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Oh my goshhhhhhhhhh welcome to my podcast!!! I'm so excited that you're here and I am honoured that you choose to place ME in your AirPods every week!!!
Here's a bit about me:
My name is Sandra. I'm a business coach for women, a feng shui practitioner and a 2x national leadership award winner. In saying all of that though, I feel like I'm just a girl from Saskatchewan, who is put on this earth to inspire you to step into your power ... right fuckin' now.
I think that all too often, we convince ourselves that there is nothing we can do ... that our life "is what it is" and that ONE DAY we might be able to have the life that we dreamed of.
Uhmmmm NO.
That's bullshit.
Sorry ... but it's true. In a split second, you can choose differently. In THIS moment, you can take that courageous step toward the life you desire. It's my job, my gift and my obsession to help you share your sparkle with the world and I'm excited to get started.
You got this. Let's go.
Sandra
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Breaking the Silence: The Truth About My Podcast Hiatus
Whether it’s your business, your workout routine, your meditation practice, your diet—whatever it is—when you stop doing the thing and days turn into weeks, it starts to feel heavier than it actually is.
It’s not the action that’s hard.
It’s the re-entry.
So here’s what I’ve had to remind myself (and maybe you need to hear this too):
💡 1. The first step back is the hardest—but it’s also the only one that matters.
You don’t need to commit to a 30-day challenge or revamp your whole plan.
Just take one messy, imperfect action.
Send the email. Walk around the block. Write a caption. Open the damn app.
Momentum doesn’t come from thinking. It comes from movement.
💡 2. Start from where you are. Not from where you “should be.”
This one’s big. NO GUILT ALLOWED.
You don’t have to catch up.
You don’t have to overcompensate.
You’re allowed to pick up from today, with the energy and capacity you’ve got.
Let it be enough. Because it is.
💡 3. Make it easy to win.
We lose momentum when things feel overwhelming.
So shrink the goal until it's laughably doable.
Instead of “work out every day,” just move your body for 5 minutes.
Instead of “launch the thing,” just talk about it in your stories.
Instead of “get back to everything,” just return to something.
💡 4. You’re not starting from scratch—you’re starting from experience.
This isn’t your first rodeo.
Even if you feel rusty, you’re still wiser. More self-aware. More you than when you first started.
You’re not back at the bottom.
You’re just re-entering from a different layer.
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So I know that you're noticing that I've not been here for five weeks. At first, I thought I'll just come back and not say a word. I'm just going to pick up where I left off. No announcement, no explanation, just a new episode and off we go. And that would be the advice that I give my clients if they felt like they've, you know, taken a break a week or two weeks or a month or two years off of social media, and then they come to me and ask for help getting the motivation back or getting the momentum back, and they feel like they need to apologize to their following, and I always just say just start back, just start again. But yet I'm not doing that. I am explaining what the fuck happened and here's why I started this podcasting, every single day podcasting challenge.
Speaker 1:I was inspired by a business coach who I have followed for years and I adore her. She, in September, had started this 365 day podcast challenge. She openly talked about how she would outwork everyone in the room. Majority of people wouldn't take on a 365 day podcast challenge, like it's a commitment, but she was going to do it and I was totally obsessed. I was so in it. I was a daily listener. I was so excited.
Speaker 1:And then, all of a sudden, one day, nothing. And I was crushed. I thought, oh man, she dropped her streak. Now what? And the next day, nothing. And the next day nothing. And then, I think, a month went by. I mean, it was a long period of time where I remember thinking, oh no, she's not coming back here what happened? And I could see her posting on Instagram but not on the podcast. Then one day she came back, did one episode. I was so excited to see it because I thought, oh good, she's going to talk about the fact that she shit the bed on her 365 days. But it wasn't. She just showed up and did another podcast. The podcast was good, but she didn't explain what happened. And then, after that one episode, poof gone again.
Speaker 1:I remember thinking where in the fuck did she go? What in the fuck just happened? How does she feel about the fact that she lost her streak? Why is she not showing up in the podcast? I felt like I was so invested and it felt like I was missing something. And it felt like I was missing something. I went to her Instagram. I started to scroll around, creep around and I was looking for some post where she talked about how she changed her mind on her podcast challenge, nope. And then I was wishing that I could go back on her stories because I thought what happened I needed to know. And so, as I was thinking about being the same girl just showing up walking in doing an amazing podcast, I thought I didn't want to pretend that the gap didn't happen. I wanted to make sure that you knew that you could come back to this podcast, that you could go and look and say, hey, what the fuck? What happened to Sandra? And you're going to know. I want you to know that you matter to me, this podcast matters to me, and I want you to kind of just come along for the ride here.
