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The Why Not Today? Podcast - Season 2 - Episode 22 with Liz Kamp, New Trail Cycling · Why Not Today? with Leslie Kane

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  Hello, my name is Leslie and I am the host of the Why Not Today podcast.
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  This is a podcast to celebrate people who have been courageous and said, why not today?
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  I started this podcast in honor of my father, Patrick Cain, who often said, why not today?
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  I'm based in Reston, Virginia, a planned community right outside of Washington, DC.
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  Thanks for joining us today.
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  So I'm excited.
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  We are officially this week starting a, instead of twice a month, we're going to every week
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  podcast, which is kind of fun and exciting.
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  Except for saying that, I think we're skipping next week.
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  That's okay.
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  Starting in January, officially.
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  So and so my guest today is somebody I've known for several years, Liz Kemp, and she
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  has a spin studio here where I live, but I found something new about her the other day.
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  And so she's here to share about her courageous moments with her studio, but also we're going
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  to talk about the one word and intentions as we start the new year.
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  So I always talk about how we met, where we connected.
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  So Liz lives in Reston, but I didn't meet you until you opened the spin studio at Lake
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  Ann and met you through that when you just probably met you before you opened and then
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  went to a couple of sessions, but then really got to know you better or you got to know
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  me better because I put out on social media one day that I was looking for somebody to
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  help work with my younger sister as down sender with some exercise and you reached out, you
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  have a nephew that's down down the center.
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  And so Liz works with Amanda every week and walks around the lake and does exercises.
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  So and I'm sure I'll show you everything I don't want you to think about our family
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  hanging out with Amanda.
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  So I love that connection and that, you know, we become like become like family through
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  connections of business.
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  So and I had no idea you did the my intention thing training.
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  So you know, it's funny, you know, things about people who don't know everything about
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  them.
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  So introduce yourself, Liz, just a quick bio with a fun fact and then we'll encourage
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  and your courage stories.
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  Sounds good.
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  Yeah, thank you for having me.
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  So I'm Liz Camp and I'm the founder of new trail as Leslie mentioned.
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  And yeah, I feel like we've known each other forever, even though we haven't.
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  But yeah, the studio has now been open for about five years and I have lived and rest
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  in for about 15 years, almost 15 years now.
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  And I, we love living here.
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  And we have three kids and a dog and just thoroughly enjoy, you know, the rest in life
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  and being not far from Lake Ann.
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  That was a priority for us when we bought our house.
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  So yeah, we love this area.
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  And I'm originally from upstate New York.
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  And I like to say that I went to college in Baltimore and when I realized that the sun
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  could shine and there could be snow on the ground at the same time, then I realized I
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  wouldn't be going north farther north in the mid Atlantic again.
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  And so I'm definitely one of those people who's hoping for snow though this winter.
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  I do love the snow.
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  Can't be fun, but we don't want to like you up there.
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  Yeah, true, true.
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  Yeah, well, I'm excited.
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  I know you'd lived and rested not long, but yeah, yeah, we're coming up on 15 years.
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  Crazy.
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  I've lived in rest since I was two.
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  So yeah, well, a little different there.
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  So Liz, what does courage mean to you?
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  Start there.
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  Yeah.
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  To me, I think it just means acting when you don't know what the outcome is going to be.
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  I think I am very much type A. A lot of people would say I'm very type A and I like to know
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  what's coming and I like to see what's coming down the path.
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  And so for me personally, courage is definitely acting on the unknown.
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  And yeah, but love that.
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  So you started, you opened new trail five years ago.
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  So let's talk about that courageous move and starting that and what motivated you and was
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  it scary knowing and then you probably open, were you open a year and then COVID?
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  Just yeah, a year and a couple of months before COVID started.
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  So yeah, I mean it was, in a lot of ways, it was a really long road to open new trail
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  because I worked in the fitness industry.
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  I started in college teaching classes and had worked in the industry.
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  It worked for the town of Herndon running their fitness programming.
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  So that experience between the town of Herndon working for a YWCA, a couple other fitness
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  facilities realized that I really wanted to do it my own way.
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  And I couldn't really do that unless I really branched out on my own.
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  So I knew that I wanted to stay home, be a stay at home mom with our kids when they
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  were little.
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  So it kind of was put on the back burner intentionally just sort of like got to wait until the time
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  is right.
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  And so during that time, we had our three babies and I taught some classes with my mom's group
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  and still sort of kept my foot in the door fitness.
