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If you guys are not following fellow speaker, and friend @kindrahall - you guys are missing out ⬆️ I’ve been blown away by her stories, her transparency and vulnerability.
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Anyways, this post really spoke to me and the fear of success I’ve been talking so much about. Can we admire others’ success without questioning our own capabilities, our own potential and our own skills? It is SO hard to do! But SO necessary to stay healthy and on our OWN path to achieving OUR goals. The less we question how others have done it, the more we will focus on how WE will do it 👊🏼
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A little reminder (for myself included): there is space for ALL of us at the top! Choose to see other successful people in your field as allies, not as competition. Can you relate to this at all?
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Go follow Kindra @kindrahall ♥️

⬆️ Hello, we have a couple’s podcast 😳👋🏼💑
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This time I decided to address my Hispanic audience and create content in Spanish ☺️ — I’ve been asked to do this for the longest time and we thought this was the perfect opportunity. Also, we want this podcast to be as GENUINE as possible and between @stramhacks and I, we communicate in Spanish 🤷🏼‍♀️
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We will be recording ALL of our episodes from the ✈️ (there are already 3 episodes up! - including our love story ♥️)
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Search for ☁️ “Desdel Avion” ☁️ in your podcast app! (And nope, “desdel” is not a typo! It was 100% intentional!!)
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Why we did it? ⤵️
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After 13 years dating, 7 years of marriage and 3 years working together, we haven’t killed each other yet! Surprisingly, we enjoy and value each other’s company today more than ever. So, we want to share with you how we’ve done it!! 💙
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If you do listen to our episodes, please let me know here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 We can’t wait to hear your feedback and ideas!! #podcast #relationshipadvice #desdelavion

This Valentine’s Day post is for those who haven’t found the person that makes their heart smile, yet:
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I know being #single on V Day may not be “ideal” — but here’s the thing: I’m happy for you.
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You know who worries me? The person who is unhappily married posting a picture on #valentinesday about their “happy marriage” — fooling everyone, including themselves.
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I bet that at least 65% of the happy couples that will pop up on your feed today are not as happy as they seem, so DON’T be fooled!
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You may not be dating, engaged or married today, but you are closer to finding real love than the one who is married to the wrong person, so cheers to that! 🥂
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💛 Take advantage of today to celebrate #SELFLOVE
💛 Watch the chick flick that us, married girls, won’t be able to watch 🤷🏻‍♂️
💛 Order your favorite food 🥟
💛 And feel proud of yourself for not settling for the first douchebag that asked you out 👊🏼
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Real love does EXIST, have the patience (and the courage) to find it 💕 Tag your single friends here! #happyvalentinesday #hellofears #goals #couple

Have you ever wondered what working with your spouse would be like? I did, all the time. In fact, I wanted it so much that I made it happen, 3 YEARS AGO! How???
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“How can you guys live together and work together all year round? Me and my partner would kill each other by March!” 😂 Yup, it is NO easy task to work with the same person you go to bed with everyday. These are the 5 things that have helped US:
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1) We intentionally decided to make our job/life enjoyable, so we go out of our way to include fun things we enjoy doing on the day to day. Productivity may go 👇🏼, but every day fulfillment goes 👆🏼
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2 - We allocate daily HOURS to talk about where we are, how we feel about it and where we want to go, so we are always on the same page 📖
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3 - We are each other’s project managers, Adam is always reminding me the things I need to accomplish that day regarding clients, and I’m on his back reminding him to post and keep his audience happy, helping him with images/copy/stories as much as I can. We do this with a “let me help you” kind of attitude 🙏🏼
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4 - We don’t have a set schedule or rules, we wake up when our body tells us to, we take breaks when we need to and we work late if we feel like. Our bodies have different schedules and we have to respect that. I’m more of a morning person, and he is a night 🦉
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5 - Most importantly: we fully trust each other as working professionals. Adam can give me his opinion on a design I’m working on, but he knows I make the final call and he trust it will be the right one. And I trust that he is doing the best for our business without a doubt. Mutual trust and admiration are the 2 main things you need for a relationship to work.
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Now — I’m thinking about doing a PODCAST together with @stramhacks about our relationship dynamics. Let me know if you’d listen to that ⤵️😳

Celebrating life shouldn’t only happen on birthdays, valentine’s day or anniversaries. What if we celebrated random days? Wouldn’t that be more memorable, spontaneous and genuine? 🙌🏼
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Nothing wrong with celebrating special dates, I love it, I just celebrated my dad’s 70th birthday (surprise party and all!) 🎉 ⤴️, but that made me wonder: why did I have to wait for his 70th birthday to bring the family together, buy a nicely designed cake and celebrate my dad’s life? 👨🏻
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Imagine throwing a surprise party to someone you appreciate on a random day? How special would that be? Or giving someone a gift just because you stumbled upon something that reminded you of that person? Or a simple message of recognition to someone you admire?
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Those little details can make others feel valued, appreciated and honored 🙏🏼
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Let’s go out of way to make someone else’s day this month (and not only on the 14th!) 😄♥️👊🏼 #celebration #life #hellofears #randomactsofkindness #thisisoptimism

Looooooved this reminder from @amaliaandrade_ (it’s my new phone wallpaper 😂)
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I get this question pretty often: what motivates you to go past your fears and accomplish your dreams?
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And the answer is right here ⤴️ I am terrified of facing rejection, failure, heartbreak, loss, the unknown and change in general. But the rewards behind my fears are so much bigger than those fears, so I keep trying, again and again, until I make it happen.
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I ask myself: What’s the best that can happen? And I fuel my drive by focusing on the rewards, instead of on the risks.
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I hope that helps ♥️ #fearofsuccess #hellofears #dreambigger #keepgoing

I’ve heard of it before ⤴️, but I never really understood it. Who would be afraid to be successful? Isn’t that the goal???
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I get it now.
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Fear of success what it really is, is fear of change. And also, fear of bigger challenges. That is what success brings — and not everybody wants that. I thought I wanted it. I still think I do 🤔
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As we had a very successful year in 2018, we are having to make some adjustments to our life, and consider possibilities that were inconsiderable before.
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As the traveling continue (and increases), as our time gets more limited and our goals bigger, we have to #adult and debate topics like: relocation, family, help, health insurance, state/city taxes and other concepts that 29-year-old Michelle had no interest in.
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So, after a 4-hour conversation with Adam we came to the following conclusion: we have to make the choices that make sense for us NOW, and we have to TRUST that our future-selves will make the best decisions in the future. We can’t plan that far ahead, but we can have the confidence in ourselves, that as a couple, we will figure it out and overcome any struggles that may come our way, now and later. There is nothing to fear as long as we continue to be:
💥communicative
💥understanding
💥empathetic
💥and value our relationship above all.
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Also: no decision is permanent. We are allowed to change our minds and detour along the way as many times as we choose to — at the end, it is all up to US.
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This thought made me feel better about the decisions we make today, and be OK with the change and the challenges that our success can bring in the future.
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Anyone else afraid of success here? Why? #fearofsuccess #hellofears

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