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Hi and welcome to the have the Audacity podcast, where we are all about living our own version of our best life. My name is Jacey. I'm a multi-passionate human obsessed with personal growth, and I want you to come on this journey with me, where we share our stories and learn tools, tips and tricks to live the life we were always meant to live. So let's lean into the uncomfortable celebrator highs and embrace our lows, because all of it's important. It may get a little messy, but it's time to have the audacity. Hey, audacious Human, I'm so glad that you're here for today's episode and I am so excited for today's guest. It was such a fun conversation to have with a fellow teacher and someone that I have known in different online spaces for the last few years, and it was just fun to have her on and get to talk with a fellow podcaster and really get to share how life changes when you are learning into personal growth and as you go and develop as a human. And so I'm excited to get to introduce you to Christy Lockhart.
Speaker 1:Christy, to tell you a little bit about her before we dive into the conversation Christy is a wife a bonus and a bio mom. She's a teacher host of the Start Scared podcast. She's an Enneagram Six who used to be bound by what she thought she was supposed to say, do or be. So much so that she has lost herself in the chaos of everyday mom life and is trying to discover who she is in real time. She is passionate about empowering and motivating other moms to cut through the BS stories that they tell themselves and find clarity, to start scared on putting themselves first, because who they are outside of being a mom still matters.
Speaker 1:And even if you're listening to this, you're like, wow, I'm not a mom, like we don't just talk about that. We talk about a whole variety of different things that are applicable to wherever you are in this moment, and I fully believe that you're not listening to this episode by accident, that there is something in this conversation that is meant for you to hear. So, without further ado, let's dive into today's episode. So a little context. You're not going to know this before we push record, but we had massive technology issues and you know, chrissy, like you were like hey, when anytime there's issues like this, like it's going to be a kick ass conversation, I have to agree, it's like we're doing this. It's going to be awesome. So just how to give you all in a backstory about what we're coming into this conversation with here.
Speaker 1:But anyway, chrissy, I'm just so excited to have you on the podcast, so thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I'm so honored. Thank you for having me. It's wonderful to be here.
Speaker 1:So can you, just before we get in, like a little bit about who you are, what you do?
Speaker 2:I am. I always like try and have a hard time with this question because I don't want to like talk about all the hats I wear, because I'm more than the hats I wear. But I love to read. That is such a big, like massive hobby of mine. I like the Vower books. And I am a mom, I'm a wife, I'm a teacher. I am actually resigning from my teaching position at the end of the school year, which is makes my armpit sweating and scary, because I've been a teacher for 18 years, so that's kind of scary. I'm also a podcaster. I host my own podcast called Star is Scared and, yeah, I wear a lot of hats. I feel like I'm super busy, but I feel like I'm very blessed in the life that I get to live, which is really exciting.
Speaker 1:So that you're kind of in this middle of like a getting into a transition season.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, especially like being teaching for 18 years. I've been teaching for nine years and I can imagine like 18 years and being like, okay, that's gonna be your courage. There I went on your courage and your bravery and like this pivot that I know you need, or you wouldn't be doing it, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I always thought like I've always wanted to be a teacher, since I was five, like, and so I'm always like I don't even know if I'm good at anything else because I, that's what I've always wanted to do and I just thought I would retire as a teacher and that was just the way it was and it's just just progressively gotten harder and I'm feeling more stretched too thin and as an educator, I'm sure you feel the same way. But it's just. I feel like it's just time to move on and I've always said that, oh well, once I figure out what's next, then I'll resign.
Speaker 2:But at Keisha's event back in September, trent Shelton and Lori Harder both basically said you can't open a new door without closing another door. Like you have to give yourself some white space to figure out what's next. And I'm like, holy shit, that's been my problem this whole time. I'm expecting to figure out what's next when I have all of these other things going on, like I don't have any white space, I have no time and space to figure out what comes next, and so I have to let go of something. And because I'm not passionate about teaching anymore, I mean I still love it, but it's just like it's kind of a job at this point and I figured like let's figure out what's next and leave, and I would never leave in the middle of school year, so it's my lucky number so 18,. I just figured now is the best time to do it, and why wait?
