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This girl. You know the one. You meet at Baby Grou

This girl. You know the one. You meet at Baby Group – both late, messy hair, faded blue jeans, positive attitudes, + the only mothers w/ twins in the room.
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You are instant friends.
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After the group meetings, you can never remember where you parked your car. You can barely remember the two years you were in the group.
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But you always remember how this girl made you feel.
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Like you can do anything. Even find your car.
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Like you belong.
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You have different lives. You + this girl. In different parts of LA, that’s like living in different states. You can go months w/o talking.
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Then you meet in Santa Monica. You sit in a booth. You get a cocktail. She orders a wine. You split the spinach dip + no topic is off limits. An hour feels like 10 minutes.
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If there is such a thing as a past life, you have had one with this girl.
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In this kind of effortless connection, dreams feel…possible, inevitable.
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When you tell her you want to start your own business, she believes in it. Instantly.
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Before you can identify yourself as a leader, she says: I will follow you.
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Before you know exactly what you’re teaching, she says: I will learn from you.
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Before you know the coaching is your favorite part, she says: Ask me the questions, I want to expand my way of thinking.
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Before you grow an audience, she is in your living room – paying attention – open minded, open hearted – picking her one word intentions + telling her family + friends about your practice.
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Yesterday was a big day for this girl + her big dreams.
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A year ago, she called you + shared what she imagined for her interior design business, @refineriehome. And you believed in it. Instantly.
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In that time, this girl trusted your guidance. You formed a partnership w/ the team + your collaboration has affirmed your conviction: the world needs women in business.
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Women get in business when they are championed by other women.
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And friends who make you feel like you can do anything are the ones who clear the way for you to believe you can do your own thing – and that’s good for the world.
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visit www.refineriehome.com - it’s beautiful. Like this girl. #livewhatmatters #wedothistogether

I woke up thinking it’s Tuesday. It’s Wednesda

I woke up thinking it’s Tuesday. It’s Wednesday.
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I have a tenuous sense of time right now.
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There can be a density in my body – I move through hours in slow motion + then all of the sudden, the day is gone.
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For the past 12 years, I have spent the month of June in New Orleans with my children + my parents + sister + extended family. Am I doing that this year?
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Am I getting on an airplane at all this summer?
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I don’t know.
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Every summer, I am on the bayou w/my girl Shanny + her family – we eat Chick-fil-A nuggets, drink beer margaritas + soak in the sight of the kids’ elated faces on the tube as they hit the wake of the boat + catch air. Where will I be on July 4th?
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I don’t know.
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Maybe we road trip. Go somewhere in CA. We could find a state park + camp as a family for the first time, which sounds insanely overwhelming but maybe I decide to embrace a Beginner’s Mind?!??!!
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Maybe we stay home. If we do, do I allow this kind of extended screen time all summer? Or do I create some sort of learning enrichment program, SURRENDER, sink in to family engagement? Recalibrate my business + creative writing goals to reflect a bigger stay-at-home parenting role?
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I don’t know.
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I don’t know.
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I don’t know.
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How do you handle your not knowing? I’ve been asking myself.
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I’ve been noticing my answers + paying attention to how I cope.
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Like driving in the morning – windows down, cup of hot tea, playlist, feelings, my OWN space, an impromptu journal session on the side of the road if I feel like it. I like this drive.
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I am going somewhere, even though I don’t know where I am going, really.
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Then I return to my own driveway – ready, available for my people. Because I’ve been with what I don’t know + I’ve felt what I do know, like how to get back home.
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Tomorrow, I am gathering us online to talk about HANDLING AMBIGUITY – I want to help you get better managing your anxiety so you can be there for the most important relationships in your life.
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LWM Workshop: GROWTH IN PARTNERSHIP – May 21 - 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm PST
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Registration open until midnight tonight - link in bio or DM or www.paigenolan/workshop
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#livewhatmatters #wedothistogether #relationshipsgoals

