Reconnect Through Creativity

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When was the last time you made something just because it brought you joy?
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Not for a client, not for a deadline, not for an audience, but just for you.
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And as women, oftentimes when you are busy, life is asking a lot of you.
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Things that are just for you are the first to go, always.
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Using your time for you is not selfish.
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Like this life that we live, like this is your life.
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Finish this sentence for me.
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Play is mandatory, my lifeline.
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to our weekly Power Lounge.
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This is your place to hear authentic conversations from those who have power to share.
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My name is Amy Vaughn, and I am the owner and chief empowerment officer of Together Digital, a diverse and collaborative community of women who work in digital and choose to share their knowledge, power, and connections.
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You can join the movement at TogetherIndigital.com.
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And today's episode continues our Power Lounge member series.
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And I want to start with one question for you all.
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When was the last time you made something just because it brought you joy?
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Not for a client, not for a deadline, not for an audience, but just for you.
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If you had to think about it, if you had to think about it, you're not alone.
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When our days revolve around deadlines, responsibilities, showing up for everyone else, the things that we love are often the first things that we set aside.
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Even creativity can start to feel like more of a deliverable.
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That's why I'm excited to welcome Isabel Ailey.
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She is uh one, hey, I know you guys can't see us if you're not on the podcast, but we're like so excited to be here together, and I'll explain more here in a minute.
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Um, but she, this one, because this one is personal for me.
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Um, when we opened the Marketer Collaborative, as many of you know, is now a co-working space in downtown Cincinnati.
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Isabel was my Gow Friday, my right-hand woman and honesty, honestly became my spirit daughter.
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Uh, for that entire first year, she was right there beside me, building something from the ground up.
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And today, Isabel has made a big leap to the other side of the country, coming to us from sunny California as a holistic health coach and private chef with Seasoned Soul Society, where she helps women reconnect with their bodies, their cycles, and their feminine energy through one-on-one coaching and her group program Flow Society, which you all need to check out.
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We have links in the show notes.
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Her approach is about building a life that moves with your natural rhythm instead of against it with no rigid rules.
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And when she's not coaching, Isabelle is in the kitchen cooking for retreats, wellness and events and gatherings.
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She brings creativity, love, and real playfulness to every table that she sets.
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I can speak to that firsthand.
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She always has like the best ideas for food.
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She can take anything and make it yum.
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That word, though, playfulness, is what today's conversation conversation is all about.
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Somewhere along the way, many of us filled filed creativity under optional.
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Isabel sees it as a way to get back to ourselves.
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So today we're going to talk about how stress and burnout leave us feeling disconnected and how creativity in play can really help us reconnect to bring back the things we love into everyday life.
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So good to see you, girlfriend.
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Welcome to the Power Lounge, Isabel.
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Thank you for having me.
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I'm so excited to be here on a different side.
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I've been there, you know, watching you, but it's fun to join.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And you're gonna crush it.
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I know it.
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All right.
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So, as I mentioned to y'all, we have a history here, us too.
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So don't mind us.
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If we get a little weird and nerdy on you guys, you're just gonna have to deal with it.
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Um, but you were with me for that very first year of building the marketer collaborative.
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In fact, yesterday, so aligned, like we didn't do this on purpose, but yesterday was our one year uh of since we did our grand opening, um, which is amazing.
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Yeah, I don't know if you realize that or not.
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It was literally yesterday, and then we're doing this today.
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Perfect.
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It was meant to be.
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So, what did that season in particular teach you that you have now carried into this next chapter of your life with uh seasoned soul society?
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Yeah, so many things.
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I mean, starters, like it was a startup business.
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So being able to watch and be a part of that has taught me so much.
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And the community itself, like working for a community as the community manager, like obviously that is like the experience that I bring forth, like trying to grow a community of my own, a community of women who care about wellness, care about their bodies, and who feel like when someone says something, it isn't like, oh my god, I'm being crazy.
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It's like, oh my God, I feel you, I hear you, I see you.
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And being able to relate and bring together people who understand each other, that was the exact same mission in parallel.
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And even like working, you know, at the marketer with you invited me into Together Digital.
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And there's so many things I learned about like I built my website through Together Digital, and I might not have like even made one if I hadn't had help from Danelle.
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Respect to her, she's awesome.
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Yep.
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Hello to Danelle.
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She just did a masterclass, by the way, on uh creating website accessibility.
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So if you haven't watched that yet, friends, definitely go back and watch it.
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It's so good, so good, so informative.
