Celebrating Those Who Show Up || Liz Watt

Ep 39: Celebrating Those Who Show Up || Liz Watt

In this inspiring episode of Pebbles of Light, Anne Maxson sits down with Liz Watt, author, speaker, and co-founder of Be Healthy Utah, one of the largest natural health conferences in the western United States.

Liz shares her deeply personal journey through chronic inflammation, burnout, emotional healing, and what she calls “whole self leadership.” From selling only 147 tickets weeks before her first conference… to welcoming 3,500 attendees years later… Liz reminds us that success isn’t about numbers—it’s about intention, resilience, and serving the one.

You’ll learn:

• Why “Don’t mourn the 1,100” became her leadership mantra
• How emotional healing impacts physical health
• What Whole Self Leadership really means
• The THRIVE framework for sustainable growth
• How to persevere when everything feels like it’s falling apart

🔗 Connect with Liz:
Website: https://BeHealthyUtah.com
Free Book: Healthy Gut, Healthy Mind, Healthy Life: A Healthy Approach to the Microbiome
Liz’s Book, Becoming Me - A Polygamist Girl’s Journey to New Beginnings: https://amzn.to/4sd4Hr0 

Speaking: https://ElizabethAnneWatt.com 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-watt-22321619a/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizwattspeaks 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lizwatt 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liz.watt1 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

The day of the conference came and only 400 people walked through the doors. Now a lot of people would sit there and say, 400 is great. I mean it's your very first conference, but not when you had told everyone that you're going to have 1500.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:18

And I just felt defeated. I felt embarrassed. I felt like, why did you ask me to do this and this is all that came? And then I just got that prompting again that said, you know, Liz, don't mourn the 1100 that didn't come, but celebrate the 400 that did.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

Welcome to Pebbles of Light, where we highlight the everyday people who bring hope, comfort, and light to others. I'm your host, Ann Maxon, sharing meaningful stories to help you find light in your journey. If the messages shared resonate with you, please follow, share, or support the podcast through Patreon to help keep the mic on and spread the light even farther. Welcome to Pebbles of Light. Last week with Alan Lazarus of Next Level University, we talked about the buckets of life related to fulfillment and success. The pebble of that episode invited us to ask, where am I at in regards to fulfillment and success? And what's my next step to move forward? Today we talk with Liz Watt, someone who chose growth when quitting would have been easier. Today's guest, Liz Watt, walks with people through burnout, leadership pressure, and the quiet ache of doing too much for too long. As an author, speaker, and co-founder of Be Healthy Utah, she helps us see that real success isn't about pushing harder. It's about becoming whole. Liz, thanks so much for being here. Please take a moment to introduce yourself.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

Yeah, I'm Liz Watt. I'm in Utah, the in the around the Salt Lake area. And I run Be Healthy Utah. It's the largest natural health conference, basically almost in the West, where we gather thousands of people every year, and we just created a platform where people can come and learn all about natural health and how to take care of themselves.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Awesome. Can you share a little bit about how Be Healthy Utah came to be? You've got quite a story of how you know these personal experiences led to this desire to do more and learn more. And then wait, I can share what I've learned with others. And there's maybe some opportunities there.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

