May 12, 2025 • 34 mins
Shanta shares why she has been absent from the world of podcasting for a year. On this pod-snack she shares tips and tools to help navigate challenges that are beyond our control such as Loss of income, Mental Health issues with family, and her experience with Burnout. Shanta shares what you can expect in the future regarding the Podcast.
It's been a while, get your snacks, and get ready to chill with Shanta as she takes you on a short journey of what has been happening over the past year.
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It's been a while, get your snacks, and get ready to chill with Shanta as she takes you on a short journey of what has been happening over the past year.
Be sure to subscribe to the show.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/authentic-talks-2-0-with-shanta--4116672/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
She is back. Welcome to the show. It has been
a while, you guys. Woo. If you are new to
the Authentic Talks family, if you're here listening for the
very first time, I do want to take a moment
and say welcome, Welcome, and welcome. Hit that subscribe button
that way, when I upload a show, you will be
(00:22):
notified and you will not miss that episode. Wow. Okay,
you guys. So it has been a year since I've
uploaded and recorded my last episode, so it was May
thirteenth of twenty twenty four, and I am just excited
to be back you guys. I've missed you all and
(00:43):
I'm ready to dive back into some amazing conversations. Woo.
I just feel so good. I'm overflowing you guys and
love energy and just it just feels so good to
just be talking to you at this moment. And I
just want to reassure sure you that I'm back and
I'm not going any place, you guys. The shows will
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be uploaded every single week on Mondays. I do plan
on having several pod snacks and then going back into
bringing guests back into the shows. I have been through
a lot over the last year. You guys, some of
the things have been amazing and something's not so amazing,
and so I want to dive in and I want
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to talk about it all with you because it is
authentic talks. I have been through some personal growth and
professional growth. Some lessons that I've learned have been amazing
and have helped me to truly evolve. Some of my
struggles were real, and it was dealing with different personalities,
dealing with the challenges of being a mom, a wife,
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juggling full time work and being an entrepreneur, and with
everyone tugging on me like let's go this way and
let's go that way, and then having some responsibilities and
duties that I didn't have a way out. All of
it being things that I've definitely been able to learn
and grow from, and I will definitely share with you
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some tips, ands and tools at the end of the
podcast that's going to help you to navigate where you
can maybe eliminate some of the struggles that I personally
experienced along the way. One of the things that happened
was loss of income. We all know that this impacts
us all in a not so great way, and it
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was something that I didn't want to make public, and
I wanted it to be a private thing that we
dealt with also having to deal with a son that
was going through some mental challenges as well, and then
having to help him navigate through that. And we're still
assisting in helping him to navigate through those issues or
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through his mental health journey that he's dealing with after
being hit by a car, and I believe I shared
that with you guys in one of the earlier episodes.
And he's fine, he's working full time, but there has
definitely been some challenges with that and being his mother.
It's not like I can just turn my back on
him and say, hey, you're on your own, buddy. It's
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like you have to help them navigate through and that
was really challenging as well, you guys. The truth is
I had to relearn, like how to balance my career,
my business and my personal life. Where I thought that
I had it all together, at some point in twenty
twenty four, I had hit a level of fatigue where
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I was feeling tired. I was feeling I could get
through this, I can make it, but I was taking
on more than what I really could handle as far
as like the business and trying to navigate school and
being a full time mom and being a wife and
trying to keep the podcast going and doing all of
these things on my own. And I had just moved
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into a new position that I had been waiting for
and was super excited at, and it required more of
my attention and more of my organization than what I
initially thought it would. I was also trying to find
ways to bring joy into the workspace, and there was
a lot of mix matched energy per se. So I
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pulled back on that a bit and took a break
from that and then focus more on the purpose of
me being there was to learn my new role. And
then that role started growing and I was taking on
more really than what I needed to. But I felt
like customer service, where it was like putting myself in
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the customer shoes, and so I didn't care about who's
role or responsibility certain things were. I felt like, we
need to just get this done, and so taking that
on like took its toll as well, and then it
just felt like we needed more help and help just
wasn't coming. And then that started to make me feel
even more like ugh and just fatigued, tired, my spirits
(05:05):
were still like crushed and feeling like I'll just say this,
I started in pursuit of looking for a different position,
and it felt like the doors was just not opening
up for me. I was able to go through a
series of interviews and they just didn't really feel positive,
to be honest with you, and so God is so good.
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I just I feel like the universe opens doors when
they need to be open, and you end up where
you're supposed to be. And so I was able to
move into a different area and then things just started
to really change for me in a short period of time,
where I found that my energy was back, my spirits
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were lifted, and then my ability to create and to give,
you know, wholeheartedly just started to show back up. I
found myself waking up in the mornings where I was
looking forward to going into work. I found myself enjoying
like being at work. I found myself smiling again and
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just like having good energy. And even when someone approached
me one day and said to me, we probably would
not have liked you anyway, I didn't let it phaze me.
I was just like, oh, okay, well you have a
great day. I wish you well, and I hope that
your energy is able to, you know, be lifted up.
And so I've been running into people who are matching
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my energy with good energy and so that's really an
awesome thing. And like, no matter what space you're in,
you guys, one of the things I've learned is that
you're never going to be able to appease everyone. Everyone's
not going to be your cup of tea and you're
not going to be everyone else's cup of tea. But
we can all learn to co create in a space
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and just figure it out and just get through what
needs to be done and make sure that we're doing
it and doing it very well. That's what I've learned,
and that when certain doors close or they won't open up,
you just better trust that God or the universe has
your back and it is for a reason. Trust that
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in that season, okay. And so with that being said,
as far as the business side of things, I have
been able to expand the business, you guys, and so
we now have essential oils and I love lavender, So
the majority of our products as far as the essential oils,
are infused with dry lavender. And I've also added candles
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to the business as well. So I've been busy taking
care of business and learning and growing and just coming
up with new content that I could share with you all,
and also understanding that I'm going to continue to bring
you amazing guests. And I do want to say thank
you so much for riding with me holding it down.
