Celebrate Confidently: Recent Episodes

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I unintentionally took three weeks off of releasing new episodes for this podcast. It was the right choice each week I chose to “skip” but also really hard on my mental psyche in the midst of the break. Now on the other side of those three weeks, I’m changing my tune and celebrating my limitations and the counter-cultural choices that got me to this episode.

Culture has sold us this “hustle” mentality, especially when starting something new and on your own and especially when it’s “on the side” to whatever you do full-time with your days. It tells us that if we work really hard and work in all the gaps of our time and if we push ourselves now the payoff is freedom in the future. Financial freedom. Schedule freedom. Time freedom.

But what happens when we’re tired?

The reality is, we are human beings, not human doings. And no amount of hustle can help us if we put our head down and barrel on through our limitations until we run ourselves into the ground. Hustle doesn’t help you if you’re dead.

In this episode, we talk about,

1. The hustle mentality and why I’m calling its bluff
2. The fact that limitations were a part of God’s original design
3. An analogy for juggling many things & knowing which things to drop

And, how our limitations should be celebrated, not loathed.

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In complete honesty, this episode was originally supposed to be about something entirely different. It was scripted to announce a new endeavor that I was planning to launch that would go hand-in-hand with the Celebrate Confidently podcast. The episode changed, and a big part is due to the lesson I’m learning right now. And that is being okay with being an amateur.

Maybe you’re like me and you have many interests. Or maybe you have just a few but they’re ones that you really like to throw yourself into. Or maybe you're someone who has a lot of different skill sets and you've had someone who, with a pure heart, has encouraged you to take whatever you're good at and turn it into profit. I know I’ve said that to others. And I’ve been the recipient of it. “You're good at it. Have you ever thought of doing that for profit?”

In this episode, we talk about,

1. My personal tale of saying no to a new business opportunity
2. The real definition of “amateur”
3. Annie F. Downs’ latest book, That Sounds Fun
4. An honest look at when hobbies become businesses

And, how not all good things need to be our good things.

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It is not often that you have a major friendship breakup, spend many years apart, and are able to eventually sit across from one another as you process and talk through what went wrong. My friend Griffin graciously joined me for this podcast episode to do just that. A friendship that started in Kindergarten, had one of the most hurtful endings in college, and was able to reconcile, rebuild and reconnect into a dear friend in our adult years.

In this episode, we’re looking at why conflict can arise in friendship, what are unhealthy ways to address conflict, and what potential reconciliation could look like for friends.

You don’t want to miss:

• An honest conversation with two very real and raw perspectives of how a friendship can fall apart and rebuild.
• Griffin drops fiery truths, such as: “It’s hard to accept that God would allow a friendship that had been really good -- and really fruitful -- for a very long time, to fall apart in order to make us grow into better individuals than we were at that point.”
• We provide tools for handling friendship conflict and resolution in a rapid-fire format

PLUS, our biggest takeaway for pursuing reconciliation in friendships that have suffered conflict.

Links and resources:

• Marco Polo, the best app on phones right now
• The podcast studio couch we talk about & that Griffin purchased post-recording
• Griffin provides great resources on entrepreneurship, healthy living, and motherhood on her website here
• Griffin and her husband recently launched PlayWilder, making the most beautiful, non-toxic, American-made climbing gyms for kids at an affordable price. Check them out here!
• Follow us on Instagram: @cassiedilly | @griffinmckenzie | @playwildertoys
• For more about the podcast and the heart behind the Celebrate Confidently brand, check out my website

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Hosting in your home -- whether it’s a small gathering or an organized party -- can present its own challenges. Add in having small children in your home, and under your feet, and it can magnify those challenges ten-fold. As someone who has wanted to be able to raise children who caught as much as they were taught in how to host confidently, lovingly, and without dread, I’ve been paying close attention to other parents in my midst, collecting and piecing together my own game plan of how to go about this in the years to come.

In this episode, we’re covering my top three tips,

• Give them a job

• Get them involved

• Give yourself time

Plus, one Truth to cling to and derive your confidence from when party prepping and hosting with small children in your home.

