Create Shift S1Ep7: On Being Yourself and Following Your Dreams with LaJoya Smith

by | Jan 25, 2019 | Podcast | 0 comments

In Episode 7 of Create Shift Season 1 I talk to LaJoya Smith. LaJoya shares her story of becoming an athlete, and her passion for working with women and supporting them to achieve their goals. She talks about her journey into sports as a form of holistic medicine, and balancing work with pursuing her athletic passion. We discuss the importance of embracing your creativity and passions in order to live a happy life. Plus, LaJoya shares her journey of recently starting meditation, and how it’s helped her as an athlete and in her life. We also chat about the concept of discipline – and LaJoya shares some great practices for using discipline to help you pursue your dreams.

You can find LaJoya on Instagram as @lajoyabee.

Things discussed in this episode

  • Pursuing your goals, and being true to yourself, even when it’s challenging and against societal ‘norms’.
  • Balancing the need to have work and make money, with listening to what makes you happy.
  • Comfort and how it can stop us from following our dreams, and doing what makes us happy.
  • Deciding to not do what everyone else is doing, or like what they like, and embracing who you are and what brings you joy.
  • Finding your inner strength through strengthening your body.
  • Discipline as an important concept when it comes to following your dreams. How we can work with this, and how knowing when to rest can sometimes be the hardest discipline practice.
  • LaJoya’s work to support athletes who aren’t pro, and create a community for them.
  • Embracing your own story and journey towards following your dreams.

Links and resources from the episode

LaJoya’s AHA Mondays stories highlights on Instagram. 

The Headspace meditation app that LaJoya uses.

The quote I read was from Judith Hanson Lasater’s book Living Your Yoga.

Listen to the episode

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Thanks for listening.

Ellen x