Reclaiming Your Hue: A Podcast for Women Rediscovering Themselves in Motherhood & Entrepreneurship
Motherhood and entrepreneurship are powerful journeys—but they can also leave women feeling drained, unseen, or lost. Like flamingos who fade while nurturing their young, women often put everyone else first and lose their own hue. Reclaiming Your Hue is about the moment when women remember their brilliance, reclaim their vibrancy, and step into who they were always meant to be. Hosted by Kelly Kirk, this podcast shares faith-led encouragement, inspiring guest stories, and practical strategies for harmonizing life, family, and business.
Why Listen / What You’ll Gain
- Inspiring stories of women who found themselves again after seasons of loss or overwhelm
- Practical tips for building businesses without sacrificing your sense of self
- Honest conversations about the challenges and beauty of motherhood + entrepreneurship
- Encouragement rooted in faith while welcoming diverse women’s voices
Listen In For: mompreneur journeys · reclaiming identity · harmonizing life & work · authentic entrepreneurship stories
Reclaiming Your Hue: A Podcast for Women Rediscovering Themselves in Motherhood & Entrepreneurship
Ep. 58 with Marggie Duncan | Owner & Founder, BennyAni Photography and MEE Method
From Nursing to Seven Figures: One Woman's Manifestation Journey
What if the key to creating your dream life wasn't hustling harder, but thinking differently? Marggie's story will transform how you view the connection between mindset and reality.
From the sterile halls of nursing to building a seven-figure photography studio working just four days a week, Marggie's journey reveals the extraordinary power of boundaries, manifestation, and unwavering self-belief. Her transformation didn't happen overnight—it began with subtle shifts in thinking that eventually created massive changes in her external world.
While others told her she was crazy to leave a stable nursing career, Marggie trusted her inner voice. She established non-negotiable boundaries from day one, dedicating Fridays exclusively to her children even when her business was just beginning. Against all expectations, clients respected these limits, sometimes even taking time off work to accommodate her schedule. This wasn't luck—it was manifestation in action.
The real magic of Marggie's approach lies in what she calls "micro-shifting your energy." You can't leap from negative to positive thinking in one bound, but you can make tiny adjustments that compound over time. Changing thoughts from "I can't" to "I'm curious what would happen if..." opens doors previously invisible to you. These principles have been so transformative that she's now teaching them through her new venture, Mindset Energy Evolution.
Perhaps most refreshing is Marggie's honesty about the challenges. Even as a "master manifester," she still faces moments of doubt, negative thoughts, and difficult interactions. The difference is how quickly she can recognize these patterns and shift her energy back into alignment with her highest self. Her morning rituals, meditation practices, and self-care routines aren't luxuries—they're essential foundations for maintaining the mindset that creates her reality.
Ready to harness the power of your thoughts and create a life that honors both your professional ambitions and personal priorities? Tune in for a conversation that might just be the permission slip you've been waiting for to believe in the impossible.
Connect with Marggie:
- Website(Photography): BennyAni
- Website MEE Method: MEE Method
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- Email: info.ryh7@gmail.com
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Credits:
- Editor: Joseph Kirk
- Music: Kristofer Tanke
Thanks for listening & cheers to Reclaiming Your Hue!
Good morning, margie, good morning.
Speaker 1:How the heck are you? I'm good, Happy to be here, I'm so happy to have you here too, and I can't even tell you like I am always so excited to see every single guest. But after we had our initial phone conversation and I had I got you scheduled for this I was like I am so looking forward to this because I feel like all I keep hearing about is like you're the manifestation queen. I'm so excited. But you know, the other thing too is so I, we had, we have, a couple of mutual people in our lives, and I'm not I don't want to steal your thunder but one of the other individuals, who I'll share in just a second, was just here a few weeks ago to interview as well. So let's actually dive in and I can. I can share with you who that person is, but can you share with the listeners how it is that you and I got introduced?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So we got introduced from Miss Angie, a mutual friend of ours. She's actually in my networking group and that's how I met her. And I was having brunch with her and telling her about my whole journey with manifestation and my whole new business and all the things, and she's like, oh, you have to meet Kelly. And then she told me all about your adventure. And she's like, oh, you have to meet Kelly. And then she told me all about your adventure and I was like, yes, and then we connected.
Speaker 1:I know and I loved. Like I said, I loved. Well, it was a zoom call. I loved the zoom call, I love the energy that you brought and I'm so fascinated also with your story, which we'll dive into as well. I'm very excited for the listeners to hear about all of the journey of Margie. So the other actually I'm thinking of two more people that we know and they're in your, they're in your networking group too yeah. So Catherine.
Speaker 1:Catherine uh, I always butcher her last name. I want to say Gaiole, but it's not. Oh, yes, yes, I'm totally butchered, I can't say it either. Okay, catherine, forgive us, yes, so sorry. And then Christy Groh. Oh, I love her, she's a dear friend. By the time this episode drops, I will have already had she's coming the podcast anniversary event.
Speaker 1:Oh sorry, nope, it's okay. Christy is going to be doing like the um swag bags for the podcast anniversary event, which you're invited to as well. Yes, and um, she's also. So the fun thing about this is I'm carefully, or I'm sorry, I'm going to back up, I'm quickly realizing how much it takes to like put together an event, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:And I've been kind of carrying a lot of this and my husband, finally, was like you cannot do this alone. I'm here, I will get some wingmen to come and help support. So husbands of some of the gals who have been on the podcast, oh, and so.
Speaker 1:Christy's going to be putting, she'll um be embroidering some really nice polos for the guys that are going to be helping out. And then she's I'm not going to say, but she's giving, she's putting a little something, something into the swag bag herself. And so I'm like, and she's like. I mean, I talked to her in less than five hours. She had sent over an email with some options and I'm like, oh my gosh are you kidding me yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm not surprised at all, so cool.
Speaker 1:So those are a few more of our mutual connections. And just to go back to our initial introduction by Angie, she is just like I feel like she is one of my like biggest cheerleaders and I just adore her for that and the feeling is very much reciprocated.
Speaker 1:I'm like such a huge fan and cheerleader of hers and, for those of you who are listening, angie Herter has been on the podcast. I'll make sure to drop which episode was hers, so if you want to go back and listen to it, it's amazing. But anyways, we're here to talk about Margie and dive into Margie's story. So, margie, what came first for you? Was it entrepreneurship or was it motherhood?
Speaker 2:You know, I knew you were going to ask that and so I thought about it and I can't answer it because technically I would say mothership, but I feel like I was legit born motherhood.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, you combined it. I was like, oh, I'm going to go with this, that's what it is it's mothership.
Speaker 2:I feel like I was born an entrepreneur, okay. Like, oh, I'm going to go with this, that's what it is. It's mothership. I feel like I was born an entrepreneur, okay. And so I've always had these visions and I actually did start dabbling a little bit before I was a mom, okay, and I did have a little side business of photography way back when, okay, and then that fizzled as I concentrated on my nursing career, which we'll get to.
Speaker 1:So I don't know how to answer it, because full-fledged motherhood came first. You know it's interesting because there's been plenty of individuals on the podcast that have had very similar responses. So you're not alone in that boat by any stretch, and I think that, depending on what your route is and again, you mentioned just the nursing component, we'll dive into that here in a moment but if you've got that spirit within you, it's hard for it, especially if you go into a more corporate setting. It's hard to keep that at bay or put your thumb on it Right.
Speaker 1:Eventually, it feels like it's just going to, like it's like Jack in the Box is going to pop out and surprise you at the at the most incredible, but maybe, you know, maybe the not so greatest of timings, but but, alas, it happens. And so I love that you actually put all of it into context that way, because there is something to be said about, like, hey, I just sort of felt like that spirit was always residing in me. It was just like over here on the other side of the bay, yes, so yeah, you mentioned nursing. Yeah, okay, so motherhood came. Let me back up. Motherhood came first for you, but before being a business, before being a business owner, but when? Where does nursing fit into all of that?
Speaker 2:I was a nurse first before.
Speaker 1:I was mom.
Speaker 2:Okay, um, so I? Well, first I was. I got my marketing degree, which is completely moot, and I'm going to age myself now because we didn't have social media when I was in college for marketing, okay.
Speaker 1:And so that degree is like out the window, fascinating how times change, huh Right.
Speaker 2:So then I worked in advertising for a stint of time and I was like you know, I want to really help people, like I was always a you know that person. And so I went back to a four-year college at SDSU, um, south Dakota state, go Jacks in South Dakota, where I'm originally from and I got my four-year degree in nursing. And shortly after graduation is when I started talking to my now husband, when we moved in together he actually bought me my first DSLR professional grade camera. Well, I was a brand new nurse, so this all kind of started at the same time, and so I was a nurse. I was working in the ER as a new nurse, which is like unheard of, but I was learning so much, um, and that, that kind of.
Speaker 2:That I lasted a year and that the child abuse cases, things like that kind of took me out. I just that wasn that kind of. That I lasted a year and that the child abuse cases, things like that kind of took me out. I just that wasn't my kind of nursing, though I loved the learning environment, but I always knew I wanted to be a labor nurse when I went into nursing Cute, so yes. So then I decided in in the meantime, here I had rented this cute little downtown studio. It was like this old building with, like one of those old elevators that you have to like. Pull the metal door shut and then it goes like cricket, crickety, crickety up. I love, yes, oh, it's like it was so cool.
Speaker 2:Like if I had that kind of studio now, like and it was like 225 a month, like what, get out of town. It was crazy. So I had that little studio just to go. I didn't office there or anything, I just shot there and I was doing like seniors and a couple of babies and some cake smashes. And then it was like, okay, I'm a nurse, like do I have time for this? Yeah, we didn't have kids yet, so I don't know. Eventually it just kind of like went on the back burner and I focused on nursing. And then we moved here and I really focused on nursing, okay, and then after a few years I was a labor nurse for eight years total, or a nurse for eight years total. And so my last year in nursing is when it all kind of came together. My career with my passion collided and was born Benny Annie photography, which is a newborn especially as a newborns.
