From Pencil Skirts to Yoga Pants: Rachel Got her Groove Back

In this uplifting and fun episode, I sit down with Rachel Fitzpatrick — a corporate project executive turned yoga instructor, podcaster, and all-around radiant soul. Rachel shares her incredible journey of transformation: from strutting the downtown office halls in heels and pencil skirts to embracing the freedom (and comfort!) of yoga pants as she navigates motherhood, self-discovery, and new passions.

We talk about the pivotal moments that sparked her evolution — a life-changing yoga festival, the magic of motherhood during a pandemic, and the joyful shift from corporate hustle to soulful fulfillment. Along the way, Rachel opens up about some hilarious and humbling moments (like the infamous skirt blowout!), the power of being present, and how she manifests the life she loves every day.

If you’re ready for a dose of real talk, laughter, and inspiration to find your own groove — this episode is for you. Get ready to feel uplifted, empowered, and reminded that sometimes the best styles are the ones that let you be unapologetically YOU!

Episode Highlights:

• Rachel’s journey from corporate America to yoga instructor and podcast host
• How a life-changing yoga festival sparked a powerful personal transformation
• Navigating motherhood and career during the challenges of the pandemic
• The hilarious (and relatable) story behind Rachel’s “skirt blowout” moment
• Embracing authenticity: trading high heels for yoga pants — and loving it!
• The power of presence and letting go of expectations to create space for joy
• Manifestation in action: how Rachel intentionally shaped her new path

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Transcript

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Hey friends. Welcome to the Enter Spark podcast. I'm your host, Casey Caton. If you're looking to hear stories of transformation and personal growth, this podcast is for you. My guest and I will be sharing those sparking moments that has changed the mental living a more fulfilling authentic life. I'm so excited for you to hear each unique story. So sit back, relax, and let's get started. Hey friends. Welcome back to the Enter Spark podcast. I'm your host, Casey Taton. Today I have a special guest with me, Rachel Fitzpatrick. She is a yoga instructor, a podcaster of the Fit Zen Project. She is a beautiful son and she's just an all around amazing, beautiful person. Welcome, Rachel. Hey, thank you Casey. It's so great to be here. It was like my first day to be Yay. First guest. I'm so excited. Gonna be fun. It's an honor. I am just excited. I was asked, so it just means the world, so thank you. Oh, you're welcome. So she has a po, a podcast out. I will tell you guys that we met in Kathy Heller's World. And of course I'm in Kansas and you're in, Kentucky. Yeah. Yeah. And smack in the middle of the state and she's in Kentucky. So it's really just beautiful how we can have this connection and do these new fun adventures and learn together. Absolutely. Yeah. I just, it is, there's something about you when you just laugh. It's so like you, if you guys could see her on screen, I'll post a picture, her face, her smile, like she just lights up a room and that's the kind of energy she brings to the calls and when you listen to her. It's just so much fun to be surrounded by people like that. Well thanks. Thanks. I have a couple questions for you. Question, I guess, would you tell them a little bit about your story? Yeah, so I am currently a project executive and really love my job. Very, very corporate America. And I don't know that, people love corporate America that work in corporate America, but I'm one of the few, and I also am a mom to this amazing 4-year-old little boy who, just mainly make all my decisions and creations based off of, if I was four years old, if I was my son, what would I do now? You know? Yes. So that's how I've been living my life the past four years, and it's been real majestic. And then I. Um, you know, I'm a, in a relationship. I've got a really great partner and he supports me in all of these like, wild and crazy ideas like joining Kathy Heller's world, doing podcasting and starting up a yoga retreat. All of these things like have been since January and I'm sure he's just, you know, chasing this tail trying to keep up with me. But it's worked. But, um, yeah, so like how I even got here, I can, um. I can remember being a little girl and watching the movie, how Stella Got Her Groove back. You know what I'm talking about? Oh, yes. So I was super emotional as a TV watcher. Like I would watch movies and people would die. I'd see'em in a movie again. I'm like, oh my God. They're alive. You know, just be so, um, invested in the roles. And I'm like, I don't know if these guys are really good producers or these guys are really good actors, but either way they got me, uh, every, every time, you know, it didn't matter. Tears and all. Yeah. Yep. I'm just an emotional person. Yeah, it's, that's what I love about you though, because you, you're just so genuine and real. First of all, I wanna acknowledge that you just said. You love your job. So my boyfriend loves his job. Like he, it's his life, his world. He just absolutely wants to talk about it all