Working On Me

A Journey to Self Awareness with Shauna Hoffman

48 Talking Perseverance With the Amazing Britt Bolnick

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WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and Welcome I’m Shauna Hoffman,

I am so excited to have the next guest join us today. Those of you who know me will realize why I had to ask her to be on the show to talk about “perseverance”!

Britt Bolnick is a successful biz owner and magic-maker living a life she loves in Maine. She supports magical, multi-passionate women business owners and mission-based entrepreneurs doing work they love but struggling to manage the business side and time-management.

She has traveled a path from financial scarcity to financial independence, building a 6-figure business she loves as a single mama working less than full-time.

Fun fact: She’s used her tried and true magic time-management tools to start a non-profit pit bull rescue while also running her business, having three days off a week, and being an avid book-reader and beach-walker.

Welcome Britt!

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47 Stop Texting, Just Call Me!

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WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and Welcome I’m Shauna Hoffman,

OK, the A to Z of self-awareness. we have done A- Awareness, B- Boundaries today let’s tackle C- Communication! I gotta tell you in this day and age that word has so many meanings. First is how we communicate with others. The messages we send to them. Is it healthy? Is it aggressive or needy or convoluted, or manipulating or joyful, logical, emotional! Ohhhhh so many things to talk about there. I touched on much of that in the podcast called The Art Of Healthy Fighting. But there is another discussion around communication that has come up over and over with my clients lately that I think it’s time to dissect! The WAY we communicate in covid times. Do we text, or call?

With Covid, we can’t just show up for a little visit for some old-fashioned coffee talk. “Hey, I’m in the neighborhood and thought I’d stop by.” Now it’s texting or zoom, facebook, facetime, and posting on Social Media. All of a sudden communication between people seems to all involve technology. So I thought for today we would talk about how to navigate this crazy world. How to make sure that we are reaching the people we want to have in our lives. And if we are doing it in a way that is healthy and honoring our relationship with them. And more importantly, are we actually communicating with them or just sending up smoke signals and hoping they know what we are feeling?

I want you to think for a minute about the important people in your life right now. Go through them in your mind. Your immediate family… your kids, parents, siblings. When was the last time you communicated with them and how did you do that? Is it a text hello? Did you pick up a phone and call them? Did you post something to them on one of the gazillion social media apps? Did you actually get a reply? Then did you respond back? And here is a big thought for you to consider. Was it trivial? What did you cook for dinner? What your dog or cat did that day? OK, that stuff is not trivial to you. But it does not engage your emotions with that of another person.

And THAT is what good communication does. We share our feelings with another being. We allow a connection that goes deeper than a picture or a like or a meme reply. We become vulnerable with another person.

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46 Keep the Gratitude Flowing

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WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and welcome, I’m Shauna Hoffman.

It’s right after Thanksgiving and I want to keep the gratitude flowing! So I thought it was time I reached out to all of my podcast listeners to say thank you! I have such deep gratitude for you coming along on this journey with me. This is the 46th episode! WOW! That just floors me. When I first started this undertaking I knew that my voice as a speaker, therapist, woman, entrepreneur, and part of an amazing family had so much to say. I didn’t really imagine 46 episodes later that so many people would be listening. Many of you have been on this adventure with me through the name change and rebranding of the podcast. And many of you are my new podcast family. To all of you, I say a magnificent thank you! Believe me, as I have recorded these episodes for you, I have learned so much about myself. For it has also been a journey to awareness for me! When I said take this journey with me I had no idea!

On this shorter than usual episode as I thank my podcast listeners, and family and friends, and my adoring husband, who have all supported me through this I thought I would share some of my favorite books, songs, quotes about life with a grateful heart. This week I want to join you on this journey to that beautiful soft spot in our souls… gratitude!

