298: Creating a Beautiful Life (with Maria L)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Maria shares her story of being adopted, going through a tricky divorce, and receiving a scary health diagnosis, on top of being a mom. You will hear experiences that may sound similar to your own struggles, and the different tools Maria has used to get through them. Like Maria, you deserve the most beautiful life, and you have the power to create it even when things seem hard.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast. I'm Jen Ritey, and in this episode, we're talking |
| 0:06.2 | about how to create a beautiful life, even when things seem hard. Stay tuned. Hi, I'm Jen Ritey, |
| 0:15.0 | and this podcast is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive. You'll gain the emotional, physical, |
| 0:22.6 | and spiritual tools you need to get your sparkle back and ensure that depression, anxiety, |
| 0:28.0 | and struggle don't rule your life. Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey there, my friends, Jen here. And I am super excited about today's episode because I am |
| 0:39.9 | interviewing and talking with my friend Maria. Maria is from Madison, Wisconsin, one of its |
| 0:47.1 | suburbs. And we met through the Vibrant Happy Women Club. I was in a class, teaching a class one day, |
| 0:53.4 | and Maria was one of the students, |
| 0:55.7 | and we were talking with her about something, and she said, hey, I'm from Fitchburg, Wisconsin, |
| 1:01.8 | and I said, no way. I'm from Madison, Wisconsin. She said, I know, I've been listening to your |
| 1:06.5 | podcast for years. And so the day came during COVID, about six months ago, that Maria and I decided to get together for years. And so the day came during COVID about six months ago that Maria and I decided |
| 1:13.7 | to get together for lunch. And we really hit it off. So we've been walking partners since then. |
| 1:21.1 | She has some really interesting things that have happened in her life. And she's going to |
| 1:24.5 | share them on this episode. This episode is titled Creating a |
| 1:29.3 | Beautiful Life because Maria has done that. She does not engage in any victim thinking. She doesn't |
| 1:36.6 | really feel sorry for herself. She does allow herself to feel her emotions. She does allow herself |
| 1:43.5 | to focus on her ideals, the things she does want to |
| 1:47.1 | feel. She doesn't get attached to certain outcomes in her life. And I think these are some of the |
| 1:53.0 | strategies that people use to create that beautiful life. It's not always about the outcomes. It's not |
| 1:59.0 | always about having what you expected to have, which |
| 2:02.4 | Maria has not had everything she expected to have. And that's okay. Her life is still beautiful. |
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