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Christine G. she/hers 0:01
Oh my goodness. Here we are my friend, our last podcast of 2021.
Shannon M. 0:10
I’m so excited.
Christine G. she/hers 0:11
Episode 4848 episodes this year.
Shannon M. 0:19
Feels like just had friends asking, When are you going to send your podcast? You keep talking about it. When are we going to? Here we are. Let’s do this. Okay ladies, welcome to our podcast. I am Shannon Mitchell, a black female, millennial entrepreneur, the founder of shallow glow, a handmade shea butter company. I am a champion for your self care, business care and intentional wellness.
Christine G. she/hers 0:48
And I am Christine Gautreaux, a white social justice advocate and international speaker, coach and published author who helps you upgrade yourself in community
Shannon M. 0:58
care. Yes. And together we are women connected in wisdom, a podcast grounded in the eight dimensions of wellness. Welcome, welcome to our show,
Christine G. she/hers 1:06
join us for weekly intentional conversations about how to be wise in business relationships and wellness. And just some fun to
Shannon M. 1:19
have a little fun. And everything is too serious too much.
Christine G. she/hers 1:25
Right. So we are wrapping up 2021 Yes. i We’re not the only ones. I mean, the world is wrapping up. 2020. But how in the midst of holiday chaos Indivior things? How have you been taking care of yourself, my friend?
Shannon M. 1:48
very intentional about what I allowed to be on the schedule. You know, if I have something new come up, and oh, let’s do this or something that interests me that I want to look up. I’m not going to go on next week schedule. Even. So, the enroller stick and saying some of this stuff is going to wait till 2022. And that’s right on schedule. It doesn’t have to be crammed into.
Christine G. she/hers 2:13
Oh, I love that. Right. So making choices. Yes or no?
Shannon M. 2:19
Exactly. Right about
Christine G. she/hers 2:21
you. Right. I love when you say that about prioritizing tasks. I’ve been prioritizing rest, um, you know, I’ve had a few nights of not sleeping. And so I have to rearrange some things sometimes to take a nap. I don’t sleep all night. Like it’s like, daycare. But yeah, and really, you know, I like we talked about last week getting outside, taking some time to breathe and, and be present with my friends and family and, and really, you know, not buying into the chaos. Like I was, I was on the roads last night. There’s some chaos out there. Like, it took me an hour and a half to get where I was going, because I passed like three or four wrecks. And I know it always happens this time of year like people just get a little frantic. And so I tried to just take a deep breath and just, you know, consciously slow down, which can be hard when the to do list is growing at the same time that I’m consciously slowing down.
Shannon M. 3:33
Yes, yes. And you know, what gives me peace about that is again, remembering to space it out if I can. And now I’m looking at five and 10 year goals. It doesn’t have to be this week or even this year sometime. So that gives me in the overthinking part of my brain some rest. And then I also like to think about the teams that I’m building the business. You know, of course, graphics have to be done. Social media has to be done. I don’t have to be the person that always does every single thing what, who on my team can do this. How can I outsource it? How can I automate it? And that helps me with the overwhelm of everything.
Christine G. she/hers 4:12
Alright, like that. So the outsourcing and the delegating. Yeah, that’s really good. Well, we are talking about intellectual wellness today. Do you want to give folks the definition?
Shannon M. 4:27
Absolutely. So intellectual wellness refers to active participation in Scholastic, cultural and community activities. It is important to gain and maintain intellectual wellness, because it expands knowledge and skills in order to live a stimulating successful life. In order to improve intellectual one. It is important to value creativity, curiosity, and lifelong learning. And this definition is from the University of Illinois
Christine G. she/hers 4:58
huh I love that when it talks about intellectual wellness, it talks about living a stimulating successful life. Right? That, I mean, you can live a life without it. But is it something that, you know, makes you want to get up every day? Like makes you want to? Because, I mean, we’ve all met people who, who don’t like who really don’t like their life, or they’re not excited by their life. And I’m curious if this is, if this is one of the elements of that, you know, because sometimes we get done with school, and we think, Oh, that’s it. Like, that’s it.
