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The F.E.E.L Podcast Season 8 Recap w/ Creator and Host Melissa Crook · The FEEL Podcast: Women’s Empowerment, Emotional Wellness and Self-Leadership with Melissa Crook

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  Finding power, man, embracing layers yet.
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  Hello, Melissa Crook here. Welcome to the Field podcast.
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  I'm your host, Melissa Crook, and I'm your guest, Melissa
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  Crook today. I'm so happy to be here.
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  And this is something I'm going to try to do more often.
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  I'm going to pop in a little more often solo just to give you
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  some updates on what's happening.
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  I'm here at the network and also in my own story as I live out
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  the feel framework, finding empowerment, embracing layers.
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  You got an opportunity last month if you saw our anniversary
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  show to hear me really give you an updated input deep dive into
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  each of the talking points. I'm not going to do that today.
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  I'm going to more take you on a journey of all that's been
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  happening in general through this Season 8 as we get ready to
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  wrap up our eighth season here on the field.
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  Podcast of some new things we're doing with that, things we've
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  learned from our guests that have really stuck out to me and
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  some ideas throughout the talking points.
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  If there's certain areas you're struggling with, kind of point
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  you back to some episodes that really speak well to that
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  talking point that you might want to visit.
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  Also, remember, if there's a talking point you're really
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  struggling with, if you go into our show notes, my editor Rio
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  does a great job of putting in all of the time stamps of each
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  of our talking points. So if you like, gosh, I really
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  need a filler on living out of my own expectations today, or I
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  just need that boost. Go into our episodes and find
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  that Living out of your Own expectations time stamp.
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  And spend a little time in the morning or on your lunch break
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  or at the middle of the day hitting those specific areas in
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  each of our episodes to give you that reminder, that boost, that
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  support you need. So that's something else you can
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  do. I think that is really, it can
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  be really helpful, but it doesn't require listening to a
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  full episode. Pick up those points and parts
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  that you need some extra support on and go find those time stamps
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  in our show notes. So I think today the big thing
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  that I have kept thinking about over the last few weeks is gosh,
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  we really did a lot in this 4 plus almost 5 month period of
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  season 8. We brought you 2 episodes per
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  week instead of one for the first time.
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  We opened each episode with ways to engage recordings for me, as
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  well as having the ways to engage in our show notes and in
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  our blog where Jessica Gears and our writer wraps that each blog
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  up each week with the ways to engage.
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  So we really gave you a lot of pointers on those to find the
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  ways to engage. We're going to do that a little
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  differently in the fall, but they're still going to be very
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  present in the blog every week. So check out that blog.
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  I want to feel like, you know, Jessica's blogs really give you
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  a snapshot of what's to come and the ways to engage and prepare
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  for it. But she also gives her take on
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  things. And she is a different
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  generation than me. She's in her mid 20s.
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  And so to get her perspective on these different episodes, and
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  you'll get to hear more from her about that on Thursday.
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  So we started doing those things.
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  We really started trying to tap into the SEO piece of promoting
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  our episodes to make sure that we were tapping into all the
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  audiences that are out there that are looking for our
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  information that haven't been able to find this yet.
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  And that's an ever evolving process.
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  So we got a lot more in tune to that piece of things.
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  I started speaking more about this framework, about how you
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  can utilize it in your own life and use it as a guide to keep
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  you on track, to keep asking yourselves these questions that
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  you hear us talk about on the podcast regularly to make sure
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  you're living in alignment. So I I love the speaking part
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  and with the speaking part, I was able to create our online
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  course for the first time. In this online course is a deep
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  dive into these talking points. I do it in a little different
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  order when I speak and in the online course and even in our
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  book, which we'll talk about in a minute because we're coming up
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  on our one year anniversary of our embracing layers
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  unapologetically book. But this is a really like just
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  all taking all the things I've learned from applying this
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  framework of my life, taking all the things I've learned from our
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  guests and the women in our network on what they're learning
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  from applying it and really being able to take all those
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  resources and putting it into a really comprehensive online
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  course. And then Kim Mosman, who is a
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  guest that you heard from this season on the podcast and she's
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  also been on the panels with me, the Together We Feel panels on
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  our YouTube page. She suggested you need an on you
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  need a book, a workbook to go so different from our book where
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  you read the chapters. There's a ways to engage.
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  It's an actual just book to read and do together in a book club
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  do with your journaling. This online course book goes
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  along with the online course, gives you places to take notes,
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  gives you probably 75% of the language you hear me talking
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  about. And the online course is written
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  out in the workbook so you can go back and revisit it.
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  So if your group of women participates in the online
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  course, but you're not the one that actually purchased that
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  maybe the head of your organization that you
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  participated in is the one that actually purchased the online
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  course, but you got the workbook that you know, it gives you that
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  thing to take home with you and continue to revisit yourself.
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  So there's just there's a multitude of ways now for you to
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  access. And I realized during this
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  process that I finally in this four year period over time have
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  put together the network of resources that I was always
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  hoping to. I just didn't necessarily know
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  it when I started. So there's multiple ways and
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  mediums now for you to access our information in terms of
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  utilizing, finding empowerment, embracing layers.
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  And you're like utilizing these talking points and key questions
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  that we ask. And whether you want a more
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  casual, you know, way to approach it by listening to the
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  podcast each week and reading the blogs and maybe taking a
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  little deeper dive and taking those ways to engage from the
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  blogs into your journaling to help you really engage with that
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  episode. Or if you want to really
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  breakdown the talking points point by point, you can start
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  with our book and then really take that deeper dive with the
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  online course. I can come speak to your group.
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  I've been speaking throughout the summer starting last May,
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  speaking both in person and virtually at several spaces
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  across California and the world, depending on whether I was
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  online or in person and continue that last week.
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  So, and we'll be continuing that throughout the fall.
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  Go to ourcontactform@embracinglayers.com.
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  Reach out to me. I'm now also available for
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  one-on-one advising. I'm calling them empowerment
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  sessions. This first one is free.
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  It's a 30 minute session. You jump on with me, you go to
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  thatcontactform@embracinglayers.com. You talk to me about what it is
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  you're needing support in and then we create a plan for you,
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  whether it's me walking you through the entire 8 talking
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  points and three key questions, either one-on-one or via the
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  information from our online course in the corresponding
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  workbook. Or if you just need some support
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  on a few, whatever that looks like for you.
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  So if you want that accountability and a little more
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  of that one-on-one weekly, I'm going to do this.
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  I'm going to schedule this session with Melissa to make
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  sure I'm investing in me. And that's one of the things
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  that I wrapped up my speaking with last Friday.
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  And you'll hear time and time again from our guests throughout
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  and eight and all of our seasons is you are worth investing in,
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  you are worth the investment. So think about all these ways
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  you spend and give your time and money to and do any of them
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  involve you? And So what does it look like to
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  take some of that time and money and invest in you so that you
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  can then show up as the wholly healthiest, authentic version of
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  yourself? So it's been a lot of fun to
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  talk to women about this, both by speaking to them and
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  unveiling the online course. And we're coming up on our book
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  anniversary next week. It's going to be one year since
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  we released our book and in honor of that, we're kicking off
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  a new book club this fall. Join our sub stack.
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  Jessica Garrison on my team runs our sub stack.
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  It's the embracing layers network sub stack at the field
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  podcast. Just go on sub stack at the
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  field podcast. That's where you can learn how
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  to join the book club. And we have other authors that
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  have been guest on our podcast in the past bringing their books
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  as part of this book club. So it's a whole wide-ranging.
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  We're kicking it off with our book but and going into some of
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  their other books you heard about when they've been on the
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  podcast and panels with us. But maybe you've now you get to
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  actually have a guided deep dive through their book with the
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  author. So join our sub stack tomorrow.
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  Jessica Garrison at 3:00 PM Pacific, 6:00 PM Eastern is
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  doing a live to unveil the that schedule throughout the year.
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  We kick off our book on September 17th.
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  So this is a great way to do it with a group of women, do it
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  with the authors themselves and and learn from each other,
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  support each other, hold each other accountable.
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  So that's the way we're celebrating our one year
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  anniversary with our book next week.
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  So this has been really the year of putting kind of a a cap or
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  bow on look at all these resources we have on now.
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  Whether you're a reader, a listener, you like a good online
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  course webinar, you like a workbook.
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  There's you like going through the blogs and grabbing the ways
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  to engage. You like going to our resources
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  page and following and learning more from the guests we have on.
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  There's a multitude of ways now and my hope and and and goal
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  through this whole network as I started this four years ago was
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  when a woman comes to our platform, they find a way to
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  connect with us that is authentic to them, that is
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  natural to them, that feeds into the way they like to connect and
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  learn and invest in themselves. So that was a big thing that we
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  really kind of completed the process on and rolled out this
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  spring as we were continuing to to drop the two episodes a week
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  and the two episodes a week then kind of came over time.
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  I started thinking talking about it last fall as I was getting
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  more and more guest requests and, and knew that I was either
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  going to have to say no to people and put people off longer
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  or I was going to have to go to start dropping 2 episodes a
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  week. And the idea first came up from
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  our friends at Pod Match and, and encouraging thinking about
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  that as we joined the Pod Match Network and got even more
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  involved there. And I would so many of the
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  guests you hear from come from our friends at Pod Match.
