​Hey, Mama, welcome back. I have such a great topic today. I have actually been struggling with this topic. Like recording this topic because I know it's going to take me to a place of vulnerability. It's going to be an amazing like if you stick with me through this, it might push some of your buttons, but I believe it will be something that you need to hear, something that you may not even know you're struggling with. And something that could really be life changing if you can just figure a way to get it into your body, into your bones, into your life, into your soul, and what is it? It is worthiness, worthiness, worthiness. And 

this is a topic that the reason that I say it's like can be touchy is because I feel like we all, in one way or another lack the feeling that we are worthy of something, whether that be love or whatnot. I I'm going to start again with a quote. So I'm going to use Brenna Brown. Love her if you do not know her. This quote When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness is a birthright and not something you have to earn. Anything is possible. Y'all that's deep, right? When you get to a place, when you understand that love and belonging is your birthright, that is your worthiness. Like when you lack worthiness, you essentially are lacking love, You're lacking belonging. You feel that you are not enough for something. And you guys, if I go way back like back to when I was growing up through my 20s, whatever, I always felt like I was worthy of everything. Like I I had this, you know, I just got off of in any any Agram panel where I was speaking to my any Agram type which is an 8. And we are like doers. We are leaders. We are. I forget what that actually is. I think the challenger. So we like to challenge people like I I've said before that I'm a devil's advocate. Like I like to challenge people's opinions. I would have made a good lawyer probably, right? Like so 

I am have always been like this driver, this doer, you know, wanting to achieve things and have always felt like I was worthy of massive success. Like, I really believed that until I didn't. And it's funny because, like, it's not funny, but it is just life. Life comes at us, and things and circumstances that happen to us in our life, they mold who we are. And so while growing up, I had an amazing childhood, you know, I was always told that, you know, I was, I was smart, I was talented, I was pretty. I was, you know, all these encouraging things that people say to you. And I was loved and I was, you know, my mom had decided to stay home with me when when I was little. And so, like, I had someone who was there for me. So I didn't, I guess, struggle with worthiness until later in life. And you know, I call this podcast, Mom is ready to find success. Because if you, you know, rewind my life back to before children, I felt like success was it was all about me, right? Like it was it was my success. You know, success to me was what was going to happen to me or I was always a giver. So, you know, I wanted to make more, earn more so that I could give more, so that I could have more but also give more. Like I I'm not really huge into material possessions like I love to shop and things like that. But you know, you don't usually see me going and buying big purchases or spending a lot of money. I love bargain shop, but I'm not a big spender. And even when I was making, you know, six figures when 

I was single and had no responsibilities other than myself, I was saving a lot. And you know, doing, doing, doing, achieving, you know, always wanting more success and success at the time looked like, you know, a certain level of sales or, you know, how many people were in my programs or, you know, how was this performing or that performing. Like the different different times, different things. Was I winning awards? Was I winning contest? Was I winning, you know, trips? You know, was I winning all of these things? Like, it used to be all about that. And like I said, I still have this giving heart and I wanted to give away more and I wanted to save more and I wanted to, you know, be able to do what I wanted to do. But it was more about me. And then after kids, it became a completely different version of what success look like for me. And it now it looks more like, you know, I want to have the money so that I can have the experiences with my kids. Just the lifestyle that we want, it's not so we can have more things, It's more so we can travel, so I can hire a cleaner to clean my house. And I have to, don't have to do that, you know, I can give more. I want to give back in a big way. Like, I don't feel like I'm doing enough in that area. Like, I should be making more so that I can give more, so that I can. Like I actually want to start a charity. So I have all these big dreams now. But success looks way different to me now than it did before. And I've kind of gone off on this success tangent. And I think one of the reasons, and I'm just kind of like realizing it right now, is that my worthiness used to be tied to success and what that definition was. 

And a lot of people's worthiness is tied to success. And that should not, you know, that should not be what your worthiness is tied to. You are worthy simply because you are, simply because you deserve to be loved. You deserve to feel that sense of belonging. You deserve everything that you want in your life. You deserve that you are worthy of it. You are worthy. Like I want you to say that over and over to yourself in the mirror. Like I am worthy and you can insert anything after it. Like I am worthy of massive success. That was hard. That's a that's an affirmation that I have posted on my mirror still today. And it when I started saying it, it was hard for me to say it because like I started to say before years ago, I believed that. But then over time what happens is circumstances in your life kind of knock you down pegs, right? Like or people that come into your life. Like in my instance I was in an abusive relationship. Like, I won't say abusive physically, but very mentally abusive. So emotionally abusive. And this person would say things that, you know, we're very harsh, very hard to hear, very degrading, very much made me feel unworthy. And you know, even when they would like, they were so manipulative and doing such it or doing this in such a way that it was like sometimes they would give me these great compliments but also follow it with with things that were very mean. And a lot of times the compliments were backhanded and making me think that me wanting more or me, you know, winning things or getting, you 

know, if I won a sales contest or if I if I was the best, you know, whatever. Making me feel bad for that, making me feel like you know, that I that I was acting like I was better than other people, which I've never thought I was better than other people. But I've always wanted to win and I've always had that drive and wanted to be the best at everything that I do. And it's not about about like being better than anyone else. I believe that we are all equal. And you know, I do not believe that we're, I'm better than anyone else. I believe that you know if this goes back to the worthiness like we are all breathing the same air we all were given, you know, a heart that beats. God has made us all unique, unique, but He has made us all innately worthy. We are all just as worthy as the next person, no matter what their life circumstances have looked like. We are just as worthy. We are no better than another human like I I just I that's it's the core belief of mine, and I truly believe that we all struggle with worthiness and thinking we are worthy, especially when it comes to things that we want for ourselves. Especially as mothers like this applies to everyone, but especially as mothers, we tend to put everyone's needs before hours and we again don't feel worth certain things. Like, you know, if this isn't done or if this doesn't happen, then I'm not worthy. And you know, I I a lot of times will get to the end of the day or used to get to the end of the day and look at what I had done for the day and been like, gosh, I didn't get anything done and felt like a failure. I felt, 

