Coffee in the Barn

Embracing Yes and No: Finding Balance in Our Choices

February 04, 2024 The Sunswine Group Season 2024 Episode 5
Coffee in the Barn
Embracing Yes and No: Finding Balance in Our Choices
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In this heartfelt episode, Casey and Morgan dive deep into the complexities of saying "yes" and "no" in our daily lives, exploring the delicate balance between accommodating others and setting boundaries for personal well-being. Through candid anecdotes about parenting, work, and personal growth, they unravel how these simple responses shape our relationships, self-esteem, and life satisfaction.

Casey shares a touching story of bending bedtime rules for a special moment with her son, illustrating the power of "yes" in strengthening bonds. Meanwhile, Morgan reflects on the joy of saying "yes" to more kid activities, emphasizing the importance of presence in our children's lives.

As the conversation unfolds, they tackle the broader theme of mindset and self-talk, questioning the stories we tell ourselves and the impact of our internal dialogues on reality. From battling negative self-talk to embracing positive affirmations and the role of emotional intelligence in personal and professional growth, Casey and Morgan offer insightful perspectives on navigating life's challenges.

The episode takes a deeper dive into the significance of mindset in overcoming adversity, the value of learning from failures, and the importance of mentors in recognizing our potential. They candidly discuss their journeys towards self-acceptance, the quest for gratitude, and the quest to be true to oneself amidst societal pressures.

Concluding with a powerful call to action, Casey and Morgan invite listeners to reflect on what truly matters to them. They encourage us to write down things we appreciate about ourselves and our lives, fostering a spirit of gratitude and self-love.

Join us for an episode that's not just about the dichotomy of yes and no but a profound exploration of how we navigate our choices and craft the narrative of our lives. It's a conversation that promises to inspire, challenge, and remind us of the rock stars we all are, capable of shining bright in our unique ways.

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Morgan – Introduction 
 From boardroom meetings to bedtime stories, Coffee in the Barn explores the delicate dance of balancing the demands of our professional lives with the joys and responsibilities of being moms. Join us each week as we discuss the latest trends in agribusiness, share insightful interviews with industry experts, and sprinkle in some heartfelt anecdotes about the humorous and heartwarming moments that come with being a working mom in agriculture. Welcome to this week's episode of Coffee in the Barn with Casey and Morgan. This week we will be discussing mindset and how positive and negative self-talk can impact your reality and your day to day.

Casey
 Anything else we need to talk about?

Morgan
 0:00:46
 I think that's a good start.

Casey
 0:00:47
 Do I need to set my timer this week or are we just going to try to wing it without being so accountable?

Morgan

I'll keep an eye on things, but I think we'll be okay. I want to start out with our challenge. 

Casey

What was our challenge again that we're supposed to be reporting on? 

Morgan

So our action item for last week was if you are someone that says yes to a lot of different things, what are you going to start saying no to or if you're somebody that doesn't say yes enough what are some things that you're going to start saying yes to?

Casey

 And everybody I'm going to start calling you out on social media because I know you're listening and I want to hear your feedback so we're going to have some social media posts on making that fun. I probably won't do that through LinkedIn but maybe more through Facebook, Instagram for something like that because we want to hear from you. This is going to steer our conversations in our journey on that. But I had to think about what am I in a week. I can give you an example in a week to make it fun. So I had put strict boundaries in with my son so we both sleep well and he wouldn't be grumpy. That he has to sleep in his bed when it and he likes to sleep in my bed with me when Jason works. He just

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 0:02:05
 feels more comfort, right? He doesn't feel alone and he feels more secure but we not always either one of us sleep well together. He is a bed hog is the problem. So instead of saying no I said yes this week because I knew I was going to be traveling and I've been working late nights getting ready for sampling this week and stuff for a customer. And so I let him sleep with me this week. And I'm glad I did because we were watching a movie, hanging out, and I know he fell asleep, like not even halfway between the movie, but it was still nice, right? It was just me and him time.
 And he wasn't on a switch. He wasn't in his room. We were hanging out together so I'm really glad I said actually yes to that when I would say no. So I know I keep I said I'm a yes person that needs to say no more but that's the best example I had. What about you Morgan? 

Morgan

I don't think I've said no to anything that I didn't have to say no to but I have been traveling a few days a week and will continue over the next couple of weeks. And so I think I've said yes a little bit more to some activities that my kids have requested, especially before bedtime.  You know, there's always the extra book or the extra 10 to 15 minutes of playing a game. And with Emma, if she's in a good mood and not too tired, I'll stay up an extra 20 or 30 minutes and just have a little bit of extra playtime for when I'm home. So I think I've said yes to more kid activities. Which by the way, for moms, sometimes saying no and causing issues maybe that we didn't want the next day.


