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20. Fuel Your Body & Business: Carly Paige’s Guide to Wellness & Wealth · Talk Wealthy To Me

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome talk Welcome, we Talk Wealthy to me. I'm
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Speaker 1: Michelle Taylor, founder of Women and Well and Wealth. From
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Speaker 1: breaking money myths to building wealth and achieving financial freedom.
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Speaker 1: We're here to empower you to create your own path.
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Speaker 1: Pat your talk wealth. Now join the conversation, and let's
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Speaker 1: change the way women think and feel about money. Are
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Speaker 1: you ready? Today's guest is Carly Page, a culinary nutrition expert,
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Speaker 1: private chef, and founder of Fit Living Eats in winter Park.
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Speaker 1: Carly is known for her simply Swap method, which makes
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Speaker 1: healthy eating both accessible and delicious. She's worked with powerhouse
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Speaker 1: organizations like NASA, Southwest Airlines, and The Four Seasons to
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Speaker 1: teach holistic wellness strategies. When she's not cooking up flavorful,
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Speaker 1: nutritious meals, she's raising her toddler bear and stepdaughter alongside
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Speaker 1: her husband.
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Speaker 2: Hi.
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Speaker 1: Everyone, welcome back to Talk Wealthy to me. I am
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Speaker 1: Michelle Taylor, your host, and I apologize in advance for
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Speaker 1: my raspy voice. But life is life Right. I am
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Speaker 1: here today with Carly Page, so excited to have you.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's a lot here. You have done so
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Speaker 1: many incredible things tell our listeners a little bit about
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Speaker 1: you and your business.
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Speaker 2: Sure, So it's been quite a journey to get to
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Speaker 2: where I am now, and I've taken many iterations of
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Speaker 2: what my career looks like and what I wanted to
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Speaker 2: look like, starting and marketing at a local hospital system,
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Speaker 2: and leaving the comfort of a corporate job and going
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Speaker 2: out on my own and getting my health coaching certification
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Speaker 2: through an institute in New York and then a couple
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Speaker 2: of culinary programs out in LA and combining those two
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Speaker 2: together into a career path that I really hadn't seen
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Speaker 2: anyone else do before. But I thought, you know what,
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Speaker 2: if I'm going to try it, now's the time. And
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Speaker 2: if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And so it
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Speaker 2: started as health coaching. I dreamt of having a one
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Speaker 2: on one coaching business where people would come in into
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Speaker 2: a cozy little office and we would meet and they'd
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Speaker 2: go home with homework. And that's not at all what
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Speaker 2: it turned out to be. But it's been so much
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Speaker 2: more than that and greater and beyond my wildest dreams.
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Speaker 2: So today my business is ten people on payroll. I've
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Speaker 2: got a team of chefs, We do customize private chef
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Speaker 2: mail prep for clients on a weekly basis, and we
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Speaker 2: do boutique catering. I teach cooking classes, and we are
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Speaker 2: super excited to have just moved into our own care
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Speaker 2: event space here in Winter Park, Orlando, Florida. So I'm
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Speaker 2: excited to get events going again and host more cooking
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Speaker 2: classes and wellness workshops and dinner parties and just bringing
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Speaker 2: people around the table in an intentional way and exposing
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Speaker 2: them and educating them and reminding them that healthy food
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Speaker 2: does not have to be boring. It can be delicious,
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Speaker 2: and it can be sustaining and fulfilling and all the
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Speaker 2: things that we look for in a good meal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I think the timing is so
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Speaker 1: perfect right now, So much is shifting in that world
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Speaker 1: where people are paying attention to what we're consuming, and
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Speaker 1: I think that you couldn't have timed this better.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. We have a lot of clients who are busy
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Speaker 2: families or executives that are really short on time, and
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Speaker 2: there's just no good convenient option out there if you're
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Speaker 2: looking for something healthy and nutrient dent, and that's really
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Speaker 2: going to help you feel your best. And so we
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Speaker 2: come in and help close that gap. So we're not
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Speaker 2: using steed oils, we're not using refined sugars, but there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of flavor in our food as well, So
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Speaker 2: it's kind of like a healthier version of uber eat
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Speaker 2: to accept, totally customized to you and more elevated. So
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Speaker 2: we love it. We love what we do, and we
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Speaker 2: love our client.
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Speaker 1: Oh I love that well. So one of the things
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Speaker 1: that you said that I want to touch on is
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Speaker 1: you left the corporate world and jumped into this world
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Speaker 1: of entrepreneurship. And I know there's a lot of listeners
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Speaker 1: who may have done the same thing or be in
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Speaker 1: the thick of it or contemplating that. What do you
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Speaker 1: think was the most rewarding piece of becoming a business owner?
