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160. "Hot Girl" Spring Refresh: motivation to feeling like yourself again... · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello you guys, welcome back to another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Hawkgirl Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kayleie, and welcome back
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Speaker 1: to another episode. I am so excited for today's episode
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Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm in need of a spring refresh.
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Speaker 1: I'm finally feeling like it feels like spring right now,
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Speaker 1: like the weather's finally changing. We're finally seeing less snow,
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Speaker 1: We're seeing more sunshine, which is literally the best feeling ever.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone else is currently feeling the
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Speaker 1: same way, but I'm finally seeing summer ahead. I feel
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Speaker 1: like it's been the longest winter ever and I'm just
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Speaker 1: so ready for a new season and I'm so happy
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Speaker 1: we're officially in spring and just seeing the warmer weather just.
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Speaker 2: Makes things ten times better.
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Speaker 1: Today's episode's really going to be focused on a hawk
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Speaker 1: Girl spring refresh, so just kind of like the motivation
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Speaker 1: to feeling yourself again because I'm currently in this phase
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Speaker 1: in my life where I am finally starting to build
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Speaker 1: a routine again and find myself again. Which if you
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Speaker 1: guys have been following along for a while, then you
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Speaker 1: know that I've been going through a pretty severe back
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Speaker 1: injury for the past four to five months and I've
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Speaker 1: officially been cleared to go back to reformer pilates and
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Speaker 1: start to add strength back into my routine, which I
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Speaker 1: honestly thought was never gonna happen. Like it just felt
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Speaker 1: so hard to like picture my injury getting better because
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Speaker 1: I felt like it was so bad for such a
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Speaker 1: long time. And I've definitely opened up here a lot
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Speaker 1: about it here on the podcast along with my social
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Speaker 1: media platforms, and how it was just such a difficult
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Speaker 1: journey for someone who's such an active person who really
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Speaker 1: makes working out her biggest priority ever, Like I truly
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Speaker 1: just like revolve my life around moving my body because
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Speaker 1: for me personally, it just does so many benefits for me.
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Speaker 1: It eases my anxiety, it helps my stress. I feel
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Speaker 1: like it's the best way to get a bit of
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Speaker 1: a social fix in because I do go to workout classes.
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Speaker 1: It's not just like something I do in my house.
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Speaker 1: I like to get out, you know, meet friends, go
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Speaker 1: for a workout together. Like it's just like my perfect
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Speaker 1: ideal situation. Like if someone were to ask me what's
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Speaker 1: the perfect date, it would be come to a workout
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Speaker 1: class with me and then let's go get a post
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Speaker 1: workout smoothie after or a post coffee like something like that.
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Speaker 1: That's my dream date. If I could do that with
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Speaker 1: my husband every single day, I would love that. If
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Speaker 1: I can do that with the girls every single day,
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Speaker 1: that is my dream. I think everybody can agree that
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Speaker 1: it's like the perfect ideal date. And so not being
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Speaker 1: able to go to workout classes or do the workouts
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Speaker 1: that I love was very, very hard on my mental health,
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Speaker 1: and I'm finally seeing so much progress in my mental
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Speaker 1: health how I've been feeling and my energy levels have
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Speaker 1: been so much better, and I kind of just wanted
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Speaker 1: to share things that I'm doing to feel like myself
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Speaker 1: again and almost just like a spring refresh of how
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Speaker 1: you can feel like yourself again by doing little things
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Speaker 1: and little habits that can make yourself I just feel
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Speaker 1: a little bit more motivated and want to make yourself
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Speaker 1: feel like the person that you want to be. I
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Speaker 1: also want to share some April goals because I always
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Speaker 1: love to share the goals that I'm striving for each
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Speaker 1: month because I want it to inspire you to make
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Speaker 1: goals for yourself for each month. So we're also going
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Speaker 1: to chat about that as well before we get into
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Speaker 1: the episode. I did want to do a bit of
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Speaker 1: a weekly recap because if you listen to my last episode,
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Speaker 1: which if you haven't listened to it, I highly recommend
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Speaker 1: listening to it. It is all about me talking with
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Speaker 1: the lessons that I learned throughout my twenties. Because I'm
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Speaker 1: officially thirty years old. Thirty years old, so wild it
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel real yet. I still haven't had a conversation
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Speaker 1: with someone saying like, oh, how old are you. It's
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Speaker 1: like I haven't had that yet where I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm thirty. You know, I'm waiting for that day where
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say twenty nine, but obviously I'm actually thirty.
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Speaker 1: But I always like forget how old I am. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone else is like that, but anyways,
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Speaker 1: point is is that I had a big birthday party
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Speaker 1: this weekend, which was so fun. I really wasn't sure
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Speaker 1: if I was going to do something, and it's fun.
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Speaker 1: Everybody that I saw the night before or on the
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Speaker 1: Thursday night, they're like.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, are you excited for this weekend?
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Speaker 1: Like it's your birthday party, you must be so excited,
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Speaker 1: and like, I was excited, but I also was like
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Speaker 1: low key kind of looking forward to it being over,
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Speaker 1: if that makes sense, Like not in a sad way.
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Speaker 1: I just think planning events is so stressful, and you
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Speaker 1: guys know that I've been trying to like work on
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Speaker 1: my stress and like remove stress from my lifestyle whatever,
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Speaker 1: and obviously it's very hard.
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Speaker 2: When you want to do these fun things and be
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Speaker 2: busy and all that.