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  I'm so appreciative of them and their resources and support.
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  So they kind of planted the seed and then as I was talking to
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  more people that did it and started talking to my team, we
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  did a test run with it at the end of Season 7 to see how it
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  felt for my team to make that change.
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  Everyone agreed it was worth trying.
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  And now we've come to the end of Season 8 and we're going to
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  continue it through this fall season and Season 9.
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  That'll kick off on the week of September 9th.
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  So so yeah, that and what that means for you, the listener is
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  you get twice the resources. What it means for women is I get
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  to highlight twice the amount of women a week now and their
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  voices and their resources. And I love that so much.
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  So we've done that. We did Subs, we've gotten really
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  engaged in our sub stack with our Sub Stack Lives and bringing
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  those guests that have already been with us on our podcast
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  platform onto our sub stack lives.
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  And right now we're focused on those authors.
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  So another way you get to learn and engage with our guests.
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  We've, we've really taken advantage of all these different
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  modes of communication and platforms.
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  We have to try to reach all the different parts of our listeners
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  and audience that are out there in a way that feels connectable
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  and, and meaningful to them. So what I want to do now that I
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  kind of introduced that and, and where we're going with the
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  network and as we continue into the fall, I want to talk about
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  the guests that we had and do a little reflection here of the
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  guests that we've had and talk about some of the things that
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  you got to hear from them, learn from them throughout the year.
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  So or throughout the season. It feels like a year.
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  It started April first. We kicked off on April Fool's
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  Day, which was not meant to be an April Fool's joke.
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  So we kind of laughed about that.
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  I think when we promoted it, we're like, no, we really are
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  going to be with you on April 1st.
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  Not a joke. So you know, we heard from our
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  friend Laura Telosi. Laura has been with us on
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  multiple platforms over the last year, year and a half on our
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  radio show when we did that 2024, on our panels, on the
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  Together We Feel panel show that we kicked off in January this
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  year. Every Monday, those panels are
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  there. If you have some guests that you
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  love, you want to hear more from them, go to those panel shows.
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  They're showing up with me on the panels.
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  And then and then she finally got to do a solo episode with
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  me. And so it's so great to have
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  Laura with this. And she really helps you think
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  about your hunger and why you're eating when you're eating and
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  being able to attach your habits and your emotions to create
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  healthy relationships with your food, to make sure you're
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  eating, you know, Whole Foods to make sure that you're not eating
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  to numb, but that you're eating when you're hungry.
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  That you're not ignoring your hunger because you don't think
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  you should be hungry yet, but you're honoring that hunger and
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  filling your body with healthy foods and really helping you
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  reframe, rethink the way you eat and how you eat and when you eat
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  and creating a healthy relationship with your food.
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  Mariela de Santiago is that she's got great resources.
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  She's in the Southern California, San Diego County
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  area, I believe, down there, and she's really helping young moms
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  find community resources and support.
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  She's got mom groups that meet locally there in the San Diego
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  area, but she also has a podcast.
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  So go to embracinglayers.com to our resources page if you want
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  to listen to that. But great resource resources
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  from Mariela. Logan Hefford spoke to us about
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  his healing journey as he overcame and acknowledged his
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  sexual sex addiction and, and, and what that was doing to the
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  relationships in his life, his marriage, his children, his
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  relationships on the whole. And I thought about this episode
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  of like you all know that I mostly have women on here.
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  This this platform is for women, by women with women that there
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  are times where I will bring men on because sometimes topics are
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  just just are are applicable across the board.
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  And when I Logan reached out to me a few months prior to him
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  being I think was last fall 2024.
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  Initially I was very thoughtful and like, huh, this could be a
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  sticky topic if it's not approached with a lot of
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  curiosity and empathy and accountability.
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  And so I had a pretty lengthy meeting with him to make sure I
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  thought that he was really going to speak to it from that lens
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  and, and, and determined that the yes, this was a conversation
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  we were going to have because sexual addiction is much more
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  prevalent. And then we like to talk about
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  and you know, here on this, this platform, I like to talk about
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  the things that we've been told not to talk about because these
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  get in the way, not talking about them and stuffing them get
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  in the way of us living our healthiest, most authentic
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  lives. So we brought Logan on very
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  thoughtful, very a lot of accountability, a lot of
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  resources, a lot of truth and honesty.
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  And he speaks to boundaries really well.
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  So we brought Logan Hufford on, we brought Jen Axe on, and Jen
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  is a firecracker and she's just got so much energy.
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  She's thriving in midlife. She does a lot of work with
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  internal family systems and how those impact our relationships,
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  how those impact our layers, and she speaks to that really well.
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  She's got a book that's going to be coming out soon.
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  There's a ton of energy. So so we had got to share Jen
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  Axe with you, Veronica Williams. What a treasure.
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  She and her husband Darrell work.
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  She we brought Veronica on. Darrell is her her assistant
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  essentially sets up all of her, her podcast and speaking things
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  for her. But he is a retired veteran and
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  they help couples really navigate those tricky areas in
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  relationships. They're very supportive to
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  veterans and their spouses. And Veronica has A and, and
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  Veronica speaks and has a, is just an empathetic heart that is
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  just shows up for people. But had to learn about the
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  importance of boundaries in her own life because she is such a
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  giver and supporter. And she also had to learn and
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  she really helps women, especially women when you're you
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  are your military spouse and you're and you're flying solo
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  quite a bit. Billing, being willing to ask
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  for and receive help. So she talks about the
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  importance of giving from an overflow from a full cup versus
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  an empty one and being willing to ask and receive help.
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  E Paul, another firecracker, big clit energy.
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  If you didn't listen to the episode with E, that should send
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  a spark plug. If you had to go listen to it.
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  She it went on this whole kind of after her divorce in mid
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  life, this whole kind of exploration of the things that
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  had been holding her back in her life and really discovered that
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  experiencing pleasure and understanding how our bodies
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  work and the fact that we have an organ as women called the
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  clitoris. It exists specifically for
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  pleasure and really unpacking the tropes and narratives around
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  sexual health that exists especially for women.
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  Having confidence there's no shame in sexuality and healthy
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  relationships with yourself and, and, and the, the good hormones
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  that pleasure produces, not just sexually, but pleasure in
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  general, whether that's really slowing down to enjoy your food
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  or this sense in the air or the, the visuals of the outside when
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  you're in nature. I mean, there's just so many
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  pieces and components to it. But we've gotten so much
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  improper education about this, starting with our kids when
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  they're in middle school. And so she really talks about
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  that and opens up about that and the importance of proper
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  education around this and that the no shame in this being a
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  part of our life. We were created with this.
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  It's part of our bodies. So we should feel freedom in,
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  but we also need to be educated properly about how our bodies
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  work so we can again, there was no, I mean, the clitoris wasn't
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  even recognized as an organ in the woman's body, I think until
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  the early 2000s. So the research on this, the
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  science behind this is still very new, but a really, really
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  eye opening. A fun episode with E Paul Ellen
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  Smith, our suburban troublemaker.
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  She has the book memoir of a suburban troublemaker.
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  Love the way this book is written, love the way it's laid
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  out. Short chapters, really
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  reflective, really addresses the elements of her time that she
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  was living in in conjunction with the experiences she was
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  having in her everyday life. Whether it's just that those
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  subtle notes of racism and misogyny, misogyny and
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  patriarchy and bigotry that were happening around her that nobody
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  was talking about, but everybody was experiencing.
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  And, and she talks about in this episode the importance of
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  listening to your children and being really good listeners as
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  parents. She's got mommy and me Diaries
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  with her daughters that are places where they can each go in
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  and write their thoughts and connect with each other.
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  So great episodes out there. Beth Sanwin from You've met Beth
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  on our radio show, you've met Beth on our panel shows, You've
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  met Beth now and our podcast this season.
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  She's been a Pilates instructor for years.
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  She dealt with some very serious health issues through this.
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  These early things she had to deal with early on and healing
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  from those. There was a lot of trauma that
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  came with that and she found that through Pilates, she could
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  not only move her body physically, but she could move
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  through her body emotionally and mentally and really have a
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  trauma informed healing approach with her Pilates.
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  And so she introduces that to you Trifecta Pilates.
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  But check out Beth, ton of wisdom in there, especially
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  regarding that mental, emotional, physical health
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  connection. Then we had Comfort Woods and
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  she really fires in on the power of saying no, realizing we're
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  just as important and worthy of care as those were giving care
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  to. Setting boundaries is the kinder
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  thing for people around you to do for people around you.
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  Really hits on that really well. There's other stuff from her,
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  but that's something she really hits on.
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  Lee Schulman. I love Lee.
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  She took a year off to care for herself and reset where she
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  wanted to live from. She called it her year of
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  selfish, so to speak, but it allowed her to assess her life
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  and and see where she was and what was working, what wasn't,
• 24:04
  where she needed healthy boundaries, what her values were
• 24:07
  and how she wanted to live those out moving forward.