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Speaker 1: And what do you think, I think was the scariest
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Speaker 1: thing that you went through or had to overcome before
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Speaker 1: you took that leap.
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Speaker 2: That's a great question. I think the most rewarding thing
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Speaker 2: is to know that the effort you put into something
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Speaker 2: you're going to reap the benefits of directly and over
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Speaker 2: time and owning my own business and having my own brand,
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Speaker 2: I've had to evolve and adapt and change and go
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Speaker 2: where the market is where my passion is, where my
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Speaker 2: life is, and I can do that because I'm the owner.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So it is, without a doubt, the hardest thing I've
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Speaker 2: ever done, and I have a fifteen month old and
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Speaker 2: did go through labor, but it's so rewarding to to
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Speaker 2: have a certain level of flexibility within that hard work
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Speaker 2: to define what my career looked like and where it goes.
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Speaker 2: I think that the hardest part about leaving my corporate
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Speaker 2: job was not paying attention to the people who advised
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Speaker 2: against it, because that's security right and to go out
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Speaker 2: and do something different and no real idea where those
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Speaker 2: decisions of the health coaching certification and culinary programs were
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Speaker 2: truly going to lead. That was a huge leap of faith.
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Speaker 2: And at that time I was going through an unhealthy
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Speaker 2: relationship that led to a divorce, and so there was
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Speaker 2: just a lot of personal things going on that was
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Speaker 2: working against the blessings and the really positive things in
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Speaker 2: my career life with at times hard to manage and
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Speaker 2: keep pressing forward. But I'm so glad that I did
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Speaker 2: because now my life is messy and there's a lot
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Speaker 2: going on, but it's beautiful at the same time, and
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Speaker 2: being able to truly be the one in charge of
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Speaker 2: that secame changer.
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Speaker 1: It is amazing, isn't it so funny? When you're about
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Speaker 1: to jump headfirst into a new path, whether you guys
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Speaker 1: are thinking about like an entirely new role or starting
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Speaker 1: a business, the people around you that love you the
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Speaker 1: most are oftentimes the ones that are more nervous than
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Speaker 1: you are and can hold you back unintentionally. But you
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Speaker 1: have to wonder how often that happens, where somebody wants
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Speaker 1: to make a change and don't because the support system
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Speaker 1: is so critical. And I know, for me, when I
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Speaker 1: changed careers and decided to dive into this world twelve
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Speaker 1: years ago, my mom, who is a huge supporter and
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Speaker 1: advocate of everything, best mom, she was very apprehensive just
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Speaker 1: because I just had a new baby and we had
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Speaker 1: just purchased a home, and you know, it's all of
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Speaker 1: those little things that they point out that can go wrong.
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Speaker 1: And then as long as you don't get and you
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Speaker 1: have to you get in your own head. Yeah and yeah.
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Speaker 1: I just think it's interesting that so many of us
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Speaker 1: experience that and hopefully don't listen.
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Speaker 2: I've found when I think back of all the big
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Speaker 2: moment shifted in my life. All it takes to one person,
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Speaker 2: one person to have believed in me and said you
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Speaker 2: should do it, almost giving me permission, even though I
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Speaker 2: don't need permission, but just someone to say you're going
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Speaker 2: to be okay. I'm one hundred percent behind you in
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Speaker 2: the decision. You don't need everyone, but it's so true,
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Speaker 2: and it all goes back to community. And my friends
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Speaker 2: all joke that I am a cheerleader for all of them,
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Speaker 2: and I am a terrible influence in certain ways where
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Speaker 2: like if we're shopping a friend or doing something anything
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Speaker 2: that is going to lead them to a happy place.
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Speaker 2: I'm always the first one to say you should do it,
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Speaker 2: go out on that first date, or buy the shoes,
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Speaker 2: and same with businesses. But the people that need it,
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Speaker 2: I think are really encouraged by it, and we always
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Speaker 2: figure it out, you know, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: It's the positive reinforcement of the village around us that
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Speaker 1: is I think the difference maker.
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Speaker 2: And you need some of that resistance too to really
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Speaker 2: feel your way through it, to know I'm making this
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Speaker 2: decision for me, not for someone else. Yeah, if it
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Speaker 2: were really easy, then it would be setting you up
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Speaker 2: to fail because there's so many challenges in life in general,
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Speaker 2: but also being an entrepreneur, and you have to know
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Speaker 2: you and what you stand for and believe in and
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Speaker 2: what you want.
