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#95 Natalie Lue: Putting An End To People Pleasing
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Hello and welcome to Season 3 of the Wanna Be Podcast. The podcast that takes you from where you are now to where you wanna be in 30 minutes or less. I am of course your host, Imriel!
Thank you for listening to last week’s episode with Mary Otumahan, she was dropping so many gems of wisdom. It’s easily the most practical episode of the season.
Before I get to this week’s episode I have updates. So I mentioned last week that we’re building a studio in Peckham, before we go live we’re offering founding member rates at £50 per month for 4 hours. We’ve had so much interest I’m blown away so if you’re starting a podcast or have one and want somewhere cosy and professional to record head on over to contentisqueen.org.
2nd quick announcement! Content is Queen Women’s Podcast festival is back on June 6th at Kings Place!
This week’s guest is Natalie Lue and if you don’t know about this woman you’re about to know! Natalie is a friend and mentor, she’s the Founder of Baggage Reclaim the ultimate source for banishing your emotional baggage, navigating emotional availability in relationships, and communicating your needs. Natalie has been blogging for 16 years, and has over 1400 blog posts on Baggage Reclaim, Natalie has been featured in Glamour, Broadly, Girlboss. She writes for In The Moment Magazine. She has sold over 100,000 ebooks and is just an all-round boss.
In today’s episode, we talk about adapting to social media, taking a step back, finding your purpose, getting rid of activities that no longer add value or serve you. We also tackle people pleasing and whether or not it’s important to be likeable.
Natalie is a mind-blowing individual, if you aren’t following her then what are you doing! Head on over to baggagereclaim.com and follow @natlue on Instagram.
Just a reminder that I’ll be opening a members-only recording studio for podcasters in Peckham! If you’re interested head to contentisqueen.org to join the waiting list.
For updates on Wanna Be follow Content is Queen on Twitter @ContentisQn and Instagram @contentisqueenhq.
If you’re enjoying this podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends via your insta-stories. We’ve pulled some amazing quotes from the episodes which you can reshare via Instagram and Twitter.
To get extended show notes listing any of the tools and resources we’ve talked about on this episode visit wannabepodcast.com.
This podcast is proudly a Content Is Queen Production. It has been lovingly edited and put together by Ellie Clifford.
Thank you for listening to last week’s episode with Mary Otumahan, she was dropping so many gems of wisdom. It’s easily the most practical episode of the season.
Before I get to this week’s episode I have updates. So I mentioned last week that we’re building a studio in Peckham, before we go live we’re offering founding member rates at £50 per month for 4 hours. We’ve had so much interest I’m blown away so if you’re starting a podcast or have one and want somewhere cosy and professional to record head on over to contentisqueen.org.
2nd quick announcement! Content is Queen Women’s Podcast festival is back on June 6th at Kings Place!
This week’s guest is Natalie Lue and if you don’t know about this woman you’re about to know! Natalie is a friend and mentor, she’s the Founder of Baggage Reclaim the ultimate source for banishing your emotional baggage, navigating emotional availability in relationships, and communicating your needs. Natalie has been blogging for 16 years, and has over 1400 blog posts on Baggage Reclaim, Natalie has been featured in Glamour, Broadly, Girlboss. She writes for In The Moment Magazine. She has sold over 100,000 ebooks and is just an all-round boss.
In today’s episode, we talk about adapting to social media, taking a step back, finding your purpose, getting rid of activities that no longer add value or serve you. We also tackle people pleasing and whether or not it’s important to be likeable.
Natalie is a mind-blowing individual, if you aren’t following her then what are you doing! Head on over to baggagereclaim.com and follow @natlue on Instagram.
Just a reminder that I’ll be opening a members-only recording studio for podcasters in Peckham! If you’re interested head to contentisqueen.org to join the waiting list.
For updates on Wanna Be follow Content is Queen on Twitter @ContentisQn and Instagram @contentisqueenhq.
If you’re enjoying this podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends via your insta-stories. We’ve pulled some amazing quotes from the episodes which you can reshare via Instagram and Twitter.
To get extended show notes listing any of the tools and resources we’ve talked about on this episode visit wannabepodcast.com.
This podcast is proudly a Content Is Queen Production. It has been lovingly edited and put together by Ellie Clifford.
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