Show Notes
Permission doesn’t always look like asking, “Am I allowed to do this?” Sometimes it looks like needing your friends to love the idea. Researching until you’ve convinced yourself you need just a little more information. Waiting to see someone else do it first. Looking for the perfect blueprint. Staying somewhere you’ve outgrown because walking away would mean admitting you changed your mind.
In this episode, Tatiana shares her story and the many different ways permission and validation have shown up throughout her life. From leaving a successful corporate career at 23, making expensive mistakes, building a business from the ground up, reaching major financial success, watching that business fall apart, becoming a mother, discovering running, going from 30-second run intervals to the marathon, building a community, and eventually leaving corporate America again, this is a story about learning to trust yourself through every version of who you become. Because giving yourself permission doesn’t guarantee you’ll get everything right. It means trusting yourself enough to know that when you don’t, you’ll figure out what to do next.
Tatiana also explores the sunk cost fallacy, tying your identity to achievement, knowing when support becomes outsourced decision-making, moving with fear instead of waiting for it to disappear, and why sometimes the yes you’re afraid to give yourself is the one that changes the trajectory of your life. We don’t actually know what’s on the other side of our yes. We know what staying still gives us because we’re already living it.
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