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The Unshakeable Spirit of Cristina: Cancer, Entrepreneurship and Beyond

November 08, 2023 Mariana Monterrubio - Best Selling Author, Latina Life Coach and Motivation Speaker Season 4 Episode 14
The Unshakeable Spirit of Cristina: Cancer, Entrepreneurship and Beyond
MAMI on a Mission Podcast - Mujeres Alcanzando Metas Imposibles
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MAMI on a Mission Podcast - Mujeres Alcanzando Metas Imposibles
The Unshakeable Spirit of Cristina: Cancer, Entrepreneurship and Beyond
Nov 08, 2023 Season 4 Episode 14
Mariana Monterrubio - Best Selling Author, Latina Life Coach and Motivation Speaker

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What happens when a health crisis turns into a life makeover? The incredible Cristina Arroyo, a nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and food enthusiast, joins us this week to share her transformative journey. Diagnosed with stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer, Cristina didn’t let it deter her pursuits. Instead, she continued to compete in a bikini bodybuilding show while undergoing chemotherapy, displaying her resilient spirit.

Cristina's journey is not just about battling cancer but also about being an entrepreneur in the midst of it all. She launched Wholelistic Energy IV Hydration and Medical Spa, all while grappling with her health issues, highlighting her courageous spirit. She shares the highs and lows of her entrepreneurial journey and emphasizes how prioritizing mental health became her mantra.

Here's a story that inspires you to look beyond. Cristina's battle with cancer led her to pen down her experiences, becoming an author. She conveys her experiences of dating with cancer, her commitment to raising awareness about neuroendocrine cancer, and how she learned the importance of self-advocacy when it comes to health. Cristina's heartfelt advice and inspiring story is a testament to the human spirit's resilience and determination. It's about turning dreams into unstoppable missions. So, buckle up for an enriching conversation that will leave you motivated to overcome your impossible goals.

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What happens when a health crisis turns into a life makeover? The incredible Cristina Arroyo, a nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and food enthusiast, joins us this week to share her transformative journey. Diagnosed with stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer, Cristina didn’t let it deter her pursuits. Instead, she continued to compete in a bikini bodybuilding show while undergoing chemotherapy, displaying her resilient spirit.

Cristina's journey is not just about battling cancer but also about being an entrepreneur in the midst of it all. She launched Wholelistic Energy IV Hydration and Medical Spa, all while grappling with her health issues, highlighting her courageous spirit. She shares the highs and lows of her entrepreneurial journey and emphasizes how prioritizing mental health became her mantra.

Here's a story that inspires you to look beyond. Cristina's battle with cancer led her to pen down her experiences, becoming an author. She conveys her experiences of dating with cancer, her commitment to raising awareness about neuroendocrine cancer, and how she learned the importance of self-advocacy when it comes to health. Cristina's heartfelt advice and inspiring story is a testament to the human spirit's resilience and determination. It's about turning dreams into unstoppable missions. So, buckle up for an enriching conversation that will leave you motivated to overcome your impossible goals.

Follow Cristina on IG: https://www.instagram.com/cristina_arnp

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Speaker 1:

Hello, hello, and welcome to the Mommy on a Mission podcast, where empowerment meets inspiration. I'm your host, mariana, a life coach and author, on a mission to help Latina women, and all women, to reach their impossible goals, one dream at a time. Join me on this incredible adventure as we dive into compelling subjects that will uplift, motivate and ignite your passion. Get ready to be inspired, empowered and never give up on your dreams. This is the podcast where we turn dreams into unstoppable missions. Are you ready? Let's go?

Speaker 1:

Hey, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Mommy on a Mission podcast, the podcast that empowers Latina women and all women to reach their impossible goal, one dream at a time. And today I am very excited to have with me a very beautiful guest. Her name is Cristina Arroyo and she is a nurse, and you live in Florida, right? Oh well, cristina, thank you so much for joining us and it's so wonderful to have you on our podcast today. First of all, can you start by sharing a little bit more about yourself and your journey, as well as how you discovered our podcast through Janine Hernandez?

