Molly Smith's Next Best Step: Out of the Funk!

Ever felt stuck in a funk? In this episode, Molly Smith, founder of Next Best Step, LLC, shares her journey of transformation and her practical strategies for overcoming adversity, finding purpose, and cultivating confidence. Discover her unique STEP formula for aligning your skills, passions, and environment to achieve your goals, and learn how to reframe challenges as opportunities for growth. Molly also emphasizes the importance of prioritizing your health, seeking guidance from mentors, and building a supportive community to help you step out of the funk and into your power.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

Overcoming adversity, aligning physical health with mindset and purpose, and identifying passions to find fulfillment. It emphasizes taking small steps towards goals, reframing challenges as growth opportunities, and finding joy in how we spend our time. The conversation also touches on shifting perspectives and focusing on positivity. 

Key Takeaways

• The Next Best Step: Focus on taking one step at a time, rather than getting overwhelmed by the entire journey.  
• For Us, Not To Us Mentality: Reframe challenges as opportunities for growth, rather than adopting a victim mentality.  
• STEP Formula: Identify your purpose and find fulfillment by aligning your skills, passions, and environment.  
• Confidence as a Memory of Success: Build confidence by acknowledging and celebrating past achievements, especially those accomplished in the face of fear or uncertainty.  
• Importance of Community: Surround yourself with supportive people who understand and encourage your journey.  

Connect with Molly Smith

• Via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/molly.m.smith.90 
• Via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/molly.positivepants/ 
• The Next Best Step website https://nextbeststep.co/ 

Call to Action

• Download Molly's free 2025 Confidence Resume Bundle to start documenting and celebrating your successes.  
• Check out Molly's book, "What the Funk," for more practical guidance on overcoming challenges and achieving your goals.  https://nextbeststep.co/wtflaunch 

Additional Resources:

• The Next Best Step Daily Journal https://nextbeststep.co/wtflaunch 
• The Voices of 100 Women Anthology  https://amzn.to/3PZqCRj 

A Soulful Sip to Ponder

Embrace Imperfection: Remember that growth isn't about achieving a perfect state of "having it all figured out." It's about acknowledging where you are now, embracing the messy, uncertain middle, and taking those next best steps with courage and confidence.

About Molly Smith:

Molly, often called the female “Ted Lasso,” uses her blend of grit and positivity to help women reclaim their health, mindset, and live into their purpose. In 2019, she made the life-changing decision to improve her physical health, sparking a radical personal transformation in all areas of her life. Molly is the founder of Next Best Step LLC, the creator of the Next Best Step Daily Journal, a contributing author in the international best seller The Voices of 100 Women Anthology and her new book, What the Funk?! A Practical Guide to Getting Out of the Funk You Are in with Your Health, Mindset & Purpose” is out NOW! https://nextbeststep.co/wtflaunch

Transcript

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Angie Leitnaker: Hello, everyone welcome back to the sip and soul. Podcast, today you are in for a treat. Get ready. This woman is a firecracker. She has so much fun and zest, and she is also known as the female Ted Lasso. So I'm very interested to hear this story. She uses her blend of grit and positivity to help women reclaim their health mindset and live into their purpose.

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Angie Leitnaker: In 2019 she made the life-changing decision to improve her physical health

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Angie Leitnaker: sparking a radical personal transformation in all areas of her life. Molly is the founder of next best step, Llc. The creator of the next best step. Daily Journal. A contributing author in the International Bestseller, The Voices of 100 Women Anthology, and her next book, What The Funk. A Practical Guide to getting out of the funk

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Angie Leitnaker: you are in with your health, mindset and purpose. It will be published in January 2025, which is right around the corner of the time of airing so

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Angie Leitnaker: so many things to talk about. Welcome, Molly, so happy! You're here.

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Molly Smith: Thank you so much, Angie. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be here.

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Angie Leitnaker: So fun. Okay, so we have to go to the Ted lasso for part first, st just because I'm curious. So tell us about why you are the female Ted lasso.

