Dreamed It Then Real Lifed It

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Dreamed It Then Real Lifed It episodes

November 11Year Three: The Rising — Celebrating Two Transformative Years (Ep 109)
Celebrating two years of Dreamed It Then Real Lifed It (109 episodes since launching 11/11/2024), I'm reflecting on how consistency built confidence, eased old insecurities about public speaking and even hearing my own voice, and created a living archive of growth, conversations, and relationships. I share surprising industry stats: only 7.5% of podcasts reach 100 episodes, the average show stops around 21 episodes, and about 90% quit before episode three—while podcast listening and market size continue rapidly growing. She discusses balancing solo and guest episodes, how guests and the new “community features” (starting with The Flower Fest) have expanded her perspective, and why she keeps the show sponsor-free as free value in her business “value ladder.” Looking ahead, she outlines year three’s theme—“The Rising”—alongside her ongoing 100-day Transformation Story and plans for more video, community storytelling, and a future mobile Airstream studio.
From the Episode:
" Two years ago, I started a podcast called "Dreamed It Then Real Lifed It," and here I am, 109 episodes later, realizing that the podcast itself has become one of the greatest examples of what this whole thing is about. Guys, we're celebrating two years of real life'ing it."
" And the crazy thing is, guys, I'm not naturally a public speaker or someone who feels comfortable or confident speaking in front of other people... But it's embodied capacity, you know? And that was something that I earned. That was something that came after showing up consistently 109 times. Now it feels natural, and that probably surprises me the most because there was definitely a time when nothing about this felt natural at all. Like, not even a little bit."
" If we were to talk about what 109 episodes have taught me, what two years of Dreamed It Then Real Lifed It podcast has taught me, it's that confidence is built through repetition."
" I wasn't intending on going and having this be highly edited and highly polished and wanting it to sound, quote-unquote, "perfect." I just wanted to come in here and record. And if I stumbled or fumbled on a word, hey, so be it. If I act like a total nerd or weirdo, hey, so be it. Like, embrace it. You know? That's me."
" Part of being an entrepreneur is getting really good at hearing no or hearing nothing. If you let that stop you, well, I don't know how good of an entrepreneur you're gonna be. So just throwing that out there for whoever needs to hear it."
" What I know after 109 episodes is that you can have a dream, and you can have a vision, and you can imagine all the incredible things that might come from it, and then there is the part where you actually have to live it. You have to show up, and you have to do the work, and you have to keep going when things look different from what you imagined. And somewhere along the way, you realize that the experience of bringing the dream to life is changing you too."
" It's what happens when you stop preparing to become someone and you begin living as that person. It's like, what does it look like to rise? We about to find out. Buckle up."

Notes and Considerations:
The Reset Room
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One More Thing:
If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
1 hr 10 min
November 02Turning Points: 50 Days of Inner Transformation (Ep 108)
At the halfway point of my 100-day “Transformation Story” experiment, I share how the project didn’t unfold as planned: instead of daily documenting, I discovered that real-time narration felt performative and split my attention, so I pivoted toward living first and reflecting later. I unpack major lessons from the first 50 days—where I relied on pressure and performance, outsourced my own knowing, and confused full capacity with maximum capacity—plus the need for better infrastructure and “containers” like a protected morning practice (face yoga, Tai Chi, silent meditation, journaling) and small habit shifts. I describe a tough regression week triggered by home chaos and stress, reframe it as data, and explain how “improvement can create backflow.” The episode closes with principles for days 51–100: surrender, selective sharing, receiving support without shame, and continuing even when nobody’s watching.
From the Episode:
"This was my thesis: What happens if I live at full capacity for 100 days? I had spent years knowing all of these versions of myself independently, the artist, the athlete, the mother, the podcaster, the entrepreneur, the spiritual practitioner, the filmmaker, director, the woman who takes care of herself, the woman who makes money, the woman who finishes things, the woman who travels, the woman who creates, the woman who coaches. And my own problem that I had identified was that they kept taking turns. One would become dominant and another would disappear, and the experiment was never really, "Can I become a better person in 100 days?" It was, "What happens if nobody has to leave? What happens when I stop becoming one version of myself at the expense of another?" "
" This is not a straight line. It is not a before and after. It is not me deciding who I am going to be on day one, and then spending 100 days trying to force myself into that version that I said on day one I was going to be. It's not any of that."
" I have this totally new perspective of my own life because of Transformation Story. Over the last 50 days, it was this realization like, "Oh my gosh, I'm having so much fun," and it's like a veil had been lifted. I'm just totally approaching my life, my own life, with a whole new outlook, a whole new perspective, a whole new energy, a whole new focus. And In turn, life is meeting me with surprise after surprise, with delight after delight. Yeah, a little struggle and contrast and challenge here and there because, duh, it's life. But like all in all, things are flowing downstream, y'all, not upstream. I am not paddling upstream against the current. I'm moving downstream, and it feels really, really good."
" The rules exist until the actual circumstances reveal that something else makes even more sense, and that's essentially what happened here."
" If you conduct an experiment and you refuse to respond to the data because, "Well, these were the rules that I made before I had any data," you know, that isn't discipline, it's rigidity."
" Maximum capacity is doing as much as you possibly can. Full capacity is using all of yourself well. Maximum capacity pushes against the ceiling. Full capacity is going to ask whether the whole system is actually online."
" They don't all need equal minutes every day. They all need a place in the life, and that is a much more sophisticated approach than this original idea of simply keeping everybody online simultaneously 'cause I think in my mind, to some degree, I kind of envisioned it that way."

