Words of Wellness with Shelly
Do you get confused by all of the information that is available regarding ways to improve your health and wellness? Do you often become frustrated or overwhelmed with decisions on how to be your healthiest? We all know and understand how important our health and wellness is to the vitality of our lives, however navigating the wealth of health and wellness information available can often feel overwhelming. Understanding the significance of our well-being in leading fulfilling lives is crucial, yet determining what steps to take that are essential for our health can often be confusing.
Welcome everyone to "Words of Wellness"! In this podcast, hosted by Shelly Jefferis, M.A., a seasoned health and wellness professional with over 35 years in the industry, all of your questions will be answered and clarity will be provided through personal stories, education, tips and inspiration. Throughout her profession, Shelly has always had the heart and desire to help others feel their best and live their best lives through her supportive and compassionate approach. Through engaging solo and guest episodes, several topics will be addressed, questions will be answered and clarity will be provided in an effort to lead you to a healthier, more energetic life. With a master’s degree in kinesiology, extensive experience as an educator, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur, Shelly brings a wealth of knowledge and a genuine passion for empowering others to feel their best. By featuring industry experts and relatable individuals, the podcast promises personal stories, practical advice, and inspiration. She is excited to come to you weekly sharing all she has experienced, learned and discovered through the years. Whether you're seeking to elevate your well-being, gain practical insights for personal health, or simply be inspired to live a high quality vibrant life, this is the podcast is for YOU! Be sure to tune in weekly and join us along our "Words of Wellness" journey and embark on a path toward a healthier and more fulfilling quality of life full of happiness, energy and joy!
Words of Wellness with Shelly
Motherhood Pivots with Stephania Weisz: Balancing Career, Family, and Wellness
Can you make a dramatic career change while raising young children? What if you're missing those once-in-a-lifetime moments with your kids because of work? And why is it so hard for mothers to ask for help?
Stephania Weisz, host of the "Mom Powered Life" podcast, tackles these questions and more as she shares her compelling journey from registered nurse to real estate agent and health coach. The pivotal moment? Missing her daughter's first steps while working a night shift - a heartbreaking experience that sparked a complete reevaluation of her professional life.
"People told me I was absolutely insane," Stephania reveals about leaving her nursing career. "But I put it out of my head because it was what was best for me and my family." Her candid conversation with Shelly explores how motherhood forces us to redefine success, find flexibility, and sometimes make bold pivots against conventional wisdom.
Beyond career transitions, Stephania opens up about her early commitment to sharing authentic motherhood experiences on social media when everyone else was posting perfectly curated content. "I started sharing my motherhood journey pretty early on about how it is not perfect," she explains. "I would get so many moms saying 'thank you for being honest.'" This authenticity eventually led to creating her podcast where mothers could find community and reassurance that they weren't alone in their struggles.
The most powerful message comes at the conclusion when Stephania shares what she wishes she'd known earlier: "I wish I would have asked for help sooner. I wish I would have felt like I didn't have to do it all." Her vulnerability reminds us that strength isn't found in doing everything yourself, but in knowing when to reach out for support.
Whether you're a new parent, considering a career change, or simply need reassurance that you're not the only one finding motherhood challenging, this conversation offers both practical wisdom and emotional validation. Listen now and remember - it's okay to ask for help.
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Shelly Jefferis
The one thing that I share with, especially like new moms now, is that I wish I would have asked for help sooner. I wish I would have felt like I didn't have to do it all. It took me until having my third where that was a bit of a tough delivery and recovery that I had to ask for help. I couldn't do everything and I wish that I had asked for help sooner. I wish that it didn't make me feel like less and know that it's okay. It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to rely on others. It's okay to say, hey, I can't do all this, you don't have. You don't have to, you shouldn't have to.