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She's both her and Robbie wicked smart, all these women are.
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So I'm so glad that you got a lot out of it in the time with the group as well.
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All right, so you do two things that don't normally go together, I would say coaching and cooking.
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Which came first, and how did the other one find you?
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Yeah, it's like the chicken and the egg.
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Honestly, cooking has always been a thing.
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I think my parents are actually on here, so shout out to them.
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But we of course they are.
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Hi, mom and dad.
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We loved cooking um for me growing up.
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And we had, you know, if you guys are Cincinnati locals, like Jungle Gyms, that was our regular grocery store.
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So we would buy crazy stuff and make it.
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And I was an only child, love it or hate it, but I was like, like honestly, like always around them, learning how to do things and then doing them myself because if they weren't there, who was gonna do it?
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It was gonna be me.
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So I've always been cooking.
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That's like how I express my creativity, honestly.
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And it also is like the gateway into wellness for me.
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I care about how I feel my body, and I just learned like how to use it to like better myself, which led me to want to become a health coach.
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I really wanted to take my health coaching certification.
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And they say, you know, you can start a business or you can just use that information for yourself and move forward.
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I decided to start a business and I wanted to be a health coach, but that cooking, like that's a calling, and I had to figure out how to weave them together.
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And I found that when I cook for my community, I get to invite them into like why I do this, why I care about wellness, and that invites them into coaching.
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Food's a good way to bring people together.
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And food is medicine, right?
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Like it, you're so right.
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It definitely changes.
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And the older I get, you know, the more I realize the things that I put into my body make a huge difference.
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One glass of wine or a cocktail goes over very differently than it did when I was younger, or sugar, like carbs, all that kind of stuff.
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It definitely hits your body differently.
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And I'm sure you could say the same even for where you are in your cycle, right?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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I love like the opportunity to teach anyone about like when you give them a meal, it's like, oh my God, this is amazing.
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What is this?
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I'm gonna tell you what it is and why we're eating it.
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And if I'm sitting with a table of women, like that's where I get the opportunity to talk about cycle syncing, like your nutrition to your phases, which if you're like, pause, let's like take a time out.
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What even is that?
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Cycle syncing is just understanding as a woman, you have four phases of your cycle, and there's different things that your body needs.
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Like, we are not the same.
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Men, they start over every day, 24-hour clock.
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Women, we have like a whole month.
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So if you're like, oh my gosh, I'm completely different this week from last week, you are hormonally, you are different.
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Your body wants different nutrients, your body wants to move differently and all of those pieces: movement, food, your emotions, your symptoms.
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If you take those all into account, that cycle sinking.
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So being able to say, like, well, this meal has, you know, a lot of magnesium.
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This would be really good for this time to help ease, you know, cramping, or maybe you're really sore.
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That is what I love to like teach when it's just like, I thought we were just sitting down eating food, but now you're gonna eat all TED Talk.
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I love it.
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That's and it's definitely your zone of genius in the space that you love to be in.
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And so that passion obviously comes through and that also draws people in.
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Let's talk a little bit though about the play and creativity of all of this, since that's today's theme.
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When a woman comes to you feeling disconnected from herself, what does that usually look at look like?
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And how would she normally describe it to you?
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Yeah, I think it's honestly the exact same as when you go to your friends and they're like, How you doing?
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And you're like, honestly, girl, I'm not good.
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Like, I'm tired or I'm frustrated, maybe I'm bloated, I'm not getting good sleep.
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Like all of those cues that like you know in your body are not your normal for you.
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Of like, I remember when I was working out and I love my workouts, now I don't really like them anymore.
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Or I love my children, but like all of a sudden everything I do is for them, or like just all those little things.
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Like when you don't feel connected to your body and what you actually love, if you're not doing your hobbies, like those kinds of things, like that's when you're disconnected, and that's like the clear sign of like we need to take a step back and like look at where we're spending our time, and like that's why I think creativity is so important because that's what I always draw it back to, because that's what people desire.
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Like, your hobbies lie there, your passions lie there, and that's really where you can connect.
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Like, yeah, no one wants to be bloated, but like bloated is common, but you know, it's not common, saying, like, I haven't read a book in three months, and I read like 12 books a year minimum, like those kinds of things where it's about you and you can really connect to that.
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That's what I always listen for.
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
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And I'm sure those who are listening can really relate.
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There's like this sense of dissociation almost, where it's like you're just kind of like you're watching your life from the outside.
