Hello, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. I'm really excited for you to hear today's episode because I got the pleasure and honor of interviewing Vibe Club member Suzanne. Suzanne was able to lose her last 20 pounds in Vibe Club and is celebrating one year maintaining that weight. But in this conversation, Suzanne shares how she was able to lose weight

in her 50s as someone who had spent her whole life being a caretaker for others. She works as a nurse

and her story is really inspiring. She is a street shooter like me and I loved getting to talk to her

about her story and I hope it inspires you too. Let's get into the episode.

Hello, Suzanne. Welcome to the podcast. Hello, Maggie. I'm so excited to have you here. I know it's so fun to be talking face-to-face because did I ever, did I ever coach you face-to-face?

No, never. Not one time. And I think that's amazing. So I'm so excited to get into your story and your everything. So I want to just hear a little bit about you. Why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you?

Well, I am Suzanne and I am from North Carolina and a registered nurse profession. I've been in the field of home health for 27, 28 years, a mom of two grown daughters,

27 and 30, three grandbabies that are my loves, my life, two six-year-olds and a three-year-old, so they are my life. So I'm pretty simple, pretty simple person with, you know, family-oriented kind of values and,

a service kind of mentality all my life. So my purpose, I feel, like, is to take care of others,

to serve others. And with that being said, a lot of that focus has taken me away from myself.

So I started this journey with you a little about a year and a half ago.

Yeah, that's such an interesting thing to highlight because I feel like so many women especially

find themselves in this place where they're working and they have kids and they have small kids

and then they have medium kids and then they have grown kids. But over the course of that time,

we tend to just put ourselves on the back burner. And so when did you get to a point where you

were like, okay, and I'm probably skipping around,

but like when you were like, okay, like enough, I've got to, I've got to prioritize me. I've got to

put myself, you know, first. Yeah. You know, like many people, the yo-yo weights up, waits down over the years.

You know, it's just been constant.

But the focus constantly has always been on someone else, whether it was I was a mom,

whether it was I was the nurse taking care of somebody, taking care of my mother before

she passed away, my grandmother.

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