Join us as we talk with Rudy Navarrete, owner of Rudy M. Navarrete's Tex Mex Restaurant in Sioux Falls, SD.

Today we talk to Rudy about how he came to have a restaurant in Sioux Falls and what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and small business owner. We also had the opportunity to sample the food and you can find a review of that at angiesawesomeadventures.com.

Rudy talks about where his passion for owning his own restaurant came from, the personal struggles that he overcame to get to where he is today and how he gives back to the community.

If there is someone that you'd like to hear from on our show, reach out and let us know. We'd love to hear from you.

This week you will see that we have given our show a facelift. We have renamed the show Think About it Thursday with Angie and Charlene. We will be posting on Thursday's, and potentially other days but we wanted the show to be more reflective of what we are hoping to bring to you in our content. We strive to help you find your tribe. Find your place and know that you are not alone. Our goal is to bring you content that is relevant to your every day life. To talk about things that come up and tips, tool and tricks you can you to elevate yourself and find happiness in the life you are creating.

This week is our first episode under our new name AND our very first interview episode with Sarah Wambach of Mission Nutrition.

Mission Nutrition is an Herbalife Nutrition Club in Sioux Falls, SD. Sarah and her husband Jeremy have been on an amazing journey building their dream life and we wanted to talk to her about what success looks like and means to her as well as how she was able to achieve the level of success that she has found so far. We hope you love the new format!

We're so excited for this episode. Today we're talking all about love languages. For those of you that are not familiar this is based on the book The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman.

If you don't know your love language you can go to 5lovelanguages.com/profile and take the quiz. This quiz will help you identify what your primary love languages are so that you can start to speak them and hear them effectively.

The 5 Love Languages are
1. Words of affirmation
2. Quality time
3. Receiving gifts
4. Acts of service
5. Quality time

This week we take a look at each of the languages. We talk about ways to incorporate each of these into your life if it's something your partner needs. On the flip side, we talk about how to recognize if your partner is speaking one of these languages that you are not "hearing".

Join us to take a closer look at ways to improve the relationship you have with your partner. If you are interested in more of Gary's work, he has several books published on love languages. These books are designed for the different types of relationships that may be in your life.

The 5 Love Languages
The 5 Love Languages of Children
The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret that Will Revolutionize Your Relationships
The 5 Love Languages for Men: Tools for Making a Good Relationship Great
Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away: Real Help for Desperate Hearts in Difficult Marriages
The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively
The 5 Love Languages Military Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts
The 5 Love Languages with Dr. Gary Chapman

This month's focus is on mindset. There are many ways to influence your mindset and it's our mindset that sets us up for success or failure. This week specifically we want to focus on our habits. Our habits come from thinking a certain way over and over again until the action being performed is done on auto-pilot.

According to Matthew Killingsworth who is a Harvard Psychologist, and Daniel Gilbert who is the author of the book Stumbling on Happiness, 47% of our day is done habitually. You can read more about this in the success .com article 10 signs you're living on autopilot.

This week we also dive into the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. We discuss how habits are formed and tips and tools to create new habits.

A habit is made up of 4 parts. Without each of these components a habit will not be formed.
1. Que
2. Craving
3. Response
4. Reward

We talk about the 3 layers of behavior change and dig into details for each.
1. Outcome based
2. Process based
3. Identity based

As humans, we are happiest and most fulfilled when our thoughts and actions are in alignment. Changing habits that are not in alignment or creating new habits that are can put us on the right track to increase personal fulfillment.

Whether you know it or not, your thoughts are directly responsible for the results that you are getting in your life. This month we're going to focus on our mindset and how to become aware of and change the thoughts that we have about ourselves. This week we're going to take a deep dive into the words that we use when we have conversations with others. Both when we talk about ourselves or just have a normal conversation about life and stuff.

We open the episode by looking at how we talk about ourselves. What do you say to yourself when you make a mistake? When you do poorly at a job or a task? What is the first thought that comes to mind?

Do you call yourself names? Say things like, "Ugh, I'm such an idiot" or "I'm a moron" or even something as simple as "I suck"
Do you say depreciating things to yourself? Do you think or say things like "I can't do anything right" or "I never have any good ideas" or "I give up"

These things may seem harmless or we may not give them a second thought but think for a moment. Is this something that you would say to your kids? Is it something you would say to a co-worker? These types of comments are extremely harmful to our own well-being.

