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Hey Guys & Gals,

I am currently sipping on a half glass of wine coming down from a new class high. I recently started taking The Success Breakthrough Workshop with Wendy Braun and holy moly is it good. First of all, it's broken up in Modules 1 per week (4-6 videos each) and runs online so you can do it all at your own convenience.

Second, it packs a punch! Wendy focuses on what is holding us back from success and how to break those old critics or naysayer stories running willy nilly in our heads. You know those dark crummy thoughts that keep us from living our full potential. Now, she completely speaks my language and this is in total alignment with a lot of other spiritual work I have done on my own. But for someone like my boyfriend or my baby brother (aka Aries men), this language might take some getting used too. I have been attracted to this kind of philosophy for a long time, whether learning it through therapy, self-help books, yoga or good old fashion life experience. But this class seemed to be the next level of what I needed right now.

This course is specific to actors because she is an actor and she knows our challenges in an ever-changing entertainment business, however, I can see this also being helpful to Musicians and Entrepreneurs. To make a course like this worth it, you gotta do the work and be willing to try things differently. Module 1 was all about getting into the nitty gritty of our psyche. Could be scary yes, could be painful to dredge up old hurtful memories, sure, and it will be, but she gives you ways to move through them and come out on the other side feeling more empowered. Plus you have an online community of others going through the same exercises as you, supporting each other along the way. I will be honest, I had a few days off until Module 2 started up, and the clever Universe threw some situations at me as a test I suppose. I struggled a bit, so yes, there is still work to do of course, but that is why this course is 6 weeks and not just a Thursday night!

Here is a little taste...

 Heard something like this somewhere else? - How about this?

Mind not blown yet - I will continue - 

DAAAAAANG ponder that a moment...go ahead and sit with it - 

Now this quote from Module 2 really pulled at my hearts strings and made me think of my dad. 

Those of you who know me or have followed my "sharing" in the past few years, know I lost my dad in 2013 and I have pretty much just been putting myself back together ever since. Including getting my manifesting groove back.  But in all this self-work one realizes how much we have taken from our parents even the parts we judge them on or try to avoid. That shit seeps in and rears it's head when you least expect it.  

So my dad was a very talented singer-songwriter who moved to LA to go after his dreams in his late teens but went back home in his early 20s, with a son, a young wife, and unbeknownst to him another baby boy baking in another oven - (another incredible story for another day but check out facebook.com/peterdionnemusic for a glimpse) He became a fisherman for years off the coast of Massachusetts and deeply inspired by the sea, and wrote a whole album about it,  my mom, his second wife was the one that really helped him craft his musings to finished songs and poetry and got him to record. But you don't know him, his music never reached you if you were outside our immediate circle of family and friends. And as he got into other things, mainly trouble, I saw that eat at him the rest of his life. Well, here I am in LA, going after and simultaneously dodging my dreams toying with pursuing my god given talents and now that I am in my 30s I ask myself how am I any different? And I am surrounded by amazingly talented people struggling with the same thing.

IT IS SO OBVIOUS TO ME, IT WAS MY DAD'S INNER GAME - IT IS MY INNER GAME - chances are IT IS YOUR INNER GAME. 

I give us all permission to do what needs to be done to shake this shit out of our soul's and to step into our greatness. Life is too short to play small. But it takes facing fear and discipline to go after what calls to your heart. And more so to be successful at it. Don't wait for the perfect agent, the perfect relationship, the perfect pictures or website - Just start or Just finish for some. But keep practicing the empowering thoughts and ignoring the ones that make you feel small, they ARE NOT real.  If you have a hard time doing this on your own, find a positive friend and ask them to be your sponsor to remind you of your worth!

Here's to loving ourselves enough to Live our dreams! And thanks to Wendy Braun for helping me by kicking me in the tush with positive juju.

xo - Nicole