The Marie Forleo Experience

On Monday night I went into New York City to see Marie Forleo speak.

If you read Friday’s post, you know this was way out of my comfort zone for a whole bunch of reasons.

One of those reasons is that while I’ve been to the city many times (it’s only an hour away from my house), I almost always go with someone else who knows their way around.

So I was going to have to rely on myself.

The talk/”experience” was at the Hammerstein Ballroom which is about a mile from Grand Central where I came in on the train.

I have some stuff going on in my life right now, and one of the things I need to constantly remind myself of is that I can do anything.

It’s one of the reasons I was going to this whole thing in the first place.

Marie was discussing her book, Everything Is Figuroutable.

I think we moms need reminders of that pretty often.

But my goal is to help other women — and myself — get to the point where they don’t need other people to remind them of this and we just automatically remind ourselves.

So my first task was to walk from Grand Central to the Hammerstein Ballroom alone with no help and without asking anyone for help.

I am totally in support of asking for help whenever you need it, but I really just wanted to make it clear to myself that I could do this totally alone.

I arrived early enough that I could take my time. I had an hour and a half to get there. So I took my time.

It was a beautiful night in the city.

I walked past Bryant Park.

I got there in plenty of time.

Everyone had a book waiting for them on their seats when they got there.

There was a dj up on the stage until Marie came out.

She was playing some of Number 3 and 4’s favorite music. I felt kind of old listening to it and thinking, This song is terrible.

But there women of all ages there.

I was super close to the stage, but you weren’t allowed to use cell phones once Marie came out.

The whole “ballroom” is pretty cool.

I’ll be honest about the “experience.”

I had already heard a lot of what she said.

I listen to the Marie Forleo podcast and I watch her show and I have heard her speak on so many other podcasts that a lot of what she said was not new to me.

But I left there with a whole bunch of clarity on what I need and want to do with my life.

I felt clear and I felt empowered.

It was 10:00 by the time she finished speaking.

I had to get back to Grand Central. I had originally planned to take a cab.

But instead I walked.

Walking alone to Grand Central when it was dark out and I’m not familiar with where I’m going is super intimidating to me.

And that’s why I had to do it.

So I did it.

I know for most people this wouldn’t be a big deal, but for me it was huge.

It was another deposit in the bank of hard, scary things.

Another reminder that everything really is figuroutable.

I can do hard things.

I can navigate any situation.

And if I can do it, then you can, too.

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