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It's April and tax season, and we are rolling ahead with our conversations about money and abundance. We are pumped for you to check out this interview with Michelle Bray, the Purposeful Money Mom. Michelle is a financial educator, she coaches clients on how to create and utilize a budget, she teaches financial principles, and she leads courses to help share the knowledge and resources to help her clients achieve financial security and success.

Michelle leads us through how she got to where she is today, where she was when she felt stuck and longed for a different financial situation, and some of the lessons she took from her childhood. She shares definitions and basic principles with us. For instance, she lays out the offense, defense, and playing field of money. Michelle gives us quick history lessons, and expresses the importance of loving yourself and being confident with who you are.

Michelle offers a lot of value to her clients, and if you are interested in learning more about her and her work, you should definitely follow her on the 'gram. She also discusses the program Financial Fitness.

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This episode is an interview with Daulton, Shelby, and Carissa. Daulton is a licensed CPA. She has professional experience with taxes, as an accountant for mostly wealthy individuals, and accounting for large corporations. She is here to help us get a more clear picture of money, credit, and the relationship we have with money.

Daulton does us all a great favor. Consider this episode a Credit 101. Shelby shares a frustrating financial experience, and Daulton walks us through what to do if/when we find ourselves in a similar situation. We talk about debt, credit, loans, interest and principle, collections, 401k's and IRA's, and budgets.

Talking money can be very uncomfortable and bring up feelings of overwhelm or fear. Daulton helps us look at this from the same perspective that we are using to heal and grow ourselves to our highest version. She reminds us throughout this conversation to advocate for ourselves. This includes asking the questions we need to in difficult conversations, and knowing our self. We can create the life we desire when it comes to money when we know ourselves and plan for taking care of ourselves today and our future selves.

Daulton has our backs! She shares all the good resources and ideas. Do yourself a favor and check out this app for budgeting, this app for checking your credit, and this document to help you make better decisions about the payments you are making.

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Daulton is ABSOLUTELY a friend of the pod. She has been a guest on our podcast before. You can listen to her in episode 40 and episode 48 and we have a feeling she'll join us again behind the mics. It was a real treat spending time with her in her element. Thank you for listening.

Welcome back to another episode of "I Totally Relate". This recording is an interview with Michael Weiss. He is an entrepreneur who has two businesses to help serve this community. He has 10 years in Drug and Substance Abuse Rehabilitation facilities. He opened his own business "Michael Weiss Mentoring" to help deepen the work to close the gap in treatment facilities. He also runs "Ketamine ISS" to help coach and support those who are utilizing ketamine as a healing tool.

Michael walks us through the different narratives we have in this country about drugs. By continuing to ignore what we have learned about drugs and addiction, we are furthering the problem by making it a moral failing. Really, addiction is an attempt to solve another problem. He knows this first hand because he experienced a Heroin addiction for several years. With the introduction of alcohol from a friend's parents house, and hard drugs from the understanding he received in D.A.R.E., Michael experienced a lot of hard drug use until the early 2000's when he was introduced to Oxycontin during the opiodemic. That was the warm blanket of security he was looking for until it uprooted his lift.

Michael shares very insightful wisdom about how he got there and how he found recovery and healing through his first hand experience. He gives us great journal prompts to personally reflect. We talk about anger, relationships, trauma, psychedelics, feeling our emotions, society's approach, and inner child work. Michael shares a great gift with us by offering his learnings to us. This is an very impactful conversation.

If you enjoy this conversation and would like to get in touch with Michael, you can find him on instagram or on his website Michael Weiss Mentoring or Ketamine ISS or just give him a call at 385-743-9007.

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This episode is an interview between Shelby, Carissa, and Kathleen a.k.a. Kat.

Kat is a yoga instructor, as well as an earth medicine practitioner, and she hosts lunar events at The Yoga Underground. We encourage you to follow her on instagram, and you can learn more about what she does at moonmedicine.earth. If you like what you hear on the pod today, join her for a lunar event here.

