Why Hustle Culture Fails Women—and What to Build Instead

Hustle harder. Push through. Work until you make it.

Sound familiar? For so many women, hustle culture has become a badge of honor—but behind the scenes, it’s leaving us burned out, resentful, and completely disconnected from the work we’re meant to do.

This week’s conversation is all about breaking free from hustle and building something better. You’ll hear the story of a woman who walked away from abuse, built and scaled multiple businesses, lost it all through betrayal, and finally discovered her true calling: helping women align with their soul’s purpose instead of chasing someone else’s definition of success.

Inside this episode:

• The reality of rebuilding after loss and betrayal
• Why “pushing through” doesn’t actually heal or grow your business
• How to tell the difference between ego-driven goals and soul-led ones
• What it looks like to build joy, confidence, and community instead of just revenue

Key Topics:

• Hustle culture and burnout
• Nervous system healing and alignment
• Rebuilding after setbacks
• Serving from your heart in business
• Creating success without ego

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Transcript

Why Hustle Culture Fails Women—and What to Build Instead

00:00:33] Penny Fitzgerald: For this week's episode, I had such a powerful conversation with fellow coach Brittany Studer. She's known professionally as Brit Nicole. Brittany's story takes us from walking away from an abusive marriage to building and scaling multiple businesses to losing it all.

Then finding her true alignment and calling. We talk about what it means to stop chasing hustle culture, how to rebuild when betrayal rocks your world and why serving from your heart creates the [00:01:00] kind of success money can't buy. Grab your favorite cocktail and join us. Here is Brit Nicole.

[00:01:07] Brittney Studer: Well, hi. 

Hi. 

[00:01:11] Penny Fitzgerald: Where are you located?

[00:01:13] Brittney Studer: I am in Texas, um, Texas, Amarillo, specifically.

[00:01:17] Penny Fitzgerald: Okay. I have a brother and family in Lubbock. 

[00:01:22] Brittney Studer: Okay. That's about two hours away from us. That is okay. Technically the closest big city bias. Otherwise we have to go like four hours away to Oklahoma, the city. 

[00:01:34] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh my gosh. 

[00:01:35] Brittney Studer: Yeah. 

[00:01:37] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah, 

[00:01:38] Brittney Studer: the plus side we have uh, something called Palo Duro Canyon here, which is the second largest canyon in the us So 

[00:01:46] Penny Fitzgerald: really 

[00:01:47] Brittney Studer: that's beneficial.

[00:01:48] Penny Fitzgerald: Well, okay. Is there a Costco at the bottom of the Canyon 

[00:01:53] Brittney Studer: girl? No, we ain't got nothing like that. The biggest thing we have is Sam's Club. Well, that's good. [00:02:00] We're farmland. 

[00:02:04] Penny Fitzgerald: Well, I'm in Iowa, so I feel you,

 it forces us to be resourceful, right? 

[00:02:08] Brittney Studer: It does. I guess. I don't know. I don't know what a life would be like having a Costco, so, 

[00:02:13] Penny Fitzgerald: or maybe that's a good thing. 

[00:02:15] Brittney Studer: We have a saying here that's like when people aren't used to. The smell of like farm, like oil or whatever, and then they come in mm-hmm. Like, and the wind is blowing in from the field. Oh yeah. Stuff. They're like, oh my gosh, what's that smell?

[00:02:30] Penny Fitzgerald: I'm like, dude, that's the smell of money. All right. Uhhuh. Exactly. That's exactly what that is. That is what money smells like, Totally get that. That's, that's a, an an "Iowegian" thing as well, so. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And it, funny story about Cedar Rapids. We're pretty close to Cedar Rapids, um, 20 minutes away or so, and we have a, a, um, general mill, like a breakfast cereal producer, like a production facility, and [00:03:00] people in Cedar Rapids know when it's Crunch Berry Day.

[00:03:04] Brittney Studer: What does it smell like? Just buried. 

[00:03:06] Penny Fitzgerald: Crunch berries. Yeah. You know, like the Captain Crunch? Yes. Yeah. It 

[00:03:09] Brittney Studer: literally just smells like that throughout the town. 

[00:03:12] Penny Fitzgerald: It does. 

[00:03:13] Brittney Studer: Wow. That's kind of, that's kind of cool. Like I've never experienced anything that's a friendly smell, you know?

[00:03:25] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh my gosh. That's fun. Oh gosh. Okay, so back to business. Oh. So tell my audience a little bit about you, um, your name, your background, and what you're doing. 

[00:03:41] Brittney Studer: Oh, geez. How much time do I have? 

[00:03:43] Penny Fitzgerald: Well, whatever you want. 

[00:03:45] Brittney Studer: My name is Brittney, but I go by Brit. Nicole. Professionally, I have been an ent, a serial entrepreneur for the past, going on 20 years.

Um, I started off. [00:04:00] In my early twenties, I married somebody that I was not supposed to be married to, and it turned into like a domestic situation, pretty abusive, and 

[00:04:09] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh wow. I 

[00:04:09] Brittney Studer: really thought it was gonna turn into like one of those murder, suicide type things. That's how scary it got. So one night, um, I decided, you know what, like.

This isn't the life I'm meant to live. Like what am I doing with myself? This is bonkers. So when he went to work the next day, I packed up and I left. And um, he ended up eventually taking his own life. But during that process of me leaving and that happening, it wasn't the easiest thing 'cause you know, um, wow.

Would see him. Parked across and 

[00:04:45] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh, no. Couldn't do 

[00:04:46] Brittney Studer: anything about it because it's on a private property. So like the police were like, I can't like do anything with it. Like, he's not hurting you. And I'm like, oh my gosh. Until he 

[00:04:56] Penny Fitzgerald: hurts you. 

[00:04:57] Brittney Studer: Exactly. Uh, but you know what, this [00:05:00] was back in the early like. I say early two thousands, like 2010 ish, 2011, but anyways, 

[00:05:07] Penny Fitzgerald: mm-hmm.

[00:05:08] Brittney Studer: Um, when I had left, of course, whenever you leave a situation like that, you have the choice to. You have the choice to do whatever you want, honestly. And a lot of, I wasn't allowed to have a job. I had to solely depend upon him. Hmm. And I wasn't allowed to have friends or family around. So that stripped part of 

[00:05:28] Penny Fitzgerald: his control over you?

