Between Besties: Vitamin D, Vision Boards & the Workout Goal I'm Actually Keeping

This is a Between Besties episode — Leah's monthly roundup where she shares what she's been doing, reading, testing, and thinking about. No agenda, no framework. Just a real conversation between friends.

This month: Leah just got back from Hawaii with her senior son — a last-minute itinerary change she'd make again in a heartbeat. She got glasses and had a full giddy moment reading highway signs. She's deep into a morning routine that's actually working, and she's more excited about her business than she's been in years — including a custom AI tool that builds your entire business foundation in ninety minutes flat.

Plus five books, a fitness goal so simple it almost feels like cheating, and an April challenge that takes about two minutes.

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Transcript

Welcome to our monthly Between Besties episode. I'm Leah Remillét. This is Balancing Busy and these episodes are specifically where I get to just tell you about all the things from this month — what I've been doing, what I've been reading, what I've been testing and trying, thinking about. This is just a conversation between two friends. So let's get into it.

Very first thing is that I just got back from Hawaii last night. So this episode is being recorded very late compared to my normal loving-to-batch-and-have-things-done-way-ahead-of-time, which I will say, batching gives me life. It makes everything just feel so much better when you're able to get a bunch done, have it pre-scheduled, and you don't have to feel that tension and that stress.

Which I will admit I did feel as I'm like, oh my gosh, I need to run to Costco. I have got to get the podcast recorded. I've got to get my oldest her little box sent out today so that she gets her Easter basket and it arrives before Easter. So there's been a lot of things today. Costco's done. Easter basket is sent. We are good to go.

Now I'm recording this episode for it to be shared with you tomorrow. So can we just talk about how amazing Hawaii is? Here's something you may not know — we used to live in Hawaii. Two of my kids were actually born in Hawaii. And we have not taken our son back to Hawaii. He has never been since we left in 2008.

So it was so much fun to bring him and show him all the places. I mean, we covered that island and showed him so many different memories. Clearly Hawaii has a special part of our hearts.

My husband and I were actually supposed to go in February — just the two of us, kind of a long weekend. It's cold and miserable normally here where we live, and I just thought it would be so amazing to go get to be in that sunshine and feel the vitamin D on my skin, the heat. But the closer we came to the trip, the more I realized I did not want to go without our son.

He is a senior in high school this year. He's so close to being out of the house and he's our last one in the house. And I just realized, I don't want to go anywhere unless he's with us. So we rescheduled our trip and changed it to go on his spring break.

I am so grateful we did this. I can't even explain how happy I am that he was with us. We went to all the spots, showing him our favorite beaches, where he was born. We even pulled over and my husband held him like a baby in front of the hospital with the birth center sign — we were reenacting leaving the hospital.

It was such an incredible trip, and the memories were so good. I'm so grateful that I spoke up and shared that I really wanted him to be with us and that we all went together. It definitely made so many bigger memories having him there.

So that was amazing. The other thing that happened this month was that I got glasses. I noticed for a while now that I am not seeing as well as I used to — especially long distance at night. I really noticed it back last month when we went to Park City.

You might remember that from our Between Besties episode. I had my own rental car for a few days so that while my husband was working, I could spend some time with our daughter who is in college there. And I kept noticing that when I was driving around, I would be on top of the sign before I could read it. So I would miss my turn because I couldn't read what the sign was till I was right there.

So I scheduled an eye appointment, went and got my eyes checked. Sure enough, I did need glasses for distance. And last night was my first time trying them at night. We got off our flight and I was like, I'll drive home — and tried with my glasses. I couldn't even believe it. I was giddy. I was so excited. I'm like, you guys, I can read that. I can read that.

So I now have glasses. The joys of — I guess this is getting older, isn't it? These are those things that people start talking about. Pretty soon I'm going to be like, the big highlight of the week is going to be that I had a hair appointment. I don't know. We'll see what happens.

Okay, let's continue on. I have been testing and really working on strengthening my morning routine. Sometimes we do great at them. Sometimes we kind of fall off and we're not doing as good. And that's just normal. That's all of us.

So I have been trying to make a very conscious effort to be really intentional with my morning. My morning is consisting of several things, but the few things that I'm really trying to add in — making sure that I'm listening to a motivational book, just fifteen or twenty minutes, but listening to the greats like Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, my absolute favorite which is Jim Rohn. Listening to them in my ear first thing.

I also am trying to make sure that I spend three to five minutes with my vision board. The way I do my vision board is I just have it in Pinterest as a secret board, and then I have it saved in my browser bar so I can just click the saved URL, it goes right to my vision board, and I can spend a few minutes looking at it.

And then the other thing I'm really trying to focus on is knowing exactly what the one thing is — that most important thing that's going to move the needle forward — and doing that first. Then I read my scriptures and have my morning prayer and do those other things as well.

I've been really enjoying that. It is amazing the difference that I feel — just so much more excited about the day, definitely motivated, but also joy-filled, which is so wonderful. And I really feel like that huge shift is hearing those motivational giants in my ear for just fifteen minutes. Sometimes it's just an AirPod in while I'm putting on my makeup and getting ready.

Now let's talk about the books of this month. The first one was The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy. Such a good one. It's a classic. It's so good.

The next one was The Anatomy of Anxiety. I'll admit I did not finish this one — I got about eighty percent through and it was really good, I just felt like I got a ton from it and was ready to move on. But I have so many people I love who struggle with anxiety, and it's something I want to better understand. If you or someone you love struggles with anxiety and you'd like to better understand how to cope with it, some really great models, frameworks, and strategies — very, very good.

