Posture & Purpose With Dr. Michelle Carr Frank
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How Two Louisiana Mamas Built A Nostalgia Fueled Community
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Something powerful happens when two friends sit down with coffee and stop performing for the world. Koa and Sarah, better known as the Cajun Mamas, join us to share how their kitchen table style videos sparked a wave of nostalgia and turned into a tight community for people who miss slower days, real visits, and the feeling of being known. We talk about their South Louisiana roots, Church Point pride, and why a simple cup on the table can transport viewers straight back to their grandma’s house.
We also go past the laughs and into the real work: building a brand, juggling small business responsibilities, handling messages and scheduling, packing and shipping merchandise, and protecting family time when your phone is also your job. They share what they keep private, how their spouses handle the spotlight, and why boundaries matter when you’re raising kids in public. If you’re a creator, a business owner, or a mom trying to keep all the plates spinning, you’ll hear a lot that feels familiar.
Then we zoom out to the deeper stuff: preserving Cajun culture through food, music, and language, and leaning on faith to navigate success, depression, anxiety, and big decisions. We wrap with a simple challenge that hits hard in a distracted world: less is more, cut what isn’t serving you, and make time for the small joys that bring you back to yourself. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review so more people can find Posture and Purpose.
Cold Open And Welcome
SPEAKER_03So who is more dramatic?
SPEAKER_01Me. Okay. I think. She wasn't gonna say it.
SPEAKER_02I wasn't. If you're talking about who needs to vent more in a very dramatic way, it's always me.
SPEAKER_00It's welcome to Posture and Purpose, where both healing and community come together. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Let's get into this episode with Dr. Michelle Car Frank.
SPEAKER_03Today's guests are two women who somehow turned kitchen table conversations, Cajun culture, motherhood chaos, and pure Louisiana authenticity into a community people feel deeply connected to. They're funny, unfiltered, relatable, and proof that being yourself still matters. So grab your coffee and listen in because today we're sitting down with the one and only Cajun Mamas. Welcome, Koa and Sarah. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having us. What an intro that was.
SPEAKER_02I'll tell you what, you really packed it all.
Church Point Pride And Friendship
SPEAKER_03You really pumped us up there. I thought it was good. It was good. Very good. And this is a special episode for me. Um, not only because I know you guys personally, Sarah, I've been treating your family for many years now, and Coa more recently. But also, you two ladies hail from Church Point, Louisiana. Yes, which is where my mother's family is from, the Barouses. So if anybody in Church Point is listening, shout out to the Barus Street.
SPEAKER_02The Barus Street.
SPEAKER_03And to uh Church Point. So again, thank y'all so much for being here. Welcome. And representing Church Point. How has that been? How has that felt?
SPEAKER_02Well, really, uh really kind of surreal. Because I don't know if you know, but they even nominated me for Mardi Gras court and I won the Mardi Gras. She Mardi Grass.
SPEAKER_04She was the Queen of Church Point. Oh my goodness. So we're among royalty.
SPEAKER_02I even have a crown to prove it.
SPEAKER_03I should have curtsied when you walked in.
SPEAKER_02So I mean, we just and we kind of walk around the streets and we say the the names of the streets because it's you know, the French names and and the people of Church Point seem to be alright with it.
SPEAKER_04So And I'm not even I'm not from Church Point originally. I'm from Gator. Okay. So I married a Church Point chin, you know. Um so I've been to Church. I've been in Church Point though since 2010. So I I mean I'm ha almost half my life by now. Um I'm considered a Church Point chin.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, you are. Well, I want to start with you guys um not only talking about your friendship, but I want you to tell me one word that describes each other. Just one word. Can you think of something on your toes?
SPEAKER_04Uh uh I I just think funny. Like she constantly makes me laugh. Like I I stay in stitches and I cry. She can ask her, I cry a lot. Oh, but it's always like it's it's happy. It's fun, like I cannot when I get started, tears.
SPEAKER_02Happy tears. And I'm not stopping either. Like I'm gonna pile it on till she cries even.
