What’s Your Too Excuse?

Welcome to episode 29, where this week we are tackling the teeny tiny word. Two. And how you are allowing it to hold you back. last week we tackled the word just, and this week I'm taking on the word to, as in T O O. How many times has that word held you back? As in saying to yourself, I'm too old. Or I'm too young. It's too late or it's too early. I'm too fat. Or perhaps as has happened to me on numerous occasions, someone has accused you of being too much. Miriam Webster defines the word too. As to an excessive degree. Or to such a degree as to be regrettable. Let's look at the thought process around using the word too, in order to describe our age. Meaning we are too old or too young to do something, to change careers, to make big moves, to go back to college, to speak up in meetings. Why are we conditioned to think that certain things have to be achieved by a certain age or they can't happen? And on the flip side of that, why do we consistently challenge how successful we are allowed to be based on what age we are? As if the only determining factor for our success is an age sweet spot. We aren't avocados. With just one small magical period of time when we hit our peak. Avocados are assholes. They are never perfect. There are always two green and too hard or too black and too mushy. You are neither of those things. You do not have one small period of time when you were allowed to peek. Think about deejaying seems like a young person scene, right. But who is the most famous DJ today? D nice. On March 17th, D nice aired. His first club quarantine livestream. He spun some favorite records and shared musical insights for an audience of just two. Hundred or so viewers, mostly friends and friends of friends. Word got around. And the next night the audience grew to 1500. It was then that DNI has decided to turn the event into a virtual party. He hooked up his laptop to a DJ controller, set the equipment on his kitchen counter and began to mix records. He DJ'ed for the next nine hours on that Thursday night. And by Friday, the Instagram viewership had grown to tens of thousands, including dozens of celebrities. It's been almost a year since that first live stream. He now has 2.5 million followers. He won the 2020 Webby artist of the year. He was also one of the honoree recipients for the shine, a light award during the 2020 bet awards for his contributions of club quarantine. He has appeared on award shows and was the DJ for the 2021 Superbowl. At 50 years old. D nice has already reinvented himself a number of times. And he certainly wasn't told for this latest re-invention and the creation of club quarantine. On the flip side of this is the two young excuse, that somehow you have to wait until a certain age to create big change. To spread your wings to use your voice or to inspire. Well, not for 22 year old Amanda Gorman, who became the youngest inaugural poet in us history. When she recited her poem. The Hill we climb. At president Joe Biden, swearing in ceremony. Gorman joined the likes of Maya Angelou and Robert Frost in the small group of poets. Who've been invited to speak at a presidential inauguration. Frost was 86 years old. When he read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy on January 20th, 1961. And in 1993, Maya Angelou recited her poem on the pulse of mourning for president bill Clinton's inauguration. She was 54. When Amanda, it recited her poem on January 20th. She was a full 64 and 32 years younger than her predecessors. Age is just a number. Moving on to another use of the word too, that might be holding you back is that you are too fat. Let me just say that success doesn't have a pant size. You were not too fat or too skinny for that matter to achieve what you want and to be successful. You will not be smarter because you lose weight. Your ideas will not be better because you like the way your asks in a pair of yoga pants. Wait. Like age. Is also just a number. And while I'm on the subject of appearances, you are not too ugly to have confidence or too pretty to be taken seriously. If you do not think you were attractive, you have no idea what another person's version of attractive is. And if you are a beautiful congratulations on your face, but you too deserve to be taken seriously for what's inside, not the pretty wrapping it comes in. Now onto my favorite too. Which is too much. And you are not too much, you have never been too much and you will never be too much who gets to decide the volume of much that you were allowed to possess, who gets to tell you that you have to be a watered down sanitized version of yourself because they can't handle, how much are you? You possess? You will never be too much for people who can't get enough of you. So think about all those things. I just mentioned too old, too young, too fat, too skinny, too ugly, or too pretty. How often have you hidden behind the excuse of the word too? And let those three little letters wield power over your mind and stop you from doing something bold. Let's stop doing that. And start drinking. Onto the drink of the week, which is the only thing that is too much of anything around here. It's the boozy as fuck. Long Island iced tea. This drink is a hot mess combination of vodka, gin, rum, and tequila, top to a triple sec, because for alcohols wasn't enough and then a splash of Coke. You take a sip of this and your taste buds literally scream. Let's get lit and then let's wake up with a hangover and some regrets. Might have noticed that there's not even a hint of iced tea and a long Island ice tea, it's simply named for its color. But it also might have gotten its name during prohibition. You know, when alcohol was a big fat no-no, cause that you could like order a long Island iced tea and it looked like an ice tea, but it was really just like a frat party drink. I learned a little something the other day. If you swap out the triple sec for blue Curacao and the Coke for Sprite, it's called a blue, long Island. Whatever, if you want to get hammered, this drink gets the job done, but it also usually hurts a lot the next day. So now a shout out to Veronica L S C for her five, serve you of the podcast, which literally had me smiling from ear to ear. Veronica says. Finally, where has this content been? All my life. As a young woman in sales right out of college, I always felt like I was putting on a costume at work. Julie smashes the norm that you have to play a specific role in order to be a successful professional. This is some raw, authentic advice that doesn't sound like a coach telling you what you want to hear. But a best friend telling you exactly what you need to hear, even if you hate it. It's like sitting on an old friend's couch, getting a dose of actionable reality while you toss back martinis and talk about conquering the world. Oh my God. Veronica. Thank you so much reviews like this. Make me want to keep creating content and upping my game each and every time. I can't. Thank you enough. For your amazing review for taking the time to do that review and for listening. Is that time folks. It's that time for me to ask you to review the podcast, to share it with your friends and tune in again next week. Where i'm talking all about why you should be swearing more no fucking shit see you then cheers