Healthy Lifestyle Tips for Women: Simple Changes for Lasting Wellness with Dr. Stephanie Snyder

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episode of Crazy Fitness Guys Healthy Living

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Podcast. I have my friend, Dr. Stephanie Snyder.

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I can't believe I'm talking to a doctor. Holy

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crud. I'm usually talking to my doctors, but

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they're not that interesting. Welcome, Stephanie.

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Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

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So tell me a little bit about yourself. Absolutely.

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So I am a doctor, not that kind of doctor, though,

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a doctor of higher education, which essentially

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means I'm just really great at teaching things.

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And I am married to my husband of 14 years. He

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is in the Navy and we have four beautiful children.

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Our son is 13 and our daughters are 10, five

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and three. So I am incredibly blessed with them.

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And then when I'm not being mom or being a wife,

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I run my own coaching business where I help moms

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to simplify so that they can grow businesses

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while still being present with their kids. Jeez.

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Well, I definitely cannot earn the title doctor

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for teaching because apparently to my mom, I'm

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a terrible teacher, especially when it comes

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to technology, because I like to go into every

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bit of details of everything. I probably would

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fail for that. So tell me about... You said you

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have tips for managing stress. Can you give me

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some? Absolutely. So the first thing is definitely

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giving yourself grace. We tend to be, if you're

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anything like me, you tend to be an overachiever

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and you believe that you have superpowers and

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can do everything without blinking. And the truth

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is that at the end of the day, we're human. And

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if we try to do all of those things, we actually

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find ourselves overwhelmed. And so the first

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thing you have to do is realize that you are

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in fact a human. You do not have any superpowers,

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at least not that I know of, right? And so giving

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yourself grace and that flexibility there. The

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other side of it is... Stress is caused by stress

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and overwhelm. I kind of use those words interchangeably.

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It's caused by our unrealistic expectations of

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our resources. So our time, our money, and our

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energy. And when we actually sit down and get

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real with ourselves, we can be successful without

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the overwhelm. And so one really quick thing

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that I teach my clients to do is to redefine

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what success means to them. Because so oftentimes

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the stress is caused by our lack of feeling successful.

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And if you are then in control of what success

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means, right? So for me, when I was first doing

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this, I wanted to be less stressed as a mom.

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My definition of success was as simple as the

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kids were alive and I was still breathing. Right.

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And then I could, yes, exactly. But those were

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easy things that I could control during the day.

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And it got me to start to feel more successful

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and less stressed because I was saying, you know

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what? It's okay that the house is a mess. That

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wasn't on my priority today. My priority was

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the kids were fed and they're all in bed sleeping

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now. And I have a moment to myself. And so as

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I started to incorporate that definition of success,

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I was able to add other things, but I had to

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scale it back really, really far in order to

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just start to feel successful easily. Okay, well,

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first, I think the first way, the first thing

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you said, I think you were explaining me. And

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I think the second one, you were explaining my

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mom and me. uh because i'm definitely an overachiever

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uh and i do find myself all right just yesterday

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i was uh i came across the a tool that i was

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using for instagram marketing i was about to

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use and had a really good offer and i forgot

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and i was like oh this deal sounds so amazing

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i get to keep it for a lifetime and i was like

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oh man if i only was a billionaire i still bought

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everyone else money but myself but uh yeah that's

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my struggle and i and i and just what you said

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today it kind of made sense it's like i mean

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i mean really made sense it's like well uh what's

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my definition success i have no idea yes I might

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have to write that in my journal tonight. Yes.

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And that's part of the problem is that a lot

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of people don't sit down and say, okay, what

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does it mean for me to be successful? How do

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I feel successful? Because most of the time it's

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what we think we should be doing because of everybody

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else. And we don't actually sit down and say,

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okay, this makes me feel successful. We think,

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okay, well. my husband should come home to a

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home -cooked meal or my kids shouldn't have to

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do any chores around the house or the house should

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always be clean. And we, again, make these unrealistic

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expectations of ourselves, not necessarily because

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anybody told us, but that's just what society

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has built it up to be. And so when you do actually

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redefine success, it makes it pretty easy for

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you to hit it. Definitely. Perhaps maybe how

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we can keep our houses clean. We've got to get

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one of those iRobot things. iRobot vacuum cleaners.

