๐ What you'll hear in this episode:
In this deeply personal episode, Jen Talks Tech reflects on her transformative experiences from the Women Evolve conference and details her evolution journey towards clarity, grace, and simplicity.
๐ A Few Highlights From Episode:๐ ๐พLife Edits & Personal Evolution
๐ Simplification as a Path to Clarity:
After the conference, I've been focused on simplifying every aspect of my life, which has led to enhanced clarity. Moving with clarity is such a confidence boost and a "living your best life" cheat code.
๐Grace in Progress:
Post-conference, I'm constantly thinking about how I give myself more grace in day-to-day life. It's a work-in-progress but every day I find myself being more forgiving to me and less self-critical.
Recognizing small wins and giving oneself grace during moments of missteps, failures, and setbacks is essential.
๐Embracing My Unique Form:
I deeply resonated with one of Sarah's conference topics and that was the night she poured into us about the importance of "your unique form". After years of struggling with implementing expert advice and trying to adopt what "worked for the experts" I am finally confidently embracing that " I Am The Blueprint" and just have to lean into my unique form. Don't be scared or don't doubt the authenticity and originality in your unique journey, just keep creating your blueprint. The world needs that. You need that!
๐Self- Pacing & Intentionality:
Moving forward, I plan on doing everything at my own pace. Slowly and intentionally releasing content and products, focusing on genuine alignment rather than external pressures.
๐ SAAS Tribe, if you were at Woman Evolve, please top takeaways, favorite moments, and reflections one-month post-conference. I really have to know, how you're evolving out there!
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Talk Your Sass show.
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:I'm your host, Jen Talks Tech.
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:We're back with another episode.
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:I've been away from the podcast for a
little minute just because It's really,
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:I've just been doing like a life edit.
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:I'm going to explain more
what that is later, but women
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:evolve, has life evolving.
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:, last episode I talked about my experience.
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:It's with Women Evolve and this is going
to be a Women Evolve recap part two.
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:More about how Women Evolve, it going
to the Women Evolve conference has
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:impacted my life more so than, , in
the last episode, we talked more
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:about likes, dislikes, faves.
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:Now we're talking about how Women Evolve.
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:The conference has me evolving.
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:And so I needed a couple of weeks to
really digest this and really think about
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:this, , because women evolve was a lot and
it was definitely very impactful, , for
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:me, for I'm sure the 40 other, the 39.
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:Thousand 999 other women that went to it.
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:Y'all see those quick mats?
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:Listen.
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:All the other women that went
as well, I'm sure it was, I'm
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:sure they're still unpacking.
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:I'm sure they're still, , reflecting
on the experience, letting it soak in,
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:letting it sink in as we all should.
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:And so, I took a little time to
do that, , and to really gather my
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:thoughts since being, at Woman Evolved.
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:conference.
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:So I would say ever since coming back
from the conference, I've been hearing
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:God telling me to simplify everything.
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I know I started this, this
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:I pick a theme word for every year.
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:So really it was just about Execution,
that was my execution and yeah, it
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:was my theme word for this year, but
ever since coming back from Women
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:Evolve, I would say my theme word has
shifted into simplicity and Simplicity
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:has been doing an evolution on me.
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:, I'm just, I'm trying to simplify
everything in every area of my life.
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:So with business, , with content creation,
it has really allowed me to have clarity.
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:The simplification of those things in
my mind has allowed me to have way more
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:clarity and move with way more clarity.
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:I will say that that's my biggest.
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impact Women Evolved has had on
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:me, , thus far from coming back.
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:My mind is so clear now.
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:, not that I didn't have clarity before, but
I have so much clarity in the direction
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business and content creation and sharing
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:my ideas and sharing my thoughts and.
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:Processes and mental models and all
of those things are really things
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:that God has been telling me to do.
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:It just seemed very overwhelming.
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praying for that for a while.
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has been a huge shift in my mindset,
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along with it clarity.
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:I do think, those two go hand in hand.
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shift for me, like I said.
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was saying about women evolve, , and
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:coming back from women evolve, I feel.
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:A lot more grace for myself.
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evolved, I would women evolve.
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calling it women evolved.
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the facts and I do feel like
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after the fact we evolved child.
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back, I have allowed myself, given
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:myself way more grace for the things
that I am not doing, that I want to do.
