October 15, 2025 • 28 mins
What happens when the highlight reel stops working? We sit down with Jennifer Amirault to unpack a journey that looks like success on paper—big titles, fast growth, and the white Mercedes—yet quietly spirals into anxiety, ego, and sleepless nights. Jennifer opens up about choosing flexibility for her young family, scaling a business beyond her leadership, and the moment she began to trade hurry for stillness in search of real peace.
You’ll hear candid insights on comparison traps, servant leadership, mental health, and the kind of legacy that outlasts metrics. If you’ve ever chased the next milestone and felt emptier at the top, this conversation offers a grounded path back to meaning, resilience, and calm.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:06):
Welcome to the Leader Impact Podcast.
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I'm your host, Lisa Peters, andour guest today is Jennifer
Amiro.
Jennifer is an independentconsultant and regional vice
president with ARBONInternational.
She has been with ARBON and thenetwork marketing space for over
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17 years with a Bachelor ofScience in Applied Human
Nutrition degree.
She has a passion for wellnessin helping women to become well
physically, mentally,emotionally, and spiritually.
She has been a member of theLeader Impact Halifax team since
2023 and is excited to belaunching and leading a women's
group later this month.
She is passionate about personaldevelopment and transformation
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and is on her own journey togrow into the person that God
has called her to be.
She and her husband Chadrecently celebrated 24 years,
and together they have two sonsand a little Havanese named
Lola.
Welcome to the show, Jennifer.
Oh, thanks so much for havingme.
It's a privilege to be here.
So what's a Havanese?
It's a dog.
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What kind is that?
SPEAKER_01 (01:33):
Cuban descent.
She's about 18 pounds and she ismy sidekick.
We hang together all day, everyday.
SPEAKER_00 (01:39):
Yes.
My sidekick's at my feet overthere, and hopefully it won't
snore too loud.
SPEAKER_01 (01:44):
Oh, that's good.
This one is not here, she wouldbark and say hello.
So yes.
SPEAKER_00 (01:49):
So it did say that you you have a women's group,
but I'm thinking you've probablyalready started that group.
We just launched it about amonth ago, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (01:56):
Yes, and how's it going?
You know what?
It's it's been a little bit of aslow start.
The two, um, I'm leaving withone other girl, Lisa Lance, and
we've both had some challengesover the last month, but we're
just getting started.
So I think that we will probablyhave a firmer launch in the
fall.
But we're going now tillSeptember or till June, and then
we'll probably take the summerand read.
SPEAKER_00 (02:16):
Well, keep going.
SPEAKER_01 (02:18):
Are wonderful.
Yes.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (02:19):
I've been doing them for many years, and I just show
up because I need it.
SPEAKER_01 (02:23):
Oh my goodness, yes.
SPEAKER_00 (02:24):
It's it's such a great conversation and to share
with other female leaders ormale leaders, however, your
group is designed.
It is a blessing.
So thanks for doing that.
SPEAKER_01 (02:33):
Yeah, thank you.
It's it's really had an impacton myself and my husband over
the last year and a half.
So happy to pay that forward.
SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
Awesome.
Good.
All right.
Well, we'll begin.
We want to hear more about uhyour professional story and how
you got to where you are today.
And what we really love are sortof those, you know, because the
story can be long, the pivotalmoments of like the snapshot of
those moments along yourjourney.
SPEAKER_01 (02:56):
Yeah, it's been a it's been a wild one, honestly.
Um I started um, yeah, so I havemy nutrition degree.
I started in the retirementliving industry right out of
school, and I loved thatindustry.
I worked in with three differentcompanies, locally in Halifax
private companies, over over 10years.
And then we found ourselves umwith two little baby boys, uh 21
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months apart.
And when I went back to workafter um after my first, after
our first baby, I was quitenewly pregnant with our second
baby, and it wasn't very longbefore I realized I didn't want
that lifestyle of the nine tofive, Monday to Friday, three
weeks vacation, but I had noidea what I was gonna do.
I wanted to work, I needed towork financially, mentally,
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emotionally, all the things, butI really wanted more
flexibility.
So I was working at a trade showone Saturday afternoon and came
across this booth, and it wasthe company that I'm now working
for.
And she said to me, you know,I've actually come off of my
third MAT leave.
I'm not going back to work withthe airline industry, and I'm
going to be working with Armonaround my family's needs.
And I walked away from thatfive-minute conversation so
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filled with hope and excitement.
I prayed that she would call mebecause I really didn't know
what else I was going to do.
So she did call me and I startedvery quickly.
Um, I had never tried a product,I just saw what it could do for
me and my family.
And um, my goal was very smallwith that, with that um that
business.
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I really just wanted to replacewhat I would have been taking
home after I paid out two kidsfull-time child care.
So um I did that, but then alongthe way, I would talk to all of
these women who wanted to do thesame thing.
And what I found is it startedto grow and it started to grow
quite quickly, and I exceeded mygoal.
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And then I kind of didn't knowwhat I was doing.
So it outgrew my leadership.
It outgrew my leadership in abig way, and then um I found
myself earning more money than Iever would have thought I would
have earned, especially in thatshort of an amount of time,
driving a beautiful whiteMercedes.
I was very flexible with mykids, I had a decent marriage,
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we were traveling more.
Life was so good, except itwasn't.
And so I was struggling a lotwith just anxiety, a lot of um,
I just found myself in a placethat I had no idea I'd expected
to be.
And so in 2015, I started um tojust really crave peace.
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So I wasn't really on aspiritual journey.
I grew up in a Christian home.
Um, so that wasn't foreign to meat all, but I wasn't seeking
God, I was really seeking all ofthe things that we're told to
seek, right?
Like the the paycheck and thetitle and the car and the status
and all the things, right?
And so as I um really started toseek peace, I started to try to
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meditate.
So I was doing chakra readchakra clearings, I was doing
things to try to like lessen myenergy and my anxiety.
And so I started with fiveminutes a day of just stillness,
and I just was cravingstillness, and it was honestly
pure torture for me.
I couldn't keep myself still, mymind was going, it was just
really hard.
I was just used to being very,very busy, and that was a
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comfort zone for me, right?
Stillness is hard.