Speaker 1:And it's always there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's always there to fall back on if I need it Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Like it's not going anywhere, and that's one thing. Like I haven't talked about this too much yet, but I'm like I totally understand where you are right now, like I very much do, and so I'm like I get it, and it's one of those things, like you said and that's such a permission slip to the person listening that you had this dream of being a teacher since you were five and that's what you thought you were going to do. You're going to retire, is that? But like you evolved and you changed and you're allowed to change your mind, and you're also allowed to change your mind and not know what's next.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which is scary as shit. Like, don't, like I don't want anybody listening to get it twisted and think, oh, you just are. Like it's all rainbows and uniforms, and you know it's not. Like I have nights where I can't sleep because I'm terrified of leaving the comfort, my comfort zone and I'm terrified of the unknown and losing insurance and losing my income and not having because I've always been a planner like I'm very much a type A person and to not have a plan and to not know what comes next, but just like, wipe my hands clean of this. This chapter is really, really scary. But I feel like and I'm so thankful that my husband is so, so supportive and he's like, yeah, let's you know, let's see what, what comes out of the woodwork, you know, when you do have that time and space, but it's scary, man.
Speaker 1:No, I love, like this, to appreciate your vulnerability and that and just being like, yeah, it's scary and you know what. It would be scary even if you knew what was next, because it's something new. Right, that's very, very true. Yeah, that you know any change is scary because your brain's like no, I know this, this is safe and we know this. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And now I have to figure out something new. And what if I'm not good at it? But you know you're not going to get better if you don't try right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember myself that, like you weren't good at teaching when you first started that's so true. Like you have to remind yourself. Like everybody starts, everybody has a day one and you don't get to skip the beginning. So it's okay, I know.
Speaker 2:I think about my first couple of years. You know, I was a third grade teacher for nine years, and so I think about my first couple of years and I'm like, oh my God, did they learn anything? And then I was, I was departmentalized and then for six years and then I taught. I was self-contained for three years, but I'm like, oh my gosh, those kids that I taught science to, they probably learned absolutely nothing. So bad, but you got to start somewhere.
Speaker 1:I guess that's not that. I mean, that's how I felt, Like I taught fourth grade math for four years and then I pivoted and I was like, you know, you think back to the first group and you're like, oh my gosh, those poor babies but, I'm sorry, I did the best that I could.
Speaker 1:But then I switched to teaching reading and I was like I don't know if y'all learned anything either, because I have never done this before, and so it's just like but I feel like once you get in like a spot where you know what you're doing, your brain kind of blocks out all the beginning horribleness and how scary that was, and so it's good to have moments where you can kind of look back on it and laugh and be like okay, this is normal After I myself I survived that time, and so did the kids. We're gonna make this new change, this new beginning. We're gonna survive this too. We have proof that we can make it, you know, but I totally did that. I just like applaud your like thank you for just sharing, like that's where you're at and just being that permission slip, because a lot of people do think that, that they want to change, but like I can't make it until I know what's next.
Speaker 2:I've invested so much time, I've invested so much energy and I look at my dad, who taught, taught. He did not teach. He worked at the same place for 30 something years before he retired and it was almost like a badge of honor. I think it was a badge of honor and you know his generation, that you know being what's loyal to a company and staying there, and that's kind of just how I lived my life, that this is just what I was gonna do and you know, always be a teacher. And it wasn't until the last couple of years that I was like oh, like, I can change my mind, I can pivot, I can do something else, and that's not gonna that's not wrong and it's not gonna make me a bad person because I decided that this isn't my forever thing, you know.
Speaker 1:Now. Now I'm curious. Like you know, you said, in the last few years you've had this realization that you know you can change your mind, and it's not wrong for changing your mind. But was that kind of parallel like coincide with your personal development world and the exposure to, like personal development, personal growth Because I think that's a sign that not a lot of people talk about is like we know we share all these things, like oh yeah, I do look better, but you get into this and then, like your world kind of starts to change and nobody really talks about that. It's all great and you're like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So, having these thoughts kind of in the past, the beginning of that journey for you, yeah, oh for sure, Like I I'm still very good friends with a lot of people that I grew up with and I love them to death. But you know, we are all very, we're very kind of set in our ways. And so when I started listening to more podcasts and doing more networking events and, you know, empowerment conferences, I was like, oh, not everybody thinks like I do. Not, everybody has their shit all planned out from A to Z or that you know. Oh, they did this, but they're changing their mind and they're doing something else. And oh, they're, they're growing and they're moving and they're shaking and it's not all just wash, rinse, repeat every single day.
