Latest / Speak In Flow / Dispelling the Myth that Success Means “Burning Out” With Sarah Arceneaux
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- 0:02Melinda Lee: Hello, welcome to the Speaking In Flow Podcast.
- 0:07Today I have Sarah Arsenault, who is a human resources
- 0:11professional. She's been in the industry for quite some time for
- 0:16over a decade. She's seen it all in human resources, human
- 0:20relations, consulting in different industries. She's
- 0:24currently working at Lamar advertising company. And I
- 0:29brought her on because she's a dear friend, caught like a
- 0:33client, a past client. And so she we work together. But she
- 0:37has an amazing experience that I want the audience to hear, she
- 0:42has worked through a lot of difficult challenges, and some
- 0:46of you might relate to it. And so that's why I have Sarah here.
- 0:49So Sarah, welcome.
- 0:52Sarah Arceneaux: Thank you, Melinda. Thanks for having me.
- 0:54Melinda Lee: Yeah, it's good to have you. And so let's dive
- 0:57right in. Sarah, like, as I mentioned, I think you are a
- 1:01powerhouse, you are confident you're courageous. And and it
- 1:06didn't, it came at a price it came with a lot of work,
- 1:10overcoming difficult challenges. And so what is something that
- 1:14you have had to go through and overcome in your life that you
- 1:19can share with with the audience
- 1:20Sarah Arceneaux: For sure. So back in 2016, I was diagnosed
- 1:24with multiple sclerosis. And multiple sclerosis is an
- 1:29autoimmune disease that affects your nerves can give it's a they
- 1:33call it the snowflake disease, because it's different for
- 1:36everyone. But my issues are mostly related to muscle
- 1:40tightness and spasms, pain, some blindness that comes in and out
- 1:45with what's called optic neuritis and migraines,
- 1:48different things like that fatigue, brain fog, all kinds of
- 1:52fun stuff that is not easy to work through. So back in 2016, I
- 1:58was actually in grad school online and working full time,
- 2:03which is already a lot without having a degenerative disease on
- 2:09top of it. And so I ended up taking a semester break from
- 2:14school while working, working through what would be best for
- 2:18me at work. I learned the hard way that I needed to listen to
- 2:24my body, which I now listen to. But back in the day, I would
- 2:29have a relapse and MS relapse, and I'd worked through it and
- 2:33not and take off a couple of hours here a couple of hours
- 2:36there. But I was not allowing my body, the time and the rest I
- 2:40needed. And something with MS like many other conditions, is
- 2:45that stress worsens it. And it's nothing against my employer,
- 2:49it's my own self, I've had anxiety my whole life. And
- 2:52stress is definitely something that is there. And so I was in
- 2:57employee relations, back when I was diagnosed. And that's where
- 3:01I started my career in human resources. And that's a high
- 3:06stress environment. That is somebody potential sexual
- 3:09harassment or discrimination in the workplace. And those pop up
- 3:14anytime we are a nationwide company, I could get a call on
- 3:19Monday night that I needed to be in New York the next day, and
- 3:24have to pack up and go do an investigation so that stress was
- 3:27a lot on my body. So as we grew with Lamar, we wanted to start a
- 3:35centralised Professional Development Programme within the
- 3:40human resources department to focus on building up our
- 3:43employees and getting them better at their jobs and better
- 3:47leaders. So when that position came available, it was at a time
- 3:51where I was telling myself, I need to take a break, I need my
- 3:56body, my body needs time to rest. My doctor was advising me
- 3:59of that. So I ended up taking a three month leave of absence
- 4:04from work. And in between that time I was transitioning from
- 4:08employee relations to professional development. So now
- 4:12I'm in professional development and can look back at those times
- 4:15and say, Man, that was difficult, man, was it a great
- 4:19experience, but I'm in the right place now. Because with
- 4:23professional development, I'm it's extremely fulfilling work
- 4:28that I get to help train others on how to be a better version of
- 4:32themselves. And instead of saying you helped me hire
- 4:35somebody, they're saying you train me on how to be a better
- 4:38leader and you inspired me to be better for my team and that has
- 4:43had such a positive effect on my well being both with my health
- 4:50and my mental health. And I think it's just, it's all taught
- 4:55me to listen to my body and at the end of the day, the The
- 5:00better I am to myself, the better I can be for my employer.
