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Haces , welcome to Beyond the Military podcast

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, where faith-led military women overcome

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burnout and create more balance . Just

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imagine having enough time to focus

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on your faith , family and have more

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fun while still serving as a woman leader

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. In this podcast , you will walk

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away with the tools to help you navigate the busy

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life of a military woman , organize

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your mind , overcome overwhelm and

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create a privatization playbook and

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a balanced blueprint for integrating

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faith , family and career . Haces

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, in that order . Hi , I'm

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Wendy Ray , woman of God , wife

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, mama of two , army veteran and certified

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life coach , and I'm here to help you

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create a life of meaning outside of the

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military , a life of laughter , joy

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and intentional free time . If you

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are ready to overcome burnout and create balance

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as a faith-led military woman

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, assist this podcastist for you

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. So loosen up your laces and grab

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your coffee , because it's time to step into

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freedom and peace . Hello

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, hello , lady , and a welcome to episode

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147 . Happy

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New Year . I am so excited to be behind

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the microphone in 2023

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. I am just so ready

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to share so many great topics with

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you this year . I've already done my

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entire thought download on all

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the topics and really

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points that I want to discuss with you , at least for

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Q1 . And I'm just really excited

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and I hope that you are as well Especially for this

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episode . Today I'm going to be talking

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on how you can stay committed on

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your goal that you set for yourself , no matter

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what , and before I do that , I

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want to share an update on my life

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, what's going on over here with the Ray

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family and how we're doing . And

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so , as you guys may know , and

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if you've been following me from the very beginning , you know that

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last year was a very , very tough year for me

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, not only mentally , emotionally

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, but also physically . But

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I'm grateful , I'm really grateful . God

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is good . You know there

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are challenges that we go through , there are struggles

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that we are that

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we could possibly go through , but , no matter what , god

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is always providing and he's always there , and for

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that I'm grateful and thankful . And

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I just want to share with you that

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, yes , I am still

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going through the grieving process

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. I lost my little sister

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last year in August through

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cancer . Looking at more specifically

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, and you know it

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was really hard again , it was

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the hardest thing that

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I'm still navigating

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, and one of the

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things that I have really

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considered and thought about is

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everything that I've been , not

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only teaching my clients on how to allow emotions

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, but also how I've

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allowed

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the negative emotions , especially

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through these moments

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, through these days and months and weeks that

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I've felt as if

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there's just this hole

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that I can't seem

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to really get

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out of , and so I

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just want to share that . You

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know it's an ongoing thing and , yes

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, there's no timeline , and yes , there's different

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ways to cope and

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deal with grief , but I also want

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to encourage you that if you are

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going through a loss , it could either , you know , be

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a beloved one , or even through a relationship

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, right . You may be going through a divorce , you may be

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going through this , you know

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, moving on , or this

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transition from any relationship , right

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, and so I just want to offer

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that , at the end of the day , there's

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nothing that you can do to

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get you out of it , unless it's you

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just allowing and feeling

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the negative emotion . And it's something that I constantly

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have to force myself

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to do , because I , most of the time , want

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to escape it . I'm like , I don't want to think about it , I

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don't want to go down that hole , grab it whole

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, and I just don't want to be crying all day

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, and so I'm learning to

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be okay with just breaking down

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anywhere . I could be

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in the car , I could be in the bathroom , I could be

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just on the couch while

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I'm holding my baby and something

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comes up and I just allow myself to

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just cry about it . When I'm on the phone with my mom , when I'm on

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the phone with my dad , it's something

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that I'm constantly reminding

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myself that it's okay not

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to be okay , and so I

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just want to say that we're doing well , we

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are pushing through

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it every single day . It's different every day . We

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have good , we have bad , we have in the middle

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. In between . We we're just going

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with the flow here and really

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just staying grounded in the word

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, grounded in you know , knowing that

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the Holy Spirit is with us

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and no matter what , I can always go to

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God , it doesn't matter what time , and

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so I just want

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to encourage everyone to stay

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close , not only in the word meditate

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on his word but also close to him , and

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so with that , of

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course , we also have the joy

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of our baby girl

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, and Jaila Marie is now

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two months old and she's just the