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Speaker 1: Right, So definitely something that I was working on last month,
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Speaker 1: which I did a really good job at. But the
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Speaker 1: point is is that I think I just like wanted
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Speaker 1: the party to happen and just like enjoy the time
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Speaker 1: with my friends and my family, which I did. Enjoy
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Speaker 1: every aspect of it, and I'm so happy I did
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Speaker 1: do it. But I also was like low key kind
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Speaker 1: of happy was over because I'm like, Okay, I can
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Speaker 1: kind of like finally like not have to stress about
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Speaker 1: anything and just kind of focus on really just the
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Speaker 1: house now, which is us, you know, moving out of
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Speaker 1: this house and moving into a new house and just
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Speaker 1: kind of like prepping for a move because we move
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Speaker 1: in like four which is really gonna fly by, like
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Speaker 1: it really does go by so fast. So I'm really
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Speaker 1: just trying to prep for that and understand that that's
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Speaker 1: our main priority right now. And yeah, that's just like
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Speaker 1: something that I really wanted to get out of the way.
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Speaker 1: Was just my birthday, and yeah, we had literally the
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Speaker 1: best time ever. If you guys didn't see on Instagram
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Speaker 1: or TikTok, I ended up renting a barn because here
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Speaker 1: in Ottawa, I feel like a lot of the wedding
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Speaker 1: venues or just venues in general, are very like country
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Speaker 1: western theme. There is the odd one that's a bit modern,
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Speaker 1: but I wasn't really wanting to do a modern look.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I just kind of had this urge
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Speaker 1: to do like a western theme party. And I've seen
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Speaker 1: a lot of like Pinterest images of people doing like
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Speaker 1: western theme like bacherettes or western theme engagement parties, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, I'm going to a Western
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Speaker 1: theme for my thirtieth but make it like western elegance themes.
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Speaker 1: So everyone dresses up. No one had any idea what
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Speaker 1: the theme was when they showed up. I actually had
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Speaker 1: cowboy hats that I ordered for everybody. Everyone got to
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Speaker 1: pick up a cowboy hat. I had like cute little
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Speaker 1: champagne glasses with cowboy hats on them. That way they
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Speaker 1: can grab a glass of champagne, which kind of brings
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Speaker 1: in the elegance aspect. And then obviously like the barn
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Speaker 1: was very elevated. It wasn't like a rustic barn. It
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Speaker 1: was very modernized. We had a cute photo back drop,
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Speaker 1: we had a live band, we had casino tables, like.
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Speaker 3: It was truly such a fun night.
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Speaker 1: We had about fifty five people come, which was the
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Speaker 1: perfect amount of people. The barn was actually quite small,
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Speaker 1: like it wasn't like overly big. It was perfect for
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Speaker 1: like a reception for a wedding basically right, so it
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Speaker 1: was still big, but just like the perfect size for
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Speaker 1: fifty five people, Like if there was one hundred people
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Speaker 1: in there, it definitely would have felt very claustrophobic.
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Speaker 2: We had a dance floor.
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Speaker 1: Going, we had obviously a bar going, and we had
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Speaker 1: like a little get ready room so I could get
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Speaker 1: ready in there before people started.
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Speaker 3: To show up.
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Speaker 1: I hired a photographer because I didn't want to have
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Speaker 1: to stress about photos throughout the night, So I had
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Speaker 1: a photographer to take all my picks, which was great.
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Speaker 1: And then one of my best friends, Laurie, she works
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Speaker 1: for an agency and like manages social medi the accounts
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Speaker 1: and help some like film content, and she offered to
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Speaker 1: help me for my birthday, which was so so incredible
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Speaker 1: to have her help throughout the night for content, just
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Speaker 1: because again I didn't want to have to stress about that.
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Speaker 1: And so we spent like twenty five minutes before people
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Speaker 1: started to show up doing like solo photos content and
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Speaker 1: then literally as we were done, a lot of people
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Speaker 1: were showing up. But I'm like, okay, this is perfect,
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Speaker 1: like literally the perfect timing. I didn't want to have
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Speaker 1: to like film content with all my friends being there,
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Speaker 1: even though they don't care, like they know obviously it's
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Speaker 1: my job. But the point is is that everything kind
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Speaker 1: of flowed with the perfect timing. And then the party
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Speaker 1: went till like twelve thirty, I want to say, and
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Speaker 1: by the time we like cleaned up the venue got home,
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Speaker 1: it was like two thirty in the morning, which I
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Speaker 1: never stay up that late, Like, oh my goodness, I
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Speaker 1: was so tired. And of course Zach and I were
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Speaker 1: like craving a and w at two o'clock in the morning,
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Speaker 1: and we sat in the drive through for like forty
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Speaker 1: five minutes because there was like a family of twelve
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Speaker 1: in this minivan, and of course, no one's going to
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Speaker 1: a drive through one am, so I'm sure there wasn't
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Speaker 1: that much staff.
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Speaker 2: Anyways, we like sat in that.
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Speaker 1: Drive through for forty five minutes. We're like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: this was such a stupid idea. And then we got
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Speaker 1: home and we ate the sweep ptato fries and burgers
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Speaker 1: and we're like, okay, wait, this was worth it. Anyways,
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Speaker 1: we just had a really fun night and I felt
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Speaker 1: like it was hungover the next day, which I definitely
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Speaker 1: wasn't because I only had like a few drinks. But
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Speaker 1: I felt like I was more hungover from like being tired,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like when you feel like
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Speaker 1: you haven't gone enough sleep and you just feel exhausted.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly how I felt on Sunday. And of course
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Speaker 1: it was Easter and we had like Easter plans with family,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I feel so hungover right now, even
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Speaker 1: though I'm not, I'm just like hungover from being tired.
