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At the end of the day, it's not about what
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you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what
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you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up,
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who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.
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Denzel Washington, Welcome to Inspire Vision. Our sole purpose is
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to elevate the lives of others and to inspire you
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to do the same.
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Lauren welcome.
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Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited
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to be here today.
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You know, I'm really excited to have you on the
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show because as I've looked over your website and your
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bio and so forth, and your expertise, I.
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Find that it's really unusual.
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Okay, and I'll talk about that from the standpoint of
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wording that you use and descriptions that you use. But
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what I'd love for you to do is what I
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find is there's always a story, there's always a journey,
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and I'd love for you to share your journey with
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the audience, kind of give a background of who you are,
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and then kind of share your journey of what brought
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you to this point where you are helping women in
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the way that.
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You are absolutely absolutely okay.
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So I can be a little bit of a talker,
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so I'll give you the mini who I am now
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what I'm really passionate about. So Entrepreneur Speaker podcast hosts myself,
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transformational facilitator and Somatic life coach, and I do a
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lot of work with women, actually women when it comes
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to dating and relationships, so a lot of work on
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embodying feminine energy, femininity, all of that kind of stuff.
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And I really love to work with women in that
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capacity because I come from being very much a overachiever,
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boss babe, kind of like hustle, go go go, NonStop
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kind of woman. And while that resulted in a lot
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of really incredible things in my life and many ways,
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it also had a lot of things, you know, resulted
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in a lot of results that I didn't quite love
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in my life, especially related to marriage, relationships, that sort
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of thing. So I work with women to help them
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heal their nervous system, reprogram their subconscious mind, to really
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step into that innate magnetism that women have, and help
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women break free from that boss babe hustle culture kind
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of life, really own their worth and work on that
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worthiness journey, stand more firm in their power, and really
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invite more ease and flow into their lives.
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And I used.
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To focus just on personal growth with women and everything
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like that, and shifted over the last two years, I
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would say, into more dating and relationships because I have
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worked with so many women who, again they're successful go
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getters in so many areas of their lives, and you
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would see them and say like, wow, she's got it
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all together right, But who would struggle with dating, would
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struggle with relationships, and have very similar struggles when it
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came to relationships, and those being like I just can't
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meet a man who's manly enough or masculine enough for me,
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and stuff like that, and a lot of the times,
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these kinds of women, and I was one of these
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kinds of women as well, have a lot of similar patterns,
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similar wounds, similar blocks, and things that we can work
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on to make it so that that is no longer
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a big hurdle, I guess in their lives. And a
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little bit backing up to kind of my story and journey,
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I was the classic overachiever, perfectionist, workaholic like all of that.
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So somebody who was very stuck in my masculine energy.
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But also I was that way like my whole life, right,
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so excelled in sports, I did music, I did theater,
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I did was good at school like all the things
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perfectionists and all the things, and that was very encouraged,
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which is amazing. And as I'm sure you can imagine,
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fast forward to college or even early in my career,
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I'm double majoring, I'm workaholic like all that kind of stuff,
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and that brought a lot of amazing results, Like I said, success,
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good career, accolades, like money, all of that, But it
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was also me very much operating in a survival pattern
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in a lot of ways. And so so yeah, so
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live my whole life in this overachiever, workaholic kind of space.
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I ended up getting married in when was it ten
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years ago? Oh, my gosh, ten years ago at this
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point in twenty fifteen, to a good man and to
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a man who complimented me at the time in the
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sense that I was very much in my masculine energy
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and so he was very much in his feminine energy.
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And as I started to do a lot of the
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work on myself, the inner work, and the work I
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started doing was around the unworthiness, the perfectionism, the overachieving,
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all of that kind of stuff, and so it wasn't
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about like masculine feminine stuff at all.
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It was that stuff.
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But as I started to work on those things, I
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started to really like find more balance in that feminine
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and masculine energy. Because a lot of that high achieving,
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go go go, like success, drive, push, that kind of
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energy is the masculine energy. And so as I learned
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how to balance that out, I was because I was
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chasing a lot of that. Because there's nothing wrong, I
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want to be clear with the men and women listening,
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there's nothing wrong with being successful, being driven, anything like that,
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being excited and passionate about your career and having goals right,
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But for me, and I know for so many women
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too who can relate, I was chasing a lot of
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that for validation, because that's what made me feel worthy,
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feel valuable, all of that. So if you know, if
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I was successful, if people thought I was amazing, all
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these things that filled my tank, right instead of my
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tank being filled with through through other means. And so
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as I started to heal those pieces, that masculine feminine
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energy harmonization started to balance out more and then I
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started to do more work on that, and that's when
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I realized, oh my gosh, this is now that I'm
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not occupying the masculine energy in my relationship. It's not
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really we don't really have that in our relationship. And
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so spent a few years really working on that stuff
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and trying to figure it out, and ultimately decided to
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split up. And so I got divorced in twenty twenty.
