June 17, 2025 • 19 mins
Parenting adult children demands a radical shift from directing every aspect of their lives to becoming their mentors, friends, and encouragers. This transformation challenges us to manage our own anxieties while supporting our children's increasingly independent decisions—whether they're studying abroad or moving across the country.
The transition creates space for personal growth and renewal. When our daily responsibilities shift, we can finally pursue interests we've long postponed. Maybe it's addressing health challenges with new dietary approaches (goodbye gluten, dairy, soy, corn, caffeine, and added sugar!), or finally completing that Pilates certification you've contemplated for fifteen years. The empty nest season offers fertile ground for reinvention and self-discovery.
Community connection remains our anchor through these transitions. In our screen-dominated world, the simple act of putting down phones and engaging face-to-face with neighbors, shopkeepers, and community members provides essential grounding. These interactions—whether brief exchanges at the post office or deeper conversations with friends—remind us we're part of something larger than ourselves and our immediate families.
Summer presents the perfect opportunity to experiment with something new. Take that cooking class you've always wanted to try. Join the adult dance studio you've been eyeing. Start playing pickleball with your partner. These small steps outside your comfort zone might bring unexpected joy and direction. As we temporarily wrap up Season Two (returning in August), we're grateful for your engagement through this journey of empty nest exploration. Your feedback shapes our content and strengthens our community of empty nesters supporting one another through this significant life transition.
We want to hear from you! Reach out to us on socials or at emptynestquestpod@gmail.com to share how our conversations are landing with you! xo-Melynda and Jennifer
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, hello, welcome to the Empty Nest Quest.
Today it is me, melinda,Jennifer, and I cannot wait to
get back here together withy'all but once again it is just
me, because I don't know abouty'all.
Jennifer and I've had a crazyfew months where we've had a
really difficult time being onthe same schedule.
(00:50):
But we promise that when westart back we think August we
will announce, but we thinkAugust is when we'll roll back
out with a new season and wewill be, will be here together
and we want to hear as we'remaking plans, we want to hear
(01:10):
from y'all.
Let us know what you want tohear about, to give you and you
can see if this jobs with you asan individual.
Please, please, text us, callus messages, whatever, but the
episode that got the mostattention over the last like I
don't know six months or so hasbeen when we talked about
(01:33):
parenting young adult children.
We did a book study.
If you weren't here for that,we had three or four episodes
where we went through thiswonderful book about parenting
adult children, kind of the upsand downs, the how hard it is to
leave the season of havingthese little people in your
(01:53):
house that you really do fullydirect and fully take charge of
everything they do in kind of away, and then move into this
season where you're trying tokind of turn into a mentor,
friend, um, encourager, and lessof a disciplinarian, less of a
(02:15):
rule enforcer or whatever youknow.
You felt like your role was inthe previous season.
I'm sure we could all kind ofdebate that, but I think we all
agree that it's just a whole newworld when we get into these
young adult years.
So that episode got a lot ofattention.
So we would love if you didn'thear it, if you weren't here for
(02:36):
it.
Go back and listen If you were,we are going to keep talking
about that.
I had the most wonderfulconversation with a dear friend
at the end of the week.
We were just talking about, Imean, I've got a kid abroad,
she's got a kid moving acrossthe country and one that's
already across the country, andwe were just talking about like
(02:59):
how much it stretches us to haveour kids making these big, bold
decisions and how we have tostay encouraged and, you know,
in a healthy headspace so thatwe encourage them and guide them
as parents for their bestinterest and don't get too
(03:23):
caught up in our own fears, ourown worries that really have
nothing to do with our kids.
Do you know what I mean?
So we will keep talking aboutparenting adult children.
Trust me, we need it.
So, in the spirit of wrap up forseason two, a few things.
(03:43):
That obviously um is I'm sorrymy words I'm like blah, blah,
blah, blah.
I okay Y'all sidebar.
I just made the most deliciousdessert for father's day.
I'm recording this.
On Sunday night this will airtomorrow morning and Johnny and
(04:06):
I went and had such a lovelylunch with his parents.
It felt like old school Sundayafternoon lunch it was.
I don't know why.
It just felt so nostalgic.
I felt like it could be 25years ago, us sitting at the
table with his parents.
