Beyond Motherhood: Gina's Journey of Rediscovering Herself

In this conversation, Gina Beasley shares her journey of self-discovery and the challenges she faced as a stay-at-home mom. She discusses the importance of finding personal passions, particularly through dance and aerial silks, and how these pursuits have helped her regain a sense of identity and purpose beyond motherhood. Gina emphasizes the need for self-care and the positive impact it has on her family life, illustrating the balance between being a dedicated mother and nurturing her own interests. In this conversation, Gina Beasley shares her journey of discovering her passion for aerial silks during the isolation of COVID-19. She discusses how she built her own business against the odds, overcoming fears and societal expectations. Gina emphasizes the importance of empowering women through her classes and the supportive community she has created. She also addresses the challenges she faced from naysayers and legal threats, highlighting the significance of mental health and personal growth through adversity. The conversation concludes with insights on vulnerability and the power of sharing one's journey.

Takeaways

Recognizing the feeling of being capable of more is the first step to change.
Self-care is essential for mental health and fulfillment.
Motherhood can lead to losing one's identity, but it's important to reclaim it.
Finding a passion can reignite one's sense of purpose.
Overcoming doubts and fears is a crucial part of personal growth.
Community support can empower individuals to pursue their passions.
Investing in oneself leads to better relationships with family.
Pursuing happiness is a right, not a privilege.
Abundance mentality fosters collaboration rather than competition.
Teaching others can be a fulfilling way to share one's passion. Each studio offers something different, creating a unique space for individuals.
Mental health struggles can be alleviated with support from loved ones.
Reading self-development books can provide guidance during tough times.
Building a community through shared passions enhances personal fulfillment.
Movement is essential for health, especially for women over 40.
Timing is crucial when pursuing personal and professional growth.
Creating connections with others is vital for emotional well-being.
Women should prioritize their own needs and explore new interests.
Financial independence can empower women and provide options.
Engaging in community service can fulfill personal passions and help others.

Chapters

00:00 Awakening to Potential
02:59 The Journey of Self-Discovery
05:57 The Dance of Motherhood and Identity
08:58 Finding Passion in Aerial Silks
11:53 Overcoming Doubts and Embracing Challenges
15:13 The Transformation Through Movement
17:52 Building a Community and Empowering Others
20:54 Navigating Challenges and Pursuing Happiness
24:00 The Impact of Self-Investment on Family Life
27:03 Creating a Business Amidst Adversity
31:13 Embracing Individuality in Business
34:02 Navigating Mental Health and Support
39:08 Building a Community Through Passion
46:02 The Importance of Movement and Health
54:13 Timing and Personal Growth
59:19 Creating Community and Connection

Transcript

I know I'm capable of more. Going through a period of time where you know you are capable of more, but you're not doing more, and that feeling of I'm not living up to my potential.

That is a gut wrenching feeling for me. I knew I was made for more.

there's something and that was helping me kind of pull myself out of that stuck feeling of I need something more than just being at home with this baby every day all by ourselves like I needed more and no one's gonna come in and save you and rip you from your bed and say get up wake up you're not living your life you got to do it yourself and if you don't you're gonna grow up to be an old person with a lot of regrets and we're gonna have a lot of time in our hands when we can no longer walk and work

function like we usually do. Money's not everything, but money gives you options. And I think when you have options, that opens doors, that makes your life a little easier so it's not so stressful and hard in hard times. And that's important to me.

Welcome to Her Purpose, the podcast where together we dive into the inspiring journeys of women who are living out their purpose, not just for themselves, but in a way that serves others and creates lasting impact. I'm your host, Kendra Morse, and I'm here to share stories of women who've discovered their passions, overcome obstacles, and found fulfillment in stepping into the work that they know they were meant to do. In each episode, we'll explore what it means to live fully, embrace your unique gifts, discover the purpose and past

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experiences, often painful ones, and use them to make a difference in the world. So if you're ready to be inspired and empowered to pursue your own path of meaningful purpose, then you're in the right place. Let's get started. And remember, let no one clip your limbs. In this episode of Her Purpose, I sit down with Gina Sainsbury, a stay at home mom who felt lost in being just a mom and knew she had to intentionally pursue something for herself outside of her role as a homemaker.

Her journey led her to develop a passion for silks, an aerial acrobatic art form that not only reignited her spark, but evolved into a thriving home-based business where she now empowers others to find joy and purpose through movement. Gina opens up in our conversation about the struggle of losing herself in motherhood, the importance of knowing that taking time for yourself is not selfish, and how following her inner knowing gave her a renewed sense of purpose and fulfillment.

A quote that she holds dear that inspired her to push past her fears of imposter syndrome and doubt early on is,

this.

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Our presence automatically liberates others by Marianne Williamson. Enjoy the episode. I want to know, there must have been a period of time where you weren't pursuing anything that you were passionate about. Yeah. What was that like?

Well, it was hard because I was a stay at home mom and I've worked my whole life. I've performed my whole life. I was always involved in something. And then once I had my first baby and we both decided that I was going to stay home, it was such a shock. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I loved being home. So I don't want people to get the wrong idea. Like, Oh, it's so hard. It's so bad.

It's not bad, it was just so different. And my personality was I was so consumed by this little innocent baby that I gave my whole time and attention. I mean, most moms do, right? Right. And so it was about a year and a half after I had him, no, it was probably about two years, that I had had enough. like, okay, I've got to find me again. I've got to do something for myself. I need to go back to the gym. We started walking together as a family. We'd drive out.

take these drives out to the countryside and we'd walk every day and that was helping me kind of pull myself out of that stuck feeling of I need something more than just being at home with this baby every day all by ourselves. Like I needed more. And so it was then that I found, it was like a six weeks course on Facebook to try aerial silks.

Well, I want to go back though because your passion has been dance for life. So before you go into that, let's go back a little bit in how much dance meant to you. Because I remember you were, I want to say you were on drill team.

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Yeah, yeah. So I started dancing when I was 10. I was having a really hard time in school. So my mom put me in dance as a form of like to help my brain connect with rhythm because they say connecting rhythm to mathematics is really helpful. And it's good for your self value and self esteem to have something you're good at. And plus I was always dancing around the kitchen and being silly and stuff. And so she put me in dance.

And so that became a very valuable experience for me. I learned how to work as a team. We became very competitive. And then in high school, I made the dance drill team. And so that was the year quit dance and just focused on pure drill team because there was just not enough time to do it all. And so, yeah, that was like a sisterhood for me. Mrs. Cattrall was our coach and she was like a second mother. We are with her and each other as sisters.

more than we were at home. So that was our second home was at the high school practicing and committing every ounce of time to that.

