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173. November PREP & PLAN... new month means *new goals* · 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: Hot Girl Energy podcast. I'm your host, Kaylee, and this
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  Speaker 1: is your weekly reminder that it's a new day, a
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  Speaker 1: new week, a new mindset, and another day for you
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  Speaker 1: to become the hot girl energy you want to attract. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: It has been a hot minute, guys. I am so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: If you guys haven't seen stuff going on on my Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: on my TikTok, on my YouTube, your girl has been
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  Speaker 1: active on every other platform but the podcast. And I
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  Speaker 1: kind of made a little statement on my Instagram story
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  Speaker 1: on the hot girl energy Instagram, if you don't follow it,
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  Speaker 1: but essentially I've just been in the, probably the busiest
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  Speaker 1: season of my life and I'm a one man show. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't have anyone editing the podcast. I am
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  Speaker 1: doing it all myself. Everything that you see posted on
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  Speaker 1: my social media is done by me and me only.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I used to have help with my sister,
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  Speaker 1: but now she has obviously her full-time thing. So the
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  Speaker 1: odd times she can obviously help by like recording a
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  Speaker 1: podcast episode with me, but doesn't really have time to
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  Speaker 1: like edit anymore. So, you know, it's just been a
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  Speaker 1: little hard doing everything myself. And we're just going to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, catch up a little bit here, but also
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  Speaker 1: kind of get into an episode about planning and prepping
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  Speaker 1: for a new month, because I've had so many of
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  Speaker 1: you guys message me on TikTok and Instagram, just saying like,
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  Speaker 1: I miss the pod. I miss the motivation and And
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  Speaker 1: I figured I'd do a little episode just about the
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  Speaker 1: motivation around a new month, things that you can do
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  Speaker 1: to kind of like prep and plan for a new
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  Speaker 1: month since we are approaching November, which is crazy. How
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  Speaker 1: are we already at the end of 2026, guys? I'm
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  Speaker 1: having this baby in four months and I'm like, what
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  Speaker 1: the actual heck? I need to start buying her things.
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  Speaker 1: I got to start yeah, planning everything. But anyways, just
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  Speaker 1: kind of a little reality check of what's been going
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  Speaker 1: on and why I haven't been as active as I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to be. I don't think I've ever been away
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  Speaker 1: from the podcast for this long in terms of taking
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  Speaker 1: a lot of breaks of not posting. You guys know
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  Speaker 1: that I've been a weekly or bi-weekly girly for the
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  Speaker 1: past four years of whenever I started this podcast. And
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  Speaker 1: so as I said, we're just going through a really
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  Speaker 1: busy season right now. And I am just trying my best, okay?
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  Speaker 1: I am just trying my best, but you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Showing up here today and being able to get on
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  Speaker 1: the mic honestly means a lot to myself, and I'm proud,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm happy I was able to find time to
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  Speaker 1: chat with you guys. Because just so you know, I
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  Speaker 1: miss you guys just as much as you might miss me.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's as I said, really hard to
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  Speaker 1: like not show up when I want to, but like
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  Speaker 1: there's just been so much going on that it's been really,
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  Speaker 1: really hard. Before we get into this episode, let's just
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  Speaker 1: do a little five minute update of what's been going on. Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: I've moved into my new house. If you guys don't
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  Speaker 1: follow me on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, I highly recommend
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  Speaker 1: following me there just because I've been a lot more
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  Speaker 1: active there than I have been here on the pod,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely have a lot of updates with the house,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of furniture coming in, you know, setting things up,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of house projects that are finally finished. Like
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  Speaker 1: our kitchen is almost complete. The only thing we have
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  Speaker 1: left to do right now is our backsplash. So that
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  Speaker 1: should be done hopefully in the next week or two,
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  Speaker 1: which is super exciting. And then we also have my
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  Speaker 1: baby moon coming up. So I'm actually heading on my
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  Speaker 1: baby moon this Friday and I've kind of been like
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  Speaker 1: low key about it. I haven't really chatted about it
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  Speaker 1: on socials just because I feel like I've been too