Maybe because the girls weren'twith us this time and neither
were his sisters, I don't know,but it just felt so nostalgic.
(04:30):
It felt like when Johnny and Iwere first together and we ate
tomatoes from their garden and,like, just talked about things,
it was the sweetest father's day.
It was so sweet.
Then we got home and when wewere eating supper tonight, once
we got home, I had a sweettooth.
I'm like, babe, I've got tomake you this apple dessert and
(04:53):
y'all.
Okay, I think I've told, I'vesaid I've said before I've got
some autoimmune stuff, Okay, soI'm having to eat.
Let me just give y'all the listand then we're.
I'm not, I'm not whining, I'mjust saying, if you're a person
that eats everything, I justwant y'all to hear the no's
because it's crazy.
(05:13):
No gluten, no dairy, no soy, nocorn, no caffeine, no added
sugar.
Okay, what's left?
You say I just eat in the yardwith the rabbits.
I mean, really, it is like I'mjust kidding, it's not that bad,
but it's.
(05:34):
It's definitely been anadjustment, but I'm I'm learning
to cook totally differently andI'm here to tell y'all you can
still cook delicious things.
So we just made this apple oatbaked thing kind of like a you
know, gluten-free, dairy freespin on a strudel.
It was so delicious that I amstill excited about it, I'm
(05:57):
still thinking about it.
I'm trying to decide if I'mgoing to eat another serving of
it when I get back upstairs.
So all that to say, we have hadall kinds of things change in
the last six months In our house.
I know that in your life,things are changing in the last
six months In our house.
I know that in your life thingsare changing and it's more than
just cooking out of a newcookbook.
I know it's bigger stuff.
(06:18):
I know that there's so much thatwe're all seeing when we open
social media, when we turn onthe TV in the morning to watch
the news or a morning talk showor whatever you're watching, and
I just want to encourage youthat I think one of the most
important things we can do isconnect with our community, talk
(06:40):
to each other, support eachother, find out how we can stay
in a community that asks us toshow up, not just for ourselves,
which I do.
You know I'm a big advocate forself care, self compassion, and
I don't mean just self carelike a bubble bath and like get
(07:01):
your nails done.
I mean truly tending to yoursoul, learning how to lessen the
damaging thoughts we think,learning how to heal from, like
the hurts and traumas that makeus turn around and inflict hurt
and dysfunction in our ownrelationships.
(07:23):
So I I mean that is what I careabout probably more than
anything is working with peopleon those things.
But it's not just about turningattention inward.
The reason we want to do allthat good healing is so when we
show up to a circle and grab thehands beside us.
We want to feel steady andstrong and ready to be in
(07:50):
service to our community and toour the people that we love, and
to the people that ourcommunity wants to serve and
help.
So I'm just encouraging you toreach out and get face-to-face
(08:10):
with people and not just staybehind the screen.
It's so easy.
Even as adults, we we we push onour kids about being on their
screens too much.
We push our kids about thephones, but y'all the adults, I
mean we were just at the beachand when we were walking on the
beach, all I saw were peoplesitting under tents together,
(08:34):
everybody looking at their phoneover and over and over.
I mean, heck, we did it underour umbrella.
We did the same thing and Ijust was reflecting on way back
when and you know you justcouldn't do that.
I mean you had to play paddleball with your dad and surf the
waves and I mean you would be sobored because you didn't have.
(08:56):
Maybe we looked at magazines.
I think that's what my mom andI did.
We looked at magazines.
But my point being we need tobe together, we need to talk to
each other when you see eachother face to face.
So this summer, be with yourpeople.
Walk over to a neighbor's house, take some cookies, say hello,
(09:17):
put your phone down in the car.
Walk in the post office.
Speak to the great person atthe counter when you're dropping
off that package.
Talk to your checkout people inthe grocery store.
I am from a small town and Ithink that the biggest thing I
learned from my small townupbringing was that everybody
mattered.
Mr Jack at the sing store.
(09:39):
I couldn't wait to see himevery time I went in to get an
IC.
I can't even remember the otherguy that worked at the sing
store's name, but I can see hisface because I loved how fun it
was to like joke around withthose men and like giggle, and
they would make fun of us, meand my friends, how many ICs a
(09:59):
day we'd go in there and buy inthe summer.