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And I've also described it as like living from the neck up, where it's like you're just so in your head and you're never in your body and you're never resting properly or finding a way to just learn how to relax.
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So yeah, I think a lot of people can um relate to what you're sharing.
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So, you know, in that, in that kind of along that thread, you know, a lot of us kind of, especially in this digital marketing and advertising space, we kind of file creativity.
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And when I say creativity, I want to make sure I'm making it clear that we're talking about creative for the sake of being creative, not for the sake of solving a problem, you know, helping somebody's business, painting a room, like true creativity just for the sake of creating something and kind of getting again out of your head and into your body.
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Um, but we've really kind of put that as optional.
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Why do you think that it's often the first thing that we let go of when stress and burnout take over?
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Like, why do we not turn to creativity despite?
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I mean, a lot of us love the data.
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There's so much data that shows creativity and expression are really great ways to combat that.
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Yeah, I think there's the two biggest factors of like if you are a woman, like a lot of times creativity falls under something that is only for you.
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And as women, oftentimes when you are busy, life is asking a lot of you.
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Things that are just for you are the first to go, always.
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It also creativity, like you think about it as that like childlike energy, that the things you loved when you were younger, it comes from an area that isn't.
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I mean, if you're like wonderfully skilled at like composing or drawing, and like that's your job, that's your life, like that's a little bit different.
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But like a lot of times, creativity comes from just that like inner playfulness that can be that more childlike personality.
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And like when you grow up, you have all these huge responsibilities, you're like, I don't have time for that anymore.
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So, those two, especially in this community, that's often both.
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You're feeling both of those.
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So when you have all of these things on your plate, you're saying, you know, I don't, this isn't a priority for me.
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But what you're not understanding is like those things, those small hobbies, the just like, you know, going on a walk and like not listening to a podcast or like running and listening to hardcore music, like maybe just looking at the flowers or just like listening and breathing, like when was the last time you just like listened to your breath?
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Like, even something simple like that.
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That's a really like abstract view of creativity.
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But then there's like the obvious of like, do you like to like paint or do you like to write?
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Maybe you love like poetry, like you love playing music.
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There's all these different aspects that are like immediately you view those as creativity.
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There's like a very large scale, and that's what I like to show people.
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Like, creativity is not just one thing, it's whatever makes you create and what makes your, you know, your left brain light up.
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Like, yeah, also the left side of your body, that's your feminine side, and also like that is like your creative brain as well.
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So I think innately women, you know, we express ourselves and we align a lot with creativity.
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So when you shut those out, you're really shutting out a lot of your own identity, whether you know, identify with that or not.
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Yeah, that's so true.
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It's so insightful.
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And I do think that perfectionism kind of comes into play there, right?
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People think that, oh, I'm not creative.
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The people that I've heard say that, like we are all creative.
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You can just lay down, look up the sky, and imagine animals in the clouds or something.
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Like there's everyone is creative in some fashion or some way.
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Like you said, it's just about finding that.
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Um, and yeah, Christy just dropped into the chat.
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She's like, we also feel guilty or selfish for making that time just for ourselves.
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So yeah, I think a time crunch and perfectionism and like the fact that we assume that creativity and play have to be perfect, it's it's such bullshit.
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It's like one of my favorite new activities.
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Um, I want a plug her for anybody who's listening from Cincinnati because it's another woman-owned business, and it's called Paint Playground.
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And you saw this because Isabel, because I took my kids there.
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And it you just go into a room and you put some canvases on the wall and you put on ponchos, and she has paint brushes, water guns, like all these different ways to just throw paint.
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And it's all about just letting it be messy, not making there be a process, and definitely not about perfectionism.
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And she's been getting not just families coming in, but groups of women who were really using it almost as like an art therapy experience to just have at the canvas.
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And I was like, that's such a great idea.
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And you don't need to go somewhere to do that.
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You could literally just go to the paint store or the craft store, grab a couple of things and be like, I don't even know what I'm gonna make, but I'm just gonna go at it and see what happens, you know.
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And it's such a fun thing to do, or those like paint and sip classes.
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I've seen people go like, I can't paint.
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And they go into those classes and they're so like just open and like here's some technique.
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And then people who who can't draw a smiley face so come up with some painting, and I'm like, dang, that's really cool.
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Yeah.
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I also love the paint room idea.
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I feel like it's like the female version of the rage room.
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Yeah.
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Oh, that's so true.
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And of course, like instead of breaking shit, we're like creating with our rage.
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I love it.
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It's very feminine of us of all.
