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Trish Kimble - Choose your attitude, change your life

• Julie Fairhurst • Episode 157

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What if the most complex parts of your story became the strongest parts of your future? We sit down with writer, coach, and mentor Trish Kimble to explore resilience that’s earned, not imagined, from a childhood marked by loss to parenting through addiction, then rebuilding with a clear mindset and a practical plan. Trish shares how she created a “wall of resilience” to contain grief without shutting out life, and how choosing an opportunistic attitude, backed by daily gratitude, set the stage for lasting change.

When COVID-19 cancelled her brand-new speaking calendar, Trish pivoted quickly, turning decades of executive administrative and bookkeeping experience into a thriving virtual assistant business. She breaks down why niching beats being a generalist, how to think like a client to win better work, and when to outsource instead of burning hours on DIY. We also delve into her training programs, ranging from a self-paced start-up path to next-level coaching that helps assistants transition into executive roles or scale their freelance services with clarity and confidence.

The conversation expands into Ageless Thriving, a program designed for women aged 55+ who feel invisible or stalled after experiencing health changes, grief, or significant life transitions. Trish makes the case for connection and movement as non-negotiables, offering simple ways to reconnect: join a networking group, build a routine, and let community replace isolation. Along the way, we honour the practical wisdom women accumulate over a lifetime, and how to turn it into meaningful work, mentorship, and everyday purpose.

If you’re craving a reset, this is your roadmap: choose your attitude, practice gratitude, niche your strengths, and show up where people expect you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a lift, and leave a review with the mindset shift you’re choosing today.

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Who is Julie Fairhurst?
Julie Fairhurst – Speaker, Author, and Founder of Women Like Me

Julie Fairhurst is a champion for women’s empowerment and the founder of the Women Like Me Book Program. Since 2019, she has published 30 books and 300+ true-life stories—at no cost to the writers—giving women a platform to heal, inspire, and reclaim their power. Dedicated to breaking generational trauma one story at a time, Julie’s mission is to uplift women emotionally and financially, helping them create better lives for themselves and their families.


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SPEAKER_01:

Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of Women Like Me Stories and Business. I'm your host, Julie Fairhurst. And today I'm so excited that I've got this lady on the podcast. You guys are going to uh find her a wealth of information, and you're just gonna love her. So I'm gonna give a brief intro and then we're gonna jump into it. So I'm thrilled to welcome Trish Kimball. She is a writer, a coach, a mentor, and a speaker who embodies resilience and reinvention. Trish shared her story in the Women Like Me book, Becoming Broken and Beautiful, with her powerful chapter, Invincible Mindset Building My Wall of Resilience. Just wait till you hear about her story. In it, she opens up about the personal battles, battles she's faced, including the heartbreak of her children's struggles with addiction and how she developed the strength to rise, rebuild, and thrive. She also has a program uh that many of my listeners might want to be interested in, and that's called Ageless Thriving. So we're gonna chat briefly about that as well. And uh and she's also on top of all of that, she's also uh trains virtual um assistants. And uh so she's gonna we can talk about that too. So, Trish, thank you so much for being here.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, thank you, Julie. It's my pleasure. I'm I'm really excited to to join you on this and and just be a part of the whole community you are involved in. Well, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_01:

Was there anything I missed? Anything else you want to highlight before we dive in?

SPEAKER_00:

No, I'm I'm I'm busy enough. That that that pretty much covers it.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, perfect. Well, let's talk about your story first. So what um what inspired you to share that particular story in the book?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh I think because that was probably um the hardest thing for me to share. Excuse me, sorry. And and I think that's because I find the closer something is to my heart, the more personal it is, the harder it is to deal with. Um and so for me, uh being a parent is the hardest job. And uh we don't always make the right decisions to help our children. We try. Um, but I think as I said in my story, it doesn't come with an instruction manual or a tour guide. And so, you know, we do the best we can. Uh and sometimes that's not always good enough. So it was for me probably the hardest thing for me to deal with and learn how to cope and carry on with my life. You know, we I still had to go to work and and have, you know, uh the siblings, it wasn't just, you know, one. I have three children. So um I'm I was I'm hoping that by telling that my story, maybe some other women will understand or relate to that and know that they're not alone.