the time. And it doesn't matter how long the days are, he loves his job and there are not very many people that do that. So when you say that and you are like, I love my job, it's, and your face lights up, it's so exciting because so many people are resisting that and you're just like, no, I love my job. And. I'm also starting all these new fun projects. Yeah. Yeah. It gives me a lot of space. I think. There were times where I didn't love my job and I had to make decisions and hard conversations and choices to be real with myself and move up and out or. Be done, but there was no more staying in this situation, you know? Yeah. So, um, Hey, will you go back to that movie? I wanna take you back to that movie. Ah, yes, yes. Well, I mean, just watching that movie as a child and watching how she went through this massive hardship and then. She goes on this vacation, right? And to Jamaica, if I'm not mistaken. And she finds this like really hot dude and she, she makes a new relationship out of something that just was so shitty with her marriage and all of that other stuff. But then she's like this like secretive corporate boss babe, you know, like. Yeah, I would say another word, but uh, you know what I mean? Yeah. And I'm like, yes, look at this woman empowerment. And then, you know, at seven years old, that was early nineties for me, that didn't exist. Like this movie just was like, set the pace for all the movies thereafter for women empowerment. And she was also a woman of color too, which was not seen in the world at the time. Not that I knew that as a 7-year-old, but right. That was what I watched as a 7-year-old, so it automatically was true, you know, because if you died in the movie, you were dead in real life to me. Yeah, no, I mean, that's how our brains worked. When you're that age, you're just, yeah, especially when you're, I am emotional as well. When I watch movies, I'm like crying, you know, all the fills. So, or celebrating, you know, all the fills. That, that is a hundred percent true. Yeah. And then I think it's probably why sweet Home Alabama was so good too, you know? Oh yeah. If you really think about it, the small town girl just going up and getting after it and loving being a lawyer and all these things. But anyway, I was gonna do some corporate stuff and I was gonna wear high heels. And I was gonna wear pencil skirts and I was gonna look beautiful and have lipstick on and go to work every day and this office space and see like cars out my window and city skylines and all the things. So that was my goal, right. And then, um, life happened. All sorts of weaves. I was a server for 10 years. It took me six years to get through college. Like there were some things I just like, took some decisions and was like, yeah, let's throw spaghetti at the wall, see if it sticks. And there was a loss of clarity between seven and 33. You know, I. I think that happens to many of us. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I got way off track, but um, I finally reached my track again. I went to a Wonderlust yoga festival and I went by myself and I was. 31, 32. I don't even remember how old I was, but I was 30 something. Could have been 30 for all I know. But, it was the first time I'd ever gone to a festival alone and I was like, I'm gonna do it. And it's a yoga festival, so it's gotta be safe, right? Because. People are all about peace, love, and happiness. Yes. So, so I go and there were these, amazing speakers there, just these movements that were, you could just feel it move through your body. It didn't matter whose class you went to, what you were doing, if you were watching a speaker, if you were participating in yoga class, it didn't matter. It was even going to the little shops I remember. And making this connection with someone who was just selling yoga pants and making a connection about women who run with wolves. That specific book. Okay. Yeah. So all of this is starting to really plant some seeds in, in my mind and in my way of life and things. And um, at the time before this adventure, I was not gonna have kids. I was just gonna be on this like. Corporate America road path, doing all things, to go up the ladder. Like that was just what I was gonna do. I was set on it and I was already in corporate America and joined some time at the moment, but it didn't click until this festival. And that's when I realized like, I gotta get aligned, you know? Yeah. And it was mind, body, soul. To then project up and out and enjoy my job, enjoy teaching yoga, enjoy doing yoga, and what it is that, like, what kind of legacy I wanna leave behind. And that's when I decided, like was ready for a child, went to this class and she was talking about she's a single mom and. It was hard, but her son was just amazing and was just the whole being for what she was doing. And I swear to you at that moment I could feel my ovaries wake up. They were like, yes, you're gonna do it. At the time I was single, I had no prospects or anything like that going on, but I just. To do. I was like, yeah, Dex guy, I meet, I'm gonna have a baby. That's basically how it went, but, you know, um, yeah, that happened. That's exactly how it went. I manifested that right out of that. I was gonna, festivals gonna say you, you're a heck of