Speaker 2:Do you get confused by all of the information that bombards us every day on ways to improve our overall health and our overall wellness? Do you often feel stuck, unmotivated or struggle to reach your wellness goals? Do you have questions as to what exercises you should be doing, what foods you should or should not be eating, how to improve your overall emotional and mental well-being? Hello everyone, I am so excited to welcome you to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelley Jeffries and I will be your host. My goal is to answer these questions and so much more to share tips, education and inspiration around all of the components of wellness through solo and guest episodes. With 35 plus years as a health and wellness professional, a retired college professor, a speaker and a multi-passionate entrepreneur, I certainly have lots to share. However, my biggest goal and inspiration in doing this podcast is to share the wellness stories of others with you, to bring in guests who can share their journeys so that we can all learn together while making an impact on the health, the wellness and lives of all of you, our listeners. The ultimate hope is that you leave today with even just one nugget that can enhance the quality of your life, and that you will. We all will, now and into the future, live our best quality of lives, full of energy, happiness and joy. Now let's dive into our message for today, the future live our best quality of lives, full of energy, happiness and joy. Now let's dive into our message for today. Welcome back to Words of Wellness.
Speaker 2:My name is Shelly Jeffries and I am really looking forward to the conversation with my guest today. She is also a host of a podcast called the Mom Powered Life, and her podcast is dedicated to helping moms step into their power and purpose, which I absolutely love, and her story is one of really making a pivot in her life so that she could be home and more present with her babies. She is a mom of three and she is based in Southern California, and she began her career as a registered nurse and then realized that she was missing some moments with her babies. So she made a big pivot into real estate and also got into health and fitness coaching, and I'm really excited to have her share her journey with us all today. So welcome, stefania Weiss. I'm excited to have you here.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for having me on. I'm really excited to be here.
Speaker 2:And I'm just so, I feel so inspired by your journey and your story. And you know, I know that it's not always possible for moms and parents to make pivots like you did and to be home with their, with their families, and I. I just give you lots of credit and kudos for for making the choice and being able to do it. You know, having that opportunity is huge, yeah, so I know we've shared a little bit a little while ago, but it wasn't that long ago that you made that, made that big change in your life. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, um, you know, I, uh, it's like I did all the things. So, um, you know, I, uh, it's like I did all the things. You know, you, you get married and you go to college and have the house and the career and, uh, I decided to, um, get my degree as a registered nurse. So I have my bachelor's and RN and got a job, my dream job. I absolutely loved it. Things were great.
Speaker 1:My husband and I decided to, um, you you know, try to have our first child, got pregnant, um, pretty quickly, so had my daughter about a year and a half into my career as a nurse, and everything was good I mean, it was. It was still a little, uh, a little tough. You know, as a new mom, I was working night shifts and I'll never forget, uh, my husband, who was watching our daughter, cause I was headed off to work, and he sends me a message and it's a video, and this video is of her taking her first steps and I like, looking back on it. I'm so happy that he got to have that moment with her, that he got to be there for her first steps, but, as a mom, for your first child to miss that moment, it just it killed me. It was really rough and it was. It started to just kind of get the wheels on my head turning of going. I don't want to miss, I don't want to miss any moments like this. I don't want to miss these things, and I know that there's tons of moms who are nurses and I think that nursing is such a great career for moms because you can go part-time. There's so many different things you can do, but for me personally, I just realized I was going to have to make a change. I was going to have to do something because I knew we would want to have more kids and I didn't want to miss those things. So that was only when she was one, which was probably around 2014.
Speaker 1:It wasn't until 2019, after having my third child, who was a very difficult baby, that we made the decision, my husband and I, that I was not going to go back to work. There was just no way that he was going to be able to have all three kids while I worked night shifts and we had a baby who slept for 30 to 45 minutes at a time. I had just gotten my real estate license and we we had done a lot of real estate stuff. And so we're like we might as well just get licensed ourselves and figure this thing out. And we just decided to. Let's just see what happens, let's see where it takes us and if I can make something of this.