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Well, someone should really invent some robots

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here. Come on. Hey, Amazon, you have billions

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of dollars. Let's make a robot now. I'm sure

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they're not far off, right? Well, because Jeff

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Bezos doesn't sleep. He'd probably be the first

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one to invent it. So do you have any other tips

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of managing stress? So when it comes to certainly

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redefine success, but also to simplify. Simplification

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is a big part because, again, stress and overwhelm,

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I use those words interchangeably, as I said.

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But when we overcomplicate something, that leads

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to stress. And so oftentimes, we overcomplicate

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it in our head. And it's not really that complicated.

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You know, because There's YouTube, there's Google,

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there's Facebook and Instagram. There's all of

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these places where we can find the solution to

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something easily. But in our minds, we go, no,

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no, no, I need to do it myself. We wear this

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kind of badge of honor that if we don't do it

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ourselves, then we can't get the credit for it,

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right? But there is so much that we could delegate

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or we could just decide not to do because we

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don't need the credit for it. For instance, one

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thing that I simplified was doing laundry. I

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used to let laundry consume my every thought

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during the day. If the laundry wasn't done or

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if I found a sock somewhere or whatever it was,

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I would lose it and I'd stress. And so I had

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to put parameters and I had to simplify my laundry.

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So my laundry is only done on Mondays and Thursdays

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now. Simplified it because it was making me crazy.

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And so another thing that I simplify, there are

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certain days of the week that I do certain things

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on my business or in my life, right? So I do

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a deep cleaning of the house on Monday. Cool.

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Then the rest of the week, I really don't have

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to think about cleaning the house unless I get

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the iRobot to vacuum the dog hair kind of thing,

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right? I'm really serious about getting one.

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We have one and it's awesome for the dog hair

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because we have two dogs and there's just dog

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hair everywhere. It actually picks up dog hair

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really well. It does, yes. My mom says like,

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oh, there's no way for that thing to clean up

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dog hair. And it's like, mom, technology is really

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good these days. Oh, it picks up a lot of hair.

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And with three girls and myself in the house,

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that thing is full of hair most of the time.

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I'm definitely going to get her one. Yeah. Yeah.

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Christmas present. There you go. But it's so

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simplifying. So allowing stuff to happen on certain

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days also adds to that ability to feel successful

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because then you're not feeling like you're constantly

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doing something. You can actually sit and relax,

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which is something a lot of people struggle with.

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I definitely know what you mean by I tend to

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overthink a lot of things. I'll give you an example.

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I think it was technically yesterday I was overthinking

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a lot of things as well. Seems like everything

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I overthink is always on a Monday. No wonder

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why Mondays are really rough. I was overthinking.

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I don't know if you've heard of this tool called

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Calendly or something. And they just added a...

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features back in like added into their free plan

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of supporting zoom and everything indefinitely

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and everything and so i was again i was thinking

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of switching from the tool i'm currently using

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over to that and it's like wait why am i doing

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why am i thinking of that and it's like i have

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everything in this tool for free and i was like

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the only difference is that they don't have a

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mobile app at the moment and i was like well

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and it's like do I really want to go back all

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the way over there? No, not really. And I was

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like, why am I, why am I even thinking of this?

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And it's like, I'm just wasting my time. Exactly.

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I was like, do I do this? Do I do that? And I

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was like. Oh, screw it. I'm not doing it. Yeah.

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Delete the email. I would never seen it. Exactly.

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Exactly. We do that all the time. We do that

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all the time where we say, okay, well, should

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I get this one or should I get that one? And

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then we ask social media, which one should we

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do? And then, you know, we don't ever actually

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make a decision because a lot of people are saying

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yes to this one. And a lot of people are saying

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yes to this one. And so we just kind of sit in

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limbo. But if you, and this is a really great

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trick. So if you take a coin and narrow, yeah,

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just a regular coin, like a penny or something,

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right? So if you narrow it down to two decisions,

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right? Let's say. There are so many ads these

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notes. Now let's get back to the show. It's between

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calendly and acuity because I use acuity. And

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so you narrow it down. You have the two. Pick

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heads or tails for either one of those and then

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flip the coin in the air. And why the coin is

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in the air, you're going to hope for heads or

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tails. Just naturally, your instinct, right?

