To keep this podcast going and how I struggled for a long time with consistency and even self-sabotage, I think, in being able to put out this show consistently, but how there was so much resolve behind it. And so I did wanna jump on and just give a quick little solo intro as a thank you to everyone who has listened for years to all the new listeners who maybe have recently joined us.

And so getting to have this podcast where I get to have more casual conversations on a huge range of topics, even though I do this because I want to be able to get this information out to you guys, I also really do it for me because I love it and it lights me up so much and it allows other inner parts of myself that don't always get to come out and be expressed to be seen, heard, and honored.

And that number really blew me away. I did not expect it to be so low, and I really do think it's worth celebrating. I tend to have a pattern of achieving things and then just sort of being like, well, yeah, I expected that. I always wanted to do that. And so I don't celebrate and I don't thank myself and I don't give myself a pat on the back.

And so this was just, I think, a sweet, fun way to honor the effort and the grind, and the struggle and the overcoming that has gone into getting to this 200th episode. So this is just a fun, playful episode where we went through a number of different audience. Questions that you guys had submitted through Instagram.

Years ago that I'm sure if you're a new listener, you probably didn't go back to listen to, but there's really some phenomenal conversations. And so this was a fun chance to get to highlight the best conversations I've had over all the last five years. It's so hard to choose. I had such a long list of episodes.

Okay, well, here we are. 200th episode. Honestly, I actually feel like it's just hitting me now.

Even though you and I, Kelly, we've been talking about this for a few weeks now, kind of planning it and preparing for it. True actually. It's true. It is kind of That's a big achievement. Yeah, it's a huge achievement. 200 episodes. That's so many guests. It's so many topics. It's so much time and energy spent pouring into this, and I'm so excited to ask you.

Um, and then, yeah, I, when I, when I put up the poll on Instagram, I was like, you know what I really want this to be is a chance for you guys, the audience, to get to engage with me in a way that we don't normally get to. And so I think the q and A will be really fun to just have like a little bit more of a casual, fun, kind of chit chatty conversation about any number of different things.

Yeah, I mean, it was pretty wild because it was 2019 that I had decided to launch the [00:06:00] podcast. I had done the branding and the artwork and all the logistical things to set it up. Learning how to edit a show, buying the tech, um, learning how to upload it and host it and all those things. And then literally, I.

So I think I launched the podcast in February, and I don't know, maybe by April, I like stopped recording because I was in the thick of all these cancer treatments. I had no job. I was completely overwhelmed and [00:07:00] depleted. And, and so that's, that's kind of one piece that I think is interesting to touch on is actually come August of this year, this will be the first year that I've released an episode.

Every single week consistently. Huge. And that feels like such a massive achievement for me. And I have to shout out you, of course, Kelly, because you're literally you and then Alan, our podcast editor. You two are literally the only reason that is even physically possible. Because you know, in the beginning I was doing every single piece from A to Z.

Yeah. Reaching out to guests, booking them, researching them, creating questions, doing the episode, editing the entire thing. Yeah, uploading it to our hosting site, putting it on the website, promoting it. I mean, oh my God. Actually, when I look back at how much it took, I'm very, very proud of that past self.

Like it must be so easy for them to maintain this podcast and yeah, it's just such smooth sailing and they have everything going and that really has not been the case at all. I mean, even to sit here and say, you know, by the end of this month it will be the first time I've ever been able to put out an episode consistently for a year and I'm five years in is a lot.

And then there's this other kind of facet of myself that also wants to be able to be seen, heard, honored, and expressed. And so I think that's why like there could have been so many points along these five years that I just was like, it's too much. I can't do it. I'm letting it go. Yeah. And yet like there was always such a strong resolve of like, no, I need to find a way to keep this going.

Yeah. It's a massive undertaking. I don't know how people like a one woman show on a podcast. I think when you listen to podcasts, there's not a thought in your brain that thinks like. This must take a lot. I don't, unless you're doing it, you don't know the effort that's behind the scenes to actually pull a podcast out of your mouth, into your computer and upload it into, you know, Spotify and Apple Music.

