From Resolutions To Real Results: Planning Your Life, Work, And Health With Intention

Ready to trade wishful resolutions for plans that actually stick? We’re back with family in the room, fresh coffee on the table, and a clear theme: intention. Together with Brandy and Caleb—two thoughtful educators—we unpack how simple structure can transform health, work, faith, and the unpredictable rhythms of a busy year.

We start with SMART goals in real life, not theory: making targets specific and measurable so you know if you did the thing. Caleb walks through backward design from the classroom—begin with the outcome, then map the steps—while we connect it to the coffee shop’s hard-won lessons in finances, inventory, and staffing. Data can still mislead, so we plan in pencil, test assumptions, and capture what we learn. Fun community runs and seasonal events are energizing; the unglamorous work of bookkeeping, training, and systems is what keeps the doors open. That’s why we’re moving from “follow me around” training to task cards and a clear curriculum so new team members always know the next right step.

Health threads through everything. From half marathon recovery to intermittent fasting and a season of carnivore, we talk honestly about how food choices change energy, mood, and recovery. Motivation ebbs; intention doesn’t have to. A simple running plan, a structured reading plan for faith, or one weekly admin hour can protect your future self from your tired self. We also share how support systems matter—spouses balancing each other’s lows, counselors meeting students where they are, and small choices that lift a community.

We’re committing to consistent episodes, new menu items, and better systems that make your experience better. Now it’s your turn: what’s one area you’ll plan with purpose this week—health, work, faith, or family? Subscribe, share this episode with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review with the one plan you’re putting into action. Your next step can change your year.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:34

Welcome back, everyone. It has been a long time since we have been on here. We've been on our hiatus. Um, and so we're excited to be back with the Running on Coffee and Crest podcast. We are here with our family. We got Brandy and Caleb. Caleb is Calvin's brother and sister-in-law.

SPEAKER_03 0:51

So Caleb was with us on a previous podcast too, but Brandy is fresh. Fresh from us. And they lots of info from her.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

Yes, they both are great community leaders, both teachers in uh Cleveland. Uh, but you know, even if we weren't family, I think we'd be friends. So we love hanging out together, and we're together here on New Year's Day, just eating and talking, and we're like, let's do the podcast now.

SPEAKER_03 1:16

So we felt like it was a really good time. So um we're excited to be back in the podcasting world. We took a little hiatus because we're so stinking busy, and we love being busy because that means we have a lot going on. We get to have a lot of impact, you know, when a lot of people different people think about it. We hope so. We hope so, yeah. Um, but we're we're excited to try to really carve out some more windows to be able to continue making our podcast. We enjoy it so much, um, and we know y'all do too. So uh we look forward to um really implementing more of this in 2026 than we did in 2025.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Yeah, I think we're gonna be a lot more intentional with it because we really do have a heart and passion for it. It's not just something that we started on a whim, um, but we definitely want it to have meaning. And um, so we actually did sit down together today and we planned out each day, you know, when we're gonna record, and uh we just want this to be consistent and intentional for you guys, and we want to definitely hear feedback from you guys. We've heard so much, we have had so many messages uh wanting to know when there was gonna be new episodes. So I want to thank you for uh listening and thank you for being patient uh with us, and I promise you that um this is gonna continue and we're not gonna stop anytime soon.

Resolutions Vs SMART Goals

SPEAKER_03 2:30

Your feedback's been amazing.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

Yes, so I think today I think today we're gonna talk about it obviously it be being the start of the new year. Everybody feels like that is a great time for a fresh start.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

What's your new year's resolution?

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Yes, um, and I don't know. Do y'all have a new year's resolution? Do you do you, Caleb?

SPEAKER_04 2:49

Well, I used to be very anti-resolutions because uh you would set yourself up for failure in lots of cases. And so I we did this thing in school where we were learning about like smart goals, things that are attainable, things that you can measure. Is it something that you can actually look back on and know if you accomplished it or not? So I've been a little bit more intentional with some of my goals, and I would imagine probably if you set a goal, you need to make sure it's something you would know if you met it or not.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

Yes, and that it's attainable.