 So. Yeah, no matter how late they go to bed, they seem to always wake up about the same time, the same time. And sometimes it sometimes they are a little ornery. But I mean, occasionally, if I'm just has a really busy day, she'll go to bed at like 637 o'clock, because she's just so exhausted. So on the nights where she hasn't had that crazy of a day and she's still okay by 7.38. I'll play with her, lay with her for a little bit longer. 

Casey

Well, that was what's crazy about Arthur. Watching a movie, I'm like, he'll go right to sleep and it'll be fine at 8.30. He went to bed a little after 7.00 and the boy was tired. I was like, wow, maybe this wasn't such a good idea because I don't want to go to bed at 7.00. I want to watch the movie.

Morgan

 She's not where she'll put herself to bed if she's exhausted enough, but she's just when she's tired, she'll just be, I just watch a little bit, a little bit, and then I go to sleep. But she won't fall asleep on the couch, even if she's curled up with a blanket or a pillow. I don't know, you know, there's just comfort in being in your own bed. 

Casey

No, I get it and you know I even said yes to Greyce she wanted to lay up in the bed and I know 30 minutes in the bed for some reason she gets too hot and has to go back on the floor but I said yes it was nice to cuddle with my dog baby as well so you know two big dogs and a son and I'm like I'm looking forward to next week with that big king-sized bed and no And no dogs, no cats, no kids. 

Morgan

But it's so lonely and cold then. Then you have to turn the thermostat up in the hotel room to like 75 to keep yourself warm. Especially during this weather. I just hope Iowa is getting a warm up front.

Casey
 0:05:56
 It's supposed to be above freezing. This week has taken its toll on my body. Everybody's stir-crazy, the dogs, the cat, the kids, the husband, we're all stir-crazy. I'm working in the cold, I'm just over it. I keep telling everybody I really want a beach vacation so I'm hoping somebody gifts me with one but it's not gonna happen. All right well I think that about probably wraps it up for the mom talk. Yeah, without the timer, I think we did good on the challenge or action items, sorry, from last week.

Morgan
 0:06:33
 Moving into the meat of this week, the overarching topic is mindset and how we talk to ourselves, how we talk about ourselves to other people, and how the story that we tell ourselves becomes our reality. And so Casey, is there specific, I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I really like affirmations, or is there something that you tell yourself every single day that has kind of ingrained in yourself now after repeating it enough times? 

Casey

Actually, no. 

Morgan

No? 

Casey

No, I've never really been affirmation. I would say my anxiety and everything was what I used to do is replay events that I could have said something different and I just eat myself alive. I used to do that. I don't do that anymore. It's like, it's not doing that. When did I stop doing that? I said, how, how did how train yourself to stop doing that? I don't techniques. Did you because I feel like I do that same thing is like, I'll get done with a presentation or something. And if I know that I could have done better, I'll, I don't wanna say sulk, but I'll have a, depending on how long it was or the extent of it, I'll have a two to four hour period where I feel kind of in the dumps. I don't know, honestly.

Casey
 0:07:58
 And this is sad. I've listened to a great podcast on emotional regulation with Adam Grant. And then I listened to a masterclass episode podcast from Heather Monahan about you know, exactly this topic right before we record it. And like, I have coaches I'm like, I don't know, I just age maybe, maybe I hit that 40 and my gibberish is give a shoot is busted. I don't know. I know I would say though, something happened this week in with a service project. It was not my error, but yet I was in charge of the work. And so I was the service provider. And so I'm like, rationalizing in my head everything that went wrong, and how I could have prevented it.

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 0:08:52
 But I'm like, I'm not going out there and telling the client, oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, this is a mess up, mess up. And I'm like, this happened. These are the corrective actions I'm taking to make sure this never happens again. And I think Heather mentioned that, like, just not saying sorry, like, my husband had to coach me out of that. I would apologize for everything. And she said, that's the one of the most negative self-talk things you can do for yourself is to apologize. My husband really helped me work on that. And so that's just an example, but there was a mistake at work. I corrected the problem, but I'm also being proactive and saying I'm not denying that there was a problem. And I'm putting corrective actions in to make sure it doesn't happen. And I have to go back to old school research, Casey, and we're going to have protocols and sign off sheets and checklists and even more, right? I'm doing it positively. I took a bad thing and turned it positively of how I can even make this better. 

