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Wake Up Call

Originally aired August 18, 2025
What happens when you realize the life you’ve built isn’t actually the one you want? In this episode of the Get Your GOAL podcast, I’m sharing the story of my wake up call, what I did when everything shifted, and how it can help you.

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What happens when you realize the life you’ve built isn’t actually the one you want? In this episode of the Get Your GOAL podcast, I’m sharing the story of my wake up call, what I did when everything shifted, and how it can help you.

Sometimes it’s a quiet nudge, but for me it was a gut punch – a bolt of clarity that made me stop and say, something has to change. My wake up call came in the most ordinary place, but it changed the way I see myself, my business, and my goals.

In this raw and honest episode, I’m inviting you into that turning point. You’ll hear about the frustration I kept brushing aside, the breakdown that cracked me open, and the surprising moment when everything finally clicked into place.

If you’ve been circling your goals, wondering why you feel stuck or unsatisfied even when things look “fine” on the outside, this story is for you.

Transcript

Hello, friend. I am podcasting at the most unusual time in the most unusual place for all kinds of reasons. I... it is after dinner, I just finished eating dinner, I was doing the dishes, and all of a sudden there it appeared hot in my body. The big yes, the need to tell you the story of my wake up call. And it is so funny to me to be like, I'm not gonna tell you what time it is. I eat dinner really, really early. I get up early, I start my day early. I eat dinner early. It's not actually like late at night, but for me, if you listen to the podcast, you know that I usually podcast like after my walk or after my run, somewhat first thing in the morning. It's usually kind of early in the day. I've got that early in the day energy. I can't wait to tell you things. I feel so like mellow right now. I'm very, I'm [00:01:00] very calm except for the fact that I really wanna tell you this story. But the other half of this is not only is it a very unusual time of day, but I am sitting someplace very unusual. You might notice the difference in audio quality. Uh, quick follow up on, I think it was just last podcast. I was doing something very different. I ended up not liking the audio quality on that one at all, and so I am back to my normal recording and I'm gonna, I'm gonna figure out the podcasting thing very soon because in fact, I'm gonna have an indoor podcast studio Oh, in the next two weeks or so. My oldest son just bought a house. He's moving out, and so I am taking over his room as the podcast room, and I'm so excited about it. But until then, okay, until then, our house is an absolute wreck. My son just bought a house, as I mentioned, while we are in the middle of a garage renovation. So [00:02:00] our garage is, well, we're starting to put it back together, but essentially it's still almost completely torn apart. Like we have things everywhere. So my minivan is still outside. It's summertime, it's hot, it's the afternoon, which means it's extra hot. So I am in the garage sitting inside my 1959 Thunderbird that belonged to my grandparents. This is actually the real reason why we're renovating the garage. Our classic car needed a nicer home, so I'm sitting in the T-Bird and it's so, oh, it's so sweet in here because it was my grandparents' car. Every time I get in this car. It just smells like my grandma, which it doesn't at all. It smells like an old car. It smells like gasoline, which does not smell like my grandmother used to. But I have so many memories of being a kid and my grandma driving me around in this car and it just feels so special. [00:03:00] So that's adding to my very cozy feeling right now, and it's super funny that I would have a cozy feeling 'cause the story that I'm gonna tell you is actually, well, it has a happy ending. Let me tell you that I really like, I'm the kind of person, my kids make fun of me for this all the time. I am the kind of person that if I can tell that a story is not going to wrap up and is not going to wrap up in a satisfying way with, if not necessarily a happy ending, at least a satisfying ending, I won't read the book. I won't watch the TV show. I won't watch the movie. I want nothing to do with it. I, I need, I need happy endings. I need things to be tied up. So let me just tell you now, there is some tension in the story that I'm about to tell you, but it turns out great. In fact, it turns out that I am sitting here like two and a half years later, podcasting about it. So I wanted to tell you about my wake up call. About two and a half years ago for absolutely no [00:04:00] reason that I can remember. I was in the shower one day and I was thinking, as one does in the shower, I was thinking about like the trajectory of my career and I was feeling, I was feeling vaguely dissatisfied with my business, which, to be fair, if you are an entrepreneur, you know that there's a good, fair bit of frustration and figuring it out and