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  We were working another job where you just not just but we're home with the kids.
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  Just home with the kids.
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  Yeah.
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  Home with the kids.
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  Just is not a good word.
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  Yeah, just is not a good word for that.
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  That is very true.
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  But still kind of continued my fitness journey in terms of teaching classes to my mom's group
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  and being involved in running and walking groups and things like that.
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  But really new trail in the iteration of Lake Ann once the pharmacy closed at Lake Ann.
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  So for those of you who aren't familiar with Lake Ann Plaza and Reston, we have a beautiful
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  lakefront mixed use area.
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  And there was an original pharmacy that was also a little cafe and the post office all
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  wrapped into one.
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  And when that candy store with the main lady when we were kids, I forget the candy store.
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  So when that closed down, let's see, I was not even pregnant with my youngest.
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  I think that timing is about right.
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  And I remember saying to my husband, like, that's the spot.
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  I just I'm not ready to do it right now.
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  But oh my gosh, that's my space.
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  Like that is where I need to do this.
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  Yes.
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  And then, you know, but I, I knew truly that I, I didn't, I couldn't take it on in that
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  moment.
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  So I could just kind of waited and the space stayed vacant and stayed vacant.
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  And I kept watching it and kept saying, oh, I just did.
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  I'm going to be so upset if somebody else goes in there.
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  And I still can vividly remember the day sitting with my two sister-in-laws at Calypso's, a
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  restaurant across the way, and saying, I think I just need to do it.
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  Like I just, it feels like that's my space.
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  I think I just need to do it.
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  And why not today?
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  Why not today?
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  Why not today moment?
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  Yeah.
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  And it just kind of felt like this overwhelming sense of like, yeah, I have to do it.
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  And if I don't act, I'm going to regret it.
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  And I don't want to regret not just trying.
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  And then it just kind of spiraled from there.
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  I reached out to the landlord, got in touch with the broker and started the very long
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  process of negotiating and was able to secure the space.
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  So my daughter, our youngest was a year and a couple months when we, no, more than that,
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  maybe two, two and a couple months when we first started really the process.
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  So yeah, it was one of those, I don't want to look back and regret it.
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  Yeah.
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  So which is what her does, just doing the things and it wasn't perfect.
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  And we had to spread a lot of stuff in between.
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  Yeah.
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  Putting the things on the wall, right?
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  Yeah.
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  All of it.
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  All of it.
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  Lots of, lots of learning curve there.
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  But I think too, when you believe in what you're doing, it's easier to be courageous.
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  And I feel like I just so deeply believed that the service I wanted to provide people
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  was worth pursuing, excuse me, worth pursuing that, that also is what really pushed me to
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  do it.
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  And when we were talking the other day, like you're a spin studio, but you do other things
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  and other exercise and when you work with me as a personal trainer, but what you said,
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  I loved and so aligned with the why not today message and what I'm trying to do with this
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  podcast is why do women come to new trial?
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  I think that to me, it's always been deeper than just a workout.
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  You know, my degree is in psychology and for me in high school, fitness became an outlet.
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  It became a way to improve my mental health.
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  It was a way for me to connect with other people.
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  And so new trail to me, so, you know, I named new trail new trail because it's a new trail
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  and rest in it's a new way again for the listeners who aren't here in town.
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  New trail was founded by Bob Simon and the community is connected by trails.
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  There are 55 miles of trails and Bob said his vision was for people to meet on the trails
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  and connect on the trails.
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  And so when I was trying to figure out what to call the studio new trail is what came out
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  because I thought, well, my whole goal is people to connect people to feel seen people
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  to, you know, be there to work out for more than just burning calories.
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  It's about feeling good, making connections, being a human as having that human connection
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  is just so big.
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  And so for me, yeah, I think all women in particular just want to feel seen and they
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  want that human connection.
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  And so we try to provide that.
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  That's awesome.
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  And you know, I never heard that side of it and it makes so much sense.
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  And I taught water rubrics for 13 years and the same thing.
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  People came for the community and it goes back to Lake Ann too, that Lake Ann was designed
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  and all the original shopping centers and rest of you had to get out of your car and
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  walk and build a tree and living.
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  I live right here, right?
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  Probably if I had a really good arm for a rock at the studio, but you know, it is connection
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  and you I can't walk out of my door and walk to new trail without probably running to three
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  or 10 people that I know.
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  And that's what I love about this community.
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  So it's not just about working out.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So much more.
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  I mean, you talk about one word which you'd never heard of, but you talk teach classes
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  on something else.
