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Ep. 168 - Reinventing Life at 60: From Pharmacy to 200K Followers with Leslie Latimer

• Kim Mellor • Season 3 • Episode 168

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We sit with Leslie Latimer to explore reinvention, from a 34-year pharmacy career to building a soulful online business in her late fifties. She shares a simple, grounded path for getting unstuck, building confidence, and turning limiting beliefs into fuel.

• the “box of rocks” method for surfacing limiting beliefs
• how to flip a wound into a clear, resonant voice
• beginner’s mind, consistency and daily content
• visualisation as a bridge from desire to action
• energy hygiene: mornings, movement, sleep, and focus
• designing a life-first calendar with white space
• simple growth principles for Instagram without the fluff
• a practical structure to get unstuck and rewire thinking
• redefining midlife as a season of aliveness and purpose

Find me on Instagram: I am Leslie Latimer. In my Stand Store you’ll see my free courses, my follower formula, my limiting belief course and workbook, and all my one-on-one coaching offers. If you just don’t even know where to begin and you just want to start with a conversation, we can do that too

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SPEAKER_00:

Hello, soul diggers. Welcome back to another guest episode with another one of my favorite humans, Leslie Latimer. This woman, wow, she is the epitome of possibility, and anything is possible if you believe it is. She is almost 60 years old. She quit her pharmaceutical job three years ago, and now has an Instagram following of almost 200,000 people, has created a multiple six, seven-figure business from scratch, and she didn't have a clue how to do an Instagram post or how to make a reel three years ago. In this episode, she shares how to get unstuck, how to have a beginner's mind, and just go for it. Regardless of your age, what you look like, who you perceive yourself to be or not to be, anything is possible if you believe it is. Leslie is such a beautiful soul and has so much wisdom that she shares in this episode. I know you're going to take a lot from it. So without further ado, Leslie Latimer. Welcome to the show. We just had to get you on here, and today it's a reality.

SPEAKER_02:

No, it is such a treat, Kim, to be here with you and to spend this time as part of the journey and explaining and describing this really unique path. Basically, that brought us together, right? Because we've both been on this journey of letting our true self shine through, right? And we met along the way. And it's been, oh, you know, to say soul searching is an understatement. But it's such a gift to be here with you as well. And to just, you know, take part in this journey that we call life together for sure.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, you you've definitely been one of those people who, as soon as I met, I was like, who is this woman? Can we be best friends immediately? And you know, it's it's just souls recognizing each other, you know, and I believe that, you know, we all connect for a reason. And uh, you've brought so much joy and expansion and possibility, not only to my life, but hundreds of thousands of people on the internet. And, you know, you went from being a pharmacist to, dare I see it, influencer on Instagram with nearly 200,000 followers? What the how? What?

SPEAKER_02:

Who I don't even really think of myself as an influencer at all. Um, I don't get paid to be an influencer. I have just been on a spiritual journey that has become very financially rewarding as I have stepped into this next chapter of my life, as so many women do in their mid-50s, where they're saying, Is this all there is? You know, they like have their career and they have children and they have relationships and they wake up one day and they say, Wow, okay, now what? So I had been a career pharmacist for 34 years, as you said. And I saw the writing on the wall, sort of since COVID. The marketplace had changed. I felt like my job was actually at risk. And so I jumped online, uh, completely clueless, not knowing what I was doing. Um, actually kind of started out on TikTok first and then jumped over to Insta. And it has been, as I said, a journey of self-discovery. And I had to, I had to sort of get out that box of rocks of all of those heavy things that I had been carrying around and get them out one at a time and sort of look at them and sort of toss them if they weren't serving me or embrace them and put them closer to my heart if it was something that I really felt strongly about. And that's part of what I help other people do now as well, because so many people are stuck in their lives and they just don't know how to get unstuck. So this whole process of identifying your limiting beliefs, identifying what's in your box of rocks, bringing it from your subconscious to your conscious mind and actually voting on it, because chances are something that's in that box of rocks was put there by your parent, your teacher, your whatever. And you were told that it was the truth when really it was just someone else's belief at the time. And so once you go through this process of uncovering what all of those rocks are and identify them, and literally choosing them or not choosing them, um, that is where you realize you you have the power, right? You become very powerful when you realize that, oh my gosh, these limiting beliefs have been holding me back this whole time. But there's no question in my mind that the laws of nature, or which is of course the foundation of all creation, that law of attraction, that law of vibration, baby. That's why you and I found one another. Because the minute we met that we were in like a group classroom and we were like bing, bing, bing, bing. And that is what I absolutely love about this online space. There's 2.4 billion people on Instagram, right? Wow. And yet it becomes this place where you can connect with people on a whole nother level. And that's what happened to the two of us, right? We connected. And you've actually helped me move forward on my journey in many ways as I've, you know, sorted through the box of rocks and helped to pick.