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struggle for me and I have, I have
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:continued to evolve in that area and
not putting so much pressure on myself
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Missteps, failures, setbacks, , and
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:when I don't do something that I want
to do, let's say manage my time, let's
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:say, you know, I missed a couple of
weeks, not putting out an episode.
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bi weekly episodes because weekly
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:episodes just wasn't cutting it.
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that's what the quote unquote experts.
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high rank podcasts, people who
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more you can do, the more whatever,
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and hustle culture, it really is
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myself a ton of grace as far as
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:I might still be in a bi weekly
podcast, but am I, have I been
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I was going to post three times a
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wanted to post four times a week, but
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:So I, , I'm super grateful and
thankful for that grace, that
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:I've just been feeling over the
last month of, , celebrating.
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:small wins again and giving myself grace
in small wins, even though it might
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:not have, I might not have achieved
everything or the full goal or whatever.
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:I should still celebrate and
acknowledge that within myself.
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I talked about in the last.
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night, which was Thursday.
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years, I had really struggled with.
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learning how to build a coaching business,
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all these things, , how to monetize your
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:information, your, intellectual property.
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the expert advice, most of the tips.
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that was out there, people were
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form, it really hit me because that's,
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struggling against that because that
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:is not the, the, the way or the form or
the format that I felt was best for me.
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:To deliver my information, to have my
business model, and because I didn't
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:really see a lane or I didn't really
see, a kind of like a role model or
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:example out there that matched what I
saw in my head, I was kind of following
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:a road map or a blueprint of what was
already out there, even though it was
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:not aligning with me, and I would say
this year, I've really like Stuck with
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:that and have not have been pulling away
from that direction and aligning with
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:what I have in my head, even though I
don't know what to call it, even though I
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:might not know the format, even though I
might not have the blueprint and I just.
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form, it really aligned with me.
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falling into place with how I'm supposed
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:to be moving in the space of , creating
digital products, assets, whatever,
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:being an informationpreneur as, as one
of my favorite people online that I
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:can't remember her name right now, cause
I've been following her for a minute.
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it's not defined, it's not defined
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:if it's not, if it, if it has a new
form or a new format, if it's never
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:been done before, that's fine too.
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:That's cool too.
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:, so really, I came away with
that with, I am the blueprint
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:for what I'm trying to do.
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:I came out with blueprint energy
and the piece that I got from that.
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:Has been just like life changing,
you know, like when we used to watch
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:those cartoons or shows, they used
to be like, ah, like when people
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:got stuff, that's how it's been.
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:It's been like a huge light bulb, like a
huge energy spark, like a lightning bolt.
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:, around some things that I'm going
to be putting out and some things
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:that you will see from me very soon.
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:But I'm going to be putting it out
very slow because that's another,
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would be the simplicity, the
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:form and the last one is pace.
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:, I'm, I was about to say, I'm going
to be putting it out very slowly.
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:Everything that I'm doing, I'm putting
it out at my own pace, very slowly,
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:not in a format, not following this,
not following that, not, not looking
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:at this, but I'm, I'm on the spaghetti
sticking to the wall at this point.
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:, and I just feel that that
is the best way for me.
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:And what I'm most aligned to.
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:So it's going to be very slow rollout.
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:, it's going to be very slow and intentional
of what I'm doing, how I'm putting stuff
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:out, how I'm moving, how I'm pivoting
and everything that you're going to be
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:seeing from the Gentalks tech brand, the
bloomology brand and a new brand that I'm
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:not going to announce because I have not.
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enrolled it into my LLC parent company.
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but I have so much coming out
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it with everybody, SASH drives.
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:So you're going to see
it and hear it first.
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:Stache Tribe, , tap in, let me know
what you, what were your top highlights
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:and your fave moments, takeaways,
now that you've had a minute to sit
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:with everything from Women Evolve.
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:If you went.
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:If you are in the delegation, I
need you to tap in and let me know
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:what were your top takeaways, what
were your favorite moments, your
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:highlights, and, and your reflections.
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:I feel like I'm even more interested in
knowing your reflections now that you've
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:sat with, , I guess it's been like a month
post, post woman evolve a month later.
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:What are your reflections at this point?
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:All right, Sass Tribe, it's been real.
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:Keep showing up.
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:Keep talking your sass.