Speaker 1:And people told me I was absolutely insane oh my gosh, you're leaving this career. As a nurse, you went to school, you worked so hard for it and to become a real estate agent. I put it out of my head because it's what was best for me and my family at the time and that was 2019. So we all know what happened in 2020. It was probably the best decision I could have made at that time to leave the medical profession. I'm still licensed and I'll never let that go. Real estate, really. It allowed me to have more flexibility to choose. You know, I'm not the person who sells a hundred homes a year. I don't want to be that person. I want to be the one who sells enough to bring in a good income for our family, but to be present and pick up my kids from school every day.
Speaker 2:See, and I love that so much, that was always, always how it was for my husband and myself. And you know, like I was saying I know it's not possible for all families and I just I'm one of those that if you can pull it off and if you can, even if you have to just scale back and live on one income for a few years, whatever it takes, like you're saying, when you share that story about missing that milestone with your daughter, I mean I just I got chills, like. I just think like those are those moments and any again. You know, thank goodness your husband was home and got to see it. But I know, I mean, when I first our first baby, our daughter, when I first went back to work teaching college, I was teaching afternoon evening classes and my husband and I made it work. It was stressful but we made it work. Where he would be, he would go to work and then when I would leave for work later in the day, he'd come home and he'd do work from home and we made it work.
Speaker 2:But I'll never forget the first day I was leaving I was a mess. I was like crying and I'm like, okay, she's home with her dad, it's okay, but it's just that initial leaving your baby is so hard and so, in your case, having to be gone during the night would I just can't even imagine. And again I want to give credit to all of the nurses, or even any moms who work in like law enforcement, whatever it is where you're working night shifts. That's huge and to do that as a mom, I just have to give a shout out to all of you moms that do that, because I can't even imagine and and you experienced it, and I just think that it's huge that you were able to to take the leap and pivot like you did, and even a month, amongst some of the the naysayers you know, and that just happens.
Speaker 1:You have to just follow your heart and your gut and it's right for you and your family and and that's, I think, think, such an important message for everyone to hear, especially moms. Let's figure out what we're going to do, because I don't have a stable income that's coming in anymore and I'm again unfortunate that we were able to just live off that one income while I built this business, while I did that, but it really ended up just being the best thing for us. And then moving to a new city a few years ago, starting that whole thing over has been a challenge, but I've been able to be there and volunteer in the kids' classes and it just took a few years. Where now my business is is kind of skyrocketing again, which is awesome, but my kids get to see me have a career, have something you know for myself as well, and I want them to see that. I want them to see that they can go after the things that they want to.
Speaker 2:And I think that's so huge and you know this as I, as I share on on this podcast. You know it's all about wellness and really, truly, this encompasses all of it. You know you're you're doing what works for you and your family, as in common as your job, but you're also being there for your family and you know that's always been. I think we were sharing earlier, before we started recording, about being there and putting our family first, and that's something that you can never, can never regret doing that and I often will share my husband. When our babies were little, he would say you know, this is time. We can't ever get back and that will. That has always stuck with me and he was so right and so you will look back years from now and be able to just be, have that sense of, I think, gratitude and peace, that you were able to be home and be able to do these things and volunteer.
Speaker 2:And I did the same thing. I was on PTA, I got to go on field trips and you know it's just so much fun and just experiencing as much as you can. And I and I, you know, obviously with three cause I went through this where I went. Okay, shelly, there's two of you.
Speaker 1:I know my husband I same thing. There's two of us, three kids.
Speaker 2:We can't be at three events at once, and so I had to come to that realization at one point. But you know, you do what you can. You just do. You do your best. We're all doing our best, and that was something that we always aimed to do is to be at the kids events as much as possible, and we did a pretty darn good job of it, I feel like through the years, and it's really special to see our, our kids now adulting.