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All right.
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So on that note of kind of things like paint throwing or even rage rooming, you know, um, your whole approach is built around no rigid rules, which is where most of the wellness world starts.
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Where would you, where you ever, were you ever?
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I can read.
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Were you ever on the rigid rule side yourself?
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I'm pretending like I don't know you already.
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And what changed your mind?
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It's so funny.
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Like, I always like I'll get asked like a question, and I'm like, I feel like there's such a dichotomy of myself.
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Like, if you guys know me, if you don't, like I am very OCD, very organized, very direct to the point.
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But then I'm also like, I need to do this and that.
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And I'm like very creative and spontaneous, and honestly, like the two like really fight against each other.
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But with rules, like I hate a rule.
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Like, I really hate it.
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I just like I don't like teaching other people rules because I know a lot of people like really get tied to that.
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Maybe like if you're tracking calories, a lot of people get like addicted.
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They're like, oh my gosh, I need to know this.
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Now this like really affects how I view my food.
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For me, I'm like, I'm not gonna do this.
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Like, I'm I'm over it.
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Like, I get really tired of stuff like that.
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So I have to kind of like make it a game or a lifestyle and like really educate myself on something because if I don't believe in something, I'm not doing it.
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So I would say, not really a rule person, but I have a rule personality.
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So I will honestly like educate myself on like what works best for my body, fully believe in it, like understand like what is this, why am I doing it, what are the benefits, honestly, to the point where like I can then teach it about other people.
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Obviously, I do that, but for people who don't, like it's the equivalent of like you're younger, you're studying for a test, and like if you can like ask someone else the questions and then like grade them, you know you're gonna get a good grade on the test.
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Like, that's how I view it, honestly.
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Yeah, that's smart, that's a good way to look at it.
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And yeah, that's what I was teasing you.
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I was like, well, I know the OCD, but I think it's what makes you good at what you do.
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And I think we're very similar in that way, where it's like we don't like hard and fast rules, we want flexibility over rigidity, but we love the process, you know, because we don't want to waste time and energy on the things that don't let us have fun and be creative.
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And that's where sometimes process clarity details are important, but it doesn't mean like rules are written there and stoned, and this is the way it always has to be.
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So I think that's again.
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Like, especially as a coach, like I can't be like, Amy, you're gonna have the exact same plan.
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You follow the same rules as Christy, my mom in the chat.
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Like, you guys are not the same people.
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Like, there's so much nuance to like showing people how to live, how to do things.
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And also, as women, we are not the same every day.
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I'm not gonna have you do this exact guideline when one day you're gonna far exceed that and one day you're really not.
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I want you to always believe in yourself.
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So I think oftentimes those rigid rules are what deter people from moving forward with their wellness goals.
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Yeah, that's fantastic.
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I love it.
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Um, and also um about the chat, please keep dropping the comments.
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We love hearing from you, live listening audience.
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And if you have questions, specific questions for Isabel that I'm not touching on, that's why we have you here listening with us live.
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Want to make sure that you guys get the most out of every guest we have here as our listeners.
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Um, you talk a lot, we've already talked a lot, actually, about feminine energy.
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So for the listeners who are maybe new to that idea, let's kind of come back to that for a second.
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And what does it mean to you and how does it connect maybe to creativity and play?
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Yes, this is my favorite question.
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I have a group coaching program called Flow Society, and we meet for eight weeks.
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And at the beginning, before anything, I always do a one-on-one session with each person coming in to understand where they are.
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How do they understand their cycle?
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Why are they here?
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And I always ask them define feminine energy for me.
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What does that mean for you?
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And I would say, you know, I have a lot of people in my community who are interested in the same things as me.
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They maybe have an answer and like have, you know, worked through this already.
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But you would be shocked about half the people are like, I don't know what that is.
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I can't define that.
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I don't know what you mean.
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Like nothing.
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And that is so common.
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And that like is really why I do what I do.
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Because as being a woman, I think it's very important to understand what you understand is what you teach others.
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And as a society, we have just been teaching each other that, you know, it's okay to say, Oh my god, I hate being a woman.
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It's so stressful, it's so hard.
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I hate having a cycle.
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I hate, you know, these expectations.
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Like, I understand it can be tiring, but to teach other women that is really hard.
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And you also shut down like the opportunity to understand, like, there is so much beauty in being a woman, in your femininity.
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And I think the most beautiful things are the creativity, the playfulness.