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Speaker 1: And the last thing I wanted to do was like
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Speaker 1: put makeup on my face and go to a dinner.
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Speaker 3: But we did it.
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Speaker 1: We showed up for family. We had the best time
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Speaker 1: and a great Easter. Anyways, I think the greatest gift
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Speaker 1: of all from that weekend was it was Easter weekend,
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Speaker 1: and I honestly wasn't expecting a lot of people to
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Speaker 1: come because of it being Easter. I assumed a lot
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Speaker 1: of people had Easter plans with family, but I literally
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Speaker 1: had basically everybody show up. I think I only had
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Speaker 1: like six or seven guests that couldn't come, and that
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Speaker 1: was it. Like everybody showed up, like after Easter dinner.
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Speaker 1: It's like they would make the effort to come to
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Speaker 1: the venue to you know, celebrate me, celebrate the night,
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Speaker 1: and it just meant so much to me to like
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Speaker 1: see all my friends actually like make the effort to come,
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Speaker 1: And that was the greatest gift of all, just seeing
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Speaker 1: all my friends there and being able to celebrate my
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Speaker 1: thirtieth going into a new decade, and yeah, I'm just
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Speaker 1: so excited to see what this year brings and what
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Speaker 1: this new decade brings. So incredibly grateful to also do
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Speaker 1: that with Zach.
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Speaker 3: So I think it's going to be the.
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Speaker 1: Best years yet and I can't wait to share more
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Speaker 1: of my life with you guys throughout my thirties. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so now let's get into today's episode, which is really
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Speaker 1: just about feeling yourself again. And I wanted to share
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Speaker 1: this journey of me getting back into a routine and
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Speaker 1: just thought it'd be a good opportunity just to kind
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Speaker 1: of really chat about things that I'm doing this spring
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Speaker 1: to feel myself again and just find motivation again. So firstly,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about April goals for a second, because I
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Speaker 1: think writing down three goals each month is the best
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Speaker 1: way to keep yourself motivated. In my opinion, I always
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Speaker 1: give myself three goals each month because for me, that's
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Speaker 1: what feeds my motivation. It's like something that I can
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Speaker 1: look back at and reflect on, Okay, what was my
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Speaker 1: goal this month? Like what do I want to be
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Speaker 1: able to do for myself? And then I feel like
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Speaker 1: it creates a consistent habit of doing something. And then
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Speaker 1: obviously being consistent is better than just like having the
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Speaker 1: odd motivation times, you know what I mean, Like, being
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Speaker 1: consistent at something is really the key to success in
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Speaker 1: life in my opinion.
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Speaker 3: So last month, one.
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Speaker 1: Of my biggest goals was to manage my stress, and
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Speaker 1: I personally think I did a really good job at that.
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Speaker 1: I personally had a really busy month with work. I
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Speaker 1: had a lot of brand deals coming in, and I
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Speaker 1: actually turned down a lot of work opportunities because I
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Speaker 1: told myself that I was going to slow down this month.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't something that I wanted to you know, over
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Speaker 1: commit to things and then put myself in a very
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Speaker 1: stressful situation again. So I was really proud of myself
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Speaker 1: for that, because I am that kind of person where
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Speaker 1: I don't like to say no to work opportunities, but
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Speaker 1: I had to put my health first and you know,
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Speaker 1: manage my stress levels. And you know, I was also
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Speaker 1: figuring out ways to meditate. You know, I found like
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Speaker 1: YouTube videos that were like ten minutes and I would
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Speaker 1: do that like twice a week, just to really focus
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Speaker 1: on my breathing. And one thing that I tend to
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Speaker 1: do when I'm stressed, and I don't know if anyone
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Speaker 1: else feels this way for themselves, is that my shoulders
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Speaker 1: kind of creep up and then they get like really
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Speaker 1: really tight, and I almost realize, like, you know, twenty
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Speaker 1: minutes later, I'm like, oh my God, like why am
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Speaker 1: I so tight? And then I realize, oh, my goodness,
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Speaker 1: my shoulders are like up to my ears and I
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Speaker 1: guess that is a sign of like stress, Like it's
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Speaker 1: something that your body does when they feel this pressure
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Speaker 1: of a lot of stress coming into your body. And
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Speaker 1: so I've been trying to find ways to really just
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Speaker 1: like relax my shoulders, relax my body, do things that
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Speaker 1: make me feel more relaxed by like doing deep breathing,
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Speaker 1: doing meditations, taking a step back from things that you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of like make me feel really anxious. And so
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Speaker 1: this month, my goal is to really manage my anxiety.
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Speaker 3: So feel like I've definitely mastered the stress.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm starting to focus on how can I manage
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Speaker 1: my anxiety better because I feel like I've been really
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Speaker 1: anxious lately. I don't know why. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: has came. Maybe it's from turning thirty. I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: But one thing that I've been doing to kind of
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Speaker 1: like ease my anxiety is definitely reduce my caffeine intake.
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Speaker 1: So I've actually been switching my coffees to decaf coffees
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Speaker 1: just because that was something that I noticed that it
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Speaker 1: really spiked when I was just finishing up my coffee
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, well, this is a sign that's
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Speaker 1: like not making the anxiety better. So I switched to decaf,
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Speaker 1: so that's been helping actually a lot these past few days.