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  Speaker 1: busy posting house stuff and pregnancy stuff. But yeah, We
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  Speaker 1: are very excited. We are very much in need of
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  Speaker 1: a trip of doing absolutely nothing for six days. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to Cabo. I've never been to Cabo and
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  Speaker 1: we booked a beautiful resort and I'm literally going to
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  Speaker 1: lay on the beach with a big fat mocktail since
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  Speaker 1: I can't have a margarita or any type of alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: but a mocktail and I'm just going to literally chill
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  Speaker 1: for the next six days. And I am beyond excited
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  Speaker 1: to do absolutely nothing because Just these past three months,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like has been truly the busiest three months ever.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like my pregnancy has actually like gone
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  Speaker 1: by fast because I feel like these past three months
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  Speaker 1: have just been so chaotic with house stuff and like work.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing, yeah, work has been like insanely busy. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just because we're getting close to the holidays and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everything just comes in all at once apparently.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah. Babymoon, which I'm super excited about. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: sharing lots on social media and then probably vlogging the
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  Speaker 1: trip as well for YouTube. I've been in my YouTube
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  Speaker 1: era right now, which I've been loving because I just
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  Speaker 1: like documenting the experience of us moving into the house.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously house updates, house projects. Like I love watching that
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  Speaker 1: stuff on YouTube. So for me, like being able to
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  Speaker 1: document that is so fun and exciting. And of course
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to document the Babymoon trip as well. So
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  Speaker 1: definitely going to vlog that trip. Obviously, house projects have
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  Speaker 1: been in full swing. We have a lot of furniture
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  Speaker 1: that's being delivered when we get back from our Cabo trip,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm so beyond excited about. We have our fireplace
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  Speaker 1: being installed, some curtains that are being installed, our dining chairs,
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  Speaker 1: dining table, our couches, our living room. I'm pretty sure, guys,
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  Speaker 1: crossing my fingers and knock on wood, that we'll have
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  Speaker 1: almost a fully furnished, at least main level of the
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  Speaker 1: house by December 1st, which- It's kind of crazy. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And very exciting. So just a lot of furniture delays.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously I feel like that's the reality of ordering furniture
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  Speaker 1: and just, you know, waiting for it to come in.
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  Speaker 1: And then on top of all this, I'm also hosting
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  Speaker 1: and planning my baby shower. So that has been a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my mom has helped me out a ton
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  Speaker 1: with the baby shower as well as my sister. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but like, obviously like I I'm very picky and like,
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  Speaker 1: I like to have things a specific way. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I'm a perfectionist. It was the same thing with
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  Speaker 1: my wedding. I hired planners, but I did a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the visuals for my wedding of how I wanted
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  Speaker 1: things to look and feel. Anyway, so same thing with
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  Speaker 1: the baby shower. I didn't hire planners, but my mom
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  Speaker 1: has been a huge help with that. But as I said,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm the visual perfectionist when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to how I want things to look and inspiration images,
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  Speaker 1: all that. So I'm actually doing a pretty early baby shower.
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  Speaker 1: I decided to do it before Christmas just because Obviously
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  Speaker 1: with the holidays, things get really busy and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to wait till after Christmas because I'm due in February.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, that just feels like way too close
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  Speaker 1: to my due date. And people always say to do
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  Speaker 1: it earlier versus later because you feel good. Obviously in
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  Speaker 1: your second trimester and typically in your third, you start
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  Speaker 1: to feel, you know, a little sore. I'm hoping that's
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  Speaker 1: not the case, but... You know, I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: prepare myself that if I am feeling, you know, uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: and don't want to, you know, stand on my feet
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  Speaker 1: and heels for four hours during a baby shower in January,
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  Speaker 1: like I just thought it made sense to do it earlier.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot going on just based off of that
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  Speaker 1: little blurb of what's been going on. So that's what's
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  Speaker 1: been happening and why it's been really hard to like
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  Speaker 1: show up because I'm literally doing all these things that
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  Speaker 1: I just said. with my life right now. But anyways,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into planning and prepping for a new month.
