Are you forever waiting for the "right time" to start living? Join me, Alessia Tenebruso, as I share personal insights from my recent experiences in New Orleans and how I've learned to seize the moment. Using lessons from my journey of self-discovery through solo travel and life coaching, I urge you to embrace who you truly are and live your life now. We'll discuss barriers to progress, self-limiting beliefs, and how to step into your authentic self. I reveal how positive self-talk and gratitude became powerful catalysts in my life, bringing more good into it.
Let's talk about self-love, acceptance, and dressing confidently. I offer a glimpse into my own transformation from blending into the crowd to standing out with confidence and how I learned to love my body as it is. I'll share how you, too, can stop holding back, start loving yourself, and live a fulfilling life. We'll explore how waiting for that elusive future version of ‘you’ can hold you back and how the power to change that lies within your own hands. Your journey to self-love and acceptance starts now. Don't wait, tune in!
If you enjoyed this episode of the One Girl Travel Podcast, then I invite you to follow me on Instagram. That's where all the fun is happening! @ONE_GIRL_TRAVEL
Are you forever waiting for the "right time" to start living? Join me, Alessia Tenebruso, as I share personal insights from my recent experiences in New Orleans and how I've learned to seize the moment. Using lessons from my journey of self-discovery through solo travel and life coaching, I urge you to embrace who you truly are and live your life now. We'll discuss barriers to progress, self-limiting beliefs, and how to step into your authentic self. I reveal how positive self-talk and gratitude became powerful catalysts in my life, bringing more good into it.
Let's talk about self-love, acceptance, and dressing confidently. I offer a glimpse into my own transformation from blending into the crowd to standing out with confidence and how I learned to love my body as it is. I'll share how you, too, can stop holding back, start loving yourself, and live a fulfilling life. We'll explore how waiting for that elusive future version of ‘you’ can hold you back and how the power to change that lies within your own hands. Your journey to self-love and acceptance starts now. Don't wait, tune in!
If you enjoyed this episode of the One Girl Travel Podcast, then I invite you to follow me on Instagram. That's where all the fun is happening! @ONE_GIRL_TRAVEL
Welcome to the One Girl Travel Podcast, episode number 58.
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Welcome to the One Girl Travel Podcast, your passport to the world of solo travel With certified life and travel coach, alessia Tennebruzzo. Join Alessia as she shares her own journey of self-discovery through solo travel, while also focusing on topics such as life coaching insights and travel tips along the way. Now here's your host, alessia Tennebruzzo.
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Hello, my friends, and welcome to episode number 58 of the One Girl Travel Podcast. If my voice sounds a little bit off, I have been sick all week last week, that's why I did not record a podcast episode and I'm still kind of stuffy. So apologies, but the show must go on. I didn't want to keep you waiting any longer for a new episode. So this week I want to talk to you about stop waiting, about just living life and stop waiting on the things that you want to do. And that's something that came up for me last week, when I was in New Orleans for my mentors event, where I realized that, before I started this journey, there were so many times I just waited. I waited on doing the things I wanted to do because I thought I needed to deserve them. I thought I had to earn the good clothes or the trip or the food, whatever it was. I thought it was something that needed to be earned, rather than allowing myself to just dive in as I am, enjoy it as I am and just live life for now and not for the future. And that's what I want to talk to you about today. So, if you follow me on Instagram, which I hope you do. If you do not, definitely go, follow me over there because that's where I have so much fun. It's one underscore girl, underscore travel, and I recently posted a reel of all the outfits that I wore when I was in New Orleans and I had this realization that I have been showing up as myself, as my truest form of myself, and not worrying about what anybody else thinks of me. For example, I was wearing dresses that were form fitting, they hugged my body. They showed my curves. They show I stood out. I stood out from a crowd with the dresses I was wearing and I allowed myself to be seen and I represent who I am through my clothing.
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Now, before I started my solo travel journey and my life coaching journey, I would hide. I would wear clothes that hid my body, that didn't allow me to stand out, that let me just blend in with the crowd, and I thought that I didn't deserve the nice clothes or the nice things, or to even wear the clothes I wanted to wear, because of my body or my insecurities, my limiting beliefs. But now and it's so funny, like it's such a funny realization because I haven't realized it until I take a step back and look at the big picture. Now I just show up and I show up in full sequined gowns and like bold colors and unique prints and again, like form fitting dresses, like I don't care, I wear what I enjoy. I don't deprive myself of the things I want to wear because of my body. I love who I am now. I don't worry about who I'm going to be or what my body might look like if or when I lose weight. I just appreciate who I am and love myself as I am right now.
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And that's what my reel was about. It was about just stop waiting on, you know, until you lose the weight, until you get the paycheck or the partner, whatever it is that you're waiting on, and just embracing your life now as you are, without changing yourself. And I think that is such an incredible gift that solo travel and life coaching has taught me to love myself as who I am and not judge myself and not, you know, depriving myself until I get to a certain goal a goal weight, the goal paycheck, goal relationship, whatever that goal is. I honor who I am as I am now and when you do that, you enjoy your life, you're living your life. You're not putting your life on hold, you're not waiting. And the same goes for traveling.
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What are you waiting on? If you want to solo travel? If you want to go somewhere, what's stopping you? If you want to record a podcast, what's stopping you? If you want to start a business, what is stopping you? You are stopping yourself, and that's the bottom line. Nobody is stopping you.