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Speaker 1: How did you prepare financially? Did you consider that before
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Speaker 1: you made this jump or is it something that you
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Speaker 1: had been saving for and having conversations with your family
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Speaker 1: and your spouse to say, okay, this is how I'm
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Speaker 1: going to do this. Or did you kind of build
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Speaker 1: the plane while it was already flying?
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Speaker 2: Both? And yeah, all of those things. I knew that
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Speaker 2: I needed a minimum month amount in order to live,
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Speaker 2: and so I made sure that I got little side
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Speaker 2: jobs that helped meet that. But I also got the
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Speaker 2: support from family and a couple of chosen family and
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Speaker 2: send things that kind of helped support in my journey
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Speaker 2: along the way.
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Speaker 1: So I love what you just said, though, and I
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Speaker 1: hope you guys caught that. So we talk all the time.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's so easy to sit here behind a
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Speaker 1: microphone or behind a computer and say have an abundance mindset.
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Speaker 2: You know, of.
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Speaker 1: Course you can go out and do all of the
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Speaker 1: good things, and people listening are like, oh, yeah, that's great.
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Speaker 1: But I have an abundant mindset and I'm still struggling
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Speaker 1: in this area, and I think where there's a will,
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Speaker 1: there's a way, especially in this climate that we're in
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Speaker 1: and with social media and you know, people are have
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Speaker 1: the tools at their disposal to create a side hustle.
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Speaker 1: So I love that you did that. So basically, you
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Speaker 1: had side projects that created that buffer that you needed
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Speaker 1: monthly to make sure that your bills and your commitments
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Speaker 1: were being met. Even if it was less than you
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Speaker 1: were used to, it was the bare minimum. So then
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Speaker 1: if you had a bad month when you were starting
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Speaker 1: out like we all do, it wasn't as big of
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Speaker 1: a deal. And I hope that people listening you guys,
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Speaker 1: that is the best advice she just gave you. If
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Speaker 1: you can figure out, even if it's just, hey, I
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Speaker 1: really need to cover seven hundred dollars a month, how
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Speaker 1: do you do it? Let's figure out a way to
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Speaker 1: make the scary jump. Find the side hustle. I mean,
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Speaker 1: when my best friend and I decided to move to
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Speaker 1: Italy after college, and I mean she sold her car,
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Speaker 1: we babysat, my dog had puppies that we sold. I
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Speaker 1: mean it was wild, but again, find find the side hustle,
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Speaker 1: and it's I think for anyone listening, it's a good
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Speaker 1: true test before you start a business of putting yourself
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Speaker 1: through that you've got to figure it out the grit
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Speaker 1: of just make it happen. And I think it's served
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it serves you well in this journey that
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Speaker 1: you're on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, even though my circumstances are different now,
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Speaker 2: there are still things that I just have to figure
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Speaker 2: out and it's hard and it's challenging, British rewarding. And
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Speaker 2: I think too, when I made that decision and when
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Speaker 2: I looked at entrepreneurs or self made business owners ahead
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Speaker 2: of me, I felt like, while I don't have the
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Speaker 2: restvoicage they have, or I don't I don't have that,
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Speaker 2: or it's not working. I mean, I think that because
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Speaker 2: there's so much online and on social media, it can
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Speaker 2: sometimes allude to overnight success and that's not a thing.
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Speaker 2: But I also believe that if it is meant to
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Speaker 2: be and it's in your path, doors and opportunities are
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Speaker 2: going to open that you might never have anticipated. Because
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Speaker 2: I have yet to meet one person who totally just
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Speaker 2: did it on their own, without the support of anyone else,
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Speaker 2: and that doesn't have to be just financially, but it
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Speaker 2: could be in any capacity. But there are doors that
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Speaker 2: have slammed in my face, and there are doors that
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Speaker 2: have continued to open in ways that it's like, all right,
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Speaker 2: I don't really know about this, but I'm gonna take
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Speaker 2: the next step. Yeah, And so just trusting yourself in that,
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Speaker 2: I think gauge endpointant and being open to that.
