.jpg)
Steel Roses Podcast
Steel Roses is a podcast created for women by women. Social pressures for women are constant. Professionals, stay at home moms, working moms, we are here to tell you that you are not alone! This podcasts primary focus is providing real honest content shedding light on the daily struggles of women while also elevating women's voices.
All women are experiencing similar pressures and hurdles, and yet, no one is talking out in the open. If these topics continue to only exist as whispered conversations then we further permeate a culture of judgement and shame.
Join Jenny weekly as she discusses topics that effect women in a relatable, honest way.
Steel Roses Podcast
The Power of No: Embracing Your Intuition and Setting Boundaries
Have you ever felt that inexplicable knowing deep in your gut? That moment when clarity strikes like lightning, and suddenly, everything makes perfect sense? This episode dives into the profound power of intuition and how aligning with your true desires can transform your life in unexpected ways.
Your vibrational energy is constantly broadcasting signals to the universe, much like tuning a radio dial. When you're clear about what you truly want, you begin receiving exactly that frequency back. I share my personal journey of taking a full year to get crystal clear about what I wanted in a relationship—focusing intently on the kind of partner I hoped to attract. The result? Meeting my husband and knowing immediately, without doubt, that he was "the one." This wasn't coincidence but the natural outcome of alignment and receptivity.
Women possess an incredible intuitive superpower that society often encourages us to doubt or dismiss. But what if instead of questioning these inner knowing, we embraced them? What if we treated our intuition as our most reliable guide? I also explore the liberating concept that "no is a full sentence"—a powerful boundary-setting tool shared by the Olsen sisters. As women, we frequently feel compelled to justify our refusals, but there's tremendous freedom in simply declining without explanation.
Ready to harness your intuition and set clearer boundaries? Listen now, and don't forget to message me through the link in the episode description. I'd love to hear how these principles manifest in your own life!
Love this content? Check out our links below for more!
Linktr.ee Content
Instagram
Hello everyone. This is Still Grows' podcast. This podcast was created for women, by women, to elevate women's voices. I am excited for today's Thought Starters, so I have a couple to go over with you. There's one out of the gate that I want to just put out there Now.
Speaker 1:You know how I feel about being in alignment with the universe. You know how I feel about your spiritual energy. I've talked quite extensively about this and I do truly sincerely believe that your vibrational energy excuse me, everything you feel, all the emotions that you feel, will send out signals into the universe. This is, this is basically the law of reception. Again, plugging Kathy Heller. Check her out. She'll explain that in more detail. But the law of reception essentially is everything that you feel and everything that goes on inside of you and in your life is sending out a signal that is going to bring things back to you that match your current signal. So it's essentially like a radio dial. If you're tuning yourself appropriately, you're going to get the station that you want. If you're tuning yourself something that you don't, that's not good for you. You're going to get a station that you don't want. She explains it better, so I still advise checking her out.
Speaker 1:This is a huge thing that a lot of people don't understand. I didn't even really understand it until a couple of years ago, and a quote that I just saw recently on Pinterest is it's already written in the stars. Flowing with life means letting go of control and trusting that your soul already knows the way. You know in your core and I am gesturing to literally my chest, down into my stomach you know in your core, if you're listening and in tune with yourself, you will know when something is coming your way that is meant for you. You ever have those gut instincts that you, somebody asks you a question or somebody introduces you to somebody. That's actually a pretty obvious one. But like, if somebody you know is like, hey, I have this trip, that a business trip we need to take, you know, I'd like you to come with me, and you kind of get like a little bit of a feeling inside. That's like that felt like something. The more in tune that you are with yourself, the faster you can recognize and the louder it actually gets like oh, go, go, do it. Actually, I'll give an example, personal example, which you know I love to give to all of you.
