Show notes –
Join Shannon & Christine as they chat about the 8 Dimensions of Wellness and recap the first season of the Women Connected In Wisdom podcast!
Resources
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Apps we chatted about – Insight Timer, Mint, Get Upside
Women Connected in Wisdom Mighty Network
Physical Wellness with – Dr. JoVeezy Jovantrese Tolliver
Occupational Wellness with – Chartisia Griffin
Emotional/Mental Wellness with – Dr. Sheila K. Collins
Spiritual Wellness with – Grassroots Spiritual Practitioner Soyinka Rahim
Social Wellness Episode Season 1
Financial Wellness Episode Season 1
Show Transcript –
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Christine Gautreaux 0:08
Let’s do this.
Shannon M. 0:08
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 Gautreaux 0:25
And I am Christine Gautreaux, a white social justice advocate, an international speaker, coach and published author who helps you upgrade yourself in community care.
Shannon M. 0:35
Yes. And together, we are women connected in wisdom, a podcast grounded in the eight dimensions of wellness. Welcome, welcome to our show.
Christine Gautreaux 0:44
I can’t believe we have covered all eight. Summary. Yes. Live on all the major platforms now. Oh, my
Shannon M. 0:53
goodness. You know, it is? I can’t believe it. But I did not expect it to go so quickly. Right. That’s where I met with. Right, which is crazy. The trees are budding.
Christine Gautreaux 1:06
Right, our season one is ending as we’re about to jump into the new season of spring here in Georgia. Right on time. Right. Absolutely. So let’s talk about the dimensions of wellness and and what’s up with right now.
Shannon M. 1:23
So if we go through them, right, we started with physical wellness with Dr. Joe vz, then what are the other ones spiritual, wellness, financial, social, mental and emotional is one right put the parentheses on it. Intellectual, environmental, and boom, I knew I was forgetting one occupational which are TCM? That was amazing.
Christine Gautreaux 1:48
Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, that show with Dr. Joe vz, talking about physical wellness. Perfect way to kick it off, right? Yes. Because as you and I were talking about before the show, all of these are interconnected, right? Intersectionality and a lot of them and but physical is one that tends to pop up in almost every show when we talk about physical wellness, like it starts in the body. Right? We don’t have our body and wellness, it’s really challenging to have wellness and some of the other aspects.
Shannon M. 2:29
Yes, yes. And especially with what I loved about her being our guests for physical wellness is that Joe just had our youngest member of manifestation Mondays, right. And so thinking about giving birth being a new mom and what that means for your physical wellness in 2020 2021 quarantine, that’s a very specific time. And what I love that she said was talking about the relationship between rest and then resetting and how different seasons you know, cause you to love yourself in a different way. And even though I’m not a mom yet, I love the idea of resting and resetting. You know, we talk about occupational wellness, which are TC and that’s exactly what I do between my business and my personal tasks. Rest a little bit. Take 10 seconds to drink some water. Get grounded. Look at the trees, Look at the birds. Let me let’s take a sip.
Christine Gautreaux 3:27
Show you for our listeners are listening audio. See it but those that are live, this is the new thing that I got for wellnot. This is a gallon water jug called bottle joy. Here’s what I look at it like it reminds you to drink a gallon of water a day. It’s a little reminder. But look, it says bottle joy. And then the other thing it says on the side, it says a bottle of strength. Well, when it’s full of water like that’s absolutely. But it just came in this week. And so I’m up in my game on my water because you always remind me of that. And I think it’s just yeah, like it’s sometimes it’s the incremental steps. It’s the little steps, right? You and I were chatting before we got online. I took a 15 minute power nap today. I have been running run in and I was like, Look, I need some energy from somewhere. And I have this I have Insight Timer, which is a free app on my phone. And it does guided meditations. And so sometimes it’s hard to get my brain to shut off for a power nap. Right? Especially in the day. But there is I just I just get in there and I search and it says power nap and boy guided me straight into like 15 minutes felt recharged felt ready to go. I was like yeah, it was good. I was great.