But part of what made itspecial and fun was the
interaction with the people.
So even if it's that small,just don't forget that that's
important too, because littlethings like that do just as much
for our connection to communityand our belief in each other as
(10:21):
it does for us to have big,robust gestures.
So that's one thing.
Sorry, soapbox went off on atangent.
Soapbox Went off on a tangent,so anyway, zip, zip, zip back to
the wrap up.
So at the wrap up of this season, we really just wanted to
connect with you again, tell youhow thankful we are for all of
(10:48):
your emails, texts, chats in thegrocery store.
I'll tell you that anotherlittle um series that we got so
much great conversation withy'all about was when we had
Brooks come on aboutperimenopause and all the things
(11:12):
and y'all.
That just scratches the surfaceof what is available for you.
Um, if you follow Brooks onsocial media, she has so much
free content.
It is unbelievable how generousshe is on Instagram with her
content and she has got amazingpractitioners in her practice.
(11:33):
Um, and if you want otherreferrals, there are other
people in Athens doing reallygreat work and there are other
ways to find people in yourcommunity if you don't live in
Athens, so please reach out.
I'm happy to connect you withthe resources I know of.
It was a real journey for me tofigure it all out for myself
and Jennifer as well, so wewould love to help plug you into
(11:55):
resources as well.
So that series was really bigtoo, and then it sounds like a
lot of us are still toying andplaying with this whole empty
nest syndrome, and what is itthat we do in this season is
empty nesters, and I want tohear from you, like, how have
you been handling it?
(12:15):
Cause some of y'all have beenlike here with us for about a
year and so maybe you've foundsome things that have been
really helpful and maybe youstill haven't quite figured it
out, and that's okay, cause Ifor sure feel like I'm still
figuring it out.
My work has changed so much inthe last year, and I think it
has so much to do with the factthat my life has changed a lot,
(12:36):
because my kids are older now,my days have a different rhythm,
my role in mine and Johnny'sbusinesses has changed, and so
one of the things I've done is,on the.
On the one hand, I have beentaking a little more time for
(12:57):
myself to figure out all myautoimmune stuff, and it took me
it's really taken some patienceand self-compassion, because I
really, really love to work, andit's been a real conflict in my
brain about how to work alittle bit less and take a step
back.
That has been reallychallenging, but it's been a
(13:20):
great learning season too.
And then I've also done sometraining and upped my skills to
offer my clients, and I'm soexcited about that because not
only does it like make me feellike a better practitioner, but
it makes it makes for just amore fun existence for me.
(13:40):
I love to learn.
I love if I could get paid tojust take everybody else's
courses.
I think I would do it forever.
But I did this amazing somaticlife coaching course and I'm
just finishing my Pilatestraining and it has been so fun.
I've met the most amazingpeople and it remains to be seen
(14:04):
if I want to teach groupclasses or just do one-on-one,
but I am going to be doing thattoo.
So I say that to share with you,so that you can figure out what
.
What is that thing?
What is that thing?
I've kind of been sitting onthat I'm interested in, but I
haven't done yet.
I mean y'all when I tell youI've been thinking about doing a
Pilates training for like doneyet I mean y'all when I tell you
I've been thinking about doinga Pilates training for like.
(14:26):
I truly think it's been almost15 years and I just finally did
it because I wanted one that wasin person and so I didn't want
to drive to Atlanta so, but thetiming has been perfect.
This has been the best seasonto do it.
So what is that thing thatmaybe you've been sitting on
that comes to mind every sooften that you really want to do
and you?
So what is that thing thatmaybe you've been sitting on
that comes to mind every sooften that you really want to do
(14:46):
and you haven't done yet?
We want to encourage you.
At the very beginning, whenJennifer and I were designing
this whole podcast experience,it was all out of two things.
One, our enthusiasm forconnecting women and being part
of a really amazing community,because other amazing women have
(15:09):
given us so much encouragement,hope, love.
We so much value the women inour life.
Two, both of us have a reallystrong entrepreneurial drive
long entrepreneurial drive.
We both have owned our ownbusiness or had multiple
businesses that we have ownedourselves since we were in our
(15:30):
twenties.
Multiple iterations ofdifferent businesses.
We've both done all kinds ofthings.
We've owned businesses, thengone back to teaching, then come
back out.