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You know, while COVID was happening, like all all the
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things are going on at the same time. So COVID,
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COVID divorce, and that threw me into a lot of depealing,
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so even more depealing, right, and that's where I started
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to you know, I started to learn about somatic healing.
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I'm certified in somatic healing, which has been incredibly powerful
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and amazing for my own journey and end growth and
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started to learn a lot more about relationships, right, because
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I was fascinated by like, Okay, how did I get
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into what brought me here?
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Right?
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And if that was because it was ultimately my choice
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to end the marriage, if that wasn't the marriage that
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I wanted? Right, Like what brought me there? And now
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if I want something different, what growth do I get
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to step into to have a different outcome in the future, right,
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to change my what my relationship and dating life looks
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like from here on out.
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And so that that's the long but short way of
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how we got here.
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Okay, so double major. What were your majors?
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Communications and graphic design? So studio art, And it was
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the sort of thing where I went into. I went
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to a lovely liberal arts college in Santa Barbara, California, Like,
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can't complain, right, My school is a little private school
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in Montecito.
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We'd go to the beach all that, Like it was amazing.
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And I went in with a lot of of course,
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remember overachiever. I went in with a lot of AP
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credits and stuff like that, where I could have graduated
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a year early, right and say, my parents a year
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of private school tuition, but instead I chose to do
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more school. So I'm like, I've got all the room,
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let's do two majors instead of one. And so basically
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went through the course book and circled all the classes
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that sounded really cool to me, and then saw, okay,
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a lot of these line up with communications. Then that
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makes sense as the major I want to do, right
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And then I've always loved to be creative and do art,
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so I did graphic design as well.
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So did you go into some type of business or
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did you work for a major company or what happened there?
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And how doing that?
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Absolutely?
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So after college I went right into working on an
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AD agency. So I've always loved that intersection of like
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strategic communication and so like the psychology behind it when
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there's visual aspects as well. So went into working at
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a an AD agency and then went down the PR route,
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started working at a PR agency as well. Took a
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little break to well before the PR agency, took a
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little break because I was like, you know what, maybe
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advertising isn't the direction. Maybe I want to be more
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in the creative side of things. Went to New York
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City and did an internship program there that focused mainly
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on more of the art side of things, and it
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was there that I was like, you know what, the
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like artist direction, I think I want to keep that
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more as the hobby, like in my tool belt, but
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not the main thing. So went back into more the
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marketing side of things and was in PR for several
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years and then left that last company I worked for
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in when would that have been two thousand and.
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Fourteen?
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Yes, I think twenty fourteen to start my own business
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and in those you know, ten years now since doing
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my own thing, I owned my own agency for a while,
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and then did I also have had a fitness business too.
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I was an athlete for a long time, so I
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had a fitness business, but did PR for for several years,
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including my own agency, and started leaning into coaching more
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in twenty twenty and just this past year merged my
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agency with another agency, so I got to take that
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CEO hat off, which was really nice, and I get
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to focus a lot more of my energy on and
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my coaching work.
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Wow.
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Yeah, talk about someone who really wants to accomplish a lot.
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Yeah yeah, right.
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Well yeah, And I find that it's true of many
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many people and women.
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And I think it's interesting because I think it used
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to be much more about the how it looked and
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the accomplishments and that sort of thing, like I said,
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for the validation and the self worth and all of that.
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And really like the last you know, eight or so years,
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it's been so much more about like what feels exciting
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and interesting to me? Right because I'm not I'm not
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so much driven by oh, this is my dream job
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and that's what I have to do. It's and I'm
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going to do this forever. It's like, oh, in this
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season and chat like what am I passionate about?
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What's exciting?
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What?
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Yes, what can I see doing for a long time?
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But yeah, like I have been blessed to be able
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to trial lot of different things and going a lot
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of different directions, and you know, working for myself the
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last decade allows a lot.
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Of that freedom, which is which is really great.
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But I'm very very motivated by lifestyle and freedom and
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getting to you know, explore what's interesting to me.
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Well you know what I find fascinating And thank you
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for being so transparent.
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I think that's great. What I find interesting is, you know, as.
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We talk about and as you talk about you know,
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whatever those experiences were in childhood that caused you to have.
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To just do do do doom.
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In order to feel like you're accepted by people in
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the community and so forth. And yet, and you know,
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and we look back at that, and so many people
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now are trying to look at that experience as childs
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there as children and overcome that. And you know, we
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focus on overcoming that. And yet with your story, and
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I think it's true of many people people those things
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caused you to become the person that you became success wise,
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and then ultimately because you were able to do that,