Finding Purpose Again

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Hey guys, welcome back to the Let Em Know podcast.
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This is Angela, and today.
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I am so excited to be welcoming A friend, she
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has been on the podcast. We were just looking and
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it's been like three years since you've been on the podcast.
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For those of you who have listened from way back
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in the Focus Within days, you might recognize her from
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back then. Lo, Lorena. I feel like there's so many
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different names that I call you.
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Lolo.
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Welcome back to the podcast.
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Yay. Thank you so much. I cannot believe three years ago.
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That's wild. It Wow.
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Seems every bit of three years ago, but then at
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the same time, I feel like it doesn't.
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And what? I've known you since 2020, right? Yeah. Wow.
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That was our first business that we started.
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Here we are. I know. We have really gone through
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a lot of different seasons and chapters in life, and
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I figured... When you were coming over today to spend
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some time, sadly, I was not able to make your
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baby shower, which I still cannot... We're going to get
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into all of that.
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But I.
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wanted to have you here. And then I was like,
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you know what? I feel like every time we catch
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up or talk, there's always like solid nuggets of things.
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So let's just document it and go with it. So
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thank you for saying yes. Cause I feel like a
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lot of people would be like, no, I'm good.
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Actually.
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You want to know all of that? You sure?
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Yeah, no, I'm excited. This is good. Yay. I love
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this little setup right here.
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I know it's, um, It's a setup. That's for sure.
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She's setting me up guys.
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No, it's not. It's not a setup. So we were just,
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of course, catching up before we started recording and I
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would love for you, I think the last podcast, or
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at least from my recollection, I did not listen. This
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was kind of just thrown together. Like most things in
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my life, I'm sure maybe yours as well. Um, Together
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last minute, so not a lot of preparation for the show,
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but I love doing my show like this. It's honestly
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the best way and easiest way for me to do things,
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which is being real in the moment. But I will say,
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since the last time that we talked, regardless of who
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remembers or even if we remember or not. Yeah. I
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know we've always talked about like finding purpose and being
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able to figure out who we are in today's world
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and watching you go through the season that you're in
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right now from afar. You've done a lot. Yeah.
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I'm tired.
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You've done a lot and you also have a child
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within you right now, which is just so like you're
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just radiating and you look so... I feel like I'm always,
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like we're friends and sisters, but I am probably old
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enough to be your mom.
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Yeah.
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Maybe not quite.
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A little younger than my mom.
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A little bit younger than your mom. But seeing you pregnant,
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like it really did, I got all teary-eyed when I
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saw you. You just look so pretty and glowing, and
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I'm just obsessed with everything about you right now. Okay,
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I'm already crying. Yay. So tell us a little bit about,
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aside from being pregnant, pregnant, which I think probably takes
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up the majority of how you're feeling and how you're
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moving through life right now. You're also in nursing school.
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And that was not something that I don't think either
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of us, you more importantly, had on your bingo card
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of things that you would be doing. We met, like
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you said, from kind of doing entrepreneurial type of stuff.
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And both of us are now, I don't know, I
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guess I'm still kind of in it, even though I'm
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working full time. But you kind of have gone back
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to school to pursue a passion of yours. And I
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would love for you to just share like what that,
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what that feels like, because it's not something that I
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thought you, you expect to do.
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Right. It's such a plot twist. Um, and just a premise,
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like we're never too old to start something new, even
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if it's like terrifying. So whoever's out there, who's like,
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I don't know, maybe I'm like too old for this. Like, no,
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just start. Um, Anyways, I'm nearing like 30. So I
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just feel like my 20s have been all about like exploring. Yeah, like,
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who am I supposed to be? What am I meant
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to do? So it's been really difficult, I think, to
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like try to narrow it down. But anyways, I think
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around the time I decided to like put my business down,
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I went through a period of like grief, obviously, because
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you're like, you expected your business to look a certain
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way and to produce the results that like, you wanted
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it to do. And I don't know, you get burned
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out and you kind of probably have been through that.
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A lot of us have probably with our first business
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or a second. And a lot of people, I think
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probably an average, try at least three to five things
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before they land on something. But yeah, I was just
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in a season of like, God, I did all this
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for the last four years. This was like 2024. I like,
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I don't feel like I'm called to it in this season.
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Like I'm going to put it down. I'm giving it up.
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but I don't know what's next. And it was like
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a month or month and a half where I was like,
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you know, you're just in like a silent mode and
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you're like, I feel like I have no purpose. Like,
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what am I doing? And everyone asks you and you're
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just like, I don't have an answer and I don't
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need one right now necessarily because you're getting off the
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high of like running your own business and being needed
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all the time. But I think my husband went on
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like some trip for a week with his friends. It
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was like a bachelor thing. And I just remember sitting
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on the couch and I don't know if you have
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ever had like divine inspiration or like a voice. Yes. Yeah.
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It may not be audible, but it just felt like
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it was like a download. And God was like, I
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was like, what do I do? I don't know what
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to do next. Like, I just want to do something meaningful.
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And he just like popped it into my head. It
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was like nursing school. And I was like, what? It's
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just very odd, very left field. And then I was like, oh,
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my gosh. Yeah, like, I used to want to be
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a nurse when I was in college. But, like, long
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story short, things happened. Personal life, like, chronic illness, the
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changing majors too late, like, would have taken too long.
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And I was like, oh, my gosh, yeah, like, I
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totally forgot that's what I wanted to do. And I
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had dreams back then of, like, doing, like, holistic health, like,
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having a studio or a wellness space or, like, you know,
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helping women with their business. wellbeing. Um, and it just
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felt like the heavens opened up and I was like, oh.
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My gosh, I have something to do.
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Like, you know, so I immediately started looking for nursing
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schools who would like accept my credits. Cause at that
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point I had been about like almost 10 years. I
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was nearing that cusp of like, your credits don't count anymore.
