Episode 18: Reframing Fear for Growth with Amanda Blau
Having a strong mindset in business and keeping it consistently, is a challenge many of us face, especially when it comes to making money. Today, I'm joined by Amanda Blau, a coach that helps people uncover their desires and find the confidence to live a life in alignment.
You'll learn about:
Why awareness is key
Shifting to an abundance mindset
Reframing fear
Self-compassion and limiting beliefs
About Amanda
Amanda is a coach and a channel. She helps people uncover their deepest desires and find the confidence to live a life in alignment with their soul's calling.
She combines coaching psychology, somatic breath-work, emotional mastery, and channeled messages from the client's spirit guides and higher self to help them uncover their truth and move towards what they wish to create or experience in their life.
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Hi friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Good Chats podcast. It is your girl Cass, the founder of Good Chat Media, and I'm here to talk to you about something a little more serious today, and that is limiting beliefs. Now, we all go through it, we all struggle with this at one point, or many points in our life.
So today I called in the expert. I am chatting with the gorgeous Amanda Blau. Amanda coaches people to uncover their deepest desires and find the confidence to live in alignment with their soul's calling. But today's episode, we talked a lot about what that looks like in the way of business and how our mind is programmed to keep us safe and how that keeping us safe may be not the best option in making the money that we want to make.
Amanda also really goes deep into how money stories play a part in our life and how we can overcome them and move through them so that we can be making. Fat stacks, because that's what we're here to do, right?
I would love to know out of this conversation, what really resonated with you because I felt so read, like the library was open when she came in. And I was like, Oh my gosh, my perception has changed already about the way I talk to myself and the way that I can control my thoughts and really nurture them to make them.
So, without further ado, please welcome Amanda Blau. Hi, Amanda. Thank you so much for joining me on the podcast today. It's my pleasure to be here. I'm so excited to get into this. Yeah, me too. It's really cool. We met in a Facebook group and Amanda, what you were talking about, I was like, Oh my gosh, we need to talk because what you have to talk about sounds amazing.
tell me a bit about you and how you got into what you do. Sure. It's a long and winding road, but I kind of like fell into this backwards. So I used to be a personal trainer and nutrition coach, and that's what I went to school for. That's what I did for 15 years. And then stuff happens in life where you hit a roadblock and you're kind of come to a fork in the road and I was having a lot of trouble finding a place to work where I felt really at home and so the opportunity came up where I could continue to look for, you know, a place to call home and a place to build a career, or I could take a leap of faith and start my own business.
And as scary as that was, I decided to go for it. Together, we're And I opened up a gym in my basement and I started training clients and I loved it and I felt super empowered and then COVID happened and the world shut down and this was like six months after I opened up my gym and. I had to close for, like, four, four and a half months, something like that, and in the time where I couldn't work, I felt relieved, and I had to think really long and hard about that, about how relieved I felt to no longer be working, and I began to realize that I had outgrown what I was doing.
I was getting bored of it and I was looking for change. And so I spent a long time working through that, working through all the fear that came up and all the self doubt that came up around that. And I pivoted slightly into what I'm doing now, which is more in the life coaching realm. So I'm still coaching just through a different lens.
No longer am I working through the lens of nutrition and fitness. It's more in terms of life stuff. Transcribed So my clients are people who are working through, they're coming across, you know, feelings of stuckness in their life, or they're noticing disempowering patterns coming up for them. And they're finding that it's blocking them from moving forward in a way that they deeply desire to.
And so I help them work through that, create understanding about it so that they can move forward in a very aligned way. Amazing. That's so interesting that you felt relieved when you weren't doing what. You thought you were supposed to be doing because it's such an interesting thing. I think COVID just changed the world in so many ways, some good, some terrible, but it was really interesting.
