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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
And every week we get together to have intentional conversation, how to be wise in business relationships, and wellness. And we have incredible guests that come on. I’m just so delighted and delighted to have these conversations. So we’re talking about social wellness today.
Shannon M. 0:58
Yes. And to start us off with the definition, talking about what is social wellness, it is nurturing ourselves, and others in our relationships. social wellness consists of not only balancing our own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, but also actively participating as an interdependent piece of the bigger puzzle of humankind.
Christine Gautreaux 1:23
I love that an interdependent piece of the bigger puzzle.
Shannon M. 1:28
Yeah, yeah. And for me, it’s the nurturing ourselves. It’s all of it, really, which is why we continue to have these conversations. And we talk about all eight dimensions. But for me, especially when we think about things that happen across the world this week, we know there’s a lot going on, whether it’s Haiti and natural disasters, and the history of things that have happened there, or Afghanistan and everything that’s going on, you know, what fill, I fill a pool, to always say something about it. And especially somebody with a platform, I correct myself with the things I’ve said on the podcast, the things I say on social media, and I take that responsibility seriously. So when things happen, should you always say something, you know, to maintain my social wellness? Honestly, I say no, not every single time. For me, that’s, that’s my, that’s one of my boundaries that I, you know, hold so that I don’t have to hold everything for the whole world, and I can continue to move forward. And the things that I personally need to work on to make sure that I’m healthy in a well rounded way, but we still have to be aware of everything, you know, right.
Christine Gautreaux 2:42
And in whether we talk about it or not, whether we dive off into it, like I know, we hold it in our consciousness, like I was thinking today, as I dropped my youngest off at this gorgeous campus, and the freedom that she has in America to get this education as a young woman, you know, I think about the women who are not having that freedom right now, and especially in other countries, and how it’s easy to take that for granted here, you know, because, you know, we like to get off into politics and what’s not working and what you know, and it’s, it’s important to have those debates too. But when I think about we take it for granted, that our girls get to go to school, and that, and then I get to drop her off and she’s safe. And you know, that’s or, I mean, the safe if she can’t, you know, I don’t think there’s any safe spaces anymore. I think there’s brave spaces, but she has the opportunity to be brave and to be out there and to be independent. And, and what a gift that is, you know, I also talked about social wellness, I have to tell you, Shannon, because you know, we’re we’re very different generations, for listeners that are not seeing us online, we’re very different generations and very different backgrounds. And, um, you know, when I went to school course, I’m totally dating myself, y’all, like, you know, we didn’t have the internet, we didn’t have smartphones. And this youngest one today, it was amazing, because they’ve been having a group chat for all summer. So she knew like, they got together for lunch, and there was 20 people that knew each other from the internet, right? Like, the social wellness piece of it, I think about because I’m one of those moms that you know, my kids are laughing because I blame everything on the internet, you know, get off your phone, you know, get off this or that like, but the positive side of it and the power like not feel isolated at all. Like this was the first time these folks had met in person but they knew each other right. Like that was that was a really positive thing about social wellness and, and technology. I was like, that was cool.
Shannon M. 4:47
Yeah, and it reminds me of you so you saying that reminds me of one of my roommates from college and we call each other that we call our nickname is white Shannon and black Shannon, okay, because that’s who we are. And I love Shannon She’s about to get married, and we’re about to go celebrate her and her her fiance this weekend. So shout out to you, Shannon. But I messaged her on Facebook before she moved in, and she never messaged me back. And I was like, wait, you are my roommate. I tried to message you. So I love that they have that connection. And of course, we’ve had a great relationship since then. But connecting through social media, you know, and the college experience, especially as a young lady, our guest today, I had the privilege so glad I went to school with her of going to college with her. And what you just said about education reminds me of graduation. Actually, when I was designing my graduation cap. I said, I didn’t even know this was a whole thing. What do you put on here? I decided to put black lives matter because they do and is relevant, right. And I wanted to showcase that on my honor graduate graduation cap as I walked across the stage with no shoes on, because my shoes broke walking to graduation, but had it not been black lives matter. It would have been I am Malala because having hot water oil burned down your throat or poured down your throat to get an education on the bus like crazy, crazy stories about things that women are still doing in order to learn. Right, you know?
