Hello my beautiful people. Long time no talk or at least I feel like it's been a
long time since I recorded an episode by myself because last week's episode was
with my therapist. If you miss that episode I think that everyone and their
mothers and their mothers should go listen to it. It's with my therapist again, my
queen, my angel, Dr. Leon. And we talk a lot about body image and not just like
oh you know work on loving yourself she kind of goes into detail on why our
mind does the things that it does. So it takes a little bit more of a scientific
point of view or or take which I think is cool because it helps me understand my
thoughts even more because sometimes when they're so unexplainable and I
can't seem to turn them off it's much harder. But when I can understand why my
brain is creating those thoughts it helps me turn them off. So give it a listen if
you want if you've ever struggled with your body image or your relationship with
food. Whatever it may be I think it's something we've all struggled with.
Comparison, jealousy, wishing we had something that we don't plastic surgery,
anything along those lines. Go give it a listen okay. I think it's a really good
one and I definitely want to do more episodes with my therapist. So if you
guys have any other ideas of things I should talk to her about or we should
talk in detail about you know shoot me a DM go to the website and go to the
diary entry you can submit it there like whatever you want. Let me know. I have so
many freaking life updates some life updates I can't tell you anything about
some life updates I wish that I could just pour my heart out about right now
but I don't even know where to start. Let's start with the basics. Today is the
launch of collection three and collection three's meaning or purpose if
you guys don't know every collection I do has a purpose and first collection was
all about starting now and taking action like on your dreams and your goals and
like not being afraid of what could go wrong and instead looking towards like
what could go right and taking a jump and just going for it which was super
cool crazy that that was in August of 2022 I think I don't know my days and
dates were all kinds messed up but collection two is all about passion which
is making sure you prioritize your passion project and you don't get sucked
into this trap of doing something that you don't want to do and something that
doesn't make you happy because your number one priority should always be
keeping yourself happy and making sure you're doing what you love in a world
where we're almost forced to do things that we don't love to make money and do
all that jazz the idea was to just remind you to keep following your passion
projects and never give up on your dreams so they all kind of tie together in
some way shape or form but the purpose and the word for collection three is
being and that simply means allowing yourself to appreciate the moment that
you're in and getting connected with nature and going outside and prioritizing
set time for yourself and just prioritizing you in general and it was
huge for me because I spent the beginning of this year away from traveling I mean
I've still gone on a few trips but for the most part 2022 for me was a big
travel year and I don't regret anything I had the time of my life made memories
to last a lifetime and I'm so grateful for the opportunity that I got to go so
many places and do so many things with so many different people but ultimately
that can make someone burnout like I don't have a huge social battery I was
drained by the time the new year came around and I was so excited to just be
home and be still which is odd for me with my ADD brain and my go-go-go
personality and like I don't know I call it my squirrel brain I was so used to
always wanting to be somewhere doing something new and for me to find
enjoyment and happiness and being still was just a huge like I don't know it
might sound silly but like a really big thing for me to overcome and it just
led me to starting all the ideas behind this collection to just take it slow
and to just sit down and to just understand that you don't have to be
chasing something constantly and I think the biggest lesson I've learned in the
past couple months is that when you're constantly chasing something well I guess
this is a lesson I learned last year but I understood it this year if that makes
any sense like I learned that if you keep chasing something you are never ever
ever going to feel fulfilled in any way like you are always going to be looking
for what's next like what accomplishment can I do next like what can I what money
can I make and I don't know you're never gonna feel satisfied if you don't
appreciate all the things that are in front of you and I'll go more into detail
on what this collection means and how I want it to be interpreted and what I
want you to take away from it because I am just gonna title this episode you're
I don't know what I'm gonna title it something along the lines of the
collection but that goes live I don't know when you're listening to this but at
3 23 well if you're not listening to it today it comes out on March 23rd at 3 23
p.m. Eastern time and with these collections I do a limited inventory
because ideally I like I want them to sell out I don't want to have to be
stressed that I have all this inventory so we do a limited number of
hoodies a limited number of t-shirts crewnecks not crewnecks long sleeves
whatever it is I'm selling in the collection and once it sells out you
