The Heart Behind Elisa Grace

Work-Life Balance: Running a Business, Raising a Family, and Chasing Your Goals

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How do you balance being a business owner, wife, mom, healthcare provider, and still find time for yourself?


In this episode of the Elisa Grace Medspa Podcast, Elisa Miller sits down with Office Manager and Medical Technician Raelynn Salazar to talk about the realities of work-life balance. Elisa shares her experiences as a business owner, nurse, wife, and mom, while Raelynn discusses balancing a full-time college schedule, work responsibilities, and personal life.


This honest conversation covers time management, setting priorities, avoiding burnout, giving yourself grace, and finding success without sacrificing what matters most.


Whether you’re a business owner, student, parent, or simply feeling overwhelmed by life’s demands, this episode is for you.


What We Discuss
• Managing multiple roles and responsibilities
• Prioritizing family while pursuing career goals
• Time management strategies that actually work
• Avoiding burnout and recognizing when to slow down
• The importance of support systems
• Lessons we’ve learned along the way

SPEAKER_01

Hey guys, welcome back to Elisa Grace Medspa podcast. I'm Elisa Miller, owner and provider here at Elisa Grace Medspa. And today's episode is going to be a little more personal and real life than some of our educational podcasts have been. Today we are talking about all about work-life balance or honesty, the attempt at work-life balance between being business owners, moms, wives, students, providers, and trying to somehow keep up with our homes and lives together. It can be a little chaotic sometimes. So today I have one of my favorite people joining me, Raylan Salazar. She is our office manager here at Elisa Grace Medspa. She helps run our weight loss program as well as in medical tech. And on top of all that, she's also a full-time student working towards her nursing degree. We thought it would be really relatable to sit down and talk about the reality behind the scenes, the good, the stressful, the overwhelming moments, and also why we continue to do what we do. Because social media often shows the highlight reels, but there's so much more that people don't see behind the scenes of running a business, raising a family, and chasing goals all at the same time. So if you're a working mom, a student, a business owner, owner, or just honestly someone trying to survive a busy life, this episode is definitely for you. Welcome back, everybody. Today we wanted to do something a little different and talk about real life behind the scenes of running a med spa while also being mom's wife, students' providers, and trying to somehow balance it all. So I'm gonna introduce someone very special in my life today, and this is Ray Lynn Salazar. She is our office manager, she's our weight loss medical tech, she's also a full-time student, and she has been with Lisa Grace Medzbaugh since the beginning, and even before that. And why I say before that, this poor little girl has been with me since we started the boutique, and so this girl understands me inside out, upside down, and knows everything about me and how I work and how I roll and what my expectations are. And so she's a very tough girl, and she's put up with me for many years and deserves lots of kudos. So we're gonna be talking about some real life stuff today, and so, ladies, uh this one is definitely one for you. It's the all of the from the start to the beginning and the in-between of being a college life young lady into becoming a mom and business owner. So I hope that you guys are ready for this one because we're gonna be talking some real life stuff today. All right, people. First thing we're gonna be talking about is what people see versus reality. And this is huge. And I think that we all have these conversations, right? With with uh social media, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. I mean, all of the above. We we see all the good things on social media, right? We see families posting all their vacation pictures, we see, and Raylan can relate to this, especially college age, she's a sophomore in college. She sees a lot of what her friends are doing and um and what they're you know, having fun and all of the things they, you know, and that's what we do. We we we post the highlights of that. And so what we're gonna talk about today is what people see, and I know that we post a lot of the med spa and what is great, and we don't necessarily post what is not so great, right? So I want to talk about, and why I think this is great is you're gonna see my point of it from a 44-year-old that has two children, business owner, provider, and then you're gonna see it from the perspective of an 18-year-old um that's in college and has no social life. And I get mad at her because I think that she should have a social life. Uh, because I definitely was not Ray Lynn when I was her age, and I give her a lot of kudos for that. So that's why I really want to hit on this today. And so some of the things I want to hit up is what people see, and they see the glam side of aesthetics, and they see that you know, people get these, you know, let's just kind of talk about some of the great results that they see. But what about the people that you know we're seeing slower results with that have had lots of you know, weight loss issues, and we've lost a lot of weight, and now we're dealing with some bigger issues, and you know, you're and a lot of the things that you see on social media, right? We talk about this every day, don't we, Raylan? We do. About how, you know, aesthetics can look so great and how you can see one person's great results, but one out of ten may not be what is everybody, and we get lucky things out, you know, sometimes from that. And how social media just shows the highlights, and again, that goes back to, and I'm not gonna go so much into aesthetics today, but I want to talk about like how even for me, you know, I think that and I'm gonna say it, and if you're not a jealous person, you know, then you do you, boo, but we all have that green eye monster in us, right? Would you say that? We do you know, you see the vacations that people do, you see all of the, you know, the glorious things that they're doing with their kids, or they're off here, they're off there, or the new cars and new houses. And so we have to really look at that and remember that most of the time let's just step back and what are people mostly posting? The highlights of their lives. And highlights are the good stuff in their life. And so we, you know, I I have to tell myself that probably daily and remember that that's not real life, and what you see on social media is probably just a five percent of what someone's life is, but we don't know the the ugly. All we usually know is the and honestly, I mean, if I had to say it, we usually see the ugly ugly and the good good.

SPEAKER_00

There's no in between.