Notes and Considerations:
The Reset Room
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One More Thing:
If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
1 hr 30 min
October 26Exploring Flexibility and Beyond with Coach Micah Walters (Ep 107)
Host Kelly welcomes flexibility coach Micah Walters, whom she met at his Backbend Breakthroughs workshop in New Orleans, to discuss both entrepreneurship and safe, contortion-level flexibility training. Micah shares his background in artistic gymnastics under old-school Soviet coaching, classical and competitive dance, and later performing contortion with acrobatics, handstands, and aerial. He explains how his kinesiology, PT, yoga, and Pilates education led him to a method that prioritizes strength, alignment, spinal integrity, nervous-system regulation, and long warm-ups—especially for hypermobile students—rather than pushing adults into extreme ranges. They talk about real-time coaching (in person or via Zoom), longevity and choosing safer backbends, and why flexibility without strength can destabilize joints. Micah also describes his digital nomad business model, language immersion abroad, and upcoming offerings including a December retreat in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, an on-demand platform, one-on-ones, and workshops.
From the Episode:
" And looking back on it knowing what I know now, I can see just how dangerous what we were doing was, just how crazy it was, compared to what we know now about biomechanics and about just the human body and how it's meant to move and how it's meant to tear and rebuild in order to make growth. We were just tearing and tearing and tearing with really no opportunity to rebuild and to recover."
" You can't just take somebody off the street and push them into a backbend or push them into a split. You really need to develop their own awareness of their body through conditioning, through breathwork, through mindfulness, and, it produces a much more sustainable and healthy result."
" I think that's the best thing that a yoga practice has to offer is that connection to your nervous system and tending to it on purpose, not just as a last resort, but as a part of preparing for the practice, you know?"
" I always tell people at the end of a workshop, "If there's only one thing you take away from this workshop, let it be the first 20 minutes of what we did. Let it be the warmup that you bring away and repeat and come back to," because it really matters so much."
" You're doing these things looking forward to mitigate risk. It's like insurance."
"I'm hosting a retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico, in a town called Puerto Escondido, and it's December 12th through the 19th. It's a flexibility immersion with yours truly, Micah Walters. It's gonna be just under a week of excursions, two classes a day. It's at a retreat center called Casa Chango, which means the House of the Monkey."

Notes and Considerations:
Micah on Instagram
Micah's upcoming Mexico Retreat
Micah's On-Demand Coaching Platform - Free Trial
Micah's website and online training
The Reset Room
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One More Thing:
If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
1 hr 4 min
October 19The Cannabis Chronicles: An Interview with Director of Cultivation, Brandon DeBoer (Ep 106)
Host Kelly interviews Brandon DeBoer, Director of Cultivation at Ilera Holistic Healthcare (flower brand Ayo, meaning “share joy”), about his path from university hemp trials and hydroponics to launching Ilera’s Louisiana operation in 2019—arriving to a 120-degree warehouse with only an 8x16 tent. Brandon explains early regulatory red tape, cannabis production basics (seeds vs. clones, mother plants, veg/flower cycles, trichomes, terpenes), and how the program evolved from only tinctures/topicals to metered-dose inhalers, vape products, and later smokable flower, pre-rolls, concentrates, and edibles. He details major growth: expanding to a 46,000-square-foot facility, improved yields and quality, and scaling to ~150 employees. They discuss strain selection, packaging tiers (including Sapphire), Louisiana’s dispensary-only, in-state sales rules, testing standards, and cannabis as a plant-based option amid lingering stigma.
From the Episode:
" Ayo actually means to share joy in the Yoruba language, and Ilera also means healthy. So we're 'Healthy Holistic Healthcare.' "
" I actually took an eight-day kayak trip down the Green River in Utah, and we did 120 miles, just as like a little break after college and before I got into working. And then when I finished that trip, I actually got a call from Ilera and said they wanted to bring me on board."
"You know, he's like, "Who want ... " I think his exact words were, "Who wants to go down to Louisiana, wrestle some alligators, and grow some weed down there?" "
" ...currently we have 80 strains, and we started with, you know, maybe 15."
" We had our first harvest going back I guess three months ago now out of that building and crushed our record. You know, we hit ... I think we were trying to aim for 80 grams per square foot. We hit 113 grams per square foot."
" If I wasn't growing cannabis, I'd be growing something else somewhere, you know? I'll be growing plants my whole life."