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A lot of people like to say, um, you know, the feminine is creation, playfulness, ideas, like all, you know, people who aren't looking like I'm moving my hands around in a spiral.
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Like, there's a lot flowing, and the masculine is the container in which holds feminine energy.
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We all have feminine and masculine energy within ourselves, but that also plays in dynamics.
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If you're in a relationship, If you have siblings, like co-workers, like it doesn't matter what relationship, but a lot of times, like we have all these ideas, and like the masculine has the structure in which how do we get there?
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How do we build?
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And uh I think you know it's also very important to understand that as women, we create life, we literally give birth to life, to new beings, and Mother Earth is the creation of life.
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So innately, like we are the creative beings, like we have the power to create, we are bringing forth that.
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And with everything you do, whether it's in business, whether you're literally birthing a child, you're birthing a project, like whatever you do is the creation, and that is really the most beautiful way of expressing your feminine energy of like this is my passion, this is what I care about, this is how I express myself, creativity, creativity, whatever.
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Y'all know what I'm saying.
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Creatively creatively, yeah.
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Like we just like that is how we move through life, and to dull that is really to dull our purpose, honestly.
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Yeah, that's such a good reminder.
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So, on that note, too, like for you, creatively speaking, feminine energy-wise speaking, cooking, right?
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And so you've been doing a lot of cooking for retreats and gatherings.
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How does feeding a room full of women teach you about them that coaching maybe alone wouldn't?
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And where does the playfulness come in when it comes to the making food for those retreats and gatherings?
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Yes, I would say when you that's this is kind of going back to the chicken and the egg of like I love cooking.
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This is how I share myself to others, this is how I give myself to others.
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So when you're in that space of like, I'm nourishing you, like I'm providing for you, like doesn't matter who you are, the you isn't you, the you isn't me, it's whoever.
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Like cooking for someone makes a bond of trust, of like you are supporting me, you are taking care of me.
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And you know, looking back, or if you are currently doing this like with your family, like sitting around eating at the dinner table, that's when you learn how was your day?
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How was work?
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How is school?
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What are you into these days?
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You know, you're sharing your life and like what really matters.
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And that's like the true bonding point for a lot of families.
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And I've noticed that a lot as like cooking at retreats, like when we're in circles learning, obviously there's very deep, important shares there.
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But when someone is like, hey, I'm like really hungry, can I have a snack?
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Like, can I come in here and get like a juice?
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Like, then they're just talking to me, like we're learning a lot of things, and like we're just having a natural conversation, or like sitting down at dinner, like, oh my gosh, you've been in there all day.
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How are you doing?
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Why do you do this?
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Where are you from?
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Like, you really get to know people on a level that is evil or sorry, level playing ground, not evil, level playing ground, and it's like very just like safe and comforting, and that's where those deep shares are.
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But to answer the other part of your question of like, yes, like this is my number one form of creativity, and I get so excited about food.
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Like, if I'm going on vacation, like I'm gonna pick somewhere that's you know, nice, pretty, something I like.
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First things I'm planning, where is breakfast?
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Where is lunch, dinner, like where are the gelato spots?
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Like, honestly, like that is what lights me up, and I get a lot of inspiration from you know, online or when I'm traveling, or just certain things.
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And it's really nice to like do the cycle syncing planning because it's like, oh, now I have something new again that I can focus on and sharing that with others of like knowing why I care so much, like just lights up that passion as well to like want to create for them.
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I love it.
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Yeah, you're just reminding me of all of the women in my family that cook for others and how much it means to us and to them to like sit down and enjoy their meal.
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And it's it's such a practice of mindfulness that we forget because we're trying to like run in a million different directions and we're trying to find like the quickest, easiest meals because we're trying to do it between practices and games and after schools and and whatnot, but to be able to just truly like spend some time cooking um for others and nourishing, like it's more than just the body, right?
00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:46.079
It's the mind and the soul.
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And I love that so much.
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That was such a good reminder.
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Thanks, Isabel.
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All right, let's get practical here.
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What does living?
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We're gonna kind of circle back to now that we're all plenty hungry, thinking about food and delicious food as well.
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Um, let's talk about what living in your natural rhythm actually looks like uh for a normal working week.
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So we're talking about kind of like the the flow kind of sinking and cycle sinking.
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Um, but like maybe not the theory, but like the Tuesday afternoon version.
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What does that look like?
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Yeah.
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So there's little things.
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It's your normal life, but you have more of a guide and more of an understanding and communication with yourself.
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So say you're new and you're at the grocery store.