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Molly Smith: Yeah. So I still work in corporate 3 quarter time. So I've got wear multiple hats. And the CEO that I work for dubbed me the female Ted Lasso, because, no matter what the scenario is in business, whether it's, you know, not good, too craptastic. I'm always going to be able to put a positive spin on it.

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Molly Smith: And so he said, well, you're like the female Ted lasso. So it's like I'll I'll take that. I'll take that because I think our approach to how things come to us, how we respond sets the stage for how our lives, you know, are

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Molly Smith: fulfilled and rolled out, and how we experience things.

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Angie Leitnaker: For sure, for sure. And I love how you share about, you know, being in a funk, and how to get out of it, because I think any person listening to this can name

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Angie Leitnaker: at least a handful of times where they felt stuck at the funk, you know, so.

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Molly Smith: Yes.

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Angie Leitnaker: Can you talk to us about? Maybe someone's listening to this, and they're in that place right now where it feels kind of messy. Can we talk to that person.

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Molly Smith: Yes, so you know I have been in a funk more times than I can count, which is actually why I chose to write about it in my book, and that is, you know, when we are unsure or uncertain of how to move forward, or we know that we need to move forward, but we have a sense of overwhelm

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Molly Smith: getting out of the funk is about taking the next best step, not looking at. Okay, I know I'm at Point A, and I need to get to point Z and worrying about all of the things that have to happen between point A and point Z. All we want to do is move from point A to point B,

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Molly Smith: because it's just in taking that one action that will build the momentum and keep you moving. You don't have to know all the steps in order to make progress, and I don't know about you. I'm a type, a ambitious. I got a big vision. And sometimes that just puts me in kind of an analysis paralysis. It puts me in a funk. And

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Molly Smith: when I'm in that spot it's like, okay, what's the next best thing that I can do, so that I can move forward because I know the vision and what I'm being called to is big.

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Molly Smith: and I can't play small, and I've got to keep moving forward.

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Angie Leitnaker: So let's go there. I actually have interviewed Craig this morning, Craig Siegel.

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Molly Smith: Oh, yes. Yeah.

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Angie Leitnaker: For the podcast and we were talking about courage. And you know, if anybody that does have a big dream on their heart, it it takes

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Angie Leitnaker: courage, and you know, strengthening that that courage muscle. It's something that I'm still very much working on and have far from mastered for sure.

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Angie Leitnaker: But can you talk to us a little bit about? Because it does take courage to take that next step sometimes, and.

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Molly Smith: Does.

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Angie Leitnaker: Eric can hold us in a headlock, but.

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Molly Smith: A lot it can it? Can, you know?

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Molly Smith: Well, I think it starts, you know, when you're in a place of fear, or when you are trying to muster up the courage, then

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Molly Smith: I feel like, if if you're stuck in that place, then really getting clarity on why you are pursuing or in pursuit of what it is you're trying to do in getting in, in, dialing that in

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Molly Smith: and making sure that that isn't coming from a place of scarcity.

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Angie Leitnaker: Right.

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Molly Smith: I found that in my life it's I've been in pursuit of something like I was in pursuit of becoming an executive in corporate America for a lot of years, and when I got there I realized it was not what I thought it was going to be, and it wasn't what I truly wanted.

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Molly Smith: And so when we are in that space where fear is crippling us.

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Molly Smith: and yet we've got this kind of dissonance where we know we need to or want to move forward, really getting clear on the vision.

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Molly Smith: And why? Why is it important, I think, is such a key part of the journey.

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Angie Leitnaker: For sure. It reminds me, Simon Sinek, you know that is the start with why, it really does change the game, and I love one of the things I feel like you're really great at is like changing the questions, you know, like

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Angie Leitnaker: the narrative and really challenging that. And I think it's so important. You know, you are known as the Positivity lady, because you've really trained your brain to be that way. So can you talk to someone who's like, I want to be more like that. I and actually my question for you would be, Have you always been this way, or did you? Were you able to turn the ship around for yourself, and that's why you're so passionate with sharing with other people.

