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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcasts. This podcast is

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Speaker 1: for women who want to take ownership of their lives,

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Speaker 1: live unapologetically, and are ready to turn their biggest dreams

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Speaker 1: into their reality. If you're ready to be armed with

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Speaker 1: the tools that will inspire to take bold action, feel

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Speaker 1: confident within yourself, and conquer your goals, then you've come

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Speaker 1: to the right place. I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson. I'm

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Speaker 1: a lawyer turned entrepreneur, co founder of Naked Harvest Supplements,

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Speaker 1: and social media personality with a community of over three

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand. I grew up believing I had to pursue

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Speaker 1: the safe option and fit into a mold others had

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Speaker 1: created for me. But then I entered my corporate law

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Speaker 1: job and I realized that settling for a reality that

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Speaker 1: was not prepared to do. I wanted more, and I

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Speaker 1: have a feeling you do too. Join me and special

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Speaker 1: guests weekly as we get down to the nitty gritty

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Speaker 1: on all things health, mastering your mindset, creating lasting habits,

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Speaker 1: thriving in your career and relationships, plus so much more,

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Speaker 1: and together we'll gain the knowledge and perspective to pursue

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Speaker 1: our wildest dreams and kick fear to the curb. Well

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Speaker 1: what are you waiting for? Let's rise and conquer. Hey guys, and.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Rise and Cocker Podcast. Today's chat

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Speaker 2: is with the vicarious and down to earth Riley Hempson.

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Speaker 2: You may also know her on Instagram as healthy Chick

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Speaker 2: one oh one. In our chat today, Riley shares how

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Speaker 2: she studied for four years obtaining her degree and paramedicine,

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Speaker 2: to what it was like to steer away from a

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Speaker 2: job in paramedicine with some practical, realistic tips on how

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Speaker 2: to take next steps if you're also in that situation.

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Speaker 2: We also chat about Riley's health journey and how when

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Speaker 2: she started on social media it was all about weight loss,

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Speaker 2: more than just her body. Riley also shares her diagnosis

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Speaker 2: that affects eleven percent of women. We also get some

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Speaker 2: really exciting insight into Riley's new activewear brand called Remy

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Speaker 2: by Riley, which she designed after becoming frustrated with the

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Speaker 2: lack of options available to all bodies. I can't wait

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Speaker 2: for you guys to hear this one. Let's get straight

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Speaker 2: into it. Hey, Riley, welcome to the show. Hello, how

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Speaker 2: are we Very good?

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good, very excited for you to

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Speaker 1: be on the show and have this chat because you

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Speaker 1: had some really epic news happened on the weekend. Before

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Speaker 1: we get into that, something I asked all my guests

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Speaker 1: on the pod is what season are you currently in?

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Speaker 1: So what I mean by this is just what are

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Speaker 3: When you first said that, I was like, is it summer?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I do explain this question because.

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Speaker 3: I've never been asked this before, but I guess for me,

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Speaker 3: I'm prioritizing my business, my new business that's going to launch.

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Speaker 3: But I know, you know, alongside that, the world's pretty

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Speaker 3: it's also been important for the last you know, month

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, so you're in a bit of a season

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Speaker 1: of hustle but also making sure you know you prioritize

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Speaker 1: your mental health. For the listeners who don't know who

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, I'm a twenty four year old girl. I

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Speaker 3: set up now. I am full time social media, so Instagram,

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Speaker 1: Amazing, And do you want to tell the audience a

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Speaker 3: you around you. Is it because you're funny? Is it

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00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 3: because you're caring? Is it because you you know, you

435
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 3: put others first? Is it because you're a great cook?

436
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 3: Is it you know? There's so many other important things

437
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 3: and life other than just what we look like like.

438
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 3: If I could go back to the years that I

439
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 3: spent worrying about what I looked like, there are just

440
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 3: you know, it's just wasted time.

441
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: I'm just like resonating with you right now, and I'm

442
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: also thinking back because I have a pass with disorted

443
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: eating habits and something that I chat about a lot,

444
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you'll agree with this is

445
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 1: just so much like wasted brain capacity. And something I

446
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: talk about is like when I was really stuck in diet,

447
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 1: the diet cycle and diet culture, I realize, like everything

448
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: else in my life was pretty stagnant. So I did

449
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: finish my law degree, but like everything else, it's almost

450
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: like I did not have the time because I had

451
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: this other full time job of worrying what I looked

452
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: like and worrying what the next meal was compared to now,

453
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,959
Speaker 1: when I no longer have those constraints of a diet

454
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: or consumed by it, I'm like, oh my god, I

455
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: have all this other time to like think of businesses

456
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 1: and think of these new ideas and do this new stuff.