[00:05:29] Brittney Studer: Yeah. It, it stripped my ability to, um, be me. And so when I left, I didn't have finances. And I was like, who is Britney? Like, my identity was so strict. I'm like. Who is Brittney and what does Brittney want to do? And I knew that if I went and worked for somebody, I'm putting in those hours, like literally the same exact hours in the day I'm putting towards somebody else's dream and somebody else's.

Hmm. Instead of. Mine [00:06:00] and I didn't have children at the time, so I'm just like, you know what? I'm already at rock bottom. Like, what is the worst that could possibly happen more? Right? Like 

[00:06:08] Penny Fitzgerald: uhhuh, 

[00:06:09] Brittney Studer: that can happen. And so, um, you hear, you hear a lot of entrepreneurs say. If you find a problem, get the solution and people will come.

I'm like, okay, what is a problem that I can find? And being in Amarillo, um, we did not have digital anything. Like there were no digital billboards. There's no digital menus at this time. And I was like, Ooh, you know what? What if I just brought that to town, right? So me being the spontaneous little butt that I am, I randomly got a flight to New York City and I walked into these businesses and spoke with the owners of digital marketing and learned from them.

I was gone for like, like maybe four days, five days. [00:07:00] Came back and um, my dad co-signed a loan for me to get out all of these TVs and do the digital work and everything, and. I just hustled my butt all the way into these places, into our mall and like other places. And, um, I quickly learned because of my age, I'm saying, I'm assuming that these are the reasons, but because of my age and because I'm female, I wasn't taking as seriously when I was meeting Uhhuh business owners too.

Get their business and sell their app Uhhuh, stuff like that. So, um, I went and sat, I sat myself in car lot parking lots and just watched these salesmen and I was like, okay, what are they doing differently then I'm not doing? And I was like, you know what? Screw it. Like I'm wasting my time. So I just approached, I approached these men, I was like, Hey, do you want some side money?

Like you wanna make some extra money? And they're like, oh yeah. So I just hired them to do it for [00:08:00] me. Oh. And yeah, they went in and they did the sales, and I started scaling the company and I quickly realized that this was not in alignment with me. Like I hated what I was doing. Mm, mm-hmm. 

[00:08:12] Penny Fitzgerald: I, 

[00:08:13] Brittney Studer: I woke up every Monday thinking, like, feeling, just, you know what I, I hate, I hate this.

Like I just. I was chasing up what I was doing and I was kind out to see if I could do something uhhuh, so I sold it in my early twenties, and I went back to the drawing board of like, okay, Brittney. What are my actual passions? And that was being creative. That was photography. So, um, I started building my photography business and I took what I learned from that digital media and implemented it into the photography side of things.

And within the first four months, I generated $20,000. I was like, oh my gosh. Like I can do this photography. Oh wow. Make money crazy. That's bonkers. Let's see what, let's [00:09:00] see what else I could do with this. So, um, I quickly realized that my passion was weddings, but not like the big formal, traditional weddings.

Mm-hmm. I love mm-hmm. Destination elopements. I love the small, intimate aspect of things and, um. I decided to open up an umbrella underneath Brit Nicole Photography for my destination work. And what I did with that was I hired other photographers that worked for Brit Nicole, and their job was the client journey.

And so we, we had them do the consultations with the clients. They went and did the shooting, and I trained them underneath me to make sure that the branding all stayed the same and then afterwards. Those clients came to me. I did the editing, I did the delivering. I did all the legal work. I did everything else that kept the business together.

[00:09:49] Penny Fitzgerald: In your twenties? 

[00:09:51] Brittney Studer: Yes. Yeah. Well, God, this is my later twenties and early Uhhuh 

[00:09:55] Penny Fitzgerald: type thing. Well still, yeah. How did you know to do all of that? I mean, [00:10:00] okay, so backing up a second. Yeah. When you started the photography side, realizing that you were passionate about it, but you made. Oh, you said 20,000 in your first four months?

[00:10:10] Brittney Studer: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So how did 

[00:10:11] Penny Fitzgerald: you do that? 

[00:10:12] Brittney Studer: That's a great question. Um, I'm self-taught and I learned very quickly early on that um, the best businesses, the best business owners, they utilize people. W in their strengths versus their weaknesses. So instead of me trying to do everything, what I ended up doing my first couple of months, uh, for my weddings, because again, no one's gonna hire me for like five grand to go shoot their wedding if I've never shot a wedding before.

Right? So what I ended up doing was I hired associate shooters that have been in the game longer than I have. They lacked the confidence of, 

[00:10:53] Penny Fitzgerald: oh my gosh, 

[00:10:54] Brittney Studer: what I had so. I brought them on and they would come and shoot the weddings with [00:11:00] me and behind the scenes, like I was learning from these other photographers of, wow, all these creative tips and tricks and stuff that they were doing, and Uhhuh, because they were associate shooters to me, I, that's still under the Brita Nicole brand, so.

Mm-hmm. I just, yeah, that's how I built it and learned from it. 

[00:11:19] Penny Fitzgerald: Wow. Wow. Let's break that down for just a second. 'cause that is, I mean, there's so much in there. Like you had the confidence, first of all, and they didn't,so were the women that you were working with predominantly women photographers?

[00:11:33] Brittney Studer: It was half and half. Yeah. 

[00:11:34] Penny Fitzgerald: Really. I feel like women, especially, we get so much imposter syndrome going Right. You know, we feel like, oh, how I don't have the. Guts to do that, or I don't have the degree to do that, or I don't have the whatever, X, Y, and Z to be able to implement that. But you just did it, do you?

I just did it. Do you think that came from, gosh, I'm looking back at your life and thinking [00:12:00] you were beat down, like literally and figuratively, emotionally, physically. You came from this background where you're afraid for your life. How did you get out of that? Protect myself mindset and into I'm going full bore.

Was it because of that? 

[00:12:17] Brittney Studer: No. I, you know, I think it was because of that, um, my childhood, I was such a free bird. I, to give you a little perspective of my type of personality, my senior year I walked into school and I, I'll never. I hope to never forget this. Um, the first day the teacher puts Beowulf down on my desk and that was the literature that we were gonna go over.

And everyone around me is so excited and I remember thinking the crap, is this gonna benefit me for like, what am I doing? Yeah. Like, 

[00:12:51] Penny Fitzgerald: this is 

[00:12:52] Brittney Studer: literally wasting my time. What time do I have? I'm a senior. What am I supposed to do? Right? Like that's [00:13:00] what I was thinking. I was like, this is such a waste of productive time.