feeling like it's too much for a good part of the journey. Meaning a lot of the journey not a good part because it doesn't feel very good in the moment. But I was at a place where I was feeling really particularly frustrated, and I couldn't even, honestly now, couldn't even tell you what the specific frustration was. Generalized frustration. Well, actually that's not true. Now I recognize it for what it was. I was really trying to run a business that wasn't what I wanted, and that [00:05:00] really is the crux of this wake up call. I was standing in the shower and I was thinking about how frustrated I was with just not feeling like I was getting the traction that I was looking for. And I was thinking about how, you know, how I've been essentially an entrepreneur my whole life. I have started and quit several businesses. And not even quit like they have, they have dwindled out in their own ways. I have always loved being my own boss, and I have struggled with being my own boss, and I was thinking about how when I very first got my personal training certification, I was so clear on exactly the kind of business that I wanted to run. Like I knew exactly what I wanted to do. At the time, when I got my personal, uh, training certification, I was 40, I turned 40 right afterwards. I, technically speaking, I was 39, but I turned 40, like a [00:06:00] month and a half after I got the certification. So for all intents and purposes, I was 40. When I got my personal training certification, I had already been running for two, three years at that point. I'm thinking about this now. I'd been running for at least three or four years. I'm trying to remember exactly what year it was. It was 2011. Which means I was 40. In fact, I was almost 41. Sorry. You don't care about any of these details. I'm trying to remember the, I'm trying to remember the exact timeline though. It honestly could not matter less. Here's, here's the thing. When I got my personal training certification, I had already run marathons, plural. I had already done, I'd already done a half iron man duathlon. I had done a couple of triathlons. I was much better at duathlon than triathlon. I am, [00:07:00] I'm not a swimmer, and I realize that that is not a self concept that serves me, but it's not one that I'm working on right now at all. Don't love swimming, like to be in and around the water, wearing a life jacket, perfectly fine, but not much of a swimmer, so I was much better at duathlon than triathlon. And actually at that point, I think I wasn't completely done riding my bike, but I don't really have a lot of love for the bike either. I'm definitely a runner at heart and I did the other sports, well, I did the other sports actually because I was injured, which kind of leads into this. I had already gone through so many years of injury and coming back from injury and figuring out what it really takes to be a strong runner and had really started hearing in my own brain just how competitive I was and how much better I wanted to get at this sport. And I really, I knew what it would take. I mean, the truth of it is to be a good runner to run the kind of race that you want to run. It's [00:08:00] not just about running. It really is about core work and strength work and working on your mindset. I had already figured out that belief was the key to being able to do what I wanted to do. And even though that wasn't really my thing at the time, like I wasn't a life coach yet, I really hadn't started working on like any kind of formal mindset work, but I absolutely understood that working on your brain and your belief was essential to be able to get your goal. So when I got my personal training certification, I 100%, the only thing that I wanted to do was work with athletes on their athleticism. I wanted to help runners and triathletes and duathletes get as good as they wanted to get. To run the race of their dreams. So here I am two and a half years ago, running a business that was very much [00:09:00] centered around weight loss and trying to like talk about weight loss in order to help people understand like what it means to love and respect your body. Like I still always had that part of it as my main focus. Like loving and respecting your body and believing in yourself, your athleticism, your body, your brain body connection. That was the through line the whole time, but I was having such a hard time expressing that. I found myself in this business where I was saying things one way because it's like the way that quote unquote, everybody talks about weight loss. But the whole time that I was saying those things, I was like, but it's really about your belief. It's really about your mindset. And I just felt so conflicted all the time. So there I am in the shower, having that conflict and thinking about, you know, from day one, all [00:10:00] I ever wanted was to work with runners and help them be the exact kind of athlete they wanted to be. And I stood there with shampoo on my face and I was like, then why the F aren't I doing that? And it was huge. Like all of a sudden I had this bolt of clarity that what I was doing wasn't what I really deeply wanted to do. It was part