Christine Gautreaux 6:23
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So sending out prayers and thoughts and, and everything we can to, you know, any women out there that are struggling for access and equal opportunity in our country and in other countries. Because it’s real, you know, we know it’s real, and, and holding all that in our bodies. As we move forward. I am, let’s take a deep breath. With that. Let’s take a deep breath. Hmm,
Shannon M. 6:55
I must shake a shake, right,
Christine Gautreaux 6:56
shake it out, shake it out of our bodies, shake it out of our bodies, because that’s one of the ways we know through interplay and through somatic practices to be able to hold as much as we hold is we have to have ways to process it and let it come out of our bodies. Because if we hold it all in, it can make us sick, mentally and emotionally, physically. So So yeah, taking that, that yes, we can process a lot. And yes, we can do a lot. But having the tools to do it for sure. Absolutely. Well, my friend, I am so excited about our guest today and some things that she has cooking up, but I’m ready to bring her
Shannon M. 7:37
up. I am
Christine Gautreaux 7:38
alright, she provided us with a short bio, but it does not negate the depth of her wisdom and what she has happened in so Aja Moore is an international teacher and entrepreneur who has some really exciting stuff coming up that we’re going to chat about and talk about today. So it’s a little bit of a mystery. So we’re just going to bring her up, and let’s have this conversation. Hey. Well,
Aja Moore 8:10
thank you. Thank you. Glad I could be here.
Shannon M. 8:13
Yes. And, um, so one thing I love, the first thing I looked at when you popped up was this apostrophe behind your name, okay. So when you spell ages, name, make sure that you have the apostrophe. Okay, it was funny. A few weeks before I invited her to be on somebody, I think I posted a picture of us or something. And they were like, I didn’t know, you know, Asia, they didn’t put the apostrophe. Okay, guys, I said, I don’t even know who you’re talking about. Because her name has an apostrophe. So when I think about social wellness, and holding space as a whole person and everything that mentioned a woman, right, I think about women like you, who have inspired me to be myself and remind people that, hey, this is actually how I want to be treated. This is actually what I need, you know, going to Costa Rica, being able to visit you as you were a science teacher, like, I love all the different things that you’ve taken the time to do with your life. So I’ll give you the floor and allow you to introduce yourself.
Aja Moore 9:17
Well, hey, guys, I’m glad to be here. I’m glad that I was even selected as a person that to be connected in wisdom. So thank you, Shannon and Christine. My name is Aja. Yes, that apostrophe is there on the birth certificate, so don’t leave it out. Like Christine said, I am an international teacher. I taught in Costa Rica for several years and then went to China for several years as well. Came back for COVID COVID got me back here but I’ve been loving teaching in my home city and home state. So that has been great. And then I just started an entrepreneurial journey with my best friend. We are creating. It’s an app It’s something that’s very needed. It’s a beauty supply, ordering and delivery app. So if you think about, you know, UberEATS and DoorDash, you can get food delivered. But now you can get beauty supplies deliver. So you need some one B hair or edge control. That is only a click away.
Shannon M. 10:22
I love it. And I just started working again. And there’s been a couple of ladies, they’re like, oh, I need some edge control. So I think it’s gonna be great. I’m so excited for it. And I love that you’re getting into not only entrepreneurship, but to to technology is great. Let’s meet it.
Christine Gautreaux 10:39
I love this concept so much. I feel like it’s a million dollar idea. Like, I feel like maybe more than that. Yeah. But you know, you think about this times you don’t want to go out, right? There’s times you’re like, Oh. I mean, you think that maybe you like that is such a fabulous idea.
Aja Moore 11:04
It was like Dispenza Do you love to be Kammler and she’s on our website, you can check her out. She
Shannon M. 11:10
also laughed at me. So when you hear us talk about social wellness, right, all the things you’ve done, our listeners love. I’ve always loved the fact that you took a year off of undergrad to be a cheerleader on the United States of America team. Okay. When you so when you think about social wellness, how do you feel like you’ve managed to balance that and a healthy win.
Aja Moore 11:36
Okay, in a healthy way, I feel like I’ve managed it by having a good support system, a good people around me to keep me grounded to keep me positive, I don’t try to associate a lot with Debbie downers, there are people that are going to bring me down, I the people in my circle, they will keep it real, but they will also help encourage me help motivate me. And so I like that having those people with me connected helps. Helps me nurture myself and helps me nurture them.