will not be able to get it again I know the last two collections we did like a
restock because everything sold out so quick but this time we increase the
numbers a little bit with the idea in the back of our minds that we are not
doing a restock so go shop now if you're listening to this anytime before then
and after it if it's still available which I want to say hopefully it's not
because I wanted to sell out because it's so freaking cool when that happens
there's nothing that gets me more excited than seeing when you guys tag
the moments podcast or me in your pictures wearing any of the collections
it actually makes me cry every single time and I'm not an emotional girl like
that but it's just crazy like it just makes me realize that through all this
social media stuff like we can be so much more connected than we realize and
I've also seen a couple TikToks lately I'm getting myself off track but it's
like to that sound and it's a couple where like me thinking Lexi Dog is my
best friend when really like two million other people also think the same thing
like I just want you to know you are my best friends like each of you
individually have made such an impact in my life bigger than you will ever
understand and I don't think of anything that I do as like a number I don't know
how to explain it but like I think of you guys individually and how grateful I
am and lucky to know every single one of you and when I meet you guys in person
like you make my heart explode and I don't think I'm ever gonna comprehend the
fact that I can have these friends online and then just like randomly meet people
in the Washington airport or the Baltimore airport like random freakin
places like in the bathroom and I Taylor Swift concert I don't know it's so cool
to me and I'm so lucky to have you all and I'm not gonna spend the whole podcast
talking about that but I definitely could anyways the collection is out and
it's coming it's gonna be live today and go shop quick little intermission I'm
telling you guys about something new but I'm very excited to share with you I'm
sharing with you a sneaker company right this company is called Vessie and I
freaking love them I recently started running we all know this and I've been
testing out all sorts of different sneakers and I found these Vessie sneakers
and I absolutely love them and what makes them super cool to me is that
their cloudverse sneakers is like all of the futures of a rubber winter boot
and it's built into a sneaker they're a hundred percent waterproof not water
resistant they're waterproof so I wear them when it's raining and I have to go
on a run or when I know there's gonna be puddles and I don't live in snow but
if I did I would wear them in the snow they're also super warm and they have a
lugged rubber outer sole that gives you an extra grip in wet conditions and they
slip on and off super easy they're also so comfortable and breathable that I
feel like there's nothing on my feet but at the same time my feet feel so
supported I don't know how else to explain it they also have other different
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them I think you should try them out and now we can get back to the podcast the
next thing I want to talk about is the fact that I'm finally teaching yoga again
like we're starting small and slow but we're doing it I'm hosting a virtual yoga
class on March 26th at I believe 6 p.m. and the tickets for that you can get in
my bio and then also after the yoga class like I'm gonna do this thing called an
after-party this is all super new for me I'm working with this company called
Moment which is so fitting you know considering the podcast is moments and
all that jazz it's like the universal lining things in ways I didn't know it
could but I'm gonna do this after-party where I'll be live for I think it's like
10 minutes and you guys can just ask questions and we can talk and yeah you
can get tickets for that with the link in my bio it's a very beginner yoga
class it's about an hour long you can do it from wherever you want you can
download the yoga class if you can't do it like right when it goes live you can
save it for seven days and do it at any point and yeah I think it's gonna be
really freaking cool and I'm really excited to be doing something like this
so if you want to go buy a ticket please do so and hopefully this is a good
start for me to get myself back connected to yoga and get to doing it even
more and get comfortable with teaching again huge step out of my comfort zone
to film myself teaching it's just been a long time but it felt good and when I
get in my zone it really does come somewhat naturally to me because it is
kind of muscle memory and I spent so many years of my life doing it but we're
back okay I'm getting back on my yoga wave because it is single-handedly the
thing that changed my life and my mindset and honestly I believe is the
reason I am the person that I am today I there's no way shape or form I'd be
doing any of this if it weren't for yoga so thank you yoga and yeah go check
that out link is in my bio on my Instagram or my TikTok I think those are
the two places I'll also put the link in the description of this podcast if you
want okay what do I have next there's so many things I was in California for
the past week doing I'm so sorry this is gonna be like probably a 15 minute
life update but there's just so many things I want to tell you and it's so
hard to do it through like TikTok and Instagram it's so much easier when I can