of what I wanted to do. I was working with fantastic clients. I've always loved my clients, and that's actually part of what got me into the business that felt so frustrating was because I've always actually worked with clients who wanted the mindset piece, who wanted to love and respect their bodies, who really wanted to find that deep well of self-trust inside of them. And yet [00:11:00] as a business owner, I kept talking about things in the way that I felt like I was supposed to or had to or should because quote unquote, everybody does it this way. So thank goodness I always found clients that wanted like what I was really selling, but, but also I was so frustrated with myself in the business. I was frustrated with how I felt with the messaging, with the selling, with feeling like I was supposed to talk about things one way, when all I really wanted to talk about was mindset and believing in yourself and trusting in yourself. And so there I am in the shower, like just gutted. I mean, it emptied me out to be like, oh my gosh, I have been building this business in a way that I don't wanna do anymore. It wasn't that I didn't wanna be in business, it certainly wasn't that I didn't wanna be working with the clients I was working with. Again, I've always loved my clients and if you are one of [00:12:00] my clients, you know that because especially if you are inside the Get Your Goal membership, you know that we almost never talked about weight loss in there, even when it was specifically explicitly a weight loss group. We always talked about all kinds of things. All of the, everything that goes into loving and trusting and believing in yourself, which almost never has anything to do with any of the weight loss stuff. So there I am in the shower having this huge wake up call. Like, oh my gosh, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm supposed to be working with people who want to be their best. And at that point, it wasn't even so much about like just runners or just athletes. Like at that point I had already written my book. I had already created this like hugely successful business. I mean, that's the thing on the outside, my business has always, always been successful [00:13:00] and I still had that, that churning frustration inside. So I had this huge revelation. I had this huge, just total download of this is what I'm gonna do. I'm actually gonna start a couple of other businesses that are all still under this, like get your goal umbrella, where I'm gonna work with writers about writing, I'm gonna work with runners about running, I'm gonna work with people who are in business about business. I'm gonna, this sounds familiar, right? Like, it's what I'm doing now, except at the time I really conceived of it as being very separate businesses. So, so I had this huge download about how I'm gonna, you know, basically start essentially four new businesses so that I could really, I could really like live into this dream that I wanted for myself. And then I did almost nothing about it. It was very [00:14:00] fascinating to watch myself have this huge revelation, be completely motivated, write down pages and pages and pages of notes of what I wanted this business to look like. I sketched out a logo. I came up with names. I had brand colors, and then I did nothing. And like two or three months later, I said something about it, like to my husband again, and he was like, yeah, that sounds fantastic, I love it. Because my husband doesn't really, I mean, he cares about my business, don't get me wrong. He cares about my business, but what he really cares about is me not feeling frustrated. Like that is the thing that he wants from my business. He doesn't care about any of the details. All he really wants is for me to not complain constantly. Poor guy. It's, oh, it's tough to be married to an entrepreneur. But anyways, so I mentioned it again, got in another flurry of [00:15:00] activity. Probably tried to do something like technologically related to like what this was gonna look like on the backend with email lists and things like that. And then did nothing. And then I think almost an entire year went by, and up it came again, this huge motivation. I was deeply frustrated again and I was like, I've got to do something about this. There's this thing that I really wanna do. I really wanna pivot my business. I really wanna work with people who want to get their goal by being like in this place of deep self trust. And then I worked on it a little bit. And that time, I'm pretty sure I asked somebody else for some help. Like, hey, help me figure out a platform. Hey, help me figure out some technology stuff. Help me, help me like bring this to life on the, the back end as we say. And then I did nothing. And then another couple of months passed and I thought about it again, [00:16:00] and there I was in Canva and I'm like, oh yeah, look at all those logos. Look at all that stuff. Look at all that work I haven't done. Look at all the things I'm not doing to create this dream that I have. And then, and this was so random, there was, as far as I know, and there might be some like subconscious connection, something happened