Shannon M. 4:52
Good. I love that. I love that. So yes, we’ve talked to amazing women, right? This is women connected wisdom. So we are true to our name, and offering resources and having conversations about what that looks like in different walks of life in different areas of wellness. Like, if I think about let me see, if I think about another one of my favorites. I’m flipping through my notes if you guys hear all these pages, one of my other favorite parts were the apps, right? So it’s really easy to talk about wellness. Like your book says still point, right? It talks about how we use wellness in everyday languages that oh, well take care of yourself, you know, hope you get some rest. And what does that really mean? It means different things for different people. Or maybe it just means water. And that’s one thing that we all need to implement a little bit more. But having apps and things that help keep me organized in the different areas, has really helped. So when we talked about financial wellness, we mentioned an article that was talking about the different apps that will help you keep organized one of them was meant, right? It helps you with your credit score, your spending your budgets, mine was good upside, I love getting money back on the money that I spend, I don’t know, it’s like an adult happiness, it just makes me happy to know that my money is working for me, and I’m doing well financially is like, yes, we’re getting there, you know?
Christine Gautreaux 6:20
And that was the app called Get upside? Yes, we’ll put show notes. Absolutely. Yeah, I just mentioned the Insight Timer. Boy, that one helps me, it’s a free one that helps me with meditation and rest. So I think that one would probably go under emotional and mental wellness. And I would also say physical wellness, because they have really cool apps on there. Like if you can’t sleep in the middle of the night. And there’s one that is even said awake in the middle of the night. So you like you don’t function that well in the middle of the night, right? I love it. And it is it is one of my favorite. And they also have some that aren’t talking that are just music and real chill and stuff like that. But I think it’s got like over 10,000 or 15,000 guided meditations on it. So it’s it’s one of my favorite resources
Shannon M. 7:10
for that. And what I use for meditation is headspace. So I usually do it in the morning, I usually don’t use meditation to go to sleep, I use it to create a space of stillness in the day that I can return back to if I need to, you know, so I just listened to a 10 session. Pack is what he called it, of patience. And so talking about patience and impatience, and how really impatience is a thought, and you look at it, and you note it and you let it go. And that feels so much better than what are they doing on the court? You know, when I’m arguing with people, and now I’m now I’m all anxious, and everything’s like, you know, what I see you, and I let you pass is so much easier for me that way.
Christine Gautreaux 7:57
Right? I love the way that you say that. You know, one of the things that I’ve always described to folks that are new to meditation, or that haven’t experienced it before, is, to me, meditation is listening, like praying is talking. And asking, and meditation is the listening piece. I love that. And so I incorporated in my morning routine. And then I have I don’t do it every day. But I love that you say that about taking a break and doing it in a day. Like on Mondays, I have a community that I belong to that we have a 30 minutes. It’s a sing meditation that it that happens. And it is a complete joy. Like it’s at lunchtime, and it’s just 30 minutes and we pop in and we’re listening and we’re meditating. And it is it’s amazing how much more productive I can be when I take that 15 or 30 minutes and calm my brain and get back to balance and really have good wellness and in a place of solidarity, I guess is the word that’s not the right word. But but I like
Shannon M. 9:05
it. It’s solidarity to yourself is how I see it. You know, like as a kitchen manager again, I’m talking about 14 hour shifts. Christine I’m talking about I was being bed every single night, did not know what was biting me. I could not sleep I would wake up with welts the next day so big that when they went away, they left bruises, okay, and then go back and work 14 hours the next day. So when we talk about rest and resetting, when it’s craziness in the restaurant, and you’re planning stuff, we would stop and huddle with other managers. Right. Okay, what’s going on with the kitchen? What’s going on with the floor? Who’s here? Who’s not here? What are we need to do? What is the plan right now? That helps me so much in my business. Okay, where are we at? What do we need to do for the rest of the week is Wednesday, right? Where are you at based on your goals? What do we need to do today? And where are we going for the rest of the week? And the difference is that in the workplace a lot times were taught to just keep going, you know, your break is this amount of time, you might get less than that if we need you. And there’s no really like, there’s no 15 minute nap in the middle of it, you know. So having that become a habit is work. And it’s I love that we have these tools that we can use to really have that look healthy.