Shannon M. 12:10
Yeah. And that’s so important. When I hear stories about affluent people or people who have reached a certain level. You know, sometimes they can just have Yes, men around them or Yes, women and people think is, you know, it helps that person always say yes, but that’s not true. I need to know that I have a booger in my nose before I come on camera. My tag is Ally, let me know what’s going on. Don’t have me looking crazy internationally. Come on, we supposed to be cool, you know. So I hear what you’re saying. I hear what you’re saying.
Christine Gautreaux 12:38
For our listeners that are listening and not watching Shannon does not have a booger in your nose by the way. We want to call her before she got on camera.
Shannon M. 12:49
Thanks. So especially as somebody who was about to launch this amazing app, right with laughing? How do you feel like you have maintained? I guess the way I’m trying to ask is How do you feel like you’ve maintained a healthy image of yourself? Right? This is something I work a lot with with Shayla globe. It’s not just about shea butter and skin. Sometimes the fact that people don’t take care of themselves because of what they think about their skin. You know, the shade that we are. There’s a an article on what is this? MIT’s website about how digital beauty filters perpetuate colorism? Right. So I love that we’re talking about that. And it’s necessary to talk about, but we can also talk about this female owned company that’s about to help you with your needs, so that you can make sure that you’re taking care of so what about your self image and how you’ve maintained that when you think about social wellness,
Aja Moore 13:43
especially with this business, me and my partner, we were definitely thinking about, like making sure it’s something that reflects us. Like when we’re thinking about our mission statement. We’re not thinking about like, Oh, we’re thinking about ourselves, like, how do we want this to come across to people and how we feel as black women, and we know the need for other black women? How can we make this something that that shows who we are? And is is great like it is people people think that it’s great as well. I’d like I didn’t mention like about the social part. Like how when me and my friend Nick are having business meetings like sometimes we have to like pause and say Hey, girl, let’s she’s my best friend. So like, let’s have a best friend talk before we do our business talk because we can get so caught up in the business, the business, the business, but again, this is my best friend. I want to know like How’s married life? She just got married. So like, how’s that been? Like, are y’all when Are y’all having babies and things like that. So it’s it’s great to have her as a partner because she is my best friend. And then I there’s so much trust that I have in her and us being able to like chill and talk about real things. Is takes the stress off of trying to build this business together as well.
Shannon M. 15:03
Absolutely. So I hear you talking about the business, right and making sure that the message is right that we’re not just talking about vanity, it we’re actually Hey, you, this is who you are. This is what you look like, this is what you need to really take care of yourself. Right? I hear you talking about it’s we call it partnership power with Christine’s book Stillpoint. And how you use the power in your community. But because we’re best friends and business partners, we’re going to talk about the business. Let’s make sure we talk about this this friendship too. And, you know, how do you say it really like staying in touch and checking in with each other? What about you personally? Because that’s also the part of social wellness, right? How do you maintain that even outside of your responsibilities and your other relationships,
Aja Moore 15:50
definitely trying to take time to myself, I am very social and I extrovert social butterfly. But there I have to schedule time in my week, to be like, this is just time for me, where I get to do things that I want to do I get so if it’s reading books that I want to read, if it’s watching shows that I want to watch it’s set, it’s set aside just for me and I and no one is is going to, you know affect that people. I have parents, they asked me, Could you could you change your tutoring schedule? You know, we really need you on this day. And I’m like, No, I have had I have to say no, I know that I gave so much of myself in the past, to where I didn’t have that time for myself. And, and I felt like it, it could possibly have made my mental not as well as it could have been. And so this year, this school year, I am taking that time, and it’s only been a couple of weeks in the school year, but I’m loving it. I’m loving, just sitting and just what can I do today, because there’s nothing to do. And I love that.
Christine Gautreaux 16:54
I love that about boundaries. I mean, what I heard you say really clear is good boundaries for social care and wellness. And I think that’s so true. And we don’t think about that. Because often we think, Oh, if this person calls me we have to pick up the phone, especially with the way we’re all tied to our smartphones these days, right? I recently age, I took three days off for short, maybe it was for with travel, who knows my brain doesn’t, I can’t comprehend it and what day it is anymore. But um, I was I purposely took time off and put up my vacation reminders, and went away from my phone. And it was hard for a lot of people because they’re not used to be not being on the phone. Right. And but I think I recommend it to everybody, like take a break and disconnect and take some time where you are out of connection and don’t have good Wi Fi. People can’t reach you it was delightful.
