Ep 88. 100Hard Challenge for Mompreneurs

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You are now tuned in to the mom CEO suite podcast.

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I'm your host, Felicia, wife, mom, and

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entrepreneur. In this podcast, I'll be sharing my mompreneur

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journey along with strategies that will help you build your online

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business operations in a sustainable way. The goal is

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to help you build a business that fits into your lifestyle as a mom who

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values putting family first. We will also hear the

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experiences and expertise of other moms with service

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based businesses. You'll get a peek into our journeys, so you'll

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know that you aren't alone. Motherhood gets hard.

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Entrepreneurship gets hard. But together, we can

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do hard things. Welcome to the suite.

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Hey friends. Welcome to another episode. Thank you so much for being here. So

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today's episode is going to be a little bit shorter and

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straight to the point. I'm going to be telling you guys about the 100

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hard challenge for mompreneurs. Okay. There were a lot of little

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things that. Kind of led up to the

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quote unquote launch of this challenge. And I'm saying launch in quotes

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because it's just, um, this is really a last minute

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thing. And I'm really just going off of feeling

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like I'm being lit to do this. Okay. so what is the

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100 heart challenge for mompreneurs? So basically starting on

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September the 22nd, every mom in business who commits to this

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challenge. We are going to do one

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heart thing every day. Now we're not doing the same.

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Thing for the 100 days, every day is going to be

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something different. And the purpose of this is to really

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get out of our comfort zones to break free from

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procrastination. Break free from fear and

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really gained some momentum in life and in

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business. And really this is all stemming, just from my personal

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experiences over the past couple of days. And just,

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I don't know if you guys have ever felt like there were a bunch of

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little things nuggets being dropped or you were, or you felt like you were

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being led in, in a direction and you got a bunch of little confirmations

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about things. So that's kind of what happened with this.

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And so I'm just going to really quickly share how this all came

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about. But a few days ago, I had a random memory. I don't know if

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you guys ever just have random memories of things from your past.

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So I had this a random memory from years

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ago. When I had planned a trip to New York.

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To attend a trade show and back

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then, I had the desire I still do,

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but back then I was, uh, actively. Working

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towards or doing the research towards starting an

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online clothing boutique. And so I went, I was going to this trade

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show, you know, applique the train ticket to New York book. The

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hotel went up there for the day by myself. He came back

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the next day. And I was talking to my husband

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about it. And I had this memory and I'm like, wow, I

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really used to just get up and go and do things. And

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not second guess things and take action. And.

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take more risks than I do now. And it really got me

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thinking how over the past few years, and

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that they didn't know if it wasn't related to motherhood, but I think it really

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started. With COVID and then right after COVID I had my

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daughter, so. COVID and then just becoming, um,

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a mom and a wife, all kinds of consecutively. So for the

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past four years or so. I've really just kind of been in my own little

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bubble. Right. I've been online, but just kind of getting out there

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and really connecting with people the way that I used to. Pre

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COVID. premium life. It just, it looks different

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now. So I was thinking about that trip, The

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energy that I had back then, and I don't mean energy in terms of

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just. You know, Not being tired from being a mom. I

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just mean. Like the vibrancy and

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the, I guess the audacity, the

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bravery. That I had to try new things

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that has been something that has been missing from my

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life, from my business for the past few years.

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So. That happens. And I'm like, man, I really

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need to start just doing things, getting out of my comfort zone

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again. So then either later that

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night or the next day, a best friend of mine.

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She had went to this event. and I saw that they were doing

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another event. Basically quick pitch competition,

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where you can pitch your business first, come first serve type of

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situation, and they were hosting another one. And

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October. And so. It kind of

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clicked for me like, oh, this can be the start of

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you. You know, getting back to that place

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of audacity, that place of bravery, that place of

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taking risks, that place of stepping out on faith. And

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so I went ahead and I signed up for that event. Now. that

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might not seem like a huge thing to you but for me,

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just knowing the space that I've been in for the past few years, it's like,

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okay, I'm really wanting. I'm really going to do this. I'm really going out to

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an in-person event, which I have not done in so long. So there was that.

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Okay. That was like my heart thing. I felt really good about it.

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Um, you know, I was taking a risk. I was stepping outside of my comfort

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zone. Then I saw something online. The next morning that

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said there's a little more than a hundred days left. In

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2024. I immediately hit this thought.

