Presence, Power, Purpose

The Susan Beth Podcast - Purpose, Intentional Living

Hey Hey, thanks for being here. I mean that from my heart. I never want to take for granted you being here. It’s truly a gift in my life so I continue to be sincerely grateful that you continue to show up here each week. I wanted to catch you up on a few things… The start of a new year has brought some changes for the podcast. Firstly, we’ve decided to make a change to the podcast name. Depending on what platform you listen on you might have noticed that instead of saying the She Is Podcast with Susan Beth it just says the Susan Beth Podcast. Apple typically takes a while to update and last time I checked it was still showing the previous title cover. But it had been brought to my attention that my calling the podcast SHE IS could be limiting to men who have tuned in and enjoyed the podcast and to those who wouldn’t ever listen because of the name of the podcast and assume it only applies to women. Obviously, I'm going to speak and attract more of who I am but I listen to as many men as I do women and I know I’m going to want to include men as well as women as guests on the show as well. I will continue using She Is as I have been for almost a decade for many of the other products and projects. And we’ll see how the podcast name change feels and either stay with it …or change it back 😀 Secondly, we will start back with our monthly conversation with a quest next month as I wanted to use these next few weeks to process the start of a new calendar year together as we walk through Winter. I was having a conversation with my husband Ron a few days ago and we were talking about pivots in life and I so much related to what he was sharing and how much freedom I found when I realized there would be layers of iteration as I put my hands to what is in my heart. Even though I’ve always been open to change and moving towards new things there was still a twinge of how the change would be received by others. Would they love or hate the change… would they perceive the change of direction as a failure? And after hearing a few people talk about this concept of iteration years ago I could see clearly that’s what was happening in my life and that it was part of the process. And for me not to continually tweak and make changes would keep me stuck and not only would I be stuck but I would be stuck inside something that didn’t fit anymore. And I’ve talked about this before but sometimes you don’t even know what fits or doesn’t until you try it. I mean how many of you have seen a particular style of clothing or even a hairstyle that you love and you try it and you’re like NOPE not me… but you had to try it on to get that information and come to that realization. I mentioned to Ron in that same conversation how looking back on different things I’ve done Podcasting would not be the thing that I would have thought I would still be doing all these years later. I only started recording short audios for a membership community I had started years ago. Over time I realized without a team to help with all the tech involved with not only creating the content but transferring it to a platform which almost a decade ago was a lot more difficult than it is today. Was stifling the natural flow of creativity as I was spending a lot of time figuring systems out and recruiting help from others in between their work responsibilities. But through creating the membership I realized the parts of it that were important to me that felt important to continue to put my hand to and time into. and I will admit it would have been easy for me to have continued with the membership in many ways but I’ve learned as much as it is about stepping out and trying it’s also a balance of not holding on to what is not for you. A lot of the energy around heading into a new year is found in goal setting and taking on new challenges to check off. Which isn’t necessarily the spirit we find in a Winter season. A winter season invites us to slower, more reflective