a manifester. Yeah, it happened. So, woo. Got, got that done. Went through Covid with a newborn. Oh. And. I had a baby during new, like covid, like all of that. And yeah, life just, I. Drastically changed for me at that moment. I was no longer going to the office in high heels and dresses.'cause I was, I was up to that point, up till Covid and then pregnancy. But, um, I mean, I was fashion forward in everything that I had. I had the bags, I had the shoes, I had the suit jackets, all the things. And I was working downtown Louisville. It was so freaking cool. And I would travel and I was just being like, yes. I mean, I'm just working a job. But it was so much fun'cause I was. Stella, I was doing it. I was right there with her. But, um, I love it. Yeah. That's so powerful. When she says that you guys, if you could see her face light up, like, I mean, I'm, I'm glad you described it so well because you loved dressing up and you loved. Doing all of that? Yeah. Yeah. That was my jam. I mean, I would go to work with heels on and I had sketcher,, walk shoes in my drawer, and I'd put those on while I was at work. And then I'd walk around downtown, in my stupid little shoes, in my really cute outfit. And then. You know, at the end of the day I'm putting my shoes back on and I'm like, well, that was a good day. I'm wearing for five minutes going to and from my car. I love it. Maybe to a meeting if I had to be in person, but yeah. Yeah, it was great. But then, yeah, I, and then I was working in Covid and transitioned, had a weird thing happen to me where. I was now pregnant and single and. That was um, an emotional time.'cause it's also covid. Yeah. Right. I can't even imagine. Oh, that was a whole chapter of, that was, that's its own chapter book. But what came out on the other side was a magical experience. And then I ended up moving back to my hometown in this tiny town. I don't live in the city anymore and I wear yoga pants to work and I still have sketcher shoes. Then I will wear when I drop off my sun and that's pretty much, Stella got her groove back and then Stella is just like comfortable in in love now and it's fine. It's a hundred percent fine. I love it. I love it. Um, oh my goodness. Sorry. It's so true that it's so funny that when we change, we're like. And then I got comfortable and then I wear the yoga pants and I'm totally fine with it. And it's fine. And it's fun and, and it's me. And, and yes, I can still dress up, but I get to wear the yoga pants and, and love it. That's right. That's exactly right. And I have like, I had a whole closet when I moved. Here dedicated to my work clothes because I thought, you know, one day I'm gonna go back to the office, like that's gonna happen. Even though I moved to the center of the state of Kentucky, there aren't no such thing as office here. Like this is just a tiny town and if you wanna office space, you gotta rent it out. You know? But, um, it, yeah, I've still got some dresses and I should probably find, a woman who needs some. To go to go to work. They're cute. Yeah. I work from home now, so it doesn't matter. Do you still enjoy working from home? Wow. Yes and no. It was such an adjustment at first and it was really, it took away like my social time. Because I really loved the people that I worked with, and now I get a lot of stuff done. And just kind of irritated, but it never ends and it just keeps adding on. They're like, oh, you're doing it this quick? And I'm like, yeah, well, there's not anything else going on right now. You know, I don't have anybody's cubicle to go chat with or go spend an hour with my boss and just shoot the shit, whatever. But like no one's around me. Yeah, I have a lot of time. So, yeah. Now I'm a better worker. You feel like, dang it. Dang it. You caught on a little bit faster now. I did it. Got it. It got me good. Oh. But I do love it and it's, it is great because I also will take my computer and I'll go to coffee houses, or I'll go up to the yoga studio. Where I teach, it's combined with a coffee house, so it is really great. But that's only great if you don't have meetings and you can slide in there, take a class, slide out, and don't have any meetings. But you know, that's not how my life goes right now. So I'm packed with meetings and. Yeah, but one day somebody mainly me might open up a yoga studio that has office space where it's not a coffee shop or busy and you're in there and able to leave your cubicle office, go take a class and go back to your cubicle office and it'll be smooth. I think you just, you just manifested it on this call. It's happening that probably it more than likely will happen now. Yeah, that's the next fits in project. I'm just gonna tell my partner right now so he can just start getting this nervous system trust. I have this new idea and this is what it is and this is where we're going. Yeah, you're gonna love it. Yep. We go. Would you say, so I always say what sparked you? Would you say that, I know you still do your corporate job, but you've also grown and changed. Would you say that festival changed you or having a kitchen changed you? Like what truly was that moment that was like, my life is good, but there's more, So many different shifts have happened for that, with the yoga festival for sure. That, that