Episode 80: Let's Talk Empowerment with Best-selling Author, Tedx Speaker & Podcaster, Simone Knego

Tune into this episode of the M.A.Y.A. podcast and meet Simone Knego is a powerhouse keynote speaker, bestselling author of The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You, and a two-time TEDx speaker. She specializes in helping high achievers transform self-doubt into solid, inside-out confidence through her signature REAL Method: Respect yourself, Embrace your failures, Ask yourself what you want, and Live without limits. Her philosophy centers on "kitchen table leadership"—leading authentically by example, both professionally and personally. Trusted by women’s associations, nonprofit organizations, and professional development groups, Simone has been featured on major outlets including ABC, NBC, CBS, Entrepreneur, and Yahoo News. She co-hosts the globally recognized podcast Her Unshakeable Confidence with her daughter, fostering cross-generational discussions about courage and self-worth. Furthermore, her personal experience summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro offers a powerful lesson on finding strength in the face of fear and embracing imperfection throughout life’s biggest challenges.

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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (02:00):
Get Inspired Get Motivated with Maya a Kai and the
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We're going to talk health, wealth, fitness, mental health, financial,

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Speaker 2 (02:43):
Everyone. Welcome to episode eighty. Well, we're eighty episodes in
to Maya, My Ambition, Your Ambition. The podcast that I
like to say, wants to embrace the idea of mental
wellness and make it a salient topic from a fresh
and forward thinking perspective because so many of us struggle
with self doubt and sabotage. So on this podcast we

(03:04):
like to pull back that veil and to look back
there so we can figure out how to identify the
ambitions you want, but more importantly, how to harness the
motivation to help you yield satisfaction not just in life,
but your every day life. So if you are a
first time listener reviewer, welcome. I always say just buckle
up for safety, because occasionally it could be an unexpected

(03:25):
bumpy ride, because maybe I'll say something, or perhaps all
my amazing guests have dropped nuggets for everyone to pick
up that has definitely been helpful, and it's just something
that you may say, hmm. But if you are a
returning listener reviewer we'll welcome back. Always appreciate your support.
But more importantly, I know you know how we do
things here, so I always tell people for this thirty
to sixty minutes. However, this podcast kind of flows. Grab

(03:48):
pencil papers you can jot down maybe some thoughts you
might have that you might want to revisit at a
later date. We are actually in the eleventh installment of
the Ambition Shows and they have been amazing because I
have been brought on guests that have really helped people
to understand how to take their passion, align it with

(04:08):
their purpose, and how to push it forward with ambition
and motivation. And the reason I think these shows have
been so powerful is because a lot of times people
believe they can't achieve something, they can't get something done.
But I have found when they have really come to
meet our guests, it has changed the way that they
absolutely see a lot of things. So that part is

(04:31):
so powerful. So in this episode eighty, let's talk empowerment
with a best selling author. She's a ted X speaker,
a podcaster. Amazing guess we're going to have here that's
going to share her story, but especially how to embrace
that empowerment piece that I like to sell and push
with people. Now, remember, if you've missed any episodes, don't
ever fret. You can find episodes in iTunes, app, podcast, iHeartRadio, Amazon, Audible, Spotify,

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search Maya my ambition, your ambition. You can make life
a little easy on yourself too, and to subscribe to
my YouTube channel Maya Speaks to You. By the way, people,
I finally got my act together, so all of my
social media platforms have that handle Maya Speaks to You,
so you can find me on Facebook, ig as well

(05:19):
as X. Of course, the website is just a great
way to stay connected with me, so you can always
find me at Maya das speaks dot com. There are
two things on there I'm super passionate about. One. I
have an inspirational blog that I post every Wednesday, one
thought a week because I don't want to like dump
all this inspiration on you every single day. Some things
are powerful enough that you just need to sit in

(05:39):
it for a while, so it makes more sense. So
only on Wednesdays is they're posting the inspirational blog but
the other part of my website that I am so
passionate about. Everyone who knows Maya knows I am the
poster child for menopause. Literally, if there is anywhere from
sixty known symptoms of menopause, if you didn't know that,
you might have just went what sixty symptoms tied to

(06:00):
being in a process hormonal change, there is, I'm a
poster child. This blog ultimately is called Me on Pause
post different articles to educate women about you know, this
is a natural change, but it can be highly disruptive
in your life in many ways that most people never know.
So once a week on Wednesdays, I post on Me
on Pause blog about menopause, so you can grab some
nuggets from there as well and learn some things about menopause,

(06:22):
and you can always share it with people. Before we
jump into our next guest, I have to and I
always recap our former guests. So episode seventy nine was
something that for me I am still processing. I had
on Miles Spencer who helped us talk about the ideals
or the ways that we navigate grief. And it's powerful
because Miles has created this technology called reflecta AI, and

(06:48):
reflect a AI is this process of taking the idea
of obviously as you hear AI in combining it with
the human touch. So when you decide to want to
explore the idea of grief from an AI standpoint, it
takes the memories of your loved ones and creates this
way that you can continue to connect with them. So
you work with a biographer to tell that person's story.

(07:10):
You provide photos which are turned into these amazing watercolors,
and if you have a voice to provide, you can
and they create what would be this likeliness of a person. Now,
I'm going to tell you this. When I actually sat
down with Miles and talked about this, I really was
on the fence, like big time, and I still at
moments are on the fence with it because it's a
powerful tool. But if you're not ready for that tool,

(07:32):
it could be something that could also be a detriment.
So it could be a gift or at the same time,
it could be something that could be heavy to navigate.
I leave it to everyone to figure out on their own.
If you go to reflect a AI that's the website,
you actually can try a demo and see what you think.
You get to meet Miles father's who dame is Arthur.
The reason Miles created this technology was he actually got

(07:55):
married a little later had a daughter, and his father
never got to meet his daughter, and he thought, my
dad's this amazing man that she's never gonna meet. And
because he's always worked in the digital ringing arena, he
came up with this idea and created it, and actually
it began for a way for his daughter to get
to know her grandfather. It's powerful, it's different, So check
it out to what you think. Listen to the episode

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and you can hear what he has to say and
if you think it's something you want to dip your
toe into, I'd say it doesn't hurt to explore it.
So that was our last week guest. It's called soul
Tech reflect A AI, so you can go check it out.
Reflect a dot ai is the website. Go check it out,
check out the podcast itself and see what you think.
But now on the ambition stage, and I'm excited about this.

