Worthfull Project

“The technology keeps changing, but connection and trust are what still work. Ideas that spread, win. Ideas that stick are worth even more. You can race to be first on a new platform, but it’s far better to be the voice that we would miss if you weren’t there.”   Seth Godin   It's the beginning of Season 5! I took a good break over the holidays and into the new year and now I'm ready for a new season -- which means a new theme and a new format for the episodes. I'm excited to dedicate a whole season of this podcast to the thing thing has been top of mind for me for a while: owning my worth in my work and encouraging others to do the same. As I'm learning how to be a better business owner, service provider, sales person, marketer, and human being who gets paid for her skills, I have so many new thoughts about how to own our worth in our work . . . and how not to. That's what we'll be exploring this season! Subscribe on your favorite listening app and let's begin.

"Let's remember that our worth has been with us throughout this entire season and probably supported us in ways we didn't fully realize."     It's the end of Season 4! Wow, what a year this was and what a gift committing to making these affirmation episodes has been to me. There were many weeks this year that I didn't think I had it in me to record another affirmation from my worth, but I did it anyway and I'm grateful. I'm recapping what I learned this year from this creative project and what I have in store for Season 5. I hope you experience a beautiful end to your year and a deep reconnection to your worth.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts  | Stitcher Links mentioned: Worthfull Project blog Worthfull Media

"Maybe you've been going at your very highest pace for a very long time."     The phrase "grace for your pace" descended into my mind a few weeks ago, and I saved it for a worthfull affirmation episode. It seems that the times we live in are a constant pull on our pace. There's always a request for us to go faster or to give more, but that isn't always what's actually needed. Our pace is often just fine, or a little too fast already, and giving ourselves grace for that makes all the difference. This worthfull affirmation is a reminder to check in on the grace you are giving yourself. For your pace, for other's pace, and for the greater community's pace. Could you give a little more grace for that pace? Give it a try.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: These Times by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

"How well are you stewarding yourself?"     I get to edit my friend Tiffany Peterson's podcast, which is a delight. Recently on her show, she posed the question, "How well are you stewarding yourself?" It struck me immediately because I'd never thought about self-care in that way before. Then I started to think about how this relates to our worth. This worthfull affirmation is an opportunity for you to ask yourself the same question. If our worth is the best steward we can ask for, are we letting it fill that role? What would happen if we did? I think we'd experience the best care we can imagine, and we can decide to do this starting right now.   Links mentioned: Tiffany Peterson Music Credit: Idle Ways by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

"You are known by the best parts of yourself."     I love reading Esther Perel's monthly email letters. She's a world-renown relationship therapist that teaches about how important it is to be connected to our aliveness, the fact that we are seen and known. I've been thinking about how powerful it is to know that we are known. Not just by others, but by ourselves, and by our worth. This worthfull affirmation is a reminder to you that you are known. For all of your best qualities and choices and efforts. And that you are known for who you really are by your worth.   Links mentioned: Esther Perel Music Credit: Crumbling Dock by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

"Change nothing except the amount of love you give to yourself." - Sarah Blondin     I heard this beautiful phrase while listening to a meditation a few weeks ago, and it sunk right into my heart. I hadn't ever thought that the only thing that might need to change in my life is the amount of love I give to myself. I loved exploring this idea and asking myself the question, what would happen if I only increased the amount of love I showed to myself? This worthfull affirmation is a reminder to you, and an invitation, to change the amount of love you give to yourself. To increase it wildly. And to believe that when we change nothing except the amount of love we give to ourselves, we change everything.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: A Palace of Cedar by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

"I know that you're working your very hardest at being the kind of person you wish you were."     As usual, I recorded this affirmation for myself, because it's what I needed to hear. I read a snippet somewhere recently that started with, "I know that life is . . ." and it felt so comforting to hear someone else acknowledge the circumstances I was feeling. One of the best ways I've found to soothe myself is to speak to myself through the voice of my worth. So that's where this affirmation is coming from. This worthfull affirmation is a comfort for you. A chair to sit down on for a minute. A warm cup of tea to sip. A beautiful scene to take in. It's a reminder that all of your effort and all of your demands are seen and known. And that you don't have to carry the weight of the world, even if it feels like it.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Morning Colorwheel by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

