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- 0:00Music.
- 0:40All right, y'all. If you follow me on social, then you have noticed that I have
- 0:46gone to Austin, Texas twice now this year for a marketing retreat.
- 0:53You have probably also noticed that I'm like heavily talking about how it's life changing.
- 0:59These retreats have radically changed my life in a way that I was not expecting,
- 1:05in a way that I've been like navigating all of 2025 and now I just decided to
- 1:12share a little bit about that experience for me thus far today.
- 1:18So this one's a little bit, this one's going to be a little less preachy,
- 1:22I guess, and just a little more like real life, like glimpse into like my world
- 1:28and like my personal struggles and just like things that I have going on, you know?
- 1:33So I will say, okay, so let's start by we all know that I have anxiety.
- 1:43I mean, I think I'm very transparent about that.
- 1:46I think I am clear about that. But we also all know that I work really,
- 1:51really hard to manage it, right?
- 1:53Like, it's not like I walk around loving the fact that I have anxiety.
- 1:57I legit, it's like the biggest thorn for me, you know what I mean?
- 2:02And so I am, you know, I would say I am so much better, Even before what all
- 2:08I'm about to talk about, like I'm so much better now than I was,
- 2:12you know, three years ago, five years ago, 10 years ago.
- 2:14And my husband would tell you that. I think my family would tell you that, right?
- 2:18But, you know, even still, it's like,
- 2:21it is who I am. Like, I hate to say that because we know anxiety is a sin and all that.
- 2:26But like, maybe not anxiety as much as like urgency.
- 2:31And I easily get overwhelmed. And I do like, at first, I used to feel really
- 2:40shameful about this and guilty about this.
- 2:42But now, you know, really, the Enneagram kind of showed me that like,
- 2:47we all have habits and tendencies, right
- 2:51but like we can take it to
- 2:53the positive extreme or to the negative extreme so while I can
- 2:56be like so urgent so overwhelmed so like snippy
- 2:59when I need things to like work out exactly how I want them to I also know that
- 3:04that same energy is what allows me to bring such passion here for you right
- 3:11and for my clients I also know that like that depth that I have of like caring You know,
- 3:18sometimes I'm freaking out because I want everything to go the exact way I want
- 3:21it because I care so much.
- 3:22But also, like, it helps me with, like, my empathy with my clients.
- 3:27Like, they truly feel like I'm in it with them, right?
- 3:30And it also helps my kids. I feel like my kids believe that I can see them, that I understand them.
- 3:37You know, now when they're teenagers, call me and see if I still believe that. But, you know, I do.
- 3:42So I see both sides of the coin, I guess, is what I'm saying.
- 3:45But even still, I'm constantly navigating this issue, which is why I'm beginning here.
- 3:54So I will say that by the end of 2024, I was at my breaking point.
- 4:06Y'all, the holidays. Okay, because I want everything perfect.
- 4:11Because I want the magic. like and
- 4:13I am very aware my kids are only little for so long and like it can only be
- 4:18magical for so many years and you know also like I want to keep our family traditions
- 4:23and like you know we were hosting family over here and I was y'all I love Christmas
- 4:29decorations so much and it's,
- 4:32ridiculous, the level that I go to over here. So it was just a lot, right?
- 4:36And so, oh, and, and this is the biggest and, I cannot stand to spend $1 more than I have to.
- 4:47Meaning when I am Christmas gift shopping, I am constantly comparing prices
- 4:54of the things that I plan to purchase.
- 4:56And so that was so time-consuming like
- 4:59my gosh I started in early November like
- 5:02working on my kids lists or whatever but like I
- 5:05would hold out on things till like mid-December and
- 5:08Jess is like will you please just check out you know what I mean like and so
- 5:14that kind of stuff it's just like little stuff right it's not like any traumatic
- 5:20things it was just I had spun myself out okay and not to mention was also preparing
- 5:25for January in the business,
- 5:27which is like, you know, one of the biggest months of the year,
- 5:30obviously, for us. And so there's a lot of work to be done.
- 5:33There's a lot of, you know, kids activities going on at the same time,
- 5:37like either my kids are out of school, or we've got 500 Christmas parties,
- 5:41or here, let's do this volunteer project, or let's, you know, dress them up for this.
- 5:46Like it was just constantly mom going up to the school in the few hours of the
- 5:50day that I had to work instead of mom being at home to work.
- 5:53Anyway, all that to say, lots of whining, but all that to say,
- 5:59I kind of hit it around mid-December. I was just like, I am spent.
- 6:05I am exhausted. I was so ugly to Jess some days because I just felt like a lot
- 6:10of Christmas does fall on the mom.
- 6:12You know, a lot of it does. And especially us, because like my family.
- 6:17We just make Christmas such a big ordeal.
- 6:20And Jess is kind of like, why can't we just go get some gift bars and hand them
- 6:23out and you know, whatever.
- 6:25Pick up a pie instead of make your mama's recipe from scratch.
- 6:28Like, why can't you do that? You know what I mean?
- 6:30And I'm like, because it wouldn't be Christmas, you know.
- 6:34So hit that break in point. And then I had some health issues.
- 6:38And I'm not going to get into that here just because I feel like it does deserve its own podcast.
- 6:42And honestly, I'm not really like ready to talk about it. Like I'm not as far
- 6:45out as I want to be to like really talk about it and be able to be,
- 6:52completely like on the other side of it because I still am navigating just like
- 6:56some anxiety and some symptoms and stuff still.
- 6:59But nothing terrible, right? Just like things. When you're approaching 40,
- 7:04like things happen, right?
- 7:06And so lots of doctor's visits, kind of some scares or whatever.
- 7:10So anyway, all this. Okay, all this was hitting me. Now, let's pause because
- 7:14we're talking about Austin, Texas, right?
- 7:17So prior to this, back in November, or maybe it was early, it was October.
- 7:21It was before I kind of had felt like, oh my gosh, I'm about to explode. So it had to be October.
