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For season 2 of the Hope Motivates Action<\/a><\/strong> podcast, the transcript of each episode is available for your reading pleasure! This transcripts will also include links to tools, resources and tips I think you’d be interested in, some of these links will be affiliate links where earn a small commission if you click through to purchase. Thank you so much in advance for supporting my small business! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My interview with the wonderful Brittney Pickett is below…enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lindsay: (00:03)
\nHello. My name is Lindsay Recknell and this is the Hope Motivates Action\npodcast. Super excited to bring you season two, conversations with inspiring\npeople, reframing the way we’ve traditionally thought about hope and its\nconnection to our lives. I met today’s guest, Brittany Pickett, after she\nposted a super personal and authentic blog sharing how she experienced a\npersonal mental crisis and how she thrived after coming through it. In today’s\nepisode, Brittany talks about leadership at home and at work and how hard she\nworks to maintain her consistent leadership style in both areas of her life.
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\nLindsay: (00:37)
\nIf you’re interested in any of the books, resources, and tools I mentioned in\nthis episode, all the links you need can be found in the show notes of your\nfavorite podcast player or head to the blog and pod page of my\nwww.expertinhope.com. You’ll find them all there too. My message and my work is\nall about using the Science of Hope to motivate action in your life because\nwithout action, hope is just a wish.
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\nLindsay: (01:00)
\nHello, welcome to the Hope Motivates Action podcast. I am your host, Lindsay\nRecknell and it is my absolute pleasure to introduce you to my friend and soon\nto be yours, Brittany. Hi, how’s it going? Awesome. Thank you so much for being\nhere with us today. I’m excited for people to learn all about you.
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\nBrittney: (01:19)
\nI’m really excited to be here.
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\nLindsay: (01:20)
\nSo just a little bit about Brittany so you guys can be familiar with her. She\nis the co owner and Director of Dream fulfillment at her organization, which is\ncalled the Glass Cliff Divas when she brings her sales and business development\nexperience to the marketing world. which enabled to care for deep love for\nprocess and strategy with social media and community building. She is\npassionate about social impact and creating strong and generous communities for\nbusiness owners. Through Glass Cliff Divas, she’s able to work closely with\ntheir clients to explore ways to create social good in their industry.
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\nLindsay: (01:54)
\nNow that is a passion project.
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\nBrittney: (01:58)
\nIt is. It is a passion project.
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\nLindsay: (02:00)
\nOh man. Tell us more.
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\nBrittney: (02:04)
\nI mean, Glass Cliff Divas kind of started between my best friend and I when we\nwere both kind of struggling in a more corporate setting. She was at an agency\nand frankly it wasn’t going well. She was doing a lot of work and was not being\npaid, which obviously put a lot of stress on her and her family and I basically\nsales pitched her the idea of starting an agency. When I presented the idea, I\nwasn’t really clear on me fitting into it. Okay. That was more her idea, which\nI thought was really nice and I thought, yeah, you know, I could totally do\nthis. This would be beneficial to me and my family too. I was burnt out and\nworking way too much and hardly seeing my kids and I honestly thought that I’d\nbe doing both for a couple years and you know, within within a few months we\nwere both fully on board and not looking back.
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\nLindsay: (02:56)
\nSo awesome. I just love like you see an opportunity and you walk the hell\nthrough the door like, Oh yeah,
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\nBrittney: (03:02)
\nOh yeah. Where does the, yeah, let’s do this through all of these other guys.
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\nBrittney: (03:08)
\nYou made it into something successful. I mean, you’ve only been doing it a\ncouple of years, but so successful already.
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\nBrittney: (03:13)
\nBut I think that really came down to, I mean with a name like Glass Cliff\nDivas, we knew that it was going to be something very meaningful, but we didn’t\nknow what yet and we didn’t force it to mean anything straight away. We just\nknew that if we were going to be able to throw ourselves completely into this\nfull heartedly, that it would have to be much deeper than a job. And so we kind\nof came out of the gate knowing that this was going to not just fill us\nfinancially and from a security standpoint, but this needed to fill us on a\npurpose standpoint as well.