You know? Like you have multiple conversations in a day that you're just like digging deep for. So it's pretty incredible. You mentioned something about self-sabotage though, so go into that a little bit. Like what were the points of self-sabotage in this journey of podcasting? Yeah. Well you know what's so interesting with this is there's literally statistics to back it up in that, in my podcast host that I use, you can see download statistics and all those analytics and it was so stark.

And then as soon as it reached that highest peak that I'd reached, like it would completely drop off. Mm-hmm. And I would stop recording and, uh, at some point I had to go, okay, this pattern is too stark to ignore. Mm-hmm. As soon as I reach like the peak success that I've achieved thus far with this show, I somehow find a reason to go.

It's too much. I can't do it anymore. And sabotage it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And in the moment, I think this is a great, you know, go back and listen everyone to the episode with Carol. Look, that was released a couple weeks ago talking about self-sabotage. Sometimes it can see it's very covert, right? Mm-hmm. In the moment I felt like I had very logical reasons.

This is more successful than I ever thought it would be. That makes me nervous. That makes me uncomfortable. That makes me scared. So we've gotta hit the brakes. Yeah, but let me pull in some seemingly valid reasons to hit the brakes. Yeah, yeah. Which to your point, totally valid. But also at the same time, like sometimes there's a moment where we could push just a little harder, we could figure out a way to, to push forward and then we kind of just don't Yes, they and think that's fine.

Right? Well, and that's where I think the perspective shift helps us see the, the self-sabotage. And I think in a more clearer light of what was I fatigued? Was I tired? Was I, you know, dealing with chronic illness and a cancer di like yes. Those were all legitimate reasons. And also, you know, through 21, through 20, 22, through 2023, I also was struggling with this consistency, even though I actually had ample time.

Hmm. And I lean in and I turn to my inner self and I go, but I've got you. Yeah. Like, you can trust me to not sabotage your dreams. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna lean in and also I'm gonna like do a deeper look at what do I need to do to help myself kind of recover and keep going. Yeah. And be refueled and energized and excited about all of this again.

Mm-hmm. Walking us through that, I feel like that's kind of an interesting backstory for everyone to kind of know the origin story and just that it's not been the smoothest of roads. Right. I mean, it's, it's not been the easiest thing you've ever done, but potentially one of the most worthwhile. And I'm sure we'll dig into that more later in the episode.

Mm-hmm. Um, okay, so you did have a couple listener questions come in and I wanted to yeah, put you, like I said, in the hot seat. We wanna hear from you. Um, and I've got some questions of my own, so we're gonna be popping in here with a few, um, and then I'm sure we'll touch on a few other, you know, some of the favorite podcasts and, and things I like towards the end.

Like, who are you kidding, Leigh Ann? No one, no one gives a shit about your life in degree. Oh my gosh. I just have to name that. I mean, but don't we all kind of have like a little, I don't know. There's a reason that podcast hosts do this because you kind of get to know this person in bits and pieces, like through their conversations with guests, but you don't always get to know the host in that kind of intimate way.

So. Um, without further ado, um, a question that came in was, what do you do when you've had a good day to reinforce that you want to do more of that, like have more good days, um, to your subconscious? Mm-hmm. Yeah. We were talking about this before we started. First of all, I, when I read this question, I was like, this is such a good question.

I need to be focusing on this more with myself. I need to be focusing on this more with clients. 'cause oftentimes a lot of the work is when I'm in old patterns, how do I gently pivot myself out of them? But it's such a great question to go and when I live and am embodying the good patterns. How do I reinforce that?

It also slows your brain down. But I do, when I have just a phenomenal day, I do love to just write it out in the journal and not like a play by pay. I'm a big bullet pointer, but just, this happened, this felt so good. I felt so light today. Mm-hmm. I wasn't weighed down by all these things. Here's how I showed up.

Here's what my mindset was. Here's how that felt. And that's the piece that I think is really key. Key key for me is. Tying, tying the behaviors was actually how it felt in your mind, body, and spirit. And I think that's what really starts to solidify. Yeah. These new patterns, these new ways of thinking. Yeah.

Right. Having a good day. Oftentimes what I will do is like, at the end of the day, in my mind's eye, just kind of meditating and reflecting on the day, just li literally, it's almost like I'm going back into particular moments in the day and reliving them to just fully soak up how beautiful and delicious and aligned they were.

