8 Awards You’re Chasing That Don’t Actually Exist

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Body, Mindset, Movement, Health, Acceptance, Macros, Love, Positivity, Nutrition, Loss, Weight

5 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Okay, let’s talk about those “awards” we’re chasing—the ones that don’t exist but somehow control so much of what we do, how we feel, and how we show up in life.

Let me give you a few examples. Ever caught yourself secretly competing for the:

“No mistakes were made” award?
Or the “Most beautiful” award?
How about “Skinniest”?
“Lived up to all expectations”?
“Never said no”?
“Never asked for help”?
Oh, and let’s not forget the big one: “Liked by everyone.”
And last but not least, the “Didn’t need rest” award.

Are you cringing yet? Because SAME. The crazy part is, none of these awards are real. Literally none of these exist. No one is handing us trophies for being exhausted, perfect, or never making mistakes – but still, we’re running ourselves into the ground trying to win them.

So, today, we’re unpacking why we’re chasing these invisible awards, how they’re stealing our joy, and what we can do to let go of the pressure and just be.

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0:00.0	Hey there, beautiful human. You're listening to Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Ledbetter,
0:05.4	a podcast where I empower you to just be you. With each episode, I dish you a dose of real talk
0:11.4	and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving
0:16.6	your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real. Let's get and let's go.
0:27.2	Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Real podcast. I'm beyond grateful to
0:32.6	have some time with you today because we're going to be diving into something I know a lot of us.
0:36.5	And when I say us, I am 100% preaching to myself need to hear. And that is about these invisible awards that we are
0:44.7	chasing. And I kind of want to bring you back to high school. I don't know about you. I'm sure a lot of
0:48.4	you guys had this. But in your yearbook committee, you had the committee award people, right? So if you were
0:54.0	a senior, it was like best
0:55.1	dressed, most likely to succeed, funniest class clown. There were so many different awards.
1:01.0	And although those were real awards, they really had no meaning. I feel like in life, we somehow
1:06.7	still carry through that mentality of like wanting to chase the awards like I remember at the beginning
1:12.6	of senior year being like I want to have X, Y and Z award. And like it gave it created so much
1:18.2	worth in my life, which is insane because literally it's just in the yearbook. Like it's a stupid
1:23.7	award that was given. And to even like carry that out now, it's even more wild because
1:29.5	these awards are, they're totally invisible. But yet somehow they control so much of what we do and how
1:35.9	we feel and how we show up. Let me kind of give you some examples. If you've ever caught yourself
1:39.6	like secretly competing for the no mistakes were made Award or the Most Beautiful Award or how about
1:46.4	the skinniest or lived up to all expectations or the I Never Said No Award or what about I never
1:53.2	Asked for Help Award or let's not forget the big one liked by everyone award and last one at least
1:58.2	the I didn't need rest award. Are you cringing yet?
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