it got me good. That was definitely a pivotal moment for me and what resonated to my soul. So there's that part, and then Covid changed me. In a very drastic way. I was in my very first house. It was so cute. It was 800 square feet and I was definitely just gonna live there probably forever, because I was only five minutes from downtown Louisville. And I could ride my bike everywhere, walk everywhere It was. Street festivals all the time. It was just so awesome and I'm right in the middle of it all. It was so cool. Everybody came to my house, like I had all the parties, so it was just a blast. But then there was just this moment in Covid where I got clarity of walking the streets. And I don't know if this happened in Kansas, but it definitely did with me and my neighborhood, and the kids got into this. Creation station and in every home with the child in my neighborhood, there were rainbow pictures, hand painted. There was sidewalk, chalk, rainbows. Yeah. Everywhere. Did that happen where you live? They would hang them up and do sidewalk shock and then hang them up in their windows, like make their doors like the glass, like looking. Yeah. Yeah. People got created. It felt so magical, like only a child could. Really make this a positive shift in society. Like only a child could bring out the hope and the inspiration of the true meaning of what a rainbow does for people. Yeah. That the rain will stop. The sun will shine again. Yep. You know, and that just hit me in my depths and. At that time I was, I joined a 21 day manifestation challenge with Deepak Chakra and one of my yoga teachers was leading it and I did it, and that's all I wanted. Out of that 21 days was just like the ability to have a child. My partner at the time was on board and we were like, alright. And also like on a not so manifestation note, like, what else are you, do you know if you're like at home all the time? You know, I was like, sounded like a really good idea at the time. Like for all people involved. Yeah, it's like really good for me, really good friend. You know, we had a great day. So anyway, we did the things and um, it happened. Extremely quickly. And I realized like looking back, like how much of a golden hour, golden moment that was. Mm-hmm. And it had to be at that exact time, in that exact realm of life for me to stop and slow down. And I know that so much loss was happening. Around the world and there was nothing that I could do except bring in some magic from a child and what I could, you know, see and outside in my neighborhood. Like I wanted to feel that and be part of that. And I got really lucky that happened for me in my life. And I know that like I just feel so blessed that I got to have that moment. And be this new life and this new rebirth of myself. So that was the biggest piece of my change. I. And then all of a sudden, it didn't matter if I was wearing high heels or dressing up in pretty dresses or you know, wearing makeup. I had a post about not having makeup on and you know how scary that was. I don't wear it anymore. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even wear makeup anymore because of covid and I'm like, oh my God, I don't have to. Yeah. It's, it changed us all in so many ways of, I don't have to put on the mascara anymore. I don't have to do all that anymore. I mean, I can if I want to, you know, for Right. If I wanna go out and feel good, but it's not something that's like, I feel like I have to do. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like I can just go out naturally and, and it's accepted, like, or maybe I just don't care. Maybe that's it. Yeah. And you're beautiful and you don't need it, you know? Yeah. So are you, it's just like we get to embrace our ourselves and who we are naturally. Mm-hmm. And I think it's just, even in yoga pants, it's like I can, yes, that, that skirt feels great, but the yoga pants feel just as good. I can have like my, I can have so much fun in those too. Like there's no, we put, there's so much in life that there's just all these things that we, you know, that society like kind of pushes on you, like you have to do this or you have to live like this. And we're like. Exactly. I'm done doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Stella got her groove back and then Stella recognized that life really doesn't have to look like that. So speaking of pit skirts, I do have a really fun, uncanny story if you wanna hear it. It might be a little risky, but let's hear it. So it was risky for me. It's really, I'm the, um, embarrassment in the whole situation. So, so I'm working downtown and it's a really awesome building and I got to park right next to it, which was really cool. I'm wearing this really. Awesome pencil skirt, and I'm feeling myself this day and I got a cute little blouse and I tucked it in and it's like up high, you know? So it accentuates the waist, you know? Yep. And I got these little like kitten heels on, and I'm really honestly just. Cute as a button. I'm leaving the parking garage and I'm walking across the alley and I'm trying to go into this building and this woman behind me, she's like, Hey Miss, excuse me. Excuse me. And I'm like, oh my God. What? You know?'cause there's also a lot of people down there that, um, beg. For