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Molly Smith: I definitely have never been always known as Molly. Positive pants are very positive. All of those things.

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Molly Smith: The piece, like the pivotal moment for me happened several years ago, and I know you've got kids, too, where you just have one of those days where everything is just going wrong, like everything unexpected is happening. And I've gotten to the end of my day. And yet another thing happened, and I just had to laugh like it was like, okay, come on, what's next? And in that moment I realized I had a choice

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Molly Smith: in how I reacted to what was happening, and in that choice I could see it as happening for me, not to me.

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Molly Smith: And so when I have situations that come at me, or when something goes south or something unexpected happens, I'm always asking myself, Okay, what is this teaching me? How? What can I learn from this? How can I avoid this in the future? You know that type of thing.

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Molly Smith: because every circumstance, everything that happens happens in our lives happens for us. If we have that for us versus to us, mentality, then we see it from a growth perspective and not a victim perspective.

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Molly Smith: That's that's what I do.

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Angie Leitnaker: Love it. My husband and I have had that conversation so many times, because, you know, when you aren't aware so often life, you feel like life. I always use the analogy like you're a leaf blowing in the wind. If things are positive you're positive if things are, but it's always outside in versus inside out. But when you truly do believe, like a knowingness

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Angie Leitnaker: that, regardless, this is happening for me because I'm choosing that it's happening for me like I'm going to choose that I'll either grow from this or I'll I'll learn and make the world of a difference. Yeah.

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Angie Leitnaker: So okay, tell us about your journey a little bit, because sometimes, you know.

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Angie Leitnaker: when we we find our our purpose, it often can come through some things that we've gone through in our own lives. So can you take us through a little bit of your journey, and how you've become so passionate about helping other women with their their physical health, their mental health, all of all of the things.

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Molly Smith: Yeah. Well, my journey started back in 2019, when I walked into my closet and realized that, like none of my clothes fit, so I know a lot of women have probably been there in their life, but at that point I had enough, was enough.

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Molly Smith: I just the pain of staying the same was greater than the pain of change, and so I reached out to a friend who had dropped a significant amount of weight in the previous year, and I've been watching her, but didn't reach out at that point. I reached out to her and said, Look, my life is so busy I've got 2, you know, school age children, and I don't. I don't like all of these things like, Will this work for me? And that was the start of my health transformation.

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Molly Smith: that one decision to take a risk for me. It was a risk, because I had tried and failed so many times to get my weight under control.

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Molly Smith: That one decision really was a trajectory shifter in my life because I said, yes, I did go on to lose 50 pounds and reduce my blood pressure medication and started feeling good in my own skin. But that was just the beginning of the journey. Through that one decision. I decided to help others do the same thing. And that's how I launched into coaching. I never set out to become a health coach.

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Molly Smith: and because I was in this health community that really emphasized mindset and personal growth and radical responsibility. And all of those things doors kept opening up

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Molly Smith: for me. So there was this new world that opened up. And I started to transform as a result. And the people around me started to say, Okay, what are you doing? And all of those things. And so I started helping people. And it's just kind of spiraled from there what I realized in that for that one decision. And now I could. Looking back, I can say, Oh, yes, this is definitely

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Molly Smith: why this happened in this order is that I believe that health is the our foundation.

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Molly Smith: So we're all called to do something impactful. You know. Ed Milet says that you know we're all meant to do something impactful with our lives. I absolutely believe that. But if your physical health is out of alignment, the ability to go and do the things that you are called to do will be dampened

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Molly Smith: right. And so physical health, when you feel good in your skin, you're fueling your body. Well, you are now operating from a place where you can go out and do your life's work, and that may be your life's work. It may not be. I think it's part of my life's work to help people with their health, because I've seen it

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Molly Smith: act as this foundation, the springboard to go do just impactful work around the world right.