SPEAKER_03 3:18

Yeah, within the next three years, I'm gonna be president of the United States.

Planning Your Day To End Chaos

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Yeah, let's see. I agree with you. I've tried to stay away from resolutions uh and rather just goal setting, and I haven't been the best at it, you know, like obviously not being as consistent with the podcast as we wanted to be. But um, like I said, I do think that it all starts with just having a lot more intention in your day and really planning out your day. I used to work for an amazing company in Huntsville, Alabama, called Transcend, and I learned so much from them, and it's all really been coming back to me, I would say, just within the last month. Everything that I really did learn there, and one of the things was strategic planning. Um, and that's something that's been missing in our business and in our life, and that is something that we're implementing. But my bosses were so great about they planned their day down to the hour and minute, and that to me, I'm a person that's just kind of um, I am a type A, but I also I don't enjoy planning.

SPEAKER_03 4:23

Like Calvin's a list maker, you're a creative, so it's and plans a lot of times feel like they're boundaries, yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

That is, and I feel so confined to them. But being in the business world, I'm realizing that in order for my life to not feel like constant chaos, I do have to have every minute and hour planned out because if I don't, I probably I'm not gonna get everything I need done efficiently and effectively because I'm gonna maybe take a nap when I probably shouldn't have. And I and I'm okay with planning the nap time. Um, I think nap time is good. Bring back nap time. CS should be a normal thing. Um, it just gives you that extra gusto that you need in the middle of the day.

SPEAKER_04 5:09

My high school students would love to bring back nap time. But in kindergarten, they're so resistant to it. That's kindergarten.

Teachers, Nap Time, And Structure

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Brandy's kindergarten for how long, Brandy? 13 years. 13 years. So tell us your experience with nap time. But did they always have nap time?

SPEAKER_01 5:26

The whole time that I taught kindergarten, they did, I've been a counselor for the past five years. But the whole 13 years I was in kindergarten, we had nap time every single day. Um, the kids would lay down for probably, I would say probably like 30, 40 minutes um in the afternoon, and by then most of them needed it. Right. I mean they're five. So it kind of ran out of energy, they made like a you know, an extra move, an extra boost of energy.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

You really enjoyed nap time too, didn't you?

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Did you get to take it? No. No, you're probably trying to get all the stuff done that you needed to during that time.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Yes, there's so much there, even some testing of some kids that might not be asleep, you know, bringing them up and having them go over some things to test with them and that kind of stuff. But I always joked with them, especially if they were a little bit restless. I would say, hey, I wish there was a teacher size mat. If there was a teacher size mat in someone there and stuff with you, bring a yoga map.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

Yeah. Now, um, but I would say too, like, you saying all of that, like the nap time was planned. Like, can you imagine having your everyday kindergarten classroom and you didn't have a plan with what you were doing that day? No. But you had to have it planned to be. You have a plan. Caleb, you're a teacher too. In high school, do you still have to have a plan even in high school?

SPEAKER_04 6:37

Well, I have this adage if you don't have a plan, you plan to fail. Like you, you well, first off, you won't even know if you got done what you'd like to get done because you didn't know what you wanted to get done anyway. So, like, you know, you kind of have to start with what your goal is as some sort of like whatever the objective is, and then you have to work your way backwards to what you're gonna have to do to get them up to that.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Yeah, it's kind of like reverse engineering. Sure. Yep.

High School Math And Backward Design

SPEAKER_03 7:00

Yeah. So I know right now you mentioned to me before how you have like more classes that you prep for than you ever have in your entire career, I guess, as a math teacher. You've had like multiple classes or of the same courses. Yeah, yeah. Like, like, but now you have different thought courses in different age groups and everything right now.

SPEAKER_04 7:22

Right. Well, I don't want to bore everybody, but the the thing about math is it's not it's not the same. Not everybody in in 12th grade takes the same mathematics courses and uh in a smaller school.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

When we were in school, it was advanced and standard and things like that. You have like algebraic algebra and plus algebra calculus.

