97 | When You Can’t Hear Yourself Anymore: Navigating the Noise
In this episode, Monique explores what happens when constant noise, content, and urgency make it harder to hear yourself clearly.
After a conversation with a client who intentionally pulled back from podcasts and social media, Monique starts looking at her own relationship with noise, information, and the pressure to keep consuming. She names how easy it is to mistake constant input for learning, growth, or staying prepared, when sometimes it only leaves you more scattered.
Monique also shares the small ways she has been taking her quiet back, from blocking apps and changing her morning rhythm to walking, reading for pleasure, and choosing silence in the car. This episode is about slowing down long enough to notice what is actually yours and what the noise has made you think you need to chase.
GEMS DROPPED
“If you feel over-stimulated and surrounded and really impacted by the noise of the world, your first priority, the order of operations, begins with reducing the noise. You've got to cut the noise out of your world. And the wisdom that you're waiting on is waiting dormant inside of you. And it's probably not even dormant. It's just stifled by all of this unnecessary information around you.”
“All of this noise is stifling our inner worlds. And that's where our magic resides. And we need each other's magic right now. We need each other's true magic. And I think that sometimes we might be operating at a superficial level of what feels like a derivative of our magic, and it's not really at the core of what we are actually capable of, what we are actually purposed to do.”
“I always try to turn my strengths into my strategy because that's where my competitive advantage is, and that's where yours is as well. And your competitive advantage, your strengths are not going to be the same as mine. So recognizing that you are getting advisory and influence from all these different places and having a filtration moment where you can filter through what they're offering you through your lens of strengths.”
“We cannot tolerate being taken out of ourselves and literally not being able to hear ourselves, our highest calling, our highest power.”
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