"What can I do to make this mountain taller so the women after me can see farther."   Rupi Kaur   It's been a heavy and overwhelming week in the world. Crises in Afghanistan, Haiti, and so many places as a result of the Earth's climate crisis and humanity's crises around politics and social justice have all hit at once. I've been doing my best to educate myself on how to help and also to understand what we've let happen to get us here. I know that worth is at the center of the way forward. It always is. This worthfull affirmation is a tribute to the women in Afghanistan, and around the world, who have built the mountain taller for those who come after them, and the pain they are experiencing right now as it appears to be swept away.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Flor Vjell by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest  

"Maybe when it hasn't happened yet, it's because the very best version of it hasn't quite been birthed."     I've been working on something for a long time that hasn't happened yet. It's felt like a marathon that's lasted months, maybe years. It's a really good thing that I know will be good for everyone involved. It's the thing I really care about right now. And it hasn't happened yet. I'm starting to see the wisdom in this wait; it's a time for my worth to really come to the surface and reveal herself to me. This worthfull affirmation is a reminder that when it hasn't happened yet, it's not because your worth is on the line. In fact, it may very well be because your worth needed to remind you that nothing you are waiting on will add to your worth.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Watercooler Quiet by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

"Being the best, when you're in a class of one, is a privilege and a joy."   I recently found a card I wrote to myself years ago. It was a simple pick-me-up, a reminder for a rainy day. On the front of the card it said, "You're the best," in lovely gold scripting. I set it on my desk for a nice little reminder. And then I started thinking about that idea. What does it mean to be the best at being ourselves? Isn't that what's at the heart of living worthfully? I think so. This worthfull affirmation is a reminder that you are the best at being you. You're in a class of one. Being the best comes with no burden, no competition, and no hierarchy. It's just the truth.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: So Go We by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest  

"Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year."   I've been practicing a lot of patience so far this year. In the pandemic, in my business, in my marriage, in other ways. It's been powerful and stretching and at times tiring. But I'm trusting that seasons of patience are leading to seasons of blooming and activity and excitement. And that I'll be so grateful I had the patience to experience all of these quiet moments before the bloom. This worthfull affirmation is a reminder that every season has deep value for us - the blooming, the shedding, the hibernation, and the germination. Patience is what lets our worth do its work and bring us again and again to a new bloom.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Morning Colorwheel by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

As long as you do not know How to die and come to life again, You are but a sorry traveler On this dark earth. - Johann von Goethe   I heard a short poem by Goethe in a mediation class a few years ago, and I jotted it down in a note on my phone because it struck me so much. Every so often, I'll see the note and re-read it and it still lands for me in the same way. The idea of death and birth being a natural cycle, that can happen again and again within a lifetime, is so powerful when we remember that our worth is intact through every chapter. It's the spark that allows a new phoenix of ourselves to emerge after every chapter ends. I recorded a worthfull affirmation to share the thoughts I've collected through the years about this cycle. As we come out of this chapter of a global death and rebirth through a pandemic and societal unraveling, I am especially grateful for this knowledge. Our worth will birth us into every new chapter if we remember its purpose is just that.   Links mentioned: Music C

Worth is constantly birthing belief.   I've been listening to some great new voices in business, entrepreneurship, mindset, and lifestyle. They're refreshing, honest, empowering, and grounded. (And they happen to be women, mostly women of color. Coincidence?) They are reminding me that belief in myself is the beginning of making my dreams reality. Not the daydream kind of belief -- I'm already excellent at that. But belief in my own strength, talent, and ability, as well as belief in a higher source that is supporting and invested in my success. I recorded a worthfull affirmation to capture the thoughts I've been having lately as a result of tuning into new energy, new sources, and new stories about how to make my bigger dreams happen. I hope it serves you in the same way.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Idle Ways by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