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Some of you guys have come over to the Authentic
You mindset platform on Instagram and you're following me there,
and it's good to see you there, and so I'm
excited again to be back, and I just want to
talk about some of the things that have been going
on in the world, you know, and a little bit
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with you all today and just really encourage you and
to let you know that no matter what happens, one
of the things that we know for sure is that
we always have to take care of ourselves. And I
found myself throughout the last year feeling uncomfortable in situations.
My energy was off in some situations, and just not
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feeling like myself and not able to show up as
my authentic self. In some of the spaces, I felt
that other people were projecting negative energy towards me. I
could walk into their presence and I could just really
feel it. They didn't have to say anything. One of
the things that I'm really good with is feeling energy
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and feeling people out. And so what started happening is
that I found myself starting to shut down and pull
back and not talk as much and not express myself
as much. And then shutting down wasn't really helping me
any that right there was something that needed to be
corrected right away. And so what I did was I
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would just reserve my energy in certain spaces where I
just wasn't really giving a lot of it out because
I really didn't have a whole lot that I could
really give. You, guys, I felt like drained, burnt out.
Burnout is a real thing, and that happens when we
allow ourselves to not have those boundaries, when we think
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that we can do everything, when we want to be
so helpful and we're trying to do so much, you know,
and then oftentimes when you're doing, when you're giving and
doing a lot, it's not even really noticed, and a
lot of times it goes unappreciated, and then you start
to become overlooked in certain situations, and that just makes
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it worse. You start to feel even more beat down,
more tired, exhausted and burnout is actually truly a real thing,
and it doesn't really help your family out, it doesn't
really help a lot of people in the end, especially yourself.
And so one of the things I learned is that
we have to take it back to having those boundaries.
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We have to make sure that self care is at
the forefront. We have to make sure that we're taking
care of the people who are willing to take care
of us, you know, and you want to be around
those people who when you're not in the room, who
are speaking up for you, because oftentimes that's something that
you might be doing. But then when you're not in
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a room, there's people that that might be in those
rooms who are not doing that for you. And so
you definitely want to make sure that you're building solid foundations,
solid relationships with uten people and making sure that they're
real and not just like these superficial relationships based on
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what you're able to do, and you find out like
who the real ones are whenever you're put in a
position where you can no longer do those things. And
so what happened for us, you guys, was my husband
end up losing his income and so we end up
having an income reduction, and it took a minute for
him to like get back out there, and when he did,
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it was like his income was less than what we
were used to having, and so we had to make
some adjustments and like doing all of this without wanting
to like make it a big deal, like and announcing
to everyone like why I'm no longer able to show
up in the same way financially, or why I can
no longer do this or that. It's like it was
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none of their business, and so I felt like there
was no need for me to have to go in
there and do that. I felt like, based off of
the merits of what I had already done, should be
in that, like to know my heart and to know
like where we come from, you know, and like what
we're what we're trying to do here in the space.
But instead I felt like it was kind of like
a weird energy behind it, you know, and like now
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I've moved on and I'm in a different space and place,
and it feels like that energy is like like it's like,
uh uh, You're not going to seep over here on
this other side, stay over there, and I'm just trying
to like move on and doing this transition and still
keeping it professional and learning and continuing to grow. And
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as far as the business, you guys side of things,
like I do plan on launching a new program, and
I do have still book four that's coming out in
this year twenty twenty five, which is of the Gem
with Me, a Journey to Your Higher Self book series
Book four about mindfulness is still coming out, and so
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I'm still behind the scene. It's doing the work, you guys.
It's never done. It's like a journey. It's a continuous
journey that you have to keep working on and it's
not like once you get to a certain place you
just stop and say okay. But I did feel like
for a little bit in there that my struggle was real.
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I felt like I was suffocating. I felt like my
voice was unheard. I felt unseen, I felt unappreciated. It
was all of these things that was happening all at once,
and it just felt like the roof was caving in
on me. And I was just trying to avoid like
negative people and negative spaces, and the universe just started
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turning it around. Like little by little. It started happening,
like on the outside of work where I was being
around people who were again like uplifting and positive, and
then it just started to eventually like move into that
space and then until it does completely shift did and
so I am back, And that's what happened, you guys.
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I was dealing with life and realizing that I needed
to take a break and pause on certain things. And
I wasn't able to really give you one hundred percent
with the podcast. But I came out with the podcast
really like to bring positivity, to bring like love, to
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share growth tips with you, you know, to talk about mind, body,
and spirit and how all of that is interconnected, you know,
and how it's really important for us to have self
love and for us to show up, you know, as
our authentic selves and to not be afraid to discover
who we truly are. That was the reason why I
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had came out with the podcast, and those things are
still applicable to our lives to this very day, you know,
as I continue to get older. You know, there's some
other topics that I wanted to talk about, like some
of the things that I've been experiencing with going through menopause,
you know, and like how that's impacted me. Sometimes I
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would be sitting there and would just have like a
zap of a hot flash, you know. And menopause is
something that my mother didn't deal with, and a lot
of the people in my family has they have not
dealt with like menopause in the same way that I'm
actually dealing with it or going through it or experiencing it,
i should say. And so that has been like an
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interesting journey as well. And I have found that some
of the things that have helped me and continue to
help me is the essential oils, which is why I
got into them and learning how to make them myself
and understanding what works for what thing. And so that
started with my son also, where one of them he
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would get nosebleeds because we're in Arizona where the weather
is really dry, and so I started learning and experimenting
with the diffuser, putting drops of certain things to figure
out what will help him not have a dry nose,
what would help me and not have that because one
of my sons have some serious science issues as well,
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and all of that has to do with like the dust,
the dry heat and things like that. And so that's
been a part of my brain is learning and experimenting
with that, taking more classes to get certifications and things
of that nature to really help us like to be
able to thrive better here at home in our house,
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you know. And of course that spills over into other
spaces because as I learn and grow, I'm like, I've
got to share this, and so I do share it
with my customers and clients. And another thing that I
had been working on was my sound therapy, the sound
baths and really working with customers more. I also worked
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with a friend with her vision that she's had for
spreading the word about holistic health, and that was something
that I worked on with her. And I've been able
to just really meet some amazing people throughout this past
year that has really helped to shape some of my
vision for my own life and to really help me
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like grow. That's really what I have been up to
in a nutshell, you guys. I have been also invited
to various women's events and things of that nature and
around a new type of women that are really there
to like help other women thrive, and that's been really amazing,
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you guys. Know. I've met a lot of people over
the last years because I've had amazing people on the
podcast who were genuine and really about that life too,
you know, and I'm just like transitioning where I'm now
meeting more of them in person, and so that is
really a beautiful thing. We'll tell you. The other side,
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or the flip side of that, has been that people
sometimes will expect your books for free, and I already
give out a lot of things for free in my shop.