Speaker 2:Like I feel like my life is sometimes and yeah, it was like surrounding myself with, I mean, I don't know who, who quoted this, but you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with, and so if you are spending time with people who you know are in unhappy marriages, I can't imagine that your marriage would be happy.
Speaker 2:If you are surrounding yourself by people who you know binge, watch Netflix every single day all the time and not, you know, go and do other things, I can't imagine that you would be the change maker and go and do other things.
Speaker 2:And so you know, as personal experience, until I got into rooms with people, you know who are trying to better themselves or who want to, you know, make a difference in the world, whatever that looks like for them, it was, you know, like a permission slip, like I could do that too, and that that's. There's nothing wrong with that. And it's definitely been like talking to my mom. She's she, just she doesn't get it, and there's, you know, I'm not not knocking my mom, she's like my best friend, I love her to death, but she doesn't get it because it's it's not the world that she surrounds herself with. You know, and and I think that that's also, you know, worth mentioning that if you do start making changes in your life that the people that you are already connected with don't do, they're not, they may not get it, and that's okay and that doesn't make you wrong. That doesn't make them wrong. It just means that maybe we're growing in a different direction and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:And I like I had a similar experience in I started like it was podcasts were the first thing for me that I kind of started listening to and getting into and then, you know, expanding this world, because I grew up, we both live in Texas, we both live on opposite sides of Texas, but yeah, but I live in a small town in the Texas paint handle, so I mean it's very much like graduate high school, go to college, you're married by 22,. You have your, you're done having kids by 30, you know, like this sprints for Pete, you get up, you go to work, that's it, like that's your life. And it was one of those things when I like realized, oh, you can, you can do something else. Or or just being able to say I want to have a life where I don't drag going to work on Monday and people around you being like that's just how it is.
Speaker 2:Like everybody. That's all they know especially in education.
Speaker 1:Everybody's like no, it's normal to live for the breaks. It's normal to come off Thanksgiving break and be counting down the days till Christmas and I'm like, but you're literally counting down your life away. Yeah, Academy.
Speaker 2:I have goosebumps that you just did that because I actually was thinking that the other day. You know, I feel like there's so many times where I'm just thinking of what's next, what's next, and I don't feel like I'm present where I am or present in you know what I'm doing, because I'm constantly thinking of what's coming next, coming down the pipeline, and that's a that's a sad way to live because, like you said, you're wishing your life away. You're just living for what comes next. But what about what's happening right now? And the people that you're with right now? Like, what about them?
Speaker 1:They matter too you know, and I think that's where you know, one of the top five regrets on deathbed like on when people are dying on their deathbed is like they regret they didn't do the things they wanted to do and that they weren't present in the moment.
Speaker 1:They regret putting their job first, that you know. They regret putting other people's opinions first and it's like I don't want that but, to your point, people around you aren't going to get it, and that is something that I'm glad we're having this conversation about, because it wasn't something I heard early on in the beginning of, like, my journey and starting to make changes and it is very lonely, yeah, at this car, but so, like with that, that's kind of a good like segue into. I know something like you really like to talk about is in that, putting yourself first and I'm sure you wear a lot of hats and I'm not a mom, so I can't like speak into this perspective. I'm just friends with a bunch of moms, but and being a teacher, there's a lot of teachers who listen to this bycast people and giving professions, so it's like what was that like? Was that something you've always been able to do to put yourself first, or was it? What was that like?