457
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: Do you kind of agree with that?

458
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. It's just it's time wasted, it's

459
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 3: brain capacity wasted, like it actually is. And it takes

460
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 3: a lot to get to this point though, like you know,

461
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 3: I get it. We're not sitting here going, oh, you know,

462
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 3: you know, just think about something else, because it's not

463
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 3: like that. It's you know, it takes time to get

464
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 3: to a point where you can listen to your body

465
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 3: and know what it needs without actually listening.

466
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 1: That's one hundred percent. And do you have any tips

467
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: for someone who is maybe you know, the previous you

468
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: who is quite consumed and what they look like and

469
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 1: in that space, do you have any tips for that person?

470
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think I feel like you need to accept

471
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:15,479
Speaker 3: yourself before like self love and the whole accepting yourself

472
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 3: and then going, you know, I'm more than my body.

473
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 3: I feel like it's almost like three steps, like it's

474
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 3: first of all, tackling it head on and going why

475
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 3: do I feel the way that I do? And going,

476
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,959
Speaker 3: you know, I love these parts of myself and learning

477
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 3: to love them, learning that everybody has I don't know,

478
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 3: let's just say saluli, everybody has it. Most people do,

479
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 3: and tackling that head on and going why do we

480
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 3: feel like we hate that? Because no one's actually said

481
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,959
Speaker 3: everyone needs to hate that. It's just come from you know,

482
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 3: the media and growing up and seeing a whole lot

483
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 3: of different weight loss things or whatever. And then moving

484
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 3: on to the self acceptance, which is sort of going like,

485
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 3: because self love is great and everything, but then I

486
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 3: feel like it also holds its how we need to

487
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 3: focus yeah, and we need to focus on that, and

488
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 3: we need to love that, whereas an actual fact, we don't.

489
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,239
Speaker 3: The whole thing is that we're more than what we

490
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 3: look like. So it's almost like realizing that and going, Okay,

491
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to learn to love these things about

492
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 3: myself and then also learn to go it doesn't actually matter.

493
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 3: So I feel like it's sort of those steps that

494
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 3: you have to take, and for me, I had to

495
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 3: go through that telling myself that these parts of me

496
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 3: were normal and you know, they don't hold any value

497
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 3: over who I am, and then move to a point

498
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 3: where you can go okay, well, regardless of whether I

499
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 3: have these things, what else is going on for me?

500
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I love I love what you said about

501
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: the self acceptance. And that's also something like I'm big

502
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: on in It's not like you have to stand in

503
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: front of the mirror and be like, oh my god

504
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: that you know that cellulite is sexy, like I look

505
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: so good. Like it's not about that. It's being able

506
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,479
Speaker 1: to stand in front of the mirror and not you know,

507
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: attack that part of your body like kind of not

508
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: even notice and not be consumed or focused on it.

509
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. And I think again, it's not a

510
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 3: point where you get to and you're like, oh my cellular,

511
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 3: I don't even see it. You know, It's not that.

512
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 3: It's just some days you're gonna feel like all you

513
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 3: can see is cellular, and then some days it's not

514
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 3: going to matter at all. And it's normal. It's completely normal.

515
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 3: I feel like that as well. But yet it totally

516
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 3: is about that whole just going I you know, it's

517
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 3: me and the mirror and that's it.

518
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: And also like you've got to think like how long

519
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: do you want to be? And I just did a

520
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: podcast about this priestly, but like how long do you

521
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: want to be at war with your body, because it's

522
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: like you've got this, you know, life is short, Like

523
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: how long do you want to be at war and

524
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: consumed with your body? Or do you want to just

525
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: like get on with life? If that makes sense. I

526
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: know it's not that easy at all, but okay, perfect,

527
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: I'm going to switch gears here because I feel like

528
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: we had a good rant on that and so something

529
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: else I wanted to chat about, and you did just

530
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: touch on this, but like scrolling through your feed, you

531
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: can see you just absolutely radiate confidence and it is

532
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: infectious and it really does feel like you have confidence

533
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: and you have self acceptance, and it really feels like

534
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: you are authentically yourself, like something I was actually supposed

535
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: to tell you before the podcast started, but like I'll

536
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,479
Speaker 1: watch your stories and I'm just like, I like this person.

