Hot Girls Cry

Abbey Scott is the Founder of Coffee Over Cardio, CEO of Fit Legacy Marketing Agency and is currently working on her third secret e-commerce business with her husband, Mike Crowson. From Wall Street to serial entrepreneur, Abbey pursued her dreams after realizing finance was not a long term career for her. While starting businesses and planning a wedding, Abbey also competed in bodybuilding in the NPC bikini division.

In this episode, Abbey takes us through her entrepreneurial journey from being a college athlete to competing in bodybuilding to starting her third business with her husband. Abbey and Valerie discuss body image, entrepreneurial stress, tips on how to manage your mental health and finding a balance as an entrepreneur.

Key Takeaways:
- Get your blood work every 6 months to assess and reduce the risk of developing physical and mental health stress-related disorders.
- Practice guided breathing or meditation to reduce stress in your daily life.
- Unwind every night before bed, meaning watch less TV, reduce the amount of social media usage
- Try leisure walking every night, without stressing over the distance and time of your walk
- Practice self-care activities every day to prevent added stress
-You can’t control everything, but you can control how you feel and your stress levels


Connect with Abbey:
https://coffeeovercardio.com/
https://www.instagram.com/coffeeovercardio/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/abbbeyscottt/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/BuildYourLegacy_/?hl=en

Kelsey Gonzalez is a wife, mom and owner of Coach Kelsey Fitness. What started as a small personal training side gig has morphed into a full fitness program for women all over the country. Kelsey specializes in weight loss and management. Coach Kelsey has become more than a side gig after realizing helping women physically was just the beginning of their journey.

In this episode, Valerie and Kelsey discuss the differences between health and fitness goals, how your mindset will affect your health journey and the common struggles women go through when trying to improve their lifestyle. Kelsey also shares tips on how to reach your health and fitness goals with a healthy and happy mindset!

Key Takeaways:
- Trainers are not one size fits all.
- No matter what your fitness goals are, you still need a well-rounded approach to reach them.
- The three main struggles a woman goes through for her health/fitness journey are:
“All or nothing” mentality
Not trusting yourself with food or workout schedules
Thinking becoming fit will solve all your problems
- You must have a healthy, happy mindset to reach your health and fitness goals.
- Educate yourself on a healthy lifestyle before communicating with your kids about food.
- There is a difference between your health and fitness goals.
- Be very specific on what your plan is for your health and fitness goals.


Connect with Kelsey:
https://www.instagram.com/thecoachkelsey/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/groups/918971785120098/

Lauren Mones is an Occupational Therapist who has been focusing on gut health for 15 years. She created her wildly delicious line of fermented foods and drinks called Fermenting Fairy with the intention of helping people live their best life imaginable. When Lauren is not in the kitchen crafting up some awesome gut happy elixir she is swimming in the ocean, river or lake communing with Nature.

In this episode, Valerie and Lauren discuss what fermented food is, why it is good for your health and how you can make better gut happy choices! Lauren also shares why she started her business, Fermenting Fairy, and her passion for having an organic lifestyle.

Key takeaways from this interview:

-Fermented foods have a natural, healthy occurring bacteria on the skin and cells.
-Fermentation creates an environment on the food products where the naturally occurring bacteria can thrive and form a different food product chemically.
-We need healthy bacteria in our foods to absorb nutrients and digest food.
-Most of our food is grown conventional, which means there are less healthy bacteria.
-Just because the produce has a non-GMO label doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
-Buy more certified organic produce and products to be more conscious of what you intake and make better health choices.
-If you lack the healthy bacteria in your gut, then it affects your state of mental health and may lead to higher amounts of stress, anxiety and even depression.
-When you buy organic and certified organic products, you are making a huge difference in your health and in the food industry!
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​To connect with Lauren, please visit:
https://www.instagram.com/fermenting.fairy/?hl=en
https://fermentingfairy.com/collections/best
https://www.facebook.com/fermentingfairy
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKC8bC9uNZAde1YWICygKLw?view_as=subscriber

Monica Denais is a Latina Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor in Dallas, Texas. Monica specializes in anxiety, burnout, codependency, entrepreneurial stress, perfectionism, life transitions, and self-esteem issues. She is also the host of the Café with Monica podcast, where she helps millennial listeners by educating, sharing tools, and interviewing inspiring and resilient millennials to help others overcome their everyday issues all while chatting it up with a cup of coffee.