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most loving

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and happy baby that

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we know , because she's

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just just just

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a joy . I don't even know how to explain and

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describe the feeling , but

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I will say that I'm

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adapting to everything . I'm adapting

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to her , I'm adapting to my new routine , I'm adapting

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to the sleep rhythm , sleep

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schedule . I'm adapting to

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not being able to just get up

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and go to the grocery store like I used to , or

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go anywhere that I wanted it , without having

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to get the baby diaper ready

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, get her ready , make sure that everything

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gets taken care of

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that needs to be taken care of before we head out

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. And so it's just

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been , you know , like really

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great things that have been happening

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along with the grieving

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process . So I just wanted

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to update you guys on that and really

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just share how grateful I am for those of you

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that have reached out to me , either

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through social media , through a DM

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, through a text message Some

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of my past clients have , you know , reached out and

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just say how you know grateful

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they are to not only

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have me talk about what's going

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on now , but also , you know , things that they've

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learned , and so that's really what is

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has helped me encourage myself

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with , you know , coming up with new episodes

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and coming up with what goals

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I have for this year , because , I'm not going

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to lie , it's been hard . It's kind of like , where do I start

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? Like , where do I continue ? Because I stopped

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, you know , doing my weekly emails , I

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stopped recording

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new episodes , I've stopped , you

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know , doing the things that I used to do before the baby , before

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the grieving process . And so I

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just am so grateful and blessed

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to have , you know , old coworkers

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, current coworkers

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, family , friends , people

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that I haven't talked to in years , that have

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reached out and just say that

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they are with

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me , that they're supporting me and they're showing me so much

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love , and so for that I'm grateful and I'm blessed

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. And so I

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wanted to talk

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today about one of the goals

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that I had for last year and

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how it's all going to continue to

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go into this year as well , into

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2023 . And so

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the reason I wanted to record this podcast

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episode is not only to also share you know

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, obviously , you know how you want to stay committed

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with your goal , but also to

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share with you all the amazing

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things that this podcast has brought . And

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so , as you guys remember , if

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you've been following me , I started with this podcast

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as a veteran's gastric , and the reason I did

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that is because I was really tiptoeing

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around the fact that I wanted to

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show up as this woman of faith , a

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Christian woman , and I was very

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indecisive in doing that Because , in

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my mind , I thought that I wasn't going to get

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the same level of attention or

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people actually tuning in and

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getting the valuable information that I had . But

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then , after prayer and after , you

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know , getting a coach , a Christian coach that I was

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like , hey , if you are

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, if you have this in your heart and you've prayed

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about it and you're ready to

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really share with the world where

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you are in your faith and how you can

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help them , you need to do this . And

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so we did that . In September

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of 2021 , launched

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Beyond the Military podcast , and

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here we are . And so the

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beginning of 2022 , I was

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like , okay , I need to go all in

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, no matter what , and stay committed to

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this platform . This is

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the only platform I want to use to

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not only provide value , but

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also to be able

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to share

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what I know , either

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through my past clients or through myself

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, my own personal experience . And

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so I'm like how do I do that

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? I need to set a goal that I think is not going

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to be as achievable as I think

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, right ? So I said 10,000 downloads

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is what I need by 2022

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. And so in

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my mind I'm thinking , oh , I'm definitely going to meet it

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. Or a part of me was like I

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don't know if I'm going to meet it , I may go

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down to 5,000 downloads . And

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the other part of me was like , no , we're going to surpass it , 10,000

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. And this was like at the very beginning of 2022

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. And so then everything

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in my life starts to pretty

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much change , right ? Things that I never

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thought , never in my mind , never

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, never even considered

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happening , was happening

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. So one it was

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my husband . I started talking about having

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another baby . We were like what , why are

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we doing this ? We're not 30s now . We have

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two kids , a boy and a girl . They're 10 and eight . Why

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are we doing this ? And then

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you know my

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mom . She's out to me and she tells me that my little sister has been

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diagnosed with leukemia , and I'm

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like what ? What is happening here ? And

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so there were other things that I

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planned , goals that I set for myself