So I know you owned a dance studio after high school. I'm assuming this was before you were married. So you ran that for how many years?

Yes, correct, yep.

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So I owned that for four years and I was working full time for an orthodontist too at that time.

How fulfilled did you feel when you were running that studio?

man, it was a lot of responsibility because I was young. was 19, 20, 21, 22. I didn't know anything about business, but those kids, man, my gosh, they filled my bucket every day. Watching them perform and get excited about the choreography that I'd create was really super fun. And earning the titles and things that you earn with that was, was my whole life.

Now, you, I don't know your story as far as how you ended up walking away from that, but I'm assuming I'm not your husband.

I ended up moving to this Spokane area and so I closed the studio, which was really hard. And, but I did. And I'm glad it was, I couldn't do it forever. You know, I was burning the candle with them.

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Because of how much work it was to run a studio and at the time you didn't have a family. Yeah.

No, I didn't have a family. So basically I'd get up at 430 every morning, get ready for my day, do all of my preparatory work that I needed to get my ducks in a row for that day, go to work at seven. We were off at 430. I'd go right over to the studio. I would teach four to five classes. I was done at nine and then I would clean the studio. I would stay there, do most of my book work until about 10 until I was like, okay, I really need to go home and go to bed. And then I'd...

Somehow, somewhere in that next site, I ate something, I think.

So were you still running the studio when you met your husband? Yes. And so you had to make the decision to move forward in your relationship with your husband to close it. That was a part of.

My studio is in Moses Lake, my hometown. And that's where I was working. And I met him through my sister. And so they lived in Spokane. Every weekend, I would travel to Spokane to go see him. And I communed for five years. That's

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so long my gosh

And snow, wind, rain, sleet and hail. Yeah.

So you loved him, but you loved his pants. Was that a hard thing to close or were you like, I just know this isn't compatible with the life that I want to create?

I hated to close it. Like I had really deep personal connections with the parents and all the kids. So to close down, I tried to sell it, but to keep them a home and just bring in a new owner. It's hard in a small town. It's hard to even find instructors. I had seven instructors working for me. So honestly, I didn't hardly pay myself. It was just a pure passion project. Because of that, I just made the decision to go ahead and close it, moved to Spokane shortly after that.

Got married, had a baby, loved your life. So I'm sure, because I know you and I are so much alike, I know for me and I know for you, there's no way you would ever put work above your children because ultimately there is no way I'm ever going to allow anyone else to be the main caregiver for my children. Yet there's a part of you that needs to be doing something different and maybe it's providing for your family, maybe it's creating something, maybe it's creating an income.

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What is that for you and when did you feel like that was missing? Yeah.

It was probably a good two years after Waylon, my first son was born, that I was really like, I need something just for me. I wasn't ready to like commit to a business at that time. So I just slowly by baby steps kind of reintroduced those passions back into my life to maybe cultivate that idea.

What though was life like when you're a mom and you and I just want to tap into because I can so relate. I know what it's like when you are a mom and you take so much pride in being a mom yet. What did it feel like that you knew you needed to pursue more?

more me time, some self care, time out of the house that I wasn't being a wife and grocery shopping didn't count. I was still being a mother. I was still buying things for the family. What are we gonna make for dinner? I needed time just to shut off of my mind and focus just on myself. And for a lot of parents, I'm not gonna say moms, cause that's probably for dads too who stay home or overwork themselves or whatever. We need that time.

We need that time to be our best selves because if we don't pour into ourselves, no one else is going to do it. You know, we get little snippets and glimmers from our husbands and our spouses or our other kids or our parents, family members, friends, right? All those people contribute to the filling of our buckets. But ultimately, if we don't do it, we have to create that time. Otherwise. It's just, it's not going to be there. And so for me, that's what it was. I really.

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desperately needed that because my mental health was, it wasn't great.

Like what was going on there?

I think a little bit of it was probably postpartum depression. I'm such a social extrovert that my baby was a pretty hard baby and I breastfed him. So he constantly wanted to nurse all day and he wouldn't nurse if anyone was in the room. It just added a lot of complications and challenges. And so I would stay home.

What did it feel like? What was missing for you? Or what did you, what made you know I've got to change this?

Just probably recognizing my mental health capacity that I was isolated. I wasn't really getting out there and talking to any of my friends. I wasn't going and doing anything. I didn't ever leave the house.

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And you're so bubbly. That's so not your personality.

I know and that's why it was so detrimental to my spirit. I had to do something, you

Jason also saying you need to get back to, okay.

He's like, you need to get out and just go on a walk, even if it's five minutes. And I'm like, to, to bundle up the baby, get the stroller and do all this stuff for five minutes. no, if I'm walking, I'm going. So that's when he was like, okay, when I'm going to come home early from work and we're going to drive out to the countryside, we're going to take the baby in the stroller and we're going to, he got this really cool pack and he would carry him. that was.

That was another thing that was hurting me was like my body was hurting from sitting around and just holding him and nursing him all day. So to get out and exercise, that was another things I knew I needed to move my body. And that's always been really important to me. And so when we started walking and doing all that, that's when I realized like, okay, this is really good. I'm feeling happier. I started losing a ton of the baby weight. So more pluses than just feeling better. I was gaining who I felt like I was before I had him back.

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Yeah. Do you feel like you kind of lost had lost yourself in motherhood? Yeah, we absolutely that is almost like a sad not sad, but a hard thing to acknowledge because it almost brings about this like guilt because we should be so committed to our children and we are we have to honor both.

Yes, totally.

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Yeah. And I think that's a lot of times why people don't do anything about it they do feel selfish, especially if they were to start going to the gym and leaving their baby at home with a caretaker, you know, like, I can't leave him and my gosh, you know, and that's what stopped me for so long. I was finally like, okay, he can go two hours without nursing. I'm going to have to do it. And I did. And it was hard at first, like on my way home, Jason would call me, okay, when you're going to be home, he's crying. And by the time I'd get home, he'd fall asleep.

though, there's so much guilt. You've been used to being mom and you'd leave. There's like this heaviness. It's a combination, right? Of my gosh, this feels so good and also feels so bad. Yeah. When you started, I want to get into you love dance. I remember you being phenomenal. Did you have a part of you that felt like that part? I'll never get back.