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  Speaker 1: November is around the corner and I figured this would
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  Speaker 1: be the perfect episode to kind of just chat about
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  Speaker 1: things that you can do to kind of prepare yourself
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  Speaker 1: for a new month ahead. Okay, so every month we
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  Speaker 1: kind of always talk about this, about like setting new
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  Speaker 1: goals or, you know, revisiting your vision board and kind
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  Speaker 1: of like seeing, okay, have I achieved things that I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to achieve for myself this year, all that. But
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  Speaker 1: I want to get more specific. of talking about like
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  Speaker 1: health and beauty goals, work goals, social goals, and then
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  Speaker 1: an other list of, you know, maybe other things that
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  Speaker 1: you want to do this month specifically that you've been
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  Speaker 1: wanting to get done. So kind of like have a
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  Speaker 1: category for each goal. So those are my four categories
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  Speaker 1: that I decided to work on and what I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to focus on this month. You could write it out
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  Speaker 1: on a piece of paper. You could write it out
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  Speaker 1: in your notes app in your phone. It could be
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  Speaker 1: whatever works for you. But I find this like the
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  Speaker 1: perfect way to just like re-motivate yourself, lock in, get
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  Speaker 1: excited about a new month ahead. I know for sure
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  Speaker 1: that I have lacked my motivation like so hard these
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  Speaker 1: past two months because I was living at my parents' place.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have a house that I was living in.
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  Speaker 1: I found it really hard to stick to a routine
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  Speaker 1: when I'm literally trying to, again, live in my parents'
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  Speaker 1: place while not having my own space and not being
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  Speaker 1: able to like do my own thing. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It just was like such an off few months for
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  Speaker 1: me that I'm like, now that I'm in my house,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is my lock-in era. Okay. Like we're
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  Speaker 1: officially locking in. We're officially finding a routine again and
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  Speaker 1: just finding some structure in my life. And so I
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  Speaker 1: had like really, really big goals for November, especially coming
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  Speaker 1: back from my baby moon. I'm like, this is my
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  Speaker 1: time where I'm just going to chill for this next week.
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  Speaker 1: kind of like reorganize things maybe while I'm on my
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  Speaker 1: trip just to prepare for my comeback era as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I get home from this baby moon of just
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  Speaker 1: like really focusing on November and locking in and getting
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  Speaker 1: back into this one of things. So let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: health and beauty goals for a second. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: share examples of things that I really wanna do this
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  Speaker 1: coming month for each category just to kind of give
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  Speaker 1: you guys some inspiration and maybe you might feel the
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  Speaker 1: same way with your life right now of these certain things.
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  Speaker 1: But one of them being for health wise is I
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  Speaker 1: really want to get back into my 10,000 steps daily.
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  Speaker 1: I have been slacking. The weather's been getting colder. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: it's been harder to get outside. Um, but I have
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  Speaker 1: my walking pad. So I'm like getting the walking pad
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  Speaker 1: out in my new house, getting my steps in, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's like watching a YouTube blog, getting some work done
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. Like there's so many great ways
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  Speaker 1: of finding useful time. by like habit stacking and getting
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  Speaker 1: two things done at once. So I feel like I've
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  Speaker 1: definitely slacked that lately and definitely something that I really
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  Speaker 1: want to prioritize this month of just getting back into
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  Speaker 1: my steps. And especially throughout this pregnancy, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: walking has just been so amazing. Like this summer, I
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  Speaker 1: walked so much every single day And I just felt
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  Speaker 1: so good. So definitely just want to get back into
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  Speaker 1: getting 10K steps again daily. Another big one is actually
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  Speaker 1: sitting down on Sunday mornings with my morning coffee and
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  Speaker 1: structuring out and planning my weeks better. Because I think
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  Speaker 1: right now, because there's been so much going on in
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  Speaker 1: my life, I really need to hold myself accountable and
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  Speaker 1: actually organize everything in one spot. So you know, taking
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  Speaker 1: out the planner again, I'll be fully transparent. The planner
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  Speaker 1: has not been used since I moved out of my house.
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  Speaker 1: So I moved out end of July, beginning of August
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  Speaker 1: of my previous home. And like, I couldn't even tell
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  Speaker 1: you where my planner is, to be honest. Like it
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  Speaker 1: is probably buried at the bottom of a box right now.