Morgan

Yeah, I think I find myself doing, putting in the same measures. And I think growing up being involved with sports, you do that a lot. You know, you have practice every single day in preparation for the games, depending on the results of the game. The next day at practice, you re-evaluate, okay, these are the things we did well, these are the things that we need to continue to work on and improve on. And it kind of goes back to our conversation of always adapting and changing and striving to do the best that you can with the resources that you have available.

Casey

 Now, I think you hit it well. How do I, what tools did I put in and you reminded me is I'm not beating myself up over it. But I'm saying, you let your guard down, you didn't prepare like you know you should have prepared.


 But also, you don't know how to prepare sometimes for certain things in life unless you have mistakes. Right. But I mean, when I used to say the negative self-talk, like if I had a conversation with somebody or a customer event, like this person didn't like me or he said this and blah, blah, blah. I don't do that anymore because you know what? I'm not supposed to care what the other person thinks about me. I prepare the best I could and did I do the best I could. And that is all I care about. And if I say no to one of those, I go back, okay, what can I do to fix those things in the future to prepare better? That takes experience.


 So that's why I said you asked me tools. And I think it's just life experience. 

Morgan

Yeah, I definitely would would agree with the experiences. During high school, I was very hard on myself. I always thought that if I didn't get an A, or above a 90%, I was a failure. And I think I brainwashed myself a little bit into defining this alternative world of success that you needed to have an A. It took failing my first chemistry exam freshman year of college to realize that the world wasn't going to end upon failing an exam. Chemistry is a thing to do that for a lot of people. Yeah, and I, you know, I studied as hard as I always had. I thought I was relatively prepared and then the next day when we were in class and we saw the results, I think I got like a 37% on the exam, but the average was like a 48%.

Casey
 0:12:55
 Yeah, so you did well.

Morgan
 0:12:56
 So I didn't completely like, I failed the exam. And I was like, what the heck is going on? But from that experience, I was like, okay, now, what do I need to get on the other two or three exams in the class to make sure that I at least passed the test. I joined additional study groups. You know, I put in a bunch of other proactive things to making sure that I would not fail the next following exams. And I still, I shouldn't say, I passed the class. You passed the class, right? I passed the class with a B.C. so it wasn't bad. I didn't have to retake it.

Casey
 0:13:36
 Which was a win. 

Morgan

Which was a win. And let's say it was one of the classes that was like weeding out the people that are going to go in the chemistry med school route and let's say from that class. I did not take the organic chemistry route of animal science. I stuck to the business, econ side of things, which I've always been like a numbers person. I don't know what it was about chemistry. This is the professors. That was another struggle. All right, we're going down that tangent.

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 0:14:11
 That was one of the challenges that was kind of like a slap in the face, like, okay, the world's not going to end if I get a B in the class. And I think after that experience, I was a little, I still prepared as much as I always had and gave my 110%, but I wasn't as hard on myself if I got a B. I think you just made a great example of what we can think about mindset. Because I think there's a lot of people out there, and I've listened to a lot of podcasts and guest speakers or, you know, the keynote speakers. Oh, tell yourself self-affirmation, do this right. You are going to fail and I have always learned the most from when I fail versus when I succeed. And there's a positive approach to take to failure and there's a negative approach. 

Casey

So your positive approach was you took more study groups, you studied, you know, tried new things to do better the next time. And it worked. Now, the negative approach that another person probably took in your shoes was, I'm a total failure. I'm just going to go out and drink and I'm not going to study and fail out of school. Type attitude. So that is like sets up a good example of there are bad things that happen to us. There are traumas that happen to us. We all have traumas. We all have stories. We all have history. We all have baggage, but it's all how you take that stuff. And the people who succeed versus don't succeed are the ones that use that as an excuse. ways to improve and get better. And I think your example of chemistry was perfect. 

Morgan

I definitely had some good mentors during college that, you know, he always called me a rock star. I don't know if it's because I always just got shit done or what, but I was always had that go-getter attitude and was always taking on the next challenge. And I've always been like that. But I think he always said it to me enough that now it's hard to believe it Well, yes, I started to believe it. I knew it, but it took someone else saying it to me over and over again to Start to believe it as well Or I should say not believe it because I believed it but to truly embrace it. And that's something that also came out of this podcast. So it's really weird that we're going on this path and we didn't plan it to follow hers, but she said, you know, the rose-colored glasses and she didn't believe she was enough until somebody said it. And then she's like, oh yeah, I can say is experience and eventually you do enough stuff that you finally believe that you're enough. I think we all want that quick fix, but it takes with its wisdom really that we're getting and we all went through those issues.

