Becoming Unstoppable - Rise, Thrive and Lead with Impact
Becoming Unstoppable is the go-to podcast for fierce female entrepreneurs ready to expand their empires with unapologetic growth, energy mastery, and bold, soul-aligned strategy. Hosted by mindset coach and manifesting queen Rachel Jackson, each episode delivers big energy, real talk, and magnetic tools to help you scale with purpose and become truly unstoppable.
Becoming Unstoppable - Rise, Thrive and Lead with Impact
The Freedom in Trusting Your Wildest Dreams – with Joanna Petrie-Rout
Proof that it’s never too late to trust your path and live the life you dream of.
The Freedom in Trusting Your Wildest Dreams – with Joanna Petrie-Rout
What if the life you’re craving isn’t reckless or unrealistic… but a sacred invitation from the Universe? Joanna Petri-Rout’s journey will inspire you to see your wildest dreams as the very path you’re meant to walk.
After 36 years in the corporate world, Joanna reached a crossroads many would find terrifying – yet she embraced it as a divine nudge forward. The signs had been there all along: losing her job at 40, which created space to meet her soulmate… the heartbreak of a fertility journey that opened her to a deeper calling… and a 200-mile coast-to-coast walk that brought clarity about the life she was destined to live.
When she chose ‘trust’ as her word for the year, the Universe answered with perfect synchronicity. A speaking engagement about unshakable identity led to an unexpected – yet perfectly timed – corporate exit, exactly 18 months after she had set that intention with her coach. As she handed in her resignation, her phone lit up with 11:11 – a cosmic wink.
Now, at 54, when society might expect her to be settling down, Joanna and her husband are selling their home and belongings to walk 500 miles from France to Spain before travelling the world indefinitely. Through her podcast Becoming No Ordinary Woman and mentoring programmes, she’s showing others that their unconventional dreams aren’t crazy – they’re divinely assigned.
“I have never felt more free, more happy, or more me in my life,” Joanna says. Her story is living proof that what feels like an ending can actually be a beautiful redirection – and that it’s never too late to trust the path that calls to you.
If there’s a dream in your heart, it’s yours for a reason. Trust it.
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Hi everyone, welcome to this week's podcast episode. This week, I am excited to announce that I have a special guest. This is Joanna Petri-Rout, who is the founder of no Ordinary Woman, or, as she likes to call herself, the Chief Inspiration Officer, which is just incredible. So I've known Joanna for some time now, as she used to be my boss in the corporate world and has recently escaped to do her full-on dream. So thank you for coming, joanna oh, it's my pleasure.
Speaker 2:It's so good to be back with you.
Speaker 1:I can't believe we're now talking in this remit, where it's full freedom and stepping into becoming that woman that you've always dreamed of and finally letting yourself just be her. So I'll let you explain what you do and your journey and how you've got to this stage of now being your chief inspiration officer oh, perfect.
Speaker 2:I don't even know really where to begin because it is it has. I know we talk about it being a journey, but this has felt like a journey and I know you have lived most of this with me, which has also been epic. Actually, women and I'm starting to kind of label them as unconventional because I think that's what my life has been it's been pretty unconventional. So I really help women who have got a dream in their heart that they really want to go for and have either not had the self-belief or the courage or the network of people around them to really cheerlead and support them to actually go for it. That's where I kind of come in. I step in and really help them develop that self-confidence, that self-leadership, and get real clarity about what it is they actually want to do and the confidence to actually go and do it yeah, and I mean I've seen you do that with so many people.
Speaker 1:but what's been your background? What's got you on this journey? I mean I know so it's exciting for me to hear it, though from another lens. But for someone listening, what was, what was your corporate world like and how did that shape who you are today? Offering this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so so I've worked in corporate for more years than I care to to mention, but it I've literally just, you know, walked away from a 36 year corporate career and I've absolutely loved it. So very early on I started in banking, which I know we have a very similar background actually started in banking when I was 17. And from the minute I walked into the bank I knew that I didn't want to do traditional banking. And I saw somebody stand up in front of me and run a induction course and I can remember sitting there thinking, oh my goodness, this is what I want to do. I want to be the person who stood up and helping other people achieve what they want to achieve. You know, grow and develop.