Speaker 2:Um, and I got it at the right time, because that's when newborn photography was becoming huge, fascinating.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And so where do you feel like that spark came from? Like, okay, let me back up. So you had already had, you had the camera, you had the nursing. I'm trying to. What I'm trying to do is kind of piece the puzzle pieces together, right, and like where all of a sudden it melded together and you were like, yes, this is it. Yeah, what was that initial like flame, that all of a sudden like well when I was working at my last hospital.
Speaker 2:Um, I had some really good friends and they needed family pictures or kid pictures and they knew I had a passion and I started doing it and a lot of them were like and I still thank them till this day for their nudges there's a few in particular that I they were like why you could make so much money doing this bubble, and that entrepreneur voice then was really loud. And so then I kind of went down the path and eventually I went to part-time nursing and then I went to casual nursing and then it was like you know what I was pregnant with my second, three months pregnant, and I hung up my scrubs and I haven't looked back and it's June will be 10 years that I've been in business, but I was in business a year before I left nursing.
Speaker 2:So, January was nine years that I have since I hung up my scrubs.
Speaker 1:Wow, yes, I love it. Now what's really cool and I don't want to share too much for the listeners because I want you to really dive into this but what's cool is that you, you built that to a specific amount. I did Quickly, quickly, yes, yeah, let's, let's go there. Yeah, share more.
Speaker 2:What I really want to touch on here for listeners is how important it is to follow your dreams, no matter what others are thinking. That is just none of your business, it does not matter. Had I done that, I would be stuck somewhere I hated. I have goosebumps. Because people thought I was crazy. Like you're leaving a nursing career because nurses get paid well in Minnesota they really do. Like I got a huge pay raise from here, from home to here, and they were just like what, what do you do? Like even family. Like people thought I was crazy and for me, I never was scared but I always told my, I always had the comfort of well, I can always go back to nursing and I still have my license.
Speaker 1:I mean, I could save your life, right now, if you want man upstairs, please not let that happen right now, I don't want to exercise this, we do not want to exercise this. Let's not put that, too, at the chest, because yeah, so, so, yeah, I was like you know what?
Speaker 2:No, and my husband has always been my biggest cheerleader and he saw something in me and he still does with all my new ideas. He's such a great support. Um, but people now are. What they're surprised about is not that I left, now they're when I stay in. Less than four years, less than five years, um, I was a seven figure studio, seven figures, working four days a week, no nights, no weekends no holidays we need to and having kids in the mix.
Speaker 2:And having kids two kids in the mix. I have a full-time assistant Living. I'm living the dream. I mean it's insane, but I knew and that's the important piece there is I knew.
Speaker 1:Okay, I am sure that the listeners are going how, four days a week? How? So maybe in you know, like, let's call it like 10 minutes, how can you explain to the listeners how you were effectively able to do that? Because that's massive growth in a short period of time, only working four days a week. So why four days a week? First and foremost, and, um, like, what stirred you to decide that? But then were there specific things that you had in place and things like, oh, what a terrible word. But, like, for lack of better words, like what were the things that you put into motion for you to be so dang effective in those four days?
Speaker 2:So I didn't know this then, but really it was all about my mindset and it was just how it was. It just that's how it was going to be. And, to answer your question, I did Monday through Thursday because I had two babies at home and Fridays were our days.
Speaker 2:And I still remember those days of going to Mall of America with a friend and our strollers and we would walk and, walk and talk and our kids would just be in the strollers and loving it and and I cherished those times and I did that up until my son went to kindergarten and so we ended up having, after my daughter was full-time school, benton and I would have date Fridays and so we would go to the museums or the zoo or you know.
Speaker 2:You know, when it was both of them too we had a zoo membership. Like those precious times with my babies when they were little, that I'll never get back. I have those core memories. I know they're too little, they probably don't, but they see pictures, you know, like that was my time with my kids and it was a non-negotiable. And let me tell you, when you make something a non-negotiable, when I would say to clients I'm sorry, but that is my family day, or they're like what do?
Speaker 2:you mean, you're a photographer. You don't work weekends. I'm sorry, but it's a hard boundary for me. I opened this business so that I could have time for my family. And that is not what I'm willing to bend on, and they would always. People still take off work to come to me.
Speaker 1:Unbelievable. So boundaries comes up every single interview.
Speaker 1:No joke, like every single interview and I am doing a follow up like a post op and sharing with the audience via social media. Like I can't even explain to you the importance of boundaries, like this is the most common reigned theme, oh my gosh, and you are setting the precedence of. I did that and I stayed firm to it and it's, it's so incredible, like, did you ever so? I, I said that, but perhaps this is an act, a good question, to follow that up. Did you ever waver? Did you ever waver? And then like that up. Did you ever waver? Did you ever waver? And then like, have that aha moment of like okay, see, this is why I don't waver on something like this on a boundary that is so clearly important to me.
Speaker 2:I didn't waver because someone was like, well, I'm not going to come to you. Then that was not. I never I have done like in the past. A big part of growing my business were mini sessions where I got to know a lot of clients, and of course, I had those on Saturdays. It doesn't feel like work to me, but you know it was. You know eight to one on a Saturday, not a big deal. And you know, once every six months I mean it wasn't, or like fall mini sessions for families one evening a week on a weekend during the fall, you know, or a few, depending on how busy.
Speaker 2:When I was first starting it was much. I took a lot more and then as you grow, you can charge more, take less you know the American dream Right? Um so no, never did I let a client say to me well then, I'm not going to come. It was okay Then. Then I'm not the photographer for you, sure.
Speaker 1:And that's okay. And did you see? Were there instances then too? And I think that this is important for the listeners to really get an understanding of. So I I almost said I'm not going to ask this question, but I am going to Did you ever have that moment where you did lose business because you set the boundary? Sure? Okay, Maybe. I mean, I'm sure I did. The reason that I bring this up is for people to understand that it wasn't all rainbows and butterflies and that every time you were like, no, sorry, I don't work Friday, Saturday, Sunday or whatever, I don't work those weekend hours, and somebody would go okay, fine, I'm going to go find another photographer, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, like it wasn't your client, that they were interested in my work, right? And I think, um, aside from setting boundaries, another huge thing is gratitude in this, in this life, and that between setting boundaries and having gratitude for everything literally will change your life, and I can get into that more as we talk about my new adventure, but um what a nice little teaser.
Speaker 1:I love it. I'm so excited, so cool yeah. What an incredible feat, though, and you're still doing the photography correct, okay, yeah, not near as busy okay um, by choice.
Speaker 1:So I I do want to. I want to explore the, the harmonization that you created with the family and home life in doing this, and and um would you be willing to share with the listeners too? Were there, what were the ebbs and flows Did you experience? It sounds like you experienced some of those major peaks, right, like creating the core memories, walking around all of America, being able to, like. You've established your boundaries, and so this creates the flexibility to be able to do this over here. But, um, let's talk more, a little bit more in depth, about the peaks and the valleys that you experienced, especially in those early years of starting the business. Um, so go ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so definitely. I mean it sounds all rainbows and butterflies, but that's not life. I mean there are going to be peaks and valleys, no matter what, and the valleys for this were. But that's not life. I mean there are going to be peaks and valleys no matter what, and the valleys for this were when you first get started. I mean I had to take everything right, so I remember shooting like 90th birthday parties or so cute though, oh my God they were adorable.
Speaker 2:It was a couple. They were adorable. I remember shooting extended families, which I just don't do now. It's one of my for many reasons, but I just don't. I had to do that a lot. And then I remember this older gal she was probably late 70s came to my my studio, was in our house at first, came to my in-home studio. She wanted social media pictures taken and I'm like helping her up and down from the floor and like posing her and a part of me is thinking what am I doing? Is this?
Speaker 2:like you know, this wasn't my passion, but in the beginning you, literally.
Speaker 2:my point was you, I couldn't say no to business, right, because I'm portfolio building and you're working a lot because you're charging. Sorry about that, it's okay, you're charging, Sorry about that, and you're working a lot because you're charging pennies, essentially to get people in the door, right, yeah, um, and so you're doing a lot and I missed um. You know I would constantly be on my phone cause you know I would. If an email came in, I was responding. You know that's really important for small business. You know I would. If an email came in, I was responding. You know that's really important for small business.
Speaker 1:you know, so I'd be distracted on my phone a lot. Um, I was speaking of as I go. Okay, even though it's like upside down, I'm like move the phone. Kelly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, it was fine for me, um, but yeah, I can remember my husband and me like, okay, we're like having family time, can you get off your phone phone? Um. And so I ended up taking, you know, eventually all the apps off my phone, so I don't even know if an email comes in anymore, um, but you know, in the beginning that was one thing. And then all up all hours of the night editing because I was a one-man show, I was trying to get it out and I had so many clients coming in, so yeah, it was tiresome. Um, there are things I could have handled differently, but but the first year or two, first two years was pretty intense.
Speaker 1:The word grueling came up and it came to mind. I'm like it sounds like a like a trudge, but most, if not all, of the women that I have had on this podcast thus far and you're going to be the 58th interview, oh my word, good for you.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Literally like those first two years. You're, just you're, you're bumping into those boundaries, right You're, you're hitting the speed bumps, and some of them are large and some of them are small, but regardless, there's speed bumps. And what's cool is you talked about intention, right, like, and like mindset. Right, intention and mindset. And when you set your intention and you go, this is it. I could fall back on this, but like, this is it, and you just keep going. Well, it makes that that trudge and that grueling time so much more worth it. Yes, when you get through the first couple of years, which are the hardest, yes, but it was okay because I knew what was coming.
Speaker 2:I knew, you know, and it wasn't that first couple of years that it was like Monday through Thursday. Only I mean I was working whenever I could, um, and I still remember, I mean then this was three years in my son Um, I was editing in the hospital when I was in labor.
Speaker 1:I didn't take a maternity leave. So I mean, I'm telling you and I remember one family.
Speaker 2:It was a newborn I took three weeks after I had a C-section with my son. I took on this family but they ended up if I had said no to them and I'm on maternity leave, I don't have FMLA, I don't have that anymore and so I felt like I needed to and I wanted to, because this was my passion and I'm still building Right so I took on that family, that newborn family. They ended up bringing me, I think, two or three more newborns that they had along the years and then it came like I wish I knew where they were. Now, you know, like cause I remember them specifically? Cause I was like okay, I have my C-section scar and I'm down here shooting and it's crazy, right, but had I not, I would have lost out on a lot of business and you can't do that as a new?