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And then that's the thing that you pick. simple

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yeah because we will find ourselves rooting for

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heads or tails when it's in the air and so you

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already know what you want it's just easy to

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put it that way it always seems like when i'm

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making a purchase I'm always just talking out

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loud and my parents are overheard. And then sometimes

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I ask for their opinions. Do you think I should

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do this? And it's like, well, you're not making

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much money. And it's like, not the point. And

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it's like, I'm trying to find a tool that actually

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works. And this tool actually flipping works

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because I had to make up some of the latest tools

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that I found did not really work. I have that

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luck. When people have good luck, I just have

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the bad luck. That's a frame of mind. No, you

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should see me with technology. Technology does

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not like me. Well, I don't really like technology

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either, which is why I don't mess with it that

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much. If I can't figure it out in 20 minutes,

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I won't do it. Unfortunately, I'm quite the opposite.

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I'll sit there until the whole day and I'll finally

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figure out what it is. And it's going to be right

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in front of me. It's like, dude, Jimmy. Well,

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so what I do is when I'm learning something new

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or I need to tackle something new, I'll give,

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we talked about this before in the episode that

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you did with me, the Pomodoro technique, right?

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The 20 minutes, right? So I will give myself

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20 minutes for a new skill, whatever that is.

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If I can't figure it out in that 20 minutes,

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I walk away. Because chances are I'm getting

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too frustrated and too emotional. to see the

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simple solution that if I walk away and I come

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back to it the next day usually I can figure

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it out very quickly I think that also happened

00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:20.039
to me that time as well because like uh I had

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a I had a very big virus on my computer during

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the summer and I was already it's like please

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don't make me buy a new computer it's like this

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thing is not even that old I think maybe it's

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like four maybe five years and i guess that's

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all for technology but uh it still runs great

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and it's like and after the screen went blank

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for a few times like there must be something

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else wrong with it it's like not old age and

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once i found that virus i was like it was a very

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very hard virus to remove and finally i had to

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restart the computer and then it made my computer

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completely fast it's like brand new again and

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i was like wow as i i should have just done that

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from the start but but i i took a break for like

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a few weeks on it and i was doing everything

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on my chromebook by the way i highly do not recommend

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doing everything in the chromebook because it's

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just done that can't replace a windows computer

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sorry google It just does not. Somebody who's

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using a Windows computer for a long time just

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can't. Be nice if it could. It would probably

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be less expensive, but you can't beat my $1 ,000

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computer. So what other stress management tips

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do you have? So for me, I... Love to be outside.

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Nature is a really great stress relief for me.

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And so is exercise. I exercise every day. Well,

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at least six days a week, typically. I'll exercise.

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I'll either run or I'll go for a horseback ride

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or I'll ride my bicycle or I'll swim depending

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on the weather. But exercise is a really great

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stress relief. It just... helps you to clear

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your mind and keep going. I do love to sit outside

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or be outside at any point in the day when I

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start to feel myself get stressed or overwhelmed.

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I'll just go sit outside. I'll take a few minutes,

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literally put myself in a timeout and just go

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be in nature. I think I got to start doing more.

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I got the working out part down and I find that

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helps but I can't work out every single minute

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of the day or I'm gonna like look like a wire

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or something yeah it's like you're too skinny

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I might have to start trying to read my book

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during the day or something like even if it's

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just a business book or something I'd rather

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read something than just trying to figure out

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a problem on the computer or what Yes. And when

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you step away from something, you can actually

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gain clarity not being in it. You can gain clarity

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being outside of it. And so oftentimes if I find

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that I'm struggling or I'm frustrated with something,

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I'll just step away. And usually the answer will

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come to me pretty quickly when I'm not so emotionally

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charged around it. So what made you want to start

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your own business? I actually didn't want to.