SPEAKER_04 7:40

Well, they used to at one point have an algebra A and algebra B and then a geometry A and geometry B. Yeah. And that was back when the Alabama graduation exam was a big deal. And then it kind of transitioned when everybody was taking the ACT, they needed everybody to take algebra two so they'd have a good chance because it's an algebra two-based test. So then they started pushing algebra two also, and then um, you know, a senior level class, you might have a finance class or, you know, mathematical modeling as the alternate to pre-calculus. And then some schools, if they're large enough, they can have a a group of kids that might even take uh to calculus in in high school. And uh a lot of colleges are kind of against that because their curriculum starts at calculus in in a lot of the books that they have, and they don't want you to take something like Cal 2 and Cal 3 if you had calculus in high school. It might be a little confusing, it might not be mesh. Um, so so most of our county schools um go up to pre-calculus.

SPEAKER_03 8:37

Um but they but you have like even from geometry on all the way up. You're planning for all those different classes every single day, right?

SPEAKER_04 8:44

Right. Well, this year I have uh seventh grade block, so and that means I have them two periods, so I I have to plan for um not just one class of them because I have them for two hours with a lunch in between. I have to plan multiple lessons for them to keep them, you know, engaged because they have you know they stay busy in their brain and they they need they they gotta take blocks of understanding. They don't need gas. No, no, they need mass. Um and then on top of that I also have the uh the rest of the juniors and seniors still have two algebra twos and um pre-cal and finance also. So they're all very different courses. And um, you know, I've taught I've taught them all. It's just not all of them at the same time. Yes. Yeah. And they've changed some stuff. And and ACAP is new to me. I'm not super familiar with it, so it's it's kind of new.

Why Matters: Teaching And Business

SPEAKER_03 9:36

Yeah. Now you just went through some uh gr like graduate classes, right? The master's classes. You you took a lot of a lot of courses here lately with uh further learning and just graduated, so congratulations. Yeah, we're happy for you. We're extremely excited for you. That's that's a huge accomplishment. Um, and in one of the harder, in my opinion, one of the harder subjects to actually get it in. I mean, don't hate me if you're a history teacher, but like history doesn't change, you know. I know you have to get your master's you have to get your masters in the teaching side of it, you know, like in the different aspects of being a teacher. Yes, and I'm sure you have to learn certain things, but in my opinion, because I struggled with math to the point to where I could learn it enough for the two weeks that we went over it to pass a test, yeah, and then when I got to the end of the year, I had to cram and hope that I made at least a 60 on it. Like I can make straight A's and high B's all throughout the year because I was good enough to learn it for that moment, but then applying concepts in the future, I struggle with that. Now, like thinking of some of the classes that you've talked about with me that you've taken here lately, and some even when you were in just your um your in your bachelor's studies when we were still living at home together, um, like just some of those concepts were like I was like, oh my goodness, I could never remember how to do that. And it's funny because like now I do a lot of like you know, PLC programming, robotics, things like that. But a lot of that is like logical thinking that I could start from scratch and not know anything about a piece of equipment and and understand it because I know the reasoning and the logic behind it, not necessarily like formulas and concepts.

SPEAKER_04 11:07

Well, yeah, well, it all kind of builds on itself. Things connect together very well, and I was really good at the fact that I've I've always wanted to know why. And I don't even like to teach kids something that I don't know why. And so it's very important to me for them to understand why something works, and sometimes it takes a little bit more time to teach that way, and I may not get as much done as I'd like to with them, but I want them to understand why something works, and so that makes it that makes it more make more sense to me.