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for that year , and one of

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them . One of them was launching a program

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for group coaching for military

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women , and the other

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thing was for me to

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go all in on my coaching , and

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so for a minute

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I was like , okay , I think I can do this . This

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was like around February . I've

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just gotten the news that my little sister

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was diagnosed . I

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didn't know that I was expecting yet . So then I'm like

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, okay , maybe I can do this . I

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just , you know , I have to stay

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hopeful , stay positive , continue to pray , continue

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to do what I'm doing

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and not allow myself to get distracted

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. Long story

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short , march comes along the way , in the beginning of March

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, and I find out that I'm pregnant

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and I'm like , okay , now I really have to be honest with myself . Am I really

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going to commit to this program and

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am I really going to commit to

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going on in my coaching ? And at first I was like I

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can do this , I know I

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can do this . And

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then I really had to humble

11:20

myself and really ask myself are you really

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going to do this without

11:25

jeopardizing time with

11:28

your family , without jeopardizing the intentionality

11:31

behind everything else that I had to get done

11:33

right as a wife

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, as a mom , as a friend

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, as a daughter , as a sister ? And the answer

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was no . So I immediately

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had to refocus and ask myself what is

11:45

it that I'm going to commit to ? And that one thing

11:47

was a podcast . I'm like I have to continue

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, and I want to continue to

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provide this value to

11:54

everyone that may be going

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through something . At the

11:58

same time , I

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had clients that already had

12:03

coaching from 2021 , all the way through

12:05

2022 . And

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so I really had to

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decide on what was important , and

12:15

so for me , it was staying focused to the 10,000 . 10,000

12:18

downloads for my podcast , and

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so , in order for me to stay committed

12:27

, I really asked myself is this going to make a difference ? And

12:30

the answer to that was yes . Am

12:32

I making a difference through podcasting

12:34

? And the answer is yes . How

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did I know that ? Because my numbers were increasing

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. It went from like

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2000 or 4000 in like a couple of months

12:43

, and so , because I was looking at this data , I was

12:45

looking at these numbers

12:47

, I was like , okay

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, how do I continue to show up ? Because

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you have to keep in mind , here I'm already

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working my nine to five , I'm

12:58

already dedicating time to my husband and to my kids , and

13:02

again , coaching on the side for that and volunteering

13:04

and all

13:06

these other things

13:08

that already had good content . And

13:12

I was like , okay , how do I continue to do this

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? How do I continue , especially

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in August ? Because then I had

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I was doing two podcast episodes a week . I'm

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like , how do I continue to stay committed and not drop

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this into the back burner , because

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this is the only thing I have committed

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to this year ? And that was that platform

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podcasting . How do I continue to do this ? I'm

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like , okay , I'm going to continue to do this podcast

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. And that was that platform podcasting

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. How do I continue to share what I know

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, what I've learned through this platform

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? And it was through

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understanding that

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I was making a difference , that this was the

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platform on how

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people not only were finding

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coaching , but also how they're improving

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to be more intentional

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with their time , with

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the people that they love , with their

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future , like how they start planning

14:08

for after the military . So

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, with that in mind , I was like

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, okay , this is something that I know I

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can do because I am

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100% in . I'm

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always excited , I'm ready to record a podcast

14:23

episode . But

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then everything else happened right

14:28

. My little sister passed away . Then I'm

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like , okay , I'm going to have a baby . I can't

14:32

really record episodes anymore . I can barely breathe

14:34

without having

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to take a huge

14:38

pause before my next breath . I

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have no energy . All

14:43

I want to do is sleep . So how

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do I continue to do this ? And

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the answer was very simple . I

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mean , yeah , the answer , the response that I had

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, was very simple , and it was through this question Do

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I want to continue to make a difference

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in this world ? And

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the answer was yes . And so I

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know , at first I was like , okay , wendy , you're

15:05

not really making a huge difference , only

15:07

the people that are listening to the podcast . But

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then it really became real to me because

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, again , these numbers kept growing and growing and

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different countries are listening . I mean countries

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that I never thought , that I never thought

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would listen to my podcast . And

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so then I'm like , okay , how do I do this ? How

