Wellness Hustle

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Welcome back to the wellness hustle. I'm Sasha, your trainer and your wellness coach. And this is Brit It's me. I am Sasha's cohost and wellness enthusiast. Yeah. And today's episode, it's all about Brit. This weekend. Guess what? It's Brit's birthday.

My birthday. So it's going to be all about Brit and her wellness journey, how she went from feeling overwhelmed by life and to thriving with a balanced routine. So Brit, you've come such a long way. You lost a hundred pounds. Yes. I lost a hundred pounds. And I feel like your story is going to be so inspiring to so many people. This is why we wanted to do this podcast. Yeah. To let people know you better, but also

It's gonna give them more inspirational, I think, inspirational kind of a story. So they can kind of maybe learn from you and make changes in their lives. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I hope so. I hope that everything I've gone through in my life isn't for nothing. I hope it inspires people. I mean, I definitely have had a very, feel like I've lived a hundred lives in one and

you know, I've been married, I've been divorced. I was an athlete. I was a sales manager in like so many different forms. business owner, recently closed down my company Haven and flux and, and now I'm doing like creative design stuff, which I've always done in pretty much every aspect. But a big part of my journey has been getting my health and fitness.

and my mental under control. So that brings me to the question, like, what inspired you to start your wellness journey? How you all started? Like when? Yeah, so I think I would be remiss to not start by just giving a shout out to my parents because they set a really incredible foundation for me. I we were super active growing up. So I grew up in San Diego until I was 11. And then from 11 to 18, I lived in Incline in Tahoe.

and during that time, you know, no matter where we lived, the priority was to be active all the time. So I was riding horses, snowboarding, playing softball, basketball, volleyball. So you had a really active childhood. Super active childhood. I always was in some sort of sports, especially once I got into high school. And then my mom is really into nutrition and so, and she loves to cook. So I spent a lot of time at the kitchen counter watching her cook. Yep.

And she was the kind of mom who, and I'm so blessed, but I had eggs and toast every morning. Like I had a meal in the morning. She'd make my lunch for me every single day, balanced meal. I used to always trade my sandwiches for Oreos. sorry, mom. Yeah, sorry, mom. Not always. It was like a occassionally. I just wanted a couple Oreos. We didn't have that. The Twinkies, brownies with the sprinkles. We didn't get processed foods.

And then growing up in incline, there was no access to processed foods. We didn't have fast food there. There was like a Starbucks that was there. Really? Now there is, think. There are, but not in incline. It is starting to change a little bit, but like we had literally a subway, which is now gone, and then we had Starbucks. So I didn't have access to fast foods like I did once I moved to college. So that is when I decided to, that was when I had issues. So.

I moved to Southern California when I was 18 years old to go to college. I was in Costa Mesa and I had fast food everywhere. had fast food everywhere. And because I had spent so much time watching my mom cook and not like actually cooking with her, I didn't really know how to cook. You really didn't. You didn't learn? I just, I mean, I think I knew intuitively, but I didn't want to. I... Yeah. Do you feel like you were a little rebellious because you couldn't have any of these things? Yeah.

I was always, I was very much like a different woman than my mom growing up. Like that was always very clear to me, not in a bad way. It just was like my mom instinctually naturally, like she's so good at all that stuff. Like she's just so good at it. And, and I didn't have an interest in it. And I think my mom like genuinely enjoys cooking and like making up a nice house and all of those. And I didn't have that yet. I definitely have it now, but I didn't have it then. And so

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Sorry guys, Sage is with us today and she has a squeaky toy in here. I don't know how she snuck that in here, but she did. But yeah, so my mom, we were just so different. So then when I got to college, I was like, I'm just never gonna be like her, so I'll never try. It was one of those things. She just was so high up to me, you know what I mean? And I was working a lot and I ended up getting really, really sick. So I was dating my ex-husband at the time and his family eats very different than my family did. So it's a lot of like dairy

and a lot of starches. And you guys hung out together with his family a lot? Yeah, and also like Del Taco was a late night thing. Yep. And in and out, I all of a sudden had access to In-N-Out. So was going to In-N-Out a lot. Like there were just a lot of different things. And then eating a lot of microwavable foods. Okay. So with all of this happening, including the amount of stress I was under,