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So it was like divine timing for real. And most
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schools only accepted like up to five years. So I
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finally found a program and I almost missed the cutoff.
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Like I had to email like a few people and
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they're like, yeah, the deadline's on Sunday. And I'm like, what?
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It's Friday. Like, what do I do? I don't have
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all this stuff. Like, you know, there's things you have
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to get in place. And it just worked out and
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it just felt like the doors opened. And then it
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just I couldn't believe I was doing it, but it
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just felt so right. Even though I couldn't see the
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other side.
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Right.
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Like you can still ask me now, like I kind
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of have more of an idea of what I want
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to do with nursing, but it's just crazy how like
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past you had a dream and like maybe you lay
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that dream down for a while, like it's dormant, but
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you never know when it could come back up. And
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I was looking through a journal entry from college, which
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was like, I don't know, 2018. I was graduating and
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I wrote down like bottom portion of my page, like
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almost the last line it said, I will be a nurse.
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I know it because God promised. No way. Yeah.
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And I was like, what? So here we are. That
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is so crazy. I don't think I've ever heard that
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before from you. And I do remember kind of there
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being like, it felt very rushed, not like me looking
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at it, like, what is she doing? But I remember
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now with you sharing that it was kind of like,
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holy crap like deadlines and all of these things I
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don't have I didn't go to college so I feel
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like oh I did for like a semester before I
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got pregnant so I wouldn't even know I don't even
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put that I went to college on like any job
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applications I'm like I don't even know if they would
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have something for me for that but like I would
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imagine having to get all of those records and everything
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put together and I don't only God could have.
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Literally opened the door not kidding So here we are.
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But then, my oh.
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My.
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In the background, I've struggled with chronic health issues and autoimmune,
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all that stuff. It's been a journey for sure. Actually,
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10 years from this year, so I was 19, I
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got diagnosed with PCOS. And then a year later, I
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got diagnosed with thyroid like Hashimoto's and whatever like I
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was all over the place hormonally and I had this
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doctor who was like yeah you have PCOS um it
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might be really difficult for you to have kids like
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just flat out like you're gonna struggle like and that
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was put on me when I was 19 so for
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10 years I just like had in the back of
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my head like I might never be able to have
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kids or I may never experience that and like people
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ask you the older you get like what are you
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doing are you you know yeah um and then about
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three months in we weren't even you know trying and I.
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Got pregnant so oh so I was like.
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Oh my gosh I panicked like not in a bad
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way like not that I wasn't ready to have a
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baby but almost like terrified of all the horror stories
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that I had heard and I didn't think that it
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was ever gonna happen for me so the fact that
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it just did it was just wild and so pretty
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much my whole experience in nursing school I've been pregnant
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and just this last two weeks ago I saw the
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same doctor because I went in for like I was
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it was hard to breathe guys like it Baby's pushing
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on my lungs.
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I'm out of breath right now.
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And I went in, I was like, I'm just feeling dizzy.
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And it was like that same doctor from 10 years
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ago who walked in. She's like, oh my gosh, it's
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been so long since I've seen you. What, like 10 years?
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And I'm like, yeah, I almost called her out. But
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I was like, no, she's being nice right now. Like, yeah,
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you put that on me.
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Remember when you told me that I wouldn't or probably wouldn't?
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And here I am.
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Here we are, third trimester. But it's just... if I've
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learned anything this year is yeah. Don't be afraid to
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like start something new, completely new, even if it's like
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completely left field, like nursing and business, completely different. I mean,
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there are, you know, similarities in the sense of you're creative.
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Like you have to think on your feet, you have
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to be good with people and communicate. And, you know,
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the flexibility of nursing is what drew me and just
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making an impact. But I think there's similarities there, but
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it's also like you're learning a whole new language. Um,
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so don't be afraid. Like God's got you like, right. Yeah.
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When I am weak, he helps me. He's strong. He
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lifts me up. He gives me all the things that
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I need, but also like, just don't ever let people
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put narratives on you. Like I did and I allowed it,
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but I should have just been like, no, that's, that's
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not for me.
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Right.
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Like think of all the things people have said over
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your life that have not happened or happened and you
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broke that right so I don't know.
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Have you experienced stuff like that I mean yeah I
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think my whole life story at this point I find
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myself in these thought patterns and things of like things
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that people have said and truths in quotes that they've,
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you know, that they've made me feel to be true
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about myself. And every time I've proved it wrong, I
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feel validated in that, of course, but it does take
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some time to really kind of like reprogram the way
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that you think about yourself and what you're capable of
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because of all of these dreams and aspirations, whether it's
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our parents, whether it's society, our friends, like all of it.
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Like there's so many things. societal norms that don't have
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to be true to our individual paths.
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Oh yeah. That's so true. And if we do just
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follow the traditional path, like, I don't know. I just
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feel like we'll look back and be like, why did
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I do it that way when I could have broken free? Right.
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Or I know I just last, literally last night, I
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forget what we were even watching on TV. I can't
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remember exactly, but it was something like, And it was
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making me feel like, oh, I wish I could go
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back and redo so many things of my life. And
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after I said it, I was like, but would I
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have done it differently? And if I had done it differently,
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would it have allowed me to become who I am today?
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So as much as we like to... want to go
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back and like change how we responded to things and maybe,
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you know, gone to college when I didn't go to
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college or, you know, I, my kids are older. So
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like I was a mom at 19, you know, or
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pregnant at 19 and how different that is. I'm sure
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for somebody like you thinking back to being 19 and
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having that fear and now you're doing it, but now
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you're so much older and wiser and able to maybe
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appreciate it a little bit more. Yeah. Um, Again, sometimes
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I think about these things for my own life, and
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I do. It's hard to think, what would I have
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done differently? But at the end of the day, I
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think that however it happened, we have these lessons and
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these things that happen because there's a part of us
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that maybe wasn't ready to experience change. the joy and
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the blessings of what is happening or what could happen
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in the future. And so to see that happening for
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you in such like a crazy path of getting you
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back to nursing, the fact that you even have a
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journal from back then that you wrote that in and
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have to this day.
