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Love: a conversation with Lisa Galinski of Wild Heart Living

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Hello!

How is this week treating you? It’s treating me mighty fine, but then it doesn’t hurt for it to be B-day + V-day week. Color me spoiled.

Still, we have work to do around here. So quit your loafin’!

That was totally directed at me, not you, by the way.

ANYWAY, moving on. I am completely fascinated with the word, concept, & feeling of LOVE. You might even say I’m in love with love (har har). And so…

Today I’m bringing you a conversational interview that I had with Lisa Galinski whose on a mission to spread love in the world.

It was a fascinating to watch things unfold the deeper we got into the topic of love. Be sure to check it out!

Here is the highlight version of our conversation

Some of my big take aways from the conversation is:

  1. Love is a way of experiencing the world. ←Tweet this, y’all
  2. Love is a choice. So choose it.
  3. Love is what we all want to feel.
  4. Love is totally spreadable. So let’s spread it!

If you’d like to watch the entire conversation (about 18 minutes), I’ve included that below as well.

About Lisa

Lisa Galinski is a coach and a wild heart catalyst. She coaches passionate humans who want to do work that matters to Lead from Their Hearts and use their talents to create a better world. You can reach her at Lisa@YourWildHeart.com or visit her blog at YourWildHeart.com, where there is a new {Experiment in Love} every day for the month of February!

Here’s the full conversation…

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happy birthday to me & a gift for you

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Dan & I kicked off our birthday week (his is on Valentine’s Day) on Saturday with a fabulous dinner at one of our favorite restaurants and Bill Cosby Live (such an amazing & funny man! He’s still got it at 75).

I’m not going to tell you how old I am today because I don’t want to think about numbers on my birthday (though if you go to my charity:water page, you’ll see the real number), but let’s just say I’m old enough to remember some stuff (like this and this).

Oh and…
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Anyway… so I have a birthday present FOR YOU

Yep. I’m giving you a gift on my birthday. Aren’t I awesome?

Remember all that stuff I said about gremlins? (You can watch it here if you need a refresher). Well, I’ve created a FREE mini-course that will help you housebreak your gremlin.

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It is quick, easy, and fun. All delivered to your inbox in bite-sized pieces over 5 days.

I put some really good stuff in there to get your from “maybe-I-dunno” to saying “Oh yeah!” (like Koolaid Man). I hope you like it. Did I mention it’s FREE?

Ready? Sign up Now

Updated [September 3, 2013] — I’m no longer offering this free mini course, but I do have a downloadable e-book that helps you take your Dream and put it into Action. You can get it for free just click here to sign up!


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conversations about love

Welcome to February. Last month I chose the word courage as my theme and intention, and with courage I learned some things from Sandy (as in Grease), posted my first video, and found my own remedy for a vulnerability hangover.

So now we’re already into the month of February and my new word is: love. I know, kind of obvious for February, right? Yes, and there’s some real juicy stuff when you look deeper into love.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu

And in the spirit of L-O-V-E, I’ll be bringing you a few conversations with a few people I know who are bringing more love into the world. The first one is with Carly Butler of Life’s Letter and you can read our conversation below.

Also in the spirit of L-O-V-E, I’ve pledged my birthday (which is this month) to charity:water to bring clean water to people who don’t have it. If you want to help me reach my goal of $1000 (please please), Go Here >>
Note: You’ll find buttons for crazy numbers like $39 and $390 (cause they think I’m turning 39 or something, as if… well, ok. I am. shh, don’t tell)… but you can donate like $5 or whatever, just click the “another amount” button).

And now without further ado, here is my Q&A with Courageous Carly…

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sometimes it takes courage to stay the course

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Have you heard of a “vulnerability hangover”? I first heard the phrase from Brené Brown (whose books, by the way, are AWESOME & don’t even get me started on her Ted talk. Love.). Then this week I got a newsletter from Jennifer Lee (of The Right Brain Business Plan) in which she fessed up to having one recently.