Speaker 2:no, you can't. Maybe you can.
Speaker 1:Maybe there would have been a better way for me to pre-plan for my, but I had just left nursing in January and I had the baby in July, so yeah, okay, and thank you for putting the timeline into context, cause I was going to ask that question like let's, let's give kind of a timeline of what this looked like and where the babies fit in. That for you, like I'm talking your babies, my babies.
Speaker 1:So actually, let's do that. So it was 2000, remind me 2000. For For hanging up your hat, hanging up your scrubs for nursing In the beginning of January of 2016. 2016. Yes, okay, and then when did your first come? My first came in 2013. Okay, wait, yep, take me back.
Speaker 2:Okay, take me back. So I had Aniston in November of 13. Okay, and I was only starting to dabble. Okay, in fact, her newborn pictures are horrendous because I thought I was good and I regret that still. Never. Never, skimp on your newborn pictures.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love it. Yeah, oh, I'm so regretful of that Good advice, yes.
Speaker 2:So anyways, I had, I was dabbling and then. So I continued to work as a labor nurse until she was two, Okay, and then I was pregnant with Benton, and at three months pregnant, I left. I see. Three months pregnant, you left. I became an official licensed business, an LLC, at that time, in June of 2015.
Speaker 1:That's right, because there was the year overlap of getting the business up and running while also doing the nursing and then hanging up the scrubs Okay, Got it.
Speaker 1:And then we hit this mark of like you have your second VSC section and you're also out on your own for the business. So now I wholeheartedly like understand what that timeline looks like and then taking on that particular project, and I can't so, I, I didn't, I had your traditional labor and delivery Right and so. But I've got plenty of friends who have had C-sections and I'm like, oh, it just makes me so like I like tense up thinking about it, Because that's a whole different kind of like recovery.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and then you're up and down as a photographer and I don't want to like we're not going to linger here too long, but I do think that for each particular path that an entrepreneur takes, there's always like those moments right when you're like, ooh, this is really really tough. And then it's that that like culmination of I'm, I'm experiencing what my body is going through post delivery and also working in the business too and that for you, as a photographer, was like then, if that makes any sense, that's a moment, and that's a real, real moment where people could go gosh, like I shouldn't be doing any of this right now. Right, I shouldn't. Or you do understand that sometimes your body is just so dang resilient and if you know your body well enough, sometimes you can just mindset, push through it. Oh, totally.
Speaker 2:Totally, and I don't remember being in pain doing it. I just remember, you know, postpartum, new baby, yeah, and personally, though, my this is a whole not that we won't go off on this tangent, but I will say my regular delivery with Aniston was far worse than my C-section Delivery with Aniston was far worse than my.
Speaker 1:C-section Fascinating, yeah. So I was okay. Yeah, I mean I'm recollecting on and my recovery was good, like nothing was bad about it, it was normal, but it was flipping painful. Yeah, oh yeah, it's painful. Both ways are very painful.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's painful. Both ways are very painful. Oh my gosh, and yet we do it again. Well, I did it again. I swear I wouldn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm one and done. I'm pretty confident. I'm one and done, like we've got the three, we're good to go. Got the boys, got the girl, got the puppies, you're good, we're golden. I feel, I feel the joy, oh, good, good. But yeah, to your point, it's like it, it's recovery nonetheless. And um, doing that while also working in and on a business is it's, it's incredible, yeah, the stuff we as women go through is incredible.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:It really is. Hey guys, if you're listening, we love you dearly. We understand you got your own stuff to work through and handle as men physically, but nothing like pushing out a bowling ball, oh my gosh preach. Or carrying it or carrying it the carrying the nine months yeah, and then carrying it afterwards too, and motherhood, I mean, if we're gonna throw all our towels in.
Speaker 2:I mean motherhood too.
Speaker 1:No joke, not that fatherhood is easy no, it's not it just comes with its own bag, right, yeah, but we're talking about motherhood and entrepreneurship.
Speaker 1:So, we'll just keep on that path. We'll keep on the challenges that we do experience. So thank you for shining light on some of the ebbs and flows and the peaks and valleys, because I think it was really important for the listeners to understand. And while you have built this incredible business and you did it in such a short period of time to the dollar amount that it is and has continued to be so, that was back in 2016, 2015, 2016 that you started and we're now in 2025. And you have you've alluded a couple of times just in terms of that creativity that you have and I think it. I think it was something along the lines of, like, your husband has been your biggest cheerleader and is along for the ride and all the crazy ideas that you have. So when we spoke, you talked to me about one of those I'm air quoting for the listeners right now crazy ideas. Let's go into depth on that. So one, one question Are you officially doing that? Oh, yeah, and so now you're doing two businesses at the same time.
Speaker 1:All right, so let's share with the listeners what this new business is.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the new business is called Mindset Energy Evolution, and I created the M M-E-E method for it, and what it is is I have online courses that teach you everything I know Well, not everything now, because I learn every day, right, yeah, but an online course in manifestation and how to change your life. My biggest platform for this is on TikTok. All of my stuff is posted on all three platforms, but I'm most present on TikTok Fascinating, yes, and I post constantly, and I'm always posting, like this morning, I think my post was do these three things to manifest peace of mind. So it you know, so it's always tips on how to, like, improve your life, and the messages I've been getting from people that I'm helping is more than any amount of money could like.
Speaker 2:It's incredible. It's so incredible, yes, and I just have to touch on this. So there's so much I could say, but the one thing the reason I did this is because manifestation changed my life, okay, um, for the better, and this was I'm talking way back in 08, when I started doing this, and so I took everything that I've learned and I compiled it into one easy to learn beginner's course, sure, and then I'm also on this platform constantly and giving advice and tidbits, and and I I gotta say last night was a tough night, um, it's tryout season and it's always stressful, and my daughter and I had a tough night at the gym, um, and so it was just kind of one of those.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know I'm not in alignment, right now I gotta like find my um and I got home and I was like trying to like piece myself together and like find my inner self and like get in alignment, get my positive self back. And I opened my DMs on TikTok and there is a follower who messaged me and he was commenting on a video that I had done a long time ago, and by a long time ago I mean like two months, because this is three months old.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he, he just said you know, I can't wait until my wife and I are sitting with 5,000 other people watching you tell your story and your inspirations on stage someday. I got goosebumps again and I'm like my jaw just dropped, because I'm like, when a complete stranger has the same sort of faith in me as I do because I will do that, yes, but for him, like just just, I was so blown away that I have had that much effect on a person to have that much belief and that someday they'll see me on stage speaking, it was just like, wow, and that is exactly what I'm manifesting for myself. It's's, it's crazy, that is so. That's something that's new since, cause obviously it just happened last night. But these are the stories I'm hearing from people, or the messages I'm getting, like I wish you know. One gal said I wish I could just carry you around in my pocket all day so that you could be there when I need advice. And it's like me, like who, who look, look at it who are you looking over my shoulder?
Speaker 2:Who are you talking to? But I am like making these impactful changes with people on the knowledge that I've compiled by great leaders, um, and just kind of dumbing it down, because it can be a little bit, and that was a really mean way to say it, but I dumbed it down for myself and then put it in an easy to understand for others too, because it can be really like oh, there's a lot of quantum physics and science to this too, um, and so yeah, just like doing this has been so incredible.
Speaker 1:So so you have been doing a lot of this call it manifestation since 2008. 2008.
Speaker 2:2008.
Speaker 1:I know exactly when?
Speaker 2:Yes, let's go there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, funny enough, the Secret. Have you heard of the Secret? It came out in 06, which blew my mind when I looked it up because I could have swore like right when it came out is. But it must have taken a while to get some momentum because I feel like right when it blew up is when I found it with a girlfriend from college and we like lived and breathed the Secret. We were like, oh my gosh, and we were like manifesting front row parking spots, which at the College of Nursing parking was insane, and we were like, oh, got a front row today, like the little manifestations are like got a free coffee, Like just the little things, and her and I were like really big into it and I took it really seriously.
Speaker 2:I never quit and it just kept going.
Speaker 1:And I've been studying it and practicing it now for since then and I got momentum. It's created, oh, yes, well and that's what came.
Speaker 2:That's why my life is the way it is now. That's why I live this incredible life that it almost feels like I'm bragging sometimes, and I'm not meaning to sound arrogant about it, but I'm here just to like spread the word that you can and you can come from nothing and live your dream life, and it no. There's nobody has a limit saying you can't do this.
Speaker 1:Let's let's talk about the, the energy of all of that, because I feel like there's a lot, like it really does have a lot to do with energy.
Speaker 2:It's everything, literally, energy is everything. And that's one thing about manifestation that took me a while to understand, because for a while I was like if I just think it and wish for it, if I think it and I wish for it, that is so, that helps your energy, because then you're in a positive mindset but you can't just sit on your couch and wish for a million dollars.
Speaker 2:It's just not going to happen that way. Like the secret and the secret is like a very beginner's course on, and so they kind of implied that you just visualize and it'll come. Well, there's a lot more to it.
Speaker 2:But, if you realize, your thoughts create your emotions. So whatever you're thinking about is how you're feeling. Your feeling is the energy that you're putting into the universe, and so your thoughts are a lot because they're creating that energy, and the energy is what the law of attraction brings back to you. So what you're putting out is coming back. So your world, when you look at it, is a reflection of what you have manifested. Oh, it's exact, seriously Like whatever you're seeing in your life. Even I hate to say it, but the problems.
Speaker 2:And the really tough one is people with cancer or disease, and it's like I didn't do this, you didn't do it intentionally, right? What I've learned along the way? And we don't need to go too deep on this because I feel like it is very sensitive but somewhere along the way something could have or did happen where they opened this, something about themselves, that opened an energy within them that said that they would tolerate that, whether they did it intentionally, whether it's generational because we do come with generational energy as well, from our ancestors but somewhere in their life something opened that said they would tolerate it, they would handle it, they would accept it, they feared it. Fear is a big one, a big one. They feared it so much that they brought it into reality. And so it's hard when it comes to the icky stuff like that. Like what do you mean? I, I manifested being raped, like those kinds of things are so dark you know, oh my gosh, I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1:And so I dove deep in like finding out why?