SPEAKER_03 11:33

Now, I'll say this when it comes to like the business side of things with the coffee shop, understanding why people did things, because you were just talking about that. Why do people do this a certain way? Why do they do their finances a certain way? Why do they uh do their you know taxes and um product management and inventory, like why, why, why? Uh those are a lot of questions that we've had to learn along the way because we didn't know why when we first started out, and we're still we have found out why it's and it hurt really bad. Yeah, right. Ouch. So that's why they do that that way. Yeah, it's exactly and thankful that we, you know, you know, learned it soon enough, you know. Um but also that comes down to like um how could we have planned differently, you know. And we want to see each and every one of y'all that are that are listening to this to get something from this, not like you know, learning about calculus and pre-cal or anything, but understanding that everything you do has to have an intention. You you have to have a plan for something. And we thought we had a good plan for the business going into it, but we look back hindsight and we said we could have had a better plan.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

I I look back and think I was leading with heart a lot, you know, like there's a lot of passion there, but I really was flying by the seat of my pants too.

Plan, Act, And Persevere

SPEAKER_04 12:50

Well, in education, a lot of times we use this, and you can ask Brandy, we say that people are trying to build the airplane while they're trying to fly it too. Yes. And and that happens all the time. And it's it's aggravating because these are the people that are leading us and telling us what to do, but they don't even know what to tell us to do in some cases. So it's difficult to do that. But the best thing I can think of is if everybody wants a house, but not everybody knows all the details that go into making that house happen, from the digging of the footing to the to making sure that it's got the correct um, you know, foundation and and that the all the load-bearing stuff is working, and and even engineers, if they've never built a house, they often we always complained all the time that I wish they would just come out here on the job and and do it, and they'd understand. And I feel that way as a teacher, if people would just come out there and try to teach the kids, they would understand what our plight is. Yeah, y'all, as business leaders in the community, you know, people that might, well, why they do this or why don't they do this, or why don't they donate to this, or why don't they do these things? Come out there and hang out with us for a little while and figure out you know where we're at. And I think that's one of the main things for you to understand somebody is you've got to go put yourself in their shoes and and and and be willing to understand what they're going through. That way you'd understand why. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 14:10

Well, I was thinking about this. Um, I don't know if you see a video clip of this, if we're able to put it on on our uh social anywhere. Um, but if you're just listening to this, right behind us there are two beautiful paintings. One of them was just delivered tonight. Uh, a painting of Jesus chasing after uh uh the lost lamb, and then also on the wall behind that, uh above it is the um the horizon view from Kaylean Brandy's house. And because they live up on top of a mountain. And if you look off in that horizon, uh my sister actually painted both of these, and and she uh they took a picture of a of a sunset and she recreated that on these three uh canvases. And every time I come up here, I'm amazed because you can see like 50 miles down and see like where Birmingham is from their house on a clear day. It's it's absolutely fantastic. But when you're talking about planning, you know, like this house didn't just pop up one day here on this plot of land. It took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. And I remember, you know, you I mean it was constantly on your mind that you talked about it so much, but as it is with everything in life, not only do you have to plan and talk about it, but you also have to implement it when it comes down to it, take action to it. And I feel like um like like every aspect of your life, whether it be your relationship with Christ, your your fitness, where you are in your health journey, or in your business or your career or with your family, even though you plan something, you still have to have the gumption and the courage to act upon it. You have to believe that that plan actually is going to work.

SPEAKER_04 15:47

Well you have to have steps. You can't just it doesn't just happen. Like if you wanna if you want to be able to run a 5k, if you want to be able to lose a certain amount of weight, you know, say you want to lose 20 pounds. Well, it starts with one. It doesn't start with 20.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

No.

SPEAKER_04 16:03

And sometimes it starts with one or two, and then you might gain one or two back, and and you know, you got the the the discouragement and the obstacles, I guess, to success uh that you've got to uh uh deal with and and not giving up is giving up like we live in a quit easy world. People just so easily will give up.