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When I finished my PhD, I completed that two

00:21:00.349 --> 00:21:04.210
weeks before baby number four was born. And when

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I finished it, we had a big party. Well, we went

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out to dinner when I actually got my diploma

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and stuff. We did a big party. But when I defended

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it, we went out to dinner and celebrate with

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some friends and they all said, what's next?

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And I said, well. I have a baby coming, so that's

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next. And at the time I was working as a health

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and fitness coach with Beachbody. And I loved

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Beachbody. I love their programs, love their

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products, loved them, but it didn't fit well

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for me. It just, there wasn't a connection there,

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I guess. And so I had a couple of those clients

00:21:44.430 --> 00:21:47.299
say, we want more from you. What else can you

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teach us? Because you're managing all of these

00:21:51.059 --> 00:21:53.980
things and still having time for yourself. So

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how about you teach us those things? And so I

00:21:56.259 --> 00:21:59.960
started as a mom coach. I was just teaching moms

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how to make time for themselves. And then it

00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:06.740
started to transition into helping moms with

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their businesses, along other things. So it wasn't

00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:14.700
something that I set out to do. It just happened.

00:22:17.669 --> 00:22:22.769
It kind of happened to me a little bit without

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the extra, the mom part, but it was basically

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I finished my English class in college, went

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with the introduction, and I had to take another

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one, and then I'm in another one, which is soon

00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:53.400
to end. After finishing that beginner English

00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.759
class, my professor said, the only way you can

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get better at writing is continue writing. So

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I thought it was a way. I was like, well, do

00:23:07.180 --> 00:23:09.619
I really want to write in a Word document every

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single day? And I was like, no. And I was like,

00:23:13.539 --> 00:23:16.839
because I wanted something where I can continue

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and keep doing it and doing it. And it's like,

00:23:19.819 --> 00:23:22.240
well, if I do it the boring way, let's see how

00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:24.940
many times I can do that before that gets really

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old. and then so i came up with this really absurd

00:23:28.900 --> 00:23:33.339
idea uh and this was under a different name back

00:23:33.339 --> 00:23:37.859
then but uh i uh started my i started my own

00:23:37.859 --> 00:23:40.839
website called myself a different name back then

00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:44.339
um not crazy fitness guy i can't repeat it because

00:23:44.339 --> 00:23:48.680
that name was trademarked uh so i don't want

00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:52.319
to get sued um at the time i didn't know any

00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:56.390
of this at all so it's not like i uh did it deliberately

00:23:56.390 --> 00:24:02.089
or anything. Mistakes happen. It's not like I

00:24:02.089 --> 00:24:04.569
knew anything about the USPTO at all either.

00:24:07.210 --> 00:24:09.349
I mean, I heard of them, but it's not like I

00:24:09.349 --> 00:24:12.269
know how to use their website as I do now to

00:24:12.269 --> 00:24:15.230
check whether something is trademarked or whatnot.

00:24:15.789 --> 00:24:23.980
And then so I dove in, did a lot of just blogging

00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:27.019
and whatnot. And my writing was really horrendous

00:24:27.019 --> 00:24:32.019
back then. But now the latest blog post seems

00:24:32.019 --> 00:24:37.559
much better than it was back then. And yeah,

00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:40.380
and so that's how I started and crazy fitness

00:24:40.380 --> 00:24:46.690
guy. Well, after I biopsied and fringed. At least

00:24:46.690 --> 00:24:48.589
the guy was really nice about it, though. That's

00:24:48.589 --> 00:24:51.089
good. That's good. He did send me a warning,

00:24:51.190 --> 00:24:53.309
and he says, like, if you don't reply within

00:24:53.309 --> 00:24:56.450
X amount of days, I send my lawyer. I was like,

00:24:56.609 --> 00:25:01.349
no need for your lawyers. Yeah. But I'm really

00:25:01.349 --> 00:25:03.930
surprised that he found me under a lot of different

