Speaker 1: Wonderful was really created out of a lack of connection
Speaker 1: to not only my community, but I was lacking connection
Speaker 1: to myself. I feel the responsibility with my social media,
Speaker 1: with everything that I do, to share something positive, to
Speaker 1: have a mission. It's just need to shift in my perspective.
Speaker 1: So instead of thinking life is happening to me, it's
Speaker 1: actually happening for me. What up, y'all And welcome to
Speaker 1: another episode of cheek Ease and Chill. I'm your host
Speaker 1: cheek Ease, and I hope your week is off to
Speaker 1: a great start. I am still in the midst of
Speaker 1: moving and I have to tell you it is a
Speaker 1: pain in the ass, but I'm gonna take a de
Speaker 1: breath and we're gonna have fun today and we're gonna
Speaker 1: be positive. That's what this episode is all about today.
Speaker 1: So let me speak words like in sead of saying
Speaker 1: it's a pain in the aas, it is going to
Speaker 1: be fine. It will be fine. That's what I'm gonna say, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, today's episode is all about positivity. And
Speaker 1: if you know me, you know positivity and positive thinking
Speaker 1: is a huge part of my life. I share with
Speaker 1: you guys on my social media It's important for me
Speaker 1: to share quotes even if I'm having a bad day.
Speaker 1: I tell you, guys, I'm having a bad jay and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, everything is gonna be Okay.
Speaker 1: Everything happens for a reason. It might sound a little cliche.
Speaker 1: I always say that, but I really truly believe in
Speaker 1: the power of words. Okay, And to speak about this
Speaker 1: a little more, we have none other than Liz Hernandez.
Speaker 1: You might know her from her radio days on PARAWEO six,
Speaker 1: or maybe from MTV E News or Access Hollywood. She's
Speaker 1: done so many things, and one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: is wordabule you guys, So she's here. Welcome Liz Chick.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I love that you are able to put
Speaker 1: a positive spin. I always call it a positive perspective
Speaker 1: on moving. So share, I'll share a little bit of
Speaker 1: what might help. Okay, any time that I've had to move,
Speaker 1: you think about the fact that you have to touch
Speaker 1: every single thing you own. Think about that, from the
Speaker 1: knives and forks to the shoes, to the pillows to
Speaker 1: whatever in your bathroom drawers. And there's an opportunity to
Speaker 1: find gratitude in all of that because you are literally
Speaker 1: touching everything that you've accumulated in the span of your lifetime.
Speaker 1: You know what Lis see now, Even just speaking to her,
Speaker 1: I feel like she's calm like voice. She's just like, Hey,
Speaker 1: everything's gonna be all right. Without having to say it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, you're right, And it's so true, because
Speaker 1: you know, you do find so many things. You have gratitude.
Speaker 1: You find the gratitude like you said, and the things
Speaker 1: that you have, and the things that you've accumulated that
Speaker 1: you've been able to buy, and then also to be
Speaker 1: able to just release things too. You know, I believe
Speaker 1: a lot of energy and stuff. So for me, it
Speaker 1: was important to get the house painted, to get rid
Speaker 1: of things that I no longer use, to give away things,
Speaker 1: open up space, open up space exactly. Marikon was like
Speaker 1: one of my favorite teachers when it comes to giving
Speaker 1: gratitude for the things you no longer need, letting them
Speaker 1: go so you create space for the things that spark joy. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening right now, you guys, that's what's happening
Speaker 1: right now. You know what. But I finally got the
Speaker 1: kitchen going, so I feel better about it now everything
Speaker 1: is in its place. And I'm just I'm that type
Speaker 1: of person that if things are just especially my personal life,
Speaker 1: my room, my home, I feel like everything else is chaotic.
Speaker 1: So that's why I had to take the weekend. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just gonna get this done because
Speaker 1: I have a conversation with Liz and I want to
Speaker 1: be in the right headspace. The first, congratulations on your
Speaker 1: move too, I mean, that's pretty amazing. That's all. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. I appreciate that. I want to start
Speaker 1: off by telling everyone, you know, how I know of Liz.
Speaker 1: You know, I know Liz from Parlona six. I would
Speaker 1: listen to her in the morning with Big Boy. You know,
Speaker 1: here in l A. It's like a huge actually everywhere right,
Speaker 1: it was like huge everywhere indicated, syndicated. L A was
Speaker 1: our home. This is like, yeah, it's like when you
Speaker 1: play for the home team. You know, it's like you
Speaker 1: can think of it like baseball, like you can go
Speaker 1: to other cities and play, but you're never going to
Speaker 1: be as celebrated as you are in your hometown. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: So I started That's how I heard of Liz. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, and then I saw her on television
Speaker 1: and then on Instagram, I was scrolling and I'm all
Speaker 1: about like you know, I said quotes and and looking
Speaker 1: up even like hashtag positive. And I came across Worderful,
Speaker 1: which she's gonna tell you guys a little bit more about.
