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So the question is what do you do?
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How do you go about adjusting to the changes as you age, without being negative about it and without beating up on yourself?
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Every little thing you do helps, even if it's just walking to the mailbox a couple of times a day.
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Our bodies are incredible and they will heal and they will still.
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Even in our 50s, 60s, 70s, we can still make progress to a place where we feel good again.
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We're beautiful and glorious just as we are, whether we've got to lose a few pounds.
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I wanted that woman who looks in the mirror and thinks ugh, where did she go To look a little harder and find the good things that are still there?
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Hi, I'm Lennis Woods Mullins and I love to help women to vibe, to be more vibrant, intuitive, beautiful and empowered in their life.
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So come on, let's vibe.
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If you're like me and I imagine many of us do have a lot of the same topic in common there are times when we look in the mirror and we just wonder what the hell's going on.
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You go to the mirror and you expect to see one thing you know the way we used to be, the way we want to be.
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And then you look again.
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You're like, oh, that is not quite a match.
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So the question is what do you do?
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How do you go about adjusting to the changes as you age without being negative about it and without beating up on yourself?
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And I'm so glad we have Kim Moism I hope I pronounced that name.
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How do you pronounce your last name, kim?
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It's Moisman, moisman.
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Okay, we have Kim Moisman with us and she's a wife and a mom and a loving grandma.
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And she's also an author and a coach that specializes in empowering women when they're embarking on their second act.
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She's a nutritionist with all kinds of certifications, but one of the things that's really special about her is that she has really gotten that unique blend of spiritual and physical wellness that's enabled her to write a book called Reflections of Joy, and I have a copy of the book right here.
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It's a lovely book.
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I enjoyed reading it and there's so much in there, faith infused strategies to help inspire us when it comes to our overall strength and beauty and, basically, holistic growth all mind, body, spirit kinds of approaches to your overall wellness.
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So, kim, welcome finally to the Vibe Living Podcast.
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We talked a long time ago.
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You kindly sent me your book.
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It's absolutely beautiful.
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I'm so glad to have you here today.
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Oh, thank you, I'm glad to be with you.
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You know, first of all, the book is lovely.
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It is one of the kind of books that I love, because I just like to go like this and say, okay, what am I going to learn today?
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Because there's so many key wisdoms in your book.
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What made you decide to write it?
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Well before I became an author, I owned a gym and it was a challenge style gym.
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Big groups would start all at the same time and they'd take a picture and everyone would work out really hard and try to be the winner at the end of nine weeks.
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But the thing I heard over and over and over again from people was just how busy they were.
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They didn't have time to read, they didn't have time to cook, they didn't have time to do things cook, they didn't have time to do things.
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And so when I finally decided to write the book, I knew what I wanted to say, but I wanted to make sure that people had time, and so, instead of having seven long chapters, there are seven chapters with seven small parts in each one of them.
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So if a person has a nice lazy, rainy day and they want to read the whole book, they can.
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But if they only have those little moments of time, I tried to give them a little bit that they could chew on and they could think about for 63 days if they needed to, or whatever it was thought-provoking book and it's also very thoughtful the way you've broken things down, all the way down to words and their meaning and what they might stand for or how significant they might be for us individually, like the word convenience, which is so interesting because I've never really looked upon it in that way.
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But one of the things that's interesting as we age, that's when we begin to really do a lot of self-exploration in a different way.
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We're looking for maybe more, not just the meaning of life, but the meaning of our lives and what it is that we are supposed to be doing and how it is that we can move forward.
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How has your experience as a wellness coach working with middle-aged women really helped you guide women to figure out you know what their second act is going to be like?
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Becoming a middle-aged woman has helped me understand the women I was working with before when I was young, when I first became a trainer and a gym owner.
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Gosh, I thought we could do anything.
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You could do anything that you set your mind on, and I had never lived in this middle-aged body before and I had never had the pressures or the freedoms of being a middle-aged woman either.
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And so I guess I learned through experiencing, through watching women achieve things but also acknowledge their limitations as we get older.
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It's not that, as middle-aged women, we can't do things, but perhaps the things that we want to do we have to do differently, and what I've learned is that if you can experiment and try and approach things with a bit of childlike curiosity, again, we can learn to do things, and really we can do anything, but perhaps we have to do them in a different way.
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I agree.
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You know, I've just recently I've been coming into the own awareness when I'm talking with my clients is that, look, you don't really want to act and live like you're still 30 years old, because reality is you ain't 30 years old baby.