SPEAKER_04Oh, look at you crying. And I'm just like, I hate you right now. Because it's always, it'll be some somewhere we gotta go or whatever. I'm like, look my makeup, let me cut this up, you know. No, I it's that's good. Our friendship is all laughter all the time.
SPEAKER_02And she's caring, she's the nurturer, she's making sure we got everything all together. She I'm the big kid, and she's the mama, you know? So she's she's the caring one. The caring. I mean, I care for her too, but she's more of let me keep it all together type person.
When Nostalgia Started Resonating
SPEAKER_03And at what point through your friendship and starting all of this, at what point did you realize this is more than just a few posts on social media? When did you realize that people were really noticing and what you were bringing attention to?
SPEAKER_04I think when we got so many views and comments on the first few videos, and it was all it was just us like sit and not these exact cups, but her butterfly gold corral cups people saw that and were instantly transported to their grandma's kitchen or their mama's kitchen or whatever. And when we the most of the comments were about that and like the nostalgia of it all. And when I when we realized it how much it was resonating with people, it was like we have to keep going, like we have to keep doing this because this this whole like concept of like slow down enough to go visit, you know, go visit, like you would go visit, and they'd have a pot of coffee on the stove all day long.
SPEAKER_02That's completely lost. Do you know how often I think, oh, I have a plan with somebody, but I'm gonna cancel it because I'd rather stay home or I feel some type of anxiety around it. But what we were bringing was back those old times where that was just what they did.
Reality Show Dreams And Cajun Culture
SPEAKER_04They had nothing else to do, no Netflix, no, no Facebook, and I know we bring our stuff on social media, but at the time it just like less distraction, more connection, simple, simpler times, yeah.
SPEAKER_03And being that you guys have been, you know, entertaining to say the least, what do you think if you had your own reality TV show? What would be the name of it?
SPEAKER_02Have y'all thought about that? That is a dream of mine.
SPEAKER_04I'm always she would love that, but at the same time, she don't like to people too much and have people up in your face like all the time. So can you imagine?
SPEAKER_02I can do it, but I have to be prepared for it. And you never know what I'm a loose cannon. You never know what's gonna come out of my mouth, so that's a little scary. Okay. The name of a reality show.
SPEAKER_04Oh, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02My the reality show that I want us to do is Cajun Mama Pickin'. So like we go picking, thrifting, um, like picking through people's borns and sifting through their old stuff that they're not gonna use anyway, and like we just build, build, you know, banter around that. Yeah. Yeah, that would be fun.
SPEAKER_03So I don't know, Cajun Mama Picking. Would it be in Louisiana? Y'all would keep it to this, you know, South Louisiana.
SPEAKER_04There's so many spots in Louisiana we have not even touched, but there's also other places around the country too that, and I mean, from being on the whatnot app, if you have not discovered that, don't do it. Don't she said don't do it, it's addicting. But um, I'm like, where are they finding all these things? And she likes they're all over the country, you know, like okay, so there's just untapped.
SPEAKER_03Maybe somebody's listening, y'all might get an offer.
SPEAKER_04Who knows?
SPEAKER_02I I feel like there's many facets to the Cajun mamas, though. We got so many different things going on.
SPEAKER_04I like that.
SPEAKER_03I like that. That's a good one. And now that people have tapped into what y'all are doing, y'all are teaching people about our Cajun culture here. Do you feel responsible in any way to represent our area in a certain way?
SPEAKER_02I think it's so easy to do. You know, like it's so easy. Our culture is so is so just full and ingrained, but like it is so uh what it's uncommon. What's the word I'm looking for?
SPEAKER_04Unique.
SPEAKER_02Unique. It's so unique. And but it's just it is a duty of mine to bring that out for other people to see how we live. It's uh it's the hospitality, is the food, is the connection and the uh, you know, the the community.
SPEAKER_04I don't think I even realized how special it is until people start pointing it out. Um, or like people we'll get a lot of comments from people who lived here and moved away and oh, I miss it, I miss Louisiana so much. And it's like for with the accents, you know, the food, all the things, that's just you grow up hearing it and you grow up living in it, and you don't realize that the world doesn't that's not how it is everywhere.
