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The Why Not Today? Podcast - Season 2 - Episode 31 with Alicia Harrison, Flip This Chick! · Why Not Today? with Leslie Kane

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Welcome to the Why Not Today podcast, where we celebrate courage, determination, and the
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power of saying, Why Not Today?
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I'm your host, Leslie Cain.
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Each episode, we dive into inspiring stories of individuals who have taken bold steps,
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faced their fears, and embraced the possibility of today.
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From entrepreneurs to artists, dreamers, and doers, we explore the moments when they say
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enough waiting, why not today?
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Give me as we uncover the heartwarming, the audacious, and the transformative, whether
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it's pursuing a lifelong passion, overcoming obstacles, or simply choosing joy.
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Our guests share their journeys and inspire us all.
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I started this podcast in honor of my father, Patrick Cain, who often said, Why Not Today?
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Remember, you're just one decision away from changing your life.
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And I'm excited today for my guest, which we've never met in person, but Alicia Harrison,
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hopefully, get her name right.
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My sister has the same name.
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Spelled the same name, pronounced differently.
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Harrison with Flip the Chick, which is funny.
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I need to introduce you to another friend of mine who has a podcast, Flip the Chip, talks
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about...
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Potato chips?
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No, nail polish.
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She actually started...
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Oh, nice!
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She started... she has several books around being bodacious.
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Awesome.
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And she... one of the chapters is Live Like the Color of Your Nail Polish.
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Oh, it's awesome.
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And so she started a whole podcast, and she's been on my podcast.
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Her name is Mary Foley, and it's called Flip the Chip.
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Awesome.
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And it happens, and we need to have to take a new path.
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So, okay, total score all there.
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I love that.
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So, Alicia, I met, and I love how the connections are.
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I have a friend of mine who's been on the podcast as well, Tamara, who lives in Florida.
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And I guess you guys kind of met by accident too.
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She went to an event, if I remember correctly, an event with a friend.
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The friend didn't show up, and you guys... you met and hit it off.
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And so she introduced me to you, and I love what you stand for.
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I love your vision boards.
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Of course, you've got one at your shoulder, the things you've done, and we could probably
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talk for hours.
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So, I'm going to have you quickly introduce yourself and a fun fact about you, and then
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we'll talk about courage.
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Awesome.
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Well, thank you very much for having me, Leslie.
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I do appreciate it.
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And meeting through Tamara was amazing because I love... she's a client of mine in the Flip
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this Chip program.
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And she actually not only is doing great herself, she invited another friend to be part of it,
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and that friend has had the most amazing impact on her life that I'm like, wow, Tamara was
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meant to connect all these people and places.
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So she's pretty incredible, and I'm so excited to be her friend.
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Yeah.
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What was that?
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Hasn't been working with you that long, has she?
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No, six weeks.
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Yeah.
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Six weeks.
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And we met because she came to a fun book club event that we did to just tour some murals
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and stuff here in Sarasota.
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And yeah, it was very cool.
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So anyway, I'm excited.
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So let's hear about you.
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So I want to tell you that I am a women's health coach.
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I coach women who are in the struggles of menopause, perimenopause, and beyond, because
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I have a history in personal training.
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I ran the training division of health clubs, but got out of that when I moved to Florida,
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I was just in real estate and modeled design and things like that.
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When menopause hit me and put on 25 pounds, I was like, okay, wait, I need to revisit
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this other stuff.
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And I was eating right and doing all the things.
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So the fact that it affected me, I knew it must be affecting a lot of other women too.
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We were just talking about that earlier today about how the things in our life that happened
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to us propel us into businesses.
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Yes.
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And to help somebody else.
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Yeah.
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And really it's to serve others, like that's why we're on this earth, is to serve others.
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So if we can find a way to be passionate about it and do it, that's cool.
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But I am a mother of four boys.
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I have four grandkids, another one on the way next month.
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And I have three girls.
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I have three girls.
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Oh, good.
