The Marta Hobbs Podcast

I believe in sacred places. I feel we each have specific places on this Earth that activate something profound within us - portals to a connection with our deeper selves.  Paris is that place for me.  Today I’ll share the beautiful path that led me to living in Paris, and the ways in which Paris awoke my divine feminine and reintroduced me to the beauty of play and presence once I settled here.  Today’s Journal Entry:  Is there a place that calls to your soul? A place where your feet hit the ground and you simply love how you feel there? What do you believe you could discover there if you allowed yourself the time to explore this place completely? What could you learn about yourself and about life?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

For so much of my life I ran at full speed. It was the only way that I knew how to be. I was an expert plate spinner with a full life. No amount of striving and productivity felt like too much.  When we sold our company and I retired at 39, the need to be ‘productive’ vanished. Then, the unexpected happened. I crashed. My soul came knocking, and it asked: who are you outside of your doing?  I didn’t have an answer, and what followed next was a multiyear journey of becoming.  And so I ask you in today’s journal prompt:  Who are you beyond the striving and reaching? Who are you beyond the constant need to please everyone else ahead of yourself? Who are you when the need to be productive is washed away and you are left with only yourself?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

Manifestation is one of my favorite topics to explore. I’ve manifested all kinds of mind blowing things, to the point where it has become a game of ‘how good does this get to be?’.  In my world, manifestation occurs in two ways: through your masculine energy and through your feminine energy. Today we’ll talk about how these manifestation styles different, why trust is so incredibly important for feminine manifestation, and how to find the fluidity between masculine and feminine energy in order to move through life in a way that feels limitless.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  How much of the way that you manifest is driven by a masculine control of circumstance, verses the feminine surrender to the flow of life and acceptance? Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

I am a recovering people pleaser. Throughout my life, time and again, I received the message that speaking my truth was dangerous. So I did what so many women do: I disappeared. I showed up in ways that aligned exactly with how others wanted me to be. I minimized my desires to meet the desires of those around me in exchange for a feeling of safety and belonging.  Then I finally woke up to realize - the one person that I wasn’t pleasing was myself.  Over the last decade I have walked a sacred path of reclamation, returning my energy to myself and my desires. This path of recovery has included pain, grief, and loss, but ultimately it has allowed me to step into true freedom.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  What do I truly desire for me? Outside of those that I love and care for? How can I channel my energy in a way that allows me to fulfill that desire?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

In my life, few things have provided me with more personal and spiritual growth than my experience as an entrepreneur. Today I will share how my journey as an entrepreneur has shaped me, and how my own personal growth has shaped my entrepreneurial success, from my very first ventures as a teen to CheapCaribbean, the company I built and sold with my husband over the course of fourteen years.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  Where can I grow within myself in order to meet this moment and bring my ultimate vision to life?  Hear the full story of my journey building CheapCaribbean in this masterclass:  https://marta-hobbs.mykajabi.com/billiondollarmasterclass Join my Soul-Led Startup Masterclass:  https://marta-hobbs.mykajabi.com/thesoulledstartupmasterclasswithmartahobbs Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

Today I wanted to share with you one of my most beautiful truths in life - I believe that beauty is a sacred doorway to so many things for us as women.  When I began to take the time to look for beauty that is present in the every day, so much shifted for me.  As a child who grew up at the end of the cold war in communist Poland, as a child who came to the United States as a refugee, this embrace of beauty has been a long and massive journey. One that has been so incredibly worth it.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  What is already here that is beautiful?  After moving through something challenging or painful - can I come back to beauty and hold the duality of the human experience where life is both beautiful and hard?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

Time is my most prized possession, and in this season of my life I treat it as such. It wasn’t  always that way. There were seasons when my life was so full that I hardly remember it. I was hardly present for it. I poured and poured my time into others and struggled to carve time out for myself.  Now? I see time as abundance. An empty calendar as a blessing. The ability to be fully present for the moment before me as my calling.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  The life you are living today - Who are you being in it? How much of it was your idea? How much of it runs on your schedule where you own your time? Are there any ways you’d like to shift your relationship with time to better meet your desires?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

“Allow the nothingness to come up, because that is where you meet yourself.” For so much of my life I was focused on ‘doing’, but as I began to slow down and allow the opportunity of nothingness into my life, I was stunned to find what depth it brings.  It’s through the quiet that we find our connection with ourselves - the deepest connection that we can ever feel. And through imbuing that self-connection with love we can rise to higher heights in our ability to connect deeply not only with ourselves, but with others, as well.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  Where can you find a space in your day to breathe and sit in stillness, even if just for a minute?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

What if you moved through life knowing that rain is coming.. but not rushing through the rain? What if you chose to walk through the rain knowing that the rainbow is always going to be on the other side? What if you asked the universe for that rainbow and stayed present through each moment of rain until the rainbow appeared?  How would that change our experience as we walk through this life?  One morning on the beach on St. Barts I did just that, and it allowed me to experience life and beauty in the most expansive form. This episode is a message just for you from that incredible day.    Today’s Journal Entry:  Where in your life can you stay present in a moment that the world tells you to run from? What beauty could be awaiting you on the other side?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/Book - Unraveling

“For the experience of the greatest love of my life I had to be willing to risk to lose it all.”  I have been married for 30 years. It has been the most transformative container for growth that I have experienced in my life. One of my biggest lessons I’ve learned? You cannot control the behavior of your partner.  So many women I work with come to me with the same question: Now that I am on this journey of awakening and growth, how can I invite my husband to do this work for himself so that our relationship can evolve? The truth is - growth is his choice.  In order to grow to my fullest potential, I had to risk my marriage and my family. It was the ultimate act of surrender in my journey to fully love myself.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  Where in life am I trying to manage the growth of my partner? Where can I surrender and put that energy back into myself?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