- 7:26I got hit with a Facebook ad, y'all. I mean, I'm talking about this marketing
- 7:31works and it was for a marketing program just to help you like learn the ins and outs of marketing.
- 7:37And up until this point, I've kind of been doing it myself. I will contract
- 7:40out with people for certain things.
- 7:42But like marketing is the hardest thing for me to grasp because I hate it. Like I just hate it.
- 7:48I hate to feel like cringy and like, you know, let me perfectly craft this email
- 7:53or this post or whatever to make you, you know, and then let me put it in a
- 7:57way that like, you know, you want to convert and, you know, whatever.
- 8:01And so it's just not my cup of tea. And so, but, and so I do,
- 8:05oh, long-term plans, baby.
- 8:06I plan to hire somebody for that, you know, in the future.
- 8:11But I also know that for anything inside my business, if I want it to reflect
- 8:16me in the way that I need it to reflect me, I have to do it first.
- 8:22Like, I have to know the ins and outs of it first, right? Like, we are sweet, Stacey.
- 8:26Like, she is, if you're a client, you know, she is our everything,
- 8:30right? She helps so much in the back end. She's always in our community.
- 8:33She's always in the box. Like, she is, oh my gosh, I can't do it without her, right?
- 8:40But I had to establish the things I needed her to do and the tone that I needed
- 8:47her to know that we have around here.
- 8:49You know, like all that I had to establish at first. And so that means I have to know it.
- 8:53I have to know what I want her to say and what I want to say and how I want
- 8:57our back end to run and how I want our inbox to be done.
- 9:00And so it's the same with marketing, right? I cannot trust some cringy person
- 9:05out here to run my marketing when I'm not going to.
- 9:08Like don't fully comprehend. So anyway, I jumped in on this program that promised
- 9:14to like really teach marketing inside and out and help you kind of make it your own.
- 9:19So huge investment, jumped in and did it.
- 9:22I even ran it by Jess because like, y'all, I will spend money on something.
- 9:27It's crazy, right? Like I nickel and dime Christmas presents,
- 9:30but I will spend money on any kind of business promises so fast.
- 9:35And I think I've talked about that here.
- 9:36And Jess was in on it. So I was in this marketing program.
- 9:40It's called Embodied Marketing and noticed some emails coming through about a retreat in January.
- 9:48Marketing retreat. It was more like it. It was always it was always defined as marketing retreat.
- 9:53But sometimes like the bullet points, like the information about it was kind
- 9:57of like growth to like personal growth and business growth and all the things.
- 10:01And so here's a true story.
- 10:03In all my years of business, this is one of the things that Like I've learned
- 10:07like, oh my gosh, Constance, what in all my years of business,
- 10:10I've never really done anything like that.
- 10:12Like I've never really gone to any kind of business or future.
- 10:15I've joined like webinars or Zoom calls or like, you know, I was invited to
- 10:19a dairy like influencer kind of thing a couple of years back,
- 10:23like that kind of stuff I have done.
- 10:25But as far as saying, like, I'm going to carve out three days or whatever and
- 10:30go and work on my business without the noise, without, you know, just, you know,
- 10:35to be a creator, which is to be an entrepreneur in my space,
- 10:39to be a creator, you have got to cut the noise.
- 10:42And so I had not been doing that the way I needed to do it.
- 10:45So it just kept coming through. And I kept thinking, I should do that.
- 10:50But then I was like, no, I shouldn't.
- 10:52Like, no, I shouldn't. You know what I mean? Like, I had every excuse in the
- 10:55world, down to, you know, financial down to time, because my kids were going
- 10:59to be back in school when it started.
- 11:02And, you know, Jess usually ramps up in January as far as his travel for work.
- 11:05Like, I just had it all, all the excuses.
- 11:08But I could not shake it, y'all. And it was as if I felt the Lord,
- 11:13like, saying, you have got to go. Like, you've got to do this. Okay.
- 11:18And so I did it. I signed up just like on a whim. I signed up.
- 11:22And that was earlier. That was like in November-ish, maybe.
- 11:25And so kind of let it go by the wayside, right? and so much so that I waited
- 11:30too long to even get my plane ticket.
- 11:32I paid more for a plane ticket than I probably should have.
- 11:35Hotel, same thing. Like I just was, I was putting it off till the last minute
- 11:38and kind of still trying to talk myself out of it.
- 11:41I'm like, okay, well, so if the ticket went to waste, that's better than,
- 11:44you know, a plane and hotel fee as well going to waste, like all the things.
- 11:50And this is the this is the kicker thing, right?
- 11:54I emailed and asked for an agenda because I had not seen an agenda.
- 12:00You know, I'm a dietitian and everything we do as a dietitian,
- 12:03we get credits and we have an agenda.
- 12:06I know that 8 a.m. breakfast is going to be served and at 5 p.m.
- 12:09Things are going to conclude. And baby, that is how it happens.
- 12:11Like I have never in all my years attended something that had no agenda.
- 12:17So I'm like, I must have just missed the agenda. So I email and
- 12:20I asked for it and Morgan her one of her well
- 12:23it's like one of our lead lead girls emails me back and says I
- 12:26know we don't have an agenda but I promise it's going to be worth it and I'm
- 12:30like what I'm about to get on an airplane and fly and stay in a hotel and do
- 12:36all this stuff and I don't even know what we're going to be doing here you know
- 12:39and so again I had every reason to talk myself out of it.
- 12:44But I went anyway. After I kind of had that break in mid-December,
- 12:50I said to myself, okay, I'm going to go over here to Austin.
- 12:54I'm going to show up the first day. And if it is out of my comfort zone or if
- 12:59it is something I do not feel like I'm going to get a benefit from or whatever,
- 13:03then I will just stay in my hotel room the next few days.
- 13:07Like I won't go back. Like I don't have to, you know, because I did again,
- 13:10it was like this deep knowing, like this deep, like you've got to go.
- 13:15Okay. And so at the same time, you know, we're starting the new year and the
- 13:20word abide has been on my heart for months at that point.
- 13:23Like I just knew abide was my word for 2025.