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Simone Conego is a best selling author, a ted X speaker,
a podcaster, and she's all about women's empowerment. So, my ladies,
you know how this feels to have someone who can
help you to figure out how to set on that
path and to get to where you want to be.
And it's not something that's necessarily easy to do. So
when you meet someone like Simone, I mean, her books
to me are absolutely worth reading. And I'm going to

(08:59):
say this, she says something that I say to people
in therapy all the time, but I won't say it yet.
But besides the fact that she's an author, a speaker,
she's a mother, she's a wife, an amazing daughter, she
is all those things. She has been on ABC, NBCCBS,
she's an entrepreneur, she's been featured on Yahoo News. So
let's say this is a woman who knows what she's
doing and passionate about it, and we're going to bring

(09:19):
it to a stage so she can share it with
you without further ado. Everyone, let's bring our eleventh guest
to the Ambition stage, Simone Canego. Hello, Simone, how are
you hi?

Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm great, Thanks so much for having me here today.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh you know what, I just every guest I have
had on thus far has been so amazing to have
on and their story to me is where I like
to start with people, because so many of people who
listen to the show as well as people I work
in to therapy get these hang ups about figuring what
they can't do. And I said, you know, everyone who's
ever achieved something, it wasn't an easy road. So tell

(09:54):
us a bit about who is simone and what got
you to the point where you decided you wanted to
be a woman's empowerment app.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Thanks for that question. So I first and foremost, I
am a mom of six. I have been married for
thirty two years to my husband. I'm a keynote speaker, author,
podcast host. I have a podcast with my twenty two
year old daughter called her Unshakeable Confidence. And I am
someone that struggled with self doubt for the majority of
my life. I'm now fifty three years old, and when

(10:22):
I was in my forties, I really had a turning
point and I was asked to do something completely out
of my comfort zone and I said yes. And what
did I say yes to? I said yes to climbing
Mount Kilimanjaro. Now I am not a climber. I live
in Florida, I have sixteen steps in my house. I've
gone camping a couple of times, but I knew that

(10:44):
I needed to get out of my comfort zone. And
that is exactly what this did for me, and it
changed my entire future because I really was able to
realize what I was capable of. I was able to
stop the comparison game. I was able to really step
into my own power.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
And that's a mother of six that alone, right there
is going to definitely give you a whole bunch of
experience and working obviously with people. You know, curating and
raising children is such a powerful thing to do within itself.
So six kids, and I think when I was reading
your bio, I saw that you had three biological but
you also adopted three children, if I saw that, correct?

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Is it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Two from Ethiopio as I.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Correct, and the other was the South Korea South South KRAA.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes, And that's that's amazing because one to open your house,
your heart, and your house to others. So what kind
of made you take the path of going to adoption?

Speaker 3 (11:41):
So we had we you know, we had three biological children.
Adoption was something we had talked about actually in between
our first and second child. There it took a long
time for me to get pregnant and so we started
exploring it and then of course as soon as we
really started exploring it, I found out I was pregnant,
so it went on the back burner, and you know,
we really believed, we still believe that there are so

(12:03):
many amazing kids in the world waiting for a family
to love them, and we wanted to be that family.
It's kind of like a funny story, but basically I
had a picture taken of the three oldest kids, and
Olivia was in the basinet, Jacob and Emma were kind
of like on one side of the basinet and behind it.
And so when I saw that picture, I was like,

(12:23):
something's missing. Like I didn't think three things were missing,
but something was missing because there was like that big
empty space on the one side. And that's when we said,
you know, like it's now or never, let's do it.
And so we adopted Noah from South Korea and he
was a baby, he was four months old, and then
we went to adopt again and we chose to adopt

(12:43):
from Ethiopia. We adopted our son Ari. He was four
and a half years old. And then when we were
in Ethiopia, we knew we were going to come back
one more time because the kids there were just so
amazing and again just waiting for a family to love them,
and so then we adopted million she was two and
a half years old, and then the minivan was full.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
And then the minivan was full. Absolutely, so okay, so
full family raising kids. So one of the things that
I often talk about within therapy, especially whether it's my parents,
whether it's the mom or the dad. I say, you know,
within our life, we wear so many hats. We are daughters,
you know, we are granddaughters, We are sometimes sisters, you know, grandchildren.

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Then we become spouses to someone and mother's and often
within that journey what gets lost is ourselves. We don't
often get very connected to us because we're wearing so
many hats and stepping into so many roles, and if
you do it with passion and honestly sincerity, it's easy
to get lost in all those roles. So where did
Simon emerge? I'll have all this to become the author,

(13:47):
the tedex speaker, the podcaster.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah, I mean I got lost for a long time.
And not that that was bad. I mean I loved
being a stay at home mom. While I was a
stay at home mom, but I couldn't figure out what
I want. And what I realized is that I hadn't
explored what things that had happened in my past, and
so when I was in high school, I had an
abusive boyfriend and that really kind of it started my

(14:11):
whole self doubt journey. Right, Everything I thought about was
the things that this person said to me, and it
was always negative. And so that's the way I started
to see myself and that's the way I would talk
to myself. And really having that moment of climbing kill Imanjarro,
I mean there's other things that added to it. I

(14:33):
was like, Wow, I am capable of whatever I put
my mind to as long as I want to do
it right. It's asking yourself what you want And that's
kind of where all of this stemmed from, is realizing, Hey,
what do you want moving forward? Is this what you
want in your life? Do you want to speak? Do
you want to write? Right? I started off as an accountant.
I have a bachelor's and Masters in accounting and I

