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Hello, hello, beautiful souls, and welcome to the Claim Your Power podcast, the ultimate show for all things New Age spirituality, entrepreneurship, and embodied leadership. I'm your host, Kim Peretz. I'm an author, entrepreneur, and yoga enthusiast. If you're ready to step up, tap into your gifts, and unleash your potential, you are at the right place. It's time to claim your power. Hello.
Hello my beautiful friends and welcome back to the podcast.
Little life update. I just got back from a little girls trip that I took with one of my close friends to Barcelona and it was the best time of my life, guys. I honestly missed my travel era so much. You guys know that I'm a full-time student now and I'm working so I don't get to travel as much but I really am so grateful for these small moments where I get to explore and adventure and seek out and meet new people. It just means so much to me and
And this leads me to the topic of today's episode, which isn't really correlated, but this is something that I came up with on the plane ride back home.
and it's talking about the top lessons that I learned personally in 2022. So I have all my lessons in my notes app that I came up with and these are things that I personally have had to learn through my own human experience this year that I think have made me stronger and wiser and I just want to share them with you guys because I feel like
at the most part. A lot of us go through similar things just kind of in different fonts or different experiences. But I think a lot of you guys can really resonate or maybe align with these lessons.
And maybe this is something new that you're learning. But I really hope that this episode empowers you to realize that your life experiences, the hard times, the obstacles, the challenges, they're all there to allow for your highest soul growth and for you to evolve as a person and as a soul and as a human.
And so yeah, let's dive right into it. First lesson is even if you're not exactly where you want to be, it doesn't actually mean that you won't get there. I think so many of us get so caught up in the final destination that we forget to enjoy the journey of life.
And a little story to back this life lesson up is when I first started TikTok in March of 2022, I had four followers, four followers. And I would post every single day consistently. I would share lots of content and I didn't see any growth in my account the first two months. I think I grew to like 100 or 200 followers by May or April. Okay, not a lot.
And it wasn't until I continued to be persistent and really share content from within my soul and within my intuition and just keep chasing after my goals that I started to see growth in my account.
But when I first started, like I remember thinking like I would dream about hitting 1000 followers. I would just dream about that, about getting to that place. And now it's crazy that I have over thousands of followers now on this account, on this platform that I'm so, so, so grateful for. And it has changed my life completely. But what I'm saying is I wasn't always there. And I look back thinking like that.
that goal or that place is so far away. Just even hitting 10,000 followers on TikTok, that was something that I was calling in and manifesting for a very, very, very long time. And it's crazy now, months later, I can look back and see that I did get to where I wanted to be, but I had to embrace the pace of my path. I learned a lot of things along the way. I learned a lot about myself. I learned about how to be
more impactful online and how to be a better content creator and not only that I healed like sharing my content and my videos and my wisdom and all my deepest darkest experiences online with you guys has really empowered me to heal a lot of my wounds and has allowed me to feel like I am going through my own journey alongside so many other people around the world which has been just
so empowering. So I want you to realize that just because you're not exactly where you want to be at this moment doesn't mean that you won't get there. And I can guarantee you with my heart and soul that you will get there because if you have this desire or this inkling to go somewhere, to do something, to accomplish something, that desire exists for a reason. It's because your higher self knows that that desire is meant for you. And right now you just have to embrace the journey of becoming that version of you.
Second lesson is rejection is protection. And when one door closes, it's because another door is meant to open. And this applies to everything in life. I think I learned this lesson in basically every aspect of my life. Love, career, success, friendships, you name it, I went through it this year.
And I'm here on the other side to tell you that even though you are experiencing rejection at this exact moment, you will realize in hindsight why the universe is redirecting you. Because what I've learned is that the universe is always, always, always conspiring in your favor, even when it seems like the exact opposites.
It is because there is something better coming. It is because there is a lesson. There is a blessing. There is something that is meant to come out of the situation, but you're not going to understand it in the present moment. And if you can surrender to that feeling and to that experience and say, okay, you know what universe, I trust you fully. I don't know why this is happening. I don't really understand it, but I accept it and I allow the blessings to come out of it. And I
allow the path to become clearer, your life will change. Every time the universe says no to something in your life, it is also saying yes to something else. And that is something so, so impactful that I've realized about my life. Is the universe saying no doesn't mean that something bad is about to come out of the situation. It actually means that something better is about to come. The universe always responds in three ways, okay? Yes, not yet, or I have something better.