00:25:03.930 --> 00:25:09.890
websites out there. I was like, holy crap. But,

00:25:10.049 --> 00:25:19.509
yeah, that's basically how my story got. What

00:25:19.509 --> 00:25:24.170
made you, what do you think interests you and

00:25:24.170 --> 00:25:30.230
like what got you into the whole managing your

00:25:30.230 --> 00:25:34.309
stress or what got you interested in that? So

00:25:34.309 --> 00:25:38.190
I became interested in that when I realized how

00:25:38.190 --> 00:25:42.730
my stress was affecting my kids. Children are

00:25:42.730 --> 00:25:47.450
very sensitive to energies. And it didn't matter

00:25:47.450 --> 00:25:51.309
what I was saying. It mattered more how I felt.

00:25:51.430 --> 00:25:54.309
And so if I was really stressed out and, and

00:25:54.309 --> 00:25:57.710
even now if I have really stressful moments,

00:25:57.750 --> 00:26:00.690
my kids feel it and they start to get stressed,

00:26:00.809 --> 00:26:03.849
but they don't, they can't articulate it necessarily

00:26:03.849 --> 00:26:08.490
as well as I can. And so it will turn into them

00:26:08.490 --> 00:26:12.049
being overtired. They're not sleeping well, they're

00:26:12.049 --> 00:26:15.029
not hungry or they're. really hungry and they

00:26:15.029 --> 00:26:18.210
eat a lot or they just pick on each other. And

00:26:18.210 --> 00:26:21.190
so I started to get involved in it because I

00:26:21.190 --> 00:26:24.430
saw how my own emotions were affecting my kids.

00:26:24.549 --> 00:26:28.509
And I didn't want them to get stressed out when

00:26:28.509 --> 00:26:31.589
I was stressed out. And so I had to learn how

00:26:31.589 --> 00:26:36.549
to manage my own stress for my children. Okay.

00:26:36.609 --> 00:26:39.309
Well, do you think you can teach my mom? Because

00:26:39.309 --> 00:26:44.740
her stress is annoying me. i'm not trying to

00:26:44.740 --> 00:26:47.180
pick on my mom or anything but and it's like

00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:50.259
but she answers when she's stressed she answers

00:26:50.259 --> 00:26:54.200
me in like the most snappiest ways and it's like

00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:59.279
gee i asked a question and it's like yikes yes

00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:05.759
and i love my mom just it was like uh if i did

00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:09.759
this she'd be really mad at me yes exactly and

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.859
sometimes we know sometimes we're not aware of

00:27:12.859 --> 00:27:14.759
it until the words come out of our mouths and

00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:16.960
then we're like oh shoot we're stressed right

00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:21.339
now let's fix this um but yeah no unfortunately

00:27:21.339 --> 00:27:25.279
we we are human and we do snap at our children

00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:28.099
sometimes yeah and plus it's kind of hard for

00:27:28.099 --> 00:27:33.420
me to know if she's like angry because sometimes

00:27:33.420 --> 00:27:36.079
it's hard for me to read emotions especially

00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:40.279
because I'm autistic and I mean I'm getting I

00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:43.339
get better throughout I've been getting better

00:27:43.339 --> 00:27:45.640
at doing that throughout the years of my life

00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:51.380
but it's not like I'm it's not like I'm I don't

00:27:51.380 --> 00:27:54.140
know superman and can figure out everything yeah

00:27:54.140 --> 00:27:58.660
yeah I actually read an article like Google had

00:27:58.660 --> 00:28:02.799
these glasses they're called google glasses and

00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:06.279
they actually uh uh some of they're actually

00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:10.059
testing out of people who have autism and they

00:28:10.059 --> 00:28:12.940
can actually read people's emojis uh emotions

00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:17.119
better glasses and say can you make them publicly

00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:19.460
available because i would love a cheat sheet

00:28:19.460 --> 00:28:23.180
right now but they still haven't released them

00:28:23.180 --> 00:28:25.259
and they're like super expensive and it's like

00:28:25.259 --> 00:28:29.519
oh come on yeah like i just want to cheat sheet

00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:33.900
but now i asked my mom's like so are you mad

00:28:33.900 --> 00:28:36.400
or are you angry i was like no i'm just stressed

00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:44.079
and it's like there are so many ads these days