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If you want to do something, you can do it now. Don't hold yourself back. Don't be the one putting up those barriers of your life because you're scared or you don't think that you're deserving of it. You are deserving of it. If there is something that you want to do, you need to start taking action, because life is too short. You're going to wait and you're going to wait, and eventually it might be too late to do it. So do it now.
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Believe that you are worthy of starting something. Believe that you don't have to make it perfect. That's something that I hear from so many people. I don't want to start until I know it's going to be good, or I don't want to wear this unless I know it's going to be a certain size. That's bullshit. Do it now. Allow yourself to make mistakes, allow yourself to fail, figure it out and keep moving forward. Stop hiding behind your own limiting beliefs and start just living your life. I feel so passionately about this because too many years of my life I wasted wishing for a smaller body, for a boyfriend, for more money, and I would tell myself I'm not worthy yet. Until I reach those goals, I don't deserve to be happy. And that is not true, because I'm living proof of that, and the same goes for you. What are you wasting your time wishing on and hoping for? There's no hope. You get to create that feeling. When you want to lose weight, when you want to get more money, you're going after a specific feeling that that goal is going to give you, but the thing is it's not going to give you it. You are going to give yourself that feeling. You get to choose how you're going to feel, no matter what the situation is. So, even if you are not even close to hitting that goal, you can still create that feeling for yourself right now, and you do that with your thoughts.
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What do you think about yourself currently If you're telling yourself negative things over and over again? You need to stop. You need to get out of that cycle and you need to start speaking to yourself kindly hyping yourself up, supporting yourself, becoming your own biggest cheerleader. If you are not happy with your current salary or your bank statement, you need to look at your numbers and you have to pay attention to what you're telling yourself. Are you telling yourself, oh, I can't afford this, I'm so poor? Whatever you're saying to yourself, you have to change it. You have to say I'm grateful for what I have. Look at how much I've grown since last year. How lucky am I that I get a paycheck every week.
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Whatever it is you tell yourself, it needs to be supportive. It needs to help you feel that feeling of just being grateful for what you have, because when you get that feeling of gratitude, it's going to bring it more and more into your life. It's going to bring more good things into your life. It can only bring you closer to your goals when you speak with gratitude. If you're telling yourself, oh, I suck, I'm too overweight, I don't have enough money, what path is that going to take you on? It's going to bring you backwards. It's going to keep setting you back and back and back and back and you're going to dig yourself into a hole. It's not.
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Until you speak positive, you speak with gratitude, even if it's not how you really feel. And I don't want to say, fake it until you make it. But basically, what you have to do is you just need to learn to appreciate what you have Sincerely. You don't have to be dramatic about it. You don't have to say, wow, you know I'm rich when you look at your pay statement and it's not true. But you can say, wow, I'm so grateful that I have money in the bank, I'm so grateful that I have a paycheck. Those are true statements and they are positive ones. You're showing gratitude to what you have and that's going to move you forward. That's going to help you get to where you want to go, and you're not going to have to wait to get some sort of object or goal or whatever it is to bring you to that feeling. You don't have to wait until you lose the weight or until you get the money, until you have the partner, whatever it is to get that feeling. You get to create it now for yourself.
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So, whatever it is that you want to do, start hyping yourself up, start supporting yourself and, of course, find people in your life that are going to support you also, you don't want to be around people that are going to bring you down and if you do have those people in your life that you don't want to get rid of, maybe don't share those things with them. Find supportive communities, like the One Girl Travel Club, to support you, to cheer you on. That is so important and I'm so grateful that I have communities like that in my life. Like I said, I was in New Orleans for my mentors event and I was surrounded by the most incredible women that I truly, truly love and appreciate and they are so supportive of me and my dreams and it just lights such a fire inside of me to go forward and make big changes and explore new opportunities and I'm so excited for what's going to come in the future.
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But I'm already feeling that way. It hasn't even happened yet. The things I want to do hasn't even happened, and I already feel that gratitude for them because it's within me. Those feelings are within me and I know I'm going to succeed because I already feel how I'm going to feel when I reach those goals. It's already a part of me and it's so exciting and I have no hesitation because I truly believe that I got it. I got it, it's gonna happen and I want you to feel that feeling, believe that you're capable of doing whatever it is that you desire and take those steps forward, even when it's scary, even when you're terrified.
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If it's something that you truly want to do, do it. Try. If you don't enjoy it, then stop doing it, but at least you tried. At least you know, at least you won't have any regrets about not trying. And I'm gonna end it here just because, honestly, it's burning my throat to talk right now. So, and I'm super stuffy, but I just this is such an important message and I wanted to share it with you and I just I wanted to get it off my heart because I don't want to see any of you just waiting around until one day. Make that one day now. Create the moment for yourself, go after your goals, create that feeling now within you and know that you're worthy and you're capable. And until next time, my friends, I will talk to you then. Have a great day.
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Thanks so much for tuning in to this episode of the One Girl Travel Podcast. If you're enjoying the show, please feel free to rate, subscribe and leave a review wherever you listen to your podcasts. You can find out more about your host on our website, onegirltravelcom, or follow her on Instagram, facebook, pinterest and TikTok. Thanks again for tuning in and we'll catch you in the next episode.