Audacity - The Podcast With Varian Brandon: Recent Episodes
Varian Brandon
Welcome to Audacity - The Podcast with Varian Brandon. Using the same tools and strategies she teaches her clients as a Business coach, Varian developed this motivational podcast to inspire and teach you to show up powerfully in life, leadership, and entrepreneurship with more ease, success and fulfillment.
Grace does not release you from accountability. It doesn’t get you off the hook for aligning with God.
In order to begin cultivating your identity in a new way, a way that aligns with who you intend to become, you need to look for your identity gaps.
You have to learn how to manage the moment because every moment that you manage makes you a match for the next moment.
The more your character is upleveled, the more your capacity is expanded and the more you can handle.
To leave solid ground of the familiar and go to the shaky ground of the new is a courageous act.
We experience change as an exception instead of the rule. And because we experience change as an exception, it bothers us when there is change. Change is the Rule if you are going to commit to becoming. Expect turbulence when that process begins!
As you are creating this life that you desire, have an anchoring of things that are to come; it allows you to keep the vision very present
Your words are like a construction crew, and they are going out into your future and building what you say.
If you are listening to this episode, it means you have something to be thankful for. Something to celebrate about. Happy new year!
Forgiveness is a way to allow yourself to be free from the impact of harboring your feelings or hurt or anger in your heart against another person.
If we are not careful, we will let an old version of ourselves hinder our expansion, our rise, and our destiny.
Do not go to 2021 uncovered; for what you get to do is going to require that you rest in the safety of knowing that there is someone watching your back!
Let your living, and expansion be an exposé of God’s creative mastery lived through you.
As an entrepreneur, you get to fund your own authenticity and at the same time, your authenticity funds your business.
You don’t get to make money as an entrepreneur without getting to confront what holds most people back.
No matter how dark the season is, there is going to come a time when the light will show up again.
Understanding your perspective does not necessarily mean I am going to agree. I can hold my conviction in place without making you lose yours.
Practice becoming an expression of what you have intentionally integrated, not what you've unconsciously absorbed.
The whole point of taking in information is implementing it. Implementing one thing is important that knowing ten things.
The stories that you create for yourself today are the experiences of life that you step into tomorrow
The only way that you are going to get confident is by doing the things you want to do.
Anytime we are suppressing the authenticity of who we are in thought, word, or deed, we are expending much more energy than what really want to.
Do not leave your inspiration to chance because inspiration is fuel to an entrepreneur.
Needing to be liked will sabotage everything you were sent to this earth to do if you let it. It will minimize your experience of life to that which people think is acceptable, appropriate, and available.
Allow yourself to be free in all aspects of yourself. Do not chain yourself to your own expectations!
Is there more content you can put out to the world? What if you considered that you creating content is also a way of you creating posterity and legacy? Would you do it more often? Would you put more thought into it?
Are there areas in your life where you are using your keys inappropriately and still blaming the keys?
What aren't you saying, that needs to be said? What aren't you doing, that needs to be done? What aren't you being, that needs to be?
Every time you censor yourself, you give up a piece of your future that you may never even know that you gave up.
You can be inauthentic and still be authentic. Yes, you read that right! Listen to this episode to find out how this is possible!
Everything begins from nothing; when we want to write, the page is blank, when we want to create, the space is blank. The big question is, d we have the faith to still move in the nothingness in order for the something to present itself?
Many of the things that we allow to hold us back are really small and inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
By the time that people actually start to care, guess what? You'll have done the work behind the scenes, where you'll have built the muscle and developed your voice. And now, not only would you know what you're talking about, you'll have a point of view, a message that you want to share with the world and you'll feel confident and bold about sharing it.
If you cannot at the end of your days, look back over your journey and say yes, I did what I intended and wanted to do, it will ultimately be because you were too afraid to feel bad.
It's okay not to have a niche especially when you are just starting out. Instead of beating up yourself for not having a niche, work around context.
When you focus on making the other person different you lose your ability to communicate. And when you lose your voice, you lose your power.
Because you cannot trust what you feel in this particular space of knowing or feeling your impact, you have to operate by what you know.
In this episode, I speak about why you should not allow distractions to keep you from achieving your goals.
In this episode, I share why you absolutely should not ask for permission from strangers on how to show up online.
Have you ever found yourself thanking your clients for their "support"? Listen to this episode and find out why I don't.
Putting yourself first isn't selfish.
Putting yourself first at the expense of others is.
In this episode, I look at how in business, serving deeply and making money are not mutually exclusive. And how it is really is okay for "it to be about the money".
In this episode, I explore the popular term "You Are Enough" and I share why I feel it is flawed and why you should stop saying it.
In this episode I share a response to a question from one of my coaching clients regarding charging what you're worth and why that may not always be the thing that you want to do.
In this episode, I share the difference between "could" and "should" and how knowing the distinction is fundamental to success and fulfillment.
In this episode, I share how powerful it can be to believe you can be always right while being willing to see other perspectives that might change your opinion.
Learn more about what Audacity means to me and what to expect from this podcast. I stand for helping people realize they have the right, the ability and duty to have the audacity to be who they are and do life and business exactly how they want them to be. And this podcast is a representation of exactly that.
A lesson on overcoming procrastination, choosing action over perfection, and trusting the process. Looking beyond the status quo and conventional thinking, in this episode I share how I was inspired to put the Audacity Podcast out into the world.