I started gaining weight rapidly. And another thing to keep in mind here is that when I turned 18, my body started to fill out. Like I started becoming a woman. kind of, and so I thought at first like, I'm just filling out. I'm just curvy. I'm just curvy now. Like I've always wanted to be curvy and here I am. And then it was like, Oh no, I'm gaining a lot of weight, like a lot.

So then I started Weight Watchers. Okay. Did you do any movement? Because before you were an athlete. So what happened with that part? It disappeared. Okay. So we dropped off the movement. Yep. And now we eating Del tacos. I'm eating Del taco. I'm doing basically no fitness. And I went from being like two a days weight training.

drills, conditioning to just nothing at all. And then wakeboarding in my free time, snowboarding in my free time, none of that's happening. I'm just sedentary. I think I was probably a little bit depressed. I probably missed my family. Well, you did, but also when you stop moving, you don't feel your best. Exactly. It's all of the things together, wrong foods, lack of movement, away from your family, all of that combined. And then having a full plate of...

classes and a full-time job was a lot. And then I was with my ex who I don't think he was super great for my nervous system. Just in general, we just didn't mesh very well. but I married him. So ... who's to say, so then I, as I kind of go on, you know, and I'm now on Weight Watchers. I Weight Watchers wasn't really working for me. I started working for this company called Lorna Jane.

and I was an assistant store manager for them and I started learning more about nutrition. And that was when I started getting into really at the time, unconventional concepts for wellness, which that can include everything from, and I did these, the muscle test resistance. I did one of those. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's essentially they put these vials on your stomach. You're laying on your back. They put a vial on your stomach. You hold your dominant hand up and they try to push your hand down and you're supposed to resist it.

I thought it was bullshit. It's not. I've done it too. It's not bullshit at all. I am the competitive part of my brain was like, don't let her push your arm down. No matter what you're so strong. Nope. So ancient grains and gluten, like wheat essentially immediately could not hold my arm up. It would like made me weak and amazing. So those were the two things I changed my diet. I started to see some adjustments and then I get engaged and downhill.

because of this, I think the stress of like, my wedding wasn't really what I, like it was for my, moms really, feel. It always is. Everybody's wedding is for the moms. It's for somebody else. I'm not, yeah, we can whole podcast. Yeah. And it wasn't a bad thing. It was just that like, I've never been married before and they had all these ideas. so that was, and then balancing the two different, my mom and his mom are very different. And so like, that was a challenge.

Stress of that, get married, I realize I don't want to be married about six months into my marriage. Oh boy. Stress is through the roof. I end up on medication. I'm getting hospitalized. I'm 21 years old. I was 24 when I got married, but at 21 we figured out that I had celiac, well, not celiacs. I got diagnosed with celiacs, which I didn't have. Interesting. So I was basically just...

Misdiagnosed. Misdiagnosed. I was the person who was just trying to find solutions for myself. I was gaining weight rapidly. Everything I tried, I couldn't lose weight. I was in and out of the hospital with gastrointestinal issues that they were like, we don't know, you just have gas. And I'm like, that can't be the answer. How do I have? And it was like gas under my rib cage. And how do you always have that and never release? And then I would eat.

I mean, when I was like 20, 19, 20, I would eat a meal and two hours later I would be violently ill. I couldn't keep food in my body, but I was gaining weight. That is so scary. It was terrifying. So that was when I started working for Lorna Jane. I started getting movement back into my life because I had to go to these studios and sell clothes and then like I'd go work out and try the class. And then I started learning about different really unconventional concepts for wellness, started trying those.

starting my diet under control, I get married, I lose myself entirely, ask for a divorce, doesn't go over well, I end up in the marriage for like five years. Five years? When did you ask for divorce? Within six months? Yeah, six months to year. stayed another four and a half years. yep, I did. Was heavily medicated and then, and you know, those medications, they impact your weight and your... All of that? Everything.