money and stuff like that. So I didn't know if this was one of those situations. So I didn't meet the situation with grace and happiness that I would today, but So it was more of annoyance like you just stopped my group? Yeah. I've got a catwalk going on right now, so she's like, um. So there's a hole in the back of your skirt, and I don't think you wanna go in there with that. And immediately I put my hand back there at the seam and I touch my bare butt. I'm like, oh my God. So I thanked her, immediately texted my boss, and I'm like, I've had a blowout. I cannot come into the building. I'm here, but I'm leaving and I'll be. 20 minutes. So it was, um, it was a day and I was like, ah, I had on underwear. Nobody would know, but I was just stu uh, yeah, I was so embarrassed. And then I looked around, scanned the premises, and I was just like, I don't know, three different men that I worked with at the time that were. Walking by the scene and had been behind me and I'm just like, oh, you bastard hurts. It's like, it's your fault that my butt just broke the butt skirt. So yeah. That's so funny that she told you. I mean, that's so nice because I would, I feel like I would tell someone, but people get so nervous to say like, Hey. Ma'am, like, excuse me, do you, it's like when someone walks outta the bathroom and they have like toilet paper on them, you know? And you're like, Hey, yeah, hey. And people are like, what? You got something you wanna tell us? Oh yeah. Oh, that is so funny. It was the last day I wore a pencil skirt. Very last day. I might have retired those hours as well. Yeah. Um, oh, I love that. You can laugh about it. Oh yeah. I was 10 shades of red when I left there, that, that day. Um, no, would not like to go through that again, but anyway. Thanks for sharing that story. Everybody needs to laugh, everybody. This is why I love you because we get to this point where we can just be real in ourselves and look back on the things that are embarrassing and still laugh about them. And just, and be like, it was real life. It happened. It did. It did. There's no denying that. That lady knows too. She, I don't even know her name. No, I'm just glad she existed that day. She might be doing Joel. She might not even be. Yep. I don't know. I don't know. So have you always done yoga? No. No. I have not. When I was younger, I cheered through and gymnastics and did all of that stuff. So I was really used to being extremely hard and terrible to my body. And then I went to college and then did more worse things, like just drank a whole lot. And that was even more worse to my body than I got out of that situation. And then I started, um, I. I actually got what I call and kicked out of Louisville for a little bit. It was a situation where I was just drinking alcohol way too much and some bad stuff had happened to me that I. I haven't talked about yet in my podcast, but it seems like that would be a good episode. But I, um, was actually mugged and I was beat up and from a night out and all my stuff was taken, obviously the meeting of the mugging part. And then I went home to my hometown right after that. And, um. It's been about a year home with that. And anyway, I went back to Louisville and when I got back, my best friend at the time, she had met this new girl and really loved her. You know, we clicked, we vibed. So all three of us just really vibed out really well and she's now like my best friend. So it is amazing because she was the one that was like, yeah, come to yoga with me. It's a free class and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I don't know about yoga, but I could do yoga. I feel like I didn't really know what it was, and at this time it was, um, 20, uh, 14 or something like that. I don't know. When I very first went with her, it was a free class, and then I, I. Quickly found out what yoga was, and it was such an emotional breakthrough for me. That first class, like I was in Shava and I was crying. I was like, oh my God, I gotta come back. So I did, and I did, and I did, and then I just. From that moment just kept going. And she was a teacher. She graduated from the same place I did and she led me through all of these like next steps with my yoga path. And now, I've been able to forge my own way through and what it means to me and what I wanna give. And it's just been a blessing too. First of all have had that happen to me to where I needed a, a reset and then coming back and being like, well, this is healthy, this is better. I'm gonna go this route. And ever since I've just been on this come up, it's, I think it happens to a lot of us that there's this breaking point of something happens. I mean, we've had a lot of things happen, you know, but that, for you, that was like, I'm done living the, the party life. I want like, oh, don't get me wrong, the friend that I still partied, but you, I just didn't party, party, party. Right. Yeah. But like the breaking point of like finding her and finding yoga is like, it just brings you, I don't, I mean, it's just different how you try something new. Yeah. It is a different space for sure because you, not that everybody needs rock bottom, right? I don't believe that. Like I don't believe that everybody has to go through this like torrential downpour to