Speaker 2:And our daughter is our oldest and she's at that point where she's realizing, wow, you and dad were around for a lot of things and she's thinking about that now for her future family. So what kind of schedule can she have so she can do the same thing? And and I think that's to me, that's just such a huge reward in them later on and looking back and realizing what we did as parents and them wanting to emulate it. There there's like to me there's no, no better gift. I mean, obviously, you know we nobody's perfect, perfect, but in certain instances like that, it it just makes my heart so happy that she's looking at that and going okay, I, I, I love what you and dad were able to do and I want to try and do that too, for my future family. So it's, it's such a journey, isn't it? I mean it really, it really is.
Speaker 1:It really is. Yeah, I want, I want especially you can do all the things, but you don't have to do all the things. If your choice one day is that you want to be a stay at home mom, that's your choice and you can do that, and I love that. I think right now we have we have so many moms who emulate all those different things. You know. You can be a mom that works from home, you can be a mom who works away from home, you can be a stay at home mom, you can have a business. There's, there's so many things, and my daughter will have all of those role models. She'll have all those people to look at and to go.
Speaker 1:What's best for me, and to know that sometimes life will pivot. I thought what was best for me was becoming a nurse and having that as a profession, and then I realized that it wasn't and I always say, oh, maybe you can go back to it later, maybe I could. I'm licensed. I have zero desire at this point too, but making those changes is okay and I want her especially to see that, that hopefully, one day, when she becomes a mom, she'll know she has choices too, of things. Whatever's going to make her happy, and that's and her wellness is important to her too.
Speaker 2:Well, and I think you bring up such an important point to emphasize the fact that it's okay for our kids to understand that it's okay for them to pivot as well and, like for mine, you know, two out of the three have completed their degrees and they're into their careers, and that's something that we let them know, that it's OK if you make a change, it's OK. Or our youngest, you know, maybe he wants to change what he's studying, it's OK, and it just so happened for me. Personally, I I've been blessed that what I studied in college and I got my degree, and that's where I've been blessed, that what I studied in college and I got my degree in, that's where I've been all these decades. And nowadays that's very, very rare and which is OK, because how are we going to know, right? I mean, I think, especially now I don't know why I feel like there there has been more pressure on our kids when they are getting ready to graduate high school.
Speaker 2:Oh, where are you going to school? Where are you going to college? What are you going to study? All this stuff, and I don't remember having that back when I went off to school. I don't remember that, but I also know that back then we didn't have as many options. Going away to college or going out of state was not even a thing back then for us anyway. And I just remember that hitting me with my daughter where I was having other moms ask me, oh, where is she going to go, or what, and I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 1:Like you know, I've told my kid too you know, I don't care what you do, I do. I do want my children to have something, have some plan. If that's trade school, if that's a university, if that's a whatever it is, have something. But know that you can always pivot, like there's always something to that you can change and do.
Speaker 1:And I, I didn't go back to school really focused, I did not really start focusing on becoming a nurse until I think I was 24, 25. So I was, you know, yeah, I went to college when I was 18, but I was just taking some general education because my parents told me I had to go to college, like that was it. So I, I totally get that there are so many options and things that they can do, but it's okay, it's okay to pivot, it's okay to change, it's okay to change your mind. And especially for girls I don't know why I, just like we as women, we're always kind of pigeonholed, I think, sometimes into here's what you should do instead of here's what you can do. And what you want to do is important too, for sure.
Speaker 2:Well, I, you know I'm impressed with what, with what you've done and how you've handled it, and also the fact that you have you have your nursing background. You have that degree that if you ever, like you say, decide in the future to go back to it, you could. But along those same lines, you also got very involved and you have been involved with health and fitness, so can you share a little bit about that?
