(#20) Finding Balance on Your Fitness Journey with Rachel Nigro

On today's episode your host Rae, and guest expert Rachel Nigro, Fitness and Nutrition Coach - discuss fitness, nutrition, and wellness from a holistic and sustainable perspective.

Rachel Nigro shares "I help women who have "tried it all" lose stubborn fat for good while creating a lasting lifestyle they love & habits they look forward to. My goal is to take your current life & elevate it by teaching you how to reach & maintain your goal while eating your favorite foods & without spending hours on the treadmill. If you struggle to lose weight, find balance or feel lost when it comes to eating the "right" foods, it's time we have a chat."

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Dive into this episode to learn more about...

• What it means to go on a sustainable weight loss journey and why it's important for overall wellness
• What it's like to have a nutrition coach in your back-pocket 
• What macronutrients are and how they contribute to long term wellness
• How to balance food and mindset throughout the holiday season
• Practical tips for the first steps you can take to getting started on your fitness, nutrition, and wellness journey

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Holistic Wellness and Fitness Coaching

Speaker 1 0:00

Welcome to the Radiant Life podcast.

Speaker 1 0:03

I'm your host, ray, the Somatic Coach, and I'm here to support you in healing your past, living in the present and creating your future so that you can become the most centered, embodied and happiest version of yourself. Each week, I'll be bringing you episodes to help you navigate life's challenges, ease stress and tension and learn more about holistic healing, spirituality and wellness. If you're interested in becoming the best version of yourself so that you can live the life of your dreams, then you're in the right place. Subscribe to the podcast in the monthly newsletter and follow me on Instagram and TikTok to know when new episodes are released each week. I am so happy that you've landed here. Let's dive in. Hello, hello, welcome back to the podcast If you are new here. I'm Ray. I'm a Somatic Coach and Breathwork Facilitator, and I really help women with healing anxiety, building confidence and empowering them with the tools to live their best life.

Speaker 1 1:07

I'm super excited to bring to you today's episode with our next guest expert. Her name is also Rachel and she is a fitness and nutrition coach. What I loved about this episode? Well, a few things, but one of them was that we were able to record this episode in person. We met at my at-home office. We converted it into a little podcast studio and it was a lot of fun Then. What I also really enjoyed about this episode was just learning so much from Rachel. She's so great and I love the perspective and the approach that she uses, really incorporating a lot of wellness and holistic practices into how she coaches fitness and nutrition. I got a lot out of the episode and I'm sure that you will as well. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what takeaways that you've received from it and I will talk to you soon. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm so excited to have our next guest on today's episode. Rachel, I'd love for you to introduce yourself. Let us know a little bit about what you do and we'll go from there.

Speaker 2 2:19

Awesome. My name is Rachel as well. I am an online health and fitness coach. I live in Long Beach, New York. Everything I do is remote, though, so I help my clients. I work mainly with women, but everybody who feels like they are always fighting this weight loss challenge and can't seem to get results and have no idea what to do to get results and feel like they're always trying the next big diet. I help them kind of ditch that diet mentality. Get results for good, but doing it in a healthy and sustainable way. I like to focus a lot on overall wellness and not just giving my clients a weight loss solution. I like to give them a lifestyle solution.

Speaker 1 3:00

Yes, I love that so much. I love how we also got connected too. We actually met originally at a networking event earlier. I want to say it was in March, right.

Speaker 2 3:13

Yeah, it was cold, yeah, it was before summer.

Speaker 1 3:17

And then we've just kind of kept running into each other and now it's been so nice to just stay connected and hear more about what you do. I love the way that you kind of have a spin on the fitness industry. You're not necessarily like let's shed layers. You're looking at wellness, you're looking at the whole picture and I love that part of what you do. It's so nice to hear.

