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Tasha Scott, a\xa0"recovering victim" and author of "Don't Limit Me" shares her insights to get the most out of your day and become your best self. Tasha shares with us:\n\n \thow a coach gave her that safe place to resolve\xa0out one problem after another\n \thow\xa0journaling gave her a no-judgement zone\n \thow she discovered the best way to communicate without getting emotional (and avoid the extremes of being "too quiet" or a "complainer")\n \tand more!\n\nDisplay TranscriptRobert Plank: We're here with Tasha Scott and she has a new book that has ignited a movement, the "Don't Limit Me" movement. The movement challenges women who feel stuck, living their lives on other people's terms to take action and stop self-living. Tasha, welcome to the show. I'm excited to hear about how everyone can become their best selves and kick some butt.\n\nTasha Scott: Thank you Robert, I'm excited to be here.\n\nRobert Plank: Tell me about yourself. Tell me about this "Don't Limit Me" and what makes you special.\n\nTasha Scott: Sure, sure. Well I tell people all the time that I have been an entrepreneur all my life, literally it feels like because my first business was a paper route when I was in the eighth grade. Fast forward after just going through life, growing up, I ended up enrolling in court reporting school and learning how to be a court reporter. That's literally where my business was born, right after I graduated from court reporting school. In this journey, Robert, I was married. The first year of business was really good. In fact, I hit six figures my first year as a court reporter. What people didn't know though was that in the midst of business looking really good, my personal life was a mess. There was a huge disconnect between what looked like a public success and a private failure.\n\nThere was a lot of lessons that I learned that year because one, I didn't have a plan for the growth of the business. All I knew was that I had a dream to be an entrepreneur. I had my goals and my vision, and I was ready to go. I accomplished everything that I wanted to do that first year, but I felt empty because of all of the turmoil that was happening at home in the form of marriage problems, financial problems, insecurity, all of those things that you would've thought money would've been the solution, but it wasn't. One of the things that I did, Robert, is I reached out for help. For me, help came in the form of a life coach.\n\nThis life coach, when I reached out to her, she literally took me for six months. We had sessions over the phone, we met every other week. What I found out was that I was hiding behind a mask. I knew how to perform. I knew how to function, but I didn't know how to live. That's why I had the huge disconnect. I didn't really know Tasha outside of the business, outside of the role. What she did is she literally just walked with me and helped me to face some fears, and some of those fears had even stemmed from childhood. Fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of success. All of those things we had to walk through and I had to learn to take responsibility for me. I had to get out of victim mode and stop thinking that it was everybody else's fault why I wasn't happy, why I was miserable, all those things including my husband.\n\nShe really helped me to get my want-to back from life because when I faced my fears, I realized that it wasn't as bad as it seems. It literally just meant me owning it. It took me owning it, facing it, and moving forward. What happened, and I'm giving you the Reader's Digest version, was as I started owning my stuff basically, facing my fears, I started gaining confidence again. I started taking responsibility. I started to get to know Tasha. Literally what happened is as a result of my journaling, that's where my book was born, the "Don't Limit Me" book because one day I looked myself in the mirror, Robert, and I said, "Tasha, don't limit me." I realized for the first time I was the only one holding me back.