I went to sales, owned my ownbusiness, went back out to sales
.
I mean, we've both done justsuch a variety and we know how
daunting it can feel to trysomething new, but we also know
that on the other side, you willnot regret it, that you will
(15:53):
feel so alive because youchallenged yourself and tried
something new.
And it doesn't have to be thatyou try a whole new business.
It can just be that you'vealways wanted to take a cooking
class and you finally took it.
Or it could be that you seethat adult dance studio in your
community and you've alwayswanted to take classes there and
you haven't done it yet.
Do it.
Or maybe you and your husbandkeep talking about a pickleball
(16:15):
league.
Try it this summer.
Summer is such a great time totry something new, so we just
want to encourage you step out,try something, anything
different, to put yourself outof your comfort zone and into a
position to receive a new doseof joy and maybe some new
(16:38):
direction.
You never know where it'll takeyou, you some new direction.
You never know where it'll takeyou.
Secondly, I just want to saythat this summer we are going to
just re-air the episodes thatwe've gotten the most feedback
from or that feel like you wouldwant to hear from again.
So if you have an opinion, spitthem out to us as fast as you
(17:03):
can, because we'll be re-airingthose in a week, I guess, yeah,
and we'll do that for maybe fiveweeks and then hopefully be
back with you at the beginningof August.
So I think I have my number ofweeks right, okay.
And then, lastly, with you atthe beginning of August.
So I think I have my number ofweeks right, okay.
And then, lastly, if you havesomewhere you're visiting this
(17:23):
summer or something you'retrying this summer, if you're
traveling, if you're exploringwith your family, if you're
trying like your own, like me,camp type thing or a staycation,
we want to hear about it.
We are dying to hear about whatyou're doing this summer.
Jennifer and I have like packedsummers planned and we will
(17:46):
share them with you too, but wewant to hear also what you're
doing, so let us know.
Okay, y'all, this has been sofun.
We have loved sharing this timewith y'all.
I truly can't say enough abouthow much this podcast like fills
our heart, so we hope that itdoes the same for you.
(18:09):
Happy belated Father's Day toall the dads out there, and
whether your dad is already inheaven or if your dad is still
here, just I hope you've hadtime to take a moment to just
reflect about the role that,whether it's been your dad or
(18:30):
whether it's been another man inyour life your grandfather,
maybe it's an uncle, or maybeit's just a family friend that
has had just a really positiveimpact, or maybe it's just a
family friend that has had justa really positive impact and
take the time to say thank you,and whether that's send them a
card or a note or a text or tosay a prayer to thank them, but
(18:51):
I just think it's so importantfor us to appreciate each other,
and so for me, that iscertainly, you know, a phone
call to my dad today and just aprayer for my grandfathers and
great uncles and um, and thengoing to see Johnny's dad today
was just such a treat.
(19:11):
So I hope that you have men inyour life that give you a smile
on your face for Father's Dayand thank you for being with us.
Until next time, we will seeyou on the Emptiness Quest in
the fall.
Hello, hello, welcome to the Empty Nest Quest.
Today it is me, melinda,Jennifer, and I cannot wait to
get back here together withy'all but once again it is just
me, because I don't know abouty'all.
Jennifer and I've had a crazyfew months where we've had a
really difficult time being onthe same schedule.
(00:50):
But we promise that when westart back we think August we
will announce, but we thinkAugust is when we'll roll back
out with a new season and wewill be, will be here together
and we want to hear as we'remaking plans, we want to hear
(01:10):
from y'all.
Let us know what you want tohear about, to give you and you
can see if this jobs with you asan individual.
Please, please, text us, callus messages, whatever, but the
episode that got the mostattention over the last like I
don't know six months or so hasbeen when we talked about
(01:33):
parenting young adult children.
We did a book study.
If you weren't here for that,we had three or four episodes
where we went through thiswonderful book about parenting
adult children, kind of the upsand downs, the how hard it is to
leave the season of havingthese little people in your
(01:53):
house that you really do fullydirect and fully take charge of
everything they do in kind of away, and then move into this
season where you're trying tokind of turn into a mentor,
friend, um, encourager, and lessof a disciplinarian, less of a
(02:15):
rule enforcer or whatever youknow.
You felt like your role was inthe previous season.