- 13:27Y'all at this point, abide may have to be my word for the rest of my life. Right.
- 13:30But, and so I'm just like, okay, like it felt such an alignment,
- 13:34which is what I'm going to talk about here in a minute. So I went, okay.
- 13:39It was incredible. Like I cannot, I cannot, I cannot, it's okay.
- 13:45So they, she rented an Airbnb. Again, this was another, I'm like an Airbnb.
- 13:50I looked up the address to where it was going to be. And I told my husband, I'm like.
- 13:55House, you know, like, I mean, it was so outside of my comfort zone.
- 13:59I am so used to conference centers, you know, but even still,
- 14:01I haven't even done that in years.
- 14:03And so, so it was an Airbnb, but I loved it because there were only about 30
- 14:09of us and it was an intimate space.
- 14:13And so it just did not feel like a conference, you know, and now at first that
- 14:18was not, I was not comfortable with that.
- 14:20But as the, as the week went on, as the days went on, I realized the beauty
- 14:24in that. But also, this chick made us dance every day.
- 14:28Like every morning when we got there, we would dance before we got started.
- 14:32At lunch, we would dance. Like before we left, we would dance.
- 14:35Like we were always dancing. It was wild.
- 14:39It was just totally outside of my comfort zone. And so I felt like,
- 14:43okay, I'm here. I may as well like just keep going.
- 14:46Okay. And so I will say the material, like the things that we covered were really great.
- 14:52Like it was great content. It was, it was helpful.
- 14:56I think if anything, it really helped me like, like I was talking about as a
- 15:00creator, like get away from the noise and get clear on some things,
- 15:03like really remind myself, like, who am I talking to?
- 15:07What does my ideal client look like? What does she feel like?
- 15:10Like, you know, it was really helpful to make me like, remember who y'all are
- 15:16and remember how you feel and like meet you there, you know,
- 15:20whereas sometimes you can get so caught up in the data. And I think anybody
- 15:23in any profession can know this, right?
- 15:24Like if you're a nurse, you got into nursing because you wanted to help people, right?
- 15:29But my word have mercy, when the charts stack up and admin is up your butt and,
- 15:34you know, people are whining and complaining all the time, sometimes you forget
- 15:38about the people you're wanting to help or you don't feel it as deeply, right?
- 15:43And so I think across the board, any of us, if we got away from the noise and
- 15:47was able to focus on the things, the reason we got into what we got into, it would be refreshing.
- 15:52And so that is what happened there for me. But it was day two of this conference
- 15:58or of this retreat that absolutely changed my life.
- 16:01Okay. And so remembering I've had the health issues.
- 16:04I am, my emotions are on E. Like I cannot, y'all, I felt so frail and just so exhausted.
- 16:12I cannot tell you like what kind of mental state I was in at that point in my
- 16:16life in general and kind of just like.
- 16:20Questioning like everything like I'm like should I like is it the business that's
- 16:23making me this way is it like what should I should I shut things down should
- 16:27I change things like it was it was insane so we go to lunch and we when we're
- 16:34when we before we left she says if you have a pillow.
- 16:40If you have a pillow at your hotel room bring it back with you and I'm like what the,
- 16:44So we go to lunch. They tell us to get all of our stuff out from our chairs
- 16:48because they're going to move the chairs out of the way.
- 16:49We go to lunch, come back, and the floor is cleared.
- 16:55And there are pillows and blankets laid all over the concrete floor.
- 17:00And I'm like, what is actually happening? So then this guy walks in and he,
- 17:07his name is Samson, and he introduces himself and he kind of starts talking
- 17:12about what we're going to do.
- 17:13Again, there's no agenda. I have had no preparation for this.
- 17:16I have no idea what he's talking about.
- 17:18I have never heard of any of this that he is speaking about that we're about to partake in.
- 17:26And I looked to the girl. I had met a sweet hormone nurse.
- 17:30And I looked to her. She was sitting next to me. And I said,
- 17:33this is why I'm here. I know.
- 17:35If I felt a flood, I could cry sitting here talking about it.
- 17:39I felt a flood of absolute. I don't know. You know when it's the Lord, right?
- 17:44Like it's relief and it's like knowing and it's like chills.
- 17:48And I'm like, this is why I'm supposed to be here. Again, we haven't even started
- 17:51yet, right? He's just talking, okay, about what's about to happen.
- 17:55So we did a breathwork session.
- 18:00And I don't know if any of you know about that. I had never heard of it.
- 18:07And even when I Googled it afterwards, like, you know, because I'm like,
- 18:10oh, I've got to learn more about all this, right?
- 18:12I still haven't found anyone that does it quite the way Samson does.
- 18:17But when I tell you it was the most powerful, I don't even know how long we
- 18:22were there, but it was like an hour at least.
- 18:24It was the most powerful 60 minutes of my life.
- 18:27Like the most powerful, like I have never felt so in touch with my body,
- 18:35with my senses, with my emotions, with my nervous system.
- 18:40Right and so the nervous system is
- 18:42such a buzzword right now right and but
- 18:47it's so funny because I've noticed the more the more in tune with this I am
- 18:50the more in tune with like regulating your nervous system that I'm becoming
- 18:53it still feels like people are trying to control you know they're like I'm regulating
- 18:59my nervous system so I'm waking up and standing in the sun and I'm taking deep breaths.
- 19:04And, you know, like, like, they've still got a regimen with their nervous system
- 19:09regulation. And I'm not going to say I'm not one of those people. Right.
- 19:13But this for me, like, I had not heard about you maybe listen to me just like,
- 19:19I'm like, what y'all talking about? I mean, regulating your nervous system.
- 19:21I've just thought about, okay, take a deep breath. You good.
- 19:24You know, like that kind of thing.
- 19:25But the depths of this, I had not heard. I had not, I knew nothing about this. Okay.
- 19:31So I had the wildest experience, like physically, my body was releasing anxiety,
- 19:38like obviously emotionally, I was releasing anxiety. I was a blubbering mess by the end.