Data, Demand, And Uncertainty

SPEAKER_00 16:23

And um, I mean I can raise my hand to that that there's been times I wanted to there's been probably multiple times this year that I wouldn't give up, you know, and I always feel too that God always worked it out where Calvin's not having those feelings when I'm having those feelings and I'm not having those feelings when maybe he's having those feelings, you know, and we're just like super tired and um and you feel like there's no hope. Um, and we're able to, you know, lift each other back up again. But I will also say I think that the times that I have felt really low, it really was because I like to plan, um, because I was flying by the seat of my pants, and I do like control, you know, in my life. I like to be able to control things. Um, and one thing in this business that I've learned is that none of this is in our control. Like, like for instance, okay, so um we were open on New Year's Eve, and I I'll go back on my data from like last year, I'll go and look at our sales for that day so I can know how many people do I need to have working, you know, were we really busy, or you know, or do I just need a few? Well, like we were so when I went back and looked, we were very busy on New Year's Eve last year, and I was like, okay, um, so I'll staff up for it. This year was not busy. No, was not busy. So I was overstaffed. I mean, it all works out in the end, but I'm just saying, those are the things that's like it's so out of my control. Yeah, you know, like I have no idea why it could, you know, I can analyze it to death.

SPEAKER_04 18:01

I can help you with that. Because I do talk and I'm like, could it have been was it the weather? Was it was there any ballgames going on and then uh you know, it was different days of the week. It'll always be different days of the week. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 18:15

Yes, um, but being able to get down to a root cause of why it wasn't or why it was, because see, like I if I plan next year for the way this year was, I could mess up again. I'm we're only gonna have a few work and then it's like massively busy again, and then we're in trouble.

Unexpected Problems And Support

SPEAKER_03 18:29

I was thinking about this the other day. So um we do deliver um at the coffee shop to their school, uh, which is my alma mom. Which is wonderful, and we love it. But but I remember one time we walked in and Brandy was um you came in and you were not I wouldn't say frustrated or flustered, but you were like, really, I was not expecting to handle this this morning. And it was like a spat between a bunch of girls. And and like you were having to deal with it and like get them to calm down, think logically. You you do love each other, you do care about each other, and and and it all it's all gonna be fine, you know, like you're just dealing with this hormonal rush as young teenagers or something, you know. And I remember uh her you you dealing with that and like you weren't planning on that at all that morning, right? You know, and and it was thrown in your lap, and you just as the counselor, it was your job to see to the emotional needs, and a lot of times that translates to the spiritual needs of your students. So, like if you have you know, like you have a relationship with the parents or with the students or something that you connect on them with different levels, you're able to meet them where they are and then help them kind of recenter themselves. I guess that's where I was going with like when when Holly would be down and I was up or I was down and she was up. We're we're there to to to to be our our our help meet, you know. We we're there, like God brought us together to help support each other, and I think we take that for granted. Yeah, that every occupation that y'all are in, like with the school and everything, like you're there because God intended for you to be there to lift people up that you're around. I think you don't we we don't value our our presence uh where we are as much as we probably need to. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

I I can attest to this, and um I ran a half marathon, I don't know how long ago has that been, two or three weeks ago. Um it was frigidly cold, and you ran it with me as as well, but um it I think there's like 3,000 racers, okay? So I mean it's A huge event. Uh, and I did my run and I came through the finish line, you know, and I I left shortly after. Well, apparently someone had sent me a message on Facebook and I didn't see it till today. Oh wow. I don't know why. It's somebody that I know really well, and I was actually messaging them about something else. I was reaching out to them. And when I so when I opened up my messenger to message them, I saw this message there, and I was like, Why did I not see this? But they were at that race because their son was running it, and they said, I just want to let you know how encouraging you were to me when I saw you coming through, and she they were like, You had the most amazing smile on your face. I didn't know that I had a smile on my face.

SPEAKER_04 21:17

I think it might have been frozen if you had to frozen.

Gratitude, Running, And Recovery

SPEAKER_00 21:19

I didn't. That's a whole other cause. Um, but they were like, you just it was just a light seeing you like come through, and I was so encouraged. Yeah, and I was like, wow, so you know, it goes to what you were saying, like you were lifting people up even when you don't even know it. And that's why we gotta be so careful in everything that we're doing, right? I mean, think about if I had come through there and I was like, I don't know, shooting birds or something. I wouldn't even do that. But just you know, I had a scalpel on my face like that. Was the most awful run, you know.

