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There is no one like you out there.
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There is no one with your strengths and your power.
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And it's time to nourish that, to harness it, to grow it.
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Have some awareness as to where you're placing your power.
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Where are you placing your focus?
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Where are you placing your time?
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The power lies in our decisions.
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We have the power to change our lives.
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We have the power to focus on what we want.
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You don't have to stay stuck.
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You don't have to stay in the same place forever.
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You don't have to surround yourself with the same type of people forever.
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You can make a change.
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You are the one who harnesses your power and decides where to place it.
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hi everybody and welcome back to another episode of flowering philosophies i am your host anaya
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and you may notice that our audio is just a little bit different, a little bit crisper.
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I have revamped my microphone.
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This is my old audio setup that I was missing very much, but I took a step away from it, tried some other things, and we're back.
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We're back in a little bit crisper.
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I don't know, you're gonna have to let me know what you think.
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I have just arranged these beautiful roses that my mom got me. So sweet.
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She got them for me as a congratulations.
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for my recent poetry performance and journey.
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I have a video all about this and other things on my channel.
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The bird is telling you to go check it out as well.
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It's been such a gorgeous spring so far.
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I've had some warm days, some cold days, some rain now, and I am just happy as ever.
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I've seen so many beautiful flowers this spring.
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I wanted to tell you, it's time to take your power back, okay?
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I was thinking about this and realized a lot of us don't know how to stand in our power, including myself.
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That's why I'm thinking about this, writing about this.
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I have gone through some situations in the more recent past that have made me question myself,
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my abilities, if I should continue trying to pursue what I love, if I should give these things up, if I'm worthy of being a confident person,
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can I do the things that I'm setting out to do?
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All of these questions and doubts have come to me, there's a clear distinction that I want to make between standing in your power
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and being empowered versus just cockiness or being full of yourself, right?
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I think that's something that people love to say is whenever there is a confident person who knows who they are, knows what they want, people love to say,
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oh, they're just full of themselves and I don't like them.
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I've witnessed this firsthand.
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I know quite a few very confident, strong
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personalities and people and I see the way
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that others get a little bit disturbed by that sometimes
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or maybe don't love the fact that this person likes themselves
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and isn't afraid of what people have to say or their presence or whatever.
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So if you want me to go more in depth about confidence, my first episode of Flowering Philosophies is all about that.
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We talk about it all the time, but it's about how we feel about ourselves within.
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Who are we?
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What are we embodying?
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Are we comfortable with ourselves?
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Do we love ourselves?
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Are we able to give love to others in healthy ways?
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Like confidence runs so deep and truly comes from within and affects the outside too.
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I believe that confidence is really a silent internal power.
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It's not braggadocious.
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It's not based in ego.
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Like I said, it's not clinging to material things and true confidence doesn't feel the need to feed off of others lack.
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There's not a superiority there.
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There's not a comparison game.
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It's steadiness as two feet strong on the ground, standing in your power.
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I did an episode a long time ago called I'm Afraid of My Full Potential.
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I've been in situations where it's time to stand in my power.
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I just did an event where I performed my poetry
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and I made a lot of floral designs and that required a lot of thinking, creative decisions, and a short amount of time,
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physical work, physical performance, it's time to stand up, you know, like all those insecurities and doubts that I had about whatever I was capable of.
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Sometimes we are given a real life opportunity to say, yes, I can do it.
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And that's whenever we have to stand in our power.
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So yeah, I always want to make that distinction between confidence coming from
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that steady internal place versus being full of yourself
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or feeling as though you need to prove something or
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that you need to put others down or that you are superior to others, better than others, none of that.
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Confidence and standing in our power, feeling empowered, it's coming from a steady source that grounds us,
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makes us feel happy and nourished and fulfilled and confident in this life.
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I've noticed that whenever I am a little shaky and not standing in my full power, I tend to self-sabotage a lot and that's why I wanted to make this video
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and tell you that it's time to take your power back.
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A lot of the time we think, oh, I don't like this thing about my life, or I don't like this habit that I do all the time,
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but we don't always realize how much we are actively giving our power away.
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We think others are taking it away, circumstances are making it this way, but we have to pay attention sometimes to what we are allowing, where we are placing our power.
