How To Belong To Oneself /// Yvonne Marchese ///EP134:Part 1

“No wonder I felt awful, because I was saying awful things to myself” - Yvonne Marchese   What helps you answer and explore the question, who are you?   Answers will vary.   At the most simplistic level, responses to this question can be found in aspects of our life such as passions and self-reflection.   In addition, this question can be reflected in how we respond and treat others, or better yet how we treat ourselves.   Since August is dedicated to the pursuit of happiness, a conversation of becoming one with yourself couldn’t be better timing.   How you can learn to answer the question of who we are, introduces our guest this week, Yvonne Marchese. She joins us in conversation to share her life journey and passions with us. She removes the boundaries placed on her, by her ability to be one with herself which she has found to make the presence of a new day and the present an exciting journey.   Yvonne Marchese is the host of the Late Bloomer Living Podcast, a professional photographer, mom, wife and serial pivoter.   She grew up in El Paso, Texas. In her twenties she sold everything she owned to follow a lifelong dream... moving to New York City where she worked as an actress for 10 years.   She now lives in Norwalk, CT, telling people's stories with her camera and a microphone. Yvonne is of the opinion that stories can change lives… maybe not in an instant, but in laying the seeds of possibility. She's someone who works every day to embrace big, scary, beautiful change and believes it’s never too late to pursue a dream.   It's that belief that led her to start a photography business in her 40s and a podcast in her 50s. She is on a mission to redefine society's ideas on aging and exploring how to live a life by design. ///   Topics we discuss: Staying curious My reaction to situations. Focusing on yourself Ask about experience not opinion Negative self-talk Negative self-talk is a bad habit. You learn to place limits on yourself. Mediating and exercises 30-day experiment Getting energy from telling stories Helped create excitement in her life. The limit is yourself Found peace in mediation and exercise. How we determine the outcome of our life. Learning to love the process. Raising kids Independence takes over. The joy they provide. How perspectives change.   References: Mel Robbins Book (5 second rule) Simone Knego's Episode Psychology of Belief (Book) Plotzing - Definition Podcast: The Longest Shortest time   Credits:   Lead editor + Producer: Ruf Holmes   Music: Main Theme: "Eaze Does It" by Shye Eaze and DJ Rufbeats, a More In Common Podcast Exclusive. All music created by DJ Rufbeats