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And one little boy, and we don't know what's coming next.
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So we're excited.
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We'll take anything.
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They're all the light of my life.
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And so I live here in Sarasota, Florida with my boyfriend who is from Boston and he has
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four kids too.
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So we live our lives in motion, simply making sure we don't miss anything, but we have a
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great life of our own too.
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So what's a fun fact about you?
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Fun fact about me is that I have ran more than a dozen marathons and I did the six world
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major marathons, which include London, Boston, New York, Chicago, Berlin and Tokyo.
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Wow.
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I was in the span of my 40th decade.
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And so that is really cool.
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And regardless of what turmoil my life brought a divorce and move across the country and
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different things, I stayed focused on that goal.
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And four months before my 50th birthday, I earned the six star medal as I crossed the
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Boston finish line.
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So that's been really cool.
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And helps me just keep treading forward.
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I love people's inspiring stories.
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I have episode, I think it was 20 was, I don't remember that because I was just with her,
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Chris Howard who hiked the Appalachian Trail and she just spoke at a luncheon that I had
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and talked about the lessons she learned.
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That is amazing.
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And yeah, and yeah, so many cool things.
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So let's talk about courage.
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So obviously it took courage to do that.
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And courage to, I know you have good courage stories, but what's the definition of courage?
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So honestly, like I'm sure you hear from many when you ask this question, I believe courage
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is just doing something afraid.
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But Hal Elrod in his book, The Miracle Equation says it best, having unwavering faith and
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putting forth extraordinary effort.
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That is exactly what courage is to me.
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Yep.
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I read that book and I have quoted that often.
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Yes.
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I read that and I'm like, you know, the times in my life when real miracles happened, it
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was because that's exactly what I was doing.
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Having unwavering faith, but putting forth extraordinary effort.
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You got to back it up.
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So when we talked the other day, we had lots of different things in your courage of life.
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And but one of the things I loved is how you took a health issue of yours, turned it and
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let's talk about that story of how you like figured out how to help yourself and then
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how you were kind of forced through losing a job into creating a business.
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And I love how you just rubble like, okay, this is the income I need to replace and this
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is how fast I need to do it.
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And you did it.
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So what's about those courage stories?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And you know, some of it, we all have courageous things that happen in our life, you know,
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and they do happen out of by accident, right?
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We don't like run out there and decide, oh, I'm going to be courageous today.
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We're like, no, I don't need to be courageous today.
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Actually, you know, we just want to have a good normal day.
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But when things happen, you decide, wait, what am I going to dig into here?
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And you know, whenever you do talk about the career that I'm in now as a health coach,
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it was, I was propelled into that because one day I got an email that said, hey, today
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can we just hop on, you know, a call.
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But before I got that call, some of the things that were going on in my life was like I said,
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when menopause hit me and I put on 25 pounds, I was like, I got to figure out something
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different.
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And having a background in personal training, I gave it a shot and I'm like, hey, I want
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to figure something out that's quick and just gets me right back.
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I need to get in sync because I'm not even recognizing myself.
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I don't feel good.
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I go in the closet and I'm not happy about what I put on.
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I have to change seven times.
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I can't wear, you know, anything that now I'm like square and I was never square, you
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know, and I'm like, what is happening?
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And so I really did say, I'm going to try this.
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I'm going to just put my head in and create my own program instead of creating it for
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a client like I would have in the past.
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And so I did, I started and four weeks in, I failed.
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Like I just didn't keep doing it.
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And I was like, what?
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I know what to do.
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I know how to do it.
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I know, like, geez.
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And so, you know, I just walked off.
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I'm like, okay.
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You're stopping us.
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Yeah, it's not the end.
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And so I dug a little deeper and I put in place a few more things, accountability, gratitude,
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and things like that.
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Instead of just what am I eating and how am I moving?
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I added in these elements that are now part of the flip the chick program and I tried
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again and by week six, I was flabbergasted.