The next one I read — Six Sales Skills Everyone Should Know by Stefanie Boyer. It was short. It was good for beginners. If you're trying to get into sales and it's newer for you, she teaches a sales course for a university.

The next one I read — this was definitely my favorite of the month — In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks by Richard E. Turley Jr. It was absolutely amazing. So inspiring. So testimony-building. Dallin H. Oaks is the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is the biography that just came out this year, and his life was just so inspiring.

There was a quote I actually wrote down that I wanted to remember. There are so many quotes from him, but this one: "Desires dictate our priorities. Priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions."

The last one I read was Evie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes. It was not my favorite, but it was okay. I was trying to find something fun for Hawaii. I had actually started a different one and got sixty or seventy percent into it but just wasn't connecting with it.

This is what I have learned — I am not about the trope of the good girl who decides to try on being bad. That just feels kind of sloppy to me. I kept trying and I was like, ah. And I ended up putting it down and switching over to Evie Drake Starts Over, which was okay, but also not great.

It's so fun when you find a great book. When you find a great novel and you're laughing and you're rooting for them, it is the best feeling. Neither of these were it. If you've got one for me, let me know — because I need one where she is confident and powerful and awesome and realizes that about herself.

Okay, those were the books of this month. Things I'm thinking about right now — I'm really working on new things for my business, which I'm so excited about. I have not felt this excited in my business in years. I can't even explain how good it feels, what it means to me, how much it just makes my heart sing. To feel like I cannot wait to get back into my office and get to work on these things I'm creating for you guys.

The first thing — which I'm so excited about — is the Business Brain File. It's a custom GPT I've built on all of my coaching, all about how to build out the foundation of everything you need for your business. Your expert bio, your ideal customer, what to talk about, what problem you solve — and then package it up so you can use it in your business in all the places that you need it.

Your one-liner for your social media bio or your website. Knowing exactly the problem you solve when you're trying to write copy for your offers. We even go through your entire offer suite and build that all out. But also — you get this file that then every time you're going into any kind of AI, you give it that, and now it knows everything about your business so it knows exactly how to help you.

I'm so proud of it. I'm so excited about it. And that just feels so great to say.

The goal is to create these GPTs for every part of Mom Business Academy — the foundations, which was the first course everyone would go through. It could take days to get through that, because she had to think through who's her ideal customer, what's her offer suite, how does it all connect, what's the low tier and mid tier, what are the problems she solves, what should her perfect bio line be for Instagram that gets people to stop and follow.

And if she's on a podcast and someone says what do you do — how does she make sure she writes it in a way where the person listening thinks, oh, I need to learn from her, I want her to solve this for me? Like all those things you can get so stuck in your own head second-guessing yourself. And now it's in this GPT and it's done in ninety minutes. One session. It's all built.

What I want to do is go through that for all the different areas of Mom Business Academy — more time, more money, more sales, more influence. And oh, I am giddy excited to be updating all of this and making it so that my Mom Business Academy members can build all of these things in a fraction of the time. Know it is done so well that it is going to work. Get them implemented and then get on. Keep moving.

And I'm excited for April because it's my birthday! Can I just tell you what I would love for my birthday? I would love to see some new reviews on the podcast. When you're done listening, would you just take a moment and leave a five-star review and just one sentence about why you enjoy this podcast?

I was reading the most recent review right before I started recording. It's from MRey9 and she said, "Leah has the approach that I resonate with so much — showing up while also focusing on what matters most." It's so simple. It makes me so happy. So just a sentence, a five-star review — it would be amazing to get some new ones. There are none for 2026 yet. So if you would take a moment for my birthday and leave a review, I would love that so much.

Okay, that's all the things. Every month we have an opportunity to grow, to decide how we want this month to look, what we want to accomplish, what we want to feel, to experience. Just taking a little bit of time to set some goals for the month, to think about what you want to work on, how you want to change, what you want to feel.

Do you want to schedule a fun lunch with some girlfriends? Do you want to read a book that makes you happy? Do you want to try some new exercise? That's one of the things I'm really committing to for April — consistently exercising.

One of the huge mistakes I make all the time — I don't know why I can't learn my lesson — is that I push too hard. There's this voice in my head that constantly tries to convince me I have to push harder, I have to lift more, that it doesn't count if I'm not pushing myself. But then inevitably I injure myself, and then I can't work out at all for weeks because I've totally thrown out my back.

So my new goal is just keep showing up. That's the only goal. I'm not letting myself even adjust weights for three weeks. I'm keeping them super light. I'm going to start my rucking back up, which I'm so excited about — that's where you just have some weights in a backpack. Some people do weighted vests, but I feel really cool having a backpack around my neighborhood. I'm sure I look like such a weirdo, but I like it.

So I'm bringing my rucking back now that it's starting to get a little warmer. I'm lifting two days a week but keeping it really light, making sure they're full body, and I'm doing mobility yoga one day a week. So it's going to be really simple. But the exercise goal is just — don't stop.

There's my month. Thank you so much for being part of these special episodes where we just get to talk, friend to friend. To wrap up this episode, I hope you will take just a minute and write down — either in your notes on your phone if you're out and about, or if you have a little notebook with you — two or three things that you would love to do in April that would bring you some joy. I hope you will write it down and you will make it happen.