SPEAKER_01:

That is such a good reason, such a good reason. And and there are, I'm sure, be with what's going on in the world these days, you know, we all need the support and and positivity that we can find. And your story really does. You know, there's definitely some turmoil in there and some some rough patches, but it but it comes out okay in the end.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, well, that's I think that's how I've learned, you know, so building my wall of resilience. That's what kept me going. That's what what enabled me to carry on with life, no matter what was going on inside or, you know, in my family. Um, and and many of us have to do the same thing. It's how you do it uh and how you handle yourself. And for me, that's what worked.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. What do you think? What do you think the turning point was when you realized you had to build that wall?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh, that stems back to my teenage years. Um a lot had happened in my childhood. Um much of it was secretive, as it is in many families, um, for various reasons. Yeah. But uh the fact of it is it was. But then when I was 16, I lost both my parents as the result of a car accident. And having to deal with all of that and carry on and you know, go with life, it was I I was drowning in guilt and grief and knew I couldn't carry on like that. So for me, I think that's when I started building this wall. Um it was a way to contain my emotions as well as the grief and and the the shame and the guilt. Um and it's just that was my survival. That was how I survived. I I'm I don't turn to dry, I'm not a drug person, and I you know don't even drink that much either. A glass of wine here or there. Um so I I didn't use those as my crutch. Mine was how can I do this and still get on with my life? And so yeah, it was it was like a wall that I built, and and it wasn't it wasn't so much to keep people out, it was just to be able to stand on myself and carry on.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, well, it's almost a you know, there's walls that people build that maybe are not the best to have, but there's then there's walls of protection, yeah. And I think we need those a lot, and we need and that's like boundaries and all of those other kinds of things, and we need those to keep our sanity, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Wow. So for women listening who feel like challenges are too heavy, what would be their first few steps in cultivating resilience? What would you suggest to them?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, to me, it's it's all about the choices you make. Um your attitude is not something you're born with, you learn it. And you can have a bad attitude, or you can have a good and opportunistic attitude. For me, I think for for other women, that's probably the first thing they need to focus on themselves is choose to look at the opportunistic attitude, the positive attitude. Because otherwise, um not only will you hurt yourself by having the bad attitude, but you'll hurt everybody around you.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

And you and it won't help you at all.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And by having making that choice to look at the opportunities, to uh focus on the positive, um in whatever way, and be grateful for what you have. It might be just grateful you can have a hot cup of tea in the afternoon, but you know, no, exactly it doesn't have to be something made a little thing to be grateful for.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I believe everything you said was I believe all of that, and I but I really believe that gratitude is what can change your life.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely, absolutely, yeah. So many times, yeah, and I hear it all the time, people just complain about everything. Yeah, you know, everything's I mean, the world isn't great. No, it's not these days happening. We can sit there and we can complain and we can look at all the negative things, but if you stop for a moment and reflect on what's good in your life, what you're grateful for, and focus on that, the rest will start to come in, it'll fall into place, sort of thing. Yeah, not immediately and and not in big steps, no, but yeah, gratitude is huge.

SPEAKER_01:

I think us women, we tend to sometimes worry about things that maybe don't even it hasn't even happened. Oh, and you're worrying about it.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's those what ifs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What if what if this or what if that or and you could spend a lot of time on on that and you're never gonna solve it, and and you're never gonna, you know, unless you're some psychic person that can see the future, um, you're not going to know what's gonna happen. So don't waste your time on the what ifs or what if I had done this, yeah. You know, whether it's past or future. Yes, you know, yes, well, so many people I know dwell on the past, what happened to me. Yeah, and um, you know, all of us have stories that have happened to us, some of them more tragic than others, and yeah, you could you could sit there and focus on that, but you're not gonna change it. What's happened has happened. Yes. Um, so you know, saying, Well, what if I had done this? Maybe this would have happened, um, or what if this happens, what am I gonna do? Well, you know, you can be proactive and plan to say, well, yeah, what if that scenario comes up? How am I gonna deal with it? Yeah, and that's a positive thing. But again, it's it's all about the choices you make and where you want to where you want to put your focus.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. Yeah, don't stand and stare at an empty refrigerator and say, Oh, it'll fill up on its own. I'm sure it'll be full tomorrow morning. You have to, you know, we still have stuff we have to take care of. But but be positive about the fact that you have a refrigerator.

SPEAKER_00:

That's right. That's right. Be grateful for for what you do have, as I guess, you know. You know, it's we've all spent many times where you're you're staring at the fridge and it's empty or it's you know, got hardly anything, and what do I do? You know, well, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So you often say mindset is everything. So can you share a practical example of how shifting your mindset completely changed the outcome of any situation? Do you have a situation you can tell us about? Um that you want to share? If not, that's okay. Like, oh, do I need to share that?

