Listen now | Breakfast with Tatiana Gallardo: She is doing an astonishing thing—she bought a one-way ticket to Europe and is living a year of facing her fears and sharing it publicly. One of the fears she wanted to face, was living a life without alcohol. Tatiana is committed to a year of living brazenly, of living from the heart, and you are not going to want to miss it!
So much good stuff here (except the tragedy that Tatiana has never tasted a brown sugar cinnamon pop-tart).
First, I got really incensed the more I thought about "brazen" and how society has shamed boldness. I have felt this my entire life as a person who charges in when others run out. Sometimes I *don't* speak up because I don't want to appear brazen. Well, no more! I'm owning it.
I like how Tatiana is voicing her choice to not drink alcohol and why and how that's freeing others up to question their own relationship with alcohol. I know there have been plenty of times in my life when I've stepped back and taken stock of my alcohol consumption, and even times I've chosen to abstain for a period of time for various reasons.
Tatiana hit the nail on the head when she said:
"Everyone's so scared to talk about alcohol because they associate it with alcoholism even though there's not an issue with...owning anything about your relationship with alcohol."
And not just talking about it. So many people don't even want to *think* about their relationship with alcohol because there's such a stigma. If society could get to a point where we are having open discussions about alcohol, addiction, and all the things that go hand-in-hand, it would go a long way to opening the doors to the true help so many people desperately need.
For me, I could choose to sit back and keep my son's drug addiction and recovery hidden away so no one could judge him or me or any other family member. But I could care less about what others think if his story and my story are able to help a single soul.
I'm hereby labeling myself a member of the Brazenface Movement. :) Thanks for such a great podcast!
Chatting with you what such a treat of my week and time in Getxo. Thank you for having me on :)
You were fabulous--thank you!
So much good stuff here (except the tragedy that Tatiana has never tasted a brown sugar cinnamon pop-tart).
First, I got really incensed the more I thought about "brazen" and how society has shamed boldness. I have felt this my entire life as a person who charges in when others run out. Sometimes I *don't* speak up because I don't want to appear brazen. Well, no more! I'm owning it.
I like how Tatiana is voicing her choice to not drink alcohol and why and how that's freeing others up to question their own relationship with alcohol. I know there have been plenty of times in my life when I've stepped back and taken stock of my alcohol consumption, and even times I've chosen to abstain for a period of time for various reasons.
Tatiana hit the nail on the head when she said:
"Everyone's so scared to talk about alcohol because they associate it with alcoholism even though there's not an issue with...owning anything about your relationship with alcohol."
And not just talking about it. So many people don't even want to *think* about their relationship with alcohol because there's such a stigma. If society could get to a point where we are having open discussions about alcohol, addiction, and all the things that go hand-in-hand, it would go a long way to opening the doors to the true help so many people desperately need.
For me, I could choose to sit back and keep my son's drug addiction and recovery hidden away so no one could judge him or me or any other family member. But I could care less about what others think if his story and my story are able to help a single soul.
I'm hereby labeling myself a member of the Brazenface Movement. :) Thanks for such a great podcast!
Right---Tatiana really unlocked something and I think she's exactly right--and you are, too!