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In this Fuck Yeah Friday episode, Lesley Logan explores why celebrating what you did do—especially when life feels heavy—matters more than chasing the next milestone. Drawing from Your Big Leap Year by Gay Hendricks, listener-submitted wins, and her own experience choosing rest after a demanding tour, she explains how celebration creates dopamine, counters self-criticism, and reinforces autonomy. This episode is a reminder that progress is still progress, even when it looks quiet, slow, or deeply personal.

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Episode References/Links:

• Submit your wins or questions – https://beitpod.com/questions
• Book: Your Big Leap Year by Gay Hendricks – https://a.co/d/cw76Hcr
• Episode 400: Gay Hendricks – https://beitpod.com/ep400
• Pilates Journal Expo – https://xxll.co/pilatesjournal

Transcript

Lesley Logan: It’s Fuck Yeah Friday.

Brad Crowell: Fuck yeah.

Lesley Logan: Get ready for some wins.

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Lesley Logan
Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I’m Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I’ve trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it’s the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It’s a practice, not a perfect. Let’s get started.

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Lesley Logan 0:48
Happy FYF, oh my gosh, whoa, second one of the new year, I promise I won’t count these every because I’ll just all forget at some point, I promise. Thank goodness we don’t do a perfect run here. It is the Fuck Yeah Friday episode. We are sharing wins of each other’s and celebrating that, like, not like some wins, or just that we got to the week right, a little mantra, and something that was inspiring. So it usually what inspires me on the internet, but I’ve been I figured I’d start the year with, like, things that inspire me, that are in my life, daily with you. So last week I shared something out of a book that I read every day, and this week I’m sharing out of another book that I read every day, and this book is Gay Hendricks’ Your Big Leap Year, Your Big Leap Year. And he was episode 400. I love that we had him as episode 400, team, because it’s easy for me to remember which number he was. Oh my gosh, that’s 227 episodes ago, but it feels like it was just yesterday. That’s an episode you have to go back and listen to.

Lesley Logan 1:43
Okay, so, on page 202, of his book, he writes the word celebrate comes from the Latin verb celebrar, which has a number of ancient meanings. To celebrate something is to honor it and to sing the praises of it, whatever the meaning of the words, the actual experience of celebration is what really juices up our experience of living. So your big leap for today. That’s why I love this, because it’s like, okay, you learn something now you get to go take some action on it, pause several times a day to consciously celebrate what you’ve created in your life. Each dedicate each time, dedicate a full 10 to 15 seconds to celebrate, to full celebration, which inspired by the dancing nuns who found the mushrooms may include dancing. Oh, that reference is something I wasn’t going to read to but I’m gonna read to you now. Okay, so mataki mushrooms are known in Japan as the dancing mushroom. According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and wood cutters met on a mountain trail where they discovered a fruiting of mataki mushrooms emerging from the forest floor, rejoicing that they discovered the delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate, and that is from the American mycologist and author, Paul Stamets. So that’s probably why the nuns were dancing right 10 to 15 seconds of full celebration. So we talk about FYFs every week, because I do know that when we celebrate something that we did do, we are creating some dopamine in the brain. It makes it easier for us to notice that good things are happening. And it really does take a moment to get us out of like, the cynical nature of what the world, the world wants you cynical, down, depressed and like, why does it matter? Why does it matter? Because if you are being it till you see it each and every week, you won’t take their shit, you won’t, you won’t do it, you won’t let people push you around. You won’t be a people pleaser anymore, and then they can’t control you. Okay? So that is why celebrating what you did do is so freaking important to me for you, because I you are not moldable and controllable that way, right? You’re not. You’re your own person, and you will inspire so many people. You will inspire so many people. So now we got to celebrate your win. So got a couple for you from you, and they are meganjoyilates, she said, of Australia, I did a magic circle class with my friend Mez. Megan, I know at the time that you sent this in, you’re going through a massive life situation, and I am just so freaking thrilled that you sent this in and that you got to do that, but for yourself, but also that, like your proof, we’ve been we’ve known each other for years, that like even when shit is going on in your life, you can take time to celebrate something that you did do. And I just love that about you. Creative_soul_Pilates wrote, I got out of bed. Boom, boom. There you have it. I’m telling you guys, sometimes it is like we put so much pressure on ourselves, but like some of you, are going through some crazy things in life. You lost someone in your family. You lost a job like, there’s so much unknown, and if you got your you got out of bed, dressed and showered like, that is huge. We had a person in agency who lost, you know, two people really quickly in their lives, back to back and and, you know, and I and she’d ask about, like, still hitting her goals. And I was like, oh my gosh, you got out of bed. Like you took a shower today. Like, those are, you know, huge things. We are human beings living in an experience. And it’s hard. It’s really hard. So I love that you celebrated that. And I think some some other people, that might be the win for today as well. So my win. We are currently on our way. We’re back in the car. We were home for two nights I think, and we’re on our way to Los Angeles, and we are picking up some rugs that my publicist gave us when she had a massive win in her life and she was moving, and she was like, I don’t want these. Do you want these? I’m like, I do want those. And so we’re grabbing these rugs, and then we’re going to drive down to Huntington Beach and teach at the Pilates Journal Expo. I’m really excited about that. But my, my win is I came home and did a day of just pure like, self-care, self-love. There’s a million things I could do. I have, like, I haven’t been in my business the way that I normally am for a month, and there are so many things I could say, I could do this, I could do this, I could do this. But the reality is, the win is that my team and I prepped me so well that I could actually be in my business a little bit so that I could just be present, teaching on this tour. So the tour wrapped. I mean, that’s a win, but I’ve been celebrating like that, like the completion of a culmination of something like there were so many wins along the way. So yay, the tour wrapped. And it was so much fun, it was so much fun. I can’t wait to tell you guys more about it. But the win is for today is that, like I did not should all over myself about all the things I should do around the house, and I should do this, and I should do that, and you know what I did? I got up, I did Pilates, I did yoga, got my hair done, and I got my nails done, and I went to the gym. I mean, badass. That was my yesterday. That is my win. I did not go, oh, I need, I should do laundry, and I should do this, and I should make, you know, there’s so people to water my plants. There’s all I paid people to take care of things, and I let them take care of the things. And I am so proud of myself for doing that, and I’m so proud of just like letting myself have a day because my team and I did a great thing, and you got to take time to rest and enjoy it. I’ll tell you more about what I’m doing to rest and enjoy the work that we did next week. So stay tuned.

Lesley Logan 7:18
Before I let you go, we actually have an affirmation for you. So let’s pull it up. I celebrate the good qualities in others and myself. I celebrate the good qualities in others and myself. I celebrate the good qualities in others and myself and my goodness, my love, I hope you really emphasize the myself. You have a lot of good qualities. You have so many. I hope you take the time to reflect on what those are today. Share this with a friend who needs to hear it, maybe send it to them and say, here are the good qualities that you have in you that I’ve often don’t tell you about, but here they are. It really does make people feel really good about themselves. You get random messages like that. You’re amazing. Until next time, Be It Till You See It.

Lesley Logan 7:57
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Brad Crowell 8:39
It’s written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell.

Lesley Logan 8:44
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Brad Crowell 8:49
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Lesley Logan 8:56
Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals.

Brad Crowell 8:59
Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally to Meridith Root for keeping us all on point and on time.