Christine Gautreaux 10:22
Right? Well, you know, when we talked to Dr. Sheila Kay Collins, my co author of points, and we talked about emotional and mental wellness. And I think about your story that you just said, and I think about the definition that we do, and you’ve probably reached it because I know you’re reading the book, but where this is the one there’s two of them, but I’ll read them both, and then tell you the one I probably need tattooed across my forehead backwards, so I can read it in the mirror every morning, right? You know, self care is not continuing to educate and train ourselves to withstand more stress in order to take on more stress. We all know people who insist on staying in unhealthy jobs or relationships while asking for help in order to tolerate more abuse gracefully. You know, right here is not putting ourselves this is the one I need tattooed across. So here is not putting ourselves through frequent reoccurring cycles of overwork, followed by crashing to recover. This Rhythm of full speed ahead, followed by total collapse is damaging to all dimensions of ourselves, the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. So I think what a lot of our guests have talked about this week, we talked about in our book, what self care is, tuning in, and recognizing earlier and earlier, the subtle physical signs of potential difficulties. caring people, women, especially I’ve just watched it over the years, they become good at reading other people’s body language, like clenched jaw, stooped shoulders, and sad eyes. But self care means tuning into ourselves and learning how to read our own body language. Yes, I think I think of that when I think of, of course, Dr. Collins, because she wrote a lot of that, but also when I think about Dr. Joe and, and about physical wellness, and then it starts with our bodies, it starts with paying attention, and being body wise. So we can realize like, what else do we need in these other dimensions of wellness? Like, how are we emotionally mentally, you know, we are right now, this weekend at the year anniversary of the United States shutting down as we knew it from the pandemic. I know, folks in Europe were already shut down by this point a year ago. But really, our lives changed drastically a year ago. And I know a lot of my clients, my coaching clients, and some of my organizations that I work with everybody’s kind of fraying at the edges a little bit right now. I think part of that is we have body memories like our bodies are and if we’re not tuned in and paying attention and going like our bodies may be sending up these signals like Danger, danger, Will Robinson, you know, like something bad’s coming, and what it can be as an anniversary. Right? Anniversary of Oh, wow. Like, this time last year, things changed. And haven’t completely changed back. Ryan still in it. And we’re still dealing with I mean, you know, yeah, I do more than any of us writing.
Shannon M. 13:43
And I mean, I think that’s how it always feels. Personally, it always feels like I know more than anybody else with this pain is like, and that’s why our testimonies are so important. Because you’re like, wow, I really got hurt. I have this scar on my elbow, right, but you have a scar on your knee. Let’s talk about that. And let’s put some shallow glow on it and heal and keep going. You know, but it’s so crazy. Christine. I was thinking about it earlier. And I remember being a server right. So I would kitchen manager, I stepped down because my mom was sick. This is what we’re talking about today. Why wellness is so important to us, right? I stepped down my mom had cancer. I did not know her for 12 years, I met her graduated high school, went to college, got a salary job, and she got sick. So I stepped down. Right, I realized I don’t want to climb higher on this ladder that I met. This is not what I feel like I’m supposed to spend the next 103 years doing right. So let me go find those things. I know that part of my my job that I love doing. Maybe I should do that part more time in the day, you know, I stepped out and I was a server. And they said I remember one of the managers I was on the management team with. She said, you know we’re going to have less tables on the floor. And so we’ll need less of you. I said you’re late. server’s off, what did you say? Because we give you two weeks, but in three days, you know, is the anniversary of Brianna Taylor being murdered in her house? And I think about how she was an EMT, somebody who gave service to the sick people in the community. And when she needed it, they call they told the ambulance to leave. That’s crazy. You know what I mean? And has she been working, she might have been the one in the ambulance. And so it doesn’t matter how much you give to people, sometimes, you have to make sure that you are good. And we could take that in an angry way, which it is sometimes, you know, but like she would take calls. Right? Right. And understandably so. Right. But I love what she took a call and said, you know, we should turn the things that hurt us into art. Right? And what is this loss? What type of life is this loss, calling you to live? And that’s what I think about. That’s what I think about with my mom passing away, right? In the time that we had, were you effective with the time that you had, you know, maybe you weren’t supposed to have more time, but you were supposed to use it wisely. So what does that look like, in a healthy way? Right, the 160 hours a week? What opportunities do you have in that time? And how can you be intentional about it because women are wise, women are connected, we do amazing things. And we do amazing things for other people. But we deserve to be taken care of. And sometimes other people aren’t going to do that. But it’s not their responsibility. It’s our responsibility. So that’s why I’ve had such a good time talking to these ladies. And to mention, she would Kay Collins one more time, at least for right now. Because you know, I like to add stuff.
