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Ep. 461 Special: Favorite Bold Moments EPs

“Sometimes we underestimate the power of validity in our experience.”

Lesley Logan

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Revisit some of the most inspiring moments from Be It Till You See It. Discover Amy Ledin’s strategies for goal-setting, Sandra Chuma’s empowering guidance on finding purpose, Hazel Ortega’s transformative use of visualization, and Nikole Mitchell’s courageous journey to self-discovery. This rewind episode is filled with wisdom and motivation, showcasing how these changemakers embraced their truth and turned their dreams into reality.

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In this episode you will learn about:

• Tuning into your inner voices to navigate challenges and uncover hidden strengths.
• Recognizing misaligned goals and discovering your true purpose.
• Bringing your dreams to life through the power of visualization.
• The importance of embracing self-discovery and living authentically.

Episode References/Links:

• Ep. 5 ft. Amy Ledin – https://beitpod.com/ep5
• Amy Ledin’s Website – https://amyledin.com/
• Ep. 17 ft. Sandra Chuma – https://beitpod.com/ep17
• Sandra Chuma’s Website – https://sandrachuma.iamworthy.com/
• Ep. 45 ft. Hazel Ortega – https://beitpod.com/bitysiep45
• Hazel Orega’s Website – https://hazelortega.com/
• Ep. 259 with Nikole Mitchell – https://beitpod.com/ep259
• Nikole Mitchell’s Website – https://nikolemitchell.com/
• Ep. 319 Nikole M. Mitchell – https://beitpod.com/ep319
• Ep. 320 with Lesley & Brad – https://beitpod.com/ep320

Transcript

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 1:06
Welcome back to Be It Till You See It rewind.

Brad Crowell 1:09
What?

Lesley Logan 1:10
What? This is the, it’s not really the 2024 rewind, because these are not rewinding only 2024 episodes. In fact, they are rewinding episodes that go all the way back in time.

Brad Crowell 1:20
All the way back.

Lesley Logan 1:21
But these are our favorite bold moments. And if you know the Be It Action Items, actually, the B stands for bold. So I’m really excited, because we actually have four clips for you to listen to that might help you know where to go back into the catalog and re-listen or listen for the first time, because, I mean, just heard this is episode 461, so if you are new to us, in the last year, there’s like, hundreds of episodes. So how do you know where to go back to go to? This episode hopefully helps you go back to the bold moment.

Brad Crowell 1:46
Great place to get started.

Lesley Logan 1:47
Yeah. So we have an episode that actually talks about how to find something good when you’re the middle of the mud, you know, if you know the middle of anything sucks.

Brad Crowell 1:56
We all go through it.

Lesley Logan 1:57
Yeah. How did you know that lotuses grow out of mud?

Brad Crowell 2:00
I love that. What a story.

Lesley Logan 2:02
The idea of, the episode has nothing to do with lotus (inaudible).

Brad Crowell 2:04
Nothing to do with lotuses or our Cambodia retreat.

Lesley Logan 2:08
No, you should come. And then we also have an episode about success and paying it forward.

Brad Crowell 2:14
Yes.

Lesley Logan 2:14
And oh my gosh, that woman is an inspiration, and she continues to be. We get to continue to catch up with her. And I’m just blown away by how amazing she is.

Brad Crowell 2:22
Yes.

Lesley Logan 2:23
And then we actually have an episode about jumping into a larger pond. And this is a fun, we had a lot of people who got so much out of this episode. I would have been remiss to not include it in the bold moments, because it helped you, a lot of you, take some big, bold moments. And our last clip is about stepping into your own Ruth. Talk about bold.

Lesley Logan 2:43
All right, so our first clip for you is from Episode Five. And shout out to my mom. She quotes this episode all the time. I hear like literally 460 episodes later, and she still quotes episode five. So Amy Ledin is our guest for you to listen to. One of the things I really loved is about finding something good in the middle of the mud. Amy has an amazing story. Does not without its obstacles and valleys, and she’s.

Brad Crowell 3:08
Yeah, it’s challenging.

Lesley Logan 3:09
Challenging. And I really love her outlook on life, and she only has that because she’ll find something good in the middle of the mud.

Brad Crowell 3:15
And she had a second part that we thought was really amazing, too. She talked about your inner bitch versus your inner boss.

Lesley Logan 3:21
Yeah.

Brad Crowell 3:22
What does that even mean?

Lesley Logan 3:23
You all have to listen.

Brad Crowell 3:24
Stick around. Here we go.