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Angie Leitnaker: Yeah, so how do people? Let's talk about purpose? Because I know that this was, you know.

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Angie Leitnaker: part, you're like, this is what I love to talk about. Yeah, talk to us about purpose. Tell us all of your perspective on this. And if maybe someone is listening to this right now.

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Molly Smith: Me!

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Angie Leitnaker: And they feel like they have lost sight of that, or maybe feel like they.

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Angie Leitnaker: They've never discovered it.

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Molly Smith: Oh, gosh! I'm so glad you asked me about this. I write about this in my book in Part 3 of my book, and this. A lot of this comes from personal experience.

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Molly Smith: But if you are in a place where you aren't sure what your purpose is that it feels elusive, or if you feel misaligned with what you're doing, this could be in your work. This could be in a side hustle, entrepreneurial pursuit. It could be even in a volunteer type opportunity in any area. When we talk about how we spend our time and our purpose, there's a formula that I

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Molly Smith: was a game changer for me and helped me shift in my corporate career. And here's the formula. It's called the step formula. So you've got your skills. What are you skilled at.

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Molly Smith: plus? What do you truly enjoy

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Molly Smith: plus your environment? Are you in the ideal environment

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Molly Smith: equals purpose, alignment? So let's break it down. So what are you? What are you skilled at? What are you talented at? We all have a bent. We all have skills and talents, some of which emerged in childhood, some of which we've acquired over time. But we all have skills that we love like that are just become easy to us. They come in the flow, all of the things right? So what are those skills and talents?

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Molly Smith: Then what is it that you truly enjoy doing just because you are skilled at. It does not mean that you enjoy it. For example, when I was 8 years old, my mom said, Oh, Molly, you're such a good cleaner like. I must have cleaned the kitchen or something, and 40 years later I still remember her telling me you're such a good cleaner, and I've remembered that throughout my life. Now do I truly enjoy cleaning? Absolutely not.

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Molly Smith: I pay a lovely lady to come clean my house every week. Okay, I don't enjoy it. So do you have a skill, do you? And what do you truly enjoy doing? And then that putting that in an ideal environment where you are seen, heard and valued for the skills and the work that you do. Okay? So if you have all 3 of those components that equals purpose alignment

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Molly Smith: when one or those one or more of those don't exist.

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Molly Smith: Then we've got some. Then we've got some dissension we've got, you know, lack of fulfillment, and all of those things.

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Molly Smith: I'll give you an example of my husband. He's a finance guy, and he's been in technology companies and software companies, and he is your finance, Fp and a guy. Many years ago he was in a role using his skills. He actually liked the work he was doing. But the environment was toxic.

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Molly Smith: and it just beat them down.

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Molly Smith: and it put him in a place of fear and victimhood and all of those things. And finally, when he stepped out of that

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Molly Smith: and into a new role he saw. Oh, my gosh! Like, why did I stay so long? So, even though he was using his skills? And he enjoyed the work he was doing. The toxic environment kept him from really driving a lot of fulfillment and purpose in his work. Right? And so this is. This is part of how I work with my clients is figuring out. Okay, what part of the formula do you have?

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Molly Smith: What part of the formula do you not have? And then what can we do to pivot so that you can drive more fulfillment? Again? We are here to do something impactful with our lives and time is our most precious commodity. A lot of us spend it building a business, or working for a business, or volunteering or raising a family, whatever it is. But you're meant to drive fulfillment and joy through how you spend your time, and if you're not there.

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Molly Smith: our life here is too short to do something that does not drive a fulfillment and joy.

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Angie Leitnaker: Wow! That is such a great

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Angie Leitnaker: formula that skills truly enjoy environment purpose. And I kind of see it like a 4 legged chair. It's like if 1 1 leg is wobbly like the chair isn't solid. But if.

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Molly Smith: That's exactly right.