Speaker 1: And then she invited me on Worderful to be a
Speaker 1: special guest, and um, I were I chose the word, um, legacy.
Speaker 1: Legacy is a dream, a gift passed down from generation
Speaker 1: to generation. Legacy is the footprint you leave on this
Speaker 1: earth to show you were here. So that was fun.
Speaker 1: I wrote the whole thing. I met her for the
Speaker 1: first time, I was like, oh my gosh, she's so pretty,
Speaker 1: you know um, And I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is so nice. I love this, I love what
Speaker 1: it's all about. I'm all about it. And then it
Speaker 1: so happened to be that she is really good friends
Speaker 1: and I should say they call each other big sister
Speaker 1: and little brother with Emilio, you guys know my boyfriend. UM.
Speaker 1: So now it's like, even it's crazy because I had
Speaker 1: did I do that episode before actually I met him?
Speaker 1: I think, so, what's so crazy is I think you
Speaker 1: came in to record that episode that either the day
Speaker 1: before you met or the weekend you guys met, which okay,
Speaker 1: pretty I mean that's synchronicity in itself. Yes, absolutely, I think.
Speaker 1: I think I want to say, wait, when did you
Speaker 1: guys meet again? Remind me March one, March one? So
Speaker 1: I think it was for sure before I met him,
Speaker 1: and then I think it you uploaded it the weekend
Speaker 1: after you met him, exactly. Yes, sorry, I'm putting everything together,
Speaker 1: you guys. The timeline here people, yes, sorry, guys, so
Speaker 1: here it is. It's it's live, it's it's it's real.
Speaker 1: So that's how I know her. And we follow each
Speaker 1: other on Instagram and we comment on each other's things.
Speaker 1: And I just want you to know that I admire you.
Speaker 1: I think you're so awesome everything that you post. I
Speaker 1: love the the aesthetic of your your Instagram. I know
Speaker 1: you believe in Palocento and like stage and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, So I just want to tell you, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel very connected to you. Thank you, And it's
Speaker 1: a mutual. I think you gravitate towards people whose energy
Speaker 1: is in common with you, know that you can relate to,
Speaker 1: and you see certain things you have in common, and
Speaker 1: you understand their practices and you I mean energy. Like
Speaker 1: they say, energy never lies and it's always nice. And
Speaker 1: I so appreciate just that you are always sending out
Speaker 1: positivity to your community. I appreciate everything you've shared from Mortifald.
Speaker 1: That means a lot, especially from you know, someone like
Speaker 1: myself who is another Latina. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: other women that look like you or represent you, and
Speaker 1: it's always nice when your own community embraces you. Oh absolutely,
Speaker 1: I do it from the bottom of my heart. I
Speaker 1: love what you're doing. And now that we're talking about worderful,
Speaker 1: I want you to tell us what is worderful? What
Speaker 1: is it to you? What is what? What did you
Speaker 1: want to accomplish when you created and you came up
Speaker 1: with Worderful. So I'll give you the really short rendition
Speaker 1: because it can get a little lengthy. But Wordiful was
Speaker 1: really created out of a lack of connection to not
Speaker 1: only my community, but I was lacking connection to myself.
Speaker 1: It was right I was hired in entertainment. Telebi was
Speaker 1: going into primetime television for Access Hollywood at the time,
Speaker 1: and right around then my mom was diagnosed with dementia.
Speaker 1: I was really trying to find my footing. I had
Speaker 1: left radio, and I was really radio was my first love,
Speaker 1: and I loved that we could tell stories and the
Speaker 1: phones would light up, and obviously there was that connection
Speaker 1: we had to so many amazing things that happened in
Speaker 1: l A. Whether it was a Lakers parade, whether it
Speaker 1: was you know, Dodger games. There was so much happening
Speaker 1: in our in our big, beautiful city, and it was
Speaker 1: nice to be able to share in those experiences. And
Speaker 1: then once I got into television, I realized that storytelling
Speaker 1: only became a one way street. There was no phone
Speaker 1: lines lighting up, there was no um you could give,
Speaker 1: but you weren't really receiving. And so I just decided
Speaker 1: it would be really great if I could create a
Speaker 1: small platform. At the time, it was just one of
Speaker 1: those like, oh, just create a YouTube channel. I talked
Speaker 1: about the power of words, and it was meaningful to
Speaker 1: me because I had always had a belief ever since
Speaker 1: I read the Four Agreements about be powerful with your words,
Speaker 1: and my mom was beginning to lose her speech. UM,
Speaker 1: I felt very alone, even though it should have been
Speaker 1: a ton when I was um feeling accomplished, and I
Speaker 1: didn't feel that way at all, And so out of that,
Speaker 1: out of all these little factors, came this little YouTube
Speaker 1: channel and I started. That's really how it started, almost
Speaker 1: like in a small little basement, and it just grew
Speaker 1: from there. And what inspired you It was just that
Speaker 1: like everything that that was going on, or or you
Speaker 1: just felt like you wanted to have that connection with someone.
