In the 3rd episode of A Glimpse Inside’s Reinvention After 40 series, host Wendy Perrotti has a second coaching session with Liz regarding personal growth goals. In this session, you’ll see how external factors (even really emotional ones) don’t have to stop you from moving forward. Stay tuned as you, along with Liz, learn new strategies to focus in overwhelm and make time for self-care.
Welcome to A Glimpse Inside. This is Wendy Perrotti and you’re joining me on the SuperPower Up! Network. This show is about affirming for people that there is more to life and that it is possible for every single one of us to be inspired, successful, joyous, and free.
You’re listening to episode three of our four part series on Reinvention After 40. If you missed my conversation with the hilarious Jen Degenhardt in episode one or my first coaching session with Liz in episode two, feel free to go back and have a listen.
In this second coaching session with Liz, we’ll be talking about turning personal growth into reality. I want to remind everyone listening today that coaching is a judgment-free zone. Good and bad don’t exist here. This is a completely safe space to play with any thought or idea, with the goal of figuring out what truly serves and what doesn’t.
So welcome back, Liz.
Thank you, Wendy. Good to be here.
Yes, I’m glad you’re here. In our last session, I gave you a bit of homework and perhaps we’ll touch on that afterwards, but a lot has happened for you in the last few weeks.
Would you like to fill us in?
Sure. So remembering that, I guess the last time we talked, I was getting ready for the Pollinator Festival, which was really quite amazing, actually. It turned out to be a lot of fun and also completely exhausting. But my daughter and her friend helped me out and we packed up hundreds of seeds to give away and I ordered a stamp. Oh, that’s right. You had mentioned about not stressing over my logo, so I ordered one of these little stamps that you can get and overnight they made this thing for me that just said greenmeadow.org plant natives.
It was like one of these little flip stamp things, so there was a lot of fun to use. We did that with just a rubber stamp that had a butterfly. We had a couple of different rubber stamps and we stamped a bunch of little envelopes and put seeds in them from the bee lab and gave away hundreds of packs of seeds. I must have talked, I don’t know, like for four hours straight, just to each person that came through our table. They said they estimated there are about 250 people that came inside and 600 that were at the whole event.
The girls had a lot of fun. They’ve dressed as well. They had wings on and helped out. We made necklaces to sell and we didn’t make a ton of money, but we did really make a lot of impact, I think, on the people that we talked to. It was really fun to see how many people were really interested in the difference between native bees and honeybees and just really had no clue about.
We had microscopes set up and it just felt really exciting to engage with that many people and see their responses and be able to put seeds in the hands of that many people. That was a lot better in many ways than I had envisioned it and different than I had thought always. It’s always not exactly how you envision things, but I was just really happy to get the seeds out there.
You are answering it. Yes, I just wanted you to sort of bring me and our listeners up to speed.
Okay. So my dad passed away and I went up to the funeral, I spoke at his funeral, and I also took a bunch of these seed packets up and gave them away at his funeral to people. Because my dad was very, he was a tree planter and a landscaper in his own right. Sort of a person that always give other people work to do. So I thought that was really appropriate and it really did help in my, I don’t know, for my grief to feel like I’m doing some positive work right now.
That’s all happened and I’m back at work now. I’ve been back for, I don’t know, a week or so. Week and a half or something like that. So that brings us up to speed, I think, right?
The grieving process is always difficult for me because I just don’t want to.
Yes. So given all that’s going on for you over the past few weeks, we can pick up where we left off the last time. Kind of on this reinvention and the energy that it’s requiring of you to make that happen. Or there may be some other things that are present.
Having just lost your dad and being in the midst of a grieving process. What feels right to talk about today?
I think I’m responding more to the first thing that you talked about. The grieving process is always difficult for me because I just don’t want to. I tend to shove it down, as you know, and I don’t want to. I don’t have, it sounds horrible. I don’t have time for that. I am working on that in my own way and I know the importance of that. Maybe that kind of ties into what, the other piece. I don’t know maybe we can tie it together somehow, because that is part of what is probably in the way from me is kind of balancing those things. So I’m going to leave that up to you.
Okay. We’re going to take a break and when we come back, we’re just going to dig in, Liz. How would that be?
Okay. That sounds good.
Alright. We’ve been talking with Liz about a really intense couple of weeks. When we come back from this short break, we’ll dig into coaching and as always, give you some tips and tools that you can start using today. I hope you stay with us. We’ll be right back.
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