Fitness, Faith, Grief, and Finding Joy- With Nicole Sciacca

In this episode of Essence Embodied, I’m joined by movement coach Nicole Sciacca for a conversation on embodiment, self-trust, healing, and finding joy through life’s hardest seasons.

With over 25 years of experience in dance, yoga, mobility, and strength training, Nicole shares how a severe spine injury forced her to rebuild not only her body, but her identity. We talk about nervous system regulation, functional movement, discipline, people pleasing, perfectionism, and learning to trust yourself instead of constantly seeking external permission.

Nicole also shares more about her online platform, Sweat and Stillness, designed to make movement and wellness feel more attainable and sustainable in everyday life. She tells us about her upcoming June Fit 2026 program beginning June 4th, and generously offers listeners 10% off.

We also speak honestly about grief, God, spirituality, and resilience as Nicole opens up about losing her partner suddenly and the perspective shifts that followed. This episode is a reminder that healing isn’t about becoming someone new, it’s about returning to yourself with more presence, compassion, and truth.

If you’re navigating burnout, grief, self-doubt, or simply wanting to feel more grounded in your body and life, this conversation is for you.

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Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introduction

Tyne Stecklein 0:00

Welcome back to Essence Embodied. I'm your host, Tyne Stecklein, and I have an incredible episode for you today. My friend Nicole Sciacca is here. She is a movement coach and specialist, and this conversation is going to leave you so inspired to not only make sure that you are prioritizing your health, your fitness, your well-being, but also make sure that you are living every day of your life to the fullest. We go deep about spirituality, about faith, about God. So if this feels aligned for you, I can't wait for you to hear this conversation because it brought me so much inspiration. Let's dive in. Nicole Sciacca, welcome to Essence Embodied. I am so grateful to have you here today. Oh, do I get to talk? Yeah. Talk away.

Nicole Sciacca 0:49

Yeah. And then I'm going to talk about you. Amazing or not. I'm kidding. I know what I signed up for. It's a podcast.

Tyne Stecklein 0:55

Hi, I'm so happy to be here, buddy. Thank you. Thank you. You were like, I didn't even know this when I asked you. And then the more we've been talking about this talk that we're going to have, you are exactly the type of person that I want on this show because you are living such an authentic path that feels divinely guided. And that's just what I want people to know that they can choose to do. Read about your incredible, you know, things that you do, and then we'll dive into some deep goodness. So for my listeners, Nicole Sciacca is a friend, but more so, she is a movement specialist and creative force in the wellness space with 25 plus years of experience as a professional dancer, yoga teacher, mobility coach, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of sweatandstillness.com, a virtual platform offering live classes, on-demand workouts, guided meditations, and personal assessments. I need one of those. Nicole is best known for her dynamic music-driven classes, integrative teaching, style rooted in biomechanics, and her ability to make physical, mental, and spiritual training feel both approachable and inspiring. She trains a diverse clientele in LA, including former athletes, high-performing professionals, and A-list celebrities. And her work has been featured on so many cool things like The Doctor's Shape, Women's Health, and E Online. And she gets to collaborate with brands like Gatorade and ESPNW and Whole30 and Propelled. She is the best-selling author of the children's book Yoked, and she is the host of one of my favorite podcasts that inspired me to start a podcast, Shockin' Y'all, which is globally ranked and focused on self-mastery, resilience, and remembering who the hell you are.

Nicole Sciacca 2:32

Yeah. That was so nice. That's really generous and uncomfortable. I feel bad for all my guests now. I forgot what it's like to have your bio read to you. It's so creepy.

Tyne Stecklein 2:43

I know. Yeah. It's it's well, as I told you, it's scary to be on this end of reading it because you're listening to the amazing things that people have done. And it's like, I get to talk to this person for an hour.

Nicole Sciacca 2:53

I know. Well, yeah, but also it reminds you, life happens in these broad strokes, right? And you don't have to every day wake up and be like, I dance, I coach folks, I wrote a book, I have a pot. You don't wear all of that at one time. So to be addressed like that is it's heavy, you know?

Tyne Stecklein 3:12

Yeah. But it's amazing. And I'm really grateful that we get to have this conversation today. So thank you.

Nicole Sciacca 3:18

Me too. Me too. Thank you for having me.

Tyne Stecklein 3:20

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 3:21

Yeah.

Tyne Stecklein 3:22

We have these things, I think, in common that we we geek out on, like motherhood and faith and spirituality and movement and how we can use movement for mind, body, soul, health.

Nicole Sciacca 3:39

Yeah.

Tyne Stecklein 3:40

So I just want to get into that today and just go super deep if that's good.

Nicole Sciacca 3:45

Yeah, I love deep. Um, my my child hates that about me. I'm finding out now that he's 13. He's like, I don't need your therapy TED talks. And I'm like, well, maybe one day you'll appreciate them. But right now, at least you will, and we can have this conversation as two grown women who need that sort of conversation.

Tyne Stecklein 4:04

I will appreciate it very much. And yeah, like, oh, good note, because I'm already trying to do that. My seven-year-old is he's way too young for that.

Nicole Sciacca 4:11

And I like this. This is a good entry point because I think everyone is in a different place, right? The children, and you can speak to this because you have three kids. I only have one to compare it to. But my child came into this world with like a 47-year-old soul. And unbeknownst to myself and him, we were gonna have to deal with way too much before he was even, you know, 10 or 11 years old. So I think it's fascinating to let children be children and for them to also show you who you who they are, because in that process, you get to be not only a student of them, but you get to be the best version of yourself in the hardest circumstances, which is a challenge, right? Nobody that sounds great on a podcast. She's spitting this thing into a microphone. But honestly, when you when you can approach motherhood like that or all of life, it doesn't even you don't need to be a mother. It could be, you could be the man. For instance, yesterday at Costco, this man, I've seen him multiple times. He comes with his clipboard, he says he's raising money to go to um Howard University. I don't know that that's what's happening. He, you know, it's kind of like I want to support you, I want to believe in your dreams, but I've seen you here for about four months doing the same thing. You know what I mean?

Tyne Stecklein 5:18

Totally.

