Meeting Ania really marked the start of me starting my own business. She will always be a very important person in my life, for so many reasons too beyond just the part she played in my evolution. She is a kind and wise woman, and a lot of fun to be around. She has grown a successful coaching business, and this is in large part due to her absolute passion for her work (which you will hear as she speaks). I know there is much more to come from her, and I am excited to be part of her world that I may witness it all.

I am thrilled to bring this conversation with Ania to you as the start of Season 2 of The Sounds of the Rising. Please do let both Ania and I what you take from our time together (find our details below).

In the episode Ania mentions 2 quotes, which I have included below for you to read again:

The first:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

The second:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

― Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic" speech in April 23rd 1910, which, amongst many today is known as “The Man in the Arena"

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www.linkedin.com/in/aniahulsman/

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