00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:46.920
wherever you go there are ads in movie theaters

00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:51.059
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00:29:20.500 --> 00:29:28.819
notes. Now let's get back to the show. Because

00:29:28.819 --> 00:29:31.279
when she's in a good mood, I'm like, okay, I'll

00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:35.539
be around. But then when she starts getting just

00:29:35.539 --> 00:29:40.980
angry, I'm like... So a quick tip is just ask

00:29:40.980 --> 00:29:46.940
her, how are you feeling? And then she'll, yeah,

00:29:47.019 --> 00:29:49.299
not what she's thinking. She doesn't want to

00:29:49.299 --> 00:29:50.920
talk about what she's thinking about because

00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:53.359
that's leading to the stress. But if you ask

00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:57.519
her, how are you feeling? Then it gives her a

00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.000
moment to actually reflect and she might not

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.470
snap. You're good. Perhaps maybe you should also

00:30:06.470 --> 00:30:11.390
go into therapy too. Why not? They do get a lot

00:30:11.390 --> 00:30:14.470
of money. Yeah, that would be another PhD. I

00:30:14.470 --> 00:30:18.710
don't think I want to go back to school. You

00:30:18.710 --> 00:30:21.089
sure? You seem like you're the school kind of

00:30:21.089 --> 00:30:24.130
type. I do love school. I don't love student

00:30:24.130 --> 00:30:28.920
loans though. Yeah, that's true. You can finish

00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:32.980
writing my English paper for me. I'm just kidding.

00:30:33.819 --> 00:30:39.619
I don't mind writing papers, but literature is

00:30:39.619 --> 00:30:41.759
not that math's favorite to me. I like to read

00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:44.400
books for fun. I was like, oh, I have to read

00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.920
this just because of class assignment. Yeah.

00:30:49.019 --> 00:30:56.640
Out the window. So before we wrap it up. Where

00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:00.259
can people find you on social media? So the best

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:03.599
place to find me is I'm on Instagram and Facebook.

00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.599
You can find me as Stephanie Snyder on Facebook

00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:12.660
or on Instagram underscore opulent life. My website

00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:17.119
is also available. All the WWs. I'm going to

00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:21.619
say too many of them. www .theopulentlife .com

00:31:21.619 --> 00:31:24.900
is where you can find all of my information as

00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:28.000
well. And I'll leave that in the show notes,

00:31:28.140 --> 00:31:32.799
somewhere in the show notes. Perfect. Do you

00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:37.079
have anything else that we need to cover? No,

00:31:37.220 --> 00:31:39.579
just, you know, if you have, if anybody has any

00:31:39.579 --> 00:31:42.240
questions about managing your stress, feel free

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:44.539
to send me a message. I'm always happy to, to

00:31:44.539 --> 00:31:49.440
share my resources. And maybe we can, and let's

00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:51.279
stay in touch because maybe you can give me some,

00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:55.019
you can give me some extra resources. Absolutely.

00:31:55.240 --> 00:32:00.380
Absolutely. Because I definitely can. I need

00:32:00.380 --> 00:32:04.000
better stress management tools in my life. Hell,

00:32:04.140 --> 00:32:06.420
I'm not even an expert in stress management.

00:32:06.859 --> 00:32:09.140
Some things work for me. Some things do not work

00:32:09.140 --> 00:32:11.799
for me. Right. And it's about finding which ones

00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:14.680
do. You know, sometimes you have to try a bunch

00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:16.240
of different ones to find out which one really

00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:19.319
works well. And journaling has been working a

00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:23.380
little bit, but not always. I said, karate is

00:32:23.380 --> 00:32:26.299
a good one. Just not when you're punching in

00:32:26.299 --> 00:32:30.700
the air a lot. I need a punching bag. The one

00:32:30.700 --> 00:32:34.259
I have is too heavy to move. It's one of those,

00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:45.549
it hangs by a string. Yeah. Well. Thanks again,

00:32:45.690 --> 00:32:49.390
Stephanie, for being on Crazy Fitness Guys Healthy

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