August 9, 2025 • 44 mins
In this uplifting and fun episode, I sit down with Rachel Fitzpatrick — a corporate project executive turned yoga instructor, podcaster, and all-around radiant soul. Rachel shares her incredible journey of transformation: from strutting the downtown office halls in heels and pencil skirts to embracing the freedom (and comfort!) of yoga pants as she navigates motherhood, self-discovery, and new passions.
We talk about the pivotal moments that sparked her evolution — a life-changing yoga festival, the magic of motherhood during a pandemic, and the joyful shift from corporate hustle to soulful fulfillment. Along the way, Rachel opens up about some hilarious and humbling moments (like the infamous skirt blowout!), the power of being present, and how she manifests the life she loves every day.
If you’re ready for a dose of real talk, laughter, and inspiration to find your own groove — this episode is for you. Get ready to feel uplifted, empowered, and reminded that sometimes the best styles are the ones that let you be unapologetically YOU!
Episode Highlights:
- Rachel’s journey from corporate America to yoga instructor and podcast host
- How a life-changing yoga festival sparked a powerful personal transformation
- Navigating motherhood and career during the challenges of the pandemic
- The hilarious (and relatable) story behind Rachel’s “skirt blowout” moment
- Embracing authenticity: trading high heels for yoga pants — and loving it!
- The power of presence and letting go of expectations to create space for joy
- Manifestation in action: how Rachel intentionally shaped her new path
Connect with Rachel Fitzpatrick
Web Site: https://fitzenyoga.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAafhiLb3gvJutDRQgzMvXKcjypwkvS6zYmVHeE72CLRhk1l04avXD4ma689bVQ_aem_HCm7Hl_sGXvAaBsNdy_iAw
You can find me at:
https://www.instagram.com/cataton/
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You can find what sparks me at:
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Music by: Jason and Ashley Scheufler
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(00:04):
Hey friends.
Welcome to the Enter Sparkpodcast.
I'm your host, Casey Caton.
If you're looking to hearstories of transformation and
personal growth, this podcast isfor you.
My guest and I will be sharingthose sparking moments that has
changed the mental living a morefulfilling authentic life.
I'm so excited for you to heareach unique story.
(00:24):
So sit back, relax, and let'sget started.
Hey friends.
Welcome back to the Enter Sparkpodcast.
I'm your host, Casey Taton.
Today I have a special guestwith me, Rachel Fitzpatrick.
(00:47):
She is a yoga instructor, apodcaster of the Fit Zen
Project.
She is a beautiful son and she'sjust an all around amazing,
beautiful person.
Welcome, Rachel.
Hey, thank you Casey.
It's so great to be here.
It was like my first day to beYay.
First guest.
(01:08):
I'm so excited.
Gonna be fun.
It's an honor.
I am just excited.
I was asked, so it just meansthe world, so thank you.
Oh, you're welcome.
So she has a po, a podcast out.
I will tell you guys that we metin Kathy Heller's World.
And of course I'm in Kansas andyou're in, Kentucky.
(01:30):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And smack in the middle of thestate and she's in Kentucky.
So it's really just beautifulhow we can have this connection
and do these new fun adventuresand learn together.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I just, it is, there's somethingabout you when you just laugh.
(01:52):
It's so like you, if you guyscould see her on screen, I'll
post a picture, her face, hersmile, like she just lights up a
room and that's the kind ofenergy she brings to the calls
and when you listen to her.
It's just so much fun to besurrounded by people like that.
Well thanks.
Thanks.
I have a couple questions foryou.
(02:15):
Question, I guess, would youtell them a little bit about
your story?
Yeah, so I am currently aproject executive and really
love my job.
Very, very corporate America.
And I don't know that, peoplelove corporate America that work
in corporate America, but I'mone of the few, and I also am a
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mom to this amazing 4-year-oldlittle boy who, just mainly make
all my decisions and creationsbased off of, if I was four
years old, if I was my son, whatwould I do now?
You know?
Yes.
So that's how I've been livingmy life the past four years, and
it's been real majestic.
And then I.
Um, you know, I'm a, in arelationship.
(03:00):
I've got a really great partnerand he supports me in all of
these like, wild and crazy ideaslike joining Kathy Heller's
world, doing podcasting andstarting up a yoga retreat.
All of these things like havebeen since January and I'm sure
he's just, you know, chasingthis tail trying to keep up with
me.
But it's worked.
(03:21):
But, um, yeah, so like how Ieven got here, I can, um.
I can remember being a littlegirl and watching the movie, how
Stella Got Her Groove back.
You know what I'm talking about?
Oh, yes.
So I was super emotional as a TVwatcher.
Like I would watch movies andpeople would die.
(03:44):
I'd see'em in a movie again.
I'm like, oh my God.
They're alive.
You know, just be so, um,invested in the roles.
And I'm like, I don't know ifthese guys are really good
producers or these guys arereally good actors, but either
way they got me, uh, every,every time, you know, it didn't
matter.
Tears and all.
Yeah.
Yep.
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I'm just an emotional person.
Yeah, it's, that's what I loveabout you though, because you,
you're just so genuine and real.
First of all, I wannaacknowledge that you just said.
You love your job.
So my boyfriend loves his job.
Like he, it's his life, hisworld.
He just absolutely wants to talkabout it all the time.
(04:26):
And it doesn't matter how longthe days are, he loves his job
and there are not very manypeople that do that.
So when you say that and you arelike, I love my job, it's, and
your face lights up, it's soexciting because so many people
are resisting that and you'rejust like, no, I love my job.
And.
I'm also starting all these newfun projects.
(04:46):
Yeah.
Yeah.
It gives me a lot of space.
I think.
There were times where I didn'tlove my job and I had to make
decisions and hard conversationsand choices to be real with
myself and move up and out or.
Be done, but there was no morestaying in this situation, you
know?
(05:07):
Yeah.
So, um, Hey, will you go back tothat movie?
I wanna take you back to thatmovie.
Ah, yes, yes.
Well, I mean, just watching thatmovie as a child and watching
how she went through thismassive hardship and then.
She goes on this vacation,right?
And to Jamaica, if I'm notmistaken.
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And she finds this like reallyhot dude and she, she makes a
new relationship out ofsomething that just was so
shitty with her marriage and allof that other stuff.
But then she's like this likesecretive corporate boss babe,
you know, like.
Yeah, I would say another word,but uh, you know what I mean?
(05:48):
Yeah.
And I'm like, yes, look at thiswoman empowerment.
And then, you know, at sevenyears old, that was early
nineties for me, that didn'texist.
Like this movie just was like,set the pace for all the movies
thereafter for womenempowerment.
And she was also a woman ofcolor too, which was not seen in
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the world at the time.
Not that I knew that as a7-year-old, but right.
That was what I watched as a7-year-old, so it automatically
was true, you know, because ifyou died in the movie, you were
dead in real life to me.
Yeah, no, I mean, that's how ourbrains worked.
When you're that age, you'rejust, yeah, especially when
you're, I am emotional as well.
(06:32):
When I watch movies, I'm likecrying, you know, all the fills.
So, or celebrating, you know,all the fills.
That, that is a hundred percenttrue.
Yeah.
And then I think it's probablywhy sweet Home Alabama was so
good too, you know?
Oh yeah.
If you really think about it,the small town girl just going
up and getting after it andloving being a lawyer and all
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these things.
But anyway, I was gonna do somecorporate stuff and I was gonna
wear high heels.
And I was gonna wear pencilskirts and I was gonna look
beautiful and have lipstick onand go to work every day and
this office space and see likecars out my window and city
skylines and all the things.
So that was my goal, right.
(07:16):
And then, um, life happened.
All sorts of weaves.
I was a server for 10 years.
It took me six years to getthrough college.
Like there were some things Ijust like, took some decisions
and was like, yeah, let's throwspaghetti at the wall, see if it
sticks.
And there was a loss of claritybetween seven and 33.
(07:39):
You know, I.
I think that happens to many ofus.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I got way off track, but um, Ifinally reached my track again.
I went to a Wonderlust yogafestival and I went by myself
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and I was.
31, 32.
I don't even remember how old Iwas, but I was 30 something.
Could have been 30 for all Iknow.
But, it was the first time I'dever gone to a festival alone
and I was like, I'm gonna do it.
And it's a yoga festival, soit's gotta be safe, right?
Because.
People are all about peace,love, and happiness.
Yes.
So, so I go and there werethese, amazing speakers there,
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just these movements that were,you could just feel it move
through your body.
It didn't matter whose class youwent to, what you were doing, if
you were watching a speaker, ifyou were participating in yoga
class, it didn't matter.
