Episode 2

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16th Mar 2024

The Know Thyself Edit

The episode begins with a very important question: Do you know yourself, or are you living in a version of yourself created by someone else?

In this episode, we explore the journey of self-discovery, the power of understanding oneself, and the process of making necessary edits to your life, decisions, and mindset.

What is the art of knowing thyself?

- It's an internal process of examining yourself and refining your thoughts, behaviors, and life choices to align with your future self, goals, values, and aspirations.

- It involves a thoughtful and courageous reassessment and redirection of your life and being intentional about how you are showing up in the world.

Keys to getting to know yourself better

Self-concept and self-awareness:

- At the heart of knowing yourself is self-concept, which includes the beliefs and perceptions you hold about yourself without external influences.

- Reclaim the power to define yourself on your own terms by shedding limiting beliefs and replacing them with self-advocacy and affirmation practices.

- Self-awareness is a crucial daily practice that involves quieting your mind, practicing mindfulness and introspection, and observing your thoughts, emotions, and patterns without external judgment.

Self-compassion and self-discovery:

- Self-compassion is essential when practicing self-awareness, as it allows you to be kind to yourself during moments of struggle and acknowledge your efforts, wins, brilliance, and beauty.

- Taking inventory of your strengths, weaknesses, motivations, and unique qualities is part of the self-discovery process.

- Embracing your future self with radical love, compassion, and self-awareness is key to developing a strong self-concept.

Practical tips for daily self-discovery:

1. Journaling: Dedicate time to explore feelings, thoughts, and experiences in an unfiltered way through various forms of journaling, such as daily reflection, gratitude journaling, prompted journaling, podcasting, or even talking out loud to yourself.

2. Setting SMART goals: Create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals to give yourself direction and a plan of action for personal growth.

3. Mindfulness and meditation: Practice being present in the moment and become more aware of your thoughts, feelings, and environment through mindfulness and meditation techniques like mindful moments, reflection meditation, or focusing on your five senses.

Let's touch and agree! By engaging in daily self-discovery practices, you can enhance your self-awareness, create a deeper understanding of yourself, and live a more authentic and purpose-driven life.

Email me at hello@thebloomology.com and share your self-edit stories, reflections, and self-discovery moments

The Self Edit Challange Of The Week:

The challenge for the next week is to commit to one small act of self-discovery every day and take notice of any insights, patterns, thoughts, beliefs, or emotions that arise during the process.

Let me know how it goes. You can DM me on Instagram too - @jenebawint

FREE Gift - I made this powerful list of free self-discovery affirmations for you too. Click the link to get your copy.

XoXo

Jeneba

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About the Podcast

The Self Edit
Black women living their best lives
Tired of feeling like a blurry screenshot, 30-day trial version of yourself of your best self? Today, we stop the copy + paste!

Welcome to The Self Edit, your guide to becoming the bold, brilliant masterpiece you were always meant to be. We celebrate Black womanhood and the journey of becoming. We're about that self-evolution and self-elevation life.

Join your host "The Jeneba Wint" a.k.a the Chief Self Officer, a passionate developer of people, on a journey of intentional life design. Forget autopilot, hit "Ctrl + Alt +Delete and transform your life:

The road to self-actualization is hard-won, but so worth it! Let's do this self-mastery work together. Whether you want to develop more self-confidence, unlock your creativity or optimize your decision-making, Jeneba and her fabulous guests will provide frameworks, prompts, strategies, and practices to activate change and transformation in real life.

This isn't just another self-help podcast with empty promises and band-aid solutions. This is about doing the work— learning, unlearning, healing, elevating—so YOU can live more fully as your best and truest self.

Each week, we'll deep dive into all aspects of intentional and purposeful living: mindset, peace protection and boundaries, productivity, goal achievement, mind-body connection, relationships, minimalism, spirituality and so more.

You KNOW there is greatness within you. Let "The Self Edit" show you how to access and sustain it, from the inside out. Let's edit!

Hit the subscribe button today. It's time to stop editing your dreams and start editing your life. Let's build the best version of you, together.

About your host

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Jeneba Wint

Jeneba Wint is a leader in digital transformation and innovation. She is a futurist and systems-thinker that has a deep reverence for designing her future self with a passion for self-mastery and self-leadership. She helps Black women and BIPOC humans in the tech industry unlock their zone of genius, accelerate their career growth, and attract high-paying, high-value opportunities. She’s an amplifier and a valued thought partner! Her God-given purpose in this life is to help people think more highly of themselves, help them unlock their full potential, and design a dream life for themselves that creates wealth and impact for future generations. She loves helping the underestimated and undervalued step into the greatest, highest, next-level version of themselves!

She is a graduate of both Delaware State University and The Ohio State University where is received her Masters in Urban Planning. She is a life long learner and continues to level up and build a legacy in technology. She recently earned her first certification in AI Sprint Facilitation, making her one of the first and only certified practitioners in the world. Jeneba is also completed a certification on AI Product Management in May 2024.

She has over ten years of experience leading SAAS digital product development projects in the tech industry, specifically in the service design, design strategy, and operations space.

Jeneba hosts her own podcast show called “The Self Edit” (which is relaunching March 2024)and is building her brand as a fractional executive in the digital transformation and AI. She also has a media brand and career development platform for Black women in tech called “Bloomology.” She enjoys speaking on digital transformation (systems and tech stacks), the future of work, career development, and career branding for Black technologists.

Her mission continues to be, helping people unlock their zone of genius, stop living under their full power and potential, and step into the best version of themselves.

For Jeneba that is the gift that keeps on giving. Every time she helps someone get an opportunity that they thought they were underqualified for, get a promotion, negotiate an offer, or get clarity on their career path it's really a win for her too!