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• Knee Surgeries and different recoveries 
• Amsterdam Airport is a LOT
• Trapped Emotions and Stories have a greater impact than you think

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Listen in as Jennifer Takagi, founder of Takagi Consulting, Certified High Performance Coach, 5X time Amazon.Com Best Selling-Author, Certified Soul Care Coach, Certified Jack Canfield Success Principle Trainer, Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst and Facilitator of the DISC Behavioral Profiles, Certified Change Style Indicator Facilitator, Law of Attraction Practitioner, and Certified Coaching Specialist - leadership entrepreneur, speaker and trainer, shares the lessons she’s learned along the way.  Each episode is designed to give you the tools, ideas, and inspiration to lead with integrity. Humor is a big part of Jennifer’s life, so expect a few puns and possibly some sarcasm.  Tune in for a motivational guest, a story or tips to take you even closer to that success you’ve been coveting.  Please share the episodes that inspired you the most and be sure to leave a comment.  

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Jennifer Takagi

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Welcome to Destin for success. I'm your

host, Jennifer Takagi, and today I want to talk about my journey,

traveling to Spain. Travel is a big deal, and being able to

handle going through airports and security like it's a lot,

and not everybody handles it very well. I have traveled a

lot. I took my first airplane ride when I was probably 13, and

my uncle was a pilot, and had a small plane and flew me and my

mom from Richardson, Texas to Ohio to see friends, and then

back. It was super cool. So imagine how exciting it was to

get on like a jet airplane and go someplace in a big airplane

instead of a little airplane. So I've traveled a lot. I don't

know how many miles I've logged over the years, but I'm going to

say quite a few. Traveled a lot for personal and also for

business, I had my first knee replacement, which was my third

knee surgery, but my first replacement in March of 2024, I

skated through that recovery like I sailed through it. People

were shocked, stunned and amazed at how well I did. I stayed in

physical therapy as long as I possibly could after surgery,

because I think it matters. I think it matters a lot. I also

did over three months of physical therapy before surgery,

because you need to build all the muscles around the area

you're going to fix. So I did it all I did it all. Right. It was

super fast, super easy. 13 months later, in April of 2025 I

had my other leg done. It's very funny. How many people ask me if

I had the same knee replaced twice a year apart? And you

know, this is just one of those things that you just assume

people know you typically don't have the same one done a year

apart, unless, of course, you're highly allergic to metal, and

they don't test you for that. Thank you again. Dr German for

highly recommending I have that test because I'm highly allergic

to nickel, and you usually just sail right through it, you know,

you have it done, and that's that. So I have my second

surgery, I'm expecting to sail through it like I did before.

However, I did things a little bit differently this next time,

I kind of decided a little bit last minute when I was going to

do the surgery, so I only went to five sessions of physical

therapy, 12345,

not three and a half months of physical therapy. The other

thing is, I went on a cruise. It was a business cruise. Yes, that

is a thing. I went on a business cruise. It was amazing. And

unfortunately, I

had my last drink on Saturday night, late, I got on a plane

Sunday and flew home and had surgery. Wednesday, I bled like

a stuck pig. Apparently, three days without alcohol is not

sufficient to take the blood thinning properties out of your

system. It's either that or the Celebrex anti inflammatory that

I take, but they said it was okay to take that. So who knows.

Anyway, a lot of bleeding causes a lot of swelling. A lot of

swelling greatly impacts your ability to move, recover and do

the things you need to do. So my recovery has been much slower. I

screamed and yelled and cussed at the surgeon a lot and

everybody in his office, and they keep saying, each surgery

is different, each recovery is different. It's just different.

And my response to that is that's a bunch of crap. It

shouldn't have been different. It should have been just as easy

in July, towards the end of July. So now I had surgery the

middle of April, so all of May, all of June. Now are July. We're

three solid months after surgery. Last time I was, you

know, dancing a tango, not really. This time I'm like,

still Gympie and a crown fell off one of my molars that I'd

had for many, many years. I had a crown for years, and then I

had a root canal on that tooth. And then, you know, that's it.

It's lasted me many, many years. It's all fine, like 20 years,

something ridiculous, and it falls off. So I, I'm getting

ready to get on a plane. I saved the crown the next morning, I

called the dentist, and they're like, Oh yeah, I'll get right in

immediately. And I did, and he said, I'm so sorry I can't glue

this back on because it broke part of your tooth. Long story

shorter, the crown was metal, and the X ray won't go through.

