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74. happy love month... galentines, how to fall in love with yourself & get your sparkle back · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Hello you guys, and welcome back to another episode of the Howgrel Energy Podcast.
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I'm your host, Kaylee, and this is your weekly reminder that it's
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a new day, a new week, a new mindset, and another day
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for you to become the Hawtrel energy you want to attract. Hello you guys,
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Happy Tuesday, and welcome to February. Can we talk about February for
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a second. It's love month. It's we finally got past January. As
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much as I love setting goals and setting intentions for the year and all that,
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I really don't love the month of January. So I'm so happy to
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be past that and entering February because February is one of my favorite months.
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I love love, I love love month, I love Valentine's Day. I
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love February because it's the month I got engaged. It's just a month that
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I love. So anyways, I'm really excited about going into this month.
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We have a really exciting few episodes coming up. So for today, I
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really wanted to focus on gallantines. Things that you can do to spend time
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with your friends or your girlfriends, some just some inspo, whether it's your
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sister or things that you want to do with yourself or with your partner.
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I just thought I would name a few ideas of what you can do this
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February just to yea, enjoy yourself, enjoy company, and just something to
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look forward to this month, as well as some habits for self love,
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like what can we do to ourself to truly love ourselves? We talk about
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so much about loving our friends, loving our partners, loving our family,
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but do you really love yourself? And I'm going to be sharing some habits
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and tips on how to truly love yourself because I think that's most important.
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If you don't love yourself, and how do you expect to love other people
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around you. So we're definitely going to be focusing a lot on that in
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this episode as well. But for the next few episodes, the next one
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is actually going to be with Zach. I haven't done an episode with Zach
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in a very long time. I honestly don't remember the last time we did
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an episode with Zach. I feel like it was I think it was in
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September, before our engagement party or after the engagement party around that time,
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and I always love having him on the podcast. So next week we're really
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going to focus on relationship advice, things that Zach and I have done to
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really help keep our spark alive in our eleven years of dating. It's going
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to be eleven years in like three weeks, which is so crazy. So
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yeah, so we're gonna be talking about that, maybe talk about how we
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met, maybe a little bit about us if you guys don't know us that
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well, if you're new to the podcast, just kind of have him involved,
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because yeah, I thought it's the month of Love, we might as
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well have him on here, and yeah, have him chat about some relationship
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advice. So that will be the next week's episode, and then the following
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episode will probably be about prepping for a trip because I am heading to Mexico.
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I'm going to Tuloom in three weeks with my family. I have not
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gone on a family trip in a very long time, so I'm very excited
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to go with my parents. To be fully transparent, I was not planning
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to travel anywhere this month at all because of the wedding. Obviously there's a
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lot of travels coming up in the coming months. I'm like, I don't
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want to spend a pretty penny on a trip right now, but my parents
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were kind enough to invite me, and you know, being almost twenty eight,
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still going on family vacations, like, I will never say no to
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a family vacation, and you know what, it's nice to spend time with
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family, and I get to spend some quality time with my sister, so
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it's going to be fun. I'm excited to get some sunshine, get some
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beach time and all that. And then in March, I'll be going to
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La I will also be going to Mexico again for my very first brand trip,
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which I'm very excited about. And then I'm off to London, England
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and Italy for food tasting, makeup and hair trial all that, and then
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it will be the wedding and then the honeymoon like crazy. So a lot
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a lot of travels coming up, which I'm very excited about. But let's
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get into today's episode. Okay. So I am actually going to a Gallantine's
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date night with my girlfriends the day after Valentine's Day, so February fifteenth,
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which I'm very excited about. I was actually going to host something originally,
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but then my girlfriend was insisting that she hosted, so I'm like, of
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course, like I'm totally okay with that, so hopefully I can host something
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in the future. But I'm very, very excited because we are doing a
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girls' night. We are doing cocktails and appetizers, so everybody brings a signature
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Valentine's Day themed cocktail. We're going to be breaking up into partners, so
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my partner is Alyssa. Alyssa's going to be bringing a appetizer and I'm going
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to be bringing a specialty cocktail. So yeah, there's about I think fifteen
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of us, so it's a pretty big group of girls. And yeah,
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I think it'll be fun just to try different cocktails, different appetizers. So
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that's how we'll be spending our Gallentine's Day. But I really wanted to share
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some other ideas. This is something that I would envision if I was hosting,
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as well as just some future ideas for hosting opportunities for you. This
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could be themed for anything, whether it's Easter, whether it's Valentine's Day,
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whether it's Christmas, Thanksgiving, whatever the case may be, or just a
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random night that you want to host with your girlfriends or your partner. These
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are really really good ideas that I've gotten from Pinterest or just inspiration that I've
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seen on social media. One of the biggest ones that I see all the
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time is the paint and sip. I love the idea getting a bottle of
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wine painting with your friends. It's a hobby, it's something to do,
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it's exciting. I also love the idea of painting candles. I've seen the
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tall candles having little illustrations on the actual tall candle, which is so freaking
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cute in my opinion. I think I mentioned this in my Fall Bucketless episode
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as well, but just having different themes on the candles, painting little bows,
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little hearts, little cupid arrows, whatever it is to the theme of
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Valentine's Day. I think that's such a fun and cute idea. Or you
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can paint a canvas, put it somewhere in your home, whatever the case
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may be. Another idea is a Valentine's themed brunch. I love brunch.
