The Goop Podcast with the Foster sisters was such a good listen.

It made me realize how similar we all are, regardless of wealth, culture and ethnicity.

All humans crave a sense of purpose, meaning, belonging and also the desire to showcase our gifts and potential.

We are all afraid of judgment from others but more so, from ourselves.

These were the key points I picked up from the podcast.

Having a Bias to Action will be Rewarding

If anybody came to me and said, Hey, I have this other interesting business idea that I think you should do. I would be like, I could try that too. If it was closed, if it was a podcast. I was like, I wanna stay busy. I wanna stay proactive. I don’t know how to make my writing career take off.

So I’m open to things that are interesting and creative to me. And I think in some ways, being open to your life, looking a different way does end up putting you on the path you kind of always intended to be on just differently than you thought it would look.

– Erin Foster, Creator of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This & Actress

You are responsible for living your life and making the changes you desire. No one person or one situation can help you with that

I really sat back most of my life just thinking things were gonna fall in my lap because things fell in my lap as a very young person.

You know, when you’re, when you’re young and you’re five nine and people tell you you’re attractive and you’re, you, you just sort of think like, okay, well I’ll, I’ll get opportunities.

I didn’t know what I was good at. People told me, oh, you’d be good at this. I would try this and I’d be kind of good at it, but I just, I didn’t have a plan.

But like, my life wasn’t really good because when you don’t have agency and when you don’t have a North star and when you don’t know who you are.

So I would date men who did have agency and who were these, like larger than life people because it gave me self-esteem.

– Sara Foster, Actress

Early success might make you afraid to try and experiment

She’s got like more ambition than I do, but I am much more open to opportunities because I don’t fear failure the way that Sara feels.

Fear failure. Interesting. But that’s because I failed a lot as a kid, and Sarah didn’t. Sarah was straight a student. She was always the best at everything that she did.

– Erin Foster, Creator of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This & Actress

If you didn’t care what people would think or say, would your life be fuller and richer?

Sara had a real fear around that and a fear around failing in front of other people. … she was very resistant to trying these things… like the fear of what it would look like to other people that if we tried this thing and it didn’t work out, like what would that say about us?

Whereas for me, I would look at it as like. How cool would it look to people if we tried something new and different and put ourselves out there? And if it doesn’t work, I’m okay with that because it’s not that I’m such a big person, it’s more like that was kind of always part of my process is starting and failing.

– Erin Foster, Creator of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This & Actress

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