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And flip to it just, I don't know, perfectly. Yeah.
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Because there's tons of journals.
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Like at least 50. At least 50.
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So I don't know. It's cool, right?
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Like it just, things line up no matter what. our
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path was like whether we made a decision we regret
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or mistakes or even made the right decisions like I
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think they all just wind wind us up to like
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what we're supposed to be doing yeah it turns out
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much better than we expected yeah so yeah.
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I agree I agree all right I want to take
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a quick break because I want to get back to
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kind of what we were talking about before we hit
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record we'll be right back.
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We are back. So before we started recording, we were
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kind of catching up, right? Cause the last time that
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you and I, you were here, well, you were at
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my old apartment, but regardless, you were here, you came
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to visit and it was right around the time that
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JR and I were like fully going forward with this
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whole podcasting thing. Right. And like he was leaving his
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job and we were going to do this. And then
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we kind of have just life has happened. And, um, yeah,
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I kind of explained to you when we were messaging
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last week about setting this date for today. I'm like,
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there's so much that has happened. Not that we have
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to get into all of it on air, but the
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point of me bringing it up now is because as
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he was here helping get everything set up, he's so cute.
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Like he was just like making sure that all the
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mics were on and all of the things and took
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some flowers. Do you, which flowers do you want in
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the background?
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I'm like, Oh my gosh, I love you.
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You're so sweet. Um, But even from back, you know,
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when that was happening and prior to that, I feel
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like podcasting, the last time that you recorded a podcast
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with me, I was in a studio working with a
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company and here we are fast forward and I'm doing,
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you know, back into podcasting. I kind of have rebranded,
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reshifted my podcast. I've started a podcast called consulting company
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at the end of the day is really what it
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is but a media agency um for those of you
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wondering like what the heck is going on with all
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of that like I help other people with their podcasts
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it seems like a full circle moment it really is
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um and also to your point of like I don't
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even know how I got here yeah like it was
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a dream um five years ago, maybe when I had
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started my podcast to want to help others. And now
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I'm doing it on top of like the full time
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job and all of the things. And some days I'm like,
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how am I doing all of the things? But I
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think if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing
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as tiring or exhausting as it can be, I choose
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to look at it for a blessing because it wasn't
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that long ago that I was very sad and down
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and not in a good space at all. And God
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did provide ways and avenues and connections for me to
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be able to continue something that I think he put
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on my heart a long time ago. And I think
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that's true for you. I agree.
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And I think, you know, yeah, we get tired doing
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what we're maybe called to do in this season and
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that calling does change. But I think as long as
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we're honest with ourselves, like, I don't know, this whole
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time you've known that you're passionate about that or that
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you've wanted to do something with podcasting and people and
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stories and events. And like, you're doing it now. And like,
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what a blessing it is to be tired doing the
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thing that we prayed for. Um, so I think that's
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like really awesome. And I don't know, it's just a whirlwind,
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but we, what were we just, I showed you a post.
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It was like January me from last year. I don't
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know this year, January me could not believe the things
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that I've gone through this year. And I was like, Ooh, yeah. Like,
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you know, when you just like, it's January 1st and
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you're like, Oh my God, like we have this dream board,
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which like, yeah, you know, some of those things do
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come true. Maybe not in a year. Cause I have
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one from like three years ago that like is just
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now starting to come to fruition. But yeah, we just
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don't know the highs and the lows that we're going
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to have to walk through. It makes it worth it. Right.
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Cause you're, you're on your divine aligned path. Yeah. And
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I think that's just like a testament of being true
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to yourself. Right. And like, yeah, me being in nursing
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school like does not fit.
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The personal brand that I had for so long.
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And I struggled with that because like I lost a
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lot of connections and friends who like, you know, I
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was always in the networking space. Like I hosted networking
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events and like I was all about marketing and photography
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and and women in business. And then I kind of
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just dropped off the face of the planet and went
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like completely different, um, avenue. And, and, you know, you're
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used to being kind of the star, the show, or
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like the light, the, you know, the lights on you
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to going to like something that people don't really understand.
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And you kind of have to break that mold for
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a little bit because you're like, well, I'm allowed to
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be someone else in this season. Right.
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And you don't have to explain yourself. No, I was
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going to say, you know, similar. And I think we've
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talked about this off record in the past about, you know,
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how we met each other and the things that, you know,
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we were both working on myself, but you know, it
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was retreats and you and I got to do retreats together.
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And I miss those days. And I, I keep telling
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the listeners, I'm like, they're coming back. I think it'll
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be different, more creative as opposed to like deep healing stuff.
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Not that that's not important or that I still wouldn't
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do something like that. But I just think that that
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season for me has kind of like shifted or it's just,
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you know, it'll look different, but you know, there's a
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lot of people and connections and things that myself made
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guests and people that came to the retreats. And it's
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kind of like, You were there for me when I
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was going through the period of being like, I don't
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think I want to do it anymore. I don't even
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like the focus within the name. I was like, it
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just makes my skin... Again, I still haven't really fully
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figured out what that is. But if that was just
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what it was and now this new rebirth of myself
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and letting them know and all of the things that
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I am involved in, that's okay. But it does... play
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tricks sometimes on your mind especially when you said that
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part about like losing connections or the things or what
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would people you know because I've thought about that like
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what happens to the people that came to my retreats
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and maybe they still have questions about some of the
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things that maybe triggered them or came up during that
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part of the time and now I'm not there as
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like a life coach person right to help and I'm
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like oh I.