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There are multiple opportunities in my life that I've always prayed for, but the way that this sort of insecurity and disempowerment can trickle in
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and change the way that you perceive your life or that you perceive the things around you.
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That's why I really try to always emphasize bringing ourselves back to gratitude again, reawakening.
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Sometimes we just slip into these sleeps where we think
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that we can't change our lives and everything is doomed and that we don't have it so good.
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And sometimes it really just requires taking ourself out of it for a second, changing our perspective, breaking the cycle.
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Be aware as to how the self-sabotage shows up in your life
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because it can be tricky and it can swipe the things
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that you love most away from you by convincing you that you're not worthy of them.
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I'm just here to tell you that you can break
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that self-sabotage cycle when you become aware of the things
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that maybe you've just been subconsciously doing because of what you tell yourself, because of what you've been told, because of what you believe.
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We get closer to a place where we can break that cycle, where we can do something differently.
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It's all about how we define power.
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I'm talking about empowerment.
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How do I empower myself?
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Because I've always been kind of this shy, reserved creature on the outside
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so I feel like I've done a lot of internal empowerment right like I've empowered myself
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so much all throughout my imagination my daydreams my art these are things
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that have come out of me that I feel as though have empowered me
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and made me confident
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so how do you define power I don't I don't know
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how you define it maybe you define it through feeling physically very strong and healthy mentally, physically, maybe you define it by having a lot of money.
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I don't know.
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We could all have conversations and disagreements and agreements on what power means, but I kind of would like to redefine power in a way
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because I have always heard and seen power spoken about in such a scary,
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violent sense that power is overpowering people.
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It's warfare.
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It's the sense of toxic masculinity that you have to be huge.
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You have to be loud.
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You have to be destructive.
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You have to be better than everyone.
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Like that's how this message of power and political power and all these things have been fed to me my whole life.
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And I guess sitting here with you guys now, it has me thinking of what do I define as power?
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What do I see as power?
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And that sense of self-empowerment and confidence and feeling steady in
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that and harnessing your power is acting out of that and being able to have that power affect other things, right?
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Because the definition, now I'm just really going in my head here, but the definition of power is something, a big force, a powerful force.
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So whenever I think of that, I think that's something that we must protect and harness
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and use for good and use for and be intentional with because it's powerful, you know?
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So whenever I think of my power, I think of how it's something that I want to nourish and protect and share with others.
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I think of how my voice a lot of the time is my power
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and the stories and the observations that I wish to share is my power.
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I want to protect those things and nourish those things and share those things because of their power.
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It comes back to what empowers you, what disempowers you.
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Have some awareness as to where you're placing your power.
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Where are you placing your focus?
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Where are you placing your time?
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What are you prioritizing in your life?
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When we put a lot of our focus, energy, time, power, physical, mental energy into things that bring us down,
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make us insecure, make us feel bad, make us feel unhealthy.
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These things are disempowering and we don't always notice it, right?
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It goes back to the self-sabotage.
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We don't always notice when these things start to trickle in.
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And it's kind of frightening
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because a lot of the time your brain sort of tricks you into the fact that you want those things.
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Like for example, gossiping, right?
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Talking about other people all the time and putting your energy into it all day.
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If you're just complaining and speaking negatively, your words are your power, right?
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Like how do we define power?
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I know it goes back to all these things, but your words are your power.
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Who are you speaking of all the time?
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Who are you thinking about all the time.
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Where are you placing all this focus?
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Because it's precious and it's powerful.
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So having awareness as to, oh wow, yeah, I am gossiping all the time
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and putting all my energy into this person I'm talking about or the person who I am talking shit with.
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Where are you pouring all of this?
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Because human beings, at the end of the day, we have a lot of attention.
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We can create a lot of things.
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We can do a lot of things, but we tend to waste so much of that precious power and energy
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on things that we don't like or things that we don't want to continue.
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There's something that feels satisfying and fulfilling
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and good about noticing the lack of something and complaining about it
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and adding to it by putting more and more of your precious energy.
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When at the end of the day, we've always been shown that whatever we focus on, whatever we put our energy into, we grow more of.
