Interview with Tameika Gentles: Founder of Tameika G. Fitness and The Whole Experience
Interview with Tameika Gentles: Founder of Tameika G. Fitness and The Whole Experience. Tameika G. Fitness has served as a personal trainer to over 900 clients across the globe. "The Whole Experience" is an all-inclusive week-long health retreat designed to bring women together and empower them on their journey to wellness.
This podcast series is hosted by Patricia Kathleen and Wilde Agency Media. The series interviews women (& women-identified & non-binary) entrepreneurs, founders, and gurus across all industries to investigate those voices in business today. Both the platform and discussion are designed to further the global conversation in regards to the changing climate in entrepreneurial and founding roles.
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[00:00:07] Hi, my name is Patricia Kathleen, and this podcast series will contain interviews I conduct with female and female identified entrepreneurs, founders, co-founders, business owners and industry gurus. These podcasts speak with women and women, identified individuals across all industries in order to shed light for those just getting into the entrepreneurial game, as well as those deeply embedded within it histories, current companies and lessons learned are explored in the conversations I have with these insightful and talented powerhouses. The series is designed to investigate a female and female identified perspective in what has largely been a male dominated industry in the USA to date. I look forward to contributing to the national dialog about the long overdue change of women in American business arenas and in particular, entrepreneurial roles. You can contact me via my media company website Wild Dot Agency. That's w i l d dot agency or my personal website. Patricia Kathleen, dot com. Thanks for listening. Now let's start the conversation. [00:01:25][77.9]
[00:01:29] Hi, everyone, and welcome back. This is your host, Patricia, and today I am sitting down with Tameika Gentles. Tameika is the founder of Tameika Fitness, the co-founder of The Whole Experience. Welcome, Tameika. [00:01:41][12.4]
[00:01:43] Thank you so much for having me, Patricia. [00:01:44][1.3]
[00:01:45] Absolutely. I'm really excited to kind of get into your personal journey as well as your professional journey are both as equally as awesome. Everyone, before I give a bio on Tameika, I wanted to give a quick roadmap of today's podcast. As I always do. We will be starting off with Tameika's academic background, followed by questions regarding her professional life thereafter and then getting into Tameika G. Fitness. We will then turn to her business endeavors with the whole experience and questions around both of those business endeavors, namely the who, what, when, where and why of both experiences. Then we'll drop in to the goals that Tameika has for the next three years in all of her business endeavors and maybe some personal ones. We will wrap everything up with advice that Tameika has. For those of you looking to work with her, get involved or maybe kind of mirror some of her progress. Quick bio on Tameika before I start peppering her with questions. Since losing 90 pounds 12 years ago to me has devoted her time to helping others achieve the happiness she has found on her health journey as a certified personal trainer. She has helped over nine hundred clients, both in person and online, lose a cumulative of over ten thousand pounds. On a personal level, her journey expands beyond weight loss. Since achieving her physical goals, she's decided it was also time to deeply assess other aspects of her life. She wanted optimal happiness, but couldn't quite pinpoint how she was going to get there. Through extensive reflection, it was obvious she needed to explore the world and find out. So five years ago, she picked up her life and moved to Hong Kong. This is where her love affair with travel began. Since then, she has traveled extensively, visiting over 40 countries, soaking in all of the cultures the world has to offer. She eventually left her corporate job to move to Bali to build and scale her businesses full time. Since then, she has created several online offerings, including ebooks, online coaching and has launched the whole Experience Fitri, an all inclusive, week long health retreat designed to bring up to 14 women together and empower them on their journey to wellness. Being able to blend her two passions health and travel into a career is beyond your wildest dreams. And through hard work, she intends to scale this business to the highest possible measures. But that is so fantastic to me. I cannot wait to find out all about it. And I really want to mention to everyone in the listening today that Tameika is joining me from Bali and I am nestled into San Diego, California. So we are on opposite ends of this earth and I'm excited to make those to connect with the conversation that will happen in between us, so to speak. Will you take us through your academic background and then kind of your brief professional life after that? [00:04:27][162.1]