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Know yeah but it's like You were, you did what
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you were responsible for in that moment. And the rest
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is like up to them or even other people that
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they meet. Yeah. Like you can't complete the story for them.
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They have to do that for themselves. You're just like
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a guide.
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Right.
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And I've heard like the best stories, best movies, the
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best stories, the things that we read, like there's always
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main character with a problem. And then someone shows up
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along the way who like helps them get there. overcome
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the obstacle. And sometimes we were just like, maybe there
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is a guide for people. And now we're another type
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of guide. Yeah.
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Right.
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Like we all have different roles.
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So yeah, I love that. I think that that is
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like such a good way to describe the evolution. Like
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I think I don't want to be the same person
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that I was five years ago when I was doing those.
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And while that woman still lives inside of me like
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those the stories the thing is the the healing aspect
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of what I was walking through in that season of
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life are still so true and relevant to me today
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but there's also now new things and other things happening
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where I'm like, holy crap, like, I was not expecting...
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I think we've joked about this before, too, so many times.
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I mean, like, I thought, like, can we just get
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a break sometimes? Yeah, yeah. And not have to, like,
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be in this season of, like, what is going on?
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Now I have to figure this out. If it's health,
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if it's career, like, there's just always something to be
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learning about ourselves. And.
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We're always being pushed.
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We're always being pushed. And I think that that is...
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It really... Should be viewed as more of a blessing
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than it is like a negative life experience. There are
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going to be negative life experiences. Don't get me wrong.
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And I'm not the type of person, nor are you,
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to just be like, let me just put on my
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rose-colored glasses and everything is fine. Everything is perfect. That's
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gross and not real.
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Totally.
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But I will say... For my own last season of
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really hard times, I did have to remind myself a
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lot more of how far I really have come and
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that these series of events that had happened that really
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took almost all of the life out of me at
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some point, I knew I had to keep going. And
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I think that that's where you have found yourself as well.
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There's a finish line, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's not easy. I don't know who told us
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that it would be.
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I don't know. I think it is. That is our shared.
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I don't want to say dislike of social media, but
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you know, once upon a time you were kind of
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managing my social media for me and I loved you
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so much for that because you were like the closest
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person to my brain that I was like, you know
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what I'm trying to say, right? And you're so good
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and creative and all of those things. But I think
486
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the narratives and the things that we hear do come
487
00:25:00.470 --> 00:25:03.559
from social media and not to say that all people
488
00:25:04.470 --> 00:25:07.529
Social media is bad, as we know. We're all on it.
489
00:25:07.569 --> 00:25:10.890
We love it. I love it. But I think we
490
00:25:10.970 --> 00:25:16.859
were doing our initial business ideas during a time of
491
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when the coaching industry was really....
492
00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:23.380
Yeah.
493
00:25:23.420 --> 00:25:26.150
Like so many people were like, do you have a coach?
494
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Do you have a business coach? Do you have a this?
495
00:25:28.309 --> 00:25:29.509
Do you have a that? And I was like, do
496
00:25:29.529 --> 00:25:30.289
you have a life coach?
497
00:25:30.309 --> 00:25:34.049
Do you have a health coach? And yeah, and I'm broke. Yeah.
498
00:25:34.150 --> 00:25:36.150
And I'm broke. And it was like, but at the
499
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time I was going, so when I say I didn't
500
00:25:39.220 --> 00:25:41.819
go to college, like I didn't, but I, I am
501
00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:44.539
proud of the fact, like I went through A whole
502
00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:49.500
year certification to become a health coach from the Institute
503
00:25:49.539 --> 00:25:52.269
for Integrative Nutrition, I think is what it's called.
504
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Yes.
505
00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:55.809
Yeah. And that was a lot. I mean, there was
506
00:25:55.849 --> 00:25:57.710
a lot of things that I had to learn, um,
507
00:25:58.569 --> 00:26:02.250
testing and all these sorts of things. So it's funny
508
00:26:02.329 --> 00:26:04.809
because I hadn't really thought about that up until just
509
00:26:05.049 --> 00:26:08.470
right now that that is what kind of prompted me
510
00:26:08.609 --> 00:26:12.130
into getting into the online coaching spaces because I was
511
00:26:12.190 --> 00:26:15.329
now going to be a health coach. And in order
512
00:26:15.390 --> 00:26:18.970
for me to like be a health coach, um, I
513
00:26:19.009 --> 00:26:21.990
started following a lot of other health coaches or business
514
00:26:22.049 --> 00:26:24.829
coaches and then it kind of just spiraled from there.
515
00:26:26.589 --> 00:26:29.019
Do you feel like, I don't know, maybe it's because
516
00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:33.240
I've blocked or like removed or updated my feed and
517
00:26:33.380 --> 00:26:36.079
algorithm to not have a lot of content like that.
518
00:26:36.619 --> 00:26:38.720
Do you feel that that's still like relevant? Like, are
519
00:26:38.740 --> 00:26:42.009
you still seeing a lot of people being like life coaching,
520
00:26:42.150 --> 00:26:43.049
business coaching?
521
00:26:43.609 --> 00:26:48.339
No, I've definitely... I think when I had my business Instagram, yes.
522
00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:51.839
But now that I'm on my personal, it's like all
523
00:26:52.420 --> 00:26:56.180
birth delivery, mom stuff. And like there are a ton
524
00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:59.859
of people who are like, hire me. I have a course. Like, yes,
525
00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:01.839
there's always going to be people in that space. Yeah.
526
00:27:01.940 --> 00:27:04.380
But I will try to be like not relevant.
527
00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:05.700
Like I'll click like not relevant.