Kat has an incredible ability to show the connection between breath and moon cycles. She walks us through the phases and importance of each moon, the inhale and exhale, and how we can utilize these symbols and moments to bring intentionality and awareness into our lives.

We discuss rituals and the importance of them, along with self reflection and the pain and discomfort that can bring. Kat has a gentle way of walking us through those hard moments and how we can use them for the betterment of our experiences.

We discuss the menstrual cycles, time keeping, and the sacred connection between all women. The conversation touches on Masculinity and Femininity, Patriarchal and Matriarchal, and the importance of these working together. We are, each of us, a dance of duality in motion. We are in our feels in this conversation. Taking this time to discuss these larger and more fluid ideas can help all of us feel more enlightened and connected. We hope you enjoy taking this time in conversation with us.

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We want to start this episode off with an invitation to join us in this conversation with curiosity and self compassion. Our topic today can evoke a lot of shame and self criticism. We feel like talking through this together can help make the biggest impact for our personal experiences and as a collective. This episode is a lot about Gossip.

This topic impacts women, specifically, and is a tool that separates us from each other as advocates for one another. Carissa shares a personal, and difficult experience. Looking at this situation can help us fully understand the detriment and pain that occurs from this behavior, as well as the long lasting consequences.

The Anatomy of Peace is a great book that was very helpful to help both of us make a sustainable behavioral change.

We discuss the importance of discernment, the chance we have to make these connecting moments rather than isolating ones, the contrast between our feminine conversations now, and the most helpful tool that made a big difference for us.

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It's been a while since we have shared parts of our journey with you. Now that season three has kicked off, we just want to take an episode and catch up with you.

We kick it off by sharing how we celebrated the holidays, each of us starting new traditions this year. We chat about how the pandemic has made some big, lasting changes in our little families. Carissa share's some big news by opening up about her relationship this past year, and where she sees it going from here. Shelby shares some of her big goals for this coming year. We talk about books, word of the year, and we share some of our currently loving answers.

Check out our currently loving music playlists here.

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We're Baaaaaack!

Welcome back to "I Totally Relate!" We are so thrilled for this episode! We've taken a short break from releasing episodes to get the que loaded up for you, oh yeah, and we've been working on something so exciting that we are ready to share with you.

That's right, Season 3 Episode 1 has a very exciting announcement. Hang on, we also re-vamped Patreon, and we would love for you to join us there. We have 3 tiers with super cool and exclusive content based on your budget and what resources you would like to for us to share with you.

Tier 1 or what we like to call "You got this, girl!" is $5 a month. This helps a lot with general support for us to continue this project, and we also send you a random freebie every month.

Next we have the "Therapy Babe" tier at $10 a month, and this gives you access to a monthly bonus episode, you can "Meditate with I Totally Relate", you get a 20% Discount on all ITR merch and event tickets, along with the random freebie.

Our last tier is the "She Abundant" for $20 a month you get everything from the first two tiers, plus...

A MONTHLY PLANNER mailed right to you! We have been working so hard on this incredible tool. It's more than a planner really, sprinkled in the pages of your weekly overviews are intentional journal prompts, thought provoking activities, and full moon exercises. We would love to share this with you, so head over to Patreon and start getting this exclusive content.

We spend some time discussing how previous seasons have been healing for our past selves. This season is really building on the current version of who we are. We also spend some time sharing what you can expect from us this season.

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We just wrapped up season two, and we have so much love and appreciation in our hearts. We are pausing our weekly episodes in order to get season three ready for all of you. While we not be producing weekly episodes, we will continue to create and share content on Patreon. Head on over to join us on Patreon and receive bonus material such as a monthly bonus episode, guided breathwork so you can "Meditate with I Totally Relate", journal prompts, and random freebies. We are about to take our Patreon content to the next level hop on over there, join us, and start getting all the resources we share!

Twice a month we send out a newsletter that shares inspirational messages, resource round-ups, monthly overviews and more. Our newsletter is a great way to stay in touch with us. Keep in the know while we are busy preparing the next season for you.

We like to hang out on Instagram 3-5 times a week, so give us a follow to get a peek into our personal lives, reels, and helpful graphics that follow along with our episodes.

