91: Boundaries and Expectations

In the final third part of this series, Victoria discusses how to handle the adjudication portion of competition, as well as how to handle everything from team support, mistakes, potentially not receiving your ideal outcome or award, and still feel like a winner at the end of the experience, as well as inspired to keep improving your training.

Victoria shares a variety of ways to prepare for the stage while at competition, as well as how to stay focused, calm, and conditioned while at your dance competition.

In this episode, Victoria shares her top tips from her experience as a national competition judge, choreographer, and instructor on how to prepare for the stage as a competitive dancer when it comes to rehearsals, as well as additional training and conditioning prior to competition.

Lia Valencia Key began her journey with very humble beginnings; raised in a homeless shelter in the inner-city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lia decided at an early age to emit joy through adversity. She was determined not to become a product of her environment, and to always follow her inner voice as a dreamer, believer, and achiever. That inner voice consistently encourages Lia to continuously seek sunshine, joy, and happiness. Following her heart ultimately helped Lia to redefine her prosperity to mean joy, shining bright, loving life, inner fulfillment, and accomplishment. Lia used this mindset to rise above all challenges and hardships by attaining a Master’s Degree, a top license in Cosmetology, working as a stylist for one of the largest televised home shopping networks, gained life-changing experiences as a lead stylist for top beauty brand CEO'S, and amazing opportunities to travel the world. Throughout her education, work experiences and travels abroad, Lia found herself continuously absorbing love, light, and happiness everywhere she landed. The Valencia Key brand mission is to inspire life with style. Wearing Valencia Key jewelry will uplift your mindset and infuse your spirit with Sunshine and Joy. Valencia Key has been created to share inspiration in the form of personally hand-sketched innovative, beautiful creations. Each Valencia Key creation is birthed from authentic life inspiring messages. The prosperity collection is based on redefining prosperity according to your life. Its intention is to spread an empowering message, that everyone has a divine right to happiness, love, dreaming big, and achieving fulfillment in every area of their life. The VALENCIA KEY hand-sketched Prosperity symbol is 3 continuous connected circles, which directly represent life's constant movement. The collection is comprised of unique pieces that are not only designed to be visually attractive to the external eye but more importantly, inspirational and uplifting to the internal soul.

In this episode, Victoria uncovers the toxicity that shame and guilt can play in our lives when both go unchecked. Although both are healthy to feel, there are some ways do deal with these emotions for a constructive result. Speaking to her own experience with depression, Victoria shares how releasing and transforming shame and guilt proved to be an important process when healing.

Timothy Shieff is an English freerunner. He won the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship in 2009 and participated on the television program MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, as well as won America Ninja Warrior. He had been a vegan since 2012 due to ethical and health reasons. In 2018, he received a great deal of international backlash for resuming consumption of certain animal products in effort to heal his gut. As a result, vegan clothing company ETHCS dropped him from their label. In this episode, Victoria and Tim catch up and discuss everything from mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health, how stretching physical limits affects mindset, as well as the degrees of strength it takes to be vulnerable, and overcome adversity. Follow Tim Sheiff: IG: https://instagram.com/humantimothy?igshid=1t6picgr45rsh YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/99timshi

In this episode, Victoria discusses having boundaries around expectations as well as the concept that gratitude for blessings, and being open-minded to reciprocity regarding good karma coming from alternate sources rather than needing to be exclusively from the source originally invested in.

Victoria shares the importance of not waiting to ask permission when it come to showing up as the highest quality version as yourself when it comes to kindness, making course corrections in life, forgiveness, and more.

Victoria shares the benefits of exposing the body to extreme heat stress after 11 years of personal experience with hot yoga, saunas, steam rooms, as well as the use of Swedish and Korean spas. Benefits of heat shock proteins, the many benefits of FOX03 gene, and more are discussed.

Victoria shares how to avoid taking things personal from family, acquaintances, when receiving criticism, and online, as well as how to practice affirming your own worth rather than allow others to define it.