Building From The Inside Out

Entrepreneurship will teach you more about yourself than you realize. It's more than building a business, it's sharing an extension of yourself with the world. In this talk, I share what I've learned about building from the inside out, creating a foundation within me that's strong enough for my business to stand on.
If you've been feeling overwhelmed, unsure of your next step, or trying to manage your creativity through pressure instead of clarity, this conversation offers a different approach. We explore how inner clarity shapes external success, why prioritizing your energy matters more than managing every minute, and how documenting your journey becomes a powerful tool for growth and self-trust.
This session is for entrepreneurs, creatives, and anyone building something meaningful who wants to move with more intention instead of urgency. If you're learning to trust your own voice, create from alignment, and grow in a way that feels sustainable, this talk will meet you where you are.

Transcript

Today I'm going to talk about three ways for building from the inside out that also supports building our streams, Our businesses, Our creative endeavors, And whatever it is that we have going on. So the first thing that we need is inner clarity. We need to be able to hear our own inner voice. Some people call that your gut. Some people call it intuition, Inner voice, Conscience, Whatever. Whatever word that it is that you use, But you know what it is. We need to be able to hear that. We live in a world that bombards us with distractions and we also live in a society that conditions us to externalize accountability, Externalize responsibility, And look to other things, Other people, Institutions, Whatever it may be to solve our problems. So when we are able to connect back to our inner voice and trust that we can have more alignment in the directions that we're going in. So how do we do that? We got to be okay with separating from distractions and from that perspective we got to know what the distractions are and we all have different distractions. So we have to be okay with separating from those, Separating from sometimes it's people, Sometimes it's the crowd, Sometimes it's just having a whole lot of things going on. We have to be okay with separating from those things so we can tune in to our inner voice for guidance and direction. So in order to cut all of that noise out because it's always around us, You got to spend time with yourself. You do that to maintain clarity and get comfortable with yourself and having get comfortable with having that alone time for self-reflection and for internal alignment. So today y'all I was so inspired early early this rising. I have a brand new idea for how I can show up in my content and it answers a question that I have had for a long long time. How do I bridge all my talents and all my interests as someone who's multi-passionate about different things and multi-talented in different areas who wants their work to come across as cohesive and not random. I have been really resistant to putting dance content online because right now dance content all looks a certain way. Y'all know how it is. Y'all know what the dance challenge vibe is like. I took a long break from social media. I took a long break and I'm still kind of easing myself back into it because I just had to get rid of all of that and just say how do I want to do it. How am I going to do it because I've been resisting it because I'm like well I don't want to do it like that. I don't want it. I don't want it to look like that. There was a barrier because like oh if it don't look like that then does it belong there. Of course it does but I had to get really clear on that within myself first. Spending time alone helped me do that. Other fears that would come up. How am I going to reintroduce myself as a dancer having done dance content online ever really because when I was really heavy into dance online content wasn't even a thing. Showing my age right there. Those were fears I used to entertain that would hold me back but now that I know how I'm showing up even if people try to copy it they can't copy it because it's my uniqueness. So how did I get to a place of acceptance of that. Intentional time with myself leads to a deeper self-knowing and self-trust. So we get to that place of I can do whatever and I can do it however. So that's our first thing y'all. Inner clarity. We do that by getting real clear and sometimes we got to spend time alone. The second thing is priorities over time. We talk a lot about time management which is great. We don't want to waste time but I'm going to invite you today to consider focusing also or focusing more on priority management over time management simply because there are some things in our lives that are just like a higher priority that we don't spend a lot of time on but we do spend more time and energy on things that are low priority. If you have a job right now that's unrelated to the dream job that you desire and the life that you desire for yourself right. Like when I was in the school district doing something that was really good at but it really wasn't the thing that lights me on fire. So when you think about that it's not really a high priority in the grand scheme of things. Well I mean I guess it's a high priority when it comes to paying bills and stuff but in the grand scheme of like my life that's not a priority but I'm spending a lot of time on that right. If I'm if I have to go to work every day similarly right if we spend a lot of time consuming content instead of making our own and I was so guilty of this not making time for the goals that we say are a priority. So we should put more time and energy into our own creation than the consumption of what others are creating. So you get a chance to think about that this is your this is the fun