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Angie Leitnaker: One of those. Yeah, it's awesome.

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Angie Leitnaker: So let's talk a little bit about confidence, because when we're doing something new or unfamiliar, it, it can tend to, you know.

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Angie Leitnaker: be scary@firstst How does one develop the confidence? So maybe they found their skills and their talents. They're like really tapping into that. They know what they truly enjoy. They're starting. They're like, Okay, Molly, I want to start a coaching business. I I want to help people. This is what I enjoy. How does one cultivate confidence or overcome self-doubt.

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Molly Smith: Oh, what a great question! So there are lots of definitions of confidence out there. But my favorite is from Coach Michael Burt.

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Molly Smith: He's right out of Nashville love Coach Bert. He says that confidence is the memory of success.

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Molly Smith: and so we can go back and look at the things that we have done when we were scared.

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Molly Smith: and we did it anyway, when we were anxious, and we did it. Anyway, we were excited, and we did it. Anyway. There are things in our lives that we have done once that we'll never do again, like

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Molly Smith: I ran a half Marathon scared to death to do it, not going to do it again right. But you better believe that there are things every single day, and especially as women

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Molly Smith: cataloging those things that we have accomplished is something I mean on to the next thing we don't. We don't document it right.

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Molly Smith: And so I actually have a tool that I've used, and I would love to gift it to any of your listeners. It's called the Confidence Resume, and it's exactly this where there are a set of prompts. And there's a little a short video tutorial that I did on how to use it. But then we're just jotting down all of the things that we have done when we were anxious, when we're scared, when we were excited, or something that we, you know, did once, and we'll never do again. You know all of those things. So there's these prompts. And then

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Molly Smith: every month just be jotting down these things that you've done and actually, this week we're recording. You know, the week after Christmas

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Molly Smith: I am going through all of my confidence resumes. I do one a month, and I write it down so I'll even I'll even pop it up. So like this is my December confidence resume. I'm not done yet.

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Molly Smith: and so there's things

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Molly Smith: things that I've written down, and I have one for every month, and this week is a week of reflection for me, and I'm going to go back. And I'm gonna look at all of the things that I did when I was anxious, scared, unsure, overwhelmed things that I did, that I'll never do again all of those things.

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Molly Smith: and to remember, and to tap into that feeling state of what was it like when I did that? Because

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Molly Smith: I'm sure, like you, me, your listeners, we are all going to be doing things in 2025 that we've never done before. Where we are stepping out. We're doing something new. We have no idea what in the blazes we are doing. But here's the deal. We have evidence proof that we can do things, even if we don't know all of the steps. Can I get an Amen?

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Molly Smith: Amen! Amen. Yes. And so for me, confidence is looking back on the things that I've done that it's like, Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know how to write a book at this time last year this year I've written 3 books.

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Molly Smith: 3 books. I had no idea how to write a book right? I had no idea even how to start the thought. The process of doing it is overwhelming to me. A year ago.

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Molly Smith: I'm thinking what in the holy bejesus did I sign myself up to do?

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Molly Smith: And I figured, and it figured it out. We're ambitious women. We're entrepreneurs. We get shit done. Come on right, so

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Molly Smith: so I will gift. I will send you the link. We can put it in the show notes. Everybody. I have a whole 25, a 2025 confidence. Resume bundle that you can download for free and start this process. So confidence is something that we can build. It's a muscle that can be built over time.

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Angie Leitnaker: That is so wonderful. 1st of all, thank you for that gift. I've never heard of that before, but it's brilliant, and I've also never heard that definition, that confidence is the memory of success.

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Molly Smith: Yes.

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Angie Leitnaker: And what is what is success to you? What's.

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Molly Smith: Would be your definition.

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Angie Leitnaker: Mission of success.

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Molly Smith: Wow! This has really changed for me over the last several years. If you were to ask me this, even

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Molly Smith: 3 or 4 years ago, I would say.

