In this episode of What She Taught Me by Go Long, Jill Consor Beck talks to Rebekah Bastian, CMO at mpathic and author of Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity, and Compassion, who traces her creativity and "delusional optimism" straight back to her free-spirited, artist mother. Rebekah still brings that creative streak into her workday — she admits to "literally being sitting here in a meeting, knitting a leg warmer right now." She's trying to unlearn the same over-involvement she inherited from her mom: "I should delegate more. I should step back more." She was, by her own account, "an absolute train wreck of a teenager" — and still hasn't found a clean answer for what her parents could have done differently.

Resources mentioned:

• Blaze Your Own Trail — https://www.amazon.com/Blaze-Your-Own-Trail-Interactive-ebook/dp/B07Y422NWF

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• LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahbastian/

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Jump to:

00:00 Introduction to Rebekah and Being Purpose-Driven in Her Current Role

01:33 Following in Her Mom's Footsteps as an Artist

03:14 What Went Unacknowledged: A Family of Worriers

05:14 How She Uses Creativity to Bridge Both Personal and Professional Lives

07:00 Time-Boxing Work and Startup Motherhood

09:04 How She Thinks About Her Train Wreck Years As She Parents Her Kids

10:38 The Importance of Vulnerability, Crying, and Asking For Help

12:08 Closing Thoughts and Family Time at the Mariners Game