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• Jacqueline Divine Correia • Season 1 • Episode 5

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What happens when women trust their intuition and transform personal struggles into purposeful businesses? In this candid conversation celebrating International Women's Day 2025, host Jacqueline Correa welcomes two remarkable entrepreneurs who've built thriving businesses by honoring their authentic gifts and challenging conventional paths.
 
 Meet Olu, who after nearly three decades as a senior law clerk, found herself on sick leave battling depression and anxiety. Through spiritual guidance, she discovered her calling as a certified motivational life coach and founded the Let's Talk Women's Conference. Her journey illuminates how burnout can become the catalyst for meaningful transformation when we finally prioritize our wellbeing.
 
 Then there's Shaz, who built a wellness empire (with 467,000 TikTok followers) after conventional medicine failed to address her chronic health issues. When she was unethically let go during maternity leave, she recognized it as the universe's nudge toward entrepreneurship. As she shares, "Being an entrepreneur is the most spiritual thing you can do, because you have to actually choose you every single day."
 
 Their stories highlight the unique challenges women face – from workplace discrimination during childbearing years to societal expectations about caregiving roles. Yet they also reveal the tremendous power of female intuition, community support, and the courage to trust your unique gifts. Whether building businesses through traditional networking or digital platforms, these women demonstrate how entrepreneurship allows us to create success aligned with our values.
 
 For those feeling called to something greater than their current circumstances, this episode offers practical wisdom about confronting imposter syndrome, balancing family responsibilities, and finding mentors who understand your vision. As Jacqueline reminds us, "In each of us there is a gift, and that gift is so dying to come up, because we were never made to do nine to five."
 
 Ready to transform your own challenges into purpose-driven success? Listen and discover how these women created businesses that feel like "playing in a sandbox" rather than working a job. Your authentic path awaits.







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Speaker 1:

Hello, hello, welcome to the Money Is For you podcast. In collaboration with Notable Wealth Management Inc. I am your host, jacqueline Correa, your guide on this journey. Today we are celebrating International Women's Day 2025. And to celebrate this day, I have invited two friends to celebrate women in business. So, to the left, we have beautiful Shaz from Shaz Wilderness, and to the right, we have Olu, who is a life coach. So Olu will tell us they both will tell us a little bit of what they do, and we'll just get into the discussion. So, olu, give us a little bit about what you do, sure.

Speaker 2:

I am a former senior law clerk turned motivational life coach, certified motivational life coach and speaker, founder of the let's Talk Women's Conference, and a small business startup consultant. My journey, or my transition, I should say, from law clerk to life coach came about after I went through my own personal journey with mental health. After going on sick leave in July of 2022, realizing pretty shortly after that I wasn't going to go back to work, the question became what next? After consulting with my Heavenly Father, my guide Life Coach was what he showed me. Having a women's conference is what he showed me. I had my first women's conference last April of 2024. It was a resounding success and even I am surprised and blessed and honored to say I am now planning my second women's conference for April 26, 2025.

Speaker 1:

Awesome, Awesome. And also you have almost two decades as a legal.

Speaker 2:

Almost three decades as a law clerk. I was over 25 years I keep trying to do the math and I think it's closer to 30 than it is to 25 years. Did it for a long time, loved it at the beginning, really, really, really enjoyed it, and then it became very tiring. After all, it's a very high pressure job, right, right. And when you're, like me, taking care of everybody else, that's what I did. That's how I ended up on sick leave is I took care of everybody else but me, completely ignored myself, but was the best employee, best law clerk, best daughter? Well, I'm sure my mom won't say I'm the best daughter, but I try. Mother daughter, friend, what have you? And everybody else's health and happiness was more important to me than my own.

Speaker 1:

And then we have to the left, beautiful Miss Shaz from Shaz Shaz Shaz, Wilderness Wellness Wellness. I'm in theerness, Wellness Wellness. I'm in the wilderness.

Speaker 3:

In the wilderness Actually we all kind of are.

Speaker 1:

So tell us a little bit about your journey, like what do you do and you know how we can get a hold of you?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, absolutely yeah. So my journey started because I had a lot of health issues growing up a lot of stomach issues, I was fainting, a lot of acne that doctors couldn't explain and understand what was going on wrong with me. So once I kind of exhausted the Western medicine, I learned that I had to take my health into my own hands. And then I learned about holistic healing and the power of nutrition and the power of herbs and supplements, of nutrition and the power of herbs and supplements, and so as I learned to heal myself, I shared to the world that journey and a lot of people were suffering as well. So then I got to go to school for nutrition and I have a degree in kinesiology. So then I got to expand and then offer my services to the world and helping other people heal.