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\nLindsay: (03:46)
\nHow did you come around to what that purpose should be?
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\nBrittney: (03:49)
\nOh yeah. A lot of self discovery. I mean, and that was kind of a new thing for\nme when we started the business and I didn’t really see the need to work on\nmyself and overcome demons. I was kind of the person that was like, I’ve sucked\nit up and I’ve moved on and I don’t need to know anything more. Like just look\nforward. And starting this business really forced me to challenge that and to\nlook back and see, you know, where do these beliefs come from? Where am I\nholding myself back because of things I haven’t actually worked through. I’ve\njust kind of thrown a rug on top of. And that really started to show up when we\nstarted hiring a team because my own limiting beliefs I could see showing up in\nwork.
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\nBrittney: (04:37)
\nAnd so yeah, that self-discovery really becomes an important piece. And the\npurpose honestly came along with that.
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\nLindsay: (04:44)
\nThe hard work of limiting belief. Like that’s not the thing you just, you know,\npick up a book about and this coming from the least woo person you can ever\nimagine, you know, how did you learn how to do that work? How did you, how did\nyou do that work?
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\nBrittney: (05:00)
\nOh my goodness. Okay. So when you say, no, I’m being woo, I’m with you. That’s\nme. I’m very analytical. I’m very logical. You know, I want a game plan. I like\nprocess and my business partner is very woo and very spiritual. And so\nPandora’s box was actually a money mindset course that we had gotten ourselves\ninto through a coach that Cait was working with. Her name is Steph and she does\nspiritual business coaching and helping people overcome these blocks and these\nlimiting beliefs, particularly around money and what you’re capable of in order\nto kind of reach your full potential.
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\nBrittney: (05:43)
\nSo I agreed to do this thing with Cait, not fully understanding what I was getting\nmyself into, but it made me realize how much we put in our own way because\nwe’re scared of what we’re actually capable of. And it honestly changed\neverything. I started asking myself really hard questions because you know,\nuntil I had the team to kind of say, now it matters to somebody else. I didn’t\nsee it mattering to me. And so it kind of took that mirror to say, okay, fuck,\nI need to deal with this because if I can’t work through this, then I can’t\ngenerate more income to add security to their lives. So yeah, like honestly,\nthat was the Pandora’s box moment for me and it just hasn’t stopped ever since\nthe personal development and, and the time spent questioning where these\nbeliefs come from and overcoming it and it keeps affecting my business all the\ntime. It’s crazy
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\nLindsay: (06:48)
\nin a real positive way, I imagine.
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Brittney: (06:50)
\nAbsolutely. And when I’m not working on it and I’m not putting it into the\nforefront and I’m not taking care of myself, the business suffers. And that’s\nboth incredibly powerful but also incredibly terrifying because you realize\nthat, you know, I’m my own worst enemy or I’m my own hero. And that can be a\nlot
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\nLindsay: (07:13)
\nLeadership and being there for your team and also as a good support for Cait\nand, but also being a leader in your family and being a good role model for\nyour kids is really important to you.
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\nBrittney: (07:25)
\nYeah, yeah. Incredibly important. And I, I see so much overlap in those two\nworlds now that I’m a business owner, whereas as an employee I found it really\neasy to separate work and home. I’m seeing where a lot of the same tools are\nvery effective with my kids. And with my team. And it has nothing to do with\nyour team being your children or anything too patronizing like that. It’s more\nthat we’re all humans and we all are struggling with the same things regardless\nof our age. And we all need compassion and empathy and understanding and it’s\nno different really. I’ve, I’ve seen a lot of overlap.
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\nLindsay: (08:04)
\nI’m totally aligned to that. I feel like you said it when you say that we’re\nall human and it has nothing to do with their ages or our circumstances or our\nsituation, it’s all relative, right? It’s all scope and scale. And what matters\nto us, all we want as humans is to have someone who understands us and that we\ncan look up to or model our behavior against.
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\nBrittney: (08:23)
\nYeah, absolutely.
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\nLindsay: (08:25)
\nAnd I know that you and I sort of got connected in this random world because of\nthat topic, because of that topic of leadership and taking care of yourself so\nthat you can be better and be more present for your team and for your family.\nDo you want to share that journey at all?