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  Speaker 1: So I would love to find that and get back
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  Speaker 1: into that because when I think about like when I
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  Speaker 1: feel organized and structured, it goes back to the days
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  Speaker 1: where I'm like, I was journaling and planning. Like I
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  Speaker 1: was actually holding myself accountable every single morning, writing in
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  Speaker 1: that planner, writing in that journal. And again, it's been
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  Speaker 1: like three or four months of just like avoiding, like
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  Speaker 1: not avoiding it, but like not using it because I
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  Speaker 1: just threw it in one of the moving boxes and
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  Speaker 1: like almost like completely forgot about it. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? So I really want to use my planner
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  Speaker 1: again and structure out my weeks every Sunday of just
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  Speaker 1: writing out, okay, what are my appointments for this week?
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  Speaker 1: Do I have you know, pregnancy appointments, because that's obviously
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  Speaker 1: a new thing for me going into the season of
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  Speaker 1: life of being pregnant. Like there is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: OB appointments, pelvic floor appointments, doula appointments, like you name it.
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  Speaker 1: Like I feel like every week there's a baby appointment,
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  Speaker 1: which obviously is time consuming. But also like finding time
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  Speaker 1: at home to also like make my pregnancy stretches a priority. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, doing stuff like that. So sitting down on
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  Speaker 1: Sundays with a coffee, planning out my week, I think
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  Speaker 1: is going to make me feel so much more efficient,
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  Speaker 1: make me feel so much more motivated to get through
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  Speaker 1: a week, so much more organized. I think right now
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  Speaker 1: I need organization in my life because I've been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: living in two homes and now that I'm officially in
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  Speaker 1: my new place. We're finally starting to find some, you know,
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  Speaker 1: settlement in that home. I'm trying to, is that even
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  Speaker 1: a word, settlement? I don't know, but I'm finally like
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  Speaker 1: feeling settled in the new place. There's still obviously a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff to unpack, but we're slowly finding, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some organization in my life by, you know, slowly moving
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  Speaker 1: into the house. But I also need to find some
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  Speaker 1: organization in my life with work and just organizing appointments,
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  Speaker 1: social life, work. balance, all that. So just trying to
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  Speaker 1: really focus on planning out my weeks ahead of time
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  Speaker 1: by locking in on Sundays and really just taking the
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  Speaker 1: planner out and getting everything written down on a piece
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  Speaker 1: of paper that I can look at every single day
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  Speaker 1: and just get back into the daily planning and journaling.
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  Speaker 1: Another big health goal for me actually this month is
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  Speaker 1: I really want to get a gym membership. I of
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  Speaker 1: course have my Pilates membership that I adore and I
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  Speaker 1: have been using a lot these past few years, but
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  Speaker 1: Since pregnancy, there has been some restrictions of what I
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  Speaker 1: can and can't do when it comes to workouts, and
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  Speaker 1: one of them being core specifically. I cannot do much
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  Speaker 1: core workout right now just throughout this stage of my pregnancy.
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  Speaker 1: And so I've been wanting to get a gym membership
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like you can do a lot more with...
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  Speaker 1: gym right now. Cause I feel like Pilates is very
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  Speaker 1: core heavy. Um, and there's obviously like movements that I
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  Speaker 1: can do in reformer Pilates. Like I would say like
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  Speaker 1: 75% of the workout I can do. It's just like
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  Speaker 1: 25% of it. I have to like modify and do
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  Speaker 1: different movements, which again is totally fine. But I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to do two days a week of Pilates, two days
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  Speaker 1: a week at the gym. So I'm like, I need
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  Speaker 1: a gym to go to because I was using my
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  Speaker 1: parents' gym when I was living there, but I'm like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I could use a change of scenery. It's also like
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  Speaker 1: a fun way to like, I don't know, get out
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  Speaker 1: of the house, have again, your own little bubble of
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  Speaker 1: like being able to just like lock in, focus on
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  Speaker 1: what you need to do. Even if it's just like
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  Speaker 1: walking on a treadmill for 30 minutes, like it could
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  Speaker 1: be literally whatever, but it just kind of gets me
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  Speaker 1: out of the house, gives me some type of structure
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  Speaker 1: and routine. And There's like this really nice gym that's
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  Speaker 1: by my new place. I think I probably talked about
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  Speaker 1: it in an episode not too long ago. But anyways,
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  Speaker 1: just something that I've been wanting to actually hold myself
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  Speaker 1: accountable for and doing this coming month. Daily stretching is
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  Speaker 1: also something I've been trying to make a priority this pregnancy.