Speaker 2:

So, first of all, thank you so much for having me. I feel honored to be on your podcast, so thank you to you. A little bit about my story. My God, there's so many facets of my story I don't even know really where to begin, so I guess, like you said, I'm gonna start with you. Let's start with you. Tell us a little bit about just you, about me, okay.

Speaker 2:

Well, I'm originally from New York, so I'm a New York transplant here in Florida, like everybody else, just like everybody else. So I was born and raised in the Bronx. I moved to Florida so that I can go to. I wanted to come here for college. We had come down. Like you know, when you're a kid they bring you to Disney World. They're like, oh, I wish I lived in Florida. So I came down, came here for nursing school and I was like I hate it, I want to go back home, I want to go back to New York. That didn't last very long. I did end up going back, but I ended up staying in Florida. I'm a nurse practitioner. I have two master's degrees, one in nurse practitioner and the other one in nursing education. I own a business. I'm acting like I don't know anything about myself, my goodness.

Speaker 1:

You're not on a job interview, I promise.

Speaker 2:

I own a business. I own Holistic Energy IV Hydration and Medical Spa where I do IV Hydration, drives, go-tox Fillers. I'm also a nurse educator. I teach at a nursing college and I also mentor nurses who want to do what I do. You know you don't really hear too much about nurse entrepreneurs because when you hear a nurse you just think like hospital, working for a clinic or things like that. So I mentor. I have mentored, like this year alone, over 100 nurses on how to start their own IV Hydration business. I host seminars about four times a year. I actually have one coming up in two weeks, so I'm excited about that. What else I love to eat? I'm a huge foodie and Orlando was like, just name, the number one foodie place in the US. I'm like, oh amazing, I knew it was worth moving here. And then I'm also a big gym rat. I live in the gym. So obviously I have to. If I'm going to be a foodie, I have to be a gym girl too.

Speaker 1:

So that's true. That's true. I need to. I need to start going to the gym because I love food too. Well, listen, christina, you know we talked a little bit beforehand and your story is truly, truly inspiring and I want to know a little bit more about that, if you can tell us a little bit more, because you mentioned that, as you're starting your business, you were battling with neuroendocrine cancer, stage four, and how that diagnosis changed your life and perspective. So talk to us a little bit about that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so well. First of all, thank you for bringing that up. You know a lot of people. I think they're like scared to talk to me about it because they probably think like, oh my gosh, she doesn't want to talk about it. But, on the contrary, I love talking about it because it's one of those things that I think needs a lot of awareness, a lot of education.

Speaker 2:

Me being a healthcare provider, I knew nothing about, I never heard of neuroendocrine cancer until I was diagnosed with it. So I was diagnosed in May 2018, out of nowhere, out of the blue, I was having like heartburn, indigestion, and you know, again, I'm a foodie. So I'm like, oh, it's probably all the hot, spicy foods that I eat, no big deal. I would go to the doctor and they would say, take Tom's, say, pepto-bismol, here's Pepsi. And I'm like, okay, I would take those things. But I knew that like it wasn't, it wasn't normal the symptoms that I was having. So I remember it was actually a nurse practitioner that referred me to do an ultrasound and I never did it. I was like, I feel better, I'll just try to limit the spicy foods and limit the things that can trigger it. So I never, I never did the test and she actually called me six months after giving me the order Saying hey, you know, I'm just following up to see if you ever did that ultrasound. And I thought that was so. That was God who did that, because I know I'm a nurse practitioner and it's very rare that I call someone six months later and ask them if they did a test that I ordered six months prior. That just doesn't happen routinely. So that was definitely an intervention from God, without a doubt, and I ended up doing the ultrasound.