Like to sit and read Beowulf. It's not gonna do anything for me. Umhmm. Without even talking to my parents. I went to the principal's office and I sat down and I asked him like, can you transfer me to, um, it was a school called Champs, which I would have to get on a bus to go to a very small pot town called Fritch, Texas.

And this school in particular is meant for troubled teens and pregnant teens to go to. Oh. But it's a self-paced program where you just. You get in there, you get the basics and everything of what you need to accomplish, done and out of the way, and you graduate. And a month later, I just bit the bullet. I did it and I went, wow.

I was like, Hey, this is what I wanna do. Okay, do it. So I did it and my senior year was a month long and, um, I ended up [00:14:00] moving, um, to Amarillo. which was 45 minutes away to start doing what I wanted to do. 

[00:14:06] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. I just, 

[00:14:08] Brittney Studer: I don't know, I craved more.

Mm-hmm. And then, um, I found myself in the position that I did of being in that with your 

[00:14:16] Penny Fitzgerald: ex-husband. 

[00:14:18] Brittney Studer: Like it, I knew that it was suppressing me. I knew that it was taking the life from me and I think that I had, um. It definitely like I'm a Christian and going back with my relationship with God of knowing like the desires of my heart and where I'm meant to be in life mm-hmm.

Called me out more than what the abuse and suppression did. 

[00:14:45] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm.

So 

[00:14:47] Brittney Studer: I, when I left, um, I was able to get back to my roots of. Brittney, once I found her again, once I healed from that part of my life. 

[00:14:56] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm. 

[00:14:57] Brittney Studer: And I think that's what, what I was able [00:15:00] to Wow. Put into play was just, I don't like wasting my own time.

[00:15:06] Penny Fitzgerald: Well, yeah. You were called to a higher purpose, or at least you knew there was something inside of you that needed 

[00:15:13] Brittney Studer: Yes. 

[00:15:13] Penny Fitzgerald: To fulfill something. You were, you were to be in service of someone in some way, even if you didn't know what it was. 

[00:15:21] Brittney Studer: Yep. 

[00:15:21] Penny Fitzgerald: Wow. Okay. So were your parents around during. The relationship.

And they were, 

[00:15:27] Brittney Studer: they were, um, I have great parents and thankfully, you know, I didn't even, again, being me, the type of person that I am, I have to learn from experience. That's just the type of personality I. I learned 

[00:15:42] Penny Fitzgerald: ornery 

teenagers you know, I mean, 

[00:15:44] Brittney Studer: well, I was in my early twenties, but still my frontal lobe was not fully developed at this time, so 

[00:15:50] Penny Fitzgerald: most peoples aren't.

[00:15:52] Brittney Studer: I know. I, I was telling my husband the other day, I was like, I don't think that my frontal lobe fully developed until my thirties. Like, I don't feel clarity [00:16:00] until then. But, um, when I was dating him, they even told me, they're like, Brittney, like this isn't lining up. He, he is not good like this. This is going to turn bad pretty fast if you don't put a stop to it.

Like they warned me. They 

[00:16:16] Penny Fitzgerald: mm-hmm. They 

[00:16:17] Brittney Studer: did everything that they could, but again, me just being me, I have to learn from experience of things. And I had, I don't know why I had this mentality of one, you don't know him like I do. Kind of like an embarrassing type thing. Like, uh, I don't want you to call me out on something that like, I'm embarrassed of.

Yeah. Two, it was just, um, I can fix him. 

[00:16:45] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh. Like a project. There's, you know. Mm-hmm. 

[00:16:49] Brittney Studer: Like, I, I felt, I felt like it's fine. I can just fix him. He can be happy too, you know, if I mm-hmm. Just show 

[00:16:55] Penny Fitzgerald: him 

[00:16:56] Brittney Studer: how happiness is or whatever, but, 

[00:16:58] Penny Fitzgerald: mm-hmm. [00:17:00] 

[00:17:00] Brittney Studer: Oh gosh. 

[00:17:02] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. Well, thank God that you came out of it. Okay. And you know better than Okay.

But yeah. Wow. That's scary. 

[00:17:12] Brittney Studer: Yep. But, um, one of the, I, I had this high, right? So I, I made. Two amazing brands within my photography business. And one of the skills that I didn't learn was how to hire. And I don't know if anybody out there who's listening, if you've ever hired within your business, like that, is a freaking skill that you need to learn and have when you're interviewing, when you hire, when you do all of the things.

And this one particular employee who was with me for, um, a little over a year. When she left, she decided, you know what, instead of like doing my own journey, I'm just gonna take everything in Brittney's and use it for myself and, oh, no kid, you not like, I truly am not exaggerating what I tell you this story, 

[00:17:59] Penny Fitzgerald: I believe [00:18:00] it.

Mm-hmm. 

[00:18:01] Brittney Studer: But back then was about 16 years that I had been in business, 16 or 17, and she took all of these 16 years of intellectual property. Oh, all my client journey templates, how I do my consultations, like I am everything. She Oh, 

[00:18:20] Penny Fitzgerald: wow. 

[00:18:21] Brittney Studer: Gonna take this. And um, you know, she, she had employment agreement, we had contracts, we had the non-disclosure, we had the non-competition.

Like we had all good place, right. 

[00:18:33] Penny Fitzgerald: Uhhuh 

[00:18:33] Brittney Studer: and um. Two ceases and desist did not work and the bleeding was still happening within my business. And when I dove in more to see like, okay, it's one thing to like utilize email templates and you know, the client journey and how you're shooting and stuff like that.

But it was another thing to see that the images that she was using was from my business to promote her. Oh, 

[00:18:59] Penny Fitzgerald: and 

[00:18:59] Brittney Studer: [00:19:00] that is a federal offense because they're 

[00:19:02] Penny Fitzgerald: called really? 

[00:19:03] Brittney Studer: Yeah. Copyright. 

[00:19:04] Penny Fitzgerald: Okay. 

[00:19:04] Brittney Studer: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, um, what I could physically see on the outside was 66 federally copyrighted infringements. And in the US whenever you copyright things, um, that person, uh, per copyright, you're looking about $150,000 worth of Oh, wow.

Per copyright. Okay. Like, that's how big of a deal copyrights are. 

[00:19:31] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:19:32] Brittney Studer: And so in order, going back, in order to get the bleeding to stop, I had to federally sue her. And to do that, I had, I had a certain amount of money set aside specifically for this, like, whenever you have scaled your business, you, you should always have.