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Like, wow. What if I did something hard every day

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for the rest of the year for the 100 days? And

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I I was reminded of how on social media, they have these

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challenges. So they have the 75 soft and the

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75 hard, honestly, I don't even know

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what. People do during those challenges, I

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just see people posting about 75 solves 75

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heart. And I know that it's related to. Um,

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Self-improvement consistency. I know there are some,

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workout routine involves drinking. Water's involved. I'm not really a

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hundred percent sure. I just know I've seen 75 solves 75 heart.

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So I'm like, oh, Let's do a 100 heart

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challenge every day. We're going to do something

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hard. And then as I'm sitting thinking like, okay, am I really want to do

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this? I was reminded of. My

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own slogan that I created for the moms CEO suite. Well,

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one of the slogans, which is a motherhood gets hard.

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Entrepreneurship gets hard. But together we can do

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hard things. It's literally in. The

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intro to the podcast. And so I'm like, this makes total

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sense. We are going to do these hard

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things together. Because, as moms in

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business, especially if you have small children,

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It's so easy to get wrapped up and caught up

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in the day-to-day of taking care of the kids. And if you're

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married, you know, The day-to-day of being a wife and

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just managing the household and all of those things, and it can be super

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easy to lose sight of. Um, I don't want to say

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lose sight of who you are, but it can be really quick for.

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For you to not be the priority. Right. And

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so. I really just want to create this space. Where

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moms can push themselves back outside of their comfort

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zone. It's so easy to get comfortable in being

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home in working from home, in taking care of the

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kids. That there's like this borderline or a

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thin line, right? Remember the movie Finland between love and

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hate. Right? So there's a thin line between. Understanding the season that you're

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in and knowing that you have less capacity because you're taking care of the

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children. There's a thin line between bed and.

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And making excuses for you not taking action towards

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your goal. It's a very, very thin lie. And so it's easy to

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cross that line and get into complacency and to

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stay in our comfort zones. Um, in the name

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of, um, taking care of my children, this season is for the

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kids, you know, not for me. I saw, I really just

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went this challenge to be. An encouragement. Uh,

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momentum shift for the moms who are going to participate. We are

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going to every day, starting September the 22nd

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every day, we are going to do a hard thing. Now the heart thing

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does not need to be related to your business. It can

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be. But it's it's really for anything in your life.

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And so. If you need to have a hard conversation with somebody. If there's a

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conversation you've been Avoiding, you can have that

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conversation as one of your heart things. Even if it is in your

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business, If you've been on the fence about sending more emails. And

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one day you want to send two emails instead of sending one

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email. It can literally be anything.

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If you need to set boundaries with clients or you need to

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set boundaries with someone in your family. That can be one of your

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hard things. If you need to pitch yourself or complete a grant

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application. Or, um, Even if it's

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something, spiritually related, if you have not been

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in a place where you've been able to pray and praying

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feels hard for you, that can be your heart thing.

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Talking to guy, maybe if your relationship with him has not been.

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Um, that's strong if it's been strained and it feels hard to

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talk to him that can be. Your heart thing,

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opening up your Bible, doing a devotional. That can be your heart thing. So

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it's going to look different for everybody. But. The

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goal is for you to really be honest with yourself about what those hard things

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are. And then every day just tackle one thing. One thing.

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And then I'm anticipating that. At the

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end of the year. We will be in a space. Where we are

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outside of our comfort zones, where we are not being held back

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by fear procrastination. We're not making excuses. And we

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really have seen some momentum and changes in our

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business and our lives. Okay. So if you want to participate

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in the 100 heart challenge for mompreneurs. It is

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all going well. The hub for is going to be our Facebook group.

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As of revived, the mom CEO suite Facebook group. And so if you

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want to participate, just go ahead and

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click the link in the show description so you can join the Facebook group.

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This is where the community will be. We'll be able to,

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encourage one another. Every day for those heart things that we are

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doing. I'm also just kind of as a bonus, going

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to be coming onto the podcast weekly and sharing

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my week's worth of hard things that I've done. Just for accountability

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sake. And so again, if you want to participate in that, click the link in

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the show description. To join the Facebook group. And

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I think I'll also create a link for you guys just to sign

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up so you can join the Facebook group directly, or you

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can sign up. Via email. All of that will be in the show description,

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but if you have questions about it, feel free to DM me on

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Instagram and I'll answer any questions that you have. I look

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forward to seeing you all in the 100 heart challenge for

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mompreneurs. Thanks for listening. And I'll see you guys in the next episode.

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