Nicole Sciacca 5:19

But the idea is when you're in these instances and you have an opportunity to listen to someone, whether it's a seven-year-old child or the man in the Costco parking lot, there's so much opportunity for personal growth right there. And the first our right, our first inclination is just to push it away. I've got stuff to do, I gotta get there, I gotta go run these errands, or you're just seven and you're just on my nerves, and you, you know, it's easy to bypass that. And that's, I think, where a lot of the work that I do, whether it's spiritual or physical training or mindset coaching, it's always coming back to a level of embodiment. And the physicality helps us feel that, but the confrontation of motherhood lets us live it, you know?

Tyne Stecklein 6:09

Wow. Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 6:10

It's hard.

Tyne Stecklein 6:11

It is hard. It's such a good reminder to just like listening. It's so hard to practice.

Nicole Sciacca 6:17

It's terrible. I'm terrible at it. I I do think podcasting's made me better.

Tyne Stecklein 6:24

Yeah, I'm still working on that. We'll see how I do. You're doing great. Well, okay, so I I'll get to a question for you. So I would love to talk about for my listeners. A lot of them know I'm in the entertainment industry, have been, still am, as well as doing other things.

From Dancer To Coach

Tyne Stecklein 6:42

You were and are still in that business. We had an audition together last week. We were we were talking about how we're out of the loop these days. But how did you go from professional dancer to mindset movement coach? And was that like a divinely guided path that opened up? Was that out of necessity? Like, how did you how did you get to where you are?

Nicole Sciacca 7:08

That's a great question. It's both and I'm probably gonna say that a lot. Um, both and seems to be a real strong theme in my life. But yeah, no, I moved to LA when I was 21 and danced. I I think I'm older than you, so I think I was dancing, I was out here maybe before you, or maybe I didn't inter our paths didn't um intersect early on, but I sustained a pretty gnarly injury at 25.

The Injury That Changed Everything

Nicole Sciacca 7:34

I think I was 25 years old, and I was doing some free job, and the rehearsal was at 11:30 at night, and I didn't know anybody, including the choreographer. And I remember the choreography was insane. It was the fastest choreography I'd ever done. Um, and that says a lot because I've done a lot of uh Marlene's choreography. Do you know what I'm saying? This doesn't feel safe. And we did just like some basic porte-de-bra fold forward, and I remember I heard my spine go. And then I just fell to the ground because I couldn't breathe. And it was the most intense pain of my life. And I kind of crawled over to the mirror and I'm like, this is this is like career shifting bad. Like I knew instantly it was never gonna be the same. And sure enough, I herniated three discs in that rehearsal, and then a week later I ruptured four. So um, it was just bed rest for a month, neuropathy down my right leg, no feeling in my right foot and calf uh for 15 years, actually. And it just it changed everything really because not only, as you know, is your identity and your passion wrapped up in dancing, it's it's your livelihood and it's also your personality, and it's so many things. And so to be in that bed for a month questioning everything I knew about myself, I dove headfirst into um all sorts of physical training and in healing modalities. Like I was with an acupuncturist all the time, I was with a hypnotherapist all the time, I was doing network spinal analysis, which is like energy work through gateways through the spine. Um, I think all of these things contributed to my healing, but what was really happening was the unraveling and the unpacking of identity. So once I was able to move again and I was feeling stronger, my ortho, God, I'm gonna say God love that man, but I he taught me a lot. He he literally looked me in the eyes in one of the appointments and he's like, You have the spine of an aging orthopedic 55-year-old man. And I was like, bro, why would you say that with your little white coat? Because not only was that so aggressive and the worst thing to hear that he thinks it's gonna happen again, um, but also it gave me a chance to be like, but you don't know me and it's not happening again. Like, I will do whatever it takes to not experience this again. And and that led me down a whole path of yoga and uh physical therapy and PT offices and a lot of the stuff that I study now, which is functional range conditioning, it's um basically how to make your joints resilient so that the rest of you, as you age, ages better and optimally. So I'm actually super grateful for the injury. I think I don't think I would be where I am right now if I had not been injured. And I don't know what my path would have looked like. I love dancing and I loved acting, and I I still do, but it it wasn't, I don't think it was my destiny the way that I thought it was. I think the work that I'm doing now is where I'm meant to be. You know. Yeah.

Tyne Stecklein 10:30

Yeah, we have these choices when we're presented with things, right? And I think that for you to be able to take that's a that's a huge injury. Yeah. And to, you know, not only want to heal yourself in a way that you're like, no, this isn't gonna happen again, because I'm gonna learn everything and do everything I can to take care of myself and my longevity, but then also turn it into essentially like a whole new career for yourself. That's incredible.

Nicole Sciacca 10:55

Yeah. It was an it was a nice pivot because and and out of necessity too, because I didn't trust myself time. Like after that injury, when I would perform, I would it would just was never the same. I never felt like I could fully go where I wanted to go because I didn't trust my body. And I think that was instinctually unnatural for me. I have always been kinesthetic. I've always, yeah, this is why dancers are my freaking favorite people because we have a language within our body that civilians maybe don't have. I mean, no offense civilians, but we just get it. We feel things differently. We're able to transmute energy and expression, and we also garner feedback through our bodies. So, me not being able to trust my body in choreography was like a wake-up call that that it absolutely required a shift. There was no way I was going back to what was before.

Identity Beyond The Audition Bio

Tyne Stecklein 11:53

Were you able to find kind of the same like artistic therapeutic release for your face, you know, with dance into the movement and the training work that you do now, or not quite?

Nicole Sciacca 12:06

It's different. So there's nothing like dancing, right? But the spiritual aspect of yoga was what I was missing in language from dance. So if that makes sense, I got the intellectual and the cerebral satisfaction from the spiritual aspect of yoga that was missing for me in the expressive and disciplined nature of dancing. I love that and I still do. But what I wanted to explore was like the next layers of what this meant, what that feeling meant, what the ego's about. Like, why am I so attached to my identity as a dancer? Why was that even a thing? Like, I'm I'm a I like to say a five-dimensional being. I'm in this, I'm in this flesh suit, but I'm a spiritual being and I have so much more going on. I don't know why my identity was completely wrapped up in blonde hair, five eight, green eyes, agent such and such. You know what I mean?

Tyne Stecklein 13:04

That's well, it doesn't help that that's literally like when we introduce ourselves for an audition, that's that's who we are. And we're typecast based on that.

Nicole Sciacca 13:14

Right. So you're right. I mean, it makes sense. It makes sense that I wouldn't have been like that, but I think my frustration was I didn't feel like that was a full representation of me ever. And that was what we were expected to, you know what I mean? That's what we were expected to embody. So yeah, it was it was a nice, um like open door, so to speak.