Speaker 2 3:42

I've definitely come a long way with that, I would say. When I first started my business I was a COVID business, so August of 2020, I was all focused on the fat loss, because that's what everybody wants right, everybody wants that fat loss. And then, as I developed personally and with my business, of course I shifted more to yeah, I'm going to help you lose the weight and reach that goal, but I'm going to help you get really healthy first and I'm not saying you know I always did that, but my language more so my marketing was more focused around fat loss. So now I really like to take the pressure off from that.

Speaker 1 4:18

Yeah, that's so nice. It's like a deep, like exhale. It's like okay, like we're here for what sounds more like long term sustainable wellness, rather than like your traditional, like what we're marketed traditionally. Right, and that sounds like really refreshing. I had no idea that you were a COVID business. That's so fun.

Speaker 2 4:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1 4:37

Yeah, so how did you, what were you doing before and how did you move into this?

Speaker 2 4:42

So I was actually working at lifetime fitness. Have you heard of it? Yeah, yeah. So for those of you who don't, lifetime is like the gym of all gyms. Like, if you're a personal trainer, I had to go on four interviews to get hired there. I you can only get hired if you have a bachelor's degree and exercise science degree. And so I was working there and I had worked in other gyms up until then, but I was looking to build a career there. I wasn't really 100%, but I knew I could grow and hopefully make some money, so why not? And so, long story short, I'm working there and you know it's expensive to go there. It's like $200 a month is the membership? Oh, wow. And then they were paying the. The clients were paying the gym 130 an hour to work with me and I was seeing none of that maybe like $20, $25. And it was on my feet 40 hours.

Speaker 2 5:32

I was trying to build this clientele. It was so difficult. I didn't have any resources to help my clients with anything other than training. So, like, these clients were coming in training once or twice a week with me and then not making any other lifestyle changes. So when COVID happened, it was such a blessing in disguise. I started just training people out of my car and then like giving it was cool, like going all over Long Island and then giving them like nutrition coaching advice, but a little bit more detailed, because you know I always tracked my macronutrients, so I was teaching my clients a little bit more. And then I started taking it on to zoom and doing like weekly check-ins and then I was like you know what I can get. I get such better results when I'm controlling or more so, on the back ends of everything, not just their fitness, because you know it's fitness, it's nutrition, it's accountability, and since I transitioned from in person to online, the results for my clients have been night and day.

Speaker 1 6:27

Wow, yeah, yeah, it sounds like you were really covering, like the whole person instead of just this like one goal, like you're thinking about their whole, like their nutrition their fitness how they feel about their body. Maybe even some like mindset work is in there, I'm sure just being able to stay like motivated on a journey like that, I'm sure yeah, Having like a coach supporting you is probably yeah. I mean it just sounds great.

Speaker 2 6:53

It's totally. I mean, it's been a great experience for me. But, like, even just helping these women have a change in perspective towards fitness, towards health you know, as like what I do and like most other health coaches will probably be against me saying this fitness, going to the gym is the least of my concerns as, like a wellness approach, I care more if you are getting good sleep, you're fueling your body, your stress is managed If you go to the gym, great Like, let's make sure all of those boxes are checked off before we stress your body out even more going to the gym.

Speaker 1 7:26

You know that like lands. So much because for me personally, like I was an athlete my whole life so I played soccer in the crossing college like I ran after, after that did marathons, all that good stuff. And going to like the gym is the easiest part for me.

Speaker 2 7:39

Right, yeah, and everybody has their own yeah.

Speaker 1 7:42

Everyone has like a different thing. It's all the other stuff that's like challenging. I'm like, oh my gosh, like I got to exactly sleep like eat right like do all those other things.

Speaker 2 7:50

Fitness part is easy. I mean for most people like that could be the fun. If you decide that it could be fun, yeah, the actually taking care of yourself is the hard part.

Speaker 1 8:00

Yeah, oh, that's such like a nice like intersection that you have there. I love it, thanks, yeah, so you mentioned that you also, you know, work with clients for like in nutrition. Yeah, what does that usually look like? Like? Is that like meal planning, or so I'm more of a macronutrient coach.