• 24:10
  And this was necessary for her because she just got to a a
• 24:13
  place in her life where mentally, physically,
• 24:15
  emotionally, she was felt like she was shutting down and she
• 24:19
  had to kind of go in and save herself.
• 24:22
  And she talks about this and how this allowed her to not only set
• 24:27
  the boundaries, but understand where she needed that.
• 24:30
  And it's a it's such a good episode.
• 24:32
  So check out Lee if you haven't yet.
• 24:34
  Then we had Suzanne Kohlberg. Suzanne is a kick in the pants.
• 24:36
  She joins us from down under in Australia.
• 24:39
  You might know her as the Nope coach.
• 24:41
  She's had that podcast for years, but she's branching out
• 24:44
  more, you know, to a lot more one-on-one work and small
• 24:47
  workshop focused work. She's very boundaries focused
• 24:51
  and she talks about the importance of not skipping the
• 24:54
  pit stops, not skipping that moment where you stop and change
• 24:59
  your tires and get an oil change.
• 25:01
  That applies to us too. Don't skip the pit stops.
• 25:04
  When you pit, skip the pit stops.
• 25:07
  That's a lot to say out loud. Then you not only do you crash
• 25:12
  and burn, but you can take everybody down around you with
• 25:15
  you. So think about it.
• 25:16
  If that's a metaphor that helps you when it comes to yourself
• 25:19
  care, think about those pit stops.
• 25:20
  But Suzanne, she's a kick in the pants.
• 25:22
  Check her out if you haven't yet.
• 25:25
  And if these are episodes you've already checked out, maybe this
• 25:28
  is making you think about, oh, yeah, I missed that part of the
• 25:30
  episode. Maybe I should go back and check
• 25:32
  that out. Remember, we've got those, those
• 25:35
  time stamps in the show notes to pick up those pieces and parts
• 25:38
  that really you're feeling like you need a, a, a little bit or
• 25:42
  support in Carrie Pierce loved Carrie.
• 25:46
  She talks about the concept of a dark empath.
• 25:48
  And what that means is you're highly empowered.
• 25:53
  You are a loving, giving person, but you have created an IQ
• 25:58
  sometimes through hard lessons where you can sniff out the
• 26:02
  predators from a mile away. I mean, the predators that just
• 26:05
  want to prey on your time and your energy without giving back,
• 26:09
  without supporting you, without honoring your boundaries.
• 26:11
  She talks about that in a really meaningful way that's super
• 26:14
  supportive and helpful through a lot of her own experiences.
• 26:18
  Arlene Miller. I loved what Arlene said about
• 26:21
  this. You know, I think I run into
• 26:23
  people sometimes when they hear the word expectations or
• 26:27
  boundaries. For them personally, that has
• 26:29
  kind of meaning. For Arlene, expectations feels
• 26:33
  like judgments. Our friend Doctor Fanny Label on
• 26:36
  Jere wrote a blog last year about the word boundaries
• 26:39
  triggers her. So they found other words and
• 26:42
  ways to describe those same meanings.
• 26:45
  So she's still living out of her own expectations, but she's got
• 26:49
  a different way of talking about it.
• 26:51
  And, and, and she really focuses in on how words are important
• 26:55
  and it's important for us to, to when those words trigger us,
• 26:59
  like, OK, but what's, what's the actual meaning versus my story
• 27:03
  in it? And what are other words I can
• 27:04
  use around that by still applying this principle to my
• 27:08
  life, still knowing what, what I want out of my life versus what
• 27:13
  others have been telling me I should want out of my life.
• 27:16
  So technically expectations and she calls them adaptable plans,
• 27:20
  but it's just a good reminder of those words trigger you look at
• 27:25
  the deeper meaning behind them and find words that work for
• 27:27
  you. So if you're not a fan of
• 27:30
  expectations, she's got adaptable plans.
• 27:32
  If you're not a fan of boundaries, maybe it's Guidepost
• 27:37
  or our friend Cat Newport. In the very next episode after
• 27:41
  Arlene, she calls them living Hedges has a metaphor for
• 27:46
  boundaries. And Kat really talks to us about
• 27:48
  the No More Good Girl syndrome as well.
• 27:51
  And she talks about the boundaries and that remembering
• 27:55
  that they can feel uncomfortable in the beginning.
• 27:58
  Sometimes you might bump up against people that aren't used
• 28:03
  to you showing up that way and your people pleasing nature
• 28:05
  might try to tell you that it's a bad idea when in actuality is
• 28:09
  just everybody adjusting to this new healthy way you're showing
• 28:14
  up. But she living hedges is another
• 28:16
  way. Boundaries is a word that rubs
• 28:19
  you the wrong way. Stacey Olson then joined us and
• 28:23
  she she really hit a reset on her life.
• 28:26
  She was working full time at her business with kids, at home,
• 28:33
  with a partner, and she had no boundaries around her time.
• 28:37
  And she got to a point where she was burning out, but it was also
• 28:41
  impacting her relationships at home.
• 28:44
  And she realized she had to do a reset.
• 28:47
  And she was. So she started.
• 28:48
  She talked about in the episode she started with this simple
• 28:51
  practice of simply not working outside of business hours and
• 28:57
  how from there that led her to see that when she actually
• 29:01
  started doing that and allowed her time to refresh and reset
• 29:06
  and fill her cup and spend time in meaningful relationships,
• 29:10
  connecting with her people. That when she was working, she
• 29:14
  was actually more in tune, more present, more creative, juices
• 29:20
  flowing, more productive in less time because she took that time
• 29:24
  to refill and connect with the things that filled her cup.
• 29:27
  So great episode talking about that.
• 29:30
  Our good friend Tara Temple, who you've met on the radio show, on
• 29:34
  the Lay on the Layer show, the panel show, and now on the
• 29:39
  podcast. And she is just the most wise,
• 29:43
  intuitive, tender hearted woman. I love Tara and she really hits
• 29:49
  on how letting go of how others perceive you especially and a
• 29:54
  little bit what we heard a couple episodes earlier from Cat
• 29:58
  Newport, but a little bit devoid.
• 29:59
  This is more, you know, in your family systems and and really
• 30:03
  realizing that when you start studying new healthy boundaries,
• 30:06
  especially the older generations who are very said in their ways,
• 30:11
  have been told there's only a certain way to do things and
• 30:14
  might be fearful of what stepping outside that looks like
• 30:18
  because it's never been an option.
• 30:20
  They were presented where you may have to be a little gentler
• 30:23
  with those as you, but that doesn't mean you don't honor
• 30:27
  yourself in showing up the way that you need to.
• 30:31
  Leslie Droppen, another one that speaks really well the
• 30:34
  boundaries, talks about her own healing journey, talks about how
• 30:40
  she really implements cycle planning around, you know, with
• 30:46
  her cycles and how she's able to show up throughout the month
• 30:50
  into her into this episode. She speaks so, so well to that.
• 30:54
  And we'll talk about that more in a minute as I go through
• 30:56
  talking points and things. We heard Andrea pass.
• 31:01
  She really uses her calendar as as her boundaries protector.
• 31:06
  So she uses cowardly. She sets her time in her
• 31:10
  calendar when she's available and when she's not.
• 31:12
  And she's very strict, may not be the right word, but very
• 31:17
  committed to if I'm available in my calendar, then I'm available.
• 31:22
  If I'm not available in my calendar, do not reach out to me
• 31:25
  and ask for time outside of that, because my calendar is
• 31:29
  what protects my time. Now if I reach out to you and
• 31:33
  ask you for time outside of that, that's something I've
• 31:36
  chosen to do. So I've done that.
• 31:38
  That's a choice I've made. I've determined that I have the
• 31:41
  bandwidth for that. But I thought the way she uses
• 31:44
  her calendar is really strategic and really smart and really puts
• 31:48
  it in play, protects her from maybe herself at times when she
• 31:52
  wants to put more in there then she's got the time or bandwidth
• 31:54
  for. We've got to meet our friend
• 31:57
  Lisa McCourt. What a joy.
• 31:58
  Lisa is literally a joy, no pun intended.
• 32:01
  She has the Joy School and she's also AP Flag regional president,
• 32:07
  so an advocate in her life. She has a transgender daughter
• 32:10
  and that's really brought her on this journey of being the P Flag
• 32:15
  president. But in the Joy School, she
• 32:16
  really works with women, helping them tap into all of those
• 32:22
  spaces and places that they've been stuffing for years, those
• 32:26
  emotions they've been stuffing, those childhood wounds they've
• 32:29
  been carrying. And she really helps them unpack
• 32:32
  those, identify where some of these root behaviors came from
• 32:38
  and helps them face them. A lot of what we talk about in
• 32:41
  layers, where we unpack our layers, we get curious about
• 32:45
  them rather than judgmental so that we can meet them, see them,
• 32:49
  move through them, and no longer have shame and embarrassment and
• 32:54
  anger and sadness and fear wrapped around them.
• 32:57
  And so. And Lisa's just just her kind
• 33:02
  wise spirit just exudes off her. So check out that episode if you
• 33:06
  haven't gotten to be with her yet.