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Speaker 1: You know, we talk about finding or we talk about
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Speaker 1: when you have a kid and saying, you know, it
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Speaker 1: takes a village, and it truly does. You're a mom
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Speaker 1: fifteen month old and a stepdaughter who's ten, so I
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Speaker 1: get the ten year old thing, but it does take
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Speaker 1: a village with your kids. But it also takes such
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Speaker 1: a village when you're an entrepreneur or really quite frankly
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Speaker 1: in life. Right, You've got to find your people and
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Speaker 1: that should be a priority. And I feel like even
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Speaker 1: kids that are graduating from college or graduating from high school,
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Speaker 1: we need to instill that in them a little bit
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Speaker 1: more maybe and just say you're at a point in
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Speaker 1: your life where hopefully you've come through life with some
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Speaker 1: great friends, but now, I mean it truly does need
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Speaker 1: to be a priority of surrounding yourself with people that
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Speaker 1: are going to give you the support you need, the
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Speaker 1: friendship that you need, the loyalty, and also that are
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Speaker 1: smarter than you in other ways, and start that as
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Speaker 1: soon as possible. It takes a village, no matter what
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Speaker 1: you're doing, it takes a village.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. My dad was very adamant about my brother and
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Speaker 2: I having internships instead of or with other jobs growing up,
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Speaker 2: and so I did little one day two day shadows
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Speaker 2: here and there, or summer internships at different places and
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Speaker 2: having mentors set in place for us at different stages
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Speaker 2: throughout our life, high school, college, And I think that
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Speaker 2: was really keen and helpful to what you're saying of
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Speaker 2: building a tribe and a community and a support system
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Speaker 2: of not just your peers, but other people too who
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Speaker 2: can help guide you along the way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and never to burn a bridge, because you just
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Speaker 1: never know. The world is so small, It is so
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Speaker 1: growing up. What was your relationship with money like as
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Speaker 1: you started to become more aware, you know, and then
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Speaker 1: eventually we're on your own, do you feel that you
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Speaker 1: were set up in a really good way or did
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Speaker 1: you bring a lot of money stories or baggage with
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Speaker 1: you that you had to unlearn.
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Speaker 2: I think both. I think that my parents did a
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Speaker 2: really great job of educating around money and the responsibility
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Speaker 2: of that. I remember balancing my checkbooks with my dad
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Speaker 2: back when like cash was king, and but also I
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Speaker 2: had my own observation to work through and figure out
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Speaker 2: what I liked in that and what I didn't like
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Speaker 2: in that. For example, my mom would just stay at
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Speaker 2: her mom and so she would get an allowance weekly
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Speaker 2: or whatnot, and I remember her it was almost like
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Speaker 2: hiding purchases or hiding money to be able to spend
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Speaker 2: it in a way that she might want to. And
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Speaker 2: I just remember experiencing that and thinking, I always want
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Speaker 2: to stay it at the table to to you know, decide,
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Speaker 2: be a partner in how the money is used and
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Speaker 2: and so because of that, I always want to be working.
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Speaker 2: I always want to be bringing in some kind of
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Speaker 2: an income. And you know, I think there's there's some
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Speaker 2: truth to that, and also my observations as a teenager,
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Speaker 2: and my parents had their own dynamic and relationship and whatnot.
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Speaker 2: But I think that's a big motivator for me and
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Speaker 2: driving force in being a business owner or always feeling
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Speaker 2: like I want some kind of control maybe even over
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Speaker 2: household income and where money is going and freedom and
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Speaker 2: flexibility in that.
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Speaker 1: It's so interesting though, because you know, in your mom's scenario,
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Speaker 1: maybe she was willing to give up a little bit
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Speaker 1: of the control of the financials and stay home because
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Speaker 1: in her version of success, that was what was important
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Speaker 1: to her, is being a present, stay at home mom.
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Speaker 1: We just never know what someone's perfect ideal is.
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Speaker 2: So and I don't think that bothered her. The whole
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Speaker 2: hiding money, like you just funny. We laugh about it now,
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Speaker 2: and so you know, everyone has different experiences of the facts,
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Speaker 2: and so to her it just is the way it is.
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Speaker 2: And to me it was like, I don't know how
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Speaker 2: I feel about that.
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Speaker 1: But that's what I mean. It's so cool to go
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Speaker 1: through and perception is reality. You just never know, and
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Speaker 1: then we get to determine what it looks like for
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Speaker 1: us on the other side. I remember sitting and watching
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Speaker 1: my mom balance the checkbook and thinking that looks like
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Speaker 1: the most boring way to spend a Sunday. She always
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Speaker 1: did it on Sundays.