Christine Gautreaux 16:42
Okay.
Shannon M. 16:45
I love how she’s talking about the art of grieving, right, because a lot of people are grieving this year, people passed away, we can’t go to the hospital, there’s a lot you know, funerals are canceled plant, like a lot of birthdays were different. And so what does that look like to, to work through that in a healthy way and and bring up the spiritual wellness with our grassroots practitioner, right? Our spiritual practitioner, talking about breathing in love, and breathing out love focusing on that, and meditating resting and resetting and walking is great,
Christine Gautreaux 17:20
you know, talking about the GSP, showing the rocking when she was on here and yes, able to shift your shift your self with breathing in and breathing out love and dancing and moving and chanting. And, you know, she was on for spiritual for spiritual wellness. But the reality is, is it it connects with all of that, right? That, that we start with that and that we move our bodies and that we sing and dance and tell our stories. And, you know, what did we I love I always love when you say that about 168 hours in a week. And that especially as women, we tend to schedule things for other people or take care of other people or put other people’s needs above our own. And I know as as a person who works with caregivers often that caregiving is a dangerous profession. And almost everyone I know is a caregiver, whether they’re caregiving children, parents, or partners or their jobs, right? aren’t like women, a lot of times are the caregivers. And so caregiving can be dangerous, because if you don’t take care of yourself, you can die. Or in real life, in real life. Yeah. For the person or the people that you are caregiving. And so when I think about that 168 hours in a week, I think what have you scheduled for yourself? You know, are you getting enough sleep? Are you eating really healthy, and love prepared meals? Are you eating your body and exercising? You know, next week, we talk about environmental wellness, we have an awesome guests come and we’ll talk about her a little more at the end of the show, but, you know, really talking about the power of moving our bodies. And so, you know, we always ask, we asked our guests when we asked social media Shannon about like, what is our wisdom in action? So, you know, we’ve been doing this for two months now. Do what I would love to hear some of your wisdom and action around the dimensions.
Shannon M. 19:37
Yes. So one of my wisdoms wisdoms in action. Yes, I think was to walk outside, right. So I have a goal to run four times a week. And sometimes I hit it sometimes I don’t. Most times I do and I’m working on being consistent this year. But if I feel like I’ve been inside too much, and I don’t run that day, I’m still going Walk, you know, in taking more walks, being more intentional about being outside taking my coffee outside in the morning, I did that this morning, you know, but again, I genuinely slow down and I rest and reset and look at the trees, Look at the birds, and all of this stuff. Will, it’ll fall in place, it’ll figure itself out. So that’s been a really big one. Me journaling. I told you ladies about that on Monday, I bought a new journal, I feel like I started slowing down because I saw the pages getting closer to the end. And I said, No, you need to get a new journal and keep writing. And me taking my time for myself this morning is really helped today go great. And being gentle. Even though I haven’t always been on the journal habit the past few weeks or running the past week or so to get back on it, and then stay committed. That’s all you need just to keep going. Because it’s a lifestyle. It’s not a diet, you know, like we were talking about earlier. So those have been my pieces of wisdom and action.