• 33:08
  Kelda music love Kelda. She is hitting on all cylinders
• 33:12
  right now. She works in the entertainment
• 33:14
  industry. She's a journey woman in the
• 33:17
  entertainment industry. Follow her on socials,
• 33:19
  especially on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram.
• 33:22
  She's got a lot going on in the world right now.
• 33:24
  She's based out of the Bay Area but works down in in Southern
• 33:27
  California at times too. But she talks about a a gem that
• 33:31
  I really took from that episode. And I invite you to go back and
• 33:34
  revisit is be the same person you are with everyone you meet.
• 33:41
  And she talks about, and that can be difficult.
• 33:43
  She's a black woman in the entertainment industry.
• 33:45
  So she there's a lot of challenges that come with that.
• 33:50
  But that that powerful gem of be the same person you are.
• 33:53
  And she talks a lot about the layers journey too, and what she
• 33:57
  has learned about her layers and how her relationship with her
• 34:02
  layers impacts how well she shows up in the world.
• 34:06
  So it hits on that really well. Joel Holman, she talks all about
• 34:11
  the importance of seeing the case by case nuance in life,
• 34:15
  allowing the Gray not everything's black and white.
• 34:19
  So flexibility, even as we have these expectations and we have
• 34:23
  our healthy boundaries and we have our values in our why.
• 34:27
  Also within that, recognizing the nuance in life and that
• 34:31
  sometimes we've got to shift and sometimes you've got to be a
• 34:34
  flexible and to be able to meet life and where we might be in
• 34:40
  the moment might be a little different than a normal.
• 34:42
  So she talks about that really beautifully.
• 34:45
  Then our good friend Amy Donovan comes on.
• 34:48
  I love Amy so much. You've met Amy on the radio
• 34:52
  show. You've met Amy on our panels on
• 34:56
  Together We Feel. And now we got to bring Amy on
• 34:59
  the podcast this season. She's a boudoir photographer.
• 35:02
  She has a hilarious story about how she fell into that
• 35:06
  accidentally when a client whose family she'd been photographing
• 35:10
  for several years asked her to do a boudoir session with her.
• 35:14
  And Amy's like, she's like being the people pleaser I was at the
• 35:16
  time. I said yes, and then I had to go
• 35:18
  home and Google boudoir. Hilarious.
• 35:21
  But she talks about, I love this so much because she talks about
• 35:25
  what she has learned about the clients she works with and how
• 35:30
  it's shifted from. Are these photos for you so you
• 35:36
  can see yourself beautifully? Because she's had experiences
• 35:40
  where she's had clients come in to do photos.
• 35:43
  It's very common to do boudoir photography photos for your
• 35:46
  partner as a gift to them. And, and there's been times
• 35:50
  where women have been very disappointed by their partners
• 35:54
  responses and how hurtful. And so it really shifted her
• 35:58
  thinking of like, I want this to be an empowering session for
• 36:01
  women. So I want to talk to them when
• 36:03
  they come and approach me about this, about the importance of
• 36:06
  them doing this for themselves and the importance of them
• 36:10
  seeing themselves as beautiful and not believing all of these
• 36:16
  narratives that we hear about our bodies that are out in the
• 36:19
  world that are so harmful and so hurtful.
• 36:21
  So love, love, love and, and, and so much more.
• 36:25
  Wonderful, wonderful episode. Our friend Laura Helgerson,
• 36:28
  you've also heard from in our radio show last fall.
• 36:31
  She's going to be on a panel with this coming up this fall
• 36:34
  talking about this more. But her background is in urinary
• 36:38
  tract infections, both with the the struggle she's had with them
• 36:42
  throughout her life. And now she's working to
• 36:45
  advocate for women and provide resources in collaboration with
• 36:50
  other women across the world to help you know what to ask your
• 36:54
  doctor to help you know all the different support and resources
• 36:57
  that are out there for you to help you and remind you of the
• 37:01
  importance of advocating for yourself and medical setting.
• 37:06
  So many times as women, we get told it's all in our heads or we
• 37:12
  get it's minimize what we're experiencing in some ways.
• 37:16
  And let me mind you, the research on women's bodies
• 37:20
  didn't even start really with the NIH until 1992.
• 37:25
  I want to say. And there's like I said earlier,
• 37:28
  the clitoris and that organ in our body wasn't even included in
• 37:32
  any research until 10 years later in the early 2000s.
• 37:35
  So research is way behind. And there we've spent years as
• 37:39
  women being treated with our bodies, being treated with the
• 37:44
  knowledge that's been used from research that was dead on men's
• 37:47
  bodies. I don't have to tell you all
• 37:49
  that our bodies are not the same.
• 37:52
  So Laura speaks really strongly to that.
• 37:55
  So check that out. Tons of resources there.
• 37:58
  And make sure you check out our panel because she's bringing a
• 38:00
  couple of other women with her that help her in the advocacy.
• 38:04
  And then we're going to have our friend Isabella Foer, who's been
• 38:08
  with us in the past on the podcast panels and radio show.
• 38:12
  She's going to talk about how she helps women and, and how
• 38:16
  they're moving their bodies and feeling their bodies and fueling
• 38:18
  their bodies when they're dealing with urinary tract
• 38:20
  infection. So there's going to be a lot of
• 38:22
  great information. We're going to have a
• 38:23
  gynecologist that I just met recently here in Fresno where I
• 38:28
  live. She's going to join us for this
• 38:30
  conversation. So that's going to be coming up
• 38:32
  on November 3rd. But if you want to get resources
• 38:35
  right now for the UT TI issue that if you haven't had one, I
• 38:40
  guarantee you know people that have and they're, this is one of
• 38:43
  those things that we don't talk about enough.
• 38:46
  It's kind of one of those, you know, it, there's a lot of
• 38:49
  stigma and silence, kind of like what there's been years for with
• 38:53
  periods and menopause and infertility.
• 38:56
  That same stigma exists around UTI's.
• 38:58
  We got to blow the lid off of that and start talking about
• 39:01
  these things. And then we brought Vista
• 39:04
  Hurlbut on. I love Vista, tons of energy.
• 39:08
  We have a great conversation. Let me see where, Let me find my
• 39:13
  best in the other app. And she talks a lot about
• 39:16
  embracing her authenticity, living out of her own
• 39:19
  expectations, loving yourself well.
• 39:22
  And so great to have Vista on with us.
• 39:25
  And then Jennifer Johnson joins us, our superstar nurse that
• 39:29
  lives up in Canada to our friends to the north here in the
• 39:32
  US. She gets very authentic, very
• 39:36
  open. She's hilarious.
• 39:38
  I laughed so much in this episode.
• 39:40
  She talks about the importance of sleep and the the irony that
• 39:44
  in the medical health profession, you're asked as
• 39:48
  medical health professionals to push yourself to the NTH degree
• 39:52
  beyond capacity with these crazy hours and schedules and lack of
• 39:57
  sleep. Yet you're taking care of people
• 39:59
  to help them maintain their health, but you're not telling
• 40:02
  your doctors and nurses to live in a healthy way.
• 40:05
  There's just such a contradiction happening in this
• 40:08
  world and she dives into it. She's now become a source.
• 40:12
  For health professionals, she learned so much through her time
• 40:16
  through COVID. She learned so much through her
• 40:19
  time and her own family and her own partnership and, and being a
• 40:23
  mom of what she needed, what she needed to ask for, what she
• 40:28
  needed to demand for herself in those scenarios.
• 40:32
  But she has, she goes around now teaching these classes and
• 40:35
  resources on supporting members of the healthcare community.
• 40:39
  She's just a ton of fun. She's in what she now calls her
• 40:43
  villain era, and you got to hear her explain that it's just
• 40:47
  hilarious to spend some time with Jennifer Johnson.
• 40:50
  We recently were so fortunate to receive third place in the Women
• 40:57
  Who Podcast Magazine Awards, and ours was the Sheer Honesty
• 41:04
  category. And Jennifer Johnson's clip was
• 41:07
  the one that I submitted along with our friend Doctor Pooja
• 41:11
  Shah that was with us last in spring of 2024.
• 41:16
  They their two clips are the ones I submitted for those
• 41:18
  categories. And no shock at all that those
• 41:22
  clips and that the sheer honesty that and authenticity and
• 41:26
  vulnerability and truth that they brought, we're a huge
• 41:31
  contributor to us receiving that honor.
• 41:34
  So huge shout out to them and their willingness to come on.
• 41:37
  I sort of love about these guests, their willingness to
• 41:39
  come on and share with us their stories, their resources, to be
• 41:45
  authentic, to be honest, to be vulnerable.
• 41:50
  And I owe everything to these women because without them being
• 41:54
  willing to come on and have these conversations with me, we
• 41:56
  would not have a network that started so, so thankful to them.
• 42:01
  Our friend Amy Taylor. I love Amy Taylor.
• 42:03
  Amy's got her own podcast. Check out the resources page on
• 42:08
  embracinglayers.com to learn about her.