except that I don't remember, and it didn't feel like it. But there was a day when I was sitting at my desk and deep, I mean, we're talking deep inside of me, something just ripped and I started sobbing. Sobbing. And it was so clear to me that I wasn't living the way I wanted to be. [00:17:00] I had a lot of the things I wanted. I had had a lot of success. I've, you know, I've run a Boston qualifying marathon. I've written a book, I've created this business. I've done these really successful things, and yet my business still wasn't what I really wanted. I still felt like I was just chasing this version of success, and I didn't know what it was supposed to look like. It felt like it was so outside of me, like I was running after something blindfolded and grasping, and I didn't even know what it was. And in that moment, sitting at my desk sobbing, like sobbing, I realized that what I wanted was actually inside of me. That all those [00:18:00] years of paying attention to how other people tell me I'm supposed to run my business, the way I'm supposed to talk about weight loss, the way I'm supposed to do this, that, or the other thing, the way I'm supposed to niche down, the way I'm supposed to be marketing, the way I'm supposed to show up. All of that wasn't me. This was a little bit over six months ago. I think it was about, I think it was right after the beginning of the year, but not like the actual beginning of the year. This was not a New Year's resolution. I do know that for sure. Because I did set some New Year's resolutions. I had some things going on at the beginning of the year. I was still fully all in all weight loss all the time, i'm gonna make this work. And it was sometime around like late January, early February, when I sat at my desk and sobbed, and it was my, my real wake up call. Honestly, that day in the shower felt like such a wake up call, like, this is what I [00:19:00] want. But that day at my desk was like, oh, this is where it's coming from. It's not out there. It's inside me. And in order to get what I want, I have to stop looking out there and start looking inside of me. And this is the message I've been telling you all along. I wanna be really clear about this. Like there was nothing about this was like, oh, this is a revelation. I've never heard myself say these words before a million times. Like for years I've been talking about being true to you, looking inside yourself. The deep self-trust. Like all of this wasn't new, but there was a moment where it became so real for me. Finally, that moment that day sitting at my desk was the [00:20:00] day that everything actually changed. It was the day that I said to myself, I'm not going to tolerate this "it's not that bad" anymore. I'm not going to sit around in low grade frustration. I'm not gonna watch myself not fulfill my dreams for another two years. This is happening. Now-ish. That was where, that was where I was like, okay, I've had this huge revelation. I've had the first wake up call where I realized that I wasn't really doing what I wanted to be doing, and now I've realized like really deeply so, so in my bones that it's up to me to listen to myself instead of constantly trying to do what other people want me to do.[00:21:00] But also now what? Like, like for reals. Now what? And here's the thing about the now what. I've known for a really long time, like a really long time. If you go back in the archives, you can watch the Daily 3, my journaling framework, you can watch it emerge from the morass, like the swamp thing. I have actually talked about all three pieces of the Daily 3, which is future self journaling, metacognitive journaling, and success journaling, I've been talking about these things for years. For years and years and years and more years, but that moment, it wasn't that moment. I'm actually, I'm here, hang on. I'm trying to remember the exact timing. I know [00:22:00] that I understood more or less immediately what I wanted to do next. I like metacognitive journaling. I have liked it for a long, long time. Like I wrote an entire book, Mind Over Menopause, about metacognitive journaling, about seeing your thoughts as thoughts and feeling your feelings to release those thoughts so that they can stop holding you back. I love me some metacognitive journaling. I've always.... Hmm. Can I say always? Always since I started journaling and always since I've like understood what metacognitive journaling is, even though I didn't call it that at the time. I've always liked that kind of journaling where you step out of it and see your thoughts as thoughts. But I've also always known that tapping into what you want with future self journaling and building the capacity to have success with success journaling, I've always known that those were key [00:23:00] components. And just super quick note to the side. Success journaling. I was thinking about this the other day, a long time ago, like when I very first started the Get Your Goal group back in the very, very, very end of it was like December 28th, so 2019 technically, but it was the beginning of 2020 when I created the Get Your Goal Group. I actually used to call it the Get