Speaker 2:No, I always felt like I I came last, like you know it was. You know, give to my job was really always the most important priority for the longest time, you know. But I would always, you know, give myself the leftovers, like because of, you know, the hats that I do wear. I didn't have a whole heck of a lot of leftovers and I didn't understand why I was so tired or why I was so so snippy or why I was so aggravated or annoyed by other people, but it was because I wasn't boring into myself first, you know, and so I can't. You know, I'm not going to lie and say that it's easy, because it's not. And I'm not going to lie and say that I'm an expert and I do it all the time, because I don't. But I do know that when I put, when I pour it into myself first, my day goes so much better. And that may look like just getting up 30 minutes before my family, or, you know, doing affirmation cards or reading a devotional or doing a workout, whatever that is to you that you know makes you feel good. Then do a little bit more of that, even if it's like put your phone in the bathroom so that you don't press snooze. That's something that I'm so bad at is pressing snooze in the morning. But I know that when I press snooze versus when I don't press snooze, or when I don't press snooze versus when I do press snooze, I feel so much better, you know, because I, my body's waking up and I'm up and I'm moving, rather than I'm getting, like you know, very small chunks of sleep when I press snooze for nine minutes. You know that doesn't really give me a good good amount of sleep, but I just noticed that when I did, or when I started listening to podcasts that's such a, you know, a big part of self care and putting myself first you know that I'm really listening to something that is, you know, making me feel good. It just, it overwhelmingly just made things so much better and I felt like a more happy, more complete person and I had more to give.
Speaker 2:A long time ago, rachel Hollis had this quote and I never, will never forget it. But she said like if you have a vase and you're pouring out the vase and pouring it out, pouring it out, what's eventually going to happen? The vase is going to fall over, it's going to break, right. But if you're pouring into the vase. What happens when you just continue to pour? All the water overflows into every other area. So I always try to visualize that, that you know I need to just keep pouring and pouring into myself, because all that excess is going to pour into everything else my job, my relationship, my family, my kids, you know, and that they're not getting the leftovers, they're getting the overflow, the good stuff, right.
Speaker 1:That's such a beautiful way to look at it and explain it, because it is something that I mean. I know, like as teachers, we can both get and other teachers will get, because you're not taught that you are for sure, like the teaching profession rives on the pins on you, putting your job first. Yeah, like that's the current model and that's not harping on it or bashing it, that just is. It is what it is, and so I can feel like that that process, even for myself, was hard to do and a lot of women have trouble with because, you know, you think about it, we call people who do that selfish, you know. Or like we shame people in very like subtle ways. Yeah, it's like passive aggressive. Yeah, it's like very passive aggressive. I mean, like how often do you hear like women who are out like oh, is the is? Is dad baby sitting? No, yes, you're like dad's watching his kids, his kids that he had 50%.
Speaker 2:You know help with you know, not just mine.
Speaker 1:Like these are his, because you know like you think about it. I just saw a post on Facebook or an Instagram about this and it was like nobody ever asked guys that, oh, is mom baby sitting? Yeah, and so we just will have this huge cultural narrative of like women need to put themselves last.
Speaker 2:Right and it's selfish if we do anything else. You know we're a terrible mom if we do anything else. But you know, I challenge that and say but I'm a better mom because I do. You know, I'm not neglecting my kids because I'm, you know, going and doing hours upon hours of self care. But when I realize that who I am outside of being a mom still matters and I'm empowered to make sure that I do that, Then I'm a better mom. I mean, and it's everything, like you know, like you said, you're not a mom. Not everybody who listens to your podcast is a mom. So if you're putting yourself first, you become a better teacher. You're putting yourself first to become a better partner. Like, take, put whatever hat you wear into that, because when you are putting yourself first and doing something that fills you up before you give to anybody else, it's going to make you better in any other area of your life.
Speaker 1:And that's so true that that was something in my life like a non, like parent example or teacher example would be. I used to always drop whatever I was doing for my family members that they called. I would drop whatever it was I was doing and be like, even if, especially when I was in grad school, I'd have a lot of homework and somebody will call and be like, hey, do you want to go do this? Will you come help me with this? You know, xyz, and I knew I had hours of homework ahead of me and I would be like, yeah, it's fine, like I'll come help, knowing that when I got home I was probably going to be up to one or two am to get it done. And that was a way of me putting myself last instead of just saying no, I have things I need to do.
Speaker 1:And you know, like in that, the first few times that I did that, like yeah, it was met with, and it was met with some resistance because it's like, whoa, you're acting different. But eventually, like fortunately in this situation, like everybody eventually got it, and they were like, okay, cool, like we just know, we have to talk to you differently, like ask you to do things differently, you know, and it's just one of those things where, like just illustrating the point of when you do start doing those things, people probably are going to in your close circle be confused.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, because you've trained them to teach you one way and now you have to retrain them to treat you a different way. Right, so that of course it's going to come with the resistance, because of course they're going to say you've changed. Well, heck, yeah, I've changed, I'm going to, I'm, I established boundaries. Now.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm not going to let you.