SPEAKER_00:

I know that's you know, that's just kind of the metaphor that I use because I really want to hone in on these box of rocks that you've got going on. So like put us in the picture. What was what was one of the rocks that, you know, okay, so it's COVID. Put us in that like frame of your life. Where were you at? What was life like? And what was some of the rocks you identified that you needed to chuck away and the ones that you needed to bring close?

SPEAKER_02:

Right. So I'm actually going to go a little bit deeper than that and tell you that COVID did sort of unearth a lot of problems in the healthcare system in general, of which I was an integral part of. Um and what I realized is the things that were in my box of rocks were things that were put there from sort of traumas and wounds from my childhood, from how I was raised. And this is how it played out in my pharmacy career. I was raised in a very big, strict family. I was given a daily dose of guilt and shame. I was told, you talk too much. That was one of my box rocks inside my box. And I had always been told that. So I took that rock that said you talk too much, and you know, threw it out of the box. And I said, I want to make my voice so clear and I want to be so articulate that people can't not hear me. And that is when I took what was otherwise a trauma or a wound, I uncovered it and I unlearned it, and I decided to relearn a different way of framing that personality trait that I had. And instead of looking at it as a negative, embrace it as a positive and always, always, always lead with the positive so that you can rewire and relearn basically who you are and what you bring to this world, right? And so many people that women in particular that I know are my age and all ages truly, have these wounds and they have these traumas, and they're sitting there in their subconscious and they're impacting everything that they do. And unless they bring them up and percolate on them and think about them and decide, this is no longer serving me, this is, or this is fine, unless they go through that exercise, it will continue to impact the way that they live, the way that they interact with the world, and the choices they make every single day. So getting to know yourself and taking a deep dive into this journey that we call life is something that is so enriching. And yet, if you don't understand what's in your box of rocks and what's been holding you back this whole time, then it's very, very difficult to move forward. So I learned this technique from one of my coaches, and I embraced it and I took it to the next level, and it's part of the tools that I now have curated and crafted and actually made part of the healing process that I have for my clients. And I think it feels very woo-woo and it's kind of uh intangible, you know, but it is it is so powerful when you realize that you have all of these things that have been holding you back this whole time, and that if you could only just identify them and address them and frame it in a way that is more productive and something that you can personally embrace. It changes everything.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, I love this so much. We're here for the woo-woo, you know that you can bring it, you can bring it all. And it's really interesting, actually, because um, with every guest that comes on, I get them to put their birth time and place of birth. And I was looking at your chart before, Leslie, and um, we have the same north node and south node, and it's interesting that you were told that you talk too much because actually your soul's purpose is here to talk and communicate with clarity. So clearly, your soul had this moment where it decided what it wanted and what it didn't want to take forward. And so, how would you help someone to navigate their box of rocks who maybe doesn't even know how to listen? Like, how do you identify where these rocks are?

