded multiple, I think all of them were probably cheated on. There were a lot of you know, miscarriages and, and all these things. It's they're all basically trying to say that their life was the worst. And they should be queen because they had the worst story. And they dealt with all these things. By the end, they realize they are stronger together. And if stead of allowing, and they call it his story, instead of history, his story, to write their stories and just being one of the six wives, they can write her story and change the narrative. So when they do this, they not only stop comparing their tragedies, aka what do we do as women compare ourselves all the time, but they start lifting each other up, they start empowering one another, and they stop competing, and they start cheering each other on. One of the things that this helped me just think about, I tell my inner circle all the time, everything is content, and so everything has gotten done. But before he started working on my emotional intelligence, doing the inner work, I thought everything and everyone's competition and that's not a lie. I literally thought that's everything was competition, everything and I really had to work on me and myself to realize that I'm my own competition. But it took me a really long time to do that. And I had you know moments of victim mentality and I struggled owning my shit. You know, the the Chrissy pre business owner is thankfully no longer here. Thank goodness even Chrissy business owner like first two years is no longer here. And she had a lot of drama she had a lot of growing up to do. And I can I kind of call her baby Chrissy too, because she was very immature. And I can you know, I call early days video Crissy baby Crissy, too, so but it's good that I can see that transformation. And I can see that growth and know that. I mean, I may not be where I want to be, but I think goodness, I'm no longer there. Right. And I'm no longer her. And I think that's huge. But it was just it was interesting, because in the show, they were talking about their trauma and their drama and their tragedies like over and over and over, and how they could turn that around, you know, in an hour and a half Broadway musical. But I can say 100% I don't know how you define success. But I don't think you can have a successful business without working on you. I feel like as a successful business owner or as a business owner, we are some type of leader it whether we are a brick and mortar or an online business, we are a leader, we're in a leadership role, right? We're leading something we're leading a movement, we're leading a cause we're leading a transformation. We're leading something right. And so I think that high level emotional intelligence work is crucial for leadership. I think working on your inner shit that you've never dealt with. As a leader. It all comes out especially as the business owner, right we say that being a business owner For an entrepreneur, CEO, whatever you want to call it, is the biggest personal development journey you'll ever go on. Because you can't just ignore the stuff anymore, and you have to work on it right. And so I think as a leader, it all comes out. And you can choose to ignore it and move on, and try to shove it to the side and not deal with it. Or you can choose to think differently, you can choose to be different and know that the growth trajectory that you're on is going to astound you when you finally start working on you. And you're going to realize that things that used to bother you and used to bring you down and used to stress about, you don't anymore, because you've dealt with that crap that you never wanted to deal with. I'm not saying it solves everything, but it helps make things a lot better. I'll never forget when I first started working with my mindset coach, one of my goals that I told her I laugh now, but I told her, I said, I just want to get over stuff really fast. And she was What do you mean, I was like, I just don't like, like some people, like, never get upset. And I just I just wanted to like, not deal with stuff. And she was so you're saying you want to run away from it? And I was like, Oh, I guess I never thought of it like that. And I was like, Okay, well, well, I just don't want to deal with the emotions. She was no, you have to deal with your emotions. But I think the thing is, is that it's not that we're not emotional. Because we still have emotional, right. But we deal with them in a different way. We deal with them in a way that doesn't. I think the best thing is it doesn't affect other people. It doesn't resolve and me playing victim and doesn't resolve and me, you know, finding a scapegoat and things like that. I think that's the main thing I could say about working on emotional intelligence. But the other thing is, is that women tearing women down is so out. And you know, like, it's really never been in. But not that these characters were doing that. But they were in this competition of you know, instead of who's being the best like to had the worst, right. But you know, as far as like name dropping and calling out names, make your point. Like that is not leadership, right. And one of the things that we Gary Vee says this all the time I've said it, if the best marketing strategy is to care, shouldn't leadership follow the same suit? I think true leaders on their thoughts, they own their messes, they own their mistakes. And they are truly an example to the younger generation. But the other thing is they own their faults, they own their messes, they own the mistakes, and they use them as lessons. They use them as parables. They use them as, this is what I did wrong. This is how I did it wrong. So this is how you can do it better and not follow my footsteps, right? I feel like true leadership. And true. You know, that CEO mindset. You know, even if you have customers, clients, whatever you want to call them, you know, they see those those leaders see you those leaders hear you, and they witnessed you even if they don't understand all of you. And although I can say in the past, I wasn't always that example that I wanted to be. I always hope to be an example of empowering other women. And really showing my daughter that we get to cancel cattiness because I grew up with a lot of cattiness, and I don't know if that's the way it was when you were like in high school and college and early jobs. Like I just remember there was so much cattiness and I love that the people that I surround myself with now that we don't see that I don't see that I don't feel that. I truly feel like we're all cheerleaders in each other's lives. And I think if we embody that, and we show the younger generation our kids that and that we lift each other up instead of that cattiness, that's how we start making change that's how we start making real lasting change in the world. And yes, all this lesson came from a Broadway musical watched with my daughter tonight but I joke it's a there's content and everything and can you find the lesson can you find the story? Can you find the thing that may stick with someone and help them see it the way that you see it? And I think that's what this show did for me tonight was just lift each other up, cancel the cattiness. And really let's empower each other let's, let's see here and witness each other even if we don't understand everything that each other been through and I think that is one of the most powerful things and I hope you had something to take away from this podcast episode