It is kind of funny how our greatest trials we go through are some of our best learning experiences and also our best way that we can bless and serve others. But I would say probably after my second child, you know, my husband was a chiropractor. We lived a holistic natural lifestyle. Well, after I started having my second child, I started to notice that I was getting these inflammation episodes that were happening within my body. And by the time I had my sixth child, it has had gotten so bad that I had numbness all over my back. I was my joints were inflamed all the time. And at days, there were some days that I ended up in a wheelchair because there's just no way that I could even function. And so I had, I just kept on reaching out, trying to figure out, you know, and going through the natural route of what can I do? And we came to, you know, my husband would always say, How come I can help everybody else's wife, but not my own? And it was so true, is because everything he did just made it worse. When I had that one of my episodes of my inflammation episodes, I went to a doctor and they're sending me in for MRIs, they're doing these exams, they're doing these blood work, and they're like, we don't know what is going on with you. And so now it just seemed like I was stuck. Like, this is just how I'm gonna be for the rest of my life. And I just had this prompting that just said, Liz, I need you to learn a new trait to help and serve others, but you first have to heal yourself. And I just sat there, I'm like, what do you mean, heal myself? Because I have been trying to heal for a long time. And at that moment I realized that I had been searching in the wrong direction. And I was I was asking everybody else, what can I do? What should I do? What can help me? And well, anyways, I needed to finally ask the question of what does my body need to heal? So I did that every single day. As I just got into a meditated state, and I'd be like, okay, what can I do today to help my body heal? And just every day I started to implement something that would create a positive change within my body. And after four months, my body totally restored. My numbness was gone, my joint pain it had almost diminished, my pH had balanced. I was before I was allergic to metals, I could finally wear my earrings, and my eyes never, I no longer had to wear glasses anymore because my eyes improved. And so it just was like a huge shift that had happened to me, a huge miracle. And so I started to see clients. I started teaching them these principles that I had and of, you know, this health and how we can change our health. But then it was like that same feeling just came to me that, Liz, it's not all about the food that you eat. It's the emotional aspects to of your health. And, you know, I all of us have grown up in different types of circumstances, different things affect different people. And I had grown up in a situation that I felt a lot of shame and just didn't feel like I belonged. And so I suppressed a lot of that stuff. And all of a sudden, as I started to realize that these emotional things that I had gone through in my life and suppressing them has to manifest somehow. And it ended up manifesting in my health. And so I went through these emotional aspects of my life to got to get peace with them, to find, you know, realizing that everyone is growing and that, yeah, maybe somebody didn't treat me well. But you know what, they're also growing now, and they have they've were probably not treated well, also, you know, and just go through the whole chain of the emotional aspects and then finding the peace within myself that it's okay and you are loved, and that people do love you, and that you're going to be all right. And so then after I went through that aspect, then I went to, as I was seeing clients, I just saw that how people's they weren't wanting to make these keep these permanent changes. And it all starts within our brains, because our brains are our biggest advocate, but yet the biggest thing that keeps us back too. And so how do we change our brains? And I started to incorporate these different ways of how we can find lasting change by changing the neuropathways within our brains. And then I came to the aspect that the real the way that you find the real change is to find the greater purpose within you. Why is it that I needed to be healthy? Why is it that I needed to have a body that could do things? And that was because I was sent here to be able to bless and serve others. And if I show up with a body like this that can't, that's in a wheelchair, that's inflamed, then I can barely even take care of my own kids. I can't help other people. And so that's what was like my main goal is realizing that I was created for more and to realize that I have a lot of stuff within me that needs to be shared with others. My husband and I, we went and spoke at a conference on gut health and the microbiome. He had, and he had changed a lot of his practice over to helping with functional health, which is like diabetes, thyroid, peripheral neuropathy, just all of these functions that really the root cause is your gut health. And as we were talking about this, it just everyone was so interested in what we had to say. I had written a book for that conference, and I brought 200 copies of my book, and we ended up selling every single one of them because people were so interested in what we needed to say. A few weeks after that, I ended up, after that conference, you know, we came home and I ended up having this dream that I was standing in front of thousands of people because we put on a natural health conference. And when I woke up in the morning, I was, I just sat there and I thought about there's all of these people out there that were struggling like I was. And I didn't know where to get help. I had tried searching through the natural remedies. I tried to go through the medical doctors, I tried all of this and I was stuck. But what if I could find these experts out there that know about functional health, that know where to find these answers at? What if I created this platform that people could come and to learn? Then they wouldn't go through the 20 years that I did of suffering so much. But as I started to think about it, it was like, you know, we have these great ideas and these things we want to do in our life. And then the reality starts to hit in. And I was like, oh no, that's too big for me. I can't do something like that. Like, I need that is not me. But then it just seemed like the late, as the day went on, it was just like those, those feelings and those promptings of my heart was just beating, palpating really quickly. Like, no, you need to do this. You are called to do this. And so later on, I just blurted out to my husband and said, I had a dream we're supposed to put on a natural health conference. And he was not on board with it. But I told him, We need to do this. This is something that I know that we need to do, and somehow put a spark in him, and we started, we started to search out, and that's how Be Healthy Utah came about. So there was a lot that went into it, a lot of growth, a lot of learning. But that is, you know, we create these things in our life because some of the hardest experiences that we've been through.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Yeah. And those can be, yeah, the greatest lessons and teachers and opportunities to share our wisdom with others so that they don't have to search so hard, like you said. There it helps them to be able to not go through all the hurdles that you went through in order to get the answers that you found. So since you were inspired to do this, it was an overnight success, right? Like immediately there was tens of thousands of people, right?