[00:04:28] Yeah, so I am the daughter of immigrant parents, moved to Canada from Jamaica and education was just not a part of their life and their world and their generations before that. So it was a mandatory opportunity for me, kind of living the Canadian dream, moving to Canada. We had to get educations that was so important. We got to be it was why wasn't it in a and it was education in our household. So as a result, I took it very seriously. And thankfully, I was involved in the arts as well. So I did find that balance growing up. And that was always been that creative element to me. But I went to university, did the school thing, went to school for business, because if it wasn't to be a doctor or to be a lawyer, it was for business. [00:05:11][43.1]
[00:05:12] And I'm so happy. I went to school for business. I went to business school and got my undergraduate degree there, then fell into the corporate ladder at the bottom. I made my way. I spent about a decade in human resources and H.R. now. Well, and just continue to climb and thrive. And it wasn't until I probably approached 30 where I started to think to myself, there's got to be more to life than this, because I was at one point where I was making and I'm very transparent with members. I don't know why a society we aren't. So I'm someone to just say this is what I made, just the number I was making upwards of one hundred and fifty two and a thousand dollars a year. And those really beautiful gems that what I thought would be beautiful at the time was making really nominal changes in my life. And then the just the real deeper questions are to really service like what is my purpose, what am I here on Earth for? And that's when the evolution began. So ten years in corporate, I don't take it for granted for a second. It helped me and. I'm a great leader in the work I do today and help me to know people because I was so awesome. I know how to work with people. I travel for work a lot. So I get different cultures and traveled around the world for work. So I don't take it for granted for a second. But it definitely is a season in my life that is now over and I'm now just in a more purpose driven. Walk away. [00:06:28][76.4]
[00:06:29] Yeah, that's interesting and I think that I always want to applaud people in H.R. and it's because I myself find that the work, they're so delicate and arduous in any company across all cultures. [00:06:43][13.7]
[00:06:44] I put myself through my undergraduate degree working at Nordstrom and they have like this very prolific P H.R. department and culture, and they kind of bring everyone into it. And it's not just about hiring firing benefits, it's about all of it. But it's definitely an interesting area to kind of get your your stabilization in business because you really are looking at the human factor, right? [00:07:08][23.3]
[00:07:08] Exactly. And I always affects business. I always joke and say I was destined for this work that I do today because that's what I chose. When you're in business school, you have all the all the different areas you can go into finance and accounting. And I just literally gravitated towards H.R. because I love the human element of it. And in any role I was in H.R., it was really around the people. So it wasn't around fire. It was really around growing the people in the morale and all of that within the organization. [00:07:36][28.2]
[00:07:37] So that was something that I was very passionate about more. [00:07:40][2.8]
[00:07:41] Yeah, how did Tameika G Fitness start to evolve? Was it just one day, wake up, get out of bed like that's it? I'm done with corporate, I'm going to develop this this fitness I'm in myself. I'm going to take myself on this trajectory, like, what was the story unfolding there? [00:07:55][14.0]
[00:07:56] So to me, fitness was a side hustle. It was my passion project that was kind of caring. I'd gone through a divorce and the divorce wrecked me and it was something I could kind of put my energy towards that made me happy helping people. I recognize that in my deepest moments, giving back was really getting me out of it. So I started to fight Huckle. And as you mentioned in the bio, I lost one hundred pounds and I had been really active. So it's for my transformation. I kind of started to develop a bit of a social media following and as a result, I got certified after my divorce and something to kind of push me to and energize me. And that's what I did. I was energized and I loved helping people. So I juggled my human resources work, as well as the side hustle of basically taking on clients. And as a result, I think over five years of juggling both I had like. Six or seven hundred clients under my belt, I moved to Hong Kong, as you mentioned, the BIOS, so that I transition those clients online because a lot of my clients were Toronto based in Canada. So I still want to help people. And I was in Hong Kong and I want to help my clients back home. So I moved my business online to help them virtually. And I was just juggling the two. And then I think when I thought the real power of what the online coaching space could be is what I decided. I can make the full transition. And that's what happened. [00:09:15][78.7]