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do I stay committed when I

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don't have the energy ? I'm

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not as excited anymore . I

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have so many things going on in my mind , so

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many things that I have to worry about before the

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baby gets here or even when the baby gets here , and

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so for me , it was just staying focused on

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making a difference . Making

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a difference through my unique talent

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that I have , through the influence

15:49

that I have , the gift that God has given me exhortation

15:52

. I love doing this and

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also really just

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understanding

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that everything that I had

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in that moment , that small amount of strength

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, that small

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amount of learning that I have in my mind

16:08

, that I can , the

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tools that I can share with you , is

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by also being thankful to

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God that it has been provided

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to me , by him , understanding

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and trusting that he has given me this opportunity

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to do this through this platform

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. And so that's

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what I want to ask you . You know , is

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the goal that you have , that

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you want to commit to something that

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you know that

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you need to be doing ? Right ? Let's just say it's losing

16:39

weight . Let's just say it's losing weight . It

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doesn't necessarily have to be about you

16:44

, but it could be about others , right ? How

16:47

are you going to

16:49

be healthier or go on

16:51

this healthier journey ? Because

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it's not about you for

16:57

the most part , but about others , right ? Are

16:59

you a mom ? Do you want to do it because you

17:02

want to be a better mom for this , for

17:04

your kids , in this moment ? Are

17:07

you a wife ? Do you want to

17:09

be healthier so that you can

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be and show up for

17:14

your husband in a way that you

17:16

know you want to ? Right , and I'm just talking about losing weight

17:18

here , because losing weight is like the number

17:20

one thing that people do at the very beginning of

17:23

the year as their resolution their goals

17:25

. I want to lose 30 pounds , and listen

17:27

, I'm speaking on my behalf here as well , because

17:29

you best believe I am

17:31

. That is one of the things on my goals for

17:33

this year . Yes , I'm

17:35

talking about after the baby . The baby weight needs to come off , and

17:39

so what is it right ? So it's

17:41

no longer about me . I'm all in because I

17:43

want to be as productive

17:45

, I want to show up as that mother

17:47

, a healthy , a

17:49

healthy mom . I want to be able to

17:52

continue to run

17:54

around with my kids , right , like , I want to be that

17:56

parent . And so how am I going

17:58

to make a difference with that ? By being more

18:00

intentional with my kids , by

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actually choosing out

18:05

meals that are healthier for everyone . Right

18:08

, doing things , staying

18:10

active , being more intentional

18:12

with my family

18:14

, with myself , and it

18:16

could be as simple as that , like , why is

18:18

it that you want to go all in on this goal ? And

18:21

so , to kind of go

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back to the podcast downloads on

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the goal , right , 10,000

18:30

downloads for my podcast . I

18:33

pulled the numbers on December

18:35

31st , which , by the way

18:37

, I pulled the numbers when

18:40

because I , if you know me , I

18:42

go to sleep at like 8 pm before

18:44

the baby , I'm like in bed by no letter

18:46

than eight and I'm like asleep by like

18:48

no letter than 830 . But now , with the

18:50

baby , there

18:53

really isn't a set

18:55

time for me to go to bed besides

18:57

me still being in bed by eight . But

19:00

sometimes I go to bed at 10 because she's still not

19:02

completely down , or she'll go to sleep

19:04

for like 30 minutes and then wake up again at 11

19:06

. And so for

19:09

New Year's Eve , I want to sleep early . I think we want

19:11

to sleep at like nine , nine-ish , and

19:14

so when I woke up to

19:16

feed her , that's when I'm like okay , let me pull the numbers , because

19:19

now it was one January , so

19:21

it was still like I think 2 am for

19:25

January 1st , but as of December

19:27

31st , we had

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9,194

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downloads . So now , what does this mean

19:34

? It means that , no , I did not meet my goal . That's

19:37

what it means . Right , looking at numbers stating

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the facts I did not meet my 10K download

