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Teaching2022-08-15·12 min

Ep. 181: Smart Women Celebrate Failure

Ep. 181: Smart Women Celebrate Failure

Rosanne challenges women to completely reframe their relationship with failure on their fertility journey. She teaches that smart women celebrate failure because each setback brings them closer to success and builds the resilience needed to become the mother their future child deserves.

The Myth of Overnight Success

Rosanne opens by challenging the social media fantasy of overnight success, emphasizing that any meaningful achievement requires persistence through a 'junkyard of failure.' She points out the contradiction of professional women who worked tirelessly for career success but expect fertility to work immediately.

Why Smart Women Celebrate Failure

The core teaching centers on reframing failure as progress toward success and an act of defiance against fear and statistics. Rosanne explains how celebrating setbacks builds stamina and prevents the discouragement that causes women to give up.

Preparing to Be a Warrior Mother

Rosanne connects fertility resilience to future motherhood, arguing that your miracle baby deserves to see mama bear strength rather than weakness. She emphasizes that modeling persistence through challenges prepares children to achieve their own dreams.

The Failure Celebration Exercise

The episode concludes with a specific assignment to list 20-25 personal failures and identify what to celebrate about each one. This exercise reveals hidden warrior qualities and rewrites personal history from a position of strength rather than victimhood.

Questions This Episode Answers

How should I handle repeated fertility failures?

smart women celebrate failure. Not only because it's signaling to you that you're getting closer to your success, but it's gonna show you a hell of a different history than your self sabotage pattern will want you to see.

Rosanne Austin9:59

Smart women celebrate failure because each setback brings you closer to success. Make a list of your biggest failures and identify what strengths they reveal about you - you'll discover you're more resourceful and resilient than you realize.

Why do successful professional women struggle with fertility setbacks?

it's a wildly different skill set mentally to be successful in your career than it is on your journey. You know, it's something we have to learn

Rosanne Austin4:29

Professional women are used to linear paths in education and career, but fertility requires different mental muscles. The same persistence that built your career success applies to fertility - you just need to learn the specific mindset skills for this journey.

How does celebrating failure help with fertility success?

it's really you giving the finger to fear. It's you giving the finger to somebody else's estimation about what is possible for you. It's you giving the finger to the freaking statistics.

Rosanne Austin5:02

Celebrating failure gives the finger to fear, statistics, and other people's limitations. It builds stamina by preventing you from getting so discouraged that you stop trying, and it rewires your brain to see setbacks as progress toward your goal.

What mindset exercise helps build resilience for fertility challenges?

Make a list of twenty to twenty five of your most horrific failures, and then ask yourself, what do I love about this failure? What can I celebrate about this failure?

Rosanne Austin9:28

Write down your 20-25 most horrific failures and ask what you love about each one. This reveals your resourcefulness, resilience, and 'gangster' qualities you didn't recognize, revitalizing your resolve to keep going.

How does fertility resilience prepare you for motherhood?

Part of your role in being this child's mother is to be their protector, to be the heart of the family, to show them the way.

Rosanne Austin6:34

Building resilience through fertility challenges prepares you to be your child's protector and show them how to persist through difficulties. You want to model mama bear strength, not backing down when things get tough.

How to Celebrate Your Failures to Build Fertility Resilience

A specific exercise to reframe setbacks and discover your hidden warrior qualities

  1. 1

    Make your failure list

    Write down your 20-25 most horrific, embarrassing, and heartbreaking failures from any area of life

  2. 2

    Ask empowering questions

    For each failure, ask: What do I love about this failure? What can I celebrate about this failure? What does this tell me about who I am?

  3. 3

    Identify your warrior qualities

    Look for patterns of resourcefulness, resilience, and strength that you had to develop to overcome each setback

  4. 4

    Rewrite your story

    Instead of seeing failures as evidence you're worthless, see them as proof you're a gangster who gets back up and keeps going

All Teachings 8

TeachingChallenging1:44

Any path to success is absolutely littered with a junkyard of failure - overnight success is complete bullshit

Rosanne conceived naturally at 43 after years of fertility treatment failure, demonstrating that success comes through persistence despite repeated setbacks.