[00:09:16] Yeah, it's a unique time. And I think the past maybe seven years I've seen a real transition before that I call them like flagship people that were at the very beginning time periods. [00:09:28][12.1]
[00:09:28] But around seven years ago, for me at least, looking around the personal fitness world, it really did start to take on this remote clientele, trainer basis coach, and it removed so many obstacles that I think people had. And then you had corporations, obviously like peloton that jumped on top of and things like that. But I think it really did change people's to what kind of jobs you can do remotely. I'm wondering, when did you found Tameika Fitness because you were doing it in transition with your work? Was there a year that you remember being like, I'm finding it this year? [00:10:06][37.7]
[00:10:10] Yes, just going back in the memory bank, which feels like so long ago and it's been so much growth since then, I would say. [00:10:18][8.3]
[00:10:19] So 12 and 13 is when I went through my divorce. And that was when I got certified. Call it 2014 is when I started to kind of make things official and you had so much work before that to. [00:10:33][13.3]
[00:10:33] It's another kind of flip flop of how people look at starting a business. [00:10:37][3.4]
[00:10:37] And I think that people overlook sometimes when you kind of endeavor into these areas where you're just your only single employee for a moment, it's a little bit different from other startups. But all of the like, the pillars and the platforms are the same. It's just you can do things like develop this clientele and things like that before launching heavily into because I know that you've developed a lot of structure and from this you've got the retreat experience and things like that that clearly grew out of this. But it's interesting to hear you say that you had hundreds of clients. By the time you've made this transition to Hong Kong, did you ever take funding for it or you were always did you always just have kind of just yourself as your own personal brand, as a trainer? [00:11:18][40.5]
[00:11:19] Always myself. I've never gotten the funding route. I think being in business, I kind of thought the negative sides of it. And I mean, the stuff stuff is something that can happen in the future. But I've just always been more of an organic grassroots kind of gal and we've been exceptionally successful doing it that way. So maybe in the future, but not yet. What took you to Hong Kong? Was it a business or was it personal training business? So after the divorce and I did about a year personal training and living in the divorce, I just needed to kind of I needed to escape out of complete fairness. And it's the best escape I've done because it kind of introduced me to travel and the world and all these things that I moved with my job. And that's what I yeah, I had never even been to Hong Kong. Get me out of here. I wanted to go with a lot of shame and guilt associated with my divorce that I wasn't able to feel through there. And Hong Kong led me to the entire world because prior to that, I'd only made like maybe one or two international trips. And now I'm approaching 50 countries. So it's been really exciting. Did you go with an entirely new country or did you just kind of transfer within the company that you were in and transfer within the company I was in? So there was an international opportunity and I was like the first person to hear that. Excellent. That's really cool. [00:12:39][80.6]
[00:12:40] So do you still take on virtual clients or do you kind of knee deep in and doing what we're going to get into next, which is the whole earth, the whole experience? [00:12:48][7.9]
[00:12:50] No, still clients. I got eight right now. I do coaching groups now, so I take on small, intimate coaching groups, the power of women, sisterhood together. I've just really started to feel into that. So while everybody's kind of coached individually, we now bring them together. The beautiful sacred container where they are sharing goals and sharing experiences and it's all virtual. And we run those coaching programs three to four times a year and they've definitely evolved their module base. It's a full on course. They've just put everybody in a container to be together. [00:13:20][30.3]
[00:13:21] Right. That's awesome. [00:13:22][1.2]
[00:13:23] I'm wondering with when you come at and certainly your own brand gets into minutia that we couldn't cover here. But when you look at fitness, how much of that is based on diet, exercise, spiritual clarity, mental harmony? [00:13:39][16.2]