SPEAKER_02:

So, what you have to do is actually sit down and do a writing exercise. And this writing exercise is something that helps you get real and raw and vulnerable. And I ask my students to sit down and think about a time where they have literally felt underappreciated or undervalued, and it could have been in the classroom and it could have been at home, and it could have been with a teacher, it could have been with a priest, it could have been with anyone, and identify the feelings that you were having at that time. And once you do that and you sort of understand where those feelings come from after sitting and meditating on it, and after taking the time to really understand the origin of it. And literally the steps that you have to go through is you take this wound or this trauma from your subconscious and you bring it up into your conscious mind. And you have to understand that as a child, when you are told something, you assume that it's true and you do not have any uh any conscious mind. It's it's going straight into your subconscious and then it's there until you bring it back up and until you address it. And this is something that doesn't happen overnight. This is something that takes work and it takes time. And for example, you know, humans are like onions, and onions have layers. And every time I encounter a barrier in my business or a barrier in my life, something that I feel like I want to move forward, but I'm being held back, I sit down and I say, okay, Leslie, what is going on in your life? Why are you not able to move forward? And the more I think about it, and I'll free write, I'll just free write, I'll free write 10 pages of emotional, you know, garbage, but it actually eventually unearths something. So what you have to do is you have to get real and raw and vulnerable, and you have to say, Oh my gosh. And every time I work with a student and I ask them to just sit down for five minutes together and start writing this, they immediately have this ability to zero in on, you know, I was meant to think that I was the black sheep, and my sister was always smarter. And my grandmother always said, Oh, here comes, you know, Susie. She always lights up the room. Meanwhile, her sister Nicole is sitting there, you know, pounding sand. And so Nicole is my student, and I help her see what that over time has done to her and what that how that impacts and has impacted her whole life. So it's it's something that's constantly ongoing. Whoops, I think I just lost you. Are you still here? Oh, there you are.

SPEAKER_00:

I am here.

SPEAKER_02:

Hello. Sorry about that. So, so yeah, it's um it's a process, it's constantly evolving. But as I said, the most powerful piece of the step is to recognize and realize that you have these limiting beliefs that are impacting you. And then you go through this four-step process of uncovering it. And so I said we free write it on a piece of paper, right? Very visual. And then what we do is we sit down and we have to unlearn what that, you know, for me, you talk too much. I had to sit down and say, the words that I say are powerful and they bring positive people into my life. And I had to write the exact opposite of what had been holding me back, okay? And then I had to take the piece of paper that said you talk too much, and I had to burn it. I had to physically release it from my mind, my heart, my body. And by doing that, you can write down your traumas, you can write down your wounds, and then you can shred them, flush them, burn them, whatever you do, because that is an outward expression, convincing your mind, you have to convince your mind, okay, this doesn't serve me anymore. You move forward, you move into this space where you say, every day, yeah, I put together a toolbox for each of my students. And in this toolbox, and sometimes it's journaling and sometimes it's meditating, and sometimes it's simply sitting down with your positive affirmation and reading it out loud to yourself in the mirror. This is how we rewire and retrain our brain when we say, My words are so clear, people can't not hear me. And this has a positive impact on them, on me, and on my life.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh, you can tell that this is a journey that I've walked because it's very personal and it ends up that way for each individual.

SPEAKER_02:

And it's incredibly, incredibly powerful. And I think people who are stuck that don't understand why they're stuck and they can't move forward. It's because they haven't embraced these little things that they've been they've been told their entire lives, and they're literally impacting who they are and how they think. And so I say this all the time in my content. You gotta change the way you think. And people are like, You got to be kidding me. There's no way to do that. How can you change the way you think? Well, you have to dig deep. You have to look at the things that you're doing. And if it's something that just for whatever reason doesn't feel aligned with what your true calling is, you gotta figure out why. And then you have to, you know, do this process of uncover, unlearn, relearn, and then rewire. And it's um incredibly powerful, and it's so gratifying to work with people and watch people do this. And yeah. I'm getting for clumped. I'm getting for clumped.