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  Is it my intent?
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  Yeah, my intent is.
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  Let's talk about that and what that is.
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  How people come about doing it.
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  Yeah.
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  So my intent.
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  Gosh, I should.
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  Yeah, I was going to say, how did I first stumble upon my intent?
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  I think actually it was at a fitness conference.
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  And they, they were just starting out and my intent, if you're not familiar, it's a company
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  that does, they do workshops, but they do it.
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  It's all about finding your word, your inspiration for the year or this particular time in your
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  life.
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  And then you hand stamp it into a bracelet or a necklace.
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  Which is funny.
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  I have it and I don't have it on today, but I do have a my intent bracelet, but I have
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  made.
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  Okay.
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  It says why not today?
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  There you go.
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  And that's kind of how I got introduced to it at a conference and, and I just thought,
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  wow, I love the idea of living with intention.
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  I mean, that's the whole point of it is we are all rushing through life.
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  And so how can we be intentional with the choices that we're making day to day with
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  our goal for any particular time or year in life?
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  And for me, it really fits in line with the goal for the studio, which is to go deeper.
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  Right.
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  So again, it's not just the workout.
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  It's the how do you feel and your overall well being.
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  And so my intent to me is along those same lines.
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  How do we live with intention?
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  And so I also love using it on the, at the studio because I do think people particularly
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  around this time of year, when we're looking at New Year's resolutions and we think, okay,
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  yes, here's my goal for next year.
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  I'm going to lose 20 pounds.
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  And it's really hard to just say, I'm going to lose 20 pounds and have that motivate you
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  all year long.
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  And so to me, I really like flipping it for people and saying, okay, so I understand that's
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  your goal, but why is it your goal?
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  So is it that you want to lose 20 pounds because you want to be healthier so that you can run
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  around with your kids or grandkids or you want to be able to travel next year and you
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  know that it will be easier for you to travel health wise if you're in better condition.
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  So then you kind of go deeper from there.
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  Right.
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  So is it the, you know, the time?
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  Is it how you feel?
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  What is that then going to allow you to do?
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  So I think I really enjoy the layers, peeling back the layers, right, to see what truly is
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  motivating someone to either add to their life or also potentially remove things from their
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  life.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  So in your workshops, I love the digging deeper with the why and totally relate a friend of
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  mine the other day, text me because I think my word is going to be health, which can encompass
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  the lose whatever, how much weight or and talking about the grandparents or one play
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  with your kids.
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  My niece just had a baby and my brother-in-law is lifting weights and wants to get healthier
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  so we can throw the baby up in the air.
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  There you go.
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  You know, what a visual.
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  So how do you help people feel back?
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  The why?
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  What are you doing the workshop for?
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  Yeah.
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  So people, you know, we're doing a one word painting event January 4th and I know your
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  workshops at the end of January.
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  So some tips and ideas of how do you figure out that word?
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  Yeah.
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  So usually our workshops start with a little bit of meditation to just kind of open people
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  up to allowing words to come to them.
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  You know, I think you and I were chatting about our own words and saying things like,
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  oh, yeah, and then this one word just kind of kept coming to me.
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  And I think once you get used to doing this process, that does start to happen.
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  Right.
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  You just start feeling like once tapping you on the shoulder over and over again.
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  And so for us, I think in the workshop setting where you're limited on time, I think it's
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  helpful to start with a little meditation and just breathing and open up some ideas
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  of questions, right?
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  And then we're starting to think about what do I want to be doing, what do I want to be
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  doing, questions to start letting people think about what do I want more of in my life?
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  What do I want less of in my life?
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  What do I want to feel like next year?
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  What do you know?
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  What, what change do I want to see?
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  And then we talk a little bit deeper and I tend to share stories of sort of passwords
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  of mine and how I reached them.
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  And then we kind of brainstorm a little bit in the group setting for people if they want
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  to share and talk about what their words are.
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  And they might come up with something and I might then respond with a question, asking
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  them again, just sort of that searching question to get a little deeper to what they're looking
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  for.
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  And how long, how long are your workshops and determine your life?
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  It's about depends on the number of people, but usually about 60 minutes.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Love that.
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  So do you have a word that, that you've had in the past?
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  How many, I don't know how many years you've been doing this, but you have a word that
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  was just super memorable?