just sit here and talk to you guys but then we'll get into the good stuff I was
in California for the past week with my two best friends with Meredith and
Lassette and my mom my third best friend or my first whatever they're all my
best friends equally in my heart and I was shooting for a top secret collection
that's coming out in May and I cannot wait to share with you everything from
this week like it is the coolest freaking stuff the coolest set oh it's gonna be
incredible and I wish I have to keep my mouth shut or else I would just sit here
and spill everything but I'm looking forward to it and you should too and all
that being said oh let me tell you about the Taylor Swift concert really quick
because if you remember in the beginning I probably talked about it on podcast
episodes in the past like I tried for days and days and days to get tickets
like I cried when I couldn't get tickets the first time and then the second time
and I was just an emotional wreck that I wasn't gonna be able to see Taylor Swift
because I have been a Taylor Swift girlie since the day I could walk since I
don't even know when like I wrote essays about her in high school and kind of
fell off for a little while like just forgot she existed for a second which
sounds horrible I know but past couple years definitely found my girl again and
I wanted to go to this concert so badly couldn't get tickets got so angry that I
couldn't get tickets so I just gave up on it I was like forget it I'm over it
like I'll see enough of it on TikTok and then we landed in California last
Sunday and we went out to lunch with my manager and she was like oh I'm going
to Taylor Swift tomorrow for opening night or whatever day I was like no way
that's so sick and then she proceeds to say oh you guys should go on Saturday
after you finish shooting the thing it is the top secret mission that you're
doing I was like no way we can swing that Arizona was like a five hour drive but
then of course you got me to thinking and we all know you know I'm very
impulsive sometimes I'm very last minute so we were in the car driving to just
some I don't even know where we were going I'm looking at the tickets I find
tickets for such a good price obviously still so expensive but you know I was
gonna spend the check anyways and I was like you know what I really want to
spoil my friends and I want to spoil myself and I want to do something like
this I want to go have fun and celebrate and do something crazy so I booked the
tickets and I used tick pics so there's like no service fees on there this isn't
an ad but I wish it was because I freaking love tick pic I use it to go
like for every event that I ever go to because the no service fees make such a
big difference anyways I booked the tickets somehow I didn't know I could
use Apple Pay and then I thought it was gonna like need to verify my Apple Pay
it didn't so all the sudden the tickets were booked and then on Saturday morning
we had to shoot all morning so we didn't finish shooting we didn't wrap on the
photoshoot until 3 p.m. note the concert starts at 6 30 we are four and a half to
five hours away we book it we get in the car we are zooming to Arizona like no
time for nothing we stop at Jack in the box eat a bunch of mini tacos get a
box of highnoons at the gas station me and Lissette and they are like drinking
a high noon in the backseat my mom's driving us we get there at 7 30 right
Taylor Swift so we miss opening ass Taylor Swift comes out at 8 p.m. my mom
sees the parking guy and the parking guys like dude I'm so sorry but this
lot is full you're gonna have to get on the highway and you're gonna have to
drive to our employee lot and then you're gonna have to like uber back or
something we're like absolutely no shot that we have time for that we are not
missing Taylor Swift come out so my mom's like she's been super nice the guys
she's like can we please just try to get in there like we have a Jeep we can
park on the curb and he lets us go he lets us go into this parking lot that's
full and we start moving the fence and this other security guard guy comes up
while I'm moving the fence I'm like oh no we're getting in trouble like the
only reason I was breaking rules like this is because I would do anything for
Blondie and I was not gonna miss her coming out after everything it took to
get there and he helps me move the fence and I was like God is good God is so
good today so we park the car in the main lot we are walking in and we find
this random bathroom there's no one in line there's no one there we go P we
walk in the stadium the bathroom lines are like wrapped around the building and
we're like thank God again like if we didn't pee when we did we would not have
seen Taylor Swift come out we get to our seats Taylor Swift comes on she
performs for like three hours in ten minutes and it was the best thing in my
whole entire life like my inner child felt so healed and me and Meredith
together screaming Taylor Swift was like the most full circle moment ever
because when we were living together in Hawaii we would scream it in the car we
would sit there listening to all the sad songs annotate the lyrics and just
like I don't know it was so for lack of better words it was so fucking cool and
it was something that I'm going to remember for the rest of my life and it
made everything so worth it and yeah that's my Taylor Swift story but anyways
after that the next morning we had to drive six hours to the LA airport get on
a flight a red-eye flight and then land in Florida at like 8 a.m. and it was so