SPEAKER_03If you go to other places in the world or just this country, of course, there's no place like Louisiana, especially South Louisiana.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and I think we just didn't realize that, and now that we have there is a little bit of pressure's not the right word, but um duty, like you said, like just to duty. Just to um I don't like the word duty, but yeah, but it's a duty, it's a highlight.
Behind The Scenes Business Work
SPEAKER_03But you represent it responsibly. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. Something like that. Is there anything that people watching or listening to your videos on social media, is there anything that they may not realize about your friendship? It's all fun and games when you video, you know, when you're on social media, but behind the scenes is there's something about your friendship that people may be surprised by. Okay.
SPEAKER_04We work hard off camera, like it's not it is it is fun work though. I mean, it's fun working with you, best friend, but like we both do, we both have very successful makeup and skincare businesses. We both were with Lime Life for seven years and six years. Great. That takes work, you know. Off aside, and I tell that to people when I'm doing my like going live and putting my makeup on and stuff. I'm like, welcome, you know, if you found me because of Cajun Mamas, welcome. I said, but I'm not only a funny Cajun mama, I am also a beauty guy with Lime Life, and I have been for seven years, long before Cajun Mama ever happened. Um, but so we work that, and then now that Cajun Mamas became a thing, that's a whole entity in itself to keep up with. And so behind the scenes, what you don't see is actual work that we do and the emails and the messages and the texts and the um the planning, the scheduling, yes, between families, coordinating, yeah, you know, and it's the coordinating it takes.
SPEAKER_02We it's very to imagine, so it's not just standing in front of the camera being funny, but it's also a lot of time on the computer in the office, you know, like books book work involves packing and shipping. No, there's nobody doing all that for us, you know. Like we are our own managers, we are packing and shipping every single piece of merchandise that comes through. So we have a lot of people that realize that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So is there anything that you think um might be a moment in time when all this was building that you thought this is not gonna work? There's no way we can handle all this.
SPEAKER_04For me, it was um when things started really picking up with Cajun Mamas, I was still working um at home, but still working full time. And um I I was like, I can't keep up with this all. Like I can't do Lime Life and this job and Cajun Mamas, but like that was the fun work. Like I really wanted to pursue Cajun Mamas and and grow, keep growing my limelight business. That was like my passion. Um so when that all started, I'm like, this ain't gonna work. Like, I don't know, something has to give. And thank the Lord, the the other thing got to give, and I got to play, play and pursue like something that really just lit me up inside, you know, and living the dream, like I like to say, really.
SPEAKER_02But brings joy to others too, you know. It really does joy to others, and that's really what fills our cups, you know.
Privacy, Kids, And Spouse Support
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I can relate, I can relate because you know, some people uh I see a lot of patients and they're so tired after work, or you know, sometimes I'm a therapist and a chiropractor. They'll tell me about their day or how overwhelmed they are, and I'm thinking, gosh, I am so blessed to be able to do what I do because I do have a passion for it, yeah, and that makes all the difference in the world because it's not like a job. Yeah, yeah. You feel like you get to get up every day, you actually make a difference and enjoy people you're around and that makes it all worthwhile. So I know you guys share everything. Not really though, right? Is there anything that you really protect? Hmm. Because y'all really put it all out there, but is there anything that you say no? This is sacred, this is something I'm I'm gonna keep private.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. I I felt very strange about showing my kids at all at first, um, but that's so part of our lives and and being mamas, and so it's hard. I I still do like I don't show every detail of my kids' lives, even I'm cautious about like saying where they go to school. I don't say that. Um dancing even, I'm just like, I don't really like to mention what studio they're with, just things like that. Um it I try to protect. Um I don't know. And my my husband isn't you won't see my husband on camera very much. He's just that's not his vibe. He supports me in it, but like he's in the background supporting and stuff. Um, I don't feel that's not really intentional, but if you ever wondering, like, yes, I I'm married, um, and very happily, and he supports me and and he feeds me and he takes care of me.