SPEAKER_01

There's no in between, there's no of the we're rushing to baseball practice, we're rushing to gymnastics, there's no mistakes made throughout the day. Exactly. We forgot to pick up my kid at school. I forgot their lunch. Um, Raylan forgot to study and fell asleep. She showed up, she never shows up late, but she has forgot to show up just maybe once, and I had to call her and say, Oh my god, my alarm didn't go off. But nobody sees the in between, right? Like nobody posts that stuff. Um, and so it's just we have to realize as moms and as and especially as women, I think we can tend to be a little bit more towards that where men are a little bit different in their thought process and so forth. But owning a business is mentally exhausting. And I think that it's not sometimes, it's all the time. And I think that really this last week, a lot of you that do know me, and a lot of you that don't know me, that listen to our podcast, my daughter broke her arm last week, and it made me take a step back from the business because I had to. Not because I wanted to, because I had to. And you know, it really gave us a little bit of a break and gave me a break and you know, opened my eyes to what is important, but it's just exhausting. We have and and a lot of people don't understand, especially from a providerslash owner perspective. Um just up until what when did we hire Emily? Um, like two. Three weeks ago. I was the only nurse working here full time, and you know, if there's not a nurse here, there is nothing going on except for weight loss here. And for me, and I think it's hard for people to understand, especially three years ago when we started, people could call and we can get them in the same day. Right. Same day, Botox, weight loss. Come on, come on in, let's get you in, let's get you in for an IV, whatever it may be. But we've gotten so busy, and I mean, thank you, God, and thank you for the you know, the overwhelming blessings we've had as a business, but we're not there anymore, and I get so pe so many people that are upset that my schedule doesn't work for them. But I, you know, I'm just gonna say it. What I am doing here, it's for my family, right? It's it's for my kids, it's for JJ, it's for myself. And if I lose sight of that and I'm here till all hours of the night, what have I done? It's not for them anymore. So it's hard, and I I hope that people can understand that I am mostly a mom, and I am mostly a wife, and I am sometimes a business owner, and that's how we need to see it, right? It's really it shows a great perspective of how everything goes down. And it should because you know, going into that, there's a lot of mom guilt that goes into it, and I think that I s really felt it this weekend. Um, this weekend is a big weekend for us, and um it we we started it actually last year, and it was our memorial golf tournament, and it's a three-day tournament, and it's our biggest tournament in Lane Passes, and we did IVs last year and we made a killing. I mean, it is such a big thing for us because it helps us to get some money in the bank so we can buy all the extra things or save up some extra money. And my son had a baseball tournament this weekend in Georgetown, and you know, great, thank you, technology, because these things weren't available, and I'm sure some of you other moms that didn't have this in you know, 10-15 years ago, and some people say, Well, y'all got it good, but there's no such thing of anything that can make you feel mom guilt, like not being there. And what that being said, is we had game changer on, and my son hit a darn good hit, and I was doing my daughter's hair at that time because she was going out to the golf tournament with us to do the IVs, and I broke down and full-on tears. My husband's standing there, my daughter's looking at me, they're like, Oh my gosh, he's done gone crazy. And it was mom guilt 100%. I wasn't there because I don't miss anything for my kids, I don't miss gymnastics tournaments, I don't miss baseball, and I was not there for the first time in his life, and it was ridiculously hard. So that's the mom guilt that I'm talking about, and you know, just trying to be present at work and at home, and I mean, you know, and I tell my girls this all the time there may be something going on at home, or you know, you may have, you know, have a big test coming up, or you know, you may have had a fight with your mom, you may have had a fight with your husband, your boyfriend, your kids, but check it, check it out the door when you walk in because this is a whole new world, and we have to put on a different face, and and you know, we have to fake it till you make it, and it's one of my I think I tell them that all the time, just fake it till you make it until you get there, but also check it out the door when you walk into the house. Leave work at home, whatever, and I am still struggling with this, and I try sometimes to tell myself that you know what, it's work and leave it, leave it right there as soon as you walk out. It shouldn't come home, it shouldn't come home to my husband hearing my complaining, my kids, me being upset because somebody upset me or whatever the situation may be. And that's one thing I can if I can give any advice to anyone is check it out the door. When you go into work, you check your personal life at the door, and when you're going home, you check your work life at the door. Don't bring it home, y'all. If there's one thing that I've taught myself and I'm trying to do better at, is check it out the door. And balancing sports and gymnastics and and you know, baseball and all the school events is one of the hardest things I think I've ever done. Hands down, and I still have not perfected that. So if there's any mamas out there that have done that, please send me a DM right now. Please, I am SOSing you right now of how do you do it? So I'm not even gonna touch on that because girls, I have no idea. So there's some questions out there that you know, what do people think that med spa ownership look like? And this one's kind of funny because I I think about that TikTok video. Oh, uh-huh. Do you know which I'm talking about? The one I sent you. Like, it's all over TikTok, and and me and Raylan will both kind of like describe this one to you. It's so it's like this lady comes in, right? And she's got her her LV on, she's got her sunglasses on, her hair is gorgeous, her coffee in hand, Starbucks in hand, and she's got her LV in the other one, and she is dressed to impress, and she's looking good, right? And that's how they say, like, and they're like, what people think med spot owners look like, you know, everything's together. Makeup's good, hair's good.

SPEAKER_00

You look drop-dead gorgeous when you walk in the door, all put together, nothing's worrying you.

SPEAKER_01

Nah, nah bra. I'm gonna say I look that like that maybe one percent of the time. I ain't got no Louis though. I'll tell you that. May have coffee from Mojo's. Um, may have, yeah, we're not even gonna go there. You never know. And you know, what it really looks like is my hair's pulled back in a clip because it hasn't been washed in eight days, and I should have washed it the day before. Um, it's gonna be Walmart after Walmart bag with the bog bag with the Hulkin bag behind me, and I'm nine minutes late with my hair everywhere, and I haven't even put makeup on because I think that I'm gonna wax my eyebrows before work and I was late. And she's laughing at me because this is constant. So, guys, that is really what a med spa owner looks like. It's it's the realness. And if you have seen me drop off my kids at school, I'm not gonna name any names, but my my Kleinwat is principals, they know exactly what I look like. Um, that is really what it looks like, and that is the really actuality and and and the um the realness of it all. And so, and the hardest part I would think about balancing motherhood and and the business is I've talked about it. There's just so much that goes into this business, and I feel like I'm taking care of my girls here, I'm taking care of my patients here, and on top of that, I'm having to worry about my kids, and honestly, I don't know if there's any balance to it. It's just do it and wake up every day and say, You got this, and whatever you didn't get at, you can't be hard on yourself. You just you gotta let it go because at the end of the day, there's no such thing as perfection, and then and I don't even know if there's a such thing as balance. So some days I may give more to the business, and some days I may give more to being a mom and being a wife, and I think that sometimes that is the balance, as long as you find that some days they even out. So, and so you know, I really think that that's how you know how to describe it. And so I really, you know, now I'm gonna let Raylon kind of take over and I'm gonna ask her some questions. And so this is her first year, she worked with me all through high school, and um high school, as we know, is a little bit and a lot easier than a lot easier than um college. And so right now I think Raylan's feeling it because during school she was working anywhere from 20 to 30 hours a week, office manager, and I have her doing a lot, she's taken on a lot, and so I'm gonna ask you right now like what is in in your school work and your personal life balance, and how would you describe that?

SPEAKER_00

I wouldn't necessarily say that I have figured out a perfect balance. I really don't know a student um that has that works pretty much a lot of the time whenever they're not studying. I would say I think that I have to be very disciplined with myself about how I spend my time outside of work and even in work. Like it's like some stuff that, oh, I've been wanting to get this done, but guess what? Is that priority? Is that even matter? No, even though it would be nice. Or with school, if I have an exam coming up, but the day before I have 20 patients type of thing. Like I have to be able to turn the school switch off and come into work, or else my brain will be fried. Nothing will get done. I will worry about absolutely everything about the next exam, and then same goes for school. I notice, like, I'll have such a hard time thinking that, oh, I can multitask while I'm in class and get this done, or just anything like that. And then I notice myself not really paying attention or not absorbing information from either side, if it's work or school or personal, like I'm not living in that moment. I think that that has been very hard, and I have had to be very strict with myself to be able to have that balance. Um, I don't think that I've officially created the best one yet. I have only gone through one semester kind of with that right now, or I guess two, but my first one wasn't as crazy. But I mean, trying to achieve my goals in school and become like a nurse, obviously, and eventually a nurse practitioner, and thinking about all the stress, the time, the money, everything that comes with that. But then on top of it, like I need to make sure that I am devoted here. And I really don't think I found like the perfect balance, and I think a lot of people can relate to that because all we see is online of people being like, Oh, you can have a social life, you can have a work life, you can have a student life. You just have to separate them, you have to make time for everything, but that's not reality at the end of the day, it's not reality at all. And I think it was so kind of challenging for me to concept that because that's all I was told is that you'll make it work, you'll make it work when the time comes, but then to actually be living it and be in the present of it, and it's like, wait, like not everything can be perfect, and I can't have the perfect balance sometimes, and you kind of just have to figure it out, and you kind of have to make priorities. And unfortunately, I mean, I think that's kind of the sacrifice of choosing to do many things at once, and I'm sure everybody can relate to that. That you never really just devoted to one thing, like you, like your kids, your husband, your business. There's never just one thing that you have to focus on. So I think that I'm learning the balance just like everybody else's, and praying every day that it gets easier and I find a better routine for it, and I'm sure everyone just kind of has their own thoughts on that and can relate to it's not as perfect and it's not as easy as it may sound, and that people make it out to be.

