01 - Intro to What if with genevieve

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Hey guys, and welcome to What If with Genevieve, the podcast where I sit down with people I admire and ask the deeper questions, not just about success, but the moments before it, the doubt, the risk, and the growth. I'm your host, Genevieve, and I'm sure you're wondering what I'm doing. Starting a podcast and trust me, I'm asking myself the Myself, the, I'm asking myself the same thing. but how did I get here? Basically, to make a long story short, I'm really just trusting my intuition right now. Few months ago I got a new job and with that I have extra time. And so I was just taking on some new wellness related activities and one of them being meditation.. I've never been into meditating, but figured I would try and see if I could benefit from it. I was doing a guided meditation from Gabby Bernstein on YouTube, and while I was doing it, podcast came to mind immediately. I let self-doubt kick in and I was just telling myself, what's the point? It's not realistic. Nothing's going to come of it. And I was just going to move on with my day. Then I thought you listen to your in intuition in all aspects of life. Why aren't you listening to it when something creative comes to mind? I told myself to listen to the advice I would give my friends if any of my friends came up to me with a new idea I would think it's the coolest thing, and I would think they're the most confident person for getting out of their comfort zone and to go for it. The people I look up to and admire are the people that are getting out of their comfort zone and doing things that most people are not doing. If my friend had some self-doubt, like most of us have, I would tell them, who cares? It fails. Who cares? You embarrass yourself. I know how they feel'cause that's how I'm feeling right now. But again, I would tell them who cares? I would also tell them, what if you grow from it? What if you meet new people? You learn a new skill. And what if it's successful? Really at the end of the day, if there's something you want to do in life, just do it. At least just try doing it. It might not go anywhere, but again, who cares? You at least cross it off and say you tried and you won't be thinking about all the what if possibilities if you didn't attempt it. So a little backstory, why I listened to my intuition so much is that when I was younger. In the middle of the night, I had a past loved one visit me in my dreams. It was the most visual experience. So at the time, I shared a bed with my sister and the past loved one. Visited me, woke me up, brought me downstairs, picked out a book. Brought me back upstairs under my bed and read the book to me. It's a memory that I cherish and I'll never forget about. And showed me that there are guardians around who are watching over me. And if you believe in it, you may think the same thing. It does sound a little woowoo to some, but this is a reason why I trust my intuition and guardian angels so much. The next day I went to my mom and told her about the visitation and she said that the same past loved one visited her in her dream that same night. So fast forward 20 years from when I had this experience and podcasts came through in my meditation, I almost let the self-doubt get the best of me whenever I'm in a moment of not being sure or needing to or needing some guidance, I always turn to my guardian angels. So I did in this situation as well, I asked my guardians for a sign and I asked for an angel. I wanted to see an angel or hear people talking about angels. Just anything angel related. And that night, my dream was filled with angels. Every single dream had some angel in it, or the people in my dream were talking about angels. I woke up the next morning and was like, wow, maybe I am doing this podcast. But I also was telling myself it could be a fluke. And that I just went to bed thinking about angels and that's why I was dreaming about them. I then asked for a more specific sign. I asked to hear an angel by Sarah McLaughlin. A few hours later I was at work and someone messaged on the teams group. I'm about to play that song by Sarah McLaughlin, and in that moment I just got full body chills. And knew I had to commit to this podcast and see it through. I also immediately went up to that person and just had to tell them that I asked for a very random sign, and they happened to message about it and the group chat. If you're intuitive like me, you're probably looking for signs all the time, all around you. I was at Goodwill the other day and I was drawn to a book, and I opened up to a random page. Just to see if I would like the book, and the first word was feathers, and that's a sign from my grandma. I didn't end up buying the book, but I was drawn to one close by and that one was called Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert. I needed to get that book just because this whole time I've been thinking. Why do I not follow my intuition when it's anything creative? It's very easy to turn anything into a sign when you're looking for signs. So the fact that I saw this book, I took it as a sign from my guardians. The other day I was reading a section about not asking for permission. And she said when she was growing