"My Divorce SAVED My Life!" - How I Stopped Living For Others & STARTED Living For Myself

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Hey guys, it’s Lisa Bilyeu and I’m so frikin’ excited about today’s episode of Women of Impact with one of my close homies!

If you feel like you have been holding onto a dream, trying so damn hard to make it happen, but wondering if it might be time to dream a new dream – this episode is for you!!

My girl Patrice Washington is BACK, and while she’s most known as “America’s Money Maven” and an absolute QUEEN when it comes to finances and money confidence, A LOT has changed since the last time she was on the show!

We get into alllllll the details in the episode, but the short version is that after 19 years with her husband, she recognized her marriage wasn’t serving her anymore and decided to divorce him.

Now divorced, dating, and in her 40s, Patrice is happier than ever because she made a different decision and did the work to pivot her life!

As a result, she got her voice back, is living life on HER terms, and even has NEW vows that she keeps to HERSELF!!

And in this episode, we are breaking down EXACTLY HOW she went from unhappy and romanticizing reality to radical honesty and doing the work to actually make a change to her situation!!!

We also talk about:
- The 5 beliefs that gave Patrice her voice back & how she PRACTICED speaking up for herself before she had the strength to do it in her marriage
- How holding onto your identity can keep you trapped in your situation & how to reframe those beliefs that are keeping you stuck
- Why asking yourself the hard questions is SO important, but why ACTING in accordance to your answers is EVEN MORE important
- The top reasons women stay in unhappy relationships & how to reframe them, detach from previous versions of yourself, and actually step into WHO YOU are meant to be
- Her AMAZING mantra & reminder about love that we ALL need to hear on repeat
- How to approach dating so you don’t make the same mistakes in choosing a partner again
- And much more!!

So guys, consider this your alarm clock to frikin’ WAKE UP, STOP submitting to the circumstances of your life, and DO THE WORK to change your situation and find happiness again.

You don’t have to stay where you are, but you DO have to make different choices in how you show up in your life, for yourself and others.

I know you can do it if that’s what you really want, and this episode is your guide!!

CHAPTER MARKERS:

🔎 [00:00] Examining beliefs, questioning faith & seeking change
💪 [11:09] Evolving identity & overcoming barriers
👍🏼 [31:36] Confidence in personal vs. professional life
❤️ [1:00:43] Resiliency
🤗 [1:22:19] Confidence in decision-making

PATRICE’S POWERFUL TRUTH BOMBS:

"What would you be willing to lose to have everything that you believe God has called you to have?"

"My life has been built on a bunch of illogical moves that only faith could do, right? But that same faith, in many ways, was weaponized because I grew up in churches hearing that, once people get married, that's it."

"Do you really believe that a God that loves you would want you to be treated this way? No matter what other people have said over the years, no matter what other people have tried to say, what the Bible says, what this says, I believe that the God that loves me would never want his daughter to be treated in this way, not the way that I love people and you know me personally, not the way that I take care of people. He couldn't. This cannot be what he wants for me for another 18 years."

"I had to lose the belief that the only way that I could be received is if I was a married woman."


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Themes: Confidence, Relationships, Business, Mental Health, Self-Improvement