Notes and Considerations:
Illera Holistic Healthcare
Brandon on Instagram
Ilera on Instagram
The Reset Room
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One More Thing:
If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
1 hr 16 min
October 12I Didn’t Prepare for This Episode: Will Embodied Capacity Reveal Itself? (Ep 105)
Driving to the studio, Kelly realizes she has no idea what to talk about—and instead of panicking, she laughs, using it as evidence of growth: preparation can move from external tools (outlines, rules, plans) into embodied capacity and self-trust built through repetition. She contrasts beginner versus seasoned skill in podcasting and other crafts (driving, jazz, yoga teaching, cooking, art), and asks listeners to notice what they can now do automatically that once took major effort—without discounting that acquired capacity. She also cautions that preparation can become a security blanket, while true mastery sometimes requires relinquishing control, and suggests teaching what you know to deepen confidence. Along the way, she highlights recent guest episodes, her 100-day “Transformation Story” journey, mentoring her podcast apprentice Chloe, and lessons from a new video “Community Features” project.
From the Episode:
" And there was a time that would've felt irresponsible. Now it feels like evidence."
" And now the preparation hasn't disappeared. It's just moved inside of me. That's the distinction that I realized this whole episode could be built around."
" I'm talking about the kind of winging it that comes when you've done it enough that you are now improvising on top of an accumulated skill."
" At first, doing requires an enormous amount of energy. You prepare, and you prepare. Because you're trying to get yourself across that threshold. And then you do it, and you do it, and you do it. And you keep doing it, and eventually the thing that once required all that courage and all that energy, it becomes available capacity."
" So here's a question for you, my beautiful listener. What can you do now without thinking about it, that an earlier version of you had to work really fucking hard to learn? I know there's something. What is it? Because we're terrible at recognizing acquired capacity. I've realized that. Once something becomes easy, we discount it."
" Don't get so close to your own greatness that you fail to even recognize it anymore."

Notes and Considerations:
The Reset Room
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One More Thing:
If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
52 min
October 05Justice and Generosity: A Conversation with Hillar Moore (Ep 104)
Kelly reunites with Hillar Moore, East Baton Rouge Parish district attorney, by surprising him with the old Minolta camera Moore gave her at 19—an early doorway into the host’s decades-long creative career. Moore shares how cameras and crime-scene work as a young DA investigator helped shape his path from LSU missteps to criminal justice, law school, defense work, and eventually becoming DA. They discuss generosity, mentorship, and Moore’s philosophy of second chances—along with the high-stakes risk of deciding who gets one when guns and victims are involved. Moore explains patterns behind group violence, the pressures of an underfunded “hamburger-flipping” justice system, and why early childhood education and wraparound family support are key to changing outcomes. He also describes his massive “Justice Farms” garden, plant-centric journey, hot sauces, and giving produce back to the community.
From the Episode:
" And now in the position where I see a lot of kids that make some really bad mistakes, and then be able to give them a second chance..."
" ...how do you give a second chance to someone who's raped someone, someone who's shot, killed someone? I'm not saying that can't happen in some cases, but you always have to ask, what would the parents of the other person say? What does the other person say? What does the community say? What do they expect?"
" ...when you go to law school, they take your brain, and they screw it all up, and they turn it around, and they make you think of things that you would not normally think of, and take the other side, right?"
" So the plants don't talk back- ... and they don't kill each other, don't go to jail."
" ...also have moved on to hot peppers and make my own hot sauce...and my farm is called Justice Farms."
" You cannot ever give up on anybody. Someone has value. I don't care who they are. Someone has value, and your kids will shock you and surprise you."