SPEAKER_00:

I love this, Leslie. I love it. And um, it's really interesting because as you were sharing, I was visualizing your your journey and what you have built over the past what three, four years? How long has it been? Okay, so just to put you guys in the picture, Leslie, were you on Instagram before that you started from scratch, didn't you?

SPEAKER_02:

So I started from scratch in August of 2022. I purchased an online course because truly I didn't know the difference between a story and a real. I had an Instagram account because I was watching my adult children uh, you know, climb mountains and ski and all do all these things. It's how I kept up with them. And then I stumbled upon someone who said, you know, you should probably consider checking this out. And so I started out my journey in August of 2022. And uh boy, I was a hot mess in the beginning, and I didn't know the difference between an affiliate offer and a digital offer and traditional marketing and digital marketing and what was social media and how to create content. I'd never done any of that. And so I like to say that I was self-taught because I did. I I've read, you know, 36 books in 36 months. I have taken multiple courses, invested in multiple coaches and mentors, and along the way, somehow I've managed to figure it out. And I have then created other offers for other people explaining how I've done this and coaching people and explaining them and walking them through these steps to the ring of fire, if you will.

SPEAKER_00:

So when you say done this, it's not just like a little thing, guys. You know, she's so August 2022, zero followers, zero clue. Clearly, zero folks as well, because you just went for it. And now we're in as we're recording this, it's July 2025. And how many followers do you have?

SPEAKER_02:

On Instagram, I have 195,000. On TikTok, I have 161,000. I started out on TikTok actually because I thought the platform was easier to edit, but it became a very unsafe place for me because I had 20 to 50 accounts impersonating me. Wow.

SPEAKER_00:

Because I've that you're the you're that good. People wanted to be like you.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, they created accounts and they pretended that they were me and they started selling other things to other people under the guise of being me. So that's you know, and that's what scares me. That's a compliment. So imitation is the highest form of flattery. You are correct.

SPEAKER_00:

It is, it is, and you know, this is like a multi-six-figure, seven-figure business that you've now built online from not having a clue from th three years ago. So like the subconscious mind wants to say, Oh, you know, but that's not normal. Why is that not normal though? Like, why is that not the new normal of possibility? So, what I want to know, Leslie, is what is it that shifted within you that allowed you to magnetize all of that success? And I also want to say that I feel like you're you're totally in your authentic self as you're sharing and expressing. So, do you feel like you know what you've created is a reflection of you actually just being fully connected to who you are?

SPEAKER_02:

That's a great question, um, Kim. And I think that in many ways, this whole path of self-discovery has definitely brought me to a more productive place in my business. But to answer the question of why don't I think that this is accepted as normal, it's because people that are my age certainly were never raised with a telephone in their hand and we didn't know about creating content and social media, and our phone was not the journalist of our life. Okay. The younger people who have had this are much more receptive to the concept. So that right there is one huge barrier. We have never done it before, so it didn't feel possible, it didn't seem possible. So, what I also have to help people see is if you want to have something different, you're gonna have to become a different person. And what that means is you're gonna have to do things you've never done. And in order to do things you've never done, you have to be willing to see life through a different lens. And uh one of the easiest things for people to do is to see me and my success. And they're like, okay, you are embodiment of proof of concept. Okay, so they see that I've done it just by showing the F up. I post three pieces of content every day, every day, day in, day out. I am not curating anything. I get on here, I speak my mind, I speak my heart, I speak my truth. And I think that is what resonates with people, and I think that is why I have so many followers, because there are so many people that are stuck in this space that they are just encouraged to see someone like me have this kind of an experience with it. And frankly, I love it. And yes, the the second part of your question you asked, you know, is this really just me with the true expression of my, you know, calling, if you will. Now remember, as a pharmacist, I was always a caregiver. And so, in a way, I'm still a caregiver. I'm just not explaining to people how to unwrap a suppository and insert it now.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm literally okay I want to do a podcast on suppositories. Can you tell me how to show that up, my ass?