• 42:10
  Follow her podcast. She talks about mental health
• 42:13
  days, the importance of taking them, what it's like to live as
• 42:17
  a neuro divergent neuro spicy Mama, life and self-care, taking
• 42:23
  good care of herself through this, to learning to advocate
• 42:26
  for herself, continuing to honor her journey day-to-day and meet
• 42:30
  herself where she is. What it was like to get a later
• 42:33
  in life diagnosis with some of these things and how eye opening
• 42:36
  that was. Super powerful, vulnerable
• 42:39
  episode there. Make sure you check out that out
• 42:42
  and check out all that Amy's doing.
• 42:44
  Just support women in these areas.
• 42:46
  Our friend Lynette Weldon. Oh, you met Lynette in the fall.
• 42:50
  If you follow our radio show, she is a caregiver.
• 42:55
  She's been. She started watching her mom
• 42:58
  take care of her father when she was in high school and then it
• 43:02
  moved to having her own special needs child that is an adult
• 43:08
  now. But she still lives with her to
• 43:09
  this day until cares for her to this day and all that she's
• 43:13
  learned about being a caregiver and she's providing resources
• 43:17
  much like our friend Erin Copeland, but in her own way,
• 43:19
  she brings a different lens to it.
• 43:21
  Erin's care and her experiences were for her taking care of her
• 43:25
  husband and then later her grandparents, which she's been
• 43:29
  doing lately. Linds comes from watching her
• 43:31
  mom care for her dad. But then Linds had a special
• 43:34
  needs child, but also two other children that she was raising
• 43:38
  that she still needed to tend to and care for.
• 43:40
  She's just got a whole list of resources.
• 43:42
  So she really, really hits home the importance of loving
• 43:46
  yourself well, loving yourself fiercely and taking care of
• 43:51
  yourself, understanding that you as the caregiver must make time
• 43:56
  for you to give from an overflow so you don't burn yourself out.
• 44:01
  It's not only the one you're caring for that needs the care.
• 44:05
  You need the care so that you are coming from an authentic,
• 44:08
  healthy place and those you're caring for are getting the
• 44:11
  healthiest version of you with that.
• 44:14
  So great there, my friend Marissa's widow.
• 44:17
  You've heard from Marissa on the radio show, on the panels, and
• 44:21
  now on the podcast. Marissa really blows the lid off
• 44:24
  something that has to be talked about more.
• 44:27
  And it's the expectations that we send women out there in the
• 44:32
  world regarding what having a baby is going to be like versus
• 44:37
  what it's actually like. And then also talking about that
• 44:43
  postpartum health. It's not only postpartum
• 44:48
  depression that happens, it's other there's anxiety that comes
• 44:53
  up from the big changes. There can be depression that
• 44:56
  comes up from disconnection than the life we used to have and the
• 45:00
  life that we have now. And it's not the same thing as
• 45:03
  postpartum depression. And many times they try to, in
• 45:07
  the healthcare world, they try to lump that all together, the
• 45:10
  importance of separating out what's happening so that you can
• 45:13
  get the support and resources you need.
• 45:15
  And she's become an advocate for this.
• 45:18
  She's a therapist herself. And so I think, you know, so
• 45:21
  many times, and I've talked to therapists before, like you have
• 45:24
  all these resources and then these things happen to you.
• 45:27
  And then you really learn about the resources that you need and
• 45:31
  how the ones that you knew about are serving you.
• 45:35
  But there's also necessity or even deeper conversations and
• 45:39
  more resources beyond that. So love Marissa's truth.
• 45:44
  It's motherhood without the mask, identity, boundaries and
• 45:47
  postpartum truths. Make sure you check that out.
• 45:51
  Even if if this has not been your experience, I guarantee you
• 45:54
  might know someone just going to help you see the signs and to be
• 45:57
  able to tell the difference between postpartum depression
• 46:00
  versus someone who's just anxious and tired and Mora
• 46:04
  exhausted and burned out and a little disillusioned because
• 46:07
  maybe this postpartum experience isn't what she was told it was
• 46:11
  going to be. And then we get to meet my
• 46:13
  friend Kelly Martin Pierce. I met Callie here in Fresno
• 46:18
  through the Fresno's County Women's Chamber.
• 46:22
  She is about the age of my daughters, but I connected with
• 46:25
  Kelly right away. She talks.
• 46:28
  She goes into companies and helps them establish holistic
• 46:32
  Wellness programs. She started out in HR.
• 46:36
  She saw the need for these Wellness programs to have more
• 46:39
  attention, more focus. So that your work culture can be
• 46:44
  holistically healthy. So that your work culture can be
• 46:48
  1, where you're exuding that you not only care about what your
• 46:51
  company is producing, but do you care about the people that are
• 46:55
  doing the producing, that they're well and healthy.
• 46:58
  She helps you with that. She also does one-on-one
• 47:00
  coaching. She's very passionate about
• 47:02
  women dealing themselves well, having a healthy relationship
• 47:06
  with movement, having a healthy relationship with food, not this
• 47:10
  diet culture BS that we hear about.
• 47:13
  She's got a ton of wisdom and a ton of resources and she talks a
• 47:17
  lot about overcoming people pleasing and guilt to releasing
• 47:22
  the guilt, setting those healthy boundaries, embracing that
• 47:26
  journaling's a big thing she does.
• 47:29
  It really helps her move through self doubt and those things
• 47:31
  she's struggling with. Really great, great episode with
• 47:34
  Callie Pierce. You got to hear from me and my
• 47:38
  original Co founder Valencia San Louie back in July.
• 47:41
  It was really fun to do that four year anniversary episode
• 47:44
  with her. It was really telling for me to
• 47:47
  be able to go through the talking points with Valencia and
• 47:51
  answer those questions myself. So if you're really curious
• 47:54
  about what I personally think and I'm experiencing right now
• 47:58
  with the talking points, go back and visit that episode.
• 48:01
  We did it live, but now it's available on all of our podcast
• 48:04
  platforms. So it was a ton of fun to do
• 48:06
  that with her. I brought our friend Valerie
• 48:09
  Rivera back. You met Valerie in Season 4 and
• 48:13
  she's got some new iterations that she is created within her
• 48:17
  therapy practice, much more holistic.
• 48:19
  She's got all kinds of, besides the therapy itself, she's got
• 48:23
  all of these other somatic healing things that are
• 48:28
  happening within her practice that she's always been her
• 48:32
  dream. And now she finally had the
• 48:34
  opportunity, got the financial support she needed to make this
• 48:38
  expansion and offer this even broader space for people to come
• 48:44
  in and heal. She's also doing workshops in
• 48:48
  with couples and working with them.
• 48:51
  And you can do what's the word I'm looking for, like weekend
• 48:56
  getaways. This is not the, I'm not coming
• 48:58
  up with the right language right now retreats.
• 49:02
  She's doing couples retreats. She's got this whole expensive
• 49:05
  practice. She is in Texas.
• 49:07
  She can only work with you in Texas in terms of her therapy.
• 49:11
  But if you want to be part of one of her retreats, couples
• 49:14
  retreats, you can travel from anywhere when, wherever the
• 49:17
  retreat happens to to. So check that out.
• 49:19
  We get an update from her, what she's learned about her life and
• 49:25
  this new expansion and being able to meet this dream.
• 49:28
  She talks about how her values have really shaped this holistic
• 49:33
  therapy approach. And then we got to visit with my
• 49:36
  good friend Kim Mosman. I met Kim in the fall of 2024,
• 49:40
  so almost a year ago. She and I, she's just one of
• 49:43
  those people. We're similar in age.
• 49:46
  Our kids are similar in age. We're in this kind of same,
• 49:49
  similar season in life, and we just hit it off.
• 49:51
  I felt like I'd known her my whole life.
• 49:53
  She helps. She's not only written her own
• 49:56
  books, Reflections of Joy just hit its one year anniversary in
• 50:00
  the spring. She's got this, my owner's
• 50:03
  manual, it's right here. I love this thing.
• 50:06
  It's a journal. It's a a workbook that helps you
• 50:11
  think through where you are and where you want to be.
• 50:16
  It's a great place to keep notes for what's going on in your body
• 50:21
  and your mind and your spirit right now.
• 50:24
  Are there things coming up that are that are a problem and
• 50:27
  you're trying to track patterns? It's really helpful when you go
• 50:30
  to the doctor or the therapist. I'm like, I'm experiencing these
• 50:33
  things right now. These seem to be the triggers.
• 50:35
  These seem to be what's coming up.
• 50:38
  Can you help me figure out what's rooted in them?
• 50:40
  I mean, it's just a really holistic, it's called my owner's
• 50:43
  manual. Highly recommended.
• 50:44
  I love mine. It's big, it's thick, but oh, so
• 50:47
  good. And Kim and I, we talked about
• 50:50
  her journey. We talked about healthy
• 50:51
  boundaries, finding joy and the daily intentions around it, and
• 50:56
  learning to choose yourself every day.
• 50:58
  She and our friend Rachel Lavin have kicked off their own
• 51:01
  podcasts together. You got to check that out.
• 51:04
  Go to theresourcespage@embracinglayers.com
• 51:06
  to check out the link for that. They met on a panel with me last
• 51:12
  fall, which I love. So that's another thing that's
• 51:15
  come out of our podcast this spring is people that have met
• 51:18
  on our platform have now created their own and continue as well
• 51:22
  to partner and network with us through panels and support.
