In this episode, host Nikki Closser chats with Leticia Andrade. Leticia shares her personal journey of transformation from having no confidence to becoming independently successful. She was a stay at home mom for many years and, while she valued the time as a mom, she found that she had lost her sense. Letcia shares how she began prioritizing herself and why internal validation became so important, as opposed to relying on external validation to shape self-worth. Leticia’s improvement of own self-value impacted her interactions, relationships, personal growth, and entrepreneurial success!

Topics

• How Leticia went from no confidence to becoming independently successful

• Internal vs external validation and how it impacts you

• How a past relationship shaped Leticia’s sense of self and how she was able to recover from it

• Self-value is crucial for personal growth, healthy relationships, and overall well-being.

• Balancing external validation and internal self-worth is essential for developing a strong sense of self-value.

• Recognizing and overcoming limiting beliefs is a key aspect of building self-value.

• Surrounding ourselves with positive influences and supportive relationships can enhance our self-value journey.

• Taking small steps and using practical tools can help us cultivate self-value and transform our lives.

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🔗 Nikki Closser

🔗 Leticia Andrade

This week, host Nikki Closser chatted with River Faire. River is a holistic wellness coach and Rivers talks with us about the importance of authenticity and walking your own journey. He also explains how we can create our own suffering through our beliefs and thoughts and the importance of moving from victimhood to empowerment and this was so eye opening. Something else River emphasizes is the power of choice and the ability to write a new story for your life.

Topics

• Holistic wellness encompasses all aspects of our well-being, including physical, mental, and emotional health.

• We have the power to create our own suffering through our beliefs and thoughts.

• Moving from victimhood to empowerment requires taking responsibility for our own healing and making choices in alignment with our values.

• Self-awareness is key to understanding and transforming our patterns of suffering.

• Cultivating self-love and self-value is essential in overcoming self-loathing and self-hatred. The journey to self-value and self-love involves shifting from victimhood to empowerment.

• Writing a new story for your life is a powerful tool for personal transformation.

• Radical integrity and alignment with one's values can lead to a sense of flow and well-being.

• Nourishing oneself and prioritizing self-care are essential for self-value and overall well-being.

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🔗 Nikki Closser

🔗 River Faire

In this powerful conversation, Sue Bryce and Kemi Nekvapil discuss the power of asking and the impact it can have on our lives. They explore the vulnerability of writing and speaking, the fear and importance of setting boundaries, and the reasons why women often struggle to ask for what they need and want. Kemi shares her insights from her book 'Power' and emphasizes the belief that everyone is worthy of asking. The conversation concludes with a manifesto of asking, highlighting the various areas in life where we can practice asking for more, setting boundaries, and expressing our needs and desires. Kemi shares her experience of being fostered by white families and feeling the need to be a “good black girl” in order to be accepted. This fear of asking for help or support carried into her adult life, leading to feelings of overwhelm and isolation. Kemi emphasizes the importance of vulnerability and letting others in, as well as the power of asking for help. She also highlights the impact of not asking and taking ownership of our own actions and choices. Ultimately, Kemi encourages creating a world where women can show up unapologetically and empower others.

Topics

• Why women often struggle to ask for what they truly want and how it impacts our lives

• The fear of asking can stem from past experiences and the need to be accepted or approved of.

• Kemi shares her personal experiences being a black child being fostered by white families and how this affected her life

• Vulnerability is necessary for building connections and allowing others to support us.

• How we can start asking for what we truly desire to make positive changes in our life

• By not asking for help or support, we may unintentionally take away others' agency and prevent them from stepping into their own power.

• Taking ownership of our actions and choices is essential for personal growth and creating positive change.

• Asking for what we want and need opens doors and allows us to receive what is meant for us.

🔗 Dive Deeper into Self-Value: For more resources and tools to empower your self-value journey, visit https://selfvalue.com.

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🔗 Kemi Nekvapil

Host Nikki Closser’s guest this week is Oren Sew. During this conversation, Nikki and Oren discuss their personal journeys of self-value and self-worth. They reflect on their childhood experiences and the impact it had on their perception of themselves and on their relationships. Both Nikki and Oren share about the things that played a significant role in their ability to gain self-reflection and personal growth. They discuss the positive changes they have experienced in life, their relationships, and as parents as a result of their self-value work. Oren also shares how he has learned to teach his own children self-value during his own healing process. We always appreciate when people get personal with us because our listeners always say it’s a big help to hear the stories of others.

Topics

• Nikki & Oren share their personal stories and the things that made a positive impact on their self-value growth

• Improving your own self-value can have a huge impact on how you parent and teach your children to have self-value.

• Listening to and changing internal dialogue can lead to a more positive mindset.

• Recognizing the connection between thoughts and energy can help improve overall happiness and well-being.

• How childhood experiences can impact the perception you have of yourself and on your relationships

🔗 Dive Deeper into Self-Value: For more resources and tools to empower your self-value journey, visit https://selfvalue.com.

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🔗 Nikki Closser

🔗 Oren Sew

This week, host Nikki Closser chatted with Courtney Andersen who is both the host of the Sober Vibes podcast and the author of the book Sober Vibes. It’s safe to say we all know that people often turn to substances in order to cope with different struggles in life. But, something that isn’t talked about enough is how alcohol can subtly, or not so subtly, affect your self-value, health, and daily life, even for those who may not have extreme behaviors.