Speaker 1:

Awesome, awesome. So I actually did your biography.

Speaker 1:

And the funny thing is I'm very proud of her and I say that in a way because I always talk about you know, we have to be very careful of the words we speak and I always remember her standing on my stairs, pushing her young head, because she's still in university at the time through the stairs to the living room, telling me that I will be, I will have my business, I will be working from home and I will raise my children. And I don't even think you were 21, 22.

Speaker 3:

I was probably that exactly, but this young lady has done exactly.

Speaker 1:

The universe has brought everything that she said she would do, and I always I'm very big about the words we speak because they're very powerful, and to see her where she she's at today and to always. I always remember that when I see her on social media and whatnot, I always remember the words she spoke. She wasn't graduated from university yet, but she told me that was what she was going to do. She was going to have her business, she was going to work from home and she was going to raise her kids at home without any nannies, and she's doing that. So, again, that is to just tell you how powerful words are. But, into going on to a little bit and as we are celebrating women, women in business one of the things that I also because I creep her page quite frequent um, she has 467 000 followers on tiktok and on instagram 45 000 um on her instagram, because, um, one of the things I also is that you know, for me, I'm considered the maturity, the gensing.

Speaker 1:

So we did when we build business, when I build my business, it was all about getting on the phone, one at a time, talking to people in the streets, talking to you know, and so I build my business with some cold calling, just referrals, whatnot but here you are as a millennial. You've literally built a digital business online. Your entire followers and your business has come from digital and I just you know it is so important for us all to intermingle. Just because you know, millennials can teach me things that I would never know to do, because, as I said, I build a business where you had to be on the phone. You build a business where you share everything on social, like true content. So I just think that is just so amazing how you know we've transitioned over time, right, and so I also you had also.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so those were the two things that kind of fascinated me Um, the way you've transitioned and how you've cause I remember when you started, you started on um YouTube and then you grew into this. So that's pretty amazing, um. So I'm actually going to ask a couple of questions in the sense of you know what motivated you to start this business? And I mean, I know you've transitioned, but I know you transitioned from a job and then you started the business, like you know, and I mean, even though you spoke it, you didn't actually start it as an entrepreneur. You actually had a job, yeah Right. So what motivated you to transition?

Speaker 3:

Yeah. So, like you talked about, like I did know one day I'd have a business, but at that time I was full of acne, I was really suffering at 21 with my health, and I think that's great. That inspires me to remember that I had that vision back then, because I didn't remember that. But, yeah, I did have a job and then I actually just like asked for signs from the universe, from God, being like if I already knew I was better than the job that I was at. I was stuck at a salary that didn't make sense for me. I was really serving people and helping people, but I felt stuck.

Speaker 3:

And then I got pregnant with my first and then, when I was on maternity leave, they actually let me go. And then at the time, I was like that was my sign and I knew like I'm better than this job, I wasn't supposed to go back, but it was very scary. We were just going to COVID, my husband didn't have a job. I obviously didn't have a job at the time too. So I knew that like I had to go for this 1000% and that was my time. So it was in 2020, when everyone was on social media. So I did really leverage in that market where people were at home and had money to invest into their health. So I just took advantage of that and I started posting, and that's when I gained most of my audience, right.

Speaker 1:

So you also have two books, right Two online books.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I actually transitioned to e-courses uh, yeah, I actually transitioned to e-courses, okay, yeah, okay, um, and so you know, if you are currently have a job, like one of the things that I teach, basically as um, a world builder, because I'm strongly believe that and I don't take me the wrong way, because I know we all have to survive and we have to do what we have to do, and so one of the things that I actually tell my clients is that, even though you have a job, in each of us there is a gift, and that gift is so dying to come up, because we were never made to do nine to five, to trade our time, like what we do when we have a job. We're giving up our labor for you know, giving up our time for somebody to tell us how much we worked right, and I know this is how we were trained. So one of the things that I would always say to my clients I don't want you to just go out and get another job or get like you know you're like your nurse at one hospital and go get another nurse job at another hospital, because all you're doing is giving more taxes to the government, but if you can take that second job and make it to become. If it is your passion, take the second job and make it something where it's a contract or created as a business, where they're now paying you or start, you know, a nursing center or something that it becomes your own right. Because the thing about this is that one way of building business is building wealth is having a business, and if you can have something that you can grow old with and it's never a job it becomes fun. It's like you now in a sand pit and you're playing as a kid, right, that's what us, as entrepreneurs, do Like it's. It's not a job for us. I mean, it's hard work. Don't get us wrong. We work hard and this is the building stage.