528
00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:08.059
I don't want to see this again. Because like we
529
00:27:08.099 --> 00:27:11.900
do have to be in control of what we're seeing, right?
530
00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:12.220
Yeah.
531
00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:14.339
Like in hearings. Like so much of it just comes
532
00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:16.640
at us like, I got five ads the other day,
533
00:27:16.700 --> 00:27:19.500
the first, like, minute that I was on Instagram. And
534
00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.720
I'm like, I wish we had more control over, like,
535
00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:24.759
what we're seeing. And I think it's up to us
536
00:27:24.779 --> 00:27:28.579
to kind of, like, what you said, refine our algorithm, like,
537
00:27:29.099 --> 00:27:31.859
you know. Because I just wonder sometimes, like, if I
538
00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:35.839
just completely went offline. I mean, you know, I think
539
00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:39.980
social media is a big element to running a business nowadays. Like,
540
00:27:40.140 --> 00:27:43.380
it is a big way to reach people. But, like,
541
00:27:43.420 --> 00:27:46.480
you and I were, like, such... personable people too. And
542
00:27:47.339 --> 00:27:49.339
I think like, what would I do if I didn't
543
00:27:49.380 --> 00:27:51.380
have a social media presence? Like how would I run
544
00:27:51.420 --> 00:27:51.960
a business?
545
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:54.160
Yeah. Like how did they do it back then? I know.
546
00:27:54.289 --> 00:27:57.650
Word of mouth. Like it was really just like, you know,
547
00:27:57.950 --> 00:28:02.430
advertising through your people. And I think that that is
548
00:28:02.829 --> 00:28:06.930
truly what is happening in my own success of my
549
00:28:06.990 --> 00:28:10.170
business right now is that it's not even while I
550
00:28:10.230 --> 00:28:13.880
love and thank you, Lex. Thank you, Chaz. um, my
551
00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:16.539
social media people who have done a phenomenal job with
552
00:28:16.579 --> 00:28:20.299
just helping me organize that side of my life. Um,
553
00:28:20.779 --> 00:28:25.019
but you know, clients that I have, you know, my
554
00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:27.460
most recent client that I just signed on is somebody
555
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.740
that I worked with back in the day with another company.
556
00:28:30.980 --> 00:28:33.119
And while I, you know, at first I was kind
557
00:28:33.140 --> 00:28:36.490
of like, Oh, I, you know, I don't, they contacted
558
00:28:36.549 --> 00:28:41.049
me and, um, I think more than what my social
559
00:28:41.109 --> 00:28:44.069
media following could be, it was all about who I
560
00:28:44.190 --> 00:28:46.630
am as a person. And if I can give people
561
00:28:46.750 --> 00:28:51.750
the safety and the comfort to feel good about their podcast,
562
00:28:51.809 --> 00:28:55.849
whether it's podcasting or now in events and things that
563
00:28:55.890 --> 00:28:59.250
I'm doing in my other job, it's me. I want
564
00:28:59.309 --> 00:29:03.069
to be the face and the voice behind my company
565
00:29:03.190 --> 00:29:06.289
more than what a pretty picture can do. Right. And
566
00:29:06.329 --> 00:29:09.529
I think that that authenticity is what people crave.
567
00:29:09.730 --> 00:29:12.890
I agree. I agree. And that's what people come to
568
00:29:12.930 --> 00:29:16.450
you for, right? Like storytelling, like having a space to
569
00:29:16.509 --> 00:29:20.029
share whatever it is, some like fun new happening or
570
00:29:20.130 --> 00:29:22.950
their deep life story. Like you give them that space
571
00:29:23.009 --> 00:29:27.279
and that microphone literally to like share it. And I
572
00:29:27.299 --> 00:29:29.880
think that's such a gift. Like, you know, it's super
573
00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:32.690
special that you get to do that. So I'm proud
574
00:29:32.710 --> 00:29:32.930
of you.
575
00:29:33.109 --> 00:29:36.269
Well, thank you so much. You make me all teary eyed.
576
00:29:36.829 --> 00:29:40.079
Am I pregnant? No, I'm not. I'm not pregnant. I
577
00:29:40.150 --> 00:29:41.480
don't have tears right now.
578
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:42.980
Oh my gosh. All right.
579
00:29:43.059 --> 00:29:45.799
I want to take another quick break. We'll be right back.
580
00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:54.700
okay we are back we're rolling so i i'm just
581
00:29:55.190 --> 00:29:59.349
dying to know and excited to hear how pregnancy has
582
00:29:59.390 --> 00:30:04.710
been i feel like you know maybe having that experience
583
00:30:04.750 --> 00:30:07.339
with that doctor back in the day and maybe thinking
584
00:30:07.380 --> 00:30:10.059
that you could never and now it's here and now
585
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:15.450
like you're getting like so close to the end um Well,
586
00:30:15.490 --> 00:30:16.670
we still have a little bit of time.
587
00:30:16.829 --> 00:30:18.460
Got like a month and a half.
588
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:19.579
Okay. It's still so close.
589
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:21.819
January 1st, but I feel like he'll be here early.
590
00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:23.400
It is a boy. Surprise.
591
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:26.380
Yay. Boy mom.
592
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:26.740
Yeah.
593
00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:29.549
That reminds me. One of the things that I got
594
00:30:29.589 --> 00:30:32.450
you is not, it didn't come in the mail. So
595
00:30:32.490 --> 00:30:37.450
I'll have another, I'll have another gift for you. But
596
00:30:37.569 --> 00:30:42.539
how are you feeling? I think as someone myself who
597
00:30:42.579 --> 00:30:47.900
has dealt with some autoimmune type of things happening, whether
598
00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:50.420
that is or is not the case and why I
599
00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:56.220
was not able to conceive with JR, which I really, really, really, really,
600
00:30:56.329 --> 00:31:00.509
really wanted to, as did he. But how are you feeling?