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\nBrittney: (08:44)
\nYeah. So this year was like I said, you kind of get into that rabbit hole of,\nof self-development and then the to-do list takes over. And I learned that\nfirsthand. This summer as the to-do list got really crazy and it was just one\nmore, you know, self-inflicted expectation after another. And I wasn’t showing\nup for myself. I was feeling totally lost and directionless and I had no\nenergy. And when that starts to happen, that lack of connection because you’re\njust trying to suck it up and trying to move from one task to the next. It\nreally takes a toll on your mental health. It takes a toll on your physical\nhealth. It deeply impacts the relationships that you have because you’re\npulling away trying to protect everyone from your own shit storm. But really by\npulling away your, you’re magnifying it significantly. So I went through a really\ntough time, uh, living that every day.
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\nBrittney: (09:46)
\nIt’s easy to look back and and say, Oh great, I’ve overcome it, but we’re still\nso susceptible to it because we have to work on it every day. We have to take\ntime for ourselves every single day. And literally check yourself before you\nwreck yourself because people are counting on you and I wasn’t showing up. And\nit led to mistakes at home and at work led to over-schedule yourself as a way\nto feel productive even though I wasn’t actually doing anything and I just\nisolated myself and I was too scared to ask for help. And that had a lot of\nshame attached to it because I wasn’t showing up as a leader that I, I now\nknew. And I think that was the tricky part is that now I know better now that\nI’ve opened this Pandora’s box of, you know, taking care of myself and in order\nto be the leader that I want to be, I knew better, but I was too ashamed of how\noff I felt to reach out, to help to fix it.
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\nBrittney: (10:51)
\nAnd I had so many communities to lean into, but instead I, I didn’t do that.\nSo, I mean that would be, I guess the biggest thing that I would want to say to\nwomen out there leading their home or leading their team is just because you’re\nthe leader doesn’t mean that you can’t also ask for help because that\nvulnerability and that connection to other people is really what makes a great\nleader. And now I see the benefits of that since I’ve, you know, come from this\nfog I guess. And, and now I am working to protect myself from every single day.\n
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\nLindsay: (11:29)
\nI interviewed someone as part of season two of the podcast as well, Megan, and\nshe delivered a message very similar to that about asking for help, being a\nconfidence booster. We kind of know what we need to do. It’s simple. That part\nis simple, but doing it as just not easy.
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\nBrittney: (11:48)
\nNo, no. And you don’t do it once. That’s the thing is that, you know, I see so\nmany trends happening and like whether it’s mindfulness or authenticity or\nboundaries is a really big one that I see coming up a lot more and they’re\nwonderful things. But I feel like it kind of gets this sense of, Oh, I did it\nand now I’m cured. It’s not about that at all. It’s, it’s about doing it every\nsingle day and screwing it up and then coming back to it and doing it again and\nbeing able to work through that and accept that failure is inevitable and\nchanging the way that we look at it helps us carry on.
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\nLindsay: (12:27)
\nWe don’t just go to the dentist once a year without also brushing and flossing\nour teeth every day.
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\nBrittney: (12:32)
\nOh yeah, exactly.
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Brittney: (12:35)
\nIt’s so important to be maintaining that personal health for yourself so that\nyou can show up for others. And I hope every single day that my team and my\nfamily know how much they mean to me and that I’m doing right by them, just\nsimply because they are the motivation that I needed in order to take care of\nmyself so I can show up. So it really is just a giant circle for me to show up\nfor them. I need to take care of me and I just hope that they know that without\nthem I couldn’t do it well.
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\nLindsay: (13:08)
\nHopefully they’re just listened to this podcast reinforced that you love them\nand that you’re there for them.
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\nBrittney: (13:13)
\nI tell them often, you know, especially in the workplace, I mean kids are\ninevitable. I think it’s easier, especially as women. I mean we won’t get into\ntoxic masculinity today, but I think as women it’s easy to tell your kids how\nmuch you love them and, and remind them and show them how special they are. But\nI think that again, it’s no different with your work team. They need to know\nthat they are valued. They need to know that they’re contributing and you know,\nnot being too proud to say, Hey, I need your help on this. I don’t know what\nI’m doing. Even though I’m technically the leader.
