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Cat: Hey, it's Cat and Kati again with another weekly mindset for you. So this week we're going to be talking about Amazonite and how that represents confidence. So it's a gorgeous stone. Kati's going to go ahead and read the affirmation card that comes with any of our Amazonite jewelry pieces so you can learn a little bit more about the stone. And then, yeah, we'll get into just kind of that mindset and why we think that confidence is one of our personal favorites. It's amazing.
Kati: Okay. So, with its beautiful shades of light teal, amazonite is an excellent stone for exuding confidence. It serves as a reminder to develop your own personal truth and can give you courage to follow your convictions. Amazonite can provide a sense of stability, allowing you to pursue your aspirations with certainty, clarity and confidence.
Cat: So good I feel like I need to wear amazonite every day it's definitely, I think, one of my personal pieces that gets worn a lot and because it's again a dual combination, like sometimes, like obviously our pieces are beautiful, you're just going gonna reach for a piece because it's just gorgeous and it's calling to you and then I do like that you can still be like okay, in this moment I'm still gonna lean into whatever affirmation goes with this piece. But Amazonite is like the double whammy you get the confidence which you always like, feel so good and so needed, along with kind of like a gorgeous stone that goes with a lot and just has a really cool vibe to it.
Kati: It does A very neutral stone.
Cat: Yes, yeah, it's got like the light teals and sometimes even like the tans or yeah
Kati: So Melissa, a member on our team, she actually posted a picture on probably instagram and tagged us and was like, oh my gosh, I love this stone and it was just a bunch of amazonite gemstones next to each other and she talked about how much it reminded her of the ocean and what did those stones in that picture totally looked like waves and sand and so cute amazonite is so good, I love it yeah. Good stuff.
Cat: So what do you feel like with channeling confidence? Why is confidence important to you, katie, and how do you try to tap into that? More Great question Couldn't tell you yes, you can.
Kati: Confidence is hard. I feel like so for me. Usually, when I'm in a situation when I really need the confidence, I kind of have to put on a face and a mask, and I don't love doing that because it doesn't feel genuine to me, but sometimes it's really. I just can't handle like I don't love big groups of people and things like that, and so sometimes I really do have to just pretend to be somebody else or pretend to be the version of me that I would see in that situation do really well. And so then I feel like it comes across as like oh, I have my customer service voice and I'm across is like oh, I have my customer service voice and I'm you know handling people, but when my husband is with me he does not see that at all, he goes no, that feels very genuine like you are so good at connecting with people and you know, you just have so much confidence. I feel like you could talk to anybody and I'm like burying myself under all the things, things, and I'm like, really I don't feel like that. And he goes no, it totally. You look so confident and you look like you're totally just in the zone and I'm like, so am I really not putting on a face? And that just is another side of me that I'm still working on. But that's still me and that's just the confidence. It's not a mask, it's just confidence yeah and I don't, I don't know, but that's just been something interesting to have him observe in me.
Cat: That is still a struggle, that it's just something I'm working on, so with the confidence it's like I wonder if anyone actually like, if it ever gets to that point where you just feel as confident as you are like. It's like we do, but we don't like. There's this, this fake it till you make it concept. That I feel like is in play here, where we want to lean into authenticity and being ourselves but, like you said at some point, even though it doesn't feel like ourselves, I feel like it is still just because you don't, I don't know like. We're so conditioned. I think that's more like our conditioning that's blocking us. I feel like, maybe what it is. It's kind of like this concept of like with my kids I think we've talked about before. It's like I'm trying to teach them all the time Like you don't have to be good, you are good and again, that's maybe a parenting philosophy Like, Maybe not even everyone subscribes to that. Maybe I'm wrong in that thinking, but it's like this societal upbringing of like. We have to earn, we have to be like in order to be worthy of love or attention or whatever we have to be and do like certain instead of just like. No, you just are, you don't have to earn love or you know like, and so it's like it's, it's in all of us. We kind of come with that confidence of just being okay with exactly who we are, all of our flaws, all of our strengths, perfection, like whatever it is, and just and so it's like that confidence, even though it feels like it's not you, it is, and it's just like you're just peeling away some of those layers that aren't actually you. So it feels like it's not you, but it is you and it's just strengthening those muscles and trying to like maybe like peel away those layers a little bit more.