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In a world that is saturated with messaging like "No one gets to make you feel less about yourself", "Don't let others tell you what you can and can't do", "Haters going to hate," and so on, it all feels really aggressive to the other party. It puts the blame on others for making us feel threatened, less-than or hurt. But we can’t control others or their words. Especially when they’re not intended towards us specifically. Simply put, we get to choose how others make us feel.

In this episode, we’re talking about how our quickness to assume others' words are hurtful towards us can inhibit us from fully celebrating, participating or being included in the beauty of community.

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Over the past several years I’ve come to learn how my generation may be missing a key detail of what passion really means.

When I think of what I’m passionate about – what fills me with purpose and excites me – these things come to mind: hospitality, my family, my marriage, friendships, teaching & talking about Jesus, healthy living, and encouraging others.

I would venture to say that you may come by your list similarly. Your passions would be listed by what you love, what fires you up, and what you wish you could devote more time to.

But did you know the word passion originated in Latin, meaning to “suffer”? Passion’s true meaning conveys a monumental love willing to suffer.

In this episode we discuss,

1. The real definition of passion
2. My personal experience in finding my true passions
3. How passion and purpose go hand in hand with discomfort and excitement

And I leave you with a challenge to help you zero in and find your own passion(s).

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Friendship can be really really hard as adults. It is also one of the most fulfilling and essential things as we age. Kicking off a series of conversations focused on celebrating friendships and the many different aspects of friendship, we’re welcoming Liz Cox as our very first guest on the podcast! Liz is Cassie’s real-life best friend, marketing and branding wiz, Creative Director of Twirl Bridal Boutique, co-owner of Refined Retail Consulting, host of Twirl Talk Podcast, beloved daughter, treasured friend, the best Aunt Lizzie to a million baby besties, and all-around a gem of a gal. She also is someone who is walking in a season different than most of her friends and still the number one cheerleader for us all.

In this episode we discuss,

1. The importance of showing up for our friends
2. Don’t make assumptions, instead make space
3. When you celebrate in others joy, they also want to celebrate in yours

What does celebrating others well, regardless of their seasons, practically look like?

• Having conversations, even when they are hard
• Holding space
• Not forgetting
• Not bringing bitterness to the table
• Leaving assumptions at the door
• Don’t forget to ask your friends how they are actually doing
• Don’t be afraid of the question, “How can I love you well or better?”

Important Links from today’s episode:

Twirl Talk Podcast

Refined Retail Consulting

Twirl Bridal Boutique

Twirl Talk episode where Cassie and Liz talk cultivating friendship in all seasons

Hang with Liz on Instagram -- she’s quite entertaining!

Liz’s Mother’s Day post she read in today’s episode

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I have to be honest: I don’t like crafts. I love celebrating in over-the-top ways and hosting others in my home and building balloon arches and my heart truly does beat faster for a well-executed themed party. But I don’t enjoy crafting. Or truly any tedious tasks where there is potential for my inner-critic to get real noisy and to suck the fun out of the whole process. As I’ve learned to build confidence in party planning and still like myself by the end of it, there’s a few “hacks” I’ve turned to that are simple, but a big help for this. And I’m sharing them with you here today.

In this episode we’ll cover 5 hacks for hosting an intentional, personalized party without a bunch of artistic ability, such as:

1. Customized themed graphics
2. Signage solutions when you don’t like your handwriting
3. Food that tastes good and looks good
4. Do it once... and then repeat, reuse, recycle
5. Pay attention to your strengths and press in to those

Don’t miss how I’ve made these five hacks serve me and my people well in the course of hosting and party-planning!

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In this episode, we’re diving into one of my helpful hosting tips that I hope will encourage you, bring a little more peace into your party prep and help provide confidence for welcoming others into your home for a party or gathering: creating a hosting capsule wardrobe.

For too long I would get started on setting up and getting everything ready, only to run out of time to dress myself for the event. Over time, I developed a little system to help this not be the case for me. In a later episode I’m going to dive into my 5 tips to not leave “you” for last in your party-prep, but today, I’m sharing one piece of that and it’s my hosting capsule wardrobe.