SPEAKER_01

And you know, with that being said, and I think that's a lot of what I tell the girls is how you have to check it, you have to check it at the door because if you mix the two, it just does not go together. And I think that I can really say that last week there was a few days I didn't check it out the door. I mean, I was just so tired, and Catherine had just hurt her arm, and I just was grumpy, and and that doesn't do good for here, and it doesn't do good for my patients, and then vice versa, if I leave here grumpy because something isn't done and I take it home to my family, it's not fair to them. So both ways, you've got to learn how to figure out that work work life balance and and and and learn that at the end of the day that nothing is perfect, and and you know, making it work, and so some of the things that you know with burnout, let's talk about that. And I don't know if Raylan has felt that yet. Um I feel like it's gonna come eventually, and luckily she's off this summer um for a little bit, but have you felt the burnout feeling yet?

SPEAKER_00

Um, I think absolutely I've kind of started to feel it. I wouldn't say it's as like severe or as prominent as it is in other people's life, like I'm sure you've experienced just because you've been doing you've been doing life longer than me. I mean, you have more going on in your life that are so important to you, like people that are so important to you and things that are so important to you. But I definitely towards the end of the semester, like I could just kind of tell that I was just done. I didn't care as much as I did in the beginning, type of thing. I just wanted it to be over. I was like, C's get degrees, you know, like let's move on. I wasn't this, okay, I need to be perfect, I need to study this amount of hours. Like, you kind of just get over it and like it's too much, and you're ready to just have a break and be able to breathe. And I think that's super important, and it's super important to make that normal because I don't think taking a breather or taking a break, I don't think that shows any weakness at all that prevents burnout. If you don't just take a second for yourself, or take a second to do something for yourself or somebody else that is close to you, like you're gonna hate your life, like it's gonna get hard, and you're gonna burn out. And that's why so many people burn out in school because everyone is just so done, and then taking a break is so like frowned upon. Like, even me taking this semester off for summer was like, oh, really? Because you're not gonna be done as quick. And it's like at the end of the day, you have to pick yourself and your mental health firsthand so that you don't hate everything in your life and you want to go to school every day and you want to go to work every day. I mean, there's really no other option, and I think that that should be the first option for people and not to feel guilty for it because everybody talks about burnout, but nobody talks about how to prevent it and how important that is.

SPEAKER_01

And you know, going along with that, and I talked to our and I said I wouldn't talk too much about the med spa, but I'm gonna relate it a little bit. And one of the things I talk to my weight loss patients about is is falling off the wagon. And I think that that goes along with burnout, and you're gonna be like, Elisa, what where are you going with this? Seriously. But what I'm going with is like, you know, everyone knows the term falling off the wagon. If you exercise too much, if you eat, um, if you quit eating, um, you change your diet one hundred percent, if you hit the gym and you're going seven days a week or if you read the Bible every single day and you're you know you're going you're just you turn into this godly person that is just like okay yeah where are you going with it Elisa what I mean is is that most people if you you hit things too hard and you whether it's your business and all you do is put everything into posting and being here till nine o'clock at night worky worky working doing your homework study study study and then you get to a point where you're burnt out what happens what happens you fall off the wagon absolutely it's too much burnout and falling off the wagon is the exact same thing if you just change everything about you that isn't you and you don't do it slowly you're going to fail and so trying to find that balance in life where you're just like okay I'm done I'm gonna have some fun I'm gonna go hang out with my you know my friends I'm going to hang out with my kids at night I'm not gonna bust out my computer and work you know and watch a movie we've got to find that work-life balance and I think that that's falling off you know that's people that fall off the wagon and when you fall off the wagon you fall off the wagon and that means you give up on your business you give up on that degree because it's just too much and you put too much into it and so I think that that's something that you know we really need to think about when you do too much how it can really mess mess with you. So um some other things you know is I want you to think about is like how do you study after working long days and learning how to provide like prioritize these things and I'm laughing at this because this poor girl doesn't have a social life. Absolutely not but um how do you you know do you have somewhat of a social life?

SPEAKER_00

So I would say whenever it comes to studying and kind of being a good student and getting good grades and doing all the assignments studying your three hours a day that you're supposed to um I could tell you that I do all of that and I'm amazing at it and I study so hard and everything but I would be lying to you. I am going to be very frank and very honest whenever I say if I have had a long day at work then chances are I will open up that computer and try to study but guess what? I'm not retaining anything at all because my brain is done. It is done for the day there's only so much that your brain can handle throughout the day and that's for anybody and everyone especially while learning new things. So I would say that normally if I just don't feel like I have the brain capacity to do it then guess what I'm not going to because not only am I going to stress myself out I'm not gonna retain anything and I'm going to affect myself mentally in a way that what wasn't needed because it's not helping anything. It is hard for me I think I have to be very disciplined with myself and very dedicated to be able to have maybe not a good day at work or be super busy be stressed anything like that and then still go home and then I feel like studying is kind of the worst part about school where you just have to go home and shut yourself in a quiet room and study a whole bunch of material. And honestly I just have to make myself I have to force myself because that's kind of the last thing that I want to do whenever I get home. I want to be able to just be on my phone. I know that's awful to say I want to be able to lay in bed watch TV play with my dog you know like just do something other than my brain not constantly working but at the same time I have to make that sacrifice in order to get where I want in life in order to become successful is right now to maybe dread studying but still get it done. My weekends are probably like the biggest times that I study and I put everything in because it is a lot during the week like with me I was going to class what twice a week for two different classes and then I was doing online classes as well for other stuff and then coming back to work like I think that that was a big adjustment for me to where I was like okay like weekends are going to be my majority of the study time. So that kind of goes into my social life aspect of it. Like I couldn't even count on one hand how many times you asked me to go do something and I was like no I have to study or I have an exam next week or I have an exam in three weeks but I'm busy this weekend and this weekend so I have to do it this weekend type of thing. Like you just kind of put off your social life and I'm so very guilty of that. Absolutely I think a lot of people are that are trying to juggle school along with working at the same time like even like if I think about my friends that are in college station or in Lubbock or anything like that and they're like please come down for the weekend. Please come down like we haven't seen you all you do is work all you do is study that's all we ever see and I'm gonna be honest like whenever I do have a free weekend the last thing I want to do is drive be in the car and go out and probably not make the best decisions I want to be home. I want to be able to rest I want to sleep I want to get a good seven hours of sleep I need to recoup for the week. So I definitely think that my social life has struggled quite a bit and that's very kind of hard for me and hard for people to understand because if you've met me you know that I'm the most social person you will ever meet. So that has been a huge adjustment that has happened. I don't think that it was necessarily something I intended to but again I think it's kind of one of those sacrifices that I had to kind of give up on in order to have that. So and then going off of that just like with the prioritizing things like yes I could go and have so much fun with my friends and I love them dearly I do but what's more important me going out and being in the car and being gone all weekend or me being able to have a reset and refresh my mind I think that that you just have to prioritize yourself at the end of the day as selfish as that sounds and that's super hard for me because I am a people pleaser. I love my friends I love my family but at the same time like you have to find that balance and that goes back into the balancing type of thing to where you have to prioritize yourself sometimes even though you may not want to because at the end of the day there's really nothing you can do for yourself besides prioritizing yourself sometimes because at the end of the day nobody else is going to do that for you. No one's gonna make you prioritize yourself at all. So I mean I feel like that's kind of just the balance and you just kind of have to learn as you go I'm still learning. I mean I've only been in it for a year now so we shall see how that continues to go.