Notes and Considerations:
The Reset Room
Click Here to explore Kelly's offerings: The Reset Room, Self-Love Uni, workshops, in-person experiences, coaching containers, and opportunities to go deeper into this work together
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One More Thing:
If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
54 min
September 28Excel Wellness: Functional Nutrition with Dr. Keta (Ep 103)
Kelly welcomes longtime wellness colleague Dr. Keta, founder of Excel Wellness in Baton Rouge, to discuss her evolution from chiropractic physician to functional nutritionist after supporting her mother and navigating her own thyroid decline, later confirmed Hashimoto’s, and perimenopause. Dr. Keta shares how self-experimentation led to a simple, sustainable, food-first approach supported by habits like stress management, movement, breathwork, and lifestyle tools, with flexibility for real life (an 80/20 mindset). They talk about why structure creates freedom, the importance of baselines and testing alongside honoring symptoms, and her root-cause analysis process using system-based symptom mapping and targeted labs. The conversation highlights mindset and identity shifts, accountability, and her 12-week coaching container with ongoing free access to group support. Dr. Keta directs listeners to follow her as Dr. Keta Nutritionist on Instagram and Facebook for education and guidance.

From the Episode:
" I got exposed to the world of functional medicine for the very first time, and I looked into it. I fell in love 'cause I could not believe there's so much you can help through just lifestyle and habits and nutrition."
" When you combine that with habits, simple, simple habits, sky's the limit. Your body is going to thank you and say, "Thank you for giving me everything I needed, so now I can help heal cellularly." And why wouldn't it function optimally at that point?"
" So that is the whole point of this, to transform your mindset on how you think about food. Food is fuel."
" I always tell them it's not that you can't. The dialogue should not be, "I can't have something." It should be more like, "I can have that, but I'm choosing not to have that." "
" So really, just jump. Take a chance. It's your life, it's your health, and if you don't do anything, then you are going to be stuck. So in order to be unstuck, you have to try something."
" And I took that answer and I cried about it saying, "This can't be life," until, you know, I just said, "Enough is enough. I'm not waiting. I'm going to find a way to make myself feel better." "

Notes and Considerations:
Dr. Keta on social media
Visit Dr. Keta at Excel Wellness
The Reset Room
Click Here to explore Kelly's offerings: The Reset Room, Self-Love Uni, workshops, in-person experiences, coaching containers, and opportunities to go deeper into this work together
Click here to join Moon Letters

One More Thing:
If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
2 hr 39 min
September 21The Heart of Hospice: A Conversation with Eddie Davis (Ep 102)
Kelly introduces Eddie Davis, volunteer coordinator for Gentiva Hospice, sharing how a chance conversation with a longtime hospice nurse and a library bulletin-board flyer led her to start volunteering. Eddie recounts his path from minister to hospice chaplain and now volunteer coordinator, explaining hospice as comfort care and symptom management delivered by an interdisciplinary team, including volunteers, for patients of all ages. They discuss why volunteers matter, the challenge of recruiting across a 50-mile radius, and the value of matching patients and volunteers by comfort and connection, not just age. Eddie and Kelly explore the emotional rewards and grief challenges of hospice work, healthy supports like faith, family, and team care, and the importance of respecting each patient’s spirituality. Eddie shares a powerful veteran send-off story and invites listeners nationwide to volunteer through Gentiva’s 36-state network.

From the Episode:
" So many people, when they hear the word hospice, they immediately think, "Oh my goodness, my life's over. I've got one foot in the grave and the other foot in eternity." "
" Your mind can kind of go to hospice being for elderly, and my first patient was even younger than me, right? And so, then it opened up this whole search for me of saying, "Oh my gosh, there's hospice for pediatrics." "
" But this is not just what I do, it's who I am."
" As far as being the most rewarding, to be able to put my head down on a pillow at the end of the day and know that I have been there to help somebody in one of the most difficult seasons in their life, that is the reward for me. "
" Well, there are lots of things different between us, but we can step over that and provide companionship and connection to somebody that needs a little bit of extra care, and that's really what hospice is all about."
" S o hospice doesn't just take care of the patient and their family during their illness and their death, but afterward as well."
" Yeah, I think that it's haunting to believe or to think that we could reach that point in our lives, in our journey where we're lying there on the bed thinking, 'I wished I had,' and then fill in the blank. I wished I'd said such and such to this person, and it's not too late. As long as you're breathing, it's not too late."