Speaker 2:You know I'm not going to let you take hold of me and me, and you know, have me do everything that you want me to do, whenever you want me to do it. I have to establish this boundary. So, yeah, I have changed and of course, it's going to come with the resistance, and it's also really hard to say no when you have lived a life of saying yeah.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm, and I love that you say like you're retraining them. You're training them how to treat you, because we do train everybody how to treat us, how everybody in your life treating you. Now you've taught them how to treat you. Yeah, and, and that has been. I can see that being so and that's such an empowering way to look at it, because that puts you in the point of like control.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you are, I mean, you're essentially in control of all the things that you say, all the things that you do you know, that's what you have control over and I can't control that.
Speaker 2:you're going to be pissed off at me because I say no, but I can control the fact that I need sleep tonight or I need the time to study so that I can get more sleep, and those are the things that can control. And yeah, it's just, it's it's not easy and it sucks, but I also heard it, like all the folks today. I also heard a quote. Someone said Katie Spaltzman said it the other day. She said you have to do the easy things, make a hard life. So it's easy to say yes, I'll help you, but then you are living this hard life of now I'm up until one or two o'clock studying or the hard things saying no to someone, establishing those boundaries will lead to an easier life. So those those hard decisions getting up in the morning, not pressing snooze, getting a workout and whatever those hard things are going to lead to an easier, more fulfilling life, because you are not letting those easy things lead your life right now. So it's like future. You will thank you for saying no and establishing those boundaries.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm, so, with on that theme of making the hard decisions first to have a more fulfilled, easier life later, can we talk about start scared? Sure, let's do it so where I'm just like the name of itself I feel like is pretty, like embodies everything, like this whole conversation here is, just where did this idea come from, like start scared and the name and stuff.
Speaker 2:So I always was afraid to, like, try anything new. Right, like I said, I wanted to be a teacher since I was five, like that was my projection of life. I always was afraid to try anything new because I was, you know, out of fear of looking dumb. What would people say? What would people think? Are they going to laugh at me or people, you know what are people going to say? Like, really, like, I was such people loser. But I love podcasts and I was, you know, obsessed with them. And you know case you get married, had her courses and I asked her a couple glasses of wine flew into her dance like that, hey, can you how to do a podcast? And I need to start scared, because I knew that if I didn't press play and start I wouldn't do it. So I just started scared, armpits were sweaty. I probably reported the first episode like 37 times, but I uploaded it and it was, you know, scary as shit and I started scared and I did it anyway and you know, here we are, you know, almost three years later.
Speaker 1:And can we just acknowledge that three years later, you're starting scared again? Because you're, because you just we started this conversation with you talking about how your armpits are sweaty, because you're like, as you say, you're not coming back next year, like, here we go.
Speaker 2:we're starting scared here we go, we're doing it. We're starting messy, we're starting to scare and we're doing it, and who the hell knows what's going to happen. But yeah, we'll figure it out along the way.
Speaker 1:But I just love like. I love this though, because that's that's life, that's living.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think I've spent a lot of time not living, kind of just going through the motions and mindlessly numbing myself, because I was so overwhelmed with everything that was going on and or everything that I was doing and just not living. And I don't want to be like that anymore. I want to live a happy content. I don't need to make a million millions of dollars, I just want to be present. I want to be content, I want to make an impact on somebody, whether that's my kids or a person who's listening to this podcast or whatever. But that's just, that's success to me, and the path that I'm living right now is not going to get me there.
Speaker 1:I, I, just I love it Like it's so admiring to see and permission slit for somebody because it is doing things, living life differently than the cultural norm, which is also doing something. Scared because as somebody else who gets behind a mic and says a lot of things that go against society and how they think we should act, women should act and think, and it's like no, it is scary sometimes but starting scared, doing the thing and just doing what feels aligned to you and being open to that changing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even if it doesn't make sense to anybody else, even if you don't know what the hell you're doing.
Speaker 1:And that's where like have the audacity came from. So it was just like have the audacity to build a life on your own terms. I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 1:Like I love the permission slip you give to people. You're like I don't want to make a million dollars, like that's not the end goal for me. I want to be present, I want to make an impact on a life and like that's your audacious life, that's having the audacity to live for you in a space where a lot of people do, are trying to make a million dollars, and like that's for them, but that's living your own truth. So I want to honor your time. This conversation is just like really just kind of flown by. I have two final questions. So this is to have the audacity podcast. What does the phrase having have the audacity mean to you in your life?