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Who doesn't love brunch. I would love to come to someone's house for someone
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to make me heart shape pancakes, bacon, eggs, just everything Valentine's Day
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themed. I think that's the cutest idea. Having hurt mugs everywhere, coffee,
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just the cutest vibe. So I love doing a brunch idea themed cocktails,
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which is kind of something that my girlfriends and I are doing, which
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I said going on Pinterest finding Valentine's Day inspired cocktails. Whether it's pink,
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red, sparkles, whatever the case may be. I just think that's the
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cutest thing. Another idea that this can totally be not based off of an
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event that's happening, whether it's Valentine's Day, Easter, or whatever. This
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could totally be just a girl's night out idea. Appetizers on a country,
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So whether it's Mexican food, Portuguese food, German, American, Asian,
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whatever the case i be, everybody in your friend group brings a different kind
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of appetizer from a different country. Everyone gets assigned to a different country.
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I think that's such a cool idea because it allows you to try so many
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different foods. It's such a fun experiment. I love to cook, so
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trying to cook something new is also exciting and fun. Also a gamble if
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it's going to taste good or not, right, But I thought that was
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a really really good idea. This is something that we've had on the list
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of things to do for here at my house. I have like a little
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list of like hosting ideas of what I want to do because this is the
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year that I'm supposed to host more now that I have my house in control
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with all the furniture and everything. So yeah, this is my year for
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hosting. So hopefully I can host something soon. But I have a list
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of hosting ideas, so these are kind of like the ones that I have
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in my notes. So the appetizer is based on country. Another cute idea
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is doing heart shaped pizza. This could totally be a girl's night. I
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think this is a really fun idea. I did this with Zach the other
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night, which was a cute little date night for him and I and we
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watched a movie as well. You could do a candlelit dinner with your girlfriends.
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Love this idea. Decorate your home, decorate your space, put a
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bunch of candles, make the Gigihadid vodka pasta, or whatever your favorite recipe
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is. Passes I find are always easier when it comes to a big group
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of girls. And yeah, I just have a candle dinner with your girlfriends.
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I think that's so fun. Another idea, which this is new to
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me, I actually saw this on Pinterest. But having a floral arrangement making
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day with your girlfriends, like everybody brings a collection of their favorite flowers,
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and then you just pick an assortment of different flowers from what your guests have
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brought, and you make your own bouquet that you get to bring home.
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I thought that was such a fun idea because I love creating bouquets. Like
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I will go into a floral shop and I will spend like hours, well
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not hours, but I will spend an hour probably looking at all the flowers
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and just really creating the perfect arrangement of flowers. I think flowers are just
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so beautiful, and I think it's such a beautiful thing to give to other
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people. I love having flowers in my home all the time. I currently
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have two bouquets in my house right now, and I think it just brings
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such happiness in a home. It's the smallest little detail, it's the smallest
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little thing, but I find flowers are just so meaningful in my opinion.
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So yeah, I feel like the little floral arrangement idea with your girlfriends could
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be really really fun. Another idea is hosting a movie night, so decorating
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your space at home, putting your couch together, getting all the blankets,
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and just watching a old movie like a two thousand's movie. I love watching
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like thirteen going on thirty, She's the Man as another good one, a
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Cinderella Story. There's one I'm thinking of right now and I can't think of
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the name of it. It's a Hillary Duff movie. It is the Perfect
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Man. Like that movie came out in two thousand and five and I'm just
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googling it. That's not something I know off by heart, but that was
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one of my favorite movies growing up, Like just so freaking cute. But
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I just love watching movies from the two thousands, Like that is the key
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to my heart, and I find it so fun to do with your girlfriends.