Tyne Stecklein 13:36

Absolutely. And I I love that you keep saying embody by the way, because my show is called Essence Embodied. That's right. Yes.

Faith, Woo, And Whole Person Coaching

Tyne Stecklein 13:45

Are you able to bring in your spiritual awareness and use that in your teaching? And do people come to you because of that? Because I would love that. I just have been momming for so many years that I don't, I haven't gotten myself on any sort of, you know, consistent workout class routine.

Nicole Sciacca 14:03

But well, I have a solution for that. It can be done in your house virtually. We'll talk about that later. I don't, can I swear on this show? I don't give a crap. I don't give a crap about that. I will show up at my as my full spiritual, um, freaky self in all my authenticity all the time. Like I do, I don't ever edit that. And um if it doesn't fit you, then I understand and I thank you so much for coming. But it is what it is. Like I just, yeah, I'll talk about God in my classes. I talk about, I I have said online that I love Jesus. I'm also super weird and I love mediums and I love um the woo. And I have a very special and not typical relationship with my, you know, late partner Matt. It's there's a lot, there's a lot more to um to the coaching that I do. It's not just physical, it's not biomechanics, which I love, and that's where my training is. But I think what sets me apart and why folks do enjoy it is because I want the I want your entire spirit to thrive. And that doesn't just live in Warrior One, Warrior Two, and Bulgarian squats. Unfortunately, it just doesn't. So you have to tap into the other aspects of self. And I think because I'm open to that, people get to remember who they are, and then they're reminded that they have permission to be that, you know.

Tyne Stecklein 15:36

Can you say that again? That that's so good. People get to be who they are.

Nicole Sciacca 15:41

Yeah, people get to be who they are, and they're reminded that they have permission. Like a lot of us are waiting for permission, which is asinine because you no one's coming to give it to you ever, never. Yep. They're not coming to fix your problems, they're not coming to lose 10 pounds for you, they're not coming to create a disciplined routine. This is on you, and it and it's it sucks, but it's the case. And you have permission to make the decision. You have permission to be your best self. No one ever actually, it's your duty. There's a book called The Science of Getting Rich by Wally Waddles that was written in like 1910. And he says, it's one, it's I got this book from the hypnotherapist that coached me through my bed rest on this back injury. The moral of this book is not about creating wealth, although you would think it is because the title is The Science of Getting Rich. But he said it is your duty to be wealthy in body and spirit and finances, because when you can do that, you are a hundred percent able to give. And that is your mission. It's not to be coming from lack, it's not to be trying to, you know, finagle this together and finagle that together. I almost have my self-worth intact. I almost have enough money to, you know, offer this to charity. It's no, it's go a hundred percent in so that you can give a hundred percent of yourself, you know? And I I live by that. I'm like, yeah, let's let's roll.

Tyne Stecklein 17:02

No, that's fantastic. And again, it's like, you know, I've this show for me, I'm kind of like scoping out on these experiences that I had through my career and how I was so afraid to be myself because myself wasn't enough, or even it was. I I booked the job, I got the thing, but the whole time I was questioning why I was there and if I was worthy of staying. Oh God. Yeah, you know, and you were there.

Nicole Sciacca 17:30

Well, can we just cannot do your listeners know who you are? If I got on a job and time was there, I was like, how'd I get on this job?

Tyne Stecklein 17:37

I'm not kidding.

Nicole Sciacca 17:38

I'm still not kidding. I'm dead serious.

Tyne Stecklein 17:40

Thank you. It's very kind. But we all do this, right? We all do it to ourselves. I think it's easier with age. I mean, I what age do you think that you were like, I'm just gonna be me and

Grief, Signs, And Ascending

Tyne Stecklein 17:51

I don't care? Like you, you come for me and the authentic me.

Nicole Sciacca 17:55

38.

Tyne Stecklein 17:57

Okay.

Nicole Sciacca 17:57

38 is where it set in. And then when Matt died, I was 44. So it then it went like balls to the wall. Uh so that was really where I was like, I I don't care. And I even felt this is disturbing. I've never said this out loud. Uh after Matt died, I felt like I had a like a SIM card of information and access that most people don't have. And it felt like I didn't care at all about anything anymore. I'm like, this is this life is so bananas. Like, in case you forgot for five seconds that it is a privilege that you woke up today, let me remind you. Let me make it real weird and awkward and silly and get in your face and remind you. Because that is the name of the game. You wake up to have fun and to love your life. And if you if you can't incorporate those two things in your day-to-day, we have to we have to sit down and look at that. And I mean, I get there's seasons and I get there's chapters, but the overarching name of the game is enjoyment and fun and pleasure and love. And God wants that. I really feel like that. And it was it was very, it was clear to me at 38. I don't know what's happening. It was like me approaching 40. I started to feel more in my skin. But then at 44, with that life experience, I was just like, oh no, no, no. Oh no, no, no, no, no. I will never go back to any other way, you know?

Tyne Stecklein 19:26

Yeah. I'm 37 and I will be 38 in August. And I feel like, yeah, it was very recent for me. And it was even part of wanting to start this podcast of like, I want to talk about the things I want to talk about. And I might have my mom listening, hey mom, you know, but I'm me. Yeah. Yeah. I got tears, chills when you said the SIM card thing. A lot of my listeners wouldn't know your story, you know, with the grief and loss that you've been through. And it's up to you how much of that you want to share. But I guess to have the maybe perspective shift that you did so quickly, so drastically with what happened with Matt. How yeah, how did it shift how you were living your days and your life?