Yeah. Yeah, and I do, I do this all the time where it's just like, let me go back to that moment and just relive it and then feel all those good feelings again. Yeah. Yeah. Something I've been trying to do for myself a little bit has been like, oh, I'm feeling good. What is happening around me as I notice this?

I think that's a beautiful little ritual that can kind of help capture those moments. Yeah. Uh, we just. We cannot separate the mind and the body and trauma doesn't happen just in the mind. And also goodness doesn't happen just in the mind. It's a full experience. And so being able to welcome in the body to that, I think is really, really powerful.

Mine is actually this like beautiful pearl necklace that was gifted to me for my birthday. But you basically have this talisman, this item that you imbue all of this goodness into. Meaning when I, something I want to remember, I wanna remember how. How it feels in my body to be, feel safe and be at peace, and feel safe with abundance, feel connected, whatever that looks like.

Like these are all the things I want to welcome in and bring in. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think that's a sense of, I mean, is there any part of you that's like it is truly imbued with like an energetic positive sense, like positive energy? Or do you just feel like it's to remind a person like of goodness that's been.

I think it could be a little bit, a little bit of both. I mean, if we're just talking in a purely metaphysical sense, I think a hundred percent you can imbue it with energies. Yeah. And also it, there's just like a, this is also a cognitive process of Yeah, we're training the brain that when I hold this item, I'm bringing in all those positive associations.

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Maybe it is now this talisman, but maybe it's something else. Maybe you have different kinds of rituals. Yeah. I think in some sense this is something I've talked about enough that I think the audience will know. There's no short answer being. There are so many different tools and resources I bring in based on what I'm experiencing, what that may be bad day or that dysregulation might look like.

And so what I've been doing, a lot of this is a lot of internal imagery, internal visualizations, where on a day like that, when I'm really feeling a particular type of activation or heaviness. First, I'll go into a body scan where it's just like, okay, where am, where am I feeling this in my body? Oh, okay.

I'm feeling this like deep, deep pressure in my chest. I'm feeling a constriction in my throat. Maybe my neck and shoulders are tense, whatever that might be. I tune into the body, get a sense of where I'm feeling it in my body, and then I go into, if I need to, I might identify some specific emotions like, oh yeah, and this, this feels like anger or grief or rage or terror, or whatever it might be.

This does not need to make sense. This is like made up la la cuckoo coco puffs land. Okay. Yeah. And so, you know, sometimes, like I, I've been actually working through a lot of rage lately with my dad. And, and, and so in one of my somatic expression imagery, I literally imagined, I feel, I feel like scared sharing this now.

Like, but I literally share it. We wanna know, I imagined I had a bat and I was absolutely trashing every, every building I'd ever lived in with him, they were mainly shitty trailers. So I was imagining trashing all the trailers we lived in. Yeah. Yeah. With a baseball bat, like just absolutely destroying everything.

As you're imagining it, you literally feel that energy kind of getting exposed from your body, and you will usually feel like a, ah, like a sense of relief. Most times with myself and clients, when they do this, the physical symptoms they were experiencing dissipate significantly or go away completely. Wow.

And that might be also something totally nonsensical where it's like, Ooh, now that I've expressed all that rage, what would feel good to bring in as just kind of like a settling, grounding imagery? And oftentimes for me that's revolves around around water. Water is very soothing. So it might be that I am, like, I often imagine I'm magically like floating down this magical river.

And that might be it. That might be all I do. I might not even journal or make any notes around it. It's just walking myself through that internal Yeah. Imaginal process. Yeah. Giving your emotions a place to go. Yeah. And it's funny because I do talk so much with clients about doing internal attunement and internal relationship with more, more cognitive, more dialogue around, okay, what are the emotions, what are the beliefs beneath these emotions?

But I'm finding more and more that starting with the somatic piece actually allows us to make much more progress with the cognitive piece. Hmm mm. Okay. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense. And to be honest, like when you're having a bad day, there's reasons for that. A lot of the times it doesn't necessarily mean that you have the time to sit down and do that cognitive piece.