SPEAKER_03Thank goodness, right? So, yeah. That was one of my questions about um spouses, how did they feel? What a change in the dynamics at home, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um, it took a lot. Uh we work on our phones a lot, so we are looking down at our phone, especially with the kids. Um, it was kind of like, okay, we have to make, you know, an effort to put it down at some points of the day, obviously. But um, with our spouses, it was just like you always on your phone, you know, da da da. And then once they got used to it, I'm not speaking, I should not say that. That's okay. But once Chase got used to, okay, she's not just playing on her phone, she's working. You know, this is what it looks like for her to go to work. Um, and us when sometimes when I set up the camera in the kitchen, he's like, Oh Lord. You know, but he's so but then when it comes to vendor shows and us being away on the weekends, there's nowhere else they'd rather be. They run our booth for us so that we can that's wonderful. We can meet and greet, and they love it. They love coming with us, they love seeing the people, and they know ultimately that the people that we meet are supporting us in what we do. So it makes it easier. And the, you know, the things that they say, it makes it easier, I think, for them to. I'd love to have them on our podcast one day. I know that would be important.
SPEAKER_04Bring a little glass of whiskey for mine to sip on and he'll be fine.
SPEAKER_03Give some whiskey before. Let it settle in first.
SPEAKER_04We always record during the week while they making the books, though, while they work, they doing real jobs, you know. We're gonna have to make an exception for them, huh?
Motherhood, Imperfection, And Overwhelm
SPEAKER_03From what y'all are telling me, that y'all definitely have a real job as well. So multiple jobs, you know, and very successful, and it's great to have a good support system. But motherhood and family, what has that taught you more than success ever could? Because you guys have shown how successful everything is, you know, behind the camera and with what you're representing Louisiana with. What has motherhood taught you that success never could?
SPEAKER_02That it's okay not to be perfect, um, because no matter how I feel about what I'm doing or you know what the day looks like for me, they don't see it the same way that I do. And just when I I tell them all the time, you know, they look so happy. Oh, how are you doing today, baby? You look so happy. I'm good, mama. Well, good. That's all mama wants is for you to be happy. You know, um I just feel like I I put a lot of pressure on myself to be a good mama when I know when I am a good mama to them, you know. So even though I think of my shortcomings, they just think the world of me. I hope. I'm getting older one, so you know they probably don't think the world of me.
SPEAKER_04Deep down inside, they still love their mama.
SPEAKER_02But but just being able to to foster them, you know, and and they're they're my responsibility and and I am less and they are more. I just I just love my little family so much.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I think it's what keeps you grounded through it all because that's what this is all about. This is that's what this all this work is for, you know. My family. And I like to show my kids that it's possible. Whatever you want, it's possible if you work for it and you go for it, and and we've even had like they're only eight and eleven, but we've already had, you know, what you want to be when you grow up or whatever. And one of mine is like nothing, and she's like, I want to be a mom and I want to stay at home. And I'm like, perfect. If that is where you need to be, you can do it. And and showing them like it's not I love okay. I'm just I'm gonna circle to COVID, okay, tons. I feel like when everything shut down and so many people went working from home, we saw a different possibility for our lives. We saw a different new reality, and that's why I feel like so many jobs were um now. You have a remote option, okay, so work from home option, and I love that because why not? You know, why not? Like what I do, even what I did before I was able to leave that job, I was working from home, and what a blessing to be able to go drop your kids off and pick them up and still be able to provide income from your family for your family. Um, I just for my kids, I hope and pray that it's something they love to do, you know. And I've like with never did I ever think I was gonna be selling lipsticks, makeup, skincare, that kind of thing. Really? Never, I never sold a thing in my life. And and when I started Lime Life, I knew nothing about beauty products, nothing. So it's like I never dreamed that that would be my vehicle to be able to have the freedom. Um, but it it was, it was what God had for me. And that's at the end of the day, that's all you want for your kids, is whatever God's plan is for their life, and as mamas, for us to help lead and guide and and shape and mold them to to be what God has called them to be. That is it. That is it.
SPEAKER_03And y'all are leading by example, so there's no greater, you know, um, strength for them to see their mamas.