Amy Ledin 3:26
I had asked my mom that because I’m like, I did a podcast once on, like, looking for the silver lining. And I do think it’s something that, you know, I definitely was raised to in every negative situation. Stop and go, okay, but there is you got to find one good thing in the middle of the mud, like there has to be something good in the middle of the mud, because again, then your brain does start to focus on those things. And I definitely think that I at least have a little bit of that armor to help me through my cancer. But you made a good point. It was literally just seeing it one day at a time. Because if you would have told me I had to fight this for seven years, would I have necessarily showed up working as hard as I did? Maybe not. That’s a really good point, because this is why you do have to just say it’s one foot in front of the other, versus anticipating the hard points and just going I can make it through today, because everyone can make it through a day. I mean, I’m preaching this to myself today, on this day especially, is that I can make it through today. I don’t know what next week is going to necessarily look like, and I didn’t know what it was going to look like, but I knew that I could get up and crush my business in isolation in that day, and just doing that day after day is what made the business continue to go because I didn’t look ahead at, like, what was going to be here next year. It was more like, you know, yes, creating your future self, and I think that’s super important in like, designing a map for your future, because you do chase that, but in isolation of waking up every day, it’s it’s truly just saying, I can do it today, and it gets the depravation mindset away, because you get a lot of that in fat loss, where I’ll hear clients like, it’s so hard. I’m like, yep, now it’s going to be hard for you, because that’s what you’re telling yourself. And the more you state those things to yourself, it just comes true for you. I have always really tried to get really tight with my inner voice, because I feel like, if you can learn to squash, because I feel like we’ve got like an inner bitch and an inner boss and the inner bitch. If your inner bitch is too loud, it’s going to affect all your areas. So at night, it’s almost like a brain dumping, where you don’t have to do it on writing, but you lay in bed and do a little reflection, and where your inner bitch is the loudest, you need to squash her tomorrow and those little so maybe for one week, it’s, you need to be a better mom, and I need to, like, be spending more time with the kids. But maybe the next week, it’s not, you know, I mean, I time block, and I do all the things to, you know, manage my day, but I find that if I can learn to squash that, it just builds my confidence, whereas if I let that nag for a few days, that it can get worse and worse.

Lesley Logan 6:01
So that was Episode Five. I hope you are able to now understand your inner bitch and your inner boss, and maybe you can start to pay attention to when they show up, especially during this chaotic part of the end of the year. Up next, we have Episode 17, when you realize you’ve been chasing the wrong things with Sandra Chuma. What, I mean, she’s a bold woman, just like the whole episode could have been clipped here. She’s just fabulous, wonderful, and she has an incredible story. We could have just stopped with, like, her sharing how she got from the bathroom floor to like, doing the things she did in life, and then she didn’t stop there. That’s why she’s bold. She actually talks about how your success doesn’t mean anything unless you use it to help others. We can climb. We gotta carry as we climb, and that is important to do. So here is Sandra Chuma.

Sandra Chuma 6:47
It was that, I guess, crisis, and that confluence of events, and it also kind of coincided within our company, having challenges in our company, that led to me really having a come to somebody moment,

Lesley Logan 7:01
A come to Sandra moment.

Sandra Chuma 7:05
Oh, true. I had a come to Sandra moment where I realized that I’d been chasing the wrong things all along, and the thing that made me happiest was helping other people. And it also went back to something my father, gosh, I’m getting all emotional here. My father died. It’ll be two years next month. And one of the things growing up, even when we had nothing, what I saw my father and my mother model was giving. They always gave. And my father would say to me all the time. He would say, you know, Sandra, to she who much is given, much is required. And he would say to me, your success will never mean anything unless you use it to help others, unless you use it to reach back and bring others with you. And I felt like, wow, I’m not really doing that. And so that, I mean, obviously it wasn’t like the heavens opened and the angels sang, and oh, I had the answer. It took me a while to get there. That’s when I realized that my purpose, I’d not been in my purpose, I’ve not been chasing purpose, and so that my purpose was really focused on what I do now.

Brad Crowell 8:27
How about that? Sandra Chuma, Episode 17, very inspirational, and what a call to action she has. Next up we got Episode 45 with Hazel Ortega. The episode’s called A Fish Can’t Grow Big In A Small Pond, and she talks about drawing her vision. Also talks about fist fighting her sister when she was a psychologist and her sister was a police officer, and the two of them started fighting each other, that was the beginning to them actually changing their relationship and making it amazing. But what a place to start from, right? In her vision, she talked about actually having a great relationship with her family and her sisters, and having the house that she has, and all the things. I thought it was really helpful to get it out of your head, get it onto a piece of paper and use that.

Lesley Logan 9:11
I also like the idea of drawing, because sometimes we don’t have the words to articulate, or the words have different definitions to us. And so I think when you sometimes just drawing it out, like you guys can go on Pinterest and you can actually just print out the the picture you have in your brain and put it on a piece of paper. You don’t have to be a good drawer for this.

Hazel Ortega 9:30
I did these things subconsciously. I didn’t have, like, a to-do list that would make these things happen. I created my vision right in my brain, and then I drew it, and if you come to my house my drawing is framed, and it’s in my dining room, and you can see this, it’s like one day it’s going to be in the Museum of Hazel, right?

Lesley Logan 9:54
Yes.

Hazel Ortega 9:55
And my statue is going to be there, too.

Lesley Logan 9:58
Absolutely. I hope it’s wearing a red hat.

Hazel Ortega 10:02
Okay. So I drew it, and then what happened is that in my real life, I didn’t have those things, right? So one of the things I also said I wanted was a relationship with my sisters that looked like we were in heaven. At the time when I drew it, I was fist-fighting with my sisters, so I did not have that relationship with them. I was a psychologist fist fighting with my sister, who was a police officer at the time, okay?

