Empowering Women to Live Their Best Lives: A Conversation with Johanna Christiansen

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Okay.

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So, to get us kicked off, I'm going to have Johanna share her two truths

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and one lie, and then by the end of the episode, we'll have her share

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the answers, and we'll see, as you've been able to play along, if

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you were able to guess it as well.

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So Johanna, what are your two truths and one

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lie?

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Okay.

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I have a brother who was adopted at birth that I have never met.

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I've been to Greece and my son had a kidney transplant.

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Welcome to a whole lot of shift podcast, the podcast for multi passionate women

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with an entrepreneurial spirit, where we provide inspiration, motivation, and

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education to help you shift away from all the shoulds and supposed to's to what's

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truly possible for you in your business and your life, all on your own terms.

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You ready, girl, let's make shift happen.

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Hello, and welcome to another episode of A Whole Lotta Shift.

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I'm your host, Jen Ingram, and I am so excited that you've

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decided to join us here today.

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I have an incredible guest on the show today.

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Her name is Johanna, and I promise that when you hear her story,

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you are just going to be moved.

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It's really incredible.

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I've been following Johanna in her journey for a while now, and

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I just knew that hers was a story that I needed to get on the show.

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So welcome, Johanna.

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Hi, welcome.

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Thank you.

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I'm so excited to be

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here.

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Yes, we are so excited that you are here guys.

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Johanna is, I'm telling you, she is impacting the world.

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She has been through quite a life journey that she's going to be sharing

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a little bit about with us today.

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And she is taking that and using that journey.

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As a way to get her message out and empower women to start living

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their very best life and become the best versions of themselves.

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Because through her journey, she has been able to see exactly what it's like to say,

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I am no longer settling for mediocrity.

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I am ready to get the hell out there and live my very best life.

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And I cannot wait for you all to learn about her story.

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So before the show, if you follow the show along, you know that before the

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show, I always ask my guests if they want to play two truths and one lie.

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So Johanna, what do you think?

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You want to play two truths and one lie with

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us today?

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Absolutely.

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Yay!

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Okay.

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So, to get us kicked off, I'm going to have Johanna share her two truths

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and one lie, and then by the end of the episode, we'll have her share

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the answers, and we'll see, as you've been able to play along, if

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you were able to guess it as well.

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So Johanna, what are your two truths and one

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lie?

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Okay.

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I have a brother who was adopted at birth that I have never met.

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I've been to Greece and my son had a kidney transplant.

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Wow.

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Oh my gosh.

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These are really good.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Well, we're going to see if maybe we can't figure out what the answer

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is as we go along the journey today.

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So I am so excited.

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So to kind of get us kicked off, I, one of the questions that I love

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. To ask all of our guests is to tell me, tell me a little bit about yourself.

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Like, tell me, how did this all start?

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How did you decide, Hey, I want to be someone who's

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getting my message out there.

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Tell me what was that?

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Fuck this shit moment where you just decided I'm done living this life.

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I'm doing something different.

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Tell me about that.

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Yeah, so I actually can pinpoint the exact moment.

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So four years ago, my aunt died of a massive heart attack at a very young age.

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And she, you know, was skinny and healthy and weighed like 130 pounds.

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And so we all had that connotation that she was skinny and healthy.

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And She was a teacher and when they cleaned out her desk, it was all little

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debbie's and soda and candy and junk food.

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And we came to learn that she actually ate very horribly.

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Her labs were not good.

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Her her intestines were very swollen.

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And her daughter actually found her when she passed away.

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And at that time I weighed almost 400 pounds and I didn't want my son to find

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me dead while I was folding laundry.

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And I knew I just, I couldn't be that big anymore.

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I couldn't, I had to be healthy if I wanted to live a long, happy life.

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I was miserable.

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I hated shopping for clothes.

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I couldn't ride roller coasters.

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I literally had to use a seatbelt extender and I couldn't sit

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in offices at doctor's office.

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Or I couldn't sit in chairs at doctor's offices and my weight was

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impacting every aspect of my life.

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And I couldn't do it anymore.

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I knew that I either had to make a change or I was never gonna be.

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Genuinely happy.

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And I, I could even, you know, die young.

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And so I woke up one day and I was like, my life is changing.