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Okay, and there's.
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That's just the reality of it and with that, this changes.
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You know, here's another reality that's really hard for us to talk about, but it's real, and that is we are all slowly aging and dying.
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Basically, that's the reality and, as a result, there are going to be things we're going to have to do to compensate for those things that are kind of leaving us or not in as high quantity.
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Like, for instance, now I understand why my grandmother took so many supplements.
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I couldn't understand it.
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She wasn't sick.
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I'm like, why is she taking all those pills?
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Now I get it.
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Because your body stops making some of the things, maybe not in the quantity that we need to.
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And then you know the whole idea of maybe needing to take a nap in the middle of the day.
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That doesn't mean that you're, you know, an old, crotchety person.
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That means you're taking care of your body and giving it the fuel that it needs so that you can continue on with your day.
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These are just some things that we have to realize as harsh realities.
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What about you?
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How has your journey towards health differed, maybe, than it was 15 years ago?
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I've learned that I need to take things in bite-sized pieces.
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So, exactly like you said, I need some rest every once in a while.
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When I was in my 20s, 30s, even in my early 40s, I could go work in the garden.
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You know, I live in the Midwest.
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We have this three-month window where we can grow anything and it's glorious.
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I used to go out and work in the garden for eight hours at a time and be just fine, you know.
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But today, if I were to go do that, bent over or on my hands and knees and pulling weeds and you know, doing the different things I'm going to feel terrible tomorrow.
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So what I've learned to do for myself is I can still do those things, but I'm going to go out in the morning when it's beautiful, maybe listen to some music, those things but I'm going to go out in the morning when it's beautiful, maybe listen to some music or a podcast.
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I'm going to work for a couple of hours and then I'm going to get up and I'm going to walk go for my daily walk so that I'm not all still hunched over.
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I'm going to eat.
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Well, I'm going to drink water.
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You know it used to be.
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I could do anything for eight hours, push myself, push myself and never nourish myself, and still be fine.
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Today I know better.
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Right, I can remember doing all kinds of things to my body without even thinking about it, especially when I was a dancer.
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Normally, usually dancers are the worst when it comes to what they eat and you know all the crazy things that they do to their bodies.
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You're thinking.
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Well, you know, of course they're eating healthy, but that is not the case.
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But they're young.
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You know, I was young at that time.
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Thankfully, I started making changes in terms of the things that I do to my body and what I put in my body.
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When I was about in my 30s, you know, I began to get those building blocks.
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But it doesn't always happen that way.
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As we go into our own self-discovery, begin to our 50s and stuff, that's in some cases when we start thinking about that.
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But it's never too late and it doesn't have to be so hard.
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You know, as I was reading your book about ways to make embracing change easier, what are some of your tips around that?
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I just think you need to enjoy life right.
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And so when I was young, I used to deprive myself, I used to discipline myself in certain ways and it was okay that I didn't maybe enjoy the food I was eating or the exercise I was doing.
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But life is too short and the things I'm doing now?
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I eat what I want, but I make sure every time I sit down that I eat a protein, fat and a carb.
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I don't track it, I don't weigh it, I don't do those things.
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I know that when I put certain things in my body, I'm going to feel a certain way.
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I move every day for pleasure.
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I like to walk, I like to be outside.
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I like it even more when I'm at my winter home in Florida and the beach is right there.
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But what I've learned is to do the things that I like to do, and it makes me keep coming back to it again and again and again.
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And if I do things that are good for my body, you know I try to do the things that I'm going to be able to repeat tomorrow.
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So, walking, you know I used to envy people who danced or who run.
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My own daughter-in-law is a ballerina.
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I watch her, push her body in amazing ways, but she too will age someday and it'll feel different and she'll have to find other ways to move.
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Absolutely.
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And you're absolutely right.
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It's interesting because I was a ballet dancer for years.
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I took ballet forever.
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I actually stopped dancing and performing at 62.
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Of course, yeah, I was not doing toe anymore.
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I stopped doing toe when I was in my thirties.
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Like I said, I stopped doing some of the damage and I stopped doing that, but I was still dancing up until 62.
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And then I thought, well, you know, I don't want to be one of those folks.
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And I said, well, she needs to really sit down.
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She's like sit down, that's too much, you're scaring me.
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So so I stopped.
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I didn't want to be that lady, but I still dance.
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but I modified what I did because you know intrinsically in the back of my mind if I'm going to do a pirouette or some kind of thing involving rotations, I might be able to do the four or five, but I'm okay if I just do the two because I don't want to hurt myself.
