The Finally Healed Podcast with Jessica Lundy

The Power of Community | Ep 13

• Jessica Lundy • Season 1 • Episode 13

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Welcome to the final episode of Season 1 of The Finally Healed Podcast with Jessica Lundy! In this episode, Jessica dives deep into the importance of community in our healing journey. 🌸

✨ Episode Highlights:

  1. Support: Find out why having a circle of like-minded individuals can help keep your dreams alive and provide the encouragement you need.
  2. Accountability: Discover how to maintain discipline and consistency by leveraging the accountability that a strong community provides.
  3. Fresh Perspective: Learn how new viewpoints from your community can help you structure your ideas and turn them into actionable plans.

Jessica also shares her personal experiences, including how joining a community in her mid-20s transformed her life, business, and even her marriage. 

She also unveils an exciting new venture – the Finally Healed Patreon Community! Get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, early podcast releases, detailed episode breakdowns, and much more! 🎉

Action Item: Evaluate your current communities and think about how you can contribute more to them and whether you should consider joining new ones.

Thank You for an Amazing Season! Jessica expresses her gratitude to all listeners and looks forward to delivering more valuable content in the coming year. Feel free to go back and watch any episodes you might have missed. 

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Jessica Lundy:

I don't believe that we have to do this thing called life by ourselves. I knew very early on that I was going to have to get around some like-minded people to keep my dream alive. So I think having people that can support you, that can encourage you, that can be your cheerleader, that can champion you, that is the power of community. When a community is really special, it feels like family, and I want you to be a part of my family. Welcome to the Finally Healed podcast, where we prioritize mental health, self-care and embracing our healing journey together. Today we're talking about a very special topic the power of community, and I just want to start by thanking you for being a part of this community. I feel like we have all connected over the last few months with this podcast and being a part of such a special group of women that watch these episodes every week. I appreciate all of you for commenting in the chat and connecting, and I am a huge fan of community. You know I don't believe that we have to do this thing called life by ourselves, even though so much of our life is on social media, but I really believe that when we're able to connect, when we're able to network, when we're able to get offline and be on even Zooms and virtually hang out or hang out in person. I think that is so vital to our success and so vital to our mental health, and so today we're going to be talking about the power of community and why it is so important. So I think there's three main things to think about when you think about community. The first one is support. There are so many times where you might look at your family and friends and you try to share with them your goals, your dreams and your visions, and they look at you like girl. I don't know how you're going to do all of that, because they've never seen it done before, and one of the saddest things is to tell your big vision to someone that has a small mind, big vision to someone that has a small mind, and so I knew very early on that I was going to have to get around some like-minded people to keep my dream alive. I believe that God gives us these big dreams, places them on our heart, and that we have to protect it at all costs, and sometimes we have to protect it from the people that love us, because when God gave us that vision, it was for us to see, not for anyone else, and that's why it can be so challenging when you're trying to share your excitement with people and share your big dreams and your big goals and they don't meet you with that level of excitement. That can be heartbreaking. And so I realized as an adult that I get to choose the family that I desire to be with as an adult, and I think that is vital. So I think having people that can support you, that can encourage you, that can be your cheerleader, that can champion you, is vital.

Jessica Lundy:

Next up is accountability. Trying to figure this thing out called life by ourselves is hard, and trying to keep ourselves accountable can be challenging. If we can be honest, a lot of us don't really struggle with creating dreams, creating vision, creating desires right, like, we know how to do that. But it's the accountability, it's the consistency. But it's the accountability, it's the consistency, it's the discipline, that's a structure, and when I got around people that were checking in on me, like you said you were going to do this, you know why aren't you doing it like? That really helped. Now, there was a season where I was trying to use, you know, my husband as my accountability partner, my mom as my accountability partner, and what I realized my accountability partner and what I realized about family y'all is they give you about one or two times to mess up and then they are not going to keep you accountable no longer. They're like we didn't did our job. You should have did what you were supposed to do. So I realized that I had to keep coaches, mentors, trainers around me and actually pay them, actually invest in it, so that they would see it as a job and they would take it serious.

Jessica Lundy:

And some of the biggest areas of growth I've had in my life is when I surrounded myself by the right people. I think that is valuable. And, last but not least, you have to have a new, fresh perspective. So you might have phenomenal ideas, like you might come up with better ideas than anyone else in the entire world. But if you don't know how to structure those ideas, if you don't know how to create action plan for those ideas, you know a lot of those ideas will not come to pass. And so when I surround myself by like-minded people, I'm able to really go deeper, maybe think about stuff from a different perspective than I thought about, even kind of use them sometimes to'm able to really go deeper, maybe think about stuff from a different perspective than I thought about, even kind of use them sometimes to be able to beta test different information before I put it out there. That is what happens in community.