19:42

goal for 2022

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. But here's what it also

19:47

means it means that we made

19:49

a tremendous progress over

19:51

5,000 downloads in

19:54

less than a year , and

19:56

to me that was everything , because I

19:59

reached more than 5,000

20:02

people downloads in

20:05

a very short period of time . So

20:07

now , again , what does that mean I'm making

20:09

a difference . People are listening to this podcast , they're

20:11

tuning in each and every single time

20:14

there's a new podcast episode . And

20:16

so now , what does that mean with

20:18

? Or what does that mean with when

20:20

it comes to the consistency and the progress

20:23

and everything right ? It

20:25

means that , no matter what happened

20:27

yes , I was discouraged , yes , I

20:29

even , you know , felt

20:31

as if I wasn't excited anymore to record

20:34

these episodes . But what it really

20:36

means is this is something that I committed

20:38

to and I went all in

20:40

, no matter what , even if I didn't meet my

20:42

goal . And

20:44

this is really just making

20:46

an impact outside

20:49

of me , outside of myself , outside

20:51

of what I even

20:54

started with , like intention

20:56

, intentionally . So meaning

20:58

that there are people in different countries that are learning

21:01

about things

21:03

that they could be doing after the military how

21:06

to manage their mind , how to manage their emotions

21:09

, and so , with that , when it was

21:11

right before the holidays , I

21:13

was like , okay , I can't do this anymore , like

21:15

I've already recorded

21:18

and now I don't want to record anymore

21:20

. I'm like I just need some time . If

21:23

I would have , if I wasn't as committed

21:26

as I wanted to be or

21:28

as I intended to be , I

21:30

wouldn't have thought of like okay , maybe I could put

21:33

out most valuable podcast

21:35

episodes , valuable episodes

21:37

that people keep listening on

21:39

repeat . These are episodes

21:41

that had hundreds of downloads

21:43

because of how many or

21:45

how many times people had downloaded

21:48

it . So I immediately

21:50

went into okay , what can I do to

21:53

continue to share

21:55

valuable information without

21:57

me recording

22:00

an episode ? And it was to

22:02

repurpose those episodes , and

22:04

that's what I did . I did a video with most valuable

22:06

podcast episodes , which , by the way , I'm going to

22:08

do a video . One of my coaches

22:11

she did this with her podcast , I think

22:13

a year ago , and so that's

22:15

where I kind of like got that idea from , but

22:18

it was more so of okay , it's coming to

22:20

the end of the year , how do I continue to share

22:22

the episodes that are valuable

22:24

, that people have found valuable ? So I'm like , okay , I

22:27

remembered that my previous coach

22:29

had done that before , so I'm like okay , I can do this too

22:32

. And so it's

22:34

been amazing , because those podcast episodes

22:36

have also shown

22:39

a tremendous amount

22:42

of love . One of the episodes

22:44

, I believe it , was self-doubt

22:46

. Again , it was like 700

22:49

episodes within that first week

22:51

. It was out . It was crazy

22:54

. And again , it just shows

22:56

that , no matter what

22:58

it is that you are committing to

23:01

and you find different ways , no

23:03

matter what way it is . If it's

23:06

a way that you're like , okay , I'm gonna make

23:08

it work , it's going to work , people are

23:10

going to find it it's . You

23:13

need to have the willingness to make it work

23:15

Right . If you're like , oh my gosh , I wanna lose weight

23:17

but I don't have time to come

23:19

up with meals and what's healthy

23:21

and carbs and everything

23:24

else , right . Or I don't have time to go to the gym

23:26

and so on and so forth , you don't need

23:28

the gym . You don't need a

23:30

specific meal

23:33

plan in place . All you can

23:35

really do is take out sugar and flour . If

23:38

you know bread doesn't help your body , take it out of your menu , take

23:40

it out of your diet . If

23:42

you know that doing 100 burpees is going

23:44

to help you it's

23:46

gonna help you not only stay in shape then

23:49

do it . You'll need the gym , right . So

23:51

again , whatever that goal may be , if your goal for this

23:54

year is to transition out of the military

23:56

, how do you stay committed without

23:59

giving in that ? Oh , I wanna stay in because

24:02

of this insecurity , or insecurity or this fear

24:04

? You want to

24:06

ask yourself how is

24:09