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  Speaker 1: It's just something that I think is so crucial. I
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  Speaker 1: have definitely been feeling a little bit more achy and
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  Speaker 1: sore the farther along I get. And guys, I'm already
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  Speaker 1: six months, okay? How the heck am I already six months?
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Yeah, we have a little bump. Obviously, we're showing.
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  Speaker 1: And just like sleeping has been like probably the hardest
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  Speaker 1: for me, like finding a comfortable position to lay in.
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  Speaker 1: And so Zach was really kind and he bought me
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  Speaker 1: a wedge pillow. And it's actually been amazing. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been helping my sleeps a lot. But there
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  Speaker 1: is daily stretches that I've gotten from my pelvic floor therapist.
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  Speaker 1: And I also see a prenatal trainer. Her name's Kaylin
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  Speaker 1: from Form. She's amazing. I do weekly workouts with her
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  Speaker 1: and she's also giving me stretches to do. So just
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  Speaker 1: like really focusing on taking 10 minutes before bed or
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  Speaker 1: 10 minutes in the morning to like use my exercise ball,
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  Speaker 1: stretching out my hips, stretching out my back, like just
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  Speaker 1: finding time to stretch. I feel like stretching is always
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  Speaker 1: something that at least I always like skip out on
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  Speaker 1: when I, you know, finish a workout or before a workout,
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  Speaker 1: I'm always like, Oh, I don't need to warm up.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just get straight to the workout. Like I just
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  Speaker 1: kind of get lazy. So I'm like, yeah, no, we
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  Speaker 1: actually need to work on this because these next four months,
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot more growth, a lot
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  Speaker 1: more change to my body and things are going to
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  Speaker 1: get more uncomfortable. So I just want to be on
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  Speaker 1: it and really create a structured routine of just finding
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  Speaker 1: a you know, 10 minutes out of my morning or
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  Speaker 1: night to get some daily stretching in. Sorry, I know
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  Speaker 1: some of these goals are like very specific, but again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to like give some inspiration here of
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  Speaker 1: like what I plan on doing for the month of November.
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  Speaker 1: But another one that's kind of more vague that anyone
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: could really add to their November goals is trying out
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: new recipes. I don't know about you guys, but I
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: have been in a recipe funk, meaning that I feel
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: like I've been eating the same recipes for like the
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: past three to four months. And I'm starting to feel
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: like I need to change it up. I'm like, yep. Okay.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I've loved this meal now for four months and it's
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: been amazing. Like I've had burger bowls. I've had spaghetti.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I've had pita pizza. Like I'm just like trying to
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: name a few chicken wings, you know, marry me chicken,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: like some, just to name a few like recipes that
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm constantly eating. And again, don't get
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: me wrong. They're great. But at the same time, I'm like,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I could use some change. So I feel like it's
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: time for me to like get back on Pinterest, get
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: back on social media, start scrolling through reels and TikToks
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and just finding new recipes that are easy, quick. If
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you guys have any recipe ideas, send them my way.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I love high protein meals, you know, things that have,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: you know, good amount of carbs, all that, like just
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: obviously keep me fueled throughout the day. But I'm just
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: needing new recipes. There is one recipe actually that I've
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: been dying to try. that I've seen a few people
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: talk about. It's those viral Haley Bieber, I think it's
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the cottage cheese meatballs, I want to say. They look incredible.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: And then I also came across this like one pan
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: chicken lemon potato dish, which sounds amazing. So I've like
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: been saving a few recipes, but I haven't been executing it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Now that I have my
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: new stove, I have my new kitchen. I'm like, okay,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: we're going to hold ourself accountable here and actually try
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: out these new recipes. And I also need to start
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: filming what I eat in a days again, because If