SPEAKER_02 11:16

That was like, no. So we had never had done this before in our lives. And when you try something new, there's a lot of failure and there's a little bit of success. And we had told the first thing we did was to find a venue. And we went to one of the, it's called the Salt Palace. It's in Salt Lake. It's one of the biggest convention centers because we figured, hey, if you're gonna put it on a vent, that's where you want to have it, right? And so we went there and we got the place and it was expensive, but we're like, okay, this is if we're gonna have, we wanted to have 1,500 people come to our conference. And when we're searching out for these vendors, we didn't, even though we're in the natural health, if you un unless you really search out a lot of people, you don't know where these doctors are out there. You you might know a couple, but you don't know the major majority of people. You don't know these mom and pop places that are making these herbs in their kitchen and selling it. Like, and so you have to really do a lot of work of searching out these people. And we kept on telling them, we're gonna have 15, our goal is to have 1,500 people there. That is what we're searching for. All of our bags that we bought, we bought 1,500, all of our uh, you know, like all the swag bag stuff we bought, we got 1,500. And when we set up all of our chairs in our in in the salt palace, we had set it up for 1,500 people. Like we were just this is what we're gonna do. And if you visualize it, it's going to come, right? That's what I'm like, and also I knew that this conference wasn't from me, that I felt like it was divinely inspired. And so if we just continue on this path, then we're going to get there. It was six weeks before the conference. And before our name was called Elevated Learning, and we weren't selling tickets because we just thought it, you know, we called the elevated learning um natural health and wellness conference. Well, anyways, people didn't know what elevated learning went. They thought that it was maybe schooling and you are just getting, you know, learning more in school, whatever. And somebody reached out and they just said, we just don't know what elevated learning means. Like, what does that actually mean? And, you know, sometimes it takes these outside people to come in to make you realize that, okay, there's something we need to change here. You know, they see the spots and things that you don't. And then all of a sudden, my husband was just searching on the internet one day and just looked at was putting in different names and he put in Be Healthy Utah and he saw that the URL was available. And so six weeks before the conference, we changed the whole name. We changed our logo, we changed uh, you know, just everything that it was we had to go get a new business name, we changed everything so that now we could be known as Be Healthy Utah. And and then it was we had to go pay our final payment. It was like three weeks before the conference. We had only had sold, I think at that time, we had only sold like 147 tickets, far off than the 1500 conferences coming up. Yeah, the conference is coming up. We had to go pay our final payment to the Salt Palace. We get up there, and I was like, oh, I actually left the check in the car. Go down, I go down to the parking, uh, the parking garage to get it. I get out the check, and all of a sudden I just like fall to the ground because I was so stressed at that moment. Here I was gonna have to pay the last payment that we had, and we only have 147 people. All of these vendors that we had collected money from are they're gonna come and there's not gonna be anybody there. What about these speakers? Some of these speakers, we were pleased, you know, we really want to do this, and there's good, we're gonna have a crowd there for you, and there's gonna be what? How many people showing up there? And as I just sat there, I just had tears in my eyes. I was just crying. I was just at that moment, I wanted to just walk out of that parking garage and never come back. I did not want to, it got to the point it's like, do I really, do I really even want to be here? You know, because you get so much stress on you that you do want to just click your fingers and disappear. And but as I sat there, I just realized that I have two options. I could walk out of there and just disappear. Or else I can just stand up, brush myself off, realize it is what it is, and just walk forward. So I wiped the tears from my face, go inside. My husband's like, Are you okay? I'm like, No, I'm not okay, but it's going to be okay. And we paid them, and every morning I just woke up and I got back into that meditative state, like I said before. And I just was like, What are three things that I can do today to help the conference better? What are three things that I could do? And so those I just I just concentrated on those three things that day. And yes, there was probably a lot more stuff I could do, but if I could just do those three things. And so the day of the conference came and only 400 people walked through the doors. Now a lot of people would sit there and say, 400 is great. I mean, it's your very first conference, but not when you had told everyone that you're going to have 1,500. And when the speakers got up, there was 1,500 chairs out there in the hall in the main thing. And there's only not even everyone's gonna be, even if 400 people walk through those doors, there's probably only like 50 people listening to the speakers.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