• 51:25
  Kim is the one who suggested to me that I should have a workbook
• 51:30
  with the online course, and she put that work.
• 51:33
  She took all my notes, all my scribbling at all in the in the
• 51:37
  video. She was on my beta team for the
• 51:39
  online course to kind of help me put that together.
• 51:41
  I had a wonderful group of women from our network that you've all
• 51:44
  met on here. If you've been following us for
• 51:46
  a while, that helped me. And we're really the
• 51:48
  accountability and eyes and ears and that and she's like, you
• 51:51
  need a workbook in three days. She put that thing together,
• 51:53
  that workbook that you can get now when you go to
• 51:56
  embracinglayers.com, when you go to our online course page that
• 52:00
  was created by our friend Kim. So thankful to her and the
• 52:03
  partner she's been and the friend that she's become, but
• 52:06
  she's got some super great wisdom to share with you.
• 52:08
  So check out that episode with Kim, Unbreakable Day.
• 52:13
  Holy cow, guys, this story, if you don't listen to any other
• 52:18
  episode from season 8, you've got to go back and listen to the
• 52:23
  episode with Naseem Rochette. She literally has a day each May
• 52:30
  she calls her Unbreakable Day because of an accident that she
• 52:34
  was in. Oh gosh, was it 201829?
• 52:38
  I'm forgetting how many years ago now.
• 52:39
  This is what happens when you have so many episodes.
• 52:41
  Five to seven years ago, this, this, this happened.
• 52:44
  It plays out like a movie that you would see on Netflix.
• 52:47
  I'm not kidding. It is just the wildest thing
• 52:51
  I've ever heard. But her story and healing behind
• 52:54
  it was she learned about her life and herself, her
• 52:57
  relationships. It's really just impactful.
• 53:01
  So you got to check that out. It's called unbreakable day,
• 53:04
  surviving trauma and embracing healing with Nassim Rochette.
• 53:09
  Oh, Lana, we brought our friend Lana Manikowski back.
• 53:11
  What a gift she is to the world. You met Lana in the spring of
• 53:15
  2024 for the first time on the podcast when and she reached out
• 53:19
  to me a few minutes prior to that maybe fall 2023, talking
• 53:24
  about being a guest, sharing her infertility journey and and
• 53:28
  really even more so, sharing her journey after infertility and
• 53:33
  the resources she has created for women for couples to utilize
• 53:39
  after they come out of this infertility journey.
• 53:42
  Because she found they released her from her last clinic visit,
• 53:47
  wrapping everything up and sent her on her way with no
• 53:50
  resources, no therapy recommendations, no book
• 53:54
  recommendations, no support group, nothing.
• 53:58
  Just send her out the door, which can be a very dangerous
• 54:00
  thing to do when you've been on an infertility journey and
• 54:03
  you've tried all the things you can try and they're they've told
• 54:07
  you it's not going to work. You can be in a very, very
• 54:12
  difficult, fragile emotional mental health space.
• 54:17
  And for me, to me, it's quite frankly irresponsible that there
• 54:21
  has not been more provided for these women and couples as they
• 54:26
  walk out the door. Well, Lana, like so many great
• 54:29
  women, decided to be the solution.
• 54:32
  And she started with getting, she created a podcast to talk
• 54:36
  about it. And then she got coaching
• 54:38
  certified. She can, you know, grief
• 54:40
  coaching and counseling and advising.
• 54:42
  She works with women one-on-one coaching wise.
• 54:45
  And now this last spring, she's released a book and and we
• 54:49
  brought her on the sub stack live.
• 54:51
  She's going to be part of the book club coming up in the fall
• 54:55
  2025 into spring 2026 and this. And she does this amazing event
• 55:01
  in Chicago every Mother's Day weekend.
• 55:04
  It's on the Saturday, the day before Mother's Day.
• 55:07
  It's called the Other's Day Brunch and it's to bring women
• 55:10
  together. She hits really home with, we
• 55:13
  are valuable as women, period, whether we have children or not,
• 55:18
  whether we're married or not, period.
• 55:22
  And there is a there is a grief that can happen with it, with
• 55:27
  this realization. If you've been dreaming of being
• 55:29
  a mother and after years you find out you can't, what do you
• 55:32
  do with that grief? How do you move forward?
• 55:34
  How do you move forward with your partner in a healthy way?
• 55:37
  How do you embrace this, this part of you this season?
• 55:40
  She's just got so many resources.
• 55:42
  Check out Lonnie, even if you're not someone personally who's
• 55:45
  experienced this, you may. I'm sure you know someone.
• 55:50
  Wonderful resource, beautiful human.
• 55:52
  Just just a blessing. Oh, my new friends, Doctor
• 55:56
  Janelle Wells and Doctor Doreen McCauley.
• 55:58
  Their new book are invisible work, emotional intelligence,
• 56:03
  leadership and empowerment. You got to check out the book.
• 56:06
  You got to listen to Doreen and Janelle episode if you haven't
• 56:10
  already. It's just packed full of so much
• 56:13
  wisdom. They have done a lot of research
• 56:16
  on this. They have their own company that
• 56:20
  they've started that Janelle started and Doreen's joined her
• 56:22
  with other team members called the Wellsquest where they go in
• 56:25
  and help corporations with healthy cultures.
• 56:27
  They provide leadership training for that mid level management
• 56:30
  area, tons of resources. They wrote an episode in
• 56:34
  Psychology Today earlier this spring about weaponized
• 56:38
  gratitude. That came up with them when they
• 56:40
  were on a panel with me earlier this spring and they were.
• 56:44
  So they so kindly cited me, quoted me and that, but this
• 56:48
  invisible for women, this is all the work we don't get paid for
• 56:52
  and, and many in marginalized communities as well, All those
• 56:55
  things that are happening around us that sometimes just an A
• 56:58
  simple thank you or sometimes it needs to be added to our job
• 57:03
  description and we actually need to get paid for it.
• 57:05
  There's all different versions of it.
• 57:07
  But what they found in their research is the lack of
• 57:10
  acknowledgement of the invisible work is having a very, very
• 57:15
  serious impact on our health, on those that are doing the work.
• 57:19
  And so very important. Check that out.
• 57:23
  Grishma Shah, our friend Pooja Shah, who you've met on here,
• 57:26
  introduced me to Grishma Shah. They're not related, but
• 57:30
  introduced me to Grishma. She is doctor Grishma Shah.
• 57:33
  She's a professor at Manhattan College in, in the Business
• 57:38
  School there. And she's also an A a fiction
• 57:42
  author, which is unusual to find those in the academic world be
• 57:47
  many are non fiction authors because of all the research
• 57:49
  they've done and all the the educational, you know, books
• 57:53
  they put out there. But she's also got this other
• 57:55
  side to her that really tells, even though it's fiction, it
• 57:58
  really tells the story of her family, her immigration story
• 58:01
  and and her thoughtfulness through this.
• 58:03
  She's so smart, She's so intuitive, she's so insightful.
• 58:08
  Check out this. And her book is also going to be
• 58:10
  part of our upcoming book club. Oh, my friend Tina Mystery, I
• 58:15
  think you're out there listening.
• 58:16
  Tina, you know I love you. I met Tina through our Fresno
• 58:23
  County Women's Chamber of Commerce.
• 58:25
  More of those gyms are coming in our next season and season 9.
• 58:29
  And Tina is just she's a powerhouse.
• 58:32
  She's she leads a financial advising company here in Fresno.
• 58:39
  She helps women understand their finances, she works with couples
• 58:46
  and she makes sure that both of them are included in the
• 58:50
  conversation and in the discussion of understanding
• 58:53
  their finances. She knows how empowering and
• 58:55
  important that is. She was with me in a panel that
• 58:59
  kicked off the new year talking about the importance of
• 59:02
  financial education, the impact that this has on your health.
• 59:05
  But she also shares her own story in this of, of, of her,
• 59:10
  you know, learning from her parents, you know, being the
• 59:14
  first one to go out and live her life.
• 59:16
  She comes from a back, you know, Indian family and how their way
• 59:22
  of doing things, especially, you know, is a little different than
• 59:25
  her way of doing things now as she's living here, doing this
• 59:29
  work outside of the home in a less traditional way than our
• 59:33
  family's accustomed to. And the things that we can bump
• 59:36
  up against as immigrant kids with immigrant parents and the
• 59:39
  ways that we adjust and move through meeting our expectations
• 59:44
  versus their expectations and the pressure that's on.
• 59:46
  We've heard this conversation, you know, before with our friend
• 59:50
  Pooja Shah and we've heard this conversation before with our
• 59:54
  friend Paula Chorizo, You know, so this is a really important,
• 59:59
  honest conversation. Wonderful human.
• 1:00:02
  If you live in Fresno County, give Tina a call.
• 1:00:05
  Let her help you. She is a trusted financial
• 1:00:08
  advisor. She's not going to mess with
• 1:00:10
  you. She's going to be, it's going to
• 1:00:11
  be straight up. She cares about the relationship
• 1:00:14
  with you. She wants to know you and be a
• 1:00:18
  helper in your life, a supporter of your health in your life, and
• 1:00:21
  by understanding your financials well and how she can support you
• 1:00:25
  through that. Anat Perry, what a powerhouse.