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I'm like, this is a thing.
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Like, holy cow.
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I just went and bought a pair of shorts in the regular section.
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I didn't have to go to a store where the clothes go straight up or they don't have zippers.
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And, you know, like, I'm like, oh my gosh, this is awesome.
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And so I then said, wait, but here I am either this is a do or die.
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Like either I say right now, you guys, I created this thing.
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And here's what's happening.
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I have to do it in real time.
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All right.
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Or I don't get to do it because, you know, it's going to lose its vigor if I'm not doing
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it like that.
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So I'm like, all right, then I need to start talking about it.
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And so I did.
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I went on social media and I started saying, oh my gosh, here I am doing this and two weeks
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from today, I am going to launch a new program when I put myself through.
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So keep an eye out.
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That was it.
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I had to, I had to do it now.
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Right.
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And that's how my brain works.
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Somebody asked me one time is if you're the type of person that you make a decision for
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something you set the date and then you plan it or do you, or you plan it and then set
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the date or you plan it, set the date and then just make it happen.
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I'm like, I am so like, I'm going to put it out there and then I'm going to figure it
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out.
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Yes.
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Say yes and figure out how.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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You've got your original just never happened.
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So yep.
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So I put those wheels in motion and that last day I threw a big party had everybody over
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and was like, okay, this was fantastic.
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Here's what this was.
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And I started talking about it and I, you know, I introduced it as the flip this chick
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program.
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It was going to be an eight week program and here's what's going on.
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And I was working though.
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I worked from home and I was doing, you know, 45 hours a week on my computer and doing that.
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But every day I took a few minutes to pick up my vision board that and look at it and
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really believe like, you know, here's what I want in my life.
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I want to be helping women feel more connected.
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I want to get out there and be active.
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I want to do all these things and I would pick up my vision board once a day.
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I set up timer and it's part of what we do.
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I set a timer once a day and I just took a minute, but I would physically pick it up
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and hold it and like look through all the things, you know, and on there is like writing
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a book and, and creating flip this chick and, and, and soul designers as a group, I put
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together that we do a walk and talk on Wednesdays, all these things that were like really important
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to me.
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And I pick it up every day and look at it and I'm like, yeah, this is what I want to
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see it for.
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And that went about for like three weeks and comes a Friday, my boss sends me a note and
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says, Hey, can you hop on a call at four o'clock and make sure, you know, that's not unusual.
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By 405, I didn't have a job.
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Wow.
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I didn't not only have a job, the paycheck I got that day was going to be the last one
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I got.
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Oh, wow.
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And I'm like, wait, what?
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No warning.
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I, you know, that no, we're just eliminating the position.
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I'm like, not just put me in a different department.
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Like, no.
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So I was like, wait, okay, okay, wait, that means this paycheck I'm getting today is would
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cover the next two weeks, right?
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And then I get another paycheck that's not coming, but that gives me two weeks, right?
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Like, okay, I can live for two weeks, breathe, Alicia, you're going to be okay.
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You're getting today's paycheck and just calm down and figure out what's next.
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And so I spent that weekend really wrapping my head around, you know, I've been wanting
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to do this other stuff anyway.
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Maybe this was just gifted to me.
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So I now have the time to do the things I'm passionate about, Alicia, look at this as
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a gift and make it happen.
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And actually one of my kids said, you know, every time I hear somebody loses a job, I
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say congratulations.
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Well, you know, it's so interesting when you say that and you looked at it from, okay,
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this is a blessing.
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Thank goodness you already kind of had an idea.
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And it may have taken years for you to launch it if you were still getting that paycheck
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one, you didn't have the time to you didn't have the wire, the have to.
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And so having to have that have to sometimes, you know, we always hear God closes the door
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to open a window.
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And you kind of have, you have to get it done.
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Always talk about time or activities expand for the time we have available.
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If you have all weekend to clean your house, then how long to take you to clean your house?
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Your mother-in-law is showing up in 20 minutes.