(14:53):
was a CPA. So not the life path that I
thought I was going to have. But I'm a big
believer and that it's okay to change. And you know,
we had these expectations. You should know what you want
to do by the time you're eighteen years old, and
I think that's a bit much simone.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
I've always felt that was a big munch one of
the things I've always said, and you would think at
some point we rethink this. I'm like, why do we
think anybody at eighteen has any clue what they want
to do for the rest of their life when they
even haven't even really embarked upon that path of adulting.
I love when I talk to my younger clients or
their early twenties, and I said, oh, are you ready

(15:29):
for adult and they're like, no, I don't. I don't
want that.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yes, I agree, yeah, stay young as long as you
can say yes.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
So let me ask you this question because I feel
like this is a current topic that's kind of been
out there, and I feel like so many things get
thrown at women. It's like, yes, we have a right
to want careers and to want to be wives and mothers,
and I feel like women have done a great job
of doing all of those things. To be honest, tell
me the joy you found and even the challenges of
being a stay at home mother. Because what I'm here

(16:00):
is there is this woman, and I read your bio
like literally, it sounds like your parents were fantastic. You
had this a major and dirty I think I read
you met your husband in college, correct, you know, so
you almost have this perfect, wonderful story and I love it.
I'm like, this is what people need to see more
of because they believe that people like this are unicorns.
I'm like, no, you can't have an amazing family when

(16:21):
you pour things into it. But a lot of people
feel that women are conflicted about career and family, but
you have managed to do it all. Share that with us.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah. I So, first of all, I don't believe in balance.
I believe in priorities. So the idea for me, especially
with six kids, of saying, okay, you know everything's going
to be in balance. No, I mean every day something
goes wrong, right, So it's figuring out what I need
in the moment, what my kids need in the moment.
And there are days that are going to be more
focused on work than they are on my kids. And

(16:50):
you know as they get older, right, I only have
one left at home.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
We're going to be empty nesters next year. So very exciting.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
But that idea that you know, we get to choose,
like every day when we wake up. We have a
choice of how we move forward, and for me, the
choice was yes, I wanted to do multiple things and
nobody was sacrificed for me doing that, right. I think
a lot of times people think, oh, wow, it's really
selfish if you do these things, it's selfish for your family.

(17:20):
And I've had people say that to me, like when
I climb Kilimanjaro, I had comments like, don't you think
it was a little selfish to leave your family at
home while you went and climbed a mountain? And my
response is self care is never selfish, and we have
to be able to do things for ourselves. But that
idea of how you do it, You make a decision
and you go and you can reevaluate as you go along,

(17:41):
but the big thing is that you take action on
whatever you decide.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
See, and that's that right there. I love how you
said that deciding to cultivate you while you are being
a wife and a mother is not being selfish. It's
part of self care. Finding that balance because when we
are more balanced, balance is not something you believe in.
I'm okay with that, because balance, to me is a
word that's arbitrary, like say, normal what's balance for me

(18:08):
does not mean that's balance for you. You know what
I mean. So, but you find a way to make
that all work, which makes me think, Okay, is this
where the first book came out? The Extraordinary Unordinary which
the book is behind her you can always purchase it.
Is that kind of where the first book came into play.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
So the first book came into play when I So
I started doing a bunch of volunteer work, and from
that I had people say to me, wow, you have
such an amazing story. And I'm like me, I have
an amazing story, Like I did not see it right.
I was so focused on the negative parts that I

(18:44):
didn't see wow, yeah, okay, yes, my story can help
other people change their remind about things. And so I
started speaking on a volunteer basis, and then I started
getting paid to speak and I was asked, oh, do
you have a book? Oh no, I'm not a writer, right,
and I'm not a writer limiting myself like that was
my mindset. Oh limit yourself because yeah, you're not capable

(19:05):
of that. And then I said, why why can't I
write a book? Right? So I said I want to
and I sat down and started and there you go.
But again, it was something that I really wanted to
do and not something that someone said, oh, you have
to do this.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
I think what I saw on your website when I
was kind of reading through and learning Worry about You
is when you talk about that particular book. Something that
caught my eye that I talk about in therapy with
people a lot is you know that when you are
good with you, the most important relationship I tell people
you have is with yourself, because when that relationship is
whole and it feels like you are doing the things
that make you happy, it tends to flow into the

(19:44):
rest of your life. And I noticed one of the
things you had on your site was when you change
the way you see yourself, the world around you changes.
And instantly, to me, that resonated with me.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yeah, one hundred percent. So for a long time, the
way I saw my self was as someone that wasn't
capable of these things, and oh, I'm really not doing
much in the world. And I had to change the
way I saw myself and I had to realize that
I was capable of all of these things. And you know,
it's funny. I had this facade for a really long time.
I'm not saying that's funny, but like when I look back,

(20:18):
I'm like, this is ridiculous. Like I literally put up
a facade for so long. Oh yeah, everything's good and
I'm not struggling, and oh I'm super strong, like to
the point where I actually wouldn't cry about things because
I thought if I cried, that would show weakness and
maybe everything would crack and fall apart at that point, right,
everything that I was holding in would fall apart. And

(20:41):
you know, it really took that that work on myself
to say, hey, you know, show who you really are, right,
you don't need to pretend to be anybody else. You're
not benefiting anybody by pretending to be somebody else. So
taking that step back to say, yeah, keep going and
doing like be yourself and stop worrying about what anybody

(21:03):
else thinks.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
This is episode eighty of My Ambition, Your Ambition, and
we are talking empowerment with best selling author tetech Speaker
podcast or wife mother Extraordinary Human. That's someone Canna go.
I love your story because to me, this is often
the basis of what I talk to people about in therapy,
like don't be afraid to be you in this moment.

