Building Together

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Build and Public podcast. If you are joining for the first time, I just wanna welcome you. I'm Stacy Gonzalez and I'm building two companies, one for women and another for educators. . And really at the end of the day, they're both focused on the same thing, which is learning and growing.

And that's the reason why I do this daily Build and public podcast is because every day we have an opportunity to learn something new. And every day we have an opportunity to take what we learn and integrate it into our lives in tangible ways, in practical ways. And so that's really what this podcast.

Is becoming, it is my learning journey, my documentation of being a founder and what it feels like to choose yourself, to choose business that serves you. First versus you trying to fit your life into your business. And so I'm really figuring out how to have my business fit my life, and it's been a really amazing and beautiful thing.

And so today, uh, I had the opportunity to, uh, have a meeting and I turned off. My email off my phone and I really stayed offline, um, over the weekend. And what happened is some of my team members actually sent some emails for today's meeting and I didn't look at my email. I, I wanted to do some meditation and I wanted to take my time this morning.

To be fully present in the moment, in the best way I know how, and so for me, that requires time and energy. I did a meditation. I went for a walk. I cleaned my house. I did some breath work. I took a cold shower, and so I put all my practices in place and I just gave myself space to prepare for this important business meeting that I had today.

And even despite all that preparation and even despite having the agenda ready and having multiple emails going, I was nervous and I was scared and I didn't know if I would successfully be able to navigate the meeting cuz it's new. And my team members and I were learning together. We're learning each other, we're learning about each other, we're learning to trust each other and all that to say it was an amazing meaning.

And it's so rewarding and and such a privilege to be able to see myself take these steps of courage and nobody knows. I feel it on the inside. Nobody knows what it's really like. I know what it's like. Take these steps of courage and trusting myself that I can. Be this person that I believe I am this business owner who is building amazing solutions that help people's lives change.

Providing space for people to be for love and following our hearts to grow and flourish. Cause that's, that's really what I'm doing. It's no different from when I was a teacher. Frankly, bringing people together around a shared vision. It's Cotter's work, right? If you know of John Cotter's work, the Eight Steps to Transformative Change as you get people invested in the Y and you build a guiding coalition.

Those are steps one and two, and we've got a strong why and we're building a guiding coalition, and people continually step up, come to the table. And make themselves available to support the vision, and it's so incredible and so humbling at the same time. So if you are on any sort of trust journey to yourself, if you are looking to breakthrough, tap into that little place.

Of courage within you overcome that little space of fear. If I can do it , if I can do it after 20 years in a completely different industry, not having any clue what I'm doing, you can do it too. Certainly. Certainly. I'm Stacy Gonzalez. Thank you for joining me on my building public learning journey.