How to Stop People-Pleasing Without Losing Love

In this episode of Beauty in the Break, Foster and Cesar share their real-time struggles with breaking through personal barriers in relationships and self-awareness. Foster reveals her pattern of people-pleasing and difficulty knowing what she wants, especially in romantic relationships, while Cesar confronts unexpected impatience that's surfaced as he's achieved more success in his speaking and meditation career. Through vulnerable conversation, they explore how women's intuition gets buried beneath societal conditioning, why men struggle when women can't articulate their needs, and how personal growth requires constantly meeting your partner (and yourself) in new versions as you evolve.

In this episode they explore: 

• Why successful women still struggle to say what they want in relationships
• Men opening doors for women: patronizing or respectful?
• The Buddhist story about success that humbled a meditation teacher
• The difference between releasing your demons and working with them
• Why growth requires meeting your partner again and again in new versions
• The iPhone update theory of human transformation

Episodes referenced: 

• Episode 23: Our Most Uncomfortable Conversation Yet: Money - where we explored the “messy middle” of healing our money issues
• Episode 33: How Psychedelics Changed Our Lives 

If this episode spoke to you, you will love Why It’s Never Equal where we explore gender roles and invisible labor. You can also watch the episodes on YouTube.

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Created & Hosted by: Cesar Cardona and Foster Wilson

Executive Producer: Glenn Milley

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