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Oh

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my gosh.

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I could only imagine the impact that you felt of, you know, cause I agree.

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We all have this preconceived notion that skinny equals healthy and.

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Anything that can be construed and I want to use this term so loosely

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because it's all a bunch of bull, but larger, if for lack of a better

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term, I don't know what to call it.

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It there's like this, this ideology out there that well, if you're

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slightly larger than the average person, then you're not healthy.

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And I think it's so important for us to understand that.

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All of our bodies are different.

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Skinny doesn't equal healthy.

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Larger than average doesn't equal healthy.

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And, and also I think we need to redefine what our quote unquote average is, um,

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because so much of that is just, you know, based on, I think, false ideologies again.

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I can only imagine what that was like, though, to find out that, hey, here was

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this person who I just thought would live this long, healthy life and realize

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that that was not her story at all.

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How old if you don't mind me sharing, how old was your son when you, when

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your aunt passed and you found out like, Hey, I need to get my life

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together if I want to be around.

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He was seven and my cousin, she was 16.

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She went into the bedroom and her mom was folding towels and she

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was just laying on the ground.

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Oh, oh, this is horrific.

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And I Heartbreaking.

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Mmm.

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I am so, so sorry for your loss.

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That is, that is tragic.

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And I, I have no doubt that even for your cousin, how traumatic that had

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to have been at such a young age.

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I mean, traumatic no matter what, but at a young age, very traumatizing.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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So tell me a little bit.

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So you'd kind of said, okay, you know what?

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Forget this.

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I'm done.

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Like I want to live a long, healthy life and I don't want my kid to see me gone.

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So what, what were the, some of the next steps that you took?

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I'm curious, like what did this journey look like as you've tried

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to find your way back to health?

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So, obviously the biggest thing was my weight, so I went to my doctor and started

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seeing a nutritionist, and we just kind of evaluated, you know, my exercising and my

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diet and my lifestyle, and so, getting a handle on my diet was huge, because food

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and what we consume is very important, I started looking into you, you know,

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how our bodies react to the nastiness that is at the grocery stores and that

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we're being fed at restaurants and stuff.

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So I learned a lot.

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I took a bunch of nutrition classes and learned a lot

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about how we metabolize food.

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And I learned just about me and my routine and what kind of diet I

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needed because everyone is different.

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And I, Um, I actually had gastric bypass two and a half years ago, and so I

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ate, I started eating a lot less, a lot healthier, and I exercise five to six

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days a week now, and I have lost about 200 pounds and I am now focusing on gaining

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muscle and I have a lot of loose skin, and so, that's a big part of my life, but.

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I will take the loose skin over being unhealthy at any time.

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And so now my diet is absolutely my number one.

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I've implemented that into my family as well.

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We just do a lot of whole foods, you know, not any package stuff,

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chemicals, all the ickies.

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So we do a lot of whole foods, fruits, vegetables, and high protein,

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good carbs that turn into energy.

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And I'd say food was the root of everything.

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Obviously we have to eat.

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You know, multiple times a day.

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And so just learning about food, putting the right things in my body was huge.

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And then also another thing that I definitely knew needed

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to change was my career.

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So I kind of started evaluating what I wanted to do with my life

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and if I was happy where I was, you know, where I could be my happiest.

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And so my weight and my career were two very big aspects of my journey

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and finding genuine happiness.

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Oh my God.

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And congrats.

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First, I want to say.

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Congratulations on losing 200 pounds.

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That is huge.

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That is incredible.

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And I also want to say bravo to you for being willing to go to

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your doctor and say, I need help.

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I don't necessarily just want, you know, surgery.

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Like, I want to work with a nutritionist.

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I understand how important this is.

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And you put in the work.

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I hear from so many people that, like, surgery is an easy way out.

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And I get so irritated because I also went down that path.

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I didn't end up getting surgery.

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But I went into a program, a year long program to qualify.

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And I have to tell you it's work and I don't care what anybody says.

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There's no easy way out of this.

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It's work period.

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And the work doesn't stop.

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It doesn't stop.

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Once you lose a bunch of weight, it doesn't stop a year in and you

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go, Hey, I got to where I want now.

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I can just, you know, go back to eating whatever they like.