And sometimes, like you get where people want you to
give them a lot, and you may not have a
lot of financial ability or capability to give them, and
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so they don't understand that. Like when you're running a business,
there's cost and there's a lot of things that happen
behind the scenes. It's not like people are handing you
merchandise or handing you ideas you know that you can
just run with. You are the creator, you are the CEO.
You are the one that has to make those decisions
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about what products and services you're going to offer and
bring into your business space. I've been able to mentor
some people, and so that's been really an amazing thing.
It's it's very rewarding, you know, and so that's been awesome.
I have also expanded where I was in a certain
area with my pop up shop and I've now been
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moving around various parts of Arizona. So that's been amazing
to meet such beautiful people and to receive such a
warm welcome. And a lot of people are so knowledgeable
these days about Sage and the products that we sell,
and they truly understand it. And so that is an
amazing thing that the word is getting out there about
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how to use these products in what ways are they
very helpful for you, and how you can use them
to help you thrive. And so that's been really an
awesome thing. And just so you know, you are not
alone when we talk about like the housing prices going up,
we talk about food prices going up. Things are just
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really looking a little shaky right now where we're not
quite sure how things are going to go. But what
I wanted to share with all of you is that
one thing that no one can ever take away from
you is positivity and the power of your mind. We
have to focus on creating, we have to focus on growth,
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we have to focus on educating ourselves, and we have
to make sure that emotional intelligence is at the forefront
of all that we do. I myself had got a
little bit emotional in there where I was getting pissed
off about things and really expressing it. But it doesn't
do any good to come in with that type of
mindset or attitude, and I, of all people definitely know
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that it doesn't work. And so I want to encourage
you and let you know that the best thing that
you can do throughout this time period is to educate
yourself and make sure that you're being educated by reliable sources. You, guys,
let's go ahead and take a moment to dive really
deep and talk about emotional intelligence. I want to talk
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about how we can navigate during uncertainty. When we're facing
all of these things like loss of income, when we're
facing tariffs, when we're facing inflation, when we're facing mental
challenges with a family member, it can really really be tough.
We know for sure that our emotional well being is
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definitely important. I mean, the truth is that there's so
much uncertainty that it's really important for us to understand
what emotional intelligence is and what it really looks like,
what it feels like. And it's more important than ever
before for us to implement this in our life. Our
emotional wellbeing is going to play an important role on
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how we respond to others, how we react, what we
allow to impact our day to day lives. We know
that certain things happen that are beyond our control, like
loss of income inflation. We know that any one of
us could be dealing with mental challenges, whether that's a
family member or it could even be with yourself. Understanding
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how to navigate this is going to play a key
role in your life. It's really truly more important than
ever before. We have so many layers of things that's
happening in society today. We understand what self care looks
like and self love. Sometimes when you're in the midst
of those things, it can actually get lost. And so
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I do want to bring us back and take a
moment to talk about that. Emotional intelligence feels like a
sense of calm and clarity whenever there's chaos all around us,
we're not really impacted in the way that the world
is outside of us. And so I want to remind
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you that when you can feel like tension or stress
in a situation spiraling out of control, that you have
to take a moment and take a deep breath and
respond with thoughtfulness. You can't allow like the first thoughts
or feelings that come to you that make you feel
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upset and want to storm off and show like all
of this other side that people were like, oh my god,
what is going on and what is that using profanity
throwing things around. Someone had through like a keyboard one time,
where I was like, what in the heck is going on?
They didn't really know how to express those emotions that
were coming up, and so they felt like the way
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that they probably expressed it as a child and their
parents were receptive of that, that that made it okay
in the workplace, But it's really not okay. So just
basically understanding like how to breathe and bring yourself back
into a place where you're thinking in a thoughtful way.
And it's not about suppressing your feelings. It's about acknowledging
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them and choosing how to move forward in a way
that aligns with your values. So always keep that in
mind when it comes to exercising emotional intelligence. Here are
a few things that's gonna help you with that. Having
self awareness, are you tuning into your emotions and noticing
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your stress, your anger, or your frustration rising. Having self
regulation when those emotions come up, how do you respond,
do you act on impulse or do you pause and
think through your reactions. I'm telling you this, you guys,
because I have had to recently go through this where
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I literally had to like pause for a moment and breathe,
and then I would find someone that I could go
to and I would just start expressing it, and in
the midst of expressing how I truly felt, something else
would rise up where it was like breathe, girl, just
breathe through this. And then I literally had to like
go through my self awareness. Okay. I was aware that, like,
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all right, you're talking to this person and you're sharing
a bit much in a negative way, and I understood
that I'm need to self regulate and then also just
have empathy for myself because the feelings that I was
feeling was real. Just understanding that even when talking with
someone else and listening to them, to have empathy for
them because those struggles that they're expressing their real, you know.