SPEAKER_01

So going along that you know it's kind of weird JJ actually came home with a book um a couple weeks ago and if you know me you know I hate books. I don't like reading them I am a podcast watcher um listener watcher I um love videos I'm not the best at reading books I just I've never I just never have and I think that has to do with um have you know strobismus and um and having that focusing problem as a young child so it's kind of messed me up with reading but he came on with this book and it's called Choose Hard and Live Easy It's the art of war for decision making and it's by uh MJ DeMarco and this book he was reading I was like what are you reading? And he gave me just the quick synopsis of it and I was like oh and I'm I'm kind of one of those like I I just kind of like to take what I need out of it and I'm like okay I don't need to read the whole book and I I got enough from what he told me and I have like I think I'm I'm just gonna say this but I think I got more from that book than he has just from the synopsis but at first when he was telling me about it and it's like choose hard and live an easy life and what does that mean? Like how does that make sense and I'm now trying to relate that with the kids and I think I see a lot of that with the kids and it's like okay choose hard and when I say choose hard it's when one of my kids says can so and so spend the night in that moment the easy thing to do would have been like yeah right because it's like the easy thing is because they wouldn't argue with me they wouldn't get mad the kid gets to stay um nobody's mad at me um but in the long run that kid has to stay and I love my friend's kids but we now have a you know and with there's two of them and it's usually you know they want three friends to stay in the night or oh my gosh my house is chaotic you're feeding them you're cleaning up messes constantly you're you're entertaining you're playing it you're playing everything you're not going to bed because they're up and you're you know that's the hard you chose easy and you got a long hard night and 24 hours right the hard thing would have been to say no to your child right that's the hard thing and they're mad at you and they're excuse my French pissed off for about an hour but the long road was easy you know and so those are the decisions as life that we have to try to learn how to make and you know it's easy to say I'm gonna go out with my friends because that's what sounds fun. It's easy to say that I'm not gonna do my work because that's what's easy but then the hard long road you're not gonna pass your test or I'm gonna be behind at work because I didn't do what I was supposed to and that makes the day a lot harder. So if that's anything I took from this book it was choose the hard so that it can make your life much easier and it's quite the opposite of you know what our thinking is at the end of the day. And so I think that kind of goes along with that work life school all of the above balance so wouldn't you agree?

SPEAKER_00

No I 100% agree and I think that a lot of people can relate to that even like with kind of the smallest things like I'm the world's worst about making time to wash my hair throughout the week I know that sounds awful and such a dumb problem to have but it takes me a long time and I'm like no I'll wake up early and I'll do it in the morning. Well guess what? I just made my morning so much rougher I have to wake up at 5 a.m and then I have to get ready. You know like it's dumb like stupid stuff like that that it applies to but it also applies to such big things in life.

SPEAKER_01

It does it's huge such small things for sure so but yeah and that's you know it's all about it's all about it girls ladies and gentlemen for sure all right guys so we are back with segment two and what we're gonna talk about here is how do we stay organized. Ha ha funny that's such a funny joke so some of the things that I'm gonna talk about you know they may work for some but they you know will work for others and I know that when it comes to Raylan and it comes to me we're two different people and she's a perfectionist and I'm kind of like just get it done I don't care what it looks like kind of girl and you know but you know a lot of the things that we do to stay organized and I and I truly believe that you know calendars are a big thing and luckily for us we have an amazing you know scheduling system that works and nowadays there's so many things out there like Google Calendar and there's all these apps and Canva I think really keeps us organized. Canva's got so many things and we're just throwing some tips and trips out there that help us and help me and um you know it's it's the calendars and writing things down I have a family calendar that's labeled and it's got Catherine Mason JJ versus Daddy and mommy and then it says other and that means like the things that are together and they're color coordinated as to who has what and what has then and sometimes it takes time to do these things and again I'm gonna go back to the hard that leads to easy. It's hard to make those calendars but those hard things that we do that leads to the easiness of not you know forgetting things and we're getting to things on time and we're not forgetting that we have to be somewhere. Time blocking is a big thing and I mean I'm still working on that and you know blocking my time off and making sure that I can get to my daughter's doctor's appointments their reward um awards ceremonies their all of the above you know and so blocking that calendar off and doing it way ahead of time. Huh this one is funny meal planning I don't know if I'll ever meal plan I don't think that I ever could have the energy or desire to so ladies we need you on this one help us help me help you.

SPEAKER_00

We do because my planner section has a meal planning thing and guess what? That gets X out every single week because a girl does not have time to do that. I will pick up what sounds good and I leave. We need help on this big time. And our credit cards do too from how much we eat out or out we need help here.

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Delegating task is a big one and I'm still learning this and I'm learning a lot more with the med spa I think I'm a very and you can ask Raylan a type A personality and I want everything a certain way and I'll just do it myself because if I do it myself it's gonna be better but I have let go of a lot and I think that you ladies out there that are type A and you want it done your way and you feel like if I do it it's gonna be better. It's not it's really not because at the end of the day once you put if you just keep on stacking you know pancake on top of pancake and on top of pancake they may be stable if you got three pancakes right and then you add four, five and then you got ten pancakes and that tower just starts getting pretty you know wobbly and then you stack 20 pancakes girls it just doesn't work that way you've got to start delegating and that's what Rayland's been is she's taking over a lot of the things that I did in the beginning and now we finally hired another nurse and um you know I've got to start letting things go there and you know and these are my patients mine Elisa Grace and and I've got to let go of those things and so delegating and letting other people do things that you trust that can do them just as good if not better than you. And learning how to say no learning how to say no to my kids when it's not necessary learning how to say no to my patients when they want to come in at 5 30 and I need to be home with my kids or I need to be at practice just say no. It's that old phrase from dare just say no to drugs.

SPEAKER_00

Just say no but then it's like oh whenever you think about it. So that is super horrible.

SPEAKER_01

It's rough learning how to communicate with your spouse you know with your mom that she's not upset because you're not home or you didn't get to take the dog out you know it's and you're not mad at each other because someone didn't take out the dog and he pooped in the house or you know communicate with my husband like bro I get mad sometimes because he doesn't make dinner and he's been home for two hours and I've been working why didn't you make dinner well maybe I should have communicated with him right taking that accountability kind of a little bit to have that communication can you please make dinner tonight I'm gonna be two hours late and then I'm not mad at him because I know my husband is the best he'd say yeah I got this like he may huff and puff a little bit but he would do it and you know I think sometimes as women we just are those we we think we're he women and we are just the we're the superheroes but it's we gotta let it go and delegate I just feel like that applies like to so much in like even friendships too and just kind of setting that communication there to be like hey like no or like you said husbands or kids or anything like that and that's just kind of a super hard boundary to have and a good type of communication to have but it's still at the end of the day like you said a hard decision to make but it's the right one. It is um communication is key communicating with your kids husband moms um brothers sisters moms all of the above is huge. Communication is key to any healthy relationship and then team support here at the med spa I've just found that you know it's time. It's you know and honestly if you can ask Ray Lynn this really just set in for me a couple months ago where it's like y'all gotta start doing your jobs. I shouldn't be responsible for cleaning the outside or making sure the place is vacuumed and I'm not above vacuuming right and mopping and cleaning the toilets you know and I'm just that kind of person that doesn't feel like I need to say it's your job to clean the toilet so get it clean. But at the end of the day I I'm I needing to say that yeah that's your job and that's what you got hired for right and that's what you get paid for and I I not that I'm above that.

SPEAKER_00

I mean I will clean toilets right now if I have to but I'm learning to to realize that everyone has their own tasks that need to get done and they're all equally as important in order for the med spa to function and I think that's super because you're so nice and it's so hard sometimes for you and I know that it's hard for you to like be stern and be like hey you need to do this but no I completely agree and completely understand. I think everyone does.

