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How To Be Confident In Your Own Skin
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Introduction to Podcast & Empowerment Focus
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Welcome to Finding My Best Self, the podcast that celebrates the extraordinary in every woman. Each week, your host Pam Rivett will share practical how-to advice, empowering you with strategies and insights to navigate life's complexities. We'll welcome inspiring guests, women who have defied the odds, transformed obstacles into opportunities,
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and are redefining what success truly means. From navigating personal and professional challenges to celebrating triumphs in fitness, self-care, and beyond, we explore it all. Whether you're seeking motivation or a spark of inspiration, this is your sanctuary for empowerment. Authentic conversations.
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and a whole lot of real talk. So, lace up your sneakers, grab that cup of coffee, and let's embark on this journey together, exploring the lives of women who are making it happen, sharing both the struggles and the victories. Welcome to Finding My Best Self, where every episode is a step towards becoming the hero of your own story.
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Hello and welcome back to Finding My Best Self podcast.
Meet Mandy: New Business Partner & Duo Episodes
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I'm your host Pam Rivett, but if you're watching on YouTube, you can see that I also have with me today, Mandy St. Germain.
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I guess we're just going to jump right in. I want to cover just MBS Fitco updates first today on the podcast. First and foremost, Mandy is now my business partner. Her and I have been keeping this secret for a little over a month now.
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I'm super excited. I'm so blessed that she is now part of MBS fitco with me. But that also means that going forward on the podcast as well, that will be doing instead of me just doing solo episodes every other week, it'll actually be duo. So just her and I talking about, you know, just whatever topic, you know, is on our heart at the at the time.
MBS Fitco Launch: Activewear & VIP Program
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So we're just coming off of actually doing the Facebook live video where we showcase all of the MBS Fitco Activewear that is going to be available during pre-launch. If you're watching on YouTube, again, you can actually see we're wearing some of the pieces right now. So definitely we'll put the link in the show notes so that way if you haven't gotten to see the live on Facebook, you can click the link to watch it.
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And just kind of check out what, you know, what we'll have. And so we discuss on the live that our official launch day is going to be February 19th. Yeah.
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You guys are listening on February 15th. So launch day is happening very soon in just a couple days. So if you're not on our VIP list, get on that now. Again, we'll put the link in the show notes to get on the VIP list. VIP customers are going to get 20% off their entire purchase.
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So we have a total of six pieces, a sports bra, a jacket and leggings, two colors in each for you to be able to choose from. We have a limited stock and we have right now over a hundred people on the pre-launch list. So stock is going to go really fast.
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Um, especially with there being a 20% off discount coupon. So if you're not on the list, get on it. We are so pumped. Um, we're putting in a lot of work over the next couple of days, making sure everything is set up perfect for launch day on Monday. Um,
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And then we also announced as well, that we have asked Brandi Verda from the podcast episode from last week that you guys listened to, to be our first member.
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of our women. We haven't decided on a name yet. We're still, we're still tossing around some, some names, but part of MBS Fitco is going to be that we want women to be part of this with us and we want to make everyone feel special and, you know, have women
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Be part of MBS Fitco and get active wear and be able to tell their story, whether it's on the podcast and on the website. But Brandi was nominated by us to be our first person who is going to receive a free set of active wear from us. She is going to be getting a free photo shoot on us.
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as well as her picture and her bio is going to be featured on our website. And it's just all about lifting women up and celebrating her for everything that she's overcome and everything that she's going through and just her own personal journey. And so that's something that we're really big on. And again, you'll see this in the live if you watch it on Facebook, we talked a lot about this, and how much all of this means to us in the future of MBS Fitco. But just the line in general, our activewear
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is something that we just want it to make women feel confident and not just in the gym because, you know, we firmly believe that active wear, especially in today's world, goes so far from just the gym, right? I mean, we wear active wear. I'm going out shopping, you know, picking up the kids, getting groceries, anything you can throw this on and feel amazing.