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If we put all of that power and focus that we're putting into everything that we don't want, people that we don't really want to be around, things that we don't like,
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if instead, you know, we acknowledge that and thought about the things that we do want, that we do desire, that we do want to create,
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think about how different your life would be.
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Think about how different things could be if we made that switch.
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And I bring up the example of gossip and all of that because I've noticed that that's one of the sneakiest ones.
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That's a slippery, quick, easy way to become and disempowered is speaking badly on other people,
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putting other people down that will immediately, even if you don't feel it and your ego thinks that it's doing the opposite, it's disempowering.
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You're placing your energy into other people's problems.
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Is that really what you want to do with your life?
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Is that what you wanna focus on?
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If it is, then have fun.
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But I don't think a lot of us want to stay miserable,
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want to stay complaining about others or being in environments where there are people to complain about.
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Guys, we have the power.
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We have the power to change our lives.
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We have the power to focus on what we want, therefore to find other people who want the same thing,
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to attract greater communities of people that we enjoy being around.
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You don't have to stay stuck.
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You don't have to stay in the same place forever.
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You don't have to surround yourself with the same type of people forever.
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You can make a change.
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You are the one who harnesses your power and decides where to place it.
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Where are you putting it?
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What are you getting back?
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I think it's important to figure out what you're pouring into and what you're getting back from that.
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Just look at it.
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I know that maybe our jobs or our careers or integral relationships like our parents or our children,
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some of these things are not always very empowering relationships.
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Sometimes we feel like we have to give our all.
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Sometimes we do feel like we have to sacrifice what empowers us to caretake or to get responsibilities done.
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I understand that.
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Where are you voluntarily placing your power into things that don't make you feel good, that don't give back to you,
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that don't, maybe some would say, fill your cup.
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What is emptying you?
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Where are you not getting things back?
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And how can we change that?
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I wrote down here that women,
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I feel like, especially fall into very disempowering situations and are often encouraged to stay quiet.
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I mean, I just see it domestically so much in
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so many cultures that there are roles that people just are expected to do.
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And even if it's something that is painful or disempowering or abusive, even when somebody has convinced you that they have taken your voice,
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taken your power, it's hard to move from a powerless place.
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And I've watched a lot of people in my own family go through this.
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And obviously we see so many groups of people in our society go through this constantly, a sense of disempowerment just in the way that you're perceived or the roles you're expected to be in.
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I think it's just important to find the places that we can empower ourselves.
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Is it through community?
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It's so important to have people that we feel empowered by.
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Toxic relationships with family, with friends, gossip, superiority complexes, all these things can be so draining.
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And to feel like you have to prove something or
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that you need to show up a certain way that isn't authentically you is very disempowering.
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So where can you find community of like-minded people?
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Where can you place your focus on things that you'll meet others who are doing the same?
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You know, that's what i've just reflected on a lot with my poetry recently is I used to feel
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So alone with my writing and thought that I was kind of not not
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so weird But I just felt like insecure
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and felt like it was a little bit strange sometimes to be so Vulnerably performing spoken word poetry.
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I felt alone in it and I felt empowered in it when I would do it myself But like I said, it's very easy to fall off of
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that It's very easy to get back into a state of feeling disempowered again
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And I found that like-minded individuals and community exists out there.
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People who believe in what you believe or believe in you and your art or they believe in themselves and that's inspiring.
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Those people exist and you have the power to focus on what you love and to find those people.
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What is it that you need to nourish to empower yourself more?
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Maybe it's your confidence.
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Maybe you feel as though you have low self-esteem.
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Where are areas that you can show up for yourself more?
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What can you affirm to yourself?
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What are little acts of love that make you feel steady in who you are?
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Maybe it's practicing the things that you love, the hobbies that you love, reminding yourself who you are.
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Come on, guys.
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Stop giving your power to other people when it is in the things that you are amazing at, in the person that you are.
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There is no one like you out there.
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There is no one with your strengths and your power.
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And it's time to nourish that, to harness it, to grow it.
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find what feeds you, what feeds your soul.
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I know that sounds a little cheesy, but like what nourishes you, what makes you feel happy, what makes you feel funny, what do you enjoy, what do you love to do,
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what do you wish you could spend your life doing, what are your hobbies, what are your interests, where is that community, how are you talking to yourself, how do you wish to be treated,
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and start treating yourself as such.