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Maybe you have an app.
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I like Lively and 28.
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Those are both two really great apps.
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Maybe you're just looking at that, like, what should I be eating this week?
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Like, what nutrients does my body want?
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And it's gonna suggest, oh, hey girl, go order kale, get chickpeas, those kinds of things.
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And honestly, you can know why or not.
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Just go in and you know, start using that as an inspiration, a guy.
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That's how you start using nutrition.
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Maybe you're at the gym and you're like, oh my god, this feels so heavy.
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I can't even be bothered with this.
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Like, okay, why?
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Like, are we in our luteal or menstrual phase?
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Like, maybe naturally our body isn't wanting that right now.
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Lower reps, maybe some walking, swimming, things like that.
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Or if you're like in your ovulatory phase, like maybe that is when you're, you know, really repping things out, hitting your PRs, like understanding why it is really helps you like give yourself grace and like understand like what your body is doing, and that sets you up for success moving forward.
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Of like, next time I hear I'm here, like in this phase, that's how I felt.
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I can base that off of this.
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For me personally, that shows up a lot for emotions to like understand like oh my god, if you ever say to a woman, you just must be PMSing.
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Mm-mm.
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No, like maybe don't ever talk to me again.
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Like, that's that's just so bad to say.
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Because you're teaching someone that, like, this time of the month, every single month, that they're not safe to be around you.
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And maybe they just need support or they need a different communication pattern.
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Like, cycle syncing, living in your natural rhythm is being able to understand where you're at, set yourself up for success so that you can like move forward preventatively, understand maybe how should I move my body?
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Should I schedule this like cycle bar class or should I like ask my friend to go on a walk?
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Should I eat this meal prep or that meal prep?
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Or should I take a bath or should I like go out with the girls?
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It's really just understanding like, is my calendar working for me so that this Tuesday looks like the Tuesday it should.
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I love it.
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Great answer.
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It's almost like cycle hacking, right?
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It's like making the most of every phase because no phase is bad, they're just different.
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And when you know to listen to your body, I think the the exercise one is such a good example because you know, I'm friends with a lot of guys and they're like, oh, what's your split today?
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And it's like, you know what?
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I can't, and I don't want to lift every day.
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Like my body needs different things at different times.
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Because, and that's another thing I want to point out, fellas.
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I mean, I know if your dad's listening here and he knows this, but any guys that are listening, like, yeah, let's stop, let's stop um stigmatizing women in their month-long cycle.
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You literally go through basically a period in one day.
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You're saying, like, like their hormone levels, and I'm gesturing with my hands.
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So sorry if you guys aren't obviously seeing this, but like women's cycles, like your hormones come up and then they stay level, and then they start to like your estrogen starts to go down, right?
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Guys, it's up and down every day, up and down.
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And then you're saying we're the overly emotional ones driven by hormones.
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Actually, from a hormone like level standpoint, we're cycling through less hormones on a monthly, daily average than men.
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But somehow we just, you know, the stigma all comes back to us.
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But it's it's all information.
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It's not judgment, right?
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:05.599
It's information.
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For the ladies that are that are listening who feel like they have no time for creativity um to create anything uh just for themselves.
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What is one small step that you could maybe take this week?
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Yeah, I would say take a look.
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I know, you know, if you're a busy woman, like Google Calendar, whatever it is, maybe use Outlook.
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Like, I know that is your lifeline.
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So take a look, what's on there?
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Is there something that like isn't a requirement?
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You don't absolutely have to do it, but you're like, you know, I'm not sure if I want to do this.
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Take it off.
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Take it off.
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And replace that block with a walk, with reading a book, maybe a paint by number.
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Like, what are your hobbies?
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What's your way of expressing yourself creativity that you have not done?
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Bring it back.
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Like it's so simple of like using your time for you is not selfish.
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Like this life that we live, like this is your life.
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And I understand if you have a partner, if you have kids, you have a business, like you do have responsibilities, but you have a responsibility to yourself as well.
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And I think that's really important to remember.
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:21.680
Yeah, I think that's brilliant.
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:23.359
Olivia just added that in the chat too.
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Hi, Olivia.
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:26.720
Um, another Isabelle fan.
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:28.480
We're there's so many of us here.
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:33.039
Um, adding your cycle to a Google Calendar is it is it's genius.
00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:36.000
That's so spot on because that's going to help you to take advantage of.
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:43.599
Because we had like, I mean, it was probably during the pandemic, we had someone else on who talked about single cycle cycle sinking.
