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Join our hosts as they unpack...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[note to self is a limited podcast series featuring mini-lessons from Hailey Thomas and Nicola Brown, two high-impact humans who happen to be entrepreneurs, speaking candidly to their former, present, and future selves. <br /><br />Join our hosts as they unpack the wisdom they've gained through success and failure, sharing intimate reflections never meant for public consumption. <br /><br />Each episode captures raw insights on leadership, resilience, and personal growth that transcend entrepreneurship—offering listeners permission to embrace their own journey with renewed clarity. <br /><ul><li>What would you tell your younger self if you could? </li><li>What reminders do you need today?</li><li>What hopes do you harbor for who you'll become?</li></ul><br />note to self explores these questions through honest conversations that feel less like business advice and more like eavesdropping on the internal monologues of those who've dared greatly.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Business"/><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>A Note on Maintaining Rhythms of Care, Joy &amp; Personal Boundaries</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-note-on-maintaining-rhythms-of-care-joy-personal-boundaries--64547647</link><description><![CDATA[For our final Note to Self, Hailey and I discuss the essential rhythms of our lives, the outside factors that can impact our rhythms, and how we can best optimize them through personal boundaries to produce higher quality levels of joy and care.  In this mini-lesson, we cover: <br /><ul><li>Discovering we were born with this rhythm</li><li>Understanding that re-finding your rhythm isn’t a “one and done” process</li><li>Finding rhythms of care and joy in your past, present, and future</li></ul>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64547647</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64547647/nts_audio_ep6_v1.mp3" length="15820435" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Nicola Brown &amp; Hailey Thomas</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>For our final Note to Self, Hailey and I discuss the essential rhythms of our lives, the outside factors that can impact our rhythms, and how we can best optimize them through personal boundaries to produce higher quality levels of joy and care.  In...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[For our final Note to Self, Hailey and I discuss the essential rhythms of our lives, the outside factors that can impact our rhythms, and how we can best optimize them through personal boundaries to produce higher quality levels of joy and care.  In this mini-lesson, we cover: <br /><ul><li>Discovering we were born with this rhythm</li><li>Understanding that re-finding your rhythm isn’t a “one and done” process</li><li>Finding rhythms of care and joy in your past, present, and future</li></ul>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>660</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1e02dda495fd8631990d822b16f096ce.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A Note on What’s Up with Our Nervous System</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-note-on-what-s-up-with-our-nervous-system--64547629</link><description><![CDATA[This is Note to Self, a series of mini-lessons from two high-impact entrepreneurs to their former, present and future selves. As entrepreneurs ourselves, my co-host Hailey and I understand how genuinely triggering entrepreneurship and business ownership can be to our nervous system, and set out to find a way to cope with that in this week’s episode. In this mini-lesson, we cover:<br /><ul><li>The triggering reality of entrepreneurship </li><li>Regulating your nervous system in real-time</li></ul>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64547629</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64547629/nts_audio_ep4_v1.mp3" length="18455893" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Nicola Brown &amp; Hailey Thomas</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>This is Note to Self, a series of mini-lessons from two high-impact entrepreneurs to their former, present and future selves. As entrepreneurs ourselves, my co-host Hailey and I understand how genuinely triggering entrepreneurship and business...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is Note to Self, a series of mini-lessons from two high-impact entrepreneurs to their former, present and future selves. As entrepreneurs ourselves, my co-host Hailey and I understand how genuinely triggering entrepreneurship and business ownership can be to our nervous system, and set out to find a way to cope with that in this week’s episode. 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Through the lens of the work of Dr. Saundra Dalton Smith, my co-host Hailey and I discuss the importance of rest and the solidified place it needs to have as a part of your life as an entrepreneur.  In this mini-lesson, we cover: <br /><ul><li>Seven types of rest, and the forms of rest beyond sleeping</li><li>Defining rest within your own life </li><li>Actioning on rest in your day-to-day schedule</li></ul>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64547613</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:07:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64547613/nts_audio_ep3_v1.mp3" length="26021729" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Nicola Brown &amp; Hailey Thomas</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>This is Note to Self, a series of mini-lessons from two high-impact entrepreneurs to their former, present and future selves. 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Expanding off of last week’s concept of confidence regression, my co-host Hailey and I break down what makes the holidays so stressful for entrepreneurs and how to set boundaries with loved ones during this busy season.  In this mini-lesson, we cover: <br /><ul><li>Validation as a job and responsibility we have for ourselves</li><li>Making more room for rest, dreaming, and practising confidence regression</li><li>Setting the intention of grounded gratitude this holiday season</li></ul>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64547598</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64547598/nts_audio_ep2_v1.mp3" length="16730011" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Nicola Brown &amp; Hailey Thomas</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>This is Note to Self, a series of mini-lessons from two high-impact entrepreneurs to their former, present and future selves. 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Expanding off of last week’s concept of confidence regression, my co-host Hailey and I break down what makes the holidays so stressful for entrepreneurs and how to set boundaries with loved ones during this busy season.  In this mini-lesson, we cover: <br /><ul><li>Validation as a job and responsibility we have for ourselves</li><li>Making more room for rest, dreaming, and practising confidence regression</li><li>Setting the intention of grounded gratitude this holiday season</li></ul>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>698</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1e02dda495fd8631990d822b16f096ce.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A Note on Resilience + Confidence Regression</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-note-on-resilience-confidence-regression--64547554</link><description><![CDATA[This is Note to Self, a series of mini-lessons from two high-impact entrepreneurs to their former, present and future selves. Grab your sticky notes and listen up. This week, my co-host Hailey and I talk about resilience and the role it has in our nonlinear journey of confidence. In this mini-lesson, we cover: <br /><ul><li>Confidence regression and how we’ve experienced it in our lives</li><li>Tools we use to navigate confidence and prevent regression </li></ul>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64547554</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:09:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64547554/nts_audio_ep1_v1.mp3" length="14639171" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Nicola Brown &amp; Hailey Thomas</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>This is Note to Self, a series of mini-lessons from two high-impact entrepreneurs to their former, present and future selves. Grab your sticky notes and listen up. 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