A little bit of a flow to the side whenever hiccups come your way, especially like if [00:20:00] you are getting sued or if you're suing somebody like what have you, if you've been in business long enough, it's eventually going to happen. Right? Um, so, so I did that and those funds quickly, boop. 

[00:20:13] Penny Fitzgerald: Wow. 

[00:20:14] Brittney Studer: And I was like, oh crap.

Mm-hmm. Like, I'm in hot water now, what am I going to do? Because I can't just like, stop this lawsuit, you know, like mm-hmm. So I had to let go of all of my staff, all of my employees. Oh no. So this amazing great business that I built, this cash cow machine suddenly was put to a stop. 'cause I can't, I can't maintain all of that by myself.

That is physically and mentally impossible. 

[00:20:45] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:20:45] Brittney Studer: And so it felt like overnight everything came crashing down and. Um, following out the whole entire lawsuit, the business almost went bankrupt. And it, it's one thing, like I [00:21:00] feel myself, I feel like I can carry the weight of the business on my back. Um, but the second that it started seeping and bleeding into my family finances and just like we had a certain lifestyle that we wanted to live.

With our children. Mm-hmm. We have two young children, um mm-hmm. Now they're seven and nine, but back then they were, they were a lot younger and so mommy's happiness was no longer there. Um, they were put into private school. We had to remove them from private school, from their friends that. That's all that they knew was mm-hmm.

This private lifestyle. And we no longer could do that anymore. So that was one of, that was very hard for us to move them from a private school into a public school. And then not to be able to do the type of stuff that we wanted to do, like family vacations or mm-hmm. 

[00:21:57] Penny Fitzgerald: Um, 

[00:21:58] Brittney Studer: floating the investments that [00:22:00] we had purchased in order to retire eventually.

[00:22:03] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:22:04] Brittney Studer: So it. That alone took the biggest toll on not just, you know, financially, but 

[00:22:13] Penny Fitzgerald: mm-hmm. 

[00:22:14] Brittney Studer: My body, my body was in fight or flight mode for three years. I did not know how to get out of it. And during that time, I'm hiring business coaches and I'm like, what is wrong with me? Like, why can't I not get my head back into the game to build my business again or to do whatever, like I know what to do.

[00:22:32] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:22:33] Brittney Studer: Why can't I just do it? 

[00:22:36] Penny Fitzgerald: You're squashing down the grief, 

[00:22:38] Brittney Studer: like, oh my gosh, I'm 

[00:22:39] Penny Fitzgerald: not feeling it all. 

[00:22:41] Brittney Studer: Oh my gosh, yes. And what, what I ended up learning was for people who are listening, um, it's not a mentality set that you're going against. Because I had business coaches that would literally tell me like, you just need to change your mindset.

You need [00:23:00] to write on awesome. Post-it notes and like put it on your mirror and you can just do this. Just hustle through. Just push through. Well, pushing through is what almost killed me, like mm-hmm. Hustle culture is not okay for people who are, oh, white mode, preach, hustle, culture needs to be canceled, in my opinion, but, 

[00:23:16] Penny Fitzgerald: mm-hmm.

[00:23:17] Brittney Studer: Agreed. Yeah. And so it wasn't until. I met with, um, not only my therapist who did like EMDR and stuff, but also like a spiritual coach, and she was just like, Brittney, literally your body, your nervous system is just stuck. That's all that it is. It's just stuck and it just needs to be brought out. It needs to be flushed out, like mm-hmm.

There's nothing wrong with you. 

[00:23:45] Penny Fitzgerald: You've gotta feel all those feelings. You gotta let 'em out. Yeah. 

[00:23:48] Brittney Studer: And that's, you were asking like how I was able to, in the beginning to just plow through all that. Mm-hmm. What I learned is I thrive [00:24:00] back then I thrived off of being angry. I thrived 

[00:24:06] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh, off 

[00:24:06] Brittney Studer: of, yeah. I thrived off of, I'm gonna show you.

[00:24:11] Penny Fitzgerald: Watch me 

[00:24:12] Brittney Studer: and Yeah. And when you're stripped down in the healing process of, there's nothing more for me to be angry about, what do I do with this? Like, I don't know how to thrive scaling a business without being angry or trying to justify something or chasing after injustice, you know? I don't know what that type of life looked like, and this is where the Unstoppable SheEO was born is.

I finally got my plate, got to a point in my life of if I didn't have something to prove, what did I want to do with my life? Like, I did all the accolade stuff. Like I, my face was everywhere. I have all the [00:25:00] awards. I, I did all of the stuff, the American dream, you know, did all that. But I was chasing after something that wasn't in alignment with me.

I was chasing after the money, I was chasing after the fame. And what, what do I wanna do with my life now that I no longer want to chase after those? And here we are. 

[00:25:24] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. That's so powerful. I think a lot of that stuff comes from the way it's always been done and who's led it all along. It's men. Men thrive on that kind of mm-hmm.

Competitiveness and that kind of hustle mentality and. Women aren't built like that. Oh my gosh. We are creative and we have a purpose and we work on a different cycle and ebbs and flows and we have to use that to our advantage and to others to benefit others. You know, it's in our heart to serve others, not to be.

Look at what I did, you know? It's [00:26:00] just gross. You're not 

[00:26:00] Brittney Studer: wrong. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. 

[00:26:04] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh my God, 

[00:26:04] Brittney Studer: that's so crazy that you say that because like I'm currently working on, um. Like the SheEO community side of things and inside the community I decided to like take a different approach to work with people with my type of brain and mindset.

Like I squirrel a lot. And, um, I'm not diagnosed ADHD, I'm self-diagnosed. Like I hyper-focus on things. And uhhuh, going back to what you were saying, like the male dominated. S figures within entrepreneurship and businesses, they are all teaching you the hustle culture, the hustle flow. Mm-hmm. And if you don't follow this, then you're never gonna be successful.

[00:26:50] Penny Fitzgerald: Hmm. I was like, oh my 

[00:26:51] Brittney Studer: gosh. Like this whole time I've literally been fighting against my brain and, 

[00:26:58] Penny Fitzgerald: and your heart and your soul. My [00:27:00] alignment. 

[00:27:00] Brittney Studer: Yeah. Uhhuh. Been fighting against it this whole time, and that's why it felt so freaking hard. 

[00:27:06] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:27:07] Brittney Studer: Why are we not getting the message out there to other females?

Like 

[00:27:10] Penny Fitzgerald: Exactly. It's 

[00:27:11] Brittney Studer: not this hard girl. Like 

[00:27:13] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. 