Casey
 0:17:36
 And I'm honest, I struggle with depression and stuff, but you are. And I think this has been mentioned on these podcasts previous, you are what you say to yourself or what people around you say, like I said, I'm very empathetic person. I need to be cautious what type of people I'm around because I reflect their emotions. So I really struggle with balancing that and sometimes I have even have a hard time being a good friend When some of my friends are struggling because it brings me into that vicious cycle I think I might have the opposite because I'm always so positive and like I'm always looking at the positives of Every situation I should be more empathetic. I always see the good in people. And when someone is struggling, I think I kind of flip, well, at least this didn't happen. Or flip it on the positive where I think I sometimes might lose that connection with people where I just need to put myself in their shoes for a couple seconds before flipping to the positive because not everyone wants to know. Not everyone wants to know about the positives all the time. 

Morgan

No, I get it.

Casey
 0:18:54
 And that's tough, too. But I think the other thing I've done really differently in the last five to ten years, and especially this year, though, I'm getting back into faith and religion, reconnecting with God, and it's gratitude. We get so wrapped up, like you said, with what went wrong that we don't think of what else could have went wrong. So I don't necessarily always think Morgan, that's a bad way to be. It's just be conscientious of how strong that comes across. Yeah. But where I have taken that example of what you just described. Now, I question myself of how I should react to certain situations based on I don't know what that other person's going through So like you said always smile be nice to people

Casey
 0:19:41
 And you know, I hired a new employee. Nohemi We've kind of been family friends and catching up and she's like I would tell my husband She's a nice person this not and and I'm going That's just me, but it's always nice to hear it from other people, right? 

Yeah, and you're such a caring person and giving person. And I also think, you know, that's important, but I also reflect on, I don't get angry anymore. I don't get as much. I shouldn't say anymore. I do still get some car road rage going on, but not like it used to be because I'm like, I don't know what that person's doing. Maybe he's just really out here enjoying the ride and the sunshine and he doesn't have a hundred things he's got to do. Why should I get mad at him? I wish I was him for five minutes.

Yeah, I'm envious. So I'm just trying to be more conscientious of not reflecting my stress on someone else because I can't be empathetic around that person in the car because I have no clue what his vibe is when I'm in my car My superpower is not that great But well, isn't it funny though when you whenever you are driving past that person that's like

Morgan
 0:21:00
 This is usually me singing in the car Or you just you know, you have stop sign and that person next to you is just like Jamming out to whatever song they're listening to doesn't it just make you smile? Yeah it does. So I hope that when you see me singing in my car I'm that person that puts a smile on your face and I've always. So you sing in the car? I sing all the time in the car. Normally it's Disney music. You're in that. My daughter is on, I should say for the last six months has been on a let it go, frozen, kick. So that's usually, usually one of the... 

Casey

Let's hear some of it, Morgan.

Morgan
 0:21:40
 Oh, no, that's okay.

Casey
 0:21:41
 No? Okay. I'm always the one to like bust a move. I'm not good at it, but I love to dance, and everyone probably thinks I look absolutely ridiculous, but I'm that person. But people like that make me happy because it goes into the fact they don't really care. You say you care about what people think but it goes into the fact they really don't care. They're just enjoying life and that's I mean that I would say to everybody. I would say that encompasses my personality fairly well. I don't really care what people think anymore because I'm like honestly no one really cares. No one you think you think people care more than they actually do.


 They only care about themselves. And in context though, they have a lot of other things to be thinking about than if you wore the same shirt two days in a row. Or like, nobody, nobody really cares. I mean, they might take two seconds and have a, like a split second thought about it, but then they move on. Like there's other things that's going through people's heads than having to think about what you're thinking about. So yeah, I definitely, I had to get over that, you know, growing up as everyone does. You can't completely not care what people think. Not if you're trying to sell them stuff. True, very true. But I think you should always,

Morgan
 0:23:17
 that kind of goes back into the growth, personal growth conversations that we've had is, you wanna know how you come across as a person. I had to learn when I was in grad school, I had a boss that I would just ask questions because I was always curious about why we did certain things on the farm and he took that as me questioning his authority. We learned this after sitting down and having a conversation about it because I was always wondering, well why does he always get mad when I ask questions? I'm just curious. Where he took it as I was questioning his authority where I didn't have that intention at all. And so I think having those hard conversations sometimes and just understanding where two people are coming from, you know where you stand, really helps accelerate relationships. 