• 1:00:28
  We found out Anat and I met via Podmatch.
• 1:00:32
  She she explains nervous system connection and how our nervous
• 1:00:39
  system moves through emotions and how we can move through and
• 1:00:43
  process them in a healthy way. The best way I've ever heard.
• 1:00:46
  She takes all this sciency researchy language out of it and
• 1:00:50
  really breaks it down in such a helpful, it's like a master
• 1:00:54
  class. And she, that's what her work is
• 1:00:56
  really tied into. And she not only she helps
• 1:00:59
  women, but she helps people like beat like.
• 1:01:01
  So if I want to really go and get connected, like I'm advising
• 1:01:04
  all these other people, I'm helping all these other people,
• 1:01:06
  but I need to really reconnect with myself.
• 1:01:08
  She helps with that. She and I found out that we both
• 1:01:12
  know Lulu Egg and I got to be part of Lulu's speaking virtual
• 1:01:19
  speaking event last June, and she was part of Lulu's speaking
• 1:01:23
  event the year before. So we made connections through
• 1:01:25
  Lulu. She's just released a Ted talk.
• 1:01:27
  It's connected on her resources page.
• 1:01:30
  It talks about this emotional mastery and nervous system
• 1:01:34
  healing really pointedly, but she really breaks it down so
• 1:01:38
  well in the episode. So check that out.
• 1:01:40
  It is super helpful and it's super applicable.
• 1:01:43
  We can all do this, we can all do this.
• 1:01:45
  So it really feeds into our mental, emotional, physical
• 1:01:48
  health talking quite beautifully.
• 1:01:50
  Oh, my wise friend Glenn Alex, what a what a treasure she is.
• 1:01:56
  She's a therapist. She's really helps people in
• 1:01:59
  living in total Wellness. She's got the Glenn Alex show.
• 1:02:03
  She is so authentic, so honest, so full of wisdom and knowledge.
• 1:02:09
  Such a great authentic conversation.
• 1:02:11
  She talks about what it's like to be a, a black woman in in
• 1:02:15
  America right now and all the noise that's happening and how
• 1:02:18
  unsafe that can feel. And so how she not only is a
• 1:02:22
  service to others, but how she's able to take these resources she
• 1:02:25
  has to support herself. Just a wonderful conversation.
• 1:02:30
  Oh, Anna Prizy, if you want to look up unapologetic in the
• 1:02:33
  dictionary, Unapologetic Anna Prize is going to be next to it.
• 1:02:38
  That's who you're going to see. She's the one that's going to
• 1:02:40
  show up. She did a live shift a few years
• 1:02:43
  ago where that that old script, you hear me talk about the old
• 1:02:46
  scripts a lot was not serving her.
• 1:02:49
  And so she flipped that script and she started living life out
• 1:02:54
  of her own expectations, her values, her why she's absolutely
• 1:02:59
  hilarious, has a huge TikTok in YouTube folly.
• 1:03:02
  You got to go check out her videos.
• 1:03:04
  They're just hilarious. But have a wonderful
• 1:03:06
  conversation and Anna brings you her podcast daily, many times
• 1:03:11
  from her own bed where she's comfy and cozy with all of her
• 1:03:14
  pillows and her big microphone. She's just a joy.
• 1:03:18
  Go check out Anna. Just just a joy.
• 1:03:21
  Oh, our good friend Amy Orr. Amy and Cheryl were with us last
• 1:03:25
  week. We'll get to Cheryl in a minute.
• 1:03:27
  They helped me wrap up season 8 with our guest.
• 1:03:30
  Amy talks about menstrual health and she goes into school.
• 1:03:35
  She comes to us from the Emerald Isle.
• 1:03:37
  She lives in Waterford, Ireland. She goes into the schools there
• 1:03:40
  and educates girls and boys about Minstrel Hall.
• 1:03:45
  She's got a great little diagram that she uses.
• 1:03:47
  It's very user friendly, very teach friendly, not that cold
• 1:03:53
  kind of pictures you see on the wall.
• 1:03:55
  It's very relatable. And she was able to really give
• 1:03:59
  them a full education, invite their curiosity, help them to
• 1:04:04
  have accurate information. And so we talk about that.
• 1:04:08
  We talk about period products that are sustainable that she is
• 1:04:13
  a supplier of and that's where she started before she went into
• 1:04:16
  the the educating part. But we it's a full ranging
• 1:04:19
  conversation. We talk about gender roles and
• 1:04:23
  identities. We talk about relationships and
• 1:04:25
  roles and relationships. We talk about parenting and
• 1:04:28
  motherhood and parenthood and sharing load.
• 1:04:32
  We just get into all we talk about sexual health and we just
• 1:04:35
  get into all the pieces and parts of all of these topics
• 1:04:39
  we've been told not to talk about, but that we need to be
• 1:04:41
  talking about so we can be healthy and not be alone in
• 1:04:45
  these conversations and have the resources we need and support we
• 1:04:49
  need to to to navigate this in a healthy way.
• 1:04:53
  So wonderful conversation with Amy or and then wrap up last
• 1:04:57
  week with another friend from my Fresno County women's Chamber of
• 1:05:00
  Commerce life lessons from Cheryl Schultz.
• 1:05:04
  Cheryl's like one of those people that's just naturally
• 1:05:06
  born to be on a podcast like she just is insightful.
• 1:05:11
  She thinks well on her feet. She brings in just such the
• 1:05:17
  honesty in what she's learned and where she came from versus
• 1:05:20
  where she is now. Very supportive of multi
• 1:05:24
  generational relationships and sharing the, the, the
• 1:05:28
  information with each other so those that are younger than us
• 1:05:31
  don't have to make the same mistakes and have the resources
• 1:05:34
  they need sooner. She talks about relationships
• 1:05:38
  and what she's learned about those over the years.
• 1:05:40
  I'm just just such a great, great conversation.
• 1:05:43
  Great way to wrap up those conversations.
• 1:05:46
  So that's season 8. I wanted to revisit that with
• 1:05:49
  you and take you through it. If you missed anything, I I want
• 1:05:53
  you. Every episode has so many
• 1:05:55
  treasures and resources, but every episode is about of a
• 1:05:58
  little different things. So there may be certain areas
• 1:06:01
  that are more applicable to you than others.
• 1:06:03
  So if there's some that you missed, they're like, Oh, I
• 1:06:05
  missed that one. I think that could be really
• 1:06:07
  supportive of me. Or the other thing, way to think
• 1:06:10
  about it too, is listening to all of the episodes.
• 1:06:15
  It's not only helpful to you, it informs you on how to support
• 1:06:20
  other women that are going through these things that it
• 1:06:25
  might inform you about something in your life that you thought
• 1:06:28
  was a certain way for everyone. That's actually not.
• 1:06:31
  It informs you about all the unique, different, far ranging,
• 1:06:36
  broad ranging, nuanced lived experiences that women in the
• 1:06:41
  world are having out there. So it's a really a great
• 1:06:43
  opportunity to keep informed and not only for yourself and your
• 1:06:48
  resources and those around you, but showing it for women
• 1:06:51
  unapologetically and a broad array of spaces and the way that
• 1:06:55
  feels supportive to them. Asking the right questions about
• 1:06:58
  that, like what feels supportive to you instead of just rushing
• 1:07:01
  in and assuming we know based on our own story, listening to
• 1:07:05
  other people's stories to see how it is they actually need
• 1:07:09
  support, what actually feels helpful to them.
• 1:07:13
  So I wanted to take you through that and, and hopefully give you
• 1:07:17
  some gems and things to think about as, as you, we revisit the
• 1:07:22
  Season 8 for me, but my last take away from Season 8 that I
• 1:07:28
  learned through as we continue to add these new things to our
• 1:07:33
  network. And I'm, I realized about midway
• 1:07:37
  through this month of August that my bandwidth is different.
• 1:07:40
  Now I'm not only, you know, doing the podcast, but I, I have
• 1:07:45
  a podcast, I have a weekly panel show.
• 1:07:49
  We have a book that I'm, that we're promoting regularly.
• 1:07:53
  I'm speaking more both in person and virtually.
• 1:07:57
  I've released an online course that we're promoting and making
• 1:08:01
  available and I'm doing and I'm now I'm offering the one-on-one
• 1:08:06
  empowerment sessions to do along with those things.
• 1:08:11
  And so my bandwidth is different now.
• 1:08:13
  And so instead of looking at my calendar as a series of time in
• 1:08:19
  my day, looking my, my calendar by my bandwidth.
• 1:08:23
  So if I've got a, a panel recording in the morning, how
• 1:08:29
  much bandwidth do I have the remainder of the morning for the
• 1:08:33
  kinds of meetings I'm going to take in?