Your Goal Coaching and Accountability group. Success journaling is actually just another word for accountability. You account for the things you asked yourself to do. You set an intention, future self journaling, this is what I want. And then after, after, it's like an after action review. After you've done the things that are gonna get you to the big thing that you want, you account for them. You recognize, Hey, I'm [00:24:00] asking myself to do this thing and I'm doing the things to get it. In any event, that was a note to the side. So I've known for a long time, like I've known since at least 2019. In fact, if I, gosh, a long time ago when this was the Let's Run podcast, I used to run and walk and talk and I... A couple of years ago when I was like doing one of the first pivots of my business away from, weirdly away from talking to runners about running and into, I'm all weight loss all the time. The irony is not lost on me. My friend, I always have to go too far to know what moderate is. I always, always, always have to reinvent the wheel. I always have to make mistakes to see that they are mistakes. I really love that about myself and where I'm going with this is there were, there were at least a couple of really old podcasts. One of them was called accountability. One of them [00:25:00] was, I think, something about seeking motivation from your future self. Like, like I've been talking about this stuff since at least 2018 or 2019. So here I am in the very fresh new year of 2025, like maybe I should start future self journaling and holding myself accountable. It's so funny to me. It's so funny to me how obvious it was and how hard it was for me. And the reason that I'm laughing is because I want you to laugh with me at me and not at yourself. Like there is no shame. There is no judgment. My friend, that is the happy ending of this story. When you have your wake up call, you will be tempted, first of all, to say, I don't know what to do, and then you'll be tempted to be like, oh crap, I've known this forever. And then judge yourself. Neither one of those things is necessary or helpful. What happened [00:26:00] next, within, within a couple of weeks, I couldn't tell you the exact timeline. I think it was actually about three or four weeks after that, that deep welling inside of me where I was like, this is where I'm gonna look now. Where it came to me almost, almost instantly. I was on a walk and I was talking to my husband and I was telling him how I really wanna make this easy on myself. I know what I, you know, quote unquote need to do, but really I know what I want to do. I want to pivot my business. I want to create these assets, which ended up being the Daily 3 Masterclass and the Guided Journaling Experiences that I have. I want to create this business where I work with women who want this thing that they want. This like life's work, this big goal. And yes, that includes weight [00:27:00] loss. When weight loss comes from a place of believing that you can honor yourself. And I, I'm gonna say it funny, but that you owe yourself, you deserve to have the exact body you want. You owe yourself the chance to live in a body that feels fit and strong and weighs what you want to weigh. These are the women that I wanna work with. This is what I was telling my husband. This is what I'm telling you. Women who want this thing for themselves, that shows themselves the peak of what they can do. They want to write a book because they have this book inside of them. They want to run a business because they have this business inside of them. Not just because like, oh, I wanna look good, or I wanna do this thing as like a lark, but, [00:28:00] but this bone deep, there is a thing inside of me, and if I die without getting it out, I'm going to be so full of regret. So we were on a walk. And I was like, how can I make this easy on myself? The truth of it is that imagining your future doesn't take more than about a minute. The truth of it is that metacognitive journaling, I mean even, even if it takes you a little bit to like find the thought and like really allow yourself to feel the feeling, technically speaking, feelings dissipate in about 90 seconds. And of course that's always a generalization. That's always just like that rule of thumb where you're like, okay, more or less, and sometimes it's because it's an average. Sometimes it's 30 seconds and sometimes it's eight minutes. In any event, I was, I was telling him, essentially, I was describing to him the Daily 3. I'm like, it won't take more than a minute to just recap, okay, I asked myself to do this, and then I did it [00:29:00] and allow myself to sit there recognizing that when I ask myself to do something, I do it. And so we're on this walk and he's like, Yeah, Pahla, that's really only gonna take like five minutes. And I'm like, okay, I do like the number five. I'm a big fan of the number five, so let's see if I can turn this into like, like a thing. I'm like, okay, there's three kinds of journaling. I really wanna do this every day. And I looked at him and it was right there. It was like the Daily 3. Do you ever have that? I hope you do. I know that not everybody