Outro Mollie

The speaker reflects on a conversation with Molly about internal and external motivation. They discuss the challenges of doing things for others rather than themselves and the importance of setting boundaries. They also touch on the difficulty of being authentic and vulnerable in social situations. The speaker finds Molly's emphasis on focusing on the task at hand and adaptability to be valuable takeaways. They mention Molly's ability to prioritize sleep despite her demanding professional and athletic roles. The speaker concludes by encouraging listeners to subscribe to the podcast and to embrace their own motivation and full body "yeses." So, oh, right, so I'm going to go ahead and get started, and I'm going to go ahead and So that was Molly. Such a great conversation and just such a, like, just really natural and warm and, yeah, just, just really interesting. How did you find out? Yeah, I suppose listening back to it in kind of preparation for recording this reflection and thinking about what she was saying about, you know, your internal and external motivation, my aborted attempt at character 5k, because I was doing it for you, not for me. It's just so true, and if I think about anything that I've done for anyone else that hasn't been really at the core of me and me wanting to do something, I just, I can't think of any example in that I've really succeeded at it, or I felt like I've been able to succeed at it, because, yeah, it's just, it's just not for me. It's I'm not I'm not all in. I'm not. It's not a full body. Yes, as she talks about. It's true, and I wonder whether that's partly a cultural thing. I know, reflecting on what she was saying and thinking that, you know, we, you know, we're so, you know, societal norms and kind of being polite and not wanting to say you don't want to do something and kind of going along with the flow. And and all those sorts of things. I think we can lose what our motivation is as an individual within all that. I think I think the difficulty is that this whole full body. Yes, I can think of many times professionally when I definitely haven't had a full body. Yes, but you you kind of have to do it anyway. So it's about I suppose it goes back to setting boundaries and how can you move towards a full body? Yes, even if it isn't, you know, just a partial body. Yes, I suppose that's the that's the conundrum. Hmm. I'm respecting and I do think I mean, I'm also reminded of a conversation with Laura Moore when she was saying that, you know, about budgeting and about how talking about money shouldn't necessarily be to do amongst friends. And, you know, you should be able to have this open conversation with your friends basically saying, you know, is this a big night or a small night? You know, let's go for a pizza rather than going for, you know, your fine dining fine dining meal. But it feels like there's, you know, something that holds us back from being able to do that. And it means that we lack a bit of authenticity and we lack a bit of, you know, we're lacking that vulnerability, if you like, because we don't feel like we can say, no, I, you know, tonight I just fancy sitting on the sofa, you know, watching a film rather than going out or, you know, no, I don't want to whatever it might be. I want to do something else. I think, you know, I still feel that we don't even in our most kind of personal secure environments. I think a lot of people still struggle with that. I know I do. Yeah, exactly. I mean, also, which you were saying about focusing on the job at hand. And, you know, I suppose this goes back to some of the conversations we've had about mindfulness and and, you know, not letting the noise that surrounds you derail you and really focusing on what you're doing. And I suppose that, you know, there's so much benefits to that from just prioritisation and efficiency. But down to kind of not not crowding your brain, I suppose. Yeah, I found that really a really useful takeaway from her as well. And also adaptability, isn't it? It's the ability to adapt to changing situations, pretty, pretty extreme situations, but still, you know, the ability to adapt and and focus on what she was trained to do. Like she had trained hard to swim and, you know, and that's what she was going to get in the water and do, irrespective of the fact it was dark or that, you know, that it was she was surrounded by jellyfish. I mean, yeah, so much that I think we can we can take away and. Yeah, and include it within our within our daily routines. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's up there with being hangry in my book. Tired and hangry is a complete disaster. But yeah, no, no, I agree with that. And it was really interesting from what she was saying, because when you read Molly's CV and you see kind of she obviously she has a she has a really, obviously it's like a big professional role, you know, head of marketing for EMEA for MESA. That's a that's a pretty expansive, broad role. And then you hear that she's an endurance athlete as well. You kind of think it'd be very easy for her to kind of say, oh, I don't sleep. You know, it's really important that I do my physical exercise and my my professional work. I sleep sleep for the week. But actually, when you speak to her, it's kind of the opposite. She's like, no, no, no, I have I prioritise sleep, which is really refreshing because I think so often we find think that sleep is the easy thing to to cut down on. You have to give ourselves more hours in the day to to be doing. So very, you know, kind of reassuring and inspirational to hear from her that you can really prioritise sleep and still be very successful. So that's good. Yeah, very interesting conversation. As normal, we as usual, we ask people that if you enjoyed enjoyed the podcast to like, subscribe and follow us. It helps us to demonstrate that there are people out there and it's great for our ego too. I'm joking, but a little bit. It's good to know that there are people out there listening. So. I don't like that at all. Hang on a minute. Hang on a minute. So, as always, if you liked the podcast, please do subscribe, follow in all the usual ways. It's really helpful for us to demonstrate that there are some people out there listening. And, and, yeah, so we hope you do take as much away from the conversation we had with Molly as as we have. And it has inspired you to potentially not cross the channel with in the dark with some jellyfish, but just lean into your full body yeses and motivation for things. And, yeah, hopefully you take something away from it. We'll speak to you again in the next couple of weeks.