Speaker 2:

The ultrasound led to finding lesions on my liver that led to biopsies and I ended up seeing a liver specialist and he actually said to me. He said he was looking at like the images from the testing and he said you know what? Let's follow up in a year. That was where his words. But I knew you know, we have our insuition right when you're a patient, when you're on the other side, I tried not to think like a provider. I said you know, I'm a human at this point, I'm the patient. And I remember when he said let's wait a year, he didn't say it with conviction, he said it like he was questioning himself and I said, okay, let me trust him. He's the specialist of the liver, I'm the patient.

Speaker 2:

When I went home that night it did not sit well with me and and I said he didn't sound very confident in in his decision to stay, wait a year. The next morning he called me at 8 in the morning because I guess he felt this. I knew what he was like, I knew that he was doubting himself. So he actually calls me the next morning 8 am First thing and said you know, I gave it further thought and I would like to biopsy those little spots in your liver. So I just I knew something was off.

Speaker 2:

So my point being advocate for yourself, always, always advocate for yourself. It doesn't matter how many degrees the person has, how many medical license. Nobody knows your body or your intuition better than you. So be an advocate. So I have the biopsy and it was discovered that I had stage 4 neuroendocrine tumor. So it was found in my small intestine and it had spread to the liver. So I he told me as I was on the phone Driving back to work from my lunch break and me being I'm not a very emotional person at all, anybody who knows me knows that I'm very like, solution driven, like okay, what is the next step?

Speaker 2:

What do we need to do? I did not dwell on the emotional side of it at all. I'm like I need the facts. I started like researching my previous medical records and requesting records because I'm like stage 4, like how could we have missed stages once through? You know one, two and three. So I became a detective. I became an expert in neuroendocrine and my own body.

Speaker 2:

Long story short, you know I started chemotherapy injections and I was actually getting ready to compete in a bikini bodybuilding show. It's funny because my trophies are right behind the screen as I'm talking to you, so I'm looking at them and it's bringing me back to those days when I would go to chemo, go to the gym and I was training and doing all of these things while receiving treatment. And I always say and joke, like having this diagnosis is probably like the best thing that ever happened to me, because Prior to that, I was very shy, so didn't really come out of my shell, wasn't really willing to try new things very to myself, and Having that diagnosis really allowed me to come out of my shell. I'm not the same person that I was in 2018, without a doubt. I'm outspoken, I talk, I don't stop talking. You know, I was competing in bodybuilding shows like wearing I would never wear a bikini on a stage in front of people, like that was not gonna happen. But you know, having this challenge, it really. I really felt like it was the God-given gift.

Speaker 2:

In addition to that, I started receiving like IV infusions I you know. So then COVID happened. What was that? 2020 around there, more or less 920, yeah, around 2020 and the my employer at the time. Actually, they said because you receive chemotherapy, we don't want you to get sick, so we're cutting your hours At work. So that was the To cut my hours because I was quote unquote sick, but I was not sick. You know, I don't identify myself as a sick person. Yeah, he's actually very help, probably more healthy than most people. So when they cut my hours, I was like, okay, well, what do I do now? I said this is the perfect time for me to start a business and I had zappled into a couple of things. I had looked into legal nursing, like legal nurse consulting, and being in a consultant for medical cases. But I was like, yeah, that sounds kind of boring. I don't want to be like reading through case files and what have you. And then I started receiving these IV hydration drips. I was like, oh my god, these make you feel amazing. They give you such great energy there. I was really into wellness and then, at that time, covid was going on. So, like everybody was into wellness at that time, I make that. And how old were you at this time? Cuz you're very good. Yes, so in 2018, when I was diagnosed, I was 31 Even my diagnosis at 31 years old. And then two years later, I started my business.

