REWILD + FREE - THE SHADOW SIDE OF TIME FREEDOM (62)
Episode Date: November 20, 2024Spontaneous musings around my new sense of time freedom since becoming a #daycaremom LOL In this conversation I share bits of my own inner world and the old stories, pressures, conditions I'm working ...through around productivity and traditional business strategy I'm inviting us all into a new paradigm where our actions are value aligned and in right relationship with our body, where our to do lists are anchored around desire instead of obligation, and where our level of impact doesn't compromise our integrityI'm hosting a virtual 12 week retreat for fellow paradigm shifters, way-showers, culture disruptors ready to break free from the conditions keeping them from tapping into their full aliveness DM me RETREAT on IG @nicolepasveer if you want more details and access to my secret pre sale that includes $900 off (for women ready to jump all in even though I don't have a stupid sales page up yet 😝)
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You're listening to Rewild and Free. This is the go-to podcast for conscious and holistic
mother entrepreneurs who are ditching society's to-do list for intentional living, freedom,
and abundance, while creating impact and legacy in their home and business. If we haven't
met yet, I'm Nicole Pazvir, your like-hearted mom friend and biz bestie wrapped in one.
I'm an ex-nurse turned matrescence guide and business coach, leading women just like you
into the new paradigm, where thriving in motherhood is your birthright and so is a successful and sustainable online
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marketing and boss babe culture because in this space we use nature as our framework as we move
towards feminine embodied business development cyclical orientation and slow living together
let's rewild and remember as we break
free from survival and reconnect to what truly matters. Okay friend, steep your tea and take
the most loving breath you've given to yourself today and let's go.
Embarrassed at how many times I was like scripting in my head how to start this conversation does anyone else do that where they
literally like in their head practice what they're about to say can we stop that just
fucking speak woman speak speak speak okay here we go this isn't even like spicy or anything it's
funny I have a hard time sometimes starting things and then once I start I can't stop so um
I've been reflecting today on this like new sense of time freedom that I'm experiencing since my
daughter Aubrey has been going to daycare and long story short like she we made the decision
as a family to start sending her to daycare back in the summer.
And oh my God, those first three months, literally July, August, and September, I kid you not,
might have been like the hardest months of my life because it was not going well.
And I was feeling so stuck and so discouraged and crippled with self-doubt, not feeling like I made the right decision or second-guessing my decision and just really at odds with the system that we exist in, in the sense of the collective undervaluing of mothers and my own inner shit that was going on of noticing that I
wanted to be everything to her. And so there was this ego death that had to happen in creating
that separation between her and I, where I actually needed to find safety in not being with her all the time and allowing and practicing building trust
in other people looking after her and yeah like those first couple months were not
were not easy because she was not transitioning well and even though I was all of a sudden
getting this chunk of time in the day that I've literally never experienced, because prior to becoming a mom, I worked basically full time and I was still so enmeshed with my daughter.
And the maternal-baby bond that obviously is real and exists and I'm still breastfeeding,
I think hormonally that attachment is even deeper. I hear from many moms that once they're done breastfeeding, the relationship
just shifts. And I recognize that we haven't experienced that shift yet. And so that was also
playing into all of the emotional, energetic stuff that I was experiencing all summer in
being separated from her. And also this really uncomfortable
truth of sitting in my own privilege, the privilege of even getting to
have the choice and the financial ability to send her to childcare. That was uncomfortable in itself.
I remember many times thinking, man, this would be so much easier, quote unquote,
if there wasn't a choice here. If I had to go back to work and we had no choice and we had to
send her to daycare. But we had that choice and sitting with that choice was really, really
uncomfortable too. Anyways, I said this is going to be a long story short and that turned into a
long story long as it always does. My point is is is it took a good three months for that transition to to transition so it really wasn't until October like last month end of September
beginning of October that we started to find ourselves in a new groove and a new routine
she now actually likes and wants to go to daycare she is thriving there is no urgency for me during
the day to go pick her up she's even even napping there, which I never thought would have happened. And all of this to say, I now have this new sense of time freedom It's like a value. Freedom I'm recognizing is one of my biggest values and that manifests in so many different aspects of life
and like the flexibility of time is one of those things. And more so the flexibility to actually
just meet and tend to my body on a minute by minute basis and not be attached to the constructs and the timelines
of society or obligations outside of me and I recognize that that is a fucking privilege
and I'm I'm really aware of it and sitting with it and not taking it for granted I also can see
the sacrifices and the the compromises and the devotion and dedication and
commitment that myself and my husband have had to make to get to this point right this didn't just
like land in my lap these were this this is a manifestation of like many conscious choices
to get to this place and anyways the whole point of this episode in this conversation
is because I want to talk about this new sense of time freedom and how unfamiliar it is to my
nervous system and how yeah this was the goal and I could be sitting here like just living my best
life but there's still so many parts of me that want to run on autopilot and autopilot being like we must get things done
we must use this time efficiently we must tackle the to-do list and that's not why I wanted this
right I just named like I wanted this for that that spaciousness and that flexibility to be attuned to and in relationship to my body. And today specifically,
I have some big ambition over the next couple weeks. I'm in the middle of, I guess, a launch,
if you want to call it that, although that word doesn't necessarily resonate. I'm creating,
I'm gestating, I'm birthing a retreat, a virtual retreat for January,
February, and March, three-month retreat.