We had a very similar situation in Australia where a lot of people were made redundant and you. We're at home and you were like, what now? We can't go anywhere. When usually if it's like, you know, I've been made redundant. Okay, cool. Like, let me go find another job or something like that. But I think it really gave people the opportunity to be creative with their life and think like, what actually is going to fill me with purpose and what's, what do I actually want in life?
And I really found the same thing. And mine was more, I didn't know what it was exactly, but I knew. I was made to find freedom. And that was something that was like, okay. And. That's why I started a business that I can work anywhere I want so that I can move around and I can feel that freedom that, you know, a lot of people don't get when they work in in jobs that stuck in an office or that, you know, even if you are, you know, personal training, you know, you're stuck with those same people and I shouldn't say stuck, but you're in that same routine that you're always in.
And if you don't get out of that and you don't step back or you don't get forced to by the universe to tell you that, like, this is not right anymore. then sometimes people don't even realize that they're, that they are stuck. Well, that's the thing, right? And it can be an alignment for you for a time, but I started working as a personal trainer when I was 20.
And here I was in my early thirties, I was a very different person and I had been doing it for a really long time. And it felt really good for many, many years until all of a
You know deep down that something doesn't feel right, but either you're too afraid to pull back the curtain on what that means because it would require potentially a lot of change, and that can be very scary, or you don't fully trust it. And for me, it was the former where deep down I knew that I didn't feel good in what I was doing, but I didn't feel like I had a choice.
I didn't feel like I had other skill sets. I didn't feel like I was knowledgeable enough to do anything else. I felt really stuck and it wasn't until I was forced, my hand was forced that I had to take a step back and be like, look, like I can continue to operate this way. Or, I can pull back the curtain and see if there's something else there for me.
And I have to say that life has a way of supporting you. And when you give yourself an opportunity to acknowledge how you really feel, stuff pops up. You know, that just kind of tends to happen where someone came into my life that presented a new avenue for me and one thing led to another and now I'm here.
So it was a definitely a journey. It was not linear by any means. No, it never is. And that's, I think, the assumption, right, is that it's supposed to be linear and you're supposed to have this figured out when you're 18. But that has just not been my reality. And I'm beginning to embrace that as I grow and evolve.
The work that I do will as well and there's something exciting about that and I know that there can be some fear around the unknown, like, well, I don't know what my job is going to look like in a year from now and two years from now, but there's something inherently exciting about that too that I'm really working to embrace.
Yeah, I think that's such an important thing as well is like, we're taught in school, and I'm sure it's the same in the States as well, where you need to focus in that, you know, end of year. So like at, we call it year 11 and 12, you guys, seniors, and we have to really focus on like, this is the time or like the pressure is on as this is the time that you need to make the decisions of what you're going to do for your life.
And it's like. What? Yeah. You're essentially a child. Like your, your brain isn't even fully function, like even put together yet. Like I remember thinking like, you know, when I saw people that had that goal or, you know, what they really wanted to do. And I felt really. Not jealous of them, but kind of envious that how do they know what they want to do when I have no idea.
And so from that age, when I was like, I have no idea, I was like, let me just go out and just try a whole bunch of different things. I worked in little jobs here and there. And the only thing that I loved doing was traveling. And that was the only thing that I was like, that actually was really good. And I was like, okay, cool.
So a lot of people set themselves up so that they can get there, you know, four weeks of leave to be able to take that travel. Okay. That's what I need to do because that's what everyone else is doing. But then, okay, how do I do that? And it's like, you don't need to do that. And it was only the other day that I realized when I was talking to my partner and we were talking about.
What my niece maybe might do. She's only 11 now. And so we were thinking like, Oh mate, what would she like to do? And I'm like, she's got so much time to figure it out. I said, even like, until it was a couple of years ago that I really even realized that this is what I wanted to do, or like this felt purposeful to me.
So it doesn't matter what that feels like at that age of 18, you don't have to stick to what you were doing. I am very passionate about this conversation because when I was 18, I was filled with fear because I did not know what I wanted to do and nothing appealed to me and now I understand why what I'm doing now, I basically made up my job and it fits me perfectly and I'm so happy and I'm like, no wonder nothing made sense for me.