And so I would I worked myselfup to 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20
minutes over time, and I wasdoing these chakra clearings and
starting to feel some peace.
And I literally was laying in myson's single bed one afternoon,
just before they came home fromschool doing this meditation,
this clearing, and I saw Jesuson a bench in a meadow, and it
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was the clearest, most vividpicture I've ever seen in my
mind.
It was it was more vivid thanI've ever seen anything.
And I felt like that was aninvitation, but I kind of
ignored it, I brushed it to theside, kept on going my merry
way.
My husband's business wasthriving at the time.
They ended up going from abusiness where they started as
an IT consulting company on anironing board in his friend's
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basement to penthouse officedowntown Halifax with 20
employees and growing.
And that started to gobackwards.
It started to fall apart throughjust different decisions that
were being made that weren'tagreed upon and things like
that.
Ended up dissolving in court.
And so at this time, um weactually he had taken a trip to
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Nicaragua, a mission trip toNicaragua.
He really felt a lack of peacein his own heart.
So he took this mission trip toNicaragua, had an incredible
experience there.
That's his story, came home, andthen we found the dissolution of
his business, my business wasfalling backwards, and we were
kind of a little bit at rockbottom.
And so we were, I can remembercoming home from a conference on
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a high.
He literally picked me up fromthe airport.
We went downtown Halifax andwe're taking multiple trips out,
clearing out his office beforethe doors would be locked the
next day.
And I was just listening toworship music on full blast the
whole way in and out, and Ididn't know what else to do with
myself.
But through that whole series,we just or that whole process,
we decided that we were notpersonally going to claim
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bankruptcy.
We were facing losing our house,we were facing losing our
vehicles, um, we lost the landthat we had bought to build out
on the ocean, about 40 minutesaway here.
And um, we just decided that no,we were going to honor our debts
and we were gonna do this theway it felt good to us.
And so it was a lot of money.
And we sought out some differentpeople to help us out, and they
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wouldn't touch us because it wasfar too risky.
So we just took a deep leap offaith, honestly.
And through that process, um, wesaw God show up so, so, so many
times in just um chunks of debtthat was erased quickly and
without any reason.
And it just was a beautifulfaith walk.
And now we're just kind of herein this place where um regrowing
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and rebuilding with a completelydifferent um alignment of our
priorities, I guess is where weare now.
SPEAKER_00 (09:01):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um and I I mean, I want to talklater about failures, and in
your talking about one rightnow.
Um but how we learn so much andwe we come back stronger.
When when you were in thislowest spot, when both you and
your husband have had hit, howand this might be deeply
personal, but how was yourmarriage?
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Because it's it's hard on it'shard on you, and you take a lot
out of yourself and you thinkwhat you think of yourself and
your husband, and you know, thecommunication stops the.
So I'm just wondering if you canbecause I think a lot of people
go through it.
SPEAKER_01 (09:35):
Yes, they do.
And I honestly can tell you, Ithink our marriage became
stronger.
Um and I'm so grateful to beable to say that because I've
had countless people say, Idon't know how you guys made
that through.
And that's where we can trulysay, Well, we both lean on God,
and that's where that's the onlyway we made it, the only way.
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Um, it was definitely astruggle.
My husband struggled withdepression, um, a quite deep
depression at one point in ourmarriage.
Um, not necessarily at thattime, but he really, he really
just um learned the true lovethat God has for us on this
trip.
It was just such a divineexperience.
And then it kind of um broughtto light the experience that I
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had had.
And we've both grown up inChristian homes.
We've been prayed for, you know,for generations, which we're
very, very fortunate to say.
And so I do think that theprayers of even our grandparents
are being answered, you know, aswe walk this out.
So just grateful for that.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:35):
Thank you for sharing that.
That was a great story.
Um on the we're gonna talk alittle bit about business and
just your principle of success.
Um what it would do you haveyour best principle of success
and do you have a story thatillustrates that?
SPEAKER_01 (10:49):
Well, I think I mean, really overall, what I've
learned is um on our own, we'rereally not as good as we think
we are.
So, you know, so for the firstwhile I thought, wow, like I'm
really something.
Like I got quite a little egogoing for a while there.
And um, you know, as my incomegrew, as my my organization
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grew, as my title go grew, um,you know, life was very good.
And on the surface, everythingwas really good.
And I did get really a falsesense of pride there, I think,
and a false sense of security.
Um, because of course we knowthat things can be taken away as
quickly as they can be given.
I'm experienced that firsthand.
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So um, yeah, I think justgetting priorities in order.
So I really do spend the timewith the Lord first thing in the
morning now, and I've kind ofcome to really depend on that
time.
I know my best days are when Istart that way, and I know the
days that I hit the groundrunning on my own oftentimes are
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not quite as good.
Even, you know, even the gooddays just aren't quite as good.
And what I've learned is thatwhat I've invited the Lord into,
whether it's my marriage,whether it's my women's group,
whether it's Leader Impact, ourfamily, it's always turned out,
and my business actually, it'salways turned out better than I
could have imagined.
And so I keep kind of going withlike God is like we have God's
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favor, God wants good things forus, right?
And so when we seek him first,all these things will be added
to you.
And I kind of live by thatprinciple now.
SPEAKER_00 (12:22):
Yeah, it's a good one.
Um yeah, ego, ego, that's uh itcan definitely um take you down,
you know, when you think youyou're you are all that and a
bag of chips and you're not, youknow.
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (12:39):
When we were facing losing everything, I did not
sleep for months.
And I thought, like, howembarrassed will I be?
I was mortified and soembarrassed, and it was all
pride and all ego that reallyjust had to be stripped down.
SPEAKER_00 (12:54):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (12:55):
So it's it's purposeful, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (12:57):
Yeah.
Um I will share.
Uh, I've been in a similarsituation.
My um, this was 10 years ago,and my dad had died.
And I am, I am my whole family'sflying in, and my husband
dropped everything to help us,and and he moved people from the
airport to the hospitals and andthen the funeral.
Everybody had left, and I wassitting in the office doing
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thank yous, and my husbandwalked in, and I knew I knew the
business was he was struggling,and he sat down in my office on
the floor and he said, I justwant you to know we're meeting
with the lawyers tomorrow and wemight claim bankruptcy.