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Speaker 1: I also booked a acupuncture appointment, which have you been
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Speaker 1: following me on TikTok and Instagram, then you know that
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Speaker 1: I had a pretty bad experience a few weeks ago
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Speaker 1: with a acupuncture clinic, and you know, the guy was
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Speaker 1: just doing his thing, like It's not like what he
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Speaker 1: did was bad. It was more so just wasn't something
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Speaker 1: that I was expecting. I was expecting a very different
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Speaker 1: experience than what I had, even though what I had
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Speaker 1: was still a typical acupuncture experience, I just thought it
13:09
Speaker 1: would be a little different. So a bunch of girls
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Speaker 1: in Ottawa actually dms me recommending this one spot called
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Speaker 1: Refine I Believe and it's in the Glebe and they said,
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Speaker 1: I need to go see this girl. So I actually
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Speaker 1: booked in a point with her. So I will keep
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Speaker 1: you guys posted on how that goes. But I know
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Speaker 1: that's going to really help manage my stress and just
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Speaker 1: help really relax my body. All about relaxing, I've also
13:33
Speaker 1: been trying to get massages once a month, more so
13:36
Speaker 1: for my back injury, but also another way to relax
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Speaker 1: the body not feel his stress. So we're really just
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Speaker 1: trying to go into April with a more chill mindset again,
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Speaker 1: removing any anxiety stress that I've been feeling. Also kind
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Speaker 1: of unfollowing people that maybe make me feel a little
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Speaker 1: bit anxious. I kind of wanted to talk about that
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Speaker 1: for the next goal, which is not putting too much
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Speaker 1: pressure on myself to be perfect, because there's definitely a
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Speaker 1: lot of influencers out there that I follow that like
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Speaker 1: really portray their life as like this perfect life with
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Speaker 1: the perfect house and the perfect partner, and like, you know,
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Speaker 1: for all, I know, like some of you guys might
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Speaker 1: feel that way about me and how I portray myself
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Speaker 1: on social media. But I've been really trying to not
14:21
Speaker 1: always have the most perfect content. I've been trying to
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Speaker 1: kind of branch out and also show the moments where
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Speaker 1: I feel more real and I don't know, just like
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Speaker 1: not have the pressure of like filming the most perfect
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Speaker 1: video ever. I've been trying to do more like talking
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Speaker 1: style videos, longer vlogs. I don't know, it's just something
14:39
Speaker 1: I've been like really gravitating towards. And it's kind of
14:42
Speaker 1: obviously a change in my content, which can sometimes be
14:45
Speaker 1: scary when you change things up a bit. I've also
14:47
Speaker 1: just been having this like urged to kind of change
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Speaker 1: things up a little bit. And you know, on the
14:51
Speaker 1: days where maybe I don't feel like I want to film,
14:53
Speaker 1: I almost like want to push myself to film because
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Speaker 1: it shows the real raw side to me of like
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Speaker 1: still showing up and like not always being aesthetic. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I want to be filming moments where
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Speaker 1: like I feel off and like normalize that it's okay
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Speaker 1: to feel off and that's just the reality. And so
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Speaker 1: social media can obviously be a highlight reel where people
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Speaker 1: really just show the best sides of themselves. But I
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Speaker 1: really want to open up the opportunity of sharing both
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Speaker 1: sides where I can still have days where I feel
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Speaker 1: aesthetic and cute and have fun.
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Speaker 3: But also like real raw, stressed.
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Speaker 1: Anxious, you guys know what I mean. So I'm just
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Speaker 1: trying to like not put too much pressure on myself.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know, I've been kind of like muting
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Speaker 1: people who I feel like really portray like the perfect
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Speaker 1: life and all that, and it just kind of feels
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Speaker 1: really good to like only follow people that I think
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Speaker 1: are very authentic and very true, and I think it's
15:44
Speaker 1: okay to like, you know, unfollower mute people then maybe
15:48
Speaker 1: just don't feel right for you, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: So I don't think there's anything wrong with that, And
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Speaker 1: I think that's almost like a digital detalks and it's
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Speaker 1: like never say never. Maybe you can follow them back
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Speaker 1: again in the future if you're feeling a lot better
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Speaker 1: with yourself. But sometimes it's okay to take a bit
16:02
Speaker 1: of a break and follow people that really bring you
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Speaker 1: comfort and joy for someone that might make you feel
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Speaker 1: anxious or stressed or this pressure that you have to
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Speaker 1: be perfect. So that's kind of like my tie into
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Speaker 1: social media and like how I want to portray myself,
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Speaker 1: especially being in my thirties. I think it's like a
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Speaker 1: nice way to kind of change things up, and it's
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Speaker 1: always fun to do something different on social media. And
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Speaker 1: then the last thing is walking outside more. I really
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Speaker 1: want to get to that ten to fifteen thousand step
16:28
Speaker 1: count again. I felt like I made that a big
16:30
Speaker 1: priority last summer, where I was, you know, doing two
16:34
Speaker 1: to three walks a day, one in the morning, when
16:36
Speaker 1: at lunch, one in the evening, and.
16:38
Speaker 2: I loved it.
16:39
Speaker 1: I love being outside, I love moving my body, and
16:42
Speaker 1: obviously now that the weather's finally getting nicer, I just
16:45
Speaker 1: really want to make it a priority to get.
16:48
Speaker 3: That step count in.
16:49
Speaker 1: Again, we haven't had the most perfect spring yet, I
16:53
Speaker 1: would say, like I kind of said in the beginning,
16:55
Speaker 1: but we had a snow day yesterday, and then this
16:57
Speaker 1: morning all the snow melted because the web is getting warmer.