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So highly recommend having a movie night with your girlfriends and watching movies from
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the two thousands. We'll bring back so many fun memories from you as a
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child and just your childhood in general. Another bougie hosting idea which has been
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on my list to do is hiring a private cheft or a private bartender and
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just giving you the experience in your home first going out. I think that's
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such a fun idea. Being able to have someone who's professional obviously doing something
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and getting them to do it in the comfort of your own home, I
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feel like is so cool. So that's something I've been wanting to do for
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my birthday because I think that's a fun little birthday idea. And yeah,
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I don't know, I just thought that was such a cool idea. My
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girlfriend actually told me about the bartender idea. She had someone come for her
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Christmas party, I believe for work in a bart tiend came to the person's
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house, her boss's house, and they did like specialty cocktails, and yeah,
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I just thought that was such a cool experience. So if you want
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to be bougie and hire a private chef, I think that's a really fun
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idea. Another really good idea could be a checuterie board night, so everybody
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brings a shacuterie board and it could be savory, it could be sweet,
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and you just put a bunch of random stuff on a platter. I love
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Schacutari boards. That is something that I will always go towards whenever I'm at
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a party or a gathering or anything like that. I have this obsession with
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Schacuterari boards. So it's like the key to my heart basically. And then
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another idea, this is the last one, is a fondu night, So
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doing other a savory fondu or a sweet fondu or both. I think that's
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a really fun idea to do with your girlfriends. It's, yeah, something
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that brings you guys all together. And yeah, So those are some of
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the ideas for hosting or just some ideas if you needed some gallantines in spo.
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These could also be things that you could just do with your partner,
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just like at home date ideas, solo date ideas, whatever the case may
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be. But I wanted to share those with you guys because those have been
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on my phone for so long and I'm like, I need to incorporate this
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in an episode somehow because I have such great hosting ideas, and yeah,
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I thought I would share it with you guys, because yeah, they're just
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some fun ideas. So let's get into self love because this is something that
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I really really wanted to talk about in this episode because I truly feel like
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everybody can really improve on their self love. I feel like everybody has times
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where you know, they don't love their self and they don't realize that.
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So I really want to share some tips on how to truly love yourself.
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So one thing that I think is a very common thing that everybody does,
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because let's face it, it's just the reality. Stop comparing yourself to others.
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I used to compare myself all the freaking time, and I still do.
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Let's be honest, like people compare themselves all the time. It's just
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our nature to do that. I feel like it's dangerous, but it's natural
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to compare yourself to someone else that you see on the Internet, or someone
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that you're friends with, or a family member. And one specific example that
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I can think of is my sister. She was always good at school.
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Like my sister, she is currently doing her masters in the biokem program,
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just a little brainiac, like she's working in a lab, like she's so
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smart. And as a kid growing up, I always was so jealous of
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her, like I was like, I wish I was as smart as Madison.
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I wish I was school smart. I had never been strong in academics,
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like school was never for me. I always always struggled in school.
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It was to the point where, you know, when I was younger,
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my mom brought me to a learning disability clinic and they diagnosed me with ADHD.
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And that's just the reality. And I always struggled and had a hard
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time dealing with that. And you know, I'd always complained to my mom
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saying, like, you know, how can I improve my communication skills?
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How can I improve my academics? Like what can I do? What can
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I do? With My mom always said to me, she said, you
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need to look at your strengths besides all the things that you hate about yourself.
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She's like, what are those other strengths? You are creative, you
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are very social, you are very confident. You are so good at sports,
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like those are things that you know, my sister wasn't really good at.
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But again, it shouldn't be about comparison. It should be about what
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are your strengths that you're good at what makes you you? And so once
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I figured out, okay, these are my strengths, these are things that
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I'm good at, it made me love myself more because not a lot of
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people can say they're very social. They can't, you know, communicate in
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a big room in front of all these people, like you put me in
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front of a stage right now and talk in front of one hundred people,
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like, yeah, sure, I'll be a little nervous, but I'll be
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able to do it confidently because I know I'm okay to speak in crowds.