- 19:44And then the most powerful thing about it, though, was when I sat up when we
- 19:49were done, I felt this level of relief that I have never felt before in my life.
- 19:55And y'all, mind you, I have done a lot of therapy in my life.
- 19:58I have done a lot of work on my anxiety, on, you know, trying to just become
- 20:06a more calm human. You know what I mean?
- 20:09I have never felt this level of zen in my life. And I mean, and it was,
- 20:15and I'm not going to lie, it was addicting.
- 20:17Like I'm like, I want to feel this all the time.
- 20:21Obviously we can't, but it was so lovely to have.
- 20:25It was so lovely to have felt it because then that opened my eyes to knowing,
- 20:32oh, wait, I can feel this again.
- 20:34You know, like I can come back to this state. That's what they say a lot in
- 20:38like meditation and regulating your nervous system.
- 20:40You you can come back to this state
- 20:43okay so then I go okay they're like journal all your things and so I did and
- 20:50I go back to my room and I am just again so zen the whole next day same thing
- 20:56I was just so chill but when I went back to my room that night y'all I was like
- 21:01what just happened Like,
- 21:03was this like of the devil?
- 21:06Like, because I had never, like I had never, isn't that funny though?
- 21:11Isn't that funny to think about how I knew when he walked in that door that
- 21:16the Lord, this is why the Lord basically dragged me kicking and screaming to
- 21:21Austin, Texas, right? Like I knew that.
- 21:22Like when Samson walked in, I'm like, oh, this is it. This is why,
- 21:26you know? And so that is only the Lord, right?
- 21:30And everything else was Satan because he knew, he knew what was going to happen
- 21:35for me if I just got to Austin, Texas. Okay.
- 21:38And, but, but even still, right? Like I go, I'm like, I know this is why I have
- 21:42this amazing experience. Then I get back to my room and what happens?
- 21:45The, the, the devil tries to creep in again and it's like, oh,
- 21:49this is, you know, not of, not of God, not of, you know, whatever.
- 21:52So I Google it. I look it all up. I mean, I spent forever researching and looking
- 21:56and, and like, I'm like, okay, sure. You know, breathwork is actually like ancient practice.
- 22:01And there are obviously, just like with meditation and everything else, right?
- 22:05Like it can be taken out of a Christian context or it can be put into a Christian context.
- 22:11And so you do have to be careful there, right? Like we are not worshiping like Mother Earth, right?
- 22:15Like when we meditate, we are meditating on the word.
- 22:19We are meditating on the Lord. Like, you know, so it can be blurred. Right.
- 22:24But anything in life can be blurred, right? Like eating food, is that of the Lord?
- 22:30Yeah, to sustain us, but is glutton of the Lord? No, ma'am.
- 22:34You know, so anything can be taken out of context. And so it's just about armoring
- 22:37yourself in whatever you do. So anyway, I did all the research.
- 22:41I felt like, okay, I'm good.
- 22:42And then I go back the next day. It was a wonderful day. Again,
- 22:46like the activities were wonderful.
- 22:49I've actually done a few with my PFM Plus clients, like really to just get clear
- 22:53on who you are and what you want and how you want to see it come to life.
- 22:58And, you know, things as small as like, what does your perfect day look like?
- 23:02You know, like truly, have you ever thought about that? Or are you letting your day run you?
- 23:06Like, obviously, we have to go to work and we have to do specific things,
- 23:09right? We can't leave our kids at school and go to the beach.
- 23:11Like that can't be our perfect day every day, right?
- 23:14But in the day-to-day mundane, like what does that truly look like?
- 23:18From the littlest things to the biggest things. And then how can you create
- 23:23a space so that those things are more likely to happen and create not just a
- 23:27space, create a mindset of that?
- 23:29You know, so things like that, it was wonderful. But again, this breath work was what really got me.
- 23:34OK, because it just opened my eyes to a new level of like calm.
- 23:42So I come home. I tell Jess about it. And he thinks, I'm sure,
- 23:48like, what kind of drugs did they give her in Austin's Nexus?
- 23:53You know, we actually have a lady. So then it's, again, the Lord, I'm telling y'all.
- 23:59So about a week after that, I see my local bar studio where I used to teach bar.
- 24:05She was hosting a lady who was doing breathwork classes at the studio.
- 24:10And I'm like, oh, my gosh, Erin, I had no idea that, you know,
- 24:14we had this here. I thought it was just a big city thing.
- 24:17And so I've been to a few of those. Justin's been to a few of those.
- 24:20So like now he understands a little bit more.
- 24:21I don't think he's had like the massive experience I have. But I'm telling you,
- 24:25Samson, y'all, he's just, if I could just put him in my pocket.
- 24:29So then it had me like, okay, what do I do now?
- 24:32Because like I want to know more
- 24:34about this. I want to experience more of this, right? Like I want to...
- 24:39Have more of what had because
- 24:42I that is the way to a regulated nervous system
- 24:45for me at this point in my life and I
- 24:48want to make that a practice right so we literally
- 24:51like I have since then since January we I started a few things actually before
- 24:57that but I have literally like been changing my way of life slowly and I'm definitely
- 25:04not perfect at it right but like learning about things like somatic work, like your body.
- 25:11Okay. Because that's what this was. Like breath work is really about getting
- 25:14in touch with your body and recognizing like, while you're listening to this,
- 25:19like are your shoulders in your ears right now?
- 25:21Can you relax them? And then it's like, can you relax them even more?
- 25:26Like there are things we just don't even realize, like are your toes curled.
- 25:30Like we don't even realize that our body is holding on to things.
- 25:36And if we just were in tune with it and we put some breath to it,
- 25:42you know, how much better our day-to-day would feel and how much more regulated we would be.
- 25:50And I will never forget in grad school, I had to take an elective class and
- 25:54I took stress management because I thought this will be perfect.
- 25:56And we did a little bit of this, right?
- 25:59Like just this, it was a lot of mindfulness stuff, but also like how your body
- 26:05affects how you feel and how you think.