17:01
Speaker 1: It's just kind of like the odd day where it'll
17:02
Speaker 1: be really really nice and then really really shitty. So
17:06
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to like make it a priority where
17:07
Speaker 1: if it's like a really nice day, I need to
17:09
Speaker 1: like force myself to go outside walk get that sunlight in.
17:12
Speaker 3: And then the days that.
17:13
Speaker 1: Are like rainy or snowy, you know, I don't have
17:16
Speaker 1: to force myself. But anyways, I just really want to
17:19
Speaker 1: enjoy some sunlight, enjoy some walking, some movement, and just
17:23
Speaker 1: really prioritize that this month, because obviously April is one
17:27
Speaker 1: step closer to May, which to me, May is like
17:30
Speaker 1: the start of summer in my opinion, because the weather
17:32
Speaker 1: finally gets really nice out and more enjoyable, and April's
17:36
Speaker 1: just kind of like the small step towards that also
17:39
Speaker 1: super random. But I was at the grocery store this
17:42
Speaker 1: morning and they were setting up the greenhouse for all
17:45
Speaker 1: the flowers, and I was like, oh my gosh, this
17:48
Speaker 1: could not be more summer vibes. In my opinion, it
17:51
Speaker 1: just screamed excitement for me. I was like, oh my god,
17:54
Speaker 1: we're finally like over that hump of just the shitty winters.
17:58
Speaker 1: And anyways, it was like the best thing to see
17:59
Speaker 1: you today. It's funny because if you live in Texas
18:02
Speaker 1: or Australia or like anywhere that's like constantly warm, I
18:05
Speaker 1: feel like you don't get the high that US Canadians
18:07
Speaker 1: are feeling, or any Americans that might be living in
18:10
Speaker 1: all four seasons.
18:11
Speaker 3: There is this high.
18:12
Speaker 1: That you feel when the weather gets warmer and you've
18:15
Speaker 1: been living in the cold weather for so long, so anyways,
18:18
Speaker 1: you might not be able to relate if you live
18:19
Speaker 1: in the warmer states. But anyways, we're feeling so good
18:22
Speaker 1: here in Canada knowing that the weather's getting warmer. Let's
18:26
Speaker 1: get into my little spring refresh checklist. This is kind
18:29
Speaker 1: of like things that I am doing myself going into
18:33
Speaker 1: this season of how I can feel myself again one
18:36
Speaker 1: of them being an environment reset, So clean your space,
18:39
Speaker 1: clean your room, declutter, change your bedsheets, like do something
18:44
Speaker 1: that makes you feel like you put the effort in
18:46
Speaker 1: yourself because you're cleaning your environment. I feel like a
18:50
Speaker 1: clean home makes me feel ten times better. And when
18:54
Speaker 1: I have a messy home, I'm feeling anxious. I'm feeling stressed,
18:57
Speaker 1: like literally something that I think everyone can feel that,
19:01
Speaker 1: like the clean house is just the way we all
19:03
Speaker 1: want it to be.
19:04
Speaker 2: Twenty four to seven.
19:05
Speaker 1: I love the idea of changing your bed sheets to
19:08
Speaker 1: a new season. So obviously, with spring around the corner,
19:11
Speaker 1: it could be fun to like change your bedding to
19:13
Speaker 1: something that makes you feel like spring is here. Whether
19:16
Speaker 1: it's like a floral bedding, you know, fun colors like pink,
19:20
Speaker 1: a sage, green, a blue, or maybe it's something that's
19:23
Speaker 1: more neutral, like going with like white bedding or stripes,
19:26
Speaker 1: like something that makes you feel like spring is here.
19:30
Speaker 1: I love changing my bedding to a new season. I
19:33
Speaker 1: feel like it just brings some excitement and joy to
19:36
Speaker 1: a new season. Decluttering is another big one. I am
19:40
Speaker 1: definitely decluttering my entire closet this weekend.
19:43
Speaker 3: I also have like a lot.
19:44
Speaker 2: Of pr that I need to get rid of.
19:46
Speaker 1: So just like a lot of stuff that is like
19:49
Speaker 1: in my room and I'm like, this needs to get out.
19:52
Speaker 1: And I also have a lot of returns, so I'm like, okay,
19:54
Speaker 1: I need to make returns and just like drop them
19:56
Speaker 1: off at.
19:56
Speaker 3: The UPS store.
19:57
Speaker 1: I need to declutter my space, like just trying to
20:00
Speaker 1: make those things a priority, just because I know if
20:02
Speaker 1: I do those things, I'm going to feel so so
20:05
Speaker 1: good after. Also, just like opening your windows again now
20:08
Speaker 1: that the weather is feeling nicer, we can actually let
20:10
Speaker 1: some fresh air in the house feels way better with
20:14
Speaker 1: the windows open in my opinion, like we'll turn the
20:16
Speaker 1: AC off and just open all the windows in the house.
20:19
Speaker 1: And there's also that nice smell that you get with
20:21
Speaker 1: fresh air. I don't know, I think it's just like
20:24
Speaker 1: one of the best feelings ever. So really, just making
20:26
Speaker 1: an environment reset a big priority, I think is the
20:29
Speaker 1: first step to a spring refresh. Another thing is a
20:33
Speaker 1: mental reset, So kind of like what I talked about earlier,
20:36
Speaker 1: but like un following and muting accounts that make you
20:39
Speaker 1: feel off. So just if there's people that just don't
20:42
Speaker 1: serve you anymore, or people that might be bothering you currently,
20:46
Speaker 1: it's okay to mute them and just follow people that
20:49
Speaker 1: make you feel good. You know, at the end of
20:51
Speaker 1: the day, our mental health is the most important thing, and.