you know, like I wasn't worth, you know, like I wasn't a good mom. Like, I I wasn't worthy of having that title. Like of mom. Like, why do I even have kids? Like, when I was in a depression, I kind of felt like that, like, why do I even have kids? Or why, you know, did was I allowed to bring children into this world? And I didn't even feel worthy of having the children. You know, God gave me these kids, and I'm like, why was I, you know, blessed with these kids? Like, I don't even deserve to have these children. I can't even get myself out of bed or whatever it was. And, you know, at different places in my life, I've felt different levels of unworthiness. And you know what I really came to realize just over the past couple of years doing a lot of deep dives into this specifically, is that a lot of people, not just me, feel that we are unworthy of making a lot of money. And I think that I think that women in general have been made to feel like they have these certain roles in society, in their family hierarchies, in, you know, the men always bring, you know, they're the breadwinners, right? Like that's what we used to call the men the breadwinner, right. And the woman was the homemaker, right. And that kind of flipped. The script has flipped a little bit. And now you will see a lot of women making more money than their husbands or even husbands staying home with the kids nowadays. But there's a lot of society that believes that the male is the one who makes the money. And women don't feel worthy of making that kind of money. I know that like you know when I was single and I was making a lot of money it was you know sometimes told to me that it was intimidating 

that I made that kind of money and you know men didn't want to didn't want to date someone who made more money than them. And you know all these things and these, I don't know things that have been said to you, things the way society are, they play a role in how you're conditioned and then what you internally like believe about yourself and you somehow take on that unworthiness. And I know that happened to me. I know that happened to me. And I I want to just say today, if you are someone who desires to be a millionaire, then you are worthy of that. Like you should take the steps and become a millionaire. It is something that you can do. It is something that you are worthy of. And if you have that desire, like if that is something that is a true desire, like it's not just like everyone would love to be a millionaire, right? No, This is like an actual want of yours. you feel like you were meant to be a millionaire and make make a year, make in a month, who knows? You know, you might have that desire. If that is seriously something that is super important to you, you should pursue it. You are worthy of it. No matter what anyone has told you in your life, you are worthy of it. You are worthy of, you know, it couldn't be as simple as, like you are worthy of taking a shower. There was times in my life where I didn't even feel like I could take a shower and I honestly didn't feel like I was worth being clean. Like I was so depressed that I didn't even feel, worthy enough to be clean. I didn't have any desire. I was like, I'm gross, you know, all these things and you just, you just like, stopped like caring about that kind of stuff, which is completely crazy to me now when I think about that, but it's 

so true. Like I didn't feel worthy of it at the time. And there are people right now that probably feel that way. And I want to tell you, you are worthy. You are worthy. Every single human is worthy of being clean. Every single human you are, you are worthy of it and you are worthy of whatever is in your heart. So those were very big extremes, A millionaire and then taking a shower. But I think you guys get my point. Like we need to check into like really sit and take some time. And you know, it took me a lot of years and a lot of work, but I just wanted to plant the seed today about the fact that you, if you take a look in your past, if you take a look at what you know, what your body is telling you, like what your heart is saying right now, like what your gut is saying about you. You know how you're feeling and you know if you feel worthy or if you lack that worthiness in your life. And if you need help in any way, please, please reach out to someone. If you have no one to reach out to, you know, or you can't afford a therapist or anything like that, please reach out to me. I would love to figure out a way to help you, but I just want you to know that you are worthy. I also want to share another quote because, you know, worthiness, it can be something that I I said. It's conditioned, you know, like you being unworthy is conditioned and it can start at a very young age, you know, if you didn't feel worthy. Like I said, I had kind of a blessed childhood. But there are many people who in order to feel worthy, they had to do things or achieve things in order 

to feel like they could receive love. And they, you know, whether it was getting a good grades at school or playing sports and being the best that their sport, they didn't feel loved unless they were, unless they were performing, unless they were getting those good grades, unless they were, you know, being the best at the sport that they were in and winning and all of those things. And they didn't feel loved unless they were doing that, unless they were achieving that. And so for those kind of people, worthiness is like a wound that, you know, their whole life they have spent trying to achieve things in order to feel that love and to feel that worthiness. And this quote that I'm going to share next is from I'm going to butcher this name. But Elizabeth Kubler Ross, I think it is. And it says the ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. And that is so true. It is very true that you first of all, we can't give unconditional love to someone else unless we have unconditional love ourselves. Unless we feel that for ourselves, we cannot give it to someone else, which may be really hard to hear, especially if you have children. But it is really it. It is true. Like we put a lot of times we put conditions on our love, right? And I'm not blaming parents here, right? Like if your parents did that to you where you were the kind of person who unless you were achieving or doing or you didn't feel love unless something else happened, it may be really hard for you to also not 

do that to other people. So you have to kind of figure out and go deep and peel back the layers to figure out like what you can do to love yourself. Because we first have to love ourself in order to love other people. And when you love yourself then you will be able to know it's a knowing that you are worthy like. You just know that you're worthy. You were born. God put you on this planet. He believes you are worthy. He you know, I, I, I don't know how many of you are believers, but I believe that he sent his Son here to die on a cross for us. Because we are all worthy of that, each and everyone. Like Jesus didn't die for just one person. He died for every single person, which includes you. So I want you to know today that God thinks you're worthy, He believes you are worthy, and so you need to believe you're worthy. And a lot of times it starts with the love, our own selflove, and giving that to yourself so that you can be a better mom, so that you can unconditionally love your children and not pass on those things to your kids that were passed on to you. And remember, your mom and your dad, they were daughters and sons as well, right? And so the reason that they did what they did was probably because that was done to them, right? And so we just have to give grace to other people. So you have all the grace. I am not judging. I have been where you are. I actually, you know, didn't realize that I was feeling unworthy and that I didn't feel like I really loved myself at some point. Once I became a mother, it 

didn't come out until, like, I went through my deep depression. But like, I realized that I was doing things where I was projecting things onto my children. So So I'm just saying that as a mother, it's really important for you to check in to your love for yourself, your worthiness, to make sure that you know that you are worthy so that you can pass that on to your kids. Because we all want our kids to know that they are worthy of anything that they want. They are worthy of whatever their little heart desires, right? But so are you. you are worthy of, whatever your heart desires. And I just want you to know that if you don't know that from anyone else, please hear it from me. And it's really not from me. Like I I can't give that kind of validation, but please trust that God believes that you are worthy and I believe that you are worthy. And so you need to believe in yourself and know that you are worthy. So I hope this helps someone today. I know it was kind of a deep topic and we can all use this type of encouragement in our lives. There's always things that we can do to improve our image of ourselves. And Affirmations is 1 big way for me, so I will follow up. Maybe that's what the next podcast episode will be about is about affirmations and how I use those I kind of went off on a couple of tangents there, but I want to wrap it up and just say I hope you know that you are worthy and if you need any encouragement in that area, I would love to hear from you. Please reach out to me on social media. like you can look in the notes section. I will have ways that you can contact 

me through this podcast wherever you're listening. And I would love to hear from you any feedback that you have, but especially if you need help in this area. All right. Till next time, y'all. 