Nicole Sciacca 20:15

Yeah. Um, I'm I mean, I'm happy to share the the whole story. I think the story is important. Um, for your listeners, I'm I'm actually a two-time widow, so I don't know. It's just such a weird statement. Um I lost my partner, Matt, in 2023, right? So he was super healthy, former athlete, didn't drink, wouldn't take, wouldn't take ibuprofen. The guy was just like living on his own spectrum. And he went to bed one night, uh, was supposed to coach my child's football game the next morning and never woke up. And he died of arterial sclerosis, which was interesting because it's not the widowmaker, right? So it's a lack of blood flow um moving from the heart through the veins and the art uh, not the arteries. Uh so it was it was a rare condition, I suppose. Like there could have been signs, but we didn't see them. And the day that he died, when I found him, I I've shared this before, which is kind of crazy. I was on my knees. I had just gotten out of the shower, I'm dripping wet, and I remember looking up at the ceiling, and I heard this voice, and it wasn't Matt, and I it might have been God, I don't know. It wasn't my voice, and it was so clear, it's clear as I can hear it right now, and it just said, It's time for you to ascend. And I said out loud, I don't want to. I actually said a swear word, which we're not gonna say here. I said, F that, I'm not gonna do that. I was so happy yesterday on September 15th, life was golden, and now we're doing this. I was furious, like angry and in shock. And I also in that moment said to Matt, and I was like, if you're gonna die, then you're gonna send me signs every single day. For the rest of my life. And that night I got my first sign, which was probably the one of the craziest ones, which was I had been covered in a full body rash two months prior to Matt's passing. So he died on the 15th, starting on July 16th. Sorry, he died on the 16th. July 16th, I developed a rash over my heart and it covered my entire body from my neck down for two months. I had biopsies. My father is a former head and neck surgeon, also an allergist. He looked at them. He's like, these are like four different rashes. He's like, what have you been doing? I was like, nothing. I'm just living my life, dad. Um, the biopsies all came back inconclusive. They were like, This, we don't know what this is from. We don't know what it is. The day that he died, he died that morning, uh Saturday morning, Saturday night, I went to take a shower, and the my entire body felt like silk. There wasn't one sign of the rash. And this rash was so profound that I was covered in bruises and whelps because I would itch until it would bleed every night. Like I, and the night before, the night he died, I woke up for an hour and I would have what we call we would call an itch attack. Like Matt knew about it. And he's like, I'm so sorry you're, you're, we can't figure this out for you. I'm so sorry you're in pain. I'm like, it's so weird. But then in retrospect, like speaking with Laura Lynn Jackson, who is a world-renowned psychic medium, she explained to me that this is not uncommon, but it's a representation of our light bodies. She's like, This all happened. That rash happened so that in retrospect, you would understand that your connection was that deep, that your soul knew that his soul was passing, and that this happened so that you could understand how powerful that was and what this life is about. And that you would have no doubt. And I I mean, I get chills right now too. Um because that's exactly what it was. And that was just the first of many, many signs that he continues to send me. And it's this is where I think the conversation that I get to have with people, yourself, anyone that's willing to listen, because I'll talk about this at the drop of a hat. Um, I think it elevates consciousness and I think it takes off a layer. Again, it gives you permission, gives you permission to explore it, gives you permission to believe in the afterlife, to speak to your loved ones. I invited him in. I act, I didn't invite technically, technically, I demanded. I was like, you will. I was so pissed. I was like, if you're gonna, if you're gonna die, I was like, then we're gonna continue talking.

Tyne Stecklein 24:33

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 24:34

Because you're the first person I want to talk to about why you're dead. It was the it was just such a it was such a confusing time, but he stepped in like right away. And I can't say that every person that passes on is gonna have that of, you know, um, I want to say access. I consider him like an ascended master of spirit. I don't think it's normal that uh he was able to do that. And that was again, I have hundreds of examples of these things. Like they just get weirder and weirder.

Tyne Stecklein 25:03

Wow.

Nicole Sciacca 25:04

And I'm very grateful for it. And I do think it's partly my mission, and it's happening because he knows that I have a loud mouth and I am gonna keep talking about it, and it does help people heal and it does help people process. And if I can help people do that, like I'm all in. I'm all in for that. Yeah.

Tyne Stecklein 25:24

That's like the biggest mic drop that there ever was. I mean, it's thank you.

Nicole Sciacca 25:29

I yeah, and well, let me

A Second Loss And Different Grief

Nicole Sciacca 25:31

add this too. So because I am a two-time widow, my child's father, my ex-husband, who I had divorced in 2015, but had been with for eight years almost, seven years, um, he passed away 10 months after Matt. And obviously, having to tell your child that once is horrific, having to explain that twice is next level bad. Um, the grief, however, was so different. Um, and this is a testament to how the person, there's a book called uh by Pima Chodron called How You Live Is How You Die. Highly recommend. It's in my top five. Excellent book. Even if you don't know anyone that's passed, it is, it gives you a language, kind of the way that Laura Lynn Jackson's books do. It gives you a language to process that because it's inevitable, it is happening, you know, whether we want to admit it or not. But he lived, my ex-husband lived a completely different life. Our dynamic was different, his choices were very, very different. And my sadness was darker than it was with Matt, because Matt's presence was levity, it was joy, it was curiosity. Whereas Leland, my ex-husband's, was heavier. His whole life was heavier. So the way that I felt the loss, rep it was representative of their personalities.

Tyne Stecklein 26:48

But that's so wild because you would think your current partner, you know, your current partner, there would be much more sadness in that loss. Correct. So that is, I mean, that's that makes a lot of sense to me though, of how they expressed themselves here. Relates to what you feel when they're gone.

Nicole Sciacca 27:11

I say that too, because I have had a lot of people approach me and message me um about the passing of their loved ones. And the one of the first questions I ask is I'm like, how did they show up on Earth? Like, what was your dynamic? Because that really does play into, in my opinion, not an expert. This is just my lived experience. It really does play into um how they're able to still communicate with us. And I do think it's an invitation. I think once once you open that door, just get excited because I think they I think they love to communicate with us. I think that's part of it.

Presence, People Pleasing, And Service

Tyne Stecklein 27:47

Yeah, and I love that you're saying that because knowing that we both, like I said, you know, we both follow Jesus, we believe in God, everyone has a different opinion on these sorts of things, right? If you are a believer. And for myself, I've been kind of exploring, like, okay, what is the intersection of spirituality and Christianity and my faith? Like, what does that look like for me? And yet I have people in my life who have passed who I now have like such a clear symbol of them. Like, like my mentor who I've talked about on the show a lot, Dr. Mark, he is a bluebird. And he comes to me whenever I need him. I don't know that I need him, but it's like I need him, and there he is, you know. And I have that with different people in my life. Um, but this was this is something other people in my life say, but I lost that same person too, and I don't feel them, I don't see them. And I think it is, it's an openness to it. Yes.

