Get Out of Your Damn Way with Dr. Amy Boyd
Get Out of Your Damn Way is a podcast to help women to silence the inner mean girl and get shit done. Do you have big dreams you are chasing, but when you consider taking action, that inner bitch sits on your shoulder telling you all the reasons why you can’t? Things like, “you don’t have anything meaningful to say”, “you don’t deserve a seat at the table”, or “you aren’t smart enough to do this”, so you just end up complaining to your partner, deciding you’ll just scroll social media instead, or mutter to yourself, “she’s right” as you pour yourself a big-ass glass of wine?
If you have been wishing you could tell your inner mean girl to sit down and shut up, but you can’t seem to keep her quiet, then Dr. Amy Boyd is here to help. This podcast gets to the root of why you can’t seem to get out of your damn way, and it lies in that beautiful brain of yours… your thoughts.Since 2017 her company “Write the Damn Dissertation” has helped over 10,000 women make progress on their doctoral dissertations, and yet we all have "dissertations" that never get written, painted, performed, created, spoken, or shared. Inspired by coaching conversations with high performing women, we talk about what life looks like chasing dreams and reaching goals while preventing the bitchy inner mean girl from flying the plane. To learn more about the show, download the show notes, and to access her free “Silence the Inner Mean Girl” video course, and more, visit getoutofyourdamnway.com.
Get Out of Your Damn Way with Dr. Amy Boyd
Episode 2: What do you want?
So here’s a loaded question… What do you want?
In this episode, I share my process of having no idea what I truly wanted, discovering what I really wanted, and then believing that it was possible for me to achieve my biggest dreams, even with an ever present inner mean girl trying to run the show.
I woke up one day in my 40’s and I had no idea how to answer that question.
I did what people expected of me and convinced myself that THAT was what I wanted.
Everything I had achieved in my life was a natural progression, and I never questioned it.
Until I realized that sometimes I would find myself staring out the window wondering what I was meant to do in this life.
I spent the majority of my life doing what everyone expected me to do.
And I remember sitting here in my office, right where I am recording this podcast episode, in a conference call at 5:30 after having been at work since 7:00 am thinking. Shit.. this is NOT the way I want to spend the rest of my life.
I decided that counting down the minutes until the weekend was not the way I wanted to live my life anymore, but I didn’t know how to believe that anything else was possible.
So I want to ask you… what do you WANT?
What do you have to believe to get there?
Be aware of the thoughts that you come back to that get in the way of you believing what you want to believe. Notice them. Write them down. Give them a nod… then focus on the fact that it’s totally normal.. Go back to that core belief statement, and start creating the evidence that will fortify the core belief statement. It’s possible for you.
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