The Art of Badassery
As an author, Certified Mastery Method Coach, and motivational speaker, Mahara aims to help women unleash their inner badass and live on their own terms.
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#110 You Don't Rise to Your Intentions (opens the original)
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You can have the clearest intentions in the world and still struggle to follow through when pressure, fear, or discomfort shows up. That gap isn’t necessarily a problem with discipline, motivation, or self-trust. It may be a question of emotional capacity. You intend to set the boundary. Have the conversation. Stop over-functioning. Rest without guilt. Speak up. And you mean it—right up until following through asks you to tolerate something uncomfortable. That’s where intention stops being enoug
#109 Why Smart Women Stay Stuck (opens the original)
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Why do smart, self-aware women stay stuck even when they know exactly what they need to do? When you understand your patterns, know where your boundaries belong, and can practically narrate your own people-pleasing in real time, more insight isn’t necessarily the answer. Because knowing you need to rest doesn’t mean you can rest without guilt. Knowing you need to set a boundary doesn’t mean you can tolerate someone’s disappointment. Knowing you need to trust yourself doesn’t mean you can stay st
#108 The Skill Beneath Every Other Skill (opens the original)
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If you’ve been working on your confidence, self-trust, emotional resilience, or ability to make decisions under pressure, you may be working one layer too high. There’s a skill underneath all of them—and it changes how you understand growth. We’re often taught that confidence creates action, courage gets rid of fear, and clarity is what allows us to move forward. But what happens when you’re still afraid, still uncertain, still grieving, still uncomfortable—and life is asking you to move anyway?
#107 What Happens When You Stop Running (opens the original)
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What happens when you stop running from grief, difficult emotions, and the parts of your life you can’t control? Avoidance can look like overthinking, staying busy, numbing out, fixing, or convincing yourself you’re fine—but all of it consumes emotional capacity. The exhausting part isn’t always what happened. Sometimes it’s the energy you’re spending trying not to feel what happened. Fighting reality can become so familiar that you don’t notice how much of your life is organized around keeping
#106 You Can't Heal What You Refuse to Carry (opens the original)
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Healing from grief and emotional pain isn’t only about time. It’s also about our capacity to stay present with what hurts instead of building a life around avoiding it. We get very good at staying busy, being productive, distracting ourselves, intellectualizing what happened, or convincing ourselves we’ve already dealt with it. But avoidance doesn’t make pain disappear. It often keeps us carrying it in ways we don’t recognize. In this episode of Mindfucks With Mahara , we explore a harder truth:
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