Nicole Sciacca 28:48

It really is. And this is where I think it's important that you consider how you were raised and the structures and the paradigms that you were raised in. Because if that was not acceptable conversation, if it wasn't acceptable for you to explore it, whether that's in book or even in life, in experience, then I think you're having probably a rougher go of it when you lose someone and you don't have the language, you don't have the capacity, nor do you think you have permission, again, to use that word. You have permission to explore that. You are a soul, you are a divine being in a flesh suit. We get very preoccupied with the fleshiness of this life. And there's some beauty in that. We're here for a reason, but we have, in my mind and my understanding, we have disconnected from source so that we can find it again. But again, it's the remembering. Like you're you're still the way Laurelyn Jackson explains it when she does readings, she's like, I see every single person with all these shards, like shards of light shooting out of you. And she's like, they're your ancestors, they're your guides, they're your angels, however you want to reference them. And they're all still connected to you. And you're walking around in your little, your little five foot eight blonde hair, green eyes outfit, thinking, okay, well, I'm out here doing it alone. I got to figure it out for myself, I got to pay my bills. And they're like, no, we're here. Like, you got it. Have some fun. Enjoy your life. Go, you know, it's it's just the remembering.

Tyne Stecklein 30:17

Yeah. And it's, you know, I talk about that balance with like, you know, my husband or friends all the time because I am such a believer in being present and enjoying life and making the most of every moment of it. And then there's the, you know, human adult part of me that remembers that I have three kids and the finances and the, you know, and the the inconsistency of a career being self-employed and a creative. And I have, I guess, a hard time finding the balance of feeling like I'm being responsible enough, you know, for the future and also not caring about the future at all. I care about today.

Nicole Sciacca 30:52

Yeah. Yeah. It it's kind of nice to know that no matter how much preparation you do, life still is gonna life.

Tyne Stecklein 31:03

Totally.

Nicole Sciacca 31:04

So we do the best we can and then we stay in the now moment. That's why I think presence is it's invaluable. This is all you have. It's literally the this now moment on repeat. There isn't a past, there isn't the future, there was that moment which is still now. And I that's a little heavy and kind of meta, but I I love that conversation again because if we spend time, this kind of goes into like people pleasing as well. If you spend time preoccupied on things that you still don't know, how they're gonna turn out, how it's gonna, how it's gonna shape up, you have uh ultimately self-abandoned yourself. You you are self-abandoned. You are so forward focused on this outcome, regardless of if it involves you or it's in your control. And that feels good because we don't have to be present and we don't have to love ourselves in the moment. We can be so outwardly focused that it just becomes, I gotta do this for the family, I gotta do this for the kids, I gotta do this for the sake of my marriage, I gotta do this for my aging parents. And before you know it, you have all the reasons why you don't have to take care of yourself, or you don't have to be still, or you don't have to love yourself in the moment when you scream at a seven-year-old. I'm I'm not saying you do that. I don't do that. I I guess people no, I've never actually done it.

Tyne Stecklein 32:26

So no, but I I will say, you know, my my spiritual evolution has helped me even so much with my parenting, because like you said, being able to listen, but more so being able to scope out, just take a step back, take a breath, see what's happening, and see how I can just come from a place of loving, even if that's like tough love, you know, the tough love discipline, but but more so just this doesn't have to be approached with yelling and hatred and anger, and and this is very again very new for me. This is a new pathway of living, but it feels sometimes it feels surreal. Like some days I feel like I'm walking around, yeah, in the best way where I'm viewing the world um with with the wonder of like my one-year-old, you know, and I'm just like how I get to play and explore in this beauty through the challenges as well, through the hard moments as well. I I want to say this though, because it's easy for me to say this when like right now for me, life is like so good. Like I'm just so happy and so grateful, you know. But when you've gone through the the not one loss, but like the losses that you have, two types of loss, like has that fluctuated your, you know, your connection to spirit and your energy as far as being able to just live in this space of optimism and love and and abundance, or has it just maybe it has just uh what what was the the the thing that you heard? Maybe you have just ascended.

Nicole Sciacca 34:04

I roll eye roll, insert eye roll. Um I don't want to sugarcoat this. I spent a month crying on the floor of my bedroom. Like I remember I was in a conversation with my mom because the day Matt died, my mom and dad moved in with me for a month. So they were here with myself and Bo, my son, and they just stepped in. Like they showed up that night and then they didn't leave for over a month. And I remember being in conversation. We're literally talking about Uber Eats or something, and my mom's asking me a question, and I'm just bawling. And I'm like, oh yeah, Caesar Salad sounds great. And it was the it was the first time in my life where I had no walls up for my emotion. You couldn't. I couldn't, I couldn't even hold it in if I wanted to. And everyone around me understood the assignment and they were like, we are gonna let you, we're gonna let this unfold as it unfolds. Like I remember Matt's razor was in the shower. I was showering, I come out of the shower, I'm hysterical, and I'm like, Matt's razor, do not touch Matt's razor. If you're in the bathroom, I'm like, don't touch it. And my mom was like, Okay. And I was like, no, it's serious. And she's like, Okay, I got you. Like I remember, you would have thought I was talking about like life or death right there in that moment over a razor.

Tyne Stecklein 35:34

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 35:35

But everyone was everyone was just letting me feel. And I think because I had a safe community, my parents, thank God, God bless them, they're the greatest parents ever. But even my friend circle, uh, my clients, oh my gosh, my clients, the way my clients showed up for me was unnerving because it was so much love and it was so much um understanding and empathy. And it allowed me just to be broken for a good month. I think that was it was a full month at least, maybe more. I just didn't want people to think that I was on the high and living, living like some kind of bypassed grief episode. It I definitely didn't bypass any of it. We went, we went dark for a while, but I was allowed it. That's my point. Yeah, I think it you gotta curate your community and your friend circle because when this stuff happens, I hate to say it, but when these things happen, you gotta make sure you have your tight circle that's gonna love you through it. You're gonna you're gonna need that. Everybody needs it.

Tyne Stecklein 36:40

Which I think is even more reason to know who you are, be who you are, the right people will show up for you as you.

Nicole Sciacca 36:48

Yeah, that's why there's no there's no use in faking. There's no use in even people pleasing. I bring that up a lot because it comes up with my clients. Perfectionism and people pleasing to me is um it really kind of grinds me, but it's not authentic. Because you've abandoned yourself. In order to be that placating to everyone around you, you have to have like left the building.

Tyne Stecklein 37:15

Yeah. I wonder why so many of us do it.

Nicole Sciacca 37:19

Um I think we're taught it.

Tyne Stecklein 37:20

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 37:21

I think it it's embodied because uh um, and I love and I love again, I love our parental generation. I think they didn't that was it. Yeah, I know a lot of moms that are martyrs and that were sacrificial and and would do anything for the family at the cost of themselves and their happiness and their peace.