SPEAKER_01

So let's kind of you know I think it's funny sometimes that and I want to talk about some more relatable moments and forgetting things like I am constantly forgetting things and it's just down to you know Ray Lynn does our milligrams needed of weight loss every week and it's just like she'll do her job but then we're like oh no meds are not here. Did you order Melissa uh no and I mean shoot skis I messed up um I mean we all mess up we forget things did you you know I mean there's so many times my husband has asked me did you get my medication from cattles he works out of town and burn it and no I forgot then he'll ask me again did you get my medicine in this world that was perfect and he's not you know he's with us all the time but he's not on this earth anymore so it's okay okay and mom brain it's real when I was Raylan's age I thought I am never gonna be like that I am never gonna forget a thing in my life holy crap Oly it hurts mom brain hurts seriously hurts and um I'm getting better I I would say I think I'm getting better absolutely um I am doing some TMS therapy and I'm the first to I'm not one that's gonna hide that I take you know an antidepressant daily and I take I'm ADHD and I take a daily concerta um and I've just started TMS therapy was it two and a two and a half weeks ago and I'm seeing a huge improvement with that and it's I'm 44 years old y'all um I'm getting there and I you know it's just it's okay it's okay and I'm gonna be weak right now it's okay to say that you need help and it's okay to say that your anxiety's through the roof it's okay to say that your brain your brain needs that that you know something that's gonna make it easier on you and for your life and for you know the everything and that's something that I didn't start any of this until I would say three years ago when I realized that I needed to be on something to help me get through it. And I have a very blessed life. I am very fortunate I have a roof over my head I have a job I have a loving husband and two healthy beautiful children and I have so many friends and family that I just love and adore and adore me back and I am blessed. But do we need help? We do absolutely and it's okay and I'm just here to say right now to all of you women out there men women college age moms daughters all of the above please know that it's okay to ask for that help and and seriously like mental health is huge and it's something that we should all do and take care of that's the first and foremost thing that we should always do. And I really want to just stress that and um at all ages that it's it's a big thing.

SPEAKER_00

I mean if we're sick we go to the doctor we get medication we get better you know like there's no guilt and there's no shame and there's something being mentally debilitating to you and getting help and getting on medication or trying therapy like there should be no stigma behind that of being a weak person or being a baby about it or it's just life like absolutely not just like you would be physically sick if you're mentally not doing well guess what somebody can help you. There's nothing wrong with that and I don't think that they should be compared in a negative way absolutely not at all.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm gonna say it especially for women I mean let's just think about we're in 2026. I mean even back in you know 20 1990 1980s let's go as back as far as there women didn't have as big of a responsibility as they do now. Women used to have kids they used to stay at home and they used to clean cook and make sure everything was perfect for their families. But we live Now, where it's impossible financially for a woman to stay at home um and be able to be that child, you know, child, you know, raise the children, take care of the home, and um keep the home running. Financially, we have to work now. And so our jobs have evolved. They've evolved to more. Nothing was taken away. They didn't take away the part of cleaning, cooking, and being a mom and having the kids. We've added more to us. And I mean, nothing against you, dudes. I mean, we love you, we wouldn't be here without y'all. But at the end of the day, ladies, like we've added so much to our plate. So if you feel overwhelmed, if you feel like, I mean, it's okay. At the end of the day, it's a okay. And so, you know, I just want to kind of, you know, touch on those things. Um, and know that, you know, do we live off of caffeine? Ray Lynn does. Absolutely. I wouldn't survive. I have one a day. Um, what do I live off of?

SPEAKER_00

Food. Food is your fuel. Coffee is mine.

SPEAKER_01

I love food. Uh they make fun of me because I'm like, you hungry yet? You hungry? I haven't had breakfast. I need breakfast. Okay, it's lunchtime. Oh, wait, it's dinner. I need a snack. So I would probably say that I'm fueled on food and ca this one here is fueled on caffeine. There's always a caffeinated drink on her on her um desk for sure.

SPEAKER_00

Even if I think I'm gonna be running a little bit late, you best believe that there's still some type of caffeine in hand, or else nobody is gonna like me throughout the day. Because I won't function very good without it.

SPEAKER_01

And some of the things, I mean, this is a hard question, but what keeps me sane? I think just knowing what my why is. At the end of the day, when I get upset or in the middle of the day, if like, why am I doing this? This is stupid. Why am I taking this abuse? Like, why am I letting people get mad at me because I can't be here to do their Botox? Why am I, you know, why? Well, that's just it. My why, my Catherine, my Mason, my JJ. That is my why. And you have to look at that at the end of the day. And I mean, for you, Raylan, your your situation is a little bit different. You don't have kids or a husband, but what do you do to keep you sane?

SPEAKER_00

I think that I kind of just have to focus on the end goal because I believe that you should live in the present, but there's always going to be a future, and there's always going to be things that you can't predict that happen. So I think it's super important to just kind of maintain that goal. Like, what do you want to do in life? What do you want to be? What do you want to change? Because if I just lived every day being like, oh, I'll get there eventually, oh, I'll do it eventually, then guess what? It's not gonna get done, and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. So I think it's really just having the drive and to know, like you said, like it might be hard right now, but it'll be worth it. Um, and I also wouldn't be able to be sane without my Vivance, and I'm sure you feel the same way about your concerta. So using those tools to just kind of help stay driven and keep everything going, but and some things that I'm trying to think of, what did I have to learn the hard way?

SPEAKER_01

Um that was hard, and and I think that I don't know, I'm trying to think of something that because I've learned a lot of things the hard way in life, and um that's a hard one. I've learned a lot the hard way, but that's just kind of thinking about that right now. I think I do it once a month. Well, I shouldn't have done that, you know, and I think that's just life. That's life lessons that's teaching us to be better human beings, and the older I get, I feel like I am getting wiser. And I know that that sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I think about these people that I used to talk to when I was younger, and I and they were, they're so smart. I mean, our elders are so smart, and listen to them and take that advice from someone that's 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years older than you. More than likely they know a lot more than you. And I think some of the things I did learn the hard way was not listening to my parents. You know, I was like, God, they're idiots. They're so stupid. They don't know what the hell they're talking about. Jesus, if I That's not how my life is gonna be. I just wish that I could just go back and listen to everything they told me because that's some of the really hard things I learned the hard way at the end of the day. And um, don't anyone tell JJ this, but you know, he is a couple years older than me, and so he usually knows best, and um I learned the hard way a lot of the time, so don't tell him.

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So, anything for you, Ray, on that one? Um, I just think that probably the biggest thing that I've had to learn, and you've seen this firsthand, is you cannot be perfect all of the time. And I'm gonna say that again. You cannot be perfect every single second of the day. You can't.

SPEAKER_01

Nope.

SPEAKER_00

Because again, that falls back on burnout and mental health and things not getting done. You will hate your life if you try to do everything perfect because nothing's gonna get done.

SPEAKER_01

You're gonna get nowhere. You can ask her how many times I've had a talk and two with her. I'm like, what are you doing? That was already done. I didn't like it, it didn't look perfect, and I'm just like, oh my god. And she's getting there, she'll get there.

SPEAKER_00

I am, I'm trying. It's just so I'm such a perfectionist. I'm so OCD, and anybody who knows me knows that about me, so it's hard for me to let go, and it's hard for me to not make things perfect. But a girl is tired, and so I think I'm finally starting to learn that.

SPEAKER_01

And this girl's been so much on her plate, she realizes that as long as it's done and it's done good, there's no such thing as perfection.

