Redefining Leadership and Self-Grounding

Redefining Leadership and Self-Grounding - A Conversation with Samantha Belle

In the latest episode of The Amanda Kaufman Show, we’re diving deep with Samantha Belle, a performance coach who’s been integral to my journey as a coach and leader. Samantha brings an incredibly unique approach that combines productivity and performance with a focus on mindset, energy, and subconscious work—qualities that make her stand out as a coach who truly doesn’t suck!

This conversation is filled with Samantha’s wisdom on what it takes to excel as a coach, and practical advice on tapping into your highest self. Here are some of the highlights of our conversation that are sure to inspire.

1. Embracing Your Favorite Self: Grounding Confidence in Who You Are

A recurring challenge for many coaches is treating their highest self as something distant, even unattainable. Samantha shares the power of seeing that highest version not as a separate, unreachable ideal, but as an extension of yourself—your favorite self. As she explains, the real transformation happens when you own this "favorite" version of yourself without putting it on a pedestal. When I began working with Samantha, she encouraged me to embrace my favorite self—whom I call “Bianca the Binder Boss”—a shift that aligned my goals, grounded my confidence, and transformed my business.

2. Redefining Success Through Self-Certainty, Confidence, and Re-Centering

Samantha distilled three essential traits of a successful coach:

• Certainty of Self: This is about accepting who you are right now and owning both your current abilities and your potential to grow.

• Confidence to Influence: Great coaches are not only confident in their skills but also in their ability to shape their environment, from their social circle to the resources they pull in.

• A Consistent Practice to Re-Center: Samantha emphasized the importance of a regular practice—whether spiritual, reflective, or simply grounding—that helps you realign and move forward.

These traits aren’t just abstract concepts—they’re actionable, empowering qualities that every coach can cultivate to thrive and support their clients better.

3. Healing as the Foundation of Great Coaching

Samantha’s path to coaching was profoundly shaped by personal healing. After a tough life transition, she found herself drawn to hypnotherapy, which opened the door to subconscious healing. This experience fundamentally changed how she approached her work, eventually leading her to develop a coaching style that combines practical strategies with energy work. For her, effective coaching isn’t just about techniques; it’s about healing and helping clients achieve a full-bodied sense of well-being.

4. Learning to Unplug and Recharge

One of Samantha’s key insights is the importance of balancing productivity with true rest. She emphasizes understanding the difference between “unplugging” and “recharging”—both essential to sustainable success. If you’re the type to feel guilty about taking a break, Samantha recommends affirmations like “I’m still making money” or “I’m still attracting clients” during downtime, which can help ease resistance and normalize rest as part of a productive routine.

5. Practical Meditation and Journaling Tips for Coaches

Samantha and I both believe in the transformative power of journaling and meditation, though we recognize that traditional methods don’t work for everyone. Samantha’s advice: don’t view meditation as an hour-long silent practice. It can be as simple as mindful breathing, a walk, or a grounding ritual. Journaling doesn’t have to be “perfect” or even legible! It’s the process, not the product, that matters. Samantha encourages her clients to let go of perfectionism in journaling and to use it as a flow exercise—writing to release, not to perform.

Samantha’s Journey: The Power of Trying New Things

Samantha's openness to experimentation has been a hallmark of her career. From her varied background to her journey across different states and countries, she’s embraced change and variety at every turn. This willingness to step into new experiences has not only enriched her life but also made her an adaptable and innovative coach.

Final Thoughts: Real Coaches Show Up for Themselves and Others

This conversation left me reflecting on how essential it is for coaches to show up authentically and continue evolving. Whether it’s through healing, embracing your “favorite self,” or grounding yourself daily, these practices aren’t just nice to have—they’re essential for coaches who want to deliver real value.

If you’re a coach looking to elevate your practice, check out Samantha on Instagram at ITS_SamanthaBelle (and soon on TikTok!). Samantha’s journey and insights are a reminder that great coaches aren’t just people with skills—they’re people who’ve done the deep, personal work and want to help others thrive.

So, are you ready to step into your favorite self and redefine what it means to be a coach who doesn’t suck? Share this post with a fellow coach and let’s continue this journey of growth together!

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Chapters

1:30 – Meet Samantha Belle Samantha shares her journey as a performance coach, her focus on productivity and mindset, and her mission to blend the “show” and the “business” of coaching.

2:57 – The Power of Embracing Your “Favorite Self” Samantha discusses why connecting with your “favorite self” helps eliminate the pressure of aiming for an unattainable “higher self.” Amanda shares her personal story of discovering her “favorite self” with Samantha’s guidance.