Usually, like shit sit in the fan. And so maybe the all you have time for is to sit in your car in the parking lot and just say, I'm gonna walk through this little, you know, somatic process and that's gonna hold me over until I can get to that next step. Yeah. And totally. I, I like, I really think it's actually such a, a practical, accessible practice where, you know, that for me could be, could be a 20, 30 minute thing, it could also be a three minute thing.

Yeah. Oh my God. I feel this anger and I'm feeling it as this, like constriction in my throat. And so I'm gonna go in and in my somatic expression, I'm just imagining yelling so loudly at this person and just absolutely screaming at them. Yeah. And do that until you feel like the physical and the emotional tension lightening.

Right? Right. This is made up. This is for the sake of the emotional, energetic expression. They're not things we're necessarily gonna be doing in real life. Yeah. But that it can be really, really practical and you, I would encourage you guys to try it 'cause you might be surprised how soothing and relieving it feels.

Yeah, yeah. Yep. Totally. Alright, there we have it. I think that's a great answer. Thank you. Um, okay, so next question we had was around your morning and evening routines. So kick us off like on maybe morning and um, obviously we wanna know your night routine, but everyone was kind of curious how you start each morning.

I was kind of going through it, what are the points to this? And honestly the, there's like. There's practical points, and then there's sort of more of like general things I do, but the thing that I literally was like, oh, we have to start here, is my sunrise simulator alarm clock. Like this is where it all starts.

I feel like I could get up on a soapbox and start preaching about we cannot start our day with jolting out and cortisol and fear. Yeah, like if you really wanna get to the nitty gritty when your alarm starts blaring at you and you jolt awake, that is literally starting your day with cortisol and fear.

So 30 minutes before you, you set it to go, the light starts brightening up the room, which actually starts gently waking your body up even though you're not cognitively aware of it. And then maybe like three minutes before your alarm goes off, gentle sounds start playing in a very muted way, and then they rise in.

Gear up a little bit. Yeah. The gently start allowing your whole system to start to come online. It has been an absolute game changer. It is like a non-negotiable in my routine, complete game changer. So that's where it has to start is like a non-negotiable in my morning routine is that I do start my day with cortisol and fear by being jolted awake from an alarm clock.

Fair. Fair. Um, but then like, how do I curate my morning there? In some ways, the basis of it really is kind of asking this question of like, what, what? What nourishment and attunement is going to set up my mind, body, and spirit to have the best day possible. And I do think I should like pause and say in some ways, in some ways a lot of these routines are pretty habitual now that I don't have to think about them so much, much.

I have gotten off track way more often than I usually do with with this year. And those are cues for me to get back on track. So what I wanna own is like in a lot of ways, this is the ideal. There's parts of this that I do maintain, and then there's parts that I kind of get off track with and I haven't been so good with them recently.

And so a big part of my morning routine is, what are those like raw materials? Yeah. This system needs to be able to perform, right? It's like if I want the car to drive X amount of miles, it needs gas. Yeah. If I do gas up before that journey, I am setting myself up for failure. So there a lot of my morning routine involves physically preparing my body for the day, which for me right now looks like.

Okay. Love it. And I take that to go and I will do an hour walk mm-hmm. Through, through my town, through my neighborhood. And so that's, that's getting my sunshine, that's getting a massive dose of sunshine to completely set up my system for the day. That's getting a ton of really gentle, slow movement. Um, and then, you know, starting my morning with a glass of water.

So I'm immediately hydrating and then usually when I come back from my walk, it's how can I get some more good fats and proteins. Yeah. My coffee literally has like 20 to 30 grams of protein in it from the collagen and the butter and the half and half. So yeah. Yeah. Hardy beverage. Yeah. The meal. Getting some good proteins.

It affects every single function of the body. And just what I have found is when I do that in the morning, and especially a slow walk, I am not fast walking. This is not about exercise or fitness. Mm-hmm. This is about moving my body. And so it usually is like a pretty slow meandering walk, but it sets my whole system up for a day of mm-hmm.

But for me, getting sunshine and movement first thing in the morning is a pretty non-negotiable part of my morning routine. Okay. Because it just impacts everything physiologically, my mind, body, and spirit. But my mind and my body especially simply cannot perform. Yeah. Optimally, if it is not getting sunshine and movement first thing.