SPEAKER_00:

There's there's probably a few, I'm sure. Um I I think business-wise. Yes. Um, I'll take the example of when I started my business um six years ago. I decided I would retire from the corporate world and I would start my business. And I had taken some training the year before I retired, and I had um started with the passion I'd had as a child. Uh I I did public speaking as a child in elementary school. Loved it. Right. And I really liked doing that, and I liked stories and and that. So I decided, well, I'd like that. And I have, you know, 35, 40 years of experience in an office that I can draw on and the way to handle things or not handle them. So I started out that I was going to be a motivational speaker. I had a couple of engagements going. And um then COVID-19 came into play a month after I started my business. And all my speaking engagements phoned and said we have to cancel, we have to cancel, we can't do it, right? Now, you have to remember that was before Zoom was really major. Yes. People were I I wished I'd had stock in Zoom back then.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

Um but uh as a new speaker, I I just didn't have the experience to pivot over to speaking, and so I, you know, uh a few days and I kind of well, okay, well, maybe that's a sign I should just not do anything, you know, uh, and I should do that. And I and I started to kind of wallow in self-pity, and well, you know, what am I gonna do? I started this and you know, and on and on and on. And then the next day I got up and I'm like, this is not how I work, this is not me. This is not the mindset I need to have a business. So right then and there, I said, okay, what am I gonna do? What can I do? Uh obviously the speaking isn't gonna happen. What am I gonna do? And I said, Well, you know, I had been a bookkeeper, I've been an executive assistant. Well, I know how to do that. All right, let's do that. And so it was uh a really definite mindset shift that got me through that when I pivoted over to the administration, and and that was the only way I could. I think that that one is one of the pivotal times. There was there are other ones, but that one was a pivotal moment where I had to tell myself, yeah, you know, and make that mindset shift.

SPEAKER_01:

That was COVID-19 was tough for a lot of people, and but and you know, there was a lot of sadness that came out of it, but there was a lot of shifting.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Like I just thought, um, and not all that shifting was bad. No, it kind of got a lot of us where we needed to go because we were stuck.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I I agree. Like, yeah, I mean, I I could have carried on and and and been the speaker and and and just maybe delayed it or something. Um, but no, I agree. There's there's a reason it was a a hard situation for so many for for so many reasons, and we we won't go into that, but it also I agree with you, it it opened up the door to uh, for example, my my freelance world with the virtual assistant. There were very few companies prior to COVID-19 that would embrace their staff working from home, like that's not happening. Because if you work from home, you're not working, right? Um, they had no choice, they had to uh do that. Now it's kind of shifting back, so there's hybrids of that now. Um, or some companies have like, no, I want everybody back in the office, so but I think overall it'll be a blend. Um, so that's not necessarily a bad thing. That was a good thing, and and you know, for many businesses, had they not done that, they wouldn't have survived. Yes, yes, you know, uh and and you know, take out menus at restaurants skyrocketed. I know you know uh DoorDash or whatever. These were delivery services, they were they were just minor prior to that. Yes, so some really good things did come out of it for sure. Yeah, and it meant having a mindset shift to do that.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, while we're talking about um virtual assistants, let's stick on that for a second. So you train women or men to be virtual assistants, yeah. So so what is that all about?

SPEAKER_00:

Like what what do you do? Well, um, because I have been in the administration um for many, many years, uh, and for the a good part of it, I was more at the executive level, yeah, with CAOs and you know, in government and ministers and things like that. Um so there are certain protocols and practices, best practices that's gonna get you there. Um and so if you're down here at the bottom or you're just the you know the clerk just coming in, but your aspirations are here, that's where I can help provide you some guidance in where you should be focusing. What what are they looking for? And it's it's it's not about what you yourself want, it's about what they want. Right. About what your employer wants or your client wants if it's your business. Um, because if you're focusing on what you want, they don't want you. Right. Yeah, I get it, I get it. Yeah, so um that's where my training comes in. I have one course that's uh it's a self-guided one, it's all pre-recorded and it basically takes you from I want to start a business to you're operating.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, I love that. I didn't know you had that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it's it's just uh um like there's four modules and there's little mini videos in each module so that you can you can stop and start and listen. Yeah. Um, and but I give you know the the people in the course, I give them, you know, various tips and tricks that I've done or what failed, don't do that. Um and then the resources to go with it, like a workbook and and budget planning and all of that, and and how to get your how to get your business off the ground and and start working. And wow.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, you've certainly got the uh education and experience, yeah, uh to be able to help people along with that. Yeah, and that is so important. And I I think it's that's more and more needed. We all need some help, you know, especially people that are have their own businesses and they work a lot from home.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

