When that ad came up in my feed, all I could feel was rage. I couldn’t believe that this person was claiming to be something that, from where I stood, was so obviously NOT true based on the contents of this ad.
It absolutely pissed me off to the point where I went to write a post about it, and talk about all the reasons why this was SO WRONG.
But before I hit “publish,” a little voice stopped me in my tracks by asking, “Carly, what’s really happening here? What is this rage really about?”
Turns out: yes, I deeply believed that what this person was doing was wrong, untruthful, and potentially quite harmful to many of the people who bought into it. But also: I was afraid that people might think I was doing the exact same (though slightly different flavor) thing.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learnt in the last 5+ years of building and running my business is that there’s never really a WRONG time to look at what’s really going on, internally. Because even if, yes, externally, the thing we’re seeing IS exactly what we’re seeing—definitely not invalidating that!—the internal experience that we have in reaction to what we’re seeing defines a lot more of our own reality than we may initially think.
And it’s only by looking inward with curiosity and an overabundance of compassion that we can use everything we’re seeing and experiencing—yes, even the definitely shitty stuff—for our betterment. Not to mention: it’s often when we do the internal work around whatever that external stuff brings up that we can then move from a place of power to enact change on/in/with the external stuff (if that’s something we feel called to do, of course!).
This week on The Sustainable Success Podcast I’m talking about How I Refocus My Rage at the Online Business Industry. And no, we’re not just pretending like everything is fine—because it’s not—but we are talking about what we actually want to and can do about it.
If you know anything about me, you know that I THRIVE in the exploration of the liminal space between two truths, so this episode was really a fun one for me and I think also is going to be a nuanced take to something that there’s a LOT of conversation about, all the time. Plus, it was a bit of a cathartic experience since I could talk about the things that just feel (and often are) YUCK in our online business space, without actually talking about it in a way that made me part of the yuck (I think, anyway) 😅
Tune in to episode 013 - How I Refocus My Rage at the Online Business Industry on The Sustainable Success Podcast today.
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