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  I mean, probably my most memorable is last year's but or 2020 had a lot of, and it's
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  interesting how it kind of twists, like I probably shared this on the last podcast, but
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  2020, my word was connect and my friend was father and we kind of laughed about it in
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  March, but we're like, all right, it's an invitation to figure out how to connect and
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  gather in different ways.
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  Yeah.
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  So it totally can unfold in totally different ways.
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  So do you have a story of a word or intention?
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  Last year mine was feel the, but the year before that mine was here, H-E-R-E.
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  And what I found helpful about that one was wearing it on my bracelet on my wrist, because
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  my goal for that year, my intention was to be more present.
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  And so to me, that meant here, wherever that wrist is with that bracelet, just be here,
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  be present.
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  I think the, as a mom, the balance between work and kids, I mean, balance again, I don't
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  think it really exists, but try in the world of constant cell phone and constant connection,
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  right?
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  When I'm here in this moment, I want my attention to be here.
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  And so to me that year in particular, it was so helpful to have it on my wrist because
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  I literally would start to multitask, see my wrist reach for something and go, nope,
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  just stop, just be here.
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  You can get to that in a minute.
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  So it was helpful in a different way that year, I think, being such an actual physical
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  reminder that I would see on my wrist.
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  Where last year I didn't even, I actually didn't wear my bracelet as much as I normally
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  did because I think I had really just encompassed it so much that I didn't need to see the reminder
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  to focus on it.
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  So yeah, you need different things in different years.
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  My bracelet says why not today, but I think I'm going to need to get my word to remind
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  me because I put it around my house.
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  I paint it with our one word event.
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  It's there, but then it's, you know, and I actually have my graphic person a lot of times
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  use a fun graphic and give me a graphic and I print it just on a photo paper and put it
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  around my house so it's there.
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  But I think the wrist thing, because mine this year was space and a lot of it was being
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  present in my space with who I was.
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  But we forget and, you know, we're multitasking as you said or doing the other things.
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  Yeah, and I've had people take so the, you know, you put your word into a metal ring
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  and it's already on a bracelet, but I know a lot of people who cut them off the bracelet
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  put it on a necklace, which I think is a nice way to do it.
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  And I may do that this year.
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  I like the idea of, you know, as you're sitting and thinking or working, you might pick up
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  the necklace and just sort of fold it in your fingertips and remind yourself of the word,
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  feel the word with your hands because it is stamped in there.
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  So there are lots of different ways of doing it that I think.
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  Well, and I wear a lot of times a starfish necklace and we'll talk about it because of
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  the story of the starfish, you know, the story of the starfish.
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  I don't know.
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  So this guy was walking down the beach and picking up starfish and throwing it in the
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  ocean and somebody walked up an older man walked.
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  He's like, what are you doing?
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  Because I'm saving the starfish.
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  He's like, how could you possibly save the starfish?
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  There's thousands on this beach.
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  And he picked one up and threw it in the ocean and goes, I saved that one.
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  And so I really try to live by that motto.
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  Like you don't know who, what one person's life you're going to influence or how one
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  person can make a difference in your life or just pouring into one person.
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  Like you just never know who needs you that moment.
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  Yeah.
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  I love that.
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  And that ties into being present with people.
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  But yeah, the necklace thing, I often wear it and I touch it and feel it and talk about
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  it.
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  Yeah.
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  I kind of like that idea of maybe making a necklace out of the word.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, you can come to the studio and do it.
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  And I found somebody else that does stickers.
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  She does handwriting.
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  And I found her a couple of years ago.
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  I was just scrolling on social media, mindlessly not being present probably.
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  And she had this thing for like $5, you get your word on the sticker.
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  And so I did it.
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  And I happened to be out of town and had it sent to where I was, well, completely forgot
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  about it.
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  And my friend sent it to me and I'm like, what is this?
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  And she does an amazing job with her packaging and marketing with the word and all kinds
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  of a fun envelope.
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  And it's a fun experience just to get your word, which is now on my laptop all the time.
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  Yeah, which reminds me of another thing that you could do.
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  And I did this one year with goals and I gave it to someone to mail to me like a few months
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  later.
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  So, and you know, you could do that with your word too.
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  That's a good idea.
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  Have someone mail it to you.
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  And it was such a sort of a reminder moment of like, okay, you said this was going to
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  be your goal for the year.
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  Are you really doing it?
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  Yeah.
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  Let's check in.
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  I think sometimes just check in.
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  Sorry.
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  Yeah, because I talked to a friend of mine about her word for this year and she's like,
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  I don't remember what my word is last year.
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  Yeah.
