🎙️ THE BIG DREAMS DEBRIEF: Decades of Balancing Babies, Business & Big Dreams With My Teenager *bad audio
What happens when the baby you built your big dreams around grows up - and you sit down for a Big Dreams Debrief.
It’s one thing to be a big-dreaming, motivational speaker, writer, and coach. But it’s a whole other situation to see less what it looks like… and more what it is like.
This is the Big Dreams Debrief with my teenage daughter, Amali.
We recorded it spontaneously, no mic, bad audio, just us on the couch after 18 years of her watching me chase my Big Dreams and of doing life, business, and big dreams together.
After 2 decades of balancing babies, business, and belief...
Questions Amali asked me:
— “What were your biggest dreams at 18?”
— “How have those dreams changed?”
— “What’s one thing you hope I learn sooner than you did?”
— “What’s been the most rewarding part of watching me grow up?”
— “If you could go back in time and give yourself advice as a young mum, what would you say?”
— “Do you think you're really yourself online?”
— “What actions did you take to become your full self-expression?”
— “What did becoming a mum teach you about yourself that nothing else could?”
— “Have you ever looked at me and thought, ‘She’s becoming everything I hoped for?’”
— “If my future daughter asks what kind of woman my mother was… what would you want me to say?”
00:00 — Introduction + Setup Chaos
00:24 — Meet the Hosts (aka “Mum Kingsford”)
01:41 — Dreams at 18 — And How They Changed
05:10 — Confidence + Self-Esteem
06:09 — “You Actually Did Good, Mum”
08:59 — Travel Memories (Cable Beach!)
10:37 — “Are You Even Real Online?”
13:18 — Quirks, Clapping, and Cry Face Confessions
15:20 — Reading Minds and Fake Smiles
17:38 — Stubbornness = Values
18:35 — The Purpose Was Already In Me
22:30 — Ideas Never Shut Down
24:43 — The One-Year Rule
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