6:50 – Why Great Coaches Don’t Separate Themselves from Their Highest Self Samantha talks about the common struggle of feeling disconnected from your best self, especially as a coach, and how reframing this relationship allows for greater growth and authenticity.

10:25 – The Three Traits of Great Coaches Samantha outlines three essential traits that all successful coaches share: Certainty of Self, Confidence in Influence, and a Regular Practice of Re-Centering.

13:05 – Samantha’s Healing Journey and Hypnotherapy Samantha shares how her personal healing experience through hypnotherapy led her to integrate energy and subconscious work into her coaching, creating a unique approach to client transformation.

15:58 – Balancing Productivity with Rest: Unplugging vs. Recharging Amanda and Samantha discuss the importance of incorporating intentional rest into a busy schedule, and Samantha shares tips on overcoming guilt and using affirmations to make rest a productive part of the day.

18:30 – Making Meditation Work for You Samantha explains that meditation isn’t one-size-fits-all. She offers tips on creating a meditation practice that’s manageable, including alternative methods like mindful tea-making and walking meditations.

22:45 – The Value of a Consistent Journaling Practice Amanda and Samantha dive into different journaling styles, from intuitive flow journaling to structured habit tracking. They explore how journaling helps perfectionists let go of the need to “get it right” and instead focus on the process.

26:15 – Samantha’s Adaptable Coaching Style and Openness to New Experiences Samantha reflects on her unique background and how her willingness to embrace change has made her a more versatile and resilient coach, constantly innovating for her clients.

29:40 – Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways Amanda and Samantha recap the episode, sharing final advice for coaches who want to show up authentically, embrace personal evolution, and be truly effective in their work.

31:00 – Connect with Samantha Belle Find out where to follow Samantha on social media for more insights and updates on her coaching work.

Full Transcript

Samantha Belle - Coaches That Don't Suck!

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[00:00:00] the first one that's coming to me is certainty of self. So just being a grounded confidence in. What you have the current ability to do, what you have the current ability to learn, just a real awareness and honest acceptance of where you're at right now and where you've come from

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[00:00:39] Well, hello and welcome back to the Amanda Kauffman Show. And we are continuing our series on coaches that don't suck. And I am so excited about this guest because Samantha has been. My coach for the last couple of years. And we met in the whole world of learning to market and [00:01:00] grow your business.

[00:01:00] I remember I was just razzle dazzled by Samantha. When we had a chat the other day, I was like, Hey, would you like to come on the show? She was a huge, yes. She was super supportive just as she often is. I love this about her. Samantha, welcome to the show. Glad you're here. Thanks for having me.

[00:01:18] Thanks for having me.

[00:01:19] I love it. You're effervescent. So it makes a lot of sense that you're just like ready to go. So Samantha, just take 30 seconds and share with us, what do you do? Like what's your main thing?[00:01:30]

[00:01:30] And, why are we talking about this today?

[00:01:32] Well, the 32nd elevator pitch, if you will, I am a performance coach is the short of it. I'm a performance coach in both aspects of the word, both for performers, actor, singer models style, but then also the performance within productivity, within increasing sales, within our life of performance and the communication aspect with business owners.

[00:01:53] Productivity and sales and then the booking, getting in and out of character, the mindset, all the imposter syndrome that crosses [00:02:00] both. So I bring the show and the business in my performance coaching.

[00:02:03] I love it. you have such a wealth of really cool experiences. I want to unpack some things with you today about like, well, the whole theme is around coaches who don't suck and you clearly do not.

[00:02:15] yourself and your own practice, but you've also had quite a bit of experience working with other coaches as well. so as we kind of kick it off, what have you noticed is the biggest thing that maybe is holding a lot of coaches back from being in [00:02:30] their highest performance or being in their greatest brilliance.

[00:02:32] what do you see as like the top trends and the people that you've worked with?

[00:02:36] Yeah, absolutely. So top trend. It's definitely going to be seeing their top performing self as not them. So there's a difference I find with like your higher self, especially when people are talking in the spiritual realm around being your higher self, it tends to start to create this, there's me and then there's she.

[00:02:57] And, [00:03:00] someone, I think I read an email once years ago and they said that they opt for favorite self and the difference there is to bring it off of the pedestal, have this higher self literally being higher, not you detached this thing that you have to figure out a bridge for that is when I find that coaches are.