Speaker 1:So I've always been into health and fitness. I actually, when I was 13, I asked my kids I'm sorry, I asked my parents to get me a gym membership and I started working out at a gym when I was 13,. I'd ride my bike to the gym and, um, you know, I was in an awkward stage. I call myself I was a fat kid, you know. I, just like I was definitely not healthy, I was was. I mean, you know, I definitely need to make some changes and I didn't grow up with parents who instilled those healthy values in me. I tease with my kids like I don't think I ate a vegetable until I was maybe 16 years old, like to be honest. So I got my gym membership. I learned how to work out. I became a personal trainer when I was like 18, 19. I was a cheerleader. Health and fitness has always been a part of my life. It's not like my main focus, but I think it's so interesting how all of those things get you to where you are. So I had my daughter and I decided I set a crazy goal for myself. I wanted to do a bikini competition, like those fitness competitions. I was like I'm going to do this. And when she was 18 months old. Uh, I walked across the stage and a little sparkly bikini and I did this fitness competition. I will never do it again, I. But I checked a box and it was done and I did that and again around that time. That's when I had missed those first steps and so I started thinking what else can I do? I met another nurse online who was in like a network marketing company got involved with that and so the nursing side is what connected us. The fitness and the wanting to find another way to bring in some income connected that. And so I started doing that and I got very much into that. I worked with that company for gosh, probably seven or eight years until they recently just changed their model. Uh, I have been in CrossFit, I have, you know, I ran a half marathon. Check that box. I'll never do that again, but all of those things.
Speaker 1:Then when I got into real estate, I had already had the social media kind of background. I'll never do that again, but all of those things. Then when I got into real estate, I had already had the social media kind of background. I had already been working on building a business that way and sharing my story and along those, along that kind of same timeframe after I had my daughter, I felt like that was a time in social media. So 2013,. And I felt like that was a time in social media, so 2013, where everything was still so curated and picture perfect and everything was the grids were all the same colors and the same filters and there was just this perfect life being portrayed.
Speaker 1:I started sharing my motherhood journey pretty early on about. It is not perfect. I guess this is my way of just finding other moms who felt the same way, and it was so crazy how I would get those moms who were like oh, I'm not the only one, I'm not the only one, I'm not the only one who's going through that, because everyone was just showing the butterflies and rainbows and I'm showing the like. I am sitting here, I haven't showered in two days because I have a newborn and I've got spit up all over me Like, hey, anyone else in the same boat? And I would just get so many moms being like thank you for being honest and thank you for sharing and all of those things.
Speaker 1:I think everything builds upon itself the health of my nursing, my health and fitness, social media, real estate, like in wanting to start that podcast kind of came from that. It became a place that I could show moms and tell moms you're not alone. If you're going through something, come to my, come to my podcast and you'll find another mom who's gone through it. Go to social media and I promise you you'll find another mom who's gone through it. You're not alone in these things, in whatever's going on to you good, bad or otherwise that's that kind of is part of that wellness. It's that emotional wellness, that mental wellness, because a lot of times you think you're the only one. Oh, my gosh, I'm struggling breastfeeding. Oh, everyone else is just has all these beautiful pictures of their babies latching and they exclusively breastfeed. And I'm here struggling, thinking I'm the only one.
Speaker 1:And when I started talking about it, people were like oh, oh, yeah, I had, I had a tough time too and it just made me feel seen and I wanted, I wanted that for other moms. I wanted so much for other moms to know if you're struggling with this, you're not the only one. So that kind of got a little off topic from like my health and fitness. But I think it's just. It's just that it's that story, it's that line of people telling you too, oh, you'll never have your body back. Cool, I, the body I had after my first daughter. That body was amazing when I did that bikini competition. I don't think I'll ever have that body back and I'm okay with that now. But we're just fed these things. Oh, oh, you'll never have that. Oh, you'll never sleep again, oh, you'll never. Why, why? Where's? Where's the where? Why all the negativity? Why all that? Trust me, there's. It is not always beautiful, but motherhood also has these amazing things and I just love to share that, I think, with with everyone. We're not alone.
Speaker 1:It takes a village and really really does.
Speaker 2:It absolutely does. And and you know that's going back to what we were talking about a while ago as far as the community of moms who flourish that I'm building is, for that very reason is to be able to share these different milestones and experiences through motherhood, and the joys, the sadness, the experiences all the way around, and help other moms know they're not alone. And you know we want to experience the joys together, but also we're here to support one another and we're all. We're all in it and I think that, like you're saying, it's so easy to look at other moms or people or whatever it is that they're doing and think, oh gosh, is that how it's supposed to be? But people want to know the behind the scenes and the reality and what it really looks like. And I, you know, I really feel like.