Worth is the foundation that allows us to believe in faith and hope.   Faith, hope and charity are the three highest virtues espoused in Christianity. I've been raised on their power and importance my whole life, and I believe in them. But I had a thought before I made this affirmation that worth is the foundation piece that allows us to believe in these. This affirmation episode is for you -- to remember that faith, hope, and worth have the power to keep you going through anything.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Flor Vjell by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest  

Freedom is an experience we create for ourselves.   I've been thinking about freedom lately and not in the physical sense. I've been thinking about freedom of spirit and of mind. Freedom from the walls I can build around myself when I think I'm not good enough. When I am not meeting my own expectations. This affirmation episode is for you -- to remember where freedom really comes from and that our worth is perpetually free, in the best way.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Lakeside Path by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

You are capable of staying uncomfortable and finding comfort there.   We're back to affirmation episodes this week. I'm all about breathers and breaks because they re-energize me around the things I love. I spent some time last week in a national park, off the grid, and soaked in all the medicine Mother Nature offers. It was a wonderful breather, and it gave me perspective on all the discomfort I've felt the past several months. Just like hiking up a mountain, discomfort is temporary. It's a growing process. We come out stronger from it if we choose. More importantly, our worth reminds us that we are still everything we feel when we are comfortable, when we are uncomfortable. And we can remind ourselves of that at any time.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Cloudbank by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

If you've been wondering if it's the right time to be creative, it is. And you are.   I'm breaking the affirmation episode streak to tell a little story and do a little check-in with my year-long resolution to be a maker. To create. To reconnect with all my desires and abilities to explore art forms and make new things. I am loving it! Just a few months into the year, I've been making so much more than in any chapter of my life. And I'm noticing a shift in my identity. My confidence is growing. Other people are starting to think of me as a creative. I'm starting to think of myself as a true maker. I'm feeling the strength grow in my creative muscles. I'm settling into new habits of how I do work and play and expression. If you've been feeling the call to create, to express, and to explore, I hope you do. It's the worthfull way.   Links mentioned: Music Credit: So Go We by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

Your worth is ready for you to be the same on the outside and completely different on the inside.   Welcome to a new season of the show: the Worthfull Affirmations season. Every other week, I'll release a new episode on the podcast that will be a short affirmation set to music on a topic related to owning our worth. When I asked myself what affirmation I was ready to receive and give this week, I heard the phrase "your worth is ready." As soon as I heard that, I realized that my worth is always ready - for whatever I most deeply desire. Your worth is also ready. It's ready for the things you've been brave enough to admit only to yourself. Because your worth is listening to it all, and it is ready to walk with you. Let me know what you think! Are you enjoying these affirmation episodes?   Links mentioned: Music Credit: A Palace of Cedar by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

Quiet down, listen in, and trust that you do know what to do.   Welcome to a new season of the show: the Worthfull Affirmations season. Every other week, I'll release a new episode on the podcast that will be a short affirmation set to music on a topic related to owning our worth. I've been learning how to navigate new levels of possibility and self-doubt, simultaneously. As they say, new level new devil. So today's affirmation is based on the infinite truth that I'm constantly reminding myself of: my innate wisdom already knows what to do. Let me know what you think! Are you enjoying these affirmation episodes?   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Tumblehome by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

There is no proving needed.   Welcome to a new season of the show: the Worthfull Affirmations season. Every other week, I'll release a new episode on the podcast that will be a short affirmation set to music on a topic related to owning our worth. I've been thinking a lot about my value, both in my career and as a human being. It's easy to get fixated on certain markers of value that we've made up in this world. But if we choose, we can focus instead on what makes us valuable already, as we are, with no markers necessary. Let me know what you think! Are you enjoying these affirmation episodes?   Links mentioned: Music Credit: Crumbling Dock by Blue Dot Sessions Follow Christine: Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest