You would think with all the fancy initials after De Shell's name, we would be talking about female leadership, or coaching but that is not what this podcast is about.

In fact, if you stay in the interview for at least 22 minutes, De Shell will mesmerize you like she did me. She will lull you into belief you deserve a gentle life and no longer need to feel like you are drowning inside.

De Shell and I had a shared language of leaning deliciously into our expansion of self-knowledge in an area that is not necessarily to our professional advantage. Why not? Who told us that is not beneficial? The system, that is who, and its all a bunch of lies. How you feed your soul is how you show up everywhere in your life, including how you self-serve.

For De Shell this was yoga. She learned after decades of practicing asanas that the lifestyle is so much biggest than exercise. As a life long learner, she wanted to do something deeper that helped her calm down. What it meant for the mental and energetic and emotional space. She signed up for a teacher training which also gave me permission to validate my desire to take a yoga teacher intensive one day because I too have been doing yoga my whole life thinking I want a better understanding of what's deeper. I have learned more than ever lately, if you just stay in child pose your whole time, it is okay.

Why can't we do something just to learn? Why are we always in the hustle? Women always need an outcome, but what if the outcome is it feels good and you are curious.

I share with De Shell I found out a lot of what I believed in, what I felt I had to prove, was a lie. She nailed in on the head when she said, it's the overfunctioning. The badges we think we need to win, and the conditioning to place more value on what we do versus who we are. Women who don't have self-trust use the real masculine language and think "if I could just…", but at the same time, it's magical thinking to say we don't need to make money. There is a happy medium. De Shell works with a lot of women on boards with high position, and she thinks of herself a decade ago. She would defend the lies based on how she defined herself. Self-care for example, relaxation versus rejuvenation. You don't rest when you die! You need to nap on a hammock! Stop trying to think looking good is self-care!

De Shell takes off into the mountains, and travels alone. She doesn't want to be concerned with what you want to eat and what activity you want to engage in. She wants to rejuvenate!

In the Fun Segment she suggests:

1. Journal by candlelight, do yoga poses, sink into oracle witnessing and reflecting on becoming.

2. Go on trips on your own and make discoveries.

3. Eat at new places and savor what's local. What's the story behind the food?

4. When you travel, see how the poor and impoverished live beyond your resort parameters.

5. No schedule, no check in. 8 hour book days.

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If you want to learn more about the work De Shell is doing, check her out at https://leveragingtruth.com