Please enjoy this transcript of the Crown Yourself Podcast, with your host, transformational story coach, Kimberly Spencer (@Kimberly.Spencer)

How often do you allow fear of failure to deter you from pursuing your true passions? What could you achieve if you embraced being a beginner and showed up anyway? In this episode of the "Crown Yourself" podcast, host Kimberly Spencer delves into the concept of mastery, highlighting its significance in both business and personal development. She emphasizes that true mastery involves deep understanding, relentless practice, and embracing discomfort and failure. Kimberly shares her own experiences and those of successful individuals like Tim Ferriss to illustrate that mastery is a continuous journey. She also promotes her upcoming book, "Make Every Podcast Want You," set for release on September 30th, encouraging listeners to join the waitlist. The episode serves as a motivational guide to pursuing excellence and continuous improvement.

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You are expansive, immense, a Divine, infinite being encased in a human meat-sack of a body, so how in the heck can you contort yourself into - gasp! - just one mold?!

As a multi-passionate entrepreneur myself, whose changed careers a few times in the past two decades - from screenwriter to Pilates instructor to president of an e-commerce startup to coaching to CEO, to mom, wife, health and fitness lover, writer, content creator, podcaster - I could go on, but I think you get the point, I get the challenge of that dreaded question…

“So what do you do?”

Especially when you know your infinite superpower; that really, with enough time and energy, you have infinite possibilities as to who you could be! 

But, living in this 3-D world, it’s essential that you know how to define that “special sauce” that is the thing that you do so epically well.

Does it make you who you are? Somewhat.

After all, every experience IS shaping and evolves...

Long ago, in ancient cultures, rites of passage were performed for various transformations. You're probably familiar with the ones for birth, death, and weddings...but what about those everyday challenges? Business challenges? 

Here's the thing...

It's not a challenge. It's an initiation. 

These past 6-months, moving - again - just this time, into our dream home, I have faced one of the greatest initiations of my life as we have settled into a whole new level.

In this episode, I explore how initiations are not just limited to secret societies or occult practices but are deeply woven into our everyday lives.

From becoming a first-time parent to hitting a new income level in business, each initiation marks the beginning of something new and often involves challenges and discomfort. But, it's through these initiations that we grow, transform, and claim sovereignty over our lives.

Here are some key takeaways from the episode:

• The Power of Initiations: Initiations...