Welcome to Enthusiastically Spiritual. I'm your host Theresa Shants. I am an enthusiastic soul passionate about the spiritual part of life.

Spirituality today is like an indulgent dessert buffet filled to the brim with unique offerings

and services from amazing souls around the world.

Join me and chowing down on some mini morsel bites to satisfy your spiritual sweet tooth, starting now. Welcome everybody I'm Tom Shants. I'm Tom Shants and today I'm

interviewing my lovely partner Teresa Shands and we're talking to you from the middle of the

country here in the heartland in Winterset Iowa. Today we want to celebrate Teresa's second anniversary of her podcast

enthusiastically spiritual and on this day we're starting my inaugural podcast of the Spiritual Executive.

So we thought we'd switch roles and give me a chance to find out

there about Teresa that I don't already know and maybe some of you out there don't know.

But in line with a spiritual executive,

a little bit of background, you want to say hello first Teresa? Hello Teresa.

Hello everybody. So we've been together for five years. I've known her for five years, coming up on five years,

and in this life anyway.

And I have to tell you something about Theresa in that her enthusiasm that

enthusiasm that she shows in her podcast that's absolutely real that's

what she's like 24-7 and it's wonderful to work with her so that's not something she just

talks about she actually lives it and it's spreads like crazy when you're around her.

So Teresa, let's go back in time a couple of years ago.

We were at this time of the year, we were two years ago, we were in Bathurst in Australia,

sort of in the middle of New South Wales, and we were at a lovely little spot, a VRBO type spot within the hills and the countryside and there

was a view of a lake and all of a sudden COVID had really taken hold, you know, it wasn't going to be some passing at first we thought maybe it would be something that passes in a few weeks. It had been around since March it was already May and one morning you came

up to me this is more or less how I remember it or one day and you said I'm starting a

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