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I can't compare myself to her because at the end of the day, we
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have different strengths, we have different goals. Like at the end of the
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day, I need to look at my own strengths and be proud of those
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strength because not a lot of people are blessed to have those strengths. Right
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looking at my career, my career is all about creativity, and creativity is
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my strength. Like that is something that I truly love doing. Marketing is
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my favorite thing. Being able to be in somewhat of a marketing field job
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is so rewarding for me, and it allows me to use my strengths.
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I always thought I was going to struggle to find a job in my life.
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To be honest, I thought, you know, if I'm not academically
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smart, like, how am I going to get away with life? Like
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how am I going to get a job? How am I going to get
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a career? And being able to have a career with one of my strengths
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is so rewarding. Because I've always said this on the podcast, but if
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you truly don't love what you're doing, you're not going to be happy.
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And I believe that I love what I do and the reason why I continue
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doing it and the reason why I personally believe I'm good at it is because
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I love what I do and I'm using my strengths with my job. So
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I don't know. I think there's no point in comparing yourself to anyone else
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on this planet because there's only one you. There's no one else. It's
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you. You're focusing on yourself, You're focusing on your own journey. I
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think at the end of the day, you need to figure out ways on
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how you can be better and how you can do better by allowing yourself to
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look at your strengths and be proud of those strengths. Another thing is to
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not be afraid to let go of toxic people. There's always going to be
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someone in your life. Let's be honest, Like I have definitely had talks
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people in my life that I have let go and it was for the best.
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It was definitely for the best. I feel so good for letting those
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people come out of my life because I knew there was a reason to let
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them go. I knew there was some negativity going around myself with those people
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in my life. You'll always reach a point in your life though, when
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you will ask yourself, is this still worth it to be with this person,
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whether it's a relationship with a man or a relationship with your family.
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Like, there's always going to be times in your life where you know,
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talks of people come and go. It's just the reality said this is going
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to be applied to relationships with your partner, with your family, with your
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friends. That just it's the circle of life. I think the important thing
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is when you're looking in a toxic relationship, you need to look at the
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most important thing, which is what is affecting you and your growth? How
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is this a person affecting you and your growth. If they're affecting your career
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growth and it's impacting you to actually become successful and become the person that you
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want to become, then you need to let that person go because they're not
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worth your energy and they're not worth your time. You need to make a
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decision on how you're going to move forward. How are you going to move
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past this with this person? In your life. I think at this point
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you'll need to figure out, Okay, do I need to set boundaries with
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this person? Do I need to create more distance? Like, do what
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you think feels right with that person, whether it's not letting them go completely,
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But as I said, setting boundaries and creating more distance between them might
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be the best situation. So really reevaluate people in your life and figure out,
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Okay, who are these people that are impacted me and impacting my success
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for growth? And how can I create these boundaries for myself? How can
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I create distance that way I can still maybe have these people in my life,
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but not let them impact me going towards my goals and going towards my
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future. So really evaluate that because I think having toxic people in your life
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is obviously a huge impact. And as I said, you really just need
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to be able to set some boundaries and create distance and do what feels right
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for you. The next one is trust yourself to make good decisions for yourself.
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You need to take the risk. Let's be honest, Like, I
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feel like you need to trust your own gut when it comes to anything.
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You are not going to be able to allow yourself to try new things,
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or try new career paths, or whatever the case may be. Like,
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you need to fully trust yourself before you trust someone else. You need to
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be able to trust that you're going to be able to take on these new
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opportunities, take on these new career paths, and not let anybody impact you
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on your decision. You need to be okay with your decision and not care
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what other people think. Your feelings are valid and you are not losing touch
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with reality. This is why we create vision boards. This is why we
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set goals for ourselves, because we can do anything we set our mind too.
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This is why we talk about manifestation. This is why we talk about
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goals for ourselves. Why we write down these things on a monthly basis,
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on a weekly basis, on a yearly basis. There is nothing that is
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unachievable. You can achieve anything you want in life if you set your mind
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to it. At the end of the day, you know yourself better than
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anyone else, so be your best advocate. Do what you can to make
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your life better. I feel like a motivational speaker right now just talking about
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this stuff, but truly, this is just how I feel like I think
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about my career. And I remember telling my parents that, hey, like,
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I want to quit my job and start social media full time. And
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my parents looked at me and They're like, you're kidding, right, Like
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this is a hobby, this is not a career. And I'm like,
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Okay, watch me, watch me grow my platform, watch me take the
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risk and really try and follow my dreams of becoming a full time influencer.