Yeah. Yeah. Even 15 minutes is sometimes enough to like knock you back on track. Right. But giving yourself that full hour is, is kind of a, it's a dream. You know, not everyone probably is able to fit that into their morning routine, but knowing like any amount of movement, sunshine first thing Yeah. Will make a world of difference.

I can't expect my body to show up. I cannot expect my brain to show up. Yeah. Yeah. If I am not giving it those essential nutrients and fuel. So in a lot of ways, a good chunk of my morning routine revolves around giving my mind and my body like the foundational nutrients it needs to be able to perform.

And then, then I do like to have a little bit of a slight check-in with myself of, um, yeah, I, yeah, I'll usually do some kind of check-in where I'm attuning to what, what am I feeling and experiencing what is going on in my mind and body and spirit today so that I can curate the rest of my day. In a way that serves who I am and where I'm today.

I'm achy all over. Yeah. Um, I'm super tired. I feel a bit heavy and lethargic. That tells me a lot. That tells me great. Yeah. The things I might bring in to start my day, aside from those foundational things are gonna be things that support that. So maybe I'm gonna add five minutes on my vibration plate, or, you know, 20 minutes on my infrared pen mat to help with that inflammation.

Yeah. And it does take more effort and energy to tune in every single day. Yeah. But to that end, that's why I have like the general baseline stuff, the walk. Mm-hmm. You know, sunshine movement, nutrition, the baseline stuff. Yeah. And then some of these other things are more based on that attunement that's happening Yeah.

Even getting to do, you know, 30 minutes of that workshop mm-hmm. Feels really good for me of like, Ooh, I do this thing that is totally optional and just fun. Yeah. Um, maybe it's, yeah, reading a book. So I, I like to do something that's just like fun and optional that makes me feel Yeah. Ooh, I got to do something for me.

Already rather than mm-hmm. I can't do something for me until I've finished all my things for the day. Yeah, yeah. Because we all know we crawl in bed at the end of that day and go, well, we didn't fit it in. Mm-hmm. It never happened. And those days pile up and you start to become really resentful about your life.

Mm-hmm. And there's something really, really frustrating about that. Mm-hmm. Um, that really depletes you over time. Right. And to the end. Like, I, I think we can get there even when we're doing all the lovely things, right? Yeah. So true. I if, if there is such a rigidity of, I wake up, I do my walk, and then I sauna, and then I do my vibration plate, and then I do my coffee enema, and then I do this every single day.

Even though those are all fantastic things and very lovely. Yeah. The intention behind it is very loving. Your inner self is so much more dynamic than that. Yeah, and you wake up and you go, you know what? I feel super good. I feel really energized. You know what? I don't. I don't need the vibration plate today.

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But really it's like I might make myself some. Some kind of tea. Do my journaling, maybe a meditation. Although recently I haven't been doing that. I've been really off my meditation game. And then I'm going to bed. I'm crashing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're done. Aside from the whatever, like shower washing, your face brushing.

Yes. Yeah, of course. Aside from that, it's really quite simple. That's what it is for me, so, yeah. Yeah. Well, would you say you're a morning person? Just generally? So in general, yes. Yes. And also I don't, I don't struggle with falling asleep or sleeping while I used to. I used to, sleep was a huge pain point for me most of my life.

There's so much we could say and talk about. But, um, I do have a couple questions around, um, you know, honestly, this was something I, I've been curious about, maybe where did you kind of start on doing the podcast? You had like a belief or perspective that you held that you've maybe changed your mind on after doing 200 episodes with various guests.

Yeah, I mean I think that that's a really fun question because also in the health world, things change so quickly. Yeah. They change fast and, and so I love, I think we have to hold that nuance and be able to go, what was being said about parasites five years ago could be completely different now. Which is why sometimes I like to have guests on again, on some of these topics.

Now expand us on the new research and what else we've discovered. I'm sure there's so many things. I will say, you talked about the nervous system. I do think what I've been talking more about, um, actually in the episode with Britt Piper recently, we had such a good conversation around the rhetoric about nervous system has gotten a little too extreme in some places.