You made a really good point because I should say I do care what people think, but if I notice there's a problem I'm quicker to ask and resolve the problem right it's just being consciously aware of how you impact others. 

Casey

Yep, if you want to wear your hair bright red wear hair bright red But be under the realization that not everybody will react the same way. Yeah But you can't control that if you want to wear red hair, wear your red hair and want it girl because my hair might be turning some reds too. What? Um, I'm just using that as an example and everybody's like, well, they should accept me for who I am and I'm like, no. You need to accept you for the way you are. And also know that not everyone will accept you that same way. And love yourself no matter if they don't. Right. That's the that's the mindset right. You can be different. You can wear different clothes. You can act differently. But you have to realize that doesn't mean the other person has to like you.

Morgan

Yeah, that goes into the conversation of it's not you, it's them. That guy just doesn't know fashion. Did he not know this is what was just grand out on the Milan runway, you know, come on you don't know fashion That's what you need to think right that shirt. Yeah It looked great. It accentuates this Versus oh my gosh, where's she wearing? 

Casey

That's kind of what we're talking about But I also want to say, you know, and this is where I think there's some confusion out there of this, the people right in growing up and learning and we've been really focusing on emotional intelligence and. Diversity, equity and inclusion conversations and culture, you know, bringing all types of people together. doesn't mean that I can't get along with you or like you.

Morgan
 0:26:08
 Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And I think that is where even some people from a mindset that just compounds things, that they get upset if people don't agree with them. And so if you're one of those people, it's OK for people not to agree with you, because it's what makes the world fun, that we're all different. But you have to get in the mental state to say, I'm OK with that. Yep. I'd 110% agree with that. And I think that kind of goes back into the, you know, the negative and positive self-talk. The story that you tell yourself becomes your reality. And I really like that quote that-

Casey

Our audience likes that quote too, by the way.

Morgan

 I don't know where I, I think I saw it on a documentary or something, you know, back to the mentor that I had that just kept calling me a rock star. I'm like, yeah, I am a rock star. I'm gonna do this.

Morgan
 0:27:20
 And I think that pushed me into motherhood and my career in being able to be like, yeah, you can do it all. Why not? Why can't you do it? Yes, there's the challenges and things that come with it all but don't know when you're gonna fail until you keep pushing and pushing and pushing yourself or you don't know where I don't see your breaking point is but you don't know where that where that end point or that that wall is until you until you get there. 

Casey

I think it's a great point but I also want to call out some people so we're trying to work through this right to have the right mindset. There's a time and place to disagree with people, but to blatantly target them and attack them and this is the biggest thing I have an ad, my issues right with our people who attack us is there's a time and place and there's a way to do it. And some people may not think diversity, equity and inclusion is important. And they may say, I'm not racist. And I used to be this way. And it took me a while to get through it. right? We use that example and I see people being offended by it and then they are very vocal about it. And all I ask is don't attack people's happiness. You don't have to agree with them. Just don't say anything. And I think my struggle with this is just an example that comes to mind but people that are protesting for whatever Whatever they're protesting about I think sometimes groups of people ruin it for everyone else the minority voice and For the majority yeah, and There's people that you know that are just living their life. I don't want to say having a normal life, but the individuals that are all for same-sex marriage and great, you do you, but I'm not flaunting around saying that I'm straight. Like, do you know what I'm trying to say? 

Morgan

Oh, well, yeah. I mean, my husband says the same thing, right? It's it's a give or take. That's what I'm turning this back to commercial ag. Get off politics. I don't want to offend anybody because that's not what the point was.

Casey
 0:30:13
 That they have never worked on a farm. And they want us to go vegan, so we go vegan, but they don't even grow the vegetables to be vegan. They didn't take soil chemistry classes. They didn't take agronomy. They didn't realize that you can't just grow all this food on any piece of dirt, people. That's a really good example. Yeah, you know, and what do we put back in the dirt to keep growing stuff and it's surely not what you think it is. It's called brown and it doesn't smell very well. It's my deal, right?