Shannon M. 17:55
Yeah, like when I was growing up, we went on church trips, we would go to the mountains, we will go all different types of places, you know, and at first there is the, I’m not going to be able to what was it there my space or whatever we used to use, you know, but honestly, those are some of my favorite times I love looking at the dew on the morning grass or just running around and remembering what life is actually about. You know, and now absolutely. I my relationship with my phone I in with anything, whether it’s my emotions or food, I try to remember that I have the authority and the dominion to say what it’s gonna be my phone rings. I’m not a frog, I do not just jump up and go. If I’m sleep, I’m asleep. And I’ll get back to you, you know, and that has helped me so much. Not only is like a to do list in the back of my mind, let’s say anxiety provoking, right, but so is if I’ve poured out and if I’m running, I’m going to the grocery store, I’m going to work I’m doing social media, I’ve done all this stuff, but you haven’t drank any water. You didn’t write in your journal. You didn’t stretch today, you know that stuff really changes my mood changes how I show up at the grocery store might be a little hangry now we’re rushing around, you got an attitude and on the road when you could have been chilling, listening to Jill Scott, had you drink some water? You know, before you did that. And I love what you say Christina about How tired are you to technology, that’s again, I specifically try to keep that boundary and don’t get too attached to it. So in the morning and you ladies have heard me talk about this before if you listen to the podcast, I don’t touch my phone. I don’t check my emails. I don’t check social media before this stuff is done. And that way I know my cup has a certain amount in it before I start pouring out. It’s just like a bank account. I can’t afford to give you money. If I don’t have money for my bills. That’s not me being a bad person that’s being a responsible steward of the resources in the end the operation Is that I have so yeah, I definitely agree with it. And especially one more thing I’ll say to watching TV watching shows and stuff I’ve been watching, Love and Hip Hop, the best few days, and I usually don’t watch reality TV. But for me TV is like a way to not have to use my brain power, right? I do a lot of development, audio books, reading classes, webinars, all this stuff. Sometimes I just want to cut it off. I just want to sit here be entertained. And that’s how I feed into myself too. So I get it.
Christine Gautreaux 20:33
If you’re what’s your favorite thing to do to recharge,
Aja Moore 20:37
try travel. Yes, I love traveling. And it helps me reset. I love seeing new places and just give it I feel like in Atlanta, and I can always be pulled in a lot of different directions and have my friends and my family here. But if I’m on a remote island, I don’t know anyone I have to really like sit down and like, Look at the scenery and really like take it all in. So I love traveling as a refresh fresher.
Christine Gautreaux 21:07
I love that. Where can you tell us where the last place you went was the
Aja Moore 21:12
very last place that I went to was Denver, Colorado, beautiful mountains. Beautiful.
Christine Gautreaux 21:19
I love flying into that airport. My sister doesn’t live far from there. And that was one of the last places I got to travel to to and I’d love when you’re flying in and you get that first glimpse of the Rockies. It’s just magical. It’s magical. I love that. So where do you want to go next?
Aja Moore 21:40
Great question. The birthday. So she’s trying to go to any place that starts with a B. So I’m hoping Belize or Barbados is in the books. I like that.
Christine Gautreaux 21:55
But a fun thing. Now, I had a question about when you taught in Costa Rica. Tell it tell our listeners about that. How was that? Oh,
Aja Moore 22:05
that was amazing. Yo, I love Costa Rica it is that country has a place in my heart. I just went back to see my own students graduate this past June. And it just felt it felt like home like coming back and seeing all my old friends eating out Oh, my favorite restaurants. Oh, it was so in this project. It was it was interesting. It was my very first big girl job. And so not a lot of people can say that their first job was an in another country. So it was unique in in my experience to kind of go from being the majority of there’s lots of black people in Atlanta to the minority where there’s only me I always saw me or the other teachers that are the Americans or that that are even black. And so kind of living like that was a little different for me. I never used to stand out in that aspect. And it was it was it was interesting and but so fun. I had lots of fun and learn how to surf kayak for the first time snorkels like camped on a beach. It was it was amazing.
Christine Gautreaux 23:16
So how did you like, how did you decide this is my first job? Like, was there a company that got you interested in it? Did you just think, like, I’m just always curious about like, what led you to that moment of teaching internationally?