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And then once my parents saw the hard work and they saw the money that
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I was making, and they saw just how genuinely happy I was and being
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able to use my creativity and even the podcast. Like when I told my
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parents I was going to start a podcast, they were like, you don't
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have time for that, and I'm like, just watch me. I'm going
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to find time. I want to get on the mic. I want to
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start my own podcast. I want to educate females or males or anything like
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that to really love their self, to truly just become their best selves.
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And here we are today. I have a podcast, I have quit my
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full time job. I do content creation full time. Like I took the
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risk because I trusted myself. I followed my goals. I achieved those goals
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for myself. Did I ever think this was going to happen? Absolutely not,
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Absolutely freaking not. I look at myself four years ago when I was
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working a corporate job and I'm like, what the actual hell, Like how
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did I get here? Like how did I actually do this for myself?
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And it was all from setting goals for myself and actually achieving them and actually
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like telling myself that I could do this. Another huge thing is self talk.
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Motivating yourself is so important. Talking yourself in a mirror. If you're
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having a bad day, talk to yourself. This is something I strive to
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do all the time because I'm going to be truly honest. Nobody is perfect,
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and everybody has bad weeks or bad months. It's just the reality or
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bad days. And I truly find when I'm on my lowest and I feel
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sad and I feel alone, and I feel like, Okay, how do
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I get out of this rut? How do I get out of this slump?
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Like how do I get my sparkle back? It's talking to myself,
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it's writing things down, it's just getting out of that negative headspace by being
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positive. You really need to just turn it off. You need to flip
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the switch and you need to get back into that positive mindset, just talking
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to yourself, saying positive things about yourself, telling yourself that you're going to
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be able to get out of this. You need to do that for yours.
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This is why I talk about journaling so much and writing things down.
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It truly makes the biggest difference. When you write things down, you let
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that negative energy get out of your head and you think about the positive.
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The next one is seeing beauty in the simplest things. Now, this is
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again another reason why we have gratitude, because it gives you the perspective of
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the smallest things in life and the smallest things that bring you joy. So
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for an example, as I said, like having flowers in my home brings
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me so much joy, like the smallest little thing. Being able to write
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things down and just realize how grateful you actually are is so rewarding. Things
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like flowers in your home, eating your favorite food, going on a walk,
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being able to spend time with your friend, buying yourself flowers, like
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those little things we need to be grateful for because, let's face it,
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not everybody has the luxury of doing that. And that's the reality. Like
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it's sounds sad, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of people
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out there that have the luxury of being able to do those things, being
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able to live in a beautiful home, being able to surround themselves with family,
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being able to have a good relationship with your family, your partner,
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Like everybody, needs to understand that you are blessed and you should be grateful
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for those little things that you have in your life. And having those things
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allows you to realize that you have so much joy in your life that you
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don't even realize. And writing these things down allows you to realize that,
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holy shit, I am so beyond grateful. I am so beyond blessed that
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I have these things. And it's the simplest things that can just bring you
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so much joy. So get a piece of paper, write down things that
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you're grateful for, ten things, ten things. Right now, write ten
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things down that you're beyond grateful for, and you're going to realize how freaking
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blessed you are and how freaking proud you should be of yourself being able to
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have those things in your life. Another one is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
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We need to understand that nobody is perfect everybody makes mistakes, and this
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is why we need to make mistakes, because we need to be able to
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learn from those mistakes. If we don't make mistakes, we're never gonna learn.
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I think we all need to look at mistakes from a different mindset.
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We need to look at mistakes as an opportunity for self reflection and learning,
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like, how can we learn from this mistake? How can I do better?
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What can I do differently next time? You really need to just be
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able to face those mistakes and just realize that this was supposed to happen and
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you're gonna be able to move past it because you're gonna learn from this issue.
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But at the end of the day, we use our mistakes as an
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opportunity to learn and grow from this problem. Okay. The last one when
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it comes to self love is being able to conquer your fears. It is
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okay to be afraid. Don't let this. I admit your possibility. There
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is so many things that people are afraid of and they just completely shut it
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out, like they shut out of their life. They don't do anything.