Shannon M. 5:44
Right. And the the relationship that a lot of people have with learning, especially the way that standardized testing is set up and different things, I think it motivates them to be that way, after they get her school, they felt like it was too much or they’re not good. They’re not good learners. And so they should just stop when we have to continue to grow and figure out what works for us and work on the environmental wellness, what do we need in our environment, to feel supported in order to do those things that we need to figure out how to grow in areas that we need?
Christine G. she/hers 6:17
Shannon, you actually got even a little softer. So I had trouble hearing that last two sentences. Yeah, I’m not sure what’s happening with audio today, my friend, but I want to be able to hear your voice. Yeah, cuz like, it’s like that, these words will pop in, right, and your, your sound is really full. And then all of a sudden, it’s like your drop down a wealth. So it may just be tech issues that we’re dealing with today, listeners, and sorry about that. We will be working on that on our two week break. We are taking off the next two weeks to rest our brains and to rest our deck and to come back. Re what is what is our definition say? stimulated and successful? Like I was gonna say invigorated, invigorated is, you know, one of the things? Well, you know, when we talk about intellectual wellness, I know that some of the questions that we’ve talked about early in the podcast, but also I mean, I think it bears repeating at the end of the year, is, you know, do you seek personal growth by learning new skills? Now I know our answer to that is yes. But I wanted to take that another step and see like, when you think about 2021, and then looking towards visioning towards 2022. What new skills? What new skills? Do you feel like? I mean, one’s obvious for us right.
Right, but guessing and all the details that come with it, right? Um, yeah. How do you feel like podcasting has grown you in 2020? To 2021? Because we’re not there yet.
Shannon M. 8:10
We’re not we’re almost but I will definitely say a reminder of the importance of the words that shoes. You know, earlier, when we first started, I said something about, I don’t believe we have dry skin, people don’t have dry skin. Well, this literally not workman I was like maybe I should have had better verbiage there. You know, I believe that not everybody has to combat dry skin as much as we do every day, because we’re so used to use it products that don’t work, we use shea butter, it works amazing. And then we will no longer have those same challenges. And at the same time, there are people who do have some big interest again, you cannot ignore the fact that they’ve gone to doctors and leezar challenges that they face. So things like that have made me be wiser about and more intentional about the words that I choose with
Christine G. she/hers 9:01
the love that. I think about it in regards to incremental steps. And and the power of small steps building. You know, we talk about incremental steps in interplay, it was actually incremental steps was the title of my first podcast. But I think about 48 episodes, and the power of building on that and the power of the resources that our guests have brought to us that we brought to our listeners. And I mean, I haven’t done it, I haven’t gone back and added up our show notes and all the resources we’ve given out, but it would be fun to see like how you know, every show, there’s usually at least four or five and that’s on the low end, and sometimes there’s 10 and then you multiply that by the 48. And that’s a lot of connection and resources. And I think about the number of guests we had this year and the number of women’s voices that we lifted up. And the power of that, because, you know, our why when we started this podcast almost a year ago, stay tuned for the year anniversary coming up second week of July. But January, January, January, see, this is where the power of rest goes in. The you forget to be on that wave, right. You know, I think about, I think about our why about uplifting women’s voices, who sometimes don’t have a platform or don’t get to be heard. And there’s so many wise women out there, and men too, but we’re focusing on the women. That it really the power of that right, just week by week, step by step, conversation by conversation. And then, and bringing all those voices together. And I know how much it’s enriched my life.
Shannon M. 11:09
What skill Do you think that? I guessing this helps you? I know, this isn’t your first podcast, but what do you feel like you’ve learned in 2020?
Christine G. she/hers 11:19
Well, I mean, I’ve been an event organizer and manager for years, like with my interplay, but it just tightens it. Like, you know, there’s a lot of things behind the scenes that happen on podcasting. And, as you know, and some of our listeners may know, or may not know, like, there’s a lot of steps, a lot of big little incremental steps that make the whole thing come together. So I mean, I’ve gotten wiser on that haven’t perfected it by any means. But I think as far as new skills, you know, the technology behind it, the different platforms, the Yeah, so I think a lot of that has been been worked on, you know, definitely got a ways to go aiming for more in 2022. But, yeah, it’s been fun.
Shannon M. 12:12
Yeah, and I mean, that’s what intellectual wellness is about, right, continuing to learn. And so a lot of times, you don’t even realize all the details that there are to learn on that level on the team get there. So that also gives me allows me to have grace for myself, you know, what you just got here, you didn’t have to worry about this, until you take it one step at a time. And you’ll get to the next level.