Speaker 1:

But if you ever sat and talked to a business owner or an entrepreneur, they will tell you this is the, this is the job. I do this seven days a week and I'm so happy doing it because it's not a J-O-B. I'm not saying, oh God, tomorrow sucks, monday coming and Monday sucks. Right, as people that have a job, it comes with stress, but it comes with a lot of fun in the process, right? What were some of the like?

Speaker 1:

I know you transitioned from law clerk to this. What were some of your challenges, like in this transition, like I know as much you've done this what are some of the things and I don't like to use the word fear, but what are the some of the things that may have hold you back? Um, because our audience would want to know those things of like, they may have a passion right now or a dream, or they may want to do that, but what are some of the some of the things that they can look forward to? Because I mean, one of the things I find people tell the world how everything is great, but nobody talks about the struggles we go through to get to the success.

Speaker 2:

Right. There are challenges, there are moments of doubt. I'm a believer and I still have moments of doubt. For me, the decision was made for me. I didn't come to a place where I said you know, I'm going to quit my job in 2022. I'm going to focus on being a life coach. Didn't quite work that way for me. I had heard someone said to me several years ago, before life coaches were a thing You'd make a great life coach, and not wanting to embarrass myself by saying, well, what's that? I went oh really, Wow, thank you. And then, when I looked it up, that again, that was years and years and years ago. Fast forward to 2022. I had had my cleaning business, which I shut down during COVID, and I had my t-shirt and sweatshirt business, which was spiritual and motivational sayings.

Speaker 2:

Find myself on sick leave, which probably surprised me more than anybody else. I am this strong black woman. Are you kidding me? I can handle anything. What do you mean? I'm highly depressed and high anxiety and it didn't make any sense to me. But I was. I was all those things and saying to my Heavenly Father okay, what do I do now? I have to do something. I don't see myself going back to a regular nine to five. Been there, done that, I'm done with that. But I got to live, I got to eat, I got bills to pay. And he said to me well, you're a life coach and you can combine the life coach business with the spiritual, motivational merchandising business. And I went oh, why didn't I think about that? That seems so obvious. And then the part that surprised me is when he said have a woman's conference. That surprised me. It's never something I ever thought about and that's where the challenges come in. But that's your gift though.

Speaker 1:

Yes, and you tell me that all the time Because I've seen you at the church, yeah, and so I don't think she relies and I think this is where you know we do certain things over the years and we do it and we're not even thinking about it Because I mean both ladies here, as I said, these are my friends, right? I've watched them over the years that you know. I've seen their gifts. Olu could work a church room like there's no tomorrow and she does not even know she would be spinning around, spinning around and she's putting everybody's in order. So I could see you doing that, because that is where your gift is. You did the church. I mean we had how much? 2,000 people.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, at one point yeah, 1,500, 2,000. Yeah, I mean, we went from 100 to 2000 and you, you had that whole room spinning. Everybody knew you Right and you, just you had you know how to organize that whole front area and got it no-transcript said okay, in so-and-so year, this is what I'm going to do.

Speaker 2:

She did it out of a need and I did it out of a need.

Speaker 2:

And I just follow what God told me to do, even though I understood the life coach part, okay, get it. People are always coming to me and I've been told that I listen and I'm fair, and so I get that part. And although I can talk very well among my family and friends you know me, I'm the center of attention at your house Um, me speaking in front of a group of women that paid to come and hear me speak did not resonate with me at all.

Speaker 3:

It's imposter syndrome that happens when you become an entrepreneur. Right, it's being an entrepreneur is the most spiritual thing you can do, because you have to actually choose you every single day, oh amen. And then when those fears come, in that's when imposters, people are actually paying me to speak. It doesn't feel right. Who's going to want to hear me speak because you're like people are actually paying me to speak.

Speaker 2:

It doesn't feel right. Who's going to want to hear me speak? And God said to me you plan it and I'll send the people. My first conference was planned within a week. I'm talking venue guest speakers, jeff. I would have friends call me and say I know you're really, really, really busy. I just want to ask you a quick question. I said, but what?

Speaker 3:

am I busy doing? And they're like aren't you planning a conference?

Speaker 2:

yeah, oh no, that's been planned and that's what. But I I thank you for saying that, because that's exactly what I went through I didn't feel worthy enough. But I didn't feel worthy enough, honestly speaking, when I was a law clerk. Wow, every well, at least once a week, I would say to myself this is the day they're going to fire me when they figure out that I don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1:

Wow, so it's funny that you said that, because I had that feeling in 2020, when we actually here. I was set up at home which is everything I prayed for and I was working from home and I did my first deal online and I couldn't believe that I was getting paid for it. Because, I didn't drive across Toronto and sat in that living room.