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you've followed me for so long, I feel like I
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: haven't done a what I eat in a day video
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: in like months, okay? I think before, since before I
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: was pregnant. I can't believe I haven't done a single
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: one throughout my pregnancy. So again, now that I have
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a kitchen, I'm feeling more motivated to like get back
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: into those kind of videos again and just like film
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: my normal content that I love to film. So anyways,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I'm starting to find my spark again. I'm starting to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: see the energy that I've been missing. I think there
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: was just so much motivation gone once I kind of
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: got stripped away from my house which I mean valid
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: right like I'm it's hard to go back to living
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: with your parents when you've been on your own for
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: so long and also like being married being pregnant it
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: just kind of felt obviously I felt off so it's
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: just been feeling really nice to like be back into
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a routine again have my own space and just be
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: able to like cook and I don't know, be in
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: my own home again. Anyways, those are my health and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: wellness goals for the month of November. Another category that
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: you could focus on is work goals. So depending on
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: your work situation or maybe it's school, do you have
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: specific goals that you want to achieve this month? for
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that specific category. So for me specifically, obviously work, I've
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: been wanting to really focus on getting back on the podcast.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Like that's obviously like the biggest one I think is
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: just like finding a weekly routine again of being able
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: to show up on the mic and record a podcast episode.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: But also being active again on my social media, continuing
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to show moving content, bringing back the content that I've
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: missed doing for the past few months since I have
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: not obviously been active as I'd like to be since not,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: being in a house Um, and then also linking more
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: things I feel like linking is something that I lack
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: a lot lately and i'm like I need to get
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: back into linking Products for you guys consistently now that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: again i'm back in the house I have a lot
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: of furniture things that i've ordered i've ordered a lot
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: of new clothes for my pregnancy. So just getting back
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in the game of being consistent with linking products as well.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: So that's like a small work goal for me. And again,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: it's very niche just because I'm in the influencer social
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: media space. But think of things in your situation right
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: now with your job. If you're a nurse or if
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you're a nursing student in school, is there exams that
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you want to prep for? Is there some projects that
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you need to submit by a specific date? Is it
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: best for you to get ahead and get those things done?
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: So just kind of, again, use this like work slash
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: school goal category as an opportunity for you to like
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: get ahead on things and again, focus on work related goals.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I also think it's really important to have social goals.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: So making sure that you make your social life just
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: a priority as much as your work and health and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: wellness goals. I think, you know, social interaction is so important.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think you realize how important it is until
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you feel isolated and you feel lonely and you're like,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: wait a second, I put my social life too much
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: on the side and I need to get back into
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: going out again and like talking with people and seeing
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: my friends and seeing my family and all that, right?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: So One thing for me specifically is, you know, finding
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: time to go to a workout class with friends or
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: going on a walk with friends. Like, again, finding ways to, like,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: maybe do two things at once. If you have a
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: really busy life, how can I do two things at once, right? So, okay, well,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I love working out, but it'd be really nice to, like,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: have some social time. So invite your friends to workout
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: classes that you love or go on walks together. Like, find...
