From Vision to Reality: The Founding of Women Optimizing Wellness

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Hi guys, it's Becks and Just Blane.

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Oh wait, filling in for Just
Blane today, we have Just Jen.

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Welcome, Jen.

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Thank you.

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It's so good to be here.

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We sat down and talked about WOW, Women
Optimizing Wellness, and we're missing

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our third founder here, Michelle.

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We are.

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She'll be joining us though in
the interview here momentarily.

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Yes, and you need to save the date
for our launch party, January 27th

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for Women Optimizing Wellness.

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WOW.

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Have a listen.

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All right, so we are here with
WOW, Women Optimizing Wellness.

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I've got Two other amazing powerhouses
here, Michelle Orton and Jennifer Banks

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and myself, Becks Nielsen, of course, and
we are the three founding members of WOW.

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We're here to talk to you a
little bit about that ladies.

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So welcome.

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Yes.

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Wow.

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Wow is right.

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So Michelle, you do a great job
with, with WOW and our vision.

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Talk to us a little bit about WOW and
then I'll throw it over to Jen and she

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can talk about how we all came together.

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So, wow was something that started
stirring in my mind about seven years ago.

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And I really love the idea of women
coming together and creating a

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community that is only based on being
a woman and how powerful it is, but

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optimizing every level of being a woman.

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So your body, your mind,
your soul, relationships.

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Business, and finances.

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Because us women, we do it all.

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But how do we optimize it?

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How do we make a wow?

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So when I met the two of you, I
was like, that was the key to open

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this door to create this community.

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I saw something in both of you and
you brought something out in me,

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which is what we want to bring out
in our community with our ladies.

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And so we partnered up.

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Yes, we did.

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And here we are.

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Wow.

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So Jen, yeah, the backstory.

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We first met through the business
community here in Daybreak South Jordan.

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And we just connected over those business
relationships and just really wanting

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to be integrated into the community
and Really just involve others and we

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really saw a need for specifically women
networking because you know Typically,

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there's a lot of men in networks and
when you put women together, we're

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powerful And what I liked is that it's
women of all ages and stages We are

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really welcoming and I felt that as a
younger woman and all ages from 19 up

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to 71 Oh, yes Even more are all welcome

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here.

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Yeah.

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I love that.

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So we are friends outside of this, right?

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Jim spoke a little bit to that and it was
really neat that, um, You know, we did

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meet through a business community and,
uh, the relationship essentially started.

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And then we were like, Hey, we
have this idea of potentially maybe

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starting a women's networking group.

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And we started meeting after the meeting.

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We kind of had our little, our little
brainstorm session, if you will, that

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turned into something we think can
be just incredibly, um, powerful.

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And it has been, so we started
our soft launch back in January.

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And was that late?

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Was that our first event?

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No.

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So they got burnt.

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September.

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Did I say January?

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November.

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I've got our launch party on in September.

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But we are going to have a big party in
January, so you're letting it out already.

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So we

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started our soft launches in
September, um, and those really took

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off and we have heard incredibly
impactful, powerful stories.

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Um, I'll let each of you maybe share
and just touch on one of those events

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or something that hit you in the last
three months since we've watched this.

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Yeah, I really loved the idea of a soft
launch because that's the, the question

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we have is how do we spread the word?

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How do we get these women connected?

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And so with these soft launches,
they were a casual way to get

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together to eat dinner and to meet.

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Women from different walks of life,
especially since there are three of us

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that brought in women from each of our
different networks, and then it has grown

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since then, I loved the first event where
we each stood up and we said who we are,

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and we are more than just our roles.

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There's, there's more within us than that.

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I think let's expand on that and because
that's the way we start the event.

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That's the first question
I asked everyone.

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Who are you?

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And sometimes we get stuck with the
labels that the world gives us or society

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gives us and they're wonderful labels but
In WOW, we wanted to strip those away.

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We really wanted to tap into that inner
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And I think it was a really
beautiful conversation.

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It was this great big farm table.

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We all gathered around and everyone's
answer were so inspiring and so authentic.

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So I will just answer what I said.

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Um, my answer is I am real.

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And what that means to me is to be
very authentic in all the choices.

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That I make us a move forward.

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What was your answer that night, Becks?

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Mine was, I am present.

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It's one thing that I have tried
to be really intentional this year.

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That was intentionality
was my word for 2024.

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We're dating this right
of, um, of this year.

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And I am a visionary.

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I'm, uh, entrepreneur, I'm
very much forward thinking.

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Um, and so being present and
in the moment sometimes can

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be really challenging for me.