SPEAKER_04 21:50

Well, you you've had bad braces, but I've also seen you after your knee surgery and us building some contraption on a seat to be able to crank your leg to where it would move. Yes. Like we had a not good place. We had a block and tackle is happy if you can run.

SPEAKER_03 22:05

We had a blocking tackle hooked up to a chair, trying to put tension on her knee to try to free up some tendons so that she could have some movement. Like that was a phase in her life that that I am so thankful we made it through that.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

And I really am thankful to run. Like, I do have goals of like speed, like I'll you know, it you you know as well as a runner, like you're always wanting to get a little faster, right? So I have goals that I want to meet in that way, but in all, I'm really thankful to to be able to run. Like, of course you can. Absolutely. Um, and that doesn't come without a plan as well. Like your running doesn't if you I I would say that if you just run to run, like if you have no plan with your running, I don't think that you're probably gonna see a lot of gains in running.

SPEAKER_04 22:49

So I think that everybody, I guess maybe when you get middle-aged like me, you're always gonna come up with something to challenge yourself because you gotta like prove yourself that you're still youthful.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

Right.

Doing Hard Things For Health

SPEAKER_04 23:00

Even if you don't, if you even if you wake up and it takes you ten minutes to get out of bed because your lower back won't move, and you're having to sit there and have your wife push you out of the bed, just that happens to be a good thing. You know, someday so so so we're all having to try to come up with a way to get ourselves m motivated. And I think if we live comfortably, which means we don't ever pressure ourselves to do something more than uh casual, easy, you know, like fast food, for instance. Okay, if all if all you ate was that, you'd probably not be very healthy. And so it's it is work to buy the food and go home and cook it. It is, but just making yourself do the uncomfortable things so that you can live well, not just live, you know.

Fun Events Vs Unseen Work

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Absolutely. And I I would say in our business, like the it's really fun doing the races or having Harry and Marv, you know. Uh, you guys were Harry and Marv during our Christmas run, and we have something every weekend during December. Um, we try to really make that a community involvement um just super fun. And we really do that all year long, and it's fun doing those things, it's fun doing this. I'll tell you what's not fun. It's not fun doing taxes, it's not fun keeping up your books, it's not fun um going into your advertising stuff on social media, like those are the things that you're sitting at your desk, and our office is really small right now, but um, that you're just sitting over a desk and you could work for hours and hours and hours and still feel like you've got so much more to do. But that is all that is the most important work that we have to do.

SPEAKER_03 24:40

When you think about trying to free up your time, like with us, we're I'm I'm wanting to get on a huge push about our training program, like it doesn't exist. It's one of those like uh follow me around, follow this person around, do it this way, you know, and and and we it's a lot of hands-on monitoring until they get it right. So we're we're so concerned about quality that that that we really are trying to make sure everyone's on the same page, but it requires so much hands-on right now from people who are trained. So you're not able to let people go as fast as you would hope to because it's requiring multiple people to perform that same task. And and I was like, that that's one of those things that I would love to automate and make it to where the the training curriculum is is actually something that's very structured and not necessarily just grow into the culture of sharecrop. Um, and and we feel like it's a great culture.

SPEAKER_04 25:38

Well, I like I like your task cards that you were telling me about because you know, uh a new employee, if they don't know what to do, usually they'll do nothing because they don't want to mess anything up. Yes, I'm gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_00 25:50

And it's not because they're lazy and they just don't know what to do.

SPEAKER_04 25:53

Well, I mean, you can always look busy if you're sweeping.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Absolutely. Get a broom, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

Nothing wrong with getting a broom or if you see something spilled, just get down and wipe it up. I mean, just do something. But uh, you was talking about these task cards or whatever, like you they as soon as somebody didn't know what to do, they could go get a card or a list, and then and then they can get a card and know exactly what something should look like or whatever when you're cleaning it up.

Faith, Accountability, And Plans

SPEAKER_03 26:18

So huge, huge goals. And and uh, you know, we just were talking about at our at church about the Bible recap and finishing it up this year, and um, you know, that that is another thing that is a plan.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

Um and and having a structured reading plan, no matter what plan you're following, to have some kind of a plan that's holding you accountable, and that I think that's why plans are so important is because they really are your accountability.