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It never ends.

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Even you brought up the fact that you were said I have loose skin now.

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And now that has become a part of me, right?

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Like you're literally having to relearn what it feels like to be in

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your own body and learn to love your body in a completely different way.

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This doesn't end and there's no easy way out.

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No, it's not.

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It's it's I call it a lifestyle change.

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You know, it's not, it wasn't quick.

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It's not magic.

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I have a tool.

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You know, we can't build a house with just holding a hammer.

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We have the hammer, but we have to use it and we have to utilize it.

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Oh my gosh.

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I love this so much.

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This is so incredible.

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So, and only cause I followed you for a little bit of time as you were going

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through that journey of, you know, that first year post surgery and all of that.

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Talk to me about how you started discovering how you could get the message

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out of what it feels like to just.

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feel better and be happier.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So as soon as I started all this, like I said, I cut out a lot

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of bad foods, started focusing on vitamins and supplements and

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instantly I noticed so many changes.

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Like my acne got better, my bloating got better.

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I was feeling less pains in my joints and I mean, every aspect of

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my life was changing, including new clothing because I was dropping sizes.

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I could fit in chairs at the dentist office.

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I mean, the littlest things that people don't think about on a daily

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I was thinking about, and it was changing for me, and it was exciting.

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And I had never felt such passion and motivation and excitement

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for simply just gaining health.

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And being healthy and knowing that my life was going to be longer and fuller

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and every single day I woke up grateful because I was losing weight and I didn't

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hurt as bad and I, you know, I could wear less makeup because I had less acne.

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I mean, like I said, every.

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From morning till night, even sleep got better.

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And I just, I have a lot of, I had and have a lot of friends that

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are very obese and complain about a lot of things that I complained

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about before making these changes.

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And You know, it's definitely not easy by any means, but it's doable and I did it.

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I freaking did it.

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And you know, it's with going through this journey with other

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people that also freaking did the thing makes it 10 times easier.

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And so I just wanted to share my story and be vulnerable.

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There's a lot of people that go through things you know, like a 200 pound

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weight loss and they hide a lot of stuff or they fabricate a lot of stuff.

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Like you said, this journey was not easy by any means.

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And a lot of people don't talk about the hard things.

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And I needed someone to talk about the hard things when I was going through them.

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And so I want to be that.

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Light for someone else.

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I just got a message yesterday from a girl actually, who's two months

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post op, and she asked if she could call me and she was crying.

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She was depressed, regretted her decision.

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And she was like, I see that you're thriving.

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How did you get through this phase?

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And just literally the ability to talk to someone who knows what you're

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going through and knows what you.

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you know, wanting to obtain makes it 10 times easier.

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So I just wanted to be that light in other people's lives because I had some

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people like that when I needed it and you know, being able to help other people,

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there's no better feeling in this world.

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Even if it's just a simple, you know, you freaking got this, go

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to the gym or talking someone out of regretting their decision or

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helping someone out of a depression.

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There's no better feeling.

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Preach.

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Oh, man.

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And thank you.

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Yes.

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For saying, you know, Hey, people need to hear some of the ugly stuff.

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Some of the things that we don't want to have to talk about.

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It's so important.

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So I want to touch on the part because as I've watched you go

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through this journey and you learn to.

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You relearned how to love your new body.

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anD talk to me about how you have started trying to find ways to generate

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a new kind of income for yourself so that you can start getting the

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message out and making a bigger impact.

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Tell me some of the things that you're doing.

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Cause I know you've got a good following on Tik TOK.

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Talk to us about that.

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I do.

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Yeah.

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So I essentially just started sharing my story on TikTok and I exposed my loose

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skin and I had a video go viral and overnight I got 40, 000 followers and

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it was all just people and women who are going through these transformations and

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weight loss surgery and wanting to change, but they don't know where to start.

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And again, it was just simply me sharing my story, but I was making

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such big impacts on people's lives.

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You know, it's something that took me 30 seconds to record

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and bam, I posted it to Tik TOK.

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I just changed 30 people's lives because they're commenting and messaging me.

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And something so simple for me is so eyeopening and rewarding for other people.

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And you know, if I have the ability to do that, why not do it?

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And so I started.