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\nLindsay: (13:47)
\nLeader is just, it doesn’t have to be a title. You lead from the front, you\nlead from the back, you lead from the side, you know, we are all, regardless of\nthe title in our organization, we are all leaders.
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\nBrittney: (13:57)
\nAbsolutely. 100% yeah.
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\nLindsay: (13:59)
\nI think that’s really, really cool. I also really like what you said about not\nbeing one and done. You know, it’s, it’s truly a journey. And people have heard\nthe other episodes of this podcast that you will hear me talk often about net\npositive and you know how even if you take a step back, as long as you’re\ntaking two steps forward, eventually, you know, and, and maintaining that net\npositive sort of momentum, however, however big or small that momentum in the\npositive direction, I think that’s the part that matters, right? That progress\nis the measurable piece that sort of keeps us going.
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\nBrittney: (14:34)
\nAbsolutely. And it is so important because when you’re in the moment, Oh, it\ncan feel really dark, it can feel really, you know, Oh, it’s been this way\nforever and when will it get better? And, and it’s so important to look and\nsay, well, you know what? It was good here and it was good here. And I get\nthere again. If I just stay focused on the problem and how we’re going to move\nforward and not get stuck on the same patterns or the same mistakes over and\nover again.
\nLindsay: (15:02)
\nDo you do like a mindfulness or a gratefulness kind of practice?
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\nBrittney: (15:06)
\nYeah, yeah. We actually have several. So depending on the team or at home, I’ll\nstart with at home. So some of the things that we do with our kids, we are a\nblended family and my partner has two kids and I have two kids as well. And so\nit’s a very busy household, but we kind of use dinner time as an opportunity to\ntalk about courage and kindness and we talk about what we did that was\ncourageous that day and how we showed kindness that day as well. And I feel\nlike gratitude is really tied to that. Focusing on the wins that you’ve had for\nthe day, no matter how big or how small, we want to make sure that we’re giving\nspace to celebrate that and being grateful for the opportunity to show up for\nourselves and show up for others. So that’s one of the things that we do at\nhome. The other one that we do is we do five minutes of mindfulness body scans,\nparticularly for my eight year old. It is really effective. She’s at a time in\nher life where she is a social social being and she’s always very distracted\nand very busy.
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\nBrittney: (16:17)
\nAnd so she struggles to remember to do things that are really important,\nwhether it’s everything from bathroom breaks to eating and everything in\nbetween. She will just forget. She’s so full of energy and so full of joy that\nlike she just cannot be tamed. And so the five minute mindfulness breaks for\nher, she, she spent some time doing a body scan and just remembering to check\nin with herself and being grateful for her body and all that it is capable of\nand making sure that she’s paying attention to what it’s asking her for. And\nthe last thing we do at home for gratitude is general gratitude checks. You\nknow, especially with so many kids, we often can’t make all of them happy at\none time. As you can imagine that an example would be a movie night and\nsomeone’s real ticked that we don’t get to watch the movie that they wanted to\nwatch.
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\nBrittney: (17:16)
\nAnd I’ll just have to say gratitude check. And they close their eyes and they\nthink about all the things that they are grateful for. Whether that’s that\nwe’re spending time watching movie cause it’s not something we do all the time,\nso let’s not make it miserable or you know, something that they did that day or\nmaybe it’s their home or the warm blanket that they’re snuggled under. But it’s\njust an opportunity to say, I’d rather spend more time being grateful than\ngrumbling about, you know, something that isn’t, you know, a life altering\nevent.
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\nLindsay: (17:46)
\nWell that’s wonderful. I’d love to like the prompt of that. You know, the, the\nreality of it just to be present when it’s kind of needed or when it could\nreally help.
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\nBrittney: (17:57)
\nOh yeah. It’s, it’s super helpful. Like in scenarios, you know, you take your\nkids to the zoo or something and then you’re walking by that stupid gift shop,\nbut they put right at the door and they’re all freaking out cause they want cups\nand they need $50 little tiger statues and who knows what else.
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\nBrittney: (18:13)
\nAnd I will just simply say gratitude check and it shuts the conversation down\nwithout too much arguing from that point on.