SPEAKER_00

There isn't.

SPEAKER_01

You can't be perfect, no one is perfect. Nope, there's no one perfect. All right, my friends. The next thing I think we've kind of touched on this a lot, and so this one will be kind of a short segment, but we're gonna talk about mental health and burnout here. And um, I like I think I really, you know, we we kind of got ahead of ourselves on this topic, but you know that's how passionate we are about it. Okay, that should show you that. That should show you for sure. But you know, some of the things of pressure of being an owner here, you know, this is my baby, this is my baby, and Ray Lynn can see this, you know, first and you know, like in front of like she sees it on me every day, is you know, especially with hiring a new nurse or having someone else do something that I do, um, you know, that's the pressure of being the owner at the end of the day, is it's it's your name on the building, it's your name that it relates back to 100% of the time. And if something's not done right, it it's on me, right? It's always me being held to the coals, always held to the fire. And I think that's a lot of the pressures behind being the owner is and you know, like making sure that I answer everybody, that I I hold that. We're we live in a small town, y'all. Small town, Land Pass, is not what's the population here?

SPEAKER_00

7,000?

SPEAKER_01

Something like that.

SPEAKER_00

Wait, it might be more. I think it's like 13 now.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I don't know if I know it's small. We have one high school, one middle school, three elementaries, three, four, three, three, three, one main road. And it's a small town, and everyone knows everybody. And if you don't, you're gonna find out real quick who they are, real quick. And I think for me, that's another big thing is uh you mess up one time here, you're a Dunski's, and everyone's talking about you online, Passworth County breaking news. And you know, especially for me, I have to watch what I do in public, what I say, and we all know, we all know, Concerta and TMS and Prestique are not working on the baseball field, so I have to watch my P's and Q's. Because at least I like to throw uh some bombs out there, and so you know that's the pressure of being the owner is is is is the outside appearances, is who I am as a person, what do I do outside of here, who I am, how how am I as a citizen, how am I as a nurse, how am I as a business owner? I never want to upset anyone, and I still feel like there's so much pressure on me at the end of the day. Making sure my girls are all taken care of, you know. Making sure we don't make mistakes, making sure they don't make mistakes, making sure that they get the time off that they need or they get the hours they need, that they have the money for this, that blah blah. Why can I just keep on going? That could be a whole podcast now in itself. So I think that you know the pressures of being an owner are really huge, and that goes into like feeling responsible for everyone, and I think Raylan sees this too, and I do. I 100% feel 100% responsible for all my girls here. And if they mess up, I messed up because I should have shot showed them correctly. I should have, you know, and it's always I should have, I should have, I should have. And at the end of the day, I know that that's not reality, but I do. I feel responsible for everyone. You know, every single person in this building or walks into this building are patients. You know, I feel responsible if something happens to them, you know, and whatnot. Um, decision fatigue. Oh god, it's huge. Woo!

SPEAKER_00

This is why she jumps the guns because she doesn't even like to think about it anymore. Just do it!

SPEAKER_01

Just do it!

SPEAKER_00

Jump off the cliff. Everyone, be quiet, shut up, don't ask any more questions. We're doing it.

SPEAKER_01

We're just doing it or we're not doing it. It's one of the two. There's no one between it. Cut it off or don't do it. You know, decision fatigue is huge, and we make lots of decisions here. It's huge, like constant spending money. Should we buy this? Should we not buy this? Should we get into this? Should we not get into this? What's the newest, biggest trend with aesthetics? Should we do it? Should we not do it? It's huge, guys. It's it's crazy. And then try not to be stressed at home. Thank you, Prosecco.

SPEAKER_00

Sponsor her if you hear this, because she needs the sponsorship for how much you buy. Just kidding, guys. She only has like a glass an eye. I just like to make fun of her.

SPEAKER_01

That's all. And um Adela OROs sometimes during the summer. Yep, always. So thank you. Thank you. Well, shout out. So, um, you know, and for you, Raylan, what would you say some of the things with your you know, mental health and burnout would be like student stress, comparing yourself to your friends, and ha, you know, perfection again.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, yes, good one, good one. I know. And I'm just so known for always being perfect. Like if somebody needs something like done like perfectly, attention to detail, there are no errors. I'm your girl, but guess what? Day-to-day work, I cannot do that anymore. And as much as I resented and was like, no, Elisa's not right. I'm allowed to be perfect. I can be perfect. Guess what? No, I can't. I cannot. So I think that also kind of just goes into that balance again and just knowing what needs to actually be done correctly and not perfect. Not everything can be, not everything needs to be perfect. I think that it's okay to have a bad day, but guess what? Whenever you walk in here, you're having the best day ever. I will tell you right now, whenever I was in school last semester and now I'm taking a little bit of a break, but if I took an exam and I know I absolutely bombed that, did not know anything on it, I'm not looking at my grades whenever I get home. Absolutely not. Because if I'm here at work and I am trying to look at my grades because I'm like, oh, I need to know what it does. Guess what? My whole day is ruined. So, nope, we are not doing that at all anymore because I have to prioritize where I'm at. I think that boundaries are super important and communication is super important because I am so busy that it is hard for me to set boundaries with family or friends or just like anything because my time is this time that I have for myself is so important to where I can't just devote it all to everybody. So that kind of touches back into that, and just kind of giving yourself a little bit of grace with that, and the people that are important in your life and that will respect your boundaries and will respect the time and effort you're putting into being successful, those are the people that matter, and that is who should be in your life, and that they will be patient as you're trying to get there. And I think mental health is super important that we all of us probably need to be talking about. I think it's getting a little bit better, it's getting a little bit more normalized, but not everyone walking down the street is gonna be like, Oh, I'm on an antidepressant or I'm on anxiety meds because everybody wants other people to see them as perfect. But at the end of the day, I'm not perfect. I'm not far from it. You know, like nobody is as much as we don't want to admit it. But I think it's super, super important that we're just honest about it and show the raw, authentic times where there's yelling, there's tears, there's frustration. Um, there's times where you want to crawl in a hole and cry and you know, never come out, you know, like that happens. It's part of life, and I think it's super important to get help if you need it. Like, I have had ADHD my whole life, and I didn't get diagnosed until my senior year of high school because I made good grades. I didn't get diagnosed till age 43. So, you know, don't let anybody tell you that that's not as important or that can't be possible or anything like that, because once I was evaluated and everything, it was like, oh crap, there was mentally something that was altering the brain chemistry that I couldn't focus or I couldn't get things done. And I think it's super important to express that because of people like me and her that were diagnosed later in age, because most people are diagnosed whenever they start school and stuff like that. So it is super, super important to just be aware of what is normal, what is normal stress, what's normal anxiety. You shouldn't be dreading the day, that's not normal. You shouldn't be worrying about absolutely everything when you get home, you know? It is okay to get help, and I think it is absolutely okay to be on a medication if it helps you, and it helps how you pro proceed in life and how you go on day to day. I don't think there should be any shame in that. I don't think that there should be, I don't even really think it should be a topic. I think it should be a normal thing that we talk about, like going to the doctor, going to the vet, going to the grocery store. Like, I think it is 2026 and let's normalize it and let's not be ashamed for being on an antidepressant, on ADHD meds, on anything like that. Anti-anxiety meds, like this world, it's a hard world to live in. I'm sorry, but it is. As much as I'm grateful, and we all should be grateful for where we live, and our lives are a lot easier than others, but at the same time, like it is a tough world to live in, and especially with social media and everything. I think that everyone just needs to kind of give a little bit of grace and be a little bit more thankful and be able to just get help when they need it.