SPEAKER_02Well, I just you know, and I feel like we worked and worked and worked. The women want it to work, they wanted to work, and that's fine. Y'all want it to work. I wanted to stay home with my kids, that's what I wanted to do. So, and that's okay, and there's a way to do that, there's ways to do that. So, and I tell my kids all the time, listen, you want to go to college, good, but I'm I am not forcing you. You know, I'm not forcing you. You want to do something else? That's fine by me.
SPEAKER_03Find your path, right? You know, find your what makes you passionate. And speaking of that, and women in business and working behind the scenes, do you think in this time women feel more supported or more overwhelmed?
SPEAKER_02I think they feel overwhelmed. Yeah. I think we feel I that's why you see so much anxiety, depression. I think they feel overwhelmed. I did. I felt super overwhelmed. And when I get home, I didn't want to even deal with my kids because I had no more energy. I was at I was a teacher. I thought 25 kids a date. So when I got home, I dealt with my kids, and that's ugly to say, but that's just like I was tolerant.
SPEAKER_03But it's the truth, and women need to hear the truth instead of everyone pretending how easy it is and you know, go to work all day and then come home and cook dinner and then deal with homework and responsibilities at home. Yeah. It's hard.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. I I honestly don't know how I don't know how they do it. Um, and especially with kids in sports and homework and keeping up the house and and it's a lot of people. Not having a support system, which unfortunately a lot don't is that is the case.
SPEAKER_03But as women, I think you guys are such a good example of showing people what is possible. There might be someone listening right now that needs to hear that. Go out and do it. If it needs to be a job, working from home, you know, shoot for the stars, do something for yourself. And what is your hope for someone watching right now that does feel overwhelmed? What would you like to what message would you like to tell them?
SPEAKER_04That's your scene. You're you're heard, you're validated, you're not alone. Um, we don't pretend to have everything all together, and I think that's what people like about us. Like it's reality. It's reality, it's life. Um, you'll never see me put like a filter on my face or body because that's I'm I am who I am, and and it's okay.
SPEAKER_02Right. Um you're never gonna see my house all the way clean. Yeah. That's never gonna be clean.
SPEAKER_04We're not Pinterest moms.
SPEAKER_02We're not, you know. If I if it's clean, I gotta I gotta look at it one room at a time. Oh, I'm happy for five minutes, and then there it goes again. There's rubber boots and everything, mud all over the house.
SPEAKER_04Exactly. It's just not gonna be like that. That's cool. One day, one day it might be, you know, and then we'll probably miss the mess, you know, is what they say. Exactly.
SPEAKER_03Yes, you will.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but but you're not alone if you feel in that way. Um and if they say their house is clean all the time, they lie in. They lying.
Rapid Fire And Traditions To Keep
SPEAKER_03They lying. Now, I got some rapid fire questions for you. Oh, Netty. Which one of you would survive longer on a deserted island? Me.
SPEAKER_02And why? She's fit, she knows how to eat good, she is going to take charge. Look, she takes charge.
SPEAKER_04We build in a hut, we get in some shelter, some fire, okay.
SPEAKER_03Okay, good to know. Okay, now I know. Who makes the best roux?
SPEAKER_04Oh, probably her. She probably just because has she done it more? Have you done it more?
SPEAKER_02Maybe once. I didn't know I use the jar.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, she does use the jar. We both do. But I made roux probably four, five, five times in a moment. You mean again?
SPEAKER_03It's settled. So who's the mean mom? And who's the fun mom?
SPEAKER_04I'm the mean mom. Okay. I don't think I'm the fun mom, though. Like that was the question, right? Fun caring.
SPEAKER_02Mom. She's caring. She's the soft is what she's trying to do. Softer. I didn't say that. I said caring. I wasn't even thinking. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. That's not me. I'm putting you, I'm putting words in you. And me, I'm like, that it sounds like you need to pass her a slap. You know?
SPEAKER_03So you think that's the school teacher in you, though.
SPEAKER_02You think? I surely hope I wouldn't pass no slap. No, no, no. Yes. Take in charge.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Okay. They're gonna keep acting like that. That would come in handy on a deserted island. I'm just saying. Y'all could work together on that. We'd be fine. You'd be fine. We balance it pretty good. So who is more dramatic?