It was bad. So then I was like doing juice cleanses, all of that. I felt terrible. can't even like even as we're doing this, I'm like holding my arm and like I can see that you're relieving that stress. It's so stressful. So stressful. So what changed? Like how what pivoted? Like how did you start going instead of up the hill down the hill? Like where was that little? You know what I mean? Yeah, I think the most pivotal moment that I can remember and that I think is really the case was

I essentially ended up on a one way plane home thinking I was going to end up like that. My ex-husband was going to come with me and he didn't. And when I got here, found out like a bunch of other things that led to divorce. I ended up here in Nevada back living with my parents in their guest room. I had just a carry on suitcase. And when you have hit that level of rock bottom. Yeah.

I'm 29 years old. I'm in my parents' house that isn't even my childhood home. This is like my parents' home. Yep. And I have literally a carry-on suitcase. And it just kind of domino snowball affected or whatever you want to call it of just, I, and this is the thing is when I started this five years ago, or I guess it's almost six now,

What it really was, was just like immediately intuitively, it was almost like, and the reason I wanted to talk about the foundation, I was home with my parents. Exactly. So those meals I was getting before, my mom's now cooking me meals again. it was, and I started to learn how to do that stuff for myself because I realized, okay, my mom is nurturing me and like taking care of me. My dad's got a gym in the garage and he's like taking me out there.

we're working out together and moving again, I'm moving again. You're in a safe place and there's less stress. You safe, if you're with people who love you and have the best intention for you. Yeah. So all of those together, it's so important to have. Yeah. And I like to tell people too, and I've told this to like my cousins and things like that is that when you have so much stress and you feel very overwhelmed and that like, don't feel like there's any way to get out of the woods. Yep.

I tell people there's something, it could be literally one thing that you need to eliminate from your life. And that's a harsh reality. You can eliminate one thing and automatically, and that's what happened. I eliminated my ex-husband and that's not on him, right? It's just like, that wasn't working in my life. That wasn't the path for me. And so when I eliminated that, it was just like,

That's right. This is how I like to eat. This is intuitive to me. This is natural to me. This feels right. I'm making choices for myself again. You know, I had never really been on my own to make decisions for myself for what was in my own best interest. And that is such an important thing to have. So then I started making better choices for myself, adding more protein into my diet, getting more balanced meals in, working out again. So that was really where that pivot happened.

just moving back home. Moving back home. I know I'm not telling everybody to move back home, but no, but it has to be some kind of a change to make you feel like you can do it. Absolutely. And you know, I've talked to, like I said, my cousins, my friends, things like that. And I've watched them make that one singular change. And it's been anything from like getting rid of a boyfriend to like, you know, changing your career to the thing that is more in line with what you're interested in. And then just seeing those people flourish.

how I did. Yeah. And you owe it to yourself. Right. Because it's never a dead end. No. Like you can do something about it. Even though it feels like at the moment it's impossible. It's like ripping the bandaid. my God. Rip it off, man. Yes. Rip it off. Move through. You have to move through whatever that is to be able to have a better life. Yeah. For sure.

I then had to reevaluate recently, and this has been happening over really the last year, of like, okay, what in my life right now is creating this friction? What is the one thing I need to remove that's creating this friction for me that is like something that is, I feel like I'm fighting an uphill battle constantly with? And that was Haven and Flux. Do feel like we always have something that we're fighting? How do you feel? I think that...

It's not that you're always fighting something. think that you can find levels of peace, but I think that if you're not, I think that the majority of your life, like 70 % of it should be that peaceful movement, that like downhill momentum. But I think that if you're not constantly evaluating what that thing is that's causing friction in your life, then you're not growing.