Jessica Lundy:

So when I think about the first community that I joined, I was in my mid-20s and I had just got married and I was supposed to just go to this conference. Right Like I convinced my husband that I was going to go to this conference with my mom Y'all. I ended up calling in the hallway telling my very new husband that we were not about to get this house, that we wanted, that I was going to join this community. For a minute he thought I was crazy, but because he wasn't in the room, like that's the hardest thing about wanting to join a community or wanting to be connected with something and then you try to tell your partner but they weren't there, right and so I'm trying to tell him everything I experienced this is the best time of my life and all of this stuff he's just like what? Like I don't get it. But the last thing he said was vital. He said if you believe that being a part of this community will change your life, change your business, enhance our marriage, then you have my blessing. That's why it's so important to have significant others that are going to support you, that are going to encourage you and, at the end of the day, give you their blessing to invest in yourself and invest in the things that are important to you.

Jessica Lundy:

And honestly, as a professional speaker and as a coach, I was told this quote very long, long time ago that you know it's hard to ask for a certain amount of money from a potential client if you've never invested that money. And that was something that I never forgot and it is so true and I remember when I was a part of this community. I feel like if you're going to be in community, you should do the most right. So there's two different types of people. One are just like, hey, I'm happy to be there and that's fine, but the way that my personality is wired, I am team doing the most anyways. So I was showing up on all of the calls, coming in early, helping, supporting, doing the most. And you know what the amazing thing is when you put that out in the atmosphere, it's going to come back to you. And when I think about the way that people support me and rock with me and the way that my team supports me and encourages me and shows up and does the most. They met me with the same energy that I was able to give to somebody else. That is the power of community and lifelong relationship.

Jessica Lundy:

There were some people that I was in community with and in different organizations, and the way in which that we stayed in contact, the way in which one of us might've been going through something in our personal life and checking in that's one of the most beautiful things about social media. It allows us to put some eyes on people and bring them top of mind and connect and network and really build family. When a community is really special, it feels like family and I want you to be a part of my family. I am creating the Finally Healed community on Patreon and I am so excited. My team and I have been working so hard behind the scenes to create so many special moments that are going to go on this platform so that we can really have dialogue. I can take you behind the scenes.

Jessica Lundy:

In my life there's so much content that has never made it to social media, never made it in this podcast, but I believe would be a blessing to your life. I know some of the videos would bring you pure joy. Others would motivate you to really go after everything that life has for you. So we're looking forward to putting that, giving you access to early releases of podcasts, maybe even some special episodes specifically for our Patreon family. And one thing that I want to do that I haven't seen any other communities do is I want to create some resources for you, like actually break down the episodes in a way that's very actionable, so after you watch the episode, you know exactly what to do next as a result, how to apply it to your life, and then us have some meetups in the future. So just big picture, but I am super excited. We're going to have some information in the show notes about it, but I think it's going to be an absolute blessing.

Jessica Lundy:

My desire when I came up with the concept of Finally Healed was getting a group of phenomenal women together to prioritize their mental health and their well-being, for them to understand that they are important too and their happiness and their peace and their joy deserves to be a priority. So I would absolutely love to have you be a part of my community and finally embrace your healing journey. Now we have to get to our healing moment, where I give you an action item for what you can improve on this week, and I wanted you to evaluate the communities that you're in. I want you to think about like are they an asset to you? Have you gotten what you needed out of community? Are there certain communities that you need to join and be a part of? And then I want you to think about the community that you have meaning, like your family, your friends, the actual community that you live in. How are you contributing? What more can you do to serve your community?

Jessica Lundy:

This last year, I've gone a lot deeper with the community that I live in being a part of the Chamber of Commerce, connecting with their schools, giving back, you know, showing up to local events. You know there's so much value in our local communities that we don't really give it as much credit as we should. I have been really big on shopping local, dining local and supporting these local businesses because I know it makes a difference. You know we choose what communities that we live in, so I think it's important to be able to support them, like financially support the communities, like you could go to a big chain, but why not go to a smaller restaurant? Like you could go to a big chain to get you know your coffee or your tea, why not go to a smaller coffee shop? You know so there's so many ways in which we can support our local community as well.

Jessica Lundy:

I just want to say, as we are closing out, this is our last episode of season one of the Finally Held podcast with Jessica Lundy and it has been an absolute honor. I'm so grateful. I read all of the comments. You know I actually interact. It's not my team, it's actually me responding to all the comments. I appreciate everyone who's watched, shared, listened and we have some exciting things on the horizon for 2025. So make sure you stay tuned. This has been another episode of the Finally Filled Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend. If there's any episodes you haven't seen yet, make sure you binge watch them and give us a five star rating and take the time to leave a review. Reviews really, really help the podcast to be able to grow and remember you got this.