In this episode of the Success Fundamentals, Kris and Brian talk to author, life coach, and educator Melissa Oatman. Melissa is also the host of the Awakening your Inner Awesomeness podcast. Melissa talks about self-development and working to become the best version of yourself. We all grow up with certain values that unknowingly have been setting us back from achieving success, but we can always unlearn them. When we are aware of the things that we must change, we unlock our inner awesomeness, and get that one step closer to achieving what we set out to do. HIGHLIGHTS Awakening your inner awesomeness, defined Sit down and ask yourself if you're really happy Start putting yourself and your happiness first What if we all just pursued our interests? The importance of spirituality in achieving success Is it possible to be in a state of perpetual positive emotion? Negative self-talk can manifest into physical illness You can't control life, only your reaction toward it QUOTES Melissa: "Awakening the awesomeness is doing the self-work and doing the self-development on yourself each and everyday to bring out the best version of yourself." Melissa: "You have to learn to trust your own instincts and come to a place where your happiness is valued over everyone else's, that what you want is more important. And that is difficult especially for people who are people pleasers." Melissa: "What we have to do sometimes is unlearn the conditions that have been placed on us like when they say, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, that money doesn't grow on trees, or you're not capable of making a lot of money. You have to let go of those beliefs and they're sometimes very deeply rooted." Melissa: "You have to change that inner record that's always playing and for many of us, it's what people have said to us our whole lives or what we perceive that they think about us. So we have to change that so we can start to feel better about ourselves." Learn more about Melissa in the links below: Website: https://www.melissaoatman.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-oatman-0a51a432/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Beautifully-Broken-Spiritual-Thriving-Surviving/dp/198957906X Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-inner-awesomeness-with-melissa-oatman/id1409822126 Follow Success Fundamentals on the following links below: Website: https://www.successfundamentals.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4XCvuwxnFi5_7C6Ncm12xQ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/success-fundamentals™ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/successfundamentalspodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/successfundamentalspodcast