I'm Speaking...with Elizabeth West

Ep 125 Onward + Upward

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Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! How are you doing? How are y’all doing? The US Election 🇺🇸 has put me and the most of the country (and the world really) through a roller coaster 🎢 of emotions and feeling stressed AF. Speaking for myself, I’ve went to from a state of shock 😳 to down 😔 to frustrated 😣 to neutral and stoic 🫥 to now feeling “okay” 👌🏽. And dusting myself off and ready to go ‘onward’ and ‘upward’. ⬆️ Ready to contribute and to do what I can to help as much as I can in any and every way within my community and building a close knit true friend community also. 👯‍♀️ I had a friend of mine recently that I vented to that said “it’s okay to feel hopeful, she was too” and that it’s not a “bad thing” or a “waste of time” ever. I was thinking the past week and in the middle of feeling down I remembered that half the country voted for VP Harris! 🥳 Right now as I check the numbers (as the state of California is still counting ballots due to their very close house races) the difference is around 3 million votes. Why am I pointing this out? Because it reminds me that so, so many people *did vote for VP Harris! ☺️ There are some podcasts that have helped me in getting through it and with positive words on what we *can do despite who will become president. Links below. I hope that they help you as much as they’re helping me. :) Let’s feel our feelings, lean on our communities and as soon as we feel ready, let’s get back to it and go ‘onward and upward’! I hope you enjoy this podcast episode. Podcast Episode Mentions: Stacey Abrams | Glennon Doyle | Rachel Rodgers | Trevor Noah’s “What Now?”