545: Your feelings are valid
Not feeling particularly motivated or inspired? I've got you!
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544: This is what we do on a Friday!
I bet you did one thing you're proud of this week! As we round off this week, that's exactly what we're looking for.
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Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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542: Need some motivation? This one's for you!
If you're finding yourself in need of some motivation, then today's pep talk is for you.
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Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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541: Here's to the plate spinners
If you feel like you're not getting much done, or you're just not feeling it and want a quick boost - this one's for you!
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If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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538: You're allowed to change your mind
Embrace your stubborn nature, but remember - you're allowed to go back on your decisions.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Thursday to you. Now we kept off this week on the daily pet talking about how you do not have to defend your decisions to anybody, and no one is older at nation or justification on why you make the choices that you do. And I wanna do a bit of a follow-up to that one today. And just to remind you that it's okay to change your mind as well. It's okay to go back on your decisions. And sometimes we do because we are all humans, and to be human is not to have a really linear experience. Now something that is really important, and I say this as a very stubborn person myself, is that we don't get so stubborn That we end up cutting off our nose despite our face. You, my dear, are allowed to change your mind You are allowed to make the best decision for yourself based on what information you have available at the time.
And I know we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but I wanna bring it up again. What if there is no wrong decision? So that is my food for thought for you today. Remember that you do not have to defend your decisions. And you can also go back on your decisions, and you are perfectly entitled to do that. So here's to stubbornly chasing our dreams, but not so stubbornly that we end up sabotage ourselves along the way. I'll see you tomorrow.
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The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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537: Progress, is progress, is progress
If you feel like you're not making progress, today I'm compassionately challenging you.
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Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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536: You don't need the added extras
What if you are enough the way you are? Today we're taking out the rosemary, and embracing your fabulous yourself, as you are, right now.
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The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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535: You don't owe anyone an explanation
This one's a fiery one! Today's episode is all about how you don't have to explain your life choices to anyone.
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532: Maintenance Mode
It's hump day! Today's episode is a permission slip to slow down, or just do the essentials. We dive into the flip side of Beast Mode - Maintenance Mode.
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531: Rest does not need to be earned
Today's episode is a reminder that we can get far more done with self compassion than self criticism.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, daily peppers, and a very, very happy Tuesday to you. If you are just not feeling it or if you are being really hard on yourself this week, this is the episode for you. So one of the things I think it's fair to say nearly all of us struggle with around here is being really hard on ourselves, pushing ourselves slightly too hard, and feeling like we have to earn rest. Now I wanna start up by challenging that last one because rest is not transactional. Rest is not something you have to earn and you do not get to meet your own basic needs when you've earned a certain number of productivity points. What I mean by this is I know that I used to set myself certain rewards for doing things like, okay. I'll go out and take a walk when I've got x done. And while on one hand, that can feel motivating, on the other hand, that really is depriving me of something that I know is really good for mental health until I have earned it.
And that's just bullshit. You get to meet your basic needs regardless of what you've done or what you've accomplished or what you've quote earned and to suggest otherwise is really damn cruel to ourselves. So on that note, I just wanna remind you today that that as counterintuitive as it might sound, you do get more done with self kindness and self compassion than you do from self criticism and self flagellation. We've all had those times where we're sitting there making ourselves get work done and we are just too tired and we're not getting much done. And we know we would be much better off either coming back to it later or having a bit of a rest, but we deprive ourselves of that because our society is always about pushing through no matter what and how productivity is always king which it is not. So whatever you're working on at the moment, whatever you are struggling with, whatever you've got on your plate, I invite you to just think about what it would look like and what it would feel like to do it with more compassion. Chances are you would probably come to a resolution more quickly. Chances are it would feel better, and I think you might surprise yourself.
So that is your food for thought for today. Have a good one, and remember that you are not lazy no matter what your inner dream shitter would have you believe. I'll see you tomorrow.
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If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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530: Use yourself as inspiration
Today we're looking at using our wins from week's gone by to spur on the start of the new week.
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529: Take the time to look at your wins
So often we hold ourselves to unrealistic and cruel standards that mean we often finish the week feeling like we haven't got anything done. Today we're reframing this and focusing on what we have done.