Christine Gautreaux 21:01
No, I love it. Thank you. I you know, in two months, so much happens, because you and I like to plan and do it? Oh, yes. You know, I think about my wisdom and action in the last two months. Environmental wellness, I’m taking a really cool class about decluttering from my friend melody, who we’re hoping to have as a guest and the culture, and it’s about shining on. And so this last weekend, I spent almost all day outside like working on the yard clearing up because you know, it’s spring cleaning, but really putting my front porch where I’m I’m love being out there because I call it now it’s my front porch office, you know, like to come by a lot of these, we hung some really gorgeous green Boston ferns in birds immediately, like, oh, new high rise. I was joking that I was like, well, it looks like a little bit of Southern Living, because you know how my porches is white. And it’s a and so I hung that up. And I always think about my mom when I do that, because she loves ferns and she loves so I sent her a picture. And I was like I gotta capture a picture now. So because let’s be real, you know, when the birds move in, then it’s not gonna look like Southern Living, it’s up to do. But it’s, I created that environmental outdoor space because I do think we’ve probably got a few more months where we’re still socially distance and you know, until it’s safe to gather inside. And so I was like, I want to create a beautiful space that if folks stop by, we can sit outside and have a conversation. And this you know, it’s spring in Georgia, which were really lucky. I mean, gorgeous. So that was for sure some of my wisdom and action. And just like you said, like, in the midst of the day or Zoom meetings in between all walk outside, and just even if it’s five minutes, just taking a deep breath and letting out some of that stress or stop watching a squirrel build a nest. And, and for sure on the physical getting my daily walk in, you know, I’m a stretcher and a two plus mile walk. I think I need to get up. But you know, it’s kind of my, I used to be you may not know this, I used to be a long distance runner. And so two miles is kind of my warm up. But right now, that’s all I’ve been kind of doing because of time flies. But I probably need to probably need to bump up the mileage to there just for just because I’m warming up at two. But
Shannon M. 23:43
I like that. And what I think I’m gonna bump up. So the goal is to run four times a week, I have been hitting the goal of running consistently right, so I started doing that and was able to leave and make it back and not stop. So now I’m going to start working on my speed. Yeah, get a little bit faster. And I was hanging out with my my girls from college, some of my old roommates, and we were talking about doing yoga and I love yoga. So they said it, you know, I’m a hold, hold them to it. I was thinking about the next time we hang out as having a yoga session and then going to eat after. So we do a little bit of both. Yeah,
Christine Gautreaux 24:21
I love it. Well, Carolyn, Renee, who was our guest for intellectual wellness really talks about yoga. And about because she was going through that leadership training and talks about a type of Yoga I had not heard about before, which was pretty cool. That came from Egypt. And so yes to incorporating some of that in I have for years like we talked about on that show done me and Rhonda Yee for my am yoga. You know, it’s just my little 1015 minute hatha yoga practice, but I can tell you, he always says at the end of the day, I should be able to know it. I’ve been doing it for years but really talks about basically what he’s saying is incremental steps like he might small changes, but then it’s going to be large gains. And I think that with all our wellness, right, that often we’re like, oh, you know, I’ve got 50 pounds to lose, I can’t it never happen. Or, Oh, I I work 14 hours a day, like, how can I time for myself, you know, and I used to follow a fly lady. Did you ever hear about fly lady? I don’t think so. She was a woman, she is still a woman in North Carolina, which we should we should see about having her on. That would be interesting, though. She teaches about organizational systems and keeping your house clean, who and and so what she always her method is always 15 minutes, set a 15 minute timer, and you can do anything in 15 minute increments. And if that’s too long, set it for 10 minutes or set it for five minutes. But that whole notion because you know, I used to be a really great procrastinator, that notion of I don’t have time for something, right. I think often as women we do that as with our wellness, like, but when I think about it, do we have a minute? Do we have five minutes? You probably do. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe after the kids go to sleep or before they pick up or when you go to the bathroom? Right. But starting to build it in little incremental pieces. Right, that it doesn’t have to be a whole day. I mean, that would be lovely. And you deserve
Shannon M. 26:39
a few days, a few weeks, right? Three months, take a quarter off. You know what I mean? afford it.
Christine Gautreaux 26:48
But yeah, but it can be little everyday things, right? I remember showing on that spiritual episode talking about how she’s doing wellness videos, like in two to three minute spurts, where she sings, chants and breathes in and breathes out love and, and I just think about, we can do this. Yes, it but it’s about intentionality. Right?