draining it took me a second to get my life back together and regrouped which
is why this episode is coming out on a Thursday instead of Monday because one I
thought I was going to record an episode while I was in California I don't know
when I thought I was gonna have the time or the energy for that because I
definitely didn't and two because it took me a few days to just recuperate and get
my life back on track and now we're here and I do feel at peace and this all
leads me into what it is that I actually want to talk about in this week's
episode which is how to be a human being and less of a human doing I've had a
couple people ask me like my brother and just specifically males in my life
they're like what does that even mean well if you don't know what that means
it simply means that society has taught and I've definitely touched on this
before many times society has taught us that we have to be go go go and do do do
and if we're not doing we're failing and if we're not chasing the next goal or
accomplishment we're failing at life and when we're convinced that that's how
it's supposed to be for a really long time it fucks with our mind I'm sorry for
cursing so much in this episode but this is a heavy topic for me it it
destroyed my mindset at least for a very long time I mean since I was 13 is when
I first got certified to teach yoga and then when I was 15 I was doing
pageants and I was constantly chasing a goal with that and I was always just
being told that I could do so much but I never really had the energy to do so
but I spent so much time trying to find that motivation and that inspiration and
just chasing something and I didn't know what it was I just always knew there
was more and I needed to be doing more or I would never feel successful in my
life and I spent a lot of years feeling like that and I can't even say I've
completely healed from that thought process or that mindset because I
haven't like I'm still a human living in this society I'm still always wanting
to chase my goals and my dreams and I do think that wanting to chase your goals
in your dreams is different than feeling like you have to chase your goals in
your dreams if that makes any sense right society has just told us keep going
keep going keep going or fail there's no room for breaks there's no room to take
time for yourself there's no room for fun and if you're having too much fun
you're not succeeding right and that is gonna mess with all of us so in this
past month or but not past month I guess the this past year at the past three
months it's March somehow holy crap it's March anyways it's been three months of
me really prioritizing the opposite of that mindset right like I've been sorry
I keep saying right I don't know where I got that from actually know exactly
who I got that from in Mexico with Victoria Paris every time I talk to her
she'd always like say right and I loved it and I guess it just kind of
incorporated itself into my vocabulary isn't that so cool when you just like
realize where you got something from and realize it came from a person and then
that person probably got it from a person anyways love how life does that back to
the point I've been trying to turn off the mindset that I have to be constantly
going and it's brought me a lot of peace like I've spent a lot more time in my
life doing things that are specifically for me that no one else is gonna benefit
from so I've been going to yoga I've been prioritizing my working out my walking
my phone time my just going out with my friends and having fun but without this
pressure that I should be doing something else another thing that my
therapist taught me a long time ago was too well I don't know if you guys just
hurt my stomach rumble but it did she told me to delete the words should from
my vocabulary or at least work on deleting it because when you're
constantly saying I should should should should again you're never gonna feel
fulfilled or satisfied or happy with where you're at or okay with the
decision that you made and instead I have just been prioritizing the fact that
it's okay to have fun it's okay to be at peace it's okay to just chill out and
have days where I sleep in or I go to bed super late or super early or I take
the time to watch a movie like my case of this go go go mindset has been really
happy on me for so long that I didn't even believe that I had time to sit down
and watch a movie or to scroll on TikTok and anytime it was I was just killing
myself with my thoughts and saying no like you don't have time for this you
don't have room for this because you're not gonna succeed if you watch a movie
and like how stupid does that sound right I know it sounds stupid but I
couldn't I couldn't get it out of my head until recently so that's really what
I'm trying to tell you is that changing this mindset is going to take time and
it's going to take training and you're going to have to do it slowly but surely
and it doesn't happen overnight but I just want you to know that it's okay to
be okay it's okay to need days where you have to reset your mental health we
are also women right we are on this 28 day cycle where everything is gonna be
out of lack on certain days like our hormones are changing every single day
and that's why there's certain days in the month where we have no motivation no
energy to do anything we just feel like we need to lay down all day that's because
physically within our body there are changes happening it's not something
that's always in your control and you have to be understanding of that and you