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\nLindsay: (18:22)
\nAnd I bet that they take that with them.
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\nBrittney: (18:24)
\nI hope so. I hope so.
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\nLindsay: (18:26)
\nWell cause you’re teaching them and then they’re experiencing the changes in\ntheir mind and their body and recognizing the value of it from such a young\nage. It’ll just probably become a habit. My sister does a, a breathing exercise\nwith her, well she’s nine now, but when she was eight, you know, and you could\ntell that she really, really valued it and really knew that it helped when\nyou’d see her by herself breathing because you calm her down like you know,\nyou’re instilling these really important values in your kids and that’s just so\ncool.
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\nBrittney: (18:58)
\nYeah. And you know, I want to instill my values and my core beliefs, but that’s\nthe other component to leadership.
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\nBrittney: (19:05)
\nI think the one that I’m pretty great at holding people accountable. My issue\nthat I have had to work on for myself is allowing people to also show up as\nthemselves, particularly with kids I find is exceptionally challenging because\nyou spend the first, you know, four years of their life essentially dictating\nto them what they like and what they don’t like and where they’re going to be\nand what they’re going to do. And then all of a sudden you have these human\nbeings that have their own interests and their own ideas about the world. And I\nthink it’s so important not to stifle that. So I have to set reminders for\nmyself not to get carried away sharing my values and my core beliefs constantly\nto the point that I’m no longer listening to who they are as a human.
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\nLindsay: (19:53)
\nAgain, so self aware of you and you say you have viewed and definitely got this\npersonal development thing down, sister.
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\nBrittney: (20:01)
\nMan, I’ve been taking it really seriously. Like, yeah, I don’t mess around.
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\nLindsay: (20:06)
\nIt’s so refreshing to hear. I know like the minute that you and I connected, I\njust felt like you were such a, I dunno, really smart, intelligent,\nopen-minded, growing on your self awareness kind of path and it’s, yeah, it’s\nrefreshing and truly inspiring to hear. I, I love to hear your messages.
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\nBrittney: (20:25)
\nThanks Lindsay.
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\nLindsay: (20:27)
\nI want to talk about hope a little bit, whats your definition of hope.
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\nBrittney: (20:32)
\nUh, you know, when I think about hope, the two big things that kind of come up\nto me are trust and dreams. Hope is kind of where those two things come\ntogether because dreaming is one thing and I feel like that’s really different\nfrom hope, but when it’s paired with trust that those dreams are possible or that\nyou’re capable of doing it, that is what hope is.
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\nBrittney: (20:59)
\nIt has purpose. It has a path. It is just rooted in, I don’t know, like the\nbelief in yourself and in the process and that even though it’s going to be\ntricky, it’s worth taking risks for. It takes those two components to make hope\nreally work.
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\nLindsay: (21:19)
\nThe word capability really stuck out for me because my definition of hope is\nvery similar to yours where I really believe in the future expectation. So\nthose that goal accomplishment, that dream recognition, but you have to action\nit. You have to have the capability whether you have it, you grow it, you learn\nit, whatever you do, it is about that action to get you where you want to be\nnext. And I really love that alignment with trust. Like a lot of people will\ntalk about hope and faith together. I think faith can be aligned with trust in\nsome ways. And it’s that kind of instinctive confidence that what you’re doing\nand the actions you’re taking will get you where you want to be.
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\nBrittney: (22:06)
\nYeah. Like you can almost feel it in your gut, you know, it’s, it’s uneasy yet\nit’s also deeply, deeply rooted. Like you feel secure in it. It feels risky.\nLike you’re kind of teetering on the edge of something but, but there’s\nsomething just holding you saying no. Like I got this, I got this, maybe not,\nbut I’m pretty sure I got this.
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\nLindsay: (22:32)
\nYeah. And the maybe not part is where you question and go, okay, well what can\nI do differently or what do I need to learn next? Or who do I need to talk to\nher or whatever to either cement that view.
\nBrittney: (22:42)