Speaker 2:

During COVID, you know, I had a lot of free time because the gyms were closed. I wasn't going to the gym or anything, so I would like lock myself in my room. I didn't know anything about what a business plan was Market nothing, cuz I'm a nurse. I know how to save lives. That's all I know how to do. So I like dove into it hardcore. I was googling how to do a business plan how do I do this, how do I do that? So I really am I I kind of feel like I'm a self-taught entrepreneur and I don't really think that there's the right way to do any of it. You kind of just figure it out as you go. There's still a lot of things that I don't know, that I'm constantly trying to figure out. So I started my business from my car.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I was doing mobile services, so concierge ID, hydration, going to people's homes, strangers' homes, not knowing what I was getting myself into, had no idea what I was doing as far as, like, the logistics of things. Obviously I knew what I was doing as far as the services, but as far as the logistics I had no idea. I was like I'm going to figure this out as I go. And my car kept breaking down. I would go to somebody's house, do an IV, come out my car was dead. I'm like, hey, it's me again. Can you help me jumpstart my car so I can go to the next client? And it was like that for weeks and then that it was like that from weeks to months and then it was to the point that I would leave my car running in people's homes in neighborhoods that I had no idea. I'd leave my car running, go inside, do the service and like, pray to God that my car was still there when I would come out. It was wild, yeah.

Speaker 2:

So then I was lucky enough to meet a friend who introduced me to a woman who owns a spot here in Orlando and we became such great friends and I rent a room out of her spa so I run my business inside of her location and it's been a blessing. I've been there for three years now. We have a really wonderful relationship because she's also into like holistic stuff. They do a lot of skincare, aesthetic services and we combine that with my IV hydration and the aesthetics and the bulltox and the filler so it works really well. And so while I do that, I still have my foot in the clinic, I'm still working at the clinic, I'm teaching at the college, I'm teaching the nurses. So I'm a busy, busy, busy bee.

Speaker 1:

So, guys, read that and so, basically, the IV hydration came not because of your nursing, but it came because of because of you being because of your health, so they started giving that. But that was what sparked your idea, because, as a nurse, I think you have to be a nurse or nurse practitioner in order to be able to have an IV hydration business. Is that right?

Speaker 2:

So anyone can have the business, but to actually carry out the services you do need to be a licensed healthcare provider. So that's why I say that that neuroendocrine was a God was like here. Take this this is a blessing and a curse for you. You know more. So a blessing.

Speaker 1:

And that's crazy, because most people, if they would have gotten this news, they would not have had that same mentality right. They would have allowed for it to kind of like eat up at them for a while and then they wouldn't have even thought of, oh, let me start a business. Because it would have been the opposite. Like the feeling is like you know, why am I even going to start something? Why am I even going to do anything? You know, I'm just whatever, it is what it is and that's it. But you, on the other hand, were like no, you know, if I'm just going to do it, I'm just going to do it. Let the road take me where it takes me, but I'm going to do this not only for myself but for others. Because you also mentioned that you also mentor other nurses to start their own IV hydration businesses. Is that right? So what motivated you to take on that role as a mentor, and what advice do you usually give to those who aspire to follow a similar path in you?

Speaker 2:

So I have a circle of friends like my closest group of friends were all nurse practitioners who do this, but in different states. So I have friends that own IV businesses in North Carolina, south Carolina, different parts of Florida, what have you and we all kind of like were under the mentorship of someone who was teaching these classes and we're like, well, we can teach our own classes too. So I just I said, let me try it. You know, I tried it out. My very first class only had six nurses in it, six students, and from there I've done I think seven, I think I'm at number seven or eight now. I honestly lost track and the classes doubled and tripled and we're selling out and we're selling out. I'm like, oh my God, okay, there is the need. This tells me that nurses are not status, they don't have job satisfaction. You know, they're not feeling fulfilled in their job and especially during that COVID time where nurses, if they were overworked before, they were like extra burnt out now. So so now you know I'm still doing the classes. I actually cut down on the size because I was honestly very overwhelmed having a class of 25, 30 people. That was very overwhelming for me. I'm like I need a team, I need help Like ah, so now my classes are, I downsize them and you know, just to create a more like one-on-one personal, intimate setting.

Speaker 2:

So advice that I would give for a nurse who was interested in doing this just don't you don't have to be the traditional nurse that works 12 hours just at the hospital. I'm totally against anything traditional. I don't have a traditional type of person, so, and you don't have to be. You know, when you are in nursing school they're always like oh, you know, you work in the hospital and you have to save and, honestly, you don't. You don't have to do anything that you do not want to do.

