This episode of Soul Decodes features Tia Jolie Phillips, Sarah Tirri, and guest, Lenka Brady, as they explore gratitude as a transformative life practice. The spontaneous conversation arose when Lenka mentioned gratitude at a networking event, prompting hosts Tia Jolie and Sarah to invite her into the Treehouse Studio for her first podcast appearance.

Lenka Brady emigrated from Czech Republic at age 19 with only $250 and one suitcase. Growing up under communism, she participated in the Velvet Revolution as a student activist. After democracy arrived, she pursued elementary education with an English focus, falling in love with the word "umbrella" during her studies. Arriving in Sarasota, she cleaned homes while building her American dream, eventually launching multiple businesses and becoming a successful entrepreneur and business coach.

The hosts examine Cicero's assertion that gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. They discuss how gratitude serves as the antidote to entitlement. Entitlement assumes the world owes you something, while gratitude recognizes everything as a gift. Lenka explains she cannot imagine living without being grateful for opportunities, emphasizing that gratitude aligns with paying forward positive energy.

Sarah shares her belief that we choose our life circumstances before birth, making us powerful creators rather than victims. This realization transforms challenges into chosen lessons. Lenka discusses how NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming, helped her reframe childhood experiences. Her father's constant reminder that she could do better wasn't criticism but recognition of her potential, fueling her resilience.

The women discuss finding gratitude in small things like toilet paper, plumbing, stargazing at 3am, and walking barefoot on grass. Tia Jolie explains how she consciously chooses grateful responses instead of reacting negatively to disruptions. They explore how gratitude unlocks forgiveness by helping us see lessons in past pain. Self-forgiveness proves even more critical than forgiving others. Resentment, they note, is the parent of negative emotions that blocks healing and broils your innards according to Buddhist teaching.

Lenka now helps women entrepreneurs overcome self-sabotage, fear of success, and limiting beliefs. She emphasizes trusting intuition, like her spontaneous decision to visit Mineola that completely transformed her life trajectory. The conversation touches on how we inherit beliefs from childhood rather than genetics, becoming conglomerates of others' opinions until we consciously reprogram our minds.

The episode concludes with Lenka's powerful message that you have the power to undecide what you've decided about yourself in the past and decide something very new about yourself. The hosts emphasize that gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

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