Tyne Stecklein 37:40

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 37:41

And we have to learn from that, you know?

Tyne Stecklein 37:43

Have to. Have to. Yeah. Know better, do better. It doesn't get more profound than this. And I love these kinds of conversations. I love to be able to go really deep with someone when they're willing to and when they're willing to share, because whether you've been through this kind of grief or or you haven't, but as you said, we will all go through these things at some point. Just knowing that we're less alone when we do and hearing the things that were helpful. Like I was allowed to feel, I was allowed to have this really dark and long place to move through the emotions, which is something I'm so huge on. Like if we don't move through it, it gets stuck and stagnant, which causes disease or unease or, you know. And so just hearing the things that were helpful to you and you being able to share that, I so appreciate it.

Movement That Metabolizes Emotion

Nicole Sciacca 38:29

Summed it up perfectly there because the work that I do, like the strength training and the mobility work, the yoga, I always talk about movement metabolizing emotion. And that's really, I think that's where dance and what I do now it merges so beautifully. It's married so well because the catharsis of dance and the movement that I teach allows you to also feel the things. So you get to process the joy or the frustration or the the unknowing, or even my favorite, the indifference. When you have to show up and you don't know how you feel, or maybe you do, maybe it's quite clear that you don't want to be there, which is even which is even you get like five gold stars when you show up and you don't want to be there. Yeah. The way that compounds for your nervous system and your body, it's it is that's next level. It's really it's the most advanced version of training, is when you can show up when you don't want to. Okay. Yeah. There's different the I'm not saying like move into pain because there's a difference between suffering and hard work. But if you can do the hard work when you don't want to do it, your nursing portion.

Tyne Stecklein 39:39

Exactly.

Nicole Sciacca 39:40

My my in-person live stuff is only at Aviator Nation in Santa Monica. And that's more, it's yoga, but it's my version of yoga, which means that I've done a complete 180. Like I said, I got injured, went into yoga, but of course, the ashtanga style. So I was injuring myself further. Yay! Because you know, if your toes aren't bleeding, you're not trying hard enough. So um, I took that mentality right into the yoga room and uh subsequently injured myself further there. But the class that I teach now is more mobility driven. So I talk a lot about rotational movement, I talk about joint health. I don't, we're not doing fancy fast stuff in there. It's just intelligent, but more about the spirit because I feel like your body's getting what it needs through the coaching, but the mind needs space to unravel too. So that's where that takes

A Practical Training Plan For Busy Moms

Nicole Sciacca 40:33

place. My online stuff is more strength training. So it's geared for women like yourself. It's geared for moms, it's geared for uh high professionals, high performers. Um, it's only my my classes are 35 minutes and they're at 6:30 in the morning. But most of us are awake. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And the best part is like, I'll uh my next program is June 5th, and that starts on June 4th. It's like 14 classes over 30 days, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. And 35 minute classes, you pop in, you do it in your living room with your children and your animals present, and it's like not a thing. But what I'm learning is it's like microdosing the discipline because 35 minutes, you start to feel, but you can feel incredible in 35 minutes. I will kick your butt in 35 minutes, I promise you that. But what that does is it starts your day off on fire, and you're like, wait a second, I already did for me. I filled my cup, and that was evidential. I feel better. My muscles are starting to pop through, and my mind is a little bit clearer by 8 a.m. versus I'm on my fourth cup of coffee at 8 a.m. I still gotta hit the gym. I gotta, it's just like a no-brainer. You just wake up, you do the thing, you get on with your life.

Tyne Stecklein 41:49

This is fantastic because it's , this is this starts June 4th. You guys, it is June 2nd today. So we have two days to register for this. I'm gonna register for June 5th. If any of my listeners want to register for June 5th, let me know and we can we can tag team this together because it truly will be my first attempt at working out in this kind of way in in some time. It's been some time.

Nicole Sciacca 42:17

Wait, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you guys a code too. So if anyone's on Time Show, you're gonna enter TYNE as the code, and then you'll get um 10% off. So you can just maybe, if you want some incentive, you know what I'm saying?

Tyne Stecklein 42:28

Amazing. Wow, thank you, Nicole. But seriously, that's such a great way because yeah, I'm up, I'm I'm already drinking coffee. My toddler is running around, kids are getting ready from school, they will be out of school at that point. But to be able to do it and it's done, and I bet if anything, in the same way, like this conversation is gonna give me energy today because I'm gonna be so inspired. I know that working out for a thing like that is gonna actually give you more energy throughout the day.

Nicole Sciacca 42:54

Yeah. And we laugh a lot. I need to, I need to make that clear. But we as dancers train our bodies so hard and we're used to some level of suffering that may or may not be healthy. My classes are not like that. Like we're doing joint work first. We're gonna strength train the joints that we just warmed up, and then there's a little freestyle dance break at the end. And on Saturdays, there's a meditation. So it's it's just reminding you to have a little bit of fun and laughter and joy and while you're building strength. It doesn't have to be one or the other. It doesn't have to be high-intensity hard work hanging on by a thread. Like you can enjoy yourself and laugh a little, and then you're gonna want to come back, right? You're only gonna repeat the things that you find enjoyment in, anyways.

Tyne Stecklein 43:35

Yeah, I love that because I just it broke my heart. The other day, a mom was asking about her daughter. Like, she's like, she has this natural curiosity and love for it. But when we go take ballet classes at various studios, it's so intense and disciplined that it's not fun. And then she doesn't want to go back. And I'm like, oh, that's hard because there's this fine line as a teacher where we're trying to teach the discipline and the technique and yeah, but also like. All of it, even working out, right? Shouldn't we have a level of enjoyment? Enjoy.

Nicole Sciacca 44:04

That's the fun. That's the that's that's the name of the game. We I don't want to say we take ourselves too seriously, but I think you have to find some something that you enjoy and then continue with it because that's where you come alive.

Tyne Stecklein 44:20

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 44:21

And that is a ripple. It affects everyone. It affects you, it affects everyone you're in community with, in conversation with.

Tyne Stecklein 44:27

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 44:28

Really matters.

Tyne Stecklein 44:29

And and the exercise, I mean, I'm really good about that with mindset work and how I wake up and what I want to bring in and what I choose to feel all day throughout my day. But the exercise piece is really important. And you would think because I'm a dancer, I I would be on top of that. But I think the dance has almost hindered me feeling like I needed to. Yes. And so it's it's really important, but I want to do it in a way that still feels fun.