​Hey Mamas, welcome, welcome, welcome. I am excited to talk to you about this topic today because I think it's something that can make a really big impact, something that if you do it, it will change the way that your daily life is. You will have more joy, you will have more productivity and those are all things we could use as moms, right? So what is this? It is about making a decision. So this is something that I used to do really well when I was younger. And then after I became a mom, it was like, I don't know, I don't know what happened to my decision making abilities, but I felt like it was a struggle. And it could be like just talking about making a decision could be something triggering to a lot of people. Because I know that sometimes just thinking about making decisions would stress me out, even just little decisions. And I'm going to talk to a little bit about why that is, I believe, but I just want to start with a quote because I think I started the last episode with a quote and I'm going to start this one with a quote. I may start all my episodes with a quote. How I start all my Jazzercise classes. I love quotes. You guys that know me know I love like all these little positive self affirmations, quotes, different things. I've got things up everywhere, all over my house. So this is something that's going to be a part of the podcast. So I'm going to start with a quote from Oprah Winfrey. And this is nothing happens until you decide, make a decision and watch your life move forward. So it's so true, right? Like we have to decide about everything. Our life is a result 

of the decisions we've made in our past. It's a it's a result of what we do day-to-day, the decisions we make in a day. We don't even realize all the decisions that we're making in a given day. But this is about making a decision for you, and it can be something as small as, I don't know, deciding to wake up earlier in your day. Like maybe you have a morning routine that you've wanted to implement and and you want to wake up earlier, so you decide to wake up earlier, right? And I'm going to talk a little bit about how you can do that. But I want you to 1st think about in your head. I want you to think of something. It could be, like I said, waking up earlier. It could be you want to start exercising so that you feel better. It could be like you want to clean your house and get organized. Like you. Your house is a mess and you need to get it organized. That's the decision you're going to make, is to get organized. You might just want to start reading again and it could be a small decision or it could be a big decision. Like I want to start a business. Like make that decision. I want to start dating my husband again. Make a decision that you're going to make a date night a priority with your spouse. It could be that you want to, I don't know, make a Halloween costume for your kid this year. Make that decision right. The problem with making decisions a lot of times is you know that you want the results but you don't know how to get there. And so it could be something as simple as like for instance today like, I decided I am recording this podcast today. That was the decision I made. I'm going to record this today. I couldn't put it off, but the problem with making that decision is, but I have to do all these other things in my day as well, like this week in particular. It's my husband's birthday. It's my daughter's birthday. We're having 

like a bunch of girls here for a sleepover on Friday night. I've never had a big sleepover here. She's super excited. I am kind of too. It sounds like a super fun spa night birthday party, but like, there's a lot of planning that goes into that. My motherinlaw's here for the week, so, you know, just making sure that she's taken care of and she's staying with us. And all the other business things that I have to get done this week. Like, I've got a lot on my plate. And yet I knew I wanted to record this podcast, but I couldn't even sit down on to record the podcast until I, like, made the decision that I wanted to do that. I had to then backtrack and say, okay, what's going to be the things that I have to do in order to be able to really be present and record this podcast? So I had to decide that I was going to make the grocery list and, you know, get all of these things. So sometimes what's really helpful and making a decision is brain dumping. So you might have heard this before, but you basically just sit down and you write everything that you have to do down on a piece of paper, everything that's in your head. It doesn't have to even be that, like important like it could be you have to, I don't know, sign the kids school sheet like a like a sheet for them to go on a field trip or something. You have to get that signed or it's picture day. It was picture day today. And I was like the mom that totally forgot about pictures yesterday until yesterday. And I was like, Oh my gosh. So, you know, it could be these little tiny things that we can forget about if we get really busy, that you put everything down on a sheet of paper and then you're like, okay, This is all the things that I have to get done this week. And then you can start prioritizing. OK, that could actually wait. Like, I know that the party doesn't happen until Friday. So I feel like there's all these urgent things that have to happen for the party, but it's not till Friday. So some of those might be able to wait until Thursday 

or Friday even because, you know, they're going to be at school all day on Friday. So I'll have time while they're at school to prep for the party, Right. So once you get everything dumped onto a piece of paper, then you can prioritize and you can say, OK, I can actually record my podcast today because here's the only things that I have to get done today, and recording my podcast is one of them. So I can do that if I just, you know, clear my brain first of making the grocery list and whatever, so that I can sit down and actually be productive and making my podcast, right. And so that is just an example of one of the things that I did this morning to make a decision for myself. But what I want to challenge you to do is to make a decision for yourself that is going to be something that is impactful on your life. So you know, it might it. Like I said, it might actually be a small thing, like starting to read again if you haven't been reading or starting to exercise again. But those things might seem overwhelming until you take other baby steps to make sure that you have the space to be present in what you're doing when you're doing it. So that you're able to read and just enjoy the book when you're reading. Or you're able to go and work out and not feel bad about it. Because you're like, I should be doing this, this and this and this. But you know that you have sure, you've heard it before. You have to fill your cup before you can fill other people's cup, right? That is so true. And it's very true as a mother. So you have to make those decisions that you're going to prioritize yourself and that you're worth it. And I want to tell you right now that you are worth it. You are so worth it. Make some decision for yourself today and maybe it's a big decision, right? Even big decisions used to be pretty easy for 

me before children. And I think before just I had all these other things going on in my life that I that I felt like, gosh, I don't know if it was. I felt like I should be. There's a lot of shoulds out there, right? Like, there's a lot of in this day and age we live in, we're just subjected to all these things, right? Like the ways of the world, you might might want to call them, or societal norms or, you know, just the way that things are supposed to be done depending on what, you know, groups you run in or the people that you've hung around or, you know, cultural things. Like there's things that you should do as a woman, as a mother, as a this right. And they might have been programmed into you from a very young age. And you know, in thankfully, in 2023 there are a lot of things that people are trying to break those molds, but there's still a lot that is lives inside of you from when you grew up. And it doesn't matter if it's necessarily like acceptable now to do certain things that maybe weren't acceptable then. It's how you perceive it in your mind. So you might perceive, oh, if I exercise before, you know such and such is done, then it's going to be like before. Let's just say the dishes are done, or like the house is clean or the laundry is done or whatever. Then it means I'm not a good mother or a good caretaker or a good whatever, like insert whatever you want to say. It does not have to be that way. You need to fill your cup so that you can do the other things. I find that when I take the time to prioritize, like for me it's the morning routine and you know, it's all about taking baby steps towards things. So once you make a decision for something, then 