Christine G. she/hers 12:36
Right? Well, you know, we know how much work 48 podcast is, but when you think it’s, it’s just a drop in the bucket, like so, you know, we’re going to look up this time next year. And that is, you know, probably going to be closer to 100. And so you know, how, how it just builds on itself. So that’s gonna be super fun. Well, you know, part of intellectual wellness is also searching for learning opportunities, and stimulating mineral activities. So what you’ve been up to around that.
Shannon M. 13:13
So learning opportunity, so there’s so much, you know, and a lot of stuff I feel like I don’t have to go look for, it’s really the challenges that I’m faced with that present. Okay, this is the gaps in my knowledge. And that’s where I study. And so continuing to do business management skills, businesses stepping into the end of the second and third years. So we’re looking at spaces like retail and collaborating with bigger partners across the the community, the city, funding from banks and grants. So what that’s going to look like is changing the labels for third, the the container should stay the same, but what about the new sense and having inventory? Again, what that looks like on the back end, and the production abode, because production is going to increase? exponentially, you know, when we’re in retail and delivery systems and different things for next year. So getting ready for that, and the new lessons that come with that is what I’m excited about.
Christine G. she/hers 14:18
I love that. You know, I know, as small business owners, we’re both always learning and growing, and whether we want to or not, always have the brakes and we have to fix it, or we have to find the solution. Or how are we going to do that? You know, I, you and I often talk on this podcast about what we’re reading and what we’re up to. So what are you reading lately?
Shannon M. 14:47
So I have not been reading a lot. The two books that I’ve been working out of so one, the audio book that I’m into is still on the lives that my teacher told me and that’s been huge and going Do that history and really learning about it. You know, when I thought about Native Americans, I’m thinking about the Trail of Tears and the grandmas that has to weigh in the snow when the long walk and how I don’t talk that long. But it’s crazy that this is what happened. But in reality, we learn that it’s really planes and different things because their immune systems were so healthy that their bodies were, you know, affected by different diseases that they hadn’t been accustomed to. So I’m thinking about the dimensions of blindness and how they overlay with the different surgical situation, then, of course, that changes my perspective, as a young black business owner, I specifically helps people take care of themselves and protect their body do the immune system and the moisture barrier. So that’s, that’s one thing that I’ve been working on that audio book, and other books that I’ve been working through is the financial peace for peace workbook. So talk about action plans, right at the end of every episode, we do wisdom in action. So I have more money books on the list for 2022. But before I start adding more information, I’m working through these Dave Ramsey baby steps, and making sure that I have financial goals and taking incremental steps to get where I want to be. So we can do this more often.
Christine G. she/hers 16:18
I love that, because you touched on a point that I think is crucial Shannon, especially for women, like it may take us a little bit longer because we got so many things on our plate, right? And it’s okay to review this last year. And look at Hey, what did I set aside, because I was caretaking. Or because I was, you know, working too much, or you know what I set aside that I want to pick back up, like I I’ve been doing that the last week or two is looking at programs that like I started. But I needed to follow up on or that I really liked. And I wanted to do more. Because you know how sometimes you’ll take a class or you’ll take a program, and there’s homework or there’s follow up, or there’s things that you can continue your learning from that you think, Oh, I’m gonna do that. And then the next thing comes along. So I’m, I’m kind of doing a urine review right now. I do this with my clients, I do this with my mastermind partners, where I look at and I think we mentioned it last week, but where I look at my I look at my calendar, and I look at my photos, and I look for the good. So I look for like what really worked this last year. And then I also worked for all Yeah, that program or Oh, yeah, that person I wanted to reconnect with them, or I wanted to do more work with them. So it’s kind of a review. But it’s also a looking towards the next year is, you know, who am I collaborating with? What am I reading? What am I following up on? I think all that ties in to the intellectual wellness piece.