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And so just being able to go back to those
basic social skills, you guys, and understanding that our ability
to communicate our feelings effectively without creating unnecessary conflict is important,
and just being able to listen to others express their
concerns and allowing them to express how they feel, understanding
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that it's not directed directly at you as a personal attack,
but that is just what they're feeling, and they might
not be able to regulate their emotions in that moment,
and so you can just invite them to breathe. Just say,
take a deep breath, It's okay, just breathe. I understand
being able to be human and understand that, like they're
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really having a bad day when it comes to dealing
with family members, you guys like and having their mental struggles.
One of the things that kicked in from myself was
I was not comfortable to share with everyone what my
son was going through. Just knowing that it's good for
you to find a safe space and that you don't
have to share your business or what's going on in
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your household, what every single person that you run into.
And it's pretty ironic because I have a podcast, Authentic Talks,
and I'm pretty open about talking about things. But it's different,
like whenever you're in your business working or you're at
work working, it's like you just kind of know how
to separate those things, or you really want to separate them,
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because sometimes you just really don't want to be the
talk of the department when it's something like that, or
it's not good or positive. Right, And so although we
can't control the conversations that people have about us, we
can control our personal business and making sure that they
are not all up in that space where they're able
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to come to their own conclusions. And so just understanding
mental struggles that people may have, you know, understanding that
your family member needs you, and although sometimes it feels like,
oh my gosh, this is overwhelming for me, you can
also seek some help for yourself with navigating it and
talking to a professional who can give you information on
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tips or tools and things that are out there that
can help that family member to be able to navigate
through those mental health challenges, whether it's anxiety, because my
son his is anxiety, an extreme case of it, and
it has him where at times he just really almost
appears as if he forgets to even breathe, and it's
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just really tough sometimes to deal with that. But exercising
emotional intelligence is crucial even in those situations, and it
means showing up a lot of times without judgment. It
means being able to listen to someone's struggles honestly, and
here's what I had to do. I had to be
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patient with him. I had to encourage him to get
professional help. At one point I even had to force it,
you know where I had to go and fill out
paperwork and have them come pick him up and do
an evaluation. By the second day he was calling me,
he convinced the people to call me and then he
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sound one hundred percent normal. It was to the point
where they were telling me I needed to go and
pick him up. He was like, I don't belong here,
I don't fit in here. And after going through that experience,
it like shifted the way that he was responding and
the way that he was showing up. It's like it
allowed him to try to exercise emotional intelligence, and it
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allowed him to be able to see himself and how
he was showing up and to be able to really
go to get the help will that he needed to have.
I definitely needed to encourage that professional help, and I
did have to set boundaries with my son and let
him know that, no, the way you're behaving and the
energy that you're giving is unacceptable. We're not going to
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have that. But we found out that he was stuck
in that anxiety state of where he was when he
got hit by that car of he was thinking that
that was going to happen again and be like a
repeat of something. And so that was definitely a struggle
to deal with and something that was a private situation
that our family was going through. And us setting those
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boundaries and letting him know that he needed to get
that help was something that we needed to do. And
at first it was a forced type of help, and
it was something that was necessary. It was like his
wake up call. The last thing that I want to
share with you guys is navigating loss of income and inflation,
because sometimes we deal with both at the same time,
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where all of your bills go up. Your house payment
goes up because if the taxes are an insurance and
sometimes the auto insurance goes up, and then you see
that your water bill, your electricity, your food bill goes up,
and then clothes are going up, and your kids' feets
are getting bigger or they're growing. If for those of
you who have children, you can relate to that. And
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so I want to talk about that. The financial strain
that we face sometimes is really real. It's affecting so
many of us, and we all have heard about other
people on the news who have lost income, you know,
and they have that heavy burden to carry, and it
feels like everything is out of your control and there's
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so much uncertainty behind it, and it brings a lot
of stress and anxiety. That's what I experience. And I
felt like there was no place to go, like to
really talk about it, and so until I did find
a safe space. It's good for you, for us, and
we're going through that for us to be able to
reframe our mindset, you know, like and we start with
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acknowledging how we really feel in those situations, whether that's fear, frustration, stress.
It's okay to fill those things, but once you recognize them,
then we have to shift our focus and focus on
what we have control over. And so we had to
go through and look to see what were some unnecessary
spending habits that we had. We had to cut back
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on a lot of things, you know, in order to
make life work, where we had to take care of
the things that were really truly important the house payment
and like of course you have to pay your car
payment and your auto insurance. There's those kind of things
that you can't get away from. But then there were
other things that we were spending money on that we knew, Okay,
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we can cut that cost, or don't need to take
this trip to go to such and such, We can
pull back on that. We don't need to go in
to this particular part. We could skip that party, we
could skip this event, that event. When you have a
loss of income, being able to navigate that by again
reframing your mindset, going through your bills, creating a new
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budget and prioritizing what is really necessary and removing the
things that are unnecessary, and then seeking additional resources and support,
and then building that resilience you guys where you are,
knowing that if there's an opportunity for you to pick
up extra hours or to pick up a part time job.
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And again, it was a lot that happened over the
last year as to why I was absentee, And there
was a lot of great things that happened for our
family over the last year. A lot of awarenesses, a
lot of self growth, a lot of family growth, and
a lot of pouring into other people happened over the
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last year. And so one of the things I definitely
want to reiterate to all of you is that the
show is back and it will continue to be about growth, love, respect, success, mind,
body and spirit. Yay, Authentic Talks is back. Now here's
what I want to leave you guys with before I
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end this episode. I do want to thank you so
much for joining me on today's episode, and I hope
that the tips on emotional intelligence help. I hope that
some of the information you received on supporting family members
through mental struggles and how you can navigate through the
uncertainty of financial loss we're really very helpful for you
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as well. And remember that we're going through challenging times
and so this is not the time for us to
be super duper fluffy and pretend like nothing's really going on.
But I do want to stress the importance of remaining positive.
That is super important. And then I just want to
let you guys know that you can move through all
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of this with grace and compassion for yourselves and for others.
And I'd love to hear how you've been coping with
everything that's going on and what tools and practices are
helping you and your family to manage during these uncertain times.