I'm sure we could all kind ofdebate that, but I think we all
agree that it's just a whole newworld when we get into these
young adult years.
So that episode got a lot ofattention.
So we would love if you didn'thear it, if you weren't here for
(02:36):
it.
Go back and listen If you were,we are going to keep talking
about that.
I had the most wonderfulconversation with a dear friend
at the end of the week.
We were just talking about, Imean, I've got a kid abroad,
she's got a kid moving acrossthe country and one that's
already across the country, andwe were just talking about like
(02:59):
how much it stretches us to haveour kids making these big, bold
decisions and how we have tostay encouraged and, you know,
in a healthy headspace so thatwe encourage them and guide them
as parents for their bestinterest and don't get too
(03:23):
caught up in our own fears, ourown worries that really have
nothing to do with our kids.
Do you know what I mean?
So we will keep talking aboutparenting adult children.
Trust me, we need it.
So, in the spirit of wrap up forseason two, a few things.
(03:43):
That obviously um is I'm sorrymy words I'm like blah, blah,
blah, blah.
I okay Y'all sidebar.
I just made the most deliciousdessert for father's day.
I'm recording this.
On Sunday night this will airtomorrow morning and Johnny and
(04:06):
I went and had such a lovelylunch with his parents.
It felt like old school Sundayafternoon lunch it was.
I don't know why.
It just felt so nostalgic.
I felt like it could be 25years ago, us sitting at the
table with his parents.
Maybe because the girls weren'twith us this time and neither
were his sisters, I don't know,but it just felt so nostalgic.
(04:30):
It felt like when Johnny and Iwere first together and we ate
tomatoes from their garden and,like, just talked about things,
it was the sweetest father's day.
It was so sweet.
Then we got home and when wewere eating supper tonight, once
we got home, I had a sweettooth.
I'm like, babe, I've got tomake you this apple dessert and
(04:53):
y'all.
Okay, I think I've told, I'vesaid I've said before I've got
some autoimmune stuff, Okay, soI'm having to eat.
Let me just give y'all the listand then we're.
I'm not, I'm not whining, I'mjust saying, if you're a person
that eats everything, I justwant y'all to hear the no's
because it's crazy.
(05:13):
No gluten, no dairy, no soy, nocorn, no caffeine, no added
sugar.
Okay, what's left?
You say I just eat in the yardwith the rabbits.
I mean, really, it is like I'mjust kidding, it's not that bad,
but it's.
(05:34):
It's definitely been anadjustment, but I'm I'm learning
to cook totally differently andI'm here to tell y'all you can
still cook delicious things.
So we just made this apple oatbaked thing kind of like a you
know, gluten-free, dairy freespin on a strudel.
It was so delicious that I amstill excited about it, I'm
(05:57):
still thinking about it.
I'm trying to decide if I'mgoing to eat another serving of
it when I get back upstairs.
So all that to say, we have hadall kinds of things change in
the last six months In our house.
I know that in your life,things are changing in the last
six months In our house.
I know that in your life thingsare changing and it's more than
just cooking out of a newcookbook.
I know it's bigger stuff.
(06:18):
I know that there's so much thatwe're all seeing when we open
social media, when we turn onthe TV in the morning to watch
the news or a morning talk showor whatever you're watching, and
I just want to encourage youthat I think one of the most
important things we can do isconnect with our community, talk
(06:40):
to each other, support eachother, find out how we can stay
in a community that asks us toshow up, not just for ourselves,
which I do.
You know I'm a big advocate forself care, self compassion, and
I don't mean just self carelike a bubble bath and like get
(07:01):
your nails done.
I mean truly tending to yoursoul, learning how to lessen the
damaging thoughts we think,learning how to heal from, like
the hurts and traumas that makeus turn around and inflict hurt
and dysfunction in our ownrelationships.
(07:23):
So I I mean that is what I careabout probably more than
anything is working with peopleon those things.
But it's not just about turningattention inward.
The reason we want to do allthat good healing is so when we
show up to a circle and grab thehands beside us.
We want to feel steady andstrong and ready to be in
(07:50):
service to our community and toour the people that we love, and
to the people that ourcommunity wants to serve and
help.
So I'm just encouraging you toreach out and get face-to-face
(08:10):
with people and not just staybehind the screen.
