Kasey (00:17)
Hey everyone, it's Casey back again after a much, much, much needed long, long rest from podcasting. I don't know if some of you ever just get sick and tired of talking,
but that's sort of where I was at. And so I needed to get my thoughts together and figure out what do I want to do? What do I want to sit and talk about? If I'm gonna sit and talk, it needs to be about something worth it. So welcome back to the podcast. I hope you are ready for some fun, new, and
Hopefully, helpful information that will help you not only in your life, but also in your profession and in your business.
Kasey (00:54)
Alright, here we go. I wanted to title this first podcast back in a while. The War of Art. and my War With This Podcast. It's been one of those things that I feel this I feel this resistance inside of me. And it's not just the podcast. It's it's a lot of things that require
presence, speaking opportunities, teaching, lots of things like that. And I for the last couple years I have been feeling so much resistance to all of these things. And I believe part of it has come from, you know, it's just not the right time. I don't ha I don't wanna have to get ready. I don't wanna have to fix my hair to do these podcasts. I don't wanna have to put on makeup. I don't want to dress a certain way. I have Francine who if you follow us you you know Francine.
And she's laying here on the couch wanting to watch Fancy Nancy, but it's muted. You know, the I we have four kids. Like everything in our lives are so crazy to just sit down and talk to someone that's out there.
is bringing up so much resistance for me and I and maybe I'll figure out what it is. I don't know. I don't know what it is right this second. but
I went in today not even really well, I didn't even know this morning when I woke up that I was going to record this podcast, if that tells you anything. I thought about it, it's been on my list, and I have a notebook here, and I just sat down and wrote the word resistance and just kind of went from there. But it got me thinking that.
So many other people have to be facing resistance in some way, in some form, fashion in their life. It's it hits the hardest. that point where you almost didn't bring the show back or you almost didn't go back to school to get your degree. and I think the word that is always tied in there is regret.
so one of the things that I've been telling myself is
This time around, even though it was the last time around too, but this time around, even more. I don't have a podcast producer. I'm most likely not going to hire one. I am going with the path of least resistance. I am going to record them. I am not going to edit them. I am not going to take out filler words. I am not going to do any of that. I'm going to show up on video exactly how I show up to work. And I'm hoping that you know that resonates with people and not having that pressure of being.
Someone who needs to perform to an audience, I think will lessen that resistance for me. So, first of all, if you've never read the book by Steven Pressfield, I highly recommend it. I have a couple notes here just so I don't say anything wrong about the man because I would hate to offend him.
He says that resistance is this invisible force that shows up anytime you try to do something meaningful, creative, or any kind of entrepreneurial work. You know, I think a lot of us are faced with this thought, and maybe it's how we were raised, I don't know, of guilt. And you think that, well.
My resistance means that I'm lazy. Presswold says that it's a predictable enemy that gets louder the closer you get to something that matters. And so if you think about that for a second, think about the things that you feel the most resistance to, and think about if he's right.
If those are the things that matter the most, and those are the things we actually need to be doing. so a couple examples here: perfectionism, especially in an entrepreneurial space, if you're developing something new or you're launching a new program and you think that it just needs to be perfect, it all has to be perfect before the world sees it.
Luckily that is a part of resistance that I got over a long time ago. because I don't I I I very rarely ever create something completely before I launch it. that perfectionism was something that I had to kind of like beat out of me. It took it took practice. It wasn't just like I woke up one day and I was like, Yeah, I don't really give a shit what people think. you may see some resistance in
Performing the lower stakes work. Now that doesn't mean there's that's bad. it just means that like what if you put your time, energy, and efforts into something with a higher payout? Maybe a little bit more of a risk, but maybe even more of a reward.
so if you know me
People are people that know me would well, okay, let me take that back. People that know of me would probably say, okay, she doesn't have any problem talking. She's an extrovert. She's this, this, this, this, this. Mm-mm. No. I do not like to talk. That's why I like to write. I would much rather write than speak. I I enjoy speaking when I'm doing it.
But you know, I've always been this person that I get like all of these weird health issues when it comes to talking. I don't know if it's like psychological or what, but everyone in my life jokes and says, Casey's got stressed throat again. and that's not strep throat, that is stress, S-T-R-E-S-S. Because when I have to prepare for something verbally or when I have to speak a lot, my whole throat will just swell and it hurts and you know, all the problems, you know, that's
That's what happens to me. And so, you know, talking on a podcast is.
I guess maybe I have a little bit of of concern that that that could happen. And I don't want that to happen. I want this podcast to be something where I can not only share business advice and lessons and and all of the things along the way, but I also wanna take the time to focus on the women who are listening and where they are sitting in their lives right now and how they're feeling emotionally, physically.