Aja Moore 23:31
Okay, okay, so a little backstory. I didn’t know when to be a teacher. In college, my like, last two years of school, I was like, You know what, I want to be a WWE Diva. I wanted to wrestle, I wanted to keep my cheerleading skills of backflip in and I was like, I can do this in the ring. Like I could flip in and tumble and beat girls up. That’s what I wanted to do. My school had a study abroad program in Costa Rica. And I applied for it but because all my teachers knew that I didn’t want to be a WWE Diva. The dean had a meeting with me and told me he’s like, um, you know, we don’t know if we can actually let you go to Costa Rica, because we know you don’t really want to be a teacher. And there, these parents are spending lots of money for this, their children to go to this private school. So if we allow you to be on this, this study abroad program, you’re going to need to take it seriously. And of course, like this is my fall Buck back plan. If wrestling doesn’t work out, I’m going to be a teacher. So they let me go and the way that that school ran, it was different than any school I have ever that we had our long lunches with recess in it with a middle school students, you know, and in America, middle store, recess has gone after fifth grade. And so now I’m here with seventh and eighth graders, they’re running and playing on the recess field and getting all the energy out that they need. To get out, and the, the way that was set up, it was so out, outward facing. Like, I didn’t feel like I was in a classroom all the time, I felt like I was a part of the jungle on part of nature. And it was so cool to, to see that and be in that environment. And then I will have like, my, my students will be my little fans cheering me on with Miss Lauren. And so I was like, This is what I wanted from wrestling, like I could do backflips in the classroom and have my little fan section cheer me on while I teach them about science and math. So I really enjoyed my time there. And so I applied at the school. I was like, I can’t work for any other school got to work for the school. And they hired me.
Christine Gautreaux 25:45
That is an awesome story. Aja, I love that. How long did you teach in Costa Rica?
Aja Moore 25:52
I was there for three years.
Christine Gautreaux 25:55
Awesome. And then you went to China?
Aja Moore 25:57
Yes, ma’am. My principal in China, she quit. Principal in Costa Rica. She quit and got a job in Costa Rica in China. I’m sorry, China, and she asked me if I will come with her. And I said yes. However, I didn’t actually get to teach at her school. The paperwork for the area of China she was in was not like they couldn’t get a visa in time for me. So I applied to another school in Shanghai. And they were they were looking for exactly what my resume had on it. So it was a good fit. And I went over
Christine Gautreaux 26:36
there and how long were you there? I was
Aja Moore 26:39
there until January 2020. So right we had a we had a holiday that I flew into Atlanta for like the holiday and then COVID happened COVID was happening over there and they shut the borders down and so I got stuck here couldn’t get back and so I had to resign and then got a job
Christine Gautreaux 27:02
all right. So you’re currently teaching stateside? Yes. I’m tell you can fly again. I love here’s what I love for our listeners who will be listening on all the major podcast platforms and not seeing Asia’s face right now. She lights up when she talks about teaching these kids overseas and talks about the combination of her love of travel and teaching. And honestly totally lit up when talked about wrestling to which
Shannon M. 27:43
I forgot about that. Story.
Christine Gautreaux 27:48
Story I’ve never met somebody who wanted to be a WWE wrestler like, that’s awesome.
Aja Moore 27:56
I still have potential. Now, our training
Shannon M. 28:02
it one thing I love about you ages is whatever you want to do is I could be a wrestler or a teacher like for me, those would never be on the same list. You know, like, what do you think Miss Moore wanted to do before she came here wrestle? You know? But I love that I have a question about the difference of the social environment in Costa Rica and China. How are they different? And how are they the same two,
Aja Moore 28:26
okay, how are they different? Costa Rica’s culture is real they they say put a Vita chunky lab so very pure life. They they’re all about do what you do for you there. Um, and, and like the Starbucks there doesn’t open at 4am Like it opens here. It’s like, maybe eight or nine like everything is on a much slower pace. And I love that about the culture like really going coming from a fast pace America going to slow pace Costa Rica, you’re like, wow, like what? Why don’t we take the time to just sit and relax. So I really liked that aspect. I really love the the Hispanic culture around the music and the dancing. I learned how to solve some Rancic but chapter. Like it’s, it’s such a different experience than then American clubs for me. And so it was it was really nice. I loved getting to know, Costa Ricans and their culture and feeling like, as an American, I didn’t feel like we had a culture like we what’s the typical American food and hotdogs and hamburgers. You know, I can go to Costa Rica and ask for the typical food and it will be the same on this side of the country on that side of the country. So I really liked that in China. The there was a huge expat community. So I felt like all of our, the teachers at my school, we all kind of gravitated towards the expat community. Like we’re all foreigners in this country. Most of us didn’t know Mandarin at the time. And so Trying to create an that community around foreign teachers living abroad. It’s it was it was fun, and we’re all like each other’s family, because we’re miles miles away from home. So it was really nice to, to have like besties over there. That that held me down and kept me kept me happy when I felt homesick. Yeah,
Christine Gautreaux 30:26
I want to give a shout out to our Chinese listeners, because we very definitely have some. And so to all the women in China that are listening right now we want to give you a shout out. And Aja, you said you didn’t know Mandarin, then did you learn some
Aja Moore 30:39
idioms? Yeah. I know.