Nicole Sciacca 44:54

Yeah. Yeah. And you have a lot literally and metaphorically on your shoulders. So continuing to build strength, like we as women, too, I don't know if you know this, but after the age of 35, you lose 1% of your muscle mass every year. And that is about the scariest thing I've ever heard. Not to mention, you know, if you're on any kind of GLP, which I I have no qualms with that, I think it's helping millions of people, but it will eat away at your musculoskeletal system if you are not continuing to train. Building the habits just confirms who you want to be, right? Because that's what you're doing when you when you show up for yourself. You're confirming, you're voting for this version of self. This is the version of me that wakes up and gets it done. This is the version of me that values how I want to feel and look at 50, you know, and beyond.

Tyne Stecklein 45:41

Yeah. And it's so important. And it's it's such a good reminder that we don't have to do that on January 1 only. No my God, no, that's a scam. I know. It is a scam. It's such a scam that we all bought into. I know. Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 45:55

We're doing our best. Listen, we're having conversations like this. People's there, we're opening our eyes. I just really feel that the collective is expanding in consciousness and curiosity. And I'm like, let's go. I'm so here for it, you

The Morning Prayer And Daily Assignment

Nicole Sciacca 46:10

know?

Tyne Stecklein 46:10

For my listeners, you need to get on Nicole's email list like immediately after you listen to this, because your emails, every time I read them, I think I cry about something. And I learned so much and I feel so inspired or motivated. And you sent an email in January, and the name of the email, it was understanding the assignment. And you talked in this email. I'll let you say, you know, what it was about, but this particular prayer and then like what had been happening as a result from that. And I think I sent you like a 10-minute voice note. I was just so excited because I was like, yes, yes, like this is this is everything. This is everything, knowing that this life that I'm trying to live right now, where I'm just trying to be connected, God, mind, body, spirit, and live that sort of a pathway. It just feels the best life has ever felt.

Nicole Sciacca 47:04

That makes me so happy for you. You don't even know.

Tyne Stecklein 47:06

It doesn't mean that life is perfect, though, right? Like there's so many pieces of the puzzle I don't have figured out right now, or like more challenging than I'd like. But I just feel, I just feel worthy and I feel complete. I feel more whole moving through all of the puzzle pieces because it's all lined up. And that's the sort of thing on this show that I'm trying to just encourage, you know? So will you will you share with us about this this prayer that was in this email? Yes.

Nicole Sciacca 47:36

Understanding the assignment was, and that is, I thanks for saying that it was a good email. I love, I don't remember where I first heard it. I think it was a podcast. I'm sure it was a podcast. I get so many little blip ideas from podcasts. When I wake up, I what I typically do, these kind of go hand in hand. So I'm getting there. I put my hand over my heart and I say three times, I repeat, I'm so happy and grateful that true, aligned, healthy love, perfect health, abundance, money, and fun flow easily and effortlessly into my life today and every day. I say that three times, but I have to be really conscious because it's so many words. Then after I repeat that three times, then I also open my hands, I sit up on the edge of my bed and I say, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Christ consciousness, my ancestors, my spirit guides, my guardian angels, Matt and Leland. I include my loves. And I say, I am open and ready for my assignment today. I stand up and I immediately feel lighter. And then it is like title to the day. Somehow, somewhere, the assignment shows up. And maybe it's in that man at Costco in the parking lot, and I have a conversation with him and I'm handing him a 10. Or maybe it's the deep TED talk that my child and I share for once in the car on the drive. It becomes the assignment for the day. And when I go to bed at night, I'm like, thank you for that message. Thank you for that opportunity to grow or to heal or to to feel even.

Tyne Stecklein 49:04

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 49:04

A lot of the times it's about that for me.

Tyne Stecklein 49:06

Yeah. And I think that there's a podcaster I love, Kathy Heller, and kind of she was on my podcast.

Nicole Sciacca 49:12

She was on my podcast. Stop it. Oh, yeah. You should ask her to come on yours. She did, I just I didn't even know who she was. I said, Will you come on my show? She's like, Yeah, yeah. Really? Do it. Just do it.

Tyne Stecklein 49:21

I love her.

Nicole Sciacca 49:22

Me too.

Tyne Stecklein 49:23

I've taken her, I took her podcasting summit for women. Now I made a podcast.

Nicole Sciacca 49:28

She's she's great.

Tyne Stecklein 49:30

No, she's fantastic. And she's always just talking about how can I be of service today? Yeah. And what it does is it takes off the pressure of the ego of thinking about yourself.

Nicole Sciacca 49:40

There's also one of my mentors. I have a quote of his on my website, David Meltzer. He I don't know how he does it, and I don't know how many years he's been doing it, but I shadowed him in 2018 and he was doing it then. So it's been a while. He wakes up and chooses, are you ready for this? 10 people to help. And this man's a multimillionaire. I mean, the guy is like busy, busy. 10 people a day. And he's like, I will, I'm gonna work to change 10 people's lives. And one time I remember after I shadowed him, he gave me his phone number and he's like, I want you to text me. And I'm like, ah, you mean your assistant? You're like your EA? He's like, no, me. You're gonna text me and you're gonna let me help you that day. And I don't remember, I did, I did. It was, I I remember I was I was shooketh with his generosity.

Tyne Stecklein 50:32

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 50:32

But that is why he is successful, because he is literally in service.

Tyne Stecklein 50:37

You know, you saying that's why he's successful because he's in service. We have so many examples of that through history and through time.

Nicole Sciacca 50:43

Yeah, you know, to kind of bring it back, like this is an interesting people pleasing is like the poor man's version of trying to serve. Because you are coming from a place you can't abandon yourself in serving. This is a this is a very delicate balance. When you're giving, you have to have a full cup. You can't be in service when you are suffering in your marriage, in your mental health, and your physicality. You can't because it's not it's depleting you, which is you don't get any points for that. You know what I mean?

Tyne Stecklein 51:22

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 51:22

And it's gonna come to bite you later on, and that's not fair. That's not what we want, you know. That's not the nature of serving. This the nature of serving means you're coming from a place of fulfillment, hopefully. Even when you're serving in a time of confusion or loss, or you know how they say when you need to get out of your own way, you should serve others. Yeah, I think it's I think it's great, but then it reminds you of what a blessing it is to be you or to have the time or to have the resources or whatever it is, you know.