In this episode, Monica and Valerie discuss the different components of anxiety and how to minimize entrepreneurial stress, codependency and the need for perfection. Monica shares healthy tips on how to reduce your stress levels and how to change your day-to-day thought processes to help reduce and prevent anxiety!


Key Takeaways:
- We need to teach ourselves rest is okay.
- There are four different components of anxiety: behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and physiological or physical anxiety.
- If you have a busy lifestyle, then minimize decision making in other aspects of your life to reduce your anxiety.
- If something doesn’t happen the way you want, then it’s still okay!
- Give yourself space to say:
“What is the worst that can happen?”
“What is most likely to happen?”
“How likely can I forget it in a day? A week? A month?”
- Your failure is not your identity!

Connect with Monica:
https://cafewithmonica.com/
https://www.facebook.com/cafewithmonica
https://www.instagram.com/cafewithmonica/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/therapistpodcasters/?hl=en

Laura Diez is a climate scientist, sustainability professional and host of ECO Chi, an eco-conscious lifestyle podcast. Laura has a Masters in Climate Science and Solutions and aims to make climate information and science education digestible, relatable and available to everyone. With her background and experience, Laura has since reached millennial women relating climate to topics like fashion, skincare, policy, business, and entrepreneurship.

In this episode, Laura shares what it means to have an eco-friendly lifestyle and how your impact has a ripple effect on the ecosystem. Valerie and Laura dive deeper into the misconceptions of recycling, what you consume and who you support influences the climate, and the small eco-friendly changes you can make to help to start an eco-conscious life!


Key Takeaways:
- Your impact, or carbon footprint, has a ripple effect on the ecosystem.
- Be mindful of what company you support and what you consume in order to live a more ecofriendly lifestyle.
- Wastefulness is a huge task American households can undertake.
- Food is often thrown out and wasted because of the perception of what food is meant to look like.
- “Used By” and expiration dates are unregulated! If it’s not smelly or abnormal, then double check the produce before throwing it away!
- Just because something is plastic doesn’t mean it’s recyclable.
- Recycling incorrectly is just as bad as not recycling at all.


Connect with Laura:
https://www.instagram.com/lauraediez/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/ecochicpodcast/?hl=en
http://lauraediez.com/
https://www.bloglovin.com/@lauraediez

Mica Mackenzie is the CEO of the QN Media and Marketing Firm. Her specialties are in the areas of Influencer Outreach and Marketing, Branding, and Graphic and Website Design. She spends most of her free time interacting with clients and working with her team to keep expanding QN. Mica also hosts the Talking Nonsense Podcast based here in Dallas.

In this episode, Valerie and Mica discuss the different ways to cope with mental health struggles as well as the common misconceptions around mental health issues. Mica shares her journey of coping with her mental illness. From therapy, meditation to yoga she eventually found that medication helped with her depression and gave her her life back.

Key Takeaways:
- Mental health doesn’t always mean depression.
- You don’t have to go through traumatic experiences to struggle with mental health.
- People struggle with mental health in different ways such as high functioning anxiety, panic attacks, etc.
- Struggling with mental illness is not just about your moods, it’s your body’s hormones and chemistry that are altered.
- Medication can be a key role in coping with mental illness.


Connect with Mica:
https://www.instagram.com/micamackenzie/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006421441709
https://twitter.com/micamackenzie

Did you know that some porn companies are actually working toward educating their audience and providing more diversified storylines?
Sex coach and educator Niki Davis Fainbloom is this week's guest on the You Glow Girl Podcast and will be sharing exactly what platforms are doing to showcase a more feminine view of porn, her tips on how to discuss sex dynamic with your partner, and the first steps to understanding yourself sexually.

Niki is also a writer for PornHub, and believes that women should get a vibrator as soon as they reach 15. In Niki's opinion, feminizing sex toys would help women be more comfortable understanding sex toys and normalizing their own pleasure.

Takeaways from this episode:
-Women are raised to be an object, not to enjoy ourselves and it's time to change that.
-To know what you like, you need to experiment, so take time to do it slowly and at your own comfort level.
-Some porn platforms are currently working toward educating their audience.
-There's very little communication in mainstream Porn and it's affecting how we engage during sex.
-It's only through communication that people can figure out what feels good and what works for them.
-Figure out which irrational thoughts are taking away your pleasure during sex.

Connect to Niki:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/niki-davis-7ba20a125/
https://www.instagram.com/missbloomsexeducator/
https://www.facebook.com/niki.davis.7

Ashton Cantou is the founder of Intrinsic Motivation, LLC and a Certified Transformational Life Coach who helps people to transcend their limiting beliefs, align with their authentic self, and gain the clarity and structure needed to achieve their life goals.