Speaker 2:and there's a lot to that, but that's a whole that's another, that's a whole other conversation.
Speaker 1:That's an off air conversation.
Speaker 2:Yes, but we can stay on the positive track and like, looking at you, literally your world you see it completely differently than I do because you're seeing it reflect back to you.
Speaker 1:So fascinating and, by the way, I do just want to go back to um what you brought up with how people manifest things like diseases and circumstances right.
Speaker 1:Because we can kind of just put them into their segments, right Into their silos. I think it was a few years ago. I did come across something to your point exactly about like disease specifically, and that how it does actually to your point, it is manifested, it is your thoughts, it is the fear, and so I I'm like, oh, I feel a little validated in in like having thought like, oh my gosh, like if something like that were to happen to me, it has a lot to do with, you know, moments in time where I may have thought a specific way, or you made this comment of like opening up a specific door to that kind of energy specific door to that kind of energy.
Speaker 2:It could have been something as small, as somebody said something to you on the playground and it resonated deep within you. Maybe that same bully said the same thing to another kid, but that kid was like whatever and went on to play. But you and I'm just using you as an example you took it so personally and I don't even know what kind of an example to use that would resonate that deep, but you carried that with you, which then attracted more of that to you. So it's not intentional.
Speaker 2:Nobody's punishing you. Nobody's saying oh well, you deserve cancer now because you let that resonate. That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a book and this is like the second or third time that it's come up and so, because it's it's been months and months and months, I I always forget. I think it's something like the body keeps count or the body keeps score, and so I feel like there's a lot of parallels there with, like, if you have a specific circumstance like that happen right, like your body is holding, specific circumstance, like that happen right, like your body is holding the cell is holding on to that kind of energy, does that make sense? Like I feel like I need to go and read that book now, because it's come up enough times where I'm like I need to just read that book. But you know, for instance, if you're carrying more weight than you want to, Well, the body is keeping count and keeping score of, like some things that have happened right, and so stress and the cells holding onto that stress, which holds onto the weight, which keeps that weight on, and that's tough right. But like reducing some of that stress also, I'm sure, is stuff that you talk about.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and that's your biggest. I mean it's called micro-shifting your energy, and you do it in baby steps, cause I always say you can't go from piss to bliss, you have to work your way up that.
Speaker 1:I love that. It's so true, though you just can't.
Speaker 2:Abraham Hicks has a chart of vibrations.
Speaker 2:And so it starts at the lowest vibration from negativity and you work your way up and you cannot. You physically, mentally, where it would actually cause. You have to believe it. I mean, you can think it all you want, but if you don't believe it, that's the energy you're putting out, Right? So if you're in despair and depression, you're not going to like change your mindset and go to euphoric, Right? No, and so it's called micro-shifting your energy and you do little things to change your energy and you celebrate those little, whether it's getting out of bed and making your bed today, opening up a fricking window. Celebrate that like you won the lottery because we giggle about that.
Speaker 2:But there are people who can't even get out of bed today to do that, you know what I'm saying and so they're not going to have and they're not even going to care about what you're saying about energy. But if you can get them to do these baby steps, that's how we start to change it. And when you're talking about disease, dis-ease within us a lot of it, to not only fear, but it's a mentality, because in our culture we're like oh, it runs in my family.
Speaker 2:It runs in my family, my mom had it, so I'll probably get it. Well, guess what you're going to get? You literally just spoke those words out yes, and then not only do you expect it, but you speak it, you fear it and you're expecting it. So guess what's going to show up, fascinating, right, it's of my world, this world of manifestation. I was listening to neville goddard on the way over here he's a little hard to listen to because he's from like the 1930s. Okay, genius um.
Speaker 2:He actually interviewed, like um carnegie, whose story is fascinating thomas edison, abraham lincoln, like all these people and like quotes that like one, thomas edison, he said, um, he had 10 000 light bulbs before the one worked, and henry ford was another one. And he said I didn't fail 10 000 times, I just found 10 000 ways that didn't work. Yeah, and like their mindset it's all about mindset of these three that I just four that I just named, and their mindset truly proves what got them there. I mean, people thought Henry Ford was insane to build an affordable vehicle for families Wild.
Speaker 2:It's so yeah, how long do we? Have Cause. I could go on.
Speaker 1:Well, we're only 45, about 45 minutes in, and so we've about 45 minutes in, and so we still have some nice runway which is nice.
Speaker 2:I need to hide this.
Speaker 1:I could go on with all of this fascinating and the stuff that I have found in my world.
Speaker 2:I call it my world because a lot of people do refer to the manifestation world as the woo-woo world, or people think it's witchcraft, or people think it's anti-Christian, which is absolutely so far from the truth.
Speaker 1:I want to go down this way this entire time, and for some of the individuals who I've had on the podcast and perhaps you've listened to some of the episodes too on the podcast, and perhaps you've listened to some of the episodes too like there is a lot of faith, christianity, like that there's a lot of tie in there, cause that's like that's my, my guiding principle, right? But I also know that like there's a lot of tie-ins with all of this and so I'm going all right, there are miracles that happen every single day, every single day, and so if you're listening and you're like you're a Christian, you follow Jesus, like just know that that has a lot to do with energy. You get a bunch of people in a congregation who are energy, wise, thinking positively about something. It's energy.
Speaker 2:I love that you just said that. As a Christian, I love that you just said that I will say God pours into that energy.
Speaker 1:That's where you can make this tie and go. We can all fit and work in this space. We can. We really can. So view it from that point.
Speaker 2:Are you sure we want to go down this road? I do yes.
Speaker 1:And I promise you listeners, we are going to talk more in the motherhood space and tying all of this in.
Speaker 2:Oh, this will help with motherhood too. This has changed my.
Speaker 1:what I'm about to talk about changed my life, and specifically Margie, if you need to move the pillow, it's okay. I just moved it and now it's perfect. Now you're comfy. I just moved it and now it's perfect. Now you're comfy, okay.
Speaker 2:I just felt like rearranging my life. What I'm about to share with you literally changed my life, and it wasn't long ago. And I can still remember chapter two of Wishes Fulfilled Wayne Dyer. That chapter changed my life and that's when he explained God to me in a way I have never, and ever since then. Things just make so much sense to me. Now I'm going to preface this with I was born and raised Christian. Okay, I would not consider myself Christian anymore.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:However, I believe so much of the Christianity, some of that, a lot of it Neville Gardner was just quoting some of that you wouldn't believe I'm getting off on a tangent the amount of verses that, when you break them down, are speaking exactly what we are talking about with manifestation exactly. I wish I would have wrote the one down on the way here. It was Luke, something or things that Jesus said be still and know that I am god. He was saying to us, our god. So god is not some big, powerful man in the sky outside of us that wants to like crucify us if we do something. He doesn't want to condemn us to hell he's. We shouldn't be scared. You know like some of the things in the bible make you scared that God is like going to smite you. You know like. So what I've learned is our gods are all within us. And Jesus said be still and know that I am God.
Speaker 2:I am is such a powerful because your God is your inner self, your God is your inner self and your inner being came to into your human form and only wants what's best for you, which is exactly what they tell us God wants for us. There you go. It makes so much sense, the Bible, and so many of the verses it. Jesus was telling us the same thing that Abraham Hicks is telling us that, um, you know all of these Neville Goddard, wayne Dyer, bashar, all of these people who are like so big in this manifestation world that they're like the gurus, if you will. Jesus was the same. He was saying that and he would say to them go forth and tell no one, because people would think they were crazy and they would hang them and then look at what happened to him because they thought he was crazy. But really he was just telling us.
Speaker 2:Like, everything in the Bible speaks to going within, to create the without, first within and then without. It is so eye-opening because, again, I was born and raised Christian, I'm confirmed, I had my communion, all these things. But then I think about it and I'm like and I'm gonna probably make a lot of Christians mad, and I mean no offense by this, but I look at it and the Bible was written over thousands of years, 40 different authors, different languages. It's been translated so many ways. There are people who changed things to make us to put the, to instill the fear, because they don't want us to realize the power that we have within.
Speaker 1:Interesting, yeah, yeah, as somebody who is and not that I can be pushed off of my like faith pedestal, right, but as somebody who is, literally within the past year, taking this deep dive into my faith and what that looks like and and God as being the center of it, right, there's so much that I'm learning, right, like I do. I do firmly think one this space, the podcast, as a platform right, I want to be able to meld this together and not have it be truly just like I'm only interviewing Christian people, right, or I'm only interviewing people who are looking to manifest and that's sort of their guiding principle, right, like I do think that there is a way for us to be able to, just as we are right now, right To be able to sit down and have a conversation, to be able to sit down and have a conversation. There's a way that we can meld stuff together. Is what I'm trying to say, but I also understand that I have so much to learn when it comes to faith and what you're speaking to with the Bible, right?
Speaker 1:That's one specific area where I'm like God dang it. The Bible is just so wild and so crazy and so cool at the same time.
Speaker 1:And all these verses are just crazy. Like my, my um vision board, I decided this year like I'm going to do a ton of verses that just speak to like this is my manifestation, right, these are the specific verses in areas that I want to grow in that I know are going to like I look at those every day and I'm like that shit's happening. Yes, pardon my French, oh gosh, but like you know, that's happening, yes, it's happening. So my, my whole point in this is like I have a lot to learn and I'm going to continue to learn, and I think that that's really important. As a mother, yes, and as a business owner, yes Is to be able to do that. But you have to show up in conversations like this and not be a complete a-hole and go my way or the highway there has to be open-mindedness.
Speaker 2:And you know what? You and I believe the same thing in a different way, in a different way and that's okay.
Speaker 1:You know what I?
Speaker 2:mean you believe in Jesus, I believe in Jesus, I believe in God. You believe in God, you're a Christian. I'm not. You know what I'm saying. We just believe it in a different way, and that's okay, because it still means the same thing. Yeah, it really does. And if you, I'm going to send you some stuff now, but if you dig deep in some of these verses you're like oh my gosh, that makes so much sense.