Tyne Stecklein 51:49

Exactly. Exactly.

Nicole Sciacca 51:51

Reciprocal,

Advice To Younger Self And Habits

Nicole Sciacca 51:52

it needs to be.

Tyne Stecklein 51:52

What advice would you give a baby Nicole Sciacca?

Nicole Sciacca 51:58

Oh boy.

Tyne Stecklein 51:59

Like 18, 20, 25, you know.

Nicole Sciacca 52:04

I would tell her it's okay that you don't know. I was not okay with not knowing. Not knowing if I was gonna make it as a dancer, not knowing where the income was coming from, not knowing if I would ever be married. I was so preoccupied with uncertainty that I was in survival mode, I was anxious all the time, and I didn't get to enjoy, I really did not enjoy my early 20s whatsoever. And I also think that's part of being in your early 20s. So, as much as that advice would have been helpful, there was no way around it. It was that was gonna be a lived experience where the the lesson was coming in time. But if I could just hug her and be like, girl, it all works out. Like it all works out. Have some fun, enjoy this. Yeah, you got great legs, you can totally kick yourself in the head, enjoy that, you know, before you sublux your hip at Katie Horich's wedding, you know. I think that's a really great reminder.

Tyne Stecklein 53:08

Yeah, yeah. But it it's so like for you to have been what you've been through and to be on this side and to say it all works out and you've been through so much. Like you're amazing. You're just such an amazing person to even have that perspective at this point, really.

Nicole Sciacca 53:27

Thank you for saying that. And I have to remind myself that too. Like, I'm not done with my lessons, I'm not surely not done with my grief. I mean, I love many people that are still on this planet that I'm gonna have to process, you know, the passing there. But I think it really is all gonna be okay.

Tyne Stecklein 53:44

It helps when you believe in something. And we've been having certain language, and if people don't agree with that language or the words that we're using, absolutely don't agree with it, you know, to have something that you believe in that feels bigger, that feels beyond, that feels it can help carry and support, I think, to get through those. Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 54:02

I love that quote. Nezuab, I always mispronounce her name. She's a writer, and she just says the mountain that you're carrying, you were only meant to climb. Not when I'd think about that all the time.

Tyne Stecklein 54:16

Yeah.

Nicole Sciacca 54:16

You're only just meant you're meant to climb for the lesson. And then there's a valley, there's a moment of pause and relief, and you earned that. But also, that's the name of the game. Like it's it's not all meant to be hard all the time.

Tyne Stecklein 54:29

No. No, my mentor that I mentioned, he would say life is supposed to be a recess, not a calculus class. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly that. Like a recess. This has been wonderful. What is your motto? Like, what would you tell me or someone listening that's like, I need to just get my butt into gear to do, be it exercise or be it the other thing, the something else that you know you have been prolonging, but you really want to change the habit.

Nicole Sciacca 54:56

I often say you keep what you repeat, which is kind of an aggressive slap in the face or not. Um I think it's I think it's very important that I don't know if that was what you were referencing or what you were hoping I would say, but I I like it because you get to decide. Every single day you get to decide. And you can begin again at any moment. So it isn't, it isn't like just because yesterday was a gigantic flop. The 2026 is a wrap, you know? It's like you begin again in every moment. And you keep what you repeat. So if you continuously repeat a Monday, Wednesday, Friday workout for like six months and you start to notice not only do you feel better and your sleep is more dialed in, and your people are like, oh my gosh, you you look like you're more joyful, or your skin's glowing, and you're like, I don't know, maybe it's because I've been taking a habit that's actually benefiting my future self.

Tyne Stecklein 55:54

I love that. And and I say that all the time that we get we get to make a choice, yeah, at 10 different times throughout the day if we need to reset.

Stillness, Meditation, And Closing

Tyne Stecklein 56:04

Something that's been really helpful for me with that is meditation, but I do like 60 second meditations because that's a lot of times. That's fine. Yeah. I noticed because I was just scrolling through your website, you even have pre-recorded meditations in your library, right?

Nicole Sciacca 56:20

I do. I have a handful of like guided audio meditations. Almost every, not almost every Saturday class has a meditation. It's a big part of my experience and my programming because again, it's the stillness aspect. Like I'm a gigantic freak show energizer bunny. But I pair that really well with the stillness, because if I didn't have that, I would lose my ever-loving mind. There's a part of you that is going to receive the gift of yoga because there's there's so many different types of yoga that whatever you need is probably the one that you're resisting most. The stillness was the hardest part for me, and I needed that desperately, which is why I was gravitating toward Ashtanga because it was like gymnastics. And I was like, I'm gonna injure my way into enlightenment. What? And then I would realize, oh, wait, this shavasna and meditation at the end with the breath work is the hardest part for me. Interesting. Yeah, and then you you'll hit a point in life where you you recognize that the value, the ROI on meditation is everything. It's everything on the stillness. It will never fail you.

Tyne Stecklein 57:29

This has been so wonderful. I am so grateful for your time. I'm gonna link to everything in our show notes. We talked about June. You also have a retreat. I think you have a sold-out retreat this year.

Nicole Sciacca 57:40

Yeah, I do. It's sold out in October, but there's another one in January in Mexico Mexico that's gonna be so fun.

Tyne Stecklein 57:46

Yeah, and if this one's sold out, then they're amazing. So definitely something to check out. Thank you. And the website with all of your online stuff, um, an Aviator Nation in Santa Monica, if we're in person in LA. And I'm just so grateful for you and your perspective and your time and just sharing so vulnerably with me and listeners today.

Nicole Sciacca 58:07

You're an amazing host, and I'm so thankful you asked me and for letting me just yap away. I appreciate it. I really do. I appreciate you. You're a light of a human.

Tyne Stecklein 58:17

Thank you, my friend. You too. Well, this is Essence Embody by Tyne Steckline. Nicole, it was an honor to have you. And I know that listeners will have felt so many feels from this conversation today and hopefully just be really inspired to live their best life right now.

Nicole Sciacca 58:38

I like that. Thank you, buddy.

Tyne Stecklein 58:40

Yeah, thank you. All right. We'll talk soon. What an amazing conversation. I'm so grateful. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it a like or a review and send it to someone who could use this goodness. Have a beautiful day, friends. This is Essence Embodied by Tyne Stecklein.