Do you know that changing your relationship with food should be a priority, but something is holding you back?
Maybe you've been listening to this podcast for a while now, and you're noticing that the way you think & feel about food isn't how you want it to be...
But even with listening to podcasts, consuming content on social media, and diving deeper into this world of food freedom, you haven't taken ACTION towards making a real, impactful change.
WHY is that?
Last week, a team member of mine and I hopped on a call because she had questions for me about this exact topic.
We hopped on a regular Zoom meeting so that she could understand the mindset of the women in my community better, AKA the mindset of women struggling with food and their body image.
She had amazing questions for me that you'll hear answered in this episode, including:
We ended up having such a good conversation, that I decided to release it to you as a podcast episode, because I know how valuable it will be to dive deeper into your subconscious and uncover what's truly keeping you stuck and holding you back from creating the life of your dream, where food and body image issues are no longer front and center.
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Connect with Sabrina:
Do you know that changing your relationship with food should be a priority, but something is holding you back?
Maybe you've been listening to this podcast for a while now, and you're noticing that the way you think & feel about food isn't how you want it to be...
But even with listening to podcasts, consuming content on social media, and diving deeper into this world of food freedom, you haven't taken ACTION towards making a real, impactful change.
WHY is that?
Last week, a team member of mine and I hopped on a call because she had questions for me about this exact topic.
We hopped on a regular Zoom meeting so that she could understand the mindset of the women in my community better, AKA the mindset of women struggling with food and their body image.
She had amazing questions for me that you'll hear answered in this episode, including:
We ended up having such a good conversation, that I decided to release it to you as a podcast episode, because I know how valuable it will be to dive deeper into your subconscious and uncover what's truly keeping you stuck and holding you back from creating the life of your dream, where food and body image issues are no longer front and center.
RESOURCES
Connect with Sabrina:
Hi, my friend, we have a good one for you today. In today's episode, we are talking about the biggest obstacles that stop women from healing their relationship with food and their bodies, when they know that not only they should, but they have to. After years and years of yo-yo dieting, being stuck in diet culture, and the trauma that comes from that as a result in the form of body shame and food obsession, why then, do people go back to dieting, even when they know intellectually that it doesn't work? They've heard the stats, they've heard the research. They even have their own personal experience to know that it has not worked for them in the long term. What are the obstacles standing in their way? That's what we're talking about today. If you are a woman who has done diet after diet Weight Watchers, intermittent fasting, keto, calorie counting, noom, all the things and none of it has worked for you, you know that it is not the solution. You know that this is not how you want to live for the rest of your life, but you keep getting pulled back in, then this episode is going to be so powerful for you. So stay tuned. Welcome to the Live Unrestricted podcast, a show where you'll learn how to heal your relationship with food and your body so that you can focus your time and energy on more important things like your personal growth. I'm your host, sabrina Magna, food freedom coach, and my mission is to help make your life happier and healthier, without stress, overwhelm or guilt about food. If you love the show, please do go out and share it, and if you're looking for support with your relationship with food, details about my programs are in the show notes. Thanks for spending time with me today. Now let's jump in.
Speaker 1:So at the time that I am recording this, it is a Tuesday morning and I just got back from an amazing weekend with Luke. We went to Burlington, vermont, to celebrate our one year anniversary. So if you have been following this podcast from the beginning, when I first started this podcast a little under a year ago, luke and I had just started dating and we moved very quickly. We moved in together after a few months dating and it has just been truly one of the most wonderful years of my life. So we went to Burlington for the weekend just to celebrate and it was my first time going and it was so beautiful. It was the end of October, so the fall leaves were changing colors and we went hiking and we spent some time on Church Street. If you've ever been to Burlington then you definitely know Church Street. It's a really cute street with a bunch of vendors and it was just a really amazing weekend.
Speaker 1:And every time that I go away for a trip or a vacation and I'm able to go and feel present and feel relaxed and not stress out over what my body looks like or what I'm eating or having to take a few days off of exercise and not feeling this need to come back on Monday morning and go back to restricting or over exercise because I took a break over the weekend, I'm always so grateful that that is no longer my mindset and it doesn't matter how many years I've been recovered. It will always feel special to me because I can go to the restaurant and order a burger and not feel guilty for not ordering the salad, being able to try a bunch of the local treats I mean we got so many snacks while we were there because the snack game in the States is so much better than in Canada. We have some fun food here in Canada but in terms of the snacks that we are able to find in the States is just incomparable. So we got a bunch of snacks and just a bunch of treats and I was able to enjoy them and not overeat, and not feel guilty and focus on the things that really matter to me, and that is what food freedom is really about.