Shannon M. 27:15
Yes. And, again, you know, it’s really interesting, because I know it sounds, it almost sounds cliche, but a lot of times the simple things like that are true, right? That’s really what Shayla Glo was about. My mom was a great person, you know, everybody she lived around, loved her. They were amazing. And when I think about one major lesson that her passing away, taught me, she lived in this room, right in this building with a lot of other people. And by the end of her life, you could barely open the door all the way because she had so much stuff in the room. Right? So I’m okay, my mom’s a hoarder, I need to not be a hoarder, right. And fast forward to her T light visual as she she passed away, I had it at the building where she lived. And we had it on the inside. And they had this outside court on like the inside of the building. So it wasn’t near the street. And one of her neighbors were talking about how nice she was, and how she probably didn’t need to buy that stuff. She did that to help whoever was selling it. And so that gave me a new perspective, right? But I said, You know what, I’m not gonna do that. I’m not gonna spend money that I should be investing, so that I can help on a broader scale, and then crowd myself out of my own life. I’m not doing it. You know what I mean? Say that, again. I’m not going to help other people and spend money that I should be investing, and crowd myself out of my own life giving other people what is supposed to be for me, right?
Christine Gautreaux 28:52
There’s such a balance between self and community care, right? Because I know you like as a completely generous person. And that’s not what you’re talking about. You’re not being selfish. No. And I just want to call that to our reader’s attention. Because oftentimes, like when we talk about self care, people think, Oh, well, that’s selfish. Like I’ve been I’ve met folks that were literally like, I can’t take care of myself dying. Yeah. They felt like it was selfish to focus on themselves. And that’s what we’re talking about, right? This balance between self and community care. But it’s an analogy about when you you know, remember when we used to travel and get on planes, I think, one episode where you know, they say when the oxygen mask pops down, put it on yourself first before you turn and help the other person. And if we oxygenate ourselves, if we don’t fill our buckets, then we’re we don’t have things left to give. Yes, so. So I think that’s so why Shannon like about to not crowd ourselves out of our own lives.
Shannon M. 29:59
No You deserve more space than that. And it’s really about taking up the space that you take up like, I don’t want to share our I don’t want to share arm, arm. What do they call arm wrist? Yeah, I want both arm wrist in my life. Okay, on one leg room. I want to be able to stretch in any way and have room for me that holds this is my bubble. And I have room for myself. Yes. So one thing that I that I’ve been working on, we talked about the 168 hours, right? If, if I can do it now, then I’m going to do it now. You know, we took a break, right? Before we came on the show, I wash the dishes real quick, guess what dishes are done. Boom, just like that, you know, when we came on the show on time? Exactly. Environmental wellness, what is your space look like? But at the same token, if there’s something that comes up that I want to do that I say, You know what, I want to do this, but I already have my day’s schedule, I need to stick to the time schedule that I set just like a budget, right for your money. I have a budget for my time. I’ll put it on another day. Does it need to happen this week? Or can that go to next week, and I’ll make sure that I get it done next week. And that really helps me feel at peace with saying not It’s not no but not right now. Or if you have time, do it right now. And then now we’re crossing stuff off. Now we’re organizing stuff. And we’re not just having ideas that feel good. That gives us anxiety because they’re not done. We’re not letting other people move our schedule all out of whack. Actually, nope. I need all this time today. Like I said at the beginning of the day, you know, when that’s how I keep my space in my life and make sure that I get stuff done?
Christine Gautreaux 31:39
Oh, I think that’s awesome. Yeah, when you talked about calendar, so I was thinking about that in regards to I’m not going to let it crowd me out of my own life. stuff. Or it can be scheduling, like work schedule for other people. Or we Scott, we say, you know, we talked about in the Stillpoint book about boundaries and saying no, in order to be able to say yes, right, that it’s important about making choices that you know, especially being raised in the south, sometimes we’re taught, you know, we got to be polite, we’ve got to say yes, when people invite us to things and can crowd ourselves out of our own life, right? Just what you’re saying. I think that’s so wise. So really, where what do we need to say no to? In? Well, yes to more wellness,
Shannon M. 32:30
I would say no to things that diminish my my level of wellness in any category, right or things that aren’t aligned. Sometimes it might be great, for example, to serve at church right before quarantine, I was a greeter for fusion and fusion is lit. Okay. Fusion is the young adults ministry at Victory Road Church, we meet on Tuesday nights and we have a ball. I have not been for about 365 days now, you know, and with, again, my mom passing away them laying off servers and me saying, You know what, I’m actually not going to come back. I’m gonna start my own business and start a podcast and do all this other stuff. I decided to say NO to being a greeter for this season in my life so that when I give, it can be from a healthy place. And not a place of I’m supposed to do this. I have to get my house together first and put on my oxygen mask because I’m about to suffocate here, you know, and so things things like that. I would I would say no to.
