
EP5: Platonic Intimacy - When Friends Become Family with Shaun Derik
01/18/23 • 80 min
Professional storyteller, internet Jesus, and Danielle’s best friend, Shaun Derik, joins Danielle in this episode for a glimpse into their friendship and how they typically like to shoot the breeze and spill the tea.
Always a speaker for the dreamer, tune in to learn how Shaun inspired Danielle to become a visionary and manifest all of her dreams. As well as discuss the importance and power of platonic love.
From human design to spirit animals to their matching tattoos, don’t miss this fun chat between two best friends for their truths, fortune telling, and what happens if you just keep saying YES!
QUOTABLES
“The only way to have family forever is to collect people. Right? And continue to insert people into your own life.”
“You will remember great parties, but you will never ever remember the last time you got a good night's sleep.”
KEY POINTS
How MJ the Musical and Shaun Derik inspired SINCE3000 (2:52)
Platonic intimacy - Shaun and Danielle’s 10-year friendiversary (15:27)
What Shaun has learned from his female friends (19:09)
The life of Derik: A year with no ceiling (28:34)
“What if we just did it?” (34:41)
The power and absurdity of titles and labels (40:09)
Learning to just say thank you (56:05)
GUEST INFORMATION
Shaun Derik
Shaunderik.com
IG | instagram.com/shaunderik
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Professional storyteller, internet Jesus, and Danielle’s best friend, Shaun Derik, joins Danielle in this episode for a glimpse into their friendship and how they typically like to shoot the breeze and spill the tea.
Always a speaker for the dreamer, tune in to learn how Shaun inspired Danielle to become a visionary and manifest all of her dreams. As well as discuss the importance and power of platonic love.
From human design to spirit animals to their matching tattoos, don’t miss this fun chat between two best friends for their truths, fortune telling, and what happens if you just keep saying YES!
QUOTABLES
“The only way to have family forever is to collect people. Right? And continue to insert people into your own life.”
“You will remember great parties, but you will never ever remember the last time you got a good night's sleep.”
KEY POINTS
How MJ the Musical and Shaun Derik inspired SINCE3000 (2:52)
Platonic intimacy - Shaun and Danielle’s 10-year friendiversary (15:27)
What Shaun has learned from his female friends (19:09)
The life of Derik: A year with no ceiling (28:34)
“What if we just did it?” (34:41)
The power and absurdity of titles and labels (40:09)
Learning to just say thank you (56:05)
GUEST INFORMATION
Shaun Derik
Shaunderik.com
IG | instagram.com/shaunderik
RESOURCES
Join Member Up - Get 14 days FREE
Watch the Course From Scratch Masterclass
GO SUBSCRIBE to SINCE3000 on All Streaming Platforms
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EP4: Embracing The Multiple Characters Within with Apps w/o Code Founder Tara Reed
Meet Tara Reed - CEO of Apps Without Code, a company humanizing app development, helping thousands of ambitious professionals take an idea and turn it into something that can serve millions. But Danielle and Tara aren’t here to talk tech...
Tune in as Tara shares her road from scarcity mindset to abundance queen through the help of hypnotherapy, time travel, and challenging herself to get more self-actualized. As well as finding and embracing all the different “characters” she embodies.
Acknowledging that this world is not always created or designed for us, listen in as your host and her good friend Tara urge you to walk through every portal the universe opens for you. Only then, can you grow, reach the next level and find your highest authentic self.
QUOTABLES
“You are the vibrational average of the five people closest to you.”
“There's always a portal there for you. And most people just never open any of the doors.”
“I’m a lot and that’s beautiful.”
KEY POINTS
Meet The 3 Goddesses, Super Hero, and Inner Child [3:23]
When scarcity looks you in the eye [8:24]
Shifting your definitions of success and into your highest self [26:37]
Tara’s Birthday Challenge [34:53]
Opening portals to different levels [40:35]
What does masculine and feminine mean to you? [47:06]
How to thrive in a world not designed for you [50:02]
The importance of the people closest to you [56:02]
GUEST INFORMATION
Tara Reed
IG | instagram.com/tarareed_
RESOURCES
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EP6: Welcome to the Plot Twist with Danielle Leslie
Danielle talks a lot about the power of your story, but in the last few years, as she tells the story attached to her brand, Danielle realized her narrative is stuck in time. So what happens when your shared story no longer says who you are but who you were?
Tune in as your host gives you all the smoke and shares her recent story decoupling. Leaning into being the executive director of her life, Danielle is not only releasing the versions of herself getting in her own way but is creating, complicating, and expressing new stories in real time.
So what story are you stuck on? And what plot twist will you bring to your new narrative? It is plot-girl summer after all!
QUOTABLES
“When I'm sitting at the dinner table, when I'm calling up my friends, when I'm FaceTiming, what material do I have if I haven't lived? And when I say lived, I mean living and breathing and ducking and plot-twisting.”
“We are the creative directors, the executive producers, of our lives and of every moment.”
KEY POINTS
Meet little sixth-grade Dani (1:21)
Uncoupling who you are now and the story you’ve been telling yourself (5:03)
“Do it for the plot!” (7:30)
Is there a story you are stuck on? What’s your plot twist? (8:43)
Releasing the version of you that is getting in your way (11:23)
The inspiration in the world around you (15:32)
RESOURCES
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Watch the Course From Scratch Masterclass
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