• 1:08:34
  Because as much as these conversations are so wonderful
• 1:08:38
  and so supportive and many times energizing, there's also there
• 1:08:42
  they can be very emotionally and mentally tapping when you're
• 1:08:49
  very engaged, when you're listening very intently, when
• 1:08:52
  you're hearing people's all the parts and pieces of people's
• 1:08:54
  stories. So making more space for me to
• 1:08:58
  reset, reflect, refill rather than just, you know, oh, I'm not
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  I'm not recording podcasts this month.
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  So that means I can have all of these pre meets.
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  Well, if I've also got a women's chamber luncheon that day, or
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  maybe I've recorded a panel that morning, or I've been responding
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  in emails to prospective guests and people that want to
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  collaborate, Do I have enough room and bandwidth to give all
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  those places and spaces what I need?
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  And do I need to think about? So I need to look at each day in
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  terms of bandwidth. And when I'm looking at it, I'm
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  like, oh, no, no, no, I've got too much here.
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  My bandwidth is going to need more space to refill after this.
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  Being willing to make those moves and changes and reset.
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  And I learned the hard way. Listen, I live out this this
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  framework. I presented this framework.
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  I learned it through my family and my therapist and people that
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  are close to me in my network of of what works for me.
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  And even still, I have to be reminded and my body has to send
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  me messages. Knock, knock, knock, lady, you
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  have overstepped on your boundaries and underdone on
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  yourself care. You are tapped out right now.
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  There's too much here. There's been a shift in seasons
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  and what you're offering now, so you have to adjust with that.
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  So I challenge you this fall as you go into well fall in the
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  Northern Hemisphere, summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
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  But as you go into approach a new season, try looking at your
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  calendar in terms of bandwidth versus time in the day.
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  So just a challenge for you to think about that.
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  So on Thursday, before we wrap this up on Thursday, you're I'm
• 1:10:45
  bringing my team on, You're going to hear from my team.
• 1:10:48
  You're going to hear about what they do, how they look at the
• 1:10:52
  episodes, what they do to prepare and edit the episodes,
• 1:10:55
  what they do to create the promotions for the episodes, how
• 1:11:00
  they write the blogs and come up with the ways to engage for the
• 1:11:03
  episodes. And through that process, what
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  they learn from each of these people, what stuck out to them,
• 1:11:09
  what makes them laugh, what makes them look at the world a
• 1:11:13
  little differently, What's surprising surprised them.
• 1:11:16
  And so you're going to get to hear a little bit more about
• 1:11:18
  their process, their input. They're all in their 20s, so you
• 1:11:21
  get a new fresh flavor from them.
• 1:11:23
  So they're joining me live on Thursday.
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  It'll be our final episode of this season 8.
• 1:11:29
  It's going to be at 3:30 Pacific Time, 6:30 Eastern Time.
• 1:11:34
  If you miss the live, just like today's live, it's going to go
• 1:11:37
  to our podcast platforms and you're going to be able to catch
• 1:11:41
  it there. But yeah, you get to meet my
• 1:11:43
  team and hear from them and, and how this work has impacted them
• 1:11:47
  and what they learned this season as we made these shifts
• 1:11:51
  in offering more episodes and changing the way we roll things
• 1:11:55
  out there a little bit as we've added these other pieces.
• 1:11:58
  Because whenever I add a piece, it involves them as well.
• 1:12:02
  It might be an extra blog or another newsletter or more time
• 1:12:05
  on sub stack. It might be an additional
• 1:12:07
  promotion, adding new things to our website, readjusting the way
• 1:12:12
  our website reads more. You know, as we've expanded into
• 1:12:15
  our YouTube page, not only are we editing audio, but we're
• 1:12:19
  editing video and that's a different process.
• 1:12:21
  So it all it impacts them as well.
• 1:12:24
  And so it's a very important for me to stay in tune with them to
• 1:12:28
  make sure this is working for them, that they're finding a
• 1:12:32
  flow within it that I'm not just, you know, adding things
• 1:12:35
  Willy nilly and tapping out my team.
• 1:12:37
  So you're going to get to hear from them on Thursday.
• 1:12:40
  Thanks so much for being with me today.
• 1:12:42
  I hope this revisit helps you, maybe reminds you of some people
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  you might want to go back and listen to again or listen to for
• 1:12:49
  the first time and and get that information, access those
• 1:12:52
  resources from them. If something really hits with
• 1:12:55
  you, go to that resources page, follow them, find them, learn
• 1:12:59
  from them. The hope with the guest is that
• 1:13:02
  we have this field framework. We have our key talking points,
• 1:13:06
  which for those of you, if you're new with me, you haven't
• 1:13:09
  been here before. Our talking points are, are I
• 1:13:12
  open a podcast asking people to introduce themselves by their
• 1:13:17
  character traits, which I was going to do today with myself
• 1:13:19
  and I forgot. So you're getting character
• 1:13:21
  traits at the end. I'm tired, I'm reflective, I'm
• 1:13:24
  grateful, I'm anxious, and I'm hopeful.
• 1:13:26
  That's where I am today. I may not be there tomorrow, but
• 1:13:29
  today those are the character tracks that are showing up for
• 1:13:32
  me. I usually do to that at the
• 1:13:34
  beginning when you work with me one-on-one, I do these things in
• 1:13:38
  a little different order. I start out with the layers and
• 1:13:41
  then we go into the character traits and then we go into the
• 1:13:43
  questions from a minute in a minute that come at the end of
• 1:13:47
  the podcast, but they do those at the beginning to kind of set
• 1:13:50
  a foundation for you to work from.
• 1:13:52
  Then we go into prioritizing self-care set, setting healthy
• 1:13:56
  boundaries. The connections between our
• 1:13:59
  emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and sexual health are
• 1:14:02
  all connected. They all feed off of each other.
• 1:14:05
  Showing up for yourself and other women, unapologetically
• 1:14:08
  identifying your why and values and assessing if your life is
• 1:14:12
  aligned with those. Living out of your own
• 1:14:15
  expectations instead of others. Embracing all of your layers,
• 1:14:20
  your complex, nuanced, messy, beautiful layers and the impact
• 1:14:25
  that living out this feel framework.
• 1:14:27
  Finding empowerment, embracing layers has on your relationship
• 1:14:30
  with yourself as well as your relationship with other people.
• 1:14:34
  And then I asked guests 5 activities that nourish them and
• 1:14:38
  five words on how they want to feel the next six months.
• 1:14:41
  Those are important questions for you to ask yourselves.
• 1:14:44
  And so that's why when I'm working with you on the online
• 1:14:47
  course or I'm speaking to you, I will start with the layers
• 1:14:50
  question and then we will go into the character traits
• 1:14:53
  question so that you can get to know who you are, not who other
• 1:14:56
  people told you you are, but who you, how you identify yourself.
• 1:15:01
  And then five activities that nourish you.
• 1:15:04
  Those can be added to your self-care routine maybe.
• 1:15:07
  And five words on how you want to feel the next six months and
• 1:15:10
  what are you doing in your day-to-day to help yourself get
• 1:15:14
  to that spot. And now all those 5 words you
• 1:15:17
  want to feel the next six months, are they from you or
• 1:15:19
  other people too? Again, we're trying to bring you
• 1:15:21
  back home to you and all of our conversations.
• 1:15:24
  You have everything in you that you need to get the healthiest,
• 1:15:29
  most authentic version of yourself.
• 1:15:30
  Sometimes you just need a little support and reminders of how to
• 1:15:34
  get yourself there. I hope you have found this
• 1:15:36
  helpful and resourceful today as I've recapped Season 8 for you.
• 1:15:40
  You've got to hear from you a little bit about what I've
• 1:15:42
  learned, what I've drawn out of each of these episodes, how they
• 1:15:46
  can support you. Come back and join us live.
• 1:15:49
  Meet my team on Thursday. They work a lot behind the
• 1:15:53
  scenes. You don't always get to see them
• 1:15:55
  out front. You get to see Jessica a little
• 1:15:57
  bit more as we promote the book and we have, she runs our sub
• 1:16:02
  staff, but you're going to get to see all the members of our
• 1:16:04
  team and I'm super excited to share them and their insights
• 1:16:08
  with you. Without them, this thing doesn't
• 1:16:09
  roll. And they it's such a reminder to
• 1:16:13
  tap into those multi generational voices.
• 1:16:16
  We can learn so much from people that are younger than us.
• 1:16:20
  It it's not just us that has wisdom to share.
• 1:16:24
  They have wisdom to share too. So remember that as you're as
• 1:16:27
  you're encountering them, dealing with them, working with
• 1:16:30
  them, sometimes raising them. But thanks so much for being
• 1:16:34
  with us today. Thanks for joining me on this
• 1:16:37
  live. Take good care of yourselves.
• 1:16:39
  Fill out that contact form. If you want to work with me, go
• 1:16:42
  to embracinglayers.com. Fill out that contact form.
• 1:16:44
  Let's have a free 30 minute meeting to see how I can support
• 1:16:48
  you. And but if you just want to find
• 1:16:50
  more resources, go there embracinglayers.com.
• 1:16:53
  It's where it all happens. We're here to support you and
• 1:16:56
  help you live your healthiest, most authentic, feel fueled
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  life. Take care.
• 1:17:01
  And we'll see you here on Thursday with my team.
• 1:17:03
  Bye bye.