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Getting my Facebook and Instagram monetized.

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I have my TikTok monetized and again, it's just sharing my story.

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It's doing stuff I did before and now I'm getting paid for it.

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And I started my own loaded tea business and that is vitamins and drink form.

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And so I get income from that again, something I'm passionate about and I am.

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in The process of becoming a personal development coach.

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So just sharing my story on how I managed my stress and how I literally manifested

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the life of my dreams and helping people understand what a positive mindset can do

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for your dreams versus a negative mindset.

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And it's just thrown a little bit of everything I've been through

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and everything I've learned.

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Into helping other people and getting paid for it.

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And it's the best thing I've ever done in my entire life.

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Yes.

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Oh my God.

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I love that so much.

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And I think the piece that sometimes so many people forget about is obviously the

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more that you're able to monetize it and the more money that you're able to make.

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That means that more people are seeing the story.

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More people are receiving the message.

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You're making a bigger impact with every single piece of this, that you are able

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to monetize and take to the next level.

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And it is so incredible because so many people need.

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This message and they need to understand that this is absolutely possible for them.

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They don't have to just accept status quo.

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And I love that so much.

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One of the things that I've really enjoyed is just watching

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you have fun and play with it.

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Play as you're discovering how to dress yourself now and what

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feels good and looks good.

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I have loved every second of watching you figure that out

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and then share with others.

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Hey, oh my God, I have these clothes and they fit and it feels amazing,

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but also, do you think this is cute?

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You want one too?

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Right?

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Like, it's a simple

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ask.

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Oh yeah, absolutely.

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And like I said, a huge part of my following is other people that also

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have a bunch of loose skin or also want to lose weight and so they're in the

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process of needing to buy new clothing and yeah, I mean, it's, I'm literally

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doing the same thing I was doing before.

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posting videos, sharing my love with fashion, but I'm getting paid for it.

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I mean, there's literally no greater thing in the world,

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right?

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Right.

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I mean, cause here's the deal.

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We're all going to shop.

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We're all going to, you know, we're all looking for those things that make us

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feel good when they're on, you know, whether it's the fabric, the particular

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fabric that's, that's against our skin or, you know, it's our favorite colors.

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Like me, I'm always like in pinks and purples.

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Cause if it's bright, I'm all about it.

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And so, right.

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And so just those, those, Things that make us feel good.

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Why not share it and make some money off of it?

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I love that perception.

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That is so awesome.

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I'm curious, where do you see yourself going for, from here?

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So I heard you say that you're working to become a coach.

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That is super amazing.

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So if you could have just kind of your.

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Your dream circumstance, right?

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Like you're now making income a million different ways and you're

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no longer in a quote unquote job.

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Where do you see yourself going from here?

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Absolutely.

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So I actually have my first manifestation workshop scheduled

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for December 21st of this month.

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And I.

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Could not be more excited.

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That is going to become a monthly thing.

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We're going to host workshops and classes.

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I, you know, long term goals will definitely be to have some online

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classes maybe some travel retreats.

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I love traveling.

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I have manifested multiple trips to Mexico.

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And so I would love to travel with people that I'm inspiring and helping.

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But also I am just sharing all of this information on social media.

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I, you know, I'm 27.

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I definitely love social media.

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I have Tik all the things.

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And so I'm getting monetized through all that.

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So just sharing.

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Motivational posts and manifestation ideas and questions to ask yourself, you know,

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it's, I'm helping myself and also putting it out into the world and helping people.

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So I'm going to use my, I'm going to utilize my social

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media to share my message and.

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You know, help with my online classes and we'll have in person classes.

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I am going to start a podcast and hopefully a YouTube channel.

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I would love to do a YouTube channel.

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I've always wanted to do that.

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I have a lot of ideas.

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I, I'm literally overflowing with ideas and every day I have a notebook and

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a pen with me because I just, I get inspired anytime I see something I'm like.

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That's so cool.

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People would love that.

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I'll add that into a workshop or, Oh, I love that line.

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I'm going to use that in this podcast episode.

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And I just, I I'm so excited.

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Yes,

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no.

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And that's exactly what this podcast is all about.

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Right.