I, and I searched and I searched and I felt so much pressure and it, And it spiraled into a deep depression. I was in a very dark place because I didn't feel like I fit in. I didn't feel like I had direction and purpose. And I felt so lost and confused. And I think asking young people, what do you want to do?
is not even the right question. It's like, who do you want to be? How do you want to feel? Exactly. Exactly. Because that, you know, what do you want to do? Puts the emphasis on the doing part and then all of your value, all of you in this, we can get into this. This is kind of what I wanted to get into today, but like all of the value that you feel, all of your sense of safety and freedom is all dependent on what you're.
doing and how you're performing, and that's a very disempowering place to be. Absolutely. And I know we were going to talk about limiting stories. Is this something that those limiting stories, one, how do they sit in our brains and why are they there? And two, how do we kind of understand that they're not real?
Love this question. Let's just get into this. Yeah. Yeah. Let's just dive right in. So the human brain is very, very intelligent. And originally it was set up to keep us safe from predators in medieval times and ancient caveman times. And so anytime the brain perceived that we were in physical harm and in physical danger, it would sound the fight or flight response.
And we would Freeze or we would fight or we would flight and that fight or flight mechanism is still intact, but our society has changed. We're no longer running from physical predators anymore. So rather than trying to keep us safe physically, the brain is now set up to keep us. mentally and emotionally safe.
And so any time that the brain perceives there to be any kind of threat to our mental or an emotional wellbeing, it will sound the fight or flight response and that's when the fear kicks in. That's when the adrenaline kicks in and that's when all of our Limiting thoughts, limiting belief systems kind of come to the surface, and this begins very early on in childhood, much earlier than you would think.
It usually are our thought patterns and emotional patterns and baseline way of operating is defined by the age of seven. Yeah. So it happens quite early. And then after that point, it's just being reinforced over time. But you go through an experience in life that you felt was. traumatic, and it's usually something that you don't even remember, but subconsciously the mind does.
And so this sticks with you. And anytime the mind perceives that you will be making a choice where you will have to relive that emotional or mental painful experience, it sounds the alarm. And that's when the fear kicks in and that's where the limiting thoughts arise. So the brain kind of attaches meaning to certain things that it associates as being threatening and that becomes a thought pattern.
And so anytime that thought pattern passes through and you believe it. Those become limitations that are not necessarily real, but because you believe they're real, they become real. Yeah. So just because you have a thought, it doesn't make the thought real. But so much of the time, we aren't aware. of our thoughts really consciously.
They, they're always coming and going and you can develop thought patterns. It can be a pattern of self doubt. It can be a pattern of feeling like an imposter syndrome. There's so many different ones. And when you don't realize the thought pattern and when you don't understand that there's not necessarily truth to it, it becomes your truth.
And so the work becomes. Learning to identify your thoughts and thought patterns so that you can begin to inquire. Is this true? Anytime it comes up, you become aware of it. Is this true? Is there any truth to this? Should I buy into this? And over time, if you can begin to question your thoughts, you can create space between yourself and your thoughts, rather than completely identifying with all of them.
And then over time, the thought can be there and you'll recognize it. You'll be aware of it, but you won't buy into it anymore. And it'll become easier to operate in a different way. So the fight or flight response won't be quite so activated. Yeah. That was a lot. It's literally like, it's trying to keep you safe, but it's actually a little demon in your brain.
Well, that's the thing though, is that the main priority of the brain is to keep you safe. And it's so, I always want to make sure that people understand that it's innocent. Like if there's an. innocence there to it. It's essentially your inner child saying, I'm afraid, I'm scared, I'm afraid of that, that thing happening again.