SPEAKER_01Me. Okay. I think. She wasn't gonna say it.
SPEAKER_04I wasn't.
SPEAKER_02If you're talking about who needs to vent more in a very dramatic way, it's always me.
SPEAKER_04She runs hot. Like she runs like she if something irritates her, she it's like mad. Or if she gets if something really bothers her, she's like depressed. It's like up, it's up or down, yeah. And I'm I'm like, okay, come back down. Come back down to her.
SPEAKER_02She's definitely my son.
SPEAKER_04That's one like or if it's I'm like, it's not that bad, it's not as bad as you think, you know. And let's look at the whole situation kind of thing.
SPEAKER_02I think everybody needs oh yes, we got a good balance because she's a good prayer, like she'll pray, she'll type out a prayer and send it to me, and I'm like, okay, okay, I'm being too much.
SPEAKER_03Come back down. Yeah, that is wonderful. Everyone needs that in their lives.
SPEAKER_04But her too, though. Uh oh, she helps me out too. Don't it's not just like she doesn't fly off the handle all the time. Sometimes I'm like going through it or whatever, and she well, have you have you prayed or have you done this or um it it's gonna be okay, this and that. Like she does too. Good balance, huh?
SPEAKER_03So who's more stubborn?
SPEAKER_02I think she's stubborn. I can be stubborn, yeah. Like when she like, okay, for instance. Yes, let me give her for instance. Tell me. We need examples. So I'm the type of person that like this is this did not happen, but I'm the type of person that will go to the nail salon and say, Yeah, that's good, even though I hate it or I wouldn't say anything. She, on the other hand, is gonna be like, oh no, no, no, or like if we're going somewhere and they, you know, we agreed on a certain price, this did not happen at all. I'm just giving you inference. She's gonna go up and talk to the people while I'm just gonna kind of hang back and complain about it and holla about it. And she's the one that's gonna say something.
SPEAKER_04Yes, but then not say anything. And and I'm I don't think I'm not like a like a Karen or anything. No, she's just gonna make it happen. But yeah, but I'm just like, um, that's not what we said, you know, that's not what we agreed on, or whatever it may be, you know.
SPEAKER_02Like I said, that may not ever happen, but I'm giving you examples. I don't I can't think of one specific time where she went up to the well the desk and was like we haven't had to have that.
SPEAKER_04No, no, but I feel like I'm stubborn in the way too of like if I it in my mind, if I have a picture of how something should be and it's not, then I or like she'll make I'm trying to think of an example. Like on the website or something, if like you're typing out a description of a product or whatever, and I'm just like, hmm, like what she said is totally fine, and no one would ever be like, that's not good, but in my mind it was supposed to go this way, so I'll be like, Can we change this to this to this? And she usually just rolls with whatever I say, but I feel like that you know that's where I kind of am stubborn. Like if I wanted to be a certain way, it's a certain way.
SPEAKER_03I think it's a great healthy balance, really, you know, because if you were both that way, it might be a problem.
SPEAKER_02That is true. They might say, Oh, those Cajun mamas, they are something else. So who drinks more coffee?
SPEAKER_04Um I feel like we both drink about the same. Two cups a day. Two cups sometimes three if we if I need an afternoon cup, yeah. Just depending on the day. Yeah, depends.
SPEAKER_03And I wanted to know which one of you speaks better French.
SPEAKER_04Probably her. She knows more words than I do. But I don't ask me to say it.
SPEAKER_02Like I can pick them out what they're saying, you know. But but neither of you speak fluent, not fluent, I wish.
SPEAKER_03Okay. I was just wondering. And speaking of French, what French words do you guys say with confidence, but you know you're saying it wrong.
SPEAKER_04Oh, but you know you're saying it wrong?
SPEAKER_03Is there anything? Or do you have a favorite French word that we can say?
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right? Disclaimer, no dirty words. I don't know. I mean, I just I usually say God they don't a lot or just close off the bit. I said puff bet on the way here. I'm talking about like, oh, poor thing, you know, pofbet.