It was even going to the littleshops I remember.
And making this connection withsomeone who was just selling
(08:51):
yoga pants and making aconnection about women who run
with wolves.
That specific book.
Okay.
Yeah.
So all of this is starting toreally plant some seeds in, in
my mind and in my way of lifeand things.
And um, at the time before thisadventure, I was not gonna have
(09:11):
kids.
I was just gonna be on thislike.
Corporate America road path,doing all things, to go up the
ladder.
Like that was just what I wasgonna do.
I was set on it and I wasalready in corporate America and
joined some time at the moment,but it didn't click until this
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festival.
And that's when I realized like,I gotta get aligned, you know?
Yeah.
And it was mind, body, soul.
To then project up and out andenjoy my job, enjoy teaching
yoga, enjoy doing yoga, and whatit is that, like, what kind of
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legacy I wanna leave behind.
And that's when I decided, likewas ready for a child, went to
this class and she was talkingabout she's a single mom and.
It was hard, but her son wasjust amazing and was just the
whole being for what she wasdoing.
(10:14):
And I swear to you at thatmoment I could feel my ovaries
wake up.
They were like, yes, you'regonna do it.
At the time I was single, I hadno prospects or anything like
that going on, but I just.
To do.
I was like, yeah, Dex guy, Imeet, I'm gonna have a baby.
That's basically how it went,but, you know, um, yeah, that
(10:36):
happened.
That's exactly how it went.
I manifested that right out ofthat.
I was gonna, festivals gonna sayyou, you're a heck of a
manifester.
Yeah, it happened.
So, woo.
Got, got that done.
Went through Covid with anewborn.
Oh.
And.
I had a baby during new, likecovid, like all of that.
(10:59):
And yeah, life just, I.
Drastically changed for me atthat moment.
I was no longer going to theoffice in high heels and
dresses.
'cause I was, I was up to thatpoint, up till Covid and then
pregnancy.
But, um, I mean, I was fashionforward in everything that I
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had.
I had the bags, I had the shoes,I had the suit jackets, all the
things.
And I was working downtownLouisville.
It was so freaking cool.
And I would travel and I wasjust being like, yes.
I mean, I'm just working a job.
But it was so much fun'cause Iwas.
Stella, I was doing it.
(11:40):
I was right there with her.
But, um, I love it.
Yeah.
That's so powerful.
When she says that you guys, ifyou could see her face light up,
like, I mean, I'm, I'm glad youdescribed it so well because you
loved dressing up and you loved.
Doing all of that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was my jam.
I mean, I would go to work withheels on and I had sketcher,,
(12:02):
walk shoes in my drawer, and I'dput those on while I was at
work.
And then I'd walk arounddowntown, in my stupid little
shoes, in my really cute outfit.
And then.
You know, at the end of the dayI'm putting my shoes back on and
I'm like, well, that was a goodday.
I'm wearing for five minutesgoing to and from my car.
(12:23):
I love it.
Maybe to a meeting if I had tobe in person, but yeah.
Yeah, it was great.
But then, yeah, I, and then Iwas working in Covid and
transitioned, had a weird thinghappen to me where.
I was now pregnant and singleand.
(12:47):
That was um, an emotional time.
'cause it's also covid.
Yeah.
Right.
I can't even imagine.
Oh, that was a whole chapter of,that was, that's its own chapter
book.
But what came out on the otherside was a magical experience.
And then I ended up moving backto my hometown in this tiny
(13:08):
town.
I don't live in the city anymoreand I wear yoga pants to work
and I still have sketcher shoes.
Then I will wear when I drop offmy sun and that's pretty much,
Stella got her groove back andthen Stella is just like
comfortable in in love now andit's fine.
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It's a hundred percent fine.
I love it.
I love it.
Um, oh my goodness.
Sorry.
It's so true that it's so funnythat when we change, we're like.
And then I got comfortable andthen I wear the yoga pants and
I'm totally fine with it.
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And it's fine.
And it's fun and, and it's me.
And, and yes, I can still dressup, but I get to wear the yoga
pants and, and love it.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
And I have like, I had a wholecloset when I moved.
Here dedicated to my workclothes because I thought, you
know, one day I'm gonna go backto the office, like that's gonna
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happen.
Even though I moved to thecenter of the state of Kentucky,
there aren't no such thing asoffice here.
Like this is just a tiny townand if you wanna office space,
you gotta rent it out.
You know?
But, um, it, yeah, I've stillgot some dresses and I should
probably find, a woman who needssome.
(14:33):
To go to go to work.
They're cute.
Yeah.
I work from home now, so itdoesn't matter.
Do you still enjoy working fromhome?
Wow.
Yes and no.
It was such an adjustment atfirst and it was really, it took
(14:56):
away like my social time.
Because I really loved thepeople that I worked with, and
now I get a lot of stuff done.
And just kind of irritated, butit never ends and it just keeps
adding on.
They're like, oh, you're doingit this quick?
And I'm like, yeah, well,there's not anything else going
on right now.
You know, I don't have anybody'scubicle to go chat with or go
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spend an hour with my boss andjust shoot the shit, whatever.
But like no one's around me.
Yeah, I have a lot of time.
So, yeah.
Now I'm a better worker.
You feel like, dang it.
Dang it.
You caught on a little bitfaster now.
I did it.
(15:42):
Got it.
It got me good.
Oh.
But I do love it and it's, it isgreat because I also will take
my computer and I'll go tocoffee houses, or I'll go up to
the yoga studio.
Where I teach, it's combinedwith a coffee house, so it is
(16:03):
really great.
But that's only great if youdon't have meetings and you can
slide in there, take a class,slide out, and don't have any
meetings.
But you know, that's not how mylife goes right now.
So I'm packed with meetings and.
Yeah, but one day somebodymainly me might open up a yoga
(16:29):
studio that has office spacewhere it's not a coffee shop or
busy and you're in there andable to leave your cubicle
office, go take a class and goback to your cubicle office and
it'll be smooth.
I think you just, you justmanifested it on this call.
It's happening that probably itmore than likely will happen
(16:53):
now.
Yeah, that's the next fits inproject.
I'm just gonna tell my partnerright now so he can just start
getting this nervous systemtrust.
I have this new idea and this iswhat it is and this is where
we're going.
Yeah, you're gonna love it.
Yep.
We go.
Would you say, so I always saywhat sparked you?
(17:16):
Would you say that, I know youstill do your corporate job, but
you've also grown and changed.
Would you say that festivalchanged you or having a kitchen
changed you?
Like what truly was that momentthat was like, my life is good,
but there's more, So manydifferent shifts have happened
(17:36):
for that, with the yoga festivalfor sure.
That, that it got me good.
That was definitely a pivotalmoment for me and what resonated
to my soul.
So there's that part, and thenCovid changed me.
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In a very drastic way.
I was in my very first house.
It was so cute.
It was 800 square feet and I wasdefinitely just gonna live there
probably forever, because I wasonly five minutes from downtown
Louisville.
And I could ride my bikeeverywhere, walk everywhere It
was.
Street festivals all the time.
(18:19):
It was just so awesome and I'mright in the middle of it all.
It was so cool.
Everybody came to my house, likeI had all the parties, so it was
just a blast.
But then there was just thismoment in Covid where I got
clarity of walking the streets.
And I don't know if thishappened in Kansas, but it
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definitely did with me and myneighborhood, and the kids got
into this.
Creation station and in everyhome with the child in my
neighborhood, there were rainbowpictures, hand painted.
There was sidewalk, chalk,rainbows.
(19:01):
Yeah.
Everywhere.
Did that happen where you live?
They would hang them up and dosidewalk shock and then hang
them up in their windows, likemake their doors like the glass,
like looking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
People got created.
It felt so magical, like only achild could.
(19:22):
Really make this a positiveshift in society.
Like only a child could bringout the hope and the inspiration
of the true meaning of what arainbow does for people.
Yeah.
That the rain will stop.
The sun will shine again.
Yep.
You know, and that just hit mein my depths and.
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At that time I was, I joined a21 day manifestation challenge
with Deepak Chakra and one of myyoga teachers was leading it and
I did it, and that's all Iwanted.
Out of that 21 days was justlike the ability to have a
(20:09):
child.
My partner at the time was onboard and we were like, alright.
And also like on a not somanifestation note, like, what
else are you, do you know ifyou're like at home all the
time?
You know, I was like, soundedlike a really good idea at the
time.
Like for all people involved.
Yeah, it's like really good forme, really good friend.
(20:30):
You know, we had a great day.
