Breverie Handbook with Olena Mytruk
Telling personal stories is one of the most powerful and most underrated self-discovery and personal growth tools ever invented.
It's like a handbook. Your memories and life stories are like pages in your very own life manual, and all you need to do is be willing to look through those pages, read through them, and learn from them.
Sharing your personal stories out loud is like making a peace pact with yourself. Once you let it out, once you give yourself permission to let it out – something that you kept deep inside for so long – it liberates you.
And it begins to finally make sense. Your life, your deepest thoughts and desires, your wildest dreams and aspirations, your biggest fears and doubts – you begin to get it.
My name is Olena Mytruk, and it took me a while to learn the power of storytelling. But once I discovered it, I never looked back.
I invite you to join me on this adventurous and inspiring journey as I flip pages of my Breverie Handbook – trying to figure out what it really takes to be a hardworking, passionate, multifaceted woman in today’s world.
Breverie Handbook with Olena Mytruk
The Page About Being Fine, Building the Wall, and Coming Back to the Real Me
Raise your hand if you consider yourself a strong and capable woman.
Now, let me ask you—what do you normally do when you face a challenge or a problem, or struggle with something? If you are anything like me, you probably just go ahead and solve this problem, or deal with this challenge, or handle this struggle - all on your own.
And when someone asks you if everything is okay and if you need help, you probably tell them, “It’s fine, I am fine, everything is fine”. Because you are a strong and capable woman, right?
Well, let me just say that if you are doing this, you might be missing out on something very important…
In this episode, I share the story of how I spent years building a very tall and thick “I am fine” wall around myself, and why now I am bringing it down—brick by brick.
EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
- [01:09] The crushing disappointment of an empty masterclass
- [03:49] Getting me to open up
- [05:52] The power of talking it out
- [06:48] How this “I’m fine” thing started
- [09:56] Demolishing the wall brick by brick
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The Page About Firsts, Following Your Gut, and Senegal (feat. Ashlee Sang)
The Page About Wishes, Two Marriages, and Magic
The Page About Freedom, the Tattoo, and Taking Charge of My Life
The Page About the First Time I Put Myself First, Really
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