SPEAKER_02:

Instead, instead, what I'm doing is okay, let's take a really good look up that hole and see what's going on in there.

SPEAKER_00:

Look up my hole.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm going with the metaphor.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm dead. I'm gone. Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

So anyway, I mean it's just, you know, and once you get real and raw and vulnerable, and see, this is another key that being a pharmacist, you know, if you are going to talk to anybody about anything that's even mildly embarrassing, if you're embarrassed to talk about it, they will be embarrassed. But if it is very matter-of-fact, if you say, okay, let's talk about what your mother used to say to you as a child, that that box of rocks, those things, let's talk about those things and let's, you know, let's address those. It just helps people realize, oh, nobody's ever told me I can do this before. No one's ever said that that was a thing. So, so yeah, you have to think differently.

SPEAKER_01:

You have to be open to learning new things, like how do you create content? How do you create a reel? How do you how do you connect your bank account to Stripe? And how do you uh create a funnel?

SPEAKER_02:

And how do you create a digital offer? And how do you create a video offer? Those are all things that I had to learn. And, you know, people say things like, oh, I'm just not tech savvy. Well, they're just not tech savvy because they've just never done it. It's hard because you've never done it before. But think about it. You don't, you know, concert pianists don't sit down and play Chopin. They don't sit down and play Mozart. They play chopsticks and they play chopsticks every single day until they figure out how to play it well. And then they play Fort Elise, and then they play Blue Moon, and then before they know it, they are playing Mozart. So people are so afraid to be beginners at anything. And I show them that being a beginner at anything is actually very freeing, especially people that are my age that have already been really successful, maybe in their careers or their family or their lives, or they've raised children and they feel like, oh, I got this. Suddenly they have to be a beginner at something, and they're like, what the what? No, no, no, no, no, no. It's a very uncomfortable place to be and a very vulnerable place to be. But I will tell you, it also, you know, you discover the cracks in the armor. And uh, I'm not the first person to say this. The cracks, that's where the light shows in, it's where it shines through, it's where you help see the parts of you that are waiting inside to open up and come out. And if you're not willing to try something new and you're not willing to be bad at something, I'm sorry. I feel sorry for you because that's where the joy comes, right? Is conquering the difficult, mastering something that was, you know, something you wouldn't knew nothing about. So yeah, I think I answered both your questions. Did I answer both your questions?

unknown:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

All I was thinking about was there's not gonna be much light on my ass if you're looking on where the light cracks, it does shine through. Absolutely does. Oh my gosh. Um, yeah, so what I'm hearing is you're just here for it, you know. You're like, you know what? I'm just gonna figure it out, which actually is humility, is one of the key qualities to be like the light. And you know, every day I always align myself with the light and how creator and God would show up in the world, and being humble in your expansion is one of the key qualities because if you walk around saying, Oh, I know, then you block yourself from actually receiving something that you don't know. And so what I'm hearing is you were so brave to start afresh in a completely new career at an age where most people are not doing what you're doing, you're a leader and you followed the calling of your soul, and that was the loudest voice for you. And I think what a lot of my listeners were were here to like listen to the call of our soul. How did how did you have you always been confident in paving a new way? Or was there a moment where you're like, I have to do this, there's no other option? Or like, what was that that allows you to fully step into that?