you have to just take action that's going to move you towards towards those things. So if it's to start reading right, that's a little bit easier. Then let's just say I want to be healthier and I want to, you know, lose this weight so that I'm healthier. Like that's a more longterm goal. I want to start a business or even I want to have a morning routine that can actually be more of a longterm goal because you're going to have to be doing things in kind of a stair step pattern to get yourself there. So maybe, you know, if you want to do a morning routine, you have to wake up earlier, right? And if you now wake up at like 7 because everyone else has to get up at like 7:15, then waking up at six is going to be a stretch, right? Like, so it's going to be hard to all of a sudden wake up a whole hour earlier like it. It might not be hard for a day or two, but if you are trying to do that for a long period of time and your body is not used to it, it's going to be a lot harder. So what you might have to do is if you wake up at 7:00, wake up 15 minutes earlier, wake up 15 minutes earlier for, let's just say 2-3 weeks, maybe a month, and then wake up 15 minutes earlier and so. And now by three or four months you're at 6:00 and you now have an hour in your morning. And you can add little things that you want to do to your morning routine. So maybe the you know when you wake up 15 minutes earlier, maybe you're only able to, You know, if you woke up at 7:00 and you used to just like, make sure your hair was brushed and your teeth were brushed and and whatever, you could make a cup of coffee before your kids were up. Maybe now you can actually get dressed. Or maybe you can, you know, actually eat something. Or, you know, if you wake up 30 minutes earlier, by the time you're at 30 minutes earlier, then you can add in. Like for me and my morning routine, I want to sit down. 

I want to have my Bible app open. I want to read my Bible, my devotional, I want to do my prayers for the day. And all of that might take a little bit longer than the 15 minutes. So I might have to wait until month 2 to implement that, step into it, right? And so you can like take your goal and chunk it down, down. You know, getting healthier starts with, you know, maybe it's you want to wake up earlier and you're going to and then you're going to go for your walk, right. And so maybe it's okay tomorrow I'm going to or maybe you wake up early enough, but you just want to, let's say, put the shoes next to the bed so that and your clothes laid out or whatever. So the night before, you're going to have to put your shoes and your clothes there so that in the morning you can get up, put those on and go for a quick walk before the kids are up, before your spouse leaves, whatever it is, right? So there's little baby steps that you can do to move you closer to that goal. But the key is, is to make the decision in your brain. Make the decision and decide that you're going to do something and then you can prioritize the things in your life that you have to get done in order to make that happen. But I just want to challenge you to take take some time, especially if it's a big decision about something like, say you're going to start a new business and you know you want to start a new business, but you're like, but what do I do? You know, like what should I do or what am I supposed to do? I know that was a big struggle of mine for a for a while, and we're going to talk about that now. That'll be a whole lot deeper conversation. But trust your gut. Like, trust your gut Sometimes, as you know, I don't know if it's a woman thing, a mom thing, or if it's just my personality type, but I tend to overthink. Like I really tend to overthink and overanalyze things. And so I 

need to get into my gut. And what I believe is my gut is like, it's God speaking to me. So it's like, you know, you check in, you have time of reflection, you have maybe a time of prayer and you're asking, you're asking yourself, you're asking God, you're asking whoever you are, just asking what is the decision that I should make, right? And you will, like, get this feeling about the decision. And I'm not talking about like an emotion necessarily. I am talking about a knowing. It's like a gut feeling. It's not like a like a brain feeling or like a heart feeling. It's more of like a gut feeling. It's in your gut. It doesn't live in your heart. Like, you know, your heart tends to, you know, lead by emotion. And sometimes that gets us in trouble. Our head sometimes gets us in trouble because again, you think about the societal norms and you think about all these other things that is this the right decision, You know is, does this make sense for this reason or that reason? Well, guess what? It doesn't have to make sense to anyone else but you. And if you and your gut and your knowing knows that you're supposed to do this one thing that you need to do for yourself, for your family, for your life, then you need to follow that, right? So I want to, I have another quote here I'm going to share with you. And this one is from Kerry Russell. And it says sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. And it is so true. And I think that's one of the reasons why people a lot of times do put so much pressure on their decisions. But I can tell you from just past experiences that those smaller decisions that maybe at the time I didn't even think we're going to make that big of an impact on my life. They really did like the decision to say yes to something. And usually 

at the time when you make this like small decision, but you know, in your gut, it's like the right decision, but it's like doesn't seem like that big of a deal at the time, right? It's just like this decision that you know you should make, but at the time, you don't even know why it's such a big deal. And later in life, it winds up making the biggest deal because it's the way you, like, met your husband, or it's the way that you wound up getting all this joy or all these connections in your life, or whatever the case may be. Sometimes you just need to check in to your gut and you're knowing in order to make those small decisions and just take that next step, take some action. So I want to encourage you today. Hopefully this is all making sense to you. I want to encourage you to make a decision for yourself today. Make the decision to make a decision for yourself. Okay. I want you to really think about what it is that you want more of in your life. And you can think about the long term, right? Like the long term of what it is like, the actual end goal, if you will, of what you want from your life. But what can you do today in order to make that happen? So make that decision for yourself. Do one small thing that gets you towards that goal and I want to hear about it. Tell me about it. I want to know if any of this is resonating with you. I hope this has been helpful. I would love to hear if it was from you. Leave me some feedback. Reach out to me on social media. I would love to hear from you. Okay till next time, Mamas. 