But also I think if you are not having a friction or moving through the friction changes, right? For you to grow and become bigger than what you are now and you want to be, there's always going to be some kind of a friction, right? So then you have to move through it again. It's just the growth. It's like when you cut the tree down and you see the circles inside the tree, it's kind of like that to me, like my life, like which circle did I grew?

to get through to the next circle. Like, what am I doing? Yeah, that's kind of how I see it. That's a great analogy. as you were saying that I was thinking, know, what it is, it's not the friction so much of something being difficult. It's the constant, continuous issue that you keep, like, let's say it's a relationship. You keep having this conversation over and over and over again.

and either you're not changing or the other person isn't changing. Like you're not adapting to the other person's because when you get into a relation, we're just using this as an example. When you get into a relationship, you try to figure out what that person, what you need from that person or, I mean, let's say for example, let's talk about the protein smoothie. This is a better analogy. The protein smoothie. I have been putting Greek yogurt in pretty much everything I eat and we're realizing, and I'm like, why do I keep getting acne?

Like where the heck is this acne coming from? I'm having some swelling. Where's acne? I'm eating so clean. What is going on? And we had the conversation of like maybe it's dairy. Yeah, maybe dairy. Yeah, so if I'm constantly having dairy and I'm having the same problem and I'm having the acne and I'm having the acne over and over and over again and I never try to remove that dairy. You're never gonna know. I'm never gonna know if that was the right move for me to make and like that can be applied to anything in life whether it's

your relationships or your career or anything like that. If you're coming up against the same roadblock and getting the same results, right? Every time that's not your path. That's not your person. That item is not for like, can't have gluten. Okay guys, I just can't have it. It fucks me up. So if I keep having gluten, I'm going to have problems. Yeah. So remove it. We're going to remove it. Unfortunately, unfortunately once in a while. Yeah.

What do you think was the most surprising challenge in maintaining your routine so far? I think it's the consistency for me.

I'm a pretty squirrely person as we've established here. So it's just making sure that I'm doing the things that I know that I need to do. But what is under it? Like, why are you not making it the priority? Like mentally, I think now I'm much more consistent than I used to be, which I think is the priority because it's my priority. I think in the past, it was hard for me to get that consistency. I have a little bit of time blindness. Yeah. So you create a block. Yeah.

Yeah. So all of a sudden I think I have more time in the day and I don't or like I've, you know, fucked around in the morning longer than I should have. And next thing I know I'm out of time and I can't go to the gym. And it's like, well, that can't be my reality. I have to be consistent with these things every single day. Yeah. I think it's just being really

Very disciplined. Self-discipline for creative people is so hard because I can relate. That is the hardest thing for me to discipline my own self. Because I've always been in an environment like professional player, somebody else had the schedule for me. I had to just show up. But right now I have to create my own schedule and I have to stick to it and nobody's going to fire me for me not showing up. So that's a big for me.

Not only and you just kind of brought it up, talking about being disciplined too. This kind of brings me to the next thing. And that's really the biggest, has been the biggest challenge for me. I've lived a lot of my life for others.

I've lived it for my teammates. I've lived it for my parents. I've lived it for my brother. I've lived it for my ex-husband. And the biggest change for me and the hardest thing was putting myself first. And that goes back to the consistency in the discipline, right? It's like, how do you,

Be consistent and disciplined in something if you don't have that self-worth and that self-value to put yourself first and do the things that you want to do that you know are going to be best for you. Yeah. Even if they aren't great for other or they inconvenience somebody else. If you don't have as much time for others because you had to take that time for yourself. Exactly. closing Haven and Flux was a big part of that realization for me because I think I wasn't super happy towards the end of that.

