Jen Gottlieb

Don't compare your real life to somebody else's highlight reel on social media.

Because while it looked like I was living the life and like all these photos with all these rock stars, I was really out of alignment.

I was really lost.

I was really depressed during that time because I was living a lie.

And I was like having an argument, internal argument with myself all the time.

Who am I?

I believe when you're out of alignment in your job, you usually start to get out of alignment in your real life too.

It started to all fall apart, but publicly it looked great.

I think that people have a really big fear of being judged, of not being perfect, of not being good enough because we spend a lot of time scrolling and comparing ourselves to other people's highlight reels.

You're probably not looking at something that's completely real.

I hope for that person that it is completely real, but a lot of the times we just share the great stuff and that's a okay because that's what social media is for.

But we need to remember that it's not all necessarily really what's going on behind the scenes.

We compare our chapter one to somebody else's chapter 20.

Maybe we're just getting started.

Maybe someone watches you and they want to start a podcast and they see your huge podcast and then they start to think, I can't do that.

look at how great he is.

Look at how many listeners he has, how many downloads he has.

I could never get to that.

But what they didn't see is you starting from square one, building it from scratch, having nobody listening to you.

I'm sure from the first one and having to put the work in and the consistency.