ReframeChallenging2:37

Professional women put in years of work for career success but expect fertility to work perfectly immediately

Rosanne works with ambitious women making a difference in the world who studied until their eyes were bleeding for career success but get beaten down after 3-5 fertility attempts.

TeachingFierce5:02

Celebrating failure is giving the finger to fear, other people's estimations, and statistics

Rosanne teaches women worldwide how to develop fertility-specific mindset skills, different from career success skills, with 51 miracle mamas recorded at the time of this episode.

TeachingEmpowering5:33

When you change your mindset, you start seeing failure as getting closer to success - nobody fails all the time

Rosanne's Fearlessly Fertile Method has helped women around the world make their mom dreams come true, as evidenced by the 51 miracle mamas this year alone.

TeachingEmpowering6:14

Someone who failed 25 times is wiser than someone who failed once - this wisdom makes you a better mother

Rosanne emphasizes that as a mother, you'll be the protector and heart of the family, showing your miracle baby how to be strong and persist through challenges rather than backing down.

TeachingFierce7:04

Your role as this child's mother is to show them what it means to be a winner, not participation prize bullshit

Rosanne teaches that your miracle baby deserves to see mama bear strength and learn that just like mama, they can go out and make their dreams come true by never backing down.

TeachingEmpowering8:26

Make a list of your 20-25 most horrific failures and ask what you love about each one

This exercise reveals characteristics like resourcefulness and resilience that women don't recognize in themselves, showing them they're 'rather gangster' and revitalizing their resolve.

ReframeEmpowering10:19

Your saboteurs tell you failure means you're worthless, but intelligent analysis shows your warrior characteristics

Rosanne explains that self-sabotage patterns focus on failure counts while critical thinking reveals the strength and characteristics needed to overcome each setback.

Episode Tone
2 challenging2 fierce4 empowering

Key Teachings 8

Any path to success is absolutely littered with a junkyard of failure - overnight success is complete bullshit

1:44

Professional women put in years of work for career success but expect fertility to work perfectly immediately

2:37

Celebrating failure is giving the finger to fear, other people's estimations, and statistics

5:02

When you change your mindset, you start seeing failure as getting closer to success - nobody fails all the time

5:33

Someone who failed 25 times is wiser than someone who failed once - this wisdom makes you a better mother

6:14

Your role as this child's mother is to show them what it means to be a winner, not participation prize bullshit

7:04

Make a list of your 20-25 most horrific failures and ask what you love about each one

8:26

Your saboteurs tell you failure means you're worthless, but intelligent analysis shows your warrior characteristics

10:19

Perspectives 2

Failure on your fertility journey means you should give up or that something is wrong with you

CONSIDER: Failure is something to celebrate because it means you're getting closer to success and building the strength your future child needs to see

You should be thin-skinned about fertility failures because the stakes are so high with your baby

CONSIDER: The high stakes of becoming a mother require you to develop thick skin and resilience to model strength for your future child

Quotable Moments

Any path to success is going to be absolutely littered with a junkyard of failure.

Rosanne Austin1:44

smart women celebrate failure. Not only because it's signaling to you that you're getting closer to your success, but it's gonna show you a hell of a different history than your self sabotage pattern will want you to see.

Rosanne Austin9:59

it's really you giving the finger to fear. It's you giving the finger to somebody else's estimation about what is possible for you. It's you giving the finger to the freaking statistics.

Rosanne Austin5:02

You wanna show them mama is mama bear, and mama is strong as fuck. And she's gonna take care of her babies.

Rosanne Austin7:04

If you keep swinging the bat, eventually, you're going to hit the ball. You're gonna hit it out of the park, and it's truly about stamina.

Rosanne Austin5:53

there is so much warrior in you that you don't even know it.

Rosanne Austin9:49

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