Health is things will happen that dysregulate us. We want to be able to have healthy responses to things, right? Like if, yeah. You know, we don't, we don't, we don't necessarily wanna be calm, cool and composed and unaffected if sure a loved one just passed. Sure. That's, that's something that creates grief.

We actually wanna be able to ha feel and experience that grief. It's just we wanna be able to metabolize it in a way that maybe doesn't keep us stuck or bring us down too much. So that's one thing is I do think there's been a lot of expansion there of over, over emphasizing nervous system regulation versus.

Mm-hmm. Right. Like nervous system dysregulation is the former, it's not the latter. The latter is like, you know, those, those self-sabotaging bad behaviors that end up kinda ruining, you know, the progress that we're making or sometimes ruin our lives. But, and it may be a symptom of dysregulation, right. But being dysregulated itself is not like.

Yes. And because I've had a number of guests on related to nervous systems specifically, you have. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I love that. That was a great conversation for sure. Okay. Um, this is kind of a fun question, but what do you do when you lose your train of thought and you're talking to a guest and you're like, well, I don't really know where I was going with that.

Um, you know what I will say if it's not too self inflated is I am, I actually feel very confident in my interview skills. Yeah. I rarely lose my train of thought. I rarely need notes, um, in front of me. We do always prepare and send questions to the guest ahead of time. And so sometimes I'll print those out and have them in front of me.

Okay, we're moving on to the next topic. You really seamlessly tie thoughts together. I think that's a great skill. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like, I'm trying to think though. 'cause I, where, where do I sometimes struggle with guests? Hmm. I think sometimes, and what I still wanna work on is I, I like to get vulnerable and so sometimes when I feel that the guest doesn't wanna go there.

It does stump me up a little bit. 'cause I can feel in my heart and system like, oh, the audience is gonna want this too, and I want this too. Mm-hmm. Not for the sake of exposing this person, but because it really makes you feel so connected with them and leads to such a depth of conversation. Yeah. And so sometimes I'll find myself getting frustrated and, and not sure where to go with it.

Places, or if I feel like the guest really isn't explaining something again, like to the depth that I would want, even if we're talking about like physiological things, I'm like, no, no, but, but how does, or dopamine, I really need to know what's happening chemically in the body. And they kind of Yes. The surface level.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And that's where my own insecurities come in of like, I don't wanna ruffle their feathers. I don't want them to feel attacked. Right. So we'll kind of move on to a different topic. I think there's so much value that can come from being able to go, huh, I'm not really seeing it that way. Can we dig into this deeper?

Here's where my thoughts. Yeah. Um, so that's something I am still actively working on, being able to do more. Right. I am excited to see that with future guests. Okay. That's what we're looking for. Take the hard hitting questions. Um, okay. So this, that's kind of a perfect segue for this. Um, what's kind of a topic or.

Mm. Um, like, for example, human design was the first thing that came into my mind as you were asking that question. 'cause it's, I don't know, in some ways I, I think there's a lot of people who wouldn't, who wouldn't know what that is or wouldn't believe in it, or would just think it's a bit too woo woo. Mm.

Um, and so it is something I haven't, I've only had two guests on and they were like very, very far apart in years of having them on. Mm-hmm. And I didn't have them on, like, I took so long in between because I, I think I was a little insecure about. Bringing a guest on to talk about this sort of energy blueprint and it, you put in your birth date and time and it just, it does, it feels, yeah.

That's the place I'm gonna share it from. I'm not gonna share it from a place of like, there is so much data behind this and you must do it and use it and bring it into your life. It's actually maybe even acknowledging, look, this involves some astrology and, and um, Vedic principles and all these different things and I don't really know where it comes from or if there's any science behind it, but my God, it's really been providing a lot of value for me.

So I wanna share it. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's beautiful. And so I think having a lot more confidence in being able to share on topics like that. Sure. That I can't maybe necessarily point to any scientific evidence. I'm just speaking to my own experience. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think that's beautiful and really resonant for people.

Oh, oh my gosh. The next a hundred, that's two years. Isn't that crazy? It's exciting. Yeah. It's two years. So, um, yeah, I can speak, I'll speak to a couple things there. One, I am definitely excited to bring in more depth psychology conversations, you know, with myself, with you, with guests, because of course I'm in this PhD program.

