I am so excited to welcome Sara Dean to the Joyful Courage Podcast. Sara is the creator and host of the Shameless Mom Academy Podcast, a top rated podcast with over 2 million downloads. Her biggest passion is helping women own their space. After enduring a long infertility journey, and then a full blown identity crises following the birth of her son, Sara took her background in psychology/health/ wellness and rebuilt her identity – one step at a time. Today, Sara motivates and inspires women to stop shrinking and start growing in every aspect of their lives. She is on a mission to inspire women and moms, in particular, to live bigger, bolder, braver #everydamnday.

"I realized over time that I wanted to be having conversations about helping women take up space, rather than always trying to shrink in the space they existed in.”

“Perfect is paralyzing.”

“If you're in perfectionism, there's no momentum.”

“We need to give ourselves permission to feel in big ways and to be vulnerable with those feelings.”

“It's okay to cry, but suffering in silence is the most surefire way to destroy yourself.”

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• The role of mindset 
• Outcome versus process goals 
• Moms and worthiness
• Why perfect sucks
• Perfectionism, procrastination and high achieving women
• How perfectionism robs you of momentum
• Doing B- work
• The role of routine and structure
• Creating mental freedom
• Giving ourselves permission to feel
• Intuition and finding the lessons in the chaos
• Learning to sit in discomfort
• Finding gratitude in hard moments and hard phases
• The universality of challenges and trauma 
• Why women suffer in silence

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