I’m going to start by sharing with you a book with the same name. “A grateful heart. Daily blessings for the evening meal from Buddha to the Beatles”. Seriously any book with that tagline has already made me grateful for picking it up! It’s edited by M.J. Ryan. The first time I heard about it was on my 40th birthday when my precious friend Dexter read this prayer by one of my favorite writers, Daphne Rose Kingma. And it is perfect to start this podcast. It hearkens back to podcast episode #36 For the love of friends.

Tonight we give thanks for the great gift of friendship. Thank you for the circumstances that brought us together and have bound us together into the sacred bundle of life. Thank you also for the gift of our friendship: for knowledge that comforts, for words that encourage, for insight that blesses, for all the experience shared, for the sweet bliss of knowing each other deeply in so many ways; for history and a hope of the future, for conversation and laughter, for silence, for bearing each other’s witness truly, for holding each other safe in our hearts with great love and tenderness.
—Daphne Rose Kingma ( 28th May)

There are so many things in our lives to be grateful for. Though we are struggling through some of the hardest times of our generation, definitely the hardest times of this century, I can’t help but stress that if we can each find things to be grateful for, no matter how small they are we can give our psyche and our souls a rest… a moment to remember the truth.

So let’s have some fun and see where you can find it. Certainly in books, and poems and quotes. But we also know the amazing power in music to change our moods! So I went searching for music and quotes from great songs. Lo and behold there are so many great sites to help us heal on that journey!

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45 Big Bad Beautiful Boundaries

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WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and welcome, I’m Shauna Hoffman

I thought for this week’s podcast I would delve into boundaries. It’s funny, one of my original ideas for this podcast is the A to Z of self-awareness. Well, since I have done quite a few episodes on what awareness is it’s time for me to go to B. Boundaries! Stick with me as I navigate the whole alphabet of self-awareness.

So we hear the word “boundaries” thrown around a lot in the personal growth world. Let’s delve into the big bad and beautiful of boundaries in your world.

Basically, a boundary is a personal guideline you set up for yourself. Limitations that guide you to your own behavior and the kind of behavior you accept from others. Personal boundaries in the simplest terms are what you create to establish how other people treat you. Or how they behave when they are around you. When you have healthy boundaries you empower your relationships to be truly caring, emotionally respectful, and appropriate. Most importantly these are the kind of limitations you put on yourself and around yourself to keep you safe. These boundaries can be anything from physical boundaries, to emotional, social media, material, financial boundaries, sexual boundaries, personal space boundaries, tolerance. WOW! Where do we begin?

First, let’s delve into the reality that self-awareness and boundaries go hand in hand. Sometimes in order to set boundaries, you have to be really self-aware of what you DON’T want in life or in a relationship. You need to be able to check in with your own needs, emotions, hurts, growth. All that stuff that is wrapped up in self-awareness. You need to be able to see what is working in your life and what isn’t.

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44 The Glass Ceiling Is Shattered, Rebroadcast of The Voice Of A Woman

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WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and welcome to a Journey To Self Awareness. I’m Shauna Hoffman.

This last week has been a whirlwind of excitement and emotion, fear, and confusion. So, I decided rather than trying to focus on a new podcast… which, honestly is a stretch for me this week… I would honor the fact that we have the First Female Vice President in our History! No matter if you are a man, woman, democrat or republican, the shattering of the glass ceiling to elect a female into the second-highest office of the land is groundbreaking and historical.

So I thought I would rebroadcast episode #22 The Voice of a woman. Oh, and just an FYI, when I speak of The last episode I am referring to Episode #21, The Great Unlearning.

So with great pleasure and with unbelievable pride in the fact that so many women came out to vote in this election, I offer you…The Voice Of a Woman.

Listen in…
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Shauna Hoffman is a Marriage Family Therapist and Speaker in private Practice in Santa Clarita, CA. She gives workshops and seminars in Newhall, Valencia and all of Southern CA.

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Appointments may be made by calling (661) 714-5137 or emailing Shauna@workingonme.com