REWILD + FREE - A quick reminder to celebrate the little (big) things

Episode Date: April 11, 2023

This episode was not planned! I think the spontaneous solo episodes are soon going to become my favourites! In this quick chat, I reflect on celebrating the launch of this podcast. I encourage you to notice the little things in life worth celebrating and I remind us both that what we focus our attention on grows... so we need to stop critiquing ourselves (which is subconsciously rooted in lack and scarcity)  and instead start paying attention to our baby steps and getting back up each time we fall (growth and expansion) As always, I'd love to hear from you!  Connect with me on IG (@nicolepasveer)Support the showConnect with Nicole on IG (@nicolepasveer) Want to be a guest on the podcast? Fill out this form

Welcome to the Not Just a Mom Show, where we have open and honest conversations about the vulnerabilities and the victories within entrepreneurship and new motherhood. If we haven't met yet, I'm Nicole Pazvir and I'm going to be your host. Here on the show, we don't subscribe to perfection. In fact, being present is the new perfect and showing up messy is the new norm. My hope is that this podcast serves as a safe space for me and inspiration for you to stop living life watered down. Together, we will uncover versions of our most potent selves where we show up unapologetically, intentionally, and without filter. We are worthy, just as we are,

as all that we are, not just the label we put on ourselves. We are more than just a mom, and I'm so glad you're here. I just wanted to quickly record a quick episode here because I just got off a call with my business coach and this is the evening before I'm about to launch this podcast. I'm currently sitting outside so if you hear birds or dogs or melting snow or wind that's why um but yeah I just got off a call with my business coach and she helped me reflect on and reminded me the importance to celebrate and I wanted to share some of my reflections with you hopefully as a reminder and inspiration for you to stop playing small in your life. If you're anything like me, it's really easy to just kind of downplay our achievements, especially if we're constantly trying to level up.

Sometimes it never feels like we're good enough, so why would we celebrate the little things? And I'm not subscribing to that anymore that was a past habit of mine I was notorious for playing small and yeah really just not recognizing the baby steps and so for me this podcast has a lot of depth to it it's so much more than just the two now three episodes available for you to listen to it goes far back to I was reflecting on I think literally over a year ago when the idea of starting a podcast came to be sorry there's an airplane overhead and birds I've just spent so much time running on autopilot and living my life

by default and just constantly trying to get to the next thing and do better or do more and nothing ever feels like enough and when I live in that kind of life there's been no space to celebrate the little things and like I said this podcast is more than just the podcast that you're listening to right now it's been several several months like I said over a year of me putting thought and attention into it um as I've said like I did a podcast with my friend before this and so that was full of lessons and that was full of mistakes and just tons of things that we learned we could do differently and so that was full of lessons and that was full of mistakes and just tons of things that we learned we could do differently and so of course I'm taking some of those things into play when I'm creating this podcast but it's also an opportunity for me to

stop trying to be perfect and instead show up messy it's been an opportunity for me to actually like let my thoughts come out unfiltered and uncensored because I've spent a great deal of time being worried about what others are thinking of me and we chatted about that in the episode just before this about kind of living life watered down and constantly making choices and taking action not from the heart but from a place of wanting to maintain a reputation and wanting people to think a certain way of you. And I very easily could have slid back into those tendencies in the creation of this show, but I'm not. And it's not easy.

I'll be the first to tell you it's not easy. It's really, really uncomfortable. A lot of thoughts have been popping up, like who's even going to want to listen to this, or this is a waste of time or I should be editing this out or whatever the thought is and I'm at a place in my life now where I just don't want to filter myself like that anymore. I don't want to come off as this version of pretty, pleasing, and perfect. I'm so done with that.

So, so done with that. Because by living that way, by living in this dreamland of perfection it's erased or covered up so many parts of me and I'm only now being able to shed those layers and uncover those parts of me and become my true self and I've wasted 28 years so um another airplane I didn't know so many airplanes were in the sky here holy moly um anyways yeah this this episode is supposed to be short and sweet and just a reminder to celebrate the little things I'm constantly reminded by my daughter Aubrey, who is currently 18 months. And when she started walking, which was around, I think she was around, geez, I don't even remember, 15 months. Just kind of a late walker. Seemed late.

Constantly reminded that, like, you just get back up and you try again and obviously I'm so so proud of her when she takes those steps even though they're not perfect and so she's just a constant reminder for me to celebrate those little things because those little things will someday be big right those little steps those falls those get back ups um can someday mean she's going to run a marathon and so this podcast for me while it might just seem like baby steps um I'm really leaning into the bigness and the possibility that it could also be and I'm not taking any of that away from myself and yeah so uh this is your reminder to celebrate to celebrate you for all that you are and just really lean into the little things because they compound and they and yeah also I just want to say what we focus our attention on grows and so if we're constantly

letting our mind focus on all the things we could be doing better and if we're constantly critiquing ourselves and feeling like we're not enough and we're not worthy and just all those really negative things, then that's what's going to keep showing up for us. And so really like the only way to change that narrative is to start focusing on the growth and the expansion in your life because that's just going to multiply I'll leave it with that I will see you next week I'm super excited next week's episode is actually with Elizabeth Meyer who was my former co-host of the brunch with mama's podcast it seemed really fitting that she should be the first guest on the show um and the conversation we had was really good I'm excited for you guys to listen so I'll see you next week okay before you go I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode if you were thinking of anyone while listening please send it their way and if anything

resonated with you or you love these conversations please subscribe and leave a review this really helps the podcast algorithms put my show in front of more people just like you and the last thing I would love nothing more than hearing from you so say hi dm me on instagram and give me a follow at nicole pasvir until next time