Speaker 2 8:20

So a lot of people don't know this, but they'll. They'll come to me and say like oh, can you write me a meal plan? So the only person legally allowed to write a meal plan is a registered dietitian. The field was actually created for, like, people in hospitals, people sick, dying, to give them a set meal plan to increase their quality of life or prevent them more so from dying, you know. So a cookie cutter meal plan, one I don't believe in I'll tell you why but two, it's just you're not legally allowed to, which I think is really great. So I don't like meal plans, because if I were to say to you, like all right, right, like this or this for breakfast, this or this for lunch, when you go out on vacation, or on your own, or to dinner, like, and that what I give you is not on the menu, that's just setting you up for failure.

Speaker 2 9:08

Yeah, so I teach my clients how to track their macronutrients. So your macros are your carbs, fats and protein. Each one plays a very specific role in your body. So, just to give you an example protein helps you build and maintain lean muscle mass. So all these women come to me say like oh my God, I want to be toned, but they're eating like 40 grams of protein a day, so that's like an easy fix increasing that right there.

Speaker 2 9:30

Carbs are actually your energy source. So without a sufficient amount of carbs, your body's not going to produce enough energy. And then, if you don't have enough carbs in the long term, it'll actually tap into your hard earned muscle to create energy. And that's how a lot of people get weak, because we're told carbs are the enemy, and then fats. I kind of look at fats as like your hormone balancers. We need to have a good amount of healthy fats to help absorb the nutrients from everything else we're eating. So like if there's not a fat paired with your meal, then it could spike your blood sugar, you could have trouble digesting it. So it's kind of like slows everything down a bit more.

Speaker 1 10:10

Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

Speaker 2 10:11

Yeah.

Speaker 1 10:12

And it sounds like you're making it. You're positioning it in a way where it's realistic Of course, yeah. It's not like limiting or saying what you shouldn't shouldn't do it. Saying like this is more like what you need Exactly, it sounds like, for your body, whatever that might look like.

Speaker 2 10:28

Right. And then once I kind of teach them the basics of macros, I'll calculate their own macros for them and teach them the basics of how to track it. And then I'll take a look at their nutrition. I have them track everything in my fitness pal and I'll say, like all right, you're eating too many fats for your day to reach your goal, but also just to get have your body feeling good. Let's try and replace these eggs with egg whites. So I won't give them a meal plan, I'll give them guidance based off of their current nutrition. So it's easy I don't want to say fixes, but like easy changes, more so to elevate their nutrition and get them feeling good, but also get them in a place where they can reach their goal.

Speaker 1 11:08

Yeah, and it's not as overwhelming, you know, like if you have your current patterns and like the current things that you eat. It can be really scary for someone to be like I'm going to make all these like really big changes. Sounds like more incremental and more like sustainable, I guess.

Speaker 2 11:28

Exactly, that's the full approach. Is that sustainability? Like I tell my clients all the time if you can't see yourself eating this way for the rest of your life, you shouldn't be doing it to lose weight. Yeah, we try, like all these quick fix diets, like I need to see results. You know, as soon as next week I have this event, I want to feel good, I'm going away, whatever it may be. But every time we try and rush the process, one, you get like rushed results, but two, you're doing damage, you're hurting your metabolism every time you drastically cut calories or you drastically increase exercise. And that's why so many women more so are so resistant to weight loss is because their body is constantly in that like, almost like a fight or flight response, because it's so stressed from the years of under eating.

Speaker 1 12:16

That's exactly what it sounds like just putting all that stress on your body and kind of going like up and down so much. I can see why that would create more friction than sustainability. I don't know if you have like an opinion on that, but I'm about to ask you, so if you don't, we can skip it. But what are your thoughts on like different diet types, I guess? So like paleo or? Vegan or vegetarian or you know, there's so many different ones, of course.