Metal. So you could not tell that the crown was no longer

placed properly and the tooth had decay underneath. So this is

like, I don't know, the 20th of July. Blah, blah, blah. Fast

forward. The tooth breaks off at the roots, what was left of it,

or at the gum line. And I had to have surgery to extract the

tooth, a, what's it called, a bone graft, and then an implant

put in. I'm still waiting to have the final crown. Then,

apparently you have to let it heal for a long time. So I have

that removed, that decaying tooth that I didn't know was

decaying. I had a root canal. Didn't hurt. It was all good for

me until it wasn't. And about three weeks later, it dawns on

me, my knee is healing quickly. I my recovery is just

exponentially faster. I'm I'm thrilled, I'm thrilled, and I

like to make connections like that's kind of one of the things

I'm pretty good at, is connecting the dots. So my dot

connecting is that my body could not heal two major things at one

time. It could not heal a tooth that had a problem that nobody

knew about, and this recovery from surgery like it, it just

can't do all of that at once. My knee is so much better. I can do

so much more. I feel like I'm, you know, like I was last time,

five weeks out of surgery instead of six months like it's

just been amazing. I'm so happy. So I travel to Spain, and I get

here, and it's a lot. I fly from Oklahoma City to Atlanta, a

layer of in Atlanta, and then a long, long, long, long, long

flight to Amsterdam, couple hour later in Amsterdam, Amsterdam,

and then fly down to Malaga, and thank God we're staying in a

city Torre melanos, which is literally 10 minutes from the

Malaga airport. We get to the apartment, it's beautiful. It's

stunning. It's on the Mediterranean, and my ankles are

swollen up like softballs, if not cantaloupes, like they're

huge, and I'm like, What on earth I was going to wear

compression socks on the plane. I laid them out, but I don't

know what happened when I got ready to go to the airport and

got dressed, but I couldn't find them, and I thought, Oh, I must

have accidentally packed them. I didn't, I didn't. I unpacked all

my bags. Those socks aren't here. They're at home somewhere.

I don't know what happened to them, and I, you know, I thought

it would help, like compression socks might help.

So we get here Wednesday afternoon, and Thursday, I'm

still swollen and I'm gimping along. And Friday, girlfriend of

mine had come with me and my other friend, so there are three

of us, girls and and they've, like, gone out exploring the

city. And I'm like, Yeah, I can't, I can't

walk across the apartment, like, I can't go. So we get out and

about and we walk down the beach a little ways for them, it's

just like a blink, and you're there for me. Every step is

like, what the hell am I doing? This is just terrible, and my

ankles are swelling more and more and more. So this has been

from Wednesday night, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and

now it's Monday. I've laid on the bed with my feet up. I've

drank lots of water, I've tried walking, I've done all the

things that you would normally do, and they're still really

super swollen. And I work with a man named Shiraz and his

business, one of the big things that he does is identify the

story you have going on and rewrite it. Rewrite it from

something negative, something tragic, something horrible into

something positive, like what? What can we glean from this?

What can we learn from this? It's a little bit similar to my

friend Kimberly Crow's book, shift your narrative, and his

is, rewrite reality, I think is what it's called. I'll find

their links and drop them in the show notes. Yeah, that's what

I'll do. I'll put them in there, because they're both amazing

books and amazing people. I love them both very much. And I have

a call with Shiraz, fortunately, on the books for that Monday,

and we get on the call and I and it's usually business. We're

usually talking about business things. What I need to do to

grow my business, increase my following, you know, do all the

businessy things. I love the work that I do, but I want more,

right? I want more. I want more clients. I want to work with

people. I want to help people. You know, that's what I want to

do. Those are the things we usually talk about. So we get on

the call and he's like, Hey, how are you? And I said, I'm in

grade. I'm in Spain. It's beautiful. Very happy here. Love

it. Nice apartment, I said, but my ankles are so swollen, I just

can't get around. Like, this is problematic. So he starts asking

me questions, because he's trying to get to, like, what is

the root cause of why I'm so swollen, and it's only my

ankles. It's no place else. So he's like, Well, do you want to

do? You want to do the work you wanted to do while you're in

Spain? Yes, I have podcasts to do. I've got emails to do. I've

got things to do, like, yes, and here, I don't have the same

distractions that I have at home. I have a lot of

distractions, don't get me wrong, but they're not the same.