And I just felt defeated. I felt embarrassed. I felt like, why did you ask me to do this? And this is all that came. And then I just got that prompting again that said, you know, Liz, don't mourn the 1100 that didn't come, but celebrate the 400 that did. And then there was like a shift in my brain, and all of a sudden, it was like I wasn't worried about the vendors anymore because people were still coming to their booths. I wasn't worried about the speakers anymore because guess what? They never had a platform before to be able to come and teach like they have right now.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

And then the people kept on coming up to me saying, Thank you so much for doing this. This is the best thing we've ever done. And I've learned so much. They just kept on coming up to me. And at the end, these vendors that put in their hard-earned money, they were up there saying, you know what, we know that this was not busy, but we had the best conference. The people that came, the people that you brought, actually wanted to buy from us. And yeah, it wasn't that busy, but they were interested in what we had to say because you brought the right people and you need to keep on going. You need to keep on going. And so I think that sometimes we have those little sparks of light that come to us in the hardest times when we're doing something to give us those experiences to say, you need to keep on going. Yeah. So we did. We we kept on going.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

And now where are we at now?

SPEAKER_02 19:21

So you know, I would love to say that after that conference, everything ended up to be perfect, but it didn't because our very first conference was in 2019. We started planning it in 2018. First conference was in 2019, and we all know what happened in 2020. It was six weeks before our conference, and we were in the office of the place that we were having it at, and they canceled it. They got the call while we were there trying to figure out what we're gonna do. And they said, Because sorry, we're canceling all conferences because of COVID, we're canceling everything. And at this point, we had found some different sponsors, and we had a huge lineup of our vendors by this time. You know, our very first conference we had 40 vendors, and now we are about a hundred vendors. And so we had these vendors, we had speakers. I mean, it's six weeks before the conference. You are trying to get things going here, and it was canceled. But then we're like, okay, we're gonna try in June. Well, that conference was canceled. Okay, now we're gonna try in August. Okay, that conference is canceled. And then I thought, okay, we have been holding these people on for a long time. Our vendors, our sponsors, our speakers, it's gonna fall apart if we don't do something. And so I just came up with the idea, we are going to do an online summit. And I never had done this before in my life, but I reached out to speakers and interactive classes and food demonstration people. I'm like, hey, can you video this? And we are going to do a five-day health, be healthy Utah Health Summit. And we're just gonna do it all online. And I never had done it before, but I did it. And I was like, okay, at least we did something. And then it was, okay, we're gonna do this again in um, we're gonna do this again in April. We're like, okay, we're just gonna go far away and we're gonna do it in April. Well, all of a sudden, April comes, and now they decide that they are going to use that facility as a as a COVID facility and that they had to cancel all the conferences. We had three conferences canceled. And so at that moment, we just decided okay, we are going to do it a whole year later. We we just cannot be canceling all these conferences. Let's just go out the next year. And January hit, and so now. Now, this is, you know, four months before when we're gonna have the conference. And my husband was like, we are done. Like, we have strung this on for too long. I am spent all of our people, like, let's just give them back their money. Because we just, who knows if we can even do the conference in April again? Things are crazy. People are trying to just hold on for dear life, even if we had to go take out a loan, whatever. Let's just give people back their money, just call it our losses and walk away. And that night I went to bed and I just had the biggest feeling in my stomach because it was like I was the one that had this dream. I knew that we were supposed to do this. And when I was standing in front of people, you know, that day, I wasn't standing in front of thousands of people. So I knew that it needed to be something bigger than that. And yes, we did do the first one, but I just knew that we were supposed to do it. And then I just was like, I need to have a sign, like I really need to have a sign to let me know that we need to continue because I can't do this without my husband. And my husband is done. Like he does not want it, it's too stressful. And how can you blame somebody like this when we have been held on for this long? And so I ended up getting this strong impression no, you need to continue. You need to do this. And so I just told my husband, I know you don't want to do this, but we have to. Well, it was the day of the conference, and we needed to go onto the main stage because there were some things that that weren't working with the audio visual stuff. And we had volunteers there, we're like, just sign, start signing people in and we're gonna go take care of this problem. Well, it took us about a half an hour. Speakers were gonna be starting in an hour. So we're in there trying to figure this out. And all of a sudden my husband walks out and then comes running back in. And he's like, You have to come and see this. Well, he comes and gets me, and then he like takes me to each of the aisles and he's like, Look at all of these people that are here. Every aisle was full of people, and you know, we had like a hundred vendors, and so it was like all of these aisles were just full. And that day we ended up having 2,200 people come to that conference.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

