Hey there, welcome to this edition of the Shalene Show where today we are talking about how to get yourself back on track.

Thank you so much you guys for leaving me these messages for writing reviews on whatever app you're listening to this on,

whether it's Stitcher or iTunes or whatever, Spotify even. Do you know on Spotify you have to click follow in order to regularly see

the podcast updates, but just either way I want to say thank you so much you guys for writing reviews. It is my love language.

Like anyone who knows me knows how meaningful words of affirmation are and when I'm sitting here in my podcast room

and there's no one else in here. I just don't know how

these things are going to impact you and it is so freaking cool when I actually do

connect and understand like okay, there's somebody else out there in the world and this helped them or they're going through this or they

were nodding their head like when you leave me these messages. Oh, I can't even tell you.

Hi, Shalene. My name is Ariel. I am 21 years old and I have been listening to your podcasts for

about two years. I found them when I was in college, use them to

revamp my life. I'm really excited to be recording this review because I've listened to everything you have to say about writing an e-book and I didn't have an idea until

maybe 20 minutes ago for an e-book. I'm not going to say what it is, but I hope that once it's ready

I will be able to share it with you. Really excited and I just want you to know that you were the inspiration for it and

I'll be following all the tips advice that you've given to launch it. So you'll be hearing from me soon.

Okay, so today I got this really cool

voicemail message from one of my girlfriends shout out to Ann Stevenson who was giving me some feedback on

the episode I did on Friday. The Friday episode was about what it's like to be a mom and I created it for someone who's thinking about becoming a parent.

I created it for those of you who are moms who are dads to just like bring awareness to the fact that like it's freaking hard.

And yes, you can do all the things, but it's going to look different. It's not going to look exactly like someone who doesn't have kids and frankly,

it's not going to look like someone who has kids and wants to do it differently. Like I just I really loved her feedback.

And what she was mentioning to me in this voicemail message was she was like, you know, I needed to hear this because I've really felt out of sorts, especially like as a mom

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