Speaker 2:

It's like and work for somebody else who's going to tell you how much that particular thing is worth.

Speaker 1:

But so now I'm just, that's the only way I do. Business is from home. But that was the first thought when I got that first check after closing the deal online. I'm like, but I got paid for this, but I didn't go anywhere. Right, it's just how we sabotage yourself, but it's just again sabotage yourself. But, um, it's, it's just, it's just again. These are things that we grow through. It's a process, right? So how do you balance? Cause, this is this is like a this in your case, you're a young mom. Um, how do you balance? How do you balance life, you know, being a mom and transition, cause, as a mom wife.

Speaker 2:

yeah, cause we we.

Speaker 1:

We have bills to pay right, and it's not just the fact that you know. You know that paycheck is going to come to you every two weeks is that you do have to do, do your hustle. So how do you balance life? If somebody wanted to come into being an entrepreneur. Like what? How do you balance being a mom um, you know, having a husband and then still having to provide as a provider there where you're paying the bills? Yeah, homemaker.

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 3:

At first there was no balance. To be honest, when you have the creative vision and you know what you need to do and the bills need to be paid, me and my partner didn't have time together. It was. We did what we needed to for our child and then every night I would work as soon as he would sleep. I would work till like one in the morning because I needed to build a website.

Speaker 3:

I needed to start everything, but then as I was building, I had to keep working smarter, not harder, because once my imposter syndrome left and I've served people, I know I'm the best person for that person who comes to me and I know I can help them.

Speaker 3:

I had to learn to just keep using the internet and social media and find ways to make the little mini all tasks. As an entrepreneur, you know, like the assistant, things you don't need to do, so I hired someone to do those things. I need any like millionaire books. They always say those things like you have to be the face and the head of your business and do the important jobs the coaching but the little. Email your business and do the important jobs the coaching but the little emailing and all that stuff. I had to learn either to set it up automatically so it's done without my attention, or hire someone to do that, and that's what I did and my time is very valuable and I do really love spending time with my kids, which is also why I didn't want to just send them to daycare at eight months old.

Speaker 3:

I knew I wanted to be with them, so that's what I had to do.

Speaker 2:

I do some of that thing too. I know when my empire I say this all the time and I'm choosing my words very carefully when my empire explodes, I want to have people in place.

Speaker 1:

But your empire already explodes.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, I don't want to have to start hiring people. So people say to me all the time, ok, but you're not bringing in the money yet. I'm like money's going to come, I'm not worried about that, I know it's going to come. And they're like, but yeah, but you pay for a studio to do your lives and you pay a brand manager to do your postings. And I said yeah, because when I get to that point, when I really am busy, I don't want to be then looking for somebody and just hiring the first person that comes along because I don't have the time to find the right person. So I've got my people in place already and I don't want to be working on Sunday and Mondays. I want to work smarter, not harder, and I want to have days off for myself. I want to really practice what I preach, which is prioritizing self-care.

Speaker 2:

So what I do is I don't respond to emails at night or on the weekends. So if you email me anytime after five o'clock on a Friday, I'll read it and I may respond, but I save it in my draft. I'm not going to hit send Monday morning when I wake up. I just release everything that I've done over the weekend because I want that space and if I don't want to respond to the email till Monday, then I won't do it till Monday, but doing it on the weekend allows me the time to. If I have some free time on the weekend, I've done my laundry, done my shopping, done my cooking, my mom's okay, because on top of everything else that I do, I'm the primary caregiver of my mom. She's 82, she's not very well and she lives with me, so I have to navigate.

Speaker 1:

So we both are in the right, I was just gonna say the sandwich you know you have to navigate your kids, I have to navigate my mom before I left I'm like mom, you okay, like make sure she ate, sat with her, we watched some TV together.

Speaker 2:

You know that kind of stuff. But it is a juggling act but you become very good at it after a while. In the beginning you're very hectic, you're scattered, and then after a while you're like, okay, no, no, no, no, no, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that and I'm the happiest I've ever been, the happiest I've ever been doing what you know you were born to do. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

I couldn't go back and for me it's like I remember um. When it was like the third year or the second year, I got an actual um offer from one of the agent that I had put out and his funny thing is that he had they had were offering me like six figures to go back to an office, um, and at the time I wasn't making six figures in as a as um you know, self-employed and I remember, by the time he said you know, this is what we would offer you I could see my, my whole body went into a dark place and all I could think about was somebody telling me are you in the bathroom again, like, and I and I kind of like, ooh.