up, her parents never asked for permission, like if they wanted chickens, they got chickens and learned how to have a chicken coop. If they wanted bees, they got bees and learned how to create honey, and they never asked for permission on anything. If they wanted something, they just did it. That's how I feel about myself and a lot of my family members. If you wanna do something, just go do it Another sign I got was the day, I attempted to record this episode for the second time, was that a friend sent me a podcast to listen to and she was just telling me that she thought that the podcast that she sent me was. The energy, and similar to what I was envisioning my podcast to be. In the podcast, they were talking about divine timing and overcoming self-doubt. Having all these reminders about creative living and overcoming self-doubt has been very comforting and assuring through this unknown territory. Just a reminder that there's so many people out there who also have this self doubt With that, I'm guessing you guys are wondering what I'm going to podcast about. And that was the first question I had, because you think you need a niche when it comes to podcasting or really any business adventure. And I remembered an interview from Girls Got To Eat. They had Gabby Bernstein on. She was telling Reyna that she lit up when she was talking about her job and what she gets to do every day. It made me ask myself, what makes me light up? And really it's just learning other people's stories and learning through them. I enjoy seeing where they started and how they became the successful person that I think they are. I enjoy seeing people doing something that's so out there and absolutely thriving in it, whatever that may be. That might be entrepreneurship or it could just be the way they live. So it's not going to be a solo podcast, and I'll keep this episode short and sweet, but just know in the future episodes I'll have a mix of all different types of guests, but to give you an an idea, it will be entrepreneurs, people in the wellness realm or people in my life that I look up to. It might be people I'm close with or people I admire through social media. If you're someone that is interested in learning more about different topics, maybe you have a lot of hobbies, maybe you're looking for more, or if you're, someone that also has self-doubt, that has a new creative idea that you want to pursue, but you're scared, then this would be a good podcast for you. Because I'm guessing all guests have had self-doubt at some point in their life and there was something in them that decided to make them take the leap of faith. So I look forward to diving deeper with my guests to find out their stories and let us all learn from them. But the guests, I but them, taking that leap of faith and getting out of their comfort zone is one of the main reasons I admire them and look up to them and want to learn more from'em. so every episode I'm going to end with some rapid fire questions for the guests. So it's only fair I ask myself these questions. So here we go. First, what is a quote you live by? Mine is if you can't be yourself, then who can. It's just a quote that my mom always said growing up, so it just stuck with me and it's really the only quote I can remember. Number two, who is your dream dinner guest? Dead or alive? I'm a little weird and if I like a artist, I'll be looking into their interviews and learning more about them because it makes me enjoy them so much more as an artist. Mine would be 100% ki more. I think he's so interesting and just lives a different way of life than most people, and I find it very intriguing. All of his interviews are very entertaining just because they're so different than any other artist I've listened to Okay, next. Do you shower facing the shower head or away? My answer is away, but you'll be shocked at the responses on this. So ask some of your friends. I also only know this because when I was living with some guys, I had a eucalyptus plant hanging on the shower head and they commented that they're taking showers. Just have a eucalyptus in their face. And I did not understand it until I realized they're showering, facing the shower head. Next is what is your go-to feel good song? This is on here because I ask random people this question and then I'm compiling a playlist. So whatever their answer is, it's going on a playlist and that's just a playlist I'll play if I'm with a group of people and I want it to be a mix of all different genres. But mine is so long, honey, by camp. Lastly, what color is your life right now? I jokingly have this on here because I get smack whenever I ask someone this, uh, dad. But mine is orange, just because I feel like there is good things happening and a lot of change happening in my life right now, and that's what I correlate orange with. I hope you guys enjoyed this teaser episode and follow along for the amazing guests I have lined up. I'm looking for more guests. If you know anyone that would be interested in coming on please DM me at what if with G on Instagram, that's what underscore if. Underscore with underscore, G and G is spelled GI. But thanks for listening to you guys if you've made it this far. I appreciate you and I'll see you in the next episode with a guest. Bye-bye.