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How long does it take you?
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20 minutes.
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And so, you know, the time is going to, the could have taken you years to get off the
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ground, but you now you had a big Y and, you know, before, I don't know, you may have said,
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oh, I'm tired or the sun's out.
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I want to go to the beach.
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We have all these excuses, but it sounds like you just put your head down and you're like,
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I got to get this done.
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Well, I had to, I had exactly two weeks to get myself a paycheck.
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Yeah.
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The next Friday paycheck, right?
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So, so I did.
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I put my head down and said, you know, you know, one thing in reflecting on that was
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that very weekend I was chatting with my dad about it and saying, you know, I think it's
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cool that now I have the time and I picked up my vision board as I was talking to him.
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And I said, wow, you know, the only thing not on this board this year is my job.
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Wow.
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I'm like, dad, I think I might have done this myself.
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Like, I'm like, I spend a minute every day looking at all the things I wanted.
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And in years past, my vision board had that job on there and how much I wanted to earn
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and what I wanted to do in that.
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And I left it out.
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It wasn't anything I wanted to be a part of anymore.
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And so I knew then that I was like, no, this is definite.
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I just need to figure out how.
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So I put my head down.
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I put up a website.
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I got on GoDaddy.
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I'm like, how do I do this?
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In 24 hours, I created a website and hunting and packing myself.
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And then I'm like, okay, now I need to actually make the program like a written program.
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And I know how to train clients, but I had already always done it in person.
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You know, I didn't ever have to write something down.
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And so it was a matter of like, wow, I got to create a PDF and then I got to have time
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to talk about it.
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I got to find the people.
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And so I gave myself a week to create the website and the PDF.
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And then I said, all right, I've got to have that done by Monday so that I have Monday
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to Monday to find the clients.
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And it would take me five clients to replicate the paycheck that I would have had this next
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Friday.
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And so I'm like, this is you or I.
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That's what has to happen.
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And it's exactly what happened.
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Wow.
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And the next month I had five more clients.
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And I was like, why saying five?
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Exactly.
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I need more.
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I'm like, I got up the ante here.
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Why am I doing this?
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I'm actually putting myself in a box, you know, and you can't.
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You have to decide.
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Like, yes, we can just do it right this minute and we're limitless.
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You know, we really are.
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And with this world of, you know, Google and YouTube, you can figure out anything.
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There's somebody that talks, wrote a book about everything to figure out about.
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Right.
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And then we had to figure out.
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It's like, we put the time to figure it out.
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And I love your thing about deadlines, that having that deadline.
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And I work very well with deadlines.
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Like, okay, that has to be done by tomorrow and it'll be done by tomorrow.
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A couple of weeks ago I was going out of town and I'm like, all right, a couple of things
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that are on my to-do list forever.
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I'm like, they've got to get done.
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Yes.
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And when we have a deadline and a hard deadline, we get those things done.
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Yeah.
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And you know, I've learned a lot from Brendan Bouchard.
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He has, yes, he has an app, the growth day app.
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Have you gotten it?
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Yes.
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I listen to him every morning.
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Okay.
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One of the things he says, and I have taken this to heart this year, is he encourages
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us to create Friday finishers.
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And so that at the beginning of your week, you decide, what is it that's primary needs
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to be accomplished before Friday?
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And you know what, if your life is crazy and you don't remember to even come up with him
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and suddenly it's one o'clock on Thursday or noon on Friday, you're like, wait, I need
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to, what do I actually have to have finished by the end of the work day to day?
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And I've been doing that.
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And that's pretty cool.
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It is that deadline where when you're self-employed or you work from home and you're even employed
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by someone else, or you can always do it tomorrow, right?
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Right.
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One of the reasons I travel a lot is because I am self-employed and I can work all the
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time.
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Right.
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And you know, again, that time expands.
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And so I travel and I'm like, okay, before I leave, this, this must be done.
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Exactly.