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it's it's to have something that you can put on in the morning and say like, Okay, I'm going to bring the kids to school, I have to go, you know, run some errands, and then I'm going to go to
Activewear Versatility & Confidence Stories
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the gym. And then after that, I have to go run the kids all over the planet Earth, because you know, all the kids have all the sports and dance and, you know, cheer and whatever all the things, and then come home and cook supper and clean up in the house and do all the things, but still feel good, right? It's all about just
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I don't know. For me, I like to just not feel like blah, right? I just like to feel put together. So it's having those multifunctional pieces that you can feel great, but then still go work out and still be able to go about your day too. Yeah. Well, that's kind of like what you were talking about, just making sure that in order for us to feel more confident
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getting out, you know, doing your hair and doing your makeup or just putting on something that you're going to feel like your best self. And that a lot of the times whenever you, you don't do that or you just kind of are laying around on the couch in your pajamas, then it's going to give you a whole different mood for the day. Yeah. I know that you had talked about that a little bit when we were talking, but I think, um, this clothing line for me,
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The first time I put it on I I told Pam I was like I don't think I've ever felt as confident in athleisure wear workout clothes in the longest time and we've talked about all the different styles and brands that we've used before and for whatever reason this just the quality and
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how it fits and it hits in all the right places that I text her and I was like, I just whenever I'm wearing this, I just I'm walking around like I own the place because you just feel like you just feel really good. And I don't think I've ever had that experience in activewear before. Yeah, it definitely feels great. So I cannot wait
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for it to get into your hands because I know that we, we can say it and that, you know, it's, it's people are like, Oh yeah. Well, you're just saying that because it's yours. Y'all I'm telling you when you get it, like I cannot wait for y'all to get it in your hands. Cause I'm, it is absolutely phenomenal. Like you're going to love the quality is just fantastic. But so just going into, that's what we decided to talk about today was just confidence in general, because I know it's something that,
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Mandy and I personally have struggled with over our, you know, over our lives and just, you know, the ups and downs of it of, you know, and what we've been through. So, you know, active where I think for me really and truthfully was, you know, Mandy and I met years ago through Beachbody when we used to coach. And I know you've heard me talk about it on the podcast before. And I think we actually talked about it on her interview too, that, um, you know,
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when we started with Beachbody together back in 2015 ish activewear was like the foundation for me, right? That was kind of what started to give me that little bit of confidence to want to work out to want to do all the things and to eat better and all of that stuff. And so that was kind of what started, you know, just my experience and really becoming confident in myself and being confident in my own skin. Um,
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Is just, you know, with the gym clothes in general. And I know, I know you can attest to that too. Absolutely. I mean, and I think as women moms, you know, a lot of the times we want to be comfortable and we want to have things that are multifunctional. And so active wear was just something that, you know, you, you put on to do your errands, but then also workout. And so I think, um,
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just having that confidence at the beginning, you know, of course, that's where it stemmed from, but it has ebbed and flowed throughout the years, for sure. Yeah, just the self love self confidence part. Yeah. And for me, it's all about no matter what I'm putting on, whether it's active wear, or even something else, it's just a matter of
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when I get up in the morning, I try to always just put myself together, you know, I people laugh at me because they're like, you have a full face of makeup on like, why are you all dressed up and, you know, because again, y'all heard me talk about that I work from home. And not every day I'm in front of the camera. And so some days I just get dressed and I'll fix my makeup and do my hair and put something on other than my pajamas and put on shoes and stuff because it's a mindset thing. It's
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It's just when, you know, every time that I pass by a mirror that I'm not looking at myself being like, Ooh, you know, or it's so that way I just, I will be a lot more productive if I feel put together. Right.
Mindset, Stress Management & Body Acceptance
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And feel good about it too, because I think that, you know, you, you.