[00:27:14] Brittney Studer: It's just we have this whole mindset or this thinking of we have to do exactly what Tony Robbins does because if we, if we didn't do what Tony Robbins is doing right now, then we're never gonna get successful or whatever. So like you were at earlier today when you were talking to me, um, I got stuck putting together like the lesson plans and the modules and the community and stuff because I don't want to go with what everybody else is doing, you know?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I want it to be for empowerment and for them to actually follow through on something that aligns with. What they're wanting [00:28:00] to do, instead of feeling like they have to push through because someone told them that they had to. 

[00:28:05] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. Yeah. That way is like pushing a rope up a hill. 

[00:28:10] Brittney Studer: Oh, that is so good.

[00:28:11] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. It's not, yeah, you're not, if you're not in alignment with your soul, you know, We're a soul with a body. Not a body with a soul. 

[00:28:20] Brittney Studer: Exactly. Yes. 

[00:28:23] Penny Fitzgerald: The body has to follow the soul, not the other way around. 

[00:28:27] Brittney Studer: And it feels like that's taboo to talk about.

[00:28:30] Penny Fitzgerald: I know. I know. It's a little woo, 

[00:28:33] Brittney Studer: but it's not though. Like it's not. Have you ever watched, have you ever watched like any of the near death experiences, like on YouTube or anything? 

[00:28:41] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh, Uhuh. 

[00:28:42] Brittney Studer: in some of these like near death experience videos, they talk about what it was like. For their soul to be on the other side.

Oh, wow. And what they experienced and mm-hmm. The type of energy that was around them. And like in the Bible, the [00:29:00] Bible specifically talks about like, you know, God is in everything. Right. Like even the stars were made to worship. Even the blades of grass have their own energy and worship style. 

[00:29:11] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:29:11] Brittney Studer: And in these near-death experience videos, like people are talking about that.

They're talking about how they walked on grass that was like. A color that we are able bodies cannot comprehend. Mm-hmm. That their spirit was experiencing like all of these different type of energies and all they felt was like this overwhelming sense of just love. 

[00:29:32] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. I love 

[00:29:33] Brittney Studer: that they have never felt before and of course they don't wanna come back and everything and I, I don't understand why that can't be talked about.

Because I feel like that is the spiritual realm, like mm-hmm. 

[00:29:48] Penny Fitzgerald: The 

[00:29:48] Brittney Studer: spiritual realm is energy. It is. I don't know. 

[00:29:52] Penny Fitzgerald: It's five D. Yeah. We're so used to like putting our feet on the floor and feeling solid. That's great. You know, and that's, [00:30:00] that's, that's energy too. But e everything is flowing. It's not just a constant, it's just not a rock.

It's that rock has energy too. Mm-hmm. I am. I have energy. You have? Yeah. It's. And it's really clear, like when, like us we're talking right now, I feel like we have a vibe. You know, we're able to relate to each other and it's just flowing. It's, that's energy too. Yeah. You know, so why can't we realize that there is energy and if I, if I use my energy for good to serve others, it's gonna attract more of that.

Yeah. It's gonna serve our community, serve our world. 

[00:30:39] Brittney Studer: Yes. And I feel like one thing that is kind of hard for people to comprehend is money is energy too. 

[00:30:45] Penny Fitzgerald: Exactly. So 

[00:30:46] Brittney Studer: if you have, if you have the poor mentality of like, ugh, I, I just can't get this to work, or 

[00:30:55] Penny Fitzgerald: scarcity my, 

[00:30:56] Brittney Studer: yeah. Like my bank account is never going to be blah, blah, [00:31:00] blah.

Like you are literally putting off those energy vibes to deflect. Money coming to you. Mm-hmm. But the second that you switch that to like, you know what, I'm good with money. Money likes me. I enjoy money. I love money. 

[00:31:18] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:31:18] Brittney Studer: Money can come to me easily. I don't have to fight for it. And just imagine that bank account like, you know what?

Yeah. Heck freaking yes. Why not me? That is inviting that type of energy to come to you versus it being just like pushed away. 

[00:31:36] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it takes practice. I feel like, especially with money, and especially for those of us who grew up in a little bit of a, a stricter religious background, it's very, you know, money is the root of all evil.

Well, no, that's not true. 

[00:31:51] Brittney Studer: Interesting. Why take, take me down that road. Why was mm-hmm um, why was that a thing? Like why is money the [00:32:00] root of all evil in our practice? 

[00:32:02] Penny Fitzgerald: that was just one thing that stuck in my brain from hearing as a little kid, you know? But I feel like it was more of, um, people who have money aren't using it for good, or they're just showing off, or they're look at the house that they have and it's just, it's energy.

So if you think about it, like, okay, money flows to people, to you. You can use it for good. You can be using money. It doesn't have to necessarily be seen by others to be being used for good or being used for evil. You know, you, there is evidence out there of good people who are very rich. There's also evidence of bad people are very rich, you know, or people doing bad things and not using it for a purpose that's, mm-hmm.

That's, good for others, How about we use that money for a, a higher purpose, [00:33:00] or how about we use our gifts for a higher purpose?

How about we serve people? what are your gifts? What this gift isn't necessarily better than this gift. It's just different. And maybe yours is, um, you know, speaking to people or mm-hmm. Helping people with their photography or, you know, leading classes. It's just whatever your gift is, use it.

Use it to serve. 

[00:33:24] Brittney Studer: Mm-hmm. 

[00:33:25] Penny Fitzgerald: If money comes from that, good. Use it again. Make it, make more of it. 

[00:33:30] Brittney Studer: Yes. I love that you said the word serve because I feel, I feel like where I personally went wrong was, um. I, I was chasing again, after the accolades, after the money aspect, after the ego part of me 

[00:33:46] Penny Fitzgerald: Exactly. The ego.

And whenever I 

[00:33:47] Brittney Studer: stopped chasing, whenever I stopped allowing my ego to fulfill all of those things, the purpose was to serve other women to come mm-hmm. Come into [00:34:00] confidence and walk in their alignment and to walk in their calling with full confidence that, yeah, girl, I can do this. 

[00:34:08] Penny Fitzgerald: Cool. Well, and then it becomes easier too when you realize that, that you're serving, then you can take off of yourself that, oh, I have to be perfect in order to do this.

Oh my 

[00:34:16] Brittney Studer: gosh, yes. And happiness comes without an agenda. 

[00:34:20] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. 