\nExactly. I think that’s kind of the piece that we need to spend more time\nleaning into community and asking more questions and, and learning new skills\nto help solidify that and then once it’s kind of acquired, that’s when hope\nexpands to the next level. Right now you’re hoping for new things. That’s why I\nthink dreams is such a big component of it too. It’s, it’s not as whimsical as\njust having a dream because it has no action. It still has this really magical\ncomponent to it because once you kind of get that reassurance and you were, you\nactually have the physical proof that it can be done. That’s when you grow your\nhope into bigger things.
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\nLindsay: (23:27)
\nThe foundation of hope build on you can sort of count on it to, to reach to the\nnext level of hope.
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\nBrittney: (23:33)
\nIt’s like building blocks or compound interest, you know? It just, it, it just\nbegets more hope.
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\nLindsay: (23:38)
\nYeah. You used the word whimsical and I like that a lot. That non tactile sort\nof bubbly, anticipatory kind of feeling that that I associate with with hope\nand it is, it’s a very whimsical feeling. It’s a joyful, happy, bubbly kind of\nfeeling. I like that a lot.
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\nBrittney: (23:57)
\nIt is. And I think we need more of it because, I don’t know, you know when you\ntell someone kind of one of your crazy ideas that you’re hoping to bring into\nfruition and they kinda start poking holes in it and they don’t see it and they\ndon’t get it and it almost like grounds you more that you’re like, I totally\ncan do this because your holes don’t intimidate me at all. Nothing. You’re\npoking into this, I mean obviously not shutting down to great questions and\nlooking for more answers and making sure you have a well rounded concept, but\nyou know, it can really be something that grounds you more in it. And I think\nit really does require that sense of whimsy and like can it be done?
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\nLindsay: (24:39)
\nCuriosity, around it.
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\nBrittney: (24:41)
\nYeah.
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\nLindsay: (24:42)
\nDo you think that that’s how you use hope to motivate action? That you sort of\nlike keep that picture in your mind what the future dream accomplishment looks\nlike and use that as motivation.
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Brittney: (24:53)
\nOh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Like I can see it so clearly I can taste it. I wake\nup with it ingrained in my mind from the moment you kind of reached that\nconsciousness before I even opened my eyes. It’s there and I know what I’m\nworking towards. It’s not defined yet because I don’t want to close too many\ndoors for myself or, or shut out ideas or get so narrow-minded that I miss\nopportunities, but I can feel it. You know?
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\nLindsay: (25:26)
\nThat is behavior I suspect you model in front of your team, do you see hope in\nthem as well?
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\nBrittney: (25:32)
\nI do. I think that we see it in them in just the way that they believe in us,\nif that makes sense. You know, like they are trusting in us as a small\nbusiness. Like there’s not a lot of security, you know, there’s not a lot of\npay. I mean, I wish I could pay them tenfold. But you know, we’re still a young\nlittle baby when it comes to the business world and they literally put all of\ntheir eggs into our basket and it is so terrifying that amount of trust in your\nvision. But it’s also incredibly motivating because when I see that hope in\nthem, that is such an incredible powerful driver for me.
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\nLindsay: (26:19)
\nAgain, back to trust, right. They are seeing that they are putting their trust\nin you but obviously you are doing things and acting in a way that they know\nthey can trust you.
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\nBrittney: (26:31)
\nAbsolutely.
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\nLindsay: (26:32)
\nThat’s a two way street for sure.
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\nBrittney: (26:34)
\nAnd we came out of the gate like that when we said wellness and your mental\nhealth and your wellbeing and your happiness is by far the most important thing\nto us because we left workplaces that we were incredibly unhappy with and that\nwe felt really under undervalued and we never want our team to come into work\nfeeling like we aren’t there for them. Like we don’t have their back. Like they\ncan’t ask for something like they can’t screw up. Especially being in digital\nmarketing. You know, if we created a space where they felt insecure and that\nthey can’t believe in us, then we are stifling their innovation and their\ncreativity and their ability to problem solve. And it doesn’t benefit the\nbusiness. It doesn’t benefit them as human beings. It doesn’t benefit the\nbusiness at all. And Cait and I have been absolutely hell bent on making sure\nthat the people in our team feel absolutely supported no matter the cost.\nAbsolutely. Hands down.
\n
\n
\n\n\nLindsay: (27:39)
\nSo when are you hiring me?