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I don't know about you, but before vacation too, you know, when you're on vacation, all
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these things that have been on your to-do list forever that have nothing to do with the
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vacation, like I remember what time it was, get some jewelry fixed.
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I'm like, who really cares?
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But it's like, all right, clear all the stuff out.
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Get you a deadline.
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Yeah.
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I also learned long ago, my kids range from 23 to 35 years old.
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And so 35 years ago, I learned that as my kids would leave to go to their dads, I'm
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like, you know, instead of spending the whole weekend while they're gone cleaning, I finally
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said, I'm going to make sure the house is clean.
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So when I deliver them, it's clean the whole time.
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Yeah.
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I can just enjoy my quiet time.
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That's for you.
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The house stays that way, right?
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So those are some of the things you've got to put a limit on yourself.
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It's the same as when I decided to run the marathons.
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I was 39 years old.
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I did the first one and I'm like, wait, you know what?
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I'm doing the six world majors in this decade between 40 and 50.
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If you don't give yourself parameters when the world is so big and there are no limits,
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you won't always get something done.
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You've got to say, why not today, right?
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Absolutely.
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And that's why I'm so passionate about this message that just need to do the things and
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I keep hearing so many incredible stories of people and the things they've done and
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just that.
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And it's also that pivotal moment that it's like, like I said in the introduction, enough
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is enough.
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Like I'm drawing the line in the sand and I actually a couple months ago, a month or
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so ago, I was having a frustrating day about something and it snowed and I literally, with
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my boots, put a line in the snow and walked over and done, you know?
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And so, you know, having to have those lines and those deadlines and I really think I do
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this podcast for me because I get so much good coaching, training, stories, inspiration.
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So, so let's go to that subject with the flip the chick.
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You know, what are some tips?
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Because a lot of my audience is women or are women and they're at that age and menopause.
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So what are some of the tricks and tips that you teach in your program?
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And I know you do the accountability part that Tamara actually had to have an accountability
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partner so we had to stay in touch, which was cool because it kind of pulled me in.
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So share some of your, what are your top tips of things that we should be doing as women
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over 40, 50?
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Yeah, I'm glad you asked.
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So with flip this chick, you know, I use the acronym to kind of talk about exactly what
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we do do and that is we make fitness fun.
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We do low intensity cardio.
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We incorporate protein, elevate that and create connections.
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I make sure women are learning how to honor themselves, treating their themselves as if
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they're worthy because, you know, L'Oreal taught us that decades ago, but do we really
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treat ourselves that way?
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Okay.
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So I'm going to interrupt you really quick about your worthy.
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Do you know about Jamie Kern, Lema and her book that just came out called Worthy?
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Yes.
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And she worked for L'Oreal after she sold IT Cosmetics.
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Oh, I didn't know.
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I did know she did IT Cosmetics.
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I didn't realize she was with L'Oreal before that.
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Well, no, she wasn't before.
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Oh.
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The story is pretty incredible.
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Yeah.
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She had Rosatia and so started a cosmetic company and sold it for 1.2 billion.
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I have read her book.
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And became the CEO, but she just came out with a book this week called Worthy.
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So you just had some fun.
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I saw that it was launching.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm sorry for interrupting.
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So that's okay.
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It'll be on the top of my list because part of the Flip This Chick program is that we incorporate
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some books that you could listen to audio or whatever, but the Worthy project is one.
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I ordered that after talking to you.
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Yes.
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And then the miracle equation, Mel Robbins, a lot of different things.
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But anyway, some of the things I really recommend women do at this phase in our life, one is
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get more protein.
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They have proven that just getting enough protein can help change your body composition.
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But you have to know how much is enough.
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So I work with women on getting their macros correct.
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Macros is just fancy terminology for protein carbs and fat.
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Yeah.
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And so are the vitamins in there.
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So but, you know, to not be, you know, intimidated by what people are talking about, just find
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out what is it that your body needs.
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If your body gets what it needs, it'll get rid of what it doesn't.