does. This is a whole nother topic. In fact, it's probably going to be an entire podcast topic. No. In fact, it was a podcast topic. I recorded an entire podcast about this topic that the audio didn't work at all. I didn't have my microphone fully plugged in. Anyways. I personally have what I call, well, I call it a hell yes, [00:30:00] but not everybody wants to use that word. So you can call it a big Yes. I have an absolute 100% full body I know that the answer is yes that appears to me as if out of nowhere. I also, very frequently it's a lot more subtle, but I have a full body no. That I know that it's not what I want, but I don't necessarily know what the, the real answer is. And then I have all kinds of just years and years and years of socialization where I try and talk myself out of both of them. My quest right now is to fully and deeply honor my big yes. I had that big yes in the shower, the wake up call. I had that other big Yes, approximately eight months ago where I was like, this is something I want so deeply for [00:31:00] myself, this business pivot, this place where I'm working with women just like me who are so ambitious and who just, just can't seem to get out of their own way. And then I created the Daily 3 from that. For that. Because here's what happened, not two seconds after I created the Daily 3. We got home from our walk. That wasn't two seconds. We got home from the walk 20 minutes later. Okay, it was 20 minutes. I'm being accurate. We got home from our walk and I sat down at my desk and I was like, let me see if this actually is that simple. And I wrote down the Daily 3 and I sketched out what it meant to me, what I wanted to do with it, where I thought it was gonna fit into my day. For me, it's the first thing I do in the morning. That's not entirely true. I'm really, really not gonna lie to you. I get up, I make my cup of coffee, I play Pokemon Go for a while. Then I play [00:32:00] both of my games of Solitaire for a little while. Then, because I have a streak on both of my Solitaire games, I'm not gonna give that up. Then I do my Daily 3, where I think about my big goal and what I wanna do today towards the big goal. I think about what I wanna ask myself to do today gently from love. In fact, I could go look this up because literally the day, the morning after my husband and I went for that walk where the Daily 3 appeared to me fully formed with that name, with that everything, was the day that I started using the Daily 3 myself. That day was honestly the first day in a now completely and utterly unbroken string of days where I have asked myself to create what I want in my [00:33:00] business, and I have done exactly what I asked myself to do. It's not lost on me the, I don't even know if it's irony, but creating the Daily 3 is what got me to create the Daily 3. All of the resources that I have for you, the masterclass that explains exactly what, why, and how to use the Daily 3 in your own life for your own big goal was created by me using the Daily 3. All of the Guided Journaling Experiences that I have for you, which is honestly, they're, they're very simple and yet very powerful journaling prompts that help you see how you can use the Daily 3 for yourself. [00:34:00] Really specifically, the thing about those journaling prompts. Because they are the, the Guided Journaling Experiences are all for goals that I have gotten. Moving through grief. Losing weight for the last time, your own way without trying to fit yourself in some kind of a box. Running a business your own way, being your own boss. Running your best race, and writing a bestselling book. There are certain, what I would consider, like universal mindset blocks. The way they exactly sound in your own brain is gonna be unique to you, but one of the things that I really wanted to do with the Guided Journaling Experiences was ask you to ask yourself deeper questions than, and I say this with love, but deeper questions than you probably are right now. Most of us on our way to our big goal because this is what I did [00:35:00] for two years before having that deep, bone deep, ripping apart second wake up call was, I had been tippy toeing around it. I had been telling myself it's not that bad. I had been asking myself these really safe questions like, oh, why do I think it feels hard to, I don't even, I can't even come up with a better example. I don't even know, but I would, even though I love metacognitive, metacognitive journaling, that's a hard word to say sometimes, even though I love metacognitive journaling, it was still easy for me to ask myself softball questions so that I wasn't moving forward. It was easy for me to say, oh, I'm kind of moving forward, without really moving forward. Inside the Guided Journaling Experiences, there are some kind of hard hitting questions, not just about what do I think about, [00:36:00] you know, having a hard time, but what do I think about being successful with this? What happens if this turns out even better than I imagined? Those resources could have not ever been made. Those resources have been inside my brain for years, years until I really woke up and said, this isn't what