SPEAKER_01

You know, and with that being said, it it's it's just it's okay to not have everything together. And again, I'm gonna I'm gonna touch on the beginning, and uh that's the whole social media thing that I think that is really messed with us as a society, um, and how we show our high points and our low points and our lowest points and our highest points, but never the in-between. Nobody shows their house messy like mine is right now. I mean, my house is a full-on tornado, hit it mess. Clothes everywhere, they're clean, but they are everywhere and not folded and put away. Nobody shows that, you know, that they don't have any underwear to wear, so they just go to Walmart and buy something because they just did that with socks the other day. I mean, nobody talks about that. You know, nobody talks about like, you know, the things that it's okay to not have it together, but we we see pictures of thinking, oh, that girl always, how does she always have her house clean? How does she always make dinner? Because that's what people post. They're grand meals that they make every day, or that they meal plan for seven days. Good for you, girl. You go, girlfriend. I mean, but pat each other on the back for those those big things, you know. I may be a business owner and run my kids, you know, million miles in one week. Pat me on the back for that, but I may not have my house clean and make a home cooked meal every day, but I'm gonna pat you on the back if you can get a house cooked meal and not have to run your kids around all the time, you know. So, and especially as women, we need to learn how to be a little bit more graceful to each other, and I think that's huge. I think that us women are just we're so hard on each other, and we need to learn how to just praise each other, and I think not judge each other. No judging, and and you know, we're all we all have our problems, and we're all in different seasons of life, and there's no right or wrong. We don't have a guide of life, you know. I promise you, not everyone has it together, and just because you think they do, I promise you behind the scenes it's not what you think. Rest is important, guys. It's huge. Take the time that you have off to rest, to watch movies, to take a beat, go to the movies, or just sleep if you want to. It's okay to take a nap. It's okay. I take them every day.

SPEAKER_00

I highly recommend it, guys. Unless you forget to suddenly learn to wake back up like I did yesterday.

SPEAKER_01

And you know, boundaries matter. Boundaries matter. Say no, not doing things, not going places. This is a hard one. That's I think both of us. It is, it is, it's huge. And you know, and then learn to give yourself grace. Learn to be patient with yourself. Learn not to be hard on yourself. Learn that failures are going to happen. They're going to. It's inevitable. It's inevitable. There's no one perfect in this world. So at the end of the day, um, just you know, that's some things I can really, really say. Be kind to yourself, give yourself grace, be kind to others. Pray for yourself, pray for others, and that's another thing we need to take time to do is to pray and you know, to whatever it is that you believe in and and take that time.

SPEAKER_00

Don't hate on people instead. Think about how great they're doing. Praise them for that. I think there's just so much hate, and it's so normalized to not like people or to be excused, my friend, to be I T C H that it's so normalized now that everyone thinks it's kind of okay to be like, oh sorry, I was just having a bad day. Yeah. No, let's not do it anymore and let's words hurt.

SPEAKER_01

They do. People not approaching you and saying hi, you know that hurts. It hurts. So we need to learn how to do that at the end of the day. Be graceful to yourself and others. All right, ladies. Alright, ladies. This is our one of our last segments we're gonna be talking about, and this is why we keep going. And I think that both of us already kind of touched on it, so hopefully it won't be too too long. But why it keeps me going, and I I'm gonna say it again, it's my why, it's my Catherine, my Mason, my JJ. Um, I love my patients, and I know that my calling was to be a nurse. I know it, and that's how I know that that's what keeps me going. Is I love my patients, and Raylan can tell you that. I spend we both, we spend so much time with them. I just want what's best for them. I want the best life for them. I want them to be healthy and I want them to feel good about themselves and their own skin. I love seeing the con like the the confidence transformations that we see here in our in our people. I think that's the best thing about our dogs. And I mean, I've worked hospice, home health, ER, and I think I I know I'm working the best job ever as a nurse. Like the confidence transformation, you know, transformations we see are people are so happy. They, you know, you see them cry after they get, you know, don't judge. They get fillers, and that filler can make just such a small difference to them, and they cry. And it makes me cry because they wanted to see that again, their 20-year-old self, and they saw them cheeks again, they saw something that they wanted back, and they cried in your chair. And I mean, oh my god, it's just I could cry about it right now. Watching my business grow. I mean, I have this aha moment every now and then, and it's like, whoa, this is mine. I walk into this building sometimes and I have an aha moment, and I'm like, You built this. This is yours. This is not Advent Health, this is not a company you work for. This is not This is not Taco Bell, this is not healthcare, this is not Lampass's ISD that I worked for. This is yours, and that is huge. And you know, if you plant that seed, it may take years and years and years, but it takes you know, fertilizing it and caring for it and watering it before you may even get those roots. And do you even see those roots? No, and I mean this has been your dream forever. It's hard work, and we didn't see those roots, and then those roots planted. And I if I have to say now, if you know, we compare this to a tree, we finally have a small little tree with a few leaves on it right now. And it's so huge to see that small tree, and I can't wait to see that huge tree with those huge juicy apples on them. And three years ago, you're just watering the seed. We were just watering that seed and didn't even see our roots yet. So that's huge. And watching the business grow and creating opportunities for other women in our, you know, not nothing against men, and no men have ever applied here. No They don't want to hang out with us, but you know, giving other opportunities to women like Ray Lynn. Um, she ended up staying home and going to college here, and now she's my office manager, giving opportunities to, you know, Emily that's here doing lashes and is a phenomenal lash lash uh grow uh tech. Um we've got our new um nurse here. We've had many. People come through here, and it's just giving those opportunities to other women, setting an example for my children, and I hope and pray that they see how hard I work and how much it means to me and what we get out of that, and that's huge to me. Is I want them to see that I work hard so that we can play hard and pursuing goals even when life is busy at the end of the day, and that's huge. And so um I just want my kids to see that you can chase your dreams and still love your family very deeply for sure. That's the you know, that's huge, and so and for Ray Lynn, like what keeps you going?

SPEAKER_00

I think again that kind of just touches back. I know that we've already kind of touched on everything a little bit, is just what my future is gonna look like. I want a good future ultimately. I want to be successful academically, I want to be rich not in a money way, but in a loving way. I wanna be able to provide for a family, you know? I wanna be that person that helps people like drive and want them to be better, type of thing. And I think that that just kind of goes into why I keep going and you know, like if I make a bad grade on an exam, guess what? I don't want to keep on going, I want to be done. I'm like, mm-hmm. When there's a much easier career, but guess what? There is a much easier career, but it wouldn't be something that I love. I think that that is super important. I think that's what keeps me going. I mean, seeing patients every day and seeing their transformations, seeing their reactions to weight loss. Um, I mean, whenever you come see us here, I feel like a lot of our patients could um hold us accountable for this, but this isn't just like a you go to a doctor's office and it's like a doctor patient in and out type of thing. Like we know a lot of things about their lives and a lot of big monumental things that are going on and the hard things that nobody wants to talk about and they confide in us, and I think that is my why because I love being in the position that I am at right now in life, and with the job that I have, in order for people to be able to trust me and be able to feel comfortable enough to speak with me about things and just be themselves and be happy for their own accomplishments and their journey. I think it's super important to just kind of focus on what's going on now and what all I love about it, but also still focus on that future because at the end of the day, um we should always continue to want to grow. None of us should ever just be like, no, we're done. Absolutely not. I think that it's super important because I mean I'm just starting out in life. I mean, I'm 18, I'm a baby. Everyone's always like, You're 18. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm a baby, I'm a baby here. I think that's another thing that's super hard for me. That I was like, why am I doing this? Why am I making things hard on myself? You know, I think it's hard to sometimes be the youngest in the room sometimes, and to have experience and have authority. I think that's very hard for me to do and I know Alisa knows this because I will call her on the way home and be like, what am I doing? But that's my why. And I think it's super important that you talk about the things that help remind you of why you're doing things, even if they are hard things and things that you don't like to do. You have to just kind of have a perspective and just move on. And instead of thinking, Oh, I'm the youngest in the room, this is so awful, I'm not gonna have anything in common. Everyone's so much more educated, or everyone's so much farther in life. They have kids, they have a husband. Guess what? I'm the youngest person in the room. Like I made it to where I feel as if I could be in this room with people and still have things in common with them when it comes like professionally, if that makes sense. I think it's all about perspective, and it's all about remembering why you're doing what you're doing. And without perspective, there's nothing because you can be miserable and think about it, or you can make it the best thing ever. So, I mean, that's my why, and I think that that changes every day for everyone, and you just gotta keep on going.