Kati: You know that totally makes sense and that's like kind of what I, what I wonder yeah but I don't know, maybe it's just like little voices in the back of your head that are trying to. You know that cause some little doubts in you. But yeah, and I really look up to people like I can't even name anybody right now. But I know that there are so many people like on social media and like even in my own personal life, where they just are so true to themselves and it's like you can see the confidence just in the way that they walk and in the way that they show up in the world. It's like okay, yeah, like that is you and I totally know that. Like you are just so confident in everything that you are, everything that you say is just so genuine and authentic, and I love seeing that. And that's what I want to be, but I'm just still on my journey of getting there?
Cat: Yes, I think we are. And that's what I'm wondering because, like in that same vein, it's really interesting I have like a college friend of mine, tracy Tracy, but like we've stayed in touch over the years and she's so sweet, but again, it's like you know, like people sometimes will tell you something and it just like always sticks with you and it's so like I love that concept, like we're just like you put these little ripples out there and you say things to people, you have interactions, and sometimes you have no idea. Sometimes they forget about it five minutes after talking to you, sometimes they don't. Well, this is like one of those for me. And she told me once she's like, yeah, you're like one of the most confident people I know, I know, and well, thank you, but it's so like like her saying that to me because I still like I. It was such a weird thing because I don't feel that way and in some regard, it's like I definitely do. I'm not as like it's and it's not even like I. It was such a weird thing because I don't feel that way and in some regard, it's like I definitely do. I'm not as like it's and it's not even like I tried to be. It's just because my brain is so just ADHD. It's like I don't even have time to process that what I'm about to say or do is maybe like not the best thing or socially acceptable, and so I just do it without like even thinking about it. Um, but I think that maybe, like sometimes, but I don't, I still don't feel like I would not be like, oh, my gosh, katie, I have so much confidence Cause I definitely don't feel that way. There's like so many things that I'm like oh, this is still scary and this is still hard, and I'm like I don't know again, I'm maybe still on my journey. Like there is I can't I can't even think of her name now but there is this like one like kind of like influencer lady that I've kind of like found on Instagram and she's a little bit older and she's just beautiful, like she's got the gray hair and she's like you are perfect the way you are. Like this whole, like this beauty industry we've got to now, like we've got to look a certain way and smell a certain way and you know, like all of these things like be a certain, like shape and size and colors and this and makeup and all the things as women, yeah, and she's like you're just like perfect, just the way you are like. I wonder I'm like okay, but I would be so interesting, like if I had a conversation with her about confidence, because she seems like that's what she preaches is just like be confident, and I'm like I wonder if she still feels kind of like what you and I feel like this, like yes, I get, I have some strengths and stuff and I do, for the most part, think I'm like a cool, like cool whatever human.
Kati: But there's this part of you that's still like but I'm still scared.
Cat: She's got to that level where she's just like no, I don't even like I'm so confident. I just show up exactly and I'm like I wonder if we can get there or if it's just always human nature that, no matter what, you're always gonna have a little bit of that.
Kati: Yeah, you know that ego, those little negative voices, yeah, inside you well, maybe people just get better at ignoring the insecurities, like they're still there. But it's just you don't care. Yeah, so what?
Cat: yeah, I don't know, and again, like that self-talk, like, so like, it's just like subliminal, not like, but you just hear it in your mind and you don't even realize that. I don't even realize, like so often. Like looking in the mirror showing up, like confronting something, I'm like, oh I suck at this, this is hard, like it's just that thing in your head and just learning to rewire it and retrain it and it's like any little muscle in our body.
