Plan, Pivot, Pour A Glass

My outline was ready, my answers were planned, and then I did the most relatable thing possible: I left the notes on the wrong computer. So instead of a polished Q&A on fitness, nutrition, and midlife health, I hit record anyway and leaned into the bigger lesson: real life rarely follows the plan, and a balanced wellness journey has to include the ability to pivot. If you’ve ever felt thrown off by one small mistake that snowballed, you’ll feel seen. 

I also share a sneak peek at two conversations I’m genuinely excited to bring you next. First, I’m heading to Daily Objective Distillery in Amsterdam, Missouri, a craft distillery set on 8,000 acres with a story that started with a retired Navy SEAL and a ranch owner who wanted to build something meaningful. Think small-batch American craft spirits, a gorgeous setting, live music, and the kind of place where people gather for great drinks and even better stories. 

Then we get personal about movement, pain, and the fear that shows up when your body won’t do what it used to. After a tough stretch where basic things like getting dressed felt hard, I started working with Dr. Adam Dinkel (chiropractic care focused on root-cause healing) alongside pelvic floor physical therapy, and it helped me get back to feeling like myself. We also talk about the Midlife Collective and why adding more voices creates deeper questions and better perspective for anyone navigating midlife wellness, recovery, and confidence. 

If you like honest conversations about health, happiness, and a little wine along the way, follow the show so you don’t miss what’s coming next, leave a review, and share this episode with a friend who could use a reminder that pivots are part of progress.

Transcript

Welcome To Spandex And Wine

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Hello and welcome to the Spandex and Wine Podcast. I'm your host, Robin Hackney, and I'm so happy that you're here. This podcast is a place for conversations about balancing a healthy lifestyle and being happy. More specifically, happy hours. Together we'll explore all things wellness and wine. I hope you learn a little, laugh a lot, and along the way, know you're not alone on this balanced wellness journey. Ready to jump in? Pour something in your glass that makes you happy because it's time for Spandex and Wine.