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 0:31:01
 And that's, but at the same time, I'm going to call us out on it. We get so upset in ag that the fight them, right? Oh, you can't call these nut alternatives milk. You know, it's not real milk. And I've been struggling with this myself. What is wrong with creating a product? You know, the best form of flattery is imitation, by the way. So, call it milk. But what's wrong with people creating a product that they want and need? We're going to get into this, by the way, this is just the future look to see an upcoming episode I'm really excited about. We're gonna be talking about milk And how it helps, how it's so nutritious. But anyways, I'm just saying that
 It's what you feed your brain And you can go on Twitter and on the news and it's so negative and everything when it comes to the world I'm one of the I don't know where I heard it, but The biggest thing is can you be the light in somebody's dark world?

Morgan

 Can you be that light and I guarantee you? That my light is not everybody else's light like they don't want to be in my light Great, and then you guys we just shine way too bright Yeah, but yet there's a certain populations

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 0:32:19
 Populations maybe mosquitoes that see my light or smell me and get attracted to you. They're attracted to me Then I can't get rid of them, right? So I think that's what I said, I don't give a shoot anymore, it's that there's people I'm attracting and Think very highly of me and it feels great yet. I know there's people in my world, no matter what stance I have on anything that I'm like, oh my gosh, they're running away. Like, oh, I don't want to work with her. Why did she say that? That's not that's not. Again, that's turning back to it's not a you problem. It's a them problem and I don't want to say it's a problem, but it's.

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 0:33:08
 It's just it's okay that not everybody likes you and that I think that's the biggest thing I'm mindset if you can get over Hey, I'm gonna have my tribe and that's all I need and focus on being me and cultivating my tribe Versus everybody has to trying to please everyone. Yeah That's just hurts you and everyone else that you have relationships with because you don't know who you are.

Morgan
 0:33:44
 And that can send mixed messages. And I heard this somewhere else too where it was a guy went out to the bars with two females, both of them were single, but they were both relatively good looking and were dressed pretty much the same and one of the friends is extremely confident in who she is and the other friend is not. And you could see that just in the bar the the friend that was very very confident and knew what she wanted and knew who she was wasn't the one getting hit on and talked to by a bunch of guys. It was the female that was very self-conscious and not so sure about herself and needed that reassurance from the opposite sex to make her feel whole. And she got the bad... I mean, she got a lot of bad vibes from... Yeah, and she probably had the douchebags talking to her because she would talk to anybody, but that's just a good visual 

Casey

Well, no, that's a great visual. I love that because I can go back into my early life and say yeah I was probably that girl or I was probably that other girl like I've been both of those girls 

Morgan

And yeah, I've always been the one girl Not the one that had all the guys talking to her. I was always the one that was like, I'm not gonna put up with this shit. Like, I already know what I want.

Casey
 0:35:23
 You already also had what you wanted.

Morgan
 0:35:26
 I've always been very fortunate to have that person that I already knew that I wanted and needed so I didn't need that from other people Wow, this is sure take all right This way I Think we are way past our 20 minute meet. You are what you think you are. The only person that can make you happy is yourself, and gratitude and finding joy in yourself is really important.

Casey
 0:36:16
 So if you feel bad about yourself for some reason, I want you to sit down and write 10 things you like about yourself or 10 things that are really good in your life. That's your action item for the week. 

Morgan

Okay, you changed it on me, but I did because I think this one's a little bit better. No, yeah, write down 10 things you like about yourself and 10 things you're, you know, grateful for. We're not going to do all 10 in the next episode, but that's a good one. To leave you know, I 

Casey
 0:36:48
 And you just thought this was going to be another lecture on self-talk. We didn't even talk about affirmations, Morgan. 

Morgan

That's well, I kind of got into that about the individual that calls me a rock star. He'll still text me every once again. You're a rock star. And I'm like, yes, I am. Now I can now I can agree with it. Where before, you know, when I was a young freshman, sophomore in college, I was like, I was like, Oh, yeah, thanks. And I just took it as a compliment. And now, now when he says it, I'm like, hell, yeah. Yeah, I think that leaves it well.

Casey
 0:37:21
 And my friend, Sarah Lamara, always used to say rock star too. So I think that's great. I'm calling her out on it. Sarah Lamara Hill, we are the rock stars. You're exactly right. And I'm here with Morgan, the rock star. So I want you all to call yourself rock stars or whatever or whatever word or is there is there a word that people always describe you as embrace what others are saying to you about you all in all in positive light of empowering yourself and forget all the rest forget all the rest.

Morgan

All right with that until next time until next week thanks guys for tuning in and we will see you soon the rest forget all the rest all right with that until next time until next week thanks guys for tuning