Apr 4, 2017
“When you are operating from the acceptance of your whole self,
YOU get to choose your path and actions freely, because there is
nothing behind you from which you are running.” ~Andrea
Klunder, on liberation from the Shadow
What are all the things
about yourself that you would NEVER share on social
media?
Ever since editing my interview with
artist Sara Zalek in Episode 030, this topic of
the Shadow Self has been nagging at me because it comes up a
LOT in the type of work I do and I always THINK I want to explore
it but…
This Shadow is also deeply complicit with
impostor syndrome to stop me from working on creating
new content or developing marketing strategies or recording
episodes.
For example, these days, I tell myself I’m going to work on my
forthcoming
Podcast Envy training program and
course in the evening and then I walk through the door and
feel sleepy, my head is cloudy and all I can think about is dinner,
a bath and snuggling up next to my kitty to CONSUME content (rather
than create.) And I end stuffing down my own shadowy self watching
a newly engrossing glossy TV series about OTHER
peoples’/characters’ shadow sides on Netflix or HBO…
(Big
Little Lies anyone?)
And then I feel like a failure.
The thing I love most and also the hardest thing about
entrepreneurship and sustaining creative ventures like this podcast
is that you cannot do it (and keep doing it) without at some point
having to really take a hard look at yourself, delve deeply into
this shadow, understand it, learn to work with it and
then… grow.
I remember lamenting to one of my best friends on the phone
after a particularly difficult season of rejections and failures
both of personal and professional nature… “God, haven’t I grown
enough yet?! I’m sick of it. When do I just get to coast?”
So what is this Shadow of which I speak? Listen
to Episode 031 and find out!
“It brought up ALL the insecurities, frustration, self-doubt and
anxiety over every moment I have ever felt invisible in my
life.” ~Andrea Klunder
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This episode was mixed by Edwin R. Ruiz of Mondo Machine.
The Creative Impostor theme music was created by JoVia Armstrong.
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