Hey, Hey ladies. I hope you had the most amazing Christmas and new years happy 2023. I missed you guys. So you may have noticed I've been a little bit MIA. The last three weeks there hasn't been a podcast launched for the first time in over a year and I want to talk about that a little bit. I have been going through some growing pains. And I think that this is important to discuss because we tend to be really hard on ourselves. So both personally and in my business, I have been growing at a very, very rapid pace. I just needed to take a step back. and I didn't expect to do it in the business, but you guys know this from listening to the last few podcasts, the software that I use to edit my podcast, descript, which is fantastic. Fantastic editing's opera. They did a huge upgrade and my tech is having trouble with the new software. And I didn't feel like I had the bandwidth to figure it out. My computer kept crashing. The software kept shutting down. I recorded three podcasts that the audio didn't record properly. They were PC and choppy and some of them didn't record at all. And so I just said, you know, for the holidays, I was like, fuck it. I'm just going to take a break. Take a breather. I want to say thank you to everyone who reached out. I got emails about missing Friday Coach Treats and I got emails about missing the podcast and I just didn't even let them make, like, normally I'd feel guilty about those things. My thoughts would be, I should be doing this. People are missing me. People expect this and I just decided to embrace the thought of, I need this. I need a minute. Because 2023 is going to be huge in every possible way. Lady Sculpt has now taken over. What I mean by that is Lylas Leona Fitness is being disabled and Lady Sculpt Lifestyle Inc, is a thing. And it's umbrella thing my body of work and we are moving into a new era. We're bringing in coaches into Lady Sculpt. We're upleveling the platform. I've met some amazing people over the last few weeks that I am so excited to work with. And I am so excited for everything that is going to be available to you guys in 2023. I'm also really aware now that is important for me to take care of myself first. And you know, it's crazy because I've been teaching this to my women and transformation for the like forever. And. It's something that I haven't been practicing. I've been getting up and putting everything else first. My work first, my spouse first, my dog first. Putting myself on a back burner. And because of that I severely burnt out. I recorded an episode back in December on burnout and mental health check because my mental health took a big dip. For those of you who don't know, I struggled a little bit with seasonal affective disorder and in the fall I can get pretty blue I did an episode on it. It didn't record, and I was devastated that it didn't record. And, uh, one day I will rerecord an episode for you guys, about that. The next time. Because I know I'm human and there's going to be a next time. Right? That's something that I can promise you. It's something I promise. All of my clients is that there's going to be low depths. There's going to be hard days. There's going to be struggle. And it's what makes the good days and the things that work out so much better, right? The highs and the lows create an overall abundant human experience for us. So I know that embracing those low times and sometimes just taking a beat and taking some space and time to allow myself to process in a way that feels really good, rather than just trying to like push through or kick it under a rug and pretend it's not happening. Allowing myself to do that moves me through it faster. It makes me more available to accepting the good. So something that you're going to be noticing, something I'm doing a Lady Sculpt. Um, I recently listened to a podcast that one of my coaches, the most amazing Brooke Castillo, of the CEO and the owner of the, I shouldn't say she's not CEO anymore. She hired a CEO, the founder of the Life Coach School. She just did a podcast on moving into 2023 and something she suggested rather than setting new year's resolutions. You know, me, I'm a big goal person. I did a whole podcast in December on goal setting for 2023, but something she suggested that I thought was a really neat strategy, a really neat way to do it was to like, literally wipe your slate clean. And choose what you want to put back in for 2023. So that's literally something that I'm doing in my business and in my personal life. And in all of it is really like moving everything to the side and then deciding does this still serve me? Does this still serve my business and my clients and you know, my people and is this something I want to take forward with me? Or is this something I need to release now? Since we're starting a new era in my company and my business. It's a perfect time to do that. But doing that takes time and requires a little bit of space. So you may notice that I'm not as visible or it might see more visible depending on how that, how that works out and kind of how you've been following me.
But I'm going to be really purposeful about the programs I choose to offer in 2023. What I choose to teach in 2023. What we put on our social media in 2023, all of it is going to be done with intention. I want it to have purpose. I don't want to just move forward for the sake of moving forward. I feel like that puts me into a very reactive state. Right? Have you guys felt this the way you can kind of translate this into your personal lives is if you're somebody who just wakes up and goes through your day in a reactive state where you're troubleshooting and putting out fires and doing things as they come up. And there really isn't a lot of intention or pre purposeful planning going into your life, then this is an exercise I highly recommend you do as well. Right? It does require you to sit down and like take a couple of hours. And literally go through the process of like visualizing, wiping your slate clean and adding back in to your lifestyle and your agenda and your schedule, what you want to do with your time, who you want to spend your time with. Who's going to be incorporated into your new life. And like what habits and rituals and routines do you want to bring with you on that journey, you get to decide that that is up to you.
Everything that is in your life is essentially of your choosing. Sometimes it doesn't feel that way, but I promise if there's something in your life that you don't want, choose to start releasing it. Even if you can't choose to like, let it go. Let's say you'd you want to change your job? Maybe it's not feasible for you to just quit. You could it's drastic, but it would force you to find something different. But maybe you choose to put out into the universe that you want to release it and you're looking and open to something new. And then all of a sudden your brain starts looking in new, right. That intention has been set that rutter has been shifted. And now, you're going in a new direction. Right. So it doesn't have to be completely immediate or completely, like wipe the slate clean. I'm going to get rid of all my furniture, all my clothing, quit my job, get rid of all my friends and start fresh. And I'm, it's not what I'm talking about. I want you to do it from a more mental aspect. And I want you to know there's going to be growing pains. Right. Every time we up-level ourselves. Every time we up-level our career. Every time we up level our family, we add a new member. Right. We take on a new relationship. All of that, serves us to expect that there will be growing pains because when we expect them, we're not surprised. When there's a little bit of hard when there's a little bit of struggle, when something doesn't go as well as we planned. When we need to let go of what we're used to in order to welcome in the new.
So I'm sitting over here embracing my growing pains. You guys, these are some of the toughest struggles I have ever been through and some of the most painful growing pains I've ever experienced. But I know that on the other side of this, it's going to be amazing. And I know that the bigger, the growing pains are the bigger, the struggle is the harder it is, the bigger, the growth will be at the end, the stronger, and the more resilient I will be at the end. So for those of you who are in my Lady Sculpt Membership, those of you who are in my inner circle that have been watching me go through this that have heard me talk about it in Monday meetups or just tidbits of it through calls. For my closest friends who have literally been letting me call them and lean on them so hard. I have had so many of my closest friends and some of our members in Lady Sculpt have become my closest friends I have had such a great support team around me helping me through this, coaching me through this. I am so grateful for each and every one of you. I am so blessed to have the people in my life that I do.
And I want you to know that when you're going through your growing pains. I'm going to be right here for you. You lean on me, you call on me and for all of you who listen to the podcast, if you're going through growing pains, my Lady Sculpt Membership might be right where you need to be. It might be just the support system that you are looking for because we're all just human. Were all just go on through this together. And it's a more fun when you have people who love you. And support you and encourage you and want to see you when cheering for you and helping you out and pushing you forward. All right. You guys, this is just a quick bonus episode. I'm so grateful to be back in your ear. Episode 64 will be coming out on Wednesday and I will see you then. Bye for now.