- 5:03Melinda Lee: Yeah. And what would you advise people who are
- 5:08still in it like if they are know that they have a difficult
- 5:12time they're feeling really overwhelmed, tired? Or their
- 5:15body's saying, hey, stop, what would you how do you know when
- 5:19to put the brakes on? For you? Yeah,
- 5:24Sarah Arceneaux: I'm learning how to say no, is a very
- 5:26difficult thing that I still have a problem with, was
- 5:30definitely the yes woman I took on every project, and overloaded
- 5:35myself. And I think, being new to my career, I also was like, I
- 5:39need to do the most, I need to be the most I need to not stop
- 5:43in order to be able to advance, which is not necessarily the
- 5:46truth. When you overload yourself, you end up burning
- 5:49yourself out physically, emotionally, health wise, all of
- 5:53those things. And so I think taking a look at at, we'd like
- 5:59to say in our trainings, it's not work life balance, because
- 6:01it needs to be balanced, it doesn't have to be equal, it
- 6:03needs to be balanced. So making sure that you're giving yourself
- 6:07enough time to rest to have that self care, and to not take on so
- 6:12much that you feel like you always have to be on is the best
- 6:15way to set up, set yourself up for success. Because if you
- 6:18overload yourself, and you don't recognise the cues that your
- 6:21body's giving you, then you're going to end up doing worse for
- 6:26yourself. And it's going to end up catching up to you
- 6:28eventually, like it did with me.
- 6:30Melinda Lee: And what are the cues that your body gives you,
- 6:33Sarah Arceneaux: um, mine are mostly pain related. I get
- 6:37muscle spasms, and I now work from home after COVID, which has
- 6:41been great, and has been a lot better for me, but I have pain
- 6:46and then I have brain fog that happens. So I have all these
- 6:49thoughts in my head and I try and say them and it will not
- 6:52come out no matter what I say or the wrong words come out. And so
- 6:55when I start to get like that, I have to make sure I go take a
- 6:581015 minute break, settle myself relax completely. And then I can
- 7:04I can get back to work or if it's really bad take off a day
- 7:08or so to really recover. And I think those mental health days
- 7:13or whatever kind of health day that you need. Taking that time
- 7:17is important. Because you're not going to be your best self at
- 7:21work unless you are your full self, which you can't be if you
- 7:25have all of these signals of overwork going on in your body.
- 7:29Melinda Lee: Do you actually wait till it's pain? And then
- 7:31you stop or have you figured out a way you go through it?
- 7:39Sarah Arceneaux: Usually I wait. Usually I wait for the pain
- 7:42because I mean, with MS depending on on how you are my
- 7:46my pain level, I don't really go under a pain level of three out
- 7:51of 10. So when my pain starts getting up and up, and we're
- 7:55hitting a five or six, usually towards the end of the day,
- 7:59that's when I usually end up trying to try to take a break
- 8:02and rest. But I've also found things that have helped me which
- 8:07changing positions. So I have a standing desk, I will sit in a
- 8:10chair, I will use a standing desk or I'll sit on the couch
- 8:14throughout the day to mix it up. So I don't get to that pain,
- 8:17that pain level to where I need to stop myself. So I think
- 8:22creating those adaptations for yourself, recognising the signs
- 8:27and telling yourself Oh, my stomach's hungry, I haven't
- 8:30eaten because I've been working through lunch, go eat, having
- 8:33those breaks for yourself are so important.