Speaker 1: It's crazy how it's evolved over time. You know, it's
Speaker 1: started with let me just take one word, Like in
Speaker 1: the beginning I talked about Actually the first word I
Speaker 1: launched with was connect and just how powerful it is
Speaker 1: when we're able to connect through our storytelling. Because that's
Speaker 1: my ultimate foundation, is that we're all here to have
Speaker 1: this human experience and we connect through love and we
Speaker 1: connect through pain. And so if I was able to
Speaker 1: just take one word and talk about what I was
Speaker 1: learning from that word, maybe how we were misusing that word,
Speaker 1: what that word meant to me. Um, I just thought
Speaker 1: I could get back to the storytelling that I did
Speaker 1: in radio, but just go a little bit deeper, making
Speaker 1: only sixty seconds so that it's digestible, because you know,
Speaker 1: we're moving in a fast paced world where our attention
Speaker 1: span is you know, really not there anymore. And Uh,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because it started as that and then it
Speaker 1: started evolving. It's the more life was happening to I
Speaker 1: don't like to me happening for me. You know, my
Speaker 1: mom was my mom was starting to lose the battle
Speaker 1: with Alzheimer's, and my relationship at the time was starting
Speaker 1: to unravel. I wasn't happy at my job. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that wordiful was becoming a place where it was
Speaker 1: like a diary, it was a therapy, it was um
Speaker 1: a confessional, and it just started to evolve more in
Speaker 1: to let me use my life as a lesson, let
Speaker 1: me show other people that they're not alone, that this
Speaker 1: happens to everyone. Um, how can I be useful? How
Speaker 1: can I share the hurt and pain and not let
Speaker 1: it all go in vain? And you know, not every
Speaker 1: episode is heavy, and you know there's obviously positive lessons
Speaker 1: to be learned as well, But I just try to
Speaker 1: use one word in every episode as the catalyst for
Speaker 1: the bigger story. I that's what I love right now.
Speaker 1: What you what you said, and you mentioned about the
Speaker 1: fast paced world that we're living in and how everyone's
Speaker 1: attention span is getting is getting shorter and shorter. And
Speaker 1: that's why for me, I feel like the responsibility with
Speaker 1: my social media, with everything that I do, to share
Speaker 1: something positive, to have a mission behind it, not just
Speaker 1: to do something to sell it, not just you know,
Speaker 1: even in my makeup, you know the names of the lips,
Speaker 1: the lipsticks, or the names of the palettes. To me,
Speaker 1: it's like there's a story behind everything. And that's what
Speaker 1: I love about it. If I feel like it's every
Speaker 1: time I come across it, I come across one of
Speaker 1: your videos, I feel like it's a it's just a
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air. You know. I'm just saying this
Speaker 1: is this is what I need, and it never fails.
Speaker 1: It's something every it doesn't matter what it's about. It
Speaker 1: could be happy, it could be like you said, connect anything.
Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, it's just it's a nice reminder. And
Speaker 1: this is why I share it because it's so important
Speaker 1: for us not to lose substance in this world that
Speaker 1: is so consumed with fast, fast, fast, phase disposable. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: not authentic. I completely agree, and superficial And thank you.
Speaker 1: I love that you say that it resonates because a
Speaker 1: lot of times you do question, you know, is this
Speaker 1: going to make sense for other people. But what I've
Speaker 1: learned is and there's there's a great quote that that
Speaker 1: I learned this from um and I believe it's from
Speaker 1: ramdas he says, the greatest gift I can give to
Speaker 1: you is to work on myself, and the greatest gift
Speaker 1: you can give to me is to work on yourself.
Speaker 1: So I'm not ever trying to get on a soapbox
Speaker 1: and say like this is what you should do, Like
Speaker 1: that's literally the last thing I'm trying to do. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say this happened to me, here's what I
Speaker 1: learned from it, or here's how it's still hurting me,
Speaker 1: or here where I need to grow up and mature.
Speaker 1: I'm not exempt from any of the things that you're
Speaker 1: going through. Maybe it just looks a little bit different,
Speaker 1: but we're all gonna lose somebody we love. We're all
Speaker 1: going to get our heartbroken, we're all going to be betrayed,
Speaker 1: we're all gonna be the betrayer, We're all gonna it's
Speaker 1: it's that human experience that no one is exempt from.
Speaker 1: And so if I can just help someone along that
Speaker 1: journey to like I said, feel less alone and to
Speaker 1: feel heard and to feel seen. That's what worderful is
Speaker 1: all about. It's connecting through the power of storytelling. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1: And I love that Emilio is he considers you one
Speaker 1: of his best friends because that boy I know, and
Speaker 1: he loves you so much. And the fact that he
Speaker 1: has someone that he can speak to him and is
Speaker 1: going to give him good advice, you know, because even
Speaker 1: with the short time that he's been in my life,
Speaker 1: he's helped me so much. And and that's exactly right
Speaker 1: now when you said, you know, the best gift that
Speaker 1: I can give you is working on myself. That's what
Speaker 1: we try to do. It's like I can only be
Speaker 1: the best version of myself every single day, and so
Speaker 1: can you. It's like we're not each other's sponsibility, and
Speaker 1: it's just how can I be better in my relationship?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? We are We're always better
Speaker 1: by example. I mean, really, how me and Amelia bonded.