Kati: Yes, good job. I know Like the biggest muscle, you could argue, I'm so true, it's crazy. Yeah, I think that's where. Affirmations and like journaling. I say journaling all the time. I feel like every episode I'm like journaling. This is the answer. But it really is for me. I love it because it just gets it out of my head. And if I can just write down like all of my thoughts, get everything out, then it's not just spiraling in my head and then I can get it out and then put what I want back in and so then when I, I then put what I want back in, and so then when I I listen to affirmation videos all the time and that's when, after I get everything out, then I'm just telling myself what do I want to feel instead? What do I want to like see myself as instead, and so that's been helpful for me. I it's silly sometimes and it feels like, okay, I'm just saying words, it doesn't matter, but I think over time that can help and I feel like I'm definitely more confident than I was and I'm way more likely like willing I can talk to somebody and not an issue and I can be blunt enough to like speak my truth when it's important to me. So I don't know. I think you just get used to where you're at right now and you forget how far you've come, and so if you look back, maybe you're a lot further along than you were, I don't know. It's hard, though, because retraining your brain that is so used to this routine and this habit is tricky because it just wants what's easy, because existing is hard.
Cat: It's like my kryptonite, like sign me up. I love that you brought up that concept and this is something like we need to figure out, kind of like as again, we're building the wonder light jewelry company and the brand and our values, like we've kind of I feel like settle on, like our mission is to help women feel more mindful, aligned and present in our jewelry, because, again, that's what, like when you put that piece on, that's kind of like what you're channeling, what you're focusing on, you're setting that intention for your day. But there's this also, this other side, and I know we talked about it again before. We kind of like landed here And's like I still want that to live in our messaging, and again it's like a three word thing and I'm like they're both really important. Like it is, I love helping women feel more mindful, aligned and present but it's like in that same breath. I don't ever want to again. When we get in the self-help world and always trying to better ourselves, we lose this feeling of enoughness, and that's why it's like I also want women to feel energized, empowered and enough Right, and so it's like I really have gone back and forth with both and I still, it's like I want them both. I'm like how do I present them in? Like the typical world, these are a company mission and value, but this is also still really important to me. But, as we like every time we talk about like these mindsets, or, but it's that exact concept to not be. This is not meant to be like, oh, I need more confidence. I'm going to reach for my confidence. No, you have so much confidence. Like, yes, sure, like, channel more of it. Celebrate that, though, in you, and like even like, sometimes, the jewelry that we can put on. It's not even so much like, oh, I'm not enough. I need more of this to be enough. It can be like, I know I have enough of this, I am enough and I want to celebrate that in me and even bring it out even more. You know, like again, almost like flipping that affirmation on itself, and again we'll go like and we'll say the confidence affirmation we have, which is important, but it's like the affirmation is also I am this, I am confident, like you said in my soul, like whatever you know, you believe, like that different, like who am, i'm like, no, I am this, and I just now need to continue to like, let those layers be okay to fall away, to feel that yes, and I love that part.
Kati: Not the branding is hard, but the idea both of those messages out there right, like we want to. You know, encourage growth and life is a journey and you change and grow, but it's also you grow from what's inside of you. Like it's there. You just have to strengthen that muscle so it will show, or even just let go of everything else, and it's. You're not growing more confidence, it's just already there. You're just letting it shine and letting go of whatever is hiding it.
Cat: I don't know. So that's so tricky Even again for us, like okay and the actual, like marketing and the presentation. I'm like how do we make sure that? Women still like they get. It's exciting to be ready to grow on your journey and do that, but you're also it's okay that like right where you are is perfect.
Kati: And, yeah, you're perfect.
Cat: All right, I think that was good, good conversations around confidence. I love it Again, amazon, and I think that's why we do have, I look at all of our mindsets. We have like a decent amount of pieces in our collection because we do gravitate to that. So there's a beautiful selection that people can go and check out on the website of all of our Amazonite pieces.
Kati: There's plenty.
Cat: Plenty to choose from.
Kati: Yes, well, let's do our affirmation, the Amazonite confidence affirmation, is With every breath I take, my confidence grows.
Cat: I love it. Thank you guys, so much for joining us and we will see you next week when we talk about another mindset on mindful moments with Wonderlight Jewelry.