Speaker 1:So that's a little update on my life, and these past few months I have been working on some really exciting projects that are coming to you in the new year, and I have not been this inspired in a long time. I mean, I'm always inspired when I'm working on things for you guys, but this is really on another level. I'm going to be sharing a brand new version of my paid program. I'm going to have new free trainings that are going to be so valuable, and I am just working on it in my own space and soon I'll be able to share it, so stay tuned for that. If you want to be one of the first ones to know about free trainings and new programs and ways to work with me, then make sure that you follow me on Instagram at Sabrina Mangal Health and that you're on my email list, which you can subscribe to, I think, on Instagram as well, or you can just send me a DM and let me know that you want to be one of the first ones to know when all of that gets released, but that's not what today's episode is about. So today's episode is a really good one and it wasn't planned. So what you're going to hear is actually a recording between one of my team members and I.
Speaker 1:So we hopped on a Zoom call just for a regular meeting that we have, because she wanted to ask me some questions about my clients, about my audience getting to know the women that I help on a deeper level, because she's part of my business, and she wants to know my audience better and what's going on in their minds and their fears, because I've been doing this for a long time, so I know it like a back of my head. But of course, this is not her zone of expertise Like, she's a team member of mine and she helps me with some of the back end stuff, but she wants to get to know my community better. So we hopped on a call and the main question that she wanted to ask me was what are the main obstacles that stop people from taking that next steps towards healing their relationship with food and their bodies? Like, why is it that people can know that dieting is not the answer. They've hit diarock bottom. They know that restricting won't help them and they feel obsessed with food and they're not able to live their best lives because of it. But there's something that holds them back from actually taking the actions necessary to make a change. So she wanted to know what is it? What is holding them back? So I said let's hop on a call and I can help you understand what's really going on on a deeper level.
Speaker 1:And it ended up being such a good conversation because we went in a bunch of different directions. So what you're going to hear is what is actually hiding beneath the fear of weight gain. You're going to hear one of the biggest mistakes that people make when they're trying to change their habits and one of the things that most people miss, which is a crucial aspect of changing your life. And then we take a little turn at the end of this episode and we talk about something that I've never really talked about before and was really helpful for her to hear, and she was like oh my God, this is so good, I need to take down a bunch of notes.
Speaker 1:So definitely stick around till the end to hear that as well, so, without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and play that recording of me and my team member where we talk about obstacles standing in your way, fear of weight gain and so much more. Well so, the obstacles before someone joins FFA, like they haven't taken the steps yet to get the help and get the support. So that's an actual obstacle Now, like the obstacles when someone does decide to join FFA, like they're still scared, they still have some of that fear, but they push through it anyways. So, yes, I guess you could say the obstacles are the same, but the difference is that the obstacles don't stop the people who end up joining FFA.