Speaker 1: I mean we became quick friends, but really we bonded
Speaker 1: over heartbreak. We were both going through heartbreak at the
Speaker 1: same time. And again, the power of sharing our stories
Speaker 1: and being able to relate to one another and to
Speaker 1: be able to show up for one another as friends.
Speaker 1: Really cemented our friendship. And it's so easy to tell
Speaker 1: someone what they should do. I always say should is
Speaker 1: a shame word. It's so easy to tell someone, well,
Speaker 1: you should do this or you should do that, And really,
Speaker 1: that time could be better spent looking at myself and saying,
Speaker 1: how can I be a walking example instead of pointing
Speaker 1: my finger telling someone how to live their life. Right,
Speaker 1: Oh you guys, hope everyone's listening very closely. Definitely, I'm
Speaker 1: definitely learning a lot already. And it's crazy because it's
Speaker 1: just confirmation for me and I'm like, okay, wait, this
Speaker 1: is it's we're on the right track. We're doing the
Speaker 1: right thing. And sometimes you do get a little distracted
Speaker 1: with everything that's going on with work. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, what is important is your perception
Speaker 1: of life and what you're here to do more than
Speaker 1: anything like what footprint, what imprint are you going to
Speaker 1: live in people's life in this world? And I think
Speaker 1: you're doing a wonderful job with that. You left the
Speaker 1: entertainment business forwarderful or how did that go about? Liz?
Speaker 1: It just started. I always say there was one day
Speaker 1: where I was standing on stage and I felt completely
Speaker 1: out of alignment with what I was doing. I was
Speaker 1: telling this story about a celebrity's tattoos, and my mom
Speaker 1: was on hospice, literally dying, and I'm thinking, what am
Speaker 1: I doing. I'm standing here in full hair and makeup,
Speaker 1: and is this my message down into the world. And
Speaker 1: I was just watching my you know, just the time
Speaker 1: move forward, and I'm thinking I should be with my mother. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it's just all these It's kind of like when
Speaker 1: they see the stars aligned. The stars aligned, where I
Speaker 1: couldn't ignore the fact that really where I wanted to
Speaker 1: be spending my time was creating my own company that
Speaker 1: meant so much to me and spending that time with
Speaker 1: my mother more than anything, spending that time with my mother,
Speaker 1: and then I could focus on worderful after. But I
Speaker 1: just knew that I couldn't spend another day doing anything else.
Speaker 1: I'm taking a deep breath because sometimes I think about that.
Speaker 1: I think about I'm like, I use like my music
Speaker 1: and everything that I do as as a vehicle to
Speaker 1: reach more hearts, more people. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, like on my vision board, it's something completely different,
Speaker 1: because sometimes I feel that the industry that I'm in.
Speaker 1: And if you are not aligned, if you're not centered,
Speaker 1: and you don't do it every single day, it can
Speaker 1: really really drag you into a deep hole if you
Speaker 1: allow it. And I have to be intentional every single
Speaker 1: day of centering myself, meditating and making sure that I
Speaker 1: am okay inside mentally, emotionally, and not every day I am.
Speaker 1: There are days that I'm just having a bad day,
Speaker 1: you know, and I just have to also embrace those
Speaker 1: feelings and say, Okay, where is this coming from and
Speaker 1: try to dig and find, you know, the solution to it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's no solutions. Sometimes you just gotta feel sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's part. That's part of being human, the human experience.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a privilege to feel the sadness.
Speaker 1: It's a privilege to feel the pain because that is
Speaker 1: part of being here and part of, like I said,
Speaker 1: the experience of being a human being. Yeah, And a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to accept maybe that they
Speaker 1: have either depression or anxiety or they are going through something.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, I gotta show face and I'm just
Speaker 1: strong and no, I mean there's so much beauty and
Speaker 1: so much to learn from someone being so being able
Speaker 1: to be vulnerable and say hey, I'm a human that's
Speaker 1: also going through this. I also feel and I think
Speaker 1: that it's good to have people like you that are like, hey,
Speaker 1: I was on Access Hollywood, on the news, on power,
Speaker 1: but you know what, I just this is now my mission.