Which was a huge jump from 400 to 2200. But during that time was such an emotional roller coaster, and it's like so many times we wanted to quit and give up. But it's like also we had those little lights, those little, you know, little lights along the way that just was like keep on going, keep on going, keep on going. And now we have 3,500 people that come to the Sandy Conference. We had 1,100 people come to the St. George Conference, which is in the southern part of Utah, and it's just growing. And this year we're hoping to get 5,000 at the Sandy Conference, and it's because we never gave up and we kept on the mission of what it is, because sometimes things just don't come easy, but they come in the way that you need to. And you know, the thing is that very first conference, if we would have had 1,500 people come, we wouldn't have known how to run the conference exactly the way that it needs to be. And what that's one of the biggest things that people tell us is they love the way that our conference runs because it is very organized and people know what they need to do, what how to do it. We take really good care of our vendors that come, we make them feel like that they are um that their product is just as is is important and they're not just a number. And we we did that because when we were going through the process, we know the struggle that it was for us, and we knew how important every single vendor was, and we searched out every single vendor and we made them feel this way. And so we wouldn't have been able to have the closeness of what Be Healthy Utah is if we wouldn't have gone through the process of it.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

So how has your definition of success changed from, let's say, 2017, almost 10 years ago, 10 years ago till now?

SPEAKER_02 26:33

Before you I used to, you know, like I said, getting in the numbers, right? It's the 1500, oh, we're getting in that. That's what success was to me. But now success success is talking about the one. It's about seeing the the the vendor that is there, that is trying to make a difference, where they do all their stuff in the kitchen and realizing that they needed to have a platform to be able to share what they're what they have that can change people too. And when we focus on the one, on that one vendor, and then this is another vendor, and creating a place for them that they can share, that's truly what success is to us right now. And as if now, if we just create that good conference where we have the right people that come, not just the numbers, but the right people that are going to come to be able to purchase from that one person, that is really where we find success. And it's not about just keep on going and keep on going and keep on going, but it's about nurturing yourself along the way too. Because I have had, I'm not going to be able to run a conference if I am frantic and crying and out of control. But my husband and I have to get to a place where we feel that every moment that we have to take, like I talked about before, we got on this podcast today, we went and worked out. You know, we have to take that time for ourselves to be able to slow down and to really concentrate on the things that are going to get us to the next level. And so working out with us every single morning together, that is something that helps us. And we do a lot of educational things and we do it together because that's what brings success to us, is when we are building this together and intentionally. Because it before is about the numbers, but now it's about intention and showing up. This is what I call whole self-leadership, is where we show up as our whole self. And so that we can run that conference as our whole self. And then what does that do? That makes him showing up at his practice, being his whole self. I'm showing up then as my mom, as a mom, being my whole self. I am showing up in all the different areas of my life as being intentional and showing up in whole of the person that I need to be so that I can bless other people in many different ways.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

And I love what you'd said about the idea of don't mourn the 1100 that that didn't come, but be gr so grateful and celebrate the 400 who did come. And that idea of, yeah, kind of ministering to the one and knowing that each one of those people who was there, you had an impact on them, as well as the idea of kind of faith in the effort and not in the outcome, and all of the things that you learned, as you said, is just from the logistics of running a conference to just other things that you've learned about yourself and the importance of perseverance and resilience in the face of adversity and hurdles that you have to overcome in order to do those things that you feel inspired and directed to do. And that can be a difficult thing. I know for me in entrepreneurial experiences where it's been it's been really hard, where I feel inspired to do something, but it's definitely not the easy way. And we see examples of that all over the place. But the importance of sticking to it, even when it's hard. I had a a friend who used the phrase, if the Lord brings you to it, the Lord brings you through it. And so sometimes if you're brought to something difficult, you can know that you can rely on that. But sometimes it it does feel a little bit lonely and it requires a lot of persistence to stick to it.