Well, that's where I turned to first. I was actively looking for an adult dance class in this bookend area, which at the time I didn't really find anything. So I was trying like Zumba and things like that. And that was fun, but it was really hard because I hadn't worked out for two years. Well, three years really, because I was pregnant and I didn't work out when I was pregnant.

And so it was, it was a lot to get back into. and so I never really did go back into the dance industry. However, recently within the last like 10 years, I have started teaching dance camps in the summer for some gymnastics centers around here. But yeah, I haven't, I haven't ever had the desire to open up a dance school again.

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Yeah, I don't have quite that much time commitment right now. My kids are still young and so I think doing what I do now is it's a lot better because I can take an hour out of my day here, hour out of my day there and it's not like I have this huge schedule that I'm committed to. I can kind of write my own. Yeah, it's a small setup so it's helpful with that.

What was that journey like of identifying or fight like did you try multiple different things before you found silks?

Yeah, yeah. So I'd go back to the gyms, do the Zumba, just and then I'd stop doing that for a while. And then I would get back into weightlifting. And so I just tried to stay faithful to going to the gym and it just always kind of fizzled out. And that I would say that's when I found or maybe Silks found me, I'm not sure, but that's when I found this little teaser course that was six weeks long and it was a hundred bucks. And so I'm like, well, you know, what do I have to lose? can, I could try that and

I might be crazy. probably won't be able to do any of it, but I can at least try and say I tried it.

Did you have some thoughts though? Like what if I can't figure it out or what if it's...

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just knew I would eventually get back into something and find my knack. I just knew it would take time. I'm a pretty positive person, mostly.

I know you are because I know who you are and I've known you for so many years. I know that about you, but I think that it's important for people. We all, I'm a positive person yet we all have moments where we doubt ourselves. We have limiting beliefs. And I think it's important for people to hear from someone who from the outside looks so positive all the time. You know, actually there's hard times in our lives where...

we doubt what we're capable of, or we doubt we'll figure that out, or we doubt we can learn something new. So was there any reservations for you when you saw this silks class? you thinking, was it an instant, I'm signing up, or was it, I don't know.

Yeah, it was a mixed bag of feelings, but I was excited to try it. so I did in the first class I took was so hard. I was like, I don't even have any business being here. But then the next week I went back and there was only half of the people that had shown up. So there was like 30 people in a class. Wow. And we were all in this big circle doing this warmup planks and stuff. And I was just dying. Yeah, the second week I went back and there was 15 of us.

The third week I went back, was eight of us. And those eight are the people who stuck through to the whole six weeks. And after the six weeks, I could do a couple poses in like a hammock knot. And that was it. I could come up like one or two climbs.

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you for someone that's listening, I'm going to stop you there for someone that's listening that doesn't know what we're talking about. Describe what silks is I've seen a lot of your content. So I know, but if someone's only listening, because I without seeing your content, I wouldn't have any idea what you're talking about.

Yeah, yeah, a lot of people call it, are you still doing that curtain thing? You know, they think it's curtains, but basically it's fabric. It's made out of nylon tricot and it's rigged from a rigging point up, preferably above 16 feet high. My rig is 20 feet high. And so the way you rig it, it's one long piece of fabric, but the way you rig it is like it's folded in half. So there, looks like there's two pieces of fabric hanging down and you can climb up, wrap your body up, wrap your feet up.

Do splits, do rotations, you can do drops. It's, it's really hard, but it's really cool and very challenging. So yeah, is that a good enough description?

So for sure. feel like it's a combination of dance and gymnastics. Yeah, hanging from fabric. It's very beautiful. It's such a beautiful thing to watch. I've seen some of your clips that you posted and I can't even imagine the strength that it takes to actually do the performances that you do. So you took this six week course. Obviously at some point in there you fell in love with it.

Yeah. Yeah. So at the end, this is the part of my story that I love the most. At the end of six weeks, I was getting my shoes and socks on about to head home and then instructor flagged me down and she said, Gina, are you going to go home and sign up for the next session? It starts next week. And I'm like, you know, I didn't really have the heart to tell her why I wasn't planning on it, you know, but she goes, well, I really think you should. And I said, you do? And that really gave me this glimmer of encouragement.

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believed in you.

Yeah. And so I don't, have no idea what the heck she saw because at that point I wasn't able to climb up or do anything. don't believe that. No, I'm, really serious. I couldn't. And so that's was kind of like, well, why do you think I should? she did, she thought I should. And so I'm like, okay. And I asked her if she minds if I sat there and watched the next class to kind of just observe and collect my thoughts. And of course she said yes. And in that moment, Kendra, that's when my, magic.

in my brain happened and it was because in the next class I saw these women who were in their 50s and 60s. There's about 12 of them. They were all climbing up, wrapping their bodies up and doing these little loop-de-loops all the way down. And that was the green light for me. Like, wow, if they can do this, I can do this for sure. I know I can.

because of

I'm like that if I were to see them on the street or sign up for the first class, I'd been like, what are they doing here? They're too old for this because of my limiting beliefs. See? And so I, I went home, signed up for the next course. And then about eight months later, I did my first performance. It was incredible. I was, my gosh, that was like the best feeling in a long time. My first performance in.

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And what was that like?

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Yeah, so talk to me a little bit about the difference in, because I think that we all go through this as we age, in going through life where you feel that you're not maybe progressing or pursuing something versus at what point in your journey with silks did it start to fill your cup and start to fuel, I found me again. Yeah.

Probably within the next couple of months when I was doing my avid weekly training and I really started reaping the fruits of my labor by staying committed and showing up every week because I would come and the instructor would tell me things like, wow, Gina, you're looking so strong today. What else are you doing? Are you working out at home too? Like you've really improved within the last three months. And those words of encouragement were really vital to me to keep me going. They definitely filled the bucket and

filled my value so much because I knew I was working so hard. And it was a sacrifice to get there every week. know, Jason came home early from work so I could be there on time. He would stay home with the baby after he had had a long days of work, you know, and then wait for me to come home while he was crying, you know.

How old were they when you started? did you only have Waylon? Yeah.

One was about two when I started. then so fast forward to that first performance that I also found out I was pregnant with my second baby. So I was eight weeks pregnant when I did my first performance.

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Gosh. So was there a part of you that thought I'm going to have to let this go for a while?

Yeah, so typically you don't have to if your body's already like built up the stamina, you can still train during pregnancy. You just aren't supposed to do any new things or drops or things like that. But I, my gosh, I was so tired. I couldn't go upside down at all. I just felt like out of breath. And so I did, I took about a year and a half off.