Speaker 2:Okay. So, yeah, what I would like to know? Like you already explained pretty much what the obstacles are, but I would like to get to know how those obstacles look in real life, because these people, they are not like oh my God, I have this obstacle. They are not aware of it, I think. So they are just thinking I have this and this is a problem that I have, and I am the only one having this, because I'm ex.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I mean, the first one will be the fear of weight gain. And so their biggest fear is like what if I start healing my relationship with food and I let go of all of this control that I have and all the restrictions in the diet? So, because they're so used to being on this pendulum of either you're restricting, you're dieting, you're losing weight, you're depriving yourself or the all they ever know is the other side of the pendulum, which is binge eating and feeling out of control. So they only know that. So they think that if I stop dieting, then I'm going to go all the way to the other side and my health is going to go down the drain and I'm going to gain a bunch of weight. This pendulum can be helpful to kind of understand where their fear comes from, and some people so do you know what the set point weight theory is?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, okay. So some people are going to be below their set point weight, which means that they are restricting and they're under eating and they're over exercising. So someone and that's where I was so someone who is in that space, is really scared of gaining weight because of course right now they probably know deep down that, like they're overdoing it and that if they start eating more foods and allowing themselves to eat unconditionally then they will gain weight. And we live in a very fat phobic society. So of course we're afraid, like a lot of the fears are. Like I'm afraid I won't be loved, I'm afraid I won't be respected. It can be related to their career. So there's a lot of fear about what? Because the fear of weight gain is one thing, but there's always a fear underneath the fear of weight gain, which is why are you so afraid of gaining weight? I'm afraid that I'm not going to be accepted by society and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1:Now if you have someone who's on the opposite, who's above their set point weight, then they have done up and down and up and down the diet so many times that again, all they know is that pendulum. So they probably experience already a lot of weight stigma in society. Maybe they don't fit in restaurant chairs, maybe they don't fit in airplane chairs. Some people literally get galled fat on a daily basis, like they get discriminated at their doctor. They're being told that they need to lose weight all the time. So for them to let go of that desire to lose weight or you don't even need to let it go, but to like put it on the back burner it just it feels like a threat to their safety. It feels like a threat to their sense of self because they're already being discriminated against so much that they don't want to lose. They don't want to gain even more weight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that totally makes sense, because I was having a conversation this week with a girl that she started another diet but she stopped before and she was saying, no, I'm just trying this, because my doctor told me and it is like this and it is like that in my gasket, but are you restricting? And she was like, yeah, but did this work before? No, but I promised my doctor and my husband that I will try because I keep gaining weight and still for me that part is a little bit hard because, like in my mind still makes sense somehow. You know like I'm still thinking, like I couldn't be happy if I gain, let's say, five more kilos Now. I'm happy with my body, yes, but if I will gain weight I will go crazy. I think you know. So, for example, for this woman she doesn't want to diet anymore, but her obstacle is that people that are important for her as husband and doctor are telling her she should.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so there's a reason why a lot of the work that I do is not just like health coaching, but it's life coaching, because what you'll see is that some people, when we start working together, realize that there is a much bigger problem, which is that they're not living life for themselves.
Speaker 1:They're living life for other people. And the people who I end up attracting are people who don't want to keep to keep sacrificing themselves, to keep giving so much opinion and so much weight to other people, because, like when you decide to let go of the constant pursuit of weight loss, what you're doing is you're swimming against the current of society, you're swimming against what people are telling you that you should be doing, and the only way to do that is to have a really strong conviction of yourself. And it's really sad because people will stay in a unhappy relationship or unhappy life for so long just because they think it will be harder to make a change. Yeah, you'll go through a couple of months or maybe even a few years of hardness, but you'll have the rest of your life to actually do what you're meant to do, and some people just don't see that or aren't willing to go through it.
Speaker 2:What do you think is the reason why we are way more scared about to go a short period of time suffering than to suffer the rest of our life?
Speaker 1:Because people don't like being uncomfortable. And so there's this analogy of a dog sitting on a nail. So it's like this neighbor moves into a neighborhood and he sees that his neighbor will call him John. For example, his neighbor John is sitting on his front porch and he has a dog sitting next to him. And the dog is like whimpering, he's crying, he's in pain, and the new neighbor will call him Bob. Doesn't understand why does this dog cry all day long? He looks like he's in so much pain. So after a couple of days Bob goes over to John's place and he's like hi, I'm your new neighbor. I just wanted to ask is your dog okay? He has not stopped crying ever since I moved in.
Speaker 1:And John is like oh yeah, it's because he's sitting on a nail. And Bob is like why is your? Why doesn't he get up? Like, why isn't he like stopping the pain? And John is like because it doesn't hurt bad enough, because to get up from the nail is to feel the pain of, you know, getting out of that situation, but then you can start the healing. And so some people don't see it as hurting bad enough, as it being enough of a sacrifice, and they see the pain of change as more painful than staying. People like being comfortable. They like being comfortable even if that comfort zone is very uncomfortable. And I know I was there, like when I had my eating disorder. I was super uncomfortable, I was super unhappy. But you're stuck in your ways and you're stuck in your old programming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and do you think that we also don't have a pretty good image of what our life will look after all that works? So like we don't have any motivation to do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, that's why, at the beginning of my program, we have like a creating a vision of your future, because people don't have an idea of what kind of life they want to create, and so they let life just happen to them. They're not intentional about it, they're just kind of letting it run on autopilot, and when you let life happen to you, it usually takes you somewhere you don't want to be. So when you're able to sit down and really ask yourself okay, what does my ideal perfect life look like? What does my relationship with food look like? What does my relationship with my body look like?