shift their perspective. Yeah. I think it can be any type of, I mean, mine was an illness, but everybody has their own story and it doesn't have to, it's like how can we get people there now? Without going through what we know. Right, because you can elevate from any level Yes. Of where you're at and I don't, yeah, you don't have to go and get, I. All a bunch trauma. Yeah. Well, yeah.'cause now that's what we're dealing with is how do I unt traumatize myself. Yeah. So now you get the blessing of raising a little boy and teaching him like all these wonderful things that you're learning. Do you wanna share about some of that? Oh my gosh. How much time we got? I know. Just the most recent was this morning and he was like. Mommy, what does freedom mean? Because he'll sit, he'll randomly go Freedom and he'll put his hands up in the air. Yeah. And he's like, freedom. And we're in the car on the way this morning. He's like, what does freedom mean? So I give him my best freedom definition and he's like, okay. So then, we are driving down and he wants to hear his own songs. And I'm like, not today. And he's like. Well, let's hear the song where the man talks and I'm like, the Man talks and I put on the song Prayer by Lucas Mack and it's basically he's talking and this, beautiful music is behind him and it's him calling your soul to action of. Let's do this. You are here on an earth mission. Your soul is here to be the light in the dark. And this song is just like so powerful to me. It's two minutes long. And I was like, this one, he's like, yeah. And he hears the whole thing and it's like sets him up and he is like, I'm gonna have a good day. I mean, I'm like, all right, let's do it. Let's do it. But he's been doing the Kathy Hiller meditations with me every morning. He gets up at six 30, comes into my room, and sits there with me while I listen to it for 10 minutes a day. I'm like, all right. That shout out to you for being this beautiful mom. That's like teaching. Just like spreading it into these kids.'cause that's what they need. Yeah. And so many people talk about it, but are they really doing it? And are we really doing it for ourselves too, like mm-hmm. Um, I think we've, I mean obviously that's how we met through Kathy and I've grown so much to be able to like even speak my truth and talk. We're setting out a podcast together. Right. That happened years ago. Right. So, okay. Have you held a retreat before, or I know you have one coming up. No. No, I've not. I'm just going on a whim here and maybe not even a whim, but I've never even gone to a yoga retreat either. I don't, I've not done any of this. Like, I've just like seen it. I've heard about it and I've envisioned it every time. When I very first said I was signing up for yoga teacher training in 2018, I don't remember having a friend. He was like my aunt. She's a yoga teacher and she leads retreats all over the world. And I'm like, oh, well that's what I'm going to do. No idea. I have no idea what I'm doing. I just know this sounds like a really good opportunity, a really good time. My birthday is the day after the retreat ends. It sounds like a really good birthday present to give to myself. Yeah, and that's just what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna go and love on these people that sign up. And I'm giving medicinal food choices to them. And we're going on nature hikes and it's at the Red River Gorge in the beautiful state of Kentucky. Like Oh goodness. During prime season of fall foliage. Okay. Like it's really, I just don't see how this is gonna end bad for anybody involved. No. It'll be my first time, so I'm like, it's gonna, that means it's probably gonna be the best. It's first, it's gonna be magical. I, I mean, I wish I was in Kentucky. I needed to just fly there and come because you're just like two people from Kansas are coming are. Not making that up. It just so happens to be that you're in Kansas. Two people, a husband and wife, they are coming. Yes. It's not just women either. I speak to everyone when I teach. I love having men in my class. I love having women, older women. I love that. Older men, younger men. Younger women, I mean. My child's teaching me yoga classes now. It's just bizarre. I believe that like, yeah, let's go. It's gonna be magical. I already know it. Yeah. I need to like look at my calendar now. People from cancer are coming. I. Yeah. And bring your boyfriend. I know. You know, it'll be a lot of fun. There's gonna be some retreats, uh, not retreats, uh, excursions. We are definitely doing the hike to the natural bridge, which is just Oh, yeah. Gorgeous. And then, depending on what. Is available at the time. There's paddle boarding through the caves and there's zip lining, so that'll be included too. So it's just four days and it's gonna be a lot of fun Thursday through Sunday. That's like days of heaven. Yeah, that's what I call magical. It's so funny'cause when we change our lives, like it's like that's what I call magical. Those are the things I get excited for. Yeah. It's just so fun to talk to you because you're just so much joy and laughter and I love that you can laugh at yourself and I love that you're doing your job still. You have a son. She's also, you'all, just heard it, this magical retreat's