Speaker 2:I think before you opened your mouth five seconds ago, I would have said something different. But I think that after you just said what you said, having the audacity to live a life of alignment with, for me, even if it doesn't go against the norm or even if it's different, that's having the audacity to just live in alignment and be fully authentic and who you are. And over the last couple of years I've really been trying to figure out who Christie was, and I'm still not there yet. But I think that to me, living in an alignment and just being true to myself is having audacity for sure.
Speaker 1:I love that. The last question is a lot of podcasts. They have like playlists and all these things all their guests contribute to. I have a self care guide and so every guest that's come on shares their go to favorite self care and I add it to this guide. So there's like over 50 people and every single one of them is different. It's so funny, like all unique and so what is your go to put yourself first? Self care.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I could say so many things. Okay, so can I give you two? Yes, you can give me two. Okay, one under eye patches. I have the worst under eye bags and they're like super puppy in the morning, and so I put them in the refrigerator. They're like gold eye patches. Put them in the refrigerator and I pop them on first thing in the morning when I'm getting ready for the day Huge self care for me. And then, second, I told you at the beginning I'm like an avid reader. I am obsessed with oh my gosh, I can't even remember her name now. She's a thriller writer. I just finished a book, but the book I just finished was never lie. But to me, finding a book that you can just like throw yourself in and lose yourself into the setting and the characters and the plot, that to me is like ultimate self care.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I have to, because I'm a big reader too Is do you like like dystopian type novel? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, so it is a young adult novel but it's really good. It's called the Inheritance Games. Okay, I haven't read it yet. It's a five book series. Like four books are out.
Speaker 1:It is you want to talk about escaping into a world, like quick overview. This author doesn't even know I exist and I'm just telling everybody about her books. I'm like they're amazing. But this girl, homeless girl, finds out she's the heir to a Texas billionaires fortune. Okay, she has to move into a house with his family for a year in order to get the money. And he's like, and he's big into riddles and he custom built this house that has secret trap doors and Passages and the whole family, like, was raised around his riddles. So there are everything's in riddles, oh my gosh. But it's called the inheritance games and it's it's like my go-to. I'm like, yes, I'm an adult that reads young adult novels. Because I'm like, sometimes you need, I don't want adult problems in my book. Like I want adult problems, I'll go live my life.
Speaker 2:I Read a lot of young adult books like, yeah, no shame in that, for sure, and I will definitely look that up for sure.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I'm just like there's one. I think you would really like it. It's really good.
Speaker 2:I Take all of the book recommendations. Let's go.
Speaker 1:But thank you so much for coming on. How can the listener connect with you?
Speaker 2:First of all, thank you so much for having me. It was such a joy and an honor and a pleasure to get to talk to you. I am a run Instagram at Christie Lockhart, chrysty Lockhart, and Podcasts start scared and you can listen to that wherever you listen to podcasts. I.
Speaker 1:Love that Well. Thank you again so much for coming on.
Speaker 2:Thank you, thank you, thank you I.
Speaker 1:Truly hope that you love today's episode as much as I did. And to hear to listen to Christie's podcast start scared. It's linked in the show notes below and which I know like that changes all the time the Apple changes. So if the show notes aren't accessed below, you can click on the title and it'll pull up the episode information and the show notes and you can find link to her podcast there and her IG to connect with her. But I know Christie would love it, if you vibed with today's episode, that you would take a screenshot, share it on Instagram, tag myself and Christie and just let us know what you took away.
Speaker 1:What was that A moment for you? What was the thing you needed to hear? How did it resonate you? Part of being a podcaster a joy of it is, you know, in this conversation there's two of us having a conversation. But when you're recording alone, like you're just sitting there talking to yourself, like I'm envisioning you sitting across from here talking with this and you know Christie and I were talking we totally envisioned you sitting there with us. But it's so nice to get to hear what your takeaways are and what you're enjoying and Really informs me that if you loved having Christie on you and have her back again, or the conversations we talked about. I know who to invite on To talk about the things that you care about, and I only know that From having conversations with you or seeing what you share your takeaways from. So thank you so much for that.
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