What if you’re not as stuck as you think?

Sometimes the way forward doesn’t begin with pushing harder.It begins by questioning what you think the problem is.

In this episode of Thriving Entrepreneur, Steve Kidd talks with Linda Jo Sego, author of When the Universe Whispers: Listening for the Light Beneath an Open Sky.
Linda’s book grew from a season of deep personal pain and a recurring realization that there was more to who she was than she remembered.
For Linda, peace isn’t pretending everything is fine.
It’s feeling safe.Secure.Loved.Present.No longer trapped in tomorrow’s anxiety or yesterday’s regret.
One of the most powerful stories she shares began in childhood while peacefully floating in the water.
A thought came to her:“
If you ever feel like you’re going to drown, just float.”Decades later, while being pulled under by waves in Peru and reaching physical exhaustion, that childhood thought returned.
She stopped fighting. She floated, and eventually the water carried her back in.For Linda, it became a profound reminder that sometimes guidance isn’t absent.

Sometimes we’re simply too busy fighting to hear it.

Then Patrick Manning brings the conversation into the practical world of entrepreneurship.
Patrick helps business owners understand alternative capital, financing options, transparency, business opportunity and how access to the right resources can change what forward movement actually looks like.

Because sometimes “there’s no way forward” really means:“I haven’t seen all the available paths yet.”

Steve closes with “You’re Not Stuck. You’re Just in the Wrong Nest.”Using the story of an eagle raised among chickens, Steve asks what happens when we adapt so completely to an environment that we begin mistaking adaptation for identity.
Nothing was wrong with the eagle’s wings.
It had simply forgotten what they were for.
Maybe you’re not broken.
Maybe you’re not incapable.
Maybe you’re not even stuck.

Maybe it’s time to get quiet enough to hear, look honestly at the options around you, and remember what kind of person you actually are.

Featuring Linda Jo Sego, Patrick Manning and Steve Kidd on Thriving Entrepreneur.

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