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Molly Smith: you know the sea level in A, in a, in a company in corporate America, you know, earning certain amount of money and all of those things. It's really shifted for me right now, and I'm not saying this is, it could shift for me in the future. But right now is success is pursuing my soul line purpose to impact people.

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Molly Smith: Period.

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Molly Smith: It has nothing to do with money.

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Molly Smith: you know. It doesn't have to do with title or status for me. It's about impact.

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Molly Smith: because that's that's what fuels me. It raises my vibration. It gets me up out of bed. I love doing it right. And so for me, that's what that is. And I would imagine that as I continue to grow and evolve that that will shift. But over the last handful of years. It really has changed from

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Molly Smith: more of the external external wealth, money, title, influence to how can I use the gifts that I've been given and the vision I've been given to go make an impact in the world.

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Angie Leitnaker: Same sister. Same now.

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Angie Leitnaker: So let's talk a little bit about the inner critic. Do you still have one? Like I? We talk a lot about the inner, mean girl here on this show. And and

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Angie Leitnaker: how do we quiet her down.

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Molly Smith: Yeah. So I, 100% have an inner critic.

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Molly Smith: It's a great question, I think, for me. In order to quiet her down.

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Molly Smith: I have to step back and get some perspective. So for me, that's going to be engaging in some meditation and some journaling and just

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Molly Smith: getting back to and getting the perspective. That that inner critic is my ego, trying to keep me safe

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Molly Smith: when we're shifting like. I'll be very honest in the I'm right now, you know, I my next identity is really close, but my old identity is holding it has got its roots on me. And so I'm in this space right now, and I don't know if you've been in that position in your entrepreneurial journey. But, like my next level identity, I'm leveling up right now. And so I've got this tug

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Molly Smith: and that is, that is the ego trying to keep me safe because I am venturing into new waters, and that means letting go

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Molly Smith: of what what I have

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Molly Smith: clinged to for years in this case to, so that I can pursue what truly is next for me, and in that that inner critic

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Molly Smith: a lot. So I've got to get some space I've got to get. I've got to get to some reflection and then getting getting clear on that vision of what I'm trying to create.

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Angie Leitnaker: Yeah, do you think it ever

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Angie Leitnaker: goes away? Or do you think that at each iteration? So like, if we're constantly evolving, then like there's going to be. You're going to be in this iteration, and there's still going to be previous versions of you that'll want to hold you in the do you think we ever get to a point where it completely goes away? Or do you think it just quiets down? The more we strengthen our internal muscles.

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Molly Smith: I. It's a great question. I believe that there always will be probably some type of inner critic, because I believe that you know we've got for those who have got a big mission and and vision.

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Molly Smith: You know the process to get from here to there, and then from there to the next step. You're always gonna have that ego. So I that is, gonna try to keep you safe.

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Molly Smith: I think that we can get better at identifying

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Molly Smith: that it is the critic, and then putting the critic in its spot.

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Angie Leitnaker: How has faith and spirituality been a part of you

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Angie Leitnaker: getting to each iteration, and has.

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Molly Smith: Oh, goodness! Oh, my gosh! That's a loaded question for me that's so loaded right now. So I have. Really. I've been in a season, this past 6 months in really of a spiritual awakening. So I am diving all into the world of spirituality, meditation, and those types of things. I would say that it has strengthened

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Molly Smith: my resolve and my vision

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Molly Smith: for what I'm for what I'm being called to do, what I feel like I'm being called to do.

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Molly Smith: It's I'm very much still learning.

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Molly Smith: And my, I believe that my my spiritual nature is still expanding and growing even as even as we speak.

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Molly Smith: There's some, there's something to it. So, and and I'm I'm I'm here for all of it. I'm deep diving into all of the things in that realm to see. Okay, what is it that's going to support me and confirm for me in this journey of what I feel like I'm being called to do.

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Angie Leitnaker: Like asking. It is given. It's.

