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Feminist scholar, author, and activist, Bell Hooks gives us an incredible insight about women and agency. She says: "If any female feels she needs anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she's already giving away her power to be self-defining. Giving away her agency."

This quote starts off part two of our episode about healthy creative ambition. So if you have yet to listen to episode 74, go back and start there. This episode picks up where we left off.

This episode covers agency its 4 Helpers. (I wrote this summary...no AI here!) You can follow these along with these four steps as you listen or use it for reference after you listen.)

• Each of these pillars serves us and is necessary.
• We naturally gravitate to one and probably need to work on one.
• Zero judgement about the areas where you are not engaging.

1. Intentionality 

• Make a proactive commitment to take action to change your life or your environment.
• You are not letting others around you force your actions – you are choosing to act and take control.

2. Forethought

• Forethought helps you to visualize the future and set goals for yourself.
• It allows you to motivate yourself and to guide your actions in anticipation of future events.

3. Self-reactiveness

• You have the ability to act on your plans and monitor your progress, plus make a course correction if you stray.
• Self-reactiveness means that once you have intention and a plan, you cannot sit back and wait for the results to appear but you must be deliberate in acting towards reaching your goals.

4. Self-reflection

• Allows you to think about and evaluate your motives, your values and your life goals.
• Self-reflection lets you address any conflicts in your motivations and choose to act in favor of one over the other.

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