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And that's why I say that this podcast is for the multi passionate girl, because

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guys, I don't know if you've heard it in Johanna's voice as she has shared

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so many pieces of this story, but she's not only passionate about the fact that.

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We need ways of eating healthier and, and we need to start paying attention

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to what we're putting in our bodies.

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And so she's doing things like her loaded tea business that has

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some of the vitamins that we need.

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And, and she's got an easier way for people to try and

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get those and consume those.

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And she's all about helping women.

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Love the way they look in their new skin and showing them how to gain

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confidence in, in what they wear.

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And she's sprinkled some of that in, and this is what I love so much

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about people who are multi passionate because you're multi passionate

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in all facets of life, right?

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Yes.

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Of course, you're passionate about making money.

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Who the hell isn't passionate about making money, but you're doing it

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on so many levels and you're living the ultimate life, and I love that.

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So freaking much.

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So your first your manifestation class?

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Is that in person for December?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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And so where are you located in case our audience members local to

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you should be listening to this?

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I am an hour north of Springfield.

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I live in a very, very tiny town.

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The workshop is in Preston, Missouri, in a studio.

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Okay.

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I have finger foods.

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I'm gonna make a big charcuterie board, fruit trays.

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I'm making some fun Christmas cocktails, alcoholic and non alcoholic.

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And I have eight marked as going so far.

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And one, sharing this message, hanging out with people that just want to Be

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happy and fix their mindset and shift their mindset and manifest their life.

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I, I'm so stoked.

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That is incredible.

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Oh my gosh.

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I am so celebrating you and those eight amazing people who are

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signed up for this workshop because it is going to be incredible.

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That is so awesome.

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Okay.

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So I will be sure then that our audience gets this information long before,

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because when did you say it's towards the

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end of the month?

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December 21st.

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December 21st.

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Okay, so, gosh, there's so many amazing pieces.

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I'm so excited.

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Like, there's, there's, I love where this is going for you, and I love the

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other piece that I have watched you do that I think is so important for our

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listeners to hear, especially for those girlies who are, you know, working

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on their side hustle or whatever.

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There's this phrase, that says, Results love speed and what that's speaking to is

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your ability to just quickly take action without sitting there and wondering how

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afraid am I, what could happen, what are all the bad things could happen, right?

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Like not getting into your head, just taking action.

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Results love speed.

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And and actually, I think the original quote was something

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like money loves speed.

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But I've also heard it put the other way into results.

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So.

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Yes, that's something else that I, I'm hearing and I've seen you do it in the

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sense that when you have one of these ideas, you just say, you know what,

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I'm just going to go figure it out.

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I'm just going to go do it.

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And you just take action and you make it happen.

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And that's exactly what it's all about.

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And those, those are the people that become the most successful because

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they're willing to just without fear, just start taking action.

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Right?

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So, oh man, I love that.

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Okay.

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So.

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Hearing some of that and a little bit about your story I'm curious if you could

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share one thing with our audience as far as moving forward in their own journeys,

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what is something that you would love for them to know as they are trying to cross

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over, whether it be that they also have a message and they're trying to figure out

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how they can monetize it or, or whatever, just living your best freaking life.

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What would be something that you would tell another woman who was looking for

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that?

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So in terms of living your best damn life, I, I would say shifting your mindset.

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I could talk about this for days on end.

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Mindset is everything.

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How you react to situations is everything, whether good or bad.

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Our brains and our minds automatically create a feeling.

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And typically it's negative.

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We were raised, you know, I was raised in a negative society where, you know,

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I was told money can't buy happiness.

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And well, if that's what we got, we got to live with it, I guess.

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And that is not the mindset.

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Your mindset needs to be.

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I want more.

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I am going to get more.

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And you know, I have an example here.

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We went to a Christmas parade on Saturday and we were like an

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hour late and my son was crying because we missed so many floats.

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And instead of me also being sad and dwelling that we missed half the

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parade, I said, You know, guess what?

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We're a family.

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We got out of the house.

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We're spending quality family time together.

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We still have, like, 20 floats left that we're gonna see.

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We can go get some ice cream after this.

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Yeah, we missed some, but we also still get to see some.

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And we're having family time together.

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So, I turned something negative into something positive.

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Or, I have a friend who texted me this morning.