[00:03:19] having a lot of trouble is because they're rejecting the parts of themselves that are within that higher self. And so when they're able to see that higher self within them, they can make the [00:03:30] bigger steps. utilizing what they have.

[00:03:33] I love that. And you know, this gal knows what she's talking about.

[00:03:35] Cause, she's in not so many words, even talking about my own experience, you know, like I still recall when we sat down, and you were officially working with me as my coach, the first thing that we actually talked about was, Who is that favorite self, you know, and, I named her Bianca the Binder Beep, right?

[00:03:53] it was such a power move because accepting that favorite version of myself, and allowing her to step [00:04:00] up and step into that next level, not only kind of saved my business to save my sanity and just sort of save that sense of self. Cause I feel like.

[00:04:09] When you're all fractionated, when you're feeling like you're supposed to be this, but you feel like you really are that, it's like a confusing, misaligned place. So I'm curious, like what brought you into the coaching space in the first place?

[00:04:23] trauma,

[00:04:25] trauma, just like the rest of us,

[00:04:28] Exactly. Yeah. I was born in [00:04:30] Florida, but raised in North Carolina. So I have an accent when I want to. Went from there to Japan and I was married at the time, which is its own story. So ended up in Japan, just kind of doing the whole trophy wife thing.

[00:04:44] Like I was doing my own thing, but I didn't need to really worry about finances or, or carrying things myself. Like as long as I was taking care of the home and doing what good Southern girls do, then that was good. turned out that that was not. [00:05:00] There were just some things happening that, were passed off as cultural norms that I was not willing to accept as my space and standard.

[00:05:09] So, long story short, I decided to completely uproot my life. Hardest thing I've ever done. I left that marriage and human being and my house and I had 2, 000 and two suitcases. And I moved from Japan to Arizona in 2017 and restarted my life. And started healing, [00:05:30] which was it's own journey. I had a degree in music therapy and I'm, so I've always been big in personal development, but I've, I also always process out loud.

[00:05:40] So talk therapy for me, there are quite a few talk therapists who I don't believe should be talk therapists, which puts a bad rap on it because it really is. There are amazing therapists that are very helpful and very good. And anyway, so I. Even though, of course, I love therapy, and I'm into personal [00:06:00] development, I never had a lot of success with, with talk therapy because, as I now know, you can only process through what you're aware of, which was great.

[00:06:07] I was aware of all kinds of stuff, but, not of any of the underlying. So, I had a friend that suggested I try hypnotherapy, and, I did, rocked my world, and that's what started the Healing aspect for me where I started getting certified and going, holy guacamole. I have to bring this into everything.

[00:06:26] And so that's where all of the subconscious work and energy [00:06:30] expertise came from was me experiencing for myself, realizing this shift I hadn't felt before and experience before and just started rewriting programs and going, holy. We gotta bring this to the table.

[00:06:41] That aspect of coaching. Say more.

[00:06:43] Well, I find that the best coaches, the ones that don't suck, if you will, coaching isn't something we do. It's something we are.

[00:06:52] Oh, yes. I love this.

[00:06:55] so as far as my, you know, the fact that I work in the energy and the [00:07:00] subconscious, I bridge the woo and the do on the who, of where we're at with all of the show in the business, all of that clever, fancy stuff.

[00:07:08] My specialty is in healing because that's what I did. And that's how I made progress and ended up actually being able to have a doing all the things. But as far as coaching, what got me started in that was just because I existed, I've always been like the leader, either the line leader, and I've always been a very good, I find this to be a very good leader, where [00:07:30] I will lead when there is not a leader, and I will follow a good leader.

[00:07:34] So I will lead the followers, or I will be the leader, depending on who is the leader. So I don't have to be the lead or nothing. I can be the second in command leading the rest underneath a good head. and I found that really Plays into the coaching aspect because you end up having these heads that just, sometimes their heads via ego.

[00:07:55] And so I then have to translate what's going on and I ended up being mediator and I ended up being the [00:08:00] point of contact anyway, because we've got everyone else that's supposed to be following the lead of ego that I'm making all that work. So coaching is just something I've always done my whole life.

[00:08:11] I'm the oldest of six. So just leading and being A coach, a teacher, a mentor is just something that I've done and how it has shaped throughout my life was due to 2017 and on.

[00:08:22] I love this. Thank you so much for sharing it. you're making me reflect too on my own journey and the journeys that I've heard from so many clients [00:08:30] where, we go on this search to find the solution because we're, not necessarily, finding the solution that we're looking for.