So anyway, we did the things andum, it happened.
Extremely quickly.
And I realized like lookingback, like how much of a golden
hour, golden moment that was.
Mm-hmm.
And it had to be at that exacttime, in that exact realm of
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life for me to stop and slowdown.
And I know that so much loss washappening.
Around the world and there wasnothing that I could do except
bring in some magic from a childand what I could, you know, see
and outside in my neighborhood.
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Like I wanted to feel that andbe part of that.
And I got really lucky thathappened for me in my life.
And I know that like I just feelso blessed that I got to have
that moment.
And be this new life and thisnew rebirth of myself.
So that was the biggest piece ofmy change.
(21:36):
I.
And then all of a sudden, itdidn't matter if I was wearing
high heels or dressing up inpretty dresses or you know,
wearing makeup.
I had a post about not havingmakeup on and you know how scary
that was.
I don't wear it anymore.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't even wear makeup anymorebecause of covid and I'm like,
(21:57):
oh my God, I don't have to.
Yeah.
It's, it changed us all in somany ways of, I don't have to
put on the mascara anymore.
I don't have to do all thatanymore.
I mean, I can if I want to, youknow, for Right.
If I wanna go out and feel good,but it's not something that's
like, I feel like I have to do.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Like I can just go out naturallyand, and it's accepted, like, or
(22:20):
maybe I just don't care.
Maybe that's it.
Yeah.
And you're beautiful and youdon't need it, you know?
Yeah.
So are you, it's just like weget to embrace our ourselves and
who we are naturally.
Mm-hmm.
And I think it's just, even inyoga pants, it's like I can,
yes, that, that skirt feelsgreat, but the yoga pants feel
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just as good.
I can have like my, I can haveso much fun in those too.
Like there's no, we put, there'sso much in life that there's
just all these things that we,you know, that society like kind
of pushes on you, like you haveto do this or you have to live
like this.
And we're like.
Exactly.
I'm done doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Stella got her groove back andthen Stella recognized that life
really doesn't have to look likethat.
So speaking of pit skirts, I dohave a really fun, uncanny story
if you wanna hear it.
It might be a little risky, butlet's hear it.
So it was risky for me.
It's really, I'm the, um,embarrassment in the whole
(23:24):
situation.
So, so I'm working downtown andit's a really awesome building
and I got to park right next toit, which was really cool.
I'm wearing this really.
Awesome pencil skirt, and I'mfeeling myself this day and I
got a cute little blouse and Itucked it in and it's like up
(23:44):
high, you know?
So it accentuates the waist, youknow?
Yep.
And I got these little likekitten heels on, and I'm really
honestly just.
Cute as a button.
I'm leaving the parking garageand I'm walking across the alley
and I'm trying to go into thisbuilding and this woman behind
me, she's like, Hey Miss, excuseme.
(24:06):
Excuse me.
And I'm like, oh my God.
What?
You know?
'cause there's also a lot ofpeople down there that, um, beg.
For money and stuff like that.
So I didn't know if this was oneof those situations.
So I didn't meet the situationwith grace and happiness that I
would today, but So it was moreof annoyance like you just
stopped my group?
(24:26):
Yeah.
I've got a catwalk going onright now, so she's like, um.
So there's a hole in the back ofyour skirt, and I don't think
you wanna go in there with that.
And immediately I put my handback there at the seam and I
touch my bare butt.
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I'm like, oh my God.
So I thanked her, immediatelytexted my boss, and I'm like,
I've had a blowout.
I cannot come into the building.
I'm here, but I'm leaving andI'll be.
20 minutes.
So it was, um, it was a day andI was like, ah, I had on
(25:11):
underwear.
Nobody would know, but I wasjust stu uh, yeah, I was so
embarrassed.
And then I looked around,scanned the premises, and I was
just like, I don't know, threedifferent men that I worked with
at the time that were.
Walking by the scene and hadbeen behind me and I'm just
like, oh, you bastard hurts.
(25:33):
It's like, it's your fault thatmy butt just broke the butt
skirt.
So yeah.
That's so funny that she toldyou.
I mean, that's so nice because Iwould, I feel like I would tell
someone, but people get sonervous to say like, Hey.
Ma'am, like, excuse me, do you,it's like when someone walks
(25:54):
outta the bathroom and they havelike toilet paper on them, you
know?
And you're like, Hey, yeah, hey.
And people are like, what?
You got something you wanna tellus?
Oh yeah.
Oh, that is so funny.
It was the last day I wore apencil skirt.
(26:16):
Very last day.
I might have retired those hoursas well.
Yeah.
Um, oh, I love that.
You can laugh about it.
Oh yeah.
I was 10 shades of red when Ileft there, that, that day.
Um, no, would not like to gothrough that again, but anyway.
(26:41):
Thanks for sharing that story.
Everybody needs to laugh,everybody.
This is why I love you becausewe get to this point where we
can just be real in ourselvesand look back on the things that
are embarrassing and still laughabout them.
And just, and be like, it wasreal life.
It happened.
It did.
It did.
There's no denying that.
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That lady knows too.
She, I don't even know her name.
No, I'm just glad she existedthat day.
She might be doing Joel.
She might not even be.
Yep.
I don't know.
I don't know.
So have you always done yoga?
No.
No.
I have not.
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When I was younger, I cheeredthrough and gymnastics and did
all of that stuff.
So I was really used to beingextremely hard and terrible to
my body.
And then I went to college andthen did more worse things, like
just drank a whole lot.
And that was even more worse tomy body than I got out of that
(27:46):
situation.
And then I started, um, I.
I actually got what I call andkicked out of Louisville for a
little bit.
It was a situation where I wasjust drinking alcohol way too
much and some bad stuff hadhappened to me that I.
(28:07):
I haven't talked about yet in mypodcast, but it seems like that
would be a good episode.
But I, um, was actually muggedand I was beat up and from a
night out and all my stuff wastaken, obviously the meeting of
the mugging part.
And then I went home to myhometown right after that.
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And, um.
It's been about a year home withthat.
And anyway, I went back toLouisville and when I got back,
my best friend at the time, shehad met this new girl and really
loved her.
You know, we clicked, we vibed.
So all three of us just reallyvibed out really well and she's
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now like my best friend.
So it is amazing because she wasthe one that was like, yeah,
come to yoga with me.
It's a free class and blah,blah, blah.
And I'm like, I don't know aboutyoga, but I could do yoga.
I feel like I didn't really knowwhat it was, and at this time it
was, um, 20, uh, 14 or somethinglike that.
(29:19):
I don't know.
When I very first went with her,it was a free class, and then I,
I.
Quickly found out what yoga was,and it was such an emotional
breakthrough for me.
That first class, like I was inShava and I was crying.
I was like, oh my God, I gottacome back.
So I did, and I did, and I did,and then I just.
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From that moment just keptgoing.
And she was a teacher.
She graduated from the sameplace I did and she led me
through all of these like nextsteps with my yoga path.
And now, I've been able to forgemy own way through and what it
means to me and what I wannagive.
And it's just been a blessingtoo.
(30:04):
First of all have had thathappen to me to where I needed
a, a reset and then coming backand being like, well, this is
healthy, this is better.
I'm gonna go this route.
And ever since I've just been onthis come up, it's, I think it
happens to a lot of us thatthere's this breaking point of
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something happens.
I mean, we've had a lot ofthings happen, you know, but
that, for you, that was like,I'm done living the, the party
life.
I want like, oh, don't get mewrong, the friend that I still
partied, but you, I just didn'tparty, party, party.
Right.
Yeah.
But like the breaking point oflike finding her and finding
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yoga is like, it just bringsyou, I don't, I mean, it's just
different how you try somethingnew.
Yeah.
It is a different space for surebecause you, not that everybody
needs rock bottom, right?
I don't believe that.
(31:12):
Like I don't believe thateverybody has to go through this
like torrential downpour toshift their perspective.
Yeah.
I think it can be any type of, Imean, mine was an illness, but
everybody has their own storyand it doesn't have to, it's
like how can we get people therenow?
Without going through what weknow.
Right, because you can elevatefrom any level Yes.
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Of where you're at and I don't,yeah, you don't have to go and
get, I.
All a bunch trauma.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
'cause now that's what we'redealing with is how do I unt
traumatize myself.
Yeah.
So now you get the blessing ofraising a little boy and
(31:58):
teaching him like all thesewonderful things that you're
learning.
Do you wanna share about some ofthat?
Oh my gosh.
How much time we got?
I know.
Just the most recent was thismorning and he was like.
Mommy, what does freedom mean?