What is a vulnerability hangover? A vulnerability hangover is that “what was I thinking” kind of feeling that happens after you put yourself out there in a real (genuine) way… aka when you expose yourself.

Like when you find the courage to push past your gremlins and do that thing that scares-but-excites you, you’re left with your guard down and your gremlins come back with a vengeance to point out all the little things that could’ve been better, that you did completely wrong, and that you shouldn’t have said in the first place.

Yeah, that.

Today I realized that’s what I’ve been feeling since I posted my video last week. And that’s why I’ve had such a hard time writing since that post.

But you know what? I’m still here. I had some nice comments about my video. And my mission is still the same as it was before I posted that video: to create space for people (you & me) to live our possibilities in life (by making gremlins back off & other more fun stuff).

And to do that, I’m going to have to do more things that scare me which often includes staying the course.

Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary. ~ Brené Brown in The Gifts of Imperfection

One thing I noticed during that vulnerability hangover is that I kept looking for an “easy” topic to write about. As in something that’s less real for me at the moment… something I can talk about but not really connect to directly. (does that make sense?)

In other words, something that doesn’t require me to be vulnerable.

But you know what? To live fully, to love completely, to really connect to people, to make dreams come true… it all requires being vulnerable in some way. Being vulnerable takes courage.

Courage is like a multivitamin. You need a dose everyday. ← Tweet this, y’all!

Turns out my remedy for a vulnerability hangover is a little bit of the hair of the dog… so here I am putting myself out there again.

What’s your vulnerability hangover remedy?

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what I learned about courage from sandy

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Remember in Grease how Sandy is at the beginning of the movie? She is the quintessential good girl. She’s a nice girl. She doesn’t quite get it when people are sarcastic or being mean. How could she? She’s nice to everyone and expects that everyone else would be nice too.

Growing up in the South and having an Asian mom, I got a double lesson in nice. I was so nice, it could’ve been my middle name. So I really related to Sandy and loved Grease when I was a kid. In my mind, I was a half-Korean Sandy Olsson.

As a kid (and teenager), I learned that “being nice” and being a “good girl” were the easy way to keep the status quo, please other people, and, in a lot of ways, to hide. But like Sandy, I wasn’t fooling anyone.
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A new approach

This year, I’m choosing a word each month to use as my theme/intention/guide post. When I originally thought of this idea, I thought: January would be a great time to focus on simplifying. Yeah, totally, dude. The January word is totally: simplicity. Rad.

But now that I’ve recovered from my surfer-dude speech impediment, I realize that’s not my word this month. In fact, Wednesday’s post about being scared and doing it anyway has inspired the word for this month.

And that word is… drumroll, please… Courage.

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Photo: the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz gets his medal of courage

Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the “ape” in apricot? What have they got that I ain’t got? (~ The Cowardly Lion)

Courage!

Darn tootin.

And just like the lion, we have all the courage we need already. So consider this your virtual Courage Medal.

“Read what my medal says: “Courage”. Ain’t it the truth? Ain’t it the truth? ” ~ The Lion

So that’s what you can expect from me this month: courage.
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chicken fried terror

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As I mentioned in my new year’s post, I’m changing the direction of this blog. Expanding beyond food and writing about things that are important to me now (things like: hey! I’ve become a certified a life coach and a stepmom and have a whole new relationship to food and health… and you know what? I’ve got some interesting things to say about it!).

And none of this is really new. I’ve been thinking about making these changes for 2 years (just ask my husband, he’s sick of hearing about it). And yet, even after I “outed” myself with that announcement on January 1st, it still took me until today (January 9th, that’s over a week!) to write even one word.

WHY?!

“Write blog post” has been at the top of my ToDo list every day this week, and at the end of the day when I did not write it, I highlighted it in orange. After a couple of days of highlighting my failure and feeling bad about it, I looked deeper.
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