this transition going to make a difference

24:11

when I do transition

24:13

, and it could be by

24:15

having your family stable

24:18

. It could be by now

24:20

I'm going to sleep

24:22

better , my health is going to improve . Whatever

24:25

it is for you , whatever the reason may be

24:27

, in order for you

24:29

to stay committed on the goal that you set

24:31

for yourself , no matter what you

24:34

be in , all in is by really asking

24:37

yourself how is this going

24:39

to make a difference ? And

24:43

, whatever the response is , staying

24:45

focused on that and , of course

24:47

, praying about every single challenge

24:50

and obstacle that may be coming up , because

24:52

there will always be challenges , there will always

24:54

be obstacles . And guess

24:56

what ? We're not alone . We

24:59

have the Holy Spirit , we have God , especially if you

25:01

are in the

25:03

journey of partnering

25:05

with God . You

25:08

have the

25:10

God-given gifts

25:12

, strengths , characteristics

25:15

, learnings , influence that makes

25:17

you who you are , and that's

25:19

why you have chosen this goal and

25:21

that's why you will continue to stay committed . And

25:24

this is how you continue

25:26

to stay committed and I will

25:28

continue to stay committed to this podcast , no matter what

25:30

, which . By the way , if

25:32

I haven't said this already , I've already have a whole

25:35

page on

25:38

my ClickUp , on my Word document , of

25:40

topics that I will be talking within

25:42

the first quarter on this podcast

25:45

and I cannot wait to share

25:47

with you all more on what's coming . But

25:49

for now , I'm gonna continue to keep

25:51

my head down , because

25:53

I know that $10,000

25:56

downloads are coming , and

25:58

to be even more

26:00

or go further

26:03

down this line of goals . My goal for

26:05

this year is 25K

26:07

. I want to be

26:09

at 25,000 downloads by

26:12

the end of this year , and

26:14

again , it may not happen , right , but

26:16

guess what ? I'm gonna continue to keep going . I'm

26:19

not gonna let the timeline dictate

26:22

if I will meet my goal or not . It's

26:25

gonna come . I'm gonna continue to stay here behind

26:27

this mic . I'm committed , I'm all in to continue

26:29

to share with you the tools , the resources

26:31

and much more that's

26:34

coming , because this is what

26:36

I know God wants for me to do , because

26:38

it's something that I've had . Someone

26:41

told me before that I was going to be a host

26:43

of a radio show when I was little and I

26:45

was like , really , because that's actually something that I want to do

26:47

and keep in mind

26:49

. I was like maybe 10 , 11 years old and

26:51

now here I am as an adult and I'm like , oh my gosh

26:53

. I remember when this one guy told me that

26:56

I could be , I sounded like someone

26:59

as a radio host . And

27:01

so now here I am right , and I just love sharing

27:04

different things for free

27:06

, like it's just for you . I

27:09

want to be able to do this every

27:12

single day , even when podcasting

27:14

is outdated . I'm gonna be the only

27:16

one podcasting , but

27:18

, seriously , in order for you

27:20

to stay committed on the goal that

27:23

you have set for yourself , no matter what

27:25

, it begins with asking yourself do

27:28

I want to continue to make a difference ? Do

27:31

I want to make a difference ? Is this

27:33

going to help me make a difference , not

27:36

only for you , but for

27:38

others around you ? You

27:40

want to take a moment , take a step back , and

27:44

if the answer is yes , and you know how

27:46

you're gonna do it , I

27:48

promise you this is going to keep you encouraged every

27:51

single moment , no matter what , even

27:53

when you don't feel like doing it . You're

27:55

gonna find other ways , other means to get this

27:57

done . All

28:00

right , ladies , that's all that I have for you . I

28:03

hope and pray that this episode blessed you

28:05

and that you continue to

28:07

stay focused , especially because it's the

28:09

beginning of the new year . All right

28:11

, I'll talk to you soon . Have a great

28:13

rest of your week . Bye , hey

28:15

, lady . If this podcast helped you , challenged

28:18

you or inspired you in some way . Please

28:20

leave me a written review for the show on Apple Podcasts

28:22

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28:25

you integrate balance , prioritization

28:27

and growth in your relationship with God is

28:30

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28:32

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