Yeah. Um, and then also this, this is one of those ones that still feels a little out there, a little uncomfortable. Uncomfortable for me, but. Sexuality and sex, honestly. Yeah. I just feel like our sexuality in all the ways, not just related to sex. I had a fantastic conversation with, um, Susan Morgan Taylor, that, that was my first guest ever this year talking about sexuality and vitality and how it is a vital component of our spiritual selves.

Yeah. And so anyways, there, there is a part of me that's like, this is important. I want to engage with more guests on this topic that. And also feeling, you know, a little insecure and fearful of going to those places because I, I think myself included, a lot of us are really uncomfortable with Yeah.

Huge. Yeah. Just more conversations about how do we, how do we honor and nourish and engage with and express this part of ourself in all the ways. Again, not just through sex, but it just is feeling more and more. Vital. Mm-hmm. And like actually a foundational piece of living. Yeah. Yeah. Well, not many of us are getting a lot of input on that.

And so I think sometimes we avoid the topics because it's confronting and we've sort of just accepted or acquiesce like, well, no, this is just how it is. Nothing can change. It's too late to change anything. So yeah, fronting. Yeah, it definitely can be. I'm, I mean, it's one of the most awkward talks out there, and there's a reason for that.

Right. So, um, yeah. No, that'll be very cool to see. Um, okay. Final question. I wanna know, I wanna know what some are, some of your topics that you'd want. Oh, I mean, I, that's definitely one of them for me. I think, um, I mean I'm sure there's tons of podcasts around sexuality, to be honest. Not that I've ever looked any of them up.

Um, and I think just more on creating life alignment. I love hearing guests, just telling even their personal stories. Um, talking about, I, I think even when you've had entrepreneurs on sharing about their product, right? Uh, there's some of that like, and how I became aligned in this path and there's always a tail, right?

Like, I was going down here and then something happened, or I realized I woke up one day like this, ain't it? And they went another way. I think those stories are, they're, they're never not encouraging, right? They're never not sort of meeting all of us in this moment of like, okay, yes, either I need to keep on the path or maybe I need to like.

Interviewing doctors and guests around, you know. Top cancer tests, treatments. Mm-hmm. Prepare for radiation, how to detox from radiation. So that is something that's in the works that I'm also really, really excited to. Yes. Really cool conversations around. So that is gonna be very cool chapter. Very well.

Okay. Do you have time for one more question? Yeah, yeah. We need to ask you. Okay. We're fast forwarding to episode 300. Get there. In your mind, what do you hope your future self is celebrating? You know, like, what are you talking about at, at episode 300, two years have passed. Um, maybe it's personal, maybe it's podcast related, but what are you hoping that that future self is, um, excited about and celebrating?

So every episode is recorded. We have a whole production team. Like, that's the dream. I'd love to get there. And maybe even one of my favorite, um, podcast is Armchair Expert. Mm-hmm. And their episodes are like two hours long. Um, you know, hour and a half, two hours. And I just, but I, I love that you have all that time to be able to sink into really, really powerful conversations.

It's impactful. It's authentic. Yeah. Um. Yeah, it's just a whole big thing. So that would be really exciting. Um, personally, I mean, personally, professionally, I feel like there's so many other things, the things I wanna launch, writing books, finishing my PhD

membership, and just being able to sit back and more, more than any actually achieving any of those things though it's being able to look back and go, oh my God. Like these were big dreams that didn't have to come true. Yeah. You could have not pursued any of these and still had a really beautiful, great life.

It might not happen, but I'm gonna pursue it with everything I've got. Yeah. Yeah. That's huge. Can't wait to see you at 300 episodes. Congratulations on 200. It's a huge accomplishment. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It's so special and it's so special to have you facilitate this and literally I have to give another shout out to you and Alan because guys this, this would not be here for sure, despite wanting to do it.

For sure with like my client load and school. Yeah. There is just absolutely no way this would be able to continue to function. So if you guys love the podcast, send all your silent thanks to Alan, our podcast editor, they are amazing and such a gift to me. Well, it does take a village sometimes to make our dreams come true, doesn't it?