SPEAKER_02:

That's a great question. So I wasn't always this way because think about it, I did the same thing for 34 years and I just kept showing up. And yet things were changing and it was shifting. And I tried, and as I said, I've read a lot of books and I've done a lot of work and decided to learn from a couple of really strong leaders. And one of the things that I did was I I studied an author who talks about taking your desire and turning it into action by using visualization. I had never done any visualization work ever before. Like the laws of attraction, the the foundation for all creation, the things we were talking about earlier, an object in motion stays in motion, all of this manifestation. I had never done that kind of work. And I thought, you know what? What have I got to lose? So I started doing using visualization to sort of help myself think of what could it be like? What would I want if I could have whatever I wanted? If I stopped listening to all of the voices in my head that were telling me I couldn't have it. And that's when I realized that fear, right? Which is false expectations appearing real, right? I just realized that that fear was just bravery in disguise. And if I could just be brave for a hot flipping second and take action, then I could take that desire and turn it into action. And then that action would carry me where I wanted to go. And the action that I took was creating content every day and speaking my truth every day. That is what and I as I said, I did this whole visualization exercise, and I I hand it out. It's a YouTube, you know, 30 day challenge, and it's 15 minutes every day, and it helps you you do it right before you go to bed because it helps you let go of the things that are in your box of rocks that you've identified.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

So Those are very specific steps that I took that I now teach. And I couldn't teach these if I had not walked the walk myself, if I had not done this. And I just realized that there are so many things that hold all of us back. But if I could just take action, if I could just get up and create that piece of content to speak my truth. Like what what did I have to lose? And I learned all of these things and I put all of this process together. And now I help others by coaching them that. And I might not have the most beautiful funnels and I might not have the most perfect anything. I don't even have a podcast. That's something that is a mental block for me. I don't know why I don't. I probably should. I'm here on your podcast. It doesn't hurt. I've been on many, many podcasts. But that's a perfect example of another residual piece of that voice that's still in my head saying, you talk too much. Okay. And it's working overtime all the time. And even though I've overcome it in so many different ways, you know, is that my next step? Is that my next chapter? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, with your north node in Gemini, you're definitely here to communicate. So uh if you needed that permission slip. There you go. And that's what's so important. I love this. I love this. So let's just imagine there's someone listening to this going, yeah, okay, but I feel really, really stuck right now. What is the next step that they need to take? Like, what is a structure they could follow to help them get on stock?

SPEAKER_02:

So the first step that I say, and it this is separate and apart from any piece of social media. Like you don't have to suddenly start posting on social media. But I have my limiting belief exercise, which is a free exercise where you can go through these steps where you can sit down with yourself and spend time reflecting and being introspective and identify your traumas and your wounds so that you can uncover them. And then I have a journal workbook that you can go through step by step to actually get unstuck. And the things that are holding your audience back are perfectly different than the things that were holding me back. But they're still holding them back. So in order for them to get unstuck, they have to do the work. They have to peel back the onion. They have to start looking at themselves and realizing that just because someone told you something as a child doesn't make it true. And the other thing is people need to stop using these excuses that they've created for themselves. Like, oh, I have ADD or I, you know, I have a very short attention span. I'd never be able to do that. Well, of course, if you say that, then you can't.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Open your heart and open your mind and stop saying you can't do something. What I think it was Cornell University that said, you know, 85% of the things that people worry about never even happen. So the people who are choosing positive and getting up every morning and getting out of bed and imagining how amazing their day is going to be. Guess what? Their day is awesome because they expect it to be awesome, because they do the things that will make it awesome instead of the people who sit there and worry about, oh, what if, what if, what if. So it's all your frame of reference. And that is also something that can be changed by identifying what your limiting beliefs are and getting unstuck by literal. I mean, holy cats, canary. My husband's grandmother was a worrier, and his mother was a worrier, and his sister is a warrior. It's a learned behavior. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I always say that worrying is praying for something that you don't want to happen. You just start asking for it to happen. And if I love this. And um I would like to be a flying all. And I want you to share with us what you do every morning and every evening before you go to bed. Because guys, the work never stops. From my experience, at every new level, there is a new devil, there is a an energy that tries to distract you. And so being in the right environment and raising your standards and being non-negotiable in your mindset work is what is needed if you want to evolve and grow in today's world, especially because there is so much noise. There is so much opportunity, so much noise, which is great. But it's like, well, what direction do your bloody go in? Right? So now more than ever, like having a structure that helps you to connect with your inner world so that you can be clear on how you want to move forward is imperative. So, Leslie, talk us through your morning and your evening routines and your rituals that help you to stay on track.

