What Are Your Crucible Moments?

06/18/21 • 12 min

Welcome back, friends! Today, we’re going to dive a little deeper and explore some new territory on our Comfort Cliff. If you’ve never reflected on your crucible moments...today is the day!

We’ll spend time in our Empowerment Zone learning what Crucible Moments are and how they impact our growth and reinvention journey.

Here’s how I define your Crucible moments. It’s the heat, baby! The pressure that you feel during key moments of your life. It’s the dangerous fire and the gorgeous risk. The conditions under which we are forced to withstand an extreme test. It’s in these moments that something new, precious and more valuable has the potential to be created.

So if you’re ready...let’s jump right in.

Welcome back, friends! Today, we’re going to dive a little deeper and explore some new territory on our Comfort Cliff. If you’ve never reflected on your crucible moments...today is the day!

We’ll spend time in our Empowerment Zone learning what Crucible Moments are and how they impact our growth and reinvention journey.

So if you’re ready...let’s jump right in.

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Transcript

Crucible Moments

Welcome back, friends! I so look forward to sharing space in the podcast world with you! And Today, I want to introduce a new idea/concept. As you know, sometimes we’ll find ourselves celebrating these incredible reinventions stories brought to us by badass women from across the country and sometimes we’ll learn how to better navigate our comfort cliff. Today is the latter. We’re going to dig a little deeper as we explore some new territory called our Crucible Mome