Speaker 1:

So one of the things that I had to learn to do is, as I said, so I had to go back in time and run the numbers. When I ran the numbers, I was like to go away, to go back to this, to go through the snow, to do all this to get less money at the end, because among the taxes that I would have to pay, as to have a 9 to 5, I'm going back a little bit of time in to say that, in the sense of dollar wise, you know you give up your time for money. What were some of the challenges? I mean, because we're celebrating women in business, right what were some of the things that did you find to be challenging in the sense when you were actually working the nine to five? Like you know, one of the things that we hear currently a lot was women are still paid less than men.

Speaker 3:

Well. I got let go on maternity leave.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 3:

Which is the most unethical thing to do. They made me train my replacement and hired her.

Speaker 2:

Wow, but I hope they packaged you out and or you sued.

Speaker 3:

Oh, you had a legal right there. But, because I was a contractor, they had a loophole.

Speaker 2:

But there's also a loophole for you.

Speaker 3:

Well, at the time I just yeah, you probably didn't know. Yeah, I didn't know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, there's a loophole for Because they do that a lot, employers do that using you, where they cannot use that contract thing anymore. But of course the milk is already spilled.

Speaker 1:

That's okay. We can't do anything about that. We've all been successful. Yes, that is the challenge.

Speaker 3:

Especially anytime a woman gets pregnant. You look that completely different right away Wow. I have a lot of mom friends who have lost hours, lost jobs because of that, because they know a mom will always choose their children and not their job first anymore. And so that's how we're looked at. I think that was my biggest challenge, and a lot of women would say the same that they're afraid to have kids because they know what it's going to mean for their job.

Speaker 2:

For someone like myself, coming from a law firm background boy. Do we ever see that every day of the week? Because back in then. I don't know what it's like now, but when I started working at the law firms the partner trail was about, on average, six years. So when you became an associate, you had about six years to make partner. If you were good, that was, that was a trail.

Speaker 2:

Well, if you're coming in as a young lawyer in your what? Mid-20s isn't six years your childbearing ages like by your, by your late 20s, early 30s is when you want to start having a family, yeah right. Well, they have to now choose between do I get off the partner trail, have my kids come back and hope I can just pick up where I left off, or do I wait, become a partner and then have my kids and some? I remember one of the firms I was working at I won't name them, um, because that became a big thing in the news. It was coming out that when we were saying, okay, this is not fair, we are. We are the ones that carry babies. Men cannot. So why do we have to come off the partner trail?

Speaker 2:

Men aren't they can just keep going and going. So one of the firms I worked at said you know what Fair point. So if you are going to be pregnant, if you want to have a child and we understand the whole daycare thing and live-in nanny thing you can work nine to five hours. We get it Like. We won't expect you to do the long crazy hours that lawyers typically do. Nine to five is fine. The problem with that is, as you're walking in the door at nine o'clock, you're getting this as you're leaving at five o'clock.

Speaker 2:

you're getting this and so all the women that signed up for that, they all, every one of them, ended up leaving.

Speaker 1:

But you know, you say that I had that same thing. It's like I remember having an upset stomach and going to the bathroom and have people knocking on the bathroom saying are you in the bathroom again? So it's just like. So I, I said so the thing about it. I know one of the things that I I actually even when I sit with my clients, um, and I tell them, even you know, coming back to even my son, I remember my son arguing with me saying you know, why do I need this degree?

Speaker 1:

And we have transitioned from the industrial age into um, we're now into the communication age. So you know, this is something that we all have to look at, especially if you're thinking about. You're in a job right now, um, and you're trying to figure out if I should stay here or or should I go back to school and whatnot. This is why I say this is when you spend time with the. I am the power within you, your higher self to guide. Is like we started off when I and I, shanice said she knew her higher self, knew that she was going to be a business owner. She, she had a gift. She didn't know at the time where that gift was going to take her, but she was still in university studying to do, because part of what you do is what you studied right yeah, I, I was going to be.

Speaker 3:

I was studying to be a chiropractor, actually, okay, and then I switched.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so it's within that same family kind of I knew I wanted to be into health and wellness okay, I just didn't know what health and wellness can I ask you a question because my niece has just started doing that, um, not feeling well and we're all the females in my family are all big, like myself, heavy set. But my niece was more puffy than she was, big in blame right, and I remember she came by on christmas day. I didn't say anything to her but I went, oh lord in my head right, because she just looked like she was just getting. So anyway, she comes to visit my mom for her birthday. My mom's birthday is January 11th. So remember I said Christmas day.