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Because he'll sit, he'llrandomly go Freedom and he'll
put his hands up in the air.
Yeah.
And he's like, freedom.
And we're in the car on the waythis morning.
He's like, what does freedommean?
So I give him my best freedomdefinition and he's like, okay.
So then, we are driving down andhe wants to hear his own songs.
(32:39):
And I'm like, not today.
And he's like.
Well, let's hear the song wherethe man talks and I'm like, the
Man talks and I put on the songPrayer by Lucas Mack and it's
basically he's talking and this,beautiful music is behind him
and it's him calling your soulto action of.
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Let's do this.
You are here on an earthmission.
Your soul is here to be thelight in the dark.
And this song is just like sopowerful to me.
It's two minutes long.
And I was like, this one, he'slike, yeah.
And he hears the whole thing andit's like sets him up and he is
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like, I'm gonna have a good day.
I mean, I'm like, all right,let's do it.
Let's do it.
But he's been doing the KathyHiller meditations with me every
morning.
He gets up at six 30, comes intomy room, and sits there with me
while I listen to it for 10minutes a day.
I'm like, all right.
(33:46):
That shout out to you for beingthis beautiful mom.
That's like teaching.
Just like spreading it intothese kids.
'cause that's what they need.
Yeah.
And so many people talk aboutit, but are they really doing
it?
And are we really doing it forourselves too, like mm-hmm.
(34:06):
Um, I think we've, I meanobviously that's how we met
through Kathy and I've grown somuch to be able to like even
speak my truth and talk.
We're setting out a podcasttogether.
Right.
That happened years ago.
Right.
So, okay.
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Have you held a retreat before,or I know you have one coming
up.
No.
No, I've not.
I'm just going on a whim hereand maybe not even a whim, but
I've never even gone to a yogaretreat either.
I don't, I've not done any ofthis.
Like, I've just like seen it.
I've heard about it and I'veenvisioned it every time.
(34:48):
When I very first said I wassigning up for yoga teacher
training in 2018, I don'tremember having a friend.
He was like my aunt.
She's a yoga teacher and sheleads retreats all over the
world.
And I'm like, oh, well that'swhat I'm going to do.
No idea.
I have no idea what I'm doing.
I just know this sounds like areally good opportunity, a
(35:09):
really good time.
My birthday is the day after theretreat ends.
It sounds like a really goodbirthday present to give to
myself.
Yeah, and that's just what I'mgonna do.
I'm just gonna go and love onthese people that sign up.
And I'm giving medicinal foodchoices to them.
And we're going on nature hikesand it's at the Red River Gorge
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in the beautiful state ofKentucky.
Like Oh goodness.
During prime season of fallfoliage.
Okay.
Like it's really, I just don'tsee how this is gonna end bad
for anybody involved.
No.
It'll be my first time, so I'mlike, it's gonna, that means
it's probably gonna be the best.
It's first, it's gonna bemagical.
(35:53):
I, I mean, I wish I was inKentucky.
I needed to just fly there andcome because you're just like
two people from Kansas arecoming are.
Not making that up.
It just so happens to be thatyou're in Kansas.
Two people, a husband and wife,they are coming.
Yes.
It's not just women either.
I speak to everyone when Iteach.
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I love having men in my class.
I love having women, olderwomen.
I love that.
Older men, younger men.
Younger women, I mean.
My child's teaching me yogaclasses now.
It's just bizarre.
I believe that like, yeah, let'sgo.
It's gonna be magical.
(36:35):
I already know it.
Yeah.
I need to like look at mycalendar now.
People from cancer are coming.
I.
Yeah.
And bring your boyfriend.
I know.
You know, it'll be a lot of fun.
There's gonna be some retreats,uh, not retreats, uh,
excursions.
We are definitely doing the hiketo the natural bridge, which is
(36:58):
just Oh, yeah.
Gorgeous.
And then, depending on what.
Is available at the time.
There's paddle boarding throughthe caves and there's zip
lining, so that'll be includedtoo.
So it's just four days and it'sgonna be a lot of fun Thursday
through Sunday.
That's like days of heaven.
(37:20):
Yeah, that's what I callmagical.
It's so funny'cause when wechange our lives, like it's like
that's what I call magical.
Those are the things I getexcited for.
Yeah.
It's just so fun to talk to youbecause you're just so much joy
and laughter and I love that youcan laugh at yourself and I love
that you're doing your jobstill.
(37:41):
You have a son.
She's also, you'all, just heardit, this magical retreat's
coming up.
She has a podcast and you justmake it all fun.
Like it's gotta be.
Tell us, tell us the key, let's,let's get some insight here.
Tell us if you're gonna leavelisteners with something like
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you shine on everything you do.
If you are in a room with her,with you.
Like my face lights up knowingthat it's something, it's gonna
just, it's just gonna be full oflaughter.
Aw, thank you.
And just good insights.
So give people some advice, whatshould they go do?
The key to it all is, um.
Not having any expectation.
(38:25):
I think that's it.
Just being in the moment isreally what it's about.
If I can switch my brain to, inthe moment, every time, if I
notice I'm doom scrolling, forexample.
Yeah.
When I can switch to being thewitness of, oh man, you're doom
scrolling.
What else could you do thatwould actually serve you?
(38:45):
Or if I feel like I'm.
In the comparison mode of notenough, and I, and then I
recognize it.
Then I'm like, what can I do tomake me feel like I'm enough
like that?
I think that's what gets me towhere I can not even juggle
(39:06):
'cause I don't even feel likeI'm juggling.
I just feel like I'm having fun,man.
I'm just trying to see like howfar I can go and where I can go
and what is, what's gonna happenwhen I get there.
That's really.
That's my mo.
I'm just like, see what's up.
See what happens.
You know, and I'm the, uh, thenew sling term is F around and
(39:32):
find out, you know, like I, yep.
That's what I do.
Just, and, um, I usually havespent a lot of energy in the
wrong realm of that.
I've spent a whole lot of timein the wrong realm of that.
Yeah.
And I realized if I could justdrop some of that, how much
(39:53):
space actually opened up and nowI'm in the right realm and so
many things are coming at me andI'm just like, I'm here for
that.
Yeah, just being present that isso good and that is such good
advice for everybody.
(40:13):
I think we can all catchourselves.
People don't know where to go,and it's so easy just to stay in
those spots.
So just catching yourself andbringing yourself back home it's
just so powerful.
Yeah.
Can you tell them where they'llfind you?
(40:34):
I will drop it in the shownotes, but will you, can you
tell them where they can findyou at?
Yeah.
Um.
My website is fits in yoga.com,and it's F-I-T-Z-E-N yoga.com,
and I have everything I dothere.
So you could subscribe to mynewsletter, you could listen to
(40:54):
my podcast there.
The fits in project, and that'son all the things that stream
YouTube.
Spotify, apple, all the thingsthat if they're things, um, I
don't have a book, so sorry todisappoint if, but maybe one
day.
Yeah, right.
(41:14):
But yeah, that's basically it.
And yeah, right now it's justfun man.
It's just fun.
Everything I'm, I got going.
It's just a good time.
I wanna thank you from thebottom of my heart for just
coming on and connecting andletting it be fun because that
is, is the most powerful thing,is when I can just get on and
(41:36):
record.
I tell people I don't want it tobe serious.
I'm like, I wanna laugh and justhave a conversation and I want
people to hear that we can talka little bit serious, but let's
let it be fun.
Yeah.
And you are just a beautifulexample of that.
Well, thank you.
I'm so just beyond grateful thatyou provide this space.
Like this is just, thank you.
(41:57):
Really cool space.
It's been an honor to even behere right now and getting to
talk to you and I mean.
You're a light too, and I reallyadore you and all, every time I
see you on the social medias andthen like that one day that I
just got lucky and grouped withyou in a pod, I was like, oh my
God, it is here.
(42:20):
So I really appreciate it.
I really, really do.
I appreciate you.
That's exactly how I feel aboutyou.
And I think that's, you know,when we open our eyes, we see
that.
Mm-hmm.
Get to see it in others and thenwe're like, this is why I get to
connect with them.
Yeah, because it just gets to befun.
Yeah.
It's so natural.
(42:40):
Yeah.
We can have a conversation incase y'all didn't know, this is
our conversation.
It's like we're getting to knoweach other and it's not like we
talk every single day, but it'slike we can talk and it just
becomes like a fun conversation.
Yeah, and I Absolutely, yeah.
I could go on talking for hourswith you.
I just wanna thank you so muchand I'll leave in the show notes
(43:02):
where they can find you.
Thank you, Casey.
Thanks.
Thanks so much.