- 26:09And y'all, how your health and wellness is, how your immune system can work.
- 26:17Okay. And this was the breaking point for me. I'm like, I, if you remember back
- 26:22in 2024, I got strep five times.
- 26:27And I mean, it would take me a solid four weeks to get over it.
- 26:30Like I was sick all of 2024.
- 26:32In 2023, I picked up a stomach bug so often. And like, what's crazy about it
- 26:36is you could say, oh, her kids brought that home. But my kids never got it.
- 26:39My kids never had strep. My kids maybe, I mean, knock on some wood,
- 26:43but they maybe had a stomach bug like once.
- 26:46You know, like it was only me getting it. And it's just like,
- 26:50I'm picking it up from the grocery store buggies or like from somebody I walk by.
- 26:55And so what kind of weak immune system is that, you know, because I'm not around a lot of people all day.
- 27:01So if you follow me on stories, you saw back in back around the holidays,
- 27:05I started taking a ton of vitamins, which I do think helped.
- 27:09But all that to say, like, I think now looking back, obviously,
- 27:13isn't hindsight so amazing?
- 27:15I think that it was my immune system was just so worn down and broken because
- 27:20of the stress I was putting on my body because of this, like,
- 27:26inability to let my brain slow down and to just I was constantly in fight or flight mode.
- 27:32You know, we talk about fight or flight as if it's like in traumatic situations,
- 27:37which that is what it should be. but because the world is so fast paced,
- 27:42everything is so instant, everything is so, oh, we need it now.
- 27:46And, or because we've also had traumatic experiences that we never truly healed
- 27:52from, we just distracted ourselves out of it.
- 27:55You know, we're in fight or flight all the time.
- 27:58It may not feel as massive as if, you know,
- 28:01you were getting mugged or whatever, but our, our, Our bodies are still responding
- 28:06in that way because just like with our brains we talk about here,
- 28:10like our bodies think it's protecting you by responding in the way it knows
- 28:16how to respond, you know?
- 28:18And so there has just been a lot of unraveling of this for me personally in my life.
- 28:24And, y'all, I do not have a traumatic life like history. Yes,
- 28:28I've had some horrible things in the past that, you know, were really sad or like our miscarriage.
- 28:34Well twice and then you know
- 28:36I lost my aunt when I was in the fourth grade and you
- 28:39know Jess and I had some relationship issues when we were early college
- 28:42you know we lost some friends you know early college like stuff like that but
- 28:46again it wasn't anything just make you be like this is just like normal life
- 28:52happenings you know for me and I don't know I guess I just have not dealt Like
- 28:58I just have not dealt with whatever,
- 29:01or maybe it's just...
- 29:04Who I am, like how I am, how my body has always been trained to respond.
- 29:08So anyway, came home, like got focused on some of it all and got my therapist
- 29:13actually that I used to see, she, I messaged her. I'm like, hey,
- 29:18do you do any work in somatics?
- 29:19And she was like, yes. So she started, we started doing some work there.
- 29:24So anyway, since like all the way through the, from January through till the summer.
- 29:30This has been my mission, like my personal mission. You've seen me,
- 29:34I'm sure, talking about meditating and just I'm trying to regulate my nervous
- 29:38system in all sorts of ways
- 29:42and just like seeing what sticks and what I feel like I enjoy the most.
- 29:46And, you know, people have asked me, what do you do every day?
- 29:49Like, I want to know what you do every day. And I'm like, well,
- 29:51literally, I tried to have a routine.
- 29:53Like I tried to have a, okay, I'm going to wake up. I'm going to do this.
- 29:57I'm going to do that. But then I realized like that is more control.
- 30:02Like I'm still trying to control the day.
- 30:04You know what I mean? I'm still trying to control my to-do list.
- 30:07And so I do wake up early, obviously, because I can't, I mean,
- 30:11I'm not going to get to do anything if I don't wake up before my kids.
- 30:14And I wake up early and it's just kind of whatever. Sometimes I go on a walk
- 30:18without my earbuds in, you know, without my phone, without any distraction.
- 30:22Sometimes I just sit there and I listen to praise music. Sometimes I have a
- 30:26couple apps that I like to use for meditation or breath work.
- 30:29And sometimes I'll do that.
- 30:30I do my devotion, you know, but sometimes I won't. Sometimes I'm like,
- 30:34I do not like, I feel like the Lord just wants me to sit today instead of like,
- 30:38try to be a good little girl and write in my devotion book, you know?
- 30:43So it's been, it's been a long run and it still is y'all. That's why I haven't talked about this.
- 30:47It's August and I haven't talked about it because it's like,
- 30:49this is hard to integrate into a high-paced, like, you know,
- 30:55quick life, which I do love. I love to be on the go. I love to be...
- 31:02You know, excited and I love to have a task at hand, you know,
- 31:07and so it's been really, I've been really trying to figure out,
- 31:09okay, how does this integrate for me?
- 31:12So then if you saw recently, I went back in July, I went back to Austin to the
- 31:18same retreat and this time I was ready, baby. I'm like, let's go.
- 31:21I tried to get some, some work friends to go with me and they I knew.
- 31:27Okay. And so I struggled this time, right?
- 31:31Samson came back and that was, that piece was wonderful. Right.
- 31:36But this time I feel like I went in, last time I went in completely broken and
- 31:40I was like, give me whatever you got, like why I'm here for it all.
- 31:43Right. And you know, that feeling like when you're just at your bottom and you're
- 31:46like, just tell me anything, you know, to give me excitement or to give me hope.
- 31:52Right. And so that's kind of where I was. and then this
- 31:55time it was like I was
- 31:59expecting specifics like I
- 32:02was expecting more peace more light
- 32:05take care of yourself kind of thing and again I don't remember like we did a
- 32:10lot of stuff in January that was like business growth stuff but that I don't
- 32:15remember any of it I only remember like the the wellness take care of yourself
- 32:19stuff she integrates but into the into to the retreats.
- 32:23And so this time, I felt like it was all this like, future self stuff.