Speaker 2:And so very quickly from banking I went into training and development and then leadership development, and that's pretty much been my whole career, trained as a coach about 20 years ago now, which again doesn't feel possible and I think at that point I really realized that that is where my heart and my soul really was at peace. You know, helping other people achieve the things that they really want to do, unlocking the potential that they've got and helping to move in that direction. So that's kind of my background. We do have similar move in that direction, so that's kind of my background.
Speaker 1:We do have similar backgrounds in that. But I love that even from that first session you knew what you wanted to do and it shaped in a different way initially but it was still growing and helping and seeing that, unlocking that potential in people. And that journey just evolves as you go through life and obviously you've been through your own things. That's pivoted your journey. But tell us a bit more around that unconventional side and what's really lit the spark inside of you to want to help people in your own business?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this unconventional theme, I think, has gone throughout my life. So I, at the age of 40, I was still not married. I hadn't found the one. Everybody around me had, you know, my friends, my family, everybody else was settled and I was labeled as the career girl and you know, and I was very lucky. I had a great career, I'd worked in some great organizations and I really enjoyed what I was doing. But I think, at the age of 40, I had a brilliant year celebrating that milestone and it felt great.
Speaker 2:But I also felt like things were unraveling a little bit, so I wasn't quite enjoying the role as much. I was living out of a suitcase, I was traveling week in and week out, I wasn't spending time with family and friends and it just felt like my life was a bit soulless. Um, and so the universe I think this is probably my first experience of the universe really kicking my butt and um, a string of events happened towards the end of that year and I ended up leaving my job really unexpectedly, and so I was at home for a period of time. And again this is a real weird little coincidence I had been dabbling with online dating and I hated it. I really did. I hated it with an absolute passion. I just found it completely soul destroying.
Speaker 2:But I suddenly got a notification in my emails telling me that my subscription had renewed for a year, and so at this point I was like, oh, I've just lost my job. I don't really want to be spending this kind of money. I'm like what am I gonna do? So I thought, right, I'm gonna have to suck it up. So I'm going to completely rewrite my profile, which I did, and I made it into a poem all about me and my personality. I posted it online and literally the next day, rob got in touch with me, and I'll cut a very long story short. But um, yeah, rob and I met for the first time in that February. We got engaged in the July and we got married the year after, in the April. So it literally was yeah, it's my little fairy tale. That is Probably within your subscription.
Speaker 2:I know, and when I look back now I see all the little universal nudges that have kind of got me to where I am. And that was one of them, because what that did was make me move up to Cumbria where I met you and I actually took a year off. You know, rob and I talked about taking a year off. We both wanted to be parents. We were both 40 at this point and we knew that wasn't going to be particularly easy. So we decided to take work out of the equation and give me the opportunity to really think about what I wanted to do, because I was kind of losing my passion for leadership development a little bit. So I did.
Speaker 2:But honestly, that year that I sat back, I can remember literally typing into Google how do I find my purpose? Yeah, not getting any response at all. You know, there was no support. There was was no help and I kind of spiraled um. And then the job came up locally to go and head up leadership development and so I stepped back in um. That's obviously where where we met um.
Speaker 2:But you know, I think from there what I I really I really kind of got back invested in leadership development. I really enjoyed it. I was given a very senior role. I was asked to lead a leadership academy and created that from a blank piece of paper. So I felt kind of inspired again. But along the way, you know, we were still trying to have a family. That wasn't working. And so we did this crazy thing. We decided, instead of having a nice summer holiday where we would go and lay by a pool, we would go and walk the coast to coast, which is one side of the country to the other 200 miles. And we did that, and I think that really is the start of my big story.
Speaker 1:Carry on Joanna. What happened on that walk? What was the revelation that you had?
Speaker 2:So I don't know if you've walked any kind of big walks like that, but what you find is it literally puts you inside your soul. Really, you know, you, you are concentrating all the time, just putting one foot in front of another or, in my case, with the hugest blister I've ever had, trying to just even get my foot into my boot. Um, you just spend a lot of time kind of in your head, in your heart, really thinking about what life is all about. And during that walk I came to a real conclusion that my path wasn't going to be being a mother. And you know, we'd tried IVF that had failed. We'd done everything we could possibly, could nothing. Rob and I were probably just completely exhausted by it. And so I got this really strong intuitive hit that it was time to kind of put that dream to bed. And so we did that.