In this episode we’ll cover:

• What is a hosting capsule wardrobe
• Why I believe that creating this for yourself will be one of the best things for your time, sanity & confidence in hosting
• A breakdown of my personal capsule wardrobe to give a glimpse of how I’m walking out what I’m encouraging.

For more inspiration on what to include in your own hosting capsule wardrobe, keep a lookout on cassiedilly.com for links to my hosting capsule wardrobe, as well as other inspirations for creating your own.

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This episode, I’m sharing my story of starting over again (and again) with launching this podcast and how the Lord is continuing to teach me that in all things, it doesn't need to be perfect to be good, having a heart that is others-focused is the end-goal and that we can’t let the fear of getting it wrong keep us from giving it a try.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• A snippet of my struggle with perfectionism
• How I lost a full season of recorded episodes a week before my originally planned launch
• My approach to changing the name of my podcast the week I announced that I was launching it

I’m starting over, again. But I know that the promise of Philippians 1:6 is mine for the taking, and yours as well.

“And we have confidence in this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

Friends, we can celebrate confidently without having to do it perfectly, because celebrating others and ourselves is God’s idea. And it’s a good one. And He will be faithful to carry it out.

So let’s lean into trying new things -- encouraging someone in a way that may feel awkward at first, hosting a gathering when you don’t feel equipped, going above and beyond when you’d rather just stay in your comfort zone, being willing to humble ourselves and start again. We have confidence in something that is outside ourselves and isn’t that good news for the perfectionist in all of us?

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Asking for help can be challenging, especially for those that want to project that they are available and that they have it all together. Host Cassie Dilly shares her story of overcoming the fear of asking others to help out -- whether that's prepping for a party or helping her build out her podcast. She shares her own realizations and encouragements that on the other side of inviting our people in to help us out, we invite them to ask us for help in return, deepening the trust and joy in the relationship. 

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Celebrating is about more than just party planning. Parties are great. But celebrating is about acknowledging someone or something in someone's life and saying “I see you. You're not alone in this.” Whether that's something exciting or whether that's something that's hard. By celebrating all seasons of life --  the good, the bad, the big, the hard, the small, and the silly. We say “You're not alone. I see you, I'm coming alongside you, and you won't ever do this by yourself.”

Host Cassie Dilly dives into the heart behind the Celebrate Confidently podcast and teases different topics that will be covered in upcoming episodes. Our hope is that this would be a place that you can "drop-in" for quick encouragement, practical tips, and inspirations to go out and love others well.

There is so much good in the world and there's also a lot of hard right now. What better time to really zero in and focus on acknowledging the good stuff, for ourselves and our people? Because it's there and we need to celebrate it.

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Welcome to Celebrate Confidently, a podcast to encourage and equip you to celebrate your people, and yourself, well in all seasons of life.

Host Cassie Dilly is a self-proclaimed recovering perfectionist and people-pleaser who, after finding a million and one ways to do it wrong, is gradually learning how to celebrate others in a way that is loving, meaningful, and not overwhelming.

With excitement and authenticity, Cassie shares her heart behind the topic of celebrating and how she believes it means so much more than just party planning. In addition to breaking down practical tips and tricks for party planning and hosting, the podcast will also focus on broader topics of celebrating, like what it means to celebrate friendship, fear, failure, knowing our true selves, and more.

For this first season of the podcast, you can expect one episode to release each week on Tuesdays. Topics range from how to prep yourself for a party, hacks for hosting a gathering when you don’t feel crafty, how to store & organize party supplies in small spaces, celebrating in different seasons of life than others, de-mystifying myths of friendship, etc. -- all delivered in bite-sized episodes that are 20 minutes or less.

Now here’s where it gets even more fun! Each month, the podcast will release a BONUS episode where Cassie brings on a guest to dive into deeper conversations around the heart of celebrating accordingly.

So buckle up! We’re going to have some fun. We'll talk about parties, celebrating, small gatherings, and how to encourage you and equip you to love your people well. Make sure and hit that subscribe button so you’re the first to know when Season 1 launches at the end of the month!

Here, we’re going to acknowledge the good stuff -- big and small -- because life is short and it’s worth celebrating!