This week I'm talking again with Lauren Hughes.  Successful CEOs need to make fast decisions, but worrying about the consequences slows them down. Indecision and lack of action lead to consequences of their own. That's why we are talking with Lauren Hughes about failing fast & radical self-acceptance - What she thought was a weakness, and how it became her superpower (7-figure Secrets)

Listen in to hear about:

• Making fast decisions
• How she likes to fail fast and get fast results
• Radical self-acceptance: We are perfect just as we are
• Have the courage to accept things as they are so you can address them asap
• Telling yourself a more empowering story
• How she learned what a panic attack was, and what she had to give up to stop the cycle
• Catching the warning signs
• What she thought was a weakness, and how it became her super power
• Changing the story of what failure means
• The mind is powerful
• It’s normal - people just don’t talk about it because we think we need to be perfect
• Successful entrepreneurs don’t quit 
• Entrepreneurs are inherently Imposters and why this isn’t a bad thing
• The “ice cube principle”

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TRANSCRIPT

79-Lauren Hughes: Radical self acceptance - What she thought was a weakness, and how it became her super power (7-figure Secrets)

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[00:00:56 ] Trina: welcome back to the field guide to awesome folks. In my [00:01:00 ] last episode, I spoke again with Willow Sana. Willow has been a self-employed creative for over 20 years. She's a sought after business coach who empowers visionary entrepreneurs with heart-centered action. And we talked about what you need to do before you can show up powerfully and compassionately for others.

If you missed it, make sure to go back and check it out.

But don't go yet. Folks. My next guest is Lauren Hughes, serial entrepreneur, realtor, and investor, currently working on her fifth business. Hugh's capital. She started it last year and she's planning to grow it to be over 10 million within the next five to seven years. Lauren and I are talking about radical. Self-acceptance and about what she thought was a weakness and how it became her superpower. Join me in welcoming, Lauren Hughes

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[00:01:48 ] Trina Serrecchia: I want to go back really quickly to talk about when you talk about decisions and from my research, from working with high level people, [00:02:00 ] the rapidity of. Decisions making fast decisions and failing fast.

Now I use fail as

[00:02:09 ] Lauren Huges: no. I like to fail fast because it's not, I don't see failure as a negative. Right. My negative is when you quit and you quit without a real reason. And that's that's the negative, but failure.

[00:02:21 ] Trina Serrecchia: It's, you've just learned one way that it hasn't worked yet. Exactly.

[00:02:25 ] Lauren Huges: And next time you're going to be faster.

[00:02:28 ] Trina Serrecchia: Yeah. And it's, it's like you're creating a field guide. It's like, well, that doesn't work. So let's try this new thing. When things don't work, as you expect. It sounds as if that you were telling yourself a different story than what you would have told yourself earlier in your career.

[00:02:46 ] Lauren Huges: Yes. I would have told myself a gentler story, I think at the beginning and it's not, and I think it takes maybe more courage or maybe. I in order to have courage, you have to [00:03:00 ] be afraid, I suppose. So, when at the beginning I think I tried to, put stuff under the rug and not oh, that's not important versus, now it's yeah, you know what?

I'm going to have bad thoughts, or I'm going to have bumps that aren't great. Or, this little dumpster fire needs to be dealt with now. Let's not push it off for another week or, and something. And just accepting that. That's just me versus trying to like, oh, that part doesn't exist. And the reality oh, no, it does.

It's just going to get bigger if you don't address it.

[00:03:34 ] Trina Serrecchia: Yeah. And early on, it's easy to avoid. And hide and bury things as you develop as an entrepreneur, as a leader you learn that, you can't ignore those things because they do get worse. They do, they do get worse. And then as you get further on in your business, you realize that.

You know what? I don't have to be afraid [00:04:00 ] of it. I can deal with it now. It may be unpleasant now, but it's going to be a lot worse later. So let me take care of it now. And it's okay.

[00:04:07 ] Lauren Huges: Yeah. And I think that's the biggest thing is because before I was, so I think, so it comes back to the

[00:04:14 ] Trina Serrecchia: story of let's hide that because I'm embarrassed about it.

I'm scared about it. I'm not able to deal with it. And so the new story is it's okay. I can do something about it now. It's more empowered. Yeah, the story that you're telling yourself as more empowered.

[00:04:30 ] Lauren Huges: Brilliant. I love that it's more empowered. And I think that, that goes a lot with, self-acceptance and we don't have to be these perfect people because there that doesn't exist.

And, and just because, I'm not a great speller doesn't mean. Cool. I use spellcheck or, it's not negative. I think, it's not, we don't live in the, leave it to beaver era anymore where people are perfect or consider, we're [00:05:00 ] just who we are and it's not negative or positive.

It's just, we just are who we are. And we're perfect. Just the way that we are which might be a little bit. Shay, but I think it it's very true. It's very true. Accepted.

[00:05:14 ] Trina Serrecchia: Perfection does not exist. Perfection keeps us in inaction and it keeps us in anxiety and it keeps us in shame. When we let go of the need for perfection and we allow ourselves to just be who we are.

And, and knowing that as who we are is enough are what we had originally thought of as our weaknesses or our failures. As human creatures are actually our super powers because it allows us to think a little differently to solve problem, solve a little differently. And to feel enough because we are enough.

Yeah.

[00:05:56 ] Lauren Huges: Yeah, very important words right there. And it's, it's, [00:06:00 ] we are enough and perfection doesn't exist. I know that we're about to run out of time, but I have actually, I had a complex with being perfect for a long time. And it would tell us about

[00:06:11 ] Trina Serrecchia: that story. I have time