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801. How to Set Boundaries & Make Peace in Your Relationships with Nedra Tawwab

Nedra Tawwab is all about helping people create healthy relationships, not just with others but with themselves. She’s a strong believer in the power of boundaries and teaches that a lack of assertiveness is at the root of most relationship issues. You don’t have to lose yourself to be in a thriving relationship – in fact, you’re not doing anyone a favor when you neglect your needs for the needs of others. She helps us find what it means to experience the true and profound freedom of being yourself.

 

Question Highlights:

  • What do you do and how did you become so passionate about this topic?
  • What are the clues that you are in desperate need of some boundaries?
  • What are the main fears people face when it comes to setting boundaries and how do we get around them?
  • How do you share boundaries in a way that people understand your intentions?
  • How can you get better at saying no?
  • How does it feel on the other side of difficult conversations?
  • How did you become okay with not liking everything in your life?
  • How do you know when to end a friendship?

 

Guest Bio:

Nedra Glover Tawwab, a licensed therapist and sought-after relationship expert, has practiced relationship therapy for twelve years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice Kaleidoscope Counseling. She has been recently featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Psychology Today, Self, and Vice, and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including Don’t Keep Your Day Job, Do the Thing, and Therapy for Black Girls. Tawwab runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and hosts weekly Q&As about boundaries and relationships. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family.

800. How Your Blessing Will Be Granted and Delivered to You

I know you want to grow, level up, and expand, be it personally or professionally. That’s why you’re here. I have a feeling that your prayers are already being answered in ways you aren’t aware of yet, because it’s been happening to me. The challenges that you are going through right now may not feel like the answers to your hopes and dreams, but it’s through those struggles that you grow into the person you want to be. Without the struggle, you’re standing still.

799. The Unexpected Power of Making Unreasonable Requests

Have you ever made an unreasonable request? An ask that you were sure was going to get rejected the moment you put it out there? Sure you have, but there’s a limit to how many times we’re comfortable getting burned. After a while, most of us stop ourselves before the words reach our lips. We think we’ll get ridiculed, shut down, ignored. As a result, opportunities and ideas fall by the wayside.

As you’ll learn in this episode, you can get away with more than you ever thought was possible by being bold and going for the ask, regardless of expectation. Stephanie Burns built her business on what she calls bootscrapping – getting scrappy while bootstrapping, a term and technique that came as a result of making bold unreasonable requests. She teaches us to take that leap. You might be surprised at what can happen.

 

Question Highlights:

  • How did you get started with making unreasonable requests?
  • How do you cope with what comes up when you go to make those requests?
  • How do you learn how to bring value to people?
  • What are some of the obstacles that come up around making big asks?
  • How do you do your research in order to craft your message?
  • How do you craft a powerful ask but also let people off the hook?

 

Guest Bio:

Stephanie Burns is the founder of The Wyld Agency, an amplification and visibility agency focused on building the legacy and personal brands of company founders. With a background in brand building, media buying, strategy, and entrepreneurship, Stephanie has wide experience with an eclectic portfolio of industries. After being a contestant on the Wheel of Fortune, Burns used her winnings to launch her previous company, Chic CEO, an online resource for over 100,000 female entrepreneurs. With an MBA in Marketing, she’s also a contributor to Forbes Women and Entrepreneur, as well as featured in notable press outlets like Inc., Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, Amex Open, Cosmo, New York Times, among others.