GROUND FOUR+ZERO: Beginning Again Over 40 with Experience: Recent Episodes
AIsha Francis
This podcast is about my journey of starting over.
Literally, in real time, walking through my current life experiences to share all of the laughs, advice, wisdom, hardships and challenges with women over 40 who may also find themselves here; having lost a few things along the way so feeling like we have nothing when we actually have everything we need.
HERE'S THE TRUTH: We are not starting from scratch, we are beginning again with experience!
Welcome to my cathartic healing journey. Talking it out as I’m walking it through! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aisha-francis/support
Taking a step back into the world of podcasting. A short hello and stay tuned. Will you join me again?
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Picture, videos and journals are all ways that we can stop and capture a moment we want to remember in greater detail than perhaps our minds can. I recently had a photoshoot to do just that...listen in for more details.
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Okay, so this Season 2 episode is super long but I absolutely worth the listen. The breaks are break up, breakdown, break open, breakthrough, and break out. I've been through all the breaks and it's been quite the trip! Listen in as I unpack them all.
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As a child, I used to sing this song every Sunday in Sunday School. Then we'd get to the part that said, "Where?" The response was, "Down in my heart." This is my truth today and I am excited to share in this episode why this is so important, how I got to this point and what it will take to remain here.
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Every once in a while you have a conversation where someone tells you about you. You want to scream, "Hold up!!!" Instead, you listen, reflect, maybe even correct and you move on.
I had a conversation recently that went something like this and in this episode I share my thoughts.
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On this episode, I talk about how making the smallest changes to our roots can instruct momentous evolution of our fruit.
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Ever have a lot of random thoughts that actually amount to some profound insights? Well, that is exactly what this episode offers.
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Spring, lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, life! Rainy days are anticipated...
Perhaps we can learn to enjoy, maybe accept is a better word, the rainy days and to see the importance of them to the overall beauty of our lives and environments.
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ORIGINALLY AIRED March 14, 2021, this episode somehow was unpublished...so dropping it again.
Growth is not always apparent or appreciated, but it is always happening if we can take a moment to shift to the right vantage point. I Am Growing and it is moving me to deeper places of happiness and love.
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An inexplicable joy took me to a place of guttural crying this past week. I was reminded of the many threads that have connected to bring me to where I am in life at the moment and the immense gratitude brought me to tears. I am amazed...the dots DO connect...
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We are shaped by the moments and experiences of our lives and the we shape the moments and experiences of our lives. It's time to forego having regret and instead reset to your "default" settings: Your Truest Self.
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This week a couple of my friends called just because. It was a beautiful gentle reminder that no matter what is happening in my life, LOVE is ever present...and it is all I need.
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It's the other "F" word...
I have had to use it A LOT in my life. I don't know that I always understood forgiveness: its power, prowess, purpose and even passivity. I know now that forgiveness is a choice, often a really hard one, that does not have an exact formula. Nonetheless, I believe in forgiveness for my own healing and purpose journey...here is why!
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Moving through change or healing is difficult, no matter which way you slice it. There will be a stretch of "treacherous terrain" that is just messy. Nonetheless, the only way TO where you want to be is THROUGH where you don't want to go.
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Shifting from, "I am enough!" to "I am significant!" Both undeniably powerful statements but one that may be even more necessary to change your life and how you live it out.
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Bliss, joy, elation, euphoria...call it what you may! I am in my happy place and I am not leaving anytime soon.
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On this episode my daughter joins me to have a candid conversation about her observations and impressions about the journey after 40 that I am on. She thinks I am ancient, being born, in her words, "in the 1900s", but she has a deep affection for me as well. I love her and I love her truth! It was fun, special and enlightening to share this platform with her and to hear where her sense of self, beauty and inspiration comes from.
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When the perspective changes, so does the play of colours to produce a radiant beauty and joy that unlocks yet another part of your identity.
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2021 is here and the question is, "Are you ready?" My response is, "Today I am!"
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It's the last month and last Sunday of 2020. It is also my last podcast for this year. There is no disillusionment here but simply a sunny focus on "lasts" giving way to "firsts".
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No matter what anyone believes ALL of our stories are important! We all have a story to tell and every story is one of value.
As I move through transition and transformation, I become more compelled by my story. I actually am enjoying the storyline with its mystery and intrigue, love and intimacy, and even the plot twists. Weird right? Or maybe, just what it's supposed to be! I am learning and exploring that changing the narrative of my future means changing my understanding of my narrative of my past!
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There is this radically ridiculous sentiment that our "womanhood" is marked and to be celebrated by the onset of menstruation. I call BS! Because as I go through perimenopause, divorce, empty nesting, entrepreneurship and the evolution of my career, I am perhaps in the most brilliant season of my womanhood. Let's talk about that!
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This is a happy episode! After some interesting situations over the past couple of weeks, this week ended with a look at my life through the eyes of some of my closest family and friends. Can I just say that everyone, EVERYONE, at least once in their lifetime needs to have a "Taking Stock" session. Take a listen for the details.
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After a rough week, I finally emerged on the side of life.
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India Arie sang so passionately, "I Am Not My Hair" and I belted out every word right along with her with full belief, authority, agency and autonomy. My hair certainly cannot holistically define me but it has been one of my many ways of expressing my creativity, beauty, positivity and strength as well as my trauma, pain, hurts and burdens. I am not my hair, but my hair is an expression of who I am.
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Part of the human experience is that we step into different titles, wear multiple hats and carry varying responsibilities. I guess it's important to also question sometimes who we are apart from all of the titles, hats and responsibilities. If I am single, where and how would I mingle?
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A lot of life is spent in auto-pilot mode. This is not good or bad, but more so done out of convenience, complacency, or routine. Perhaps it's simply a "setting" that gives us a way to manage life, and give our brains some downtime, so we can make it through today, this week, this month, this year, this lifetime.
Nonetheless, there are moments when we must take responsibility for the "transmission" of our lives and begin to shift gears!
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Welcome to my cathartic healing journey. Talking it out as I’m walking it through!
This podcast is about my journey of starting over...literally in real time walking through my current life experiences to share all of laughs, advice, wisdom, hardships and challenges with women over 40 who may also find themselves here...Having lost a few things along the way so feeling like we have nothing when we actually have everything we need. We are not starting from scratch, we are beginning again with experience!
In this episode, I start at the beginning! Why this podcast, where the journey began, a few snippets of the journey and how I'm moving forward. I AM STARTING OVER! And it is not necessarily about building my foundation anew but more about understanding where it wasn't laid properly in the first place and using my wealth of experience to set it how I want and need it to be for this leg of my life's journey!
I've got EVEN MORE Character, Wisdom and Purpose...so let's get to living audaciously from GROUND FOUR+ZERO up!
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