601
00:31:00.950 --> 00:31:04.690
And I just feel like it has to feel like
602
00:31:04.829 --> 00:31:06.450
such a surreal moment for you.
603
00:31:06.690 --> 00:31:11.809
It really is surreal because I didn't think it was
604
00:31:12.069 --> 00:31:15.490
going to happen. So I never really live my life
605
00:31:15.569 --> 00:31:18.190
as if it would. Like I knew I wanted to
606
00:31:18.230 --> 00:31:20.470
be a mom, but sometimes I was like, I don't know.
607
00:31:20.869 --> 00:31:24.480
And I think it was like a fear element. But no,
608
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:28.519
like it's crazy to think too, like my autoimmune stuff
609
00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:33.140
has been the best it's ever been in pregnancy, which
610
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:35.599
I didn't expect. Like I thought I had all these
611
00:31:35.619 --> 00:31:37.460
like fears, like, oh my God, it's going to be horrible.
612
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:39.849
And I'm going to feel like crap all the time. And,
613
00:31:40.170 --> 00:31:43.440
you know, thank you God that it wasn't. I know
614
00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:46.190
some people have really hard pregnancies. So I'm just, I
615
00:31:46.190 --> 00:31:48.549
don't know. This whole thing is just taking me by surprise, right?
616
00:31:48.630 --> 00:31:51.130
It's like you think it's going to be this and
617
00:31:51.190 --> 00:31:53.869
it turns out to be this way. So no, it's
618
00:31:53.910 --> 00:31:58.190
been good. I think getting closer, you just wonder like
619
00:31:59.150 --> 00:32:04.910
how my life is going to completely change. And I'm
620
00:32:04.930 --> 00:32:08.289
a very like independent, creative person. And I like to
621
00:32:08.329 --> 00:32:11.390
have my hands in different things. And, you know, God willing,
622
00:32:11.430 --> 00:32:15.170
I finished nursing school in May. But I just wonder
623
00:32:15.210 --> 00:32:17.450
how all of it's going to pan out and how
624
00:32:17.809 --> 00:32:21.509
I can still continue to be like me, but a
625
00:32:21.549 --> 00:32:23.789
new version of me. I don't know. I've just heard
626
00:32:23.849 --> 00:32:28.329
that motherhood just kind of implodes your world in the
627
00:32:28.369 --> 00:32:28.990
best way.
628
00:32:29.009 --> 00:32:33.519
But yeah, I think it's one of those things that
629
00:32:34.019 --> 00:32:37.319
at least from my experience was like you don't.
630
00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:39.200
It doesn't.
631
00:32:39.670 --> 00:32:41.990
Really make sense to try to plan it out as
632
00:32:42.049 --> 00:32:44.869
much as we think we have to. I think it's
633
00:32:45.150 --> 00:32:49.509
until the moment that you see your child and go
634
00:32:49.609 --> 00:32:55.049
through that life-changing experience of giving birth, that is when
635
00:32:55.150 --> 00:32:57.990
everything kind of like changes. Like I don't even know
636
00:32:58.009 --> 00:33:02.349
that you are like you, there's no way that you
637
00:33:02.369 --> 00:33:05.230
could ever be the same after going through something like that.
638
00:33:05.329 --> 00:33:07.490
And that's okay. And I think all of the things
639
00:33:07.549 --> 00:33:11.039
that make you, you are going to shine in different ways.
640
00:33:11.079 --> 00:33:13.000
Like I can already see, like, you're going to be
641
00:33:13.059 --> 00:33:16.660
like the mom that's making all of like the art project.
642
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:18.500
Like I could just, you know, like your child is
643
00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:21.140
going to have like the best baby book ever. Like
644
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:23.660
you're going to be like drawing and doing all of
645
00:33:23.700 --> 00:33:26.789
these fun things and crafting. Like that's who you are.
646
00:33:26.910 --> 00:33:28.490
So I think it'll just be different.
647
00:33:28.509 --> 00:33:28.589
Yeah.
648
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.279
But it'll be more focused on like the baby.
649
00:33:32.299 --> 00:33:36.660
Yeah. Raising a baby. I like that. I like that perspective. Like,
650
00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:39.980
I guess we don't lose ourselves completely. It's just, yeah,
651
00:33:40.019 --> 00:33:44.599
we just use those traits in different ways. And then
652
00:33:44.619 --> 00:33:46.599
that's not that like, I'll never be able to do
653
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:49.440
what I love. Cause I think that's the common thing
654
00:33:49.509 --> 00:33:53.049
I hear is like, Oh, like being a mom, but like,
655
00:33:53.109 --> 00:33:56.289
it's beautiful too. Right. There's hard and good. And I
656
00:33:56.329 --> 00:33:58.890
think that's with everything we just talked about this whole show. Like,
657
00:33:59.740 --> 00:34:03.039
It's really how you approach it and let it teach you,
658
00:34:03.099 --> 00:34:06.700
like be multiple. I think you'll have a better experience
659
00:34:06.740 --> 00:34:09.840
than if you're like type gripped, like type A, which
660
00:34:09.900 --> 00:34:11.590
I think I'm type B at this point.
661
00:34:11.710 --> 00:34:15.469
I know. Whatever happens, happens. I feel like my friend
662
00:34:15.489 --> 00:34:19.909
that listens to the podcast for sure, because even today
663
00:34:19.949 --> 00:34:22.829
she's like, I missed an episode because I didn't release
664
00:34:22.909 --> 00:34:26.019
one last week. I'm like, sorry, girl. I've been busy.