Exploring Food Preferences and Personal Wellness

Speaker 1 12:42

Not necessarily like being on a diet, but you know what I mean, right. When someone has like a preference, I guess I think that's great.

Speaker 2 12:50

I think the fact that you hold yourself to a standard and you know what types of foods you want to put to your body I think is amazing, and sometimes it takes a lot of trial and error to get to that, and I the one thing I don't like is to put a category on it. He'll even see, like some vegans will will say they're vegan and then later on, like, be so upset when they want to add cheese into their diet or eggs or something because, like, oh my God, I'm losing all this hard work of vegan. Like you don't have to put a label on it. It's however you decide to eat. Like I have a podcast too.

Speaker 2 13:22

You know it's called diet starts never, and that's what I want I want to help people realize is that you don't have to have this label. Your diet can always change and it's always going to change and evolve with you. You should take the time to learn how to how to put the right things that make you feel good in your body, not how to cut things out that make you miserable and upset. So I think that's great. If you want to be paleo, if you want to do more of like a holistic, whatever vegetarian, great. But I want you to be open to just doing whatever you need to to make you feel good.

Speaker 1 14:00

Yeah, yeah, that makes perfect sense and that's actually kind of like a part of the journey that I'm personally on. I've been a vegetarian for almost 12 years.

Speaker 2 14:10

Really. Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 14:11

Yeah, that's great and in the past, I would say the past two years I've been starting to kind of without going into like too much because it is like a pretty long story, but kind of starting to incorporate me because I felt like physically, my body actually like needed it. I don't know, I guess it was like when I turned 30, it kind of just like my body like changed a little bit but not doing something for that long. So at the time 10 years, now 12, whatever the math on that is.

Speaker 1 14:43

It feels really weird. So I've been doing like little things, like I'll have chicken stock instead of vegetable stock, or I'm looking into like different supplements that I could take that are maybe like so it doesn't feel like I'm, you know, like eating a steak because it does feel like really weird, but again it's a journey, so I'm just like letting myself go at my own pace, just listening to my body try not to be like restrictive, but it feels really weird.

Speaker 2 15:12

I could only imagine. Actually, I have a very similar story. In high school I actually maybe even middle school I became a vegetarian.

Speaker 1 15:19

Oh my gosh, no way that's so funny yeah.

Speaker 2 15:20

I went. I was going to private Jewish school Solomon Schecter and they took us away and showed us this video about how they get, how they put the animals down and it was horrifying to me as a kid. So I became a vegetarian and then fast forward to like 15, 16,. I started exercising more and my body was just craving protein and I knew what it tasted like. I used to eat it all the time, so I got back into it. That's so funny. Like totally understand how you feel.

Speaker 1 15:50

Yeah, just like listening to that. That nudge, yeah, but we'll see, I don't know, I'm not like competing anymore Like when I was, when I was really like working out so so, so much, when I. That was actually when I originally switched to vegan first and I was always like fit and I was always fast, but I was never like the fastest person on the field or something. But when I switched to vegan I became really I went from like, maybe like two or three fastest, to like the fastest person.

Speaker 2 16:21

Wow.

Speaker 1 16:21

But I think it was probably probably because I was just giving my body different things, Like I think it was just like I shocked my system or something. Yeah, because I went from like eating whatever I wanted to being really mindful of what I was eating.

Speaker 2 16:34

So I don't even know if it was like the giant change as much as it was. Whatever the change was, it worked.

Speaker 1 16:39

And then I went to Europe and I hiked across Spain by myself for like three months.

Speaker 2 16:46

So cool, I know.

Speaker 1 16:47

So random. I love that. And I discovered cheese because I never liked cheese, like I would not eat. I was the pickiest eater, and then I came back and I was vegetarian and I was like, oh, I like cheese now.

Speaker 2 16:57

Yeah, but European cheese is so much better than American cheese. That's so funny.