Speaker 2:There is so much truth to the Bible, but there's also so much truth to Buddhism. There's also so much truth to all these religions, but it's all really boiling down to one thing, and that there is a higher power and it's within us.
Speaker 1:I love it. It's crazy, right, it really is. It's wild and I love that we are able to. Again, I have to emphasize this because it's so cool, like I'm just having this cool crazy moment happening in my head where I'm like I love that we can level set with each other and still go. Yeah, I agree on the bigger concept here, which is, like our God wants us to, to what's the best wants the best for us to move forward.
Speaker 1:Yes, love, I think, is just truly one of the most reigning themes through all of this right, like love is the theme, the main theme love thyself yes, love thy neighbor, love love god, love like love love, love, love, love and oh my goodness. Okay, so we I feel like we could go down so many different avenues, but I want to.
Speaker 1:I want to bring it back. So back in in 2008 is when all of this really started for you and you were giving some really cool examples of like you and your friend who were already doing this, and it was based off of the secret. So let's pick up there and sort of move through to where we're at now. I know we have a lot of like years to cover but if you could, give sort of the bullet points leading up to that, or the breadcrumbs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I'll never forget my first like biggest manifestation. Well, I can't, because it's my husband. So it's so funny, because I remember and I don't know if I told you this story or not I think I did when we first talked.
Speaker 1:maybe refresh my memory. We talked about a lot of stuff, so this was back in the day when we still had Walkman.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh. Side note for moms we asked our 11 year old daughter the other day what's a Walkman or a Discman? And she said, um, I think it's those little neon guys people put in the street for slow and caution when kids are playing. Oh, my word yep, that's what she said.
Speaker 1:My word yeah, hi if you're listening, welcome to the podcast where we talk about like I'm, I'm there, I I think you might be just a few years older than me. Maybe I'll be 43 in july. Okay, you're only a few years older, because I'll be turning 40 this year, and so walkman, discman, all like, yes, boom boxes bring it cassette tapes yeah yep, yes, all the 90s things.
Speaker 2:And yeah, that's what she thought a discman or a welcoming was. So that was hilarious. So I was listening to the secret on cd via my disc man in college and, um, I lived in a trailer with some girls.
Speaker 2:It was a nice trailer, it was a double eye nice nice and one of the girls owned it, so it was nice. But anyways, we lived about a mile from like one of the rich neighborhoods in our town and I would take my little dog and we would walk to that neighborhood and I remember walking around that neighborhood, seeing these houses, and I still remember this one specific house. It was different colors for back then especially it was like mustard and burgundy, but it looked really cool and it was like this mansion. But then there was this and I saw that house and I was like, oh my gosh, someday, like I'm going to live in a really I'm going to live in quote unquote a rich neighborhood.
Speaker 1:Um cause?
Speaker 2:I never did. I haven't said this yet, but I literally came from nothing, came from poverty, and so that was always like I knew, from the moment I was like old enough to know I'd be a mom someday, that I would be a mom who, who lived in the nice neighborhood with my kid and provided for my kids. Okay, that's a whole other thing. Anyways, I'm walking and I, like, am picturing my house, and back in this time this was 2008 and sage green wasn't like a house color thing. It is now, but it wasn't then.
Speaker 2:Fast forward six months and I was just getting out of an awful relationship and I was healing, and now I had all the contrast of what, the what I didn't want in a relationship, and so now I knew exactly what I did want. And so now fast forward and that's like springtime and now it's graduation time in 08. I graduated in December of 08 from my second time in college and started talking to my now husband, who I've known since seventh grade. We've known each other since we were 12. Oh my gosh, and actually I, I was so in love with him in middle school and he wanted nothing to do with any girls. Thank God it wasn't just me. It was like no girl, he had no interest. And then in high school he was interested in me and I was like boy, you had your chance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we actually went to homecoming together um our sophomore year of high school. Um, because my out of town boyfriend had a football game. So Jared took me and I ditched him because my out of town boyfriend ended up showing up.
Speaker 1:Margie, yeah, I did, I was just about to say how endearing is this uh storyline, this plot line? Nope, nope.
Speaker 2:Tricked ya Plot plot twist so I ditched him. Anyways, fast forward again. Now we're both graduated from college. He's like four years out of college because he only went once and um, we start talking and he's still back in South Dakota. I'm living in May at Rochester Mayo, because that's where I got my first nursing job. And we're talking and I decide I want to set him up with one of my nursing friends who still lives back home. So it's about a month between where they can make their date work. In that meantime of that month, him and I keep talking and by the time the date's coming around he's like should I be going on this date? And I'm like, well, you kind of have to Like yes go see and like praying that it didn't work out.
Speaker 2:Well, it didn't work out, obviously. So he comes to see me. The rest is history. However, my point to this was I go to visit him for the first time. All that to say, I go to visit him for the first time and he has spent two years building a home with his own hands, after work every night, full-time job as an engineer, from the ground up, by himself building a home. So when I first saw it, there was still no kitchen sink. There was a full working bathroom, so it was livable. It had floors and carpet and walls, but it wasn't all the way done. It wasn't done. But I pull up to visit him and it's a sage green house like the exact color I knew my first home would be fast forward. And not only is he the man exactly who I needed not only wanted but needed in my life, but I moved into that. That was our first house. That was the first, my first like real home that I wasn't a rental oh my word it was down to the exact color.
Speaker 2:So those were my biggest first manifestations and I don't know if that was like pertinent to the story, but just, you have to also like be very in the awareness mindset of like all those little things, because those little things that you remember keep manifesting to bigger things. Yes, and that was my starting point of my dream life, right there.
Speaker 1:Oh, my word, yeah. And you now have been married for how many years? I know you have two kiddos.
Speaker 2:Yes, we got married in. That was, we got married in 11. So we just celebrated in February our 14th wedding anniversary. So together for 16. Yes, um, and literally, like we joke all the time. We're kind of disgusting like people are, like you know what I like because we're so in love still and it's like it gets better and better like we still text each other like flirty stuff.
Speaker 2:I mean it's like I and I know from having girlfriends and in motherhood you get tired and exhausted and, trust me, we went through that phase when our kids were little. It was like we were roommates and we were just trying to survive. I get it, I see you, I hear you, I feel you.
Speaker 1:You're speaking to me. And I love my husband and we do have these really incredible moments, and I mean we work together too, so it's like we have to have impeccable communication, right you?
Speaker 2:preach you just nailed it.
Speaker 2:Like injecting some of the fun into it as well, because we understand that that's so important Communication is what saves any marriage and then your mindset about it, because it's never been an option for us to not be together. You know what I mean. That's just not an option. That would never happen. Our faith in each other, our trust in each other, our love is so strong and it just keeps getting better and I wish that everyone I know not everyone has a marriage like that, and it makes me sad it does.
Speaker 1:I know, because it can be. I was just literally thinking about people. I'm going to just broad stroke this like couples, where you talk about that, the mindset right, like you can take this mindset of like I got my ball and chain and I've got to, I got to go talk to the woman about this decision, you know, and that's a mindset that you're deciding to take instead of going no, this is my partner and, out of respect, I'm going to have a conversation because perhaps, in making this decision or like following through on this request, it is crossing a line, it's crossing a boundary, it's putting me into a place where I'm not going to make the best decisions and that's not respecting the person who I chose to spend the rest of my life with.
Speaker 2:Yes, and not everybody thinks that way, unfortunately, I know. And what people don't realize is if you're constantly like oh well, I didn't. You got one of the good ones. I hear that all the time. Well, at least you got one of the good ones. I'm thankful that I did get one of the good ones, but you could have a good one too. You are choosing, but you're choosing to see his flaws and I always say, what if just humor me? And what if you look at him today and only see good things about him?
Speaker 1:Margie, remember when, only a few few minutes ago, we talked about, like how our leading indicators or sorry, our guiding principles, is how I want to phrase this Whether it be Christianity universe, woo, woo, the woo, woo stuff like love, is at the very. That's your umbrella, yes, and so, if you take that into context of what we're talking about right now, and just look through this lens of love, your life changes. Every single person was built for this life with specific qualities, right Like good qualities.
Speaker 1:Every single person right Like good qualities Every single person right, whether they are actually a very malevolent person or not.
Speaker 2:Like there are still good qualities in those people and if that's what you choose to focus on, that's what you will see and manifest for yourself, and manifest for yourself. And the other thing is not only seeing the love, like the good things about your partner. You got to love yourself first, because if you don't love yourself, how are you expecting anybody else to love you?
Speaker 1:Oh, it's so like you're touching on a very, very critical topic that I think like let's dive into this right. I know that I was like hey, margie, I want you to really give the the timeline and the breadcrumbs leading up to where you're at now, but we'll get there I promise listeners we'll get there. Okay so, um, self-love, right, like as a mom, as a business owner, like let's talk through this, yeah, especially with what you're doing now. Okay so, let's just share with the listeners, like what it is that you're doing now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you talked about that, yeah.
Speaker 2:So online courses, um so mindset evolution or sorry, mindset energy evolutioncom there are. There's a free course there, there's a free manifestation guide there, and there's also a beginner's course there, and there's about to be many more courses that I'm going to launch so you can. So you can just do the free one and see if it's something that speaks to you. First, I'd recommend doing that and then the beginners course is incredible. It takes you through how to get into this mindset. It takes you through how to come out of your slumps, because we're so human, so you're still going to have contrast every day, and it teaches you how to deal with that contrast. It teaches you that contrast is actually good, because when you know what you don't want, you know what you do want, right, and so we need contrast in order to figure out what we do want.
Speaker 2:Um, it takes you through how to uh, you know, shine your lens of love on everything, or how to change your thoughts, like if you find yourself in a negative situation and you know that's going to bring you out into, out of your alignment. Then it teaches you how to bring yourself right back in, and I mean these are things I'm teaching my littles. I mean, they're 11 and 8 and they know all about keeping their valve open and like all these, like little things that I teach them in their language so that they can understand that you know their, their lens of love, or you know you, a big thing is like my daughter, she's 11, so, um, the drama right now. Or, like you know the girls, she doesn't like me or she talked bad about me. You know what, honey, people are always going to talk about you.