Hey Mama, welcome back, Okay. I have exciting. I don't know if I would call it exciting actually. It's a really good topic. It's a topic that I was going to save until later, but I decided to move up because of timing, right? Timing is everything. And this week, September 11th was this week, right? And a lot comes up for many people around September 11th, and it reminded me of something really important that I wanted to share with you today. And that is about guarding your heart. So this episode is going to be all about guarding your heart. Why that's important, How you can do that and I don't know. This is not scripted. So this is a podcast where I just talk to you like you're my friend and like I'm sharing, you know, some advice. We'll do life together and you can kind of glean from my experiences what I've learned, what I've walked through and use it to help you on your journey so that you know you can do you. But you can learn from not just me because I'm going to pull sources you guys. I as I, as I said in my pilot, I have been studying just self development, the brain, the body, how we think, how things work for a long time. And I have all this like random knowledge in my head that comes out at different times. So who knows what I'll be spouting at you today. But I just feel like this is a really important topic and it's something that if we take, if we take what what I've learned, and we use 

it in our own lives, that it really can have a huge, huge impact. So I'm going to start with a quote, and I looked up all these quotes about guarding your heart. But the best one, and the one that I think that is really where all the other quotes stem from is a Bible quote, OK? And it's Proverbs 423. And it is above all, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. And y'all, it's so true. But how do we do that? How do we guard our heart? And I'll tell you why September 11th brought this up for me because like on Sunday nights we all go over to my parents for dinner. Every week my family goes to my parents house for dinner. We have dinner and a lot of times we all do something like active after after dinner. But sometimes my parents, like, go with my kids and do something with them, and my husband and I just kind of chillax and have some downtime. And a lot of times I plan my week at that point in time. Or I do something with my planner, or my week or jazzercise or something. If you didn't know, I'm a jazzercise instructor and so I plan my set for the week or something. I get something productive done typically on Sunday evenings, but this past Sunday it was September 10th, the day before September 11th, which as you know 20 some years ago. You know how old you were at that time. But I think everyone knows what happened on September 11th, right? The World Trade Centers were attacked and there was a special on 60 minutes and we always have the television on typically like some kind of sports is on at my parents house. Like they always have their television on. Like it's just something that they've always done. Like my whole life they've had their television on almost like 24/7. If they're not in the room, they turn it off. But it's on in the background almost always. And there were sports on, but 60 minutes came on afterwards and there was a special about 9-11. And 

it was a lot of the, you know, survivors that had actually gone in, whether they were firefighters or policemen or first responders of some way, shape or form. And it was about, you know, those who had actually fallen, those who had been lost during 9/11 honoring them and just about the people that were there, their experience of the people and just a lot of what happened that day. So you guys, instead of like my planning that I had started doing and that came on, I was like fixated on it, right? I was in it. I was watching it. I was getting caught up again and I was crying, like I was, you know, just having all those feelings because I don't know about you, but I was old enough to where I was. I was out of. I was working at the time, but I actually saw the towers hit. I was working in television. And so we had the television news stations on and I watched that plane hit the towers and then we turned off the volume. We were actually, we didn't know what it was at the time. My sales manager wasn't even in the room at the time. But I'm sure you all remember all of the way that that day went. And I'm not going to go into what my experience was with 911. That's not what this is about. It's about guarding your heart. And what happened to me on Sunday night was I got all caught up in those emotions again. I got all caught up in it. And there's a couple things you can do with that, right? You can sit in it, you can ruminate in it, you can, you know, you can take that and let it affect you, which it is going to. We're human, right? If you watch something like that, you are going to be affected most likely, and especially if you had an effect before, if it's something that has happened to you before, which this is an event that actually, you know, affected me at the time. My uncle was actually in the Pentagon that day. And so he's fine. He was fine. He's 

since passed. But he was there that day and you know it he he got out and everything was okay that day. But it was just, it was very emotional for anyone, whether you had someone that you thought could be involved or not. It was super emotional to watch everything that unfolded that day. And those emotions, you know you're going to feel them and they make things happen in your body. So fear is real. And so you can go into fear, you can go into sadness, you can go into all of the things that that happened to you. You know, there's so many motions that can come up with an event like this, or you could just say any. There's a lot of different events like let's take a school shooting, like a mass school shooting or a shooting that has happened, not even in the school, but it has happened, you know, at a nightclub, at a movie theater, at a mall, at a. You know, there's lots of shootings that have mass shootings that happen right now that we know about and that we're exposed to. And this is the problem, Okay. So when I say guard your heart, it's because we are exposed to so much now. Not necessarily the news story that was, you know, recounting what had happened lot of years ago, but let's think about a mass shooting or really any news event that happens on a given day. But any news event now, like the last mass shooting that happened, it happened in Nashville. It was in a small town, at least the last one I remember. I believe it was the last one. It happened a couple of months ago and it was in Nashville in a small town. I think 6 people passed that day from the shooting and it affected a very small community and it was something where it was 

like I made the decision that day. Like I saw it, I heard about it, I went online, I saw it on Facebook. So one of my friends, friends knew someone that was in the school. I can't remember now if her friend was one of the ones that actually passed. I think she was so her friend's friend. So it wasn't even, you know, it wasn't her friend. It was her friend's friend that had that was in that school and had passed. And so of course I commented on her on her post and you said I was praying for her. And I did. And I went to the news story from there and I read the story and I immediately started praying for the people. That's what I can do, right? I can do that. I can pray, but what else can I do? Probably nothing. Right? Like what else can you really do in that situation? And I'm not trying to be insensitive. I am literally asking you to think about the amount of news you're exposed to, the amount of things that are intended. They are intended to trigger fear in you. These, and I, and I know this, I have a husband who is in media. I used to be in media. I know they know what your brain. They know our brains better than we do. The advertising agencies, like these people have spent lots and lots of money to figure out what makes us interested, what gets our attention, what will take our focus. And it's fear, y'all it's fear. So it's the thing that will get us to look it. It's it's curiosity. You know, there's a lot of different things, but fear is one of them. And so that's why when a story happens, everyone wants to break it and everyone wants to be first and everyone wants to talk about it, 

and it's immediately going to go everywhere. Because now we have that type of access back in the day. Back when I grew up, if something like this had happened in Nashville, in this small town, it would have probably taken it, could have maybe made the nightly news that night. But we knew about it. We knew about it within an hour, like everybody was commenting within an hour of, you know, said story. Because of the way that technology is nowadays, the way that media is nowadays, Lots of different reasons that we now knew about it. Back in my day when I was growing up, you would have possibly, it possibly would have made the news that night locally, but probably maybe not. You know, it may not have even been able to make it to the nightly news that night. And then if it might have made the paper the next day, it wouldn't have been something that would have been that much focused on because at that point, the situation would have been resolved. And, you know, there would have been, like, something happening and maybe it would have been reported as something that had happened, but it wouldn't have been this big. Like, look at this almost like, you know, when you're involved and you're maybe not involved in a wreck on the highway, right? Like, but, you know, let's just take when you're going down the highway, right? And there's a wreck and it happens on the other side of the highway and your side of the highway, though, it still slows down, right? Like, So your side of the highway, everyone wants to look and see. It's human nature to want to look. It's something that is innate that makes us want to know what happened. You know, we might be thinking, could we have known somebody in that rack could you know, oh gosh, how bad is it? Like, we want to know, like what happened, right.