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I've learned to embrace this part of aging that keeps me healthy.
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The good thing is, though, when you have worked out for as long as you do as a dancer, there are some things that are just there Sometimes, when I just kind of I have excellent balance.
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If I trip over something, I almost fall, but I don't every time.
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It's just really weird, and I know that comes from.
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You know all the dance, but that doesn't mean that you can't still do things with your body and learn how to protect your body.
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In fact, what can you tell someone who's thinking about exercising to help get stronger?
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You know, as they age, and even if they've never exercised before and they're kind of afraid, what can you tell them?
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What steps should they take to get ready to do that?
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Because there's really nothing to be afraid of.
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No, I would say, if you're thinking about it, just start small.
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I've worked with people for many years who were very deconditioned and some who were on the backside of an injury perhaps and just starting to move again.
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Every little thing you do helps, even if it's just walking to the mailbox a couple of times a day.
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Maybe it's learning how to position your body and just rising up and down out of a chair, and sometimes people think, oh, that's just such a little action, it doesn't make a difference, but it does make a difference.
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Little action, it doesn't make a difference, but it does make a difference.
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And if people would just take, if people would choose an action that feels good for them and feels right and do it faithfully every day and pay attention to when all of a sudden it's easy, and then do a little bit more and repeat that for a few days, I think most of your listeners would be surprised at how quickly their health and their physical ability can come back to them.
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Our bodies are incredible and they will heal and they will still.
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Even in our 50s, 60s, 70s, we can still make progress to a place where we feel good again.
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Absolutely.
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I've been experimenting with some things myself that I know that I've kind of let go of.
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During the summer, it's really easy for me to drink lots and lots of water, but in the winter because it's cooler and everything else, it's just not as easy to do it.
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So I decided to start preparing myself for the fall time by increasing my water even more, and I discovered a couple of things.
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First of all, I was not as hungry.
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I was not snacking in between or any of that.
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It started getting a little cooler and I saw myself subconsciously beginning to head off the water.
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Stop drinking this water as much, and the next thing.
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I knew I had a craving for this snack and that snack and everything else.
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I said, okay, times have changed.
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Even though it's a little bit cooler, I still have to make sure that I'm drinking my water.
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So these are incremental, small changes.
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They don't have to be long and I have found at this stage of life I'll be, I like to say now, I'll be 70 in three years.
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So do the math okay.
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Nice, yes, so when?
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I'm 70 in three years.
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At this stage of life, I really want to find opportunities to maybe, as they say, hack some things so that I'm still taking care of me, but the effort is different no longer stressing myself out.
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I am aware of calories, but I have to stop beating up on myself.
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You know, if I want to eat a piece of pound cake, I, but I have to stop beating up on myself.
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You know, if I want to eat a piece of pound cake, I'm going to eat that piece of pound cake Now.
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Maybe I'll walk a little further the next day, or maybe the next day after that I won't go back for a second piece of pound cake.
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You know it's just little tweaking things that go, and you talk a lot about, you know, letting go of some of the stuff that we used to hold ourselves so rigid for, so accountable for, and you share stories of what you've learned and the adventures you've gone through.
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What do you think women need to let go of and how will this help them when it comes to easing into what you would call your second act?
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Yeah, there's so many things that I think that we hold on to as women and our current state of social media although it's lovely to be able to stay in touch with people and to interact, I think about 2020, when I couldn't make it to the hair salon, or just the different things.
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Let go of limitations, Like we were talking.
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You can be anything you want to be.
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You can still do the things you used to do.
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We just have to change them and be adventurous, and sometimes we have to let go of our fear of trying something new.
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Since I don't have to work a 40-hour-a-week job anymore and I'm not chasing my kids around anymore, I've had the opportunity to take painting classes and photography classes and write a book to take painting classes and photography classes and write a book.
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There are so many things that we need to let go of and really I think in today's society, one of the biggest ones is numbing no-transcript and it's an election year, so it's even more stressful.
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But I think people are always looking for that thing to make life better, and life is really truly so good as it is.
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I'm glad you brought that up, because I always tell people everything works out for you.
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Yeah, it does, because if it didn't, you wouldn't be here talking to me right now.
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So everything really does work out for you.
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As I like to say to myself, everything works out for me.
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It may not work out in the way I thought, it may not work out in the timing that I thought it was going to work out.
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It may come in a different guise, but it works out.
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It does, and I think that we need to revel in that and be grateful for it.