Speaker 2:For me personally, I feel like what I share and who I am in person and online is the same. I don't always remember to share behind the scenes stuff, just because I'm not in the habit of doing it. It's not because I don't want to share, I just sometimes forget how I could share this, but it comes down to just being oh, I could share this, but it comes down to just being being real. There's not. There's no place for pretending that it's all perfect, cause it's not, it, never it never is.
Speaker 1:It never is. And I remember when I was, when I was a little more heavily into like health and fitness, when I was building that business, back then I shared a. I shared a before and after picture, but what I did, though and it was so funny, because you realize people don't read the captions Uh, after I had done the fitness competition, you had to learn how to pose, so there are certain ways you could pose and move your body to, you know, alter it and whatnot. And so I took this picture and I said before, and I had like pulled my pants down, I had like my gut hanging out. And then I did an after. All I had done was I pulled my pants up, so they're a little more high-waisted, and I had angled my body and like popped my hip out. And I said after, and I put in the, and I looked totally like one of them was like oh yeah, postpartum mom, and one of them was like, wow, she's in shape. And I put in the caption. You know, before and after two minutes, and it was one of those things of like.
Speaker 1:I posted it to say don't believe everything you see on social media, because I'm both of these people, people can put out this perfect persona, this perfect motherhood, this perfect uh, you know this, this perfect little life that you have, but it's not. It's not always reality. You know we make videos. Oh, we're making cupcakes together and behind the scenes you're like got the eggshells out of the batter. You know you're yelling at your kids and then you post the picture. You're like look at my angel babies and I just I think it's so.
Speaker 1:I love that I have found this community of women and that you sound like you're building the same thing of moms who just, we're going to share it all. We're going to laugh about it. We're going to cry about it. We're going to pat each other on the back when we do well, when you're having a tough day, you're going to have someone who says it's okay, I've been there. You know you're going to get through this and I don't. I just I love that so much. I think it's so important that we that's the positive side, I think, of social media. That's the positive side of this connection that we have outside of our homes. This is the good. This is the good that we can use. You know, podcasting and YouTube and social media for For sure.
Speaker 2:I agree a hundred percent and I think it's so important, like you're saying, is is sharing all of it. And that's that's something where I know that you and I are at different phases in motherhood and we can share and support moms in those different phases, and that's one thing that you know. I think I was sharing with you earlier that I really I want to help moms, just give them that support and let them know what the experience is like going through becoming an empty nester. Like you say, that's not always shared, or at least it wasn't shared when we were going through it or when our first daughter, I should say, went to college. We just recently became empty nesters, but having them start going away to college, it's not and it wasn't back then talked about. And it's not that people are hiding it, it's just not a topic of conversation. And it's not that people are hiding it, it's just not a topic of conversation and my goal, really, one of my missions, is to change that.
Speaker 2:I believe helps to know what to expect. It's not going to make it less painful or less heartbreaking, but just kind of know what to expect. And I had one girlfriend after the fact say yeah, I know it's heartbreaking, isn't it? And I said, oh my gosh, why did you tell me? Yeah, yeah, first of all, why didn't you tell me, why didn't you warn me? Thank you for being like, say, say, calling it as what it is, because it really is. There's no way around it, you know, and so? But again, we are here to support one another and to to know, to help moms know that they're not alone. So, moms that are listening, you're not alone.