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I'm an A personality, I'm a driver,
I'm all of those things, right?

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Um, and so being present can
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And so I was present for that moment
and I just was really taken aback.

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Um, and, From the answers that these
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my heart to what do I have to give
to this community and to gain, right?

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Cause we're lifelong learners
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that space and being present.

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What was yours, Jen?

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And just

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speaking to that variety, every
time a woman spoke, you thought, Oh,

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surely there's nothing else to say.

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But every time there was something
new, mine was, I am curated.

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And I just love kind of a combination
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being real and just really selecting
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most meaningful to you and make

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you, you,

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I love that.

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I saw that beautiful.

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Let's talk a little bit.

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Cause we get this question often.

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Who are we?

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Like who, what's our background?

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And, um, so let's introduce
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Michelle, we'll start with you.

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Well, I am a master coach,
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and I also perform weddings.

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I have been coaching for almost 19
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a program at Stanford University.

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It's called Tiny Habits and how tiny
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and momentum in all of your life.

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I am just in love with my career and my
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My tagline is, you can't go over it.

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You can't go under it, so
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Okay, that's not what I said.

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Let's go through the shit together.

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That's what she said.

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You might want to beat that.

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But it's true.

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We all have to go through it
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wanted to build this community.

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I want us to go through it together
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and we are meant as people to
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It bonds us, it connects us,
and it drives a movement.

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Um, and we need that in our family,
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community and across the country.

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I am going to just say two things.

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She, I never let her forget this.

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She's a TEDx speaker.

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She always forgets that.

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She was a TEDx speaker as well.

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And another thing that I do love to
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kind of taken on as my own motto, I
stole it from you, is lead with love.

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So that when she says that she
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with love on, on her body.

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So we, we kind of incorporated
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So she is amazing.

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Absolutely.

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Love you, Michelle.

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So thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank

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you.

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I forget to mention my texts and it
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It was a privilege because I did
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I was invited.

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It was a women's event about
overcoming trauma in your life.

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And it was a really pivotal point,
um, that talk was to, um, Tell

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my story from my childhood and to
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So thank you for breaking it up.

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She's gonna always get her in.

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I'm humbled that I was a part of that
experience and I do have that title.

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I am a TEDx

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All right, Jen.

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I know it can sometimes be really
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but you are on the spot next.

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Yes.

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Well, especially

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after we're done.

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I'm Jen Banks.

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I have three little
boys, so I am a boy mom.

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They're just little, but I believe
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book called Let Yourself Bloom
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You're coming from a corner.

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Let's a huge accomplishment.

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I really do.

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Especially while my kids are little.

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That's what I believe.

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You don't have to
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You can nurture your children
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And so here I am an example of that and
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so I could be here for this episode.

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She did.

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She pulled it together.

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Right.

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But I, yeah, I am a teacher.

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I am a speaker.

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I play the violin.

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I, uh, what else do I do?

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I just really love women and connection.

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That's my highest value.

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And so when I have an opportunity to
connect at a deeper level, whether it's a

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large event or at a smaller scale, that's
really what fills my cactus connection.

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Yeah, I love that.

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And Jen really is a powerhouse.

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We have seen her, um,
book, Let Yourself Bloom.

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And she really is the epitome of
doing that over the last decade.

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Have I known you two years now?

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Or close to, um, to see her
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So you're amazing at what you do.

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So thank you.

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Thank you.

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And then I guess I can introduce myself.

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I hate talking about myself and I also
hate when my eyelashes stick together.

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But here we are.

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So, uh, Um, but, um, Who am I?

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So, Becks is, I've got a lot of layers.

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I'm like an onion, right, from Shrek.

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Um, not a parfait, not a cake.

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Um, but yeah, I've got a lot
of layers, a lot of titles.

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Um, I'm a mom, I'm a wife,
I'm, um, a sister, a daughter,

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I I'm a real estate agent.

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I am a retired ER nurse.

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Um, I've held a lot of roles in my
life and still continue to do so.

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I am on a radio daybreak podcast with
my partner, Just Blane, which has been

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awesome being the The voice in the face
of, um, at the community of Daybreak.

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I do a lot of my business out
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Um, I also, uh, helped found and am
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So there's a lot that I do, but I
think I'm still, you know, figuring

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out who is Becks under all of that.

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And I think it's a journey, which
has been fun and, um, which is part

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of the reason that I joined WoW is.

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You know who Becks was in my 20s and 30s
and moving into this season in my 40s.

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It has evolved and changed and
that's the beauty of this beautiful

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magic thing that we call life.