665
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:31.480
But no, I think I've mentioned– calling myself a type
666
00:34:31.500 --> 00:34:33.039
a she's like you are not type a i'm like
667
00:34:33.099 --> 00:34:36.699
okay maybe i'm not but i do like in some
668
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:41.059
ways like i am detail oriented organized and i tend
669
00:34:41.099 --> 00:34:43.980
to like get a little bit of anxiety i'm not
670
00:34:44.019 --> 00:34:47.449
gonna lie we had my sister who you know and
671
00:34:47.739 --> 00:34:52.420
her five children came and stayed with us Over the weekend,
672
00:34:52.460 --> 00:34:54.159
we had a great time, took them all to the
673
00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:56.579
Cavs game with some other friends, lots of kids. It
674
00:34:56.619 --> 00:35:00.119
was so fun. Honestly, it was such a great, magical night.
675
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:02.849
And then they stayed over with us, which I guess
676
00:35:02.889 --> 00:35:04.929
I didn't really think about ahead of time, but it
677
00:35:05.579 --> 00:35:07.539
made sense for them, too. They don't live close.
678
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:07.900
Yeah.
679
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:10.000
We live in the city. And then, you know, it
680
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:12.969
got to a certain point yesterday. It was, like, 11 a.m.
681
00:35:12.969 --> 00:35:16.449
And I was, like, okay. There's, like, kids running all around.
682
00:35:16.510 --> 00:35:18.710
And I'm just, like, okay. Like, I love you guys.
683
00:35:18.769 --> 00:35:21.269
I'm going to miss you so much when you're gone. But, like...
684
00:35:21.110 --> 00:35:23.389
This is a lot. This is a lot. And I
685
00:35:23.429 --> 00:35:26.409
miss my peace right now. So I don't know if
686
00:35:26.429 --> 00:35:26.949
that makes.
687
00:35:27.010 --> 00:35:27.269
Yeah.
688
00:35:27.289 --> 00:35:28.949
I don't know if that makes me... I don't know.
689
00:35:28.989 --> 00:35:31.190
It just makes me, like... I just know when I've
690
00:35:31.230 --> 00:35:34.389
had enough of something. We, like, are.
691
00:35:35.110 --> 00:35:38.449
are like control. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Bad thing.
692
00:35:38.489 --> 00:35:38.929
It's not a bad thing.
693
00:35:38.949 --> 00:35:40.690
You got to have fun and you got to step
694
00:35:40.750 --> 00:35:42.869
out of their comfort zone. But at some point you're like, yeah,
695
00:35:42.929 --> 00:35:43.809
that we're going back.
696
00:35:43.909 --> 00:35:50.340
Yeah. Love you guys. Come back soon. But, um, yeah,
697
00:35:50.389 --> 00:35:53.840
I think you'll, and you also moved recently too. So
698
00:35:53.900 --> 00:35:57.940
I feel like I don't even, I haven't, seen or necessarily,
699
00:35:58.000 --> 00:35:59.719
I know you, I know where you moved, but I
700
00:35:59.739 --> 00:36:03.369
feel like it's more fitting for a family. Like, you know,
701
00:36:03.449 --> 00:36:06.690
so I'm, I'm excited. It sounds like you have like
702
00:36:07.210 --> 00:36:11.710
all of these really great things happening and knowing some
703
00:36:11.769 --> 00:36:14.860
of the conversations that we've had in the past, whether
704
00:36:14.900 --> 00:36:19.539
it was on this podcast or not. Um, I'm happy
705
00:36:19.579 --> 00:36:21.840
to see that these things are happening for you in
706
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:24.420
the most beautiful aligned way possible.
707
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:28.059
I know. I think, it's just like a testament of,
708
00:36:29.010 --> 00:36:31.969
I don't know, like sometimes you think like life just
709
00:36:32.510 --> 00:36:34.869
can't get better. You know, like you're in those seasons
710
00:36:34.889 --> 00:36:37.889
where you're like, oh, like what, what does the future
711
00:36:37.929 --> 00:36:41.469
look like? Maybe you go through like depression, anxiety, stuff
712
00:36:41.489 --> 00:36:42.789
like that. And you're like, I just don't know if
713
00:36:42.849 --> 00:36:47.329
it'll ever be good for me. It's just like, keep going. Right.
714
00:36:47.429 --> 00:36:50.400
Like you just never know the surprises that are on
715
00:36:50.420 --> 00:36:56.010
the way. And I think being open-handed is, Like I
716
00:36:56.030 --> 00:36:58.590
may try to plan all the details in my life,
717
00:36:58.659 --> 00:37:01.400
but I just can't get them. I can't get them
718
00:37:01.460 --> 00:37:04.780
the way that they're supposed to be and the plot twists.
719
00:37:04.860 --> 00:37:08.119
And like, it's just so much more fun when you're open-handed, right?
720
00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:10.150
Like instead of like, it's going to go like this,
721
00:37:10.409 --> 00:37:13.730
you know, I think just hold on to hope wherever
722
00:37:13.769 --> 00:37:16.010
you are. If you're in that season where like, that's
723
00:37:16.050 --> 00:37:19.679
just been so hard for so long, like we're waiting
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for the shoe to drop, but There always has to
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be a turn, right, around the corner. Like, there's got
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to be something for all of us. So, yeah, I
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like where life is heading. And I think I haven't
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been able to say that.
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For a while. So it's good. It is good to
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hear it. And it feels good to say it, I'm sure. Yeah,
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it does. I would love for you to share, because
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I wanted to bring this up for anybody listening. You,
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during this season of waiting and kind of figuring everything out,
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you authored some books. I meant to bring them out
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here before we started, but... JR was already like, come on, ladies.
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TikTok show is on the road. If you could just
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share really quick about those and how people could get
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their hands on a copy of those books. I feel
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like those were really instrumental for you and healing for
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you to kind of get to this place. And I'd
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love for you to just share a little bit about those.
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Thank you. I appreciate that.
