HeyJaredThe Lulu Essey Podcast
Building a life that feels aligned with who you truly are starts from the inside out. I'm Lulu Essey, and each week I share honest conversations, practical tools, and personal stories to help you build Mental Fitness, Self-Love, and emotional resilience - your way.
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How Do You Keep Showing Up When Nobody's Cheering? | External Validation & Consistency (opens the original)
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How do you keep showing up when nobody's cheering? We know how important consistency is to achieving almost anything. And consistency feels hardest when there is no external validation, nobody cheering us on, nothing that tells us to keep going. This episode is about where the strength to keep showing up comes from when the cheering has not arrived yet. This year, the New York Knicks, one of the most famous teams in basketball, won the NBA championship after a 53 year wait. New York lost its min
If Nobody's Watching, Do You Still Matter? | Self-Worth Beyond Social Media Numbers (opens the original)
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If nobody's watching, do we still matter? Self-worth gets tested every time we look at our social media numbers, the views, the likes, the followers. This episode is about what those numbers do to our sense of worth, and the one truth that holds when those numbers fall. A couple of weeks ago at the US Open, during Naomi Osaka's match, a chair umpire paused play because a suite full of influencers was mid photo shoot, ring lights and the whole nine yards. The internet piled on instantly. I saw so
What RM of BTS' UN Speech Taught the World About Self-Love (opens the original)
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RM of BTS stood before the United Nations in 2018 and gave one of the greatest Self-Love speeches ever heard: speak yourself. But the moment that stopped me was one sentence, the one where he claimed the very label people used to dismiss him. Episode 93 of Self-Love Through Their Eyes goes inside the speech, the UNICEF Love Myself campaign that came a full year before it, and the story of a boy from a small town who stopped hearing his own voice, and found it again in front of the world. I was l
Self-Love Through Their Eyes: bell hooks (opens the original)
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Love is a choice, not a feeling we wait for. bell hooks' "all about love" is centered around that truth, and I know the weight of it personally: I first picked up her book over 15 years ago and put it down twice, stopped in the Preface by what it showed me about my own story. Episode 92 of Self-Love Through Their Eyes goes inside the book and looks at what love is made of, why real love cannot be sold to us, and the chapter she found hardest to write, her own Self-Love. Because the woman who def
Stop Judging Yourself: A Lesson in Self-Love from Zanele Muholi (opens the original)
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What does it take to stop judging yourself and truly see yourself? Self-Love through the eyes of Zanele Muholi , the South African visual activist who turned photographing themselves into a practice of Self-Love This episode opens a new series, Self-Love Through Their Eyes , where I introduce you to artists who reshaped how I understand Self-Love and Mental Fitness, and the window each one opened for me. We begin with Zanele Muholi. Their exhibition toured Europe to record audiences before retur
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