They you know, they they need some help.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, definitely. I mean, it it's there are different types of freelancers, and they and each of them has maybe their specialty.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, mine tends to be in the administration side, um, but there are you know freelancers that just set up podcasts, for example. They manage podcasts. Oh that's an example of a virtual assistant or a freelancer. So they they do all the podcast management for somebody like you, and all you do is take the show. Yes, you know, yeah, yeah. Um, so that's that's one. There's other ones that focus only on building websites or only doing social media. Um, so you can have a specialty, and in fact, as a as a freelancer, the more specialty you have, the better.

SPEAKER_01:

Ah, so not necessarily that jack of all trades is really right.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, because the more you can what we call niche down into your target clients, your target audience, the more people are gonna want your services because they may only be looking for this. They don't want a jack of all trades, they want somebody that does this, yes, and does it well. Yes. So the more you can niche down and then you know, do your training, get your expertise in that from past experience or or ongoing learning, because that's that's uh a real requirement, then the more likely you are to succeed.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, yes, and and you're right, uh the people don't need everything, but I remember I'm I'm doing okay now, but I remember like um trying to do my own website and go and going, I have just spent three days and now I'm crying. This is this they sometimes the learning curve is too much.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, it and it's also about the as you said, the time it takes you to do it. And and I I was I was like you. I had my own website. My my my tech guy, who's my husband, built it for me, and I could, you know, add to it and stuff, but it wasn't definitely wasn't really great. And um I I finally I had spent hours trying to make it better, and I was limited in this, and and then oh, you should use this program. Well, that meant I had to learn a whole new program. And I'm just like you have to stop and think, what is your time worth? What are you charging your clients for your time? So you're wasting the time you could spend with a client, yeah, on doing this website, it's not worth it. It costs you more in the long run. Yeah, no, you are so right. It's it's a hard thing for a person in business to to grasp and and say, yeah, okay, you know.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, or oh, you know what, I'm just gonna do it myself because I can do it faster. Oh yeah. And and and sometimes that's true.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, yeah, but other times it it pays to um, yeah, if if you want it done really well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And yeah, well, and we can't, and we can't do everything. We can't.

SPEAKER_00:

We're we're no, you know, we're we are pretty good, powerful super women, but yes, we are. We still have our limits.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, and there's only so much time.

SPEAKER_00:

There is, you only have so much time, and you don't want to be working 24-7 to make your business profitable and exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So how do women find you? So well, just so everybody knows that that um I will have the details, how to reach out to Trish and all of the information in the show notes. So you'll be able to do that. But um, but right now, how do so how do women normally find you that were that are looking for this training? Do you go do group training or is it more one-on-one?

SPEAKER_00:

Or well, I've got, as I said, the one is a kind of a pre-recorded, and that's right on my website. Um, my website is blank-slate.ca because my company is blank slate enterprises. Yeah. Um, so that's that. And most of the stuff will have links into there. But um, the other training I'm doing, and we're just kind of putting the finishing touches on that, is for the next level up. Um, so as I said, the first course I did was just starting your business from the ground and getting started.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

The next level, and and I've had a lot of requests for this, is well, how do I get to that next level? Either I, you know, how do I grow my business? Or if I'm an assistant and I want to be the executive assistant, how do I do that? Um, so this next course uh is that, and it'll be a combination of some videos, um, some live webinars with them, uh, group, and then uh as an add-on, I'll add some one-on-one coaching if they want to take it. So it's just, you know, my my goal is to make sure I can help them forward, whether that's with the business or whether that's in their career in an office or or whatever it needs. Yes. Um, it's that's my goal, is is there, and the best way to help them is I think this way. Yes. Um, and and that's that's what I'm doing. So that's my invincible VA. Yes, nice. That's what I called it because uh to be a VA, you have to be strong and invincible most of the time.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely, absolutely. Well, let me shift to something that I'm dying to talk to you about, and that's ageless thriving. I want to know about that. So, what are you doing? What are you doing with that? So you're you're focusing mainly on women uh around the 55 plus who are feeling invisible or think they're past their prime?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, pretty much. I because I'm a senior myself, uh I thought, well, I should probably look at, you know, what what's gonna work for for women like me. Um you know, I mean, I have been very fortunate and and re-fired my career and and have a business, but not all women are there. Uh, and and so many of them, um, you know, they the one I find the hardest for for many women, men too, but I think more women, um, they may get something medical that is, you know, a really serious medical thing, and then they just withdraw. They stop moving, they stop socializing, they they just withdraw within themselves. And that is the worst thing we can do. The worst thing we can do for ourselves is just withdraw into ourselves because it takes away as humans, we are meant to socialize in some way or another, not necessarily in person, but you know, we're a social society.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, so if they stop moving, then their health is gonna get even worse, and that is a big thing that happens. Um, or they start the negative self-talk and well, it's I can't do that anymore. I'm too old, or I I, you know, I ache too much, so I can't do that, and that's too hard, and they're constantly telling themselves that. So this program, I want it to be to help them get past that. Oh, I just have to stop everything because I can't do anything, yeah. And get back to thriving, get back to living their life.