[00:34:21] Brittney Studer: That was a big deal for me. Happiness always had an agenda for me. I'll be happy when I'll be happy. Oh gosh, I'll be happy, blah, blah, blah. No, like I can just wake up and. Enjoy my life. Now. I can enjoy my kids and they're not annoying me if I, if they interrupt.

Something like that was a big deal. Like I was very snippy if anybody interrupted my flow of trying to do whatever. You are gonna get your head bit off, like, no, thank you. 

[00:34:53] Penny Fitzgerald: I've been there too. I mean, that really opens my eyes a little bit about, um, yeah, looking back. Mm-hmm. Kind of was the same way. You [00:35:00] know, I had an agenda too in the, in my old older jobs that I had in my career in, um, sales and in, you know, just in the, you set your goals for yourself or you set goals that are given to you by the company and you gotta go.

Yeah. Yeah, there it is. 

[00:35:21] Brittney Studer: There. That one is. 

[00:35:22] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's right. Just taking, taking the ego out of it and realizing who it is you serve and keeping that in mind. But it is a practice, right? I mean, you have to kind of remind yourself sometimes and recalibrate. 

[00:35:39] Brittney Studer: Yeah, I mean, for me, I literally fell off that high horse, like my horse was so high.

Nice. That ball hit hard. It was very painful. 

[00:35:50] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. That was when the, when the other, um, person took your intellectual property and left. 

[00:35:56] Brittney Studer: Yeah. 

[00:35:57] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh my gosh. Yeah. So how did that come [00:36:00] out? I mean, what did, were you able to recoup some of your money and all that? Oh 

[00:36:04] Brittney Studer: my gosh, no. Like nobody, what I, what I quickly learned, I say quickly, that crap took over a year to see.

Oh, I'm 

[00:36:13] Penny Fitzgerald: sure. 

[00:36:13] Brittney Studer: Okay. Quickly, Brittney, come on. What? Nobody wins. 

[00:36:21] Penny Fitzgerald: No, 

[00:36:21] Brittney Studer: nobody wins. She didn't win. I didn't win. My lawyers won, that's for 

[00:36:27] Penny Fitzgerald: sure. 

[00:36:28] Brittney Studer: But nobody wins in this situation. Nobody walks out unscathed. 

[00:36:33] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:36:34] Brittney Studer: Like even though on paper, technically I got what I needed to get, there's, there was no reimbursement of.

All of the finances that went into it. There was no reimbursement of my attorney fees, fees and right trauma that I went through. No, that, that [00:37:00] was the three year walk that I had to learn and heal from of, okay, Brittney, like, get out this victim mentality like, this didn't happen to you. This happened for you.

Now, why did this happen for you? What did you learn in this process? For you to be able to take and help other people instead of staying in the mindset of like, oh my gosh, can you believe that this happened to me? Like, uh, you know? 

[00:37:27] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. Yeah. What would you have done differently? Would you, would you have done anything differently?

[00:37:33] Brittney Studer: Oh, wow. That is a great question. Um

If I would not have gone through what I went through, I would not have been invited to go to DC to sit at the round table in front of the house administration to offer. This one company is, um, trying to pass a bill to help other small businesses in a digital realm to protect themselves better. [00:38:00] 

[00:38:00] Penny Fitzgerald: Um, 

[00:38:00] Brittney Studer: because, you know, the federal laws are written in dinosaur form in such a digital world.

It's insane. Like a, a business should not have to go bankrupt to protect yourself, um, when somebody feels for me digitally. and then also, I don't think I would've had the clarity. Of the unstoppable CEO and what she means. Mm-hmm. And what her purpose is. Um, I think that if I did not go through what I went through, I also still would be chasing the photography aspect of things.

[00:38:33] Penny Fitzgerald: Hmm. 

[00:38:34] Brittney Studer: Um, that I wouldn't be walking in, like, is my calling photography? Yes. Well, or it's, my calling is to create. I'm a creative being. I can take, I see beauty in the most random things that most people don't see, and I'm able to articulate and create that for other people to be able to see it. [00:39:00] So I don't necessarily know if I would've changed anything outside of reaching out to her directly on more of a heart level instead of an ego level and just saying like, Hey, you know.

I don't enjoy what you're doing. Like it is actually hurting more than it is helping. And you yourself are not gonna be able to establish your own foundation, like you're establishing your foundation on sand is what you're doing. And if you want to do photography, like you can do it. Just use your own stuff, be your own person, do your own things.

I think I would've gone with that approach, but again. Where would've it have bled me? Like if she would've stopped? Mm-hmm. would I have had all the opportunities that I have now? I don't know. 

[00:39:46] Penny Fitzgerald: That's a great, great reflection. 

[00:39:48] Brittney Studer: Yeah. You took me down a whole rabbit hole on that one.

[00:39:52] Penny Fitzgerald: Well, you are welcome.

Oh gosh. Yeah, that is, um, it's good to [00:40:00] think about 'cause it, I don't know, you come across as a really grateful person in spite of the things, or maybe because of the things that you've gone through, but it's, I think when we approach things with gratitude, it really, nothing bad can come from that.

 don't you feel like that's, um, that solves a lot of problems? 

[00:40:21] Brittney Studer: It does, but I also, that was again, a lesson that I had to learn.

'cause when you're in your ego, you're not really grateful. You're thinking about all the things that you should have and comparing yourself to 

[00:40:35] Penny Fitzgerald: what 

[00:40:36] Brittney Studer: other people already have. 

[00:40:38] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:40:38] Brittney Studer: Why am I not there? Oh, it's because she ruined my life by stealing from me. 

[00:40:44] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm. Like 

[00:40:44] Brittney Studer: That doesn't get anybody anywhere.

And no household in that vibe and in that negative energy. That's not where I want my kids to grow up in. That's not mm-hmm. I want my kids to have as their childhood. 

[00:40:59] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:40:59] Brittney Studer: [00:41:00] So like, yeah, that's really important. Being, being grateful was something that I had to force myself to learn. 

[00:41:09] Penny Fitzgerald: A practice.

Yeah. Sometimes you just have to start from zero. Like, okay, I'm grateful for the sunshine today. Mm-hmm. when you start seeing the good, any good, you start seeing more of it. It's like the attraction thing, the energy thing. When you see good things, more good things happen and you'll notice more good things.

And the more good things you notice, the more good things come to you. 

[00:41:29] Brittney Studer: Mm-hmm. Yes. Oh my gosh. I feel that so deeply. I feel that so deeply. Yeah. 