Speaker 2:

If you don't like the situation that you are in, you have every right. You have the power. There are tools out there for you to create the type of work environment that you desire to have. You don't have to stay in this box. That's the whole thing with me is that I, you know I can't have a boss. I don't like nobody telling me what to do. I just, I just don't like to be micromanaged at all. So this is perfect for me because I don't have to worry about being micromanaged. I work when I want to. I do what I run it how I see best for me, and it allows me flexibility to still work at the clinic, to maintain my clinical skills and to teach at the college and to pursue any other things that I may want to do. So for me it's all about that flexibility with my time. It's not even about the money, it's about the just coming out the box and doing what I want to do honestly.

Speaker 1:

Right, no, and that's crazy, because you're like the second nurse that I know that has an IV spa, like a hydration spa. Because I have another friend here in Texas that I want to say it was around the same time, like COVID, whatever that she was like looking into launching out into a business and she didn't know at first. Actually she was thinking about Chick-fil-A because that was like okay, you know, I want to invest in Chick-fil-A. And she said she made it up to the third round and which is good, I guess. But the problem with that was they wanted her to go to California because that's where they wanted to establish the business. And she was like no, I don't want, I'm from Texas, I want to stay here, you know. So then she started looking into IV hydration and she says that was like the best decision you know that she ever made and so she has her business. And then she ended up, I think, going into like pharmaceuticals, like she's traveling all over the place doing pharmaceuticals and she goes.

Speaker 1:

And I would have never thought that as a nurse, because I think sometimes even in that industry, in that field, many nurses or people in the medical field don't think outside of Exactly that clinics or hospital setting.

Speaker 1:

You know it's like nurse, yes, you know like that's ideally where you would end up, right, but there's like so many avenues that you can go into with your nursing degree and it's like wow, why didn't anybody ever tell me this, you know, and so that's good, and that's good that you're doing that, because now you're letting them know.

Speaker 1:

Hey, you know, because of this, you know, I was able to learn about other things that I can do and now I can like mentor the people or educate other women or people in general nurses, men, women, whatever to talk to them about thinking outside of that box, just like you did. And so because of that, you were mentioning how you know you've been able to come out of your comfort level and just really go out there, because dealing with cancer at such a young age is undoubtedly a significant change, a challenge, I'm sure, and you know. But could you share in some of the ways in which your diagnosis pushed you to step outside of the box? I know that out of the comfort zone, because I know that you said, both professionally and personally, because you mentioned, you know, in a bikini work, announced stuff, but in what other ways we? But you already mentioned that you talked about your business, but I'm sure there's gotta be other things that are like Okay.

Speaker 2:

So it's made a big impact as well as with my faith and my mental health as well. You know, after that I started going to therapy, you know, because I wanted to make sure that I, if I was to like spiral or. And then the other thing, like I told you, when I got the diagnosis, I was in my car, driving to work and my questions were like, what do I need to do? But I never like grieve that or had that emotional response and I was like I don't know if that's normal, I don't, you know. I, you know. So I did start going to therapy just to make sure that I wasn't like suppressing anything and making sure that I had whatever coping tools and tips I needed, should I encounter having that emotional response, reaction to it.

Speaker 2:

And not only that. I started therapy also because, like entrepreneurship was like completely something new for me and it's very, very, very, very challenging, as you know. And it's a lonely place because it's not like you have coworkers or anybody. You know I have a great, don't get me wrong. I have an amazing group of friends, my best friends, who do what I do also, so we're constantly a support for each other.

Speaker 2:

But you know, when I at one point I was running my business full time and I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't know what to do with my time, because I was used to working a 12 hour shift and I have to do A through Z within those 12 hours and then when you're an entrepreneur, there's nobody telling you, hey, did you do this, did you do that? So it was like a complete mental shift for me. And you know again, when you work a regular job, you know what your income is gonna be every two weeks. You know what your paycheck is gonna look like. In entrepreneurship you have no idea. It can be amazing one week, the next week, complete silence. So you have to be very mentally equipped to handle the ups and downs and all of the different phases of entrepreneurship, because it is not for everyone, it is not easy, it is not for the week.

