Hello and welcome to the unleashed Podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund, and today is going to get a little bit uncomfortable. Either you're going to love me or hate me after this recording. I woke up in the middle of the night, and I almost came in to record, I was like, Oh, I know that I'll wake others up. It was 2:30 in the morning, and I laid there in bed and I was writing notes, I had to go downstairs and write notes because I didn't want to wake my guy up, and I'm like, these things have been eating at me, we are business people, we are entrepreneurs, we make our livelihood in business.

Does this make sense?

I don't want to feel or sound weird or anything like that, but I know that each and every person who's listening to this podcast is probably, if they're not feeling the way that I feel now, they probably have, or they're going to feel validated. If you don't, and you disagree with me, that's totally okay. I'm used to that, and it's okay. But, we're at a time in our world, and we've talked about this before, we're in a crazy time, I get it, It's different now. It's getting really tense, and we've always been told you gotta be careful what you post on social media because it'll hurt your business.

Are you tired of that? Because here's where I'm at. We are where we're at, because we have been silenced. If you are a business person, if you're a business owner, or even if you're a sales person and you depend on sales for your livelihood, you are silenced. But you know what? Your voice matters.

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Hello and welcome to the unleashed Podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund and today it is my great honor to introduce you to one of my best friends, Wonderful Morrison. (Yes, you read that right...No, it's NOT her stage name.)

Wonderful teaches Women who are entrepreneurs, business owners, and Corporate Executives how to harness their personal LeadHERship strength to create a business and life they dream of.

Hello and welcome to the unleashed Podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund and today I am so excited to share with you a very special episode with one of my favorite people Kelly Cardenas.

Kelly Cardenas has been a national educator for John Paul Mitchell Systems (JPMS) for more than 26 years. He spent ten years working alongside, opening and directing salons for the Global Artistic Director of Paul Mitchell, which has given him a unique perspective of elite service in the professional beauty industry. Since 2006, Kelly has been building his global presence in his namesake salons in Chicago, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City UT and Carlsbad CA. Diligent, focused effort and longtime ongoing close connection to John Paul Dejoria, co-founder of JPMS, has propelled Kelly's success and established Kelly Cardenas Salon brand recognition worldwide.

Hello and welcome to The unleashed Podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund and today I want to share with you an excore of a very special episode with you:

My friend Dean Eric Smith, and you must leave the Eric in there because that's what sets him apart. He has a tremendously amazing message. I'm so grateful to have him in my inner circle, because the way that I met Dean is through my Mastermind group. His message that he has struck me in a way that I was like, "Oh my gosh, this message needs to get to so many people. It's so important to have this as part of our lives. It is another one of those F-words called forgiveness.

Hello and welcome to The Unleashed Podcast. I am your host, Kristina Sjolund, and I'm going to chat a little bit today about something that we were experiencing... Oh my gosh, I was going to say, we've been experiencing it the last week, but we've actually been experiencing this for quite some time.

We are going to chat about the cancel culture and also the social media constant fighting and arguing. How does it make you feel? How do you feel when... It is a constant battle? It's sucks for me, I sit there and I think to myself, I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't like to argue. I don't like to argue in person, I definitely don't like to argue on social media, it's a waste of time. You don't owe anybody on social media, you don't owe them your time. So, how are you going to spend your time?

I would hope that you're going to choose your time wisely, you're going to spend it in areas that are going to benefit you and your family, and create growth for all of you. I see so much bickering and sometimes it makes me sad. So I have to check out. I have to check out of it. I know that we've talked about that before. This past week, I took myself and my girls, we all went to Mount Rushmore for the Fourth of July weekend. I booked it a few months ago, I think I might have booked it back in March. March or April. And I was so looking forward to this trip. It's somewhere that I had always wanted to go. The state, South Dakota looks amazing. It looks beautiful. I wanted to know all of the things. I love history and I can't wait to share with you about our trip.

Hello and welcome back to The Unleashed Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund, and I appreciate you taking the time every week to listen in and see what kind of crazy ideas and tips that I've got to bring to you, and sometimes they might be a little bit out there.

But that's why we have so much fun, right? And in the crazy times, life likes to throw at us, we've got to have some fun, we've got to create some fun in it if it's possible. If you're a first time listener, I want to thank you, I want to welcome you. And I will tell you something, this podcast is so much fun for me to do, I enjoy it so much, and the feedback that I get, I appreciate it so much, it keeps me driven to bring you more.

Each week, I bring different tips and ideas that have helped me, because I figure I'm the regular old person... Okay, well, I'm not old, we're only as old as we feel we are, but I'm just a regular old person. I am no different than you, or the next person down the street, and I wanna make sure that what has worked for me gets passed along to be able to work for somebody else. Because we're all kind of the same, we're navigating through this same crazy world, we have different things that come at us, we've got different things that God has presented to us, different situations, maybe something that I have gone through is something that you're going through right now. And whatever helped me, just might help you as well.