I hope y'all enjoyed Rachel asmuch as I do.
She is just one of the mostbeautiful human beings, there's
so much goodness in all of this,so I truly hope that you find
something valuable out of thisconversation and stay tuned
(43:25):
because there will be a part twoof this.
If you all know Rachel, gofollow her.
She is a beautiful manifester,so stay tuned for the rest.
Thank you for tuning intoanother episode.
I hope today's story inspiredyou to embrace your own journey
of growth and change.
Remember, transformation isn'talways easy, but it's always
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sparks lie.
Hey friends.
Welcome to the Enter Sparkpodcast.
I'm your host, Casey Caton.
If you're looking to hearstories of transformation and
personal growth, this podcast isfor you.
My guest and I will be sharingthose sparking moments that has
changed the mental living a morefulfilling authentic life.
I'm so excited for you to heareach unique story.
(00:24):
So sit back, relax, and let'sget started.
Hey friends.
Welcome back to the Enter Sparkpodcast.
I'm your host, Casey Taton.
Today I have a special guestwith me, Rachel Fitzpatrick.
(00:47):
She is a yoga instructor, apodcaster of the Fit Zen
Project.
She is a beautiful son and she'sjust an all around amazing,
beautiful person.
Welcome, Rachel.
Hey, thank you Casey.
It's so great to be here.
It was like my first day to beYay.
First guest.
(01:08):
I'm so excited.
Gonna be fun.
It's an honor.
I am just excited.
I was asked, so it just meansthe world, so thank you.
Oh, you're welcome.
So she has a po, a podcast out.
I will tell you guys that we metin Kathy Heller's World.
And of course I'm in Kansas andyou're in, Kentucky.
(01:30):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And smack in the middle of thestate and she's in Kentucky.
So it's really just beautifulhow we can have this connection
and do these new fun adventuresand learn together.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I just, it is, there's somethingabout you when you just laugh.
(01:52):
It's so like you, if you guyscould see her on screen, I'll
post a picture, her face, hersmile, like she just lights up a
room and that's the kind ofenergy she brings to the calls
and when you listen to her.
It's just so much fun to besurrounded by people like that.
Well thanks.
Thanks.
I have a couple questions foryou.
(02:15):
Question, I guess, would youtell them a little bit about
your story?
Yeah, so I am currently aproject executive and really
love my job.
Very, very corporate America.
And I don't know that, peoplelove corporate America that work
in corporate America, but I'mone of the few, and I also am a
(02:39):
mom to this amazing 4-year-oldlittle boy who, just mainly make
all my decisions and creationsbased off of, if I was four
years old, if I was my son, whatwould I do now?
You know?
Yes.
So that's how I've been livingmy life the past four years, and
it's been real majestic.
And then I.
Um, you know, I'm a, in arelationship.
(03:00):
I've got a really great partnerand he supports me in all of
these like, wild and crazy ideaslike joining Kathy Heller's
world, doing podcasting andstarting up a yoga retreat.
All of these things like havebeen since January and I'm sure
he's just, you know, chasingthis tail trying to keep up with
me.
But it's worked.
(03:21):
But, um, yeah, so like how Ieven got here, I can, um.
I can remember being a littlegirl and watching the movie, how
Stella Got Her Groove back.
You know what I'm talking about?
Oh, yes.
So I was super emotional as a TVwatcher.
Like I would watch movies andpeople would die.
(03:44):
I'd see'em in a movie again.
I'm like, oh my God.
They're alive.
You know, just be so, um,invested in the roles.
And I'm like, I don't know ifthese guys are really good
producers or these guys arereally good actors, but either
way they got me, uh, every,every time, you know, it didn't
matter.
Tears and all.
Yeah.
Yep.
(04:04):
I'm just an emotional person.
Yeah, it's, that's what I loveabout you though, because you,
you're just so genuine and real.
First of all, I wannaacknowledge that you just said.
You love your job.
So my boyfriend loves his job.
Like he, it's his life, hisworld.
He just absolutely wants to talkabout it all the time.
(04:26):
And it doesn't matter how longthe days are, he loves his job
and there are not very manypeople that do that.
So when you say that and you arelike, I love my job, it's, and
your face lights up, it's soexciting because so many people
are resisting that and you'rejust like, no, I love my job.
And.
I'm also starting all these newfun projects.
(04:46):
Yeah.
Yeah.
It gives me a lot of space.
I think.
There were times where I didn'tlove my job and I had to make
decisions and hard conversationsand choices to be real with
myself and move up and out or.
Be done, but there was no morestaying in this situation, you
know?
(05:07):
Yeah.
So, um, Hey, will you go back tothat movie?
I wanna take you back to thatmovie.
Ah, yes, yes.
Well, I mean, just watching thatmovie as a child and watching
how she went through thismassive hardship and then.
She goes on this vacation,right?
And to Jamaica, if I'm notmistaken.
(05:27):
And she finds this like reallyhot dude and she, she makes a
new relationship out ofsomething that just was so
shitty with her marriage and allof that other stuff.
But then she's like this likesecretive corporate boss babe,
you know, like.
Yeah, I would say another word,but uh, you know what I mean?
(05:48):
Yeah.
And I'm like, yes, look at thiswoman empowerment.
And then, you know, at sevenyears old, that was early
nineties for me, that didn'texist.
Like this movie just was like,set the pace for all the movies
thereafter for womenempowerment.
And she was also a woman ofcolor too, which was not seen in
(06:12):
the world at the time.
Not that I knew that as a7-year-old, but right.
That was what I watched as a7-year-old, so it automatically
was true, you know, because ifyou died in the movie, you were
dead in real life to me.
Yeah, no, I mean, that's how ourbrains worked.
When you're that age, you'rejust, yeah, especially when
you're, I am emotional as well.
(06:32):
When I watch movies, I'm likecrying, you know, all the fills.
So, or celebrating, you know,all the fills.
That, that is a hundred percenttrue.
Yeah.
And then I think it's probablywhy sweet Home Alabama was so
good too, you know?
Oh yeah.
If you really think about it,the small town girl just going
up and getting after it andloving being a lawyer and all
(06:52):
these things.
But anyway, I was gonna do somecorporate stuff and I was gonna
wear high heels.
And I was gonna wear pencilskirts and I was gonna look
beautiful and have lipstick onand go to work every day and
this office space and see likecars out my window and city
skylines and all the things.
So that was my goal, right.
(07:16):
And then, um, life happened.
All sorts of weaves.
I was a server for 10 years.
It took me six years to getthrough college.
Like there were some things Ijust like, took some decisions
and was like, yeah, let's throwspaghetti at the wall, see if it
sticks.
And there was a loss of claritybetween seven and 33.
(07:39):
You know, I.
I think that happens to many ofus.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I got way off track, but um, Ifinally reached my track again.
I went to a Wonderlust yogafestival and I went by myself
(08:01):
and I was.
31, 32.
I don't even remember how old Iwas, but I was 30 something.
Could have been 30 for all Iknow.
But, it was the first time I'dever gone to a festival alone
and I was like, I'm gonna do it.
And it's a yoga festival, soit's gotta be safe, right?
Because.
People are all about peace,love, and happiness.
Yes.
So, so I go and there werethese, amazing speakers there,
(08:28):
just these movements that were,you could just feel it move
through your body.
It didn't matter whose class youwent to, what you were doing, if
you were watching a speaker, ifyou were participating in yoga
class, it didn't matter.
It was even going to the littleshops I remember.
And making this connection withsomeone who was just selling
(08:51):
yoga pants and making aconnection about women who run
with wolves.
That specific book.
Okay.
Yeah.
So all of this is starting toreally plant some seeds in, in
my mind and in my way of lifeand things.
And um, at the time before thisadventure, I was not gonna have
(09:11):
kids.
I was just gonna be on thislike.
Corporate America road path,doing all things, to go up the
ladder.
Like that was just what I wasgonna do.
I was set on it and I wasalready in corporate America and
joined some time at the moment,but it didn't click until this
(09:31):
festival.
And that's when I realized like,I gotta get aligned, you know?
Yeah.
And it was mind, body, soul.
To then project up and out andenjoy my job, enjoy teaching
yoga, enjoy doing yoga, and whatit is that, like, what kind of
(09:53):
legacy I wanna leave behind.
And that's when I decided, likewas ready for a child, went to
this class and she was talkingabout she's a single mom and.
It was hard, but her son wasjust amazing and was just the
whole being for what she wasdoing.
(10:14):
And I swear to you at thatmoment I could feel my ovaries
wake up.
They were like, yes, you'regonna do it.