SPEAKER_01

So, there's some questions that like people have asked us, and these are gonna be kind of fun, but so this is this is Raylon. So, Raylan, why don't you give us all your coffee order? Because I don't have one. From where?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, and I will say recently I've been liking, I know this isn't a coffee, but it's still caffeine. Um, I go to Alamo because it's on my way to work that I go the way I go every single day, and I've been getting either a medium or large, depending on the workload that day, of their iced chai latte. Hands down, the best thing ever, best chai ever. You will never catch me without a drink. Um, I just think that it's the best, and it gives me the will to want to get through the day. Because sometimes you need that. And I'll text Lisa and be like, what do you want? And she's like, I don't know. I'm fine, I'll make coffee at home. You know, but I'm the type of girl I need it or I will die.

SPEAKER_01

And I think um this one's kind of funny. How many alarms do you set? Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Alright, you answer first because I can already see your judgy eyes.

SPEAKER_01

I have three. And I snooze all of them.

SPEAKER_00

Hold on, let me count.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god. Well, if that doesn't count my blood alarm, right? Yeah, it doesn't count with blood almost. Okay, so three to get up. And I don't think I ever get up. And then I get up last minute and I'm trying to get ready, and I'm like, oh my god. I have 10 alarms. Oh Jesus, you're way worse than 10.

SPEAKER_00

15 minute sequences from 7 a.m. to 8.30. Girl. I don't wake up to alarms. That's a problem. Okay, I'm getting better. I have to make sure I'm here.

SPEAKER_01

Alright, as soon as I saw this question, I knew this one. I like this one was huge. I was like, biggest pet peeve. Floors being dirty.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, no one let a freaking dirty floor out in front of her because she will go crazy.

SPEAKER_01

That means boxes, anything that gets in my way, dirty floors, baseboards, by the way, need to be clean.

SPEAKER_00

That was her reminder to me, by the way, guys. Because she stares at every single thing that needs to be cleaned.

SPEAKER_01

Baseboards, for sure, for sure. My biggest pet pe pet peeve. Or, you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I have a lot of pet peeves. I was gonna say, she got a lot. We'll be here the rest of the day. Uh no, I have a lot. I think my biggest one is just messiness. I don't like messiness, and I don't like if somebody unorganizes like my area or anything. It can literally just be somebody putting on a paper while they grab something and it makes me crash. I do it all the time. It's literally only Lisa that does this, by the way.

SPEAKER_01

But they do it to my desk too. That's why I moved away. That's why I moved away.

SPEAKER_00

I cannot stand it. Or if I'm looking for something that I know I put there and then it's gone because somebody else used it and didn't put it back in the spot I created for it in my mind. I will go crazy. It will ruin my day. I'm so weird about that.

SPEAKER_01

She is. Um, another one I think is funny. Mom fails recently. Um I don't have kids. Um, I'm only married to my school life. I think it was forgetting to pick up Catherine or telling them that she was supposed to be car bus rider and then she ended up being car pickup, and then I scramble to go pick her up. Or oh shoot, what time is it? I was supposed to bring the kids lunch. Oh, that's all the time. And they get so mad. So mad at me constantly. One thing I can't survive about without probably Raylan. Aww. That was so sweet.

SPEAKER_00

So sweet I couldn't survive without a I couldn't survive without Alisa, but most importantly, I wouldn't be able to survive without Bive Ants. Five ants, yeah. Because I forgot to take it the other day, and let's just say nothing got done around here when it came to my job because it didn't happen that day for me.

SPEAKER_01

For sure. My favorite self-care treatment here at the med spot would have to say hands down, hydrofacial.

SPEAKER_00

That's mine.

SPEAKER_01

Mine.

SPEAKER_00

Second, talks. Mine's laser, second. That hurts. It does hurt, but I like it. But I like it. It's good results.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Most used phrase at work, I can't say it.

SPEAKER_00

We would have to censor it if we did. Can you beep it out? I better not. Yeah. We probably don't have those editing skills just yet.

SPEAKER_01

Are you effing kidding me? That's probably mine.

SPEAKER_00

What's yours, Raylan? Um. What is yours? Probably are you for real? Are you for real? Or I'm dead. I'm dead. Because sometimes I don't even have enough words to comprehend to even react to some of the things that happen around here sometimes. So it's just I'm dead and I move on with my day.

SPEAKER_01

And mine's are you F and kidding me? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Are you for real? Alright, guys. It's okay. It's okay to be not perfect because we're not. And so I hope that honestly you guys got something for this from this, and and you can see that life isn't perfect. Being a business owner isn't perfect, being a mom isn't perfect.

SPEAKER_00

And we've been planning on doing this episode for a few months now, and as you can see, we just did it. And guess what? It's okay because it's getting out. It's there.

SPEAKER_01

We're not perfect. It's done. So I just really want to like thank you guys once again for following us and for you know listening to our podcast and coming to visit us at the Med Spa and all of the great things that y'all do. And I encourage yourself to give grace to yourself and not just yourself but to others and especially other moms out there that are and students and young girls that are working hard to to live the dream. And let me mention that no one is perfect like has perfect balance. Nobody. Just because their car is clean one day, I promise you it was trash with McDonald's and Taco Bell and dirt the next day.

SPEAKER_00

Like you always catch people after that you can't.

SPEAKER_01

Catch them on the worst, yeah. Like no nothing's perfect. And so seriously, y'all like just no one's perfect, and no one has that perfect balance. But you know, just um I hope that you enjoyed this. You know, continue to spread the word about our podcast, our med spa, Lisa Grace Medspall in Line Passes, Texas. We do have a Facebook and Instagram and TikTok page, and hope that you'll follow us there for sure. And um share this episode and share it with a friend, share it with the best friend, with the coworker, with your mom, with your sister, with your aunt, all of the women out there that are trying. Um, you know, someone that you know that might be in college that's doing all the things. And so we hope that you'll share this and promote this podcast. And um we also we want to know topics, things that you want to know about. Do you want to know we haven't done anything on filler yet? Have we done anything on talks? We're gonna get there. There's so much in this medzpa that we have to talk about. It'll take years to get through it all, but let us know what you want to hear about. Send us some topic suggestions in the comments and come see us, book a consultation, you know, and um come talk to us. You don't have to come in and commit to something before you come and talk to us and know exactly what you're getting yourself into. So, but I'm gonna leave you guys today with a quote that balance doesn't mean equal. Sometimes thriving in one area and surviving in another, and that is okay. So, y'all have a wonderful, blessed month, and we will talk to you guys next month. Bye guys.

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