And I'm in the process of just getting crystal clear on what that's looking and the women
that I'm calling in for that container.
And I have it in my head that I have to create a sales page for it.
And of course, that's in my head, right?
Because that's all we've ever seen we see
the the business world we see the the the gurus and the coaches tell us like yeah you need to
have this this sales page that's how people buy your stuff and I'm putting all this pressure on
myself to master and perfect this sales page I'm putting all this pressure on myself to master and perfect this sales page. I'm putting all this pressure on
myself to have this organic kind of funnel be created and these avenues for people to enter
my ecosystem and get a taste of me and get a sense of like my energy and my approach knowing that
they likely need to build trust with me before they're willing to actually
commit to some sort of financial exchange to be a member or a not a member I don't even know why
that came out of my mouth to just be one of the women that I'm calling in for this retreat. And I can see so clearly that those pressures, those aren't mine.
Those are coming from outside of me.
Those are coming from the boss babe mindset
and the bro marketing strategies and tactics
that is all we've really ever been exposed to.
So anything outside of that feels unfamiliar.
Anything outside of that feels impossible.
Anything outside of that feels wrong.
And the thing is, is what if that's actually the answer
that we've all been looking for?
I'm not saying the way I am about to do things is your answer I'm saying like just what if not following the way it's always been done
is the answer right and really tuning into what your body and like the the soul and the essence
of your business and the soul and the essence of whatever offering you're creating is asking of you and literally being in relationship
relationship to it and asking like how do you want to be seen today
what if it was actually that simple and so for me personally like I said this sense of time freedom and literally today I had one call
this morning the rest of my day the rest of the chunk of day that my daughter's at daycare I have
all this flexibility I can do whatever the fuck I want to do in this time and I noticed how quick I was to fall into the traps of that pressure and almost just see that pressure to work on the sales page and work on the launch of this retreat.
And all of that was out of alignment of what my body was actually asking for.
My body was actually asking for movement and connection
and food. I sometimes get into these like hyper fixated moments of doing whatever it is that I'm
focused on and I don't even recognize that I'm hungry and so like I forget to eat lunch.
And today I was able to recognize, oh actually my body wants lunch right now, let's go have lunch
instead of waiting till like I'm starving and it's past the point of no return
and that's what I'm talking about here is like being able to be in that space where
you are so present with your body's communication that the answers you keep looking for outside of
yourself are revealed because your body literally
tells you what's next. Like the steps literally unfold for you without you putting a bunch of
energy into figuring it out, right? So my day ended up being a 49-minute dance party,
some journaling, some voice noting to some women that I would really love to see at this retreat
and now here I am recording this like this none of this was on my to-do list and I'm not like
scrapping my to-do list I'm just like in full trust that it will organically unfold and when I show up if I even show up to completing the so-called
sales page for this retreat it won't be from obligation and it won't be from force it will
be because the words are just ready to ooze out of me and be put onto paper
I have enough evidence now to support that forcing words on paper, forcing content, forcing copy doesn't work.
And when I mean it doesn't work, sure, I can get something done.
But that resonance, that felt experience for the person that's reading it is so disconnected. And I think this is a missing piece in the business space and the marketing
space is we really need to be focusing on resonance building. We need to be showing up to
our business and our marketing and our copywriting from this very safe and excited and grounded,
rooted channel, right? Not from this place of desperation and not from this place of oh I
have to get this done and move through my to-do list or not from this place of I can't do this
until I do that right the condition that we kind of put on our tasks and our productivity and I know
I'm all over the place this is just how things go go. If you're new to my world, right, and you're not following along, then this is it. Take it or leave it. I don't script my
episodes. I don't really even think too hard about what I want to talk about. I just have this nudge
of, okay, we're going to go here and then I start talking. So here we are and we're here.
