203:🎢 Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster of Launching with Natalie Lue

Today we’re going behind the scenes of book launching, sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly (cries) resulting from the emotional rollercoaster that often surrounds the process of setting big projects loose into the world, including exhaustion, comparison, dashed hopes, and grief.

🎧 If you haven’t already, be sure to listen to

Natalie Lue

on the Pivot podcast in episode 329: Five Types of People-Pleasers from The Joy of Saying No.

More About Natalie

Natalie Lue

is the author of The Joy of Saying No: A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing, Reclaim Boundaries, and Say Yes to the Life You Want and for 8 years hosted The Baggage Reclaim Sessions podcast. She helps people learn how to reclaim themselves from their emotional baggage and increase emotional availability through self-care.

📝 Permission

Do something at 70 percent and see what happens, giving yourself the gift of more energy and bandwidth.

✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next

Create a Mastermind group of friendtors to vent with, even if you don’t wait to air that grief (and those grievances) publicly. For related episodes, check out 078: How to Create Transformational Mastermind Groups and 188: Energy Capacity Planning and Finding Resonant Masterminds with Kelli Thompson.

🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Natalie on the web, Instagram: @natlue, Twitter, Facebook

• Substack:

  On Knowing Yourself

• Quiz: Are You a People-Pleaser?

• Video: Natalie’s TV Show appearance on Lorraine—How To Stop People Pleasing & Start Saying No With Author Natalie Lue!

📚 Books Mentioned

• The Joy of Saying No by Natalie Lue

• Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead by Tosha Silver

• Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business

• Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

🎧 Related Episodes

• Natalie’s podcast: The Baggage Reclaim Sessions with Natalie Lue

• Jenny’s Behind-the-Book playlist (Spotify)

• Pivot: 329: Five Types of People-Pleasers & The Joy of Saying No with Natalie Lue

• 319: Who’s Sitting in the Boardroom of your Brain?

• 320: Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto

• 329: Five Types of People-Pleasers from The Joy of Saying No

• Free Time: 031: Eleventh-Hour Creative Gremlins

• 064: The Vulnerability of Launching

• 096: Book Sales Stats—One Month Post-Launch 🎉

• 174: What Book Marketing has to do with Glass Blowing: Reflecting on Free Time’s 1-Year Bookiversary 🥂

• 173: Cut Your Losses—Even While Pivoting in Public—with Khe Hy

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