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I totally forgot about them.
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Just, you know, life is crazy. But I, about what,
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a year and a half ago, through that season of like,
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I don't know what's next, I decided to write a devotional,
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like a 40-day devotional all about purpose. And like, it's
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called Call to Good Works. So it's like, what are
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the good works we're here to do? It definitely has
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like the faith element to it. And it was just
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so helpful for me going through the Bible and like,
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what does God say about purpose and work? And like,
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how does that impact me? So that was like my
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first devotional book that I've ever written. It was so
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healing in a lot of ways because I had perceptions
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about what purpose looked like and what work looked like.
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And it did lead me to like going to nursing school.
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And then the next book I wrote, they're all like
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kind of themed off of what I'm going through, which
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I think makes it more purposeful, impactful. The next one
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was Called to Wait. So another 40 days, just going
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through like, what does waiting look like in our lives?
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um some of us have really long waiting seasons whether
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it's like just a big prayer or an unanswered prayer
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we just are waiting you know we're waiting for the
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person in the grocery line to like hurry up or
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we're waiting for someone to heal like we're waiting for
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an answer like we have small and big things and
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I think that devotional just helps people kind of have
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a different perspective on their waiting season and like hold
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on to hope and faith and trust that like it
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is working out how it's supposed to. Um, and yeah,
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so I think it just like, it was very fitting
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at the time, but, um, 40 days, great encouragement for
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whatever season you're in. Um, it is on Amazon, um,
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under my name, Lorena Alexandra. And I think it's definitely
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worth a shot if you're feeling one of two. Like,
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I'm in a waiting season. I need encouragement. This is
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so hard. Or I'm like, what's my purpose?
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What does work mean?
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Why are we working? So whatever season you're in, I
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think either are good.
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Thank you so much. Thank you. I have to be
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honest because I feel like I should have been reading. Sorry. those. No,
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like during my hard season. And I think maybe a
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lot of people can relate to that. Um, you know,
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sometimes we can have all of the tools or things
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in front of us and it doesn't always feel good
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to even do something like that. But I hope that
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this podcast is a reminder to people that we do
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all go through hard things. Everybody's hard can look different,
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but you know, whether you know me or Lo personally,
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or if it's just through the podcast, like shout out
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to my friends and fans in Indonesia.
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Love that.
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It's kind of crazy to think of how many people
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around the world listen to this podcast.
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Yeah.
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But, you know, I think that there is always guaranteed there.
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We are not exempt no matter where you live or where,
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your life story. Like we all go through shit and
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we're going to continue going through shit for the rest
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of our days. If we're fortunate enough to have so
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many days to live through shit. And I would not
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be sitting here today if I had not gone through
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and there's no right or wrong way to do it
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some of these tools and things that we offer you
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know whether it's your books right now or previously with
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my retreats like these are just all tools for people
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to really get after it and try to discover the
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parts of themselves that maybe they've lost in the lowest
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moments of their life and And when we stay committed
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to doing that work, no matter how big or small,
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no matter how many steps or all of these we
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know we can go on and on about like, did
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we do this? Did we do this? Did we do this?
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Like it's, I saw a comedian not to totally change
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the subject, but I saw a comedian over the weekend
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that was like joking about this, like healthy lifestyle, right?
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Like you can drive yourself into a psychosis about all
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of the things that you, you know, waking up at
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a certain time and did you drink your lemon water?
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And did you do this? And like, you can drive
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yourself insane, but like one small thing every day can
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change a million different things. And um that's huge yeah
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start small start small don't overhaul your life because you're
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gonna burn out don't do that that's i'm i'm speaking
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a lot of this to myself right now because i
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feel with how busy i am i'm not like i'm
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not close to burning out and i actually enjoy every
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single thing that i'm involved in but it is important
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and it's part of um I hope you not being
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at my house or being around my home that we're
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sitting in right now is very much dedicated to being
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very calm and very soothing and very relaxing because I
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know that the second that I walk out these doors, I'm...
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in the city. I'm running all over Ohio city doing
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work stuff. I'm in the podcasting space, like listening to
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other people's pot. Like there's just a lot. So for me,
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my home is always going to be my safe space.
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And I think for you as almost becoming a new mom,
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I think that it's You are going to give that safe.
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You already are providing the safety for this little guy,
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but I'm excited to see how you as a woman
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are able to do the thing that only you could
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do for your child and for your family. And again,
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I just am so like. I'm just so in love
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with all of this right now. You're just so precious
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and cute. Thank you. You're so good.
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Good for my soul.
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Soothing for the soul. All right. Well, is there anything else?
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I feel like just one last little nugget, if you have,
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to leave with our listeners to just give them that
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little dose of inspiration for their week ahead.
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Yeah, just... If you're in like a crazy season, just
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find kind of what Angela was saying. Just find one
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thing that's grounding. Just like hold to that, whatever it is,
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whether it's a mantra, whether it's like clean, safe home
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or just a book, like have something because yeah, life
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is crazy and chaotic and it's good. But we all
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need something to ground us. Yeah, absolutely.
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Well, thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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I love having you on here. You might be my– well,
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between you and JR, I feel like you've been on here.
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This is probably the third one if you consider the
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focus within.
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Yes.
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I'm so glad that you said yes.
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Thanks for having me. Of course.
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I love you. All right. We're going to get off
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of this microphone and finish catching up. Thank you guys
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so much for tuning in. I will be sure to
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include the links for Lowe's books if you're interested in
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checking those out. I highly recommend. She's amazing. She's an
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amazing writer, person, all of the things. I hope that
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you found this episode to be encouraging for whatever season
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you find yourself in. Tag a friend, share this episode,
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do all the things to help the Let Em Know
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podcast grow. I will, yeah, I guess I will see
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you guys in next week's episode. Bye!