And, and it's a great business. Like I loved it. I loved creating it. was a beautiful thing and I'm so proud of it, but I started to have a lot of resentment for it. And I was hitting those same roadblocks over and over and over again. And I just had to like come to the realization and then be strong enough to say, I have to do this for myself. Like, I have to close this down for myself because I've now tried on this other thing, which is creative design. Yep. And like,

I'm good at that and I like that and it brings me joy and like there's nothing wrong with saying, okay, this is going to disappoint a lot of people to close down Haven and flux, but I have to do this for myself. Yeah. And you have to grow your creative person and a lot of creatives. We don't like the same thing over and over again. If there's no room to grow within what you created, then you moving on to the next thing. Yeah. Because that's how we grow. Yeah.

And that was really it with Haven. was like that creative, I was getting creative blocks because there's only so much you can do with a white candle. Exactly. So in the end, it's a candle. It's a candle at the end of the day.

So for listeners out there who are so just astonished by your results, Starting here, gaining all the weight, losing it and thriving now, they want to know what is your routine like right now? Yeah. And I have to just touch on the 100 pound thing.

I didn't even know that that had happened until I like, cause I wasn't getting on the scale or anything. I just randomly got on a scale at the doctor's office and I was like, wait, that's a hundred less than what I was when I was going to the doctor in Southern California. Wow. Yeah. So I naturally just, and I wasn't like on a diet either. just want to, but you knew in close size, I'm sure that you were losing weight.

Oh my God. So the last five years of my life, I've spent so much money on clothes. Also, I to give it up to my mom because she's been spoiling me and being like, I'll get you a pair of jeans because those are not fitting you. Um, but yeah, it's been like a trip because honestly I have lost so much weight.

And as far as my wellness routine and what that looks like today, I mean, I think the biggest thing is my endcaps So it's my morning routine and my nighttime routine, which we did the whole episode on the morning, but I'm sure we'll do one in the evening. Yeah. I won't touch base on like my morning routine. You guys can go listen to that, but it really is just making sure as far as nutrients go, I think that's the biggest thing for me that I've noticed a difference in is like,

I now make sure that all of my meals have all of the nutrients that I need to get in them. you know, proteins and fats and things like that. And that's only gotten more intense since I met Sasha before I was kind of just doing it because it felt like the right thing to do. And do you feel like you cook most of your meals now because there was taco, what was the place? Del Taco. Del Taco. I cook almost all my meals now at home, which saves you so much money, guys. Yeah. And also, know, what's going in them.

for sure. Yeah, definitely a lot less of that. Um, I took a lot of like, I used to party a lot, like really party, like rage cage party. And I don't do that. It's a special occasion thing if I do and rage cage doesn't come all the way out of her cage. So, uh, so that's, that's been really healthy for me. Um, and so you turn into an adult a little bit. know my parents are like, wow, you've grown up so much. like, well, I missed all my twenties. So

There's that I was like a wife through my 20s. I get it I was a I was an athlete through my 20s after college I did my fair share of party in as well Yeah, cuz when you're like, would you know, I was working my ass off to pay for shit. It's like the same Yeah, you did you're just a nose to the grindstone. Yeah, of a you look up and you're like what the fuck happened Yeah, so then I'm whooping it up a few years. Oh, yeah for sure. I Yeah sure made some incredibly

core decisions for myself then. But that's another thing is like, think the biggest part of it's not so much my wellness routine. It's just I make better decisions for myself now. And I make those decisions, like, with me first in mind. Because I started to realize and this really only happened within like the last two years, I started to realize, you know, everybody had an opinion on who I was. Yeah, everybody had something to say, because you know, I started candle line, and then I had a different podcast. And so