Shannon M. 17:57
Yeah, yeah. And I was listening to secrets of six figure women this past summer, right. And one thing that really stuck with me was the learning curve. And remembering that part of the learning curve is where you feel like you get to a plateau. And all you have to do is apply what you know, and do a SWOT analysis and kind of pivot and make it better. But it might feel like you’re not moving anywhere. So then you get frustrated, whether it’s with your mind before you proceed, like progress, or something that you realize you you still need more information on or more help with. And so that frustration makes people feel like they’re not learning, or like they’re not doing what they need to do. But that’s not the case. That’s literally part of the learning curve. And so learning that, and then also as a woman, remembering that I had to work until August this year to make what somebody else made last year. Absolutely. It’s gonna take me more time. It’s not just me moving it to next week that’s causing that delay. There’s other factors, you know, that go into it. And so being aware about those things, is again, what gives me peace when I’m saying where I am I
Christine G. she/hers 19:06
love that and giving yourself Grace like that. Yes, it’s part of the learning curve, and giving yourself grace around it right. The latest book I’m reading is or listening to because I’m doing audiobook is Atlas of the heart by Brene Brown, her latest book that just came out talking about mapping human connections, which I’m really excited about because, you know, I always tell folks, it comes down to relationships, right? Pretty much everything in life comes down to relationships. Are they working? Are they not working like all that? So I’m really excited to read her perspective on it and see, see what she’s thinking about there. And it’s called Atlas of the mind Atlas of the heart by Brene Brown, her latest Yep, Yeah. So we’ll put a link to all these in the show notes for folks, for sure.
Shannon M. 20:09
And what about the last one? Do you look for ways to use creativity?
Christine G. she/hers 20:15
You know, my answer on that is yes. Do you look for ways to use creativity as a part of intellectual wellness? Yes, as much as I can. Like, this week, I was having so much fun, because I lacked for the middlings for my nephew’s first birthday, I created a book for them in English and Spanish, called pot on Papa’s farm. And it was about where my sister and I grew up. And it was a book to capture, like, what, cuz I didn’t know, you know, their little, I don’t know, what they’re going to remember. I don’t know. And so I created this book out of love, a gift of love, but also for kind of a capturing of my memories of my sister’s memories, and my mom and dad. And so I was gonna do that for their second birthday. But I was busy getting a kid off to college. So I am doing it for Christmas. I am capturing this time I’m doing a book about visiting Georgia and visiting us. And so I know it sounds silly to equate that with intellectual wellness, but it’s so fun because the creativity and the you know, the graphics, and then the I’m doing it bilingual, because they’re being raised bilingual. So I’m, you know, doing it in English and in Spanish. And, you know, I don’t know, it’s just been ridiculously fun. And it makes me think, you know, alright, how am I doing this? What am I doing? And it’s that creativity piece that gets me so
Shannon M. 21:47
excited. Yeah, and it’s the how to communicate things that query you and your mind and your memory to somebody else. And a different perspective, especially when you’re talking about age, I think, is great. And it teaches us a lot more, we’re trying to break it down for somebody.
Christine G. she/hers 22:04
Right? Well, I see this in you, my friend, when you are designing your new scents for Shayla glow. And when you are designing new labels and packaging, and that creativity comes through your business so strongly.
Shannon M. 22:20
Thank you, yeah, I had a really good time doing it. And that’s what I try to remember and hold on to make sure you’re having a good time and having fun when you do this, too. Because this is your purpose. This is what you want to do you know with with your time. So it’s not always about being perfect and having to look a certain way. But again, the creativity sometimes beautiful creativity is the imperfections in the fact that we know a machine didn’t make it a computer didn’t make it, I made this. And I also think about creativity with like you said, the the people skills and the relationships, you know, I see it play out. Usually in situations, somebody might see a problem or see something as a problem. Instead of all the five different ways that you could fix it, oh, just do this, you know, and being an entrepreneur, I feel like it’s really helped me be less of an A student and type A personality, it absolutely has to be this way. And instead I think about what I want the end product to be and how can I get there? And what makes the most sense right now with the details. And so I think about creativity like that you
Christine G. she/hers 23:32
think you really hit on something when you talk about creativity as business owners and entrepreneurs like we are creative problem solvers. Right. And I think we have to be on a daily basis to make this work
Shannon M. 23:52
for example, my, my labels were too big for the shame logo containers. What do you do? Cut, just cut cut the Lego and we’ll figure it out the next time. Of course, make sure that it’s amazing that it’s still professional and the guests are taken care of the customers get what they need. Does it make it you know, and we’ll figure it out on the back end? Oh, Shannon would not have liked that. Yeah, I went straight back to middle school. When I cut off the top I cut off half for the first line of our science project trying to make the line just perfect. And now I’m over time and stressed out trying to make it perfect and and so I laugh at myself now when I want to do stuff to fix situations that before I would have been overthinking.
