Building More Beautiful Futures ft. Mary Grace Allerdice
In this episode, Mary Grace Allerdice shares her views on remembering that our jobs are not our purpose, relearning how to be motivated by curiosity and desire, cultivating the courage to belief in more beautiful futures and zooming out from the day-to-day in order to ask the beautiful questions.
Even though this conversation took place in the context of business, the larger themes are so beautifully relevant to the current events happening in the world today. 💜 Enjoy + I hope you take something away from this conversation with the one and only Mary Grace Allerdice 👽
ABOUT MARY GRACE ALLERDICE ~
Mary Grace is an artist, consulting astrologer, writer, podcaster + energetic practitioner; and she helps folks connect to their purpose and design more regenerative systems into their life + work. She leads people through strategies, learning + practices that generate creativity + courage, which enables them to make lives (+ businesses) more in alignment with their heart, values + mission.
CONNECT WITH MARY GRACE ~
Find her on the interwebs at https://www.mgallerdice.com/ and https://www.home-bodies.com/
Listen to her podcast, home—body for conversations on astrology, intuition, creativity + healing
Check out her free quiz to help you determine your self care archetype 💜
FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~
some of my personal favorite lines of conversation that came up throughout this episode:
Looking beyond ourselves to pray for peace
Unlearning being motivated by triggers and relearning motivation through curiosity and desire
Being brave enough to stand in the in-between ‘I don’t know’ space
Zooming out in order to ask the beautiful questions
Living at the pace of our bodies
DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~
0:00 - 10:00 ish:
About Mary Grace + episode overview
The relevance of this episode’s business-centric topic to current world events
10 - 20:00 ish:
Looking beyond ourselves to pray for peace
Reflecting on our scope of responsibilities in life and business
Responding to the call of our hearts
Disentangling our identity from the identity of our business
Remembering that our jobs are not our purpose
20 - 30:00 ish:
Failure as a teacher on healthy boundaries
The benefits of getting angry at your business
We don’t have to be in pain to transform
Unlearning being motivated by triggers and relearning motivation through desire
Imagining alternative approaches to online business
30 - 40:00 ish:
Trusting your own brilliance
Releasing restrictive approaches to business [and life]
Being brave enough to stand in the in-between ‘I don’t know’ space
Experimenting with our lives from a place of curiosity
Cultivating the courage to belief in our unique approaches to life + business
40 - 50:00 ish:
Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries
Acknowledging our strengths and leaning into them
A perspective of hospitality in the context of business
What makes you capable of cultivating hospitality?
Discerning between your role as a visionary vs getting stuck in the weeds
Zooming out in order to ask the beautiful questions
50 - 60:00 ish:
Instead of trying harder, what if we just stop for a minute
Shifting priorities in how we consume the world around us
Living at the pace of our bodies
Loving ourselves, loving our lives
Allowing a love for our lives to be simpler