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you talked about going by a mirror. I mean, I've been in certain situations where I have not always loved looking at the person that's in the mirror. And so that in itself is a mindset shift that you have to have. You can't just automatically start, you know, knocking yourself down when you see yourself in the mirror or nitpicking little pieces of things and
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So it's, it becomes a mindset shift that you have to have within yourself. And I do feel like putting that extra effort into yourself is going to help you to be more accepting of who you are and how you feel. So yeah, it's, it's a lot easier to stop the negative I am because those, those negative I am are so powerful. Like when you're constantly telling yourself negative things like, you know, I, you know,
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I don't look good today or, you know, just nitpicking yourself and saying negative things to yourself will completely change your entire mood.
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day, week, month, if you keep that going. And not just for you, but everyone else around you feels it when you're not feeling good about yourself. And so I know that that's always something that I've been trying to work on, but like Mandy said, it's you have to make the effort to make that change. And so for me, one of those things to change that mindset and to help myself to not say those negative things is to just get up and do something with myself in the morning.
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and to tell yourself like almost stop in the situation in the moment because you know if you continuously spiral into those negative thoughts if you're not allowing yourself to catch them and redirect your thinking then it will become more of an issue and you're just going to continuously
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um not have that self-love and self-confidence that you deserve to have because no matter what your body used to be or is now like it's gonna it all comes back to you so if you're not loving yourself for all stages all seasons yeah then um it's just that that self-confidence like you said everyone around you is gonna feel that because it's gonna exude out of you so yeah
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It's recognizing it, right? It's because we're all human, right? Like we're going to have the moments of no matter how much we try to say, I'm going to be positive today. Like I'm not going to say anything negative. And then something comes up and then, you know, that negative thought kind of trickles in. And it's, you know, I know you've heard me say before, like I literally will shake my head. Um, like, you know, like I'm trying to shake the thought out whenever those negative thoughts creep in. And I'm like, no, stop. Like don't, don't think that. And then.
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you know just flipping it and trying to say no that's not how I think about myself you know and just yeah like you said you're we're constantly talking to ourselves all day long you know we're constantly in our head you know we're in charge of 10 different things and so you're constantly having those conversations with yourself and so it is you have to physically and mentally tell yourself like no stop you know I love myself and give you all those positive information so yeah or even just
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not even always just about confidence in who you are or how you look, but even in things that are about to go on. So for example, you know, I just recently was having thoughts of, Oh my gosh, all of this stuff is coming to a forefront now, you know, with MBS, Fitco and all of the things that are going to have to get done, you know, we have to do a live video and we have to finish getting the website set up. And I was like, the kids are out of school this week because of the Mardi Gras holiday. And I was like,
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I'm going to be so stressed and this is gonna be so stressful having the kids home and I was like, okay stop like I'm already setting myself up to be stressed out because I'm telling myself that I'm going to be stressed and so I was like no like it's going to be okay just one thing at a time and I'll you know, and if I don't set myself up in that mindset that that's going to happen then it'll be a lot easier for me to handle and
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I'm not saying that there's not going to be moments that I'm not going to get stressed, but it's just not stressing yourself. We talked about this, stressing yourself before the stress even happens. Like fear of the fear that may not ever happen. You're just stressing yourself out. And then most of the time, 99% of the time, none of that happens. It's just in our mind. We're just telling ourselves. So it's just, it's all about mindset. And I know that too, what we've personally going through,
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and I know where I'm at right now in my life and I know Mandy is right there with me is just being confident and happy in the skin that we're in and in the season that we're in because we both have
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rode the weight roller coaster, right? Um, our whole lives. I know Mandy at one point did compete. She did beach body bikini competitions. And I was on the verge of starting to prepare to do bodybuilding competitions, you know, where my, I think my body fat was like down to 17, 15. I don't even know what it was. It was crazy low at that time. Um, and that did something
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to me, you know, like it meant like, granted, was it great? I mean, it was exciting to see what my body was capable of. Absolutely. But then I struggled a lot. And I've struggled a lot through the years just since then. Yeah. And you know,
