Rita
Good morning, and welcome to day 23 of my 30 day journey to the South of France and today I’m here with a new friend Patricia Brooks. We’re in this beautiful town that she chose to move to just a little over a couple of months ago, right?
Patricia
I’ve been in France for a year and four months, but in this particular town for a for a little over three months.
Rita
We were just recently introduced by a mutual friend who has a podcast called “Dance after Midnight”. Brandt interviewed me a couple of months ago, and he and I have become friends too. He too is somewhat of a nomad and said, “Oh, my God, you got to meet Patricia!” So this morning, I traveled to meet my new friend who has an amazing business called the Courage Catalyst.
This woman is living the life that she loves and she chose to come from corporate to living to this beautiful small village. Right across the street is where Picasso was painting and there’s a fountain that was designed for him. So if that tells you anything at all about how beautiful this little village is and it’s surrounded by the pier. So on three sides, we have the mountains around this beautiful little village in this valley.
I am so glad that I came here today to meet you and I feel like I have a sister because her business is very much aligned with what I’m all about – having people design the life that that they love. That is your business basically, too, and I want to hear a little bit more about why you came here. And what is it that what drew you to this beautiful place? And how are you changing lives here?
Patricia
Thank you for coming and reaching out to me, because this has been a really great opportunity to get to know somebody who business is so like mine.
It was intuition. I had gotten to a place in my life where I was successful in corporate and comfortable. But that didn’t feel comfortable anymore. That sounds funny, I don’t know, we need a lot of people like that.
I felt like I wanted to live here. When you go to Paris on your own, which is where I’m staying, I felt completely free. I spent my first year in France there, but I wanted to move to a smaller village. The mountains here are grounding for me, so I decided to stay here.
Rita
So tell us about your new book.
Patricia
My new book is called “Live a Bold Life, Your 30 Day Mission to a Fearless Future.” It recounts my first year living here in France, the insights I gained over the little things I did and it includes these intuitive affirmations at the end of each chapter so that the reader can personalize them. I have these affirmations that can help them to grow bold. One of the things that really has helped me to transform my life is saying positive things to myself, the positive self-talk. It wasn’t until recently that I recognize that, in the saying positive affirmations to myself, I started to see myself differently. Then seeing myself differently, I was able to create new habits, the habits of the kind of person who believes those things about themselves. That was a huge piece in my ability to take the space back.
Rita
You know, it’s so funny that you say “seeing yourself differently,” because for me on this 30 day journey, and I’ve only got one week left, one thing I’ve learned is I’m seeing myself differently because of this trip and because I have taken bold steps. It’s what we’re both all about – what we want to encourage other people, other women to do is to not be afraid or if you are afraid just do it anyway. Then you see yourself a lot differently and then there’s nothing that could really stop you.
Patricia
You gain that confidence to do the next thing. Okay, well, I did that now what’s next, right?
Rita
And we’re all about what’s next in your in your life. So, for me part of this journey has been this was always a dream of mine. In my book I’ve written about, when I realized I was stopping myself from living my own dreams. Here I’m talking about it to other people and it was such a momentous moment because I realized, I’m not allowing myself or giving myself permission to live the dreams that I really want to live.
So the reason I wanted to meet Patricia was because she actually is doing what she said she wanted to do. You’re just open to the way that life took you here and you’re now creating another business around it. You’ve written your second book and are coaching.
So no matter where you are in life, you can do whatever you choose to do. You can design the life that you love. Anyway, I’m just so glad that we met and I know that we’re going to be seeing each other more often.
Patricia
Absolutely. You’ve got a place to stay.
Rita
I’ll be here. So until tomorrow, go out and design and live the life that you love.