And I was letting people hear, really, I was giving too much information on my life and not all of that was good. And people were building these perceptions of me. They only knew one side of you. They only knew like 2 % of my life. And so it's not, this is not to like fault anybody else. This is on me. this is what you were showing. That was what I was showing. And so I started just really like,

putting myself first and really like learning how to value myself and really doing things that I knew that would probably disappoint others. But I realized that, you know, everybody, I've gotten a lot of heat in my life for being aggressive, for being loud, for being intense, for being like a lot of these things, which really benefited me when I was an athlete. For sure. And that really benefited me when I was in sales and benefit has, they have been like,

really important parts of my life. But I started to interpret that personally and nobody said this to me. This was my own interpretation that that meant somehow that I wasn't like a kind person. Okay. And that like when I was making decisions for myself, that it meant that like it was selfish to do that. It was not me putting others first because you are overcompensating. was overcompensating. And so now I'm not overcompensating and it might be perceived as you as me overcompensating, but this is genuinely me. Like,

This is who I'm so comfortable with. Sometimes I'm not, but most of the time I'm pretty comfortable with myself. And that is the biggest wellness routine change that I could say is like, put yourself first, put yourself first and like, be exactly who you are. And then all your people will fall into line and all of the things that feel right to you start to fall into line. Exactly. And the true friends, they love you for who you are and they will support you. There's not going to be any problem.

Yeah, any of your choices, they're just going to be there for you. That's the bottom line. And those relationships are so impactful and nourishing. And that is just above and beyond. Yeah, those people are special. Those are the ones that stay with you through thin and thick and different changes in your life and all the chapters that you've gone through.

and grew as a human. It's very inspiring to people, I think. And getting to see them go through their experiences and support them through all that too. Yeah, that's what its life is all about. as we said, the wellness aspect of it is such a huge part, just to be in well. That's why wellness, being well and supporting your own well-being, it's the only way you can support others in life. If you're not well, you're not going to be able to...

help anybody else. And by making the changes in yourself, you start to see the people who are closest to you make the changes for themselves to yes, ripple effect, the ripple effect. And it goes back and forth. Like my parents were a big part of me getting healthy again. And then now I'm seeing that like I've gone down the rabbit hole and they're like, wait, I want to try that. Like my mom is trying to balance her blood sugar right now. And I'm like, yeah, that's so good.

Yeah. So that brings me to my final question for you. By the way, thank you for sharing all of that because I know it was not easy for you to relieve all that. So the last question is how has your personal transformation physically, mentally, and emotionally shaped your approach to relationships, self-worth, and the way you navigate life today? Yeah, think- It's a big question. It's a big question. It's a loaded one. Yeah. I think-

The way that it has shaped my approach to relationships, I'm single. You know, I used to invite a lot of really toxic experiences into my life and I no longer allow that. And the reason I think for that is, you know, when you start to take care of yourself and you start to feel that goodness in you, like you start to feel really good in your own skin and self-worth and you're building this self-worth, I started to see everything differently. Like,

I just started looking at not only people, places, environments, like habits completely differently and deciding that those weren't for me anymore. Like I was just not going to put myself in those situations. I became really guarded and isolated for a long time and I think I needed that. I don't think that's necessarily a terrible thing because I was really far down the rabbit hole of like toxic behavior. So it was the reset. It was a reset. And then

I just noticed once I came out of that, now I'm able to see things much differently. It's like, okay, if I invite this, let's use a person as an example. If I invite this person into my life and they don't have the same values as me, whether it's food, nutrition, is that gonna be somebody that I can keep in my life for a long period of time? If I'm dating somebody and they're not interested in fitness and in health,

Well, that was what I experienced in my last relationship with my ex husband was like, he didn't care about health and fitness. And then that impacted my health and fitness because you're the sum of the five people you keep closest. Right. And that would be a closest person. Yeah. And then, mean, you want to be active with your person or go on the hikes. You want to things together. You want to cook beautiful meal together. And if all they want to do is take out, get pizza somewhere, go drink beer, watch

football, never leave the couch. I mean, it's not going to be your person. It's just a different, different place, different time. Although if anybody wants to watch football on the couch with me, I'm always down for a Sunday. Just a Sunday though. Not every night. Not every day. It's not every day. And that's the other thing is like, on a Sunday, I'm watching like the top two games. I'm not, it's a lot. watch a lot of football. Sasha, I can't put the football down. Okay. Don't take it from me.