20:54
Speaker 3: It's okay to do that.
20:55
Speaker 1: Journaling is another big one I think for me when
20:58
Speaker 1: I journal, I love to do a good brain dumb
21:01
Speaker 1: How am I currently feeling expressing my gratitude, like just
21:04
Speaker 1: being able to take those ten minutes to myself and
21:07
Speaker 1: like really write out everything I'm feeling and just like
21:11
Speaker 1: also planning my day out as well. I think it just.
21:13
Speaker 3: Feels really good to start off.
21:15
Speaker 1: My day that way, and something that I always kind
21:18
Speaker 1: of go back and forth on into my routine, which
21:21
Speaker 1: I think is very normal. I wouldn't say everybody has
21:23
Speaker 1: a consistent journal routine from January to December. I think
21:26
Speaker 1: everybody kind of has like a wave of, you know,
21:30
Speaker 1: of the routine of just kind of like making that
21:32
Speaker 1: a priority. And so I've finally gotten back into it
21:35
Speaker 1: again and I've been feeling really good just like expressing
21:38
Speaker 1: myself and finding a way to just like dump my thoughts.
21:42
Speaker 1: I think that's so so crucial, and yeah, something that
21:45
Speaker 1: I've been really trying to make a priority. Another thing
21:48
Speaker 1: is is a routine reset, which is exactly what I'm.
21:52
Speaker 3: Going through now.
21:53
Speaker 1: I feel like, now that I have gotten my strength
21:55
Speaker 1: back and I can finally start lifting weights doing reformer
21:59
Speaker 1: pulls again, I'm really trying to figure out my new routine,
22:03
Speaker 1: like what is my ideal routine going into this new season.
22:07
Speaker 1: And I'm sure a lot of you guys might be
22:09
Speaker 1: feeling the same way too. Obviously with the winter season
22:12
Speaker 1: and the spring season, I feel like there could be
22:13
Speaker 1: a huge adjustment in our routine of you know, trying
22:16
Speaker 1: to be outside more, trying to prioritize my walks more,
22:20
Speaker 1: or even changing up your workout split in general. Like
22:22
Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes there's periods of times where I'm
22:25
Speaker 1: obsessed with this one kind of workout, and then you know,
22:28
Speaker 1: over time, I kind of get bored of it and
22:29
Speaker 1: want to change it up and try something new. I
22:32
Speaker 1: used to love spinning, I now don't really have any
22:34
Speaker 1: need to do it. I just like don't crave it anymore. Now.
22:38
Speaker 1: I crave reformer pilates or strength workouts, and so now
22:42
Speaker 1: I've been trying to, you know, adjust my routine to
22:44
Speaker 1: accommodating those things for myself. So I have not done
22:48
Speaker 1: a lot of heavy weightlifting in a very long time,
22:50
Speaker 1: so this is something that's new to me that I'm
22:52
Speaker 1: bringing back into my routine, something I used to do
22:55
Speaker 1: years ago, but something that I'm really trying to prioritize.
22:58
Speaker 1: As with my back injury, it's really made me realize
23:01
Speaker 1: that I need to balance pilates and strength training and.
23:04
Speaker 2: Not just focus on one.
23:06
Speaker 1: So my goal is to really do pilates twice a
23:10
Speaker 1: week and then do a strength workout twice a week,
23:13
Speaker 1: So four days a week, I want to do an
23:14
Speaker 1: upper body day, a lower body day for strength, and
23:17
Speaker 1: then two pilates classes a week. So that's kind of
23:20
Speaker 1: how I'm like structuring my workout split when it comes
23:23
Speaker 1: to my routine. But I'm also obviously prioritizing other things,
23:26
Speaker 1: Like one thing that I really want to make a
23:28
Speaker 1: priority this month is getting outside more, making sunlight a priority,
23:33
Speaker 1: getting outside and walking more like that to me is
23:35
Speaker 1: one habit that I haven't been doing a lot of
23:38
Speaker 1: this past winter. So for me, my perfect spring morning
23:42
Speaker 1: routine would be to walk every single morning, you know,
23:46
Speaker 1: do the workout routine that I told myself I was
23:48
Speaker 1: going to do every single week. Which is four times
23:50
Speaker 1: a week, you know, eating better. Whatever the case, I
23:52
Speaker 1: be like, there's obviously like a list of things. So
23:54
Speaker 1: I always recommend that if you're the kind of person
23:56
Speaker 1: that might be out of a routine right now, write
23:59
Speaker 1: things down of how you envisioned your routine. Do you
24:03
Speaker 1: envision yourself waking up earlier? Do you envision yourself waking
24:06
Speaker 1: up later? Like kind of just like create the ideal
24:09
Speaker 1: routine for yourself along with your night routine. If there's
24:11
Speaker 1: something that you want to do in your night routine
24:13
Speaker 1: that could be different into the spring season, change it up.
24:17
Speaker 1: Like I feel like when I write things down, it's
24:18
Speaker 1: like embedded in my head better If that makes sense.
24:20
Speaker 1: I don't know if it makes sense anyone, but for me,
24:22
Speaker 1: if I write it down, I kind of like have
24:24
Speaker 1: it in my brain and I like stick to it.
24:27
Speaker 1: Creating a routine for yourself I think is ideal, and
24:29
Speaker 1: obviously making adjustments for a new season is also a
24:33
Speaker 1: big priority. Next one is an energy reset. How can
24:36
Speaker 1: we increase your energy levels?