And no time in this time of uhmy dad did he tell me.
He just served, and uh we'rewe're good now.
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I'll just gather myself.
And I remember looking at himand going, God's good, we'll get
through this, and it just neverphased me to go, you know.
SPEAKER_01 (13:55):
Isn't that incredible?
And the peace, the peace thatyou feel in those moments are
inexplicable, and that's onlyGod.
Yeah, wow.
Anyway, yeah, just yeah.
So and I just lost my dad amonth ago, so I know the feeling
of that too.
SPEAKER_00 (14:12):
So it's oh I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, well, we'll continue.
So we talk about um failures andmistakes, and it was funny.
This morning I just had a myleader impact talking about
failures and fears.
We learn more from them.
We know that we learn more fromour failures, mistakes, and our
own successes.
So I'm wondering if you have onethat you can share and uh what
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you learned from it.
SPEAKER_01 (14:36):
A failure.
Like, I don't know that I have aspecific failure.
I feel like I failed forward fora long time, honestly.
I've learned kind of to reshapefailures as lessons.
I really have.
And I've learned so manylessons.
I've made countless leadersleadership mistakes.
Um, I've put business for beforepeople at times, which I will
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never do again.
It's people first for me.
I think that's probably mybiggest lesson is to truly love
everyone where they are and andand serve from that place
versus, you know, going after agoal and how can they achieve
help achieve this goal?
It's just a very, very differentplace to work from and to lead
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from.
Yeah.
So that would be probably mygreatest lesson, slash failure,
slash, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (15:29):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wish we could tell the youngergeneration to fail forward.
We, you know, to it's not afail.
It is not a fail.
It's just you're moving forward,you know, and and you're
learning and take it for that.
And what are we walking awayfrom?
And yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (15:44):
Um and I do think the further you fall, I mean,
that I love that whole thing,the further you fall, the higher
you fly.
And you know, sometimes I thinkwe have to go through those
tough, tough, tark, dark timesin order to truly appreciate um
and also get it right when youfly again.
SPEAKER_00 (16:03):
Yeah.
It's it's hard when you're init.
Yes.
And if you know that um you willsee the other side uh and and
something will come out of it.
I there's a there's definitely ayou know, have faith.
Have faith.
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (16:20):
And I do love, I I I thank you for for the invitation
because I haven't shared thatstory publicly really at all.
But I do feel when we share ourstories, it it gives someone
else hope.
And I think that's the the mostimportant thing.
Like I don't think that we gothrough things for nothing.
I don't think they should endwith us.
I truly think that, you know, inin time as we heal and move
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forward, not in the thick of it,it's very difficult to share it
when you're in the thick of it.
But when you look back, you'reon the other side, you're doing
well, you can say, Listen, I'vebeen there, come along.
I you're gonna be okay.
SPEAKER_00 (16:55):
Yeah.
I um, as you said that insharing our stories, and we
learned, I I thought of myleader impact group, and that's
what we're about, is um we don'tall go through the same
failures, mistakes.
And when we share our stories,we know we all have gone through
it in different ways.
And to share the stories withother leaders who may not be
able to share it with anyoneelse on their team because you
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know, you're leading them.
You don't feel that these arethe people you should be sharing
with.
We are your peers.
And um, there's been some greatstories.
So uh your your group in Halifaxwill continue to grow and and
people will love showing up justto you know be part of a bigger
team.
Yeah.
Yes, yes, that's exactly what itis.
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Yeah.
So all right.
Uh at Leader Impact, we want togrow personally, professionally,
and spiritually for increasingimpact.
So I'm well wondering if you'rewilling to share an example of
how the spiritual makes apractical difference in your
life as a leader.
SPEAKER_01 (17:53):
Well, um, I didn't really realize.
So, again, starting my dayseeking wisdom and truth.
I don't know about you, but Ifind there's an awful lot of
noise out there right now.
And uh and so I find groundingmyself in just some solid truth,
wisdom, um, and guidance for theday helps me immensely.
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And then um I did actually sharemy testimonial last year on one
of our team calls.
We do weekly team calls and Ishared a short testimonial at
the end very spontaneously.
And as a result, I've seen otherwomen start to seek God and grow
in their faith.
And I just find that's been sucha blessing.
And so I love um, you know,having space to sometimes do
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that as well, just incorporateit into our work.
SPEAKER_00 (18:38):
Yeah.
I um when you share, more peopleare willing to share their own
story.
And when you become vulnerable,they'll ask you the simple
questions about your faith.
Like, how do you pray?
What does that mean?
Or what does it mean to havestillness in the morning?
Or you know, and they ask youbecause they they look at you
and like she's calm, she'staking this problem very calmly,
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or you know, you're findingpeace, and they they ask you,
what are you doing?
And you're like, Well, I startmy morning.
SPEAKER_01 (19:09):
Yes, yes, and I'm dependent on that time.
SPEAKER_00 (19:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Um, I when we first startedtalking, you talked about uh
finding stillness is hard, andwe are sisters from another
mother.
Um, and and I think every womanfinding stillness is hard and
finding so much noise in yourday.
And when my morning isinterrupted, I get it.
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Yes, it's sacred time.
It's sacred.
Yeah, my kids know that.
Well, at Leader Impact, we arededicated to leaders having a
lasting impact.
And so as you continue to movethrough this amazing journey
you're on, um, I'm wondering ifyou're willing or want what you
want your faith legacy to bewhen you leave this world.
SPEAKER_01 (19:56):
Hmm, legacy is seems like such a big word.
Um, I really want women to knowthey're enough and to know they
are loved.
That truly is um so heavy on myheart right now, I think,
because I struggled so much withnot feeling enough and
comparison, and I think that wasum a lot of my anxiety was
rooted in that.
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I work in a predominantly femaleindustry, and I think there's
just a lot of that that you justneed to work through.
And once you work through it,it's okay.
But um I do I do think that so Ilike I say I work predominantly
with women, so I see um it's soeasy to seek um validation in
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sometimes the wrong places,numb.
Um, you know, just I just wantthem to know their worth.
I truly want them to know thatthey have a creator who has
created them for a purpose, theyare loved beyond measure, just
as they are.
They do not need to um be or doanything more, they just are
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enough and to truly live thatout.