At the time I was single, I hadno prospects or anything like
that going on, but I just.
To do.
I was like, yeah, Dex guy, Imeet, I'm gonna have a baby.
That's basically how it went,but, you know, um, yeah, that
(10:36):
happened.
That's exactly how it went.
I manifested that right out ofthat.
I was gonna, festivals gonna sayyou, you're a heck of a
manifester.
Yeah, it happened.
So, woo.
Got, got that done.
Went through Covid with anewborn.
Oh.
And.
I had a baby during new, likecovid, like all of that.
(10:59):
And yeah, life just, I.
Drastically changed for me atthat moment.
I was no longer going to theoffice in high heels and
dresses.
'cause I was, I was up to thatpoint, up till Covid and then
pregnancy.
But, um, I mean, I was fashionforward in everything that I
(11:19):
had.
I had the bags, I had the shoes,I had the suit jackets, all the
things.
And I was working downtownLouisville.
It was so freaking cool.
And I would travel and I wasjust being like, yes.
I mean, I'm just working a job.
But it was so much fun'cause Iwas.
Stella, I was doing it.
(11:40):
I was right there with her.
But, um, I love it.
Yeah.
That's so powerful.
When she says that you guys, ifyou could see her face light up,
like, I mean, I'm, I'm glad youdescribed it so well because you
loved dressing up and you loved.
Doing all of that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was my jam.
I mean, I would go to work withheels on and I had sketcher,,
(12:02):
walk shoes in my drawer, and I'dput those on while I was at
work.
And then I'd walk arounddowntown, in my stupid little
shoes, in my really cute outfit.
And then.
You know, at the end of the dayI'm putting my shoes back on and
I'm like, well, that was a goodday.
I'm wearing for five minutesgoing to and from my car.
(12:23):
I love it.
Maybe to a meeting if I had tobe in person, but yeah.
Yeah, it was great.
But then, yeah, I, and then Iwas working in Covid and
transitioned, had a weird thinghappen to me where.
I was now pregnant and singleand.
(12:47):
That was um, an emotional time.
'cause it's also covid.
Yeah.
Right.
I can't even imagine.
Oh, that was a whole chapter of,that was, that's its own chapter
book.
But what came out on the otherside was a magical experience.
And then I ended up moving backto my hometown in this tiny
(13:08):
town.
I don't live in the city anymoreand I wear yoga pants to work
and I still have sketcher shoes.
Then I will wear when I drop offmy sun and that's pretty much,
Stella got her groove back andthen Stella is just like
comfortable in in love now andit's fine.
(13:30):
It's a hundred percent fine.
I love it.
I love it.
Um, oh my goodness.
Sorry.
It's so true that it's so funnythat when we change, we're like.
And then I got comfortable andthen I wear the yoga pants and
I'm totally fine with it.
(13:52):
And it's fine.
And it's fun and, and it's me.
And, and yes, I can still dressup, but I get to wear the yoga
pants and, and love it.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
And I have like, I had a wholecloset when I moved.
Here dedicated to my workclothes because I thought, you
know, one day I'm gonna go backto the office, like that's gonna
(14:12):
happen.
Even though I moved to thecenter of the state of Kentucky,
there aren't no such thing asoffice here.
Like this is just a tiny townand if you wanna office space,
you gotta rent it out.
You know?
But, um, it, yeah, I've stillgot some dresses and I should
probably find, a woman who needssome.
(14:33):
To go to go to work.
They're cute.
Yeah.
I work from home now, so itdoesn't matter.
Do you still enjoy working fromhome?
Wow.
Yes and no.
It was such an adjustment atfirst and it was really, it took
(14:56):
away like my social time.
Because I really loved thepeople that I worked with, and
now I get a lot of stuff done.
And just kind of irritated, butit never ends and it just keeps
adding on.
They're like, oh, you're doingit this quick?
And I'm like, yeah, well,there's not anything else going
on right now.
You know, I don't have anybody'scubicle to go chat with or go
(15:20):
spend an hour with my boss andjust shoot the shit, whatever.
But like no one's around me.
Yeah, I have a lot of time.
So, yeah.
Now I'm a better worker.
You feel like, dang it.
Dang it.
You caught on a little bitfaster now.
I did it.
(15:42):
Got it.
It got me good.
Oh.
But I do love it and it's, it isgreat because I also will take
my computer and I'll go tocoffee houses, or I'll go up to
the yoga studio.
Where I teach, it's combinedwith a coffee house, so it is
(16:03):
really great.
But that's only great if youdon't have meetings and you can
slide in there, take a class,slide out, and don't have any
meetings.
But you know, that's not how mylife goes right now.
So I'm packed with meetings and.
Yeah, but one day somebodymainly me might open up a yoga
(16:29):
studio that has office spacewhere it's not a coffee shop or
busy and you're in there andable to leave your cubicle
office, go take a class and goback to your cubicle office and
it'll be smooth.
I think you just, you justmanifested it on this call.
It's happening that probably itmore than likely will happen
(16:53):
now.
Yeah, that's the next fits inproject.
I'm just gonna tell my partnerright now so he can just start
getting this nervous systemtrust.
I have this new idea and this iswhat it is and this is where
we're going.
Yeah, you're gonna love it.
Yep.
We go.
Would you say, so I always saywhat sparked you?
(17:16):
Would you say that, I know youstill do your corporate job, but
you've also grown and changed.
Would you say that festivalchanged you or having a kitchen
changed you?
Like what truly was that momentthat was like, my life is good,
but there's more, So manydifferent shifts have happened
(17:36):
for that, with the yoga festivalfor sure.
That, that it got me good.
That was definitely a pivotalmoment for me and what resonated
to my soul.
So there's that part, and thenCovid changed me.
(17:59):
In a very drastic way.
I was in my very first house.
It was so cute.
It was 800 square feet and I wasdefinitely just gonna live there
probably forever, because I wasonly five minutes from downtown
Louisville.
And I could ride my bikeeverywhere, walk everywhere It
was.
Street festivals all the time.
(18:19):
It was just so awesome and I'mright in the middle of it all.
It was so cool.
Everybody came to my house, likeI had all the parties, so it was
just a blast.
But then there was just thismoment in Covid where I got
clarity of walking the streets.
And I don't know if thishappened in Kansas, but it
(18:39):
definitely did with me and myneighborhood, and the kids got
into this.
Creation station and in everyhome with the child in my
neighborhood, there were rainbowpictures, hand painted.
There was sidewalk, chalk,rainbows.
(19:01):
Yeah.
Everywhere.
Did that happen where you live?
They would hang them up and dosidewalk shock and then hang
them up in their windows, likemake their doors like the glass,
like looking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
People got created.
It felt so magical, like only achild could.
(19:22):
Really make this a positiveshift in society.
Like only a child could bringout the hope and the inspiration
of the true meaning of what arainbow does for people.
Yeah.
That the rain will stop.
The sun will shine again.
Yep.
You know, and that just hit mein my depths and.
(19:47):
At that time I was, I joined a21 day manifestation challenge
with Deepak Chakra and one of myyoga teachers was leading it and
I did it, and that's all Iwanted.
Out of that 21 days was justlike the ability to have a
(20:09):
child.
My partner at the time was onboard and we were like, alright.
And also like on a not somanifestation note, like, what
else are you, do you know ifyou're like at home all the
time?
You know, I was like, soundedlike a really good idea at the
time.
Like for all people involved.
Yeah, it's like really good forme, really good friend.
(20:30):
You know, we had a great day.
So anyway, we did the things andum, it happened.
Extremely quickly.
And I realized like lookingback, like how much of a golden
hour, golden moment that was.
Mm-hmm.
And it had to be at that exacttime, in that exact realm of
(20:52):
life for me to stop and slowdown.
And I know that so much loss washappening.
Around the world and there wasnothing that I could do except
bring in some magic from a childand what I could, you know, see
and outside in my neighborhood.
(21:13):
Like I wanted to feel that andbe part of that.
And I got really lucky thathappened for me in my life.
And I know that like I just feelso blessed that I got to have
that moment.
And be this new life and thisnew rebirth of myself.
So that was the biggest piece ofmy change.
(21:36):
I.
And then all of a sudden, itdidn't matter if I was wearing
high heels or dressing up inpretty dresses or you know,
wearing makeup.
I had a post about not havingmakeup on and you know how scary
that was.
I don't wear it anymore.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't even wear makeup anymorebecause of covid and I'm like,
(21:57):
oh my God, I don't have to.
Yeah.
It's, it changed us all in somany ways of, I don't have to
put on the mascara anymore.
I don't have to do all thatanymore.