[00:08:38] And sometimes it's like very intentional. Sometimes it's quite accidental. And the fun thing about coaching is I'm not sure there's too many, well maybe my kids, but not too many kids in the first grade going, when I grow up, I want to be. coach, right? They don't have necessarily the awareness of, of the psychology or the energy [00:09:00] work or any of the things, because it's not really commonly taught, but you can definitely, find it as you're looking for real solutions.

[00:09:09] I'm curious, you know, you've allowed evolution in your business and in your coachiness. And I loved how you kind of brought up this idea. I was almost thinking of like a Sigma type leader, right? So not necessarily having to be Alpha, but also not necessarily, needing to be beta either like just kind of your own thing and that that tracks a [00:09:30] lot with the kind of traditional healers and healing work as well as they kind of their hierarchy adjacent as opposed to necessarily being, firmly part of the pack in a certain way.

[00:09:42] I think one of the things I really admire about you is your willingness to try new things and to express in new ways. do you mind speaking to that strength? have you always been that way of being willing to try something new or, show what you got and try it, or is that something that you've really cultivated?

[00:09:58] Thank you, first of [00:10:00] all. yeah, I think that also goes into, as you were speaking before, a big piece of talking about how I was always a leader in one way or the other.

[00:10:08] And what I find when I'm coaching with people that have that higher self on the hierarchy or on the pedestal is that they are likely to have grown up in a place where leadership is a quality. Not a job. And so I was recognized for being a leader within the class or within like these places. And so I think a [00:10:30] coach is just someone that has monetized that.

[00:10:32] And I think that that's another moment of almost imposter syndrome where they're like, there isn't like you were mentioning something to find. They are the solution, but they've never, Considered that their skills are the answer. It's like, okay, I can be a leader within what company or within what can I be a leader to help these people instead of realizing that being a leader is what helps the people.

[00:10:53] That's so good.

[00:10:53] thank you. So with that, I bring me back around to my ability to [00:11:00] prefer the variety pack of life. It is something that I was also just born with. my parents divorced when I was 18 months old, and I don't know if this really has anything to do with it, but they did a joint custody where I was weekdays with my mom, weekends with my dad, my whole life.

[00:11:14] So they never lived further than 30 minutes from each other, like, they just made agreements, and so that's how I did things. So I always had two sets of friends, and two sets of parties, and two sets of presents, and two sets of outings, like, I didn't have a mutual best friend, until I was in [00:11:30] college when I had a roommate for four years as my first mutual best friend.

[00:11:33] The best friends that I had in school all hung out on the weekends, and then the best friends that I had at church all went to school together, and so, I had people I was clinging to, but it was always changing, our school redistricted itself, four times. So I went to five different elementary schools, without moving, because they just re zoned us.

[00:11:54] anyway, I was like, if my mom is listening, she's gonna call me and say it's four. I went to four different elementary [00:12:00] schools, even within my siblings, I was the oldest, but the only one with my mom and my dad. I had three half siblings and two steps, so even that dynamic was changing.

[00:12:07] So I think. As a person, I took those into really liking to switch and change. And even still like now I'll change my decor. I changed my iPhone background. which I've had to catch myself when things get too good for too long, I get restless. Because, that consistency is not something my body had regulated to previously, but, [00:12:30] anyway.

[00:12:30] So, me trying something else is how I would function, when I was little. So it became something that I liked as I got older.

[00:12:39] Yeah, that makes a lot

[00:12:40] of sense.

[00:12:40] Yeah. And thanks for sharing that.

[00:12:43] What would you say are the top three things that a coach who wants to do really well, i. e. not suck? what are the top three character traits you've seen in the most successful coaches that you've either worked with, admired? supported, like, what would you say are those three [00:13:00] major things to keep in mind and to act on, not just keep in mind, but like, do something about?

[00:13:05] Totally.

[00:13:05] Beautiful. Great question. the first one that's coming to me is certainty of self. So just being a grounded confidence in. What you have the current ability to do, what you have the current ability to learn, just a real awareness and honest acceptance of where you're at right now and where you've come from.

[00:13:29] So a certainty of [00:13:30] self is going to be first characteristic. The second one is going to be, confidence. In your ability to manipulate the environment, like your group of friends or picking a coach or pulling in resources to what you're going to move forward with.

[00:13:49] And within that certainty of self There's just the you portion and then there's the confidence that you will make the choice that is going to lead you down a path that you will either [00:14:00] pivot from or continue down but that you are able to do that What is happening? So many things look different on paper than they do in real life. And even things that aren't meaning that they are good or bad, but if you try to learn tennis from a book, it's just going to be different when you actually get on the court, even if you understand everything about it, because it's different to experience it.