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  And so I literally take my, we do the painting and I leave the painting in my bathroom.
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  So I see it every morning when I get it.
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  Every day.
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  It reminds me.
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  Yeah, I like that.
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  Yeah.
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  So any other tips or ideas on helping people come up with their intention word?
• 23:28
  I think if you have the time to let yourself sit with it a little bit.
• 23:33
  I think that is always good.
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  And maybe that just means, you know, spending an extra couple of minutes being open to it
• 23:42
  morphing into something different.
• 23:46
  Yeah, I think, I think just being open to suggesting, to suggestions that, that your,
• 23:57
  your brain and body will, will give you.
• 23:59
  I know it sounds weird.
• 24:00
  I've got two, I'm toying between.
• 24:02
  I'm just kind of looking and watching.
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  And last year I knew what my word was going to be.
• 24:06
  And then all of a sudden it wasn't.
• 24:08
  It was like, Oh, it's not it.
• 24:10
  This is it.
• 24:11
  Yeah.
• 24:12
  So we're going to talk about how to encourage people before we do that.
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  We started on the podcast having sponsorships.
• 24:17
  So new trails like Frank is our sponsor for this podcast this week.
• 24:22
  It says it's located in Lake N.
• 24:24
  Pause in Reston, Virginia.
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  And they offer group indoor cycling, strength and yoga classes, as well as personal training.
• 24:31
  New trails mission is to make fitness successful for everybody through their challenging yet
• 24:35
  achievable workouts where all levels are welcome.
• 24:38
  And she has special for anybody listens to why not today.
• 24:41
  You can get a free class by just going to, and we'll put this in the show notes too,
• 24:48
  www.NewTrailCycling.com slash free class.
• 24:51
  So a good way to end your year, start your year right, or, and we can also share about
• 24:57
  your intention workshop.
• 24:59
  And for those of you listening, and if you're local and want to join us, we are doing the
• 25:03
  one wine women in one word painting on January 4th at Pino's palette in Herndon.
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  And it's another way to have your word present for you.
• 25:12
  So I always ask my guests, how would you encourage somebody else to be courageous?
• 25:21
  I just think it's always so much better to look back with no regrets.
• 25:26
  I so rarely regret the things that I try.
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  So if you're on the fence about something, you know, I do think it's not wise to go into
• 25:39
  things blindly, right?
• 25:41
  So look in all directions, but trust yourself.
• 25:47
  I think deep down, we all kind of know the right path.
• 25:53
  And so, yeah, no one wants regrets.
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  So it's worth taking the leap.
• 26:00
  Absolutely.
• 26:01
  And it's interesting.
• 26:02
  There's something I've been toying with trying to make a decision on and it has to do with
• 26:08
  the word be seen.
• 26:10
  And after you said that the other day and it keeps popping up, I'm like, I just need to
• 26:13
  do it because it just doesn't come off.
• 26:16
  I just can't stop thinking about it.
• 26:18
  And I often share in this podcast and talk about Daniel Page.
• 26:21
  Do you know who that is?
• 26:23
  He's an author who actually lives in Northern Virginia, but he wrote a book about regrets.
• 26:29
  I don't remember exactly the title, but one of the things he said is we rarely regret the
• 26:36
  things we didn't do or that we do.
• 26:39
  We rarely regret things that we do.
• 26:41
  So let's just do those things.
• 26:42
  And that's really the why not today message, the little things, you know, and some days
• 26:47
  it's getting out of bed or going to the lot or, you know, starting businesses or just
• 26:52
  sitting at a restaurant looking at a space going, I know in my gut, that's mine and going,
• 26:56
  right?
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  Aren't you glad you didn't?
• 26:59
  Yes.
• 27:00
  And timing is never right.
• 27:01
  No, you know, I just think there's no such thing.
• 27:07
  I don't really know anyone who said, Oh yeah, you know, things just perfectly lined up and
• 27:12
  slowed down and life was so easy.
• 27:14
  So I decided that was the perfect time.
• 27:16
  No, it just that doesn't happen.
• 27:19
  We are in a fast paced life and us living in Northern Virginia.
• 27:23
  It's a fast paced area.
• 27:26
  And so yeah, if you keep thinking to yourself, I might regret not doing this.
• 27:31
  Then there's your answer.
• 27:32
  Yeah, we just, you just have to take that stuff and do it.
• 27:36
  Yeah, there's always there are always lessons in things that don't work out.
• 27:41
  Right.