Speaker 1:Your relationship with your body does not mean I'm going to look a certain way and I'm going to love everything about it. Most people, when they do that exercise, what they say is I want to accept my body, I want to recognize that there's going to be good days, there's going to be bad days, but I don't want to think about my body all day long, and most people don't want to be a size two. Most people just want to be healthy and be able to accept their bodies. So, yes, I think that a lot of people don't think about how much better their life can be when they do this, they just think of all the negative, which is normal because people are drawn to think to the worst case scenario. Think of anything that you've done in your life that has been scary and that has pushed you outside of your comfort zone. A lot of people don't think what if this works out? They think what's going to go wrong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. I have been there before and it took a while to feel comfortable in the uncomfortable situations, because that's the thing like in life you keep being in uncomfortable situations. So I can totally understand that. And what do you think are the most common scenarios, like daily scenarios, that people because I don't see people thinking, well, maybe I'm not thinking about the good things that I can earn let's say, maybe they are sitting down there like if I stop dieting, I'm going to start losing weight Sorry, let me stop for a little bit before I take the video. So maybe the best way to approach these people is to say things related to the life that they can earn, like to the things that they can earn, so they can stop that loop of negativity.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So I do a lot of reframes. Do you know what a reframe is?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but can you explain it so I can understand better?
Speaker 1:So a reframe is to take a belief, a fear, a negative thought that you have and to reframe it into something that is more positive and empowering. So let's say, the fear is what if I gain weight? Then a reframe would be. What if I gain my life back right? A fear could be what if I heal my relationship with food and I just end up eating all the things all the time and I can't stop myself? Then a reframe could be. Healing my relationship with food can be the key to regaining trust and confidence around food, because dieting has been the source of out of control eating. So what you're doing because most people do you know what a cognitive distortion is? No, so a cognitive distortion is a concept in psychology that we all have. Let me pull up I'm going to pull up the actual definitions.
Speaker 1:Okay, cognitive distortions are internal mental filters or biases that increase our misery, fuel our anxiety and make us feel bad about ourselves. So it's a filter. So think of it as one. One cognitive distortion is black and white thinking, all or nothing thinking. So if I eat one cookie, then my entire day is ruined. Is that true? No, but it's a cognitive distortion. It's a because your brain likes to like make thinking easier, so what it does is they'll chunk it in a cognitive distortion.
Speaker 1:That's usually not true. So another example could be generalization. So let's say there's one day where I spend a lazy morning and I don't do anything, I just watch TV, and then a generalization will be oh my God, I shouldn't be doing this. I'm so lazy, like I am a lazy person, even though, no, you just had a lazy morning. So those are some example of cognitive distortions. So people who are struggling with the relationship with food and their bodies have very, very strong cognitive distortions, and they're not usually true. So you want to bring awareness to what those cognitive distortions are, because they don't know that they're happening. Like most people, when I get on a call with them and they're talking about their eating habits, they're like yeah, like I'll be good all day, and then, once I have one bite of a chocolate, I just completely lose control. And then I ask them do you have all or nothing thinking? And they're like yeah, yeah, I think I do. But they don't often say that because they don't know that that's what's going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's like putting almost a label to what they are normally doing.
Speaker 1:Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2:So they can understand that what they are doing is not true, exactly Makes sense. So you were also saying, and I absolutely agree, that everything at the end lays on that fear of gaining weight. But I can imagine that for every single person, that fear is hiding something else, right? So, for example, I'm not going to be loved, or stuff like that. For me it was, for example, I will never find a boyfriend because men don't like fat women. Let's say what are the most normal hidden things behind that fear?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there's often like the fear of judgment, of what society will say. So I'm scared that people are going to notice I've gained weight. I'm scared that people are. For me it was like I was scared that people weren't going to respect me as much because for me I thought of myself as like a skinny girl, the healthy girl, and I'm scared that if I gained weight then it would be a threat to my identity as the healthy person.