Speaker 1 17:03

I was like hiking in the middle of Spain and there'd be, like you know, like a family that has like a, like a their own. I don't even know what we're like bakery, I guess and they would be like making all of the food there and they would have like fresh cheese from the farm. And then I'd be like, yeah, and then I'd like continue my hike with, like, my bread, oh my God, that's so cool, I need no more about that. I want to do it.

Speaker 2 17:24

Yeah, just for the cheese and more so.

Speaker 1 17:27

Right.

Speaker 2 17:28

Wow great.

Speaker 1 17:29

Yeah, it was so funny, Amazing. So you help people with fitness, with nutrition, yeah. And then I feel like there was like a third part that you mentioned, kind of like another aspect.

Speaker 2 17:39

Yeah. So it's kind of like all goes hand in hand. It's your accountability, your daily habits, your mindset, and it really just ties everything together. So, like the mindset, it's underratedly the most important part, as you know, with what you do. But, going into this, like I said, everybody's looking for that quickest result. So almost when I start working with a client, I have to give them that shift in perspective, like, yes, I need you to trust that we are going to get to your goals, but I need you to also trust that we're going to do it in a different way and I hate to say like a non traditional way, but it is a non traditional way because traditionally we've been told to do diets like keto, weight Watchers, optavia. Now everybody's on Ozympic too which.

Speaker 2 18:30

I mean I don't want to put that as traditional, but it's what the go to is.

Speaker 2 18:34

So I have to kind of check them in the beginning and make sure like all right, like if somebody, for example, is really stuck on the number on the scale and most of us are, especially as women, like that scale.

Speaker 2 18:46

For me personally it's had so much control over me for years and now I haven't weighed myself in in years, I think ever, from like 15 to like 25, I would get on the scale almost every single day. I don't even know where my scale is anymore. But so I have to kind of assess that level of control the scale has over somebody in the beginning and slowly help them detach from it. Like I'll have clients who, if I feel like the scale is Controlling their mind too much, I'll have them not weigh in. Let's say like, alright, let's go until the end of next week and not weigh in. And the more and more we separate from that, the more and more we can focus on how we're feeling. And then, ironically, when you start feeling really good and you focus on getting your body healthy from the inside out, that is that it go Always follows you feel good, you can set yourself up to look really good too.

Speaker 1 19:41

And usually when you're feeling good, you know you just also like your perspective changes, like you see things differently. Like your, it kind of changes everything. When you are feeling better on the inside, then Kind of working on the outside on the way in yeah yeah, and if someone wanted to, maybe, I guess, like get started on their fitness journey or their wellness journey, whatever that might look like for them, or even nutrition, what are maybe like one or two things that they could do just to get the ball?

Speaker 2 20:15

So I always say, like, let's create a really good baseline, like your basics, and it's so overlooked so often. Number one is just sleep. If you want to feel good, if you want to function properly, if you want to get your body even into a place where it's able to lose weight, it needs to be rested. Our body recovers in our sleep. It's when it changes, it's when it rests and resets. I always like to use the example like think of your iPhone. What happens if it Isn't charged? Right? It dies, of course, but you know like when it gets like five percent and the iPhone starts to slow down, like it gets a little glitchy, think of your body like that. It needs to be plugged in and charged every night.

Speaker 2 20:57

So number one is sleep. Like this is what I get all of my clients on my check in every week. I ask how many hours of sleep you're getting. If it's anywhere less than like Six is really like I would say that's like the bare minimum. I don't want somebody getting six hours, I want somebody getting seven to nine every night. Then I'll remove their workout for the next day or have them focus more on nutrition or do whatever they can to catch up on that sleep, get ahead of it.

