“Before coaching, I was this unaligned but high-functioning human. I was operating from a place of ‘You've got to do and a task list and a routine.’ And I was operating out of fear most days. I'm able to make decisions now because I trust myself more. And now that I've eliminated a lot of the unnecessary negative noise, I can hear myself clearly and loudly. It's easy to make decisions because the next best thing is just more obvious. It feels lighter. Like not having to have a ‘conference call’ with all my feelings at the same time.

And I would say fear is different now. The fear in the beginning was so much about outside, societal expectations and pressures, and it was very noisy and clangy. Now, because I'm doing the things I want to be doing and they're brand new, it's scary! But there's a huge difference in the fear that comes from making choices to live your life for yourself, than when you're living your life for everyone else and everything else. But now I'm living my life for myself. And it's just a different type of fear – even the fear's more aligned. And since I have less anxiety in my day-to-day, when it does come up, I have more bandwidth. I'm able to think critically – not become completely overwhelmed by it. Because it feels more rare than it did before.”