It was my hiatus. And so I finished out my pregnancy. had him and he was about six months when I got back into it, which yes, I did have to start pretty much at square one again to regain all of that stamina and strength back. So that was quite, you know, you can imagine how was the word I'm looking for disappointing. Yeah. It was like, Oh my gosh, but came back way faster than it went in to put in. It came back really, really quickly. So

I started performing shortly after that again, so it was all fine.

do you feel that you are as a mom compared to before and when you weren't investing in yourself to now investing in yourself? And we're going to talk a little bit more about how you're helping others as well. But what's the difference in how you show up in the other areas of your life after investing in yourself in this way?

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Well, I mean, I feel like I could put so much more attention to my kids and deal with the things that they need me to be there for because I'm not constantly in this spiral in my own head of how am I gonna get unstuck? How am I gonna, boy, it's really hard to put into words. Because for the longest time, I just felt like I didn't really have a purpose. I mean, yes, I was a mom, but I needed more. I was meant for more than that. Everyone's made for something more than being a mother. They have their own.

purpose too and I did not know what that was. Man, it was such an empty, lonely, fearful feeling, which isn't great. And yeah, boy, so hard to describe into words. I definitely just feel like I can, now that I am in love back with who I am because I'm utilizing my full potential, I guess, then I can just dedicate so much more time and attention to my kids that they so need, desperately need, right? Whereas I felt like the

Real selfish part of me was dwelling on my own self because I didn't know what I was supposed to be doing with my life. And so technically I feel like I'm definitely less selfish because I have that and I can put it to the side, take care of my kids and know deep down that it's there. It's not just lost and I don't know who I am kind of thing. Does that make sense?

you

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It's.

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Yeah, it's such a weird thing. Because if you think about it, it's seems like it would be the opposite. Like I am selfish to take time away from being a mom to my children that are young still and investing in myself that seems selfish yet you're able to give them a so much better version of you same with your husband because you've prioritized that part of you. So when did you feel that you wanted to share because now you have a studio at home that you teach out of

That one's a tough conversation, but I'm going to try to make it as eloquent as possible. COVID. Sure. The shutdown. Everything shut down. Gym shut down. I felt like everything I'd worked so hard for, I finally found my calling. Now it was stripped and taken away from me. And there was not a dang thing I could do. I didn't call me too. yeah. Luckily for me. Yeah. Whew. Sorry.

Thank

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I'm gonna cry for you

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Luckily for me, I had literally just purchased my own at home rig, an outside one and window. And so I got that put up the week before everything shut down, luckily, because I think I would have died. It saved me. It saved me. I was able to train on it by myself. And so basically, I think it was maybe about a year and I kind of said, okay, enough is enough.

Remember that.

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I'm going to pursue my own happiness. And at that time I had had this new neighbor and she's like, what you do? Ariel silks. want to, will you teach me? And I'm like, let's do it. So it just started off with her and I, and I just was teaching her all the little basic things that I started from square one and they evolved from there. And pretty soon she started telling her friends and pretty soon I had like four people coming over a couple of times a night and we just.

play and I'd teach them and things got really serious and then winter happened and we couldn't do this outside in the winter. And so we shut down for the winter and that was discouraging. was a hard time too, but pretty much I created my little business during COVID when everything shut down and everyone else said, no, I said yes. And I have the right to pursue my own happiness. And that's exactly what I did. I always tell people I did it my own way. I broke the rules.

What things were you up against? Where did you have resistance?

I was afraid of what people were going to think. Gina's breaking the, well, it's not the law, but Gina's breaking the mandate. She's inviting people over. We're supposed to be at home quarantining. And yes, we were outside, so we kept our distance, but we were sharing a silk. were all touching the silk. So I was really afraid and I didn't want to get sick. I was kind of afraid, but that was also the year I turned off the news, stopped watching the news. And that took a lot of fear out of my life.

permission to live fully back into my full purpose again, without that fear, which I still feel that way. I don't watch a lot of news because of that. think it puts so much fear into us and it just makes me grumpy. So I don't, I do it. So I, yeah, I just, did it my own way and, I'm so glad I did.

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And so you started this business, I'm assuming you didn't start this business from the standpoint of profitability. It was a lot more of a fulfillment. so how has that compared you sharing your love for silks and watching other women and being able to speak life into them the way you had life spoken into you? How has that changed what you feel your purpose is? man.

Well, coming from where I came from, being so isolated at home, finding silks is a passion, teaching it to others so they can learn it and find a passion too. A lot of my students are adult women. I have a handful of teens, one child class, but most of them are adult women looking for a solid workout. Some of them do enjoy performing, but that's not really what they came to me for.

But being able to pour into them when I so can relate to where they're at, know, finding the right class to put them in because they'd have to wait for their husbands to get home at work to stay home with the baby. I totally get it, you know? And just during classes, we're warming up. We talk amongst ourselves as women, as moms, and we share stories and they relate to everything. I relate to what they're saying. And so I'm really able to tailor what I pour into them other than just the educational aspect of silks.

I try to really nourish them up here too and in their little heart. Something so they have, they have that to take home and think about during the rest of week too. I know I so desperately needed that. And so that's just, I try to give back to them. I don't even know if that was a really conscious purpose at first. I found myself doing it. It's probably a reflection out of what I needed. So I wanted to give that to others because I knew probably they felt the same.

or at least could relate in some fashion. But now it's definitely my purpose in it. And maybe it's not a mother, but maybe it's a woman who is working 80 hours a week and she's making that one hour time commitment to herself, to her health, to move and be around other women who are like-minded and want to learn.

Speaker 2 (29:09.47)
So did you have when you started and it's COVID and we're not supposed to be around each other. Did you have family members or friends that were speaking negative, not negativity into you, but did you have naysayers? What were they?

It was mainly people from the aerial community that were upset and I think it probably came from a place of maybe jealousy because they didn't have the outdoor setup that I did. They only had access to the indoor and I can totally see why that'd be so frustrating. know, I have to be careful what I say. I don't want to speak negatively of anybody.

Speaker 2 (29:47.598)
How did you deal with that negativity coming from people that felt that what you were building or pursuing was wrong? Yeah.

I think it mainly came from, again, a fear-based standpoint on their end because they couldn't run their business. And here I was teaching. And so they were upset about that. And they actually tried to pursue legal action against me. Yeah. And I shut that down really quick. Got myself a Got a lawyer. It took a 15 minute phone call is all just to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong. I want to follow the rules. I don't want to ever do anything wrong.

my gosh!

