Loving the F

Episode 13 - Loving the F with Maxine Attong - Forbidden Self

Episode Summary

Maxine Attong wears many hats as an author, keynote speaker, consultant and entrepreneur. She has proven herself to be a woman for all seasons and in our conversation, she is candid, transparent and inspirational as she shares her experiences and life goal - "to enhance the lives of the people with whom she makes contact." I can honestly say - she achieved that goal here.

Episode Notes

Maxine Attong wears many hats as an author, keynote speaker, consultant and entrepreneur. She has proven herself to be a woman for all seasons and in our conversation, she is candid, transparent and inspirational as she shares her experiences and life goal - "to enhance the lives of the people with whom she makes contact."

I can honestly say - she achieved that goal here.

The Artists Way by Julia Cameron

• When I left my accounting job, people thought I was ill, they thought I had cancer...cause who leaves a great job because they want to do something else but they don't know what are they going to do?
• More for the comfort of their families and friends, and their status quo, they don't move, they stay.
• When I think about what would happen if I stayed, the sadness, the stress, the diminishing of self...to me that's the worse thing that can happen to you.
• I felt like a talking head, I was totally disconnected from my heart, and that sets a chain reaction. I was totally convinced I would get sick if I stayed.
• It wasn't the loss of status or loss of income, it was the loss of me and I was slipping away and that for me was the most terrifying thing about staying.
• When you're able to show up wherever you are, as all of whom you are, then the choices will evolve for you.
• There is something about choice, there's something about identifying what I want, and how I want to live and what I believe my purpose is.
  and then there is decision and choice, almost on a daily basis about how you want to do it.
• What we celebrate each moment is the beauty of having a choice...what we forget is that we have a choice.
• All humans are intelligent, all humans are creative, and all humans want to do better.
• Our voice is the purest voice we ever hear, and our voice is what is often lost to us because there are so many other voices saying negative things.
• How do I really want to treat people, and how do I want people to feel when they leave me?
• It gets easier the more we do it.
• What I wanted really all my life was community and connections.
• Somewhere around 35 people find themselves in crises because all of the things that worked before, nothing works. And for me that's grace. It's grace that carried us that far, and now grace has said you're grown up. You can take it, now you need to do the work that will reconcile all these things of who you really want to be.
• Sometimes its difficult to make that choice, to do the work. Or we don't know where to go, we don't have the resources because, nobody talks about this stuff, right? Especially now in social media. we all have perfect lives, right? We all drink fancy drinks, we all take wonderful vacations, so there's no real person saying, "Be a part of my community and let's see how we reconcile because you can no longer push forward on your own."
• Whether you like it or not, the universe has decided its time for you to live your truth.
• The blush of youth and all of the things they say about youth - that's what universe allows us mistakes, it allows us folly. and then all of a sudden it changes. The things I did when I was 18 - I mean like - if I did them now, I'd be like, arrested... the time was then and the time has changed, so my behavior has to change. And it's not because I'm older, its because I've been given the grace to make mistakes and now the universe has said, "Accept your grace and accept your purpose and life will be different."