Speaker 2:

So you know, having the cancer did allow me to explore therapy, making sure my mental health was in check and just being very self-aware as well, and also my faith, you know, trusting in God and understanding that nobody has it easy. Nobody has given a silver platter. This is the platter that God gave me and I cannot ask him why did I do this? I've never done anything to anybody. I cannot do that because, you know, if God gave that to me, it is for a reason, and I realized that I'm realizing, because this journey is so ongoing, that he didn't do this for me. He did this for me, to help other people.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely.

Speaker 2:

Wow, it's not for me. This journey is for the people that I come in contact with on a day-to-day basis.

Speaker 1:

And how has it been? Like? So, are you in a relationship at all right now? Or, and if you aren't, well, and how is that? I mean, has that even been a challenge, like I mean?

Speaker 2:

nobody wants to go on a first date and be like, hey, I have cancer, you know, like that's awkward, that's awkward. But I mean I'm very open about my story. I've been open about it on like social media and things like that. Like I'll share every now and then you know, when I'm going to chemo or whatever the different favors. Like I went, I had my last session of radiation back in February. Like I posted my little, they gave me like a certificate and I took a picture with my radiation nurse. So like I shared I share those like milestones and stuff. But I live a really normal, like a very normal life. Like nobody would ever know unless I tell them. But my life is so normal that sometimes even I forget. Honestly.

Speaker 1:

And I guess that's in a good way, that's. I mean, that is good in a good way, you know, because you're keeping yourself active, you're not allowing it to take over your life, you're like, no, I'm going to live my life and stuff. And so spreading awareness about neuroendocrine cancer and motivating others is one of your goals, and which is one of the reasons why you were like open to discuss it on the podcast. And so how have you been going about achieving this outside of social media, and what message would you like to convey to our listeners who may be facing their own challenge?

Speaker 2:

I mean I feel like there's a lot more that I can be doing to help kind of spread this awareness. Actually, november 10th is neuroendocrine. It's the short name is Net neuroendocrine tumor. So Net Day is November 10th, so that's coming up. You know, I share things on my social media. If I see a post that's related to that, I'll share that. But I feel like I should be doing a better job at it, honestly. So it's funny. You asked me earlier and I never answered, how I came about you and your podcast.

Speaker 2:

I started writing a book a long time ago. She knows she's always like when are you going to finish? When are you going to finish? And in that book I talk a lot about Net and my journey and I feel like when I accomplish that book that I've been working on for so many years, that is going to be my way of spreading awareness. I just I just need to sit down and do it. But you know I'm excuses, excuses, excuses. I have a million and one things going on. But I know that I am destined to finish that book and I'm sure Janine's going to listen to this and text me like did you finish that book yet?

Speaker 1:

But she's going to hold you too, because you just now set it on here on the podcast, because Janine's also my coach and I was able to get my book done and it was launched out in July, and but you know what I mean. It's going to be incredible because I can't wait. I can't wait to have my hands on your book, to be able to read your story, because I know that right now, this is a condensed version of what you've gone through. Right, just in talking about it and just even having the ability of you being able to come on here today and just talking about it, you're already starting that process of you know, making this awareness open and out there in public, you know, so that others can get more information about it and be able to cope with that. And so I think that's very important.

Speaker 1:

And I always say that our stories are not our stories, they're his stories for us to share and tell. So we have to go through things in our lives. Why is it us? We don't know. All we know is that God says you're the, you're going to be the soldier that's going to wear this armor and you're going to go out there and you're going to, you know, let the people know exactly what I have done for you and what I'm going to do for them, and to be able to share them and stuff and it's.