Speaker 1 (30:23.97)
but she basically tried to say I was like stealing her business, which I was not. I created my own people I was teaching. Again, I think it was just fear-based and we shut that down and nothing ever came of it. So it was fine, but it was hard because I had a meeting with her and I told her, again, I have the right to pursue my own happiness. There's nothing wrong with that. And there's enough for everyone, abundance for everyone to pursue that. Just because I start a business isn't gonna take from you.

Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (30:53.186)
But she, she did not believe that. And the other studios in town were just fine. We're all very good friends. It was just kind of the problem source of that one individual. And so I don't understand that. I don't think I ever will. I think we just have totally two different mentalities, but I also know that's the difference between who I am and who they are. Absolutely.

and why my people come to me. offer something very different and each studio offers something different. So that may speak to other people. might be location might be more convenient. And I just wish that they could look at it that way instead of looking at it as a competitor standpoint, you know, and allowing that to come in and take over.

It's like you see the memes of the bread in the grocery store. There's room for a lot of different options. Right. have a business. doesn't, there's not just one or two allowed. But at the same time, I think that that kind of existence can absolutely stop a person. Was there ever a moment or a time where you felt like...

Stopping for a entire year, made me feel, you know, because I did have a performance and a teaching contract with this person. And so for a while, I felt like I was a tiger in a circus and I was owned. Again, another reason why I lawyered up and they assured me that that was not even possible. That's not legally okay. And so that's why I went ahead and proceeded. And honestly, because my mental health was so in the toilet then, lack of a better term, it was so low.

Like that almost did stop me. And my husband was like, absolutely not. You will do whatever makes you happy. So he was a really big supportive sounding board for me. And he was like, no, we will talk to the lawyer. I don't care if it.

Speaker 1 (32:37.838)
costs $1,000, $2,000, we're gonna talk to him and get this figured out so you have peace of mind knowing that what you're doing is okay. And so with his support, that was super important for me. Because had I just been by myself, I would have been like, an attorney costs too much. Maybe they're right, maybe I shouldn't be doing this.

So was this when you say mental health was in the gutter at this point, this is after you've been exposed to it, fallen in love with it, been doing it, and then COVID hit and you went through that season where you didn't have it again. So compare and contrast life once you knew what it was like to be investing yourself on a regular basis to then going back to not, how much was that?

It was really bad because it was coming. I mean, you're, talking about my passion, right? So after being, having it stripped away, then I had the courage to decide, okay, I'm going to do this. And then being called out by the very person who I was so loyal to before it almost felt like a breach of my integrity was being called out, which wasn't the case. Right. That's felt like I, you know,

So that, that did not feel good. And however, that was the year I probably read 50 different books. I'm serious. Development and growth. A lot of Brene Brown, the great leap by Gay Hendrix, girl go wash your face. boy. I could give you a whole list. Incredible books. Mel Robbins. Anyway.

ones.

Speaker 2 (34:02.634)
Any of them in particular that you feel was the most impactful? Yeah.

The Big Leap or The Great Leap, The Big Leap by Gay Hendrix, that one. And Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. That was so good for me. But I've always loved stuff like that. So it's easy for me to dive in when I feel stuck or like, I don't know what to do. I can just dive in so easily where some people, might not have that first initial, I'll go read a good book and I'm going to feel better, you know?

Was there a period of time where you weren't investing in putting that into your mind versus like what caused if there was, how did you get back into that if you had a break?

Any adversity I come through when I hit that brick wall where it's either myself stopping me or someone else in my way. And I don't know what steps to go forward with next. I usually will start researching books like, okay, what, who can I, who can I listen to who has solutions to help me get through this? And I will say little side note Mel Robbins, the high five habit. I'm not done with it yet, but I've been reading that lately. So good.

I haven't thought I heard actually I heard someone else mention it on one of her podcasts recently and I thought don't think I've listened to that one. Yeah

Speaker 1 (35:12.802)
You got to do like the first five chapters and then it gets really, really good. At first you're thinking you're going to high five yourself in the mirror. Like, come on, I'm not doing that. So if you can get past that and then you understand she like, she always dives really deep down into the scientific, like a neurological science of stuff and why her solutions really do work. So good. And the theory I finished that one. That one's a really, really helpful for me. The let them theory. Yeah. Again, she

Yes, that's so good. Yeah.

dives into the scientific solutions for everything, gives actual logical examples of how to handle the situations, which I love so much. We need that.

Like actual, how does that actually look in real life instead of just in theory?

Yeah, how can you apply it to your daily life with real life things that you feel are so dumb and like no one else feels this way. It's just me. no, no, no. She gives her raw examples and they're not pretty. They're awesome. It's like, okay, she's normal. Like she knows she's been through it too. Not alone in this.

Speaker 2 (36:12.642)
What I love about her is she is so willing to be vulnerable about her own, I don't want to say shortcomings, but thought processes that maybe weren't serving her. And I feel that's so empowering because you think, my gosh, that's so relatable. Yeah.

Yeah, no, she's, I would love to meet her and talk with her and pick her brain and just tell her how much her book has influenced me, you know? Same with Brené Brown. She's incredible. But yeah, that's my go-to. Anytime I feel stuck or I'm faced with any sort of brick wall where I don't know which step to take next and I know that there's something behind that wall that I'm supposed to forge forward through.

When did you decide that you wanted to have a studio? Did you already have a shop in your property? Did you build the shop for the studio? Yeah.

And so half of it is Jason's storage and the other half is mine

Funny, how often do we build shops for the wife?

Speaker 1 (37:06.072)
very often and he's always like, babe, you're infringing on my side. I'm like, well, you're the one who keeps spending money to put things on side of it. And I'm the one earning money inside of it.

When you decided to build the shop, did you have a formal business plan of I'm already making this much? What caused you, was it the winter time?

It was winter time and I think Jason could see my spirits go down because I wasn't teaching and exercising. And at that time we didn't have a place to train yet. So I was like, we got to do something. I'm, going store crazy. I'm literally feeling crazy because I didn't have my outlet, you know?