Speaker 2:

She came by, look, january 11th. She walked in and I went oh wow, what happened to you? And she said I got tired of the doctors. I got tired of me saying I don't feel good. I feel like this. My chest feels like this, my heart feels like that. I don't have a neck anymore like I did. I got tired of it. And so she. Her nickname is dr tick tock she knows.

Speaker 3:

She says that's what people find yeah yeah, she's like aunt lou.

Speaker 2:

I just went on there and I found out that she was insulin resistant, which meant that her hormones were unbalanced. You should hear this girl talk. I'm like I can't believe you're sitting here. We're not living in a big mansion of a house, because listen to you talk. And so she went to the health food store and said insulin resistant, unbalanced hormones, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they went doom, doom, doom. And she walks in from December 25th to January 11th. I'm like you have a neck.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that's the power, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Really yeah.

Speaker 3:

That's what I help women do all the time, that's what I do. I mean, you should even see a picture of me when I was 21.

Speaker 1:

Yeah the acne Very inflamed.

Speaker 1:

But the foods that we eat. Right, Remember that the foods that we eat has a lot to do. It's not like back home, like from where I come from, where we literally take the my dad would take the pool from the pigs and whatnot, put it as fertilizer into the earth Like it's all the natural stuff and so everything was more natural. The fruits that we eat was natural. Here there's so many things sprayed on everything, so the stuff that's going into our bodies it's not natural. Like even when you just come back from from a trip and the Island, I'm sureon was able to eat certain things without even having to think twice because, again, the stuff is all natural. There there's no spraying and the you know. So all of that creates the information in our body.

Speaker 2:

But it's also doctors not knowing what janez knows. They do know that.

Speaker 3:

Well, no, no, they honestly okay, I've learned to disrespect what they know, which is disease and medicine, that's it. If you don't have a disease, you don't fall in the category of you have diabetes. You have this. The insulin resistance is not a disease, so they're not going to know how to treat. You're not going to give you anything right. The only thing they will give young women is what birth control pill that's it. Or metformin, which is meant for um women or people with diabetes, but they just give metformin like nothing to young women.

Speaker 3:

Oh, you have um acne, here's metformin, here's birth control pill, but like that's what they know. So when you come with bloating or tired, they'll just say we'll stress less, we'll drink more water, we'll lose some weight, eat less. That's all they'll tell you, because they don't know any better. They don't just, they don't study prevention. They're made to make money off of your disease.

Speaker 2:

And it's funny that you should say that, because when I went on sick leave, one of the things I heard from everybody doctor, psychologist, a therapist, friends, family pastor oh, you have to take care of yourself. You've got way so much on your plate, you gotta take care of yourself. I kept hearing that over and over and over again. You know what? No one told me to do, no one told me how. Right, not one person said, oh, take care of yourself, and this is how. Yeah, oh, do this and this is how you take it. All they kept saying was exactly what you're saying stress less, yeah, stress, sleep some more. Don't let you do too much. Get some help. It's not a solution, right, and that's why my niche is prioritizing self-care, right.

Speaker 3:

It's important.

Speaker 2:

It's really important to take that break. As I said to you earlier, no is a full sentence, no.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, we're in the era where old medicine is the medicine.

Speaker 2:

When I lived back home. I'm from Africa, my mother's from monrovia, liberia, my father's from lagos, nigeria, and I lived back home from 1980 to 1985. So I was born and raised here. I was 11, going on 12, when I went back home. So all I know is this western world and you go back home and it's oh so and so is not feeling. Well, okay, go go in the back, give me that, see, that dark leaf, get me some of that.

Speaker 1:

And that's what we did all right, so we'll bring it back. Okay, this is.

Speaker 2:

This is part I know we will women. I know I know so, but I'm an entrepreneur yeah, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 1:

So, um, the other thing is is, um, you know women, uplifting women, um, some of the things, like, did you find that mentorship helped you along the journey? I know that. Um, we have, like the support with family, wise right, like so, did you have a lot of like coaches, or like when you were going through cause, I mean, you've grown tremendously, from even 2020. I think we've all come to that journey where we've grown a lot, like you know, even when you first started your business, um, did you find that you had, like you had a mentor, or did you need a mentor? Or, like, you know, or was it just trying errors?

Speaker 1:

So like, let's say, you know again, you know people are maybe stuck in a position or you know, and most of the times when we talk about celebrating women and the celebration is mostly done from a corporate level, and but I do believe that we need to celebrate women, no matter which level is that?