Like in some part of our brain might be thinking, oh, could that we we see that and we think, could it have happened to us like, oh gosh, that's what happened there, could it happen to me? Like, our brain is so complex. It's going through all of these different things, emotions, feelings, releasing chemicals, hormones in our body. But this is not just, you know, that happens on the highway. And we look at it and it slows down traffic, It affects everything. But then we keep driving. Maybe we say a prayer for the people that were in the rack, but most of the time we keep driving and we keep moving on, right? Why? Because we don't have all the details. If we had all the details, if we were sitting there, if someone was standing there reporting it and telling us all the details all the time, we would then think about that all the time, right? We would think about what's going on there all the time. Like we would be like, oh gosh, what happened to the person? But we have no way of knowing. So our brain tells us, OK, it's not a real threat to you, so you need to move on, right? And we do. But when it comes to a story like this of like, let's just say what happened in Nashville, people are there reporting. It's the real time. Like things are still happening. We don't know where kids are. You know, they took the kids out of the building, They had them cross the street. They get them away. They didn't know where the shooter was right away. Like all of these things. And you're reading about it and you're seeing it happening. But you can totally get, you know, drawn in. You're drawn into the story. You become emotionally invested in something that you can do nothing about, something that you can do nothing about it then and there. If this just was a one time thing, and if it didn't happen a lot, and if there weren't all these other things that are happening. If you turn on the news at any given time, if you look at any of the news stations, they are reporting on things that are tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. They're taking them from all over the world. They're taking them from everywhere, trying to get you to give them your attention. 

But what it's doing to you is not healthy. It's not. It is not healthy. What I have done in my life is I have shut out all the news. I don't get a news. I don't, I don't have any of the news channels on my, like social media. I don't have them on. Like I don't look at Twitter anymore because I had some of that stuff on Twitter that I had followed. And I don't even go to Twitter anymore. No Twitter for me. I've, I've taken it off my repertoire. Like I get, I do Facebook. I like people. I I But you know, and the people, half the time it's how I hear about these other things. Like that's how I heard about Nashville. It wasn't because I had the news on my radio. It wasn't because I had the news on my television. It wasn't because I I had heard it reported somewhere. I literally saw someone post about it on Facebook. And then I read the story. I prayed. But that is all I can do, right? And if, and we're going back to that, what happened in Nashville, like, I actually know people who were so upset by that, that it was like affecting their sleep, affecting their health, affecting everything that whole week, you know, they were crying about it like they were. This wasn't just one person either. It was like a group text of friends that I have that were all upset about this group, this mass shooting. And yes, it's upsetting. I am not, you know, I have an empath. I feel a lot, which is one of the reasons why I had to do this for myself. But you cannot stay healthy and fixate on all of these things. I'm saying as a functioning person in this world, as a mom, you have a responsibility to your family, right? And to yourself. And if you let all of these things in, if you allow yourself to get caught up 

in these things that are fed to us all the time nowadays, then it can make you unhealthy. Like it is proven they're scientific. I should probably like actually find data on this because I am not a scientist. But there is a part of your brain that it takes these things. It's I think it's the amygdala. It's like of this whole thing of nerves and it sends out signals and it produces like epinephrine and neuropinephrine and I don't know all these things that I can't pronounce, probably cortisol. Your body produces all these things. It takes what it does, fear, and this is what fear does. Fear takes and it puts you in a like fight or flight. It takes your heart rate up. It takes the blood away from like your your internal organs and takes it to your extremities so that you can fight it literally or run fight or flight right. Like a lot of times people freeze too right and situations and that's like a whole other like protection mechanism and your brain starts to work differently like your the the blood flow goes to certain different parts of your brain that are made for like decision making. Like it is. It is amazing what our bodies are doing on a constant basis and our bodies were not designed to be in fear all of the time. And when we're being fed that from all different directions, this isn't even just about like a mass shooting or 911. But my point is, if you can't do anything about it, then there's no point in fixating on it. And there's no point in even allowing this to come into your brain in the 1st place. To read is what you're reading, what you're looking at, what you're listening to. Be choosy, who you hang around, right like they say you are.

You become the five people that you hang around with the most, right? And it's it is. This is kind of like that. But I am saying guard your heart because everything you do flows from it. It is so important as a mother because what happens is we're now not just affected by this, but what if we're in worry all the time? We then project that onto our kids. They may, you may not even say anything about it, but they know if you're worried, if I'm upset if something is going on with me, my kids know it, right. And if you're at a high alert state of worry and and fear and you know anxiety all the time, this transfers and your kids will start to be worried, fearful, anxious. They tend to pick up on your it's not just something that you're putting out there and it doesn't affect them. You know, I have heard specifically from multiple people that I know that are in the neuro field, like whether they're psychiatrists or, you know, licensed professionals, that all of them licensed professionals. I've asked them because I've read it before, but you literally, if you're anxious, your child is most likely anxious. If you're depressed, your child is most likely going to be depressed. It is something you pass on to them and you can change that by what you take in. Now I'm not saying and if you listen to my first episode that that this is anything. Anxiety and depression are not something to take lightly. If that is something where you live in that state and it is, it is something that you need to get help for. But I'm saying if the things that you're taking in are making you anxious or worried or depressed or whatever, you can change what you're putting in. Change what you're listening to. Change what you're reading, change. Just don't refuse to let yourself listen to things that you know are going to make you anxious or worked up. You know, if politics makes you worked up, try not to listen to it. Try to tune it out. Turn off the. Fox News or the CNN or the, you know, I don't watch any of it, so I don't even know which party is which side or whatever. But I implore you to guard your heart, because everything you do flows from it. And this is never been more important than when you're a mother, because it will transfer onto your kids. And I know that we don't want our kids to be anxious and depressed and worried and all of these things. We want them to be happy. And so we need to do, and I'm not saying turn a blind eye to everything or just stay positive all the time. Like I am far from I know that that is not a realistic view. however, I can always take something and somehow find something that I can do that I feel like. You know, what can I do about a situation that is a mass shooting that is not anywhere near me? I can pray. I believe in God. I believe he has all the power. And what can I do? I can pray for the families. I can pray for the people that are involved. I can pray that God go help them feel loved, help them feel safe, help them feel, whatever. But I cannot personally do anything. If it was something that was somewhere near me, I might be able to do something a little bit more than what I can do from here. But that is the only thing that I can do, and it is not going to be healthy for me to think about that. Fixate on it, ruminate on it. I hope you've gotten my point today.