And I just want to really give language to the fact that when the strategy that you are
trying to implement in your business feels hard and uncomfortable and sticky ask yourself what's
here for me is this this hard and this uncomfortable and sticky because
this is an edge for me or is this hard and uncomfortable and sticky because this is out
of alignment for me and being able to discern between those two things obviously is a skill
and takes some time but that really is like how
how we start shifting the paradigm when it comes to the way we show up to business
and that's how we yeah just get to create more of a reparative and a regenerative space in the industry of coaching and growing your your audience or whatever other kind
of like superficial metric of success that society kind of gives us as a download when we when we
unsubscribe to those downloads and we actually tune into what would success actually feel like for me and we go after it that's when things start to shift and that's when the reality
becomes something new and when we talk about like a new paradigm or a new earth like that's all it
is that is just like doing things differently and showing up to life
and showing up to business and showing up to the way you meet yourself and the way you you interact
with your your kids and your partner and your relationship to money all of those things start
to shift and all of those things start to hopefully become more easeful and less clunky because
there's just this this cleaner energy to it there's not conditions you are just like so
firmly rooted in in a felt sense of safety of like your sense of belonging and your like right
to exist in the world that
there's not these conditions of well I can only do this if I do that I can only launch this if I
have this certification I can only have this many people on my container if I have the right lead
magnet and like a perfect or polished sales page do you see where i'm going with that like all of that is bullshit
and i think the sooner that we come to realize it and the sooner that we start to
show up differently the better the world is going to be and yeah i think my point of this was just to share the the ongoing inner work the inside out work that that happens right it
isn't a final destination I was talking to someone about like inner mastery and self-mastery and how
I'm so fed up with the word mastery because mastery in itself feels like something that
has like a
completion something that you're conquering something with a final outcome and tending
to our own inner world healing our own inner world has no there's no final destination there right it
is like a lifelong practice and it's being in
relationship. That's what it is. It's not inner mastery. It's like being in right relationship
with yourself. And yeah, that's really what my whole body of work is all about. And this retreat
that I'm creating really is centered around, obviously it's centered around tending to our inner world.
But deeper than that, it's the deconditioning and the untangling and the unmasking of layers that have been put on us from societal conditions and systemic oppression and just the water we swim in and how all of those
things are keeping us from really tapping into our our purpose and our potential and
being truly like in alignment I know like all of those things are kind of like buzzwords and I
almost cringe saying them out loud but like it's this it's the shedding of skins to really
come home and reclaim your true and natural essence it's untaming your wildness and all the parts of you that you've been suppressing
and it's that like I said attunement to your body in such a lovingly
non-judgmental compassionate judgmental, compassionate way. It's like full self-acceptance of, wow, I see this part of me
that is feeling really uncomfortable in not creating a sales page because everything around
me is telling me that I need a sales page and this is inviting me to really trust myself. It's letting that fear and that doubt actually have a seat at the table
and allowing that part to be there
and allowing yourself to glean wisdom from that
and create a felt sense of safety for that part.
It's recognizing when old stories you've attached to aren't actually true anymore.
This is such a silly example, but like last week, I wanted to get my eyebrows threaded and I kept
telling myself like, oh, I don't have time. I don't have time. Because that's always been the story right that's always been the story it always felt like
this added thing on my to-do list that only gets to happen when I don't know a series of events
magically unfold and I caught myself I'm like wait a I do have time. I'm just like choosing not to use this time for that. And it just really widened my lens on my own inner
experience right now, like how quick we are to go back to those old patterns and go back to those
old stories and not really give space to actually check, like fact check them, literally like fact check your own mind chatter.
And when you recognize it and you give awareness, you have awareness around it,
that gives you the opportunity to make a different choice and to disrupt that pattern.
And so obviously, like I came to the conclusion of, yeah, get to I do have time I went got my eyebrows threaded
and just got to sit in this this realization of this is the life I've created this is all I've
ever wanted is this sense of time freedom and again kind of full circle moment to the beginning
of the conversation I'm really just trying to paint this picture that even when we get to
quote-unquote the final destination the thing that we wanted, these old stories, these old patterns, these old conditions keep coming in to just try to bring us back to something more familiar.
Because our nervous system is like literally its job is just to be on the lookout for threats.
And so it's constantly scanning for threats. It's constantly scanning to see what feels unsafe versus what is safe.
And anything unfamiliar rings the alarm bell as unsafe. So our jobs then get to be
bringing awareness to that and intentionally building capacity and creating a felt sense of safety as we start doing these new unfamiliar things.
Anyways, this was all over the place.
I hope there was something here for you.
Yeah, I'm hosting a retreat in January.
It's going to be 12 weeks.
It's all virtual.
Very unconventional, as is everything I do.
You don't need flights.
You don't need flights you don't need accommodations
and yeah I'm I'm I'm really anchoring it into just
I don't even have the language this is why there's no sales page because
I'm having such a hard time finding the language to express like the depths that I want to take us through in this
retreat but the language I do have is really around deconditioning and deconstructing and
untaming ourselves in the sense of actually actually moving towards our wildest desires and tending to the parts of us that have been
protecting us or or creating some sort of resistance in actually getting there so
basically it's like deconditioning work but it it's specifically for women who consider themselves
like self-led they've already been doing some deconditioning
and some untangling work they have been on this like self-reclamation journey for lack of a better
word call it what you want and they recognize that like our our outer world simply is just a
reflection of our inner world so instead of putting all of our energy into the outer world stuff like
in the context of like business like the strategy
the website the stupid sales page why don't we actually put our energy into our inner world and
tend to all the things going on kind of below ground because then the above ground stuff
organically just shapes itself and the energy needed to create and manifest things into like the 3d world
end up being so much easier that's like a fucking quantum leap timeline drop whatever you want to
call it and yeah let's do it let's collapse timelines in your business without actually
digging heels into business strategy