[00:14:23] So also want to make sure that that's a neutral space, not saying it could be better or worse. It could just be different. So just make the dang choice. [00:14:30] Then the third thing would be the quality having a mindset slash practice, whether it be spiritual, whether that be religious, whether it be whatever, having some sort of Re centering back to self and back to the grounded awareness to be able to take the next steps that kind of practice is going to be essential for Continuing to move forward so that you can take your car to the shop, change your own oil and then keep going

[00:14:58] Yeah, a thousand [00:15:00] percent.

[00:15:00] I mean I'm always a bit surprised and I've woven it into my programs and my practices to remind people. Hey You know Journal, right? Have that reflective practice and like, don't journal just when you're pissed off, like journal every day, take stock, like evaluate how things are going and also like, where are you going and what matters to you?

[00:15:22] Because it's amazing how, when you move down the path of life, how you gain this clarity. About what does and doesn't matter and [00:15:30] so, I can tell you that due to my journaling practice, I've learned about myself getting grounded in the self, that things that I thought were so important to me, even two years ago, are just not, you know, but I think without that reflective conversation and dialogue that happens through journaling practice, I very much doubt that I would have gotten there and the other thing that I'm always encouraging people towards is, meditation and building in breaks and rejuvenation.

[00:15:58] I was blessed to have a [00:16:00] coach early in my career who said, Amanda, you being chill is possibly one of your highest paid priorities. And she was encouraging me to take bubble baths in the middle of the afternoon on a Tuesday. And I remember thinking, my goodness, coach, I think you've got three heads.

[00:16:15] But it was honestly one of the highest, return on investment pieces of wisdom that I've gotten from any coach ever. How to chill, how to find my chill and find my center and what I wanted to do. so like, are there any other [00:16:30] kind of practices I saw you writing down a couple of things.

[00:16:32] So like, what have you got for the people?

[00:16:35] Yes, oh my gosh, I love this. And I think that there's value in Bringing up things just in a different way. And so just I'll work backwards from what you said, the breaks, love that. Just bringing awareness to there's a difference between unplugging and recharging.

[00:16:51] Making sure that people, are registering, you need both. And then the other thing when you're taking the breaks, especially either at the beginning or just [00:17:00] as you're going, when you get that tinge of, Either rogue resistance, whatever that story is, I have found it really helpful and beneficial.

[00:17:07] And I do coach my clients to think really dial into what is it that you're worried about, right? Either if I'm on a break, I'm not productive, or if I'm on a break, then my company will fall apart, whatever, and have an affirmation. Every time you feel a tug while you're in your bubble bath on a Tuesday.

[00:17:26] I'm still making money. Or, if you're resting or [00:17:30] sleeping in, you know, an alarm goes off at 8, and as soon as you tell me, it'd be like, and I'm still making money.

[00:17:33] Or, and I'm still calling in bookings. Or whatever it is that you're afraid you're going to lose, helping to calm your nervous system down with those affirmations. When you feel The pull and the nudge of resistance around any kind of break. I do encourage that. And then just to be aware when you're avoiding and when you're actually unplugging and recharging, because that's also not the same thing.

[00:17:56] it'll feel different in your body. We can talk about that later on [00:18:00] meditation wise. I love that. I also want to set an expectation for people because at least for me in the beginning, I had a very fast mind. I didn't like yoga because number one, I wasn't good at it, quote unquote, because I was going too fast.

[00:18:15] I also like to be good at things. And I didn't feel like I was either as flexible or, you know, I did feel like I wasn't good at it because I couldn't go as deep. in my stretches, I couldn't quiet my mind. I couldn't do these things. And so I just decided I didn't like yoga really.

[00:18:29] That I didn't like [00:18:30] doing things that I wasn't naturally good at, but with that, it also took me a long time to meditate because I, again, thought of it like I had to spend an hour in complete silence and it just sounded like I could

[00:18:42] never.

[00:18:43] Right? And so I think it's just also like, putting out that meditation is, Like working out you could be CrossFit, you could do yoga, you could swim, you could dance, you could do all kinds of things and it's still working out.

[00:18:55] There's all kinds of ways to meditate. There's just being really intentional with the way that you make [00:19:00] tea. There's a whole tea practice. You look it up on Google. there's walking meditations. And I don't mean meditations you do while walking. I mean that there's like every step that you take, right?