Speaker 2:We agreed on that walk, that that's what we would do, and I think as soon as I came back from that, I really started connecting back into my kind of love affair with the law of attraction, because I kind of dipped in and out of it over the last few years and I really started to see my intuition coming back in and it was telling me that I was meant to help other women who had found that self, found themselves in that situation where they just knew they were frustrated, knew they didn't want the life that they were living, but didn't know what came next. And you know we're googling. Where's my purpose? What is my purpose? Um, and I knew I needed to help them and so that was where no Ordinary Woman was born. But it took me a very, very, very long time from that decision point to actually get to a point where it is now my, my lived reality yeah, and you have been doing it.
Speaker 1:I mean, we've known each other for a while now and you've been doing it and it's been on the back burner and it's never died. You just, I suppose that identity of you were always called the career girl. You kind of brought that with you when you come up north. But you know you don't just shed that easily, do you? So I think you know you had that in your mind and I've probably just witnessed over the last year, your 18 months, that that has been slipping away slowly and, you know, gently, to get you to exactly where you were meant to be. And sometimes you've got to release those things, haven't you? But it takes well, maybe a big walk that gets you to that place or or something else that catapults you to it, but you always get back to where you you're meant to be really yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 2:It's like I said. You know, I think when I look back now and I see all of the times the universe has walked alongside me, and there's been so many times where they've gone to me.
Speaker 2:You know, are you sure you really want to run a business? Because I'm going to dangle this opportunity over here and see if you take it. And without fail, up until this year, every time that that opportunity has been dangled, I've taken the safe route. Yeah, and I've gone. No, do you know what? I am going to play it safe, I am going to just stay in corporate because I'm enjoying what I'm doing and I and I did enjoy it.
Speaker 2:You know, the last few years working with you and the and the stuff that we've done together, it's been brilliant and I've enjoyed it until I, until the last few years working with you and the stuff that we've done together, it's been brilliant and I've enjoyed it until I, until I've got to a point where I haven't, and it's such a parallel to when I was 40. But this year has just been. So if anyone ever doubts about the universe, this story, I hope we'll completely turn it on its head because it has given me so many goosebumps I can't even tell you. Um. So probably like you, beginning of the year, I always choose a word for my year which becomes my context yeah, and this year I decided I was going to choose trust and it felt like that word chose me in a way, because I was there on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day going, oh I need to choose my word for the year and I don't know what it's going to be. And it took me a while for it to land and it kind of landed towards mid-January and it just felt right and I was like this is my word for me as much as it is for the universe. I need to trust in the universe and I know I need to trust in myself more. And so that word kind of landed and I got into the tarot cards. So I did myself a reading for the year and I picked a card basically for every month and I can remember looking at the cards and saying to Rob oh, this this year is going to be interesting, because this is kind of saying something's going to happen in March and then a big transformation is going to happen in May and June. And I've got no idea what that is and I know you're smiling because you've lived this with me and you know what's coming.
Speaker 2:So in March I was asked to speak at an event and the spooky thing around this was the event was originally going to be scheduled for november last year and it got changed. So they wanted me to speak specifically for international women's day and the topic was about having an unshakable identity. And I can remember being told Joanna, there'll probably be about 20 people that will come to this. That's typically what we get. So I was like, okay, that's fine, that's no problem. And then I got phoned the week before and was told 80 women had signed up for it.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I noticed a little bit of my identity suddenly take a bit of a wobble, knowing that there was gonna be so many people in the room. Um, but I went and I ran the session and I absolutely it could not have gone better. It was one of those moments where you just walk out of somewhere and just think to yourself that was meant to be. Yeah, that's exactly what I meant to be doing. And I got so much positive feedback about it that I almost felt a bit uncomfortable about it, because people were saying to me oh, you know, this has been life-changing and it was just a real mirror for me to go. You know, you need to get your act together. This is what you're meant to be doing. So that was brilliant, and the card that I'd pulled for that month was the card about being an influencer and using your voice. So I noticed a bit of a synchronicity there. I was like, oh that's, that's spooky.
Speaker 2:And then straight after that, the International Women's Day was on the Saturday, but I did the talk on the Thursday. I went into our corporate business on Monday and got asked to join a meeting, and the meeting was about the opportunity for senior leaders the top 160, to be given an early exit from the business, so to take redundancy. And I can remember being sat in that meeting room just seeing people's lips moving and all I could hear was my soul going um, this has been created for you, this is your moment. Yeah, this is what you've got to do. So I I walked away from that, just knowing that there was an opportunity coming, and it just so happened that I had my last call with my coach, who I was working with, about a week later. So I got on the call and I was saying to her oh, my goodness, you're never going to guess what's happened. I'm being given this opportunity. This has come from nowhere. The business hasn't done this for the 12 years that I've worked there.