(21:26):
If you feel you're not happy with where you are
in life, who you are, then you can do the
work to change, but be present in the moment with
who you are. And a lot of people struggle with that.
Hence I don't like sayings like fake it till you
make it. No, be one hundred percent you in this moment,
and work on those pieces of you that you want
to see improved. I don't like things like keeping up
with the Joneses. I always ask who are the Joneses

(21:48):
and why are we trying to keep up with them?
You know? So, yes, your first book sounds really powerful
that within itself. I have people who express that they
would like to write a book. What was that process like,
since technically you're on book too.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, so it's funny. With the first book, I thought, oh, right,
you write the book and people will come. No, it
doesn't work that way. So I thought writing the book
was going to be the hardest part of the book journey,
and really getting people to know about the book is
the hardest part of the book journey. The process was
actually kind of It was actually really fun because I

(22:25):
most of the book I actually wrote during COVID, so
I was home right and all of the kids were home,
which a lot of the stories that ended up in
the book were things that I hadn't thought about until
the chaos re entered the house with every single kid
coming home, and so we would sit on the couch
and I'm like, oh, I forgot about that story. Let
me put that story in there. And you know, obviously

(22:46):
I started with an outline and then put in the
stories and then the points that I wanted to make,
And so much of it is about that the little
things that we do in life make a huge difference.
And so often we look at other people and say, oh,
it's got to be that grandiose gesture, it's got to
be the huge philanthropist. But it's the moments that you

(23:07):
take to say hi to a stranger or you know whatever,
little things helping your neighbor with something like those are
life changing moments. But we don't get ourselves credit for
that because we think that it's not big enough.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
MM one of our viewers listeners has tuned in to
the show, want to share their thought on what you said.
They also said, also writing yourself on the negativity from
those who benefit from your misery. The people who have
something to gain from you questioning yourself and doubting your abilities.
Remove them and watch how high you fly. It's a
scary flying, but it feels better than whatever that other

(23:39):
crap was under misery. Yes, yes, very well said it's true,
you know, and how would you say when when you
decide that you're going to walk in that path being
truly authentically you. It definitely is a scary feeling, but
at the same time probably very liberating.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Correct, Oh, very liberating. And you know a lot of
the work that I've done really goes into the second book,
and really how I got to the mindset that I'm
in today was based on, you know, the work that
when I looked back from Kilimanjaro and said, okay, how
did I get here? What were the things that I did,
which was where my real method came out of, which

(24:17):
is starts with respecting yourself. So it's respect yourself, embrace
your failures, ask yourself what you want, and live without limits.
And I didn't realize that I wasn't respecting myself. I
had no idea really probably what that meant, right, the
idea of self care, the idea of boundaries. I didn't
need to be the yes girl, right, I could say

(24:38):
no without guilt, and so many of those things came
into play when I realized, oh wait, yeah, this is
how I was treating myself for so long. And the
point you make about faking it until you make it,
I mean, that's what I was doing, right, But what
I realized I needed to do was to say it
until I become it, so that the way I talk

(24:58):
to myself, right, it's like, you say the things that
you want because your words become your reality. Your thoughts
become your reality. So if you're constantly telling yourself negative things,
guess what, it's going to be pretty negative out there.
And I'm not saying toxic positivity. I'm saying, you know, right,
talk to yourself like you was your best friend. You
would not treat your best friend in the way that

(25:20):
you treat yourself. Right. There's when I looked in the
mirror for so many years, I was like, oh my gosh,
what is wrong with you? I would never do that
to my best friend. I would never do that to
my children, Like why would I do it to myself?
But I did for years.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
And so many people are guilty. The grace and kindness
that they can give to others. That self compassion is
really difficult for so many of us to bestow upon ourselves. So,
like I said, the most important relationship you have with
anyone is with you. And like you said, it's like
self talk. I always say, you gotta have self talk,

(25:53):
say those positive things to yourself. You know, it's what
you put out to the universe is what you are
going to give back at people don't believe. And that
all is to me really nicely like kind of boxed
up in the idea of mindfulness. It's something that's often
frequently misunderstood. The idea of mind wifulness is just as
simple as you must be aware of how you think,
feel and move in this world. Because if you think

(26:16):
so little of yourself one, why would anybody else think
so differently of you? Because that's what you're going to
project and put out there. So you said, your second
book kind of came into that, and I know it's
not out yet, I have to go ahead and share
because I like to put all this like good stuff
out there. So her next book that will be coome
out is called Real Confidence. A Simple Guide to go
from unsure to unshakable. It looks like it's on order.

(26:39):
Now I like this even more. Bulk, get a bunch
of friends, Yes, get the book and do like a
book club, because, like, to me, this is probably a
good book club book. Opposed to reading about a story,
why not pick a book that can help you grow
and you know, get your girlfriends and say, hey, guys,
let's read this book together. So tell us a bit
about I like this a simple guide to go from

(26:59):
unsure to unshakeable. Tell me more about this.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
So this book is based entirely on my real method.
So what I started to you know, described it a
little bit before. But respect yourself, embrace your failures, ask
yourself what you want, and live without limits. The book
is broken into four sections based on each one of
those pillars, and obviously a lot of stories, but a
lot of frameworks, a lot of exercises to really help

(27:24):
you realize what you're capable of. And again, it really
is about changing the way you see yourself, because you
don't need to change who you are, You need to
change the way you see yourself. Right, we look around
and compare ourselves to other people. Why why are we
doing that? Right? Is that affecting their life. No, but
it's affecting ours in such a negative way. So that
was like the first realization I had. It was like,

(27:45):
why am I doing this? So a lot of very
personal stories my abusive boyfriend, which I really for years
I didn't talk about, my husband knew about it, my
kids knew about it. I mean, I wrote a whole
chapter about you know what happened? Because for me, that
was really good therapy to put it out there and say, wow,

(28:06):
if this can help one other person, because I think
I felt very alone, right, I felt like so much
shame and guilt and oh you know why me? Or
And what I realized is when I started talking about
it with other women, so many other women said to me,
I experienced something similar. I was actually at an event
just last week and there were five women and there

(28:27):
three of the women out of the five had experienced
something similar. And I was like, Okay, this is why
it's important for me to keep talking about this. And
so the book really is to help you go from
unsure to unshakable, because this is exactly what this method
did for me. And I'm not saying unshakeable, like oh,
you'll never be bothered by anything. It means that when