Speaker 2 21:26

And the number two, believe it or not, is stress management. And so what we don't realize is that our bodies perceive stress. Our brain rather, perceive stress Mental or physical the same way. So if you get your heart broken or you break your arm, either way, that's putting stress on your body. And so now let's look at it from a training perspective. Exercise is a stressor on the body. So we've been told like we need to train more and more and more to lose weight, to look a certain way. Right Now, let's say, we're doing like high intensity interval training. That's putting a lot of stress on your body. So if you're in a calorie deficit, which again is a stressor, it's technically controlled starvation. Being in a calorie deficit and you're training really, really hard every day, you're bringing like your metabolism and like your movement, like opposite ways right. Your body is going to go into again like that fight or flight state, like we. You know we were designed.

Speaker 2 22:28

Somebody said this to me, actually on his podcast I was on. He said that stress is supposed to be a reaction, not a constant state, and where, like us, society now is constantly under stress. So I try to control it as much as possible through that. So like, for example, I have clients come to me who are Training every day, eating in a calorie deficit and not seeing results, like I'm doing everything right but I don't know why I can't lose weight, because they're in that that constant stress state. So I decrease their exercise, increase their calories and guess what? They get results right.

Speaker 2 23:07

I can't even tell you how many times I've increased a woman's calories and she starts getting results.

Speaker 1 23:13

It's incredible yeah. I love it so cool right yeah, it's so cool and it just sounds like just so supportive and so tailored to the individual exactly and not so much as Like forcing anything more of just like long term. Like I said, long term sustainability and really focused on wellness, which is like so important yeah, I love that? And what if? Maybe even for yourself or for a client? What if they're not feeling like super motivated?

Speaker 2 23:46

yeah. So motivation is definitely hard. I like to say motivation comes and goes. You know, you might like open up instagram and see, like me or Ray, like on it, like hyping you up for the day. You're gonna get that burst of motivation and maybe you'll want to go do your breath work or you want to go for a walk or go to the gym. But we're not always gonna be there to motivate you. You know, we can't always find it within ourselves. So motivation comes and goes.

Speaker 2 24:11

Discipline is what we need to keep us going. But the discipline comes easier when you're, when you're doing things that genuinely bring you joy. So we want to one, of course, figure out that baseline, understand why, like sleep is so important, like understand why stress management. So like we just covered those two bases, boom done. Find workouts that genuinely make you happy that you're gonna want to go and do. And you can, of course, set yourself up for success, like scheduling workout times, finding a workout buddy, like hiring a coach, of course. But you need to have that discipline. But before you find that discipline, you need to just want to do it. It can't feel forced, right right?

Speaker 1 24:52

yeah, absolutely no, I love that. I think one thing that I and maybe it's like a little bit, a little bit nuanced when you're doing like and healing work, I guess. But I saw a quote the other day that said something like you don't need to be motivated, you need to be inspired, and I thought that that was really nice. I was like I guess that is like true, you know, like when something kind of like shifts your perspective or helps you feel like more open and you're like inspired to take action. But I guess that's more like healing vibes.

Speaker 2 25:25

No, we love all the healing vibes and it so goes hand in hand, and I think that too, like that's what brought on like more of me focusing or wording more, speaking more about overall wellness, is my own personal healing journey, like realizing how like there was a time where I was just so stuck in like the fitness, nutrition side of things that I was letting go, like taking for granted, like my wellness, my spiritual side.

Speaker 1 25:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2 25:54

And I really had to teach myself about that and I think having that connection and holding yourself to that standard it's gonna make the rest the other parts that are harder come so easy.

Finding Balance and Joy in Life

Speaker 1 26:02

Yeah, and you know what I also loved? I just remembered something that you said reminded me when I think you had just moved recently, right, and you shared about your journey, of how, like you were, you knew you were moving, and you shared about how you kind of tailored your diet and your exercise to accommodate like what was happening in your life. Like you weren't like holding yourself to this crazy, ridiculous standard of like no things need to be.

Speaker 1 26:31

A certain way, you were being like, you were adapting to like what was happening in your life and making it manageable, like sometimes.