Speaker 2:And she said to me do you remember what your original goal was when we started working together in January last year? So I said, well, actually I can't. We've talked about so many things. Yeah, I can't remember. And she said to me your exact goal was I want to leave my corporate job within 18 months. She said do you know when you're likely to be leaving? And I said yeah, I'm likely to be leaving in either May or June. Wow, so she said, ok, so I'm just going to let you know that will be 18 months from the day that you've. I've just gone goose pimple.
Speaker 2:Yeah from the day that you've, you've, I've just gone goose pimple, yeah, um. So all of these just kept, these synchronicities just kept coming, yeah, and and I could literally feel my in my soul that this was the universe providing everything that I need, and the everything that I'd been working for over the last few years was really coming together. So you know, another synchronicity that I had was I then had to tell my boss. So, when I'd made the decision that I was going to take it and I was going to go, I put a meeting in with my boss and it was for 11 o'clock on this particular day, and so I was quite nervous about telling her and I was sat in this office waiting for her and she was late and I can remember just sitting there getting more and more anxious about having to have this conversation and she eventually came in the room, she sat down and, like, got her notepad and her pen out, ready to probably give me a load of actions to do, and I said to her I need to have a conversation with you, and so there was a pause. I just looked down at my phone and it was 11, 11. As I told her that I was about to take this opportunity and leave the organization.
Speaker 2:And I was thinking, my goodness, you know I've, over the last few years, I have absolutely come at my business through masculine energy all the time and I have not taken the opportunities that have been available to me. You know, when I've had those carrots dangled in front of me by the universe, I've always taken the easy route, never taken the hard one, even if my soul wanted it. Yeah, and it's been a real lesson for me in the. You know, when you trust, when you step back into trust and when you blend your feminine energy with the, the drive that you have and the ambition that you have through your masculine, that's when the magic really does happen. And that that has just been so obvious for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just been mad and that's been so good for me to watch, because, I mean, we got together and started working together maybe 2019 was it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and through that time I've seen the journey and I knew where your heart lies.
Speaker 1:And you know, one of my gifts is that I see that future version of people and I see it playing out, and so I've known this ever since we met and seen it playing out and different points where you've had those carrots dangled have been sat on the sidelines and at that point we were, we were close but nowhere near like we are now and sat there thinking, oh wow, like she's not taking it, like what's happening, you know, is she gonna and being able to sit there and and watch and I think, even watching that unfold, I did wonder at certain points, you know, why isn't she just diving into a business?
Speaker 1:But then this year has really unfolded, this last 18 months, and that's been me and you really working closely together and getting to know each other and building those connections where we've actually had each other's back and coached each other when we've needed it and I think, knowing that, that that actually was meant to happen and then you were meant to get the lovely handoff that you did and seeing it all come together in a different light, but also seeing your business evolve, because you've you have, over that time, brought in more feminine energy and connected back in with your intuition and so, even though it felt like a delay, it was always timed right to get you to do the right business and the right energy, and I get to watch that as a viewer. Like my god, the universe really does not let you down at all and you're living proof of it.
Speaker 2:I know I and I I definitely feel that, and you know you talked about what was happening for us maybe 18 months ago, um, when I built that academy. So when I had that opportunity and literally I was one foot out of the door of corporate at the point where the academy opportunity came up, and at the time it just felt like it was too good not to stay and to build something, and I really felt like that was my corporate legacy to stay and do that project. But the problem, I think, was because it literally took all of my creative energy. I felt like that was almost my baby and so it would have been really hard for me to make the decision to step away from it, even no matter how much I wanted to go into my business. There was always that pull back to. You know, hold on, a minute, you've built something, you want to see it through. But you know, you and you'll probably know where I'm going with this, the.
Speaker 2:The synchronicity that happened last year that was painful for both of us, was we saw the funding for that project get pulled, yeah, um, and so, one minute, we were continuing to roll out the, the program in the academy that we had done for three and a half thousand people and overnight, literally, the rug was pulled out from underneath us and we were in a situation where we didn't have the funding.
