What's going on? Hey, thanks so much for joining me here today on the Shalene show.

I'm blessed to have you. I'm grateful that you read the title of this episode and that you're

willing to listen, have an open mind. I think it's an important conversation that we need to have.

And I'm just I'm happy that you're here. All right, let's do this.

All right, so what you're about to hear is actually the audio from a YouTube video that I filmed

just well, now that you're listening to this, I don't know, probably three or four days ago.

Hopefully by the time you're listening to this, you will see that there's a link in our show notes

where you can go and watch that YouTube video because there's a lot of images in that that I think

will be interesting and you might find it very helpful. I hope that you do. It's just really,

this is me talking from my heart. I didn't have notes with me in this audio that you're about to

hear is really inspired by the questions and the comments and the concerns, like crazy thinking

that so many people, especially women have when it comes to just living life and how that's going

to affect their their weight, their fitness program, like being perfect. And I don't know if this

is just my audience or if all women feel this way, but my gosh, I've just been inundated with

so many people just like freaked out about like, oh my gosh, how do you take a vacation? And

what do you do about your macros and your calories and all those things? And it reminded me

that I used to think that way too. And how far I've come and how much more fun it is to live

life and to feel great and to be happy and to be healthy. And not that I was ever like unhappy,

like that's a really important thing for me to state too because a lot of times I'll get DM from

people and they'll say, I just want you to know I loved your workout programs. That's how I met you.

It's high fell in love with you and I'm so sorry that you weren't happy then that you're happy now.

I was happy then. I was definitely happy. I didn't realize that I was kind of living a tortured

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