SPEAKER_01:

And well, you know what I think? I think that when we hit that senior level in the world, we are so smart. We have lived all those years, we've dealt with husbands and boyfriends and children and bosses and ran a house and possibly ran a business and all those kinds of things. We we, you know, you may have been at that stage where you have taking care of kids and taking care of elderly parents. We have so much wisdom in us we do that we gotta share it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And I agree.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and I think it's just I think so often when women don't realize the treasures they've got in them, most simply, which is why your books are so good.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, why my books are so good. That's why, because we do um we do, we have all of this practical wisdom. I mean, you'll you'll you know, yes, you may be well educated and you'll have all of that. Yes, but we have so much more practical wisdom because you know, society over the years, I mean, it's changing now. More men are getting into the parental thing, but many, many years it was the woman raised the family and the man went out and worked. Yes. Um, but that doesn't mean you didn't have valuable wisdom that you could pass on or how you got through this. And that's you know what I'm saying, you know, like with my wall of resilience, the same thing. It's how are you getting through that? How are you going forward? And maybe you can help other women that are doing that, and that's that's the whole thing. I just I want to help them continue to be thriving, so that's why I called it ageless thriving.

SPEAKER_01:

I loved it, I love it, absolutely, yeah. So, what do you what do you want to say to women who might think, oh, it's too late for me?

SPEAKER_00:

No, it's never too late, it's never too late for that. You could be in your 90s, yeah, and and still, you know, uh carrying on and and contributing to society and to yourself, like uh you know, so so many, unfortunately, so many women live long. Longer than men. Um, our lifespan is longer, and and I I see a lot of senior women that are on their own for the first time in their life because they were in a long-term marriage and and lost their partner and they don't know what to do. And so it's so vitally important. And the the idea uh that the government uh has put on in the last few years, I agree with it. You know, they're encouraging seniors to stay in their homes, right? They get care, stay at home because you know you're you're in a comfortable place and you know where everything is. The downside of that is if they don't get involved in their community, in their seniors' community, then they start withdrawing and start doing nothing. And all they're gonna do is sit on the couch and watch TV all day or go on their phones and go on social media and yeah, they don't thrive. Yeah, yeah. We need as as senior women, we to stay active, we need to stay uh, you know, involved. Yes, yeah, the community. Yeah and we help each other that way.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, we do, yeah. You know, you and listening to you, I I made me think of a few ladies that I know that have moved on to um uh retirement communities, yes, and they went kicking and screaming. Uh-huh. But within two weeks, they're on the social committee, they're going here, they're going there, they've got their best friend down on the second floor that they gotta go have coffee with. I mean, it's it's a community in there, it is they're not alone anymore.

SPEAKER_00:

No, and that's so I know my in-laws are in a similar situation in Camlets, and they uh begrudgingly uh had to move there, they didn't have a choice of other circumstances, they had to move into uh a retirement community, but oh yeah, like morning coffee at 9 30, you better be downstairs so you can socialize, you know. Yes, or or card night or bingo night, or yeah, and it's yeah, and it's funny to you know to listen to them because of course when you get a community, especially in a small community, there it's never smooth, there's always somebody who wants to rock the boat, yes, but it doesn't matter, it's still getting them involved, it's still getting them socializing and and active, yes. That being active and socializing is it's just that's the number one thing to keep us thriving.