Well, I think we need to build a shop. need one anyway. have property. need, we have a boat. got all this stuff we need to protect and maintain and keep track of. And you can have this side and I'll do have all the storage in my side. I'm like, okay, well let's do it. you know, for that, I had looked at a few places and it was just astronomical to rent a space. It's not feasible. I would have to be working, teaching classes all day, every day to even make it.

barely break even and I wouldn't be able to physically do that nor would I want to put in that much time and effort right now when my kids are so young, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (38:20.546)
Yeah, right. So and I want to know how it's fit in your life. Obviously, it's super fulfilling for you to be able to offer this and to have this community because to me what I hear is you have a community of women that you get to so into and it's almost like it you're filling their cup, but they're also filling your cup.

For sure, for sure. I do that all the time.

Yeah. And then at the same time, you've been able to obviously build a shop on your property, which is increase the value of your property. it been something that compared to when you ran the dance studio, how has running this business, what is the differences? Like you, talked earlier about how you had no extra time and it wasn't even profitable. So it was extremely stressful, not profitable. How does a business compare to running this business?

Yeah, well, back then in the dance studio days, had 167 students. So I had to have a lot of employees and now I only have 12 students and it's lovely because I have that personal connection with each and every single one of them. I get to know them individually. I get to help them individually. I get to focus and hone in on where they need help or maybe expand on what they're already thriving in. And so that's been really a game changer.

I like the interpersonal connections that I have with them. I get to be a little bit more selective about who I bring into my space. I call it my little sacred place of refuge, you know? So I'm very selective about that. I don't just open it up to like, I don't have a website. So I kind of hand select it. If I have a friend who really wants to try silks, I'm like, okay, well let's get together. Let's try it. And I just kind of hand select a few people who I invite into my space.

Speaker 2 (40:02.924)
gosh, you have so much, I don't want to say control, but almost like control over how you're running so much more control over how you're running your business compared to before. So one of the things that I was wondering, did you have imposter syndrome? You obviously didn't go to college or do anything like that to learn how to do this. You learned as a student, you loved it, but was there any of that?

For sure. Imposter syndrome is definitely a huge thing. I think I overcame a lot of hurdles by reading a lot of those self-development books we talked about earlier and just my husband's support and belief in me. Like during COVID, he was like, I don't know if I want to invest in this. What if this is just a thing that you, a phase you go through and how do you know you want to teach and have all this business? I'm like, well, I did it with the dance studio and here I am.

This is my sixth year going strong teaching. And so he started seeing that and noticing the mental health and how beneficial it was for me to have an outlet just for me.

When he said, if you don't stick with this? Did you feel like, what if I don't stick with this? Or did you have 100 % conviction?

Well, no, that was part of my issue was like, well, what if, what if the kids get busy with sports and I have to cut back and, that was kind of the Liberty of doing it too. Right. Like I can create and manage my own schedule. I can say how many hours I want to work. If this isn't working for us and you have to go travel around Jason, I can stop and I can be at home.

Speaker 1 (41:29.896)
Or if we want to really ramp things up, I can do that too. can start marketing, getting more students or maybe branch out into a bigger place and have more silks. Cause right now I only have three silks we're working with. So it's limiting, but at the same time, I can't imagine having too much extra because it would be so overwhelming. No one would get the one-on-one attention that I'm able to give to them as well. So I think that's the difference between other studios and what I have to offer is there's only three people on the silk at one time.

So my attention is definitely there. Yeah, I can't imagine having a whole room of people twirling around and asking for my help and I wouldn't be able to help them all, you know.

more intimate. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:11.502)
Well, are the boys in sports now?

No, so Waylon, did swimming, they tried golf, they've done some baseball camps. They're more like water sports in the summer. We do a lot of boating, like wakeboarding and...

But you have had, you have been able to balance all of it. Yeah. Which has to feel so good.

Yeah. And you know, Jason, like I said, he's so supportive. So if the boys were in sports, he's willing to come home half an hour early to get them and take them to anything that they wanted to do. And cause all of my classes are in the evening after everyone gets home from work or school. It's hard to do that during the day, unless you have a specific group of moms who would like to do that. But again, they need childcare. And I did have one mom say, well, is it okay if I bring my daughter? And I'm like, no, no. And it's for safety. It is, but.

is for you.

Speaker 1 (42:58.102)
Ultimately, it is for them and they need to cut out that time for themselves. I know I needed it. And so that's definitely a place that I want moms to know that they they can do that for themselves. And it's not.

What advice would you give to the woman that's listening that is not carving out time for herself and isn't even sure what is out there that she might find if she's courageous enough to carve out that time?

Well, I mean, I think there's a lot of moms who I think they'd be willing to try new things, but they don't know what that new thing is yet. So maybe it is silks. Maybe it's a painting class. Maybe it's a cooking class. There's, think there's a lot of baby steps to take before because people just don't even know where to start. But by getting out and just trying something new that they normally don't know if they'd even like or think they could do. Maybe it's zip lining. I don't know. Do it. Stop waiting. Take the time. Even if it's 10 minutes, start with that 10 minute walk.

or 10 minute run. Maybe you never thought you were a runner and you want to start running. Do it. Just try it. Give it a week. Stick with it and see what happens, you know, but just start somewhere.

you compare the difference that silks has as a participant for you in filling your soul, filling your bucket versus the difference that you're making in other women's lives when you're running it as a business sharing that? How would you compare those two?

Speaker 1 (44:20.11)
They're very different. As a participant, I get to be a student, so I'm always learning new things. Where as an instructor, I'm focused on the student and making sure that my communication skills are proper enough so they can comprehend the words that I'm saying.

My body is able to demonstrate it, but speaking it is two different things. Learning to communicate has been interesting for me. So that's been kind of a fun avenue really, as I developed my teaching style. Cause I mean, like I said, I've only been doing teaching for five years. So six years. so developing that has been hard, but I do love being a student so much. And I really need to carve out my time to be a student outside of just teaching, which I don't usually do. And I need to do it.

I just, it's kind of hard as a performer. It's super fulfilling, fills the bucket. You know, people give you all sorts of compliments. Of course that's unique. So not a lot of people, it's not like an overabundance around here. It's different. People haven't seen it before. So it's very refreshing. And so that's really, really fun to showcase that for people. And when I go to someone's house and they introduced me to someone and they're like, well, what do you do? And I tell them, here we go. But it's so fun. I love to talk about it. It's.

It will overtake any conversation for hours because people are just fascinated with it. They have so many questions. So that's been really, really fun for me too. I love, I'll talk about it till the cows go home.

that's what they say always is do something that you like can't stop talking about that you absolutely are passionate about that's where you should be focusing your time and attention. Well, I want to go ahead.