(28:49):
something happens, you know how to recover, You know how
to stand back up and move forward, and you're not
going to worry that oh so and so is thinking
this of me? Who cares?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
And that's people spend so much time worrying about what
other people think. And I love when people say I
don't care what anybody thinks. I'm like, yes you do.
Let's just stop right there. Everybody cares about what somebody thinks.
I mean, not be everybody, but it's it's somebody. And
I'm glad you said something that I think a lot
of people miss that being unshakable does not mean that
a curve wall is not going to be thrown at you.
It does not mean you're not going to struggle with something,

(29:21):
But it's how you recover when those things happen because
you have cultivated and worked on yourself to be able
to push through adversity. So because it's still going to happen.
But something else you shared that I think that people
really is a nugget, is the vulnerability it took for
you to share with people about that abuse. And I
find that often when people will share that, they will

(29:42):
often find they don't stand alone, and it feels different
at that point.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yes, one hundred percent. I mean I for so long
I thought, oh, you know, I'm it's only me and
anything that I've struggled with in my life, I'm like, oh,
I'm the only one that struggles. Until you have a
conversation with somebody else and then you're like, oh wait,
I'm not the only one that struggles. I mean when
I had an event that I went to years ago
with a bunch of my close friends and stuff that

(30:09):
I had never talked about with them, because again, I
thought I was the only one that struggled, and we
started talking and that was like a big breakthrough moment
for me because I was like, oh wow, I'm not
the only one that feels bad about this, and you know,
I actually started crying and they're like, oh my gosh,
what did we do with her? We've never seen her
cry before. But it was such a powerful moment for
me because I'm because I was like, I can actually

(30:29):
be myself. This is what I need to be. I
don't need to pretend anymore. And I think so often
we go through life pretending because we are so worried
about what anybody else think is thinking and again, most
of the time they are not thinking about us.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
That can I tell you how many times I have
to tell people the amount of people that you think
are thinking about you is probably not accurate at all.
But it's that self consciousness that I think people just
often carry. So the other piece that you do, so
you're an author, obviously you're a speaker. So ladies, if
you are hearing this and like you're saying to yourself,
I think there are some women that could really definitely

(31:05):
benefit from this. Guess what. Simone is also a speaker,
so you can always go to her website, you know,
ww dot Simone? Can am I saying your name right, Canigo?

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (31:16):
That's good? Okay, Yeah, you can visit her site because
the books you get own the book there it talks
about obviously having her as a speaker. And then let's
get to talking about the podcasts, because what I love
about the podcast, as you said, it's wit your twenty
two year old daughter, which I love. You've got what
is that gen X and gen Z kind of having.
Or she might be a millennial maybe.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Right now she's oh she's a millennia.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, yeah, see that's a real it's a close cusp.
But to me, those can be such powerful conversations because
you look at the wisdom and the age and the
youth and the vitality and the open mindedness. So kind
of where did that come from? The name of the podcast?
Tell me again? Is her unshakeable confidence? Right?

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yes? Yea?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
On YouTube, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts and Spotify, so you can
find it all there. So tell me how did this
come to be that you guys collaborated to do this podcast.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
We have really funny conversations, That's how it originally started.
That we would talk about something and we're like, you know,
other people might want to listen to this, and then
we you know, we have a lot of really serious conversations.
So she was diagnosed with crones when she was sixteen
years old, and a lot of the advice that I
was giving her at the time it ended up coming

(32:30):
back to a lot of the episodes that we do.
So one of the things was when she was first diagnosed,
the idea that she was you know, this this is
the rest of her life. This isn't a temporary illness.
This is the rest of her life. And so I
said to her, something really important for you is that
you feel all the emotions, like you can be angry, sad,

(32:52):
cry it out, scream it out, whatever you want to do.
And then I need you to pick a day and
say you're going to move forward, because you could stay
in that moment forever, right, you could be miserable forever
and do the poor me and why me? And and
you know what, It's been such a good piece of
advice where we both of us have used it, you know,

(33:14):
and now the other kids too, of course, but to say,
here's how we move forward. So when we started the podcast,
we did some funny episodes and then we started bringing
guests on as well. So we do every other week
the two of us, and the following week we have
guests on, and we learn so much from the guests
that we have on. It's just amazing and it's fun

(33:36):
to see her have these aha moments. Oh, I didn't
think about it that way before. We were talking about
yesterday on an episode she was saying, I've moved from
the idea of jealousy over to envy, and I feel
like that's still not where I need to be. And
I thought that was really interesting and so you know,
the guest was telling her, yet keep going. You know,

(33:57):
we got to get rid of the envy too, because
I was saying. One of the big things for me
is as I've gone through this change, this method, everything
that I don't look at people and say, oh I
wish that, I wish that was my life. I look
at them and think, congratulations, that's amazing. So it's a
complete change for me. And so she's not there yet,

(34:18):
but she's working on it.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
But she's twenty two exactly, there's only room to grow
and think about it. I look at her and I'm like, wow,
you know, to have to begin this journey to have
that insight at twenty two, she's going to be an
amazing woman. Because, let's be honest, many of us, I'm
fifty three, we didn't do that kind of work growing up.
It wasn't on the table. The idea of therapy or
even these kind of conversations just weren't very present. I'm like, Simone,

(34:43):
I feel like you're like my twin therapist though you're
a CPA, because you you say so many things to
people that I literally say to people in therapy, and
it's like almost they stand in disbelief, like it's not possible.
And I was like, this is why I do the
ambition shows, like, yes it is. Go watch the episode
so you can get what I'm saying. And also, by
the way we talked about your books or podcasts, I've

(35:05):
tried to make things easy for people. So you'll notice
at the top of the screen there is a QR code.
If you scan that, that will take you directly to
Simone's website so you can find her podcast, books and
learn more about her. So I'm making this easy, so
you can scan that and it'll take you right there
as well. But of course you can always go to
the website. Remember it's www dot Simonecanago dot com. I

(35:26):
did read how you have the real the acronym and
again it's something else I found very powerful. Can you
touch on that again? What the real acronym stands for?