Christine Gautreaux 33:36
Well, one of the things you said yesterday was creating your new business and yes. Oh, which is one of our sponsors of this podcast. Yes. Just a smidge about it. And I want you to mention about your Shea rose.
Shannon M. 33:51
Yes. So about this. Yes. Because we need nominations. So let’s start with the Shea rose. Right. We talked about some of our guests that we’ve had. This is our the end of the first season our recap. We’ve had amazing women that were connected within wisdom, right? These are all great examples of shea rose, char TCO who helped in you Christine right, who helped with voter registration getting those teams organized so that Georgia could have 9090 What was it 90% of the registered voters vote this year? You know, that is right. That is a shea row. Christine Gautreaux who’s a podcaster Okay, she gave me this you see what the illumination on my face Christine did this okay. The tablecloth and the shit in the shallow glow pictures. Christine got that tablecloth, she’s my shea row. And so she got to Shea row bundle. And this is what we want to do. We don’t want to wait until the moms and the sisters and the daughters and the nieces and the teachers and the nurses are sick and then be like oh wait, you’re in part important this night I must say it, it’s not good enough, you know what I mean? If we can prevent these things that are developed, and we can be more intentional, then we owe it to our ladies who birthed us. And who make the world go round to say, Hey, you’re ashy, put some shallows, put some shea butter on it, or, Hey, take better care of yourself, you’re important, or thank you so much for everything that you give to my life in our community. So the Shea row are women who are doing amazing things in the community that you want to honor who have helped you in your life, and you want to say thank you by taking care of them, like they take care of you. And I love doing that with shallow glow, because I did it for myself first, right. That’s how the business started. The lotion wasn’t working. My hands were I genuinely felt like I had one degree burned from the soap at the restaurant. And people were going to the dermatologist I said, I see why my hands are burning until I put the shea butter on. When I got home, I started making extra and selling it to the servers. And I knew that more people than just the servers at this one location needed this shea butter, you know, something that I had in my hand. And it’s interesting because I was actually part of a company who I said was helping me financially but it was a shea butter that was actually getting me what I needed when the restaurant closed down during Corona. So I love it because it really shows the dimensions of wellness and how they, you know, are intersectional because that’s exactly how the shea butter is.
Christine Gautreaux 36:33
I need to just interrupt you here with a personal testimonial. So I told you that I worked out in the yard all weekend. Yeah. Sunday My hands were so dry from cuz you know, like when you’re working in the dark, you’re planning and stuff like they were getting dried to the point of hurting. And I was like I was so grateful to have Shea the your product in my house. Because I walked in, I wash my hands and just put it on and they were instantly felt better. And I was just thinking from last year because when I garden or do things like that, sometimes it’s several days before my hands feel better. And then the other thing that happens is they really look like I’ve been gardening and like ages me. And this time did not like this time that your product was just I use the mango butter. And it was not only smelled great, it was fabulous. But yeah, like so fun. And thank you for sponsoring this podcast. And we’re so grateful that you really practice what you preach about self and community care. And that you can now folks if they want to nominate somebody for a row award, how do they do that Shannon.
Shannon M. 37:46
So they would email Shea row nomination and Shea row is like shea butter. And he wrote together. So S H E A R O nomination as a subject line. And they will be put in the running and to be honored so that we can again, take better care of our ladies. So it’ll look different each time. The first time. I don’t know if I want to tell you what we’re going to have yet because it’s not announced. But it is a surprise, okay to take care of them. But know that they’re going to get complimentary products, yes, to excuse me to share logo@gmail.com. So you’ll be sending it to the the email specifically. And we’ll keep everything organized on that way. And the email, I need to know why you’re nominating them. Right? So again, I gave you a few reasons why I felt like Christine was more than deserving of it and why I knew that she needed it. And so I’m happy for her to have it. Things like that is what I would love to know. So that when I tell her what she got, I can also tell her why. And bless her. You know, I know that. We know that we’re amazing at a lot of things. We’re podcasters authors. Again, we’re in all these roles, but sometimes it just make somebody’s day when they’re going through stuff to know that hey, because you helped all those voters. We’re gonna take care of you.