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Uh yay, Friday.
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And um, she was talking about that from a productivity standpoint, how to really hack it and get the most out of like know what weeks to pack things in to get shit done and know what weeks to just let off the gas a little bit.
00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:00.319
So it's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
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I love it so much.
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:03.759
Um, and then gosh, I love this chat.
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It's popping.
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Look at you guys.
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And there's Morgan, Emily.
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Yay! Oh, it's so cute.
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:17.279
Um, but yeah, it's like your mom just brought up the fact that like period blood is healing, it's like great for stem cells and stem cell research.
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:20.240
And then Isabel just added it, it can even make your plants grow.
00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:21.359
That's insane.
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:22.960
Yeah, that's just crazy.
00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:25.759
I'm in like a group coaching program.
00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:28.640
Um, this is one that I'm actually a client in.
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:34.640
And one of the girls in the chat the other day was like, which uh, you know, this is borderline woo.
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If you're you know not into that, whatever, maybe get into it.
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It's so awesome.
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:50.799
But there's like research that if you feed your period blood to the earth, like it will grow, it will replenish, it's giving back to the earth, whatever, you know.
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:58.960
She's been like uh dumping her blood in her plants, and she's like, my plant that was dying is thriving.
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Like she's like, My plants have never looked this good in their entire life, and she's like been doing it for like four weeks, which is insane.
00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:10.639
That is so wild, but it kind of also makes sense, right?
00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:16.320
Because they talk about like afterbirth and placenta and things like that being so nutrient, like valuable and things like that.
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:19.280
Like our bodies are meant to go back to the earth.
00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:21.039
That's all there is to it, right?
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:26.000
The soil, everything below us is all made up of things that have died before us, you know?
00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:28.559
So yeah, it all goes back, it's all one big cycle.
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:30.079
Ugh, so cool.
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All right.
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Looking ahead, what do you want Season Soul Society to become in the next few years?
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And what are you making right now in the kitchen or anywhere else that has nothing to do with business?
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So honestly, just moved across the country.
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For anyone who doesn't know, I lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I just moved to Southern California.
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So for me, that would look like building my wellness community here.
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Obviously, never leaving behind my people, but there's always room for more to understand, you know, who can I work with here?
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Like who's having retreats?
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Like, I'd love to be cooking at more retreats over here, finding clients over here, but also learning from people over here.
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Why did I move here for the food and the wellness scene?
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So there's a lot to learn and there's a lot to be embraced in, and honestly, just to like use that to gain more skills and put that right back into my business and my community is the goal here.
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So just building upon the foundation that I've already built is the goal.
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And I am actually a chef at a cafe over here right now.
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So a lot of the time I'm in the kitchen is there, and it's been really fun to get like creative with like what we have.
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We have a menu, obviously, but then people will come in on break, like, okay, like I want this, you know, our rosemary facaccia, I want that sandwich, you know, it's easy to order, but then they're like, Oh, wait, I saw that you made this like on your lunch break.
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Like, what is that?
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And I'm like, let me tell you, be playful with it, like having fun has definitely brought back like that spark for cooking for myself.
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And I think also all the food here, like, oh my gosh, I've been trying so many new things.
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Yeah, and I've definitely been making food that maybe makes me uncomfortable or like is a different culture to like just be you know more well-rounded.
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Something crazy that I, you know, I can't say that I'm the biggest fan, but I I just love to push myself.
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I made like a sardine like pasta, okay, and it was actually pretty good.
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But like, you know, I can't say I'm gonna do that all the time.
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Right.
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I love just like doing random stuff because to me, like that is being playful, like that is trying new things, like that's really important for me as a person.
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Like, whether like I'm gonna like insanely love it or not, I'm always gonna try it because I love to grow in no matter what I'm doing.
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Yeah, I love it.
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And again, like kudos to you, kiddo, for like getting in your car, driving across the country with Opal, like doing it with like a plan in mind, but not rigid about it.
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Again, it's like this whole process, like you're just betting on yourself.
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And again, kudos to Christy and Randy, mom and dad, for being so encouraged.
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I know this hasn't been easy for them either.
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We all miss you a ton, but we're so proud to see you taking this leap and betting on yourself.
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And I hope that those who are listening, like, if you don't like vibe with any of the wellness stuff, like at least take that away.
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That, you know, with the right people and support around you, like, gosh, like you could go so far.
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So whether you need that support or you want to be that support for somebody, you know, community, family, all of that makes such a big difference.