[00:41:37] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh, cool. Okay. So this, the Unstoppable SheEO what do you do? Um, now what is, what has your company become? 

[00:41:46] Brittney Studer: during the lawsuit process.

I had like this vision, it felt like it just like boom, out of nowhere. Like it just downloaded in my brain type thing. But like I saw this vision of where I was standing on [00:42:00] this stage and there were like hundreds of women out there in front of me. I can't see their faces or anything. We're getting to that woo woo version.

It's not gonna be Woo. I love it because you understand it and mm-hmm. People who are listening, they're definitely gonna understand it. But, um. Like I, I was up on the stage and I was just talking and I could, I could see, I could physically see like these chains breaking off of these people and that they were able to, like,

Their energy went from like grayish. It was like these auroras that were coming out of there, coming from them, but like it went from like this grayish to like this undeniable full spectrum colors and wow, breaking off of them and. I have not gotten emotional for a long time about this. This is crazy.

Like I'm, I'm getting all teary eyed for those of you Uhhuh who are listening to the [00:43:00] audio version, but like they had the realization and connection of like, oh my gosh, I'm not trapped. Like I can truly. Walk in alignment in my calling and change the trajectory of not just myself, but my children and their children.

Like, I can create this legacy that is so deeply embedded in my heart. And I was helping them do that, which was like, 

[00:43:27] Penny Fitzgerald: oh, so 

[00:43:28] Brittney Studer: crazy. Mm-hmm. So I, instead of going into the photography, going back to it because it felt, it was comfortable into what I, oh gosh. There it is. Yeah. Yeah. I, I know that my calling is such a higher, higher purpose, and so.

I started building out the Unstoppable SheEO and um, I applied for these speaking gigs and I got turned down everywhere you go because I didn't have speaking reels to send them of what I'm like on stage or the type of transformation I can give or [00:44:00] whatever. So I created my own summit and um, the very first summit happened this year in January and it sold out and it was like so incredibly cool and it was like the best.

Talk about being grateful. The stories that people were coming up and telling me afterwards are just like, if I would not have done this summit 

[00:44:22] Penny Fitzgerald: mm-hmm. 

[00:44:23] Brittney Studer: That would not have helped you type thing. It was just a really cool experience. And so, um, I got a taste of, wow, what does it actually mean to be unstoppable?

 What other practices or ways outside of just, you know, a summit? Can I, what can I do? So I open up the Unstoppable SheEO podcast, um, and then I am working currently on the community aspect of things because like I'm building out what I wished I would've had three years ago. 

[00:44:57] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm, mm-hmm. 

[00:44:59] Brittney Studer: Yeah. Like [00:45:00] if I just would've had.

Somebody grab my face and just say, there's nothing wrong with you. Like you're just, you're living in your trauma. Like, let's help you move from step one and step two. And it's not through just like words of affirmation. Like, we're gonna do some like real work and put out roadmaps that work with your brain, where your brain is at right now.

Not in the hustle culture. It gets you to the end result where you actually can cross that finish line. And that is exactly what I'm building right now for people and to hold them accountable, but to, my main focus is to work with people where they're at and to get them through the finish line, 

[00:45:47] Penny Fitzgerald: That's beautiful. Oh, that's very similar to what I do too.we're talking about your energy and your mindset and your, your nervous system, you have to reset [00:46:00] it. So, you know, I teach women how to use, you know, certain systems, technology, chat, GPT, all of the things. But if you don't have the confidence or if you are not.

Okay. To do it. If you don't feel safe doing it, if you're, if you don't wanna move outta that comfort zone, you're not gonna take those steps to actually use the systems that help you scale your business. 

[00:46:27] Brittney Studer: Absolutely. 

[00:46:29] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. So we are very much aligned. I love that. Yeah. 

[00:46:31] Brittney Studer: We are. And sometimes like to be fair, um, like that icky feeling 

[00:46:37] Penny Fitzgerald: mm-hmm.

[00:46:38] Brittney Studer: You could just be. Trying to push something that isn't in alignment for you. 

[00:46:45] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:46:46] Brittney Studer: Like all you, you don't have to start over. You don't have to start completely fresh. 

[00:46:49] Penny Fitzgerald: No. You need to just 

[00:46:51] Brittney Studer: pivot a little and readjust where your focus and your energy is going and, nope. Yeah. Then you'll start [00:47:00] feeling that alignment.

You'll start feeling that happiness without an agenda. 

[00:47:03] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. Well, and maybe that icky feeling that's telling you that you have to start all over is just your nervous system trying to keep you safe. Mm mm mm-hmm. Maybe it's just to feel icky for, you know, half an hour while you do this one thing. 

[00:47:19] Brittney Studer: Yep. 

[00:47:20] Penny Fitzgerald: Or while you call somebody to do that one thing.

[00:47:23] Brittney Studer: Yeah. My icky feeling like mm-hmm. I kid you not, it felt like I was getting mauled by a freaking bear anytime that my phone went off of like my systems. 

[00:47:34] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. 

[00:47:35] Brittney Studer: But it was all because like anytime that my phone went off during that year of that lawsuit, it was from my lawyer telling me, whatever, more bad news for an invoice or you know, whatever.

Yeah. Oh, 

[00:47:45] Penny Fitzgerald: ouch. Yeah. You were trained that that was not a thing. I was trained, 

[00:47:52] Brittney Studer: I was trained to get mauled every day. 

[00:47:55] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh 

[00:47:55] Brittney Studer: gosh. 

[00:47:57] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. We're not meant to live like that. [00:48:00] 

[00:48:00] Brittney Studer: No, it was awful. It sucked real bad. 

[00:48:01] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. Well, and um, I gotta believe karma will come. 

[00:48:07] Brittney Studer: But that's the thing like. Was that the most horrific, painful thing that I feel like I've gone through?

Yes. Even comparing to the marriage? Mm-hmm. I do. 

[00:48:18] Penny Fitzgerald: Really? 

[00:48:18] Brittney Studer: I do. Yeah. This hurt a lot worse. It was more painful and I, I don't know why. I truly don't know why it, wow. It truly was more horrific to me than the marriage. Was 

[00:48:30] Penny Fitzgerald: it because you trusted this woman more, my gosh. And maybe you knew what your ex was all about.

[00:48:36] Brittney Studer: I That is, that's literally what my therapist said. She was like, oh, my betrayal is the number one hardest trauma to heal from. 

[00:48:48] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm. 