Speaker 1:So here's the absolute truth of what happened. I got the flu. I got the flu and it was like not a cute, sniffly little cold, I mean, I didn't get out of bed for three days, I was dizzy. I was not eating. I don't think I didn't really eat a meal for about seven days and this was a two week illness. It was like a flu combined with a cold, I don't know. It was awful. Every time I did eat, it did not stay in my stomach and, like in the first three days, and like in the first three days, actually the first day, I remember thinking, oh my God, I can't even move, I can't even think, I can't do a thing. How am I going to record this podcast? Like I, really I probably the majority of that day, when I laid in a fully dark room, no TV, no computer, no phone, no, nothing. I remember thinking how am I going to do this podcast episode? Like I was so in it I didn't want to miss, but there was no way. I mean, I couldn't stream three fucking words together. So then the next day it was the same thing, and the next day it was the same thing and I kept. I had this in the back of my mind oh no, my podcast, my podcast, my podcast.
Speaker 1:By day four I felt a little better, but I was still. I mean, I was dizzy for two solid weeks, possibly even longer. And what I noticed was, even though I started to physically feel better and I could have recorded a podcast, I'd gotten out of the habit, I'd gotten out of that consistency and I started to kind of the self-talk was like I was trying to get out of it, right, I was saying oh, I need a little bit more time. My throat is still a little scratchy and sore, my voice doesn't sound the same, I'm still coughing a lot. I think I'm still recovering. I'm just going to wait and I'll start tomorrow. And then tomorrow would come, and the next day I had all of these excuses and I thought I'll just do it tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow and five weeks later I lost momentum. I let that turn into avoidance and, honestly, I was scared to record one podcast because if I recorded one, I was going to be stuck to record the rest of them.
Speaker 1:Now, this was a mindfuck of no other, because I love recording these podcasts. I find it easy to fucking do, and in fact I'm removing the music at the beginning and the end of my podcast episodes just so that it's even easier, like there's less resistance. But I find it really easy to release these and to speak. So the idea that I wouldn't want to start because I would have to continue on just made no sense. That is exactly what it was.
Speaker 1:I mean, think about, have you ever done one of those really like a hard cleanse, or whole 30 or 75 hard or any of those diets? I feel like it's the same right, even working out at the gym or running every day or walking every day. We get into this space where we're just like in the habit, right, every single day. Go, go, go, like you. Just you get into this routine where that's what you're going to do and it just you just go without even thinking about it. And then something happens you go on a holiday or whatever and you fall off. You fall off your diet, you fall off the routine and all of a sudden it's like I should get back to this diet, but I don't think I'm ready for the commitment yet. I don't think I can do this yet. I, if I start tomorrow, then I can't have cheesecake three days from now, so I better not start tomorrow. I'll wait until the timing is perfect.
Speaker 1:It feels like it's just really difficult to get back in the groove. You know, we get this commitment, we get this momentum. We step away for a bit and suddenly it feels so much harder to get back in the fucking swing of things. And so this is what I would tell my clients and this is what I had to remind myself of You're human, life happens, bodies get tired, brains need space. Taking a pause doesn't mean you're any less committed. It just means you're human.
Speaker 1:So don't shit all over yourself, because guess what, talking down to yourself, having that negative mindset especially when it's negative towards you, feeling guilt or shame because you lost the commitment to something, it never makes you feel good. I will also tell you this, though I don't want you to use that as an excuse. I've seen this too often where people say, well, I'm not going to shit on myself, but I just need a rest. But then you rest for three fucking years and you never hit your goal. So I want you to be very, very honest with yourself, taking a break. It happened Now. Let's not make it an excuse and let's get back to it the next fucking day. Right, guilt and shame do not help, but excuses also do not help.