I mean, I can if I want to, youknow, for Right.
If I wanna go out and feel good,but it's not something that's
like, I feel like I have to do.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Like I can just go out naturallyand, and it's accepted, like, or
(22:20):
maybe I just don't care.
Maybe that's it.
Yeah.
And you're beautiful and youdon't need it, you know?
Yeah.
So are you, it's just like weget to embrace our ourselves and
who we are naturally.
Mm-hmm.
And I think it's just, even inyoga pants, it's like I can,
yes, that, that skirt feelsgreat, but the yoga pants feel
(22:43):
just as good.
I can have like my, I can haveso much fun in those too.
Like there's no, we put, there'sso much in life that there's
just all these things that we,you know, that society like kind
of pushes on you, like you haveto do this or you have to live
like this.
And we're like.
Exactly.
I'm done doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
(23:03):
Stella got her groove back andthen Stella recognized that life
really doesn't have to look likethat.
So speaking of pit skirts, I dohave a really fun, uncanny story
if you wanna hear it.
It might be a little risky, butlet's hear it.
So it was risky for me.
It's really, I'm the, um,embarrassment in the whole
(23:24):
situation.
So, so I'm working downtown andit's a really awesome building
and I got to park right next toit, which was really cool.
I'm wearing this really.
Awesome pencil skirt, and I'mfeeling myself this day and I
got a cute little blouse and Itucked it in and it's like up
(23:44):
high, you know?
So it accentuates the waist, youknow?
Yep.
And I got these little likekitten heels on, and I'm really
honestly just.
Cute as a button.
I'm leaving the parking garageand I'm walking across the alley
and I'm trying to go into thisbuilding and this woman behind
me, she's like, Hey Miss, excuseme.
(24:06):
Excuse me.
And I'm like, oh my God.
What?
You know?
'cause there's also a lot ofpeople down there that, um, beg.
For money and stuff like that.
So I didn't know if this was oneof those situations.
So I didn't meet the situationwith grace and happiness that I
would today, but So it was moreof annoyance like you just
stopped my group?
(24:26):
Yeah.
I've got a catwalk going onright now, so she's like, um.
So there's a hole in the back ofyour skirt, and I don't think
you wanna go in there with that.
And immediately I put my handback there at the seam and I
touch my bare butt.
(24:47):
I'm like, oh my God.
So I thanked her, immediatelytexted my boss, and I'm like,
I've had a blowout.
I cannot come into the building.
I'm here, but I'm leaving andI'll be.
20 minutes.
So it was, um, it was a day andI was like, ah, I had on
(25:11):
underwear.
Nobody would know, but I wasjust stu uh, yeah, I was so
embarrassed.
And then I looked around,scanned the premises, and I was
just like, I don't know, threedifferent men that I worked with
at the time that were.
Walking by the scene and hadbeen behind me and I'm just
like, oh, you bastard hurts.
(25:33):
It's like, it's your fault thatmy butt just broke the butt
skirt.
So yeah.
That's so funny that she toldyou.
I mean, that's so nice because Iwould, I feel like I would tell
someone, but people get sonervous to say like, Hey.
Ma'am, like, excuse me, do you,it's like when someone walks
(25:54):
outta the bathroom and they havelike toilet paper on them, you
know?
And you're like, Hey, yeah, hey.
And people are like, what?
You got something you wanna tellus?
Oh yeah.
Oh, that is so funny.
It was the last day I wore apencil skirt.
(26:16):
Very last day.
I might have retired those hoursas well.
Yeah.
Um, oh, I love that.
You can laugh about it.
Oh yeah.
I was 10 shades of red when Ileft there, that, that day.
Um, no, would not like to gothrough that again, but anyway.
(26:41):
Thanks for sharing that story.
Everybody needs to laugh,everybody.
This is why I love you becausewe get to this point where we
can just be real in ourselvesand look back on the things that
are embarrassing and still laughabout them.
And just, and be like, it wasreal life.
It happened.
It did.
It did.
There's no denying that.
(27:01):
That lady knows too.
She, I don't even know her name.
No, I'm just glad she existedthat day.
She might be doing Joel.
She might not even be.
Yep.
I don't know.
I don't know.
So have you always done yoga?
No.
No.
I have not.
(27:22):
When I was younger, I cheeredthrough and gymnastics and did
all of that stuff.
So I was really used to beingextremely hard and terrible to
my body.
And then I went to college andthen did more worse things, like
just drank a whole lot.
And that was even more worse tomy body than I got out of that
(27:46):
situation.
And then I started, um, I.
I actually got what I call andkicked out of Louisville for a
little bit.
It was a situation where I wasjust drinking alcohol way too
much and some bad stuff hadhappened to me that I.
(28:07):
I haven't talked about yet in mypodcast, but it seems like that
would be a good episode.
But I, um, was actually muggedand I was beat up and from a
night out and all my stuff wastaken, obviously the meeting of
the mugging part.
And then I went home to myhometown right after that.
(28:31):
And, um.
It's been about a year home withthat.
And anyway, I went back toLouisville and when I got back,
my best friend at the time, shehad met this new girl and really
loved her.
You know, we clicked, we vibed.
So all three of us just reallyvibed out really well and she's
(28:54):
now like my best friend.
So it is amazing because she wasthe one that was like, yeah,
come to yoga with me.
It's a free class and blah,blah, blah.
And I'm like, I don't know aboutyoga, but I could do yoga.
I feel like I didn't really knowwhat it was, and at this time it
was, um, 20, uh, 14 or somethinglike that.
(29:19):
I don't know.
When I very first went with her,it was a free class, and then I,
I.
Quickly found out what yoga was,and it was such an emotional
breakthrough for me.
That first class, like I was inShava and I was crying.
I was like, oh my God, I gottacome back.
So I did, and I did, and I did,and then I just.
(29:41):
From that moment just keptgoing.
And she was a teacher.
She graduated from the sameplace I did and she led me
through all of these like nextsteps with my yoga path.
And now, I've been able to forgemy own way through and what it
means to me and what I wannagive.
And it's just been a blessingtoo.
(30:04):
First of all have had thathappen to me to where I needed
a, a reset and then coming backand being like, well, this is
healthy, this is better.
I'm gonna go this route.
And ever since I've just been onthis come up, it's, I think it
happens to a lot of us thatthere's this breaking point of
(30:29):
something happens.
I mean, we've had a lot ofthings happen, you know, but
that, for you, that was like,I'm done living the, the party
life.
I want like, oh, don't get mewrong, the friend that I still
partied, but you, I just didn'tparty, party, party.
Right.
Yeah.
But like the breaking point oflike finding her and finding
(30:51):
yoga is like, it just bringsyou, I don't, I mean, it's just
different how you try somethingnew.
Yeah.
It is a different space for surebecause you, not that everybody
needs rock bottom, right?
I don't believe that.
(31:12):
Like I don't believe thateverybody has to go through this
like torrential downpour toshift their perspective.
Yeah.
I think it can be any type of, Imean, mine was an illness, but
everybody has their own storyand it doesn't have to, it's
like how can we get people therenow?
Without going through what weknow.
Right, because you can elevatefrom any level Yes.
(31:37):
Of where you're at and I don't,yeah, you don't have to go and
get, I.
All a bunch trauma.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
'cause now that's what we'redealing with is how do I unt
traumatize myself.
Yeah.
So now you get the blessing ofraising a little boy and
(31:58):
teaching him like all thesewonderful things that you're
learning.
Do you wanna share about some ofthat?
Oh my gosh.
How much time we got?
I know.
Just the most recent was thismorning and he was like.
Mommy, what does freedom mean?
(32:19):
Because he'll sit, he'llrandomly go Freedom and he'll
put his hands up in the air.
Yeah.
And he's like, freedom.
And we're in the car on the waythis morning.
He's like, what does freedommean?
So I give him my best freedomdefinition and he's like, okay.
So then, we are driving down andhe wants to hear his own songs.
(32:39):
And I'm like, not today.
And he's like.
Well, let's hear the song wherethe man talks and I'm like, the
Man talks and I put on the songPrayer by Lucas Mack and it's
basically he's talking and this,beautiful music is behind him
and it's him calling your soulto action of.
(33:05):
Let's do this.
You are here on an earthmission.
Your soul is here to be thelight in the dark.
And this song is just like sopowerful to me.
It's two minutes long.
And I was like, this one, he'slike, yeah.
And he hears the whole thing andit's like sets him up and he is
(33:25):
like, I'm gonna have a good day.
I mean, I'm like, all right,let's do it.
Let's do it.
But he's been doing the KathyHiller meditations with me every
morning.