coming up. She has a podcast and you just make it all fun. Like it's gotta be. Tell us, tell us the key, let's, let's get some insight here. Tell us if you're gonna leave listeners with something like you shine on everything you do. If you are in a room with her, with you. Like my face lights up knowing that it's something, it's gonna just, it's just gonna be full of laughter. Aw, thank you. And just good insights. So give people some advice, what should they go do? The key to it all is, um. Not having any expectation. I think that's it. Just being in the moment is really what it's about. If I can switch my brain to, in the moment, every time, if I notice I'm doom scrolling, for example. Yeah. When I can switch to being the witness of, oh man, you're doom scrolling. What else could you do that would actually serve you? Or if I feel like I'm. In the comparison mode of not enough, and I, and then I recognize it. Then I'm like, what can I do to make me feel like I'm enough like that? I think that's what gets me to where I can not even juggle'cause I don't even feel like I'm juggling. I just feel like I'm having fun, man. I'm just trying to see like how far I can go and where I can go and what is, what's gonna happen when I get there. That's really. That's my mo. I'm just like, see what's up. See what happens. You know, and I'm the, uh, the new sling term is F around and find out, you know, like I, yep. That's what I do. Just, and, um, I usually have spent a lot of energy in the wrong realm of that. I've spent a whole lot of time in the wrong realm of that. Yeah. And I realized if I could just drop some of that, how much space actually opened up and now I'm in the right realm and so many things are coming at me and I'm just like, I'm here for that. Yeah, just being present that is so good and that is such good advice for everybody. I think we can all catch ourselves. People don't know where to go, and it's so easy just to stay in those spots. So just catching yourself and bringing yourself back home it's just so powerful. Yeah. Can you tell them where they'll find you? I will drop it in the show notes, but will you, can you tell them where they can find you at? Yeah. Um. My website is fits in yoga.com, and it's F-I-T-Z-E-N yoga.com, and I have everything I do there. So you could subscribe to my newsletter, you could listen to my podcast there. The fits in project, and that's on all the things that stream YouTube. Spotify, apple, all the things that if they're things, um, I don't have a book, so sorry to disappoint if, but maybe one day. Yeah, right. But yeah, that's basically it. And yeah, right now it's just fun man. It's just fun. Everything I'm, I got going. It's just a good time. I wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart for just coming on and connecting and letting it be fun because that is, is the most powerful thing, is when I can just get on and record. I tell people I don't want it to be serious. I'm like, I wanna laugh and just have a conversation and I want people to hear that we can talk a little bit serious, but let's let it be fun. Yeah. And you are just a beautiful example of that. Well, thank you. I'm so just beyond grateful that you provide this space. Like this is just, thank you. Really cool space. It's been an honor to even be here right now and getting to talk to you and I mean. You're a light too, and I really adore you and all, every time I see you on the social medias and then like that one day that I just got lucky and grouped with you in a pod, I was like, oh my God, it is here. So I really appreciate it. I really, really do. I appreciate you. That's exactly how I feel about you. And I think that's, you know, when we open our eyes, we see that. Mm-hmm. Get to see it in others and then we're like, this is why I get to connect with them. Yeah, because it just gets to be fun. Yeah. It's so natural. Yeah. We can have a conversation in case y'all didn't know, this is our conversation. It's like we're getting to know each other and it's not like we talk every single day, but it's like we can talk and it just becomes like a fun conversation. Yeah, and I Absolutely, yeah. I could go on talking for hours with you. I just wanna thank you so much and I'll leave in the show notes where they can find you. Thank you, Casey. Thanks. Thanks so much. I hope y'all enjoyed Rachel as much as I do. She is just one of the most beautiful human beings, there's so much goodness in all of this, so I truly hope that you find something valuable out of this conversation and stay tuned because there will be a part two of this. If you all know Rachel, go follow her. She is a beautiful manifester, so stay tuned for the rest. Thank you for tuning into another episode. I hope today's story inspired you to embrace your own journey of growth and change. Remember, transformation isn't always easy, but it's always worth it. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe. Share it with a friend, and leave a review. If you found something that sparked you in this episode and may spark a friend, I encourage you to go share with them. If you have your own story you would like to share, I would love to hear it. So please reach out to me. Until next time, friends, go have some fun and let those sparks lie.