Personal update: changing the pace
[Intro] Hello, friends. I'm always thrilled to have this time with you. Thank you for joining me here on Empowered to Thrive. I'm your host, Corinne Powell. If this is your first time listening, welcome.
Corinne Powell: Today, I want to update you on some personal changes I'm making that will affect this space. It's been four years since I began the podcast and I have really enjoyed having this time each week to connect with you. I always keep the episode short because I'm a busy parent. I know many of you are, and I like you to be able to listen to the episode and not feel at the thought of it because I don't have an hour of time.
Sometimes it's nice to know something is only 10 or 15 minutes long and we can fit it in somewhere without too much trouble, without needing to figure too many things out. And I'm not bringing Empowered to Thrive to a close, but I am pivoting a little bit. So as you may know, Change Radically is my company.
I work for myself with one full-time assistant and I prioritize family life, my four children, my husband. I prioritize friendships. I also lean towards slow living and like to keep my schedule open, flexible, allowing me to not rush through life, but to enjoy it and to have time to say yes to things that if I were too busy, I wouldn't be able to say yes to.
But all of this has been difficult lately. Keeping up with work related tasks has always been challenging. And part of that is because my tendency is to take care of everyone else's needs. It's to do for everyone else without meeting my own needs. And I love my work. I love what I get to do. And it is easier for me to put it aside let it be the last thing I do because everything else feels more pressing.
But lately, I have learned that I need to separate work and family life. I need to allow my time with Brielle to be with my time with Brielle and to not be pulled to be working when I'm trying to spend time with her or she's trying to spend time with me. I also don't want it to be that all of our days I'm preoccupied with work-related tasks and with housework when she would love to be sitting on the floor playing with me. When my other three were young, I was very busy because I had three children under three and I was taking care of my nephew. But right now they're in school during the day. So she and I have the opportunity to really spend quality time together.
But being pulled because of work-related tasks, might feel to some of you like, that's just a part of life, but in my...way of living. It's optional. I'm very grateful that my family doesn't rely on my income in order to survive. And because of that I can work less. And financially, we weren't depending on my income, so we're fine.
But when I feel stressed out all the time, or I feel that my days with Brielle aren't what I would like them to be, I sit back and reflect and I consider what do I need to do? And lately it's felt like I need to step back from some of the things I'm doing within the business, especially preparing the social media content and preparing the weekly episodes on Empowered to Thrive.
I've also really been working on writing a manuscript to eventually publish a book. And that's taken a backseat because all the other tasks feel more pressing. So I really want to be able to dive in to finishing this writing and be able to publish. So what this will look like is I will still probably put out episodes here and there, but I can't guarantee that they're going to be every week on Wednesday. I will still be showing up on social media, Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, or some of the places I'm regularly at, YouTube.
I'll still be in some or all of those places sometimes, but not nearly as much as I have. I'm doing this not as a way to support you less, but as a way to support myself and my family more so that I can also support you better. Because the more energized I am, the better off you are. I come to you with fresh ideas, a different sort of energetic vibe than when I am just barely making it by.
So I'm excited for actually what I'm going to start putting out as far as content as I pivot and start to allow myself more moments refreshment and rest, more moments to be inspired and to speak from that inspiration.
This is my own company, I’m able to do whatever I want with it. And what I certainly don't want is to have my children grow up and for me to consider all the good work I did. But at what cost? What's the trade? I want to have deep connections with my children. I want to have secure attachments with them. I want them to be able to have secure attachments, I should say, with me. I actually want to have a thriving, fun relationship with my husband. I want to be able to connect with new friends and feel that I have the time, the capacity, energy to do all of this.
So these are some changes I'm going to make right now. I don't know how long they'll be for. I don't really know what this will even mean down the road. But I do want to emphasize that I'm so grateful that you've been here with me for whatever length of time you've been here. And I hope that you'll still keep listening whenever episodes are published. The easiest way to get notified is if you click subscribe, whatever platform, whatever app you're listening through, if you subscribe to Empower to Thrive, then anytime I publish a new episode, you're going to be notified.
Another helpful point might be to subscribe to my email list. I don't know how often I'll send out emails, but if you subscribe to my email list and you can do that through changeradically.com, then at least you'll be notified when I do send an email and you'll hear about the big things happening. I'm not at the moment shutting down any of my social platforms, so if you follow me somewhere, feel free to still keep in touch with me that way.
I really appreciate your feedback whenever you give it. It helps me to know how my work is impacting you, what it is doing. And if you haven't yet written me a review on the podcast, I would appreciate that. If you would just take a minute and do that, you can just rate it. You can separately write a written review. All of that is so helpful to me. You can even go to my Google page and write a review there. That's also helpful to me.
I am in no way shutting down change radically. I am still meeting and working with clients. That is actually what I'm hoping to solely focus on. Instead of allowing my time to be pulled in all these different directions, I really want to be doing session work more often, but I have to open up the time.
And this is one way of opening up the time. Instead of putting a lot of time into social media content and into the podcast, I will have more time to actually do sessions with groups and individuals. So if you are interested in any of that, definitely head over to my website, changeradically.com, and look at the different ways that I can support you. Take the necessary steps to get in touch with me.
And I would be honored and excited to come alongside and help you out on your healing journey to help you reach your goals. I want the dreams you have for your life to become your reality. That's what I'm doing with my life. And I think we should all get to do that.
[Outro] So thank you so very much for being here with me. This isn't the end. This is just another change, another part of living intuitively, of moving as I feel I need to throughout life, supporting myself the best I can, showing up intentionally for my children and my family, healing, generational trauma. And alongside of it, supporting you.
So cheers to change. And I look forward to the next time we connect here on Empowered to Thrive. Much love, my friends.