Your subconscious doesn't have a sense of humor. It simply believes what you tell it. Even if you don't mean it when you start saying it, if it's repeated enough times you will eventually begin to believe it and we know that this is not true. You have greatness in you and unlimited potential.

Words are powerful. Talking bad about yourself gives other people permission to treat you poorly. We talk about this and explain why nobody can treat you better than you treat yourself. Words that use are seen through our own perception of ourselves so even good intentions can be misunderstood if your perception of yourself isn't in good standing.

After that we dive into everyday phrases that we use that keep us attached to lack and limitation. We give you simple but effective phrases to replace these with to help you get into the mindset that is tuned to abundance rather than lack.

It can be overwhelming to work on the entire list at once. Focus on one at a time and spend some time being hyper aware and intentional about using the replacement phrases instead.

This week we go off topic to talk about our beliefs on gender neutral bathrooms.

This week we talk about why self-care is important. We talk about how taking care of ourselves makes us better people. When we take care of ourselves we have the capacity to better care for others.

Social self-care is all about the relationships in our lives. When life gets busy it’s commonplace to ignore the social side of our lives. We get so busy doing that we forget about the friends in our lives and that area of our life slowly shrinks.

Hear real examples of how this applies to our lives on a daily basis and what you can do to nurture the social side of your life. This is a great reminder that we are in control of our own choices and that there are ways to adjust our choices to create the results that we want. The great news is that you get to make the decision.

Tips on how to start digging into social and mental self-care
Go slow
Start as small as you need to don’t let the idea or activity overwhelm you
Pick one thing and master it before you layer more
Schedule time for self-care
Stick to your plan, it’s OK to say no
When you’re starting, make it practical
Make it easy
Make it fun
Find someone to share accountability with
Make the activity highly rewarding
Look for where activities already fit in your schedule
Take care of your brain too: Puzzles, Sudoku, Writing, Reading etc.


Making new friends takes a long time. When we neglect our social self-care it can entail pushing friends to the side because we don’t have time. Over time this can be damaging to relationships and then we may no longer have them. It takes a long time to make new friends so it’s actually easier to keep the ones we have and spend time with them.

Jeffery Hall Study - https://news.ku.edu/2018/03/06/study-reveals-number-hours-it-takes-make-friend

Welcome to our episode on emotional self-care. Today we’ll be talking about how to engage in emotional self-care.

Everything in our universe is made of energy. Everything from your phone, to your computer, to your kitchen table to the radio and television waves to our brain waves. This also means that our emotions are energy.

Just like other forms of energy our emotions can change. The thoughts we have cause our feelings. We can think about a situation one way and feel happy, frustrated, sad, excited, scared or whatever and then we think about it differently and that emotion may change. Our feelings cause us to take action which ultimately creates the results that we are getting in our life.

Listen now to find out several ways to raise your energy and find balance in your emotions.

All types of self-care are important and this week we’re talking about how and why we should take care of our physical bodies.

When we don’t take care of our physical bodies, they break down in a lot of different ways. We become tired and rundown. We can develop medical problems and we’re just not able to live our best life.

The thing about self care is that only you can do it for yourself. No one else can provide self-care for you. So let’s talk about some ways to take care of ourselves.

One thing we can do is have a regular sleep routine. Setting a time to sleep and time to wake up is a good start. If you struggle to sleep, shutting off all electronics 30 minutes before bed can help.

Another tip to help with physical self-care is to reflect on your day. How did you show up in the world. Is it how you wanted to show up. Doing this consistently will help you make different choices as you become the person you want to be which will help with all types of self-care.

Eating a healthy diet is a great physical self-care activity too. Find a routine that works to make healthier choices and that can be different for each of us. Start now. Start whenever it works for you. You don’t have to start “at the beginning”.

Other things you can do is start small. Make simple recipes. Make sure that you are eating throughout the day. Don’t skip meals. Find an accountability partner.

Give yourself permission to take the time for the things that are important to take care of yourself. You CAN take the time.

Other Ideas for self care include: Getting a haircut or new hair style, showering or bathing, getting a massage, be aware of what’s going on around you and have a plan.

This week we explore what spiritual self care looks like and why it's important. Learn about different activities to care for, nurture and recharge your soul.