- 8:36Melinda Lee: I think it's so true. I mean, I want to just
- 8:38share a little bit on my mom, because she was constantly on
- 8:41the go constantly at it. And I she did not listen to her body
- 8:46at all. So I liked how you said that. I noticed if it's a 345
- 8:50and it's getting to five, I want to stop. But there are so many
- 8:53of us in our society, when we just push through it, we don't
- 8:56listen to our intuition into our bodies. And then we think, Oh,
- 9:01well, we'll rest late or there's no time to sleep. And then and
- 9:04then and then you don't listen to those cues anymore. And then
- 9:07something like this happens where your body needs to go
- 9:09through something just to alarm you. And then it's almost too
- 9:11late. So So I think it's important for people to be
- 9:15listening and more, you know, settling their minds so that and
- 9:19allowing yourself to say no to these things. What was that like
- 9:24for you to say start saying no. How did you fortify that voice?
- 9:30Like you had to because you're in pain. But then what was it
- 9:33like to finally start to see it and use your voice like that?
- 9:37Sarah Arceneaux: It was difficult. And to add to that a
- 9:40little bit to my story is that I'm very close were friends with
- 9:44quite a few of my co workers, one of which had told me I love
- 9:49you as a friend more than I love you as a co worker and you're
- 9:52not going to work here any longer not not in a threatening
- 9:55way but you're not going to work here any longer if you've run
- 9:57yourself to the ground. She told me that a couple of days later,
- 10:01two other people told me that because I was seriously burnt
- 10:05out and overworking and I you could physically on my face tell
- 10:10how sick I was feeling. So I think listening to yourself, but
- 10:15also listening to other people being like, we don't want you to
- 10:18do more. Don't say yes. Is something to listen to, too. But
- 10:24once I started saying, No, I think the biggest thing for me
- 10:27was, people still like me, I'm still a good co worker, doesn't
- 10:32matter. I said, No, and they're not gonna fire me. Awesome. And
- 10:41I think that the biggest thing that I found is that I now would
- 10:46rather say no, or Yes, I'll do that in six months, then take it
- 10:50on now and then say, Oh, I didn't have time. Let me push
- 10:53back that deadline, push back that deadline, because I used to
- 10:55say yes, all the time, and not get things done. Super timely,
- 10:59right. So now I'm able to find a better balance by spacing things
- 11:05out, spacing things out for both my stress load, for getting
- 11:09deadlines complete, and all of those things, and really being
- 11:12realistic with what you can do in the timeframe. Because I
- 11:15think that was a big, a big part of my stress level too, was,
- 11:19again, trying to do the most and be the best, and overloading
- 11:23myself. And putting too much on myself. It wasn't that my boss
- 11:28necessarily did ask, but I could have said no, because I had more
- 11:31things on my plate. So I had too many things. And that's what was
- 11:34causing my stress level, not necessarily the base level of my
- 11:37job. It was what I was taking on. At my job. I was doing it to
- 11:41myself.
- 11:42Melinda Lee: Right, right. And there's so many of us so many of
- 11:45us that are just there were leaders or heart centred
- 11:48leaders, we want to do the best we want to put ourselves out
- 11:52there. We want to climb we want to make more money, all these
- 11:55things drive us we want to prove, right? Hey, we got this
- 11:59and you can and what I love what you what happened with you is
- 12:03you said no. And you allow people what when you say no,
- 12:07you're also allowing people to actually to show you you're
- 12:10still love, you're still enough. And opportunities can still come
- 12:15like if we keep on pushing and proving we're actually not
- 12:17allowing for these opportunities show up for you to pace at a
- 12:23good pace that is good for you and still see fruition and
- 12:27results, even at your pace that you want to go on. It's
- 12:32absolutely yeah,
- 12:34Sarah Arceneaux: absolutely. And, and I've come to a place
- 12:37where I love my job so much. I really do. And I thanks to your
- 12:43your help as a speaker coach to I've started facilitating
- 12:48training for Lamar advertising company, which I never in my
- 12:51life would have thought that I would have been a corporate
- 12:53trainer. I just never. Even though my undergrad degree was
- 12:56in HR education. I just never thought that would be me even
- 12:59though I I taught my teddy bears when I was in kindergarten, and
- 13:03my room and all of that.