Speaker 2:We knew we couldn't continue to deliver it. We didn't really know what we were going to be doing for the next 12 months, and I think that has been beautiful in terms of us being able to work together and see ourselves both through that. Yeah, um. But when I look back again now, I look at that and go that decision had to happen for me, because I would have never, I would have never stepped away from it because I was too invested in it and it was only really at the point that it went that I was able to sit back and go no, everything is aligning. I mean, they talk about the stars aligning. I genuinely feel like the stars aligned this year and every step I've needed has been presented to me. It's just been amazing.
Speaker 1:And that's the thing. The universe will deliver everything you need. Unfortunately, it's not always wrapped in a nice basket of flowers. Sometimes it does deliver us brutal news in order to get us on the right path, and it doesn't bring good or bad, it just brings a situation. And when you look back at your story so you look back at you know you having to decide to give up, you know continuing to try and have kids and that wasn't for you anymore. And then you know, like you said, that other baby being pulled away from you, those decisions if you think it was all about you helping all these women and doing it in that way and supporting you to do that and you know heartbreak is a way to describe getting through it. But actually you imagine if you were a mother to one or two, you wouldn't be doing this legacy building that you're doing now. That's going to absolutely change the world.
Speaker 2:No, and I so strongly believe that. I believe that everything that's happened in my life was meant to happen and it happened at the perfect time. You know, if I, if I think about when I met Rob, the kind of jobs that I was doing, I was away so much, yeah, the I, that job that I was doing at that time had to be taken away from me in order for me to be able to spend the time I did with Rob and for us to be able to recognize that we were soulmates and, you know, get married as quickly as we did. I wouldn't have been able to do that if I was still traveling the country, living out of a suitcase and not being able to see him. So the timing of that was perfect. But the I know the universe intervened there and moved that job out of my way. Um, and I feel like that about the infertility as well. I feel like that was absolutely as heartbreaking as it was. I absolutely feel like that was part of my story and my life experience that helps me be who I am now and have the courage and resilience to be able to take the steps that I'm taking, and I wouldn't have been able to do that if I'd have had a family.
Speaker 2:You know, part of mine and Rob's future is that we are being unconventional again next year and we are selling our house, we're selling all of our possessions, we're going to get two big rucksacks and we're going to go and do a 500 mile walk from France to Spain and then get on a plane and go traveling and we we don't know where we're going to end up living. We don't know how long we're going to be doing it, for we're literally just going to go somewhere, see how long we want to be there and then decide where we go next. I, at the point where a lot of people are settling down and looking to retirement. Rob and I are going off and travelling the world and you know, I've been asked many, many times.
Speaker 2:You know, is this a midlife crisis you're having, or a particularly bad menopause? And I'm like no, it's not either. It's me actually living what I'm meant to live. This was the path I was supposed to be on, and if my story can help other women who are sitting in situations where they feel like they're surrounded by people who don't get them and are just wanting to sit and settle and wait for retirement in jobs that don't fulfill them, then hopefully they get inspired by what I'm doing and recognize that they can do it too.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've met a woman, Joanna, that you haven't inspired. Honestly, Even hearing the stories of people that you've touched at work, that sounds weird, but you know what I mean. I do.
Speaker 2:We were in HR, we weren't allowed to do that kind of thing Every contact leaves a trace.
Speaker 1:But you know, I hear the stories and then I see what you're doing and I know we joke about it. But it is that thing of you are living that unconventional life and there wouldn't be. You wouldn't want to settle for the conventional, neither. So the fact that you are going off and doing this amazing traveling and then not knowing where you're going to end up or if you're going to end up anywhere, it's just, it's incredible. And for somebody listening I think they're going to be like wow.
Speaker 2:And, do you know, I honestly think this started by picking trust, or allowing trust to pick me, as my word for this year, because it is the thing that I have just held on to with everything that has unfolded. I mean, honestly, if I was to write a book about all the crazy things that have gone on this year, I think it would be a page turner. I have to pinch myself and go. You know, I started this year not thinking that this was going to be a transformational year. I was thinking that next year, with the travel and everything, would be transformational and I thought I would probably see out my corporate career until that point and then try and really go all in on my business as I was backpacking around the world. And this, you know, that holding of trust has absolutely shown me how powerful that is and how quickly something can change when it's your destiny yeah, well, it's just skyrocketed you this year, and to be able to watch it and see it unfold has been amazing.