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Cause even though you're across the country, like you're not alone.
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We're all with you, we're already checking on you.
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Gosh, even Deb, our cleaner here, is constantly talking and asking you.
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Oh, I love it.
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That makes me so happy.
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It makes me so happy.
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So, yeah, we're all here behind you.
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Um, so yeah, okay, let's get to our power round questions.
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And then, friends in the chat, if you have a specific question for Isabel, please let me know.
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We'll make sure we get to it before we wrap up here.
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But for the power round, these are kind of rapid fire questions.
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Um, what is uh something that you like to cook when you're cooking for just yourself?
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Oh, I love anything seafood.
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I think it's so playful.
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So, like uh like a pasta à la vanguet, like with like clams, mussels, anything like that.
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I love it.
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Nice and I like it.
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Well, you're in the right place for all that.
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One creative hobby that you would pick up tomorrow if time didn't matter.
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Maybe like surfing, like being here.
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Like that would take a lot of time for me because I need to be very careful.
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I, you know, I got some joint pain, y'all.
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Uh so I would have to be really easy on myself, but that would be so cool, like to be doing that here.
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I could see you being a surfer girl.
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Surfer girl slash mermaid.
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It's in your future, it's in the universe now.
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It's gonna happen.
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I love it.
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Finish this sentence for me.
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Play is mandatory, my lifeline.
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Oh, I love it.
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Good answer.
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Your favorite memory.
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Oh, I've I forgot I wrote this one.
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Oh, your favorite memory, if you had to pick just one from your first year here at the MC with us.
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Oh my god.
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Honestly, like when I was thinking about these, the first thing that always comes to mind when people ask about like the craziest, the best, the most awesome, yeah.
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First week of work being asked to feel like an eight foot, 800-pound bronze lion into the main lobby.
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So seriously, too.
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Hey, Isabel, uh, this is something I need you to do.
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Our wonderful building owner King Jim.
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That was hilarious.
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That was definitely my best memory.
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And it came during Christmas time.
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It was snowing.
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It was literally like Christmas Day.
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It was insane.
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It was perfect.
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It was like the first or the second day of December, I feel like.
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And so it was like an early snow.
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And Jim being out there with his little scarf on, looking like a kid on Christmas.
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Yeah, it was amazing miracle.
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Oh my gosh.
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That was hilarious.
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And what an amazing, like, first challenge to be given.
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And you just went straight for it, girl, and you figured it out.
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And it wasn't easy.
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I had to call so many people crazy.
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And they were like, is it ever gonna actually get here?
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We don't know.
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But Felix is doing well.
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He is still the darling of the MC.
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He gets lots of selfies with folks.
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Um, and so yeah, yeah, it was definitely worth the effort because um it's paid off.
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You know, we had hundreds of people here last week coming through the space, and I would look up and there'd be people taking selfies with him all the time.
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He's a good photo op for sure.
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Well done.
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Oh, I wish we could hang out for longer, but we're gonna do a call and catch up soon.
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But it's so good to see so many of you in the chat joining us today to support our gal Isabel.
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Thank you so much for coming and listening.
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And it means a lot, Isabel, to watch you build something that's so completely yours.
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And I know our community will walk away with a little bit to more today.
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Um, hopefully learning to make more room for joy for themselves, bet on themselves, take that risk, play creative, no matter how big or small that is.
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And to our listeners, just a quick note today's conversation is about well-being and creativity, not medical advice.
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Um, so be sure that you talk with your healthcare provider about anything specific to you.
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Um, just gotta make sure we watch out for that kind of stuff.
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I don't need lawyers coming after me.
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But you can connect with Isabel on LinkedIn and learn more about her coaching, uh, Flow Society and private chef services at uh her season soul society website.
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Again, all that'll be included.
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Uh, links in the show notes.
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And then if today's conversation sparks something for you, uh, keep coming and listen along.
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Follow, like, and subscribe, as my kids always say, right?
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Um, and then Together Digital, you know, if you want a collaborative community of women that are going to support you through all chapters, transitions, changes, and crazy things that you might just decide to go out and do and make happen and real, this is definitely the community for you.
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So be sure to check us out on YouTube and anywhere else you can listen to podcasts.
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That's where we'll be.
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Isabel, thanks again, hon.
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It was good to see your face.
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Miss you so much.
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Thanks for having me.
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All right, everyone.
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Have a great rest of your Friday, and we'll see you next time.
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Until then, keep asking, keep giving, and keep growing.
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Bye now.
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Bye.
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