Please feel free to share with me on social media,
and let's keep the conversation going, you guys, Let's keep
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it going, and don't forget to hit that subscribe button
to the podcast for more episodes. And thank you so
much again for being here. I will be talking with
you soon. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm
chante with authentic tooks.
She is back. Welcome to the show. It has been
a while, you guys. Woo. If you are new to
the Authentic Talks family, if you're here listening for the
very first time, I do want to take a moment
and say welcome, Welcome, and welcome. Hit that subscribe button
that way, when I upload a show, you will be
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notified and you will not miss that episode. Wow. Okay,
you guys. So it has been a year since I've
uploaded and recorded my last episode, so it was May
thirteenth of twenty twenty four, and I am just excited
to be back you guys. I've missed you all and
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I'm ready to dive back into some amazing conversations. Woo.
I just feel so good. I'm overflowing you guys and
love energy and just it just feels so good to
just be talking to you at this moment. And I
just want to reassure sure you that I'm back and
I'm not going any place, you guys. The shows will
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be uploaded every single week on Mondays. I do plan
on having several pod snacks and then going back into
bringing guests back into the shows. I have been through
a lot over the last year. You guys, some of
the things have been amazing and something's not so amazing,
and so I want to dive in and I want
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to talk about it all with you because it is
authentic talks. I have been through some personal growth and
professional growth. Some lessons that I've learned have been amazing
and have helped me to truly evolve. Some of my
struggles were real, and it was dealing with different personalities,
dealing with the challenges of being a mom, a wife,
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juggling full time work and being an entrepreneur, and with
everyone tugging on me like let's go this way and
let's go that way, and then having some responsibilities and
duties that I didn't have a way out. All of
it being things that I've definitely been able to learn
and grow from, and I will definitely share with you
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some tips, ands and tools at the end of the
podcast that's going to help you to navigate where you
can maybe eliminate some of the struggles that I personally
experienced along the way. One of the things that happened
was loss of income. We all know that this impacts
us all in a not so great way, and it
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was something that I didn't want to make public, and
I wanted it to be a private thing that we
dealt with also having to deal with a son that
was going through some mental challenges as well, and then
having to help him navigate through that. And we're still
assisting in helping him to navigate through those issues or
(02:50):
through his mental health journey that he's dealing with after
being hit by a car, and I believe I shared
that with you guys in one of the earlier episodes.
And he's fine, he's working full time, but there has
definitely been some challenges with that and being his mother.
It's not like I can just turn my back on
him and say, hey, you're on your own, buddy. It's
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like you have to help them navigate through and that
was really challenging as well, you guys. The truth is
I had to relearn, like how to balance my career,
my business and my personal life. Where I thought that
I had it all together, at some point in twenty
twenty four, I had hit a level of fatigue where
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I was feeling tired. I was feeling I could get
through this, I can make it, but I was taking
on more than what I really could handle as far
as like the business and trying to navigate school and
being a full time mom and being a wife and
trying to keep the podcast going and doing all of
these things on my own. And I had just moved
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into a new position that I had been waiting for
and was super excited at, and it required more of
my attention and more of my organization than what I
initially thought it would. I was also trying to find
ways to bring joy into the workspace, and there was
a lot of mix matched energy per se. So I
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pulled back on that a bit and took a break
from that and then focus more on the purpose of
me being there was to learn my new role. And
then that role started growing and I was taking on
more really than what I needed to. But I felt
like customer service, where it was like putting myself in
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the customer shoes, and so I didn't care about who's
role or responsibility certain things were. I felt like, we
need to just get this done, and so taking that
on like took its toll as well, and then it
just felt like we needed more help and help just
wasn't coming. And then that started to make me feel
even more like ugh and just fatigued, tired, my spirits
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were still like crushed and feeling like I'll just say this,
I started in pursuit of looking for a different position,
and it felt like the doors was just not opening
up for me. I was able to go through a
series of interviews and they just didn't really feel positive,
to be honest with you, and so God is so good.
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I just I feel like the universe opens doors when
they need to be open, and you end up where
you're supposed to be. And so I was able to
move into a different area and then things just started
to really change for me in a short period of time,
where I found that my energy was back, my spirits
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were lifted, and then my ability to create and to give,
you know, wholeheartedly just started to show back up. I
found myself waking up in the mornings where I was
looking forward to going into work. I found myself enjoying
like being at work. I found myself smiling again and
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just like having good energy. And even when someone approached
me one day and said to me, we probably would
not have liked you anyway, I didn't let it phaze me.
I was just like, oh, okay, well you have a
great day. I wish you well, and I hope that
your energy is able to, you know, be lifted up.
And so I've been running into people who are matching
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my energy with good energy and so that's really an
awesome thing. And like, no matter what space you're in,
you guys, one of the things I've learned is that
you're never going to be able to appease everyone. Everyone's
not going to be your cup of tea and you're
not going to be everyone else's cup of tea. But
we can all learn to co create in a space
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and just figure it out and just get through what
needs to be done and make sure that we're doing
it and doing it very well. That's what I've learned,
and that when certain doors close or they won't open up,
you just better trust that God or the universe has
your back and it is for a reason. Trust that
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in that season, okay. And so with that being said,
as far as the business side of things, I have
been able to expand the business, you guys, and so
we now have essential oils and I love lavender, So
the majority of our products as far as the essential oils,
are infused with dry lavender. And I've also added candles
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to the business as well. So I've been busy taking
care of business and learning and growing and just coming
up with new content that I could share with you all,
and also understanding that I'm going to continue to bring
you amazing guests. And I do want to say thank
you so much for riding with me holding it down.
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Some of you guys have come over to the Authentic
You mindset platform on Instagram and you're following me there,
and it's good to see you there, and so I'm
excited again to be back, and I just want to
talk about some of the things that have been going
on in the world, you know, and a little bit
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with you all today and just really encourage you and
to let you know that no matter what happens, one
of the things that we know for sure is that
we always have to take care of ourselves. And I
found myself throughout the last year feeling uncomfortable in situations.
