Woman on Fire Unfiltered

Show Notes: Watchers, Critics, and Other Background Noise Woman on Fire Unfiltered Episode 31 Episode Overview The moment you stop playing small, they appear—the critics, skeptics, and self-appointed judges of your audacity. This episode explores why criticism is actually confirmation you're on the right path and how to transform background noise into fuel for your breakthrough. Key Topics Covered...

00000000 00000210 000006F5 000000000010FF7B 00000000 00093179 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Show Notes: The Audacity to Be Seen Woman on Fire Unfiltered Episode Episode Overview In a world that has trained women to shrink and apologize for their brilliance, choosing visibility becomes a revolutionary act. This episode explores why we've been conditioned to make ourselves sm...

This episode might ruffle a few feathers—and I'm okay with that. Boundaries are not about controlling other people. They're about controlling how much of you is up for grabs." In this no-nonsense episode, we'll unpack: • Why boundaries aren't about punishment—they're about protection • How waiting for someone's permission to set limits is a trap (and why you'll never get it) • The real cost of kee...

Ever find yourself nodding along and agreeing, even when you desperately want to say no? This episode dives into why we get stuck in the cycle of overcommitting, people-pleasing, and avoiding conflict. Spoiler: it's not all your fault (but also, kinda is). Ready to take back your "no"? Click the link disruptu-youniversity.teachable.com/p/the-boundary-lab-30-days-to-stronger-boundaries-build-confid...

Taylor Swift said, "it's never too late to be brand new". 2022 is the year of big pivots, big changes, and a bold, brand-new way of doing things. Let's get started!

Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying that we should "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."  Too often we heart of people being told to live each day as if it were their last day on earth, the very last day of their entire life. Personally, I've never liked that suggestion, to live as if the end is waiting just beyond the horizon, waiting to trip me up just as I'...

Being comfortable in our Status Quo is a myth.  We may feel that we are just fine because the status quo remains the status quo. We can just stay in this place, in this way and nothing will ever change.  But change comes, even touching the walls of our comfort zones and try as we might to keep it out, it will prevail.    As human beings, we were made for more. We were not meant to remain the same....

Disrupters, let me ask you this question: What is the Call for Action on your life that is so large that it would force you to get up, stand up and be counted? What is the thing you are most willing to fight for no matter what the cost, a reason for being so large, so all-consuming that it is causing you to say enough!   I cannot do this any longer! I have to make a change now! What are you willin...

Nelson Mandela is quoted as saying that to deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. Oprah Winfrey has said that the right to vote is like the crown that we get to wear as citizens in this country.  During this election cycle, we've heard a lot about rights, we talked about rights and everything that goes with it.  As we make the time to observe our right to vote on Elect...

Self-care is not selfish even though at times it might seem that way. When your calendar is full, when your life is going in a dozen directions, you might find yourself sliding self-care further down on your own to-do list. It's been said that you cannot pour from an empty cup. We overdo, we overbook and we run out of steam until all we are left with is an empty vessel, our cup has become empty. I...

The question for this month was Is Life Transformation possible?  . Life transformation is absolutely possible, but it must begin with a shift in our mindset. We create our own futures and oftentimes if not every time, this shift will require that we disrupt of our limiting beliefs – those things that have held us hostage until the moment that we decide that these beliefs no longer work for us. We...

BUSYNESS fills mental space until we feel ready to deal with whatever it is that we are "running away" from. And when we are done running around, there it is again, staring us in the face until we deal with it. And there we go again. Filling space with Busyness.  Staying busy allows us to avoid the work of exercising command over our own lives. We are so busy taking care of Busyness that we forget...

Eckhart Tolle says saying yes means surrendering to what is, saying yes to life and watching how it starts working for you rather than against you.  Surrendering to What Is… Your Life that is happening right now.  We get no replays, no repeats.  If we don't surrender to What Is Right Now, well, the chances are good that we will never pass this way in the exact same way or time ever again.  Unfortu...

Have you ever had those days when nothing seems to go your way like you're barreling through your life with no brakes and you seem to have very little control of where things are going in your life?  I hear you, we've all been there at one time or another. Carl Jung, Psychologist and Psychiatrist best known for advancing the idea of introvert and extrovert personalities said, "I am not what happen...

Who do you think you are:  six words with the power to bring you to your knees or to cause you to soar to heights unknown. Six words that will in one moment bring you immense joy as you consider the possibilities and in the next moment causes you to hide all that you are, all that you've accomplished. Others may ask but, do they really want to know? Mary Manin Morrissey said that "Often we lose ou...

Some might say that one of the hardest feats that any of us could attempt is to believe in ourselves. Some might say that believing in yourself is purely a spiritual thing, that those who are truly enlightened have the market cornered in the act of believing in yourself. Whatever you've been through, it is entirely up to you and entirely within your power to believe in yourself. Cancel out the noi...

Our blessed comfort zone is where we know how things are supposed to be, where every space is filled to the brim with the familiar, the predictable, the unchallenging and well…the comfortable. Until it isn't. Within our Comfort Zones, we do not question anything outside of this zone, until something from our Arena dares to sneak past our borders, crawling through the windows or just plain beating...

There is a Latin Proverb that reads "He who is silent when he ought to have spoken and was able to is taken to agree". Silence is not consent. When we remain silent, perhaps as a means of getting along or keeping the peace, we give our power away by self-silencing.  More importantly, remaining silent allows others to imply what our stories are or what they mean and until we provide clarification –...

A very wise woman once said, "At first, I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side, But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong and I grew strong, and I learned how to get along…"   When life throws you a curveball – or worse yet, hits you right between the eyes with the ball, I wanted to think that I would do a little more than just su...

Elizabeth Gilbert, Author of Eat Pray Love and one of my personal favorites, said that perfection and our need to be perfect is "just fear in really good shoes.  But it's still fear".   Too often, fear masquerades as procrastination as our inner perfectionist, in her quest to do everything perfectly, gets nothing done.  We spend far too much time doing and redoing even the simplest tasks trying to...

Motivational speaker Jim Rohn once said that  "we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with ".  When it comes to our relationships, we are influenced, like it or not, by the people we surround ourselves with.  And this is everything, our thinking, the decisions that we make, even the way that we feel about ourselves.   But, I've also learned that this average should include th...

Pulitzer Prize Winner Mary Oliver said "Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."   What we carry around in our boxes affects every part of your life. Unresolved issues affect and change everything in your Arena, my Self, my Heart, my Consciousness, intentionally or not. Things get knocked over, they spill over.  Things fall out...

English actress, model, and activist Emma Watson said  " I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself ."  She doesn't allow others to "insert here" whatever their description would be for her life. When you think about filling in your own blanks, what comes to mind?  Who are you?  Who have you decided to be?  And who's choosing your descriptions or filling in your...

Hey Disrupters! Welcome to the first ever blog for the Woman on Fire Radio Show brought to you straight from the Arena.  I am Trudi Lunnie-Thomas, Certified Life and Leadership Coach and Master Disrupter and it is my honor to spend this time with you. Women everywhere are disrupting their status quo, blasting through limitations, rediscovering their greatness and building the lives of their dreams...

We seem to give grace to everyone but ourselves but when it comes to ourselves, No Grace For You ! It's time to disrupt your Status Quo by showing grace to yourself. Begin where you are! Grace Is Enough!