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They just said, Okay, I'm afraid of this. I'm not gonna conquer
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it like it is what it is. For an example, my mom.
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She hates flying, like hates jumping on a plane and flying, Like whenever
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she's on that flight, she's holding my hand, she's basically in tears from
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her anxiety, like no word of a lie. But she still conquers her
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fear because she loves to travel. She loves to be able to go to
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different places in the world. She loves to be able to do that with
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her family, with her friends. She conquers it. An example for someone
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who doesn't conquer it is my grandma. My grandma came from Italy like years
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ago before I was even born, like I want to say, like like
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sixty five years ago. She has never been back to Italy since because she
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is too afraid to get on that plane and fly home. And she won't.
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She will never do it ever again. That's what she said to us.
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She will never jump on a plane again. But how do we conquer
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these fears if we just completely ignore it? Like I think of myself where
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I honestly I'm gonna talk about the podcast for a second. I honestly never
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thought in a million years that I would be speaking into a microphone right now
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and calling this my job because I always grew up having such a fear of
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my communication skills and felt like I don't know how to communicate to people.
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I always just struggled with my learning disability that I had a hard time expressing
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how I felt or expressing, you know, just situations. And you know,
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I still struggle with that, like I have, you know, Zach
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and my parents and everyone. Whenever I'm having a conversation with someone, you
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know, sometimes I can't get my point across and Zach will be like,
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oh, you mean this, and I'm like, exactly, but I just
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I've always had a hard time expressing that. So I never thought in a
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million years that I would be sitting here creating a podcast and talking on a
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mic about how to improve ourselves? How can we better ourselves? I just
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never thought that I would be able to do that and being able to conquer
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my fear and being able to just embrace it by communicating all the time with
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you guys on a weekly basis, but finding ways to communicate about things that
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I truly love and that I truly believe in, and being able to have
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your positive feedback from you guys, and being able to say that, oh
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my god killie, Like you're such a natural, You're such a great podcast
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host. Like that to me is shocking because I was always scared to start
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it. I never thought I would be able to actually do it, and
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I never thought that I would be able to conquer that fear of doing it.
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But I did it. So I don't know. I think at the
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end of the day, you need to be able to face your fears,
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figure out ways on how to let go of it, Like how can you
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improve Like one thing that my mom does before flying is she always makes sure
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she's practicing her breathing, her breathing techniques, how to deal with her anxiety,
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Like how can she help herself by maybe doing more meditation, really allowing
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herself to control that anxiety, that stress. Finding ways to conquer your fears
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is okay, It's okay to do it. Another little example is I'm afraid
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of the ocean because I'm afraid of sharks. But do I still go in
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the ocean. Of course, I still conquer that fear. I still do
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it. I find ways to get on with it. Conquer your fear,
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don't let it limit your possibility. So, and now we've talked about self
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love, we've talked about gallantines. Now we need to talk about relationships,
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but that will be in next week's episode with Zach. I'm really excited to
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have Zach on here because I feel like you guys always just hear me,
28:30
and hopefully I would like to have some guests on here as well. I've
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definitely mentioned that in the past, but it's not an easy process, to
28:36
be honest, because you need to be able to hook up the mic virtually
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through a specific platform, and I've heard podcasts with meeting people through zoom or
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whatever it is, and it's never the best quality. So I'm just trying
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to find the best quality way to do guests on the podcast that yeah,
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is actually worth doing, you know what I mean. Like, I'd rather
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high quality then it be shit, so bear with me. I will definitely
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have guests eventually on the podcast. I just prefer to have guests live versus
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like through this platform because it's such a pain in the ass to deal with
29:11
from what I heard from other podcast hosts that I've talked to, So yeah,
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but hopefully we'll have some more in the future. But Zach will be
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here so that will be fun. So anyways, I love you guys.
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Thank you guys listening for another episode. If you guys are new, definitely
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make sure to follow me the host, Kaylee. All my social media is
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are linked down below. You can also follow our at the Hawkrel Energy Podcast
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Instagram. I try and update you guys whenever there's a new episode live or
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whenever you guys are listening to the episodes. I always love to share your
29:38
stories and thank you guys so much for all the reviews lately. I really
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really appreciate it, and you guys motivate me to keep coming back on this
29:45
mic and continue talking because I truly love what I do and I truly love
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talking with you guys and just sharing advice and all that. So I love
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you guys so much, and I will see you guys in next week's episode on