So it's a whole different space. And so we spend about 25 minutes

going through all the different possible scenarios. We get to

the end, and he's ready to say, is that all? But he doesn't

quite get there. And I said, Wait, is this going to, like,

take care of the swelling of my ankles? And he's very intuitive.

And he said, Do you feel safe where you are? And I went, Oh my

gosh, I feel so safe. We, we've got to have a little FOB,

electronic FOB, to open the gate to get into the actual grounds

where the apartment building is. And then we've got to do another

one to get inside the lobby. And then we take the elevator up,

and we, we've got multiple locks on the door, I feel very safe.

The area is very safe. I feel safe walking up and down the

streets, even at night, yeah, yeah, I feel safe. And he said,

I just, I'm just getting this image of a man trying to harm

you. Is there a man around there that could try to harm you? And

I was like, You have got to be kidding me. Absolutely not.

Absolutely not. I feel perfectly safe here. And he goes, gosh, I

see a car coming at you. Are the cars? Do the cars go really

fast? And I went, No. As a matter of fact, you walk up to

the crosswalk and it I don't know how many stripes there are.

I'm gonna have to count. There are, like five stripes that are

all wide. So there's a wide crosswalk area where you can

cross the streets. And I said, No. I said, as a matter of fact,

as soon as you walk up to the crosswalk, the car starts

stopping, like they don't even get to the crosswalk. I feel

perfectly safe. And he goes, god, that's so weird. I just see

a man physically harming you in a in a car. So some of you are

probably going, Oh, my God, Jennifer, this is like a psychic

premonition. Somebody's out to get you. No, that's not it at

all. But guess what it is? Can you guess it had all already

happened? It had already happened. We land in Amsterdam,

and I had heard that a lot of times. They park out on the

tarmac, and you have to walk down the steps with your carry

on bag and then get on a little shuttle bus to get to the main

terminal, and I didn't want to do that, right? I'm still not

100% steady on my feet, and I've got my carry on bag with my

laptop and other stuff in it, you know, the essentials you

have to carry on. And I'm like, Oh my gosh. Like, I don't want

to do that. So the whole way, it was 20 minute taxi to the

terminal, and I kept saying, keep going, keep going. Please

keep going. Let's not stop until we get to the terminal. Let's

go. Let's go. Let's go. Keep going, keep going. And it would

stop almost completely. And I'd be like, no, no, no, keep going.

Keep going. Keep going. Well, lo and behold, we went all the way

to the terminal. I was so happy I could just walk off that

plane. So my friend Kimberly and I stopped and got a Diet Coke,

and then we had to continue our journey to meet my friend at her

gate. But I back up a little bit, walking to the restaurant.

We backtracked on where we wanted to go to have a Diet

Coke. I'm walking along, I'm pulling my roller bag, and it's

a small roller bag, it's a laptop kind of bag on wheels.

And this man and woman literally come out of nowhere and just

crash into me, knock my bag completely out of my hand. Keep

going. The man turns around and looks at me like I've done

something because it startled me. I was like, because I'm not

stable on my feet. Did I say that? Like 12 times already? Do

you get the picture? And then his wife has the nerve around

and give me an ugly look. And I looked at Kimberly and I said,

What the hell like Am I invisible? Well, did they

literally, honest to God, not see me, and just like, banged

into me. So we get my bag, we go have our diet coke, have a nice

visit, and now we're headed to the gate, and we've got to go

through a whole passport security area to get to the gate

to meet my other friend who's already over there,

Kimberly says, Please let me carry your bag. Let me wheel

your bag so you can just focus in this busy airport of being

stable on your feet. You know, she doesn't want me to go down

people. I'm like, Yes, I will accept that. I'm trying to say

yes when people want to help. So she takes my roller bag, and we

start walking, and the corridor comes down and makes a hard

curve. It's like a hard curve to the left. It's not a sharp left

turn. It's a it's a big curve.