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Hello and welcome back to The Unleash Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund, and I am so excited to have you here with me today.

We're going to talk about the real, real... It's about to get real up in here, right?

If my kids listen to this, they're going to be like, Oh my God, Mom. Are you kidding me right now? Nope, I'm not... We're talking about Deal with the REAL... Sometimes it's hard for people to have faith or hope when they're really overwhelmed with circumstances, especially right now, people are very emotionally charged, there's so much crazy going on.

It's hard to keep up with. I know that for myself, I have to very much emotionally remove myself so that I don't absorb what is going on around me. I have to become an observer. I can deal with things. I can stand up for things. I can support people like in support causes. But if I get too wrapped up in it and get emotionally charged in it, it can really suck me dry, and I feel that that's going on a lot with many people. So many people focus on the negative things that it makes it really easy to lose hope. And when you've got outside circumstances as well as your inner circumstances in your life... It makes it a little bit more difficult, right? So we really have to focus on what is directly affecting us and how to deal with it so that we don't get overwhelmed.

I've said many times before, what you focus on grows. This goes for fear, and it also goes for faith. It grows according to your words. If you speak out of fear, well, you're going to become more fearful, you're going to attract more negative circumstances, and even more so, you won't even be open to be able to see the blessings that you have in your life. When you start focusing on the blessings, you naturally start attracting more positive things, more positive feelings, more positive thoughts.

Hello and welcome back to the Unleashed Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund, and I thank you for tuning in today. Today I am going to be sharing an encore of my story. I wanted to reshare with you how I started my business, my journey which led me to where I am today. This is a little bit weird for me because I typically like to be talking about other people. I like to be lifting other people up. I love to be talking about business and business ideas, and everything. So for me it's a little bit, it's out of my comfort zone, but that's okay, right? Because we talk about getting out of the comfort zone, and great things happen outside of your comfort zone. So here I am. I'm jumping out of that zone.

Welcome back to The Unleashed Podcast, I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund and I thank you for tuning in and listening to what I have to say.

Now today, I'm going to talk about something that a lot of people don't really think about, and I know this because of what has been in my inbox, a lot of my friends know that I am, I'm not a prepper in the way that I'm overly prepared, really, I'm rather un-organized in a lot of areas, but I do like to be prepared for whatever is going to come. And you know maybe people think...Oh, the apocalypse and trust me, I have been made fun of and I have been mocked by family and my ex-husband thought I was nuts for wanting to have an emergency preparedness food storage set-up. And so I never followed through with that. I guess followed through isn't really the right word, but it's not something that I was ever able to really do while I was married.

We had enough food in the refrigerator to last us probably through the week without having to go to the grocery store, but anything longer than that we were probably in some trouble.

Now my question for you is, are you prepared? This sparked me for this topic this week as I was scrolling through Twitter, and I'm on Twitter actually quite a bit more than Facebook.

I saw this question that somebody had posted on there, and I thought, Wow, that's really interesting where my mind went and the question was, "What's your best advice in four words or less?"

Do you wanna know what my answer was?

My answer was time travelers, skip 2020.That was my very first thing that I thought of was... If you're a time traveler do not stop at 2020, keep on going, find someplace else to go, because you're not going have fun.

So what are you prepared for? Are you prepared for anything that comes our way?

Welcome back to The Unleashed Podcast, I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund and I appreciate you listening in today. We're going to talk about disconnecting and relaxing, taking some time for ourselves, because right now is such a crazy time in our world, and it doesn't seem to be settling down any time soon.

And it feels like it is one thing right after another. And we go into a new month and we've got a new craziness, a new deadly bug, a new virus, a new whatever may come, and holy smokes, and people have really become disconnected from what they really need to be centered on. You need to be centered in yourself and screens have become an inescapable part of our lives.

It's the biggest part. We spend more time on our phones and on our laptops. Maybe watching Netflix, especially during this quarantine. Oh, maybe have binge watched a new series on Netflix. So it's how we get our news, it's how we communicate with our friends and our family, and recently it's become nearly the only way that our kids can communicate with their friends. It's how they receive their education. Now, did you know that the average person, this will blow your mind, maybe not, I don't know, but the average person spends 10 hours a day in front of a screen. How many people do we hear say that they don't have time for certain things? They're too busy to work out, they don't have time to go for a walk with their kids or whatever. It might be, but those same people can be found on their phone or their laptop, they're replying to social media comments, maybe scrolling or just wasting time in front of a screen.

So, disconnecting and unplugging, it's very healthy for you, and it's good for you.

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