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I know that we happen to be a nation, a nation of strivers and achievers and all those other that we have, but I think in some ways, it has dumbed us down in terms of staying present.
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Yes.
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And appreciating what's happening right in the here and now.
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And I'm just wondering, when you're talking with women and when you're talking about your book too, how do you do that?
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How do you figure out how to find the joy, hang on to the joy, stay present in the joy.
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What helps you do that?
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I disconnect, and I don't disconnect for long periods of time, you know days or weeks but when I'm with a person, I try to be with a person, and when I'm in nature or I like to talk to God, when I'm walking it's my version of multitasking, if you will.
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But I don't put my earbuds in, I don't listen to music, I don't listen to podcasts.
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If God's being quiet or I'm stewing over something, I just listen to what's going on around me.
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I think it's very important in this world full of noise and opportunities for engagement, that we disengage sometimes so that we can experience and so that we can process what we've experienced.
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Like you said, there are so many good things and everything will work out.
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It will work out and you're right, it may not work out the way I've been hoping for or praying for or working for, but it will work out and if we pay attention to those things, it can be so much better than what you were expecting in the first place.
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And I know sometimes it sounds a little Pollyanna and I worried when I wrote the book.
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You know, reflections of joy, la-di-da, my life is great.
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Well, sure, I have problems too, but I really try to focus in on the what could happen or the what is happening instead of gosh.
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It didn't work out.
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Well, I would imagine that's where your faith comes in.
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I know that's where my faith comes in.
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I tell my kids all the time.
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I have four daughters and they're at that stage what I call hair on fire moments.
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They're all in their thirties and everything's like at that stage what I call hair on fire moments.
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They're all in their 30s and everything's like.
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You know, and I'm hoping that by the time you get into our stage of life, it's like, oh my god, look at that.
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And then you go into prayer or you go into gratitude or you we, you know disconnect from it because you know you can only have so much control over things.
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And it's interesting how, when we go to these, through these stages of life, how we begin to change how we look at things.
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And, as I said in the beginning of the podcast, you know, sometimes I look in the mirror and I'm like, oh my God, is that Linus?
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I can't.
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Where's the 21 year old?
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Well, she hasn't been around for 47 years, but still, where did she go?
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And you talk about that.
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You talk about body responsibility.
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What's the difference between body responsibility and the whole body positivity thing that you hear about?
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Well, body positivity is important to me.
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Everybody is beautiful, everybody, no matter what condition they are in.
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We're beautiful, we're worthy, we're created in his image.
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But we have responsibility, and I think that, as we look at our families, it's my responsibility to stay as healthy and fit as I can, for as long as I can.
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I want my grandchildren to remember me.
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I want them to remember me down on the ground, playing with them and giggling, you know.
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I want them to remember sitting in my lap as I read them a story.
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I want them to remember spending time around the kitchen counter, you know, baking cookies or whatever that is.
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I have a responsibility to be healthy so that my family doesn't have to worry about me, care for me, you know, and so society doesn't have to care for me either.
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I mean, and I know that there are circumstances that are beyond our controls, but gosh, if we have the opportunity to move our bodies, eat good food, calm our minds, reduce our stress and live healthy lives, how much better for us, for our families, for our society, is it?
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Just by being a little bit aware?
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Yes, I like to think about this in this way, like to think about this in this way.
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You know, sometimes you hear people complaining about well, it's expensive to eat organic, or it's expensive to hire a coach, or it's expensive to take those supplements.
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You know all things that could possibly help them feel better and be better and improve the overall quality of their life.
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I said, well, you either pay for it on the front end or the back end, but guaranteed you're going to pay for it.
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And when you pay for it on the front end or the back end, but guaranteed you're going to pay for it.
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And when you pay for it on the back end, it's not necessarily you who's paying for it, it's your family and friends and things like that, who you're probably not of this earth any longer if you're paying on the back end, so I'd rather pay for it on the front end and enjoy doing it.
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At the time.
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There's movement that you can do.
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That can be fun.
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There are certain organic foods.
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When they're in season, they're less money and there's so much good for you and they last a lot longer in your refrigerator, and just so many reasons why you want to eat organic.
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Yeah, sometimes you need the motivation, and it's hard to find the motivation on your own.
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You need someone to celebrate with when you, when you get to a certain level of whatever you're working on, and that's where a coach can come in.
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They help to keep you motivated, they help give you information, but, most importantly, there's someone that can celebrate your wins and kind of commensurate with you when you don't make the goals.