537
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: Like I can tell you're being just like one hundred

538
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: percent yourself and it's very engaging and just authentic. And

539
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, you know, is that something

540
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: that you have always been like that or was there

541
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: a process in that and when did you sort of

542
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: you find this authentic self.

543
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 3: First of all, thank you because that means a lot. Yeah,

544
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 3: I guess with my Instagram, as I've sort of moved

545
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 3: forward with you know, changing my messaging, I guess it's

546
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 3: been a really big thing for me to show, don't tell,

547
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 3: like I feel like to make or to feel like

548
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 3: everybody is worthy of, you know, loving your body and

549
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 3: just being seen as a body as opposed to a

550
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 3: fat body or a skinny body or whatever. It's sort

551
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 3: of about just going I don't need to post a

552
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 3: photo of my roles and tal everyone to love their roles.

553
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 3: I can post a photo my roles and just not

554
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 3: even talk about it and just showing that confidence instead

555
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 3: of constantly nitpicking at it. I feel like I'm past

556
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,719
Speaker 3: the point of just focusing in on it and instead

557
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 3: just going, well, this is me, and I'm just going

558
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 3: to be myself and be confident. I feel like I've

559
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 3: always been quite a confident person, Like even at my

560
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: biggest I you know, I was probably still rocking the

561
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 3: crup tops and all sorts. But I guess it comes

562
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 3: from knowing that at the end of the day, it

563
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 3: actually doesn't matter what I look like. And I know

564
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 3: that that can sound contradicting because I love, you know,

565
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 3: putting on makeup and I love wearing clothes that make

566
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 3: me feel good, and I do care what I look like,

567
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 3: but I also know that there's a lot more to

568
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 3: life and a lot more to me than what I

569
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 3: look like. And I also like, without being oh my god,

570
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 3: you know up myself, I'll be the first of them

571
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 3: I look good, you know, like I'm I'll I'll say that,

572
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 3: I'm not posting a photo off. I don't think I

573
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 3: look good, you know. So I feel like it's also

574
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 3: about being able to hype yourself up and go whatever.

575
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 3: So you like, cool, yeah, except it you look good.

576
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: I absolutely love that. And that's such like a bold answer,

577
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: and you're so right because so many people they almost

578
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: like don't want to uh what's the word I'm trying

579
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: to think of. They don't want to be bold and

580
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: they don't want to be showy and that sort of thing.

581
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: But it's like when you are so self accepting of

582
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: yourself and you're just like, this is me, this is it.

583
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: So I love that. Thank you for sharing that. I

584
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: want to chat about something. So in a recent vlog,

585
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: you bravely spoke out about a diagnosis of lipindemia. Is

586
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: that how you say it?

587
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 3: Yo? It depends where you're from, some people say lipodema,

588
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 3: and some people say, but we can say maybe lipidema.

589
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: It might be with that, thank you. Can you explain

590
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: to the listeners what this diagnosis means for you and

591
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: how you're currently managing and treating that, if that's something

592
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: you're comfortable with.

593
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:05,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, So lipidema is basically a disease to the fat.

594
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 3: It affects one and eleven women, So it's pretty common,

595
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: but not like not knowing about at all basically, well no,

596
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 3: not at all. Some people know about it, but not enough.

597
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: So yeah, it affects mainly the legs, sometimes the arms,

598
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 3: and so basically this fats diseased fat and it can't

599
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 3: be exercised away. It worsens if you sort of if

600
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 3: you just want to, you know, if you're listening at home,

601
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 3: want to have a little google. There's different stages to it.

602
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 3: If you don't manage this disease or this condition, it

603
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 3: basically just progressively gets worse. So the fat for me

604
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 3: is in my sort of thighs and my calves. Apparently

605
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 3: I've got a little bit in my arms as well,

606
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 3: but the fat's painful, so it's for me, I get

607
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 3: aches at night while I was getting acs at night

608
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 3: really really badly, almost feels like restless legs. You need

609
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,719
Speaker 3: to get up and move them around. If I was

610
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 3: to you know, if I'm doing let's say, like side

611
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 3: crunches on the ground, the side of my leg that's

612
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 3: on the floor is like extremely painful. If my little

613
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 3: dog Wilson walks along my legs, I get little bruises

614
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 3: all over them. So that's sort of just how it's

615
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 3: affected my life. And I guess when you know, I

616
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 3: was on my weight loss journey having and for a

617
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: lot of people that have lipadina that live, you know,

618
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 3: a lifestyle where they're exercising all the time and the

619
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 3: hopes that they you know, if they want to slim down,

620
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 3: it can be really frustrating and confusing to think, you know,

621
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 3: why is my top half a size ten and my

622
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 3: bottom half a size sixteen or eighteen. So it can

623
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 3: be really confusing obviously quite debilitating to I'm in quite

624
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 3: a few Facebook groups where it's really sad to see

625
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 3: a whole lot of older women who never got this

626
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 3: diagnosis early enough to manage it and now are just

627
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 3: and so much pain and it's affecting their mobility hugely,

628
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 3: and yeah, something that an early diagnosis is really important.

