Hey girl. Welcome to the Empower Her podcast where we are all about taking

purpose-driven action toward building lives we really freaking love.

My name's Kaysha, and I'm an entrepreneur obsessed with giving you actual tools

to help take you from where you are now to where you want to go in your life, career, and relationships.

And this podcast, it's all about real talk and having some fun as we share incredible stories, and tricks to help us get out of our own way

and unapologetically make some moves. So girlfriend let's do the damn thing.

What's up girl? I'm so excited that you're here for today's episode because I am just

pumped to be here and in a very different way because I don't know how closely you listen into this

podcast but I actually took two weeks off of podcasting which is something I've never done.

I started empower her at the end of 2018 and even when I was newly postpartum I had

pre-recorded a bunch of episodes like I've never purposely taken two weeks off but I

was feeling this poll that I needed to learn something from taking a full pause for two

complete weeks and boy did I learn a lot.

And it's interesting because I also just want to be really honest with you. I've been an entrepreneur since January of 2014. I've had all sorts of businesses. I have so much freedom and flexibility in this business because I've been full time as an entrepreneur since 2015 and I've never

fully taken two weeks off where I didn't open up my laptop and start working responding to stuff

and I did I really was just like let me just be present where my feet are and like fully fully

unplug and it was really incredible but I also really really missed this so

like don't anticipate that I'm going to be taking a two week pause from

podcasting anytime again in the future but it did give me a lot of clarity.

So what I want to talk about today is some of the things that I learned but also because you know this podcast I do like to think of us like we're girlfriends I want to share with you some realizations that I've had and a crazy thing that just happened to me that if we were sitting across from each other chatting I would definitely

loop you in on and let's just dive right in. Okay so first prior to leaving on a

two-week vacation I was purposely making the decision that I was going to take two weeks off from the

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