Christine G. she/hers 24:40
I love that. I love what you’re saying there about not letting your perfection get in, in the way of your good enough. Right. And I mean and not to say that you don’t produce an amazing product that looks like sometimes Like, what’s in our head has trouble coming out. And that Perfection isn’t like stops us in our tracks. But your client or your customer has no idea that you had it envisioned a different way, it still looks perfect to them or awesome to them. It just wasn’t what you perfectly envisioned at the time. You know, I love that creative problem solving, I was just pulling up an article I read a little bit ago because I wanted to present it. Because for somebody that thinks, Oh, I’m not a creative problem solver, or I don’t know how to do that. I’m going to put this in the show notes, because and I want to talk with you about it, Shannon, because I think it goes right with intellectual wellness. And it talks about eight creative problem solving techniques that get results. And this is from Scott Jeffrey. And he starts out talking about that no one likes the feeling of being stuck. It creates tension and that tension seeks resolution. And so but there are some techniques that reveal new solutions. So the first one is ask compelling questions. And he references a book called a whack on the side of the head, which I hadn’t heard of before, by Roger van awk. I don’t know if I’m saying that right. Oh, II see, ah, and he says, in the imagination phase, you ask questions such as? What if? Why not? What rules can we break? What assumptions can we drop? How about if we looked at this backwards? Can we borrow a metaphor from another discipline? Or the motto of the imaginative phase is thinking something different? So I love that like asking what if questions or why not questions? If you have trouble with this one, hang out. With a two year old, almost three year old, they will show you how it’s done. Number two on this article was find your center. I loved you know, I love this one, right. And it says most problems arise because of inner confusion. Different parts of us hijack our minds and give us conflicting wants, beliefs, perspectives, that these parts keep us from thinking clearly to a workable solution. So I love that. And they have ideas about how to find your senator. But you know, I’m all about taking that deep breath, grounding. Put our feet on the earth. They even have one that says how to breathe like a Jedi. So y’all should click through to that on the show. But really, I’m a big believer in this in all steps, but especially if we’re in the middle of a chaos or a problem solving situation. Find your center ground yourself, remember to breathe. Number three, they say in this article is explore context. Many problems arise because we neglect to zoom out from the content of the problem doesn’t this sound familiar? This is like number four of self care skills about gaming have a broader perspective, right? Zoom out from the content of the problem and examine the overall context of the situation. I love the overlap from a business perspective to our stillpoints the self care for Community Care. I love how that works. Number four is seek wisdom. In the seven decisions to understand and the keys for personal success. Author Andy Andrew recommends putting together a personal board of directors or advisors for various areas of your life. Asking an experienced advisor from the outside your industry for their thoughts on your problem can yield insightful perspectives. I love reading this article for a man’s perspective, right? Because I think the women we often do this, we do this with our girlfriends, like we do this with our friends and our our family members and our chosen family and, and the groups we you know, we can also do it with coaches and mentors and but we’ve spoken to that on the show before about how valuable that is.
Oh, I love this one, Shannon. Number five, walk away. Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to stop trying to solve it and go sleep on it. Walking away from the problem brings forth the Wonder archetype. The Wonder is essential to the creative process because it allows you to hear your muse. The key is knowing when to let go of trying to solve the problem. Creative Problem Solving is actually an effortless process. The key is learning how to get out of your own way. I love this so much because I often do this with private clients. We will stop talking about it and we will put on a piece of Music and move, and lead are and like, just get out of our brains. Because sometimes you know how you get in a loop with your brain. And you’re thinking the same thing. So like getting out of our way or going to sleep. I love that. All right, you have a question or comment, I got three more to throw out there.
Shannon M. 30:20
So the comment I was gonna have about this last one is it reminded me of active listening, and how a lot of times with communication we listen to respond instead of to understand. And with me working on a better habit with the people around and around me in my circle, it’s made it so that I don’t jump in and try to fix problems. Sometimes they’ll fix themselves, or sometimes I’m about to respond, somebody else will come up with a solution and I had to do nothing but just wait for it, you know, and it makes it easier for them.