- 32:30Like, what do you where do you want to see yourself in the next three to five
- 32:33years? Where do you want to, you know, where do you want to go? Who do you want to be?
- 32:37And like, y'all, I have just been in this bubble since January,
- 32:42where I'm just like, I just want to like, keep hanging out with my clients.
- 32:46And like you know keep just doing what we've been doing like I have had no growth
- 32:52mission no like nothing truly nothing like.
- 32:58Nothing, I don't think like innovative or new for, you know, this year.
- 33:03We've just been doing what we've always done, which is great, by the way.
- 33:07Like, don't let that sound like, wah, you know, like that is like,
- 33:12it's a well-oiled machine at this point.
- 33:15We have trial and error this business for so long that like what we're doing
- 33:19now can stand to just be what we're doing. You know what I'm saying?
- 33:24And, but other than like seeing like some heavy growth in RPFN plus clientele,
- 33:30you know, which that's just totally God.
- 33:32Like, I'm not out here like driving people to do it more than I have been before.
- 33:38You know, I just think that, you know, it's a program that's benefiting people.
- 33:43And so they're going to come, you know.
- 33:45And so anyway, we've just been kind of steady, if that makes sense.
- 33:48We've been maintaining.
- 33:50And I've been happy with that. Like, I've just been like, okay,
- 33:53I love that this is how things are going.
- 33:56And, you know, we're good with it.
- 33:59And so I felt conflicted, like, because the whole room,
- 34:06right, they were, they were seeking growth, they were looking to the future,
- 34:10they were writing out where they want to be and what they want to have done
- 34:14in three to five years or one year or whatever.
- 34:16And I'm just like, literally, y'all like my one-year plan was like
- 34:19wake up with peace every day
- 34:22have time to talk to pfm
- 34:26plus clients in depth because sometimes my days get ahead of me and i'm like
- 34:29i i want to i i would desperately like want to just be present for my people
- 34:34as much as i can um pick up my kids from school without any distraction you
- 34:39know like it wasn't like grow my membership by however many You know.
- 34:44Hire on a team member, another team member. Like it wasn't any of that.
- 34:49And so I was noticing that I was like different in the room, you know.
- 34:55And then I started to feel like that there was something wrong.
- 35:00Like, you know, what is this? You know, and I was challenged.
- 35:03I was challenged in the room. Like she asked me, like, what are you afraid of?
- 35:08Like, why don't you want to grow? Like what, because you have,
- 35:12like, you are a hustler, Constance.
- 35:14Like you have been growing since you started this business, you know,
- 35:18eight, ten years ago or whatever. So like, what is it?
- 35:22And so then that made me like, I was like, you know, like, what did she just say to me?
- 35:27You know, like, I did not like to hear that. I'm not scared.
- 35:30You know, that's kind of how I felt.
- 35:31And so then it forced me to like, really look at myself like,
- 35:35like, okay, what is it? And so I do, I feel like reflecting back and I feel
- 35:42like this really ties beautifully into weight loss.
- 35:45And I do feel like it's what a lot of people, whether they realize it or not,
- 35:50struggle with is like looking back to grow the business, the way that I grew
- 35:55it, how I grew it, like y'all, I was.
- 35:58At first, it was like an easy growth because I really wasn't taking it seriously, if that makes sense.
- 36:03Like, I was just like, oh, when I decide to do a challenge, I'll put it up on
- 36:07Facebook and we'll just see who, you know, who comes. Like, and that was it.
- 36:11Like, I was just doing it myself whenever I wanted to.
- 36:13I was responsible for no one. The challenges would start. They would end.
- 36:18You know, it was, there was no, like, ongoing anything. There was nothing to take care of.
- 36:23Like, it was a transaction. it was a
- 36:25lot of me showing up for these people and
- 36:28loving it and then it ended until
- 36:31I was ready to repeat it you know and so that would just depend on our family
- 36:36vacations or on Sarah Mason was in like preschool at that time and so and just
- 36:40all depended right but then as it turned into an actual business right as you
- 36:45know like the responsibilities get greater like you can't just say,
- 36:50oh, I don't feel like running a challenge this week when you have 400 members relying on you.
- 36:55You know what I mean? And so from that point, when it really got,
- 37:00when I got serious about it, when it turned into a business, I was a hustler baby.
- 37:07I mean, I, y'all, I, anybody who knew me back then knows it.
- 37:11Like I eat, breathe, slept.
- 37:14I mean, everything was about perfect fit. But I was, I will never forget, we had one challenge.
- 37:19This was before we turned it into a membership. So people were literally all signing up at one time.
- 37:23I had one challenge where we had almost 700 sign-ups and Glory was a baby and I got my status.
- 37:33And I was, obviously, because I was so stressed out. I was by myself.
- 37:36I had no Stacey. I had Candice. My sister Candice helped me some. But like that was it.
- 37:40You know, I was the only one that could do IARs or personalized nutrition numbers.
- 37:44I was the only one that did any of the like nutrition related work.
- 37:48Candice really helped me in the back end stuff.
- 37:50But so I was a lunatic because like turnaround time was a week.
- 37:54And so I remember sitting up in the bed with chills and a fever,
- 37:59just cranking out nutrition numbers.
- 38:03You know, while, and so because I had no choice. And so that was the,
- 38:07that was the level of hustle that I had all the way up until probably last year,
- 38:16like probably last year.
- 38:17So I will say we revamped the program at the end of 2023.
- 38:21And that, of course, I was a full-on hustle machine during that.
- 38:25And then during 2024, I'm like, okay, I got to make sure this thing is,
- 38:30is how I want it. So it was constant, just focus on the work and changing things.
- 38:36And Lord, let's pray the app doesn't shut down if you were around back then.
- 38:41Y'all know that app was giving me bits at the beginning of all this.
- 38:45And so it was like when I finally got room to breathe and exhale, and I did. I breathed.
- 38:53I exhaled. I started a garden.
- 38:55Like, I allowed myself to say, okay, like, it's fine. It's great.
