Samantha Goldsmith’s passion is to help women embrace their uniqueness and live a life guided by their inner compass. A self-confessed serial entrepreneur, Sam fulfills her passion with her Essential Oils business and her podcast Namaslay Type A where her and her interviewees give sound advice on how to choose peace over perfection, settle into your unique self, tune into your inner guidance system and stay in your own lane.
Fittingly, that’s exactly what we talk about in today’s episode - how to ditch the need to get everything perfect and just embrace the humanness of ourselves. This means that sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes we
change our minds, sometimes we fail and guess what? It’s OKAY! Sam notices that everyone has a type A tendency toward something in their lives. See what yours is by inquiring where in your life you are resistant to giving control? Where in your life do you feel like you have to take on everything? That you’re the only one who can do it right?
Got it? Good, now listen in and find out what you can do about it so that you can live a peaceful, heart led life instead ;)
Key Nuggets:
Definition of “Type A”: Sam sees that everyone has a type A tendency toward some aspect of their life. Here are some identifiers of the profile:
Feel like something terrible will happen if you don’t have all the balls in the air
Feeling like you have to take on everything
Unwilling to ask for help because you feel like you’re the only one who can do it “right”
Not trusting that what you have/what you’ve done is enough
When we take the risk and yield to our hearts, the universe will hear and it will show up for you. You can’t really get into flow before you take that leap because it’s hard for flow to happen if you are out of alignment
What Sam had to learn for a heart led life: Be okay with yourself and embrace your unique gifts
Embrace your humanness. For example it’s okay to change your mind. Not allowing yourself this flexibility keeps you so rigid.
What Sam had to let go of for her Heart led life: She had to let go of everything and be completely open
She had to retrain her nervous system to let go. What she means by that is that she recognized the fears that were coming up in her body and her mind and then taking conscious action to work through them (She was so fearful of dropping any balls that she started taking everything on). A strong spiritual practice of being comfortable with being uncomfortable was helpful.
Strongest question that helped Sam along the way: what would I do if I loved myself? This very question helped her take the leap into trying what she always wanted to - leaving her high paying job to do something of her own.
How do you live a life based on your heart’s guidance? Prioritize yourself and how you feel
When you need to make a decision, there’s always something going on in your body. Listen to that. And you do already have the answers. Sam often hears these phrases from her clients “I knew…” or “I had a feeling about that…” which shows that somewhere we do have the answers.
Sam’s advice for trusting and hearing those body messages:
Firstly make a conscious decision to commit to what you want
Begin to recognize what your body feels like and then go from there – Sam gives example of high paced business woman who was always constricted, so that client had to recognize that her throat was always constricted to understand what her present norm is. This is where a yoga practice is helpful!
Once you get to know what your body normally feels like, then fine tune. Start to notice subtle differences as you enter into certain situations or try to make certain decisions and begin to learn the language of your body.
Sam’s advice for letting go:
Starts with decision to let go. This sets your mindset up for success.
When you have a stream of emotion or energy stop and stay still , present silent. The natural instinct is to take action but don’t do anything yet because it’s inspired by the fear.
One of Your Biggest Lessons So Far:
Stay in your own lane. It’s easy to get distracted to see how other people are doing and how successful they seem – all of this is a distraction from following your own heart.
If we recognize that we don’t have competitors we begin to see ourselves as contributors and then there will be space to really shine with our gifts.
What is one nugget of wisdom that you would share with fellow seekers who are on this journey of growth and transformation?
That everything you need is already within you, you have the most sophisticated GPS inside and if you trust it, it will never steer you wrong. Your life is yours, it’s there for living in a way that makes you happy, you will never regret following your heart so let that be your guide.
Links:
If you have any questions for Sam or want to learn more, connect with her through:
Website: www.samanthagoldsmith.com
Instagram: @samanthagoldsmithhq
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