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Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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528: Do something for future you
As we're coming to the end of the week, there's usually a couple of things we meant to get done, that we just haven't. Today's episode is a pep talk to help you on your way to get it done.
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The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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527: Maybe it's not a sign
Another sassy one! Sometimes we know there's something that we just need to do and take every roadblock as a sign not to do it. Today we're flipping that on it's head.
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Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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526: The courage to walk away
Today's pep talk is a massive permission slip that you don't have to spend your days doing things you're good at but don't enjoy!
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The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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525: Let's win Monday!
We're kicking off this week with a challenge that will give you a confidence boost AND more brain space.
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524: You DO have a superpower (yes, you!)
If you've been listening to this week's episodes about having a superpower and zone of genius and you don't think you have one, think again!
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Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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523: You may be quick for a reason
If you've ever discounted something you've done because you did it too fast, this one's for you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very, very happy Thursday to you. So Part of what we're doing this week on The Daily Pep is we are really diving into figuring out your superpowers and your zone of genius. We kicked off yesterday by diving into how the things that come easy to you may not come easy to other people, And that can be a huge clue when it comes to figuring out your zone of genius. And today, I want to give you a pep Talk around the things that you can do quite quickly. So behind the scenes, I have set myself a bit of a 3 day challenge. Last week, I ran the Fuck the Cobwebs workshop. And as part of the prep for that, I came up with 20 creative ways to battle your inner dream shitter. And it was all laid out on my whiteboard, and I thought, this would make a great ebook.
I could expand on the different areas, theme things together, Really go into the theory, make it nice and practical, and it probably wouldn't take a huge amount of time. So in the spirit of experimenting and finishing things And just being me, I thought, right, 3 days, that's what I'm gonna give myself to see if I can get this done. And I've noticed something really curious while writing it, And I've noticed it before, and I think you may have too. As I'm doing it, it's coming together pretty quickly. Going back to yesterday's episode, it doesn't feel like a particularly mammoth task. But the fact that it's coming easy And the fact that it is coming together really quickly is making me seriously doubt myself. It is making me wonder if there's anything of Value there, and it's bringing up all these questions. But here's what I know to be true and is something that I tell other people all the time.
Things that come quickly to you are because you've put the work in. By the time we come to sit down to do projects, Sometimes they automatically go a bit quicker because we have been thinking about them for a long time. They are things that have been bouncing around our heads And I've been percolating for quite some time so that when it comes to actually doing them, and obviously, this depends on the medium that you're doing it in, It's kind of a case of downloading your brain to the page. You've done a lot of the heavy lifting. You've done a lot of the thinking, and it's just about getting it out of there. Yet when we do get it out of our brain, exactly like I'm sharing with you now about my own experiences, We really start to doubt ourselves. We think that we must be some kind of fraud or and I know this is a big one. We think we're doing something wrong.
But today, I'm really calling bullshit on that both for me and for you. It reminds me a bit of the stuff we See on Instagram and TikTok around makers talking about how, yeah, they may be able to do things quite quickly or make it look really easy, But what you don't see is all of the toil and all of the hours it took to get there and all the things that come before it. So here's just both embracing that if you are doing something quickly and if it feels like it comes easy to you, there is probably a reason You have worked for it, and you are not doing anything wrong. A big theme here on The Daily PEP is keeping going, And we know that can be really tough. So when it comes to times when we feel like we're in the flow and things are just happening, And let's just try to enjoy it because we have earned it. Not everything has to feel like a battle. We get to actually enjoy our work, and imagine if we could embrace that and really enjoy it Rather than questioning it to begin with, I look forward to being back with you bright and early tomorrow morning. And for now, I've got a shit tonne of writing to go and do. So I'm gonna go do that, and I'm gonna enjoy it. And I will see you later.
Episode transcript produced by Castmagic.io
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A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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522: Don't dismiss the things that come easily
There is so much magic in the things that come easily to us, and today we're debunking the myth that all good things have to be hard and painful.
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Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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521: The ghosts of projects past
If you've ever felt shame about going back to projects that have been abandoned for a while, this one's for you!
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