SPEAKER_03Mm-hmm. And you just grew up with that, right?
SPEAKER_04You've heard up here and things, yeah. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02I don't know if I'm saying them right half the time, but yeah.
SPEAKER_03And what because you guys talk about Cajun heritage and our culture here, what do you feel sh which tradition do you feel should be preserved the most? What is uh most important that we shouldn't lose?
SPEAKER_04Two things come to my mind the food and the language.
SPEAKER_02The language and the music.
SPEAKER_04And the music, yeah.
SPEAKER_02The music is just so special. I grew up on it. Both Zotico and Cajun, I just love it. Love it. And I just feel like it's something that's so unique and so special, and you can pick it out of any lineup, right? Um it's something that needs to be preserved, the language is just so so important.
SPEAKER_03And it's a way music is a way of passing down stories as well. You know, these things, these stories and these songs have been going down through generations for a very long time. So it's a good way of communicating that. And being that y'all are both from South Louisiana, what is your fondest memory of growing up and being a young girl growing up in South Louisiana? Mmm.
SPEAKER_04I I I think back on my childhood of playing outside all day long, just barefoot, getting dirty. Like I grew up surrounded by fields, so like sometimes it was crawfish in the field, sometimes it was rice, or sometimes it was whatever the farmers around had. And um, whenever there now my mama would let me go like traipsing through their crops and stuff, and God only knows there was animals and stuff or wild animals around, but like whenever the fields were in between or something, just going run out in them in the big open dirt, like just it felt it felt huge, you know. Yes, just playing, you know, playing outside. My my poor kids, we I I won't say that they don't play outside, but um, it's not like it was when I was growing up. Like we had trees and I had woods by the house and fields and stuff, and we just have some little sad little oak trees we planted when we built the house. They're not even big enough for shade, oh barely big enough for shade yet. But I'm like, man, they don't have trees to climb, you know, they don't have uh woods to run through or whatever. But just different. Yeah, it's just different.
SPEAKER_02I remember my favorite memories uh just sitting with my mama drinking coffee milk. She would make me some coffee milk when I would get there. My papa would make a little biscuit or something, spend a night at my mama's.
SPEAKER_03I love that. Yeah, that's my good memories. And I think we do a little more of that, or at least we used to, here in Louisiana. You know, the grandparents were such a big part of our upbringing, so that's a good example too. So let's see, if your children could only take one piece of Arcajan culture into their future, what would you want it to be? I want them to cook. I want them to cook. Yeah, I think so. And do they are they interested in cooking? Are they wanting to learn different recipes yet?
SPEAKER_04My oldest one is Brynn loves to be in the kitchen with me. Rhea will come if it's like uh cookies or sweet things, but like Bryn will Bryn will cook it just about anything with me. And she's interested in it. Yeah. Yeah.
Faith, Anxiety, And Favorite Prayers
SPEAKER_03So that's good. Yeah. Okay, and you ladies are very, very outspoken about your faith and how important it is in your lives. How has your sh your faith shaped the way you handle success but also struggles?
SPEAKER_04I I don't think I mean I don't see how people get through their struggles in life without faith in the Lord and leaning on him for hard through hard times. I I don't know, I can't imagine a life without Jesus.
SPEAKER_02And we use we always go back to the faith because it's it's he's constantly there and he's constantly with us, but we have to call on him throughout this journey because we need discernment. Yeah for sure of whether or not, you know, is this a good path to go? Is this not so great? Is do we really, you know, is this something pursuit? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, this opportunity that came up, like this is good for not.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Does it align with what we believe? Does it align with what we, you know, what we is it a good fit, you know, kind of thing? Yeah, yeah. So it's good to have you, faith, because if you don't, I don't know how you make decisions. Without Jesus, I don't know how you make decisions. So that's just it. We always, or like sometimes we we tell this story often, sometimes we feel defeated or we feel like there's something, something's not right, and it's usually uh spiritual warfare as far as you know, we have and then she's like, We got that good faithful podcast episode coming up. That's why you're feeling like you are because the devil's after you today. So it's true, but being able to see that is is special too. In the good times and the bad, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And do you all have a favorite prayer? Do you each have an individual favorite prayer that you like to pray or that it's your go-to?