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A lot of respect for people that do that all the time. Yeah, but for me it was such a mental Shift that I had that it has taken years to kind of come out of and just because I think you do see your body in a way that you've never seen it before because it takes such like a mental capacity to even get to that point right yeah, or even to maintain that and so I
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I feel like you have to kind of, obviously for me, that was not a lifestyle that I could keep up with. And so my body has ebbed and flowed. You know, I had three kids, had C-sections for all of them. So there's certain aspects of my body that I struggle with. But I think in that, and seeing what my body was capable of doing, it gives you a strength, but it also kind of gives you a mental thing where you're having to tell yourself,
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that however you look right now is how that you need to kind of embrace right now like my nerves and all the other things that yeah i just would always nitpick and now it's like no like this is how i am right now i'm i'm doing the best that i can in the season i am in
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and just kind of keeping that in the forefront and not beating yourself up that you don't look like the certain image that you have in your head. Right. Whether it's a way that you may have used to look in your younger days, before kids, or even just with social media and seeing pictures and stuff like that. Everyone's body type is different, and that's one thing that I've had to
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It's been so hard for me to accept the fact that I am not and my body type is not, you know, this, you know, a smaller figure like, you know, and so I'm just, it's taken me years because I went through, you know, prior to losing all kind of weight and stuff. Um, before I got pregnant, I was at the heaviest that I had ever been in my life, not pregnant. And then after, after my, before my third child.
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and so and then and then i lost a ton of weight and got down to the point where i was smaller than i probably had been since high school or junior high before i had children and and then even then and i know we both talked about this which is really crazy is when i was in the best shape of my life
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I picked at my body more than I probably ever have. And I was so hard on myself. I would literally stand in the mirror and pick at skin because that's all that was there. All that was there. And I was so... That's so true though.
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hard on myself and so and that's why when Mandy said like props to those girls and men that compete because y'all it is it is a mental game like it is really really hard it's so far beyond just them being in the gym and working out in the middle and after because yeah come off of the season and you're going to a different season and you have to mentally kind of backtrack yourself
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to know that like, okay, my body looked like this for this specific thing. And it can, it's gonna ebb and flow again, because you're not on that same routine, or you're doing something different. And so it's constantly a roller coaster with you just trying to be okay, and not let it spiral into, because it really was, at the time, I just remember
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Like being the smallest or what I thought was the healthiest at the time, because really I probably wasn't healthy. And just kind of seeing myself like that and then realizing like that really wasn't the best situation for me at the time because it messed with me mentally. And I think now, years later, I'm finally more confident in my skin
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and i'm probably not the heaviest i've ever been but you know i've got i've got curves and thickness and yeah i for me to embrace that is huge because i'm always like oh i need to look this way or i need to do this and so for me to finally like own who i am and what i look like right now is like
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the best thing ever. But it's so empowering too, right? It's just, it's complete mindset shift and stopping those negative thoughts. Cause of course, like you said, we're always going to have them. They're always going to come up. You're going to look at something in the mirror and go, Oh, I don't really like how this looks. And then next thing you know, you just have to tell yourself, stop like, no. So.
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Yeah. And it's just been the years of trying to, cause as I continued to, you know, not have as much muscle or, you know, maybe put on a little bit of weight, it was more so of just learning to not only embrace myself, but just loving life too and living life a little bit more and knowing that there is a balance and it's okay. And very much like you said, like I'm at a point now where what has happened that I have accepted the fact that
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This is who I am and this is my body type. I have noticed that the way that I eat has not become, it is no longer a challenge for me. It doesn't become restrictive because when I was doing that, I was so strict on my diet. Like if I ate one thing that wasn't in line, like I beat myself up forever about it and that has stopped. So I have a better relationship with food.
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And I can do the things like for the holidays, I put on like 10 pounds during the holidays and I was like, I don't care, whatever. I had a great time. I had a great holidays and now it's January and we're just going to do like a little cleanse and it's okay. It's okay. And then what's also happened, Mandy, is that now that I am more confident in my own skin and myself,
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My mindset on everything else has shifted because now because now that I'm not so focused on what I look like and picking at myself and being so concerned about my body.
