What if the way you’ve been taught to love has actually required you to leave yourself behind?
Welcome back to the Redefining Wealth Podcast. After a 10-week summer break, Patrice Washington returns for a brand-new season—and this time, we’re Redefining Love 2.0.
This season isn’t just about romance.
It’s about the love of self.
The love of others.
The love of God.
The way you care for your body.
The way you steward your gifts, money, capacity, relationships, and purpose.
Because love should never require you to disappear from your own life.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- Why self-abandonment is often disguised as love, loyalty, or sacrifice
- How to recognize the “pebble” of misalignment before it becomes a boulder
- Why loving yourself requires knowing what you want now
- What Patrice’s “single by choice” season is teaching her about self-intimacy
- How governing decisions can protect the person you’re becoming
- Why reciprocity is an essential part of healthy love
- What to expect throughout the Redefining Love 2.0 season
Love Should Not Require You to Leave Yourself
One of the biggest ideas Patrice is putting a stake in the ground around this season is simple:
Any definition of love that requires you to disappear needs to be redefined.
We call it sacrifice when we consistently put ourselves last.
We call it loyalty when we stay beyond the expiration date.
We call it keeping the peace when we silence what we know to be true.
And sometimes, we keep praying for clarity when the answer has already arrived—we’re simply afraid of what honoring it might require.
Redefining love means learning to tell yourself the truth sooner.
Listen While It’s Still a Pebble
Patrice returns to one of her most important alignment principles: the pebble, the rock, and the boulder.
The pebble is the quiet knowing:
This doesn’t feel like me anymore.
Most of us hear it. The problem is that we don’t always trust ourselves enough to honor it.
So we minimize it, rationalize it, or tell ourselves to be grateful until the pebble becomes a rock—and eventually, life hands us a boulder that makes the decision for us.
This season is an invitation to move at the pebble.
Redefining Love Through the Six Pillars
Last season explored the anatomy of misalignment. This season asks what it looks like to build a life rooted in love without self-abandonment.
And that touches every pillar.
It’s loving your body enough to care for it in the FIT pillar, expecting reciprocity in the PEOPLE pillar, creating an environment that supports who you are now in SPACE, trusting God enough to release what no longer fits in FAITH, stewarding your purpose in WORK, and knowing what it actually costs to fund the life you desire in MONEY.
Because self-love isn’t just something you say.
It shows up in how you live.
Who Are You Now?
One of the most important questions of this new season is:
What do you want now?
Not what you wanted 10 years ago.
Not what makes everyone else comfortable.
Not what you committed to before you became the person you are today.
Patrice reminds us that loving yourself means continuing to meet yourself as you evolve, explore, and expand—rather than creating one identity and performing it forever.
About This Season: Redefining Love 2.0
This season of Redefining Wealth is dedicated to redefining what love really means — beyond romance and into how we love ourselves, others, God, and the lives we’re creating.
We’re exploring what it looks like to love without leaving yourself behind — through relationships, self-trust, reciprocity, obedience, and the Six Pillars of Wealth. Subscribe and journey with us as we learn to love without self-abandonment and honor who we are becoming.
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