- 38:59You know, everybody, I'm great. Everything's great.
- 39:03Then I'm like, oh, wait, I don't want to do that anymore.
- 39:08Like, I don't want to hustle like that anymore. Like, I don't want to give myself.
- 39:12Freaking strep five times or mastitis or stomach bugs or be going to bed,
- 39:19seeing my husband for just a few hours tonight.
- 39:21And all I can think about is the things I didn't get done for my business.
- 39:25You know, like it was a realization after the season had worn off,
- 39:31like after I had ended and allowed myself to take an exhale,
- 39:34I'm looking back on it. I'm like, well, I never want to do that again.
- 39:38You know, of course, I want to have the business and do all the things with
- 39:41inside the business, but it was the way I did it, right?
- 39:43The hustle, the imbalance of it all.
- 39:49And so I see this with weight loss because you're like, oh, yeah,
- 39:54I did, you know, faster weight or trained for a marathon or I did this and I
- 39:59lost the weight. I look great.
- 40:01I felt the best I've ever felt. But you're missing weight.
- 40:05The part where you hustled and you felt deprived and you felt exhausted and
- 40:10you felt like you were grinding yourself to the bone because you were constantly
- 40:16missing out on meals. You were constantly up late meal prepping.
- 40:19You were constantly trying to like figure things out amongst all the other chaos
- 40:24you already had going on. Like it was, it was a job.
- 40:27And so a lot of people, once they finish that race, once they hit the goal weight,
- 40:34or, you know, they feel like they're done, they'll completely go back the other
- 40:38way and say, like, okay, I'm just going to live my life now.
- 40:42And then when you think about, okay, I've regained all that weight,
- 40:45I need to do something, you're like, but I can't.
- 40:48I never want to do that again, right? Like, I never want to lose weight the way I did it ever again.
- 40:54And so that is where I have been, right? Like, since January,
- 40:58I'm like, I never like if it means to shut the business down,
- 41:02like I will do it before I will ever try to run and maintain and grow a business the way I did.
- 41:12Does that get like and I hope I'm sure that makes sense. But like, it was all all me.
- 41:16It was all how I did it right and how pushed myself and how like,
- 41:20traumatized myself, I guess, you know, to reach a goal.
- 41:26And like, there's y'all we love goals, right? Goal setting is amazing.
- 41:29But I think it was where I was, and how I was trying to reach the goal,
- 41:37right? That was the problem.
- 41:39And the beautiful part about it is, is that our program is so against that, right?
- 41:43Like, we are not like, you know, y'all, I mean, y'all know, like, if,
- 41:46and I'm on the next episode, we're talking about my memo, and like,
- 41:50that'll be a whole thing where It's like when you're in a season where you can't,
- 41:55like the goal is unattainable because life,
- 41:57because you are exhausted, because you really don't care about it as much right
- 42:01now, like whatever it is, we're not going to encourage you to do it anyway,
- 42:04to buckle down and to kill yourself trying, right?
- 42:09And so, but I think that is where I lived as a business owner up until January, 2025.
- 42:16So it's just taken me some time to figure out, okay.
- 42:22Number one, do I trust myself to kind of step with both feet back in the business
- 42:27and do what I love, which is to be creative and just like excited about creativity
- 42:31and new things and all this stuff.
- 42:34Do I trust myself enough? And how does this look for me?
- 42:38You know, and so with her challenging me that about the fear of it, right?
- 42:43Like that's what made me say, oh, maybe I don't just want peace, love, and harmony.
- 42:47You know, of course I do. Of course I want to be at peace. But like,
- 42:50can I reach goals and also maintain my peace?
- 42:55And I think for most of us, the answer is no with the way we've been doing it.
- 42:59Right? I know it is for me. I have not, up until this point,
- 43:03really been able to strive for something I really want while also maintaining my peace.
- 43:11Okay? And so what that comes down to is how we are handling our days,
- 43:16the day as a whole, right?
- 43:17It's not just like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym and listen to worship music instead of trap music.
- 43:22Like, no, you're still going to the gym. What are you thinking about at the gym?
- 43:25Like, do you need to go to the gym or do you need to rest today?
- 43:28Like it's a lot of like, how did you start your morning?
- 43:32Like, have you even focused on your breathing today?
- 43:36Or do you feel like you're spinning out of control today? Like it's a lot of
- 43:40backstep kind of things versus the actual act of going to the gym or whatever
- 43:45it may be, right, that you're trying to strive for.
- 43:48And so with all this, you know, one big conclusion that I left Austin with in July.
- 43:58Is if you are seeking something that you are not fully in alignment with right now,
- 44:07then it is going to be twice as hard for it to come or it may never come, right?
- 44:13And so I'm not sitting here, like I'm sitting here on this mic right now telling
- 44:17you I'm not, there are some things down the line, like I have some super fun
- 44:21stuff I have coming down the line for perfect fit. But as far as like growth
- 44:26mindset stuff, I'm not there yet.
- 44:28Like I'm just not because I'm not aligned with it yet.
- 44:31Right. Like I'm not in this space. I'm not able to say like,
- 44:35I really want to see X, Y, Z for myself in the next three or five years or X,
- 44:39Y, Z for our programs in the next three. Like I'm not, I have, it is not here.
- 44:44And I have no shame about that right now. Like I think I am going to ease back into this.
- 44:50Okay, let's see what it looks like to build a few new things and try a few new things and, you know,
- 44:56and see how we can handle it after we have done this life-changing overhaul
- 45:01of somatic work and really just getting still and getting quiet and focusing
- 45:06more on my nervous system throughout the day.
- 45:10And, like, that's okay, right? And so I think that is where a lot of us,
- 45:15especially with weight loss, bump into, like, I need to lose weight,
- 45:17right? but I'm not in alignment with literally anything that it would require of me to lose weight.
- 45:24So you're not going to lose weight. You know what I mean? And I think that's fine.
- 45:28Like, it's okay to accept that, but it is not okay to not wonder why.