Speaker 1:

And he does not discriminate or he doesn't show for autism, right? I mean, he's like no, you know, I know who I'm going to use and I know why I'm using this purpose, right, and I commend you for just, you know, being out there and being, you know, brave, because it is bravery on your part to be able to share your story, because it's not easy, because, like I said, there could be many people that very young is like, oh my God, I'm so young, why me? But you, on the other hand, that's what's more courageous about your story is that you are still young, but yet you're doing the damn thing. You're going out there and you're doing it. And so, christina, your story is one of resilience, one of strength and determination, and so, because I know that you've got family. But before we wrap up, is there anything else you would like to add or any final words of aspiration you would like to share with our audience today?

Speaker 2:

Yes, I just want people to advocate for themselves and for their health. Like I said earlier, nobody knows your body, nobody knows your intuition better than you, and the other thing that I want people to know is that it's okay to be different, it's okay to do non-traditional things. If you want to open up, I don't know something that's not normal or whatever what is normal right. There's no such thing as normal. Just do what you want to do. That's probably I know that sounds like super, not, you know, fancy, but do what you want to do. Do what makes you happy, and who cares what anybody has to say? Who cares what anybody thinks?

Speaker 2:

And now, actually, this is the first time that I'm like publicly talking about that. I am writing a book, so now I feel like this is good, this is holding me accountable, and so, with that being said, my last advice for people is to share your story. Don't be ashamed of the story that God gave you, don't be ashamed of the challenge that God gave you, and don't question the situation that God has put you in, because it is for a reason, and it is to help and serve other people. So never question the situation that you're given.

Speaker 1:

Man. That's great, great words of wisdom, great words of wisdom, and I thank you for that. Well listen, Lysina. I am incredibly grateful for you sharing your journey with us Today and thank you so much for being a source of inspiration, because that's deeply what you are You're a source of inspiration, and thank you for joining me today on the podcast. Like I said, I'm so grateful and thankful that you took the time. I know that we had to reschedule once before, but I'm just so glad that we were finally able to do this right, and I think sometimes the enemy would do things to keep us from sharing a story, but I was like, oh no, not today, you don't have us today. We're going to make this happen.

Speaker 2:

And so Thank you for having this platform for people to share their stories and to helping us get our voices out there. So thank you to you for having this for us.

Speaker 1:

Thank you, no, well, so look, I look forward to following your continued journey. So I am following you on Instagram and all the positive impact that you're making. If someone wanted to reach out to you, in which way could they reach out? Like Instagram, Facebook? How would you want people to reach out to you If they have any more questions?

Speaker 2:

They can reach out to me. I have two Instagram accounts. One is more like my personal account. You can absolutely reach out to me there or my business page either, or I don't. I have Facebook, but I only kind of use that for like random. You know family. It's like family is on Facebook. So media, email, facebook, wherever you want, tiktok, I'm on all of those platforms.

Speaker 1:

Now I'll have those links. I'll have those on the show notes, so I'll have to get those for you so I can share it on the show notes and stuff. Well, grisina, thank you so much once again. And so for anyone that's out there listening to today's podcast, listen. If you or anyone you know can benefit from this message and you know that someone would like to learn a little bit more about it, please reach out to us. I'll you know, we'll go ahead and put Grisina's link on the show notes and stuff, but I'm so thankful that you were able to spend this evening with me and I look forward once again to following up with you later on. And then you're going to have to be a guest of mine when you have your book, because we're going to have to promote your book and talk about your book. Okay, so we'll see what a year does, yeah, so pressures on.

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much again for everything and for letting me be on your show.

Speaker 1:

If you are hearing this message, you've listened to the entire episode and for that I want to say me gracias from the bottom of my heart. If you would like to dive deeper into today's message and would like to connect with me, send the DM on Instagram at olamami on a mission, or Facebook at mommy on a mission. You can also find me at mommy on a missioncom. I hope you've enjoyed this new episode and if you did, it would mean the world to me If you would subscribe, share this podcast and leave me a review on Spotify and Apple podcast or wherever you listen to your podcast. Tune in next week for some more words of motivation, inspiration and encouragement on mommy on a mission.

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