SPEAKER_02:

So I learned how to create the perfect calendar from one of my coaches who literally told me that you need to block out the time. You need to make time to have, if you want to have this kind of intentionality, if you want to have this kind of time to do the work, to do the meditation, to do, I am not a journaler, so I do not journal. I do love to meditate. And so I typically get up first thing in the morning and I meditate even before I get out of bed. I set my intention for the day, I get in the right head space and in the right heart space. And then for me, and you and I have talked about this before, but in order for me to get into my head, um, I have to get into my body. So I get up and move. I'm not one of these people that sits there with a cup of coffee and prays over it for a couple of hours. I get up, I literally put my dog in the car and we go to the beach and I walk the beach and I let the sun beat down on me and I let the waves and the rhythm of the waves um crashing against it, because I live like two miles from the beach. It doesn't matter if it's winter, it doesn't matter if it's summer, I'm at the beach in the morning, early, early wee hours. And of course, I live on the east coast of the United States States, so sometimes I'm there for the sunrise, and it's just amazement. It's a great way to start your day. My dog also loves it, and I get my steps in, and it just gets me in the right space. So that's how I start my day. And then, of course, I have my calendar for the rest of the day that's telling me what to do, and a lot of time that's blocked out space. Go for that bike ride, go for that run, go do whatever you need to do to get physical. I actually only work three afternoons a week. I work Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. I start at noon. I'm usually done by four because I created this life with a very intentional amount of empty space in every one of my days. Because I was over the grind of working 50 hours a week and getting to work before dark and getting home after dark. And I was just so over that. So I wanted to create a space that worked for me. So then after I've done my calendar meetings or whatever my day is, I'm also very intentional about my food prep and eating healthy and nourishing my soul and my body to kind of keep all of this fueled, right? I actually have also sort of really backed off on alcohol. I was never a big drinker, but I just find that it interrupts my whole sleep cycle. I'm like an eight to nine hour a night sleep girly. My sleep is what helps my brain heal. So you asked about the other end of my day. I'm really big into hydrating, which means not drinking, and then doing my visualization practice, which is that that doxy laws of attraction, which just reminds me to continue to be open. And I mentioned earlier that I read a lot of books. Part of my evening routine is also I've kind of started at the beginning again, and I've added a few new authors and a few new books, but I started again from the beginning to reread these books that started my journey. And it's so amazing. I was just reading one of Russell Bronson's books, he, you know, dot com secrets and expert secrets and traffic secrets. And I was reading expert secrets, and it said, you are creating a movement. Okay, Kim. And when I read that the first time, I was like, what is he talking about? And now I've created a movement. And so you don't realize how much when you're reading that this stuff goes into your subconscious and your subconscious and you're visualizing it and you're living it. And so I can't say enough about these visualization exercises that I do at that time because I think it helps you let go of the stuff that isn't serving you anymore and embrace the things that um that your heart is ready to accept. So so yeah, that's my process. I I just kind of let it come. And you know, I do schedule my content. I I'll create pieces. Um my son's getting married in a month, and so I've been creating content now and I'm scheduling it for then so that I'm gonna take two weeks off and I'm gonna have nothing to do with my Instagram account, but it's just gonna be churning and going. I mean, right now I have a video that I made on April the 8th that's still going viral. It has 3.6 million views, and it's just this little video that was like the waves crashing on the beach because that's where I am every morning. And I said, send this to someone who needs to hear it because she's probably doing an amazing job. And because my audience is so connected to this concept of who we are and where we are on the journey and the struggle. Um, you know, it has over a hundred thousand people have sent it to someone else, right? That is still on the top of my stories every day. Oh, so-and-so shared this to a friend. This is on someone else's story. And so I I created this, I created this course about my follower formula to show people how I do this, to show people if they want to create a a social media account and if they want to actually get followers and be intentional about it. And it's just um, it's not, it's I mean, it kind of is magic because in order to really feel this, there is a higher power happening here. But it's it's you just have to go through the paces of it, and then eventually your heart cracks open and it starts happening.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it it is magic. And also what I'm hearing is it's intention and devotion, and you just went all in on it. You know, you didn't just kind of like, oh, uh, you read the books, you did the things, you followed the things, you did all the things, and you know, it um I think often when it's who you are, we can kind of underplay actually, yeah, I actually just went all in on this because that's what I was guided to do. And I think it's really important with anything that we do is that we we put our heart and soul into it with intention, as you said, because it's our energy that we then put into the the world that then becomes a movement, which is now what you've created. So if you were to describe in a couple sentences what your movement is as we wrap up, what would that be?