[00:13:40] Do you look at how many factors do you look at? How do you break it down? Does it include all of them or do you specify just looking at one, how does that work? [00:13:48][8.2]
[00:13:49] So, yeah, we're definitely holistic approach business. And I say we because I brought the business partner and staff to help. But we're a holistic approach. So we're very fortunate to be very structured in our program right now. But the first twenty five to thirty percent of the program, regardless of the length we're taking on, is focused strictly on foundation in mindset. So we talked about spiritual clarity, a lot of introspective work, a lot of reflection, really just getting that core, because at the end of the day, we realize this is the bio that you're right, it's a little bit than now. But twelve hundred clients and I've worked with twelve hundred and intimately, you kind of start to realize that everybody knows what to do, you know. Well, you know, to move your body, there is a very big gap in everybody's process that has been identified in a lot of it is a spiritual and mental work. So we start there. So before we give any kind of food advice or movement advice, which we do do, the first twenty five to thirty percent of every program is strictly focused on the mindset. [00:14:45][55.7]
[00:14:47] I feel like that carries over into some of your old stomping ground as well, has gotten very into kind of this like and different companies are more brazen than others. [00:14:56][9.7]
[00:14:57] But this kind of meditation room, like these open areas that kind of reaching into the mind first as far as the work life balance or the health and happiness of the employee, I think that a lot of people from all facets of business and health and coaching and everything are starting to realize that the brain and kind of getting into that area is not only included, but maybe somewhere to start with. [00:15:20][23.1]
[00:15:20] It's an completely connected the World Health Organization just. Classified burn out as an official thing, so it is a disease. I don't know if they read it, but it's an official thing that the World Health Organization, so now all organizations, at least in the world, can still a little tapped into a frenzy. They're maneuvering programs and they're kind of really taking it seriously. And I was on the tail end of that because I was just in H.R. about four or five years ago. So it was beautiful. I was part of a lot of important employee morale, engagement, wellness. So that was a piece of the work I did. And I love the transition now that I'm able to take back to what I do. [00:15:54][33.8]
[00:15:55] Yeah, absolutely. It sounds like you were a little ahead of that curve as well. So when you transitioned to the how did the whole experience come about? I know you co-founded it with somebody else, but what was it born out of? [00:16:07][12.0]
[00:16:08] Oh, gosh. Born out of beautiful, serendipitous, divine intervention, which is the best story. I love telling it. So I moved to Bali to build it the coaching programs and initially the thought process was to go into the Evergreen Automation model. And I was going to get on the forefront of all of that because this is about three years ago when it was still quite fresh. So I moved to Bali to do that. Bali was a very strategic approach because it's affordable and you got a really beautiful high quality of life. And I really didn't want the bottom line to have to be a driver and anything I did because I really wanted to be truly heart centered. So I most of all, if I could do that and live off savings pretty easily and I happened to be in Bali and I had been to Bali about four or five times prior to strictly for vacation, but living here was quite different. I recognize it was a Richie Rich capital of the world and I was looking around at all the rich because I was here and I just realized this retreat is very linear. These are very linear. Where do women like me, where they represented, where women from different backgrounds, demographics, colors, sizes, ages like where is the retreat for all women? And I didn't see that. It was very linear. It was all very yoga centric and very just I didn't feel like I belonged in those retreats. And I'm a fitness professional. So I was thinking for women who is like a soccer mom and wants to do a retreat, like where is a retreat for her? So as a result, I felt it. And it was supposed to be a one off thing because I was being in the virtual world and being online all the time can be quite isolating. So I was really craving to get my hands wet and do something very just get my hands dirty in something. So it's supposed to be a one off or treat business. I started kind of putting pen to paper and about a week after I kind of decided that it was what I wanted to do, the one missing piece was like a really strong yoga mindset coach to come