Lesley Logan 10:30
It’s gonna be a TV show, just so, you know, this will be a movie.

Hazel Ortega 10:36
Yes. And so what I did was, once I saw it in my brain and what I saw in real life was not that and it made me take action.

Lesley Logan 10:47
So that was Episode 45. I highly recommend listening to the whole thing. We talked about her house being used on MTV. And guess what? It won. So there’s a lot going on in there. A lot of inspiration for you. Up next we have Episode 259, Step Into Your Truth, with Nikole Mitchell, who has become a dear friend of Brad and ours, and oh my gosh, I find this episode to have so many different bold moments. I don’t remember know how we chose just to pull a little bit out but, I really, because she was going from being a pastor and a woman on food stamps and raising her kids to really step into who the woman that she is, which is just freaking phenomenal and inspiring to so many people, but also really owning who she is as a human being. And we talk about how she did that, like, what kind of help she called in, what kind of support she called in, how that went for her. So.

Brad Crowell 11:40
Yeah, she really is inspirational and an amazing woman. We’ve had a chance to get to know her.

Lesley Logan 11:45
And she continues to rise, because she really takes her own advice to heart. I watch her post and I watch what she’s doing. We get to hang out with her, and she practices what she preaches. Not to use the pastor preaching in there, but you know that it a cliche that works here.

Brad Crowell 12:00
Yep. Yeah. Okay, enjoy.

Nikole M. Mitchell 12:02
So to try to step into your own and live your truth with the immense pressure of trying to be who everyone else needs you to be, it’s hard enough to where, I think it’s easy for people to never make that final leap. You try so hard for so long, and then that last jump is so terrifying to fully stand on your own two feet and knowing you’re going to disappoint some people is terrifying. I think for most people, and especially women, who are, we just love people. I mean, they’re humans, and we don’t want to hurt anyone. And when I did this journey, it was such a slow like it was not an overnight sensation. And for me, it was like, I just want to hear my own truth. I want to speak my truth. I want to know my truth, apart from all the truth passed down to me, I want to take up space with my full self. And as scary as that was, I was so hungry for it, after decades of not taking up space, of shrinking, of sacrificing myself, and so I gave myself to, like, move in baby steps, very privately. I, like, kind of really couldn’t, like, kind of hunker down, because I couldn’t withstand any pushback. I was like a little baby chick on wobbly legs, one tiny gust of wind, and I’d be on my back flailing, and so I like, hunker down, removed myself from most circles because I couldn’t explain to them what I was doing. This was very intimate transformation. And then once I got more sturdy on my legs, then I could start having conversations with people about who I was becoming and what I was doing.

Brad Crowell 13:23
That was Episode 259 with Nikole Mitchell about stepping into your truth. What a hopeful message.

Lesley Logan 13:30
Yeah, I, okay. So I didn’t say at the intro to that clip, because some people can have like, a negative connotation to this, but she was a pastor. Now she is a stripper. And she’s on only fans and one of the top people there. And I say that because I think we can learn from anybody. I think we can learn a lot of stories. And first of all, I actually think that people should be able to do what they feel called to do on this planet. And she is like Sandra Chuma, having success and paying it forward. She actually helps other people who want to step into their power to be themselves. And so we’ve had her on the podcast twice. That was her first episode. We actually had her back a couple months later, talking about manifesting. And so if you are wanting to call something in big in 2025 you can absolutely learn from that episode. You have to go find it in the catalog. I didn’t look it up yet, but Brad is going to try to look up really quickly while I just say thank you so much for being here. Thank you for listening to these episodes. You know, something that I really love is all of these guests teach me something, and the point of this podcast is to help teach you something, and we’ll each have different takeaways. So first of all, Brad and I love to hear what your takeaways are, so you can always send them into the podcast. Your aha moments. You can DM us.

Brad Crowell 14:38
Yeah. Her second episode was 319 and 320 was the recap of that. Like Lesley was saying, we made this podcast because we have had some amazing people sow into our lives, and we wanted to create a forum where we could also then introduce some of these epic people to you and hope that they could inspire you in a similar way that they’ve inspired us.

Lesley Logan 15:08
Yeah and even if you take one little nugget away, you know, or maybe it’s validation that you get, like we underestimate the power of validity in our experience. Like, sometimes you just need people to tell you, like, I went to that too. And you can go, oh, I’m not alone there. And so that could even be a takeaway or an aha moment, and that could help you, be it till you see it. So, I’m Lesley Logan.

Brad Crowell 15:32
And I’m Brad Crowell.

Lesley Logan 15:33
Thank you for listening to our rewind. We have a couple more rewinds for you as we wrap up this year. You know what to do. Until next time, Be It Till You See It.

Brad Crowell 15:41
Bye for now.
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Lesley Logan
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Lesley Logan
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Brad Crowell
It’s written, filmed and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell.

Lesley Logan
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Brad Crowell
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Lesley Logan
Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals.

Brad Crowell
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.

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