24:38
Speaker 2: Again?
24:38
Speaker 1: So is it you know, changing up your sleeping schedule?
24:42
Speaker 1: For me personally, I've really adjusted my sleep schedule. I
24:46
Speaker 1: used to wake up at like five am, which I
24:49
Speaker 1: would love to do again. Maybe in the summer, we
24:52
Speaker 1: shall see, But right now, my body's been craving like
24:55
Speaker 1: a six fifteen six thirty wake up, which for me
24:58
Speaker 1: is kind of like a sleep in. Some times I
25:00
Speaker 1: like to sleep until seven. It really just depends on
25:02
Speaker 1: the day, but I like to wake up early. I
25:04
Speaker 1: like to get my stretches in, just kind of do
25:07
Speaker 1: my routine that I've been doing in the morning. But
25:09
Speaker 1: because I wake up at that time, I also like
25:11
Speaker 1: to go to bed earlier. So I used to go
25:13
Speaker 1: to bed at like ten PM. Now I'm going to
25:14
Speaker 1: bed at like nine fifteen, nine thirty, which is wild.
25:17
Speaker 1: Some people might think that's crazy, but I don't know.
25:20
Speaker 1: My husband wakes up at like three thirty four sometimes,
25:22
Speaker 1: so he's usually a sleep by eight thirty. To be honest,
25:25
Speaker 1: I'm usually up to like nine fifteen nine thirty. But
25:28
Speaker 1: for me that's been working out really really well. I
25:30
Speaker 1: think my average has been about ten hours of sleep
25:33
Speaker 1: a night, which is really really good.
25:35
Speaker 3: I think the main goal.
25:36
Speaker 1: For everyone is usually eight, correct me if I'm wrong,
25:39
Speaker 1: but I think I've been getting ten, which has been incredible.
25:43
Speaker 1: So really prioritizing my sleep schedule has been a game
25:46
Speaker 1: changer for me, especially for my energy levels. Another thing
25:49
Speaker 1: that's been a game changer for me that has increased
25:51
Speaker 1: my energy levels is making sure I've been eating enough food.
25:56
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people sometimes don't realize that
25:59
Speaker 1: they're under eating. That can play a huge impact of
26:01
Speaker 1: how you feel throughout your day, and so eating enough
26:05
Speaker 1: food really does make the biggest difference. So memeal prepping
26:09
Speaker 1: again has been really nice, and I think that's just
26:11
Speaker 1: like been a huge game changer of how my energy
26:14
Speaker 1: is throughout the afternoon as well, and not having that
26:16
Speaker 1: like mid day slum. Also, just like eating the right
26:19
Speaker 1: foods is really important, So doing the research around like
26:22
Speaker 1: eating healthier meals and recipes, and of course also like
26:25
Speaker 1: aiming to find a workout routine for yourself, whether it's
26:28
Speaker 1: working out you know, two times a week, three times
26:31
Speaker 1: a week, four times a week, whatever works for you,
26:33
Speaker 1: but creating a consistent workout schedule I think is also
26:36
Speaker 1: a really big game changer when it comes to your energy.
26:39
Speaker 3: Okay, so we got an environment reset.
26:40
Speaker 1: We got a mental reset, we got a routine reset,
26:43
Speaker 1: we have an energy reset.
26:44
Speaker 2: The last one is a digital reset.
26:47
Speaker 1: It is so important to really take a break from
26:49
Speaker 1: our phones and get off social media. And I think
26:51
Speaker 1: the more I feel anxious and stress, the more I
26:55
Speaker 1: realize that I need to be off my phone more
26:57
Speaker 1: and also just like prioritize, you know, being outside more,
27:01
Speaker 1: getting my walks, in keeping myself busy by doing other
27:04
Speaker 1: things versus always like scrolling on social media. I've chatted
27:07
Speaker 1: about this before, but there is a tool called the Brick.
27:11
Speaker 1: It's basically a little block that you can put on
27:14
Speaker 1: your phone that literally completely shuts down certain social media
27:18
Speaker 1: apps that you don't want to open. And I think
27:20
Speaker 1: there's like a timer that basically is set for how
27:23
Speaker 1: long you want the brick to be on, so it
27:25
Speaker 1: could be the full day, it could be a few hours.
27:27
Speaker 1: This is something that I really want to purchase for
27:29
Speaker 1: myself because I think I have a really bad habit
27:31
Speaker 1: of like naturally like going on my phone and just
27:34
Speaker 1: opening social media since I feel like I'm constantly on
27:36
Speaker 1: it with my job. But I know I need to
27:38
Speaker 1: be better at, you know, taking breaks and not being
27:41
Speaker 1: on my phone constantly. So that's definitely something that I've
27:44
Speaker 1: been trying to work on. Another thing I really need
27:46
Speaker 1: to do is clean out my camera roll. My camera
27:48
Speaker 1: roll is literally crazy. I'm sure you guys can assume
27:53
Speaker 1: with the amount of videos that I film and post,
27:55
Speaker 1: Like I pay for the highest amount of storage with Apple.
27:58
Speaker 1: I'm not even over exaggerating, and it's wild, Like my
28:01
Speaker 1: phone is so slow sometimes and I'm like, it's literally
28:04
Speaker 1: because my camerall is wild. So I try and like
28:07
Speaker 1: clean it out every month, but like I'm only deleting
28:12
Speaker 1: like maybe ten thousand things, and that's not even enough.