And so I don't want to make the association that these limiting beliefs are a bad thing. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's like your best friend trying to keep you safe and the intention is coming from the right place. But they're just scared. Yeah. And in time, maybe it's well intentioned, but it's starting to limit.
what you're capable of doing and that's when you want to shift your relationship with that thought pattern. Yeah. It's such an interesting thing of putting it as like a friend or I always have like a little photo of myself and my siblings when I was younger. So I like look at that and think like. You know, I'm doing it for you kind of thing.
That's the way I kind of associate it. But I also, even this morning I was talking to my best friend and she was saying something like calling herself. She said that she was an idiot, blah, blah, blah. And I said, would you say that to me? And she was like, no. And I was like, well, can you stop saying that to my best friend?
Cause that's not okay. And she was like, fine. Like I am, I feel like I really love the. Whole thing of self talk. And I think maybe sometimes my limiting beliefs, I catch them a lot quicker now. Like how you were saying, like able to put more space between them. Like even I caught myself before being like, Oh no, like I can't do that.
Like they're too big of a, you know, client or that to this or to that. And I was like, why am I talking myself out of this amazing opportunity? This is so silly. Like, just go for it. See what happens. Like it's, you would never talk your best friend out of doing that. You would never talk. You know, your younger self out of doing it, you would tell them that they can do anything and they, you know, they just got to put their mind to it and they're good.
Like you would never say that to them. So it's a really good way to think about it like that. And I love that you brought that up because the self criticism is so common. And I think that there's a reason for it. I think that the misunderstanding tends to be, well, if I'm too compassionate with myself, if I'm too nice, I'll get complacent.
Right? And then I won't have the motivation to change. And that seems reasonable to think that that would be the case, but it's actually the opposite. When you're compassionate with yourself, it releases the judgment from being there. And once you can release the judgment, you can see things more objectively and it becomes easier to move forward in a way with where you're not afraid.
what might happen, what the outcome might be because you're capable of taking more risks perhaps because you won't be afraid of the self criticism coming back around. And so the self criticism actually kind of gets in our way and it can keep us even more stuck. And so I'm always, self criticism is another thought pattern.
Some people that's the way they talk to themselves. And so just being consciously aware that you're doing that is the first step. And a lot of people aren't, they aren't aware that they even do it. Yeah. It's such an interesting thing to have to kind of, I really try and avoid it if I can, I think it, but it is a practice.
It's one of those things you have to keep onto it. How does it work in, I know we want to talk about money. So when it comes to money and sales, how do these create the blocks in business if you've got those money stories happening in your business and how do they show up when you're trying to run your business?
Yeah. Yeah. Let's get into this. So, I'm really passionate about talking about money because we don't talk about money enough in society. There's only two conversations that we really have when it comes to money. They are, how do I make more money? How do I save more money? That's really all we talk about.
And the problem with that is that there's a lot more going on there under the surface. Even if we don't fully understand what it is, we feel it. And so I would like to just take the giant elephant in the room that we're never really talking about and just start talking about it so that we can start creating conversation around all of these things that we're feeling deep down.
All of us are feeling the same things, but we don't talk about it. And so we don't Really fully understand it or know how to deal with it. So the mind does this really interesting thing where it acts as a projector, like a movie projector, where again, starts in childhood, really early on in life, you start having different experiences and you start observing the people around you and you start formulating your own worldview.
And your own view about who you are and how you show up in the world and that perspective of yourself in the world around you is projected out, outside of you into everything around you. And so there can be two people that have the same experience but their perspective of the experience is different because of their own projected belief systems on the experience created a different experience for them.
And so. We do this a lot with money where we project a lot of our own belief systems onto money and money in and of itself is neutral. It's just a thing that we created to buy and sell stuff, but we create a relationship with money based on our own personal projections. And the relationship that we develop with money is actually a mirror for the relationship that we have with ourselves.
And, yeah, there are three, three main money stories that we all have, but depending on your own worldview and your own projections, you might identify more with one or two than the other. Okay. So the first one is that we associate money with our sense of value and sense of self worth. And so this can look like.