Speaker 1:

Um, and this was why I did decided to do this show, because I feel that you know women, like people in general, but you know women most of the time. Um, I think we have certain shortcomings because we are still known to be um, the mother who is the mother of earth, mother of children, mother of the house, and most of the time, the female is left behind, right To still do everything. And if you know, here they're watching you and thinking, wow, you know, here, these are three successful women, what you know? If they wanted to come into a business whether it's your business or any business like what would be something that they can, you know, start with a mentor? Or like even, what courses do you think you know? Do you think it's a course thing that you know? Like what would you recommend to somebody who may want to transition as a business owner?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, firstly, I think, just like, getting in touch with your intuition is very important, like when you have that gift and you get silent, you get a lot of those answers for you. But there's lots of things like books that you feel called to. There's like I've done more like e courses and books, not so much hired a mentor, um, but I just went whoever, whoever author I resonated with, I would just read those books or get those e-courses for guidance. Because I don't have any business experience like knowledge.

Speaker 1:

Like I didn't go to school for business.

Speaker 3:

I only know the health side.

Speaker 1:

And so that's where I can help you on that part. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so for sure, I know Shanna's always have this question. Sometimes she'll ask you know and see, this is sometimes, I think, where it's important, because we all have our gifts in different areas, and this is why collaboration is important, because you know you have your gift when it comes to the health part. But then my gift is the numbers, right, and an older gift is it's a lifestyle of how to maintain that balance again, with um taking care of of herself and the people around her. Um, and and that's important so if anyone wanted to get a hold of you, um, how can they get a hold of you? Like what, what can like, how can they reach you? If they needed your help, like, maybe before we get to there, tell them a little bit more of um. If somebody was dealing with an issue, um, you know, give them a story like what, how to reach you, you know on and the process to get you, how they can contact you yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3:

So, um, my website is shaznesswellnesscom, or you can find me shazness wellness instagram or um youtube or tiktok, but essentially on my website you can book a call with me, like a one-on-one call with me. That's probably the best place to get in touch with me. Or you can send me a dm Instagram. Yeah, but essentially I offer a free mini course. That's usually how I help people at first, which was saving my time, but creating like a course that you can just watch through everything that I know and what I teach and if it resonates with you, you can apply to work with me.

Speaker 1:

Awesome, and.

Speaker 2:

Olu For me. I'm going to go back to the question that you asked her about mentorship and coaches. One of the things they pressed upon when I was getting certified was that as a coach, I had to have coaches, mentors. So you'll find all coaches have a coach, a mentor coach and to collaborate. So all three of us can be motivational life coaches but have different styles of coaching. So a different gift yeah.

Speaker 2:

So if somebody needs a motivational coach, they may not like my in your face kind of approach or they may find you too quiet and they might find Jackie just right. So they always talk about the fact that we should be willing and ready to say I don't think we work together, personality or whatever, but I think Jackie will be great. So those are the two things they they harped on when I was taking, when I was getting certified um, which I carry through to today. Um for me. Um. I've made it very easy for everybody to find me. It's just my name, olu muley.

Speaker 2:

O-l-u is my first name, m-u-i-l-i is my last name. So my website is olumuleycom. My email is info at olumilicom. Youtube is my name, instagram is my name and Facebook. You can friend me on Facebook by looking for my name and I'm the same as you can go to my website and book a discovery call with me, a 30 minute consultation call where we can speak on what your goals are, your expectations are, what you're looking for in a coach, and we can decide in that call if we're a good fit and then we take it from there.

Speaker 2:

I also have my women's conferences that are a really great landing ground to come and hear me speak and what I have to offer and just get a really good idea of my heart posture, what kind of coach I am, what's important to me and why it is. It's important to me that you are okay and that you recognize that there's nothing wrong with you, regardless of how bad your finances are. Your marriage may or may not be, there's nothing wrong with you. It just means that you're having a thing. So that's for me. That's how you can find me on all of my platforms.

Speaker 1:

So before um, also, ollu is having another women's annual conference that is coming up on April 26, 2025. And I also would like you to talk a little bit about that how they can get tickets. Where is it going to be held? I will also be one of her guests on that day, so I would like you guys to come out, support us all, but tell us a little bit, how can they get tickets? You know, if they wanted to be a part of the second women's conference on April 26th, how can they get tickets? Or you know, even if they're uncertain of whatnot, how can they reach you or to you know. Share that a little bit.

