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Welcome to reclaim your worth with Gene, a podcast where we dive deep into the stories of self love, self value and self respect. Each episode is a journey into the heart of what it means to reclaim your words with real conversations that will inspire you to celebrate the person you see in a mirror. Let’s get started.
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You today, I am so excited and delighted to have this amazing woman that I call not just a mentor but a friend. She’s a trailblazer,
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she’s an entrepreneur, she’s an author of 36 plus books, she’s a publisher. She’s a pilot, philanthropist, keynote speaker across the world, has received more than 50 awards that has been featured in Forbes, NBC, CBS, ABC, Telemundo, Univision. She is the survivor of cancer, not just one time, but two times. So Jackie, I am so excited to have you welcome. Thank you, Jane. What a pleasure to be here in your presence, and ever since you and I had that very first conversation, I knew that you had to be in my life forever. So I’m so grateful, and I’m grateful to God that we are embarking on this beautiful continuing journey, and I am just very grateful for that. So thank you for the space. No thank you.
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Well, Jackie, after after many conversations that we have had, I think you were probably the inspiration of me launching the short cast of reclaim your worth with Jean.
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I really wanted to just create a space where we women can talk about, what does it mean to reclaim your worth, especially when we talk about self love, self respect and self value. I want women to be inspired
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when we listen, when they listen to to you and to us have conversations, and I want them to be so proud when they look themselves in the mirror. I want them to praise and not judge. So my first question to you is, what does self worth means to Jackie Reese,
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you know, Gina, it’s a loaded question, and I’m, you know, I, as a publisher, get the privilege of speaking with amazing women around the world, getting to the deepest core their fears, getting to the deepest aspirations and helping them land on their dreams. So not only do I have a perspective of what I feel like is self worth, but also the perspective of other women that are still facing even though they might be highly accomplished, they’re facing imposter syndrome. They’re facing, you know, am I good enough for this? And to me, that is basically the self worth to me is the alignment or the validation of who you are
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in the value that you bring to other people. In the context of service. To me is waking up every morning and saying, You’re beautiful, you’re worth it, you’re amazing. You can do this, those affirmative words that impact our light, impact our energy, that we permeate all day long and in every one of our activities. So it’s it’s this oneness, completeness and total alignment of our passion and our vibration of this beauty that just touches everyone you meet, yes,
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so throughout your life journey, talk to me a little bit about the one time that you felt like you lost your soft worth.
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You know, when I was starting my business, I had actually hired a mentor, and he was highly accomplished. He had built over a million dollar business, and
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I was a Latina. I mean, Latinas were vibrant, were exuberant, were filled with energy and passion, right? So I had asked him to mentor me, and sometimes, you know, you gotta be careful what you ask for, right? We went into this meeting, and I was being totally authentically myself.
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I wasn’t faking anything. I was.
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Genuinely excited for this new client, giving them a lot of ideas, a lot of thoughts, a lot of strategies. And when I got out of that meeting, I mean, this is like one of my first meetings as an entrepreneur at 23 imagine so when I get out of that meeting, I remember him looking at me and saying, You know what, Jackie, I’m going to ask you to tone it down.
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And I looked at him baffled, and I’m thinking, What do you mean? He says, Well, you know, I counted the words the times that you said the word amazing during this meeting, and you said the word amazing 23 times. So I’m going to ask you that in a business setting, you tone it down, and you become more professional.
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I remember getting into my car and feeling like a I don’t know what he’s talking about, because I wasn’t faking anything. Every one of those 23
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words or 23 times I said the word amazing, I meant it because I was genuinely excited. I was genuinely myself, and I had this like, existential crisis in that moment, because I’m like, I’m just starting my business. My biggest dream was to be an entrepreneur in the land of dreams. And finally, I was in that moment, in that time frame, and it wasn’t what I expected. Now I couldn’t be myself. I couldn’t be and, like, I didn’t even know what to fix. So in that moment, I was kind of overcome with despair, and I just like confusion thinking like, Am I good enough? Am I, you know, am I going to be able to do this? I mean, he is, you know, he’s got a million dollar business, and he’s telling me that I need to tone it down.
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But something inside of me told me that something wasn’t right. So I literally picked up the phone. And I was so surprised that he answered the phone to another mentor. He had built a $35 million business and sold it very young, and, you know, very, very successful. So I picked up the phone. I’m like, I need a second opinion on this, because I don’t think this is right. Something is off. This is when you as a woman, a man, I mean, anybody has you have to follow your intuition. If you feel like something is off and it’s not aligned with you and not aligned with your core values and who you are, speak up, right? I called up my other mentor, Brian, and I said, Brian, I just, I want to ask you a question. I I was just told to tone it down in business, you know, tell me is you gave me advice? And he says, Absolutely not. This is exactly what’s going to make you successful, this juxtaposition of your passion to help others in your execution, and how you meet those two points and now how you create this beautiful magic. This is the magic formula for you, and that is what’s going to make you a millionaire. Do not listen to Him and FOLLOW and you know what? Tune it up all the way and become every time, become more aligned with yourself and your beauty. So I am so glad that you didn’t do not change, because people like that will try to steal your light and your shine, and that’s why so many women lose your worth and become impostors, because people like that. I’m hoping that you went back to him and showed him how wrong he was, but just kidding, so I’m glad that you didn’t change. So tell me something. What advice can you share or leave with our listeners to encourage them to reclaim their worth?
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Number one, get to know yourself. If you need to get a personality test, an assessment, get a coach, get to know yourself, looking yourself in the mirror and saying, What do I love? What do I hate? What triggers me, what bothers me, what do I enjoy? What is my passion? What am I really good at? Get to know yourself. Because the more that you get to know yourself as a pilot in command of your life, the more that you encapsulate document and package your value in in when you put that value in service of others, magic happens, I’m convinced, abundance happens, gratitude happens. Your spark expands beyond your wildest dreams, and the biggest thing is get to know yourself as a pilot in command, and you will know the entire universe.
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So one last questions for you
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is,
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how do you reclaim your worth every day? What are things that you do?
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Prayers, affirmations, writing in my journal, reading amazing books that give me another perspective, connecting with positive people that elevate my awareness and being present
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and appreciating those micro moments, right? Micro moments. It’s all about the micro moments. Yes, yes. Well, Jackie, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here today. As always, I am so glad to have you in my life.
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And I can’t wait to see you again soon. Thank you. Thank you so much. Congratulations on your short cast. Thank you.
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Thank you for joining us on reclaim your work with Jean. If today’s episode resonated with you. Don’t forget to subscribe and share it with someone who needs to hear this message. Remember your worth is never up for negotiation, and it’s for Europe to keep go out there and tell everybody until next time, take care and keep shining.