I hope you do not find this as I'm being insensitive or unrealistic. I promise you there are things that you can tweak that you can take out of your life that you are exposing yourself to now. I guarantee it that you can tweak and you will find this huge huge shift in your heart and the way your body is functioning. It can literally cause you. One of the things that could cause it could be causing you to be sick is literally what you are in taking. And I don't just mean your food. That's a whole another topic for another day. I mean what you're feeding your mind, what you're listening to, what you're reading, what you're watching, all of those things. So please guard your heart. I will do more episodes on exactly how to do this because I feel like I've talked too long. I hope you guys take what I'm saying and put it into practice. Let me know what you're thinking. Let me know if you have questions. I would love to talk to you further about this. 

​Welcome to the Mama's Redefined Success podcast. My name is Danielle and I'll be your guide as we get real about finding your true north on this expedition of motherhood. Whether you're a new Mama who just got in this path of discovery or you're already in the thick of the chaos and you'd give anything to find your way to a path, either way, I've got you. I've gone down a lot of paths in life and motherhood, from corporate executive workaholic to stressed out super mom who didn't know the word no to an anxious and depressed stay at home mom of two just trying to get through the day. And now I'm getting my footing as a mom and business owner. I'm here to share my journey in a raw way to hopefully help you so you don't feel alone as you navigate your path. Here we embrace where we are today, but we don't stay there, so get ready to laugh, learn, possibly cry, and definitely grow as you journey to redefine what success means to you, so you can thrive in who you're meant to be. Let's go. 

Hey Mama's, with this first episode I am so excited. I would just love to give you a quick look into what led me to start the Mama's Redefined Success podcast. So let's joining back in time BC before children and I use that term on purpose because just like this world look different before Christ came into it, your world is going to look a lot different than before children came into it. And we're going to talk a lot about that on the podcast and how this is an amazing thing and you may have to go on a journey to redefine what success looks like to you now post children, but once you take those steps, you will thrive and who you are truly meant to be. And that is so exciting. But for now, I'm gonna give you a glimpse into how I ended up here. So after I graduated from college, I got into advertising. I was an accounting executive and television and radio, and my main role was to find new clients and manage them. I did this for a little over 10 years and I loved it. I mean, I loved it. I ate, I drank, I slept work. And since TV and radio were always on the air, I was always on call. And honestly, I kind of liked it that way. I was definitely a workaholic. I was always thinking about new ideas for my clients, new ways to grow my business and theirs. My favorite clients were even the ones that let me help them with their entire marketing. I'd write their commercials and be in them my job and the success that I had in it. It defined me and I let it until the days when that job became more like a chore. And what I loved about it, like helping my clients and doing all of those things, became more like a bureaucracy, with paperwork and budgets and detail work and things that did not matter to me. And everything had changed. And so I decided I was going to leave media completely. And even though that was a really hard decision, I knew it was the right decision for me at the time. And y'all, we are going to talk a lot on the podcast about listening to your gut, that inner voice when it comes to finding your true north. So I digressed back to the story. After leaving media, I made a couple pivots in my career and I wound up getting licensed in insurance and investments. And I was teaching financial education to families just so they knew how the financial world worked before making their decisions with their investments. You guys, I thrive when I'm helping people. I also love learning about people. And ever since I can remember, I was always reading, listening, attending conferences in self development. I'll never forget going on a family vacation one summer when I was younger and we were in like beach chairs on the beach. My mom and I were reading and she looked over at me and she was like, Danielle, why are you reading that? Don't you just want to relax? And I was reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey and loving every second of it. You guys, I am a novel girl Like this is a fun read for me. I am obsessed with all things self-improvement, and if you haven't figured it out yet, I tend to immerse myself in anything that I'm passionate about, whether it's my career or things are people I love. I put my heart into it and I tend to go all in. So it shouldn't have been that shocking to me when I became a mom that I would be an all in mom, but because of how I defined myself up until that point, I was actually a little lost.