Speaker 1: I think that that's beautiful. I think it's inspirational. I
Speaker 1: love it. I think that you're amazing. Thank you. I
Speaker 1: really attributed to my mom. You know, I think we
Speaker 1: believe we have plenty of time. You know, we just
Speaker 1: walk around with this illusion of oh, I have so
Speaker 1: much time. I'm young, and I just I have time,
Speaker 1: and the truth is, we don't know. We really don't
Speaker 1: know how much time we have. And so I try
Speaker 1: to remind myself of that every single day and look
Speaker 1: at the people in my life as teachers. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm excited for even you and Amelia. You guys are
Speaker 1: each other's teachers. And as you know, with any relationship,
Speaker 1: it's like it's so exciting the beginning and it's very romantic,
Speaker 1: but that's the glue that brings us together. So then
Speaker 1: we can also reveal our vulnerabilities in our wounds. I
Speaker 1: always say relationships are the best classrooms, because you learn
Speaker 1: the most, You learn the most about yourself in the
Speaker 1: most beautiful way, because you can. You can never doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where you go, there you are. And so the
Speaker 1: things that we don't like about ourselves or the the
Speaker 1: wounds that we're still trying to cover up, that person
Speaker 1: is going to get a front row seat to it.
Speaker 1: And are we willing to love them and help them
Speaker 1: grow through it or are we going to allow our
Speaker 1: even even ourselves. Are we gonna allow ourselves to be
Speaker 1: loved through it? Or are we going to just let
Speaker 1: our insecurities and our fears push that person away or
Speaker 1: sabotage before we can get to the good stuff. Because
Speaker 1: that happens a lot of times. Oh, it does absolutely
Speaker 1: explain how one word and changing it can affect your mindset. Well,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite sayings is, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of times when something goes awry, will say why is
Speaker 1: this happening to me? Why does this keep happening to me?
Speaker 1: Or you know, right away we want to blame life
Speaker 1: for the universe or even ourselves, And it's just simply
Speaker 1: changing that perspective of instead of saying why is this
Speaker 1: happening to me? We can say I'm grateful this is
Speaker 1: happening for me, because there's always a lesson in there.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a story that happened to me once.
Speaker 1: I was on the four oh five. It's jam packed traffic,
Speaker 1: and I get a flat tire and I have to
Speaker 1: pull over, and I'm thinking, Okay, how am I? You
Speaker 1: know you're you're trying to keep calling, and I just thought,
Speaker 1: how am I? How is this going to play out?
Speaker 1: Right away? Go into gratitude. I'm grateful that I have
Speaker 1: triple a um And instead of saying, why is this
Speaker 1: happening to me? Why in the middle of prime time traffic?
Speaker 1: Why on the four oh five? Why am I getting
Speaker 1: a flat tire? I just this is life happening for me.
Speaker 1: Maybe if I would have kept going, I would have
Speaker 1: gotten to a bad accident, and this was the way
Speaker 1: of God's God's way of pulling me over. And it
Speaker 1: just made a shift in my perspective. So instead of
Speaker 1: thinking life is happening to me, it's actually happening for me,
Speaker 1: and yeah, my goodness, And it makes honestly, and it
Speaker 1: just reminded me of something I read it. I don't
Speaker 1: know a few weeks ago, where it said, Oh, you
Speaker 1: know a lot of people, a lot of us say
Speaker 1: I have to go to work, I have to do this,
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, I get to go to work.
Speaker 1: I get to my saying about I have to move.
Speaker 1: You get to that's a major luxury, you know, you
Speaker 1: get to. I get to and you're right, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like now I'm like, okay, well you know, and
Speaker 1: I think it's it's something that's every day, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: are there times Liz that you you just kind of
Speaker 1: you catch yourself being not negative, but not on the
Speaker 1: right positive frequency solutely absolutely all the time. Again what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. I'm human. I have a strong practice
Speaker 1: of gratitude journaling. Every morning I gratitude journal and the
Speaker 1: my bounce back ratio is a lot higher because as
Speaker 1: soon as I feel myself starting to the hamster starts
Speaker 1: going on the wheel of like well this, this, this
Speaker 1: and this, and I can feel it. Complaining gratitude is
Speaker 1: the antidote always, Okay, what is this here to teach me?
Speaker 1: What is happening for me that I may not see
Speaker 1: right now? And sometimes things just happen, that's life, but
Speaker 1: there's something to be learned from it. We get stronger
Speaker 1: from it, we become more resilient, we learned not to
Speaker 1: do it the same way again the next time. So
Speaker 1: it's all perspective and how you want to see it.
Speaker 1: And you know, earlier I was even talking about that
Speaker 1: word should. It's a lot of times in our heads
Speaker 1: we're saying, oh, I should work out, I should eat better,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done this, I should And the more
Speaker 1: should you add to the conversation in your head, the
Speaker 1: more shaming is going on to yourself. It's not loving
Speaker 1: self talk. And a lot of times when we should ourselves,
Speaker 1: we end up shooting on other people, you know, because
Speaker 1: that voice in our head doesn't stop. Well, you should
Speaker 1: do this, and you should do that. And so again,
Speaker 1: the best thing I can do is work on myself.
