A Momentous Goodbye: Legacy, Lessons, and New Beginnings

As your host, I'm about to embark on a poignant journey of transition. It's a heartfelt goodbye from Dr. Taylor Hartman, who leaves us with pearls of wisdom that are both timeless and transformative. Through our conversation, he emphasizes the value of consistency, self-compassion, and living in the present, not just for the pursuit of goals. A key takeaway - we should foster our spiritual connection to God, deriving strength from the realization that we are His children. Remember, happiness is personal; don't feel trapped in someone else's definition of it. And more importantly, you can only control yourself, not others. Change is inevitable, embrace it with grace and adaptability.

As we turn the page to a new chapter, we delve into the concept of legacy. It's not about physical possessions, but the imprints we leave on people's hearts and the potential to influence future generations. As Cat Larsen steps into the spotlight, she underscores the value of a legacy that transcends time and generations. We discuss the importance of knowing our purpose and trusting in who we are as we move forward. It's a farewell filled with emotion, a celebration of new beginnings, and a reflective conversation around the transformative power of legacy. Tune in for an episode that promises to touch your heart, inspire change and make you ponder your own legacy.

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Transcript

Speaker 2: 0:13

Hello listeners. This is Dr Taylor Hartman, with Very Best of Living. I'm with my good friend Kat Larson. Hello Kat.

Speaker 1: 0:20

Hello, good, friend, back at you.

Speaker 2: 0:23

It's always a pleasure to hear your voice. This has been such a fun like exchange. I hope that our listeners can appreciate the magic that we both feel and will continue all of our lives together because of what we've been through and how we've been through it doing this together. I'm going to spring something on our listeners and I hope they'll apologize. I apologize up front for it, but this will be my last podcast with you. It's email that says everything. There's a season. Yes, it's time for this and a time for that. I've come to the point that I think you know what I do so many things. I'm so busy doing so much that I think it's time for me to refocus some of my energy on other things that are more restful and exciting in other directions. Unfortunately, this will be my last time with you, kat, in terms of our podcast together.

Speaker 1: 1:22

No, I don't accept that. No, I so think it's a beautiful next step for you and where you're headed.

Speaker 2: 1:32

I really appreciate that. You have always been so supportive and, for our listeners, the wonderful part is, kat will continue on with our work together. I love that because there's probably no one I have been more involved with in this process, other than my wife, than you. Kat, like this whole product. For years, like so many years, we have been at this, learning and doing and being and growing and understanding the power of color code and understanding the power of what good mental health is all about.

Speaker 2: 2:01

I leave it in very good hands and I'm very excited for that to continue in some format that you'll feel comfortable doing, which is great. Change is where growth occurs. I don't think change is easy for a lot of people. I'm sure there's people listening right now, going what, how did that happen? I feel the same way about getting older.

Speaker 1: 2:26

Like what.

Speaker 2: 2:27

How did that happen Before you know it? There are things that do require change. I think being adaptable to those things and embracing change is good mental health, welcoming new challenges. I think you'll do new things, different things with this than I've done, and that's exciting. Of course, I will be right here supporting you through all of it. As you know, none of that will change at all for me.

Speaker 2: 2:51

It's interesting, I think, of John F Kennedy's comment we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Actually, saying goodbye is hard. It's not an easy moment, it's right, it feels great, I feel totally grounded and resonant with it. But it's also hard to say goodbye to good things. Yes, I remember there's a book called Necessary Losses that I read many, many years ago. It's one of those moments when you just realize it's difficult to say goodbye, but it also offers new vistas, new opportunities. I want our listeners to know that we have really, really enjoyed you on this journey. Those that have taken time to reach out to us and let us know your thoughts and your feelings have been really appreciated. Those of you that didn't perhaps ever let us know you were listening, but it's helped you in your lives. We are grateful for being on this journey with you and hope that your lives will continue really positive. I'm just going to leave our listeners just some thoughts, if you don't mind, kat.

Speaker 1: 4:00

Oh, please Keep talking forever.

Speaker 2: 4:02

No, no, no, it's a mental health truce that I think I'm creating. Number one choose to be consistent with the right daily habits. Take daily habits that are really right for you and good for you and be consistent with those things, because they create your life, they define your life, and be kind to yourself. Choose not to be so obsessed by a goal that you forget to live. Just don't rush the journey. Not everything gets done overnight. Sometimes you put things on a shelf and pick them back up later, but don't be so overwhelmed by a goal or a driven element of your life that you actually forget to live and to enjoy that.

Speaker 2: 4:46

Just don't choose to restore and maintain faith in your spiritual connection to God, like ultimately, there's much strength that comes from knowing you are a child of God. Yeah, and I would never underestimate the power of that. I mean, too often people are so willing to let the world dictate who they are and how they are, as opposed to trusting God's opinion of them, and that would come back to hurt them and bite them in the end, because the world will chew you up and spit you out and God won't. So making your commitments and you're giving your energies to a Place that I think will take advantage of you or let you down is probably a far Less intelligent place to go than with a source that is Never-ending in truth and love and learn to move on in life. Don't waste time being sorry for yourself like things happen, and move on. You can't stay Stuck forever. That doesn't mean you can't have grieving. It doesn't mean you can't struggle, but realize there are times to say it's time to move on, to do new things.

Speaker 1: 5:55

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 5:56

I would hope and of course I I thought about this many times how I think I'm so blessed being yellow, because being happy is not something I work at. There's so many articles on being happy and people trying to figure out how do you do the happiness number. I would hope that our listeners can focus on things that matter to you, bring you happiness when they're healthy and whatever those are for you, enjoy them. Don't feel obligated to have someone else's happiness or someone else's focus to be happy. But I would hope that our listeners will be happy in life and not not find life to be overwhelming or Controlling of them. And probably, lastly, which is really interesting is don't control Others, just control yourself. Focus on things you can fix and you can change and love others. Let them find their own a path. Let them figure out what they need to figure out in life, but don't waste your energy trying to make them something they need to be and then lose sight of working on yourself. Those are my final lot thoughts.

Speaker 2: 7:03

This has been such a fun journey, cat. You know how much I love you and appreciate where you and working with you, so I feel listeners, I'm signing off and it's been a wonderful run. We hope you enjoyed it and cat will continue this run On her own cat. Thank you, thank you, taylor.

Speaker 1: 7:21

I just wanted to say one thing is like in terms of legacy you know it's not a. You know the book is great and the and the information is great, but what it's not what you have left for us, it's what you have done inside of us and the opportunity to utilize. You know, like just that you've touched our hearts and you've loved us, so great it that's. That's something, that is a legacy that you know that will outlive the book, because this goes through generation and generation and generation. I know my kids will be talking to their kids about it and so that is that is really what. What you have given is just what you've done inside of me and others. I know because I do it every day, I work it every day, I talk to people every day. So thank you, just thank you.

Speaker 2: 8:09

Wow, that means the world to me. You know that and I will. I'm very excited about where you're going to take things and what you're going to do, because I have total faith in who you are and what you're about. Thank you all. I'm signing off. This is Dr Taylor Hartman, with Very Best of Living. Thanks for the journey. Bye now.