SPEAKER_01:

And I think for ladies that aren't quite at the retirement community stage, um, I I myself moved to a new community about six years ago and had no friends out here. And I was nervous about what I was about to do, but I went to some networking groups. Yes, and now I have friends, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

What I did when I became a virtual assistant at home, yeah, that was one of my fears because I'd worked in an office. I had all kinds of people in the office. You get coffee, you go for lunch or whatever, right? Socialize. Um, and then I started working from home, and it was just me, myself, and I. And I'm like, okay. Yeah. And so one of the first things I did was I joined a couple of different networking groups. And you know, some I I don't belong to, some I do now. Um, or you try new ones. But it's amazing, like the community I have of I call friends now. Yes, that I had no idea that even existed before. Yeah, because there wasn't a need for it, right? Right, right. We tend not to we tend not to become involved in something until we need it. Yes. That's okay. That's okay. But yeah, like you know, if you're if you're by yourself or you're working from home, yeah, networking groups are pivotal in keeping you there and so supportive.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, so supportive. You're right. Yeah, you can, you know, if you don't have a work issue to talk about, well, they'll listen to you about your personal and see what they can help. Everybody just wants to help. I know they're just um yeah, yeah, they're fabulous, they're fabulous. And I belong to two. I've got one that I'm go in the morning, and then I've got another one that uh I go once a month in the evening. So yeah, but I uh I learned something and and I like you say it's social. I make friends and um yeah, you know, I'm doing carpooling to an event together.

SPEAKER_00:

So yeah, no, it's the the the one I belong to. We actually uh a group of a portion of the the group. I mean, there's several chapters in this particular networking group, but we all went together for a trip to Mazatlan last November.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my goodness, that is spectacular!

SPEAKER_00:

That's the way to do it. It was great. I mean, we did business every day when we were down there. We had learning every day and and follow-up to do, and and that, and we had social things we did together. It was incredible, like it just made that particular portion of the group even closer.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, for sure. Wow. Well, wow, we just talked about so much. We've touched on your story, your beautiful story in the book. And I hope that if somebody, you know, is struggling out there with their family or with their children or anyone in their family with addiction issues, um, they get the book and read your story because it is, it is uplifting as well. And it there is a thank goodness, positive ending to that. And and then we talked about get some training so you could go be a virtual assistant. And then we talked about, you know, thriving, not like sitting on the couch watching, I don't even know what you watch during the day these days. All the shows my mom used to watch are all done, they're all gone. All the soap operas. I think Young and the Restless is still around.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, I'm sure not in general hospital. If I were you know, I can remember as a child being babysat by my neighbor, yeah, watch General Hospital every afternoon. Exactly. And I remember turning it on the TV a few years back, and I'm like, it's still on.

SPEAKER_01:

I know, I know. My mom was uh my mom was young and the restless, and it's still on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. No, there's nothing wrong with that. Absolutely, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Don't let that be your sole focus. No, not your sole focus.

SPEAKER_01:

No, no, no. Yeah. Well, we unfortunately need to close. But I have enjoyed this so much, Trish, and I'm so thankful that you that you came on. I saw you registered for a podcast, and I was like, yay, this is gonna be so good. And it and it was so good. So, in closing, what would you like to leave our listeners with? What's one mesh message about resilience, thriving, and living with purpose that you would like to share?

SPEAKER_00:

Um I think probably going back to what I said earlier. Um look at making a positive mindset choice. Um, your your your attitude is a choice. So whatever whatever choice you make makes you.

SPEAKER_01:

You're so right. It is sometimes we don't think we have a choice. Yeah. Especially when you get that kid who like knows those buttons. Oh yeah. I got one of those. Oh, let's get this button today. But you're so you're so right.

SPEAKER_00:

And it's just yeah, it and above all, believe in yourself. Believe in yourself. That is so, so important. Because if you don't believe in yourself, then you're not gonna be able to help anybody else. So I I guess those are the two things I would say believe in you and look at your being grateful for what you have and making the right choices, the positive choices, the attitude, the right attitude.

SPEAKER_01:

Wow. Well, that was perfect for an ending. Absolutely perfect. Well, everyone, thank you so much for watching. And remember, you can get all of Trisha's details about her cores, about the age, her ages thriving, and and and her book. I'll put a link to her book there as well, in case you want to read her story in the notes there. So don't be shy, especially if you're a lady who's, you know, feeling a little struggles, reach out to Trish. She's got some stuff going on that can help you for sure. So um, or get out there and join a networking group. That do that too. Do both of those things. Do both. Do both. Yes. Okay, Trish. Well, thanks again. And um, thank you, everyone, and we'll see you next time.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you, Julie. It's been a pleasure.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you.

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