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Her and her boyfriend broke up, actually.

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And I told her, I said, yeah, it sucks.

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And it's easier said than done, but find the good in this.

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You learned what you do and don't deserve.

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You learned what you can and shouldn't communicate.

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You know, you can turn negative situations into lessons and learn from

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negative and positive situations, but mindset and just putting those high

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energy vibrations out into the universe.

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If you put out high energy, you are going to get positive outcomes and.

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You know, whether it's a family death, or you got fired, or you stubbed your

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toe, or that purse you really wanted on Black Friday sold out, there is

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always a positive in every situation.

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You just have to take a second and find the positive.

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And I promise you with consistency and repetition, your mind and

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your brain will start to just automatically admit those positive

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reactions versus negative reactions.

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It will become, you know, it will become repetition and muscle memory and you'll

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do it without even thinking about it.

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Yes.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Yes.

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And there's so much.

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I can already tell that your manifestation class is going to be incredible because

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you're right when we're operating on that higher vibrational level.

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It's just that's when the things start to happen.

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Right?

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This is about us.

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You know, as we're looking for all the positives that that's that's

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allowing us to exist at a higher level.

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Man, that's what manifestation is all about.

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Oh, it's going to be so incredible.

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Okay.

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So I want to talk about your two truths and one lie.

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If I remember, we said, you said your two truths and one

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lie were you've been to Greece.

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You're, you have a brother who was adopted whom you've never met.

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And I think the third one was that your, your son needed a kidney transplant.

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My son had a kidney transplant.

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Had a kidney transplant.

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Oh my goodness.

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Okay,

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I'm gonna say, okay, I'm gonna start with the easiest one.

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So I think the easiest one, I think you've been to Greece.

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Am I right?

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I have never been to Greece.

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Darn it!

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Okay, so, so that's the light.

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So the other are true.

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Oh my goodness.

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How old was your son when he needed a kidney transplant?

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He was six.

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He but he actually got his kidney transplant 15 days after he turned six.

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Wow.

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Oh my gosh, that's amazing.

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And he is thriving.

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Yeah.

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Oh, that's so incredible.

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Wow.

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But, and how scary, too, is a mom?

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I mean, that is just so scary.

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That's a lot to go through.

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Oh my goodness.

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Oh my goodness.

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Okay, so then that means you also have a brother you haven't met.

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Yeah, my mom had a baby at 15 and he was adopted at birth and we know

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where he lives and, you know, my mom knows a lot about him, but she did

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never want to contact him in case he did not want to be contacted.

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She's on all the websites if you want to find her.

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But I've never met him.

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Oh my gosh.

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That's such an

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incredible story.

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He has kids.

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And so I'm an aunt and half of it makes me happy because he's thriving.

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He has a family.

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He has little kids, but the other half of me is like, I'm an aunt and I don't

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know if I'll ever meet them, but.

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I know that they have a good dad.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Oh my gosh.

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Well, you never know.

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You might manifest that meeting in the near future, so.

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Yes!

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You just don't know.

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Oh my goodness.

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If it's meant to be, it will, it will happen for you.

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Absolutely.

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That is so incredible.

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So do you have, for our listeners, to start following you, do you

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have a platform that you prefer for people to go follow you on?

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You can do Insta or TikTok.

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My handle is love your PDB.

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So it stands for Love your Personal Development bestie.

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Oh, I love

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that.

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Personal Development Bestie PDB.

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I love that.

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Okay, so I would have to be sure in the show notes, I will share all of Johanna's

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handles so that you guys can go and follow her on all of the platforms that she's on.

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And so that you guys can go follow her because she's going to be

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putting these manifestation classes online and you are not going to

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want to miss out on any of that.

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so Incredible.

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Well, Johanna, this has been an amazing experience and I'm so glad that you

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came on the show because you have such incredible information to share.

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And so yeah, I just want to, I just want to say thank you.

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Thank you.

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This was very fun.

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I, this gave me a good light into podcasting and you know, I, all

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day I've been giddy, I'm like, I'm a, I'm a guest on a podcast.

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So thank you for this.

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Yes.

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All right.

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Well, be sure to follow the links in the show notes so that you can connect

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with Johanna and until next time, everyone keep making shift happen by now.

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