28:15
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
28:15
Speaker 1: So I feel like I need a good camera roll
28:18
Speaker 1: clean out. Sometimes I'm like, do I just buy a
28:21
Speaker 1: second phone and then like kind of like restart there,
28:23
Speaker 1: just because there's things on them obviously on my phone
28:25
Speaker 1: that I don't ever want to delete, like my wedding
28:27
Speaker 1: stuff or my.
28:30
Speaker 3: What else, my house stuff all.
28:32
Speaker 1: That, Like with this new house that we're building, obviously
28:34
Speaker 1: I want to keep all that footage for memories. I
28:36
Speaker 1: think I've actually talked about this before, and a lot
28:38
Speaker 1: of you guys commented saying that I need to get
28:40
Speaker 1: a hard drive or an external hard drive. If you
28:43
Speaker 1: commented that, please send me the link of the hard
28:45
Speaker 1: drive that you purchase for your phone. Because I literally
28:47
Speaker 1: will buy it. I have a hard drive for my
28:49
Speaker 1: YouTube videos, but I do not think it has the
28:53
Speaker 1: amount of storage that I needed to have for my phone,
28:56
Speaker 1: Like I need a massive external hard drive for all
29:00
Speaker 1: the content that I have. So please send me a
29:03
Speaker 1: link if you have a hard drive that you recommend
29:05
Speaker 1: for photos and videos off your phone. Anyways, just a
29:08
Speaker 1: digital reset, I think is so needed. And I think
29:10
Speaker 1: it's just really really important to take breaks on your
29:12
Speaker 1: phone and not be on social media too much and.
29:15
Speaker 2: Just really prioritize other things.
29:17
Speaker 1: And the last thing to me personally, like when it
29:20
Speaker 1: comes to like feeling myself again and just kind of
29:23
Speaker 1: like refreshing my mind. And you guys are gonna not
29:26
Speaker 1: laugh Begures'm like, of course Killy's gonna say that. But
29:29
Speaker 1: Pinterest is really my favorite app ever, and I've said
29:32
Speaker 1: that so many times, but I really do go on
29:34
Speaker 1: Pinterest a lot, especially during a new season, because I
29:37
Speaker 1: find it's the one app that constantly inspires me and
29:41
Speaker 1: constantly makes me feel like I'm building this life for
29:45
Speaker 1: myself that I see myself, you know, doing in a
29:48
Speaker 1: new season. So it could be outfits that I want
29:51
Speaker 1: to wear for the new season. It could be hobbies
29:53
Speaker 1: that I want to partake in into the new season.
29:56
Speaker 1: It could be things that I want to you know,
29:58
Speaker 1: style for my home into the spring season. It could
30:02
Speaker 1: be oh, like this girl buys flowers all the time. Okay,
30:05
Speaker 1: I want to be better at purchasing flowers for myself
30:08
Speaker 1: each week so I have fresh flowers in my home. Like,
30:11
Speaker 1: there's just always something on Pinterest that's always constantly inspiring
30:14
Speaker 1: me and making me feel good going into a new season. So,
30:17
Speaker 1: you know, some people might not think that that works
30:19
Speaker 1: for them, but for me personally, I do really love
30:22
Speaker 1: saving things on Pinterest during a new season, as it
30:25
Speaker 1: inspires me to kind of envision my season, right, it
30:30
Speaker 1: kind of envisions me, Okay, how do I see my
30:31
Speaker 1: spring season? How do I want to dress? How do
30:34
Speaker 1: I want to feel? What do I want to do? Like,
30:36
Speaker 1: there's so many things that I just feel constantly inspired by,
30:38
Speaker 1: and I don't really find like TikTok and Instagram really
30:41
Speaker 1: like reflect that for myself for a new season, it's
30:44
Speaker 1: always Pinterest. Pinterest is the only thing that I find
30:46
Speaker 1: really inspires me going into a new season.
30:49
Speaker 3: So that's kind of like my.
30:50
Speaker 1: Ideal spring refresh checklist of like how I envision myself
30:55
Speaker 1: feeling myself again for a new season, and things that
30:58
Speaker 1: I can do that I can control to make myself
31:01
Speaker 1: feel like myself again. Well that is today's episode. I
31:04
Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed it. A lot of chatting in
31:07
Speaker 1: terms of just kind of like goals that I have
31:09
Speaker 1: for myself, things that I'm doing to kind of get
31:12
Speaker 1: myself back on track now that I'm feeling motivated and
31:15
Speaker 1: ready to take on my routine again, and just finally
31:19
Speaker 1: being over that hump of my back injury and just
31:21
Speaker 1: dealing with that. It was such a difficult journey on
31:24
Speaker 1: my mental health, and I finally feel like I'm in
31:26
Speaker 1: a better state and I'm working on myself constantly, And
31:29
Speaker 1: I think that's the main goal, is that like, you're
31:31
Speaker 1: never going to feel like you're perfect. You're always going
31:34
Speaker 1: to just feel like you're working hard to create a
31:37
Speaker 1: better version of yourself. And I think that's so so normalized,
31:41
Speaker 1: and I think it's so so okay to always become.
31:44
Speaker 2: A better version of yourself.
31:46
Speaker 1: But if you're new, definitely make sure to follow me
31:48
Speaker 1: on Instagram TikTok. I'm also on YouTube, But thank you
31:51
Speaker 1: guys so much for listening to another episode. I love
31:53
Speaker 1: you all, and I will see you guys in next
31:55
Speaker 1: week's episode four