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And that means we can actually shed belly fat.
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We work with strength training.
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It is so important.
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And I do love that they are finally talking about muscle centric medicine as a way to
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actually heal your body and stay healthy.
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Thank God.
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This is finally a conversation and they're not saying, oh, no, don't do that.
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Take a pill, you know.
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And so I am grateful that that's in the limelight now.
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And that's what we do.
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It's an eight week program.
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I now this January launched a 12 month program too, because I had so many women who had done
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the eight week program that were like, I just want you along my side for a while.
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I'm like, okay.
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So so that's pretty cool.
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So we have a combination of women doing both, but we meet every Monday night to do that.
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And then I meet one on one with clients and we do an individualized program.
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Really what works for them.
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We decide how, how does eating right look to you.
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I'm not trying to make them suddenly start cooking 45 minute meals three times a day.
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And I'm like, no, I live quick.
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I live in motion.
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And if that's how you live, I can help you with that too.
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If you want to cook slow, that's cool.
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Have at it.
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I have tons of recipe books on my website and things like that too.
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But it is so important that women have a guideline for what really is right for our body at this
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point.
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Because look, I was running hours a day, hours a day, because I was training for a marathon
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at 52.
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I did an ultra marathon and I still put on 25 pounds.
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So it's not that.
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Bad information.
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You're not moving.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, learning the new things.
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And as, you know, we're different ages, we need to do different things.
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Right.
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I'm not going to dive deep into this, but have you seen the news about what Weight Watchers
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is doing?
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No.
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I was on a, just, I was listening to a podcast that ended and it popped into another one.
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And I guess they're apologizing that they're sort of work for some people, but not everybody.
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I didn't listen to the whole thing, but they're talking about how medicine makes a difference
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and they're starting.
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Oh yeah.
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What you're, yeah, absolutely.
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Those first conversations.
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Those drugs that are so popular.
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So I'm not going to dive in.
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As I said, I want to deep dive in there.
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But yeah, so I love the stuff you're doing and I love what I'm hearing is so much inspiration.
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It's not just eat this, don't eat this exercise, but it's the vision boards.
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It's the books.
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It's the encouragement.
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It's the community that you're creating and the connections and the walk.
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The mindset.
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It is.
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That is all those things are so important.
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And when you surround yourself with like-minded people, it's going to feed and give you more
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motivation.
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Right.
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And you know, of course women lose weight, which is exciting.
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They feel better.
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Their body starts to change shape and they're like, oh my gosh, I can't believe my, my clothes
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fit different and you know, they kind of get surprised.
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I'm like, I'm told to it would work.
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But you know, I have to tell you this group of women that we have going on right now,
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because we do it eight weeks at a time.
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So they're in week seven right now.
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And last week when we met on Monday and everybody, we always start by sharing your wins and challenges
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for the week, one win and one challenge.
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And I am telling you that by week six, what they're talking about is no longer about weight.
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What they're talking about is how their life is different.
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And it is the most beautiful thing and so gratifying.
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And you know, one of the gals was like, oh my gosh, I have a new boyfriend and he's into
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fitness.
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So we're going for bike rides and we're doing this.
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I'm like, oh my gosh.
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And you know, she had just started dating, you know.
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And then another gala is a realtor and she's like, oh my gosh, I sold a house and I got
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a new buyer.
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And you know, I haven't for a long time.
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And I'm like, you guys, here's the thing.
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The people at the top of the heap in every industry across the board all prioritize their
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health.
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That is non-negotiable for people who are performing at their best.
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So if you just stop what you're doing, dead in your tracks and put your health and wellness
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first, the rest of your life will get more beautiful.
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It just can't not.
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And I was talking to somebody the opposite the other day who husband was sick and she
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was a caregiver and she's in some sales and she said that when she was being a caregiver,
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you know, of course she wasn't taking care of herself.
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Like the presentation she's always done that works so well, she was getting nothing.
