The Catalyst To My Deep Depression, Emotional Eating, & Call To My Selfish Era – Shamelessly Ambitious Episode 136

Filed in All Episodes, Business Strategy, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Development — June 3, 2024

Welcome to the first episode of Nomad Musings. Possibly low quality audio, but high quality connection. 😏

Ya’ll know that 2023 was a hard year for me. I was dealing with some friendship breakups that fucking sucked. Why are friendship breakups the hardest?? I lost my passion for health which is SO unlike me. I lost my consistent workout routine & I was eating chips and ice cream like my life depended on it. 🥲 && I really hit my breaking point where I felt so numb & paralyzed by life that I needed to turn it all off in order to make ANY decisions moving forward… For which I am so grateful because I was able to dive head first into my health. Today I am officially down 30 pounds and I am damn proud of myself for the work I’ve put in. I finally feel my spark coming back. For life, business, relationships, travel, && health. Ugh, I am so proud of where I am at today and the quality of life I’m producing.

THE JUICY HIGHLIGHTS:
• Struggling with perfectionism
• Emotionally eating.. My crutch of chips & ice cream 🍦
• Lump on my breast that I’d been ignoring
• Soul crushing friendship breakups
• Uncovering infections & parasites
• How I lost 30 pounds
• Our nomad plans for the remainder of the year 

THE EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
[0:56] New candid bi-weekly walk episodes
[5:15] The musings broadcast inside the membership
[7:08] Completely losing myself & passion for health
[9:11] Still unhealed from friendships lost
[15:19] The straw that broke the camel’s back…
[16:14] Realizing Texas was not for us
[18:14] Feeling so lost & confused & stopped everything
[18:49] Weighing myself to find I was at my all-time highest
[20:00] All the health tests I did
[21:19] 80/20 eating transition
[22:18] Texas allergens are WILD and took vengeance on my son 
[24:05] Muscle testing to find bacterial staph infection
[25:34] How I lost 30 pounds
[29:29] Peer-led retreat, girls time, and our anniversary trip
[33:40] Our passion for travel & nomad plans for 2023
[38:36] Where should we go next??

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