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Yeah, so it stands for a respect yourself, embrace your failures,
ask yourself what you want, and live without limits. And
I would love to talk about so I have this
little mindset hack that I do. So when we talk
about the negative voice that we have, right and we
all have it, you keep working, it still comes in

(35:59):
but it's what you do with it that changes. As
you work on this more and more, I call it
the what if whisper also known as Sally Fine freaked out, insecure, neurotic,
and emotional. You know, I had to name her so
that I could, you know, be like, Okay, you can
separate yourself from this.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
But so anytime I had that voice come in my head,
I do my little hack, which is called control alt delete.
So back in the day, that was how we would
restart a frozen computer. Now, if you hit control all delete,
I guess it brings up task Manager. I don't even
know what that means, but I know that's what it does. Yes, So,
but our minds freeze too, right, we get stuck in

(36:36):
that comparison game. We spiral and self doubt. So control
is all about awareness. So when those thoughts come in
your mind like oh wow, is this real? Like is
this is it? Am I making up a story? Here?
What's the story that I'm telling myself? Right? Alt is
about alternative. Tell yourself a better story. Instead of I can't,
how about I can? Instead of what if I fail?

(36:57):
How about when I succeed? Right? Again, your thoughts become
your reality. What you say to yourself becomes your reality.
And then finally delete, delete the comparison game, to delete
the apology, delete the belief that you know you're not enough,
because you are enough. And so for me, the more
I use that little mindset hack, the more I'm like, oh,
I can catch it really quick and say this isn't real,
let's move on.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
I love that. So with these these are great acronyms,
things that I feel like, I don't know if you have,
like wonderful like little posters or things that if people
buy your book that they can get because I feel
one of the best ways to get people on that
path to changing their mindset is the visual piece. I
feel like I always tell people, for instance, like if
you have goals, you have to take those goals from
your head and put them on the inside. Write them down.

(37:41):
But don't just write them down, write them down and
review them every day. In fact, I tell people, whatever
your morning routine is, if you're like me, you wake up,
you stumble the bathroom, you trip over a cat, you know,
and then you do something that's and they and they
wrangle me downstairs to feed them. That's kind of like
what my mornings look like. But I always encourage people
like take those goals, write or type them out, and

(38:02):
visually put them in a space like on your on
your you know, bathroom mirror, and when you start your
date review those things reflect on them. Because what I
have found when people actually have written their goals down
and they think they've accomplished nothing all year and we'll
do like kind of a wrap up at the end
of the year, I'm like, let's pull back out those goals,
which I know you haven't been reviewing, like we talked about,
but it's okay, we're gonna review them now. What have

(38:25):
we accomplished? And they start going down the list and
they're actually kind of shocked at how much they achieved.
In their mind they hadn't achieved anything because they're still spinning.
But the reality of the situation is they did more
than what they thought they had because it was in
front of them. So I love those I think those
are such really like plausible acronyms that people could use

(38:46):
every day to help them work through the challenges that
they have, because, as we know, there's a lot of
negativity right now in the world that's not good.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah, and it's you know again, it is it's it's
a practice.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Right.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Confidence is a skill, a skill that you build from
the inside out. It's not something you're born with. It's
not something that everybody else has and you don't, right,
It's something you work on. So for example, you're not
going to go to the gym one time and be buff. Right,
You're not going to go I mean, I wish, but no,
you're not going to take one Spanish lesson and be fluent.
So why would we think that our mindset would be

(39:19):
any different, Right, We have to work on it every
single day, and it doesn't stop. It's not like all
of a sudden, okay, like everything's fixed and I never
have to do it again. No, it doesn't work that way.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
It doesn't. And that's I'm glad you said that, because
there is that idea that certain things are just innate,
that they just happen. But as you just said, everything
from confidence, self compassion, self worth, those are all things
you have to be mindful about and work on all
the time because often they are very easily challenged on
a daily basis, to be honest, So it's like your

(39:53):
mindset about it, like you said, you just don't learn
Spanish like you know. I'm sure people are waiting for
the day they can insert that chip into your brain,
like were the matrix where they can upload all the
skill sets. You know, we're not there yet. I don't
think I want that.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
By the way, I don't want it either, but I.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Kind of like fumbling through things a little bit. Tell
me about you. I know that people always ask someone
to tell them about. A very powerful moment was climbing
Mount Kilimandero. Would you say, was that like really like
a defining big moment for you or not so much?

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, that was a really big defining moment for me
because I really was in that spiral of I'm not
good enough. I'm you know, I'm just a stay at
home mom, I'm just Rob's wife, I'm just a volunteer,
really justifying my existence with that word. And I didn't
realize it until later where and now when I listen

(40:44):
to women, I'm like, drop the just. You are amazing
as you are, drop the just.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
You do not need to justify anything.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
But yeah, that was completely a life changing moment for
me because I set a goal, I put in the work,
and I accomplished it and Actually, I've had people ask me, well,
if you didn't make it to the summit, would you
feel the same. I don't know, because I did so,
but but I would say it was the taking the
action piece that really mattered to me that I was like,

(41:13):
you know, I used to break a lot of promises
that I would make to myself, right, Oh, you're going
to go to the gym today, Oh you'll start everything
on January first. I do not believe in January first.
If you want to do it started today, why January.
But that was me for a very long time, where
majority of my life where I would just say, oh,
I'll get to it or yes, I'll do that, and

(41:35):
you know that's not reality. So that moment when I
reached the Summit, it it really was like, oh, wow,
you can do hard things right. You didn't stop. It
was one foot in front of the other. And one
of the coolest parts of that whole experience was actually
when I reached the summit, I had cell service and
which nobody else on our team did, and I was

(41:57):
able to call home a friend, another their woman, my
tent mate, she was able to use my phone and
call home to but I was able to call home,
and my husband answered the phone. The kids were cheering,
the dogs start marking, The kids started yelling at the
dogs to stop barking. The kids started yelling at each
the other to stop yelling. But you know, I was like,
oh yay, I'm back. But it was so powerful because

