031: Journey to Self Acceptance, How to Discover Who You Truly Are with Necole Kane
Journey to self-acceptance
Quite often we hear phrases like “if you don't love yourself, no one will love you” or “you must love yourself.” But what does that even mean? Honestly, there is no standard meaning of self-love or self-acceptance. Each and every person has a different way of expressing love to themselves.
It is, however, important to note that this is not something that you can derive from the number of followers you have on social media, or the way you dress, or the expensive car you drive…. the list is endless. You may feel good about those things but that does not translate to self-love.
Loving and accepting yourself involves treating yourself with respect, gentleness as well as taking care of your wellbeing as you would a friend. Self-love is a way of responding to your inadequacies, imperfections, challenges, mistakes with self-compassion and kindness rather than beating yourself up. In that regards, self-love is critical to living a fulfilled, happy life. As Necole puts it, self-acceptance is loving who you are when you’re stripped off every title that you bear.
Her name probably rings a bell from Necole Bitchie. Necole Kane is the name behind the popular entertainment blog. She is currently Editor in Chief and IFBB Pro and a Bikini competitor. In pursuit of her quest to inspire and empower young women, Necole founded xoNecole.com, a defined platform for young women to share their personal stories and indulge in career, beauty and relationship tips, as well speak their minds on the latest in culture news and politics.
Previously, she successfully ran an award-winning celebrity gossip blog that was recognized as one of the leading and fastest growing urban gossip sites on the internet, appealing to readers from publications such as The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Cosmopolitan, CNN, Global Grind, and receiving awards like Black Enterprise’s Black Blogger of the Month, Ebony Magazine’s Power 100, Soul Train Music Award for Best Soul Site. Necole was the first blogger to appear in BET’s 106th and Park, all while being featured in Essence, Sister 2 Sister, Honey, The Source, J’Adore, Rolling Out and more.
In this episode, you're going to hear one of the most amazing, inspiring stories you have ever heard on the podcast. You will end the episode not only falling in love with her but also falling in love with yourself. So without further ado, I am so excited and delighted to introduce to you IFBB Bikini Professional Necole Kane.
Takeaways
Important questions
[00:05:10] How many years have you been competing?
[00:07:49] What exactly keeps you motivated
[00:14:41] How did your journey as a celebrity gossip blogger came about?
[00:19:09] Back then when you were a celebrity gossip blogger, how did you identify yourself?
[00:20:51] How did you go from a blogger to fitness?
[00:25:05] Did you ever think that you would turn pro when you started this journey?
[00:26:40] How would you define yourself today?
[00:30:03] Can you explain to us why it is so important to love and accept yourself?
[00:33:41] How can not loving yourself affect your everyday relationships with other people?
[00:39:36] What tactics did you use to find yourself?
[00:42:23] During this journey of self-acceptance, what were some of the changes that happened to your body and how were you able to accept these changes?
[00:47:02] What are some of the struggles that you've actually encountered in fitness?
[00:48:50] Being a professional, do you feel like you have to uphold a particular identity?
[00:51:02] Is this something that you see yourself doing long term?
[00:56:20] What do you do now and how does that affects or inspires other people?
[00:58:43] How do you balance business and competing?
[01:03:04] What one piece of advice would you give to someone wanting to become a professional in the sport?
FOLLOW Necole
Instagram:@hellonecole
Lifestyle Website:xonecole.com
Lifesyle IG: @xonecole
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