Andrea Owen has a new book: Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength. In this week’s interview with Kim, Andrea walks us through the anger she has felt by “being raised in a culture that told me to quiet down—that my voice, my spirit, my ambition, my most everything was too much.”
In the interview, Andrea discusses why we hold back in our lives and how to use the fire in our bellies to burn the whole damn “quiet” culture down. As she states in her book, “Women have been socialized to not make too much noise, put everyone else before us, and to make everyone else comfortable. All of this at the expense of our own values, desires, and dreams. Many times, we don’t even consciously realize this is happening. But unconsciously we know. It manifests as resentment, poor boundary setting, lashing out, negative self-talk, unnecessary apologizing, people-pleasing, and approval seeking. And that feels like shit.”
Listen to the full episode to…
- Andrea’s book came from her own anger from playing it small throughout her life.
- Why it’s past time for women to start taking up some damn space and to start asking for everything they want.
- What it means to shine bright and why women need the courage to do it in our lives.
- How to remember our inner wisdom and start using it.
- Discover “The Unlearning,” Andrea’s four-step process for unlearning patterns and behaviors.
- Understand that when you put yourself out there, you are risking failure and criticism—and why it’s worth it.
- How a drug deal at night in Tijuana, Mexico led to a spiritual experience for Andrea.
- Strategies to stop ignoring the brainwashing that is making you smaller in life (and why it’s time to burn it down).
“Women are taught at a young age to take care of everyone else’s feelings and not make other people uncomfortable. We dance around things by tampering down our own values for the sake of the comfort of other people.” – Andrea Owen
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Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength by Andrea Owen