Speaker 1 (45:48.834)
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:55.726)
was just gonna say I have a ton of health benefits that I am super passionate about that go along with silks too. The biggest one.

How important is it for a woman to incorporate movement of some kind?

And it's just not movement. mean, I think a lot of the women in that older class that I saw remember my story when I first started.

about, I want to say there were three or four of them who were physical therapists and they were trying to build their bone density. And that's why they started the class as a natural way to build bone density because they, yes, they could just take a medication and get it. But what we don't understand is when we take a medication to build that bone density, if we fall and break our leg, our bones could actually shatter. Whereas if we break a bone, when we build natural bone building density, it now splinters and it's a lot easier to repair the bone instead of, mean, think about, envision

a shattered bone compared to a fractured bone. I remember them teaching that to me early on and I was just, I'm still so amazed at their strength and their knowledge. So I love working out with them and playing with them because they are a wealth of knowledge. So yeah, the bone density for me is a huge factor in health benefit. Any weight bearing exercises, bone building, so even weight lifting, but like pull-ups and weight bearing things, TRX straps, those are all.

Speaker 1 (47:12.034)
building of the bone density. So super, super critical, especially for us women.

Especially over 40, like here we are in our 40s now and how much we have to do not just to just to maintain what we have. Yeah.

on, let's face it, most don't get enough nutrition in just their foods that they eat, take supplements, but it's still not exactly the same. Your body still doesn't absorb it quite as well as if it comes from a natural source out of your food. know, so it's hard to

So thanks.

Speaker 2 (47:40.374)
it all in. Yeah, it is. It's but it's so important to prioritize it. What would you say to when you started silks? I'm guessing you had no idea you would ever eventually be running a business around this. What would you say to the woman that's listening that is on the other side of having that courage to put herself out there to try something maybe new and different to maybe push past the limiting beliefs that she's feeling or believing.

No way.

Speaker 2 (48:10.08)
What would you say to her?

Worst case scenario is you're going to get a little stronger. I mean, not try it, you know, worst case scenario, it's not for you. And you say, well, I tried it and I don't think I'm cut out for that, you know.

Now, let's say though they find something that they're just so passionate about. What does life look like living out, sharing something now? what if you had never, what if you never did that six week class? What would you be missing out right now?

my God. I can't even imagine how different my life would be the last 10 years. Well, the last eight years of my life has been revolving around silks and either as a student or teaching all of my performances have helped me grow so much and filled my bucket in certain ways. You know, the kind encouragement, either if it's from a spectator or a coach, those were really valuable.

pieces of encouragement that I received. I really needed those for my self-development, for my value. Not to say that other people's words are totally, you know, it's what's driving that, but boy, they, I need that. I needed that and I still do.

Speaker 2 (49:17.09)
We all need to be in the process of pursuing something and we all need some acknowledgement for the effort, that process. When you have been in, especially as a, when you were doing all of the dancing and you're performing and you're getting almost like accolades and then you get older and you don't have any of that in your life and you're just going through emotions as a mom, it's like, who am I now?

Yeah, now what? that's great. I did all that cool stuff, but now what? Like

Although I was curious about because I know that Jason has a very successful career. Yes. I'm just curious about how it feels to be financially contributing to your family.

That's such a great question. my gosh. Okay, here we go. So yes, Jason, my husband's super great provider. I mean, I didn't really need to work, but that was definitely a part of me that I felt was important. Like, and I have no idea if this was stemmed by how I was raised or what, but my mom was a fit home mom until I went to kindergarten and my dad was a farmer. And so we didn't have a lot. There was eight of us kids. I was the youngest of eight kids.

Crazy, huh? And so we didn't have a lot. And my mom, she, I remember her being very quiet growing up. And when I went back to kindergarten, she started working. And when I became a mom, she told me that that was one of her biggest regrets.

Speaker 1 (50:42.294)
because there were times where I was sick and she needed to stay home with me and instead she would take me to her work with her. Here I am sick and like needing to lay down and be in bed and she goes, I just always, always regretted that not being able to give to you what the older siblings got. And I'm like, did you

Do you remember ever even, you probably weren't even aware of that.

I wasn't, but my mom was so quiet looking back as a mom, now that I'm a mom, like I totally know that she was, there were so many internal emotional battles she was in her head about. I just know it. I just know it. And if I ask her, she'll open up and talk about it, but otherwise she keeps it very private to herself and just kind of suffers in silence about it, you know? And she has Parkinson's now, which I can't, I know that's neurological, but I can't help but wonder if it's from stifling all that, all those years, you know? Gosh.

But she, she went back to work so that she could have her own money. My dad was super ultra conservative. my gosh. My darn dad love him, but he was so conservative. He would get mad if anyone scraped their plates off in the garbage. Cause we were wasting food. That's how we were raised. Cause he was born in the depression, the great depression. We were raised to be very thrifty, very conservative and smart and cautious with our money. And it was so much pressure sometimes that.

My mom, that's why she went back to work. So she didn't have to ask him for money. She could just have her own and not be yelled at for buying junk or, know, she could just spend it on whatever she felt was proper. And so with that, she put me in piano lessons and paid for my dance lessons. so that's a big, that's yeah, I was trying to think about how to answer a question like that without going too heavy into my upbringing. I did wonder.

Speaker 2 (52:27.832)
That's a big reason why you, that's, it's, we all, it's totally connected. Yeah.

Yeah, so I'm so thankful that my mom saw that in me and thought that that would be an asset to my life and saw my natural talents because she definitely worked to pay for all that. And that was one thing my older siblings didn't get. My brothers, there's five boys and three girls and my sisters, they got piano lessons, but

Not like I did. And dance was so expensive and all my brothers just played the school sports, you know, so it wasn't like it is now where they're on a team and they pay hundreds of dollars in travel all around. It wasn't like that then. But yeah, my mom, she worked her buns off and so did my dad, but I was the baby. So I'm sure my siblings say I was spoiled. I got it all, you know.

Well, none of us, no sibling gets the same parent. Yeah.