[00:48:48] Brittney Studer: And I don't, I didn't feel betrayed by my ex, like I felt like Yeah. 

[00:48:52] Penny Fitzgerald: 'cause you knew what he 

was. 

[00:48:53] Brittney Studer: Yeah. Like. Okay there. That was my choice, blah, blah, blah. But it wasn't my choice to [00:49:00] hire somebody who was going to do that to me.

Yeah. Someone that I trusted with my baby that I built. 

[00:49:04] Penny Fitzgerald: Right. 

[00:49:06] Brittney Studer: I don't, I don't know like it, I've had a few people say Karma will get to her, but like, I don't know if I want Karma to get to her. Like, well, 

[00:49:13] Penny Fitzgerald: it's none of your business really. I mean, that's hers. 

[00:49:17] Brittney Studer: Ooh. That's so good. Aw, that was delicious. That was, that was good.

[00:49:26] Penny Fitzgerald: Well, you're welcome for that too. 

[00:49:29] Brittney Studer: It's, it is none of my business. Yeah. Yeah, it is. That 

[00:49:34] Penny Fitzgerald: chapter for you is behind you and you're just pushing forward and not pushing forward. You are walking toward your older, wiser self. 

[00:49:44] Brittney Studer: And she was very difficult to connect to. 

[00:49:47] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh, yeah. 

[00:49:48] Brittney Studer: Very, very hard to find. 

[00:49:50] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. Yeah.

You have to really listen. You have to be willing and ready to listen. 

[00:49:55] Brittney Studer: Yeah. 

[00:49:56] Penny Fitzgerald: I, oh wow. 

[00:49:57] Brittney Studer: For sure was not like, ready for three years. [00:50:00] 

[00:50:00] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. But yeah, the, the more that you practice this, the more that you listen to her, um, the more people you'll serve. 

[00:50:11] Brittney Studer: Oh, for sure. And she is freaking shining now. Nice. Like I love her now.

[00:50:17] Penny Fitzgerald: Aw, that's so cool. I've got goosebumps. 

[00:50:20] Brittney Studer: Good. 

[00:50:21] Penny Fitzgerald: I'm glad. Oh, very cool. Yeah. Okay. Uh, we have been chatting a while. This is so fun. Yeah. I've so enjoyed meeting you, Brittney. This is amazing. So, at the end of my conversations I like to bring it around to cocktails 'cause it's kind of my way of celebrating and such.

So, um, do you have a favorite cocktail or a glass of wine? 

[00:50:43] Brittney Studer: Uh, no, not wine. I'm not a wine person. 

[00:50:48] Penny Fitzgerald: Uhhuh. 

[00:50:49] Brittney Studer: I love me some good whiskey. 

[00:50:52] Penny Fitzgerald: Oh, really? I 

[00:50:53] Brittney Studer: do. Girl do 

[00:50:55] Penny Fitzgerald: tell. 

[00:50:55] Brittney Studer: I just, I, I love whiskey. [00:51:00] Just not, I love anything. I love it on the rocks. Like, 

[00:51:03] Penny Fitzgerald: okay. Yeah. A, a particular brand or label? What do you, what do you gravitate?

to 

[00:51:08] Brittney Studer: I like, um, there's this one called Woodford. I really like that one. Oh my God. What 

[00:51:15] Penny Fitzgerald: we are going there. Okay. So my husband and I and some friends were joining together in Kentucky for a bourbon trail in a month. 

[00:51:24] Brittney Studer: Ooh, I like that. That's awesome.

You're gonna have to send me some photos and stuff. Okay. I will. I really like, I like them and I also, um, there's like pecan type flavor whiskeys that I, yes. It might be the Texan in me. I love pecan whiskeys. 

[00:51:40] Penny Fitzgerald: I love pecan anything. Yeah. 

[00:51:42] Brittney Studer: Oh gosh. Pecan pie. Just give it to me. All pumpkin and pecan. I'm all about it.

[00:51:50] Penny Fitzgerald: Tis the season too. 

[00:51:52] Brittney Studer: We're getting there, aren't we? Yeah, 

[00:51:55] Penny Fitzgerald: almost. Oh my gosh, that's so fun.So what's a fun memory? [00:52:00] Shared with some girlfriends or Or family or friends? Over Nice glass. 

[00:52:05] Brittney Studer: Over nice glass. Oh gosh. Mm-hmm.

nothing in particular is coming to mind except for just, um, the fellowship time. 

[00:52:15] Penny Fitzgerald: Yes. 

[00:52:16] Brittney Studer: With people. Like there isn't one specific of like, oh my gosh, you wouldn't believe that this happened on this day. Yeah. I, my, my soul connects better when it's like relationship like one-on-one. Yes. And so it definitely is just going back to like being in my best friend's house and our husband's.

Are sitting next to us and we're just sitting there having a glass and talking about life in general. Mm-hmm. Like I'm all about deep conversations. So yeah, it's, you 

[00:52:50] Penny Fitzgerald: are my people.

Yeah. I love that. Sometimes I'll sit back and just look around the room of, you know, all my friends in the same [00:53:00] room and the same space and just be so grateful. 

[00:53:02] Brittney Studer: Oh my gosh. Yes. So being, just being observant. 

[00:53:06] Penny Fitzgerald: Mm-hmm. 

[00:53:07] Brittney Studer: You're at in life now. Yeah. 

[00:53:10] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah. And 

[00:53:11] Brittney Studer: when I'm taking myself back to that one particular time, like seeing all of our kids just running across, oh, going up the stairs to just go play We had the opportunity to have friends, to sit in fellowship with them and to have our children play together and have dinners and cookouts and stuff like that. Like it's, I don't know that that fulfills me more than, yeah. Anything else? 

[00:53:37] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah, absolutely. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And the real realization that your kids are growing up together and having fun together and, oh, so fun.

Yeah, it's, oh, love it. Oh, Brittney, this has been so amazing. Thank you so much. 

[00:53:52] Brittney Studer: Of course. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Yeah. 

[00:53:55] Penny Fitzgerald: For sure I, I'll be sure to include your links in my show [00:54:00] notes in front of my people and everything too. 

[00:54:02] Brittney Studer: Oh, thank you.

[00:54:02] Penny Fitzgerald: Alright, well you have a wonderful rest of your day. 

[00:54:05] Brittney Studer: Thank you. You too, Penny. Thanks. 

[00:54:08] Penny Fitzgerald: Yeah, for sure. Stay in touch.

[00:54:10] Brittney Studer: Yes. Okay.