Speaker 1:There could be the fear of not being loved. There could be health fears. So a lot of people think that gaining weight means becoming unhealthy, which is not true. But there is that fear there, like diabetes runs in the family, so there could be the fear of health concerns. A lot of it comes down to like that threat to your safety, and safety could be safety of judgment, safety of not being loved, safety of like not being part of a group, right, so I'm scared I'm going to be ostracized. So a lot of it comes down to like how other people are going to perceive you, because a lot of times there's an exercise where I make people do this. It's like, and you could do it for yourself, because I know you have that fear of weight gain too. Imagine that you lived all alone in a forest no one's around you, you have no mirrors, no society. Does the fear of weight gain affect you as much?
Speaker 2:No, actually, like when I'm in my room by myself. There's no mirrors here. I'm fine, I don't think even about it. I just moved to the bathroom. There's a mirror there, boom.
Speaker 1:And the mirror. The reason why it affects you so much is not because of the way that your body looks, is because you are now seeing your body through someone else's eyes.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's get anywhere. Okay, that's super interesting. Let me just write down that.
Speaker 1:You're getting free coaching from me, lucky you.
Speaker 2:I'm getting free coach all the time, like when I'm working on the podcast and I'm editing, I'm like, wow, oh my gosh, yeah, yeah. So because it got to my mind that, for example, now I'm working with my relationship with money as well and I used to think about money like I want money, you know, but then I realized that I don't want money. I want something like a feeling that I will have if I will have more money. So I guess with weights is the same. It's not like I want to be skinnier, I want to have a feeling that skinnier will give me because society it is as it is.
Speaker 1:So yeah, you for sure heard that in one of the podcast episodes I think with me and Victoria that you were editing, where that's exactly what you said.
Speaker 1:Whenever you're chasing something, whether it's money or a job, or a body or a relationship you're never chasing the thing. You're chasing what you think the thing is going to give you freedom, happiness, confidence, love, worthiness, whatever that is for you. So the same goes with money or with your body. You're not chasing the thing, you're chasing what the you think the thing is going to give you.
Speaker 1:And that kind of approach is really paradoxical to like what you're actually going to get because, let's say, you think that a certain body is going to make you feel confident and happy and loved, but every, every moment that you're chasing that body, every day that you step on the scale, you're not feeling confident, you're not feeling loved, you're not feeling worthiness. Then, when you hit that 130, 140 on the scale, nothing's going to change, like there's not going to be this switch that goes off in your mind that says now you're able to be confident, like the way that your, your thoughts work. It gets changed very progressively and it doesn't happen because of something outside of you. It happens because of you doing the conscious work to change the way that you think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely Like. I really think that sometimes we think that something that it's gonna come from outside is gonna magically like do like this and give you something, but you have to go to work through that. So then we'll just say that the ultimate feeling that we are pursuing when trying to lose weight is safety.
Speaker 1:Or do you think that there are more? There's, there's a few. There's safety there's. So safety could be safety from judgment, from weight bias. That's kind of like the societal piece of it.
Speaker 1:There's love, there's pride as well, like if I get myself to a certain weight, it means I was successful.
Speaker 1:So there's that piece of pride of feeling like you've done something that was hard, and that's why, with a lot of my clients, for example, I was on a coaching call yesterday with the Academy and one of my clients was saying that she's so tired of feeling like a failure and a lot of people think, well, I won't feel like a failure anymore if I hit a certain goal weight and it's like no, no, no, you haven't looked at your life and seen how many things you've succeeded on because you have placed so much weight and importance on your body that you have forgotten all of these other things in your life that actually matter, like your career, like your ability to be a good mom, like your ability to be a good friend, a good co worker.
Speaker 1:Those matter so much more in terms of success than your body. And that goes back to the vision that we were talking about before. If you know what your vision is and you know what you want to be. Looking back on, when you're 80 years old and you don't want your body to have been the central focus and you're determinant of if your life was successful or not, then change your idea of success. Look at different things that mean that you're successful.
Speaker 2:Well, I think I have pretty much everything that I was thinking about. Like it looks like everything because, like in my mind right now, it looks like a really huge spectrum. But what I'm feeling now is that behind all that huge spectrum is just like three, four feelings I'm not going to even say ideas, feelings. So I also think that that's probably very primal, like I don't know if that's the word like, in the sense that it's really primitive, yeah absolutely Absolutely and like a very common theme of my clients and of my, like my community in general, is that they don't like themselves.