629
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 3: So I ended up actually having quite a few messages

630
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 3: from girls on Instagram that had seen me and sort

631
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 3: of said, you know, have you ever heard of this?

632
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 3: I'm sorry if you know this feels really awkward, but

633
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 3: I've got this disease. I think you might have it.

634
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 3: So that was sort of the first thing I ever

635
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 3: heard about it, and I had a few messages, mostly

636
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 3: from people sort of in European countries. It's quite well

637
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 3: known in like Germany and places like that. So yeah,

638
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 3: I had a few messages. Ended up going to see

639
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 3: a GP This was maybe two or three years ago,

640
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 3: and I sort of laughed it off. I was like,

641
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 3: do I have this or am I just fat? And

642
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 3: he was like, oh, you know, I don't know much

643
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 3: about it, but you can look into getting a vein

644
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 3: scan and we can look into that if you want to,

645
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 3: but it'll be you know, around one thousand dollars. And

646
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 3: I just sort of left it. And then over the

647
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 3: last few years I've kept getting messages. So finally went

648
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 3: to see a specialist in the Gold Coast and yeah,

649
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 3: it was diagnosed. So I guess when I first had

650
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 3: the diagnosis. I sort of went into it hoping that

651
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 3: I didn't have it, but then having the diagnosis is

652
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,959
Speaker 3: also a relief, like it's you know, it explains a lot,

653
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 3: and then it meant that, Okay, I can now start

654
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 3: doing things to manage this. The only treatment for lipedema

655
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 3: is lipose suction, so that's when they remove the fat

656
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 3: and then it obviously isn't meant to come back because

657
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 3: once it's gone, it's gone. But there are ways to

658
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 3: manage it. So different ways of eating can help people.

659
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 3: You can get manual lymph drainage massages, you can wear

660
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 3: flattnet compression. There's different ways of managing it, and I

661
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,959
Speaker 3: guess different things work for different people. So something I've

662
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 3: done is I've started eating in a low carb I

663
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 3: don't want to say keto, but lots of people do

664
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 3: eat keto. I'm just way more about balance and being

665
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 3: flexible and being able to adapt to different, you know, situations,

666
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 3: and giving my body what it needs. So I'm not

667
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 3: going to be like, well, a carrot has a mini card,

668
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 3: so I'm not going to have it like a carrot's

669
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 3: a carrot.

670
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: Shut up.

671
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 3: So I still, you know, pretty flexibly and I'm also

672
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 3: getting manual limp drainage massage. The flattnet compression. They're these

673
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 3: sort of like big thick, tight like pants basically that

674
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 3: you are meant to wear every day. But as far

675
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 3: as managing it goes for me, I'm like, I need

676
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 3: to weigh up what's going to actually be enjoyable and

677
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 3: also what do I need to just suck up and do?

678
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 3: And so the yeah, the compression flat nut stuff just

679
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 3: wasn't really for me. But I've seen massive improvements in

680
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 3: terms of pain with what I've been doing, which is

681
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 3: the main thing for me. It's just you know, I've

682
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 3: accepted my legs, I've accepted my body, and I had

683
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 3: before I had the diagnosis. So yeah, that's sort of

684
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 3: where I'm at with it all.

685
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sharing that. And so if

686
00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: a woman does think she has this, you what would

687
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: you recommend she.

688
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 3: Does see that? And this is a discussion I'm having

689
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 3: in my dems at the moment, because if you're not

690
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 3: going to go down the path of getting liposuction, which

691
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 3: is seen as the only treatment, which isn't funded, Like

692
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 3: even though it's seen as the only treatment for this,

693
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 3: it's not funded so it's sort of upwards of thirty

694
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. So if you're not looking at getting that, yes,

695
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 3: seeing you know, if you want to talk to your GP,

696
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 3: I suggest you go in with as much information as

697
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 3: you can because lots of gps don't know about it.