Speaker 1:I've been trying to rethink the podcast and how to format it to fit my life now, because what I've done in the past is usually I'll take about a month or so, I will do a massive amount of recording within these couple of weeks and then I spent a couple of weeks having to edit all the episodes and post them for the following season. That's how I've been doing it for the past. My God, two years, three years already, anyway. That's why I've been doing it for the past couple of years, or since the beginning of time. That's always how I've done it. That doesn't really fit anymore, it doesn't suit anymore.
Speaker 1:And so I was shower thoughts, right, so I'm taking a shower, and I sent a prayer up and I said I just need a sign, I need something. Actually, no, this was before the shower. I said to myself and to the universe out loud. I said I need something, I need a sign because what I was doing before does not feel good anymore. This is not how I doesn't flow Like. I don't feel that excitement. So flash forward. I'm in the shower. After I put this out into the universe, I'm like I need something else. I need a sign, I need to know what to do here, because I don't want to leave the podcast. You guys have heard me talk about it a couple of times already. I'm trying to figure out what to do because this what I was doing isn't working anymore and it kind of just hit me like a bolt of lightning All of a sudden in the shower in my head.
Speaker 1:Jenny, just do lives every Sunday. Do a live episode every Sunday. Don't worry about the editing, the post-production, don't do any of that stuff. Just do a live episode. Get live guest episode every single Sunday, same time. Make it consistent, make it a show, that's it. So I think that's actually what I'm pivoting to, which, by the way, spoiler alert, I think that's what I'm pivoting to. So you have to just be in tune to hear what is this it?
Speaker 1:Prior to meeting my husband I'll give you another example with, like, staying in tune with yourself I spent a year I took a year off of socializing, going out, really focusing on anything. I took a whole year and only focused on becoming clear of what I wanted, because the way that I was living my life prior to that, I already knew it wasn't going to bring good things to me. And I remember having a talk with myself one night I left the. I was leaving the bar club, whatever, before everyone else. I'm walking in my car and I'm like, damn, like this is not the life I want. Like I want to get married, I want to have a family. Like what the hell am I doing? Everything that I'm doing is screaming something else and I don't want this. Something else. I want stability, I want a home. Like I want to build something with someone, and I was. I think that was right after my 25th or right before my 25th birthday. I think it was before. He was right before my 25th birthday.
Speaker 1:And so I started making small shifts, like just small things, and saying no to things, and which I'm gonna get to in a minute. More good started to come. It was really slow the beginning. I got pointed into a direction of a couple of things and I started really just hyper-focusing on like, what do I want? What do I want for my life? What do I need to do here to get to what I want? And once I started becoming really clear, I just kept that in mind for almost a whole year and in that year my professional career started to look up. I got promoted, got more responsibility at work, I got acknowledged for the skills that I was building. I was a workaholic, so I was like it is what it is.
Speaker 1:I also started focusing on the kind of relationship I wanted, the kind of man I wanted. What kind of man did I want to have around me? Because up until that point, I had chosen some pretty crappy people. So I was like I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I need something. And so I just got really clear this is the person I want. This is the man I want. This is what I picture when he comes home, and I want him to be. I want him to work with his hands. I want him to. I don't want a blue collar guy or, excuse me, not blue collar. I don't want a white collar guy. I want a be with somebody else.
Speaker 1:I kid you not, the day that I met my husband, the friend that I was going out with there was a group of us going out and she said to me she's like, man, we really got to do something here. We can't be. We got, we got to really buckle down and get relationships. And I was like, ah, like, all right, we'll think about that another time, you know. And I was like we'll figure it out, like it'll happen, but I was kind of starting to get set to, because it had been a year, right, of focusing on what I really wanted. I started to get settled with all right, maybe maybe there's nobody, you know, maybe there's no one out there, right?
Speaker 1:So I go out and I meet my husband, who I didn't know was my husband at a time. The next day he called me for a date, literally met on a Friday night, march 6th, if you really need to know, because that I remember very specifically. We met on a Friday night, called me the next day for a date. We went out on the date. I came home and my cousin there my brother is my mom, everyone's like, oh, how did it go? Like laughing, you know, because my dates are always like ending in disasters and stuff. And I was like, oh, my God, you know. And I came home and I just said I was like, all right, I was like this is the guy. I knew it. I just knew it. In my gut. I'm like this is him, this is the one and that was it. The rest is history, right, I just knew.