- 13:07Melinda Lee: Well, I remember in you were like you're seeking
- 13:10were you speaking inside, like on the RV, or you had visions of
- 13:13yourself talking? Yes, you had visions of yourself speaking and
- 13:19in your mind are ready. And let's talk about when you first
- 13:23came to me when you were like, hey, Melinda, I'm going to do
- 13:26this training for this cut for our company. And it's a big
- 13:29deal. Because you're training executives, you're training the
- 13:32leaders of the company, and a part of you had that impostor
- 13:36syndrome. So you've done it before with your teddy bears,
- 13:39and you had visions of it, but you still felt like who am I to
- 13:42do this? Yep, yeah, yeah, remember that? I do.
- 13:47Sarah Arceneaux: And I did trainings previously, where I
- 13:51came up with a material. And I can talk all day long when
- 13:54something I came up with, but we did it through the training
- 13:57through Franklin Covey. So I had six hours worth of presentation
- 14:00material that was not my own, which was completely daunting to
- 14:04me. And when I met you all of the thoughts of I'm not going to
- 14:09remember what they said they're going to ask me a question. I
- 14:11don't know the answer to the Zoom isn't going to work. The
- 14:15they don't, I haven't been a actual manager of a person for
- 14:19very long, so they're not going to trust that what I have to say
- 14:22is accurate. I had all of these self doubts going through my
- 14:28head. And as I mentioned earlier, I've struggled with
- 14:30anxiety. So it was ruling me and I knew that I was coming up with
- 14:35this, this facilitation and the next few months and then you
- 14:38just happen to pop into one of my professional organisations,
- 14:42met you and you were talking about Unshakable Confidence. I
- 14:44was like, Well, yeah, I kind of need that. And so working with
- 14:49you and your core method, I was able to neutralise those self
- 14:55doubting thoughts, and I've shared with you and I'll share
- 14:58with everyone I Recently, in the past two weeks, I was doing my
- 15:03Franklin Covey presentations. And long story short, it wasn't
- 15:07an internet problem, it was a computer problem. My computer
- 15:11didn't have enough memory and zoom was quitting on me probably
- 15:1520 different times during a two hour session with all these
- 15:18executives on the phone, panic attack was ensuing inside. But
- 15:22on the outside, I was still keeping it together at some
- 15:25point, it would just I would see my little mouse it would have
- 15:28like the little thinking thing and like it's about to crash,
- 15:30just take a deep breath, it'll come back up and I kept talking.
- 15:32So at some point, I barely even felt that it that it went went
- 15:38away. And then when I got the new computer, I told you I was
- 15:41like bring it on computer what you got come on mess with me.
- 15:43I've got this so that unshakeable confidence. You
- 15:46definitely helped instil in me and it's, it's been interesting.