Speaker 1:But what's next? Obviously, there's the traveling, but you've just launched your new podcast I have, so please tell us about that okay.
Speaker 2:So the um somebody said to me when I literally on my last day I think it was in in our organization. They said to me I'm sure you're not going to rest on your laurels. And I laughed because I knew that I was leaving on something like the 19th of June and my podcast was launching on the 20th. So I was like, no, I'm not taking any time, I've waited too long for this, so I'm just going to go for it. So my podcast is Becoming no Ordinary Woman and I think I'm on episode 10 now. So it just shows how fast time is going. So it just shows how fast time is going. But it's really about sharing bits of my story that I think would resonate and help other people to realize that they're not crazy for having a big dream. Just because they're not surrounded by people who are big dreamers doesn't mean that they can't achieve theirs. Um, so it's been a really, it's been really powerful for me actually being able to do some of those episodes, and what was really important to me is that they were practical for people.
Speaker 2:So I have a kind of a set framework that I use in my podcast, which is I talk about my story, I talk about the um, the strategies that I personally have used to help me be successful. Um, I talk about the soul side of that, because what I've really connected with strongly this year is that beautiful balance or it can't just be one thing or the other it's that beautiful dance between the two. It is soul and it is strategy. Um, and then I I always finish off with a tarot card because I mean, you, you have been using tarot for far, far longer than I have, but it's become a real. Really, I'm really passionate about it.
Speaker 2:I've become really passionate about it this year and it's been such a good guide for me that I always kind of like to end each episode with this is what the universal guidance is telling us about this particular topic. So it's really fun. I'm enjoying that as a project. I've got mentoring programs coming out this year. I've got something really powerful called the shift, which is going to be launching probably at the end of this month, beginning of September. I'm just testing it with a couple of people now, but that's going to be really helping people dive into one area of their life that they really want to get a quick transformation in. So it's 90 minutes really powerful conversation and a blueprint that they walk away with to really help them take some steps and get some momentum. So, yeah, so there's loads of stuff coming. I'm dead excited for it all. I'm really grateful for you inviting me onto the podcast.
Speaker 1:I've loved having you and I love speaking to you all the time anyway, but just to share your story and help others hear that they're not alone and they can have those big dreams and you can make it work for you as well is absolutely a great takeaway yeah, there is nothing you can't have.
Speaker 2:I genuinely believe that. Took me a while to learn that um but I I know we are very similar in this that I honestly believe that if there's a dream in your heart, it's yours for a reason, um, and it's just about having the trust and confidence to be able to go for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah I was gonna ask you, seeing as though you end on a tarot card, what is your final thought? Doesn't have to be tarot related, obviously, but what is your final thought? Doesn't have to be terrible related, obviously, but what is your final thought that you'd love to leave the listeners with today?
Speaker 2:I think my final thought is it's probably what I've just said more than anything is it's really easy to get swept along in life and to hold on to a dream but feel like it's never going to be yours and we put so many blocks in the way. You know we we talk about. You know I can't do this because you know there's all the excuses. You know I'm too old, I'm too young, I don't live in the right place. You know this isn't meant for me. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:And you know that's why I use the word unconventional because I'm 54 now. I shouldn't be doing the things I'm doing. You know textbook and and society tells you that you shouldn't be leaving a 36 year career to go all in on a business at the age of 53. When I left, I definitely shouldn't be doing a 500 mile walk and I definitely shouldn't be selling my house, which I've nearly paid the mortgage off of, to go and do something reckless like sell all my possessions and go and travel the world. But I have never felt more free, more happy or more me in my life. I really haven't. So you know, if that I've gone goose pimples again. If that helps anybody. Don't ever listen to all the people who say you can't, because I absolutely believe of course you can.
Speaker 1:Oh, what an ending. Thank you so much, joanna, and for everybody listening, I'm going to pop all the links to find Joanna in the show notes. Please follow her, follow her journey, work with her. She's incredible. And just thank you for being the best guest. It's been so much fun.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you for being the best host. I miss working with you.
Speaker 1:One day, joanna, we know one day, joanna, we know what an incredible episode Joanna shared so much gold. And if you take one thing away, please be unconventional. Do not shy away from your dreams. Do whatever is in your heart. Now. I hope you enjoyed that episode as much as me. As promised, I've put all of the links to find Joanna in the show notes, so please go and check them out and have the best week, being unstoppable. Thank you.
