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Hi, dear ones. Welcome back to the podcast. We are on episode 116.

I'm going to share with you the secret to my success today,

and it's not what you think.

So let's dive in.

I am recovering from an incredible weekend.

I spoke at an event in Knoxville called the Believe event for Young Living and I speak pretty

regularly and I love speaking I feel like it is one of the gifts that God has given me

and I love it in general but I was having a lot of anxiety for some reason about my second day of speaking.

I think part of it was, I didn't sleep well, I think part of it was, I was having a little

hypoglycemic episode, and I also have struggled quite a bit with anxiety when I'm driving

on the interstate and it gets really really crowded.

So I was driving through Knoxville to go to this event and I just had a bad episode.

My heart rate was high. I felt like I couldn't breathe. My hands were going cold and kind of numb.

And you know it's scary. I'm like, oh my gosh, am I having, I'm having one of those episodes and I got got scared and I got over into the right lane, slowed down, called my husband.

Thank God for him. He kind of talked to me.

It was helpful to have the distraction of just talking through it.

And then as soon as I could, I pulled off the interstate and stopped at Walgreens and got myself a little bit of food.

I got some nuts and something to drink and anyways, got myself kind of calmed down, took some good deep breaths,

and felt well enough to get back in the car and drive to the event.

But when I got to the event, it was about an hour, I think, before I was supposed to speak.

And it took me, like, I just had to really be

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