(42:20):
you know that idea where people were like, don't you
think it's selfish? I mean, my kids were like, Mom's
you know, so strong, Like this is so cool, right, Okay,
so it's a badass mom. I didn't. I don't know
if I can say or not, but you know, and
that for them, they didn't think I was being selfish.
They thought, and what a great example anything that you

(42:42):
do that challenges yourself that your kids see and they're like,
oh wow, mom, mom did that. I'm going to try
to do that too, or I'm going to try something
different too, something out of my comfort zone. Instead of saying,
oh no, we just play it safe all the time
around here, let's let's not try anything new. So completely
life changing moment for me and life changing for my family,

(43:03):
which is probably one of the coolest things.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
I'm glad you kind of turned it on its ear
because one what I think people often don't think is
some things are a once in a lifetime opportunity. They
don't come back around. You don't get the chance to
do it. So when you get something like that, you
got to step back and be like, wow, let me
really consider this. But on the flip side, what you
just said was people who thought it was selfish because
you had to leave your family for a time to

(43:26):
accomplish this task. But look in the same scope what
you taught them to be able to take a chance.
You know, yes, it might be hard work, but look
at the reward, like all of those like kind of
unspoken lessons that you know you didn't talk about, but
look at what they got to see. To me, that's
way more powerful than some of the conversations that often
you can try to have with teenagers or even kids,

(43:46):
because you know how that goes.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Yeah, but not so good sometimes.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Right, I mean it's not good.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Well, you know we do the do as I say,
not as I do, right, And like what do we
want our our kids learn from modeling? We can tell
them all day long, like don't do that, don't do that,
But if we're doing it, what are they going to do?
They're going to copy us, right, So you know, I
can tell my kids, oh, you need to read sixty
books this year, and then if I'm scrolling on my
phone and watching TV, They're like, why do I need

(44:13):
to read sixty books? You're just sitting there doing nothing.
So I really think it's so important that we focus
on modeling.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Have you ever thought about just kind of writing a
book or doing something about parenting, because you know, the
thing is, you know, parenting doesn't come with a manual,
and it doesn't. But I feel as a lot of
people who have done great job at parenting that could
definitely give some good pointers or ideas to people who
maybe are struggling with trying to connect with their kids
or feel like they're not being a good parent.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Yes, I've thought about it, and who knows what will
come next, but you know, it's been I think having
the podcast with Olivia has been really eye opening for things. Actually,
one of the most eye opening things she said on
the podcast was a few months ago and she said
a guest asked her, like, what was the most important
thing that you learned about your mom? And she said

(45:02):
that she's human, right, she goes, I always when I
was younger, I always thought about her as mom, like, oh,
she has to know everything, she has to do everything,
she doesn't make mistakes, she's mom. And then she was like,
oh no, she's human, like she can make mistakes and
she can do amazing things and she doesn't have to
do every little thing for us.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
And I was like, oh, that was a great one.
Live well. You know, hey, you used have been liked
a good time. I don't here, I did a job,
you know something, but you'd be surprised. And to me,
she said something. I feel that was actually very powerful
because a lot of kids don't see their parents as human. Yeah,
so when they make a mistake, I'll be like, you're
you're I've said that, like, you know, your parents are
still human. I'm like, they're not always going to get

(45:43):
everything right, but it's about how things are handled or
how you choose to communicate. So the fact that she
said that, I mean, I just think that that can
be so eye opening for so many kids because they
often don't see their parents in that capacity. So that
was an amazing thing for her to say. Wow, everybody,
this is episode eighty. Let's talk empowerment with best selling
author Ted X, speaker and podcasters Mom Conego, who, among

(46:06):
many things, has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, but she is a mother, wife,
just so many things, and she puts all of this
into two amazing books. She has so real confidence. I
see on your side it says order now. When is
it set for release?

Speaker 3 (46:20):
It releases on February seventeenth. So I am in book
launch season, and I'm really excited for this book to
come out because I really think it's going to help
a lot of women. It's specifically written for women, and
not that men can't read it, because we know men
men should read things like this too, but it really
is I wrote it for women, and I wrote it

(46:43):
based on my experiences of really figuring out how to
move forward even through really difficult times, especially through really
difficult times, especially.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Through difficult times. And so, of course we have the
podcast with your daughter Olivia. When does that air?

Speaker 3 (46:58):
We drop an episode every Tuesday, and we are I
think one hundred and thirty episodes in I have to
one hundred and thirty something. I don't I don't remember
exactly because we've recorded a few more episodes, but I
don't know. They haven't been posted yet. But yeah, again,
every other week it's a guest in the following week,
it's the two of us and it has been really

(47:20):
one of the most fun pieces that I get to
do on a weekly basis.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Nice and of course you can find the podcast on YouTube, iHeartRadio,
Apple Podcasts and Spotify. So wherever there's a podcast platform,
pretty much you're there. So this should be obviously easy
for people to get the content too, so that's that's
a good thing. I always encourage people, Hey, make sure
you get social with our guests, so you can always
find someone on Instagram at Simone Canego, Facebook at speaker

(47:49):
Simone Canago and then LinkedIn if you're a LinkedIn person
at someone Conego. I always encourage people to connect because
what best way to know one when the book is
dropping to the podcast, all that good stuff, if you
just connected with people. Of course, going to your website
that's always the easy thing to do too, So hopefully
people will go to your website www dot Simonecanagle dot com.