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I've also been able to open my mind up to other areas of my life where I wasn't paying so much attention to like my children or my marriage or my future and my career and my goals. That energy is going to other places. I need it more than that because it's almost such a waste of energy sometimes to nitpick and
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Like you were talking about the food, it's almost like the food noise. Cause I remember, oh, it's been two hours. Like I need to eat a snack or, you know, oh, I got to get in all these different things throughout the day. And it's constantly almost like bogging down your, your, your mindset or your energy. And whenever you could be putting that into other things that were more productive or just to sustain you, you know, overall, but yeah, that's so true.
Fitness Balance & Self-Care Insights
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So we're both a really big advocate of fitness, right? We both work out. Yeah, we both eat healthy. Yeah, it's still there's a balance there. You have to you can't you can't just expect, you know, yourself, especially I think, going into my late 30s.
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my body type, my whole composition, metabolism, everything is shifting again. Cause you know, it happens every 10 years or metabolism is like with non-existent anymore, pretty much. But you know, it's almost like that also has to shift that you have to be accepting of the different, um, cause you know, like hormone imbalances and all these other things that we deal with. And I think you can't beat yourself up on that. You have to kind of accept it. Things that I did.
00:24:07
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five, 10 years ago aren't going to work now. It's just not, it's not the same. And so you have to adapt, but also not become super focused on it. Yeah. And let it consume you because it can. I mean, I think we've all been there, but yeah. So it's
00:24:24
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It's at the end of the day, it's all of a mindset shift, which we all know that we all know it's about mindset, but it's, you know, taking action and noticing when that mindset mindset shifts to a negative place. It is doing the things that you know, and I know you've heard me talk about it before about how much self how important self care is. And that's, that's part of that is
00:24:48
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you know, whether it is getting your nails done or getting your hair done or doing massages or purchasing active wear that you feel so good. Yes. It's doing all of those things and you know, all of anything and everything that you can do as a woman to take that time for you to get lost. Yeah.
00:25:10
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because we get lost in everyone else's things. We get lost in our day-to-day, our mundane routines. We get lost in everybody else's schedule. So it is.
00:25:23
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Being mindful of that and not losing yourself in those moments because it's so easy and then you get to a point and you're like, where did it go? Where am I? Where did I go? Who am I? You know, I know I've been there. What do I need, want, love? More than once in my life. And then most of the time it's not us. We don't love ourselves. We love everyone else first. And so we lose that. Yeah. So.
00:25:47
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I think that about wraps it up. Just confidence, confidence, confidence. And if we can do anything to help you with that, that's what we're here to do with MBS. That is the main focus, especially with the active wear is just having you put something on and then feel like you are your best self and you can walk around and feel the most confident that you have in years. Because I know that's how I feel.
00:26:14
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So, all right, so last thing again, in the show notes, we're going to link the Facebook live.
MBS Fitco Launch Reminder & Podcast Support
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If you missed it, you can go watch it. We're going to link the VIP list so you can get on there to get your discount. Again, launch day starts on Monday, February 19th.
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And last but not least, if this episode resonated with you, if you know a woman that needs to hear about confidence and how she can be confident in herself and that she should be because everyone is beautiful inside and out. Share this episode, help us get the word out about MBS fit Co about finding my best self podcast. We absolutely love just speaking to women in general, anything to lift women up and lifting each other up because
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That's what it's all about at the end of the day, is us all having each other's back and speaking life and love into everyone that we possibly can. And last but not least, as always, you are strong, you are capable, and you are worthy. We love you and we're endlessly rooting for you. We'll catch y'all next time.
00:27:25
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As we wrap up another episode of Finding My Best Self, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you for joining us today. You being here makes the journey much more meaningful. Remember every step you take, no matter how small, is a leap towards discovering and nurturing your best self.
00:27:40
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00:27:57
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00:28:36
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So until next time, keep shining, keep striving, and keep celebrating the extraordinary woman you are. Thank you again for tuning in to the Finding My Best Self podcast, where every story is a step towards finding your hero within. We'll catch you next time.