SPEAKER_02:

Leading women down the path of discovering what their true self really is that's been hiding inside, and helping them express that in a way that makes them feel more full and alive. Really? That's what I do. Aliveness.

SPEAKER_00:

I see that's beautiful. I've loved I've loved our chat, and I I really want to just honor you as a human, as a friend, as just a dear soul in my life who I feel so enriched by your presence. Like I feel really wealthy when I connect with you always, and the depth and the heart and the soul that you bring to not only what you do, but your family and your friends and the joy, like you are joy on legs, you truly are. And you know, I know we don't like to label age, however, I do believe that if more women, as they grew older, really connected with the possibility of there is so much life left to be lived, and I can do anything, and I have so much purpose within me. Like, I'm so young, like we're here for one shot, you know. There would be so much more joy and fulfillment. And I know personally my mum would still be around today if she felt connected to a deeper purpose and had role models like you, who she could look up to and go, Oh, actually, there is a life that I can step into and and almost reinvent myself.

SPEAKER_02:

Thank you. Yeah, such a treat to be here and even to just have the opportunity to articulate these things. It's always really fun and helpful. And yeah, love you. You're just the best. And so fun to see what you're doing in this space. It's it's amazing and it's a joy to see.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you. Oh, the death and rebirth process. My life purpose is about death and rebirth. So thank you, God, for uh yeah, making me walk that path. Um, so before we go, I love to. Well, where can people find you? What have you got on? People are gonna be like, how do I buy whatever you're selling? So tell us how they can connect with you.

SPEAKER_02:

So my Instagram account is I M Leslie Latimer, I A M L E S L I E L A T I M E R. I don't know if Kim's gonna have that anywhere on her podcast, but that's my account. And in my stand store are all of my offerings. I have free courses, I have my follower formula, which teaches you how to grow on Instagram, I have my limiting belief course and my workbook that actually starts out as an introductory free offer. And then the workbook is actually the paid steps that you go through one by one. And of course, all my offerings for my one-on-one coaching are there. If you just don't even know where to begin and you just want to start with a conversation, we can do that too.

SPEAKER_00:

So amazing. Thanks, Leslie. Yep. Wow, I'll put I'll make sure I'll put every single thing in the show notes, of course. And um, just to wrap this in a bow, we are the Soul Digger podcast, and you are a soul digger, absolutely. I would love for you to share when you feel into the energy of a soul digger. How would you describe her?

SPEAKER_02:

So she gives herself permission to be what she truly feels her calling is, and lets go of society's expectations and her family's expectations and her partners' expectations, and just leans into that, and I love that, and that's I can't say enough about that process do it.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you, Leslie. I adore you, and um yeah, I'm manifesting a hug in real life soon. Oh, yes, we should talk about that and selfies, lots of selfies and content. We can make content. That would be so much fun. That would be amazing. That would be incredible. Um I love you, Angel.

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Thank you.

SPEAKER_02:

Intensely so good to be here.