So that's a desire on my heartright now.
SPEAKER_00 (21:05):
Yeah.
I think um when when people, Imean, just looking at you, they
they look at women think youhave it all together.
What you know, what do you know?
So sharing the stories andsaying, I've I've been where
you've been, and you are enough.
Like it, you know, you willgrow.
Um, and I again the importanceof sharing the stories.
SPEAKER_01 (21:26):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (21:26):
Because women need to know that they're not alone,
they are enough.
SPEAKER_01 (21:30):
Um, and vulnerability is a is a power in
itself.
It really is.
Not you don't have to spare iteverything, but you know, being
willing to share creates trueconnection.
SPEAKER_00 (21:42):
Yeah, yeah.
So that's what makes it what'sleader impact a great group.
Um, our last question for you iswhat brings you the greatest
joy?
SPEAKER_01 (21:52):
Right now it's my kids.
My kids are two boys, they're 17and 19, and they're just coming
into their own.
And that brings me so much joy.
I've struggled, I've worked fromhome for um 17 years.
So I was living COVID longbefore the pandemic happened.
So um, you know, there'sisolating moments in that.
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There was times that Iquestioned whether I was doing
the right thing.
Um, but I have been so presentwith them over the last, over
their entire lives.
They don't remember full-timechildcare, and I was always
available, which I just considersuch a blessing and a gift, and
I'm so grateful for.
And I just see God's handthrough my entire life,
honestly, even up to this point,in ways that I didn't even
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recognize at the time.
But yeah, to watch themflourish, to watch them just to
grow in their confidence, intheir own faith, um, in their
own trust in the Lord, um, isjust really making me so
joy-filled right now.
SPEAKER_00 (22:50):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (22:51):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:52):
Yeah.
I have uh two children, 20 and20, well, it's gonna be 22, 20
and 22.
Oh, you're just ahead of me.
Yes.
And married at the same time, 24years coming up.
Um my gosh.
I know.
Again, from another mother.
Uh your comment about um beingisolated.
And you know, I I have workedfrom home for many years prior
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to COVID.
And um, we can't let thathappen, right?
We we have to get out of thehouse.
Um, we we know, but I I think wegot good at it before.
So to any, I just if you haveany advice, and I mean I'm
trying to think myself aboutisolation for women who are
living in, and how how would yousuggest, you know, how do we get
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out of it?
Um, yeah, that is such a greatquestion.
SPEAKER_01 (23:36):
You know, I don't feel like it's in the last year
that I've even started to getout of it, to be honest.
Yeah.
Um, and really crave people.
Like I was actually very happyin my little bubble of four for
about a year and a half.
They were homeschooling, and Ijust loved the little the time
that we had with them till tillI didn't.
Um about two years in, I waslike, okay, this is enough now.
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But it's only been aboutprobably end of 2023, early 24
that I started to realize okay,we need connection.
We need people, we are not meantto do this life alone, and we're
meant to be in community.
And so leader impact has beenhuge for me, honestly.
Um, I also have another women'sgroup, just four, there's five
of us who've become just dearfriends, and our spouses have
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become friends, and now we'retraveling together a little bit,
and it's a it's we're just we wepray together and we we just you
know do life together, but Ithink finding your people is so
important, so important.
And it's not everyone, right?
Like just finding that kind ofinner circle is so key, and put
you kind of need to put yourselfout there until you find that
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too.
So yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (24:44):
There's uh so I I host a TV show in my in my city,
and we just recently had they'recalled uh Regina 55 Plus
Community Center.
So um it's it used to be calledSenior Center, but they've
rebranded 55 Plus.
And it's just a place to go andand do community, and there's
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lots of activities you can join.
And I'm like, um 55 plus.
And I should I should go, right?
And I I know I'll be goingalone, and tonight I'm going to
a concert alone, and I'm like,you know, and I good, this is
very new for me, but it's to getout, like I am like you.
It's like it's it's time.
SPEAKER_01 (25:26):
You have to force yourself.
You do, and I became a hermit, Itruly became a hermit, and that
was my comfort zone too, right?
So getting back out with peopleis like we have to learn, yes,
relearn how to socialize.
So do it awkward, do ituncomfortable, do it, just do
it.
SPEAKER_00 (25:42):
Yeah.
And even if you don't talk toanyone, like I can go to a
concert, I can listen, and I canleave.
Or I can turn to the personbeside me and say, Hi, I'm Lisa.
Yes, the choice is yours.
SPEAKER_01 (25:52):
Yeah, the choice is mine.
Oh, the choices are endless.
So yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (25:56):
Well, Jennifer, I want to thank you for joining us
this last 25 minutes.
It is it has been a pleasure tomeet you.
SPEAKER_01 (26:02):
Um, nice chat.
SPEAKER_00 (26:04):
I uh I have had a great time.
I know actually a friend of mymy neighbor used to be, well, is
in Arbonne.
I don't know if you know BeckyYoung.
SPEAKER_01 (26:11):
Oh my goodness, she's lovely.
The OG is in Arbonne, she'slegacy, she's our legacy.
Yeah, she was one of the firstwomen in Canada, I think.
SPEAKER_00 (26:20):
Yes, she was.
Yes, she was.
Yeah, they moved in beside us,but her husband was had they
also had the the ranch, and Ithink they just couldn't do
both, and they moved, they wentback out to the ranch, and then
I think they're somewhere else.
But uh it was lovely to havethem as neighbors.
SPEAKER_01 (26:35):
I'm sure she is lovely.
I've never met her in person,but I've heard her speak many,
many times.
SPEAKER_00 (26:40):
Yeah, lovely.
SPEAKER_01 (26:40):
Yeah, so connection.
SPEAKER_00 (26:42):
There we go.
Thank you.
That's right.
All right.
Well, uh Jennifer, and if anyonewants to connect with you, find
you, learn more about you, whatis the best way to connect with
you?
SPEAKER_01 (26:51):
Yeah, I'm I'm trying to be more active on social
media.
I don't have a website at thispoint, but um uh uh Daily Walk
with Jen.
Daily Walk with Jen two N's ismy Instagram handle.
You can pop me a message ifthere's anything I can help with
anybody with, I'm happy to dothat.