My energy was off in some situations, and just not
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feeling like myself and not able to show up as
my authentic self. In some of the spaces, I felt
that other people were projecting negative energy towards me. I
could walk into their presence and I could just really
feel it. They didn't have to say anything. One of
the things that I'm really good with is feeling energy
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and feeling people out. And so what started happening is
that I found myself starting to shut down and pull
back and not talk as much and not express myself
as much. And then shutting down wasn't really helping me
any that right there was something that needed to be
corrected right away. And so what I did was I
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would just reserve my energy in certain spaces where I
just wasn't really giving a lot of it out because
I really didn't have a whole lot that I could
really give. You, guys, I felt like drained, burnt out.
Burnout is a real thing, and that happens when we
allow ourselves to not have those boundaries, when we think
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that we can do everything, when we want to be
so helpful and we're trying to do so much, you know,
and then oftentimes when you're doing, when you're giving and
doing a lot, it's not even really noticed, and a
lot of times it goes unappreciated, and then you start
to become overlooked in certain situations, and that just makes
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it worse. You start to feel even more beat down,
more tired, exhausted and burnout is actually truly a real thing,
and it doesn't really help your family out, it doesn't
really help a lot of people in the end, especially yourself.
And so one of the things I learned is that
we have to take it back to having those boundaries.
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We have to make sure that self care is at
the forefront. We have to make sure that we're taking
care of the people who are willing to take care
of us, you know, and you want to be around
those people who when you're not in the room, who
are speaking up for you, because oftentimes that's something that
you might be doing. But then when you're not in
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a room, there's people that that might be in those
rooms who are not doing that for you. And so
you definitely want to make sure that you're building solid foundations,
solid relationships with uten people and making sure that they're
real and not just like these superficial relationships based on
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what you're able to do, and you find out like
who the real ones are whenever you're put in a
position where you can no longer do those things. And
so what happened for us, you guys, was my husband
end up losing his income and so we end up
having an income reduction, and it took a minute for
him to like get back out there, and when he did,
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it was like his income was less than what we
were used to having, and so we had to make
some adjustments and like doing all of this without wanting
to like make it a big deal, like and announcing
to everyone like why I'm no longer able to show
up in the same way financially, or why I can
no longer do this or that. It's like it was
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none of their business, and so I felt like there
was no need for me to have to go in
there and do that. I felt like, based off of
the merits of what I had already done, should be
in that, like to know my heart and to know
like where we come from, you know, and like what
we're what we're trying to do here in the space.
But instead I felt like it was kind of like
a weird energy behind it, you know, and like now
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I've moved on and I'm in a different space and place,
and it feels like that energy is like like it's like,
uh uh, You're not going to seep over here on
this other side, stay over there, and I'm just trying
to like move on and doing this transition and still
keeping it professional and learning and continuing to grow. And
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as far as the business, you guys side of things,
like I do plan on launching a new program, and
I do have still book four that's coming out in
this year twenty twenty five, which is of the Gem
with Me, a Journey to Your Higher Self book series
Book four about mindfulness is still coming out, and so
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I'm still behind the scene. It's doing the work, you guys.
It's never done. It's like a journey. It's a continuous
journey that you have to keep working on and it's
not like once you get to a certain place you
just stop and say okay. But I did feel like
for a little bit in there that my struggle was real.
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I felt like I was suffocating. I felt like my
voice was unheard. I felt unseen, I felt unappreciated. It
was all of these things that was happening all at once,
and it just felt like the roof was caving in
on me. And I was just trying to avoid like
negative people and negative spaces, and the universe just started
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turning it around. Like little by little. It started happening,
like on the outside of work where I was being
around people who were again like uplifting and positive, and
then it just started to eventually like move into that
space and then until it does completely shift did and
so I am back, And that's what happened, you guys.
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I was dealing with life and realizing that I needed
to take a break and pause on certain things. And
I wasn't able to really give you one hundred percent
with the podcast. But I came out with the podcast
really like to bring positivity, to bring like love, to
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share growth tips with you, you know, to talk about mind, body,
and spirit and how all of that is interconnected, you know,
and how it's really important for us to have self
love and for us to show up, you know, as
our authentic selves and to not be afraid to discover
who we truly are. That was the reason why I
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had came out with the podcast, and those things are
still applicable to our lives to this very day, you know,
as I continue to get older. You know, there's some
other topics that I wanted to talk about, like some
of the things that I've been experiencing with going through menopause,
you know, and like how that's impacted me. Sometimes I
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would be sitting there and would just have like a
zap of a hot flash, you know. And menopause is
something that my mother didn't deal with, and a lot
of the people in my family has they have not
dealt with like menopause in the same way that I'm
actually dealing with it or going through it or experiencing it,
i should say. And so that has been like an
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interesting journey as well. And I have found that some
of the things that have helped me and continue to
help me is the essential oils, which is why I
got into them and learning how to make them myself
and understanding what works for what thing. And so that
started with my son also, where one of them he
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would get nosebleeds because we're in Arizona where the weather
is really dry, and so I started learning and experimenting
with the diffuser, putting drops of certain things to figure
out what will help him not have a dry nose,
what would help me and not have that because one
of my sons have some serious science issues as well,
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and all of that has to do with like the dust,
the dry heat and things like that. And so that's
been a part of my brain is learning and experimenting
with that, taking more classes to get certifications and things
of that nature to really help us like to be
able to thrive better here at home in our house,
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you know. And of course that spills over into other
spaces because as I learn and grow, I'm like, I've
got to share this, and so I do share it
with my customers and clients. And another thing that I
had been working on was my sound therapy, the sound
baths and really working with customers more. I also worked
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with a friend with her vision that she's had for
spreading the word about holistic health, and that was something
that I worked on with her. And I've been able
to just really meet some amazing people throughout this past
year that has really helped to shape some of my
vision for my own life and to really help me
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like grow. That's really what I have been up to
in a nutshell, you guys. I have been also invited
to various women's events and things of that nature and
around a new type of women that are really there
to like help other women thrive, and that's been really amazing,
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you guys. Know. I've met a lot of people over
the last years because I've had amazing people on the
podcast who were genuine and really about that life too,
you know, and I'm just like transitioning where I'm now
meeting more of them in person, and so that is
really a beautiful thing. We'll tell you. The other side,
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or the flip side of that, has been that people
sometimes will expect your books for free, and I already
give out a lot of things for free in my shop.