Speaker 1:But we'll always talk about. Girls are vicious. There's no mean our oldest, my oldest bonus boy, is in fourth grade and I like I mean, he's a boy, right, so like he is, you can just. He literally will listen to some of these girls and you're like I don't know, I don't care, but because he's a dancer and so it's like he's in a oh fun, yeah, he is top notch, he's so good.
Speaker 2:I love the. Yeah, he is top notch. He's so good dancers, yeah, yes. Well, there's not a lot of them, there's not.
Speaker 1:We have a lot of boy not a lot, very few at our gym too, for all-star cheer, and they're amazing, yes anyway, yeah, anyways, you know, like just to this point of what you're speaking to with your daughter, and there's the phases that we as as women, go through and like starting off as girls.
Speaker 2:Yes, the evolution is just wild and the hardest thing about being a girl mom is I've been there and I know what's coming for middle school next year and I just there's so many things that I would say to middle school Margie that I'm trying to say to Aniston, because she is little Margie and it's terrifying.
Speaker 1:I love that name, thank you so cute.
Speaker 2:Yes, she insists on being called annie, though, so we're like the only ones that call her aniston okay, she'll.
Speaker 1:She'll get to a point where she'll want aniston. Yeah, because it's such a pretty name but anyways, she.
Speaker 2:She is me, which is terrifying. And my poor husband. He always says I signed up for one of you. How did I get two?
Speaker 1:that is going to be my husband like literally he can see him he can see it coming out. She is a spitting image of him, but personality wise, I think we I feel like we talked about this. Okay, that's the same aniston looks just like her daddy.
Speaker 2:But good thing he knows how to deal with me. He's the calm to my storm and see it. So he knows exactly how to deal with her. So he's, he's fine. Me, on the other hand, I know exactly what she's gonna be like and I'm trying in my head. I'm like, okay, what would I say to middle school margie? That might have made a difference, but good perspective. Yes, but I grew up so differently than she is that my issues were so much different, but I still had the girl drama.
Speaker 1:I still had you know that, not I still had. You know what. That does not, that's a reigning theme Straight across the board.
Speaker 2:Yes, no matter where you come from, it's girl drama and so, yeah, I'm trying to teach my kids about that. I don't know how we got off on this tangent or where we were going with this, but girls are mean, boys are much easier.
Speaker 1:Oh, we were talking about the things that we manifest right and we're. We were talking about it from the viewpoint of, like what you are doing in business now and how, even like even some of the foundational pieces that you have out there right now that people can. You are, you're speaking that into your children? Yes, trying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because first of all, you have to and this is really important for moms, especially of littles, you have to remember. So we're all born with pure positive energy we aren't born with.
Speaker 2:It's funny because just this morning I was listening to Abraham Hicks and she said that's why babies are born crying. They opened up into a whole soup of of negative energy and they don't know what that is yet. They're just trying to combat it with their cries. What is this feeling? Yeah, and so we're not born with self-destruction, we're not born with self-conscious because, like when you're a baby, you, if you want it, you ask for it If you and you expect it and you demand it, and you, you know what I mean. And then we're taught.
Speaker 2:We are so conditioned with all of these standards and what we have to remember is the younger we are, the more pure we still are. So our kids are still way more pure, positive form than we are, because we've been conditioned so many more years than they have. And so trying to hinder that conditioning as much as possible, like letting them know, like listen, the power is within you, it's your mind that creates your reality, yeah, um, is really hard because you also have to speak to them in their language, which is hard for us because we're so conditioned. So it's so important to talk to your kids about their minds and how they can use them to shape their reality.
Speaker 1:So good Because, um, what? What I keep thinking about, margie, is, um, you're cutting through the bullshit. You're literally cutting through all of the noise that's around us and I am, if you see me, kind of like staring off. I'm literally thinking through, like how, cutting through the noise while also implementing what I love, which is my faith? Yeah, like melding again, like I'm just going how, how am I going to? I'm going to take this course. I'm sorry listeners I have not done that.
Speaker 1:That's an oopsies on my end, but but I'm going to and like I, we're going to talk through this off air about this melding of it which I think is so cool.
Speaker 2:But I struggled. I struggled Like I don't want to struggle, for lack of better word, because I see your, your wheels turning, because you're Christian and you're like. It was really hard for me to the first time say out loud I don't think I can identify as a Christian anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was really hard, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:Because that is what I was raised and told to believe, yeah, and so of course that was a really strong, and I'm not against Christianity at all. I just believe differently than what I was raised to believe.
Speaker 1:Now, and that's okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I want you to know like yeah, it's normal to like kind of struggle with this in your head Like, no, my faith is very important, absolutely. Faith is like top notch. Keep your faith, don't ever stray away from your faith.
Speaker 1:However, I do think that to your've, you've brought up some really fascinating points about like there are so many different Bible verses that are literally alluding to this, and so it's, it's going. We're cutting through the chain, like through all of that. We're cutting through the nonsense, all of that, the talk and the noise and the misconceptions and just getting to the point, and the point is like lead with love and like use your brain to its most powerful capacity and capability, which we still don't even know the strength of it.
Speaker 2:Like people are discovering it more and more how powerful our minds are. But yeah, your, your mind is literally shaping your reality, Literally. It's proven that to me time and time again, whether good or bad, whether good or bad.
Speaker 1:Okay, you have two businesses operating now, and so let's let's share more and inform the listeners more about how you're doing that. I am curious too. I literally just like I'm like, okay, we're going to set this question on the back burner and I feel like now is an opportune moment to bring that back front and center. I want to talk through how you're harmonizing that with the family dynamic too. It sounds like 11 and 8. Like I'm right there with you. Such fun ages.
Speaker 2:I'm right there with you. And then I've got the two-year-old too. It's so fun. Yeah, you're so busy.
Speaker 1:It's so fun, so busy. I'm also like we're getting really integrated into all the activities too, so I know oh girl yes, into all the activities too. So I know. So I want to talk through how you're harmonizing that. But then I heard you loud and clear that very early on for your photography business, you set the boundaries Yep. What does that look like now for you too? And you're operating two businesses? Yep, okay.
Speaker 2:So the one business the new one is is online. Okay, um, and a lot of the exposure that I'm trying to get and and how I'm growing it is social media. So I do set one day a week aside, and I will, so you'll see me in all kinds of different outfits in different areas, not knowing that I've probably filmed all of those on the same day. I used to do this in mortgage. I used to do this Like I would carve out a couple of hours.
Speaker 1:I'd have a videographer, I'd have my change of clothes. Yep, yeah, I'll bring 12 shirts to the studio. It's a trick, it's a cheat.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's a cheat thing but it gets me through. Like, cause I have to post so many times a day, you know um to in order to grow, and when I say have to, I want to. I love doing this. So that was online, so I have. You know, nobody is telling me like I have to have an appointment with you at this time on that business. I just know what days I can set aside to film and edit. And then with my business, it is so developed now that my clients just know, or even new people, and I'm blessed too because, let's be honest, newborn moms and dads have time off work. Yeah, but most of them are newborn, well, maternity through first year. So as they become six months old or three months old, and nine months old and 12 months old, they're taking the day off work to come in during my time. They just know, and it's never I don't waver from that I, my kids, will never know what it's like for me to miss a sporting event unless.
Speaker 2:I you know we we have to double take, take, team something. So sometimes Benton will have a wrestling tournament and I'll be in Chicago with Anniston for cheer, you know. So yes, we under. They understand that part. But it will never be like, oh, mom's working this weekend. Not that that's's a bad thing, but for me that was not something I was willing to sacrifice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is definitely a cornerstone for us with how we operate the business. Now here's the tricky part is for us, my husband is the lead agent, which means that he's doing, and I'm the CEO of the house while also managing the work business aspect of it, and so I'm primarily the one who's here doing all of that stuff and I love it literally. Like this is the reason I cut the cord with mortgage is because we needed to have more flex. But we also went we, we need to be present for them, right and? And not just like, hey, I've got the flexibility with mortgage, um, I'm present, like I was not present. I may have been there, but physically, but mentally, I was not there exactly.
Speaker 1:I also understand now, in us having this conversation, a lot of it was my mindset. Yeah, I just ended up getting into this mindset where I was like this is too much of a toxic environment for me, I can't do this anymore, and so, like that was a kind, a kind of a poo poo. Shame on me as well, as I'm reflecting back on that, but that's okay. Sure, it's okay, I am. I'm loving where everything is at now. Good, truly, truly, yeah, so, but that to to round it back out.
Speaker 1:Thanks for letting me just go down a little bit of that hole for a second Um that the importance of wanting to be present for those activities for your child to be, to continue to build those core, core memories, yes, amazing.
Speaker 2:So priceless. And I just want to say to any mom who's like well, yeah, you had the option you have, you have a husband who had a career where you could leave your job, or you had this or this or this. Change your mindset, because let me tell you something nothing is impossible. Nothing is impossible. And if you are in a job right now that you don't like, you're not stuck, you're just repeating. You're repeating what you're telling yourself over and over oh, this is just how it is for me, this is just what I deserve, this is as good as it's going to get. Well, guess what? That's as good as it's going to get. But if you switch that, if you switch it and you start to tell yourself something different, you're going to start seeing something different, and I cannot stress that enough. And people are I can hear people already like you have no idea.
Speaker 1:There's no way I could leave my job and I have to work weekends.
Speaker 2:Okay, take a breath. That is your current reality. This is not your forever, but if you feel like you're stuck there, you're going to stay stuck there. You really have to get in the mindset and the energy of being who you want to be first of all, and then letting reality take you there.
Speaker 1:So I'm thinking of, uh, the reticular activating system. Is it the reticular? So okay, I'll give you an example. And you're shaking your head, like I think you might be following my train of thought here. So you see a car that you really want, right, like you decide that you're going to get it, and then all you see on the road is that car. Or you've been thinking like gosh, I would really want a volvo x90. And then all you see are volvo I, literally because, like I want my next car to potentially be a volvo x90, white car, by the way. I saw your car out there and I was like she totally would be driving a white car. Like I just like I, like when you pull. When you pulled up and I saw you, I was like that, totally, like I don't. I have never even met this woman and it's just like that's hilarious.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I manifested that car.