- 45:33You know, like, what is holding me back?
- 45:36What is stopping me from the want to, you know, to actually do the work that
- 45:42is required of reaching the goal?
- 45:45You know, and then whatever that answer is, it's like, okay,
- 45:48well, let's examine that a little bit further, right? And so for me,
- 45:51that's what this was, right?
- 45:52Like, when she challenged me, like, what are you afraid of?
- 45:56At first, I was like, nothing. You know, I just don't want to worry about growing
- 46:00a business right now. But then it's like, oh, wait, no.
- 46:02What I'm afraid of is that I will be the person that I was when I grew the business in the past.
- 46:11And so it's just, it's a place, you know, it's a place to sit.
- 46:14It's a place, and it's a place to, like, you don't, again, I don't have to say,
- 46:18okay, well, I'm going to conquer this fear, and I'm going to,
- 46:20you know, shoot for all these big goals and dreams just to prove to myself that I can?
- 46:25No, because that's how I'll end up exactly back where I was with a dysregulated
- 46:28nervous system. And y'all might see perfect fit go out of business, you know?
- 46:33So I know that's not it, but like it's little baby steps, right?
- 46:37It's like, okay, for you, it's like, okay, you don't want to go on a hardcore
- 46:40diet and, you know, walk and run every day and like be packing your lunches
- 46:45for work or meal prepping or whatever. Okay. But can we just like.
- 46:49See what it's like to carry around a water bottle every day and drink a little bit of water?
- 46:54Like, can we just see what it's like to maybe take five minutes at the beginning
- 46:58of each work day and like take some breaths and be calm?
- 47:02You know, that is not the same thing, obviously, as running an hour a day or,
- 47:06you know, cooking scratch healthy meals every night.
- 47:09Like that is very different, but that's how you're dipping your toe in.
- 47:12And so it's the same for me with business right now. I'm going to be dipping
- 47:15my toe in on some things to just say, okay, can we do this?
- 47:18Because I know it will help me down the long run.
- 47:21But if anything, it's kind of given me that test maybe that I need to prove
- 47:26to myself, hey, I can do this.
- 47:29And I can do it in a way differently than I did in the past.
- 47:33I can do it without mastitis and strep and tons of other crazy health issues going on.
- 47:40Right? I can do this. Right?
- 47:43And so I think, you know, I know this one was just, you know,
- 47:46just y'all me rambling. This one's a little different.
- 47:49Congratulations if you made it this far into the podcast.
- 47:54But I do, I know that some of y'all just like to hear from me about things.
- 47:58And so here it is, you know, and so I will say one of the biggest things outside
- 48:02of all that, that I've just, you know, word vomited on you is that,
- 48:06I have learned when we do the same things day to day and like aren't forced outside of our box,
- 48:13we can't wonder why we don't see the change we
- 48:15desire right like and so like I y'all
- 48:19if I had not gone to Austin in January none of this like who I am I for real
- 48:23for real for real I'm not gonna lie like in in November December of 2024 I was
- 48:29talking to Jess about about just possibly shutting down the business because
- 48:33I just I could not hold it you know and,
- 48:37So who knows if this had not come about in January, I'm so on fire for this business.
- 48:41I mean, I'm not on fire again for the marketing and the growth and all that,
- 48:44but I'm so on fire for like my
- 48:46people and like what they're doing and like pouring into them right now.
- 48:51But like, if I had not stepped out of my comfort zone and gone to Austin,
- 48:56where would that put us right now in August of 2025?
- 48:59I do not know. I do not know.
- 49:02You know and so like I think that
- 49:05is the one of the things I will continue doing this kind of
- 49:08thing for the rest of my business I think it
- 49:11is required and so I think it's the same for us as
- 49:13moms and us as like working women us as
- 49:16women who literally were running the schedule every single day
- 49:19right like I think we have got to
- 49:23take those breaks that's why women's conferences like church
- 49:26conferences like that is so necessary and
- 49:29important for us women who are in the weeds and in the thick of it every day
- 49:35because like you've got to be forced outside of your day-to-day you've got to
- 49:39hear words of wisdom that you otherwise wouldn't hear like if Emily had not
- 49:43challenged me about my fear about this I would just be like oh yeah peace love
- 49:47and happiness you know whatever you know,
- 49:49and so like we've got to be gently pressed to look at other perspectives to
- 49:57hopefully help us open our horizons and then obviously improve in the areas
- 50:02that we are hoping to see improvement, right?
- 50:05And there is just something so powerful about a group of like-minded people
- 50:09coming together to do that, to do that exact thing, right? And so this is mentioned in our.
- 50:17Our perfect fit community, like we are going to do a retreat for our ladies or for anyone.
- 50:23Like you don't have to be a member to do it, but our members will get first choice.
- 50:27But we're going to do this because I believe if, oh my gosh,
- 50:31if it's important as a business owner, it's definitely important for a mom, wife.
- 50:38You know, sister, whoever, who's trying to take care of her health,
- 50:41right because we know health is important right we
- 50:45know health is important obviously we hear
- 50:48and see enough about it to know our taking care
- 50:51of our health is important but why do we keep missing the mark every single
- 50:55day right just like I mean I know I need my business health is important y'all
- 51:01I don't need to be out there picking tomatoes when I got to be like running
- 51:05spreadsheets and stuff for this business to keep it going, right?
- 51:10And so we know these things, but why are we constantly looking the other way?
- 51:14And so I just think, I think this is so needed for our ladies and for any lady
- 51:20who's just been struggling with setting goals and then constantly not reaching them.
- 51:25So yeah, we're gonna do it with Perfect Bits. So that information will be coming
- 51:29out in here soon. It'll be a little while.
- 51:31We're still working out the logistics, but I was so inspired by it and my life
- 51:35was so much, so changed. so changed that I can't not pass it on, you know?
- 51:43So anyway, that's that.
- 51:46I hope y'all enjoyed this long episode of me just rambling about Austin, Texas.
- 51:51But as always, y'all remember to say grace.
- 51:55Music.