698
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 3: You could book an appointment with the specialist, but at

699
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 3: the end of the day, like I sort of got

700
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,919
Speaker 3: the diagnosis and they sort of helped me with ways

701
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 3: that I can look at managing it, which was great,

702
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 3: But then it's sort of like up to me. You know,

703
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 3: there's not a lot that someone else can do, and

704
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 3: it's just all about trying different things. So doing a

705
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 3: whole heap of research is probably the key thing. Talking

706
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 3: to your family and friends about it because that's one

707
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 3: thing that has helped me, having supported people around me.

708
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 3: Like anything, you know, you want someone there that's going

709
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 3: to be you're going to be able to talk to

710
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 3: them about it. But yeah, I think lots of the

711
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 3: specialists of Skype consultations if that's something that you want

712
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 3: to look at doing. But yeah, it's all about finding

713
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 3: what works for you.

714
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 1: And can I ask a bold question, would you ever

715
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 1: consider the liposuction route or is that something that you've

716
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: kind of ruled out.

717
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely would consider it, And for me, I've

718
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 3: sort of seen it as a last resort situation. But

719
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 3: when I went to see the specialist about it, they

720
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,280
Speaker 3: were sort of like, don't see it as a last result,

721
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 3: see it as the only actual treatment. But for me,

722
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 3: I guess I would just rather see if these ways

723
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 3: that I'm you know, managing it work for me, and

724
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 3: if they do, then I'll just you know, live my

725
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 3: life and just manage it. But yeah, I never say never,

726
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 3: because I I don't know what it's going to be

727
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 3: like for me in a year. I don't know what

728
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,760
Speaker 3: it's going to be like for me in two years.

729
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 3: And another thing to note with lipidima lapadma is that

730
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 3: it is hereditary and it can come on So if

731
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 3: you carry the gene, it can come on at puberty, pregnancy,

732
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 3: or menopause, so some women won't even know they have it,

733
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 3: and then after pregnancy it's you know, hit them like

734
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 3: a truck. So that's something that I have to sort

735
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 3: of consider whether I get the surgery before, if I'm

736
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 3: going to have kids to get rid of it to

737
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 3: stop that from getting worse, or Yeah, so I guess

738
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 3: it's just trying things seeing how they go. But I

739
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 3: definitely haven't ruled that out.

740
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for spreading awareness on that

741
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: topic and being so open about that. I'm sure there

742
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: are women out there who are experiencing that that I

743
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: really appreciate it.

744
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that's one of the things I'm really

745
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 3: grateful for, is having a platform to you know, be

746
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 3: able to spread awareness on something that isn't known by

747
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 3: many people. So yeah, it's really cool.

748
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: Awesome. Okay, so you literally just announce your new active

749
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: wear Remy by Riley. I think it was last weekend.

750
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: So exciting, tell us everything. I feel very excited to

751
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: get kind of the firstcop on this all. So, first

752
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: of all, like, what compelled you to start your inactive

753
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: wear brand?

754
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I guess it's just like we sort of

755
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 3: touched on a start, like I have struggled to find

756
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 3: cool active wear that caters to all bodies and you

757
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 3: can be, you know, a size twenty, size eighteen, size

758
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 3: eight and just be wearing the same thing and feel

759
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 3: good about yourself. Sort of at my biggest when you

760
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,439
Speaker 3: look at what active with there is available even now

761
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 3: you know I'm sixteen to eighteen, and I struggle to

762
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,399
Speaker 3: squeeze into most brands XL. But I you know, I

763
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 3: love wearing stuff that's cool, and I love being on trend,

764
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 3: and so I wanted to It's basically just channeling how

765
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 3: I'm feeling and going, Okay, everyone needs us, so I yeah,

766
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 3: we decided to start looking into it a year ago.

767
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 3: Another thing that was really important for us was being

768
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 3: as sustainable as possible. So we've done that with our

769
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 3: fabric being eighty eight percent recycled, and then we've done

770
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 3: it with our packaging, so like biodegradable bags, no swing tags,

771
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 3: things like that, and yeah, I guess that's sort of

772
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 3: the rundown of it. We're so excited, also nervous because

773
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 3: I've never done something like this before. So I'm like,

774
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 3: so in the.

775
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: Debate, can I ask when you expect to launch?

776
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:55,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's this month that so June, yes, June.