part you get a chance to decide you get a chance to decide you get a chance to decide what are your priorities and don't be afraid to get real serious with yourself about your whole self and all your priorities. Priorities about your health and your body you know your weight what you want your hair to be like real talk real serious get real serious with yourself your priorities about your relationship with friends family or love life you know how much time do you do you want to spend on that stuff if any at all. If you don't want to spend any time on it but you have been spending time on it that's an energy drain which is a time drain which is going to start to leak into what you're building and creating okay. What are your priorities for your career advancement or for building your business or your creative endeavor your stream. Priorities about caring for your home or your car or the sports that you play or the clubs that you're in or the hobbies that you have you get to decide all of that stuff for your life. Our priorities can be the same things that we do every day but they might not be so pay attention to that. Sometimes we're conditioned to believe things are a priority to us or they should be a priority to us but when we really think deep down like if we got real honest with ourselves only told ourselves this if we had a choice some of those things probably wouldn't be a priority. So you get to take some time to decide that for your self when you spend time with yourself and think think deeply on those things write them down writing it down helps you see exactly what's important in your life and it gives you a clue on where you should be planning to spend more of your time so that you can manage your time better so it's the priority first and then the time you put into it as opposed to starting with time and then trying to plug the priorities in there and then being like oh I don't have enough time to do this you would if you managed it with priority first. The third way that we're talking about building from the inside out family is to document the journey. Document it. I used to just blanket this and say like just start just journal journal what's going on but when I think down real deep into it there's more to it than that it's not just about journaling your thoughts or your feelings what happened today or the processes you're going through or what's frustrating you your wins all that you know it's also your ideas just the things that come up for you randomly things that come up in conversations things that make you feel inspired when you see them or hear them or feel them or even smell them find a way to document these things in a way that's organized. I should be clear clear this is about organized documentation not just for the sake of like writing things down but writing down like having a record of these things to be able to go back to. Why? Because you don't want to lose the ideas you don't want to lose the progress you don't want to lose those things that came up only within you right in a certain way that could be important for something that you are creating you know because sometimes some ideas are for you to act on in that moment and some may not be some you know sometimes it could be an issue of timing your timing or the timing of the idea itself like maybe the world isn't ready yet yes there is a such thing as being ahead of your time trust yourself sometimes there might be ideas that you have but you have an idea or you got inspired by something but you only really got one piece of the puzzle and it is up to you to get to a certain place in your life in your journey to make another realization that gives you that light bulb that says oh okay like me today when I got that divine spark of inspiration that answered a question that I've had for such a long time why didn't that answer come to me yesterday why did that why didn't the answer come to me last week or last month why right okay so you got to trust your timing so that's you know that's why we write things down too so we don't forget them but it don't have to be writing okay it could be voice notes it could be you know you could text it or type it to yourself if you know you know you can make a video note or a vlog or something like that but you know trust your timing you know you could you could be having one piece of the puzzle then there could be someone else in the universe who has a different piece and y'all haven't met yet trust your timing trust the process trusting your inner voice is so important for this okay when you do this you start to understand how your inspiration and your your creativity works and this is what helps you get even deeper into the flow of how you work and how you create so you get to know how you can trust your inner voice more which is your intuition your inner guidance how you can trust your cycles of work and rest okay how you can trust your cycles of planning and execution all right because it's all about cycles right we're not always in the grind time sometimes we're in grind time and giving time sometimes we're in rest and receiving and celebration right and then you get to know this you get to know this so deeply about yourself isn't that amazing and you can use that information to help you create whatever it is that you came here to create okay we do this work internally y'all because all the answers that we need are within us they're they're they're within us and the more that we do that in a work however your inner work looks for you whether it's a meditation life a prayer life whatever that looks like for you it doesn't need to look like the same thing for everybody but you might want to have one because that's the that's the thing that we that we anchor into that gives us that spark that inspiration and that inner guidance we just need to be willing to do the work to tune and tap into it