Speaker 1: So I try to remind myself, okay, am I giving
Speaker 1: myself a shamelesst of all the things that I need
Speaker 1: to be doing. Instead, maybe I can switch the language
Speaker 1: the words and say I will go for a run
Speaker 1: when you know it feels good, or I will eat
Speaker 1: good to tonight or tomorrow, or just make those little transitions,
Speaker 1: those little steps that can show myself a little bit
Speaker 1: more compassion Yeah, that's exactly compassion and understanding and like
Speaker 1: you said, not judging ourselves or others. And I'm always
Speaker 1: one to say and to practice, like you know what,
Speaker 1: speaking words of life and not of death in church.
Speaker 1: I learned that when I was young, because I, like,
Speaker 1: I always say, I'm telling the power of the tongue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I learned that. I'm like, wow, it's true. It's
Speaker 1: it's and now I use it every single day. I'm like, okay, wait,
Speaker 1: like it's it takes practice, you guys. It's it's little
Speaker 1: by little, you know. It's not like it's going to
Speaker 1: be perfect every single time, you know. And one thing
Speaker 1: I try to remind myself as well, because I'm very
Speaker 1: hard on myself. But yeah, right, I am very part
Speaker 1: of myself. I'm somewhat of a perfectionist and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I want to do things right, but sometimes it's okay
Speaker 1: to make my safe. That's how you learn. And just
Speaker 1: always speaking words of life. What does that mean? For instance,
Speaker 1: what does it mean to you is actually speaking words
Speaker 1: of life? Yeah, they say the life and death is
Speaker 1: spoken through the power of the tongue. So one of
Speaker 1: my favorite teachers that I've learned from is Dr Imoto,
Speaker 1: and he did the study on water. Think of yourself
Speaker 1: as flowing a flowing river, right we have our bodies
Speaker 1: are made up of seventy water. And so every time
Speaker 1: I tell myself, you're such an idiot, you're so dumb,
Speaker 1: you could have done it different. Anytime I speak unloving
Speaker 1: words to myself, I'm literally polluting my water, making it
Speaker 1: hazardous inside of my system. And every time I'm loving
Speaker 1: to myself, every time I'm like I love you, I
Speaker 1: got your back, you're smart, you're worthy, you're beautiful, I'm
Speaker 1: purifying my water. I'm creating life inside of me. And
Speaker 1: Dr Emoto did these studies where he actually put labels
Speaker 1: on water to prove this scientifically, and he did. He
Speaker 1: froze these little he put these waters, and they froze
Speaker 1: them into crystals. And when he put words like you're beautiful,
Speaker 1: I love you, love ingratitude was shown to be two
Speaker 1: of the strongest words. They froze into these beautiful, beautiful crystals.
Speaker 1: And the waters that the crystals that he froze that
Speaker 1: he put the words like I hate you, I want
Speaker 1: to kill you, you're dumb, they froze into these like
Speaker 1: dark deformed crystals, and so the same thing is happening
Speaker 1: inside of us when we speak to someone that way
Speaker 1: and when we speak to ourselves that way. So always think,
Speaker 1: when you're being hard on yourself, am I purifying my water?
Speaker 1: Or am I polluting it? I love that. Yes, So
Speaker 1: you guys, as you know Lizza saying, it is very
Speaker 1: important to not only speak beautiful words to yourself but
Speaker 1: to others. I always have different I change them out.
Speaker 1: I don't have them and I don't have them right now,
Speaker 1: but I have to actually put them up. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: little post its of things that I need to work on.
Speaker 1: You know, Trust the process. I have this whole thing
Speaker 1: with trust, and it's every day. It's something that I
Speaker 1: have to work on, and it's just it reminds me
Speaker 1: every single day. Trust the process. It is safe for
Speaker 1: you to love and to be loved, because, let me
Speaker 1: tell you, sometimes I've gotten hurt so much that I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh wait, wait, am I going to be safe here?
Speaker 1: But I need to allow myself to experience love because
Speaker 1: I deserve it, because I am worthy and all these things.