777
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: I don't know when this episode's coming out. It's so

778
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 1: gay I might have just come out. I thinking that's

779
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: the timeline wise, but I'll also pop a link in

780
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: the description for you guys to check it out. But

781
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: that is so exciting and good luck with the launch,

782
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's going to do amazing. I had to

783
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: look at the grim and the pieces look exactly like

784
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: you said, like on trend, really lovely, and they look

785
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: amazing because I know that you have models of all

786
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: bodies and everyone looks amazing. So I feel like you've

787
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: killed it.

788
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. That was also something that's, you know,

789
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 3: obviously important for me, is just showcasing what it looks

790
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 3: like because you know, when I got to buy something,

791
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 3: I want to of course I want to see it

792
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 3: on different body types. I want to see what I'm

793
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 3: going to look like in it. So yeah, I love

794
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 3: that we've done that.

795
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 1: Amazing. Okay, so I am going to wrap up this interview,

796
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: but I want to do just some quick fire fun questions.

797
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: I don't usually do this, but I thought it would

798
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: be a bit of fun. So I'm just going to

799
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: ask you some cues and just yeah give us you

800
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 1: straight out. So, first one, if you could eat any

801
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

802
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 3: Oh, I have to go hot chip? Sorry, I love

803
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 3: hot chips. Like, give me like a good chunky hot

804
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 3: chat with some young light herb soul or like something

805
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 3: like that.

806
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so with you. That's awesome. Okay. Next one,

807
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: what is your favorite quote?

808
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 3: I think it have to be You're so much more

809
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 3: than just your body. I think if I didn't say that,

810
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 3: I'd be like a fraud. It's on my bio.

811
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: I feel you all right? That is awesome. Next one,

812
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: are you a morning or night person?

813
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 3: Oh? Night, honey? Really yeah? I struggle to get up

814
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,240
Speaker 3: even at ten am on weekend. I struggled.

815
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have think that. That is crazy. Okay, sorry.

816
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: Next one, what is a game changing habit or routine

817
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: that you have implemented into your life that you want

818
00:44:58,440 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: to share?

819
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 3: Game changing routine? The first thing that comes to my

820
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 3: head is the balance thing, because that has one hundred

821
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 3: percent changed my life. But if it's like a you know,

822
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 3: a thing that happens every day, it's got to be coffee.

823
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: It's life changing, it really is. And you just can't

824
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: like once you're once that it's a habit. It's a habit.

825
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, for sure. I just got a new machine

826
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 3: as well, so I'm like.

827
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,720
Speaker 1: Oh, we can get then espresso machine.

828
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like amazing.

829
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: And with you, we've got a new one. At the

830
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: start of the year. I just I'm like, oh, God,

831
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: send amazing well Riley before we wrap it up. I

832
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: know keep saying this, but you just have achieved so

833
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: much at the young age of twenty four. And something

834
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: that I asked my guests is what does success look

835
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: like to them? And also what is their biggest source

836
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: of motivation? Because I love asking this question because everyone

837
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: is usually so different. Yeah, so what does success look

838
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: like for you? And then what is your biggest source

839
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: of motivation?

840
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 2: Yeah?

841
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 3: I think success, to me, it's a balance between happiness

842
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 3: and just having you know, good relationships with all the

843
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 3: people around me, and then also being financially stable. Those

844
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 3: are the two things that is successful to me, you know,

845
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 3: like with my business or if it's a job, just

846
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 3: being financially stable and then yeah, the good relationships. I

847
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 3: feel like those both equal success and happiness. And I

848
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:44,240
Speaker 3: think the biggest source of motivation is probably my younger self.

849
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 3: I just I'm like, I need to do her proud

850
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 3: and give you know, her what she needed back in

851
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 3: you know, the times where I was working three jobs

852
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 3: and trying to you know, make money and all those

853
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 3: sorts of things and being in life the negatives and

854
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 3: my bank account, and also just wanting someone to look

855
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 3: up to and having to be that for myself and

856
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 3: being the confident person that I'd have to look up

857
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 3: to for myself. So I feel like that is my

858
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 3: biggest source of motivation.

859
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: Those two answers were amazing. You are such a treasure

860
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: and I just appreciate you coming on the show so much.

861
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show.

862
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. It's been good. I feel like

863
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 3: we've covered on what Also.

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Speaker 1: Before we leave, can you let the audience know where

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so my Instagram and I think my YouTube are

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Speaker 3: that's all.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's only awesome. Thank you so much, Riley.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: And that's a wrap on another episode of the Rise

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