I want anymore. I cannot tolerate the low grade frustration. I cannot tolerate not achieving this thing that's inside of me. Using the Daily 3 is what helped me bring you the Daily 3. It really, [00:37:00] I'm gonna say it's simple. It is. It's simple. It's not easy. It's simple to sit down and think that you can move forward in five minutes. I think I've already told this story about how I really wanted the minimum viable. I was like, if this, if this sucker is gonna take me a half an hour of journaling, I want nothing to do with it. I'm already busy. I already got things going on. I already journal. I'm not adding more to my plate. And the thing that's actually kind of ironic. No, I think I've already used that word too much today. But the thing that's really interesting to me is that using the Daily 3 has actually streamlined my journaling. It has brought it into so much focus for me by having a format. Even though, I mean metacognitive journaling, the thing that I used to talk about, the Two Step Tool, which is what I wrote my book, Mind Over Menopause about, it is metacognitive journaling. They're exactly the same. [00:38:00] Even though that has a format, even though that you know, the two step tool with its seven steps, even though I had a thing, I still wasn't really applying it specifically to my goal. Thinking about my goal, really imagining my goal, moving towards my goal, having my goal top of mind every single day the way that I do now that I use the Daily 3. The Daily 3 has brought me further in the last six months of my business than not the last six years. Even though that would be super fun to say it that way. But you know what? Oh my gosh, that almost is true. I mean, outward success, not necessarily, but inward satisfaction. I have actually never been this happy with any of my businesses ever. [00:39:00] I feel so deeply calm and grounded about my business now that I'm doing exactly what I want, what I always wanted, and that I'm saying the things that I wanna say. It feels like, okay, you can hear this however you hear this. I mean this in the absolute 100% most respectful way, and I also have no personal experience with it. So this is simply a metaphor analogy, whichever one is correct. It feels like what I assume it feels like to come out of the closet. To announce this is who I am. That's what I've been doing these last six months while I've been pivoting my business and talking about journaling. I've always wanted to talk about journaling out in the open like this. And now here I am. I'm a journaling coach. I can help you [00:40:00] journal for your goals. It feels so good to finally really, really lean in to telling you exactly how ambitious I am, exactly the ways that I want to be successful in my life and the ways that I've had success. It feels amazing to be me. And love, I want this for you. I am so passionate about sharing the Daily 3, not because it has some nature of it works. It, it doesn't do anything. It is a tool that you can use your way to rip yourself open and have that moment where you say, I'm not tolerating "it's not that bad" [00:41:00] anymore. Where you take a look inside instead of outside and you from deep inside of you follow what you want. That feels like a great place to end this story. I told you it has a happy ending. It's you getting your goal. Now here's the thing, if you haven't watched the masterclass yet, I strongly, strongly recommend it. There is a link in the show notes. If I try and say it verbally, I'll get it wrong and I'd rather not. So there's a link in the show notes that will take you to the masterclass so that you can learn about the Daily 3 and use it for yourself. If you are so inclined, there are journaling prompts in the Guided Journaling Experiences that can really help you get past that part where you ask yourself the [00:42:00] easy questions and you go deep. You take it deep inside. And you really move forward. And if you are so inclined, if this work really appeals to you and you love that idea of being fully 100% you, then come and join us in the Get Your Goal Membership. It is the place for women like you and me who are ready to be our full 100% own self, and also need a little help and a lot of normalizing with other women like us getting out of our own way. The Daily 3 is for you. The Guided Journaling Experiences are for you. The Get Your Goal membership is absolutely for you. Thank you so much for being here with me [00:43:00] today in my classic car, in my hot garage. I am really, really happy that I listened to my big Yes and came out here and had this conversation with you. I'll talk to you again soon.

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Get Your GOAL podcast host Pahla B

Meet the Host

Hey friend, I’m Pahla B – goal coach, journaling expert, and fellow ambitious woman with big goals and a busy brain.

If you’ve ever felt like you should have it all figured out by now, but you’re still second-guessing every next step – you’re not alone, and you’re in the right place.

This podcast is where clarity begins.

I’m so glad you’re here – let’s get your goal. 💕

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