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Why Being "Too Much" is a Super Power w/ Whitney Barbary

Why Being "Too Much" is a Super Power w/ Whitney Barbary

FromThe Mind Of George Show


Why Being "Too Much" is a Super Power w/ Whitney Barbary

FromThe Mind Of George Show

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
May 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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The biggest mistake that I made truly was spending a lot of time convincing and explaining and arguing with people that were committed to misunderstanding me and my work cost me a lot of time. It costs me a lot of money and more importantly, it costs me a lot of my peace and a lot of my energy. And that is the most expensive thing we can give up. Is our time and our energy and our peace.The thing was when I was speaking up about what I was doing with women in my coaching. And I just started speaking my mind and sharing my opinions and sharing my point of views. And like I was giving women permission to do the same to be themselves. I call it being them full-flavored cells to stop watering themselves down. I was getting a lot of pushback and then I was spending a lot of time arguing with the church Karens about why it's okay for women to be their full flavored cells. And I did that for a long time, like two years, this is no lie. Two years. I spent more time talking to the people that we're never going to work with me and didn't understand me and were genuinely committed to misunderstanding me and my perspective and my point of view and the work that I do with women.I can remember having memories, like I've always been strong-willed, I've always been hard headed. It was always my way or the highway. And I noticed, like I got my first job at 15 and I'm 36 now. And I left my job last year when I was 35 to go full-time entrepreneur. For all these years, like 20 years, I thought something was wrong with me. But I laugh when you and Angie say, you guys are certifiably unemployable. I'm like, Oh, I just was not meant to play by the rules. I just not because I want to be rebellious or, in subordinate or disrespectful, it was never that I've always been a really hard worker at most jobs I've ever at. They will tell you that I had a difficult personality, but I was always one of their best workers. They were always trying to make me team leaders and management and put extra responsibilities on me. And it. But I was always the one, like secretly like leading the rebellion of this job sucks and they're treating us very unfairly and we should all quit.And I would have employers pull me to the side and be like, listen, you are definitely our best employee. However, you can't be leading like revolutions behind closed doors. Like you can't be attorney. I remember I had a boss, I worked with this Greek guy, Doris, and at this restaurant, I was the bartender. And he was like, listen, Whitney. You can't be turning my employees against me. But it was always this like this, if I didn't get it, if it didn't make sense, if it was not, if I didn't feel like it was fair, if I felt like it was only serving the top 1%, like I just couldn't get behind it. And so I just, whether, and I'll say this, like whether it was in church, because I grew up in the church, I am a Christian, my faith, my dad was a pastor. My husband's a pastor. My parents were missionaries. My brother's a missionary. Like we grew up in the church, but like I never fit in the world. And the problem was me being an eight as a woman was hard because we're loud. We're opinionated. We're, hard-headed, we're like you said, if you don't create space for me, I'm just gonna make it, you said something in Montana when you were like, Whitney finds the line and then way over the line.Like she's like going to the edge and then we're all of a sudden over the edge. I was always being told, like there was something wrong with me. I was always like too much. I was like too opinionated, too loud. Sometimes my energy was too masculine. I was too hardheaded. I was too independent.It was like, I was just too all the things. So what happened was like, I hired a life coach. I'll fast forward that story, but I got a lot of healing, inner healing working with her. She gave me a lot of permission to be myself and I thought, I need to bring this gift to the world. Like more women need to know that there's peopl
Released:
May 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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