Preview Of The Distillery Interview

Injury, Fear, And Getting Back

The Midlife Collective Evolves

How To Support The Podcast

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the Spandex and Wine podcast. So today's episode was supposed to go very differently. I have it all planned. I even mentioned it in my newsletter. I had it all planned out. I had my notes ready, my outline done. I was going to answer seven questions that I get asked about all the time, and the kinds of questions that I feel like you all ask me about all the time about fitness and nutrition and midlife health and just all the things. And then life happened. Or maybe I should say Robin's life happened. The funny part is I actually know better than this. Like I tell myself all the time not to wait until the last minute to do something important. And what did I do? I waited to record this episode until the night before. Oh my gosh, I hate that I did that to myself. So I'm sitting here with my laptop and I'm like, no problem, I'll just pull up my notes. Um, except that the notes aren't here, they um are at the fitness center, and apparently the conversation where I wrote everything is just it's over at that computer, and I don't have access to that. So here I am with my phone and my microphone. I'm recording and right now, and absolutely none of the brilliant thoughts that I had prepared earlier. And yes, of course, they're all brilliant. Um so yeah, not a single one of the seven questions, although I could pull one up that someone sent me from email, but I'll just save it for the podcast episode when I do that. But it feels like a pretty perfect metaphor for life. We plan and we organize and we think we know exactly how something is going to go, and then suddenly, suddenly the notes disappear, the plan changes, and you have to pivot. So today's episode is not the seven questions I get asked all the time. But don't worry, that is coming because I already did the work. It's somewhere, it's on my work computer, and I promise I will share it soon. But instead, I want to give you just a little preview of something I'm really excited about. So tomorrow I am headed down to Daily Objective Distillery to interview the owner and manager for an upcoming episode. So Dave and I have been visiting there recently, and if you follow me on social media, you've probably seen a few of our adventures or beverages or what have you. The distillery is so cool. It is located on 8,000 acres in Amsterdam, Missouri. So it's going to be a little haul for some of you from Kansas City, but it is worth it. It's a craft distillery that was started from a conversation between a retired Navy SEAL and the ranch owner who wanted to build something meaningful right there on his property. So they make small batch American craft spirits, and the setting itself is just gorgeous. Like just think ranch land and live music, a tasting room, and the kind of place where people gather for good drinks and great stories. Like the wood in the facility is amazing, and it's all right there from the property. And not a shocker, I have my own personal wine glass there. Well, one that I claimed as my personal wine glass, and the bartenders have humored me so far into giving me that particular wine glass. Um now I'm not going to give away too much because I want the full interview to be a surprise when it comes out. But I will say this: every place has a story, and the story behind this one is pretty interesting. So tomorrow I'll be sitting down with them and hearing how it all started, how the distillery gets built from the ground up, and what goes into creating something like this. And I don't know, I'm sure we'll talk about bourbon, I'm sure we'll talk about rum. I'm sure we'll talk about vodka. So look forward to that. It's all strictly for research purposes. You guys, I am here for you. I am doing the hard work. It is just a really tough job, but you know, somebody has to do it. And then the other conversation I'm really looking forward to is with the current chiropractor I've been seeing, Dr. Adam Dinkel from Dinkle Chiropractic. Some of you may know that for a while I was not feeling like myself physically. And then I shared a couple things about my hips, about my tailbone, about the skydiving incident. And yeah, it just really put me in a place where I wasn't feeling like myself at all. There was a stretch where putting on my pants, actually, this was not too long ago, just a few weeks ago, my pants and my shoes, it was a struggle and not like, oh gosh, I feel tight. Like I couldn't do it. Like, there's been a couple times I had to have Dave come help me get up, or I was afraid I was gonna have to holler and wake him up to just help me put my leggings on. And for someone who loves to move and loves to work out and whose job literally involves helping other people move better, it was a pretty humbling season for me. Um, and it lasted way too long and way longer than I should have allowed it to go. So I started working with Dr. Dinkle along with Lindsay Graham, the pelvic floor physical therapist that I've talked about before, and she's been a guest. And those two approaches together have honestly made a huge difference for me. And Dr. Dinkle's whole philosophy is really about getting to the root cause of what's going on in your body and not just putting a band-aid on symptoms. His clinic focuses on long-term wellness and corrective care so people can actually function better, not just temporarily feel better. And I'm excited to have him on. I think you guys will really like him and you'll like his approach. And I'm happy to report that I'm back. I'm back to moving, I'm back to working out the way I love to. I really kind of this week was probably the first week that I had that turnaround. Like working lower body was a huge struggle for me because I would always hurt afterwards. And so I was avoiding it. And, you know, I feel like I'm back to feeling like myself again. And the interesting part of that experience, that for a while I truly thought that I might not ever be able to work out the way I wanted to again. And in hindsight, it's actually a bit of a gift because now when someone tells me, Robin, I can't do that, I hear it differently. Sometimes can't really means can't. Sometimes there's pain, injury, fear, or a body that just isn't cooperating. And sometimes it's a little bit of fear mixed in with all of that, and you're just afraid. I had both. So there was a physical limitation, but there was also a moment where I wondered if I should just stop trying. So I'm really excited to sit down with Dr. Dinkel and talk about movement and healing and what actually happens when the body starts working the way it's supposed to again. He's been practicing chiropractic care since 2012 and works with people of all ages, from kids to active adults who just want to move and live better. And I think the conversation is going to be really helpful for a lot of you listening because if you've ever felt stuck in your body, if you've ever wondered whether you're dealing with a real limitation or just fear, you're not alone. And then I have some other guests that I'm working on lining up that I'm really excited about. I think I say it a lot. I think I say I'm excited a lot, but I'm an excitable kind of person. Um especially looking forward to is bringing in some or all of the women from the Midlife Collective to be a part of these conversations. This group has already started to bless me and each other in ways I didn't fully expect. The honesty, the questions, the perspective. It's been really special, and we just got started. And here's what I know about myself. When I'm hosting a conversation, there are always questions I don't need to ask because I'm coming from things at my own experience, from that view. But when you put a group of women together who are all navigating midlife in their own way, the questions get better. The conversations get deeper, and sometimes they get a lower little more real. So I'm excited that the ladies of the Midlife Collective will be occasionally joining in on the podcast conversations and help answer questions that I might overlook, which means that you guys, the listener, will probably get even better insights. The topics are going to stretch, just like Spandex. Um, I mean, not the topics just themselves, but our perspectives, our beliefs, the way we look at things in this stage of life. And originally with the collective group, my plan was to secure a group of founding members and then open the membership up fairly quickly to others. I've shifted. I think I shared that last week too. Right now I'm focusing on building a strong foundation with the eight women who are already inside the collective, letting the conversations grow naturally, letting the group find its rhythm. And then at a later date, I'll open the membership up again. Sometimes you have a plan, and then sometimes it just feels right in a different direction. And when that happens, I've learned it's usually best to trust that instinct instead of sticking rigidly to an outline or a budget spreadsheet or whatever. So I'm telling all of you, I'm telling you this for two reasons. Um, first, there are some great guests coming to the podcast, and second, because of the conversations happening inside the Midlife Collective, you're going to start hearing even more thoughtful questions and perspectives on the show. And honestly, it's exactly what I want this podcast to be about. So, real conversations, real life, and sometimes a little wine involved. I mean, I've I've said it from the beginning, just balance. Um, I know we hear the word balance and moderation a lot. But when we sit there and we really think about it, it's so true. We do need all of that. We need all aspects of it. So that's it, you guys. Thanks for listening today. Even though this episode didn't go quite the way I planned, it's maybe that's the point. Maybe that's what was supposed to happen today. Um, and sometimes the best conversations are the ones you didn't script, like you didn't know exactly what you were going to say. So just thank you for listening, for sharing episodes, for liking my posts on social media, just FYI, commenting is even better with the algorithm, and just supporting me in general. This is how small businesses survive. This is how small businesses thrive by you guys sharing. If you don't know how to do that, if you don't know how to share an episode, if you don't know how to share to social media, I am happy to help you with that. I appreciate you. Cheers.

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