Speaker 1:So what do you do when you've lost the momentum? Because, man, it is really difficult to get back in it. But whether it's your business, your workout routine, your meditation practice, your diet, doesn't fucking matter. When you stop doing the thing and days turn into weeks and then it starts to feel heavier than it actually is, like, it's really, really hard to push yourself again. It's not the action itself that's really difficult, though. It's the re-entry, it's the like starting over the starting again. It's not the action itself, but it's the move to start again. So this is what I would tell my clients and this is what I had to remind myself of, and maybe you need to hear this too. But the first step back is always the hardest, but it's also the only one that matters. Like you don't need to commit to a 30 day challenge to or revamp your whole plan. You don't need to say I'm going to go back to podcasting and I'm going to do daily podcast episodes for 72 fucking years. I'm going to go to the gym and I'm going to work out for three hours every single day and I'm never going to take a break. Like you don't need to commit to 30 days. Just take one messy, inspired action. That's it. Walk around the block, write a social media post, open the app and start tracking your calories again. Or open Zoom and record your fucking podcast.
Speaker 1:Momentum doesn't come from thinking. It comes from movement. Okay, so that's step one. But two is to remember to start where you are, not from where you should be. We think if I started and I kept going, it would be day 84. And I would be so much farther ahead I would be have lost weight. But then I didn't and I started eating chips and dip every single day. And now look at where I'm at. I mean, we just shit all over ourselves. Right? You don't have to catch up, you don't have to overcompensate. You're allowed to pick up from today and just use the energy and the capacity that you have. Like let it be enough, because all you've got is enough.
Speaker 1:The third one is make it easy to win. When we lose momentum, it feels like everything is overwhelming. When we lose momentum, our goals and our process, it feels really overwhelming. One of the girls in the work she lost momentum on her goal and so every single day in this 90 day challenge, we do mindset, energy and action, and she just felt so overwhelmed by the mindset, energy and action that she was once easily able to continue with, and so we just shrank everything down. We just shrunk everything down Like whether it's your goal, like if the goal feels too far away, you can like make that goal smaller, actionable or achievable goals, and sometimes you have to shrink the plan itself, but you want to do it so that it doesn't feel so overwhelming.
Speaker 1:One of the things that I really felt like I was going to do with this podcast was just remove the music from the beginning and the end. Like, just literally show the fuck up here. Like right out the gate, show the fuck up and not go through the process of having to put the music on at the beginning and the end. Now, like right out the gate, show the fuck up and not go through the process of having to put the music on at the beginning and the end. Now, you know what. That takes two seconds, but it felt like it was an overwhelming thing before I hit record on this, and so we want to make it easy for you to show the fuck up.
Speaker 1:If you decide all you're going to do you were working out every single day and you've lost the momentum for that just commit to five minutes. It works. Trust me as an ex Beachbody coach, it works. Just commit, press, play for five minutes. You're going to continue and just launch the course talk about in your stories. Instead of getting back to everything, just return to something, do something.
Speaker 1:Number four is you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience, right, you're not back at the bottom, you're just reentering from a different layer. Even if you feel rusty, you're still wiser. Even if you feel like I don't even remember what the fuck I'm doing, trust me, you're just going to fall right into it. As soon as you start, it will just feel like you've never left. So this is me coming back no big launch, no polished comeback, just the truth.
Speaker 1:And if you've been away from something that you love because I do love this podcast but if you've been away from something that you love and you've been waiting for the perfect time to come back, there's no fucking perfect time. It's just do it. Just now, pull the pin, do it. This is your permission slip. It's not too late. You're not too flaky, you're not too fucking broken. You're human. That's it. Let's spread this message that showing back up is massively fucking powerful. It takes a lot of guts to do that. And if you're ready to stop floating or spiralingaling or waiting for the perfect moment to begin again, there's three ways that we can work together.
Speaker 1:Right now, I have a 90 day challenge. Right now, it's a dollar a day, 90 bucks, called the work. It's for women who are done half-assing it and ready to actually do the work so that they can achieve their goals. Also, I have a membership called the powerhouse, and that's for women who want weekly support and groundedness and just need the steady space to stay in their power. I talk about feng shui tips. I do intuitive card reading for them. I talk about mindset shifts that will make you into a fucking powerhouse I love it so much. And then also private coaching. So if you want me in your corner, helping you move fast, helping you stay focused, and just me using my intuitive coaching ability, you can reply to this podcast by hitting send me a text. It's in the show notes. Or you can just DM me on social media and just say I'm ready and we'll figure it out together. You're not behind, you're just arriving, so let's fucking go.