• 27:42
  So you still have the lessons and you're further ahead because of that.
• 27:45
  Right.
• 27:46
  Well, I always try to connect back to my dad and people always say, well, I never met your
• 27:51
  dad, which did you ever meet my dad?
• 27:53
  Probably not.
• 27:54
  No, no.
• 27:55
  Never saw him floating around resting.
• 27:57
  Everybody wants to explain them.
• 27:58
  They're like, Oh, I know who that is.
• 28:01
  But so couple of things.
• 28:03
  One, I didn't know you worked with the town of Herndon.
• 28:05
  I don't know if you knew this, but my dad worked for the town of Herndon.
• 28:08
  I didn't know that.
• 28:09
  I'm planning it years and years and years ago.
• 28:12
  He was a city planner and he actually did the redevelopment of Rochester.
• 28:16
  I don't know if you knew that.
• 28:18
  No, I don't think I did know.
• 28:20
  Yeah, he did that.
• 28:21
  I was born in Buffalo, but he worked all over the country.
• 28:24
  So I was actually born in New York, too.
• 28:27
  And his first office was at Lake Ann.
• 28:29
  Oh, you know, his office was at the townhouses, you know, where the coffee shop is.
• 28:35
  He was over at the aunt.
• 28:37
  Amazing.
• 28:38
  Yeah, so lots of points.
• 28:40
  Little connection.
• 28:41
  I know, and it feels like I should have met him at some point, just feeling like I know
• 28:48
  your mom so well now and your sister.
• 28:51
  So.
• 28:52
  Well, it's funny when I, as I said, when I meet people and they're like, Oh, I know
• 28:56
  who your dad is.
• 28:57
  Or I actually had a new customer come in here that I knew through the chamber and she came
• 29:02
  into my house and I had a picture of my dad.
• 29:03
  They're just like, how do you know Pat came?
• 29:05
  And then she thought, Oh, wait a minute.
• 29:08
  I never thought about that.
• 29:10
  That's hysterical.
• 29:11
  Yes.
• 29:12
  Well, Amanda and I often go and walk down to the bench that has his name.
• 29:17
  We need to get that redone because you can't really read it anymore.
• 29:20
  It seems to be polished up a little bit.
• 29:23
  Yes, exactly.
• 29:24
  So, well, this was a pleasure.
• 29:25
  I'm so excited that we thank you and acted and people recommended you.
• 29:30
  And you know what?
• 29:31
  Christmas is this like in a few days and our next episode is the weekend of Christmas.
• 29:37
  So we are every week.
• 29:38
  I thought there was an extra weekend there.
• 29:41
  I was trying to give you an extra week of a mom with three kids.
• 29:44
  Yeah, I need another week.
• 29:46
  So I really appreciate you doing that this episode this week before Christmas.
• 29:51
  And this will come out Saturday the 23rd will be when everybody can officially listen to
• 29:57
  it.
• 29:58
  So, and I will share in the show notes how everybody can find you miss Liz and your intention
• 30:04
  work, be intentional.
• 30:06
  My intent, my intent, our workshop is January 27th.
• 30:12
  Yeah, Saturday at 11 in the morning.
• 30:16
  I might have to come join you.
• 30:18
  Yeah, I hope so.
• 30:19
  Definitely promote it here on the podcast and I'll have all your contact information
• 30:23
  and don't forget if you're listening and you look here and want to try out a class that
• 30:27
  just go to new trail.
• 30:29
  What is it?
• 30:31
  New trial cycling.com slash free class.
• 30:34
  You got it.
• 30:35
  I'm going to show that.
• 30:36
  So thanks again.
• 30:37
  Thank you so much.
• 30:38
  Can't wait to hear what your word is.
• 30:40
  You have to pay.
• 30:41
  Sounds good.
• 30:42
  Thanks.
• 30:43
  All right.
• 30:44
  Thanks.
• 30:45
  Oh, and I forgot to say, if anybody wants to connect on why not today, we have the why
• 30:49
  not today podcast.
• 30:50
  If you just go to the podcast, you can get on our email list.
• 30:53
  I'm going to start having some newsletter with some fun content.
• 30:56
  If you do want to sign up for the one word event on January 4th, I'm thinking of some
• 31:02
  gifts I'm going to provide for everybody that signs up.
• 31:05
  So we're going to add some fun things to that.
• 31:07
  So don't forget, say why not today.
• 31:09
  She just never know.
• 31:11
  Thanks again, Liz.
• 31:12
  You're welcome.