have to learn to work with your body and work with your mind and give it grace
and compassion and just be like I keep going back to that because that's what
it is like we are human beings we are here to be we were put on this earth a
long long time ago to just be animals in a sense to feed ourselves to enjoy our
life to relax like that's what we originally were put here to do and you
know society does society and we've gotten to a point in life where technology is
so advanced I don't even mean to be like so crunchy granola girl when I say
all this because I'm not at all I follow the trends of society like I believe in
working in making my anyways our original nature is to be outside to be
outdoors to talk to the waves and the grass and the trees and the sun and that's
what we were put here to do and then society came in and gave us technology
it gave us money it gave us all these different things it gave us standards it
gave us expectations and we all got messed up and I think that one thing that
really helps me go back to being instead of doing is getting outside and getting
connected with nature and this is something I touch on so often and a lot
of the things I say on this podcast get repetitive we know that but I mean I
don't think it's a bad idea to have these weekly reminders because I'll
record these episodes and then I'll go home and I'm like oh what I even talk
about and I'll forget the reminders that I even said so I don't mind that I
repeated every single week we need a weekly reminder at least if not a daily
reminder but I want you to go outside I want you to be a seven-year-old and I
want you to use your imagination I want you to talk to the stars and the sun and
the grass and I want you to roll around in the sand and it's almost spring so
even if you're in somewhere that's super snowy and cold it's about that time we
can start going outside I want you to walk in the forest listen to the wind
blow think with your thoughts think with your thoughts that makes no sense but
listen to your thoughts and understand yourself and allow yourself to escape
all of these expectations and all of these goals for at least a few minutes
every day start with a few minutes and eventually turn it into an hour or two
hours we have the time we just don't create the time and I say that from such
a place of personal experience I have spent so long and I still do saying no
like I don't have the time for this I don't have time in my schedule for
anything I'm already so busy and stressed and overwhelmed and I sit back and
realize I'm already so busy stressed and overwhelmed because that is the
schedule and the life that I've created for myself and there is room there is
room instead of taking that hour at night that I go on TikTok I could turn my
phone off and I could read a book or I could turn my phone off I could go to bed
early then wake up an hour earlier and when I wake up I could go outside I could
go to the sunrise and that's obviously you guys know the biggest thing that I've
changed in my life this year is trying to go watch the sunrise at any given
moment that I can and I haven't had it for the past week and a half and it's
definitely felt really different and weird I will say that and like lately
since I was on California time change it's been so I've been sleeping in the
past couple days but since I'm being and I'm not doing I am shifting the mindset
that I need to wake up early and I'm just telling myself well your body clearly
needed to catch up on rest and when it's ready to get back into the schedule of
waking up for sunrise it will without a doubt and just being able to make that
shift has changed so so much for me quick little intermission because once
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because examples help me understand things better is let's talk about this
past week for example I was in California and I was working the whole week on one
specific project and in my life I like to have a couple different projects going
it's just how I've always been and I believe how I always how I always will
be but since I was only dedicated to this one specific project I think a past
version of myself would have been so frustrated and angry that I wasn't
working out taking care of my body paying attention to what goes into my
body I wasn't staying up to date on the podcast it wasn't posting multiple
TikToks every day which I know sounds so so so silly okay but when it is my
job it is something that I think about it and something that's important to me
and I know that I don't need to explain myself I know that you guys get it but I
still sound silly in my own brain when I say anyways I wasn't posting TikToks I
wasn't posting on Instagram I wasn't prioritizing content I was just
prioritizing the project that I was there to focus on and it was the most
incredible experience but that being said past me would still be so angry at
myself and so mad that I wasn't up to every single detail of everything and I
was anyways I'm getting I'm getting off track I got distracted I was looking in
the mirror and I have this big anyways Lexi Girl chill out for a second let me
regroup my thoughts what I chose to focus on instead this week this is the
root of everything is mindset shifts we can change every single detail of our
life by shifting the way that we think about things perceive things and view
things and I will take that to the grave it simply starts in your mind it
starts in the way that you perceive the world and without realizing it we do have