“We can never get to the life that we want by not liking the life that we currently have.” For so long, I showed up in my life as a fighter. I was always ready for battle - and fighting life as it unfolded. I was manifesting life through a need to control the circumstances. It felt like a constant struggle, and eventually it became too exhausting.  I had to shift how I related to life itself. I shifted away from one who was constantly fighting the experience of life to one who allowed life to lead her. It has made all the difference.  My life is now a blank canvas. One that I co-create with the universe. I no longer prepare myself for potential setbacks for challenges that life might throw my way. I know my strength, I can face those moments as they come, but preparing for them only meant that I was dragging the past with me to color the future.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  Where are you resisting life? What areas of your life deserve reverence and acceptance as you build your dream life upon what currently is?   Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

I’ve always found joy in celebrating other people. I have poured myself into creating beautiful experiences for those I love and respect to show them how much I love them. Yet, when the tables were turned and people were celebrating me, I always felt a guilt ridden hint of disappointment.  This all changed on my 46th birthday when I made a big decision - I was going to celebrate myself. It was a decision that changed my life. It taught me the beauty of receiving, and the beauty of desire.  I want that for you, too. For only when we truly tap into our deepest desires do we blossom into our fullest selves.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  What is one way that you can celebrate yourself?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

Female friendships were something I struggled with for so long due to betrayals and wounding I experienced when I was young. Yet, as I began to heal and soften into my feminine, female friendships finally began to feel safe. In these friendships I have been able to show up more authentically than ever before.  Lately, I’ve been noticing that this wounding in female friendships exists for so many successful women. We have been encouraged to gate keep, to draw strong boundaries, and to relate to other women through a financial lens.  Today, I want to challenge that.  Journal Prompt:  What would happen if you lowered the gate and accepted female connection solely for the authentic beauty of that connection? What could you discover? What could you learn?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

“As a woman, you are allowed to be angry.”  Our sacred feminine energy is not just limited to softness and tenderness. It is also important to embrace the feminine fire that lives within all of us. The sacred rage that burns in your chest that we have so often been told not to express.  It has a story to tell. It is the rage of the women who came before you, and your own personal rage for all of the ways that you were allowed and not allowed to experience and express.   Can you invite it to the surface? Can you let it speak? Can you ask it to dance?  Today’s Journal Prompt:  What is your relationship with your anger?  Go deeper in this work inside of The Longing, A Masterclass in Feminine Energetics Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

My exploration into my feminine softness has been one of the most expansive journeys of my life.  For so long, I performed the role that society told me to play - a person who was hard, controlled, solid, concise and to the point. A person operating from the masculine. As time went by this began to feel so deeply constricting. I was not living in the fullness or completeness of who I was as a woman. Through personal shadow work and through community with other women I have called my feminine to the surface and allowed her to take her rightful seat at the table.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  “Where is your feminine energy asking to be brought to the surface in your life?”  Go deeper in this work inside of The Longing, A Masterclass in Feminine Energetics Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

“I started to see that so often saying ‘yes’ to others was saying ‘no’ to myself.” I often ask women to tell me who they are without speaking about their jobs or their families.  This is an extremely hard question for women to answer.  The reason why is because our identities are so wrapped up in who we are for others. Through this focus outward we have lost track of who we truly are.  There is a path back to yourself, though. A path where you begin saying ‘yes’ to yourself instead of ‘yes’ to everyone else. It starts by setting down the identities you play for others, stepping away from codependency, and stepping into a balanced state of interdependence. Through this self-love you can begin to welcome your true self back into your heart.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  “Who am I outside of the roles I play for other people?”  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

“What if there was nothing wrong with you? What if there was nothing to fix? What if everything that hurt and felt broken was simply asking for your love and acceptance?” As little girls, the world is constantly telling us who to be. None of those messages encouraged us to be fully who we are. It caused such a fragmentation inside of me, a burying of so many pieces of my true self so that I could show up in the way that society dictated that I should.  After five decades of living like this, I felt it begin to fall away on the streets of Paris. I began to say ‘no’ to all that I had held in an attempt to be loved and accepted. I began to welcome back my feminine, heal past wounds, and embrace the discarded parts of my identity. In Paris I became the whole woman I was always meant to be.  I want that for you, too.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  “What is one part of your identity that you are ready to set down in order to be a more whole version of yourself?”  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

“If you want to attract an authentic tribe you have to be willing to take the risk of showing up in the truth of who you are.”  In my youth, as a new immigrant in New York City, I believed that belonging meant fitting in. I did everything I could to fit into this new and unfamiliar world. In doing so - I erased myself.  That was never true belonging.  Today I strive for true belonging. True belonging can only begin once you shed your artifice and stand in the truth of who you are. In this space you will become a beacon, and those who are meant for you will easily be able to find their way to your side.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  How are you standing in your way from showing up as your full authentic self in this world?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling

“What would it look like if I dared to embody all of the aspects of who I am?”  Welcome to The Marta Hobbs Podcast. In today’s inaugural episode I’ll share the journey that brought me into this new and expansive space - a space where I will share my story with greater depth and honesty than I have before.  I also welcome you to this new space of sisterhood. A space where you too can unravel and reclaim the pieces of yourself that you have hidden or repressed, so that you can rise up as a fuller, more vibrant version of yourself in community with other women reclaiming their own magnificent selves.  Today’s Journal Prompt:  What is one aspect of your full self that you have kept hidden from the world?  How can you bring that beautiful part of yourself forward in community?  Go deeper with Marta:  Instagram - @martahobbs Website - https://martahobbs.com/ Book - Unraveling