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Molly Smith: Yes.

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Angie Leitnaker: In that channel as open as possible to.

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Molly Smith: Yes.

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Angie Leitnaker: And I were talking about that today about kinking the hose, you know. It's like, yes.

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Angie Leitnaker: think the hose so that the it can. Just you can be an open channel for it.

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Molly Smith: Yes, absolutely.

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Angie Leitnaker: So we're getting ready to wrap up here in a couple of minutes. But I feel like there's someone that's listening to this. And they're like, okay, I'm at that.

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Angie Leitnaker: In the closet moment I have, I'm ready to, just

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Angie Leitnaker: under new management. I'm done living in the way that my previous version did. I'm saddling up my bootstraps, and I'm ready. Could you give like maybe 3 to 5 tips, tricks, tools, anything that you would talk to? You would say to Molly that day in the closet that you now know.

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Molly Smith: Yeah, number one, whatever you need to do to clean up your health do it

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Molly Smith: because if you're coming out of the if you're coming out of the proverbial closet into another identity. You're going to need your health in in alignment. So don't ignore that. So that's number one again. That's the foundation. 2.

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Molly Smith: Find somebody who has done what you want to do.

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Molly Smith: I everybody needs a coach in life. That also is a coach, Burt saying, and I have coaches. I have had coaches from everything, from public speaking to health, to business. I've got a spiritual coach that I'm working with right now. I have a manifestation coach that I'm working with right now. Find somebody to partner with.

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Molly Smith: Just note that they are going to try to keep you where you are, not because they don't want to see you grow and expand, it's because it's because it feels

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Molly Smith: like a little bit of a threat to them.

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Molly Smith: Just note and acknowledge that some people may not understand what it is you're trying to do.

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Molly Smith: So you want to make sure that you align yourself with somebody who has been there done that in a community of people. We can't do it alone. Isolation is not good.

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Molly Smith: that's the other. That's the 4th thing is, find a community of people who are supportive of what you are doing, who will have your back, no matter what? Because when you are stepping out, it can be a scary thing. So people who also have stepped out to do something impactful, powerful, or soul line. You want to be connected to them because they know where you are and having that having that support is

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Angie Leitnaker: Yeah.

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Angie Leitnaker: I could literally talk to you all day long. This is just the best thing ever. It's the whole point of this podcast. Is to connect with people like you and share your wisdom. And I mean the amount of notes I've taken. Incredible, Molly, thank you so so much. Where can people find you if they're like, okay, I think you're my person.

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Molly Smith: Yes. So the best place to find me on Facebook. Molly Moore Smith is my handle. I also have a private Facebook group where I'm talking about these things all the time. The next best step community would love to have you or you can find me. My website is Www. Dot nextbeststepco, and you can find me there.

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Angie Leitnaker: And tell us about your books.

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Molly Smith: Oh, yes, so I've created the next best step Journal. It's a daily journal of practices, and the I love all of the things about the next best Step Journal. But the most powerful is practicing future gratitude, being grateful for the things that you are calling into your life as if they have already happened, and it is it opens you up

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Molly Smith: to call those things into your life is, if you were a magnet, I have seen it time and time again in my life, and so we do. A future gratitude practice. We also break down. What is your next best step towards something that you are working towards again. We don't need to go from A to Z. We need to go to A from A to B, so that you can find on Amazon, and then I

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Molly Smith: contributing author in the voices of a hundred women anthology. And then what the funk comes out

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Molly Smith: on Kindle January 7.th You can preorder it today in our paperback, January 21.st And literally, it's such. It's an easy read. It's it's not very long, and it literally will give you bite-sized chunks on how to take your next best step out of the funk with your health, mindset, and purpose.

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Angie Leitnaker: Amazing, Molly. Thank you so much. This was so much fun. And I'm ready to check out that journal. It sounds amazing love. The idea of practicing future gratitude. Thank you for being. You're amazing.

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Molly Smith: Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.