I’d like you to think about this question two ways. 1. Why are you here at Something Better, My Darling? 2. Why are you on this earth? Yes, you might be trying to answer that second question and that is why you are here! Ha! And that is perfect! I am here to help you. Listen to the this latest podcast to learn about floating and giving into the nudge!
Podcast Transcript
Welcome back to the Something Better, My Darling podcast. My name is Mandi Joyner and I am here to help women find their purpose without compromising their values, and ultimately reaching their full potential. Whether you are struggling with self worth, confidence, or lack of taking action, this is for you! I am so excited you are here! I can’t wait to get to know you!
Why are you here? You could take this question two different ways, and that is exactly how I’d like you to take it! I do want to know why you are here…why you are listening to my podcast. How you heard about Something Better, My Darling, and why you are interested! I also have a soul burning passion to help you find out why you are here! Why you are on this earth! What amazing things are you designed to be doing and how can I help get you there?!
I will be 100% transparent with you. I didn’t know that I needed anything. I didn’t know that I was floating. I didn’t realize how complacent I had become. I was happy, or rather content-ish with where I was. Let me tell you. I don’t ever want to be content again. At peace – yes! Confident – Yes! But not content. I never want to stop learning, growing, giving, pushing myself, improving, helping and the list goes on! This is me now. Before…I just didn’t know what I didn’t know! I was a single mom, working full-time as a director of marketing strategy and communications, before COVID commuting 30+ minutes to and from work each day, soccer on Saturday, Church on sundays, out with friends when my little were with their dad, dating, and just floating! I was making it, but that’s about it. Then, as you’ve heard me mention previously, I had a catalyst for change. I promise we will get to that, but it was just a catalyst, by itself the event is unimpressive. But the impact it had on me, and the path it steered me toward, now that, that is impressive!
Let me tell you a little bit about floating through this life and ignoring the nudge. You will hear me talk about floating and my nudge ALOT. I love to call it my nudge, but really it is that gut feeling you have. That twinge in your tummy. That feeling that just won’t go away. I had been ignoring my nudge for well over two years. It was this feeling that I needed to be helping women. Helping them with self-esteem, confidence, loving themselves! But guess what? I pushed that feeling down. I would tell myself that no one would care because I’m not a counselor, I’m not a therapist, and heck, I lack all of those things, how in the world could I possibly help other women!?? Stupid fear and negative self talk! It held me back for so long! I tried to appease the nudge.
I volunteered for House of Hope, a local organization that helps single mothers and young girls who have aged out of foster care. I was on their fundraising committee. Guess what, I stink at asking for money or donations from people and it was NOT satisfying my nudge. Then I tried to start the Girls on the Run program at my daughters school. Then COVID hit so no one was getting into the school. Not even the kids! It is funny looking back. God did not allow those to satisfy my nudge. He has MUCH bigger plans for me. I joke that I see God in Heaven with a bunch of tiny doors and he is just open and closing them as we walk through them. Helping us find out way through this life. Maybe he has some signs too. I’ll tell you more about that!! Oh, how I love my signs! Back to the nudge. My catalyst broke through to my nudge. I hit a low. A very low, low and I started a new devotional by Rick Warren called Daring Faith. It is a great devotional, but, as I am talking I realize that I never finished that! I should do that! I was doing the devotional one day when I remembered getting his Purpose Driven Life book from a friend. I looked up from my chair, and there was the book. Staring at me. I started to read it. I can’t remember at which day exactly I completely surrender, actually, I just looked, because I messaged Laura in the middle of the night because I couldn’t sleep. March 18th. I thought it was in February…lol! March 18th it is! That is when all of this hit me! I had started writing my book before this, but is wasn’t until this day that everything really starting clicking for me. I remembering having so much adrenaline, it was crazy! I felt so free, so excited, so much joy!
Finally that nudge I had been feeling to help women came full circle. I new what God had designed me to do. I knew now why I had been through all of the experiences I had. It was to help women!! And hopefully they would figure it out faster than me! All of those fears, all of those self-limiting beliefs I had, went away! I knew the only person holding me back, we me! There was literally no one else to blame, just me! I didn’t want to float anymore. I wanted to reach my fullest potential! Why was I floating?? How boring. Well, unless I’m floating on the lake with sunbaking my skin, then I like to float. But floating or just existing in life? No way! That is NOT what God designed us for! Think of your amazing body and how it works. We were designed for so. Much. more!! I know this is hard. TRUST ME! That is why it took me 40 years to figure it out. Or to surrender to my nudge!
And when you are on the right path, let me tell you. NOTHING can stop you. Set backs? Sure, but it is full steam ahead!! It all started to fall into place! I was still writing my book, but I knew I needed a course or a way to connect with women to help them keep moving forward. To help them keep taking the steps they needed to take to truly make a change in their lives. In just over a month I have built a website, recorded podcasts, written a workbook, designed a workbook, ordered fun things for the women taking a journey, and continued to work full-time, be a soccer mom, and be completely full of energy and life at the same time. Stick with me. I will tell you what I did, how I made this massive life change, and how you can do it too! I want everyone to have a passion that they can chase. That makes them jump out of bed in the morning for! This is why I am here! I am here to help women! I am here to help young girls! I am here to help you! I am here because This, This is what God designed me to do!
Maybe you are ready to take this journey and start taking massive action to reach your potential or you could be trying to decide. Either way, I am so excited to have you here! My soul is on fire to help you! If you’d like to join me on a journey, visit somethingbettermydarling.com and click on ‘give me 40 days!’ to sign up for a summer of fall journey! Connect with me on Instagram at something better my darling, or if you’d like to see me and my kiddos and fur baby, you can find me at mandi lanae! This is Something Better, My Darling. Thank you for listening, you’ll hear from me again! Bye!
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