Speaker 1:Did you yeah?
Speaker 2:It was on my screensaver forever and I would see them everywhere, like you said, and my kids even started saying there's your wagon or there's your Jeep, there's your Jeep, there's your Jeep. And so yeah, and so they even got into it. And then, yeah, not even a year later, it was, it was there, it is. Yeah, I actually went to the dealership without my husband and came home with it and he's like um, you're like, it's because I can right, I didn't need a man to be there with me.
Speaker 1:I did that. I didn't need you to sign.
Speaker 2:I didn't need any of the things like I did that, yes, and that's how I manifested it to be, and it's just amazing to me. I love it yeah.
Speaker 1:But the reason I bring that up is because there that is, that's it. Like you're living currently in the reality that you are right now because of all that you continue to think through, and that just becomes a cycle. It's, it's, it literally is, and you've got to break it, yep.
Speaker 2:You're not stuck, you're just repeating the same things over and over to yourself.
Speaker 1:I'm getting chills. I get them every day. I get it you.
Speaker 2:I, you, literally your life will change if you start with the littlest shift, instead of I can't or yeah, right, that will never happen. How about, I'm curious, if? And that is the tiniest little shift? That will that just opens that mind a little bit. Like I'll never find a good man, how about? I'm curious what it would be like to find a good man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, I like, had just a little bit of a what I like to call a brain fart for a second I was like, oh, my word of the year is last year. My word of the year was curious. This year it's courageous.
Speaker 1:So I'm playing, I I'm like actually the curiosity thing for me is like it's so cool because, um it, it literally opened up so much. Like my life took a massive shift when I decided to get more curious about things, like curious about why mortgage isn't fitting for me, curious about why I was feeling the way that I am which started the podcast.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Yes, Curious of like. What would it look like if my husband and I went into business together? Curious what it would look like to have all of the women who were on the podcast in one room together. Ie the podcast anniversary event. I need a date for that June 26th, yes, I think I'm open.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, good, good good.
Speaker 1:So, um, yeah, I mean it's breaking that cycle and it's like you're you've talked about it on more occasions than not like breaking the, the generational, breaking the loop that you're in right now. Like right now there is a way for you to make this massive pivot, to get into a space where, if I'm curious about this, what would it look like if I just explored leaving my nursing role? Explored leaving my nursing role.
Speaker 2:And by saying you're curious, more doors are going to start opening to get you not more curious well, more curious, but they're going to start opening to, like you know what I am going to do this and now I know what it's going to look like and I can't wait. And you just get to that euphoria and that excitement and the anticipation comes and you start to expect it. Yeah, All from flipping from it can't happen to. I'm curious what would happen if it did?
Speaker 1:Suddenly, before you know it, you're at anticipation and you're expecting it. I am so excited, margie, for you to have that particular client that was just absolutely so negative, like just so negative in their train of thought and like one of those people that somebody else looking at them would go absolutely impossible for them to make a mindset shift because of how negative they are right. And for you to have that one-on-one time with them, to just break it and to share that, because it's going to happen.
Speaker 2:Oh, it already has. Absolutely, oh, it has. Okay. Yeah, I have broken through to some of the most negative people I've ever met. It's not easy, but it also isn't my job to change them. Nobody can do that but them. I can guide them, yeah. And that was a big thing to take on with this business was like I'm going to take on all these people. No, I'm not. I'm just going to guide them of how they can change it.
Speaker 1:Let that sit to you for the listeners, just for a second. I mean because that's what you have been sharing for the most part on here is like it's nobody else's job besides yours mine to make these shifts Like nobody's. Nobody's coming to rescue you, Nope, Except for yourself. But you have to make these shifts Like nobody's coming to rescue you, Nope.
Speaker 2:Except for yourself. But you have to make that decision. And people are like, oh, mindset, like it's not an exercise you do once, it is a lifestyle change. It is constantly being aware of your feelings and your emotions, so that your energy is good. And am I all rainbows and butterflies all the time? Absolutely not. But now at least I'm aware like, oh wait, okay, change that thought, snap out of it. And I'm back. Yeah, because it's not. But there are days to that, you know, I just want to vent about something and I just I'm gonna be negative for a minute, you know, and then I snap out of it.
Speaker 1:I'm like, okay, so I I do think too, there's something really cool about just being able to like understand that you, you can hold space for that, right, but how quickly can you move through it? And so if you can spend, you know, say you, you just had a really tough circumstance happen, and it's sometimes it takes you like a day or two to snap out of that. If you can go, wow, I actually moved through that in half a day. Like I'm literally thinking about myself in this particular circumstance, like sometimes I would ruminate years ago, like I would ruminate days and days and days on end about things and then finally snap out of it because, like, what else are you going to do? Sit there, yeah, like so flipping stupid. Yeah, I'm speaking to myself, listeners, by the way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, but like if you can, if you can acknowledge, like, oh my gosh, like only a few hours later and I'm working through this and going, bless and release. Bless and release, let's go.
Speaker 2:And the more you practice this and become aware of this and make it your lifestyle, the faster you get out of it. And now, when I feel that contrast, I bitch, slap it. I'm like, nope, not today, you know. But I also give it a little gratitude. Slap it, I'm like, nope, not today, you know.
Speaker 1:But I also give it a little gratitude, like thank you for reminding me of what I don't want. Yes, so good, so good. Okay, so we're like an hour and a half in already and I'm loving this conversation. I'm like, oh my gosh, margie, we could continue, we could go forever.
Speaker 1:But I do think that I, out of respect for your time, but I do think that, out of respect for your time and for the listeners' time, I want to start to land the plane, and so let's kind of encapsulate what it's like right now running and operating two businesses, like what are some of the things that are really working well for you, and then we'll start to dive into some of those landing the plane questions that I've got, yeah, um, the things that are working well is boundary setting and just letting go of people pleasing.
Speaker 2:I'm in, I'm in business, and so you know I have to. Obviously people have a level of. Please to have some sort of level of that. But in my personal life, because that baggage and I still I'm dealing with it inside now, like my mind has wandered back to some issue with normal life stuff Well, I'll just say it and I don't even know if you'll put it on here, but just another mom on my daughter's team that I just there is something about this woman that she she's out to get me is what it feels like. I highly doubt that's her intent. Well, I don't doubt, I feel like it is, but it's probably me Right, and it's something I'm working through and that that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:As a mom, we all deal with the mean girl stuff, no matter how old we are Right, and so, you know, a couple of times, even today, my mind is like gone back to that, like I know I have to deal with that after I leave here and it's like okay, I'm not, you just bitch, slap it and you're like nope, yeah done. And you just um, and then I just try to look at it with love and clearly she is dealing with some things. I mean, yeah, you know that behavior is not normal, whatever it is, but, um, just the boundaries and knowing that I don't have to people, please, if you haven't read, let them by Mel Robbins, I mean highly highly recommend, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yep, for the listeners too. By the way, we've talked a lot about different books resources.
Speaker 1:I'll be sure to drop all of that into the show notes as well for people in conjunction to show notes for your episode also. But yeah, that's. I've heard nothing but great things about it. I also have seen a lot of the hilarious like counters to that, like I can't but it's. It's all funny, but there's so much truth about like you are living this life for you and you alone, and then, if you've got your guiding principles right, like, but seriously bless and release.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, turns out there's nothing I can do to make you like me, nor do I care to. It's fine, if you don't like me, that's a you problem, I'm going to go over here. Yes, it's fine. Yeah, and I used to be and I still kind of am. It's still an issue I'm working through. Why don't you like me?
Speaker 1:everybody likes me. Why don't? I know I don't.
Speaker 2:I'm with you. I have a hard time like accepting that because I'm like overly nice and like I'm I'm fun and I like like to be funny and bring the fun to things and I don't. So when somebody gives me that really negative energy every time I'm in their presence, it's like it just rips at me and I need to just let it go because it is not my issue, right? But I let it be my issue. And so, mamas, if you're listening, we all do it, even a master manifester. Yes, no kidding, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Thank you for sharing that Cause. I think that that's like that is something that is going to truly resonate with a lot of people who are listening right now, because these are some of the these are some of the more like subtle, weird things that happen on a day-to-day basis that can that can kind of shift your energy or shift how your day is going, without you even realizing it, and then all of a sudden you're like what the heck? But like they are realities too. They really are. Again, it's not like the needle mover for the business or the needle mover for your personal life, but they are little things that happen where, if you can just tweak your mindset a little bit about or how you lead, a little bit more with love.
Speaker 2:yes, it is so much easier said than done, but you've given some nice like it's a struggle, but the more you do it, the easier it gets. But you know, and that's depending, on what's like exercising yes, yeah, for real.
Speaker 1:So actually, um, I I know I said that I was going to start to land the plane here, but I do. I think that this is important for the listeners and we had some really um, we had kind of a nice little conversation about some of the self-care yeah aspects of what margie does. So what, what has that looked like for you? Cause I do think that that's so important as an entrepreneur and as a mother, like how you're taking care, how you're loving yourself, yep.
Speaker 2:So my biggest self-care is my morning ritual. I have boundaries on that too, and my kids know it. I, um, when I get ready, I'm always listening to something uplifting. Normally it's Abraham Hicks or Joe Dispenza, something that's like going to get my mind going. Another thing I do um, no, no, if sans or buts is make my bed. It gets my day off too, and we have a bajillion pillows and so it takes a while, and my husband's like every night he's like I kind of miss when you didn't make the bed, because now we have to take all these you know he's joking with me um, and then you know I just have.
Speaker 2:and then if I need to meditate like my family knows, if I say that I need to go meditate which is really like a weird thing because that was not me before but it's like they know, like I've hit a wall where I'm either going to act like me like mean, for lack of better, or I'm going to be crabby. Um, if I don't like get myself back in alignment and I can't do it with just a thought right now, I have to like take some breathing time. Um, and so that's my biggest self-care. Things are my morning ritual. Making my bed, um, does a lot for me inside, yes, same. And then meditation is huge. Aside from that, you know the. You know everyone's in a massage or my nails are always done. Those are my things, you know. Yeah, but it doesn't have to be materialistic things. It can be simple as meditating or listening. There's one song I listen to every day in the shower. It's a 10 minute song, so it's my timer as well to get out of the shower, nice.