Yeah, for sure. Married Jason and here he is super educated. Our plan was to have me stay home when we had kids. And so that worked out really well for our thought process and family dynamic. We all agreed to that. But yeah, the time came that I'm like, boy, Jason, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I need more. And he goes, well, do you want to go back to work? You can if you want. I'm like, not really. I see that as like,

Speaker 1 (53:45.158)
really stressful to get up and get my babies ready and then get myself ready and take them to a daycare. Like, I don't know if I want to do that. It would be more stress than anything, you know? And so I wrote it out. And I do believe, Kendra, that, and I feel super prompted to say this, timing is really, really critical. There was several years in there that I had to wait for my proper timing in my life. That was right for my kids and right for me to jump.

into all of this. And I'm still waiting. I have bigger dreams. I'm still waiting for those to be fulfilled, but now is not the right timing. There will come a time when I will jump on those opportunities and expand and dream and grow, but I'm happy and content right where I'm at right now because my family's content. The whole well-oiled machine is well-oiled right now.

Everybody's prioritized in some way.

And so I feel like I'm right where I should be. And in the meantime, I have these dreams that I'm sure I'll grow into, or maybe we'll scale back or who knows, but I'm open and I'm ready for it. But timing is important.

Because I'm sure there was a time where you didn't have any dreams.

Speaker 1 (54:54.956)
Right. Correct. Yeah. And I wanted to cause I'm, I have worked my whole life since I was 14. I was earning money. was making something productive of myself and contributing in some fashion or form. And yeah. So with the support of Jason, he really helped build me up to the point where I felt comfortable and confident to like not work or, go for it, you know? So, he'll, he'll still kid to these days like, boy, I wish you could make enough so I could retire. And I'm like,

I don't think that would ever happen, but that's my making believe.

making enough to pay for the shop. Right. Like it's so interesting because I'm wired, we're wired so similarly. I don't even fully know what it is about making money that is fulfilling. And why is it fulfilling? I think it does still go back to childhood, but why is it, like, what is it tied to? Is it tied to our identity? Is it tied to what it represents? Is it tied to how we feel in the process?

Is it tied to the impact that we're making?

I don't know. For me, I think it's more emotional of like a fear of knowing I have that for myself as something that perhaps even though we have life insurance, he's got it all rooted and squared away. have nothing to worry about. what if something happened to him? Like I would need to have some form of an option to do something for myself. I mean, amongst the grief of a loss of your spouse, can you imagine not having anything like

Speaker 1 (56:24.426)
Money is not everything, but money gives you options. And I think when you have options, like that opens doors that makes your life a little easier. So it's not so stressful and hard in hard times. And that's, that's important to me, you know.

But it's also, I believe, tied to mental health to some degree. I don't know why and how exactly, but it definitely plays a part in, I think you said it perfectly in that, I know I'm capable of more. Going through a period of time where you know you are capable of more, but you're not doing more. And that feeling of, I'm not living up to my potential.

So too.

Speaker 1 (57:02.958)
this gut wrenching. That is a gut wrenching feeling for me. Yeah, I knew I was made for more. There's something and I mean, I've during COVID to well, this was right before COVID. I even started creating these Christmas benefit concerts because I was just like, I need to do something and I want to serve the community, but I don't know how I have limited time. So I have to kind of do it on my terms in my way. And so one day I got this wild hair and I got a bunch of my friends together and we're like,

let's just play some music and we'll ask for donations. And so I asked the Steinway piano gallery if we could host it there and they were happy to help. And so we threw it together in a couple of months. And before I knew it, I had a whole lineup of friends who were very musical. And we, asked a few people around the community that I knew performed at like coffee shops and things. And so they came and we raised 1300 bucks and I gave it to one of my friends who was struggling really bad. was going through a domestic violence situation and

I couldn't think of any way to help her, but I saw what she needed was money. Everyone's like, well, maybe we could offer childcare and she can do this and that, but what she really needed was just money. Christmas was coming. She didn't have a way to provide a Christmas for her kids. And yes, we could have donated gifts to give her kids, but that's not what her kids wanted. You know how it is. Kids are asking for special things on that list. So for a mom to go out and buy her kids the very things that they want.

for Christmas, I'm like, that's what she needs. She needs some money. So that's what we did and it was a great year. So we continued to do that for a while. And then eventually it kind of fizzled out and we never, maybe eventually I'll get back to doing that too. But that is another one of my passions is trying to find service projects to serve in the way I can. Again, to just give back to people who have blessed me. So why not give it back and you know.

Absolutely. Well, I think the other thing that all of this really touches on is the importance of we're wired for connection. We're wired to be in community with other people. We are not wired to be alone. And I think a lot of moms spend a lot of time alone. Obviously, you're alone with your kids, but it's not the same as being community with women and other people that are in the same stage of life going through the same things. And it's so important to find that community.

Speaker 1 (59:19.158)
Right. Couldn't agree more. Yeah. You got to create something and no one's going to come in and save you and rip you from your bed and say, get up, wake up. You're not living your life. You got to do it yourself. And if you don't, you're going to grow up to be an old person with a lot of regrets. And we're going to have a lot of time in our hands when we can no longer walk and work and function like we usually do. And we're sitting in that bed or that rocking chair. Oof. They always say.

Or do it like you did.

Speaker 2 (59:46.125)
Yeah.

It's too short, right? But actually, think life is too long. Life's too long and too short. You got to make the most of it so that you're not miserable and you do feel fulfilled. And if you don't know what it is, got to go find it.

Yep. I know you've handpicked the people that come into your studio, but if someone in the local area wanted to check out what you do, where would you point? What direction would you point?

Probably just add me as a personal friend on Facebook and, or they can get my number from you if you want. And they can text me and we can talk about it. And I usually have them round up a group of friends, three to six friends. And we'll either do like an intro to aerial class or my favorite thing is to just commit to a day of the week and a time and try it for a couple of months and see, see what it's like. And if you hate it and you just don't sign back up and if you love it, then here we go.

Well, thank you so much for spending this time with me. adore you. And I just know that you were absolutely made for more and you are just so proud of you for going out and living that out in such a fun way.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50.104)
Thank you so much. Yeah, I know I pat myself on the back all the time saying good job, keep going because it wasn't easy. There was a lot of limiting beliefs like I wasn't good enough, like the imposter syndrome and working through those, reading the books, doing the self-development, doing the growth, healing, following clinical psychologists on Instagram and Facebook and all those instead of scrolling endlessly and shopping and wasting money, dive in, dive in and work on yourself. That would be my advice to anyone who wants to figure it out.

If you're struggling, figure it out, do the work. Yep. Or as Brene Brown says, dare greatly.

Your path, your voice, your way of showing up in the world and serving others matters more than you'll likely ever realize. Keep taking those brave steps forward. The world needs exactly what only you can give. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being a part of our community. Until next time, stay true to yourself, stay purposeful, and as always, let no one clip your wings.