I'm happy to walk throughsituations with people that I've
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already experienced and uh loveto connect with new women.
That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00 (27:17):
Thank you again for sharing the last half hour with
us.
You're welcome.
SPEAKER_01 (27:20):
Thank you so much.
Have a great day.
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All right.
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I'm your host, Lisa Peters, andour guest today is Jennifer
Amiro.
Jennifer is an independentconsultant and regional vice
president with ARBONInternational.
She has been with ARBON and thenetwork marketing space for over
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17 years with a Bachelor ofScience in Applied Human
Nutrition degree.
She has a passion for wellnessin helping women to become well
physically, mentally,emotionally, and spiritually.
She has been a member of theLeader Impact Halifax team since
2023 and is excited to belaunching and leading a women's
group later this month.
She is passionate about personaldevelopment and transformation
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and is on her own journey togrow into the person that God
has called her to be.
She and her husband Chadrecently celebrated 24 years,
and together they have two sonsand a little Havanese named
Lola.
Welcome to the show, Jennifer.
Oh, thanks so much for havingme.
It's a privilege to be here.
So what's a Havanese?
It's a dog.
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What kind is that?
SPEAKER_01 (01:33):
Cuban descent.
She's about 18 pounds and she ismy sidekick.
We hang together all day, everyday.
SPEAKER_00 (01:39):
Yes.
My sidekick's at my feet overthere, and hopefully it won't
snore too loud.
SPEAKER_01 (01:44):
Oh, that's good.
This one is not here, she wouldbark and say hello.
So yes.
SPEAKER_00 (01:49):
So it did say that you you have a women's group,
but I'm thinking you've probablyalready started that group.
We just launched it about amonth ago, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (01:56):
Yes, and how's it going?
You know what?
It's it's been a little bit of aslow start.
The two, um, I'm leaving withone other girl, Lisa Lance, and
we've both had some challengesover the last month, but we're
just getting started.
So I think that we will probablyhave a firmer launch in the
fall.
But we're going now tillSeptember or till June, and then
we'll probably take the summerand read.
SPEAKER_00 (02:16):
Well, keep going.
SPEAKER_01 (02:18):
Are wonderful.
Yes.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (02:19):
I've been doing them for many years, and I just show
up because I need it.
SPEAKER_01 (02:23):
Oh my goodness, yes.
SPEAKER_00 (02:24):
It's it's such a great conversation and to share
with other female leaders ormale leaders, however, your
group is designed.
It is a blessing.
So thanks for doing that.
SPEAKER_01 (02:33):
Yeah, thank you.
It's it's really had an impacton myself and my husband over
the last year and a half.
So happy to pay that forward.
SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
Awesome.
Good.
All right.
Well, we'll begin.
We want to hear more about uhyour professional story and how
you got to where you are today.
And what we really love are sortof those, you know, because the
story can be long, the pivotalmoments of like the snapshot of
those moments along yourjourney.
SPEAKER_01 (02:56):
Yeah, it's been a it's been a wild one, honestly.
Um I started um, yeah, so I havemy nutrition degree.
I started in the retirementliving industry right out of
school, and I loved thatindustry.
I worked in with three differentcompanies, locally in Halifax
private companies, over over 10years.
And then we found ourselves umwith two little baby boys, uh 21
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months apart.
And when I went back to workafter um after my first, after
our first baby, I was quitenewly pregnant with our second
baby, and it wasn't very longbefore I realized I didn't want
that lifestyle of the nine tofive, Monday to Friday, three
weeks vacation, but I had noidea what I was gonna do.
I wanted to work, I needed towork financially, mentally,
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emotionally, all the things, butI really wanted more
flexibility.
So I was working at a trade showone Saturday afternoon and came
across this booth, and it wasthe company that I'm now working
for.
And she said to me, you know,I've actually come off of my
third MAT leave.
I'm not going back to work withthe airline industry, and I'm
going to be working with Armonaround my family's needs.
And I walked away from thatfive-minute conversation so
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filled with hope and excitement.
I prayed that she would call mebecause I really didn't know
what else I was going to do.
So she did call me and I startedvery quickly.
Um, I had never tried a product,I just saw what it could do for
me and my family.
And um, my goal was very smallwith that, with that um that
business.
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I really just wanted to replacewhat I would have been taking
home after I paid out two kidsfull-time child care.
So um I did that, but then alongthe way, I would talk to all of
these women who wanted to do thesame thing.
And what I found is it startedto grow and it started to grow
quite quickly, and I exceeded mygoal.
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And then I kind of didn't knowwhat I was doing.
So it outgrew my leadership.
It outgrew my leadership in abig way, and then um I found
myself earning more money than Iever would have thought I would
have earned, especially in thatshort of an amount of time,
driving a beautiful whiteMercedes.
I was very flexible with mykids, I had a decent marriage,
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we were traveling more.
Life was so good, except itwasn't.
And so I was struggling a lotwith just anxiety, a lot of um,
I just found myself in a placethat I had no idea I'd expected
to be.
And so in 2015, I started um tojust really crave peace.
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So I wasn't really on aspiritual journey.
I grew up in a Christian home.
Um, so that wasn't foreign to meat all, but I wasn't seeking
God, I was really seeking all ofthe things that we're told to
seek, right?
Like the the paycheck and thetitle and the car and the status
and all the things, right?
And so as I um really started toseek peace, I started to try to
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meditate.
So I was doing chakra readchakra clearings, I was doing
things to try to like lessen myenergy and my anxiety.
And so I started with fiveminutes a day of just stillness,
and I just was cravingstillness, and it was honestly
pure torture for me.
I couldn't keep myself still, mymind was going, it was just
really hard.
I was just used to being very,very busy, and that was a
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comfort zone for me, right?
Stillness is hard.
And so I would I worked myselfup to 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20
minutes over time, and I wasdoing these chakra clearings and
starting to feel some peace.
And I literally was laying in myson's single bed one afternoon,
just before they came home fromschool doing this meditation,
this clearing, and I saw Jesuson a bench in a meadow, and it
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was the clearest, most vividpicture I've ever seen in my
mind.
It was it was more vivid thanI've ever seen anything.
