Welcome mystical travelers. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan, host of Wisdom of The Ages. Now, some people are just bubbly and vivacious and live life to the hilt, no matter what and how refreshing is that, right? And one of my favorite and often repeated quotes by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, people don’t always know where it comes from, but it is, “Well behaved women seldom make history.”
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So here we are. And my guest today is Paulette Bodeman and she’s one of these inspirational people and I’m really ready to step with her into the most thrilling decade ever. I’m just ready for that. Paulette is an Amazon bestselling author, a certified professional integrative coach, a yoga teacher. She does meditation, is a mindset educator, and is the founder of the Breakaway Academy and The Badass and Brilliant Method, and I’m really interested in The Badass Brilliant Method because we’re ready for this. I think the whole planet’s ready for this, and she also has the Breakaway Academy Radio Show. I was just listening to some and it’s great. So welcome, Paulette.
Thank you, and it’s a pleasure and a joy to be here. I’m so excited. I really appreciate you inviting me.
So tell us about your Badass and Brilliant Method. I want to know.
Well, it has evolved. I am a Breakaway Girl and the title of my book is The Breakaway Girl, Secrets of a Tantric Yogi, and it’s part memoir and part self-help and self-development, and I share a lot in there. And in the book, I share that at some point in my life, my mom used to call me the black sheep of the family, and that didn’t feel so great. And I realized at one point talking with my husband, I said, it just came out organically. I was never a black sheep. I’m a Breakaway Girl. And then I thought, what the heck does that mean? And so that kind of evolved into Bad-ass and Brilliant because I think women today, all over the planet as we know, are really stepping up for sometimes the very first time in claiming their own life and claiming their self and we have to have a little badassery. And I know that term has been a little bit overused maybe, or it’s offensive to some people, but I’m like, no, I think we have to claim that for ourselves, no matter if we’re 20, 50, 70.
There’s a little bit of that bad-ass, breakaway girl in us where we want to just bust out and say, this is my life and I get to live it and choose to live it the way I want to, not with any of these imprints that I’ve had over the years. And even sometimes we’ve done it to ourselves. It isn’t just what’s external, but what’s happening internally, how we limit ourselves.
And I also believe there’s Sufi teaching that each of us has different jewels of the divine and I love this idea. We have these qualities of the divine within us. And so I started just sitting with that and working with that within my own self. And I thought, well, that’s our brilliance. We have a lot of different qualities, but usually, there’s one or two that why people are drawn to us, why people want to be in our company because there’s this gem inside of us that is just our own innate brilliance.
And so I feel like women sometimes, and I know that for myself, I speak from my own experience, that we’re kind of afraid or just held back. We hold ourselves back from shining that brilliance, from claiming and owning that brilliance. And so I think it balances out that we have to be a little bad-ass about it. We have to say, yes, this is my brilliance and it’s mine to give.
Absolutely. I mean, our whole planet depends on us being willing to shine right now, right?
Yes.
It’s just nice to knock off this other stuff and step into who we are and shine and be brilliant, and however, that looks. I love the archetype of the wild child. They are just like, the seeker, I’m going to go find out who I truly am.
Yes, yes. Just recently I said to my husband, I need to reread my book because I have to remember who I am. Sometimes we forget. Life just happens and we forget what that brilliance is, what that is that we have to share with the world. And it doesn’t mean we have to be these heads of corporations or designing new whatever. It’s, however, we show up in the world that is our container. Just make sure you’re showing up fully, that your light is really shining.
Yeah. And I think it does help when we do it together when we have a team and we’re helping each other really fully take our seat, really show up as full divine beings.
Yeah. So just exactly what you’re doing in your work and the way you are encouraging and supporting women in this podcast, men and women, really claiming all the parts of ourselves, not just that femaleness, but the masculine. How can we use our masculinity in a really beautiful, feminine way? It is that divine marriage.
For sure. I’ve been working on finding my inner King author recently. Who is the great male leader? I need to find that within me, the archetype, the emperor archetype within me. And then my husband’s really cute, he’s an ex-middle linebacker, and he was like, and I want to find my inner goddess.
I love it. Yes, absolutely.
Right, right. So we have to take a really quick ad break. Can you tell people where they can find you?
Yes. My website is my name, it’s paulettebodeman.com.Â
Okay. Very good. Stay change. We’ll be right back.
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