I want, I want. But it is, true. like you definitely do evaluate people differently. And it doesn't, I don't look at people as like, that's a bad person because they don't do what I do. It's just like, you're not my person. Exactly. And that's for friendships. That's for relationships. That's for everything. And, and I really do think that that helps you develop not only your self worth, but it also helps you develop a healthy lifestyle. Right. Well put.

So you would say how many years this journey has been for you? Like the wellness journey when you started back. Yeah. Kind of you straight away and then you went back to it, right? Because that's what happened in your life. We're coming up on two decades, but it's been 17 years.

So it's quite the marathon. Yeah, it's definitely a marathon and not a sprint. And Sasha and I have talked about, you know, adding one thing in and then removing things. And there was a lot of me trying to go back to my old ways and then coming back and then beating myself up over it and then going back and then coming and then being like, okay, don't beat yourself up, just do differently. then, so even my mental around how I approached each of these

drawbacks you could say, changed and developed over time. So like you have to try things on and see if they work for you. This goes back to bio individuality. Yep. And it's just figuring out what works for you. Right. And as you know, the readiness level kind of, you kind of start to think about it. So you try, but you're not ready yet. Then you beat yourself up. It's totally normal. Me working with so many clients, a lot of times they think they're ready. They come in, they spend the money.

and they're not ready. So it's, there's different levels of readiness of a human who wants to change their life for better. So you kind of battle through it a little bit. Eventually you climb that mountain and you can see over the horizon. And by the way, you climb that mountain and then you kind of come back down the mountain a little bit. And then you climb another mountain and then you come down the mountain a little bit like

Yes. And even now in my day, my day to day, and even like when I look at my life as a whole, I'm like, there's going to be another. I was just literally started singing Miley Cyrus is there's always going to be another mountain to climb. There's always going to be another. I don't know how the lyrics go, but like there's always going to be another mountain to climb. There's always going to be a thing you want to improve. And it's like, don't beat yourself up when you get to that, that Valley and you fucked up and you feel like you ruined it or whatever. It's like, no, just start again. Just start again.

And also as we talked previously, your body is going to change throughout your life. So that's another mountain to climb because whatever you created for yourself is no longer going to be working necessarily for you. So you have to make adjustments. I think it's not how many times you fall, what they say, but how many times you get up. You have to remember that a big part of the last two years for me has been realizing that like a failure life.

If you're failing, you're doing life right. Right. Because you're learning because you're learning. Like I'm almost less interested in the wind because the wind is just like the icing on the cake. I'm more interested in the fail and the learn because when you're in the fail and the learn it's growth and you're figuring things out and you're challenging yourself and not has its own mental benefits. And then when you get to the win, you're like, yes, I did that. And then inevitably you're going to fail. That's something else. Yeah. So

That's how it I hope this was helpful to you guys. Happy birthday again. Thanks for sharing your story, Brit. I know it's brave. Not a lot of people get to open up like that, you know, and just share every single struggle that they went through. It's not easy to do. Most people don't want to do it. So thank you because your openness will help hopefully all of us to make small changes in our lives. And yeah, just...

have a better life in the end. Yeah. Keep on keeping on. That's what you gotta do. so yeah, thank you guys for listening. Thank you for all the kind words and, yeah. And we would love to hear about your wellness journey. If you guys want to share with us, you can shoot us email, right? you can DM us all of the things. you have more questions for Brit, how she overcame all of the things in her life.

and still going strong and thriving and looking beautiful. Thank you. So you guys can totally DM her. Yeah. Yeah. You're next. I want to interview you next. Oh boy. I'm scared. All right guys. Well, if you loved this, share it with friends, subscribe, review, all of the things that help us keep doing this week after week. We appreciate you. We appreciate you so much and ciao for now. See you on another time.