In this episode, Valerie and Ashton discuss how to became your own champion to elevate your life, career, and relationships. Ashton shares her coaching expertise and the most effective strategies on dropping bad habits and creating healthy habits that you can easily incorporate in your daily routine.

Ashton also reveals how anyone can harness the power of projection and how to take it a step further, by transforming projections into a 'time machine'.

Key takeaways:
-Coaches act as your 'lane assist', but you're still the driver in your life's decisions.
-If you have a deep conviction, it's like making a pact with the Universe that (sooner or later) that will come to fruition.
-Set the intention of 'who you want to be for the day', rather than creating an action list to cross - this will have a deeper impact in all of your work.
-Build up your daily habits and get clarity of who you want to become before you start setting up your life goals.​
​-Shrink your bounce-back.
-Fighting bad habits? Pause and think about what your higher self would do, not what your selfless self would do.
-When you're living on gratitude you're already tapping into the vibration of flow of abundance and positivity.


Connect to Ashton online:
https://www.facebook.com/intrinsicmotivationllc/
https://linktr.ee/ashtoncantou?fbclid=IwAR3YhafRMsEARefRekO5EHAg_KSmNzpcMKu9anj_MvxOdxShQYqxMbXY5P0
https://app.clickfunnels.com/for_domain/missmotivation8.clickfunnels.com/lead-magnet17152654?updated_at=86d3b72ee2c15773c1272f8adbb0f6ccv2&track=0&preview=true
https://www.instagram.com/ashtoncantou/

Suzy Batiz is a serial creator and expert in entrepreneurial intuition who built an empire by challenging societal norms. Having experienced trauma and abuse, she was able to rise from life’s lowest lows by walking away from the drama triangle and abandoning the victim mentality. Suzy reached worldwide fame as the creator and CEO of Poo~Pourri, the all-natural before-you-go toilet spray that unapologetically came inside everyone's homes and purses.

In this episode, Valerie speaks to Suzy to discuss intuition, using your body as a decision-making tool, and the best strategy to reach the state of abundance that you dream of.

Key takeaways from this episode:
-Nourish and love your business and it will flourish.
-Next time you have to make an important decision, ask your body how it feels about it.
-It's risky to die with your dreams inside.
-The more impeccable (not perfectionist) you are with your work, the further you'll go.
-Freedom comes from understanding the drama triangle and rather than asking yourself "Why me?", ask yourself "What can I learn from this?"
-If you put aside everything that doesn't serve you and are very clear about your intentions, the Universe will align what it takes to help take you there.

Connect to Suzy:
https://www.suzybatiz.com/
https://www.instagram.com/suzybatiz/
https://www.facebook.com/SuzyBatiz/
https://www.facebook.com/PooPourri/

Adrienne Finch is a YouTube content creator, online marketing consultant, social media influencer, writer, producer, and all around inspirational woman! Adrienne is deeply passionate about creating a legacy of value to influence her audience to live a life worth living.

In this episode Valerie and Adrienne discuss the journey of breaking up with societal expectations in order to live a happy life, how manifestation has played a key role in transforming their mindset and how opportunity comes in many forms.

The duo shares their roadmaps to success in a conversation that exposes how much our preconceptions can limit our true potential, especially in the digital world.

Takeaways from this episode:
-We're living in an era where big company names don't have the appeal they used to have. Now life fulfillment doesn't need to come from working for a big corporation.
-It's possible to monetize your passion and make an impact in people's lives.
-You don't have to pick between being highly fulfilled or well paid: as an entrepreneur you can have both, just understand that you may have to do all the extra work in the front-end.
-Impact generates income: you'll make way more money if you generate a product or content that serves your audience.
-Manifesting your goals is important because 'like attracts like'. You attract what you focus on, so focus on the things that you'd like to achieve, rather in the ones that you can't have.
-Reprogram your brain to think positively and it will become easier each time, so much so that it will just become a lifestyle.
-Manifesting the life of your dreams won't be a linear path so keep an open mind so that you're open to all types of opportunities.

Connect to Adrienne Finch:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuA6IQplaY0HgJsYpYTmPYQ
https://www.instagram.com/adriennefinch/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienne-finch-b101156a/
https://www.facebook.com/adriennefinchvlogs/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/self-made-ceo-with-adrienne-finch/id1460736849