Speaker 1:Their, their, their self-talk is super negative and so they don't like themselves like, in part because of the way that they look, in part because they've placed so much importance on dieting and losing weight that every time that they haven't achieved it, their self-esteem takes a huge nosedive because I'm a failure and I can't do anything. And of course, that seeps in the more you do it. And then, because you don't like yourself, you work even harder to lose weight because you think that that's going to make you like yourself. And they never do the work on themselves, on how can I, like love, accept myself, regardless of what my body looks like?
Speaker 1:And that is how you start improving your health and that is how, if your body is meant to lose weight, if you are over your set point weight, the only way and I was actually having this exact same conversation with that client yesterday if you want to develop because I asked her like what are some health habits that you feel you still want to develop? And she was like I want to get more movement in, I would like to include more like nutrient dense foods in my life and I was like all right, and have you done the work? We're only a few weeks in. I was like have you done the work on yourself, on loving yourself, on increasing yourself, love? And she was like not really. So. I was like there's literally no point in focusing on developing healthy habits when you're not coming from a good place, because do you think it's going to be easier or harder to stay consistent with moving your body if you hate yourself? She was like obviously harder. So it all starts with you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, I totally get that, because I feel like I move now from one of, let's say, stages of my healing with my relationship with food, because, of course, I needed time to eat all the bread and all the carbs and all the sweets that I didn't allow myself to. And the last week I was feeling like, oh my God, I'm feeling bad, physically bad, my stomach hurts. It's not so easy to go to the bathroom, blah, blah, blah. And then I was like maybe I should start considering to have some more vegetables and fruits. But it was coming from a completely different place. Yeah, do you have something else to say that you think it's going to help me with this? I had pretty much.
Speaker 1:Well, so we talked about this, but one of the big obstacles is people not thinking they're worthy of it. I'm not worthy of feeling good, I'm not worthy of investing in myself. I'm not worthy. If my daughter was struggling with an eating disorder, I would drop everything, all the money in the world, to heal her and to make sure she lives a good life. And if it's someone I love, I would do the same. But I wouldn't do it for me and this comes back to self-love.
Speaker 1:If you don't think that you're worthy of it, if you don't love yourself, no one wants to drop money or effort or energy into something that they don't love. I always use the example of let's say that you have two pairs of jeans. One is old and ripped and dirty, and the other pair is this new pair of jeans that are designer jeans that you're super proud of, that you spend a lot of money on. Are you going to treat those jeans the same way? Of course not. You're going to wash those special jeans in a separate wash and you're going to dry them by hand and you're going to really take care of them.
Speaker 1:And those old, wash-up jeans? You don't care about them, so you're just going to throw them. You're not going to care if they get dirty. So that same kind of care that we take care of things that we love differently goes for human beings. So, of course, if you don't work on yourself, if you don't increase the love and acceptance that you have for yourself, you're not going to want to work on yourself. So it really is a vicious cycle. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And how do you think that feeling looks daily Like? For example, an example of that mindset will be like I will do it next year or I will do it in the next cohort, stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. A lot of it comes down to priorities when you, what you prioritize, will tell me exactly how you feel about yourself. Where you spend your time and money will tell me exactly what your priorities are. So, for example, for me, I will spend money on having weights in my apartment, like dumbbells and gym equipment, and going to workout classes, and I will spend my energy there of course, not to a point where extreme at all, like literally 30 minutes, but I have no problem spending money on that because it's one of my priorities.
Speaker 1:I spend my money on therapy, so I allocate money every week to go to therapy and to work on myself. I spend my money on business coaches and programs and I spend a lot of money into my business because those are the things that are a priority for me and that I will make sacrifices in other areas of my life to make sure that I'm working on that. And all of that, if you really pay attention to it, is related to me. I will spend money on me and it's not coming from a selfish place, because the more money I spend on myself, the better I am, the better I can show up in the world and the more people I end up helping, and that goes for anyone who decides to spend money on themselves.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a really good one. It really hit me when you said, like where you spend your money on time will tell me your priorities. So yeah, it really gave me the feeling to sit down and start thinking again where I'm putting my money in my time. So, yeah, that's, very helpful Okay.
Speaker 1:I mean, if anything, we recorded this so we can even make it a podcast episode, like I was thinking this this is better than the podcast.
Speaker 2:We actually made a podcast.
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