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: something that you can do to socialize with your friends
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: while also getting, you know, something that you want to
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: get done, like a workout. Maybe it could also be
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: like a homework date. Like if you're in school and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: you want to just, you know, get some homework done,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: but see someone, go to a coffee shop and get
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: some homework done together. Again, work. If you work from home,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: maybe you reach out to a friend that also works
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: from home and you guys can go to a coffee
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: shop together, you know, lock in. get some work done,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: but also like have some social time being able to
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: like talk to each other and yeah, get some work done.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: So just kind of like the benefit of being able
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to do like two things at once while also getting
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: some social time in is like so crucial for our
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: mental health, but also just like to have some social time.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Another thing that I think is really important is making
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: sure that you're doing something that makes you smile every day.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: So What are little things that bring you joy? Whether
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: it's going to a workout class, maybe it's going to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: a coffee shop and getting your favorite coffee. Maybe it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: once a week you go out to dinner with friends
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and you try a new restaurant out, try new food
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: or even a mocktail date. Like maybe it's going to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: get mocktails or cocktails with your friends. Like just like
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: finding time each week to do like something that gets
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: you out of the house, social interaction. something for you
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: to look forward to every single week. I know for me,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: life has been so busy that it's been really hard
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to make the effort of seeing my friends, but there's
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: been ways of seeing my friends that kind of, again,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: benefit both things. So for example, obviously my baby shower
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: is something that I'm planning. The other night I had
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: my girlfriends over and we had a little date night
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: at my house. We cooked pizza and we started planning
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: my baby shower. So I was able to like get
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: some social time in with my friends, see them, but
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: also like get something that I need to get done
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that I've been trying to focus on. So I feel
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: like honestly like getting two things done at the same
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: time is like the best thing ever. And yeah, I'm
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: just trying to find ways to still be social, see
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: my friends, but also like still get what needs to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: get done, which is like work. baby shower stuff, all that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: But anyways, that's kind of another important category that I
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: would make a priority when you're planning out your November
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: goals is what am I going to do this month
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: that's going to keep me social, that's going to want
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: me to get out of the house more and see
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: my friends more, my boyfriend, your husband, your friends, whatever
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the case may be, like just like really find time
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: each week to make your social life. just as important
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: as a priority in comparison to your health and wellness
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: goals and your work goals as well. And then the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: last category, which is other. So it could be absolutely anything.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: For an example, for me, I am like fully in
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: prep mode for Christmas decor. Like I have already been
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: like on, you know, Pottery Barn. I've been on Zara Home.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I've been on H & M Home. I'm constantly searching
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: for like some Christmas decor items to decorate in my
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: new house. And obviously I've been so excited to be
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in a new space and find ways to decorate the house.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: So I've been going on Pinterest lots, obviously finding some
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: inspiration that way. I'm like 90% sure that Zach and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I are going to buy a new Christmas tree this
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: year because our ceilings in our new house are 12
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: feet high. And I think the current Christmas tree we
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: have is other six or seven feet. And I'd love
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to get a nine foot Christmas tree because I'm like,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you know what? Why not get a bigger Christmas tree?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: It'd be fun. We have the space for it. So yeah,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: just kind of like getting that planning is really fun.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And I'm just, again, so excited. I feel like I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: didn't get to decorate for fall this year. Of course,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: having my home fully organized, I'm really just trying to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: focus on getting everything moved in, but also like making
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: it very intentional with like going on Amazon, ordering organizers.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I've found a lot of like cutlery organizers for my
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: kitchen that are like perfectly made for my drawers. So
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: just go on Amazon and search the measurement of your
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: kitchen drawers and you can get like perfect size organizers
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: for those specific drawers. And the organization is just like
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: so satisfying. I don't know how to explain it, but
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: like I look and I'm just like, this is so
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: beyond satisfying. I'm so happy I like made the effort
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: of like making everything organized, going into this new space
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and just being really intentional with how things are done.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: So definitely just like spending these next few weeks of
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: November of just like, again, finding every, time that I
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: can on the weekends and weeknights to just like organize
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: each space a specific way. One thing I've realized is
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: that you do not realize how much shit you own
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: until you move out of a house. Like I was
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: shocked to see how much I had. And I'm like,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: this is crazy. And we're still obviously unboxing things like
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: this is going to take weeks to fully unbox everything.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that was probably the most shocking thing out
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: of the move was just like how much stuff I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: actually owned. And I was like, damn. That's crazy. So anyways,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that's kind of been like my other category of like
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Christmas decor prep, as well as just getting my home
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: all organized. Well, that is today's episode. I did want
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: to keep it somewhat short and sweet just because again,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: it's been such a busy past few weeks that I, yeah,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: have had a really hard time just like showing up
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: on here, but I'm happy I was able to come
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: on the podcast this week and get an episode live
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: for you guys. But I love you guys all so much.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: If you're new, definitely make sure to follow me on Instagram, TikTok,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and YouTube. You guys know that I'm pretty active on
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: there and would love to have you come say hi
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: from the podcast. But I love you guys all so much.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys for listening to another episode and I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: will see you guys in next week's episode.