Speaker 2:We are here for you. We're all going through the experience together and you know I I I'm loving this conversation. I love what you're sharing. Your, your journey and your experiences Cause a lot of what you've experienced. I've done the same thing. It's like I ran the Los Angeles marathon many years ago and same thing, one and done. I'm like check that off the box.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I am not a runner. If you see me running, something's chasing me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, great experience. I was super happy with my time. Okay Done, I don't I'm not going to even like go there again. So I totally get that. And kudos to you for for doing your, your competition. That's incredible After having a baby, that's. That's huge. It was crazy, but I love it. It got, but it's like it gave you that focus and helped you to know I can accomplish this, right, I can, I can do this. So so, so huge. Accomplish this, right, I can, I can do this. So so, so huge. I I love the conversation and I feel like we could, we could go on for for a long time and I just really appreciate your time. I really do. Thank you for having me on. Yeah, absolutely. Is there anything you want to share or any final thoughts or words of inspiration or advice for anyone out there listening I mean moms and anyone who's listening when it comes to just life, overall wellness or whatever it is you'd like to share?
Speaker 1:I think the one thing that I share with, especially like new moms now, is that I wish I would have asked for help sooner. I wish I would have felt like I didn't have to do it all. It took me until my having my third where that was a bit of a tough delivery and recovery that I had to ask for help. I couldn't do everything and I wish that I had asked for help sooner. I wish that it didn't make me feel like less and know that it's okay. It's okay to ask for help, it's okay to rely on others. It's okay to say hey, I can't do all this, you don't have to and you shouldn't have to. So that's always what I share with new moms Ask for help if you need it.
Speaker 1:Don't be ashamed to ask for help, even if it's hey, can you come and help me with my laundry today? My the dishes in my sink are completely like overrun. Can you, can you just help me? Can I come take a shower please? Can you come hold my baby so I can take a shower, please? Anything like that. Um, there are no moms out there who are going to judge you for that. They won't. So ask for help when you need it. That's my, it's my words of wisdom, and you're not alone.
Speaker 2:I love that. I love it. It's such such an important, such an important message and I hope I hope everyone out there is really listening moms and everyone because I think that's such an important point in all aspects of our lives that we cause. I know I'm guilty of that and, and you know my husband and I we were both. We moved out young you know teenager out of high school. We got out, got out on our own, we were very independent early on, and so that kind of lent itself to us taking care of stuff, the two of us and I. That's one thing that I could have done better and I think that's such an important message. So thank you for bringing that up and saying that, because I think it's it's important in all aspects of our lives, and sometimes we don't ask for it until we we have no choice, and so I think it's important to just have that permission and know that it's okay. It's okay to reach out and ask for whatever you need, and so thank you for saying that, because I I need to remind myself and hear that on a regular basis. So that's wonderful. Well, thank you again, stefania, it's been great having you. Thank you so much for having me on, really appreciate it. And for all of our listeners, as always, take some time for yourself and your own personal wellness on this day and have a beautiful, blessed rest of your week. Everyone See you soon.
Speaker 2:Hi, friends, I want to just leave you with a quick message, especially to all of my moms, our Moms who Flourish wellness event is happening Saturday, october 4th, and that is local to Southern California October 4th, and that is local to Southern California. The other thing I want to share with you all is that I am opening up spots for my one-on-one mentorship for any of you moms who are looking for clarity, guidance with your wellness, your nutrition, your fitness, and I believe that every mom deserves to feel and look her best, and I want to help you do that, and I want to help you put yourself as a priority your health, your wellness and your self-care. So if this is something that you would like to know more about, message me. My contact information is in the show notes and I cannot wait to connect with you. Contact information is in the show notes and I cannot wait to connect with you.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. I hope you gained value and enjoyed our time together as much as I did, and if you know someone who could benefit from today's episode, I would love and appreciate it if you could share with a friend or rate and review Words of Wellness so that more can hear this message. I love and appreciate you all. Thank you for listening and if you have any questions or topics you would like me to share in future episodes, please don't hesitate to reach out to me through my contact information that is shared in the show notes below. Again, thank you for tuning in to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly Jeffries and I encourage you to do something for you, for your wellness, on this day. Until next time, I hope you all have a healthy, happy and blessed week. Thank you you.