Jodi Gordon

You did all right.

You know, you did the best with what you had and so imperfectly and that's all right.

And I think we have the gift of being able to give that like –

the champion voice, not the inner critic.

As you get older, you have the gift of giving that to yourself and going, yeah, yeah, you did okay.

It's nice.

it can carry you through so many different things in life.

You know, so many of us, we have the whip out and we're like better, higher, more, you know, achievement.

And it's just sometimes nice to go, you did all right.

Imperfectly, you did all right.

I did some research, sorry, this week, and I've done 451 to 1 sessions as a peer support worker in the last year and a half.

That's an astronomical amount.

What someone told me prior to doing that is...

If you're really good at your job, Jodie, you know how to hold the space and the boundaries to protect yourself but to protect the person that you're talking with.

And the way that you do that is you understand what risk, you understand what escalation, you understand those different elements of what's starting to take shape within a conversation so I can keep two hands on the driving wheel.

Because the times when I've let go of the driving wheel or I've

I've felt like the conversation was outside of a scope I could handle or control in some way.

They've been my biggest learning curves.

And a lot of those happened last year.

And it was a really great experience for me with a boss who was just incredible.