And sometimes, like you get where people want you to
give them a lot, and you may not have a
lot of financial ability or capability to give them, and
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so they don't understand that. Like when you're running a business,
there's cost and there's a lot of things that happen
behind the scenes. It's not like people are handing you
merchandise or handing you ideas you know that you can
just run with. You are the creator, you are the CEO.
You are the one that has to make those decisions
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about what products and services you're going to offer and
bring into your business space. I've been able to mentor
some people, and so that's been really an amazing thing.
It's it's very rewarding, you know, and so that's been awesome.
I have also expanded where I was in a certain
area with my pop up shop and I've now been
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moving around various parts of Arizona. So that's been amazing
to meet such beautiful people and to receive such a
warm welcome. And a lot of people are so knowledgeable
these days about Sage and the products that we sell,
and they truly understand it. And so that is an
amazing thing that the word is getting out there about
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how to use these products in what ways are they
very helpful for you, and how you can use them
to help you thrive. And so that's been really an
awesome thing. And just so you know, you are not
alone when we talk about like the housing prices going up,
we talk about food prices going up. Things are just
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really looking a little shaky right now where we're not
quite sure how things are going to go. But what
I wanted to share with all of you is that
one thing that no one can ever take away from
you is positivity and the power of your mind. We
have to focus on creating, we have to focus on growth,
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we have to focus on educating ourselves, and we have
to make sure that emotional intelligence is at the forefront
of all that we do. I myself had got a
little bit emotional in there where I was getting pissed
off about things and really expressing it. But it doesn't
do any good to come in with that type of
mindset or attitude, and I, of all people definitely know
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that it doesn't work. And so I want to encourage
you and let you know that the best thing that
you can do throughout this time period is to educate
yourself and make sure that you're being educated by reliable sources. You, guys,
let's go ahead and take a moment to dive really
deep and talk about emotional intelligence. I want to talk
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about how we can navigate during uncertainty. When we're facing
all of these things like loss of income, when we're
facing tariffs, when we're facing inflation, when we're facing mental
challenges with a family member, it can really really be tough.
We know for sure that our emotional well being is
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definitely important. I mean, the truth is that there's so
much uncertainty that it's really important for us to understand
what emotional intelligence is and what it really looks like,
what it feels like. And it's more important than ever
before for us to implement this in our life. Our
emotional wellbeing is going to play an important role on
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how we respond to others, how we react, what we
allow to impact our day to day lives. We know
that certain things happen that are beyond our control, like
loss of income inflation. We know that any one of
us could be dealing with mental challenges, whether that's a
family member or it could even be with yourself. Understanding
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how to navigate this is going to play a key
role in your life. It's really truly more important than
ever before. We have so many layers of things that's
happening in society today. We understand what self care looks
like and self love. Sometimes when you're in the midst
of those things, it can actually get lost. And so
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I do want to bring us back and take a
moment to talk about that. Emotional intelligence feels like a
sense of calm and clarity whenever there's chaos all around us,
we're not really impacted in the way that the world
is outside of us. And so I want to remind
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you that when you can feel like tension or stress
in a situation spiraling out of control, that you have
to take a moment and take a deep breath and
respond with thoughtfulness. You can't allow like the first thoughts
or feelings that come to you that make you feel
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upset and want to storm off and show like all
of this other side that people were like, oh my god,
what is going on and what is that using profanity
throwing things around. Someone had through like a keyboard one time,
where I was like, what in the heck is going on?
They didn't really know how to express those emotions that
were coming up, and so they felt like the way
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that they probably expressed it as a child and their
parents were receptive of that, that that made it okay
in the workplace, But it's really not okay. So just
basically understanding like how to breathe and bring yourself back
into a place where you're thinking in a thoughtful way.
And it's not about suppressing your feelings. It's about acknowledging
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them and choosing how to move forward in a way
that aligns with your values. So always keep that in
mind when it comes to exercising emotional intelligence. Here are
a few things that's gonna help you with that. Having
self awareness, are you tuning into your emotions and noticing
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your stress, your anger, or your frustration rising. Having self
regulation when those emotions come up, how do you respond,
do you act on impulse or do you pause and
think through your reactions. I'm telling you this, you guys,
because I have had to recently go through this where
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I literally had to like pause for a moment and breathe,
and then I would find someone that I could go
to and I would just start expressing it, and in
the midst of expressing how I truly felt, something else
would rise up where it was like breathe, girl, just
breathe through this. And then I literally had to like
go through my self awareness. Okay. I was aware that, like,
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all right, you're talking to this person and you're sharing
a bit much in a negative way, and I understood
that I'm need to self regulate and then also just
have empathy for myself because the feelings that I was
feeling was real. Just understanding that even when talking with
someone else and listening to them, to have empathy for
them because those struggles that they're expressing their real, you know.
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And so just being able to go back to those
basic social skills, you guys, and understanding that our ability
to communicate our feelings effectively without creating unnecessary conflict is important,
and just being able to listen to others express their
concerns and allowing them to express how they feel, understanding
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that it's not directed directly at you as a personal attack,
but that is just what they're feeling, and they might
not be able to regulate their emotions in that moment,
and so you can just invite them to breathe. Just say,
take a deep breath, It's okay, just breathe. I understand
being able to be human and understand that, like they're
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really having a bad day when it comes to dealing
with family members, you guys like and having their mental struggles.