So if you're in a phase in your life where you are experiencing a lot of rejection, a lot of blocks, a lot of resistance, it is because something better is coming. I promise you. Lesson number three, you can't grow while staying within the limits of your comfort zone. Every single day you are given a choice, evolve or resist.
And if you choose to evolve, you also choose the path that allows you to grow as a human, that allows you to develop more wisdom. And that path is not always easy. It requires you to grow, to do the shadow work, the inner work, to experience obstacles along the way, challenges. But it is the most rewarding path because out of it, you get fulfillment.
versus if you choose to remain. You choose to remain in your comfort zone. You choose to not take a leap of faith. You choose to remain in the same thought patterns, in the same group of people. You choose to never branch out. And you always have that choice. Taking a leap of faith requires courage, okay? But doing something out of your comfort zone is the most rewarding experience of your life.
I've talked about this, like taking my trip to Costa Rica, doing something completely out of my comfort zone, going alone to a new country. Like I have a whole episode on that that just talks about how getting out of your comfort zone is the most rewarding experience. But that is one of the biggest lessons that I had to learn this year because I really have learned how to get out of my comfort zone, how to find my independence and my identity outside of relationships.
how to find myself amidst a new country, how to find myself as an adult. Just so many things that I had to learn that I think anyone listening, you guys are probably going through it too. But if you remain within the limits of your comfort zone, there is no growth in that. You will not evolve. You will not have different experiences because you're choosing to stay put. And staying put
is not the abundant open energy that you want to be in. So I invite you in 2023 to be open, be open to new experiences, to new limits, to getting out of your comfort zone, to taking a leap of faith, to trust
more to doing something that scares you in a good way and to have courage because that is the most rewarding experience lesson number four not everybody deserves access to you and if somebody in your life is costing you your inner peace that relationship is too expensive this
This applies to partners, to friends, whatever, mentors, co-workers, I don't know. Whoever in your life is costing you your inner peace, is making you feel anxious or uninspired or disempowered or unmotivated or just insecure, think about it. Think about who you surround yourself with and who you give access to your energy and
And I want to challenge you and invite you to really set those boundaries because that is something that I learned in 2022. 2021, I was in my people pleasing phase. I was people pleasing every single person and their mother. Like I was miserable, okay? That's how I'm going to put it. I just was putting everybody on the pedestal except myself.
2022, I had a lot of experiences that challenged me to get out of my people pleasing phase and to enter my personal power era where I had clear boundaries, where I set a standard, where I only allowed people who have power.
empowering energy and who lift me up to have access to me. And that is something that I want to invite you to do too, that will give you so much peace in your life is setting that standard and saying, okay, if this is costing me my inner peace, it is too expensive. And I'm willing to walk away from people that do not serve me. And I'm willing to understand that having access to me, to my energy, to who I am is a privilege and being around me.
is an honor and you need to walk into every room acting like the universe sent you there that you are meant to be in that room and that everybody who has access to you it is because you chose to allow them to have access to you because you chose to be open to them and anybody who doesn't serve you you set that clear boundary and you learn to walk away from something that is not in alignment lesson number five stop dimming your light to make others comfortable
And that is something that I had to learn over the years, but became very clear to me this year when I started, you know, being very active on social media and on TikTok. And I was sharing my truth and my wisdom and my experiences and I was being very vulnerable and open online. And...
That experience made me realize that every single time that I dim my light to try to make others in my life comfortable, I am being of disservice to myself. What I learned is that the world needs your light. You came in with a set of skills, with a set of passions, with your personality, with what makes you you, with your authenticity. You came into this world with that gift.
And every time that you dim that or you try to make yourself smaller, you are being of disservice not only to yourself but to the rest of the world. Because when you are being authentic, you are at your highest vibration and at your highest frequency. And the world needs that from you. So I want to invite you to stop dimming your light to make others comfortable. Stop being around people that you have to walk around on eggshells. Stop, you know, making yourself smaller.
You need to be yourself completely. Going to 2023, being so authentic that it inspires everybody around you to feel safe to be authentic too. So that's all my lessons that I have. I have a lot more. So if you guys want a part two on this, I'd be more than happy to film. Just message me on Instagram. If enough people want it,
We'll do a part two. But I really hope that these lessons, that A, you resonated with them, and B, that they inspired you to dive deeper into your own life, into your own understanding. And go into 2023 with the baddest mindset that you are unstoppable, that things are flowing for you, and that the universe has your back.
Beautiful souls, thank you so much for joining me in today's episode. As always, feel free to DM me on Instagram if you have any topic suggestions for future episodes or if you'd like to apply to be a guest on the show. I hope you feel inspired to claim your power today. Bye.