Speaker 2:

The second annual let's Talk Women's Conference, as Jackie said, is coming up on Saturday, april 26, 2025. The first conference was entitled let's Talk About Life Lessons Learned. The second one is entitled let's Talk About the Hidden Areas of Our Lives. A lot of what I talk about is things that I personally have gone through, that I recognize other women have and or are going through. The tickets can be purchased on my website, wwwolumilicom. They are $157.50. That's the early bird rate. You want to get them now because the after early bird rate goes up quite high. We're going to have six incredible speakers, led by myself, as keynote speakers, and my two guest speakers are returning from last year's conference as keynote speakers, and then I have three incredible new guest speakers, jackie being one of them, kalina is from the deaf and hard of hearing community and Karina is a budget doctor. You can also win tickets to the conference by watching my youtube lives every other Thursday. We had one this past Thursday, so the next one will be next week Thursday, not this Thursday coming up and, yeah, anybody who watches those lives have a chance to win a free ticket to the conference. What do you expect to get? A room full of motivation, empowerment, encouragement, support, inspiration, connections, communities.

Speaker 2:

One of the comments from last year's conference that put the biggest smile on my face was someone wrote me and said what's this buzz I'm hearing about? Apparently, there was a conference I missed this weekend. How did I not know about this? Where was it what happened? I need to know. I need to not know about this. Where was it what happened? I need to know. I need to be there for the next one. When's the next one? And that put a big smile on my face. I actually met the lady. I walked into an event and she's like Olu and I went oh, and she's like, oh, it's me. And it was that lady who sent me. That comment is how you can find me on all of my platforms and tickets can be purchased on my website, and they can follow you on Instagram, too. Instagram.

Speaker 1:

YouTube, facebook, okay, awesome. So we are going to wrap this up and I want to say thank you, both beautiful ladies, for joining me today to celebrate International Women's Day and for being my guest, because a lot of my entrepreneurs constantly ask you know, when to incorporate, if I should incorporate tax question, even though I'm not I'm a financial advisor, but there's a lot of stuff that we have to do behind the scene, even to prepare for taxes, and so I had decided so because, you know, to help everybody that is actually always asking, especially my daughter-in-law to the left here, I had decided to put together a guide. It's actually it's an e-book, and today both of my ladies will get a copy of the e-book. At the back of it, you will actually have an income statement, which is kind of like your expenses, that you can put. You know, because when you are incorporated is one of the things that you do have to do whether or not you do have an accountant, you have to still keep track of your expenses. So I've actually put together, you know, if you wanted to calculate your mileage on your car, those kinds of things will be the back of it.

Speaker 1:

Um, this is just a guide because we do have the legality lady on the right-hand side, we'll tell you. Did you pass this by me before it has a disclosure? It is nothing to do with taxes. It's all about just like you went to school and there's just information about all the stuff. Like, for instance, if you wanted to prepare for your T2 taxes, it will literally tell you, you know the balance sheet, just everything, just like if you were at school. The same information here. I'm not telling you how to do the tax, I'm just giving you the guidelines as to how to you know what you need to do, and some would relate to some and some may not. Again, if you subscribe if you you subscribe to my channel or even add yourself to my, my corporation, which is Notable Wealth Management Inc, and it's actually n-w N C dot C A and subscribe to my webpage, you will get a copy it actually is an ebook, um of this, but today my two beautiful ladies will actually get a, an ebook sent to them, um, and you know, again, you could probably get something.

Speaker 1:

I might get some comments back from Ms Olu here as the legal girl, and the other thing about it is that Olu helped me incorporate my business and I mean that was six years ago. So you know Olu does have a lot of talent when it comes to the legal side of it. So you know it's always nice to do have people. I said you know networking is amazing thing. So you know it's always nice to do have people. I said you know, networking is amazing thing and it's really nice to have people in that network, that, even if it's just asking the questions.

Speaker 1:

And the reason I also did this is that my incorporation did not cost me anything than being incorporated through the government Because, again, I did a lot of my own research, so I didn't have to bring a lawyer into it. And when it came to the registration, I was able to go through Olu and she was able to complete the part, which is the registration part through the ministry, right, so again, it's not I'm not, I'm not saying that you should or should not, but sometimes it's the options. We have options and and it would be great to, um, you know, to talk to other people other than just going straight to a lawyer. But, um, you know again, if you want to reach me, it's um. If you want to subscribe and um to my web page, it's nwmincca um, and we will see you on the next show. And remember money is for you, money is for you.

Speaker 2:

Money is for you. That was not rehearsed.

Speaker 1:

That's great.

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