Christine G. she/hers 30:52
I love that. So creative and active listening. Absolutely. Number six on this list is to switch roles. Like our minds tend to get locked into old patterns, leading to what’s called paradigm blindness. If you have a marketing related problem, for example, try putting on an engineers hat or gardeners hat. The idea is to shift your perspective. So you can approach the problem from a new angle. I love this. We talked about this in Stillpoint. We talked about actually like shifting your body position, like lay on the floor, or go outside, or like literally switch roles or perspectives. Or how you know, we talked about getting in the perspective of a baby like get on the floor and look at it and see what that would look at or stand on a chair. Right. But I love that about putting on different roles. Number seven, use the six thinking hats. Speaking of hats, the Bono’s six hat method provides you and your team with six different perspectives to utilize when tackling a problem. This is interesting. One hat is facts. One hat is feelings. One hat is control. One hat is creativity. One is positive and one is negative. I do like that. Yeah. I haven’t ever used that method before. Yeah, and last. Oh, go ahead.
Shannon M. 32:21
I was gonna say that they all have to be different, but because people separate them sometimes I don’t think it’s best to take on one at a time. Yeah, right. What’s the seven lessons.
Christine G. she/hers 32:33
The eighth is to generate a plethora of ideas when you’re creative problem solving. Research suggests that the most effective way to uncover the best solution is to brainstorm as many ideas as you can in a non judgmental environment before evaluating them. There are numerous pathways to get to the answer you seek. Some pathways, however, are more effective than others. The key is to experience with variations are various methods to uncover which one’s work best for you. And wisdom and intuition comes into which we know to be true, right? I love that. And it talks about it being a skill, it talks about creative problem solving is a skill, it can be learned and developed. I love that.
Shannon M. 33:22
And it’s helped me so much. You know, this is one of the biggest reasons why I give the hospitality industry so much credit because dealing with 1000s of people and 1000s of situations where people are hungry, they’re not. They’re not going to be happy if you mess up their watch food or it’s their birthday, and they have to wait longer. So you have to know how to talk to them and help the team and help the venue and it’s been really great for creative problem solving.
Christine G. she/hers 33:52
Right? Yeah, well, and I love how it all overlaps. Right? It really does overlap with the eight dimensions of wellness, with the being grounded with the taking care of yourself with it. Like it’s all it’s you know, it’s all about knowing how to do all these things, maybe not all at the same time, but in incremental steps, and consistently.
Shannon M. 34:24
Because I know if I don’t give myself that time in the morning, then things get busier at work and I feel overextended or stretched, I’m going to be more stressed out because I did pour into myself before I poured into this other situation. So that’s my social wellness, but also how it affects my physical wellness and my occupational and intellectual wellness and being able to learn from different skills installations is huge so that you don’t have to keep going through the same negative situations. consequences over and over. You don’t like doing things over and over again.
Christine G. she/hers 35:06
Right? It’s a good thing than not doing things over and over again. I agree with you there. Well, my friends, as we are wrapping up 2021. What do you think about these eight dimensions of wellness? What do you think about like, when you look at this past year? What are you like? Yep, I’m doing a great job on that one, or Nope, I want to focus more on that one and 2022
Shannon M. 35:39
I would say, absolutely financial wellness, I’m doing amazing. Because I know exactly where I’m at. I know my numbers, from my personal accounts, my business accounts, what my goals are, and the one that I will love to continue to work on is spiritual. I used to go to church every weekend was part of the greeters and involved before COVID. And I pulled away, you know, thankfully, because of what we connected and what wisdom have still been connected, but not nearly as much as I’m used to. So, for me, that doesn’t always have to be for people or physical place, right. But I definitely want to make sure I continue to focus on it, that my center can stay fortified and continuing to grow.