Christine Gautreaux 39:05
Well, and I also think about like, I’m thinking my my aunt who’s going through a pretty tough diagnosis right now I’m going through chemo and stuff like that, and I need to send her a package because one of the things I love about what you do is the packaging is gold and shiny. Like it is it feels like a present when it comes in the mail and thinking about, you know, women who have impacted our lives. And yeah, it’s it’s pretty incredible. It’s a great way to give back. So thank you for that. Of course. I am really grateful for that. Of course. Oh my friend. What else do we want to talk about before we wrap this wrap of the season one,
Shannon M. 39:53
you know, this is what I’ll say. turned it down. Because before we started, we talked about it How much work this is, it’s a lot of work, you know, and that can be overwhelming, it can be daunting, and it can cause people not to start. So again, it’s about rest and reset, take it one dimension at a time, one situation at a time. And remember that overwhelm is part of it, I was listening to this audio book, and I was thankful to learn that overwhelm is part of the learning curve, you just got to keep going past it. So we’re women connected in wisdom, you’re not by yourself, right? You have us we have a community, we’re building resources, we’re doing all this stuff together. And it’s possible if you want it to, so all you have to do is reach up and get the air mask. And you know, we’ll get get to the end of the journey together from there.
Christine Gautreaux 40:46
Right. The other thing I want to say to our listeners is, we there’s lots of ways you can connect with us during the week or after you’ve listened to this podcast, we have been showing up on clubhouse every Monday, and Mitchell every Monday at 12:30pm. Eastern time for conversation, what we do is we continue the conversation after this goes off the air. So if we helped you to think about something or you worked on something over the weekend, pop over to clubhouse and, and let’s chat about it and be part of the conversation. The other way you can find us is on mighty networks, you can come to women connected in wisdom. And you can come be a part of our community. You can we have a page on Facebook, we have YouTube, like just reach out and get connected. Because, you know, we don’t have to do this all by ourselves. Like we we can do this together and in community. And I always I was telling my crew this weekend, as we were working on the yard, you know, many hands make light work. And that’s true about community and mutual aid in our, in our connections. And as women especially like, you know, our partners, and our kids don’t come with instruction manuals. Sometimes we just need a good friend to reach out to and say what the what the what you do. Because, you know, we know, right? As I was telling that story, Shannon this this, and I don’t know where it is, I’m gonna have to go find it. My mom used to have this little plaque that one of her mentors gave her because my mom was a public school teacher before she retired, and for years, and it said it said something like nobody promised every day would be easy. But you’ve got this it was something like that. It was motivational. It was really about the reality. And I think what we’re all going through today, and especially after this last year, of holding both the grief and gratitude, right, right. It’s maybe hard, but we can do hard things. And it’s easier to do it in community. And so
Shannon M. 43:06
I love that. And and it’s exactly like you said, you know, I talk about the job, I talk about my mom, I talk about keeping the space for yourself. But at the same time, I started a business, I started a podcast, we’re on the end of the season for our first will the end of the first season for our podcast, right? So there’s so many good things that have come out of it. So I think about being well, being wise and being hold and what that looks like all together, of course and wellness being a verb right in each category. So we need at least eight actions. You know, there’s a lot to do, but we’re doing it together.
Christine Gautreaux 43:45
Right and it and doing and being sad about meditating and resting. And yes, and yeah, and it’s all that and some days are more imbalanced than others, but it’s always good to come together and chat about it and have time for reset and rest and rejuvenation. Oh, I love it. You too. Thank you for this conversation today.
Shannon M. 44:12
Yes, yes, of course. And don’t forget, be well be wise. We’ll see you here next Wednesday.
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