And when my first was born, Gabriella, I decided to go back to work part time. I asked the company that I worked with if I could take on their marketing and so they essentially created a position for me to do that. And I was working three days a week and I thought that's what I wanted. I was sending Gabriella to daycare and I was missing many of her first. And honestly, I was feeling like I should be home with her. Not because she hated school, but just because I knew that she would have preferred to be with me. Like she even told me that and I truly wanted to be with her. So once I had #2 Michaela, I knew I couldn't do it anymore. And so I resigned. And while that was my choice and what I really wanted, once I was in it, I found myself going a little stir crazy with my life. The lack of adult conversation, feeling like a milk factory having two in diapers because the first decided she was gonna revert back to diapers. Since I was clearly taking care of her sister, she thought I would take care of hers, right? There's just an aloneness that you feel when you're dealing with all the things that keep you up at night about your kids and your feelings, but you don't really talk to people about it because you kind of think you're crazy yourself. So you're sure everyone else would think you were crazy if you said what you were feeling. And then you'd stack on the dishes and the laundry and the cleaning and the mess and, you know the way that you just give up caring about what you're yourself or what you look like. Just because, you know, you never really see any other adults other than maybe your husband and other moms picking up at preschool that are pretty much in the same boat as you. And I just was drowning. I decided I needed to do something. And my husband had this great business idea. It was his idea though, but I really liked the idea and I wanted to. My entrepreneurial spirit kicked in and I was like, you know what? I should do this. I should start my own business. And so I did. I started Date Deputy. It's a it was a company that I designed dates for couples, I planned the dates, I booked the reservations. It was a lot of fun. But around the same time I was also a member of my colleges like local alumni association and they asked me to enter their presidency run, which is like a four year commitment. So I started the business and then and I accepted that. And a big part of why I wanted to stay home with the kids in the 1st place was because I wanted to be involved with their school. So when Gabriella started kindergarten and Michaela was going to Two's preschool, she was going like two days a week for a few hours a day. I started helping in my oldest daughter's classroom, her teacher each week. And then I volunteered to be the pod parent for the whole kindergarten pod, and I was also helping the preschool when they needed me. So I was stretching myself very thin. So thin that one day when I got out of bed, I, like, could not stand up. Like, literally every time I tried to stand up, I would almost pass out. I had to have my kindergartner call my parents, who brought over my grandma's transport chair to get me to the hospital because I could not stand up. My heart rate was so high and my blood pressure was so low that they couldn't even get a reading on me. And they ran a ton of tests. Mri's, blood, you know, heart monitors, all the things. They even decided they wanted to admit me and keep me overnight. They were keeping me on the heart floor because they were worried. Like I was worried but the only thing they ever found that was wrong with me was my potassium was low. Like not alarmingly low.
Y'all. Nothing was wrong with me and it was like this huge wake up call for me. At the time I actually thought it was God saying like yo Danielle slow down but getting closer to God over the last few years, I now realize that he's not the one that actually hurts us. He's just always there to help us when we get knocked down. And there had been so many times that God had been trying to tell me things that I had dismissed. Like, you know, either done nothing about it or outright ignored what he was like trying to, you know, give me these little hints and cues and just your gut again tuning into that intuition. But I thought he just, like hit me upside the head with the 2 by 4 and said that I need to listen. But I now know that he was just waiting for me there when I finally hit that wall and back then, after a lot of reflection, I decided to step back from the business that I had started. So I continued like the presidency that I was doing. And volunteering and momming, of course. But my health, it still wasn't right. I was in a lot of pain and it had been in this kind of pain. It was like joint pain, all this pain in my body. And that had happened like when I stopped feeding Gabriella, when I stopped breastfeeding her. But then Fast forward to now, you know, it was happening again. And so I started seeing all these specialists and you know, they sent me to other specialists who ran tests and yada, yada yada. Finally they came came up with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. And the cure for that, if you are is if that's what you want to call it is narcotics or just live with it, right. And I am not going to get my on my soapbox about fibromyalgia or any of that right now. But what I decided to do was I made a lot of changes in my lifestyle. And we will talk about some of those later.
And we'll talk a lot also about, you know, what you can do, like how you can tune into your body in future episodes. Because you guys, I still wasn't aligned with my true north at that point. And this was actually just the beginning of a downward spiral for me. So let's jump forward to when the world shut down, when everyone became, like, so polarizing in their beliefs, so divisive. Let's face it, it was crazy in 2020. And I did did not do well with it. I am sure you all know about this time and how everyone had super strong opinions that if you didn't agree with, not only were you wrong, but you were like evil or against them in some way, shape or form. And y'all, I am an extrovert who likes to play devil's advocate and nobody wanted that. And after months of being cooped up in my house with my germaphobic husband and my two kids and and all the COVID opinions, which led to political opinions and everything, I went to a dark place. Like, really dark. I never wanted to kill myself, but I didn't want to be alive anymore either. And I was actually upset at myself for bringing two children into this world. I was literally depressed and I had never experienced anything like it before. It was everything I could do to get out of bed someday as much less take a shower or take care of the kids. And I had to pretend like everything was OK. At least I thought I did. I mean, I know I was not OK and I didn't have to pretend that, but I did not tell a soul. And y'all, we'll talk about mental health a lot through all the episodes. And it wasn't until that point, you know, I have had a lot of close family and friends who have struggled with depression and anxiety for a long time.
And up until that point, I could never really wrap my head around it. I never really thought it was a choice they were making. But I did think that, you know, it was something like they needed to be more positive or, you know, but this is not like that, it's different. It was not like that at all. You know, this is not that, it is not a choice that people are making. I was super depressed and I didn't tell a soul, like I said. But out of the blue, an old coworker friend reached out to me about like, a ridiculous business opportunity, and my first thought was, are you kidding me? Like, I can barely take care of myself right now, and I'm going to have to start homeschooling A kindergartner and a second grader in a few weeks. Like, are you kidding me? But something made me say that I would take a look at her business opportunity and I keep my word. So I did. So five days later, after feeling like I couldn't shake this company and their heart and mission, I said yes to starting a new business again when I needed nothing new on my plate. I was literally wondering if I was crazy when I said yes. Because I don't do things halfhearted. But this time I was listening to my gut and I knew I wanted more for myself. And even though I was in this like, you know, spiral role and everything was going wrong, I just knew that something was there that was going to change my life. And this one decision, it did. It changed my whole life. At first it just gave me something to do which I loved, which was shop, I love shopping and I started plugging into all the things that the founders and the leaders were doing, which this was brand new company at the time and we had so much stuff going on. It was all amazing and inspiring and just super aligned with my values because they want to change the world one person at a time by helping them feel good about themselves and y'all, that's what I want to do.

I want to help moms to feel good about themselves, to feel good about their lives, to really get to be present with our kids and their families and everyone in their life. So just like that one. Yes. Changed everything for me, you guys. I don't believe that anything happens by accident. Just like I don't believe you're still listening to me right now by accident. I believe you're meant to find this podcast so that something and you can change. And y'all, I don't want any of the credit for that change because you're the one who will have to do the work. There is something that you need to do to change your life. Because don't get me wrong, I love my kiddos. Like with all my heart and soul, I would die for them. I'm sure you all feel me on this. Like we don't even know the kind of love that we're capable of until we have children, right? But also, you need time for yourself. All the things you do in life cannot be for your kids, or for anyone else for that matter. Even if they're still breastfeeding and you are there. Everything you can Get out and take a walk, do some yoga, find a mom's group where you can talk to other adults, listen to an audio book or a podcast like this one would be great. I have done a lot of work on myself to get here. And like I said, I've always loved self improvement and learning and I knew I wanted to take my knowledge of that and share it with other moms. So this podcast is for you. If you're a mom who's in that dark place or if you're a mom who is brand new and you're feeling overwhelmed, I want to help. You never see that dark place. And then for those moms who really aren't depressed, but you just know you want more, you want more. And you know there is more in this life that you can have for yourself, but you just don't know what or exactly how to get those answers.
I want to help you because I've been you. All of you.
I am far from a perfect mom. Even if that exists. It just doesn't. But I am still on my own journey and I believe that journey will never stop. But with what I've experienced and come out on the other side of, I believe that I can help you navigate your journey with maybe less potholes and construction. Like you guys. I'm really married to this journey idea. Okay. But that's what I plan to do with Mamas Redefine Success. So I hope you'll embark on this journey with me, because I know I'm going to keep moving forward towards my true north. And my hope is that you will too, and we can do this together. 

Thank you so much for listening. If something you heard today spoke to you, I hope you'll use it on your journey. It would light me up to know what hit home with you, so please share this episode on your social and tag me so I can encourage you. And thank you personally for sharing. I'll meet you right back here next week. Keep smiling. Y'all.