Christine Gautreaux 30:42
You say hello to our listeners, you call. Thank you.
Shannon M. 30:51
And I can say you were definitely that person for me Asia College, coming to do my lawn Jr. Dorm Room. You know, I tell people Oh, I went to Costa Rica by myself. I got over there by myself. They tried to not let me in. At the airport. They said What is the address? I said, oh, shoot, what is the address? My phone was dying. He came and save the day, you know, so I he were just saying about the community that you formed. And I love. You know, I hadn’t thought about all the different ways that well, that’s not true. But now when I think about women connected in wisdom, it makes me think about all the different times when somebody reached back and helped me, you know, so for your principal to say, Hey, I’m leaving? Do you want to come to China? That’s what I’m talking about, you know, like, be connected? And how does our social wellness and connectedness work together so that we can, you know, continue to do new things and go to new places?
Christine Gautreaux 31:46
I love that. I love that so much. So Asia, you know, I’m thinking today, because I just dropped my youngest off at college, if you had advice for young women, because I look at you and I look at what you’ve already accomplished in your life. And you have all these big dreams coming up as the entrepreneur to like, what would be your wisdom?
Aja Moore 32:08
My wisdom would be that no one can tell you how your life is supposed to go. You get to write it, how ever you choose. And it’s all on you.
Christine Gautreaux 32:22
Hey, I got some good wisdom. And y’all she knows what she’s talking about. If you hear this life story, you know what you’re talking about a user and I just can’t wait to see what you’re doing next. Like I’m just like, oh, how do I follow a show on social media? So I see what she’s up to. Because this is an exciting adventurous life you’ve created for yourself.
Aja Moore 32:43
Thank you. I don’t I don’t really post on social media nowadays, but I think I’m gonna have to with this business coming in. But you can follow me at Asia, not Asia. It is my name AJ underscore not underscore ASI a because that is what how you spell my name.
Christine Gautreaux 33:05
I love that. You have a you have a question? For Asia before we start talking about wisdom and action.
Shannon M. 33:17
So I know you said that your social media for your app is launching on Monday, right? So where can where can they get in contact with that
Aja Moore 33:27
they can go to beauty supply.com That is where you can subscribe for our launch updates. We also have Instagram you to Twitter, tick tock. Most of those are the beauty supply the handle, just beauty supplied. And then our Instagram is beauty supplied. Those are how you can follow us and see our journey to launch slow clothes.
Christine Gautreaux 33:55
So exciting. And we will we will put all those in the show notes. So if folks want to like and subscribe and follow you that’s a good thing to do as you get ready to launch this app and we will be watching and cheering you on. This is exciting. And we also know as exciting as the new launches there’s a lot of work that goes into it. So we wish you and your business partner like all all the best so thank you so much wisdom and action for this week. Ladies like we always do a hashtag Asia hashtag wisdom in action. So when you think about social wellness, what is your hashtag wisdom in action this week?
Aja Moore 34:43
Hashtag alone time. Hashtag Do you boo boo. I love it. Do
Shannon M. 34:51
you really know? Yeah. Mine is more on the community part you know, support Shannon and her fiance getting married, and actually also have a repast to go to. So it’s all about life, you know, and supporting the community that I’m in and showing up for them. Hmm,
Christine Gautreaux 35:13
yeah, my goal for this week is reconnecting because I disconnected for some self care and it’s time to reconnect and reconnecting in this new stage of life. You know, my daily parenting is done. Like you never quit being a parent, but you know, the daily part is done. So what does that look like? So I got some exploring to do, I think on my wisdom and action hashtag so yeah, it’s gonna be fun. Well, Asia, thank you so much for coming and having this delightful conversation with us today. This has been wonderful.