This week. Still safer-at-home. • I wonder how t

This week. Still safer-at-home.
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I wonder how they will remember:
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Family television shows. Puzzles. (very) Extended video game screen time. Swimming. Baking. Saturday night restaurant-themed dinners. Boyd playing piano. Zoom training sessions with their basketball + volleyball coaches. Cleaning. Yoga. Those 9:53 PM outbursts I do (w/o warning) when I get super pissed that everyone is still awake – on a school night. Why am I interacting with you right now? How did this happen? GO. TO. BED. The board game Life. Indoor tag. Wrestling. Being bored. Being happy. Being angry. Being relaxed. Being frustrated. Being sad. Being grateful.
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Being together.
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Working together.
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Finding ways to communicate with each other. Productively. Generously.
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Maybe even, best case scenario, where everyone in the family is allowed to be….who he or she is.
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Some days we crush it. Authentic selves out + alive in every room. We’re connecting. It is ON.
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Other days, the words come out all wrong. It goes OFF. Hot + fast. Blame + judgment fly– better hit the ground, flat + silent, or else be clocked in the face by the expectations of who someone else wants you to be.
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We can do this to each other without even realizing it, without it even being dramatic.
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Relationships are like this: they liberate us, affirm us, inspire us – they give us a reason to live.
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They confine us, challenge us, exhaust us – they can destroy life as we know it.
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And yet, here we are - ALWAYS in relationship.
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ALWAYS communicating. With our words, our bodies, our energy.
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I’ve learned that effective communication requires clear intention, thoughtful language, a desire to understand + the courage to be understood. It’s not easy.
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It’s a practice. You can get better!
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Join me THIS THURSDAY – online – 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm (PST) for the Growth in Partnership workshop…because teamwork matters + communication is everything.
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Register at www.paigenolan.com/workshop or link in bio or DM me.
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Thank you @inniscaseyphotography @quartraits – we LOVE these photos!) #livewhatmatters #wedothistogether #relationshipsmatter #growthinpartnership #relationshipgoals #couples #lovewins #communicationskills

It’s the weekend, it’s a best friend, it’s s

It’s the weekend, it’s a best friend, it’s sunshine and a night sky.
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If it were an element, it would be fire. It’s that transformational.
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If it were a character in a fairy tale, it would be the horse. Working every scene. Moving the people through their hero’s journey.
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It’s a cold drink of water + a hot cup of coffee – or tea. It’s warm bread + ripe fruit. It’s a crisp vegetable.
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It has the endurance of the bristlecone pine tree + the ingenuity of the enzyme that turns caterpillars into liquid before they grow wings and emerge as butterflies.
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It sounds like a beloved animal breathing, soundly next to you. It smells like the places you felt safe as a child.
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You can sense it – any time and anywhere.
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It is in all spaces.
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It’s the possibility for Good in all things, everywhere.
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Though you may forget about it, it is the driving force of everything.
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It’s the most powerful energy on the planet – and it’s in you. Even when you think it’s not. You have it. You can use it. You are never separated from it. It is always a choice you can make.
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LOVE.
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It wants your attention.
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Let’s talk about how you can put the transformative power of love to work in your life now.
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Join me next week –‪Thursday May 21st‬ – virtual workshop –‪ 2:30 to 4:30 pm (pst)‬ Live What Matters: Growth in Partnership – because our relationships matter.
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You do not have to attend as a couple or with a partner.
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Anyone can join – individuals – men and women welcome.
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Couples, you can join together (one registration only).
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The lessons can be applied to all types of relationships – personal and professional – and of course, as always, the one you have with yourself.
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*participants are not on video.
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Register at www.paigenolan.com/workshop or link in bio or DM to save your spot -
Let’s go Love - may you feel it, live it, work for it this weekend and beyond
💕💕💕💕 #livewhatmatters #wedothistogether #relationshipsmatter #growthinpartnership #relationshipgoals #leadwithlove #couples #lovewins #lifecoaching #livewithintention

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