And I felt like that was aninvitation, but I kind of
ignored it, I brushed it to theside, kept on going my merry
way.
My husband's business wasthriving at the time.
They ended up going from abusiness where they started as
an IT consulting company on anironing board in his friend's
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basement to penthouse officedowntown Halifax with 20
employees and growing.
And that started to gobackwards.
It started to fall apart throughjust different decisions that
were being made that weren'tagreed upon and things like
that.
Ended up dissolving in court.
And so at this time, um weactually he had taken a trip to
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Nicaragua, a mission trip toNicaragua.
He really felt a lack of peacein his own heart.
So he took this mission trip toNicaragua, had an incredible
experience there.
That's his story, came home, andthen we found the dissolution of
his business, my business wasfalling backwards, and we were
kind of a little bit at rockbottom.
And so we were, I can remembercoming home from a conference on
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a high.
He literally picked me up fromthe airport.
We went downtown Halifax andwe're taking multiple trips out,
clearing out his office beforethe doors would be locked the
next day.
And I was just listening toworship music on full blast the
whole way in and out, and Ididn't know what else to do with
myself.
But through that whole series,we just or that whole process,
we decided that we were notpersonally going to claim
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bankruptcy.
We were facing losing our house,we were facing losing our
vehicles, um, we lost the landthat we had bought to build out
on the ocean, about 40 minutesaway here.
And um, we just decided that no,we were going to honor our debts
and we were gonna do this theway it felt good to us.
And so it was a lot of money.
And we sought out some differentpeople to help us out, and they
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wouldn't touch us because it wasfar too risky.
So we just took a deep leap offaith, honestly.
And through that process, um, wesaw God show up so, so, so many
times in just um chunks of debtthat was erased quickly and
without any reason.
And it just was a beautifulfaith walk.
And now we're just kind of herein this place where um regrowing
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and rebuilding with a completelydifferent um alignment of our
priorities, I guess is where weare now.
SPEAKER_00 (09:01):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um and I I mean, I want to talklater about failures, and in
your talking about one rightnow.
Um but how we learn so much andwe we come back stronger.
When when you were in thislowest spot, when both you and
your husband have had hit, howand this might be deeply
personal, but how was yourmarriage?
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Because it's it's hard on it'shard on you, and you take a lot
out of yourself and you thinkwhat you think of yourself and
your husband, and you know, thecommunication stops the.
So I'm just wondering if you canbecause I think a lot of people
go through it.
SPEAKER_01 (09:35):
Yes, they do.
And I honestly can tell you, Ithink our marriage became
stronger.
Um and I'm so grateful to beable to say that because I've
had countless people say, Idon't know how you guys made
that through.
And that's where we can trulysay, Well, we both lean on God,
and that's where that's the onlyway we made it, the only way.
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Um, it was definitely astruggle.
My husband struggled withdepression, um, a quite deep
depression at one point in ourmarriage.
Um, not necessarily at thattime, but he really, he really
just um learned the true lovethat God has for us on this
trip.
It was just such a divineexperience.
And then it kind of um broughtto light the experience that I
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had had.
And we've both grown up inChristian homes.
We've been prayed for, you know,for generations, which we're
very, very fortunate to say.
And so I do think that theprayers of even our grandparents
are being answered, you know, aswe walk this out.
So just grateful for that.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:35):
Thank you for sharing that.
That was a great story.
Um on the we're gonna talk alittle bit about business and
just your principle of success.
Um what it would do you haveyour best principle of success
and do you have a story thatillustrates that?
SPEAKER_01 (10:49):
Well, I think I mean, really overall, what I've
learned is um on our own, we'rereally not as good as we think
we are.
So, you know, so for the firstwhile I thought, wow, like I'm
really something.
Like I got quite a little egogoing for a while there.
And um, you know, as my incomegrew, as my my organization
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grew, as my title go grew, um,you know, life was very good.
And on the surface, everythingwas really good.
And I did get really a falsesense of pride there, I think,
and a false sense of security.
Um, because of course we knowthat things can be taken away as
quickly as they can be given.
I'm experienced that firsthand.
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So um, yeah, I think justgetting priorities in order.
So I really do spend the timewith the Lord first thing in the
morning now, and I've kind ofcome to really depend on that
time.
I know my best days are when Istart that way, and I know the
days that I hit the groundrunning on my own oftentimes are
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not quite as good.
Even, you know, even the gooddays just aren't quite as good.
And what I've learned is thatwhat I've invited the Lord into,
whether it's my marriage,whether it's my women's group,
whether it's Leader Impact, ourfamily, it's always turned out,
and my business actually, it'salways turned out better than I
could have imagined.
And so I keep kind of going withlike God is like we have God's
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favor, God wants good things forus, right?
And so when we seek him first,all these things will be added
to you.
And I kind of live by thatprinciple now.
SPEAKER_00 (12:22):
Yeah, it's a good one.
Um yeah, ego, ego, that's uh itcan definitely um take you down,
you know, when you think youyou're you are all that and a
bag of chips and you're not, youknow.
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (12:39):
When we were facing losing everything, I did not
sleep for months.
And I thought, like, howembarrassed will I be?
I was mortified and soembarrassed, and it was all
pride and all ego that reallyjust had to be stripped down.
SPEAKER_00 (12:54):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (12:55):
So it's it's purposeful, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (12:57):
Yeah.
Um I will share.
Uh, I've been in a similarsituation.
My um, this was 10 years ago,and my dad had died.
And I am, I am my whole family'sflying in, and my husband
dropped everything to help us,and and he moved people from the
airport to the hospitals and andthen the funeral.
Everybody had left, and I wassitting in the office doing
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thank yous, and my husbandwalked in, and I knew I knew the
business was he was struggling,and he sat down in my office on
the floor and he said, I justwant you to know we're meeting
with the lawyers tomorrow and wemight claim bankruptcy.
And no time in this time of uhmy dad did he tell me.
He just served, and uh we'rewe're good now.
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I'll just gather myself.
And I remember looking at himand going, God's good, we'll get
through this, and it just neverphased me to go, you know.
SPEAKER_01 (13:55):
Isn't that incredible?
And the peace, the peace thatyou feel in those moments are
inexplicable, and that's onlyGod.
Yeah, wow.