(48:10):
Remember everyone, I'm trying to make this easy for you.
So at the top of the screen there is a
QR code that you can scan. I'll take you right
to her website and you can can they pre order
the book. At this point, it sounds like pre ordered
the book.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
And when you pre order the book, there's several bonuses
that you get, including a reverse interview with my daughter
which is a lot of fun, and a cool Spotify playlist.
You actually get the first couple of chapters of the
book that you can download today and get started, so
you see what's coming next.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Oh nice. It's kind of like you give like a
little teaser to kind of, you know, work for that
February drop for the book to come out. Fantastic, All right,
any party things you'd like to share with our guests.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
I just want to go back to the idea that
you don't need to change who you are. You need
to change the way you see yourself. Right, you are
more capable, more powerful, more, you know, amazing then, you know,
because you haven't taken the time to really get to
know yourself, and that idea of really focusing on how
important the relationship is with yourself, because when you have

(49:12):
a solid relationship with yourself, you have solid relationships with
other people.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Yes you do. So see this is just affirmation of
what I say. So now I'm just gonna start saying
I just need you to go listen to episode eighty
so you'll know when I'm telling you is your therapist
is you know it does resonate on the outside other people.
You know, it goes there. So I'm as start saying
you need to go follow someone canego so you can
understand what I'm saying to you here in therapy is
what makes more sense. Yes, I agree with you one

(49:38):
hundred percent. Well, thank you for cutting, you know, taking
time out of your Saturday. I know people could be
doing better things with their time, so I appreciate you
for cutting time out to do this and talk with
my guests.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Thank you, Thank you for having me here today.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Yes, all righty, well, thank you everyone that this is
a Comerica won't make sure ordered that book because it
sounds like it's got a lot of nice things that
comes with it leading up to Local the book in February.
All right, everybody, So that was episode eighty. Let's talk empowerment.
Of course, my guests is amazing. I don't just say that.
Everyone who's come on this show, in this eleventh installment

(50:11):
of the Ambition shows has dropped nothing short of just
nuggets of things that if you take one or two
things of what they say could be life changing for you.
And I mean a lot of these things are not
easy to do so and I know that you know
a lot of times people struggle over reading, but I said,
pick up something that's going to make a difference in
your life, and to me, this absolutely makes a difference.
So remember, you can scan the QR code at the

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top of the screen and it'll take you to someone's
website and you can pre order the book, you can
learn more about the podcast and all those things. So
I'm trying to make things a little bit easier for
people to get involved and engaged so you can do
that something that I actually have to do better at
as I'm sitting here promoting everything for everybody, I actually
have an app, the Maya Experience, and I'm laughing because
it's been active for a bid and I really really

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have not promoted it. But it's everything pretty much like
Maya in one place. So if you scan it, obviously
it has the podcast there that you can watch live
on your phone. It has the video on the audio piece,
so if you just want to listen to the podcast,
you can. You can get access to the blogs as well,
so everything Maya is right there, so you can take

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Maya on the go. You can scan those two cure
codes right there. But of course, like I said, I'm
doing a good job about adding all these different elements in.
So if you are an Apple person, here is the
link up top that you can scan to go to
the Apple Store and to download the app. And if
you happen to be more of an Android person, which
those people do exist in the world, I don't know
why I'm a little biased about that, but you can

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always go to the Amazon Store. Here is the link
for that as well, and you can get the app
through the Amazon Store. So go ahead, download the Maya
Experience and take Maya on the go and guess what,
at that point, You'll never have to miss anything Maya
at that point, which will make life easier for you.
So it's a good thing. Let me talk about my

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next guest, and this is one of those things that
for me, I'm actually really excited about because I love
the holistic approach to things. Coming up on Monday, and
I'm like, we've been stacking these episodes together literally to
kind of push through the year. Episode eighty one I'm
going to have on Doctor Hector Rodriguez a story that's
absolutely worth hearing. He's a psychiatrist, but his journey to
becoming a psychiatrist is entirely different than most believe or not.

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He was a photographer before and something changed in his
life and he decided he wanted to pursue and be
an advocate for mental health, but he wanted to be
a psychiatrist, and his approach is different in the sense
that he talks about there are so many holistic ways
to deal with complex mental health conditions. And he is
a student of doctor Amen who is big into the
SPEC brain scan. A lot of things in the field

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of psychology is changing, and this SPEC game is definitely
going to be something that to be able to look
at someone's brain and it leads providers down a path
of understanding potentially what you're struggling with just by looking
at where your brain is more active at. So he's
going to be a great guest to have on He's
going to be on Monday one o'clock Central time, So
set your timers. Just be a really good time to

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go ahead and just subscribe and share my YouTube page
at Maya speaks to you and then you will not
miss this episode, So definitely if you know you want
to hear a different side or how the field of
psychology is definitely growing and changing, this is an episode
I would say that's definitely worth you checking out. So
with that being said, I always appreciate thank you to
everyone for listening to this episode. As I said, the

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whole purpose of this podcast is to help you to
identify your ambition, harness that motivation, but to help you
acquire the success and satisfaction that you seek, not just
in life, but in your everyday life. I want thank
people to think big, not long term goal in the future.
I want you to be present and to really like
dig deep into what your every day looks like so
you can be happy that way as well. Remember you

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can always find episodes. I'm very much like Simone trying
to put everything out there, so you can always find
it on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Autibos, Spotify to
search Maya My Ambition, Your Ambition. Of course, you can
listen to episodes on my website mayadesk speaks dot com.
Of course, if you subscribe to the YouTube page, you'll
make life easy for you, so you can always subscribe

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to Maya speaks to you and guess what, I finally
got it together. So when you subscribe to YouTube, you
also can be social with me and you can find
me on Facebook, ig n X. Of course, the website
is where I direct everyone too, so that you can
check out my inspirational blog as well as the me
on Pause my mena Pause blog. Weekly on Wednesdays, I
post something new for you to take in and to process,

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because if you're like me the poster triede for menopause,
the things I have learned along the way definitely have
been life changing and has helped me to navigate things
a lot better. All right, everyone, until next time, Remember
your present becomes your past and your future is no more,
so make the most of every single day. So I

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tell people always be well, stay amazing, but nothing else.
As Simone said, and hopefully this is resonating with everybody.
You're amazing even if you don't realize it. But the
minute you create that mindset, you'll start to see a
shift that changes how the world moves and feels to you.
All right, everyone, Hopefully I will see you all on Monday.

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Until next time, whether you're on the go or listening
on your cell phone, tablet or laptop. You can find
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I believe this is going to be our finest hour.
Just search Maya, my ambition, your ambition, and get ready
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