The more money I make, the more valuable I feel, the more worthy I feel. If I'm not capable of making as much money, I'm not good enough. I don't feel as worthy. And this is a big one for me, money and self worth. And it can come about from early in childhood. If you have parents that are, you know, Certain professions are deemed to be very valuable because or prestigious because of the amount of money that you can make in them.
And so you start developing a relationship between money and value, right? Or they, or your parents are really enthusiastic when you're accomplishing things and you're getting all of these accolades. But with potential failures or perceived failures, there's not the same amount of. Enthusiasm when you're not performing to the same level.
So you start to subconsciously develop a relationship between performance and money and value. So then the second one is money represents our sense of safety and security, right? And so the more money I make, the more money I have, the safer and more secure I feel. And yeah. If I don't have as much money, if I fear losing money, if I fear not having money, if I spend, if you're spending money, I don't feel as safe or secure within my life, within myself.
And so this can be, you know, coming from childhood. Maybe you Witnessed your parents always worrying about money or paying their bills or making comments that everything is so expensive these days, right? Or maybe they used to get stressed out during the holidays because of all of the gifts that they had to buy or around tax season.
So just like little things that you picked up here and there as an innocent child where you started to perceive the more money I have, the safer I feel. And then the third one is the relationship between money and freedom. So something that you spoke about a lot earlier, where when I have more money, it's freedom from a life I don't love, from a job I don't love, from maybe money will give me more opportunities.
It will give me the ability to travel, right? And so we associate the more money I have with the more opportunity and the more freedom available to me. And these are all subconscious sleep. You know, going on at the back of your head. Most people aren't aware that they have this relationship with money.
There's one commonality between all of these money stories and it's that they're very limiting. Because your sense of worth, your sense of security, and your sense of freedom. They're conditional depending on how much money you have or can make. And so that's where the limiting beliefs come into play and the blocks start to be created within a business is if I'm not successful, if I can't make enough money, then my freedom, my value and my safety is all on the line.
And that's where it can become problematic. How do people turn those stories around? Like, how is that? I know you work with people to help them do this, but what are the kind of first steps? I know, I'm sure realizing that like making the association of. Yep. That's the one that I have. What do you do from there?
Yeah. So typically transformation happens in three phases. So the first one you said, awareness, creating awareness around a discomfort that you're feeling that there is a pattern there, that there is a block somewhere that's preventing you from moving forward, or you're hitting a wall of some sort, or you're noticing a repeated scenario happen in your life that you don't like.
Those are all signs that. Something isn't working, something isn't feeling right, and you don't even have to know what your money story is, but you just know that you're always anxious about it, or you're always worried about it, or you're never, you're always on to the next thing, the next thing, you know what I mean?
And so there's a part of you that's just never feeling satisfied or never feeling free. And then the next part of that is acceptance. And so once you're aware of what's happening for you, working through it, And then being compassionate with yourself throughout the process. It's a long, it can be a long process to undo that lifetime of conditioning and as you start to separate your worth, your safety, your, your sense of freedom from money or from whatever out there it's being attached to, there's going to be a part of you that's going to be in resistance to that because it's going to feel off.
Yeah. And that's normal. And so having compassion with yourself as you work through that. And then aligned action is the last step. Taking action in your life in a new way that's more aligned with how you want to feel in your life and the type of life that you want to be living and creating. And so I hope that answers your question, but it's just a gradual process.
Yeah, I'm already like, okay, how do I book in with you to, to fix my, my money mindset? This is something that I think about a lot. And even when you were talking about the three money stories, I was like, there's elements of each one that. Resonate with me and as much as I try and I think my thing is, I sometimes just try and ignore it, which I know that that is not the smartest way to go about it.
But if it's not occupying negative thoughts in my mind, then maybe it'll go away. And I know that that's not, yeah, the smartest way to go about it. So how do people work with you to do that while we're on the subject? How do you go about that? Sure. Just the logistics of it is you reach out to me either on my website or on social media.