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Speaker 2: Oh I loved it. I'm like always going over in
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Speaker 2: my p and L and my serenadets and everything. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I love it. So I'm somewhat conservative when it comes
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Speaker 2: to money, which is interesting to me because of all
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Speaker 2: of the risk taking involved in being an entrepreneur and
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Speaker 2: a business owner. But yeah, I'm like, I like to
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Speaker 2: hide my money under the mattress. Oh kind of girl.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's so funny. So many women that I've
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Speaker 1: worked with personally, I say they're like squirrels because it's
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Speaker 1: the same way. They've got all these different little accounts
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Speaker 1: that they like to put money in, and I think
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Speaker 1: it's just yeah, we just like to gather it and
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Speaker 1: where it is and put it somewhere. So shifting to
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Speaker 1: your business a little bit, I think to your point,
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Speaker 1: it's so important to have access to healthy nutrients, dense food.
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Speaker 1: How do people what do you think are the most
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Speaker 1: critical changes that someone can make that maybe listening and think, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would love to, you know, be a client of Carly's,
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Speaker 1: but maybe that is not in the cards for them
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Speaker 1: right now. But they're wanting to do better or focus
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Speaker 1: on healthy foods. What are like those quick, easy things
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Speaker 1: like the Dirty dozen you know that you should buy
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Speaker 1: organic or whatever that you can think of that you
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Speaker 1: would share with our audience and that you share with
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Speaker 1: your clients.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. A couple of things come
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Speaker 2: to mind. I'm always educating on the perfect trifecta. So
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Speaker 2: when teaching people how to build a nutritious plate, I
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Speaker 2: encourage them to include three nutrient protein, fiber, and healthy fats.
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Speaker 2: A lot of times these days you hear protein, carbs,
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Speaker 2: and fat, but if you're eating carbohydrates, you're not necessarily
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Speaker 2: getting fiber. There's carbs in a doughnut, but that's not
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Speaker 2: necessarily good for you or it will help you feel
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Speaker 2: your best. Fiber is the thing that is going to
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Speaker 2: balance your blood sugar levels and your energy, keep you
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Speaker 2: full for longer. And if you're eating fiber, you're eating carbohydrates,
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Speaker 2: which are our body's main source of energy. So could
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Speaker 2: be in fruits, vegetables, a whole grain that's going to
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Speaker 2: be a little bit more nutritious for you. So protein, fiber,
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Speaker 2: healthy fats. And then I've kind of come up with
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Speaker 2: a term called the simply swapped method and looking at
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Speaker 2: your everyday ingredients and asking how could I swap it
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Speaker 2: for something maybe a little bit more nutrient dense. So
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Speaker 2: I like to approach nutrition by asking what can I
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Speaker 2: add to my day or my plate instead of what
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Speaker 2: are all the things that I need to remove or
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Speaker 2: can't have because then we want it restrictive exactly. So
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Speaker 2: an idea, an example that a simple swap might be
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Speaker 2: instead of all purpose flour, maybe using almond flour and
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Speaker 2: oat flour and trying to kind of understand how those
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Speaker 2: ingredients work in something like a muffin. So just finding
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Speaker 2: little everyday ingredient that maybe there's a more nutritious alternative
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Speaker 2: for that you can just swap out to elevate what
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Speaker 2: nutrients are going in your body.
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Speaker 1: And when you say nutrients tents, do you mean for
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Speaker 1: the audience? Just something that is less processed and has
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Speaker 1: more of the nutrients exactly, and it's pure form right.
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Speaker 2: So back to my example of the flowers. All purpose
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Speaker 2: flower is extremely processed to where you're left with really
24:35
Speaker 2: a small piece of the original food that's been so
24:41
Speaker 2: stripped of the fiber and the vitamin and the minerals
24:45
Speaker 2: that you're really not getting anything from it, and your
24:50
Speaker 2: body processes that as it would sugar. Whereas almond flour
24:55
Speaker 2: is made from almond that has protein and healthy fat
24:58
Speaker 2: in it. Oat flowers made from whole oats that are
25:01
Speaker 2: ground up, so fiber, healthy carbohydrate. So yeah, just looking
25:08
Speaker 2: for less processed things that are kind of back to
25:12
Speaker 2: the basic is what I like to call it, and
25:16
Speaker 2: just simplifying, simplifying what you're eating, what you're buying, trying
25:21
Speaker 2: not to buy so many things in a box. Can
25:24
Speaker 2: you pronounce the ingredient? Do you recognize them? Could you
25:28
Speaker 2: make that at home? And once you start asking those questions,
25:33
Speaker 2: you realize it's really hard to find healthy, convenient food.