- 15:50I'll tell Melinda all the time. You have some voodoo magic. I'm
- 15:54from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. So we got the Voodoo down here in
- 15:57New Orleans. don't necessarily believe in it. But I believe in
- 16:01Melinda and your voodoo magic ways of neutralising all these
- 16:04thoughts in my head. Thank you
- 16:07Melinda Lee: so much. And those thoughts were real. I mean, they
- 16:10actually had a legitimate reason to be there. Because like you
- 16:13said, yeah, that technology may not work. Yeah, you didn't have
- 16:16as much experience as all of these executives. Yeah, the
- 16:19materials not used. So those are actual, they were in when
- 16:23anybody goes through something that is high stakes, it's
- 16:27important, these thoughts will come up. And, and I think
- 16:31they're valid. And I think what you and I did the work that we
- 16:34did, we did it, we did give it respect, and we work through
- 16:39each of them. So that you can see that they're their thoughts,
- 16:43and they needed to be heard, they needed to be respected. And
- 16:46then they actually start to dissolve and neutralise out of
- 16:50our nervous system. And then so when you when you got presented
- 16:54with even what would have happened if we didn't work
- 16:57together, and you have that computer problem, what do you
- 16:59think would have? Like, really, I'm gonna play it out like this
- 17:02for fun? What do you would have done,
- 17:06Sarah Arceneaux: I would have cried, probably cried, there
- 17:09probably would have been tears, I wanted to throw my computer
- 17:13across the room. And I might have if I didn't, if I didn't
- 17:18have that confidence, I think that, um, I really don't know,
- 17:23because I just kept going to, I have my bullet points. I know
- 17:28what I'm talking about. And I kept Melinda, Melinda and her
- 17:31immersion session would say, I don't know what I'm gonna say,
- 17:34but it's gonna be great. And the amount of times I was like, I
- 17:36don't know what the heck is gonna happen with this computer,
- 17:39but I'm gonna get through it. And this training is going to be
- 17:41great. I just kept telling myself that and I could power
- 17:44through it. And so I think if I didn't have that, in the back of
- 17:48my head, I might have been like, we need to stop this training
- 17:51until I figure out what's going on. I was able to adjust on the
- 17:55fly, when I don't think I would have been able to do it as
- 17:59gracefully as I did, if that makes sense.
- 18:02Melinda Lee: Yes, yes, yes. Right. Yeah, totally. Because
- 18:07your your, your mind is going haywire, the nervous system is
- 18:10going haywire. And then so we're not able to think very clearly.
- 18:13And so you're able to think clearly you're able to move
- 18:17through it and adjust and, and still and then there was a some
- 18:22feedback,
- 18:24Sarah Arceneaux: I was about to say that and then after the the
- 18:26last one I ended up I was at with our help desk was there and
- 18:31they said if it doesn't work, I'm gonna go get you the best
- 18:33computer I got. So literally, we took a 20 minute break from the
- 18:36training I was supposed to talk about, we'll talk through how to
- 18:39adjust on the fly, what I was going to remove from it, got
- 18:43back into it and went into it. So this last group had half of
- 18:46me with technical issues and half of me with the computer
- 18:49working properly. And the regional manager once everything
- 18:53was done, who's the head of the group that I was there was about
- 18:5630 People said before everybody gets off the phone, I'd really
- 19:00like to say how much I appreciate Sarah's efforts here.
- 19:03Because I was not just a Franklin Covey facilitator,
- 19:07which there's nothing against Franklin Covey facilitators or
- 19:09any other company. But what he said was, the training material
- 19:15was so much more impactful, because it was coming from
- 19:18somebody who's been with our organisation for a long time,
- 19:20who knows them as managers, who knows our business and could put
- 19:25real life examples from our business and from what I've
- 19:28dealt with in our human resources department into action
- 19:31and speaking with them and being able to really say, like, we're
- 19:36talking about building trust with our teams, and we have the
- 19:40people who instal the billboards and the people who sell the
- 19:42billboards. And one of the biggest things that we hear in
- 19:45HR is that there's kind of a divide between the front of the
- 19:48house and the back of the house and building that trust is one
- 19:51of the most important things and and they told me that they could
- 19:55really hear and that point was driven home for me because I had
- 19:59all those eggs examples that I could that I could employ in our
- 20:03discussion, as opposed to someone from Franklin Covey who
- 20:06might be able to start that discussion, but not be able to
- 20:08go through it all. And so I really did almost cry when he
- 20:12told me that I'm like, keep it together, you're on video with
- 20:15all these executives, but it was so fulfilling to hear from
- 20:19somebody, I respect it so much that my efforts were
- 20:22appreciated, and that they understood because he was like,
- 20:24this was a lot of material for you, to learn and to teach us.