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We have the power in our decisions, okay, I think that's something that we really must remember.
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The power lies in our decisions.
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It lies in our time and our energy and our focus, yes, but we get to make the choice to say, I no longer want to accept this behavior in my life.
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I don't want to act like this.
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I don't want to be surrounded by people like this.
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Or, you know what, maybe I don't want to spend the rest of my life doing this career.
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What other options can I look into?
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What can I do?
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Where do I have the power to learn new things, to learn new skills.
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What do I love to do?
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What are my strengths?
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What makes me happy?
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What is my power?
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Because nobody else has that.
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That's the thing, is once you embody and harness your power, that's the last thing I want to say.
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Get ready, okay?
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Why I have a fear of standing in my power.
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People don't like it, okay?
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That is the sad truth, and it's something that I have been aware of for a long time,
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but I've been surrounded by really incredible women and artists recently who they give all of themselves.
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I see it in the work that they do.
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I see it that they authentically show up as them, even if it's not perfect.
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It doesn't mean that they're not insecure sometimes or that it's always easy, but I see how authentic they are to themselves
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and how they're not afraid to show up as themselves
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and how they're not comparing themselves to other people or acting out of a state of jealousy or comparison
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or trying to put other people down.
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No, they show up as them and they're proud of that.
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They love themselves and know that there's room for everybody and there's room for everybody to shine.
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And it's just been really refreshing to be around that.
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I haven't come across it a lot in this life, which I hope changes.
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I really do.
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And I think it will.
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It has based on how I go about this life
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and what I try to stay aware of and how I try to treat others, but I have not always been around a lot of empowered people.
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I have learned.
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When you're around somebody, I know we've all encountered an empowered, confident person.
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And when you're around somebody like that, you can tell that they're not waiting for validation.
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And if you also feel that way about yourself, it's a very comforting thing to be around others like that.
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If you don't feel that way, it can be very intimidating and I've been intimidated by those types of people before
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and I think it's really easy to criticize those types of people.
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Oh, how are they so confident?
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They shouldn't be.
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They shouldn't be so confident.
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Look at what they're doing here.
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They should be insecure about that.
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It's very easy to pick people apart who show up as themselves unapologetically.
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The reaction and the backlash to standing in your power.
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Just be prepared for it to maybe ruffle a few feathers, okay?
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when we show up as ourselves authentically when we stand in our power
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when we come from a place of true confidence
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and love it can be very intimidating to people who haven't put their power
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and their focus and to the things that they love
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and the things
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that they wish to grow maybe there's a sense of insecurity there's a sense of disempowerment there's a comparison
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or jealousy going on there's a jump to quick criticism I know
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that it can be discouraging whenever we start to treat ourselves better, we have certain boundaries, or we are empowering ourselves,
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those places you used to put your power are going to be like, where'd it go?
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Where's my attention?
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Why are you different?
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Why have you changed?
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Why are you harnessing your power and becoming sovereign in this way?
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What's going on?
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So if there is a little bit of a conflict and a shift in things, I know that that can be scary.
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I have been there, I understand, but just know that if you are putting your time, focus, power, and energy into things that are keeping you healthy,
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that are keeping you sustained, and you are not actively putting other people down, harming other people, you're not doing anything wrong.
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I have not always felt like I've had a safe place to show up as myself 100%
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and to stand in my full power, to be excited about my power, to nourish the things, my strengths, and to believe in myself truly,
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to be empowered, and to walk with confidence, and to walk with excitement.
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I've always felt like I've had to keep myself small, like I said, and to not enjoy these things, and to make them smaller, to dilute myself, and I'm not doing that anymore,
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and I know that I have gotten better in this way, and I've seen the way that it has changed parts of my life.
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I see the conflict that it's brought up.
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I see the peace that it has granted me.
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There's always going to be a reaction to what you decide to do for yourself.
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I'm calling my power back and spending time doing the things, listening to the things, enjoying the things that I love,
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empowering myself in my strengths, in what I love, reminding myself who I am,
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and in that I'm creating a space to feel empowered and to feel good, and I don't feel as though I've always had that space.