[00:19:08] I grew up in the Methodist church. It was Lutheran and then Methodist, we would do breaths on, retreats and it'd be like, more of you when you breathe in, less of me. Don't love that one. But that kind of practice of, Even just the breathing, all of that is meditation.

[00:19:23] Meditation is really just coming in, centering and dialing and grounding in. And however that works for you, hugging a tree, like you [00:19:30] can just sit in a tree. Anyway, I just want to open up the space that meditation does not have to be, not that you said it was, Amanda, just. Getting in people's minds that it doesn't have to be this like hour long silence fest.

[00:19:40] I love it. Like I think of meditation as like a focus. release or regulation kind of an exercise. And as somebody with ADHD, it was hard. It was very, very hard in the early days. But I love what you're saying about like, there's just so many ways to do it successfully. And it is like any other kind of skill, the more you do it, the [00:20:00] better you get at it.

[00:20:01] for what I found worked really well is I actually started with transition meditations. So, one of the hardest things for me with it was remembering to do it. So, I would use triggers like if I was coming home from a drive, I would just pause in the car, air conditioning on, we're in Texas, but just pause in the car for a minute or two and just take a beat.

[00:20:24] Slow down, find my breath, and get really present, and then set an intention [00:20:30] before I went into the house. So I had kind of a few of those sorts of, when I do this, I get to pause, no one will even notice. and then over time I gave myself greater and greater permission to just like take out legitimate blocks.

[00:20:43] For the meditation. So yeah, it was a process.

[00:20:49] Yeah, I love that. I love that little atomic habits trigger habits. In the bathroom is usually the one that I pull people on as I'm like, while you're sitting there, instead of on your phone, you could take the urge, right.

[00:20:59] [00:21:00] To hop on your phone, center in, and even just like investigate, like just feel for a second, sometimes meditation again, right? Like you said, just bring your awareness in being present, figuring out what's going down. And then, mirror work, Shadow work, all those things while you're washing your hands, instead of looking at your hands, like just look up and tell yourself you love yourself or an affirmation or whatever.

[00:21:18] I mean, just in those couple of seconds, the more that you do it, the skill grows. And then on journaling, the last one that you, well, first one you mentioned, but last one I'm mentioning, I also like to encourage a [00:21:30] practice with this. A lot of times I work with perfectionists and people that are overachievers because they have worked really hard.

[00:21:39] And so that's a piece that they really hold onto, but that's a different story. And what I find with journaling, the resistance I usually hear is either, Oh, my handwriting's not good. I can't even read it on, you know, when I come back or. I don't have anything to say or, like, what's the point, right?

[00:21:55] It just, they just kind of get flustered. And there's multiple kinds of [00:22:00] journaling. So there's diary ing, right? Which is, can be stream of consciousness. Like that is something that typically you're going to be going, like, dear diary, right? You're talking to the diary. And usually you'll read those back, you know, because you'll keep them forever kind of thing.

[00:22:16] Then there's logging, where you're just, Objectively, what happened? Did I do this? Yes or no? This could be habit tracking, this could just be getting out a tracking system for the day, which can be written. and then [00:22:30] there's intuitive journaling, which is what I like to do. And that is where the point is the process, not the product.

[00:22:41] So, I don't care if you can't read it. I'm actually hoping that your handwriting gets so terrible that your brain is going so fast you can't even write. Literally, when you get good at it, it's pretty cool. For me, at least. So, my handwriting changes, depending on like, what I'm channeling. Like, if I'm just really conscious about it, or if I'm just kind of flowing.

[00:22:58] And I end up [00:23:00] Just like my hand just kind of vibrates and I'm like Because if I try to stop long enough to really write down whatever it is, it like stops the flow and I stop It like stops, you know locks my channel down. So I actually and I use burnels But I am I do journal I journal to where the point is not to reread it The point is just to get in the flow and it's a it's a practice of being able to tap into that and then of course there's like a mix in between.

[00:23:28] But just opening up that [00:23:30] as well for, again, my perfectionists that are thinking, I don't like to journal because I can't read it and blah, blah, blah. Then don't read it.

[00:23:38] Yeah, it's not a performance enhancing task, right? Hey, Samantha, if people want to follow you, what's the best way to do that?

[00:23:46] I am most, Active on Instagram, it's ITS underscore Samantha Bell with an extra E like the princess, B E L L E. It's Samantha Bell, and I don't know if I should say this out loud, but I guess we're committing to [00:24:00] it, I'm getting on TikTok.

[00:24:01] What? Okay, you heard it here first, folks.

[00:24:05] So, if you go there, there's not an account,

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