Speaker 1:So the point, with all my blabbering here about this and my, like you know, kind of just yammering on is we always know our tuition is incredibly strong, but we've been guided and by we I mean women have been guided to ignore your intuition, like that. We've been told there's messages all over the place ignore your intuition. That's crazy. You're being crazy. It's not, though. This is almost like a superpower, and the more in tune you are with yourself, the faster these good things are going to come your way. So you have to get really clear what it is that you're looking for. What do you want? And trust that it's going to be brought to you. Just trust that it is. It is. I can guarantee you, if you get super clear on what you want, it will be brought to you. Hands down, it will, and when it does, I want you to message me here, because I want to talk about it and I want to talk about how you had success.
Speaker 1:Now one more thing on this episode that I wanted to highlight that I actually found really, really interesting. I saw this on Pinterest. Everyone has feelings about the Olsen sisters, right, young, the older sister and then the twins, um, but this thing that I saw here on Pinterest. They were doing an interview and they said one of the most important things that they learned from each other and that they still, to this day, will lead on, basically is that no is a full sentence. No, hard stop, full sentence.
Speaker 1:You might be hearing me being like what do you mean? Like what are you talking about? What I mean is somebody asks you to do something, if somebody asks you for something, if somebody asks you anything, you are allowed to just say no. Now I can hear some of you kind of like in your head like yeah, of course, like I could just say no, yeah, no, no, you can just say no. But the key here is you do not have to justify that now. You just don't have to justify it. No, hard stop.
Speaker 1:I find myself spinning my wheels a little bit here and there, where I'll be like no, because, you know, I just really wasn't comfortable. And then I'm like starting to explain myself and I'm defending my aunt and my response and why I said no and I'm like no, well, not today, because you actually none of us have to do any of that. Now I'm not saying be rude, like I'm not encouraging anyone to go out there and be a jerk, but like if somebody says to you oh, I'd like to take your kid out, I'm going to take your kid out and we're going to go to the beach and it's gonna be a great day. Maybe you know this mom and they feel comfortable enough to say that to you and that they're going to take your child with them. You have every right to say no. I say no all the time. 110% say no.
Speaker 1:Right now, my kids are at an age where sleepovers have started to happen and my kids desperately want to do it. Ask me all the time when can we have sleepovers? No, like, no, you can't, can't do it. They're like well, you know so-and-so's doing it. I'm like that's fine. I'm like you're not doing it. I'm not doing that, I'm not in it, I'm not ready there. No, like, no.
Speaker 1:And I've had moms ask me like oh, you know they're, they're allowed to sleep over. Would you like it to be a sleepover party? I'm like no, I'm sorry. I'm like I'm not, not there, not not happening, that's it, it's. It's really that simple.
Speaker 1:But for women it's like a challenge. We have a hard time just saying no, no, like, and I want to put that out there and I actually kind of want you guys to noodle on it, really pay attention to how you respond after this episode, and if somebody puts something out there to you and they want you to do something, I would be very interested to hear if you're able to pull this in and be like no hard, stop and move on from there. Now maybe sometimes light explanation is needed, like again, like I'm not in, again. I'm not trying to say anyone, be rude, but you are allowed to just say no, you don't want to do it. No, no, thank you, that's it. It's kind of like amazing. When you say it out loud it seems very simple, though for some reason, we all have we struggle with it. So, um, I want to leave that with you. I'd be very interested to hear if any of you achieve your nose.
Speaker 1:Message me here. You can send a text to me directly through wherever you're listening to the podcast, you click in the episode description. There'll be a link there and you can reach me directly and give me feedback. Somebody did already from Minnesota, and I'm very grateful to this person for reaching out to me directly. So please feel free to use that link. I hope you all enjoyed this little Minnesota and I will catch you on the next one, take care.