Speaker 1: Telling you guys, it's just it's practice, and only you
Speaker 1: know what it is that you're working on what you
Speaker 1: need to work on, and you write it on a
Speaker 1: post it and you put it like I, I that's
Speaker 1: what I do. I brush my teeth. And as I'm
Speaker 1: you're brushing my teeth, I'm reciting those things in my
Speaker 1: head and then I say I'm out loud and it
Speaker 1: just makes me have just a better day. So and
Speaker 1: not every day is going to be perfect. You know,
Speaker 1: we have to be compassionate with ourselves when we mess up,
Speaker 1: or you know, when we recognize old patterns that we've
Speaker 1: learned in childhood that we still use an adulthood because
Speaker 1: we think they still work, and they don't. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to myself right now, and I was. I
Speaker 1: was really I was really judging myself the other day
Speaker 1: because I was like, what, you know, we said that
Speaker 1: popular say, why am I like this? And I thought, God,
Speaker 1: I'm being I'm not being very nice to myself. I
Speaker 1: need to say I'm learning, I'm learning. Oh yeah, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, we doo, I'm learning. Oh my god. Well
Speaker 1: that's a whole other conversation. Well we'll have to go
Speaker 1: to lunch. You and I talk about other things. And
Speaker 1: I was about to talk about but I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know what, No, we'll talk about that in private. So,
Speaker 1: given the topic of today's episode, I wanted to do
Speaker 1: something a little different and a little fun. We're going
Speaker 1: to play a word association game. Are you ready, list,
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I don't even ask you, but are you
Speaker 1: down to play? Of course? Okay. So here's how it's
Speaker 1: going to work. I'm going to say a word and
Speaker 1: you'll have ten seconds to shout out a word or
Speaker 1: a phrase that comes to mind. Okay, ten seconds for
Speaker 1: so for example, if I say the word family, you
Speaker 1: might say mother or father. Um, so, yeah, does that
Speaker 1: sound good? That sounds great? Alrighty, here we go. Here
Speaker 1: we go. The year of personal growth. Okay, I did
Speaker 1: a lot of growing and it was very uncomfortable. But
Speaker 1: that was that was last year for me. Oh my goodness. Okay,
Speaker 1: uh love abundance and continued Grove, Los Angeles home. Social
Speaker 1: media connection. I try to still see the good in it,
Speaker 1: you know, I really believe it is there there to
Speaker 1: connect us. If you know, a friend of mine said,
Speaker 1: use the internet, don't let the internet use you, And
Speaker 1: I try to still always keep that in mind, like
Speaker 1: I'm there to have this as a tool to connect
Speaker 1: me to the people that otherwise I wouldn't be connected to,
Speaker 1: Like even you and I we've actually have grown a
Speaker 1: bond through social media. Yeah. I like that. It's a
Speaker 1: positive way of looking at it. Social media connection, connecting
Speaker 1: with others. I'm snapping my fingers for that one. Okay,
Speaker 1: fear the absence of love? Oh okay, joy m hmm, joy.
Speaker 1: You know that the first thing that the first thing
Speaker 1: that that that popped into my my mind is just friendship.
Speaker 1: You know, the friendships I have, they bring me my
Speaker 1: ultimate joy. They are the family we get to choose
Speaker 1: for ourselves. And I'm so grateful that every single person
Speaker 1: that is in my circle helps me grow and they
Speaker 1: bring me joy. Like, there's not one friend that calls
Speaker 1: me on my caller ID where I look and go.
Speaker 1: I don't want to pick up every single person I'm
Speaker 1: like so excited to talk to because they bring they
Speaker 1: bring their joy to me. I gotta do some cleaning
Speaker 1: on that. And there's one or two that I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh damn, maybe not right now. Oh God, well, good
Speaker 1: thing I would say names. Anyways, Okay, here we go. Manifestation. Manifestation,
Speaker 1: what I think of is just the power within. I
Speaker 1: think we're all manifest ers and it's it's it's that
Speaker 1: gift I believe that we've been given by God to um.
Speaker 1: It's the power of choice, the power to create our
Speaker 1: lives and to really attract to us the things that
Speaker 1: we feel were worthy of I love that. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna quickly say something because so many people believe that, yes,
Speaker 1: our life is already written out for us. I choose
Speaker 1: to believe the only thing was the day we were
Speaker 1: born and perhaps the day that we pass. But we
Speaker 1: we choose with everyday choices what route our life is
Speaker 1: going to take, what our destiny is going to look like,
Speaker 1: depending on the choices that we make. UM. But anyways,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to pick you back on that, because, yes,
Speaker 1: the power of manifestation, of telling you I'm all about
Speaker 1: visualizing and vision boards and really manifesting your life, you know,
Speaker 1: and what you desire, what you want. We're all born
Speaker 1: into different circumstances, obviously, but I believe at some point
Speaker 1: we do have the power of freedom. I think that's
Speaker 1: the biggest gift, you know, God gave to us, is
Speaker 1: that we can always choose to love. We can always
Speaker 1: choose to think higher. We can always choose to think positively.
Speaker 1: But that's why it's so important that we find the
Speaker 1: right friends, the right mentors, the right environments to help
Speaker 1: us grow. But it is a choice. It's not always
Speaker 1: a choice, but it's a choice. It's a choice. I
Speaker 1: like that. I like having a choice. Okay, Monday's Monday
Speaker 1: is I think a motivation. The Worderful community has motivation Mondays,
Speaker 1: and so every Monday we get online and we remind
Speaker 1: each other of what our intention is for the week.
Speaker 1: And for me, that's something I look forward to because
Speaker 1: it's it helps me as well keeps me focused for
Speaker 1: the rest of the week. I know some people don't
Speaker 1: like Mondays. I actually love Mondays. Yeah, okay, see me too.