Anyway, yeah, just yeah.
So and I just lost my dad amonth ago, so I know the feeling
of that too.
SPEAKER_00 (14:12):
So it's oh I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, well, we'll continue.
So we talk about um failures andmistakes, and it was funny.
This morning I just had a myleader impact talking about
failures and fears.
We learn more from them.
We know that we learn more fromour failures, mistakes, and our
own successes.
So I'm wondering if you have onethat you can share and uh what
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you learned from it.
SPEAKER_01 (14:36):
A failure.
Like, I don't know that I have aspecific failure.
I feel like I failed forward fora long time, honestly.
I've learned kind of to reshapefailures as lessons.
I really have.
And I've learned so manylessons.
I've made countless leadersleadership mistakes.
Um, I've put business for beforepeople at times, which I will
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never do again.
It's people first for me.
I think that's probably mybiggest lesson is to truly love
everyone where they are and andand serve from that place
versus, you know, going after agoal and how can they achieve
help achieve this goal?
It's just a very, very differentplace to work from and to lead
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from.
Yeah.
So that would be probably mygreatest lesson, slash failure,
slash, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (15:29):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wish we could tell the youngergeneration to fail forward.
We, you know, to it's not afail.
It is not a fail.
It's just you're moving forward,you know, and and you're
learning and take it for that.
And what are we walking awayfrom?
And yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (15:44):
Um and I do think the further you fall, I mean,
that I love that whole thing,the further you fall, the higher
you fly.
And you know, sometimes I thinkwe have to go through those
tough, tough, tark, dark timesin order to truly appreciate um
and also get it right when youfly again.
SPEAKER_00 (16:03):
Yeah.
It's it's hard when you're init.
Yes.
And if you know that um you willsee the other side uh and and
something will come out of it.
I there's a there's definitely ayou know, have faith.
Have faith.
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (16:20):
And I do love, I I I thank you for for the invitation
because I haven't shared thatstory publicly really at all.
But I do feel when we share ourstories, it it gives someone
else hope.
And I think that's the the mostimportant thing.
Like I don't think that we gothrough things for nothing.
I don't think they should endwith us.
I truly think that, you know, inin time as we heal and move
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forward, not in the thick of it,it's very difficult to share it
when you're in the thick of it.
But when you look back, you'reon the other side, you're doing
well, you can say, Listen, I'vebeen there, come along.
I you're gonna be okay.
SPEAKER_00 (16:55):
Yeah.
I um, as you said that insharing our stories, and we
learned, I I thought of myleader impact group, and that's
what we're about, is um we don'tall go through the same
failures, mistakes.
And when we share our stories,we know we all have gone through
it in different ways.
And to share the stories withother leaders who may not be
able to share it with anyoneelse on their team because you
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know, you're leading them.
You don't feel that these arethe people you should be sharing
with.
We are your peers.
And um, there's been some greatstories.
So uh your your group in Halifaxwill continue to grow and and
people will love showing up justto you know be part of a bigger
team.
Yeah.
Yes, yes, that's exactly what itis.
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Yeah.
So all right.
Uh at Leader Impact, we want togrow personally, professionally,
and spiritually for increasingimpact.
So I'm well wondering if you'rewilling to share an example of
how the spiritual makes apractical difference in your
life as a leader.
SPEAKER_01 (17:53):
Well, um, I didn't really realize.
So, again, starting my dayseeking wisdom and truth.
I don't know about you, but Ifind there's an awful lot of
noise out there right now.
And uh and so I find groundingmyself in just some solid truth,
wisdom, um, and guidance for theday helps me immensely.
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And then um I did actually sharemy testimonial last year on one
of our team calls.
We do weekly team calls and Ishared a short testimonial at
the end very spontaneously.
And as a result, I've seen otherwomen start to seek God and grow
in their faith.
And I just find that's been sucha blessing.
And so I love um, you know,having space to sometimes do
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that as well, just incorporateit into our work.
SPEAKER_00 (18:38):
Yeah.
I um when you share, more peopleare willing to share their own
story.
And when you become vulnerable,they'll ask you the simple
questions about your faith.
Like, how do you pray?
What does that mean?
Or what does it mean to havestillness in the morning?
Or you know, and they ask youbecause they they look at you
and like she's calm, she'staking this problem very calmly,
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or you know, you're findingpeace, and they they ask you,
what are you doing?
And you're like, Well, I startmy morning.
SPEAKER_01 (19:09):
Yes, yes, and I'm dependent on that time.
SPEAKER_00 (19:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Um, I when we first startedtalking, you talked about uh
finding stillness is hard, andwe are sisters from another
mother.
Um, and and I think every womanfinding stillness is hard and
finding so much noise in yourday.
And when my morning isinterrupted, I get it.
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Yes, it's sacred time.
It's sacred.
Yeah, my kids know that.
Well, at Leader Impact, we arededicated to leaders having a
lasting impact.
And so as you continue to movethrough this amazing journey
you're on, um, I'm wondering ifyou're willing or want what you
want your faith legacy to bewhen you leave this world.
SPEAKER_01 (19:56):
Hmm, legacy is seems like such a big word.
Um, I really want women to knowthey're enough and to know they
are loved.
That truly is um so heavy on myheart right now, I think,
because I struggled so much withnot feeling enough and
comparison, and I think that wasum a lot of my anxiety was
rooted in that.
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I work in a predominantly femaleindustry, and I think there's
just a lot of that that you justneed to work through.
And once you work through it,it's okay.
But um I do I do think that so Ilike I say I work predominantly
with women, so I see um it's soeasy to seek um validation in
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sometimes the wrong places,numb.
Um, you know, just I just wantthem to know their worth.
I truly want them to know thatthey have a creator who has
created them for a purpose, theyare loved beyond measure, just
as they are.
They do not need to um be or doanything more, they just are
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enough and to truly live thatout.
So that's a desire on my heartright now.
SPEAKER_00 (21:05):
Yeah.
I think um when when people, Imean, just looking at you, they
they look at women think youhave it all together.
What you know, what do you know?
So sharing the stories andsaying, I've I've been where
you've been, and you are enough.
Like it, you know, you willgrow.
Um, and I again the importanceof sharing the stories.