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So a lot of roles that I've played
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of that all make up who I am.

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So there you go.

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I think in so many elements that you
You layered your life so well and all

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of those titles are so important and
beautiful, but we're always evolving.

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Always changing.

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And that's what humans are supposed to do.

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We're supposed to change.

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We're supposed to adapt and overcome.

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So adding something else, sometimes like,
Oh, we're so afraid to add something

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else, but maybe that's the piece that's
going to shift something else and make

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spinning those plates a little bit easier.

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So joining a community like, wow.

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Sometimes the answer when you're like,
Oh, I can't put something else on my

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table because I'm a young mom with young
kids, or I'm in the middle of a busy

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career or where I'm more at the end of my
career, I'm in my mid fifties and we have

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our early thirties and our mid forties.

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I'm sorry, I'm throwing you out, but this
is, this is what it is that we don't,

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we're not our twenties, thirties, forties,
and you, like I agree, she is blimped.

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Oh, huge.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Such a beautiful scene to see her come
to life and the same thing with you.

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Um, all of these layers that are
coming out, I think they're coming

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out is because you're around people
who bring out the best in you.

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Yeah.

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And that's really what I
think this community does and

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what our friendship has done.

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Yeah.

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And like you said, it's
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You do want to figure out where
you want to focus your energy or

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your interests or things like that.

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And so you do have to try the

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things in order to know.

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Yes, and it's so
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Um, and then I think it's important
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something that I think our last
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The stories, stories connect
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And that's one thing that WOW has really
done is every single month we bring in a

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speaker who's going to tell their story.

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And from the beginning of time,
when people have gathered around

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a campfire or wrote the stories on
cane walls, it's because they want

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this connection and every story is
important and deserves to be heard.

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And last month's story was.

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So powerful.

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Um, it was Carrie Butler
and she's phenomenal.

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And if you missed out on the event.

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That's why we're going to have more and
we're going to have more great speakers.

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Let's talk about maybe our speaker.

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That's coming up next month.

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Jen

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next month, we have Mary
crafts coming to speak for us.

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She'll be the keynote at our launch party.

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She was a very successful woman
who had a catering company and

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now she is a motivational speaker.

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She has gone through so many
things in her life that have

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just really Added the richness to
her experiences and her wisdom.

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She went through a huge
weight loss journey.

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She escaped a traumatic or abusive
relationship and really just has

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exercised her mental capabilities and
so much more that her story is just

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inspiring and funny and motivational.

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So she's not one to miss.

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If you don't know Mary, you're
going to want to be there.

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The date for that is January 27th,
Monday, January 27th, beginning at 6pm.

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We are going to have food, a
band, um, what else are we doing?

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Uh, surprise raffle draws, um, charities.

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We're going to have

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give back to the community.

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It's gonna be huge.

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It's gonna be big.

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If you're like Becks, you
didn't mention location.

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I know.

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We are figuring that out.

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It will be somewhere here
in the South Valley area.

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More details on that to follow.

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Um, continue to follow us here on,
um, social media and we will be sure

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to get the word out on location.

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Yeah, it's gonna

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be a big launch party.

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Yes.

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Absolutely.

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What else did you have
to add to that, Jen?

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Just a woman's night out
that you won't want to miss.

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Even if you're maybe unsure of,
you might not know many people,

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there will be people to meet and
people to help you feel comfortable.

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Completely.

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So let's give them that date
again, Jen, if you don't mind.

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January 27th, the last Monday of the month

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at 6 p.

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m.

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Perfect.

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Um, what else do we want to
shout out before we jump off

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this podcast today, you guys?

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Anything else or any other Top of mind
things that we wanted to mention about

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WOW are common questions that we get.

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Yeah, I know a common question that
I get is how can I be more involved?

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How can I participate in this?

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How can I receive updates?

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Our website will be launching soon
where you can opt into those emails.

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And then also there will be a place
where you can apply to be a sponsor

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or a speaker at a future event.

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Yes, yes.

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So if you have a great story or
something that you want to add to our

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community, something that's unique
to you, yeah, message us, please.

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Um, feel free.

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Yes, we want, we want everyone to be
involved and share the story and community

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and foster those kind of relationships.

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Do you have any feedbacks?

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I

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think lastly, the only thing to add
is, as women, we have a lot of roles.

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We are so, so busy, but
mark your calendars.

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The WOW events will be on the last
Monday of the month, beginning at 6pm.

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Um, particularly mark your calendars
for the, the hard launch date, which

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is Monday, January 27th at 6pm.

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The location is to be announced.

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See you there.

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See you there.

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Bye.