It's so easy.
Even as adults, we we we push onour kids about being on their
screens too much.
We push our kids about thephones, but y'all the adults, I
mean we were just at the beachand when we were walking on the
beach, all I saw were peoplesitting under tents together,
(08:34):
everybody looking at their phoneover and over and over.
I mean, heck, we did it underour umbrella.
We did the same thing and Ijust was reflecting on way back
when and you know you justcouldn't do that.
I mean you had to play paddleball with your dad and surf the
waves and I mean you would be sobored because you didn't have.
(08:56):
Maybe we looked at magazines.
I think that's what my mom andI did.
We looked at magazines.
But my point being we need tobe together, we need to talk to
each other when you see eachother face to face.
So this summer, be with yourpeople.
Walk over to a neighbor's house, take some cookies, say hello,
(09:17):
put your phone down in the car.
Walk in the post office.
Speak to the great person atthe counter when you're dropping
off that package.
Talk to your checkout people inthe grocery store.
I am from a small town and Ithink that the biggest thing I
learned from my small townupbringing was that everybody
mattered.
Mr Jack at the sing store.
(09:39):
I couldn't wait to see himevery time I went in to get an
IC.
I can't even remember the otherguy that worked at the sing
store's name, but I can see hisface because I loved how fun it
was to like joke around withthose men and like giggle, and
they would make fun of us, meand my friends, how many ICs a
(09:59):
day we'd go in there and buy inthe summer.
But part of what made itspecial and fun was the
interaction with the people.
So even if it's that small,just don't forget that that's
important too, because littlethings like that do just as much
for our connection to communityand our belief in each other as
(10:21):
it does for us to have big,robust gestures.
So that's one thing.
Sorry, soapbox went off on atangent.
Soapbox Went off on a tangent,so anyway, zip, zip, zip back to
the wrap up.
So at the wrap up of this season, we really just wanted to
connect with you again, tell youhow thankful we are for all of
(10:48):
your emails, texts, chats in thegrocery store.
I'll tell you that anotherlittle um series that we got so
much great conversation withy'all about was when we had
Brooks come on aboutperimenopause and all the things
(11:12):
and y'all.
That just scratches the surfaceof what is available for you.
Um, if you follow Brooks onsocial media, she has so much
free content.
It is unbelievable how generousshe is on Instagram with her
content and she has got amazingpractitioners in her practice.
(11:33):
Um, and if you want otherreferrals, there are other
people in Athens doing reallygreat work and there are other
ways to find people in yourcommunity if you don't live in
Athens, so please reach out.
I'm happy to connect you withthe resources I know of.
It was a real journey for me tofigure it all out for myself
and Jennifer as well, so wewould love to help plug you into
(11:55):
resources as well.
So that series was really bigtoo, and then it sounds like a
lot of us are still toying andplaying with this whole empty
nest syndrome, and what is itthat we do in this season is
empty nesters, and I want tohear from you, like, how have
you been handling it?
(12:15):
Cause some of y'all have beenlike here with us for about a
year and so maybe you've foundsome things that have been
really helpful and maybe youstill haven't quite figured it
out, and that's okay, cause Ifor sure feel like I'm still
figuring it out.
My work has changed so much inthe last year, and I think it
has so much to do with the factthat my life has changed a lot,
(12:36):
because my kids are older now,my days have a different rhythm,
my role in mine and Johnny'sbusinesses has changed, and so
one of the things I've done is,on the.
On the one hand, I have beentaking a little more time for
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myself to figure out all myautoimmune stuff, and it took me
it's really taken some patienceand self-compassion, because I
really, really love to work, andit's been a real conflict in my
brain about how to work alittle bit less and take a step
back.
That has been reallychallenging, but it's been a
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great learning season too.
And then I've also done sometraining and upped my skills to
offer my clients, and I'm soexcited about that because not
only does it like make me feellike a better practitioner, but
it makes it makes for just amore fun existence for me.
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I love to learn.
I love if I could get paid tojust take everybody else's
courses.
I think I would do it forever.
But I did this amazing somaticlife coaching course and I'm
just finishing my Pilatestraining and it has been so fun.
I've met the most amazingpeople and it remains to be seen
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if I want to teach groupclasses or just do one-on-one,
but I am going to be doing thattoo.