A man driving a motorized vehicle is pulling either four

or five big trash containers. And as he comes around the

corner too fast, it like does a whiplash, like and I go, Whoa,

and I start backing up. Kimberly starts yelling,

whoa, whoa, whoa. He literally came inches from knocking me

over with the last trash bin in the in this chain. And Kimberly

jumps back just as he hits my suitcase that she's dragging and

knocks it completely over. And he keeps going. And a policeman

starts yelling, or security guard, he starts screaming at

the guy in whatever language the the man would understand,

because English and whoa, whoa, whoa, were not comprehended nor

cared about.

And he finally stops, and he turned back, and that Jackass

started smiling at me. I wanted to go over and, like, pinch his

head off. I was so mad. I couldn't believe it. It was

like, holy, crap, holy I cannot believe that just happened.

Kimberly gets my bag off, we go and we make it without incident,

to the gate and have a snack with my friend Jan, and we get

on the plane, and we make it to Malga, and we make it to the

apartment, and I think that's it. Like, okay, like, that's a

good story to tell that I don't ever want to go to Amsterdam,

and I surely don't want to go through that airport again.

Like, that's a scary, dangerous place. It's really not, I'm sure

it's not. It was just a moment for me, like I had two really

big moments there. So as I'm sharing all this with Shiraz, he

said, If your ankles are swollen and you're walking with a

hobble, people pay attention and look out for you. Are you ready

to step out of that story? Are you ready to let go of the

terror and the trauma? Because I can tell that this was very

traumatic and scary for you at the time. Are you ready to step

out that of that story? And I was like, yes, let's out of that

story. So I finished my call with him, and I was like, that

is so interesting, that number one, he's a very intuitive

person, but that we could put all those pieces together so

easily, so easily. So I sat down and started doing my emotion

code work, and I asked the question, Do I have any trapped

emotions from my time in the Amsterdam airport that would be

keeping me from fully healing and my swelling and my ankles

going down and being good to go. And the answer was yes, and that

emotion was, it was terror. I literally had the trapped

emotion from of terror from that event, those two events,

actually, which, of course, having no sleep and probably

dehydrated, blah, blah, blah, all the, all the other things

that come with travel. I woke up the next morning because that

was a afternoon call that I had. I woke up the next morning and I

have no swelling whatsoever. It's gone. I did go on Wednesday

of that week to Africa. We went to Morocco and the city of

Tangier, and it ended up being about a 17 hour day, crammed in

a bus, knees bent, all tied up, no movement for like four hours

and then an immense. Amount of walking, a lot of uphill, a lot

of downhill, on uneven streets where you're walking at an

angle, kind of sideways, ish, and again, I'm not feeling super

stable just yet, so I was taking extra caution, and that caused a

lot of swelling. And by the time we got home, I was like, I'm

dead, like this is terrible. I'm miserable. But you know what, I

woke up the next morning with no swelling whatsoever. The

swelling comes from healing. The swelling comes from still

recovering from this knee replacement. It's so much better

than it was, but we can take journeys, and we can tell

stories, and we can hold on to stories, whether they really are

for our best and highest good or not. And it's up to us to choose

to let it go. So I have let go of the story that Amsterdam is

bad. I even discussed that with Shiraz, because we know people

who tell the same story over and over again, and they attract

more of that trauma drama to themselves. And I said, I have

to tell this story, because it's such a great story, but can I do

it without bringing more of it to myself? And he said,

Absolutely, you just have to be detached from it. You can tell

the story. You can tell the story with emotion and emphasis,

but it doesn't have to embody you. It doesn't have to be true

for you. So if you have stories going on that are driving the

bus, have you heard that old story? You got a five year old,

eight year old kid that was traumatized, and that's true.

I'm not minimizing it, but sometimes we don't grow past

that, and we still let that five year old, eight year old drive

the bus and make all our decisions for us. And it doesn't

have to be that way. We can let it go. We can let it go and we

can move forward. I let go of my story about Amsterdam, and I

might even go back to Amsterdam, but I will say my flight home is

not through Amsterdam, but we get to choose our journey and

our path. But sometimes we need a coach, sometimes we need a

guide to help us unwrap all the packaging around it. I don't

know that I would have gotten there by myself because I

thought it was over, but now I'm really glad it truly is over.

I'm Jennifer Takagi with destin for success, and I look forward

to connecting with you soon. Bye.