91. The Impact of Self Doubt: How Discovering Your True Value Changes Everything - Eryn Eddy

Professional DevelopmentMental HealthLeadership

Mar 17

Written By Julie Confer

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Overview

Meet Eryn. This social entrepreneur and creativity director is powering through some seriously awesome coaching on empathy, entrepreneurship, the power of honest conversations and the impact of self-doubt. Want to change the world? Start with valuing yourself, she says. It's an honest conversation with the woman who literally built a brand telling you you're So Worth Loving.

Today’s Guest

Eryn Eddy, Founder and CEO of So Worth Loving

“Be still in the change. Because in stillness does create a renewed vision.”

— Eryn Eddy, Founder and CEO of So Worth Loving

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Episode Highlights

Eryn’s story and the founding of So Worth Loving - 2:54
The importance of valuing oneself - 15:30
The “accidental” CEO and Eryn’s lessons learned along the way - 20:13
Don’t look side to side at what other people are doing, instead look forward at your vision — 25:30
Advice for seeking inspiration & lighting the fire - 27:40
Eryn’s advice for young professionals - 30:50
Eryn’s book, “So Worth Loving” - 34:00
Eryn’s One Philanthropic Moment - 39:20
Eryn’s One Good Thing: your rest is important.- 44:30

Powerful Quotes:

“Sometimes we are reactionary to what's in front of us, instead of thinking really deep down, what is my longing and desire and aspirations? What do I really want to do?” - Eryn

“We all know that if anybody believes in our heart of what we want to pursue, it's a gift.” - Eryn

“To get multiple letters from people saying, I have never felt worthy of love makes me almost cry sitting here in this chair. And what a tiny, sliver of a door that just opens into someone's heart that they're asking anybody to walk through, and tell them why they are” - Becky

“That is a cry for help. And it's a need for community. And I love that you said yes. And that you poured into it. And for anyone who's ever been on your website or follows you on social, you will see how well that the story is translated over and over again.” - Becky

“How are you engaging other people like it's their story that matters.” - Jon

“I don't want other people to feel alone. All these people feel alone, if they only knew they weren't.” - Eryn

“You don’t have to be a nonprofit to have a meaningful impact and community. We need to find people that are like-minded, that share our values, and that can be a support system.” - Becky

“You're either a business person or your creative business person. And those are two different breeds.” - Eryn

“Those types of honest conversations with people that are mentors, business-minded people, even honest conversations about employees about how they don't like your leadership style, all of those types of things can really hit us in our self worth, we start to find our value and the praise of what the donations look like, the praise of what the employees think, the praise of what people online think. And the next thing you know, our self worth and our self-esteem is going up and down.” - Eryn

“We have to pay attention to those little moments where we’re starting to experience apathy or discontentment. They are little signals of where we’re finding our self worth.” - Eryn

“There are times that I’m going further away from my vision and goal. I’m really looking side to side at what other people are doing, instead of looking at the forward vision.” -Eryn

“In nonprofit, I think it's so easy to get guilty of that of just getting tone-deaf to the missional moments that should be the Northstar that should cause us to pause and process and to reflect and hold my share with them with people when you have those moments.” - Jon

“Sometimes when we go through a huge change in our life, our immediate response is to change more things.” - Eryn

“My encouragement is to be still in the change. Because stillness does create a renewed vision.” - Eryn

“I started journaling about that finding my self-worth and all these different metrics, I was just journaling it. And I remember thinking, maybe this would help somebody.” - Eryn

“So how can I share some things that I've gone through in just the course of observing stories of so worth loving, being present in my own story, about awareness, about ownership, about receiving grace, about my anger towards guiding my anger towards the community, and then learning how to create healthy boundaries and protect what I'm doing the inner work on, and then how to be a better neighbor?” - Eryn

“And my hope for anybody that reads this book doesn't read my story but sees their story and the emotions that they are feeling in it and feel less alone.” - Eryn

“No one ever told her that she was valued and worth loving until she started seeking help from professionals. And I just remember thinking, this is why we exist.” - Eryn’s One Philanthropic Moment

“If you need the permission to do that, the good thing I'm gonna tell you to do is to just go and do it. Because your rest is so important. That would be my encouragement.” - Eryn’s One Good Thing

“I could tell every single person who is listening right now you are loved in this space you are cared for and appreciated in this space. And to be a vibrant member of the space we want you to take care of yourself. These are some kind of tough times right now we're we're getting it out with you love yourself well and and find someone else to love because we can all lift our hand down and pull somebody up right now and the only way we're gonna get through any any hardship in our life is through community. We don't want anybody to do this alone.” - Becky