Notes and Considerations:
Hospice (225) 673.9949 or gentivahs.com
The Reset Room
Click Here to explore Kelly's offerings: The Reset Room, Self-Love Uni, workshops, in-person experiences, coaching containers, and opportunities to go deeper into this work together
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One More Thing:
If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
55 min
September 14Beyond Coaching with Katie Guillory: Redefining Limits and Pursuing Greatness (Ep 101)
Kelly interviews Katie Guillory, assistant strength and conditioning coach for LSU women’s gymnastics and beach volleyball, about her path from LSU softball to coaching, including stops at Traction, Liberty, and Illinois. Katie breaks down LSU gymnastics’ razor-thin national title loss (.04%) and the team’s “revenge tour” mindset, plus what she tracks in training—force plates, strength foundations, mobility, fatigue markers, and athlete management systems using technology and data dashboards. She shares practical advice for having difficult conversations, emphasizing trust, tone, body language, and when to pause and revisit. Katie also discusses overlapping gymnastics and beach volleyball seasons and starting mandatory training in mid-September. She opens up about losing the lower half of her left leg in an accident, adapting daily through disciplined routines, and training for Paralympic long jump with goals toward official marks, camps, and 2028 trials, while planning a website, T-shirts, and a book.

From the Episode:
" After that, I realized I was really interested in strength and conditioning more than physical therapy, just because I thought it was more on the proactive side of performance versus the reactive side."
" So it was really fun to watch that happen because when they pop off the plate and they just float in the air, you just know that their engine is running high right now, and you know they're gonna do some very cool gymnastics."
" So the short answer is strength will lay the foundation for every single bit of power."
" I owe it to them. I don't wanna waste their time collecting data just to do it. I want us to be able to make action-based decisions on what we see."
" Your egos go out the door and I love it. I love it. And sometimes there's like a little bit of animosity, and you can sense the tense in the room, but you understand it's for the greater good of the athletes and I don't mind that."
" And then recently, just over a year ago, I was in an accident and lost the lower half of my left leg. And my buddy who used to work with me at the University of Illinois just randomly called me up, and he was like, "Have you been poached by Paralympic teams yet?" "
" So the fastest thing that a human body can do is sprint. I'm teaching myself how to do that while left and right sides of my body move completely differently at the highest speed possible to be able to jump the farthest possible in a sport, you're right, that I have never done. That is the wildest thing to me, so why not chase it?"

Notes and Considerations:
Follow Katie's journey on Instagram

The Reset Room
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One More Thing:
If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
1 hr 1 min
September 08Episode 100... A Transformation Story for the Books (Ep 100)
In episode 100, Kelly reflects on finally launching her podcast on 11/11/24 after first announcing it in early 2020, celebrating 100 episodes built through 95 consecutive weeks of showing up, embracing “done over perfect,” and noting that listeners often browse the archive rather than listen sequentially. She shares her main reasons for podcasting—legacy for her daughters and a free platform to share tools and lived experience—and describes growing confidence behind the mic. She explains that the podcast Instagram remained small despite many tactics, prompting a pivot: starting Sept 7, 2026 (Labor Day), it becomes the documentary home for a public 100-day “Transformation Story” ending on her birthday. Marking nearly 10 years of daily yoga/meditation/breathwork that began after leaving a marriage and choosing celibacy, she frames the project as integrating her many “versions” into “full capacity,” using the scientific method with baselines (blood work, photos, aura photos) and measurable goals across health, body recomposition, skincare, finances, business systems, art releases, possible dating, and consistent follow-through, beginning in New Orleans after the New Orleans Yoga Festival.

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If this episode resonated with you, I’d LOVE for you to subscribe, rate, and review the show! It only takes one quick moment and would be so greatly appreciated! Your feedback helps more people discover the show and join our manifesting self-love and the life of our dreams journey. And don’t forget to share this episode with someone who could use a little extra encouragement to let their light shine.
You can also follow me on Instagram at @dreameditthenreallifedit AND @be_whatchawant for daily insights, self-love tips, and updates on new episodes!
And visit dreameditthenreallifedit.us for more resources on aligning your life and business and living in harmony with your dreams. Be sure to check out the blog for show transcripts, extras, and special offers!

Contact:
Have questions, reflections, or something you’d like me to cover in an upcoming episode? Feel free to reach out! You can email me at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram. I love hearing from you and connecting with this amazing community!

Thank you, I love you! Let's bring your dreams to real life!
1 hr 20 min

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Join Kelly Jackson on a transformative journey where manifestation meets transformation. This podcast explores mindset, metaphysics, spirituality, and entrepreneurship, featuring innovators, thought leaders, and game-changers. Discover intentional living, align your actions with your vision, and unlock your full potential.

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