Are you exhausted? Are you just do you even recognize yourself anymore? You know, like so many times people see that those two things are are this and that and really they're one and the same. And I think so many times we miss it. And for for people in the healthcare industry specifically, of all the people to miss it, like why is it us? You know, why is it us that we can't understand how our health and our mental health connects to the work that we're doing?
And and so I still want to have some interviews. I still want to talk to people, I want to do all the things, but I want to more importantly challenge my resistance and challenge the resistance of the listeners. And I want to strip as much of that away as possible and come to you in the most pure, raw, authentic form that that I can.
so taking it back to Pressfield, so he he talks about how there's a professional versus an amateur. So this big idea sorry, I'm yawning. I don't it's been a long weekend.
So the same idea, the amateur waits for the inspiration or certainty. So it's like you're just sitting around and you tell yourself, I'll get the idea whenever it comes, you know, or or whatever it may be. And the professional shows up and does the work regardless.
My writing coach that I worked with whenever I was writing my first two books, AJ Harper, she she's a major Stephen Pressfield fan. That's how I even learned about him. And she would say to us, You just gotta show up. You just gotta show up. You just gotta show up. And I mean, even if you get two words on the page, you just gotta show up. And if we look at connecting this directly
to our lives, and speaking to my own life, why I'm launching this podcast again. I don't know all the answers. I'm showing up and I feel like whatever direction this needs to go, it will go.
No pressure. I'm not pressuring myself. I'm not pressuring anything. My only responsibility here is to my listeners, my community, my sponsors, the people that are that I'm working with on a daily basis, and really just to make lives better. think about for a second.
How you are facing your own version of resistance constantly. So this could be potentially the higher that you keep avoiding.
If you work with me in a consulting basis and you don't have an assistant, I'm going to be asking you regularly, you need to hire an assistant. Why haven't you hired an assistant? And most of the time that is a personal resistance. It's not that the practice owner can't afford it. Yes, they may not want to spend money. but if you look at it from a mathematical point of view, they can afford it. They choose not to. There's resistance.
there. You know, it's maybe it's coming in raising your rates, like something that you're saying, no, people aren't gonna pay it. I'm I'm never gonna be able to get as many clients if I do that. there's that's resistance. And there's probably something more to it. You know?
Let me think of some other practice owner resistance. here's a big one. having someone in leadership that has been with you for a long time, however, they are terrible in leadership.
And so many practice owners they have promoted someone along their journey and this person they look and now this person is the clinical director or the practice manager. However, they can't do their own documentation, their retention rates are low personally, their utilization sucks, they have poor boundaries, they have all of these personal professional weaknesses.
Within their own caseload, and now we are expecting them to manage and grow a team of therapists or other healthcare professionals when they are not even capable of doing doing it themselves. But we can't get rid of them because we like them and they've been with us a long time. Now that's resistance.
And now get don't get me wrong. I don't ever just say you need to fire that person. You know, I I'm like the opposite of that. Let's just find where they fit. Let's find where they fit. And people are just so resistant to it. So, so, so resistant to it. you know, it comes up, it comes up in so many things. It comes up in relationships where you're conflict avoidant. it comes up in
at work that is holding you back it comes up in conversation where maybe you have a friendship and in a difficult conversation needs to be had you know maybe one friend is mad at the other friend and the other friend has no clue because the one friend is just kind of passive aggressive and doesn't just say what they mean and
And maybe the other friend is just so busy that they don't have time to detective to become a detective and investigate what it is that the one friend is actually mad about. You know, there's like all these things that are happening. And if you think about it, it's just all resistance. It's all resistance. Which I think makes it even more
Important that maybe maybe no we don't take that huge jump that we just do all the things that we're resistant to do. But maybe we at least recognize what we are resistant to do and start there. So for this first episode back
Talk about some imposter syndrome and some insecurities. I'm sitting here looking at a podcast platform and I don't have a freaking clue. I don't even know if I'll figure out how to make this thing live. I'm really not sure. but I'm gonna try. And I'm not going to give in to resistance. So I'm hoping maybe you can maybe you can think of some things.
And at least acknowledge. At least acknowledge resistance. And feel free to reach out to us on our platforms, Facebook, social media, Instagram, any of the things, website, email. I would love to hear about your own resistance and maybe are you at the point where you're just willing to recognize it? Or are you ready to do something about it? Either way, I'm glad to be back.
My throat already hurts. I'm I'm looking forward to this, honestly. I think the authenticity of it and the rawness and the unscriptedness and and all that is is just going to add value. And if not, then maybe that's just
Maybe those people are not the right listener for this podcast. So I hope you subscribe, tune in, enjoy. I'll be posting at least one to two episodes a week. if there's anything you want to hear specifically about, please let us know. I would love to kind of have a whiteboard of ideas over here beside of me and be thinking about what you're thinking about. So tune in. glad to be back and can't wait to hear what you have to say.