SPEAKER_03 26:42

Even if you don't feel like doing it, you don't feel like running, you don't feel like eating well, you don't feel like doing your your books, or you don't feel like do you ever feel like running?

SPEAKER_04 26:54

No, sometimes yes, if I wait, but but if you wait till you feel like running, I did not feel like running when we ran earlier.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

How long has that been? Two hours, a couple hours ago. Um and they live on a mountain. Okay, like it's not like a little run up here. It's there you're not gonna be able to go on a little 11-minute mile easy run here because you're climbing this darn mountain the whole time. The whole time no matter what, no matter which road you turn down. Every time.

SPEAKER_04 27:24

Well, even when you go down, it hurts my knees.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

It's like and I did a leg workout before I came in. Jude's tell me all the time you shouldn't have worked out your legs. He knew that we were running over here.

SPEAKER_04 27:33

Well, that's because it's you, it's your son, and that's what he's supposed to do. Yes, he's supposed to make dinner somehow.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Yes, but you do have to have some sort of plan. Like, I know I loosely have a plan of for my running this year of a certain amount that I'm wanting to run. Um, and it's probably gonna require me to run every single day this year, even if it's just a little here and there. So you know, a mile or Brandy.

Year Goals And Food Choices

SPEAKER_03 27:57

Let me ask you this. For 2026, what is your plan? No, I'm kidding. Um, do you have anything that you're doing that you're wanting to do this year that you haven't done in the past, maybe?

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Or a way of or something that you're wanting to do better or um yeah, I really want to work on my eating this year. Okay. I know I know that lots of people make New Year's resolutions about eating healthier and that kind of thing, but I I really do want to work on that, making more cautious choices of what I'm putting in my body. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

I I think definitely um what we're putting in our body is affecting how we feel and affecting the things that we do and don't do because I know that if I'm not eating well, I do feel less inclined to want to do that run. Your energy is not bad. Yes, yes, because um drawn to the sugar, you know, and I'll I was my my Instagram page is called Carnivore Girl Runs. I have not been on carnivore for probably a good three months solid. Um, I still have been high protein or whatever, but I've been allowing, as in the Bible they say, I've been putting a little leaven in the loaf. So uh I'm getting the leaven out of the loaf because I do it does affect how I feel, how I recover. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:10

Um I think this has been really good for us because we had like almost nine months, probably, would you say? Nine months of very strict carnivore, and we felt amazing. We did, and and then we look back on it now and we're like we're we're so busy, and the the the family scheduling and events and everything. Excuses, excuses, yes, but all those excuses built up and accumulated to we'll we'll get back on it here in a little bit. Yeah, you know, and um but knowing how we feel right now at this moment, I I now remember the different aches and pains I had before I went on carnivore. I've experienced them again. The there's different inflammation, there's different you know, ticks and we're not telling you to go carnivore. We're not, but what I'm saying is what I'm saying is the toxins that I was allowing into my body prior to a a nutrient-rich diet are now back and are causing the same things I had prior to. So I'm like, okay, so I see how it can be, and I have chosen to allow it back, I'm going to choose to go back where I know it's best.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 30:20

Well, like I do intermittent fasting, so I I usually am able to eat kind of sort of what I'd like to eat. I try to not overeat certain things because I have fatty liver disease. Woo-hoo. Um and so uh it it even if but but if you lose enough weight in your body, it'll also lose some of the weight in your fat, and I'm able to process oils better. So if I went full-blown carnivore, I don't know how that would do for my liver right now, anyway. Sure. So that so the fasting it lets my body have a break from constant food processing. And so I'm eating less of processed food because I'm eating less food.

SPEAKER_00 30:54

You've been consistent with intermittent fasting for how long now? Uh two years, three?

SPEAKER_04 30:59

Almost two. Almost two years.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 31:02

And this time I'm keeping it off.

SPEAKER_03 31:04

Sorry. No, the size of it. Mercy.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

But it's a plan. It is, right? I mean, you've got a plan.