the power to focus on different things and I know that it's hard and it's one
of those fake it till you make it kind of things but eventually your mindset
will shape will shift completely and you won't have to think about these other
things like I think of right now I'm in that medium zone where I still struggled
with knowing all these things that I wasn't doing and paying attention to all
the things I wasn't doing but I also was appreciative of all of the things I was
doing so I'm kind of in the middle but I'm working on getting myself to a point
in life where I'm only focusing on the things to appreciate and not so much what
I didn't do or what I couldn't do but instead this week I focused on the fact
that I was doing something so out of my comfort zone and I was giving myself all
the credit in the world for doing that because I know how huge it was for me and
I was choosing to appreciate the fact that I was lost in the mountains with my
best friends and I was spending money on experiences are gonna last me a
lifetime and that's another thing like I when it comes to spending money on that
Taylor Swift concert I don't like spending money I in the past it had a
problem with spending money like I just spend what I make because I don't know I
don't like to think about money and I believe you have to spend money to make
money besides the point the point is that the new year I made it a resolution to
you know prioritize my wants versus my needs or my needs versus my wants and I
know that Taylor Swift concert wasn't a need necessarily but I chose to focus on
the fact that I spent that money to create a core memory that I am definitely
definitely going to tell my kids about and that also helped heal me from the
inside out like my inner child was beaming through me and I just feel that
little kid energy still shining through me a week later and I chose to
prioritize the fact that and just appreciate all of the little things that
I got to experience the new people that I got to meet and when you focus enough
on those things those doubts and anger towards myself kind of diminishes and I
can just be happy with where I'm at I can be happy with being and it's so cool
that this collection is coming out now after all of these recent realizations
because I think that when I first started designing the collection I started
understanding the difference between being and doing but I wasn't applying it to my
life if that makes any sense and now I'm about at that point where I am
applying it and it's just as the collection is launching which I just
think is super cool universe doing its thing once again everything aligns when
it's supposed to how it's supposed to and I also have learned from this whole
being instead of doing thing that I feel almost more inspired than I ever did
when I was doing you know we're constantly chasing these dreams and goals and
passions I noticed and I don't know if this is just a personal thing but that I
would create dreams that weren't really my dreams or my passions I would just do
it because I knew it would work and I knew it would deem me as successful or
valuable or accomplished and they weren't true goals and they weren't true
passions and when I take more time to be with myself and the people that I
really care about in my life I have such a better understanding of the things
that I actually love and the things that I actually want to do and I feel more
inspired to do those things and I know that if I am doing what I love and what
I'm genuinely passionate about it will work out and I will end up exactly where
I'm supposed to be doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing and that's just
how the universe works and how God works when you just allow yourself to trust
and to be and I don't know how many times I've said being and doing in this
whole episode but it is the most important thing that 2023 has taught me and I
think that we all need to apply it to our lives even more because it has just
made such a change in my mental health and don't get me wrong there are still
days where I am struggling and I feel extremely overwhelmed and I get irritated
and agitated but I'm becoming aware of why those thoughts happen for me and I'm
finding ways to shift them. Quick intermission I've told you about this
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awesome back to the podcast for another example yesterday I was in traffic for
an hour and a half I was already on a time crunch for the day I just had things
to do after this little trip not trip this place I had to go to Aaron I had to
run and I was in traffic for an hour and a half for a drive that was only supposed
to be 40 minutes and past me would be really really really angry about that
and irritated and just like antsy and anxious and stressed out but I told
myself you know God is saving me from something he is putting me here for a
reason I can listen to Taylor Swift for longer and I'm just gonna do my best to
enjoy this traffic and it sounds so silly and so cringy and cliche but like
those are the little things that are going to simply change your life if I
would have spent an hour and a half being angry that energy would have carried
with me throughout the whole day because that's at least how it goes for me but
I didn't allow it to oh and also yesterday the air in that I was running
guys I was meeting a puppy there's this dog her name is mama Cita well that's
what they're calling her I'm gonna change her name but she's a pit bull
that they found on the streets and she's black and white and she looks like a