SPEAKER_02 30:31

So well, I often sit there and I think about okay, I go back to that very first dream that I had, and I was standing in front of thousands of people. You know, that very first conference, I was standing in front of probably 50, and now I'm standing in front of hundreds, but I have not been standing in front of thousands yet. And so I keep on going back to that dream saying, there's still more for me to do. He's still using me to create a bigger movement than what I know. And if I was to give up right now, then I haven't created what I'm supposed to yet. I still need to be in front of those thousands of people. And I'm not there yet, so I need to keep on going.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Yeah, as far as sustainability and and making sure that you're able to do that. One thing that I hear about is the idea of like being busy versus being productive versus being aligned with your personal mission. How do you find balance? I don't know. I feel like balance isn't really a thing that happens. We're always just going from one thing to another, but how do you find the ability to make sure that you are aligned and productive and not just quote unquote busy?

SPEAKER_02 31:43

Well, I created this Thrive framework and it stands for, so I'll go through just really quickly the the letters. And it stands for T is Team or Your Tribe, H is your help, R is resilience, I is invest in growth, V is Value People, and E is Elevate. So when this thrive, if we incorporate all of these things that I talked about, you know, let's just say the T team, you have to create a team around you. We are not here meant to walk alone, but we come in in a tribe of people, a team of people, and we should carry that within our businesses too, whatever we're doing. We have to create that team around us. You know, when we started Be Healthy Utah, we like I said, we didn't know what we were doing. And there was somebody that was in our neighborhood that was the CEO of USANA. He had put on lots of conferences. And so we just said, Hey, can we take 30 minutes of your time, just let you know what we're doing and see if you can give us any advice. Well, we went and met him in his office, the CEO office there, you know, going through tight security to get to his office. And we just sat down, we told him what we wanted to do. Afterwards, he says, you know, I need you to change a couple of these things here, but I want to sponsor you and I want to give you a$5,000 check to sponsor you. People are put in our path to help us along the way. He was part of our team. He gave us guidance. And, you know, he might not be officially on our team, but we can create that team around us to help us get us to that next step. That$5,000 helped us in, you know, be able to secure a place where we needed to have it just to be able to start out the few things that we needed to have before we could even get vendors on. And then we took that sponsorship and we were able to find another sponsorship because they trusted USANA so much. And, you know, and then all of a sudden it's like, okay, now we have this other team. And then as I was going along with this, I had to learn how to do a lot of stuff. And it was becoming so overwhelming because now the conferences are getting bigger. I'm doing all the back end stuff. Uh, you know, I'm doing the website, the marketing, the onboarding. I'm doing all of this backhand stuff. It is getting so overwhelming for me. And so I just said, okay, if I want to grow, then I need to find a social marketing people and I need to find a team that that's around me that can help me do this because I can't do this. Well, I ended up finding a social marketing person, and then I ended up getting a group of virtual assistants. And I had been searching for some virtual assistants, but I couldn't really afford like the high ticket value. But I ended up finding this group of ladies that have helped me. And where's your team at? You know, you have to find a team. We are sometimes hold ourselves back the most because we can't take that leap of finding a team to help us. And that doesn't have to be the team that's on your payroll. It can be some of your biggest supporters too that help you along the way. And so, you know, where is that team, your health? I already talked about that. You know, what is if we are if our help, there's no way I could have done what I'm doing right now. You know, I'm doing a conference, I'm doing public speaking, I'm doing podcasting, I wrote a book. There's just a lot of stuff that I'm doing, and there is no way that I could be doing all that stuff without my help. And so if we go down each of these things, you know, team, health, resilience, invest in growth, value people, and elevate, this is this is how we become aligned. This is how we get out of the busyness and to become intentional exactly what we're doing. Because really at the end of the day, it's about how we serve and how we can bless and serve other people. And that is how you get out of the busyness of, you know, the best way that we can become aligned with what we're doing now is not about all of this busy work that kept me so busy, but it's about creating a platform where people, where these vendors, where these speakers can now come and teach other people. And that's where I need to focus on. And that's where I could become the most aligned of what I'm doing in my life.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