This final episode of season two is a conversation between the two of us just gushing over how much gratitude we have for you, the sweet listener! We talk through the ways this podcast has grown, and the ways in which this podcast has grown us. We do some reflecting on some of our favorite episodes and guests, the ways they have impacted us, and what season two has been all about.

We give a teeny sneak peek into what is coming next for "I Totally Relate" and to be honest... we are so stoked for the next chapter, the next up-level, and all the growth and love that is in store for our incredible community.

Stay tuned... we can't wait to share it with you!

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We are honored to be sharing this episode with you! Welcome to the pod... Stephen Nibley. Shelby was introduced to Stephen through her yoga teacher training at The Yoga Underground, and he soon after has been one her meditation coaches and helped her work towards being her higher self.

Stephen is a Professor and has taught classes at Utah Valley University and Brigham Young University. He has developed a course that integrates ancient yoga roots and principles along with modern science on how we understand the functions and processes of the brain. The course he developed is called "Where the yoga meets the road" and he goes into depth on some of the principles and foundation on how he can help provide a safe environment for others to heal and progress in releasing old thinking patterns that no longer serve us.

This episode is packed with educational aspects, in which Stephen teaches us age old wisdom, terminology, lot's of definitions, and he shares lots of resources that have been helpful for him.

One of our favorite parts of the conversation is when Stephen explains the difference between thinking errors (i.e. black and white thinking or as soon as... thinking), limiting beliefs (i.e. I'm not good enough), and traumatic memories. Not only does he help us understand the difference, the definition, and the role they play in our current behavior patterns, he also helps us understand how we can overcome and make necessary changes in our thought organization to make lasting and peaceful results.

In this conversation we also touch on masculine and feminine energy, gender signaling, mom guilt, the real definition of power, how to deal with burnout, and what in the world an emotion is.

This is a power packed episode! If you would like to work with Stephen you can email him at [email protected] or you can call or text him at 801-427-0683.

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We are so thrilled to be bringing you this episode today. This episode is the live recording of our Book Club conversation, discussing "Come as you are" by Dr. Emily Nagoski. This book is a game changer, and we feel that it is a necessary read for all sexually active humans. We hosted several women for this conversation, and we are so excited for you to hear from Shelby, Allison, Linnette, Dawn, Daulton, Kenna, Tava, Korbey, Terin, and Rissy.

We start with a brief overview of the book and what to expect if you haven't had the chance to read it yet. We then quickly jump into our favorite things about the text and the deep learnings we drew from reading the pages.

Just to start off, we jump right into the concept Emily Nagoski brings home in her book: YOU ARE NORMAL! Ok then, let's all just start setting down all the unnecessary baggage we carry around wondering if we are weird or broken, we are not... we are normal. We all have the same parts, organized differently. We jump right into anatomy and even mention talking about our anatomy with our partners. We spend quite some time talking about the garden analogy and how helpful that has been in allowing us to dispel untrue ideologies about ourselves, our bodies, and our sexuality.

The other point in the book that we spend quite some time on, is the three messages we receive about our sexuality and bodies. The moral message: you are evil (slut shaming), the medical message: you are diseased (something is wrong with you, you are broken), and the media message: you are inadequate (comparing ourselves to others). None of these serve us well, and we all are taking in parts of these messages as we are inundated with them.

We dip into the brakes and accelerator concept, and how this has been helpful in allowing us to understand our own bodies and helps us to create the right context we need in order to feel safe enough to be vulnerable enough to deepen that emotional intimacy with our partners.

Along with the brakes and the context, we discuss the importance of completing the stress cycle, and the key role that self care, self love, and self acceptance play in truly being able to not judge ourselves and really lean in to our sexuality with curiosity in a safe environment.

We cannot express enough how important and influential these conversations have been on us personally, as your hosts. We truly hope this is the start of the conversation, and that as you listen along, you feel safe and feel free to have conversations like this with your loved ones. Everyone is doing it, it's time we kick the stigma to the curb and have open and freeing conversations that lead us closer to our best and most pleasure filled lives.

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