SPEAKER_04 31:14

So, like tonight, for instance, I would have loved to have eaten everything with y'all. I did eat a little bit of the guacamole because it's really good. Um, but I've eaten with Brainy's family and and ate too much. And so then of course the run was suffrage. Like I I punished myself with the run, and you know, but tomorrow, but tomorrow I will eat for about a two-hour window and then I'll feel better for it. I don't know. Yeah. Um but but like you said, it's a plan.

SPEAKER_00 31:41

It is.

SPEAKER_04 31:42

Yeah.

unknown 31:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

Well, I guess the the goal today is to help you think about your plan. Um that's we we've all been kind of planning and thinking, and uh in retrospect of 2025, what do we want to do better for 2026? Not necessarily like we're saying resolutions, but how can how can we continue to progress? How can we continue to grow and get better in our relationships, um, in our in our followings, and our faith with our savior, um, with our business, our uh jobs, whatever we're in in life. What can we do better?

SPEAKER_00 32:20

Um I do I do want to say one thing to that about doing better. Um you and I sat down for I would say a good solid two to three hours today, and the time went by so fast. But we sat down and we just we really plan and I think about how much we actually got done today, but something that just spoke to me right now was when we plan, like everything we do affects others, right? Yeah, so like when I don't plan, like I would say last year share proppers lacked planning. Um we kind of uh sat back and kind of I guess rode the coattails of things that we've done in the past that have worked, and we're like, okay, we know that we're doing this and we know that we're doing this, but we weren't intentionally thinking about uh doing new things, I guess. Um, well, we were just going through a lot of things too. I mean, we have a personal life as well that really stole a lot of our attention. But in the planning, I was thinking about when we were planning out stuff, I was thinking how many people it was gonna affect in a positive way, and how a lack of planning maybe affected people and we don't even realize it. Do you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 33:33

Planning could be a huge motivator, yes.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

So I say all that to say like we've got some really great things planned. It's and when I say planned, I mean we're doing them. It's not like oh we hope that this is gonna happen. No, um, we are doing them, and I think it's going to affect you guys in a great way, as well as our community and us as well. And it's something that I really have prayed about, like for God to uh put that spark of creativity back in me because you can just get tired and worn down, and I know y'all y'all can attest to that in your professions as well.

Fresh Ideas And What’s Next

SPEAKER_04 34:06

Um well it's a burnout, like yes, you can you can keep doing the exact same thing over and over and over again, and if you expect different results, that's the definition of insanity. Yes, like you can't get different results from the same.

SPEAKER_03 34:21

Which is why we're installing a rooftop public swimming pool on top of sharecrop landing. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 34:29

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_03 34:30

With a diving board from the big oak tree.

SPEAKER_00 34:33

Somehow I feel like that might want to be approved by insurance. You know, I'm just gonna.

SPEAKER_04 34:38

A cold plunge. Cold plunge. You have a plunger back there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

So I do want to say, y'all just get ready for some great things that are coming to the shop and uh new menu items, new events, new um opportunities.

New Menu, Events, And Listener Ask

SPEAKER_03 34:53

And hey, do us a favor, if you've listened to this podcast all the way through, um, tell us what you're gonna do differently to plan better in your life in whatever area you felt like this might have motivated you or spoke to your heart. We really want to get some feedback from y'all because um we don't do this for ourselves, we do this for you. We want to um improve your life. When you're sitting there doing laundry, when you're driving your kids to school, when you are um doing menial tasks and you got your AirPods in or your headphones on and you're listening to us ramble on and have a good time as a family. What are you doing to what are you getting out of this? How are you gonna improve? And maybe it'll inspire us a little bit along the way too.

SPEAKER_00 35:33

Yes. So thank you, Brandy and Caleb, for joining us today.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

Absolutely good. Thanks for having us.

SPEAKER_00 35:39

And thank you for, like I said, being patient with us on uh submitting another episode and uh being ready for next week's episode.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

All right, love y'all guys.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Thanks, bye.