Speaker 2 26:38

Which I thought was really nice, thank you. So sometimes, like you know you're going through the craziness, so like, let's use like the holidays, for example we know it's about to be crazy right now. Like you have so many events, you're going out to eat all of the time. If you're forcing yourself to follow this strict diet plan or this strict exercise plan that has no flexibility, you were setting yourself up for failure. So, like I knew I was moving, I knew I wasn't going to have a refrigerator for a few days, I knew my workout clothes were going to be packed away. I took the week off and even just setting that intention to like take a step back and say like, okay, I'm taking this week, I don't need to be perfect, you're setting yourself up for success there, and then you're going to feel so much better. You're not going to feel like you wasted a week. You're going to feel like you got ahead for a week.

Speaker 1 27:26

Yeah, you're going to give yourself that momentum.

Speaker 2 27:29

So then, when you do, come back.

Speaker 1 27:31

It was part of your intention. And it's like you were able to like meet a goal of putting yourself first in another way, while also coming back and returning to like the other things that are important to you.

Speaker 2 27:43

So, like through the holidays now, like you know, for those who are especially are always chasing that weight loss like, what if we just took a break from weight loss? What if we just like, maintained for a couple of weeks? If you just do what you needed to do, you focus on feeling good, focus on feeling present, not being mean to yourself after eating dessert on Christmas right, cause we were so mean to ourselves after the holidays because tend to overindulge. But if you go into it with the intention of all right, I'm going to indulge and I'm going to be more in tune with my body and I'm going to try and practice a little bit more balance, it kind of just come out feeling so much better and you won't feel like you have to start over on January 1st.

Speaker 1 28:26

I love that.

Speaker 2 28:27

I love it.

Speaker 1 28:27

Amazing. Well, I've absolutely loved this conversation, and one of the last questions I like to ask my guests is what is something right now that is either like lighting you up or inspiring you? It could literally be anything. It could be a person, a song, a book. Of course you just took it could be literally anything. So just something that you're kind of really excited and jammin' with right now.

Speaker 2 28:52

So that actually is a great question from you, because I've been trying to get so much more in tune with my spiritual side which, like if you asked me this years ago or if you told me years ago, like yeah, you would be like into manifestation and breath work and I would have left.

Speaker 2 29:10

I would have been like that's not real, like how could? I couldn't manifest something. So like that's really what I'm starting to feel more genuine joy from. Like maybe in the past, like when I first started this journey, like I felt like I was forcing myself, like I knew I wanted to see results in it, but now it's coming more naturally. I'm doing a lot more breath work. I'm focusing more on just like the feeling rather than the result, like just feeling really good and like reminding myself like if I have a moment where I'm not feeling so good that like I can choose again, I can choose to channel that feeling that I want. So really like applying that more so now that like I've got all these areas in my life covered you know, I've got my house, I've got my man, I've got my career Now I can kind of just like focus on sustaining and building it more.

Speaker 1 30:00

Oh my gosh, I love that. That's amazing, I love it. Well, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 30:05

Thank you, this was so fun.

Speaker 1 30:07

Oh, one thing I forgot to ask. Actually how can people stay connected to you?

Speaker 2 30:10

So you can follow me on Instagram. Tiktok. My username is RachyJo. I have a podcast as well, which Ray is gonna be on after this. Yes, but yeah, all my socials.

Speaker 1 30:20

Amazing and I'll put it all in the show notes Sweet and yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you, Thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode. If you were moved or inspired, please share with me by leaving a reading and review on Apple Podcasts. It means the world to me and I am so appreciative for your support in helping my podcast grow. If we aren't already connected on social media, head over to Instagram and TikTok and follow me at Ray the Semantic Coach. Make sure you check out the show notes of today's episode for links to previews, opportunities to work with me and ways we can stay connected outside of the podcast. I'm so happy that you're here and I can now eat to talk with you on our next episode of the Radiant Life Podcast.