25:38
Speaker 2: So what are some little quick things that you can
25:42
Speaker 2: make at home that you can feel good about eating
25:45
Speaker 2: and feeding giving to your family or your kids.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think convenience is such a thing that stands
25:52
Speaker 1: in the way for so many women because it's just
25:57
Speaker 1: less work to grab some thing or to go out
26:03
Speaker 1: to a lunch with clients or coworkers, and it takes
26:07
Speaker 1: a little bit more time to meal prep and to plan.
26:11
Speaker 1: But to your point, and that's where you come in
26:13
Speaker 1: because if you don't have the time to do that,
26:16
Speaker 1: I know it it's a luxury for some people, but
26:20
Speaker 1: it's a convenience tax I always like to say. And
26:23
Speaker 1: the reality is, if you have the resources, outsource that
26:28
Speaker 1: to somebody that can prep and don't think about it.
26:31
Speaker 1: If it's not something you enjoy, find somebody who can
26:36
Speaker 1: fill the gap and exactly feel good about what you're doing.
26:39
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I do this for a living, and the
26:43
Speaker 2: week that I add my family to our mule prep schedule,
26:47
Speaker 2: they get so many more new trans on their plate
26:50
Speaker 2: than when I make a quick dinner at home. But
26:53
Speaker 2: even when I do, and you don't have to subscribe
26:56
Speaker 2: to something like a mule prep service to find healthier
27:00
Speaker 2: ways to fuel your body and feed your family. Again,
27:06
Speaker 2: you're looking for their little swaps. So maybe instead of
27:09
Speaker 2: white pasta regular pasta noodles, you're using noodles that are
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Speaker 2: made from beans or menled that have protein and fiber
27:17
Speaker 2: in them. So I'm trying really hard to start my
27:21
Speaker 2: fifteen month old out on the nutritious swaps. And you know,
27:27
Speaker 2: he doesn't really have white noodles. He has the bean
27:30
Speaker 2: noodles and those are normal and it works so far,
27:33
Speaker 2: but we'll see as he gets to older, my tend
27:36
Speaker 2: a little bit more picky. I know.
27:37
Speaker 1: It's like when they're little, they'll eat and try so
27:40
Speaker 1: many things, and once they're just old enough to have
27:42
Speaker 1: an opinion, it gets really hard. My kids are just
27:45
Speaker 1: coming back around to now being excited at trying other things,
27:50
Speaker 1: and it's been really nice.
27:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great.
27:54
Speaker 1: I think it's so interesting. Like even speaking on the pastas,
27:57
Speaker 1: you know, if you're gluten sense, which I happen to be,
28:02
Speaker 1: I don't adhere to it because it doesn't make me
28:05
Speaker 1: feel bad, and that isn't always the best thing. I
28:08
Speaker 1: kind of wish sometimes it gives me the extra step
28:10
Speaker 1: of discipline, but it's also the way we process everything,
28:14
Speaker 1: like when you go overseas, it doesn't matter. So one
28:16
Speaker 1: of the things that I do. And for anybody listening
28:19
Speaker 1: who has never perused the aisles at like a home goods,
28:23
Speaker 1: there's a ton there that is made in Italy. Pasta wise,
28:29
Speaker 1: and even like sauces, different things that have much stricter
28:36
Speaker 1: requirements on what they can put into it. The pasta
28:40
Speaker 1: it's made with semolina flower, different things. And even if
28:44
Speaker 1: that's like an easy baby step swap to get to
28:48
Speaker 1: some of the other things, it's those little things you
28:51
Speaker 1: don't have to think about, you know, everybody the craze
28:55
Speaker 1: now making your own breads at home we were just
28:58
Speaker 1: talking about before the show made it to that, yet
29:02
Speaker 1: it's a whole thing.
29:04
Speaker 2: It is.
29:05
Speaker 1: I have a very dear friend that basically I feel
29:10
Speaker 1: like she is the queen of sourdough and makes it
29:13
Speaker 1: look so easy. And I tried and it worked a
29:15
Speaker 1: couple of times, but it's a lot of work.
29:18
Speaker 2: It is. My sister in law thought it'd be really
29:21
Speaker 2: great for her, my mom, and I to start a
29:24
Speaker 2: little sourdough club, and she gave me a starter one
29:28
Speaker 2: month after having my son. Oh yeah, I was like,
29:33
Speaker 2: I don't think I can feed him and feed the starter,
29:37
Speaker 2: and so one's going to have to come before the other.
29:40
Speaker 2: And she had a five month old now, and so
29:44
Speaker 2: it's like, how did you sourdough come in? And she
29:47
Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of fallen by the wayside, but
29:50
Speaker 2: it is. It's definitely a commitment, but can be a
29:55
Speaker 2: fun little hobby too if it's something you're looking to
29:57
Speaker 2: get into, well yeah.