You can email me and I always offer a free session to start free 90 minute coaching call so that we can understand. What it is that you want out of life. And if you don't know what your vision is, then we can get clear on that. Sometimes people are lacking that clarity and having somebody to work through that with can be really helpful.
And then once We can gain a little bit of clarity on a direction that you want to go, or, and that doesn't have to be necessarily what you want to do, but how you want to feel can be really important too. Then we can begin to peel back the layers on, okay, what is stopping you from being able to access that?
And we're so used to looking outside of ourself. to access those things, right? Well, money will make me feel more valuable. Well, having more clients will make me feel more valuable. Well, going on this next trip make me feel like more free, right? Or having this job promotion, I'll feel safer. And so we're always looking out there somewhere for it.
And that's the misunderstanding. Is that those things then become conditional on, if I don't get the job, then I'm not going to feel safe. If I don't go on vacation, then I'm going to feel anxious and stuck. If I don't make enough money, then I'm never going to feel worthy. Right? And so it becomes learning how to access those things from within and then taking action from that place so that Not only your sense of self separate from the action that you're taking, but you end up taking action from a very different place.
It's a much more empowered place and for me in particular, I held myself back in business for so long because my sense of worth is directly tied to my income, but my biggest fear was someone paying me and then being disappointed with my service. Okay. And so subconsciously, I didn't want clients because the more clients I got, the more likelihood there would be of disappointing them.
Yeah. So I really held back on putting myself out there. I would never do a podcast, are you kidding me? And so that's the paradox where the very thing that we fear ends up being the very thing that we create. And so I feared not feeling valuable because I. Couldn't make any money. And then I wasn't making any money because I was too afraid to get a client.
And that becomes the cycle. It's so innocent. And so the first step is like peeking through the blinds and having the courage to look at it. Yeah. And then I wouldn't be where I am without my coach. I can say that hands down. It's really difficult to see the forest through the trees. And so having like an outside perspective, someone that can see your patterns without your own bias is very helpful.
Yeah. I think it's so important to have those things set up. I think in business, I have a business coach, but like in life, I think it's such an important thing where I'm like, I'm already in my mind going, okay, yeah, let's book something here with Amanda. Let's book in this. There's not even a call. Cause I.
I think I'm at a point in my life, and maybe that's why when I saw you pop up, I was like, Oh my gosh, this all sounds amazing. And I know so many people that struggle with these things, especially in business that if I'm not achieving this much money, I have to go get a job. I have to go do this because otherwise I can't do this and I'm not contributing enough and I'm not, you know, all of these kinds of things.
And. I just, I recognize it in other people. So I feel like in my mind, I'm like, okay, cool. If I can recognize it in other people and I can recognize it in myself, then like, I'm already on my way. But it's just that having someone else to say, this is what I'm seeing in you that we can change and that we can make feel better for you.
And it's such like a, having someone else see. where you're at that you can't see is such a beautiful thing. And it's such a scary thing because you don't want to be seen a lot of the time. You don't want to be having these negative things, but you've got to move through those negatives to get to that beautiful, positive, the new stories that you're telling yourself.
And I would love to offer you a different perspective on the negative just in this moment, right? Is it negative if it's the opportunity, the very thing that's going to expand your perspective and your reality? So the thing that you see is like the big scary negative thing is actually the gift. Yeah. Oh, that's beautiful.
Right? Yes. So all of these things in your life that, you know, you might be kind of butting up against or feeling very resentful of, they are your gifts because they are the kind of the signposts saying there is another way here. You just have to kind of look at it though. Oh my gosh. You've just blown my mind.
I love this so much. Oh my gosh. Okay. Amazing. Now, quickly before we go, I know we wanted, we had so many things to talk about, but just in order to keep this as concise as possible, is there anything else that you want to share about money stories with sales calls and things in other things in business that you can, you know, when we're hitting those ceilings that.
