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July 10, 2025 • 14 mins
In today's segment Dr. Jaz continues to interview Krista on developing her book "Gaining Your Power Back: 7 Strategies For Women Who Experience Trauma to Heal, Have Success, & Have a Prosperous Life" Today we are coveing chapter 6 "Learn to Let Go" Krista will uncover how she learned to let go, what situation she felt broke, but freed, and learning how to take care of your emotions.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Mad's Own Mom Squad podcast, a production
of iHeartRadio. Hard Working real mama's having real conversations. Now,
sit back, relax, and get ready to talk mom life
with Christa and her squad.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well listen when doctor Jazz flaz in Honey on her beautiful,
magical carpet because of believing she is magical from the
inside out and she makes things happen. I don't know
how you do what you do, but you've been helping
me to create my own book and I'm just in
awe by you. Oh Jazz, come on now, Oh.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
I love you so much. You're phenomenal.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
You are amazing, and we need to share all of
this awesomeness with the world.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yes. So how you been though, girl?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Busy honey, busy. Yes, this mama has been everywhere. Tons
of concerts with Summer Fast, Morgan Wallen coming here. Yeah,
it's been. Luke Bryan Farm tour tickets are coming out.
So between Z one oh four and ninety six three
star Country, I'm out ye out there yeah yes, And

(01:14):
then you know, hanging time with my beautiful girl. Jia
took her to like Geneva over the weekend and uh,
seeing my beautiful boyfriend, you know, going on the bike
when we can.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yes, the boyfriend, yes, haper, Yes, Okay, I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's good. And Gia's enjoying summer.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh yeah, she is out right now at a water
park with her girlfriends.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, he's active, honey.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yes, wonderful.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
And we've been doing good, just adjusting to summer life.
I'm already kind of like when does school start back?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Oh, but it's really really fun. It's just a lot
of activity. And we just got back from Jamaica.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'm gonna say you just got back from Jamaica. Cash thing.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
It was my it was our first time being there.
It was amazing. Oh I've heard.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Only but amazing, yeah, things about we're in Jamaica.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
We were in Montego Bay. Oh wonderful.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
It was so fun and nice and we had a
great family much needed rest and relaxation.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Absolutely it was needed.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yes, And so yes, girl, we are finishing up your book.
And so the topic that I wanted to interview you
about today is learning to let go. And for any
of our listeners who you might be just tuning in now.
Miss Amazing Christa is writing a book about gaining.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Your Power back.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Seven strategies for women who've experienced trauma to heal, have
success and live a prosperous life. And she's been sharing
seven different strategies on how to do this. The first
chapter was activating your healing Tools. Then chapter two is
on forgiving yourself. Chapter three, Protect your Piece, Chapter four

(02:53):
remember your self Worth. Last time we talked about giving
yourself grace and now I want to interview you about
the topic of learning to let go. Okay, so when
you think about your journey and you first I want
to commend you for opening up so much about what
you went through with the different traumas that you've been through,

(03:15):
and now to just hear you even how you just
opened up this segment of talking about your boyfriend and
your traveling and all this joy that I see. Learning
to let go of the past was huge for you
to even get to this.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Point you are now.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Absolutely so when you say learn to let go as
the advice that you give people, what does that mean
and why is it so important to be able to
let go of the past.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, it's really interesting because I just had this conversation
with someone, and I would just say, you can try
to take someone out of a different atmosphere and put
them in another atmosphere, thinking that that's going to make
things better.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
You have to take it upon yourself two really find
what it is within yourself that needs to be healed.
It's it's it's called work. You need to work at it,
and it's not just gonna happen. I think for me,
you know, after the three years that I went through,

(04:18):
I I did. I put in the work that I
needed to heal. I mean, it's it's pure and simple,
you know, and I and I needed to learn the tools, right.
So that's why going through you know, the edm R
trauma therapy that helped me write with the tools, but
I would not have been able to succeed in where
I am today, in my life today and how I

(04:40):
feel today because I'm a different person than I was
three years ago when I was really going through a
lot of struggle. Is that I feel whole and that
I'm in control now of my life and I'm in
control of those past really horrible things that I kept inside.
They don't they don't affect me anymore. And to be

(05:02):
able to say that, like, you don't own me anymore,
like any any person that's been through trauma knows when
if you can say that that does not own my brain,
my mind, my body. Ooh, it's a freeing thing. It's
a freeing thing. Yeah, but it doesn't just happen, you know,
you know what I mean. Like a pill is not
going to take it away. Drinking is not going to

(05:24):
take it away.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Self medication is not going to take these things away.
You have to work on it, and it has to
come from you because no one else is going to
be able to write yeah, to make you actually feel
better inside? Right, Yeah, you have to be happy within
yourself and that's why you have to put in the
time and the effort because you deserve it.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
That's powerful. When you ask why is it so important
to let go? I hear you saying, because if you
don't let go, when you hold onto those things, that person,
that situation still has control over you. Absolutely don't let
it go, You'll never be able to truly live.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Wow, that's why it's so important.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Okay, my next question, now that you provided a little
background information, I want to get a little more personal,
can you share with me kind of like if you
could replay your life like a scene in a movie,
what's the time you remember when you finally like let
go or forgave or something broke where you felt free?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
What was that moment or can you think of any
time like that.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I mean there's I mean, there's different things you know
in my life. But you know, like for instance, when
I lost my job right from budget cuts, Like that's
an extremely devastating thing for someone to go through, right,
any of us to lose our job, especially if you're
a single parent. You're like, oh my god. Right, But

(06:51):
let me just say yeah, because of where I was
at in my life mentally and emotionally, I was able
to overcome that. If I were in the same place
that I were three years prior, I would have been
an absolute mess my mind because I'm in a healthy
place now was you know, I'm not going to be angry,

(07:15):
I'm not going to be mad, I'm not gonna be frustrated.
Alls I know is that I had a good run
and I have to look forward and now it's action
plan because in my mind is you know, this is
my career twenty five years in broadcasting. I'm not going
to lose it. I can't lose it. I can't fail.
I can't fail because I have a daughter that is

(07:37):
watching me, and I need her to learn that you
should never give up. So that was my mind frame.
If this would have happened to me three years prior,
I mean I might not even be here. I'll be
honest again, different time in my life. I'm a different person.
I'm a lot stronger. It's the tools that I learned.
That's why it's so important for you to take the time.