Christine G. she/hers 36:23
And stay grounded. I love that. Yeah, I love that a lot. Huh? For me that see, um, I am focusing in 2022 on physical wellness and getting, you know, I’m at that age where different generations and different ages. So, you know, I need to be focusing on that and making sure I’m getting my daily 10,000 steps in which I have not been, you know, and I want to be carving out time for that. And looking back at what has worked well this year. I mean, in some ways, it has worked really well. I’ve walked a lot this year, I’ve been maintaining even through the pandemic, but I feel like it’s just maintaining, I think I want to step that up a little bit. And, and I feel like emotional and mental wellness has been really good this year. You know, that’s, it’s so I have so much to be grateful for. And listeners, we just love Shannon, the boy, this tech issues, y’all we are going to solve those that is one of my biggest goals is that we solve that and start 2022 with a little bit of new equipment. So that’s what we’re working towards over here. Here she comes back. So we just lost her for a second. There you are. So glad you made it back. Me too. Right. You know what I was thinking when you popped off that, um, we should tell folks what we were visioning part of the visioning for 2022. And what we want to do. So y’all before this call, we were talking about things we wanted to do for ourselves. And we were like, oh, we should invite our listeners and invite our friends to this. So we are going to have a connected envisioning or did I say that right? Connected envision? Thank you. I knew I said it wrong. It’s brand new, y’all connected envision workshop. And we are going to do that on January 5. Yes, January, the fifth January, the fifth, we are doing it after our show. So after the first show of the year, which will be the one right before our year anniversary. But after the first show of the year, we are going to be offering a live workshop that you can join us on. And we will drop that Eventbrite link in our show notes. So you can find it. And we are going to do that. We’ll do it on Zoom. And we are going to do it for two hours and 21 minutes. And because you know we’re silly like that. And it’s 2022 is 20. Yeah, two hours and 20 minutes. Yeah, got it. And what we’re gonna do is be visioning around the eight dimensions of wellness about what we want to create. So it’s going to be an embodied workshop. It’s going to be a creative workshop. You can create a vision board with magazines and craft supplies at your own house, or you can do it virtually and we’ll show you how to do that. So we hope you can join us what else you got going on over there and shallow glow.
Shannon M. 39:40
Yes. Ooh. So we’ve talked about the new sizes. Now shallow glow has more product for whichever size you prefer. If you’d like to travel we have the travel Glow Kit, that’s still going to include the dark brown sugar scrub or exfoliation. The global oil that’s our multi use oil that you can use on your scalp. Hair Skin and Nails. And then you seal it in with the shea butter that has organic coconut oil and aloe in it. And those are all going to pass through TSA the maximum size is 3.4. Right so we have three ounce containers for the sugar scrub and the shea butter and it’s now two ounce oil. And for the home Glow Kit, if you know you need more have a bigger size family, they’ll size containers are going to be eight hours for the shea butter and the sugar scrub and double for the oil. So you’re going to get the four ounces.
Christine G. she/hers 40:28
Hmm, I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. And y’all don’t forget Shayla glow is one of our sponsors. So they give us a wise five discount. So if you are looking for presence for your friends and family, pop over there to Shayla glow and grab that discount code wise five. And that’s in our show notes it is in you can find it on our social media. Speaking of social media before we we have done this for 47 other shows. So what is your wisdom and action this week, my friend around intellectual wellness.
Shannon M. 41:10
Oh, let’s see.
Unknown Speaker 41:14
So
Shannon M. 41:16
what I will say is that I am like you said recapping this year, looking at my goals, seeing what I can do and what I need to schedule for the beginning of next year to keep the momentum out of the fourth quarter and to the beginning of the year. That’s what I’m thinking.
Christine G. she/hers 41:32
I love it. I am going to keep reading the book. I’m reading Allison Hart, and I’m doing my recap. I’m doing all that like my I’m doing the gathering and the savoring, and the noticing to move me into 2022 so I’m really delighted. I am I count 48 episodes of women connected in wisdom as a huge success for 2021 and I am so grateful to be in collaboration, communication, and partnership with you my friends.
Shannon M. 42:12
Thank you. Yes, yes. And I feel the same way. I feel the same way. I’m excited and I’m looking forward to a second year and everything we have coming. In the meantime lady, we will see you on January 5 Okay, so we do not have shows for the next two weeks. In the meantime,
Unknown Speaker 42:29
don’t forget, be well
Shannon M. 42:31
be wise and the whole
Unknown Speaker 42:35
damn 2022
Unknown Speaker 42:42
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