He gets up at six 30, comes intomy room, and sits there with me
while I listen to it for 10minutes a day.
I'm like, all right.
(33:46):
That shout out to you for beingthis beautiful mom.
That's like teaching.
Just like spreading it intothese kids.
'cause that's what they need.
Yeah.
And so many people talk aboutit, but are they really doing
it?
And are we really doing it forourselves too, like mm-hmm.
(34:06):
Um, I think we've, I meanobviously that's how we met
through Kathy and I've grown somuch to be able to like even
speak my truth and talk.
We're setting out a podcasttogether.
Right.
That happened years ago.
Right.
So, okay.
(34:27):
Have you held a retreat before,or I know you have one coming
up.
No.
No, I've not.
I'm just going on a whim hereand maybe not even a whim, but
I've never even gone to a yogaretreat either.
I don't, I've not done any ofthis.
Like, I've just like seen it.
I've heard about it and I'veenvisioned it every time.
(34:48):
When I very first said I wassigning up for yoga teacher
training in 2018, I don'tremember having a friend.
He was like my aunt.
She's a yoga teacher and sheleads retreats all over the
world.
And I'm like, oh, well that'swhat I'm going to do.
No idea.
I have no idea what I'm doing.
I just know this sounds like areally good opportunity, a
(35:09):
really good time.
My birthday is the day after theretreat ends.
It sounds like a really goodbirthday present to give to
myself.
Yeah, and that's just what I'mgonna do.
I'm just gonna go and love onthese people that sign up.
And I'm giving medicinal foodchoices to them.
And we're going on nature hikesand it's at the Red River Gorge
(35:30):
in the beautiful state ofKentucky.
Like Oh goodness.
During prime season of fallfoliage.
Okay.
Like it's really, I just don'tsee how this is gonna end bad
for anybody involved.
No.
It'll be my first time, so I'mlike, it's gonna, that means
it's probably gonna be the best.
It's first, it's gonna bemagical.
(35:53):
I, I mean, I wish I was inKentucky.
I needed to just fly there andcome because you're just like
two people from Kansas arecoming are.
Not making that up.
It just so happens to be thatyou're in Kansas.
Two people, a husband and wife,they are coming.
Yes.
It's not just women either.
I speak to everyone when Iteach.
(36:15):
I love having men in my class.
I love having women, olderwomen.
I love that.
Older men, younger men.
Younger women, I mean.
My child's teaching me yogaclasses now.
It's just bizarre.
I believe that like, yeah, let'sgo.
It's gonna be magical.
(36:35):
I already know it.
Yeah.
I need to like look at mycalendar now.
People from cancer are coming.
I.
Yeah.
And bring your boyfriend.
I know.
You know, it'll be a lot of fun.
There's gonna be some retreats,uh, not retreats, uh,
excursions.
We are definitely doing the hiketo the natural bridge, which is
(36:58):
just Oh, yeah.
Gorgeous.
And then, depending on what.
Is available at the time.
There's paddle boarding throughthe caves and there's zip
lining, so that'll be includedtoo.
So it's just four days and it'sgonna be a lot of fun Thursday
through Sunday.
That's like days of heaven.
(37:20):
Yeah, that's what I callmagical.
It's so funny'cause when wechange our lives, like it's like
that's what I call magical.
Those are the things I getexcited for.
Yeah.
It's just so fun to talk to youbecause you're just so much joy
and laughter and I love that youcan laugh at yourself and I love
that you're doing your jobstill.
(37:41):
You have a son.
She's also, you'all, just heardit, this magical retreat's
coming up.
She has a podcast and you justmake it all fun.
Like it's gotta be.
Tell us, tell us the key, let's,let's get some insight here.
Tell us if you're gonna leavelisteners with something like
(38:01):
you shine on everything you do.
If you are in a room with her,with you.
Like my face lights up knowingthat it's something, it's gonna
just, it's just gonna be full oflaughter.
Aw, thank you.
And just good insights.
So give people some advice, whatshould they go do?
The key to it all is, um.
Not having any expectation.
(38:25):
I think that's it.
Just being in the moment isreally what it's about.
If I can switch my brain to, inthe moment, every time, if I
notice I'm doom scrolling, forexample.
Yeah.
When I can switch to being thewitness of, oh man, you're doom
scrolling.
What else could you do thatwould actually serve you?
(38:45):
Or if I feel like I'm.
In the comparison mode of notenough, and I, and then I
recognize it.
Then I'm like, what can I do tomake me feel like I'm enough
like that?
I think that's what gets me towhere I can not even juggle
(39:06):
'cause I don't even feel likeI'm juggling.
I just feel like I'm having fun,man.
I'm just trying to see like howfar I can go and where I can go
and what is, what's gonna happenwhen I get there.
That's really.
That's my mo.
I'm just like, see what's up.
See what happens.
You know, and I'm the, uh, thenew sling term is F around and
(39:32):
find out, you know, like I, yep.
That's what I do.
Just, and, um, I usually havespent a lot of energy in the
wrong realm of that.
I've spent a whole lot of timein the wrong realm of that.
Yeah.
And I realized if I could justdrop some of that, how much
(39:53):
space actually opened up and nowI'm in the right realm and so
many things are coming at me andI'm just like, I'm here for
that.
Yeah, just being present that isso good and that is such good
advice for everybody.
(40:13):
I think we can all catchourselves.
People don't know where to go,and it's so easy just to stay in
those spots.
So just catching yourself andbringing yourself back home it's
just so powerful.
Yeah.
Can you tell them where they'llfind you?
(40:34):
I will drop it in the shownotes, but will you, can you
tell them where they can findyou at?
Yeah.
Um.
My website is fits in yoga.com,and it's F-I-T-Z-E-N yoga.com,
and I have everything I dothere.
So you could subscribe to mynewsletter, you could listen to
(40:54):
my podcast there.
The fits in project, and that'son all the things that stream
YouTube.
Spotify, apple, all the thingsthat if they're things, um, I
don't have a book, so sorry todisappoint if, but maybe one
day.
Yeah, right.
(41:14):
But yeah, that's basically it.
And yeah, right now it's justfun man.
It's just fun.
Everything I'm, I got going.
It's just a good time.
I wanna thank you from thebottom of my heart for just
coming on and connecting andletting it be fun because that
is, is the most powerful thing,is when I can just get on and
(41:36):
record.
I tell people I don't want it tobe serious.
I'm like, I wanna laugh and justhave a conversation and I want
people to hear that we can talka little bit serious, but let's
let it be fun.
Yeah.
And you are just a beautifulexample of that.
Well, thank you.
I'm so just beyond grateful thatyou provide this space.
Like this is just, thank you.
(41:57):
Really cool space.
It's been an honor to even behere right now and getting to
talk to you and I mean.
You're a light too, and I reallyadore you and all, every time I
see you on the social medias andthen like that one day that I
just got lucky and grouped withyou in a pod, I was like, oh my
God, it is here.
(42:20):
So I really appreciate it.
I really, really do.
I appreciate you.
That's exactly how I feel aboutyou.
And I think that's, you know,when we open our eyes, we see
that.
Mm-hmm.
Get to see it in others and thenwe're like, this is why I get to
connect with them.
Yeah, because it just gets to befun.
Yeah.
It's so natural.
(42:40):
Yeah.
We can have a conversation incase y'all didn't know, this is
our conversation.
It's like we're getting to knoweach other and it's not like we
talk every single day, but it'slike we can talk and it just
becomes like a fun conversation.
Yeah, and I Absolutely, yeah.
I could go on talking for hourswith you.
I just wanna thank you so muchand I'll leave in the show notes
(43:02):
where they can find you.
Thank you, Casey.
Thanks.
Thanks so much.
I hope y'all enjoyed Rachel asmuch as I do.
She is just one of the mostbeautiful human beings, there's
so much goodness in all of this,so I truly hope that you find
something valuable out of thisconversation and stay tuned
(43:25):
because there will be a part twoof this.
If you all know Rachel, gofollow her.
She is a beautiful manifester,so stay tuned for the rest.
Thank you for tuning intoanother episode.
I hope today's story inspiredyou to embrace your own journey
of growth and change.
Remember, transformation isn'talways easy, but it's always
(43:47):
worth it.
If you enjoyed this episode, besure to subscribe.
Share it with a friend, andleave a review.
If you found something thatsparked you in this episode and
may spark a friend, I encourageyou to go share with them.
If you have your own story youwould like to share, I would
love to hear it.
So please reach out to me.
Until next time, friends, gohave some fun and let those
(44:08):
sparks lie.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.