Those are awesome insights. Thank you. I and I love the acronym. That really helps kind of just put everything all together and think about okay, it's just personally, you can take a moment to just kind of go through those and kind of determine where you're at and where you can improve. And that's a really kind of cool way to be able to self-assess, make sure you're not just stuck in the busy, but being productive and being aligned with what you're meant to do. So the last question on this podcast is is always the same. And you've kind of answered it in regards to business, but I'd love from a personal level. So the purpose of Pebbles of Light Podcast is to help celebrate those who've placed a pebble of light in our path to guide us on our way, and as well as helping people recognize how they can do that for others. But could you share about one or two people who've placed a pebble of light in your path?

SPEAKER_02 37:15

You know, I uh I have a group of friends, and I always say that they're one in a million because I and I have these different groups, uh different friends throughout my life, and I call them my one in a million because it's like they out of a million people, you only find one of them. And I am so blessed to have so many of them in my life that really that to have that many one in a million friends is such a blessing. But I would have to say that the person that has that is that pebble of light for me is actually my husband. Because he believed in my dream. He believed in the purpose that that I feel that was divinely inspired for us to do. And if you don't have that person that's right there with you that believes in you, then you can't really accomplish everything that you want. Because we, like I said, we don't come here alone. And even though people will say, I did this by myself, guess what? You didn't. There's a lot of people that helped you along that way. And my husband believed in my dream. He believed that there was something more here. That, and he had to believe in me, like that, okay, she got that. She she knows that we're supposed to do this. And that other time when he wanted to cancel the conference, and I was like, No, we have to keep on doing it. He still believed in me, even though we had gone through so much. And now it's like I could not do this without him. And so it is it's it's he is that light that I have to have to be able to continue this process so that now we can create a platform that so many people's lives are changing. And I just got a text message the other day that just said you don't understand how you are changing people's lives, and don't quit. Keep on going because you will never know the impact that you are creating in other people's lives. And so that pebble of light is my husband because he believed in me.

SPEAKER_00 39:36

Thank you. My husband also I've I've gone to him and said, Hey, I have this idea and it's kind of outlandish. And I think he's gonna think, okay, that's wacky, we're not doing that. But he's always just been so supportive and said, Okay, go ahead. We'll we'll figure out how to do it. And um, it's been so important to have that support by my side. Yeah. Liz, thanks so much for being here. Please just share, you know, some information about where people can find out more about you when they're interested.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

They can find me on behealthy utah.com. I do have a free book on there that you can download Healthy Gut, Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, a Healthy Approach to the Microbiome. And then if you want to know more about my speaking, my author, and stuff like that, you can go to elisabethnwatt.com and you can find all about my speaking, you know, what kind of speaking that I do, and then also my books that I have published.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

Awesome. And I'll make sure we link all those in the show notes so people can go and check them out.

SPEAKER_02 40:34

Yeah, thank you for having me on.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

Yeah, you're welcome. Liz's journey reminds us that success isn't about numbers. It's about intention. It's about not mourning the 1,100 people who didn't come, but celebrating the 400 people who did. The pebble for this episode is to take time to choose one person to intentionally encourage. Send them a text, give them a call, and express gratitude. Focus on ministering to the one. You can learn more about Liz and her work in the show notes. Be sure to also check out ways to support Pebbles of Light through Patreon and Bud Sprout. As always, thanks so much for being part of this community. Thank you for tuning in. My hope is that something helped you feel seen, encouraged, or inspired to bring light to someone else. If a name or moment stood out, don't let it pass. Reach out, express gratitude, or take that next step. You can connect with me anytime on socials at Pebbles of Light or at AnnMaxxon.com. If this episode was meaningful for you, please follow the show, rate or review, and share it with someone who might need a lift today. And if you want to go a step farther, you can support the show on Patreon. See you next time.