One of the things that kicked in from myself was
I was not comfortable to share with everyone what my
son was going through. Just knowing that it's good for
you to find a safe space and that you don't
have to share your business or what's going on in
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your household, what every single person that you run into.
And it's pretty ironic because I have a podcast, Authentic Talks,
and I'm pretty open about talking about things. But it's different,
like whenever you're in your business working or you're at
work working, it's like you just kind of know how
to separate those things, or you really want to separate them,
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because sometimes you just really don't want to be the
talk of the department when it's something like that, or
it's not good or positive. Right, And so although we
can't control the conversations that people have about us, we
can control our personal business and making sure that they
are not all up in that space where they're able
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to come to their own conclusions. And so just understanding
mental struggles that people may have, you know, understanding that
your family member needs you, and although sometimes it feels like,
oh my gosh, this is overwhelming for me, you can
also seek some help for yourself with navigating it and
talking to a professional who can give you information on
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tips or tools and things that are out there that
can help that family member to be able to navigate
through those mental health challenges, whether it's anxiety, because my
son his is anxiety, an extreme case of it, and
it has him where at times he just really almost
appears as if he forgets to even breathe, and it's
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just really tough sometimes to deal with that. But exercising
emotional intelligence is crucial even in those situations, and it
means showing up a lot of times without judgment. It
means being able to listen to someone's struggles honestly, and
here's what I had to do. I had to be
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patient with him. I had to encourage him to get
professional help. At one point I even had to force it,
you know where I had to go and fill out
paperwork and have them come pick him up and do
an evaluation. By the second day he was calling me,
he convinced the people to call me and then he
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sound one hundred percent normal. It was to the point
where they were telling me I needed to go and
pick him up. He was like, I don't belong here,
I don't fit in here. And after going through that experience,
it like shifted the way that he was responding and
the way that he was showing up. It's like it
allowed him to try to exercise emotional intelligence, and it
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allowed him to be able to see himself and how
he was showing up and to be able to really
go to get the help will that he needed to have.
I definitely needed to encourage that professional help, and I
did have to set boundaries with my son and let
him know that, no, the way you're behaving and the
energy that you're giving is unacceptable. We're not going to
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have that. But we found out that he was stuck
in that anxiety state of where he was when he
got hit by that car of he was thinking that
that was going to happen again and be like a
repeat of something. And so that was definitely a struggle
to deal with and something that was a private situation
that our family was going through. And us setting those
(29:37):
boundaries and letting him know that he needed to get
that help was something that we needed to do. And
at first it was a forced type of help, and
it was something that was necessary. It was like his
wake up call. The last thing that I want to
share with you guys is navigating loss of income and inflation,
because sometimes we deal with both at the same time,
(30:00):
where all of your bills go up. Your house payment
goes up because if the taxes are an insurance and
sometimes the auto insurance goes up, and then you see
that your water bill, your electricity, your food bill goes up,
and then clothes are going up, and your kids' feets
are getting bigger or they're growing. If for those of
you who have children, you can relate to that. And
(30:21):
so I want to talk about that. The financial strain
that we face sometimes is really real. It's affecting so
many of us, and we all have heard about other
people on the news who have lost income, you know,
and they have that heavy burden to carry, and it
feels like everything is out of your control and there's
(30:42):
so much uncertainty behind it, and it brings a lot
of stress and anxiety. That's what I experience. And I
felt like there was no place to go, like to
really talk about it, and so until I did find
a safe space. It's good for you, for us, and
we're going through that for us to be able to
reframe our mindset, you know, like and we start with
(31:07):
acknowledging how we really feel in those situations, whether that's fear, frustration, stress.
It's okay to fill those things, but once you recognize them,
then we have to shift our focus and focus on
what we have control over. And so we had to
go through and look to see what were some unnecessary
spending habits that we had. We had to cut back
(31:30):
on a lot of things, you know, in order to
make life work, where we had to take care of
the things that were really truly important the house payment
and like of course you have to pay your car
payment and your auto insurance. There's those kind of things
that you can't get away from. But then there were
other things that we were spending money on that we knew, Okay,
(31:50):
we can cut that cost, or don't need to take
this trip to go to such and such, We can
pull back on that. We don't need to go in
to this particular part. We could skip that party, we
could skip this event, that event. When you have a
loss of income, being able to navigate that by again
reframing your mindset, going through your bills, creating a new
(32:12):
budget and prioritizing what is really necessary and removing the
things that are unnecessary, and then seeking additional resources and support,
and then building that resilience you guys where you are,
knowing that if there's an opportunity for you to pick
up extra hours or to pick up a part time job.
(32:33):
And again, it was a lot that happened over the
last year as to why I was absentee, And there
was a lot of great things that happened for our
family over the last year. A lot of awarenesses, a
lot of self growth, a lot of family growth, and
a lot of pouring into other people happened over the
(32:56):
last year. And so one of the things I definitely
want to reiterate to all of you is that the
show is back and it will continue to be about growth, love, respect, success, mind,
body and spirit. Yay, Authentic Talks is back. Now here's
what I want to leave you guys with before I
(33:18):
end this episode. I do want to thank you so
much for joining me on today's episode, and I hope
that the tips on emotional intelligence help. I hope that
some of the information you received on supporting family members
through mental struggles and how you can navigate through the
uncertainty of financial loss we're really very helpful for you
(33:40):
as well. And remember that we're going through challenging times
and so this is not the time for us to
be super duper fluffy and pretend like nothing's really going on.
But I do want to stress the importance of remaining positive.
That is super important. And then I just want to
let you guys know that you can move through all
(34:01):
of this with grace and compassion for yourselves and for others.
And I'd love to hear how you've been coping with
everything that's going on and what tools and practices are
helping you and your family to manage during these uncertain times.
Please feel free to share with me on social media,
and let's keep the conversation going, you guys, Let's keep
(34:23):
it going, and don't forget to hit that subscribe button
to the podcast for more episodes. And thank you so
much again for being here. I will be talking with
you soon. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm
chante with authentic tooks.
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