What we can do to help that. Yeah. Thank you for keeping us on track. This has been a fantastic conversation. I know. Thank you so much. I guess the last thing that I would just add is that if you're an entrepreneur and you're building a business your business is going to be an extension of you. And so anything that you butt up against in your business, any kind of weird resistance that you're feeling, any blocks that are coming up or any like weird consistent patterns that you're seeing in clients or prospects, that's all going to come back to there's something in you that's not being addressed or it's acting as a mirror to reflect back at you, something within yourself that needs to be worked on or Shifted slightly and all of these same money stories are coming up in our clients that are coming up in our prospects and so you can be on a sales call and, you know, sometimes we hear like the same objections, you know, maybe I don't have the time or it's too expensive or I need to talk to my spouse or what about X thing over there?
And so, but Just because they're giving that objection doesn't mean that that's how they're truly feeling, right? They are having the same conversations around money in their mind that you're probably having at some point. And they don't know that they're doing that, but they are. And so when it comes to overcoming those objections on a sales call at the end of the day, what the person wants the most from you above anything else is to feel safe.
They are going to go with the option that feels the safest to them. And so if you can create that safety for them and understand that when they're objecting to you, it doesn't really matter what they're saying, the deeper desire underneath that is, I'm not sure, I'm not feeling super safe, then it's up to you to feel in how you want to navigate that because that can be a very delicate conversation.
But just pay attention to the words that they're using as they're talking to you and the energy that you're witnessing. And don't be shy to come right out and say, is there something that I can share with you? Is there something that I might not be making? Clear that will help you feel more comfortable in making a decision today, you know, and just servicing them in the way that they need.
And I think that that will go a long way. Yeah, that's so nice. I think I've noticed that as well with, I've gotten to a point where the people that I'm working with have been incredible. And, but I was having those, you know, sales calls with people that were very resistant and I did have to have a look at, okay, how am I in sales calls to other people?
And, you know, am I showing up on time to these things and then getting upset that people aren't showing up on time or, you know, anything like that. So I think with, The clients that I speak to now and something that I really find passionate in what I do with helping people with podcasts is just trying to make it easy for them to be like, I know that this is a lot of time and energy in your space.
Let me take care of it for you. Let you just do that one part and then I'll take care of it and do the rest for you and then it'll be back in there and it'll be easy for you. And so many people are like, okay, yeah, they want to feel held, taken care of. Let me hold your hand. We'll walk through the woods together.
It's so fun. And I think especially with. I really. I find that a lot of people that I work with, women in business, but also that have children and time is a big thing that, that they find that they struggle with. And so I'm so here to help them with the podcasting side of things. And I'm always like, you don't need to apologize for being late on anything.
When you've got kids, like they are the first priority. I'm so here to like help you when you can, I can help. So let me take it off you, but it's just an amazing, it's an amazing feeling being able to help people. And I'm sure you feel that with your clients as well. I'm glad that I followed my heart and that it led me here and I encourage, especially women, I feel like women are super intuitive and we always kind of know when something doesn't feel right and it might be scary to follow that nudge, but I encourage you to at least get curious with it because there's wisdom in there and it wouldn't be there if it wasn't there for a reason.
Yeah. Amazing. That's so nice. Thank you so, so much for joining me today. Where can people find you? I'll put your links in the show notes for everyone to click on, uh, but where's your preferred place for people to come and chat to you? I'm the most active on Instagram, so it's just my name, Amanda Lauren Blau.
My website is the same, www.amandalaurenblau.com. Those are the two main places that you can find me, or you can email me at amandalaurenblau@gmail.com as well. Perfect. Thank you so much. And we'll pop those links in there for everyone to have a look at. And thanks so much for chatting with me today.
Thank you so much. This was such a great conversation. I really appreciate it. Yeah, me too. And for everyone else, I will chat to you next week. Bye.
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