Speaker 1: It's thin. It's like, okay, fresh start and I have
Speaker 1: motivation Monday two here, so that's cool. Okay, so we
Speaker 1: have three more. We have strength. Strength. I think of
Speaker 1: my mom. I think having to endure Alzheimer's was the
Speaker 1: ultimate act of strength for a woman, you know, having
Speaker 1: this beautiful life of having her daughters and then yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: your mom Latina pride. I just think of pride. I
Speaker 1: think of how much resilience. I think resilience, I think strength,
Speaker 1: but we just talked about Yeah, but mostly pride. I
Speaker 1: feel so much pride in being a Latin woman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. Okay. The last one beauty peace within yourself
Speaker 1: because beauty. Beauty is something someone brings to us with
Speaker 1: who they are, not what they look like. Completely agree. Okay,
Speaker 1: So did you want to You wanted to do a game? Right? Yes,
Speaker 1: So Wordiful is launching the Wordiful Game. It's called No
Speaker 1: Room for Small Talk and it's A through Z. So,
Speaker 1: because you know we're doing the podcast, people will be
Speaker 1: able to see. But normally you would roll a dice
Speaker 1: and it would land on on a category A through Z.
Speaker 1: So I want you to okay which letter you want?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Okay, I will okay E E, and
Speaker 1: then choose one through five three. What is the most
Speaker 1: exciting part of your life right now? Oh, my goodness,
Speaker 1: the most exciting part of my life right now? Um,
Speaker 1: i'd have to say my relationship. I love that you
Speaker 1: said that. I was hoping you'd say that it's that honestly.
Speaker 1: I mean, moving into a new home is exciting, um,
Speaker 1: but I'm doing it with someone you know. Um, So
Speaker 1: I would have. Yeah, my relationship, I'm growing so much.
Speaker 1: I'm learning so much about myself. It's like almost like
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, I kind of have it all together,
Speaker 1: you know, because I was always the quote unquote better
Speaker 1: person in the relationship. And with Emilio, he is very
Speaker 1: he does therapy every week, he's very like we all
Speaker 1: have our little things, you know, but he has taught
Speaker 1: me so much. And the fact that he's younger than
Speaker 1: I am, it's like sometimes I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I feel like a little girl. Like I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just so wife. He's an old soul for sure.
Speaker 1: And sometimes he just looks at me. He's like Jenny,
Speaker 1: he's the only one that can calm me down and
Speaker 1: just look into my eyes and tell me just relax,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna and he walks me through it. And
Speaker 1: no one has ever done that. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: crazy because I let my cards down, so I that's
Speaker 1: that's that's what it is. Yeah, it's my relationship that's crazy.
Speaker 1: And that's that's so sweet that I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: biggest compliment to the work you're both doing together and
Speaker 1: to to the bond that you're creating with one another.
Speaker 1: So so that's so that's how the game works. And
Speaker 1: then you would and then roll and you would ask
Speaker 1: me a question. So it's all about reading connection. And
Speaker 1: again it's none of these questions are I would say light.
Speaker 1: That's why it's called no room for small talk. But
Speaker 1: I'll send I'll send you an Amelia a game so
Speaker 1: you guys can play. I'm so excited. Okay, right in
Speaker 1: time for like, you know, Christmas, and it's a great gift.
Speaker 1: I love it. Okay, So that was fun. Thank you, Liz.
Speaker 1: You made me open up my heart here with you.
Speaker 1: It's almost time to say goodbye. But before you go,
Speaker 1: let's leave listeners with a bit of inspiration. And today
Speaker 1: is Motivational Monday, So I'd like to share a quote. Um.
Speaker 1: The quote is words are magic. Our words have so
Speaker 1: much power and we don't even realize it. Your words
Speaker 1: have the ability to transform your life and the life
Speaker 1: of others. Be impeccable with your word, mean what you
Speaker 1: say and speak with intention. Is there anything that you'd
Speaker 1: like to share and leave our listeners with. Just be
Speaker 1: loving with yourself talk. I think that's the most important.
Speaker 1: What we were speaking on earlier like, the greatest gift
Speaker 1: I can give to you is to work on myself,
Speaker 1: and the greatest gift you can give to me is
Speaker 1: to work on yourself. Liz, I am gonna listen. I
Speaker 1: think to this episode over and over and over, and
Speaker 1: I hope everyone that's listening will to um. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Honestly, it was a pleasure to speak to
Speaker 1: you on a different level. We always comment on each
Speaker 1: other's things, and we send things through GM and hopefully
Speaker 1: we can sit down and have lunch together. But thank
Speaker 1: you for taking the time to do this and let
Speaker 1: people know. Please where they can find Worderful, Thank you know,
Speaker 1: and let me just say thank you for inviting me
Speaker 1: onto your podcast. I mean, I already feel like we're
Speaker 1: family because it's all in the family, So I just
Speaker 1: I do. I do appreciate this interview. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Chease people can find Wordiful it's w O R D
Speaker 1: A f U L and you can find it on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook,
Speaker 1: wordiful dot com and if it's easier to find me,
Speaker 1: I'm at Liz her Nandez love it. You guys, Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening to another episode of Chickens and Chill
Speaker 1: and I'll see you guys next week. This is a
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