SPEAKER_01 (21:26):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (21:26):
Because women need to know that they're not alone,
they are enough.
SPEAKER_01 (21:30):
Um, and vulnerability is a is a power in
itself.
It really is.
Not you don't have to spare iteverything, but you know, being
willing to share creates trueconnection.
SPEAKER_00 (21:42):
Yeah, yeah.
So that's what makes it what'sleader impact a great group.
Um, our last question for you iswhat brings you the greatest
joy?
SPEAKER_01 (21:52):
Right now it's my kids.
My kids are two boys, they're 17and 19, and they're just coming
into their own.
And that brings me so much joy.
I've struggled, I've worked fromhome for um 17 years.
So I was living COVID longbefore the pandemic happened.
So um, you know, there'sisolating moments in that.
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There was times that Iquestioned whether I was doing
the right thing.
Um, but I have been so presentwith them over the last, over
their entire lives.
They don't remember full-timechildcare, and I was always
available, which I just considersuch a blessing and a gift, and
I'm so grateful for.
And I just see God's handthrough my entire life,
honestly, even up to this point,in ways that I didn't even
(22:37):
recognize at the time.
But yeah, to watch themflourish, to watch them just to
grow in their confidence, intheir own faith, um, in their
own trust in the Lord, um, isjust really making me so
joy-filled right now.
SPEAKER_00 (22:50):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (22:51):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:52):
Yeah.
I have uh two children, 20 and20, well, it's gonna be 22, 20
and 22.
Oh, you're just ahead of me.
Yes.
And married at the same time, 24years coming up.
Um my gosh.
I know.
Again, from another mother.
Uh your comment about um beingisolated.
And you know, I I have workedfrom home for many years prior
(23:12):
to COVID.
And um, we can't let thathappen, right?
We we have to get out of thehouse.
Um, we we know, but I I think wegot good at it before.
So to any, I just if you haveany advice, and I mean I'm
trying to think myself aboutisolation for women who are
living in, and how how would yousuggest, you know, how do we get
(23:33):
out of it?
Um, yeah, that is such a greatquestion.
SPEAKER_01 (23:36):
You know, I don't feel like it's in the last year
that I've even started to getout of it, to be honest.
Yeah.
Um, and really crave people.
Like I was actually very happyin my little bubble of four for
about a year and a half.
They were homeschooling, and Ijust loved the little the time
that we had with them till tillI didn't.
Um about two years in, I waslike, okay, this is enough now.
(23:56):
But it's only been aboutprobably end of 2023, early 24
that I started to realize okay,we need connection.
We need people, we are not meantto do this life alone, and we're
meant to be in community.
And so leader impact has beenhuge for me, honestly.
Um, I also have another women'sgroup, just four, there's five
of us who've become just dearfriends, and our spouses have
(24:19):
become friends, and now we'retraveling together a little bit,
and it's a it's we're just we wepray together and we we just you
know do life together, but Ithink finding your people is so
important, so important.
And it's not everyone, right?
Like just finding that kind ofinner circle is so key, and put
you kind of need to put yourselfout there until you find that
(24:41):
too.
So yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (24:44):
There's uh so I I host a TV show in my in my city,
and we just recently had they'recalled uh Regina 55 Plus
Community Center.
So um it's it used to be calledSenior Center, but they've
rebranded 55 Plus.
And it's just a place to go andand do community, and there's
(25:06):
lots of activities you can join.
And I'm like, um 55 plus.
And I should I should go, right?
And I I know I'll be goingalone, and tonight I'm going to
a concert alone, and I'm like,you know, and I good, this is
very new for me, but it's to getout, like I am like you.
It's like it's it's time.
SPEAKER_01 (25:26):
You have to force yourself.
You do, and I became a hermit, Itruly became a hermit, and that
was my comfort zone too, right?
So getting back out with peopleis like we have to learn, yes,
relearn how to socialize.
So do it awkward, do ituncomfortable, do it, just do
it.
SPEAKER_00 (25:42):
Yeah.
And even if you don't talk toanyone, like I can go to a
concert, I can listen, and I canleave.
Or I can turn to the personbeside me and say, Hi, I'm Lisa.
Yes, the choice is yours.
SPEAKER_01 (25:52):
Yeah, the choice is mine.
Oh, the choices are endless.
So yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (25:56):
Well, Jennifer, I want to thank you for joining us
this last 25 minutes.
It is it has been a pleasure tomeet you.
SPEAKER_01 (26:02):
Um, nice chat.
SPEAKER_00 (26:04):
I uh I have had a great time.
I know actually a friend of mymy neighbor used to be, well, is
in Arbonne.
I don't know if you know BeckyYoung.
SPEAKER_01 (26:11):
Oh my goodness, she's lovely.
The OG is in Arbonne, she'slegacy, she's our legacy.
Yeah, she was one of the firstwomen in Canada, I think.
SPEAKER_00 (26:20):
Yes, she was.
Yes, she was.
Yeah, they moved in beside us,but her husband was had they
also had the the ranch, and Ithink they just couldn't do
both, and they moved, they wentback out to the ranch, and then
I think they're somewhere else.
But uh it was lovely to havethem as neighbors.
SPEAKER_01 (26:35):
I'm sure she is lovely.
I've never met her in person,but I've heard her speak many,
many times.
SPEAKER_00 (26:40):
Yeah, lovely.
SPEAKER_01 (26:40):
Yeah, so connection.
SPEAKER_00 (26:42):
There we go.
Thank you.
That's right.
All right.
Well, uh Jennifer, and if anyonewants to connect with you, find
you, learn more about you, whatis the best way to connect with
you?
SPEAKER_01 (26:51):
Yeah, I'm I'm trying to be more active on social
media.
I don't have a website at thispoint, but um uh uh Daily Walk
with Jen.
Daily Walk with Jen two N's ismy Instagram handle.
You can pop me a message ifthere's anything I can help with
anybody with, I'm happy to dothat.
I'm happy to walk throughsituations with people that I've
(27:12):
already experienced and uh loveto connect with new women.
That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00 (27:17):
Thank you again for sharing the last half hour with
us.
You're welcome.
SPEAKER_01 (27:20):
Thank you so much.
Have a great day.
unknown (27:22):
All right.
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