cow and she is the most adorable well behaved dog that I've ever ever ever
met and I've been going back and forth with getting a dog for probably a few
months now like six months and I travel a lot so that was like my main reservation
with it I was like I can't do that I'm not I don't have enough you know time at
home to really take care of this dog but then my parents kind of got on board
and they want to be babysitters so we'll see like I'm still there's still so
many things I need to evaluate but rescuing pit bulls is something my family
first did like eight years ago we rescued our first pit bull and you changed
our lives and I mean like completely saved our family it's a whole conversation
for another day but we owe this dog like our lives and he changed our lives and
losing that dog was like the hardest grief I've ever had to go through which
sounds crazy but even harder than when I've lost family members I cried that I
lost this dog for months and our rescue now is like a reincarnation of him and
it's so beautiful and cool to see and I'm not gonna sit here and get deep about
rescuing pit bulls but I will remind you to adopt don't chop because there's so
many dogs out there that you know need homes and have just been left in
abandoned or abused and you know all these puppies that they sell come from
puppy mills which is like so horrible puppy mills are disgusting and they
don't care about the dogs they just force them to have sex and make puppies
and then they sell the puppies for thousands of dollars and completely
abused their parents you know a conversation for another day I actually
do want to do a whole episode on that because there's so much about rescuing
dogs that goes unnoticed or untalked about that's super important to me and
like for example our shelter the shelter that I volunteer at just got in 41 puppies
from a puppy mill and I can't wait to go meet them but they came in today so
let you know how they are and I'll post pictures obviously besides all the
point I don't even know where I started that or how I got into that oh
yesterday with the traffic and she's an angel so we'll keep you updated if I
end up with with a dog just know that's how it happened and we'll see we'll see
so many more life updates to tell you about that I just can't tell you about
yet yeah just focus on appreciating where you are now and enjoying all the
little bits of your life even the hardships and the shitty days and just
enjoy okay where you are at this point in your life is is a point in your life
you're never going to get to relive I don't yet want you to waste this lifetime
thinking about what the future holds the future is already planned out for us
whether we realize it or not and every single thing that happens to us is
happening for a reason even when it feels so unexplainable and you can't
understand it and even if it is something that's so drastic
well said always yells at me for the way that I say drastic drastic I have a
speech impediment when it comes to saying that word anyways I just want you to
know that even if it is something crazy and it really feels like there is no
reason you have the power to create a reason for it and create meaning behind
it and like I've said before and like my therapist always says 90% of your life
is how you make meaning of it the other 10% is what actually happens
sometimes life is shit and you have to dig really deep to find the positives
in what it is that's going on and when you start with the smaller things another
example I had to take a shower in Palm Springs before I had to do a shoot a
photo shoot I had to shave everything right I had to wash my hair I had to
wash on my face I had to do the eight-girl shower I get it in the shower I
start shampooing my hair the water goes freezing cold not just cold I mean
freezing cold and I still had to finish the whole shower I think you know a
past version of you would have just been pissed I would have been angry but when
you start with small things like that I shifted the mindset to oh I just got to
take like an ice bath that's actually really good for you and it's really good
for you know your heart health and your brain health and yada yada yada I made
meaning of something silly like that when you start making meaning of the
silly things like that you'll start making meaning of the more important
things in your life and the bigger things so just focus on that and prioritize
that and just remember that you are a human being and it is okay to relax it is
okay to go take a walk in nature to turn your phone off and I know that these are
hard things to do but you deserve to just be at peace okay and you deserve to
understand that it's all going to work out and as long as you are doing what
you love and what makes you happy and you know finding a way to make an income
from those things like you're gonna be just fine and I believe in you and I
support you and I trust you and I know that God has a plan for you or the
universe has a plan for you or whatever higher power it is that you believe in
has a plan for you specifically and you just have to trust that and your life
will be abundant and I can promise you that so I love you I'm gonna end this
episode here but I'm so grateful for you guys always don't forget to shop the
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you and I'll talk to you soon talk to you next Monday also let me know what you
guys want me to talk about on the podcast because happy to talk about
anything I love you bye