- 20:27And so we just appreciate your effort. So it was extremely
- 20:30rewarding.
- 20:31Melinda Lee: Oh, that's beautiful. And what are the
- 20:35magic, what a what a great thing to instil like, not only just
- 20:39teaching, but you're really instilling the trust in these
- 20:42employees and the staff and executive and that really makes
- 20:46a difference for them. And then for having to have them to help
- 20:50them to have it hit home for them. And, and then to get the
- 20:53feedback from the executive that you really respect. And you did
- 20:59it. So that's all from think about is all from you going
- 21:04through the challenge with Ms. Saying no saying yes to your
- 21:09help. And then this opportunity for this new position or this
- 21:14new role? That is so much better for you more fulfilling? And?
- 21:20Absolutely, it's,
- 21:22Sarah Arceneaux: it's been a whirlwind. And when I graduated
- 21:25school, I wanted to be the VP of HR at a company or open my own
- 21:30consulting firm. And I think that my biggest message to
- 21:36people out there is, no matter what you come across, know that
- 21:41you can adjust in a way that you will be happy, I never would
- 21:45have thought that I would be happy, being a professional
- 21:50development manager for the next 50 years of my life. And I
- 21:53really could be because it's such fulfilling work. I don't
- 21:56necessarily need to be the VP of HR over 30 people in order to be
- 22:00successful, I can be successful in my own right, by helping
- 22:04leaders be the best leaders that they can be and just adjusting
- 22:08that mindset of I don't necessarily have to be the top
- 22:11dog. I can be. I can be what's the word I'm looking for. And I
- 22:18can be inspiring and impactful in my work without being the top
- 22:23of the the top of the tear of the department. Yeah,
- 22:27Melinda Lee: I mean, what is success? Right? Is it really a
- 22:30title? Right? Is it Oh, really, right? No, no, it's not. I took
- 22:37me
- 22:37Sarah Arceneaux: a minute. So to my mom, my mom, you are going to
- 22:41be interviewing as well. And she is the top dog and she has been
- 22:46my inspiration my whole life is to be just like her and get a
- 22:50master's degree, which I did and, and try and get into
- 22:54leadership. And I learned a lot from her. And I'm super excited
- 22:58to watch her podcast recording as well.
- 23:01Melinda Lee: I know, I'm excited to have her. She'll be here next
- 23:04couple of weeks. And so what is what about the MS in your life
- 23:10right now? Like how is that also played out in your life? And in
- 23:14your, how you see yourself? Or do you not? Like yeah, what is
- 23:19that? Like? Um,
- 23:22Sarah Arceneaux: it's one of those things where whenever I
- 23:24was diagnosed, I used to be like, I have good days and bad
- 23:27days, but it's mostly good. And that was more of a placation for
- 23:31other people than it was for me because in reality, I have my
- 23:38new normal consists of basically a low level of pain. So most
- 23:43people would call that a bad day. Right? Right, I've come to
- 23:47the point where it's like, I am not in a great place. If I'm in
- 23:51really bad pain, I have a relapse, what have you for a
- 23:54couple of weeks. But if I'm just at my base level of my new
- 23:57normal, where my foots Dragon, my wrist is dislocating my
- 24:02migraines happen and all that kind of stuff can happen. But as
- 24:06long as I have the support of my friends, my family, my job,
- 24:11who's very supportive and has lovely accommodations for me,
- 24:15then I can get through anything. And as long as I have that
- 24:20support, and as long as I listened to my body, then I can
- 24:25succeed. And most days I'm doing pretty good. I've gotten on a
- 24:29good metal medicine regimen and advocated for my health and I do
- 24:34physical therapy. I do all those kinds of things to keep my
- 24:38stamina up and I don't plan on slowing down anytime soon. So
- 24:42no. Yeah, I think I think I've I've gotten into the good groove
- 24:47of things where we've got the right medicine, the right
- 24:49support. I also married a physical therapist, so I won the
- 24:53lottery on that one. Um, so it's good. It's good, happy, happy.