Courtney not only shares her personal story about alcohol and recovery, but she also shares so much knowledge about the gradual nature of addiction, the societal pressure and stigma around alcohol, and also the harmful effects the “mommy wine culture” has on mothers. Courtney talks with us about finding healthy coping mechanisms to build self-value and confidence and about the transformation that can occur after quitting alcohol.

Topics

• How alcohol can affect your self-value, health, and daily life, even for those who may not have extreme behaviors.

• Societal pressure and stigma contribute to the normalization of alcohol as a coping mechanism.

• Courtney’s personal story about alcohol and recovery

• The “mommy wine culture” and the effect is has on mothers

• Building self-value and confidence requires daily rituals and self-care practices. Guilt and shame often accompany alcohol consumption, leading to a cycle of negative emotions.

• Quitting alcohol can lead to a transformative journey and the fulfillment of long-held dreams.

• Functioning alcoholism is a real issue, and it is important to trust oneself when recognizing a problem.

• Alcohol can subtly affect self-value, health, and daily life, even for those who may not exhibit extreme behaviors.

• The alcohol industry is becoming more aware of the need for non-alcoholic options, providing more choices for those who want to abstain.

• Self-awareness is crucial in recognizing when one is getting off track and taking steps to get back on course.

In this episode, Sue talks with us about so many important topics that affect our ability to make money and how to overcome the things that get in our way. If you are in a position where you feel like you just cannot reach the success you want, this episode is so important to listen to. Sue has this really incredible way of teaching how to break the cycle of not having enough and how to finally start attracting success. She shares practical strategies to get to where you want to be and get out of the mode of stress and avoidance so you can live life with gratitude and joy!  

Topics

• Face your money pain and guilt by looking at your money every day.

• How to overcome the things in your way so you can start making the money you want

• Strategies to get where you want to be in life

• Getting out of the cycle of stress and avoidance

• Normalizing money and overcoming guilt and shame around it.

• Recognizing and releasing people-pleasing tendencies.

• Setting boundaries with money and prioritizing your values and wants. Money work is important as it provides options and control in life.

• Being in alignment with your goals and committing to them.

• Prioritizing yourself and confronting any guilt or shame associated with asking for what you want.

• Shifting from surviving to thriving and creating a budget that allows for a thriving lifestyle.

• Maintaining gratitude and joy to attract money and focus on the law of asking: no more and no less.

• Identifying and addressing different ways we lose money and focus on clarity and exact asking.

🔗 Dive Deeper into Self-Value: For more resources and tools to empower your self-value journey, visit https://selfvalue.com.  

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Host Nikki Closser had the pleasure of chatting with Nikki Rausch with Sales Maven for this week’s self value episode! Nikki is a sales expert and she talks with us about the importance of self-value in business and how to become more confident in sales conversations. With just a few tweaks, you can change the way you talk to and book clients so that you not only start feeling good about sales, but that you start making more money! We also chat about dealing with rejection, avoiding sales mistakes, and building self-value and confidence in your pricing and sales in general. Nikki is an incredible human being and sales coach and she gives so much valuable information during this episode!

Topics

• With just a few tweaks, you can increase your bookings and sales

• How to become more confident in selling situations

• Sales is about making it about the customer and understanding their needs.

• The importance of self-value in business

• Sales should be seen as a collaboration with the customer.

• Rejection is not personal and should be viewed as an opportunity to improve the sales process.

• Building self-value is a journey that requires self-reflection and focusing on positive actions.

FREE ebook from Nikki Rausch https://yoursalesmaven.com/selfvalue

🔗 Dive Deeper into Self-Value: For more resources and tools to empower your self-value journey, visit https://selfvalue.com.  

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🔗 Nikki Closser

Host Nikki Closser chatted with Leslie Andrews this week on the Self Value Podcast. Leslie is a living example that how you view yourself and whether or not you have self value will affect your finances and success bigtime. Leslie went from being painfully introverted and feeling like a failure to having so much confidence and self worth which launched her into making more money and achieving way more than she ever did before. Leslie shares how she went about making changes and they also chatted about how childhood memories can truly shape the way we think about money and whether or not we believe we deserve to have it. 

Topics

• Self-value plays a crucial role in business success and financial growth. 

• How low self-value negatively affects your bank account

• Going from introverted and feeling like a failure to having confidence and a successful business

• Changing your mindset and beliefs about money is essential for increasing your self-value.

• Setting boundaries and saying no are important aspects of valuing yourself.

• Teaching kids to dream big and overcome limiting beliefs

• Analyzing one's own self-perception and setting goals is the first step in the self-value journey.

• Getting back to positivity involves clearing negative thoughts and focusing on one's emotions.

• How childhood memories can shape the way we think about money and whether or not we believe we deserve to have it. 

🔗 Dive Deeper into Self-Value: For more resources and tools to empower your self-value journey, visit https://selfvalue.com.  

🔗 Stay connected and inspired by following us on Instagram @selfvalueworkshop and TikTok @selfvalueworkshop. Join our community and be part of the self-love revolution!

🔗 Nikki Closser

🔗 Leslie Andrews