29:58
Speaker 1: And it's just like you know, I tell my listeners,
30:03
Speaker 1: my clients, my friends, the women in wealth community, it's
30:07
Speaker 1: not about doing everything at once. It's finding that little
30:10
Speaker 1: thing and it's all about mindset. Something that you said
30:14
Speaker 1: that I think is so interesting and relates back to
30:16
Speaker 1: what I have taught is instead of setting up budget
30:20
Speaker 1: plans for people, I always talk to them about having
30:23
Speaker 1: a spending plan. And just like you said, I don't
30:25
Speaker 1: want to talk about what I take out of my diet,
30:28
Speaker 1: but what can I add into it? And you, guys,
30:31
Speaker 1: the secret sauce. The hack to all of this is
30:35
Speaker 1: mentally finding out the way that you can work it
30:37
Speaker 1: into your routine and have your brain stick to it,
30:41
Speaker 1: putting a positive spin on it whatever that needs to be,
30:45
Speaker 1: and doing a little bit. There are things I know
30:47
Speaker 1: that candles are supposedly not great for us. I love candles.
30:53
Speaker 1: I'm not going to probably get rid of those, but
30:55
Speaker 1: I'm really passionate about trying to stay away from dies
31:00
Speaker 1: in food or buying organic. So it's about doing what
31:05
Speaker 1: you can with the resources that you have that don't
31:09
Speaker 1: make life more difficult and finding the way to do better,
31:15
Speaker 1: even if it's in small doses every day, because just
31:19
Speaker 1: like with money, over time, dollars and good choices compound
31:25
Speaker 1: and lead to big results.
31:27
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, we're not perfect and we can't expect to
31:31
Speaker 2: live perfectly. I always tell people if we listen to
31:35
Speaker 2: everything out there, we couldn't even drink the water, just
31:39
Speaker 2: because everyone has something to say about everything being bad
31:42
Speaker 2: for you. And so, like you said, really choosing a
31:48
Speaker 2: couple of things to focus on or shift or change
31:51
Speaker 2: and just building from there, I think create sustainability and
31:57
Speaker 2: makes it work for the long haul.
31:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, because once that becomes a habit, then it's easy
32:02
Speaker 1: to add something new. Just like when you start the
32:05
Speaker 1: habit of saving or investing or paying off credit card debt.
32:10
Speaker 1: Eventually that can grow into something even more impactful because
32:15
Speaker 1: it's sustainable. Same with all of this. What is a
32:19
Speaker 1: piece of advice that you would have given yourself starting
32:23
Speaker 1: out on this beautiful journey of entrepreneurship knowing what you
32:27
Speaker 1: know now?
32:29
Speaker 2: Hmm, that's a great question. I think that I would
32:40
Speaker 2: encourage myself to try everything and figure out what I
32:50
Speaker 2: like and what I don't like, and make choices from there.
32:57
Speaker 2: You know. I think that a lot of the advice
32:59
Speaker 2: I got with pick one thing, be really good at
33:02
Speaker 2: that and then grow from there. And I think there's
33:05
Speaker 2: truth to that. But I think that if you are
33:12
Speaker 2: multi passionate and you like different avenues of business and
33:19
Speaker 2: doing different things, I think that trying them and figuring
33:25
Speaker 2: out do you like it? Or do you not like it?
33:28
Speaker 2: And just because someone says this is how they found
33:33
Speaker 2: success does not mean that that's how you need to
33:36
Speaker 2: find it as well.
33:39
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, Yeah, it's so important because I
33:43
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, we talk about that all the time,
33:46
Speaker 1: where you see something that you think, Okay, that person
33:49
Speaker 1: is successful, and you have to differentiate between I want
33:54
Speaker 1: to attain my own level of what I think success
33:57
Speaker 1: looks like. It doesn't have to look like hers, but
34:00
Speaker 1: I can still emulate some of the habits that it
34:05
Speaker 1: took to get that person there. And I think that
34:08
Speaker 1: for so many women and I'm sure the guys too,
34:12
Speaker 1: but just speaking to the women, I think that it's
34:15
Speaker 1: so common that we want to share and you know,
34:19
Speaker 1: bring other people with us, so we all have to
34:23
Speaker 1: do a good job of remembering just because something worked
34:26
Speaker 1: for us might not work in what the person that
34:32
Speaker 1: you're talking to's vision is meant to be. So I
34:38
Speaker 1: love that. Yeah, And what's next for your business? Where
34:42
Speaker 1: do you want to see this go in the next
34:45
Speaker 1: you know, three to five years.