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And unfortunately passed away and she started taking care of herself and doing things to
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give her joy.
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And the exact same presentation is getting her sales.
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Yes.
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You don't realize, you think, oh, nothing, you know, I'm still doing the exact same thing,
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but your energy is so different.
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Yes, absolutely.
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And it really is key.
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It just makes me so proud to see it and be like, look, this, and, you know, sometimes
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the caution is, well, do you think I'll keep doing it?
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I'm like, look, you're going to keep doing it because it actually changes your life.
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Of course you're going to do it.
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And the simple healthy habit shifts that we make make it possible.
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Right.
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You know, and our life changing like you can never, as soon as somebody says you can never
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again, then I'm like, give me all that I can get, you know, or bring.
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But we can talk about this subject all day long.
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And one of the things I keep thinking we're going different ways at this podcast, more
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deeper dives with some of my guests and give people a little more concrete.
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So we might do that.
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But so before we part, what, how would you encourage somebody to be courageous to do
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the things to quit the job, to start the business, to get their health in line?
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You know, here's the thing.
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You know, when I knew we were going to talk about that.
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I just want to remind everybody that everybody who is being successful right now, everyone
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you see in the limelight, everyone you know that is achieving the things they intend,
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they all started somewhere.
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Nobody begins as an expert in anything.
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No, you know, I'm not a plumber.
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I'm not going to fix my sink.
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I don't expect to know how to do it.
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If you aren't someone who has the background in health and fitness, you shouldn't expect
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yourself to know how to handle it.
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Now, how to stop thinking, oh, I should be able to do this myself.
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I can handle, I can do it.
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I'll just, you know, stop eating as much and move more.
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And the reality is that's not it.
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You need more of the right food.
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You don't need this.
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And you need the right type of movement.
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So it's so important.
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You have goals that are set in business or in finances or relationships.
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Understand everyone begins as a novice and it's okay.
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Reach out and ask for somebody to help you because you have to start somewhere or get
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a book or listen to a podcast, but know that you have to just begin afraid and you need
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to start today.
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Exactly.
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Why not today?
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Yeah, it's true.
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Yeah, so true.
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All the lessons that we need to do, all those things.
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So yeah, great information.
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So how does somebody find you, Ms. Alicia?
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Well, you can find me lots of places.
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Flip this chick is on every social platform, but I am on Instagram at fitover50.flipthischick.
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Now I want everyone to know that it's not because you have to be over 50 to join this
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movement.
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It's that I'm over 50.
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I'm 55.
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And so that's why I call it fit over 50.
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So wherever women don't always hit perimenopause or menopause or start to notice these shifts
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at a certain age.
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So I don't like to put an age number out there.
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It's whenever what you've been doing in the past is no longer working for you.
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That's when you need to make the shift.
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Okay.
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So I don't change anywhere from 35 to 65.
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But if what you're doing isn't working and you're frustrated, that's when you should
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look me up.
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Love it.
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And I love all your enthusiasm.
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And you can find me also.
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You can also find me at flipthischick.com.
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That is a good spot to just go dig in more about all the programs and stuff too.
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All right.
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Well, thank you for being my guest and sharing.
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And I can't wait to dive deeper.
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Every time I do one of these, I'm like, I don't want to be rude and taking notes the
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whole time and looking down.
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But I need to go back and it's a masterclass for me and back and pull all the information
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out.
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But thank you for being my guest.
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Thank you everybody else for joining us for this inspiring journey.
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Remember, every day is an opportunity to take action, chase your dreams and make a difference.
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So why not today?
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You can subscribe, share and keep pushing forward.
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The podcast is on all the podcast places.
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The website is whynottodaypodcast.com.
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We just started a new Facebook group, the why not today community, where we're going
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to start doing some fun extra things.
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So until next time, stay motivating and motivated and keep making things happen.
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So thanks and thanks for listening or watching.
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Thanks for having me.
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I'll catch you on the flip side.
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All right.