(07:59):
It just makes just longer in life.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Right, that's so powerful.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
You have to the I've never thought about it that way.
Like the reason to let go and why you need
to heal, it's not always for the things that happened
in the past.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
It's so that when things happen in the future.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
That will try you, you can be healed and navigate
those future things. Yes too, So almost like if you're
carrying a lot of weight, if you're carrying it, carrying
it for all those years back in three years ago,
if you never would have let go and was carrying
all that weight like big boulders when you lost your

(08:38):
prior job, if that Boulder would have came down too,
and you were still carrying all that stuff from before.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
That would have been the thing that broke you. So wow.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
So learning to let go is not just for your past,
is for your future.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
It's for your future.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah yeah, because there's a lot of things that are
I'm a lot different that I will not you know,
allow to affect me. Right wow. So there's a reason
for why I believe we all go through struggles in life.
But man, does it make you strongener in the end.
But you've got to make that decision for yourself. By God,
I deserve it. That's why I'm always like a huge

(09:14):
advocate right of to learning out here. Behavioral mental health
road to recovery definitely is a reality, but you have
to be the one to make that first step, you know,
you know, and to love those that have you know,
Like I've talked about and I won't get into names,

(09:35):
but addiction. Addiction is not that is not a choice.
That is a disease. And to be able to see
people that I know that we're struggling for twenty five
years that are sober now today because they chose to
finally take that opportunity be like no more. I'm going

(09:56):
to live this prosperous, happy life where I'm not going
to drugs or alcohol destroy my life, my family, lose
my children, none of that. You know what I'm saying,
because that's what that stuff does. Wow, right, it's finding
the healthier ways for you to get through.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yes. And I'm just using as a powerful example.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
And if you keep holding on to things and don't
take the time to heal and let go, that's coping mechanisms.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Too for sure.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Right yeah, So that okay, okay, So thank you for
sharing a little background and from providing some background information
giving a personal story. Now I want to ask you
some practical tips to empower your listeners. People who are
listening right now, people are going to be reading this
book if they're saying, Krista, that's me right now where

(10:46):
you were three years ago. I'm carrying the weight of
the world, of the traumas that have happened to me,
the things that have gone on. But I can't release,
I can't let go. But I want to get like you.
I want to be able to let go. Advice would
you give for them? What practical things can they do
to like be able to let go?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
What should they do?

Speaker 5 (11:07):
Right now, go into your room, scream, just scream at
the top of your lung. I don't care, put your pillows,
whatever you need to do, rip stuff apart, you know,
most likely because you got a lot of anger.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
You're pissed off.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Right, Let's be honest, you're pissed off. You got to
be able to you got to be able to learn
how to take control of your emotions and know what's
good and what's bad for you. And that's not easy.
That's that's a lot that I mean that, you know,

(11:43):
not only you know, are you gonna have to do
that for yourself? Most likely you're you know, you you know,
may need help with a therapist. Nothing wrong with that,
you know, seeking trauma therapy, talking to a best friend.
But no, you do you do not have to walk

(12:06):
every single day in this world feeling like you're not worthy,
that you're a victim. No, you're a survivor.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
You're a period period.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
You are a superhero into chapter.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
That's powerful. Yeah, you are a survivor. I love that.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, what happened to you, But what happened to you
in your past is not That is not who you are, right,
It builds who you are, your strength and all that
maybe your shield, but that does not identify that's not
your identity, you know what I mean? And I think
for those who have been through very horrible things in

(12:50):
their life, well understand that there's things that I've seen
people have gone through, and I just I can't imagine.
I can't imagine being a mom losing your child from cancer,
absolutely not. How do you get through that? You know?

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Things like that.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yeah, well this is so good. Congratulations that out. That's powerful, powerful, powerful.
So any of our listeners who are tuning in and
listening to this, we just want to let you know
that you are loved, you are seeing, you are heard,
and I really hope that you take to heart these
powerful words that Krista.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Has shared with us today.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Whatever you've been through, you gotta be able to let
go and don't do it alone. Seek out the support
that you need. You're not alone. And this was beautiful things.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I love you. Get rid of the noise, everyone, get
rid of it, and anyone that puts noise into your world,
get rid of them. Protect who you are, your environment,
you know, especially with our young kids. Man, if there
are if there are friends around you that just make
you feel horrible about yourself. Those aren't your friends, you know.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah yeah, So sometimes learning what I hear you saying
is learning to let go might be letting go of
old relationships, old surroundings that might hold you back.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Oh yeah, okay, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Okay, all right, Well, everybody, make sure to tune into
our next episode where we'll be interviewing miss Lovely Amazing Christa,
because we're going to be talking a little bit more
about the topic of knowing you art alone.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
But you have to make sure to h stay tuned
for the next episode. Love your girl, I love you too,
all right.

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