Aja Moore 35:54
Thank you both for having me.
Shannon M. 35:57
Of course, talk to you so.
Christine Gautreaux 36:02
So cool, Shannon.
Shannon M. 36:04
Hey, I have cool friends. What can I say?
Christine Gautreaux 36:11
I’m like still just what a fabulous idea that you have an app that you can get on and get your beauty supplies.
Shannon M. 36:19
I love the name.
Christine Gautreaux 36:20
That’s cool. Yeah. Shayla glow, we should have had that cut. We didn’t want to put her on spot and have that
Shannon M. 36:33
you know, and that’s, that’s how our relationship has always been, whether it’s, that’s his RAS going events together and teaching the residents together, her helping me out. Me watching her do all these amazing things. She’s always been such an inspiration, you know, so I love it.
Christine Gautreaux 36:50
Shout out to all those RAS past and present right. greeted us today and made us feel welcome and at home and you know, that does a momma’s heart good that there’s people looking out for for your littles when they come. That’s a little more but you know,
Shannon M. 37:10
yeah, we say red flag for life. You know, so shout outs to all the residents life. associates helping our students out especially now. Do you know cuz now is crazy. I used to tell the residents I’m not here to snitch on you do all that stuff. But I need you to get back to your parents. Okay, like, be safe, and have a good time. So yeah, I’m so excited for her and her college journey.
Christine Gautreaux 37:35
Oh, I am too. I am too. It’s. Yeah, like it was very interesting. Our sweet little lady at the Walgreens, you know, we were doing the last shop that you do to get the last little thing she needed. And she was we were telling her she was off to college. And she’s like, well don’t have fun, nor like, why should I think about social wellness, right? I’m like, no mystery. We want to have fun. You know, we wanted to balance her fun with her studies. But we that’s about life and wellness. And it was just interesting, some of those stories that we tell ourselves or don’t and then I meet a guest like Asia who’s like going for it, like going to Costa Rica and going to China like and it’s like, limitless, right on what you can create in your world. Yeah, right. I love that.
Shannon M. 38:29
Yeah, I remember our trip to Costa Rica she was talking to or my trip and she was talking about I think it was it a cheerleading coach. And she said you can if you do it once, it might be an accident, you got to be able to do it at least twice. And that’s what I take with me to whether it’s my hashtag go get it period, you know, when trying new things, you know, being good or trying things that you’re bad at, you know, you might be able to do it once when you can finally do it. But you got to do it again and do it again. Just keep going.
Christine Gautreaux 38:59
Yeah, talking about doing it again and again. Yeah. What’s happening over Shiloh? Oh, you do it again. This week.
Shannon M. 39:10
This week we are what are we doing? Again, so much stuff. I’ve been working on stuff for 2022 Actually, but what we’re doing again is extending the line lady so we have more since I did a poll yesterday if we wanted mango oil or Lavender Vanilla oil in you ladies to get the news first. I’m planning on doing both. Okay, so yes, so we have some new things coming for you. We have a waitlist that’s being created if you’re interested in getting the new sense or the new sizes. messaged me i shallow globe, but outside of what we’re doing, what we’re continuing to do is the chevron nomination. If you have somebody in your life that helped you in your education or helped you in your social wellness, that’s made a huge difference and you feel like She could, you know have something that makes a difference in her self care and self love Journey. We are giving the gift of free Shea Lolo, all you have to do is email me my shea row at Shea loke low@gmail.com And she will be put in the nominations. And for you ladies who are listening not only do you have all the good new information but I also have a discount code for you. So if you go to Shayla glow.com wise five you can use that to get a bonus discount off of your items. And if you like glass containers, make sure you go and get those today because after they run out, they are gone. We’re going to bigger sizes moving on to bigger and better for you ladies, but you can enjoy that today.
Christine Gautreaux 40:44
Yeah, I love it. You are always just doing such an awesome job over there. Shannon, thank you so much for everything you do for our community. And we’re so grateful to have Shayla glow is the sponsor. Well, my friend
Shannon M. 40:58
Yes, it’s about their time. Right. Ladies, thank you so much. We will see you next week at five and don’t forget, be well be wise
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