34:47
Speaker 2: It's funny you say that because the space that we
34:51
Speaker 2: just moved into really is a vision boy that I
34:56
Speaker 2: created eight years ago. They came to life, and when
34:59
Speaker 2: I created that vision board, I thought, I honestly don't
35:03
Speaker 2: know what I was thinking, because I didn't think I
35:05
Speaker 2: was ever going to have a brick and mortar or
35:09
Speaker 2: really a space of my own. I just didn't know
35:12
Speaker 2: it that time. I didn't have a good vision for
35:18
Speaker 2: the future. But clearly I did because we just made
35:22
Speaker 2: it happen. So I've been thinking a lot about, Okay,
35:25
Speaker 2: what is the next thing and that next step, and
35:30
Speaker 2: in creating this space, my goal is to create an
35:37
Speaker 2: environment where people can come and feel taken care of,
35:43
Speaker 2: to take a breath, to be present, to gather around
35:48
Speaker 2: the table in community and around good food. And so
35:53
Speaker 2: what does that look like, because it's different than what
35:56
Speaker 2: we've done in the past of now having a base
36:00
Speaker 2: of our own to be able to invite people into.
36:03
Speaker 2: So I can just envision, you know, classes and workshops
36:09
Speaker 2: and dinner parties and really really uplifting our community partners
36:17
Speaker 2: and the local farms and other small business owners that
36:21
Speaker 2: we work with as well, and just creating a really
36:24
Speaker 2: intentional space and experience that people want to be a
36:28
Speaker 2: part of.
36:29
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I love it. So when is the
36:31
Speaker 1: space going to be open and ready.
36:33
Speaker 2: We've been open for a couple weeks now, open meaning operating.
36:39
Speaker 2: We are not a retail business, and that we have
36:42
Speaker 2: opening hours. Sure people can come in and out of
36:46
Speaker 2: I'm hoping in the next month we'll have a schedule
36:49
Speaker 2: of events that people can go on and sign up
36:53
Speaker 2: for and go from. Their education is a huge passion
36:58
Speaker 2: of mine, so I'm excited to get it back into
37:01
Speaker 2: cooking classes and maybe build out our educational programs and
37:05
Speaker 2: offering a little bit more.
37:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what a great place to have like a
37:08
Speaker 1: girls' night and do something fun like that. That's amazing.
37:12
Speaker 1: And I know you've written a cookbook as well. Yes,
37:15
Speaker 1: so you've done a lot of great things. As we
37:18
Speaker 1: wrap the sub where can people follow along on your
37:21
Speaker 1: journey and look for those class schedules or the cookbook
37:26
Speaker 1: or all of the great things that you've done.
37:27
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I have an Instagram account that I try
37:31
Speaker 2: to post on and where going on yet, you know
37:36
Speaker 2: you have so much time in.
37:37
Speaker 1: It, especially being a mom.
37:39
Speaker 2: But you can people can always follow me at carly
37:42
Speaker 2: page for healthy tips and tricks kind of behind the
37:47
Speaker 2: scenes of how I cook for my family and what
37:50
Speaker 2: it's like to be a business owner. You can get
37:54
Speaker 2: a fit that we need to winter Park dot com
37:56
Speaker 2: for our local service aid and class scheduled, and the
38:01
Speaker 2: cookbook is available. Add a digital copy on amadon for
38:06
Speaker 2: anyone who's interested. I've somewhat depleted the printed supply and
38:11
Speaker 2: I would love to come out with the second edition
38:14
Speaker 2: before ordering more so TBD on that. Okay, but amadon
38:20
Speaker 2: and Instagram at Carly Page and fit let me eat
38:22
Speaker 2: win in Park dot com.
38:24
Speaker 1: And we'll put all of that in the show notes
38:26
Speaker 1: to make sure that everybody listening can follow along and
38:30
Speaker 1: find one little thing at least to be mindful of
38:34
Speaker 1: on their health journey. And yeah, I mean, I'm so
38:39
Speaker 1: appreciative of the work that you do. It's an incredible
38:42
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for joining us today.
38:46
Speaker 2: Absolutely it was fun to be here.
38:48
Speaker 1: Thank you, You're welcome, and as always, I'm so thankful
38:52
Speaker 1: for all of you listening. Don't forget to like, subscribe, share,
38:57
Speaker 1: and let's change the way women think and feel about
39:00
Speaker 1: money together