\nBrittney: (27:42)
\nI’ll let you know when we have a position opening up.

\nBrittney: (27:47)
\nDo you know what, and that is probably the most rewarding things you could have\nsaid to me because that’s the dream. Like when I talk about that unconscious,\nlike what does it taste like? What does it feel like? What am I hoping for?\nThat’s exactly it. That people say, I want to come to work today. I want to\nshow up for you. I want to take risks and not be afraid to fail because this is\nmy home. These are my people. This is where I can do that. I can grow. I can\nmake a mess of things and then we will put it back together as a team and it’s\nagain, no different than in family life. Your home should be like that too. And\nit takes creating and fostering a space that has hope at the center, the\nability to dream, the absolute deeply ingrained sense of trust that you can be\nwho you want to be.

\nBrittney: (28:42)
\nBe held accountable to core sets of values and beliefs and still take risks\nscrew it up and know exactly where you, where you belong.

\nLindsay: (28:52)
\nYeah, that acceptance and arms wide open kind of, non-judgmental, compassionate\nplace to land.

\nBrittney: (29:00)
\nYeah. There’s not enough of that in the world.

\nLindsay: (29:02)
\nBrittany, your passion is palpable. It’s just the joy that I hear in your voice\nis just, yeah, it’s awesome to hear. I love it. I love it, love it, love it.

\nBrittney: (29:12)
\nI’m really, really lucky that I get to love what I do. I mean, I spend most of\nmy day figuring out how I can make other people’s lives a little bit better and\nI don’t see much wrong with that.

\nLindsay: (29:26)
\nWell, I so appreciate that. While you are showing up for your team and for your\nbusiness partner and for your business and for your family and for your partner\nand for your kids, that you’ve also made yourself a priority. And recognizing\nthat self care is important.

\nBrittney: (29:42)
\nAnd when you show up for other people, the beauty is is that they also show up\nfor you. So I work far too much and my partner is wildly understanding of it.\nAnd my kids think I’m pretty cool running a business and instead of feeling bad\nthat I’m often working or I have to go back to work after putting them to bed.\nAnd I really do hope that I can live up to the version of me that they see. And\nyou know, part of that is self care.

\nLindsay: (30:11)
\nWell authenticity, right? To say, to let them know and share that it’s not always\nawesome that you’re trying to be your best, but that it’s, it’s not, it’s not\nperfect that you are, you’re, you’re living in a glass house, so to speak. You\nknow?

\nBrittney: (30:24)
\nOh totally. I will admit to my kids when I’m having a shitty day and you know,\nI’m doing my best not to make it everyone else’s problem, but mommy’s human too\nand I need them and you know.

\nLindsay: (30:38)
\nYeah. That’s awesome. I always ask my guests one last question. Um, and I feel\nlike you’ve answered this question in many ways throughout our conversation,\nbut maybe if you could just summarize for us what gives you hope?

\nBrittney: (30:51)
\nAll of them, you know, it’s, it’s people, it’s community. That is the purpose\nit’s built into us. I feel like hope is something that is built into us and we\njust have to tap into it. And where we find it is in connecting with people and\nbelieving that you can overcome absolutely anything. You know, especially, you\nknow, with my bubbly personality, as you were saying, I often get dubbed the\ngirl, you know, the cute little blonde that has never had anything go wrong in\nher life. And that’s not the truth. You know, it’s, it’s not, it’s not real and\nit’s not real for anyone. And the fact of the matter is, is that I refuse to\nlet this world make me cold and make me hard and make me be anything but me.\nAnd I really, really do believe that that ability comes from hope.

\nLindsay: (31:51)
\nThat is very, very powerful. Very powerful. Brittany, it has been such a\npleasure to speak with you today and I’m so happy. You totally rocked this.

\nBrittney: (32:00)
\nThanks Lindsay. I do love chatting with you, so, so much

\nLindsay: (32:05)
\nSo awesome. Thank you very much. We’ll talk to you soon. Bye now\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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