Speaker 1:I go over a lot. But to the next song.
Speaker 2:But that's my timer as well. To get out of the shower. Nice, yes, um, I go over a lot. But to the next song, whoops, um, but that's my. They know I'm in the shower if that song's playing. Um, so yeah it. Just those little self-care things.
Speaker 1:Those are cool little things and um, uh, there's been so many other women on on the podcast, on the show, that have talked about or I should say this is what I like to call them the bookends of the day, Like how are you starting your day and how are you ending your day? Um, and I love, love that you mentioned, like that is so important for me to sort of level set how the rest of the day is going to go. Um, and if that doesn't happen, it's it might be a little bit more of a trudge, not like completely throwing anybody off base, cause I know for me personally it's it might be a little bit more of a trudge. Not like completely throwing anybody off base, cause I know, for me personally it's like okay, if I can at least get a workout in so much better. Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:Or like just in the morning, like touch your energy before you touch your phone, Like you have to wake up and decide in that moment who am I today, and for me it's always I am my highest self. Today, I am acting as if and I always act as if I already am the person who has all of my wishes fulfilled that's why I live as that person every day do I steer away from her, sometimes absolutely, and that's what you're human to get back in alignment because I'm human, but that's how I know I'm out of alignment.
Speaker 2:It's like an inner GPS system. I, my body, knows when I'm going the wrong way and it tells me. And then it's up to me to turn around. And if I don't, then guess what's going to spiral. And that's on me, not anybody else. But then I take you, take it out on your loved ones, and so you don't want that either. So it's really important to put yourself first. It sounds selfish, but it's the most selfless thing you can do, because, yeah, because then you're going to just be a better person to be around.
Speaker 1:So important. Yes, and this is the proverbial. Like put your put your mask on before you put somebody else's mask on in the airplane, Like that's really important.
Speaker 2:Yes, and that's a really good analogy. It really is yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and not to take that as like oh, you're so selfish. No Like, if you literally keep that at the forefront of your mind, like you are in an airplane and something's about to happen, you put your air mask on first because, if you can, care, so then you can care for other people, yep.
Speaker 2:It is literally so important. Such a good analogy.
Speaker 1:We're truly going to start to land the plane now, and this has been so amazing and I just wish that we had more time, so maybe we'll need to have a round two. I would love it. I would love it, too. What is? What's a piece of advice that you would give a younger version of yourself?
Speaker 2:Oh Lord, I thought you said we were landing the plane. I know.
Speaker 1:I know what, but like I want to hear, because I think that there's like we all go through these growth spurts- growth periods. And it is kind of important to go back to that middle school Margie or that elementary school Margie and share a piece of advice.
Speaker 2:Oh, I just see her in my, that sweet girl. Everything is going to be okay. And you know, I wish I would have known then about the power of my mind and how, if I just loved myself first, how much your life changes. You really have to find it within you, to find your higher self and love them, because you're whole right.
Speaker 1:My heart's palpitating right now in such a cool way like we just said.
Speaker 2:It just radiates out to everyone else. Put your mask on first, it's so selfless.
Speaker 1:There's a gal on the podcast and, um, ironically, her and I share a birthday too. Her name is lisa Gandra Harris and she I had gone to one of her events. Finally, after years and years of knowing her um and having her on the podcast, I was like I've got to get to one of your events. It's just silly at this point, right. So I go there and she had pre like kind of like pre leading into that, asked us to send um a young picture, a young photo of ourselves, and and then she was like I want you to always like think of this young Kelly, or this young, and like she's listing off the names, stuff. Like how would you actually like treat them? You know what I mean? Yeah, and so I have. Like she gave us our pictures back, right, and I put it up. I've got, I have this vision.
Speaker 1:I have two vision boards, right, they're exactly the same but, I, have one here in the office and then I have one in the room right up above, like where I'm, like all of my jewelry is and stuff, and I have that picture of myself and I just think it's so sweet to think, like how you're treating yourself right now. Like think about if you were to treat yourself that way as as like a young girl or little girl, yeah, that like you'd realize how sometimes mean you're being oh, my gosh to yourself right.
Speaker 1:So I love this question, like I really do, and I love the answers that are provided because it's just so on point. Yes, all right, so I feel like you were gonna share something else. Okay, go ahead. What's a piece of advice that you would give a woman listening right now? That's maybe nibbling on the edge of entrepreneurship, oh okay, don't let anyone else stop your dreams.
Speaker 2:If you, if anything, listen to what Jesus said and when he said, go forth and tell no one, honestly, a big thing in manifestation, when you're trying to manifest something that sounds crazy, like leaving your nursing career for a photography studio don't tell anybody about it, because their negative energy is going to crush your dream in some aspect. Keep dreaming, girl. Keep dreaming. Nothing is impossible. Nothing is impossible, good or bad, unfortunately, um. So don't let anyone else, um, don't let anyone else tell you what you're capable of.
Speaker 1:That's so good. Yeah, so good. How can people find and get connected to you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, um, my manifestation business is mindset energy evolutioncom, and then my photography business is my kids names put together, so it's benny annie photography b-e-n-n-y-a-n-icom, and you can actually connect through um the me method there as well. There'sa link um on tiktok. Um, I think I'm still at benny annie mama on there. Okay, it won't change. But if you put in mindset energy evolution on any platform platform Facebook, instagram or TikTok that's where you're going to find all of my daily inspiration, which I think is really fun. I love doing them. I think they're amazing. I can't wait to talk about this today, but, yeah, that would be my biggest piece of advice for anyone thinking about it. You're curious.
Speaker 1:Now see what comes to fruition from it so cool, who would be a good connection for you? It's my last question.
Speaker 2:Who would be a good connection for me. You know, I would love somebody who needs a motivational speaker. All right, yes, putting it out there. Let me tell you this real quick Six months ago I must've done some sort of manifestation exercise, I don't remember it, but on my calendar it said check your manifestation drawing at work and I was like huh, wonder where that would be.
Speaker 2:So I looked in a drawer, wasn't there? Looked underneath, pulled out this drawing. It was a drawing of a little stick person standing on a stage with a ton of people in the audience. Get out. A month ago I was asked to speak on a cruise ship. I'm speaking on a cruise ship in January and with some big name people like that manifestation, like I, I said it and forget it, because if you're manifesting out of desperation or lack, I'm sorry but it's not going to come. But if you manifest out of like hey, I want this and I'm sure that it's coming, it's going to come even faster. And that came and I didn't even like realize I had asked for that six months ago.
Speaker 2:I was like oh, I should ask for the lottery numbers too. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:No kidding, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like you know what I mean. Like I I pulled that drawing.
Speaker 1:I'm like no freaking way, and I like, took a picture, sent it to my husband. It's just crazy. Yeah, that's so cool. All right For the listeners who are out there listening right now. I know that this episode will drop like a few months after we actually do the interview, but but the lovely thing about it too, is that you're just putting it out there.
Speaker 2:You're speaking it.
Speaker 1:And so that's incredible. Margie, I, like you, talked about getting chills. I keep, I have been getting chills and just sort of doing this, like okay, this is so stinking cool, and affirmed that, like how excited I was to have you on. And also, by the way, I just have to share this. I literally set the intention. I was like we are going to have a fantastic interview.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, and.
Speaker 1:I like, literally I think I was like putting the dishes away and I just it just came to me and I was like yeah, we are, yeah, we are, and I didn't think anything else after that, like, besides, I need to get the dishes put away. And here we are, like I just am so pleased at how this how this conversation went, the gold nuggets that you dropped for the listeners gold. Can I drop two more before we go?
Speaker 2:Sure, so my favorite quote is be realistic, expect miracles. That's like I want to get it tattooed on me. I just love it.
Speaker 1:You've got to. Where would you?
Speaker 2:Where, where I don't know, probably on my leg.
Speaker 1:I have to finish, it's so funny. I literally was like you have to like write like yeah, I can literally see it, I have one over here.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, I got to get it. That's so cool. Yeah, Like we, so I got to get that. So be realistic, expect miracles. That actually came from somebody who follows me, um, and reached out and like, said that to me. I was like, oh my gosh, I love that. And then the other thing I want to tell you going back to self-care I set three alarms a day and I call myself Triple M because that's who I am going, who I am multi-millionaire Margie, love it. I haven't hit my goal yet.
Speaker 1:I'm working towards that, so I'm.
Speaker 2:Triple M. And so my alarm, when it goes off at specific times of the day, says what would Triple M do. My alarm when it goes off at specific times of the day, says what would triple M do, and it's my reminder like hey, are you acting as the person you want to be?
Speaker 2:or are you out of alignment and that's my reset right there, if I need it. And so if you set an alarm just to like check in with yourself so that your intentions are there, your alignment is there. It's a really good way to get really good, like I don't even need my alarms anymore, cause every time it goes off I'm like yuck, yeah, girl, of course I'm in alignment, you know what I mean. Like now, it's just a habit for me, but that was. It's a really good way to remind yourself to stay.
Speaker 1:That's so good. That is that's like one of my takeaways. Another like two things that's a takeaway that I can easily implement and will do, and then taking your course too.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm so excited. I want to see what you think about it too.
Speaker 1:Margie, thank you for carving out time, driving just a little bit of a distance to get here and speak into women in the vein of motherhood and entrepreneurship and setting really, really amazing intentions for themselves. So cool. I'm so excited for where you're going, where you have been, where you're at and where you're going.
Speaker 2:So thank you for carving out the time and coming. Thank you for having me. This is so exciting. I feel honored to be here Seriously. Thank you, it is a big honor to be asked to be here so thank you, thanks, well, I hope you have a great day.
Speaker 1:It's a big honor to be asked to be here, so thank you, Thanks, well, I hope you have a great day. Yeah, you too.
Speaker 2:Thank you, can we?