So I say that to share with you,so that you can figure out what
.
What is that thing?
What is that thing?
I've kind of been sitting onthat I'm interested in, but I
haven't done yet.
I mean y'all when I tell youI've been thinking about doing a
Pilates training for like doneyet I mean y'all when I tell you
I've been thinking about doinga Pilates training for like.
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I truly think it's been almost15 years and I just finally did
it because I wanted one that wasin person and so I didn't want
to drive to Atlanta so, but thetiming has been perfect.
This has been the best seasonto do it.
So what is that thing thatmaybe you've been sitting on
that comes to mind every sooften that you really want to do
and you?
So what is that thing thatmaybe you've been sitting on
that comes to mind every sooften that you really want to do
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and you haven't done yet?
We want to encourage you.
At the very beginning, whenJennifer and I were designing
this whole podcast experience,it was all out of two things.
One, our enthusiasm forconnecting women and being part
of a really amazing community,because other amazing women have
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given us so much encouragement,hope, love.
We so much value the women inour life.
Two, both of us have a reallystrong entrepreneurial drive
long entrepreneurial drive.
We both have owned our ownbusiness or had multiple
businesses that we have ownedourselves since we were in our
(15:30):
twenties.
Multiple iterations ofdifferent businesses.
We've both done all kinds ofthings.
We've owned businesses, thengone back to teaching, then come
back out.
I went to sales, owned my ownbusiness, went back out to sales
.
I mean, we've both done justsuch a variety and we know how
daunting it can feel to trysomething new, but we also know
that on the other side, you willnot regret it, that you will
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feel so alive because youchallenged yourself and tried
something new.
And it doesn't have to be thatyou try a whole new business.
It can just be that you'vealways wanted to take a cooking
class and you finally took it.
Or it could be that you seethat adult dance studio in your
community and you've alwayswanted to take classes there and
you haven't done it yet.
Do it.
Or maybe you and your husbandkeep talking about a pickleball
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league.
Try it this summer.
Summer is such a great time totry something new, so we just
want to encourage you step out,try something, anything
different, to put yourself outof your comfort zone and into a
position to receive a new doseof joy and maybe some new
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direction.
You never know where it'll takeyou, you some new direction.
You never know where it'll takeyou.
Secondly, I just want to saythat this summer we are going to
just re-air the episodes thatwe've gotten the most feedback
from or that feel like you wouldwant to hear from again.
So if you have an opinion, spitthem out to us as fast as you
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can, because we'll be re-airingthose in a week, I guess, yeah,
and we'll do that for maybe fiveweeks and then hopefully be
back with you at the beginningof August.
So I think I have my number ofweeks right, okay.
And then, lastly, with you atthe beginning of August.
So I think I have my number ofweeks right, okay.
And then, lastly, if you havesomewhere you're visiting this
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summer or something you'retrying this summer, if you're
traveling, if you're exploringwith your family, if you're
trying like your own, like me,camp type thing or a staycation,
we want to hear about it.
We are dying to hear about whatyou're doing this summer.
Jennifer and I have like packedsummers planned and we will
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share them with you too, but wewant to hear also what you're
doing, so let us know.
Okay, y'all, this has been sofun.
We have loved sharing this timewith y'all.
I truly can't say enough abouthow much this podcast like fills
our heart, so we hope that itdoes the same for you.
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Happy belated Father's Day toall the dads out there, and
whether your dad is already inheaven or if your dad is still
here, just I hope you've hadtime to take a moment to just
reflect about the role that,whether it's been your dad or
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whether it's been another man inyour life your grandfather,
maybe it's an uncle, or maybeit's just a family friend that
has had just a really positiveimpact, or maybe it's just a
family friend that has had justa really positive impact and
take the time to say thank you,and whether that's send them a
card or a note or a text or tosay a prayer to thank them, but
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I just think it's so importantfor us to appreciate each other,
and so for me, that iscertainly, you know, a phone
call to my dad today and just aprayer for my grandfathers and
great uncles and um, and thengoing to see Johnny's dad today
was just such a treat.
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So I hope that you have men inyour life that give you a smile
on your face for Father's Dayand thank you for being with us.
Until next time, we will seeyou on the Emptiness Quest in
the fall.
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