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So I want to make this video for you guys to have that place, to feel excited about who you are, what you do, what you want to grow in, who you wish to become.
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I want you to feel as though a community believes in you, that you have the space to flourish in your full power and to not be ashamed of that,
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to not dim that down, to not dilute it, to not hide it, to not try to put it into something else so it pleases other people.
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No, I want this to be an episode and a space and a community that you truly remember who you are, what there is to be proud of,
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to nourish that and to feel that and to celebrate that.
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I know it's scary to show up authentically as our true selves because it feels like something is threatened.
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We don't want to get hurt.
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We don't want to be bullied.
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We don't want to be taken from.
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Maybe we don't want to be perceived.
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Maybe we don't want to be copied.
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I don't know.
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There's just like a lot of reasons
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that have made me want to shy away from what I love
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or sharing what I love or being who I truly am.
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I'm not going to let those things silence me
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or push me down or talk me out of doing what I love
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or convincing me that I'm not good enough because I know that I have a choice.
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Anyways, you guys, thank you so much for watching today's episode.
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I am so grateful for you.
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Thank you for being here.
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Thank you for having this conversation with me.
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I hope that you're having a beautiful morning, afternoon, evening, wherever you are, whatever you may be doing.
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Thank you for everything.
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I can't wait to talk to you again very, very soon.
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Bye.
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Thank you.
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De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| empower werkwoord | /ɪmˈpaʊ.ə/ | volmacht geven, machtigen |
| harness werkwoord | /ˈhɑɹ.nəs/ | inspannen, optuigen |
| sabotage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/ | sabotage |
| perceive werkwoord | /pɚˈsiv/ | waarnemen |
| insecure bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/ | onbeveiligd |
| surround werkwoord | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | omgeven, omringen |
| gossip zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡɑsɪp/ | kletspraatje, roddel |
| intimidate werkwoord | /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/ | intimideren, inschuchteren |
| insecurity zelfstandig naamwoord | onzekerheid | |
| dilute werkwoord | /daɪˈljuːt/ | verdunnen |
| embody werkwoord | /ɪmˈbɒdi/ | belichamen |
| trickle werkwoord | /ˈtɹɪkəl/ | druppelen |
| superiority zelfstandig naamwoord | /sʊˌpɪə(ɹ).iˈɒ.ɹɪ.ti/ | meerderwaardigheid, superioriteit |
| jealousy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈd͡ʒɛl.ə.si/ | jaloersheid, naijver |
| fulfill werkwoord | /fʊlˈfɪl/ | vervullen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| show up werkwoord | tentoonstellen |
| bring up werkwoord | opvoeden |
| come across werkwoord | overkomen |
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen |
| stand up werkwoord | opstaan |
| write down werkwoord | opschrijven, neerschrijven |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Where are you placing your focus?
- Where are you placing your time?
- Are we comfortable with ourselves?
- How do I empower myself?
- What do I see as power?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to feel · used to put |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have revamped · have just arranged · It's been |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | being empowered · are given · is doomed |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | one who harnesses · person who knows · person who I |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 115 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I've, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: feather /ˈfɛðə/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: nourish /ˈnʌɹ.ɪʃ/, sabotage /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, distinction /dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/, braggadocious /ˌbɹæ.ɡəˈdəʊ.ʃəs/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: disempower /dɪsɪmˈpaʊ(w)ə(ɹ)/, intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/, empowerment /ɪmˈpaʊ.əɹ.mənt/, superiority /sʊˌpɪə(ɹ).iˈɒ.ɹɪ.ti/, braggadocious /ˌbɹæ.ɡəˈdəʊ.ʃəs/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: sabotage /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/, surround /səˈɹaʊnd/, firsthand /ˈfɜːstˌhænd/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: sabotage /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, braggadocious /ˌbɹæ.ɡəˈdəʊ.ʃəs/, firsthand /ˈfɜːstˌhænd/, masculinity /ˌmæskjəˈlɪnɪti/, revamp /ɹiˈvæmp/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gossip /ˈɡɑsɪp/, braggadocious /ˌbɹæ.ɡəˈdəʊ.ʃəs/, disagreement /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, integral /ˈɪntəɡɹəl/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als empower, harness, sabotage.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.