- 25:00Willie married with two little pups trying to grow a family and
- 25:04do it all, while taking care of myself at the same time.
- 25:07Melinda Lee: Yeah, that is the epitome, I think most of them
- 25:11will want to be where we want to be. Right handling.
- 25:14Sarah Arceneaux: I don't do it gracefully all the time. But I
- 25:16try.
- 25:17Melinda Lee: Hey, there, we're here. It's always we're always
- 25:21evolving, always evolving. And I think you are an amazing
- 25:25powerhouse. I always saw you, as see you as a powerhouse. Because
- 25:28you, you have a confidence about yourself, you walk in, and you
- 25:32have this presence. And then you make people laugh. And then and
- 25:37then and then you know, I would have never known about all these
- 25:40things about you, you deal with so much. And yet, it's still you
- 25:43continue to go through, you continue to rise, and especially
- 25:47in the role that you're in and powering people is just so
- 25:50suitable for you. And Lamar advertising company is really,
- 25:54really lucky to have you they know that. And so it's been
- 25:59really fun today, and thank you so much for sharing your story
- 26:02and your insight. What would you what is a one piece of advice
- 26:05more if you would like to share with people about using their
- 26:10voice about using your voice about unleashing your leadership
- 26:17voice? What is the key thing that they can do? So they might
- 26:20be really not using it and and understanding the power behind
- 26:24it, they might be afraid. And so what is the one key advice that
- 26:27you can give?
- 26:28Sarah Arceneaux: I think my biggest piece of advice, and the
- 26:31hardest thing you taught me to do is breaking free from the
- 26:35script, breaking free from what you think other people want you
- 26:39to say and saying what you actually think needs to be said.
- 26:43I think that I used to be like, Okay, this is what I should say
- 26:47in HR world. And this is what the book says, and this is what
- 26:51my experience shows and then try and think through all that write
- 26:54the perfect script. And then I go to train somebody and I don't
- 26:57say exactly that. And I'm like, I didn't get my point across.
- 27:00And the biggest thing that I learned is, especially with this
- 27:05Franklin Covey stuff, it's six hours of material, which that's
- 27:08a lot of stuff that I can miss. But I realised that as long as
- 27:12I'm inspiring them to go back and try and build trust within
- 27:16their teams, and I did my job, and being able to get out of my
- 27:23head and say if I didn't say every single thing that I
- 27:25planned, as long as the big message gets across, right, then
- 27:29you're done. You're in the right place, and you're in that sweet
- 27:32spot.
- 27:33Melinda Lee: Totally. Yeah. Like having that trust. That was
- 27:37enough. Like that's so important. And we are enough.
- 27:42And what I said is enough, I think many of us will try to
- 27:45over teach try to give too much information and we got to cram
- 27:48it all in. And then I love that you got to that point of that
- 27:52was enough. I did what I did, the big thing that I need to do
- 27:56is done and we're good.
- 27:59Sarah Arceneaux: Yep. Before you having 20 minutes taken out of
- 28:02my presentation would have wrecked me because I'd be like,
- 28:04how do I take 20 minutes out and I immediately was like two
- 28:07videos remove that activity going. Alright, let's go. And I
- 28:10was ready to roll and it was amazing. I was like, I still
- 28:14don't know how you did it. Melinda. Magic.
- 28:18Melinda Lee: Did it. You did it. We did it. I am so appreciative
- 28:21of you. Thank you so much, Sarah for sharing your expertise, your
- 28:25experiences and your time today with us. Really appreciate you.
- 28:30Sarah Arceneaux: Of course. It's my pleasure. Thank you Melinda.
- 28:32Melinda Lee: Thank you