SPEAKER_04Lately, since this past Lent, um, and I got this from the Hollow app. Hallow? I said hollow, but it was Hollow. Same uh it's empty me, fill me, use me. And that has been like my motto since then. It is like empty me of myself, my selfish ambitions, my thoughts, my desires, fill me with your your will, your words, your spirit, and then use me however you want to use me. I like that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, mine is Saint Michael because he def he defeated the devil, and I have uh, you know, I struggle with depression and anxiety. So having Saint Michael, the Saint Michael prayer, I'm always trying to ward off the devil because it's it's it's a tough life. Yes, you know, but but and it's a tough struggle, so he's always he's always there.
Less Is More And Closing Posture
SPEAKER_03And you have that prayer in your pocket to always have with you. That's right. Well, if anyone is listening right now and they feel disconnected from either their roots, their faith, or their purpose in life, what would you tell them? Just a little tidbit of Cajun mama wisdom.
SPEAKER_04Wisdom I don't know. I I feel like we live in such a um fast-paced what's the word I'm looking for, distracted, um overfilled culture where more is more. Right. Less is more, y'all. Less more. If you're feeling disconnected, if you're feeling overwhelmed, if you feeling angst anxious, like take a look at what's filling your mind, take a look at what's filling your your heart, your time, and cut loose what don't need to be there.
SPEAKER_03It's not serving you, you know, positive.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Life is too short for that. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02I just I just feel like I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_04No, it's okay.
SPEAKER_02I feel like just take some time. Clear out. Don't worry about where you need to run, okay? Make pancakes, pam pan do. Make enjoy a cup of coffee with your loved one or your friend. Take the time to do that instead of running this way or scrolling this, or it it will make you will find it, it will make a big difference in the way you look at things and will just bring you joy. Yes, you know, keep it simple. That says a lot.
SPEAKER_04A lot of times we like, oh, I don't really need like I did not need to buy to have have a whole set of this. Like, I have plates and cups at home, but this brings me joy. You know, sometimes I'm so glad y'all brought the grail. I love it. I love it. Find it, like my husband will pick at me for when we go thrifting. Um he's like, another bowl, like you needed another bowl. Wait, is this a bowl? A big mixin' bowl, you know, like that's just happy. It is like little joys like that. If it makes you smile, it makes you happy, do it.
SPEAKER_03I think that's a great way to uh to wrap it up. But my last question of every episode is how do you maintain your posture while pursuing your purpose in life?
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm sitting up extra straight today because I knew I was coming here. And so I will be quite honest with you, the rest of the time I am like this or like this, like especially on our podcast, I'm like this. I'm not pursuing my posture.
SPEAKER_03I need to uh put a little business card on y'all's table so y'all can remember to sit up. Oh, yeah, when we look at that.
SPEAKER_04We see we see you there, yeah. Um, is this more of a metaphorical question? Because I okay, that's all I had a feeling it was. Yeah. Um staying close to Jesus, that is literally the only way that I can stay upright and and straight and on the straight and right path in life, you know, and dedicating that time every day. Because if I don't like I notice a difference in my my posture, yeah, it's true. Yeah, my my temperament, my um inside, you know, overall well-being. Right. Yeah, yeah. That's what keeps me grounded and and which she's saying. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03We can all become misaligned physically, emotionally, spiritually. That's a yes, great way to put that. Get back on track, uh, no matter what that means to you. Think positively and what keep it simple, right? Keep it simple. Well, thank y'all so much for joining me today. It's been a pleasure actually having y'all in here rather than just coming to see me from back. And if you have if you need actual posture help, this lady right here. Let me tell you, you're the one. She's the one. Thank you so much. Thank y'all again. And until next time, sit up straight, stay happy, stay healthy, and stay adjusted.
SPEAKER_00Thanks for listening to the Posture and Purpose Podcast with Dr. Michelle Car Frank. Make sure to subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Until next time.