along with me because I am historically more focused on fitness nutrition. So I wanted that balance. And sitting in a cafe one day in Bali, a beautiful girl asked me for asking me what my salad was because we were just talking as the travelers. And that was a week after I kind of decided I wanted to do this retreat. She turned out to be a business partner. The most amazing thing. You've been a Yog. Her mother is a yoga instructor. So she's literally yoga, if you like to. And she just understands the balance, holistic approach. We've been traveling and building this navratri since it was so severe. One, we've now been building it for two years and it's now multiple six figure business and it's beautiful and amazing. And it all happened in Bali, which is just serendipitous and that's born and bred. [00:18:40][152.8]
[00:18:41] We are in the napkins writing our business on napkins in coffee shops that it's it's really blown up to be something in the whole the real ethos behind it as a retreat for all women. So come on, come on. Regardless of your age or size, your background, if you love wildness, if you want to understand the holistic approach, you want to see the world where the retreat for you. And that's kind of how we. [00:19:02][20.9]
[00:19:03] We put it nice when it was founded around twenty seventeen. [00:19:07][3.7]
[00:19:07] If you're if it's a couple of years ago, we just approached two years, so two years and 10 retreat's we've done and we've operated and started in Bali. Then we moved to Thailand. Then we went real bold and went to South Africa and we moved to Columbia. We did Europe this summer as we did Italy and Greece. And now we're back in Bali, just ran one in Bali and we're heading back to Thailand due to more. [00:19:30][22.6]
[00:19:31] Will you continue oscillating the destinations or does it depend on where you guys feel? Would it be best situated then or will it always be like South Africa then Thailand then like in in order? [00:19:43][12.1]
[00:19:44] We'll have our favorites, so we'll have the ones that we return to. But we always want to remain relevant for the clients. So we'll definitely throw in one or two new ones each year. But we have the ones that the year we thought we kind of did so many ways because it was really an opportunity to learn the markets, understand the markets. We now know the markets that work for us. And then we'll introduce one or two new ones every year for sure. And the real question say the real question is now like where do we do the handoff is that's something that even if we're having those bigger kind of three to five year questions now, but in the space, we just love being there for the women and traveling the world and being nomadic and having fun while doing it. [00:20:22][38.6]
[00:20:22] So, yeah, there's a lot of logistics involved. So my question now turning kind of more toward the business aspect of it. [00:20:29][6.1]
[00:20:29] And I'm wondering if you kept the set up as the one week kind of retreat and how regeneration or if you expanded it or change that timeline for the different countries. [00:20:40][10.7]
[00:20:40] And there is a lot of like if you don't have contacts in South Africa, there's a lot of communication and research you're going to have to do to find these centers and things like that. Who was the one spearheading that? Were both of you kind of just like, let's do this? Or was it something that if you learn how to do it in Bali, you can do it anywhere? [00:20:59][18.9]
[00:21:00] So the program remains the same. It's a one week program. We haven't deviated from that very much about kind of staying in our lane and doing what works and just people that know what to expect when they come to us. It's not this constant changing game. At least we were really big on building the brand and building. [00:21:15][14.8]
[00:21:16] It was like a staple in somebody's travel schedule each year. And then as far as the operations goes, the logistics and the communications, we're both avid travelers. By the time we connected, we both kind of been to about 20 countries. We're both living nomadic. So navigating different cultures, different ways of working. It's kind of what we've done. We never just hop into a country we haven't seen to, so we go to a country that we've been to and know somewhat intimately and have Conex there. [00:21:41][25.8]
[00:21:43] But I would say we both where we both have our genius zones. So my understanding is definitely the branding, the marketing, getting the word out there, web development with the face of the brand. [00:21:55][11.4]
[00:21:56] And then my business partner is a genius is really in the operational aspects. So she's the one on the spreadsheet. She's one dealing with the vendors. And we obviously have support as well. So we we make it work. We spend hours a genius. But I think a lot of the reason why we've been able to do it so well is because of our average travel background. [00:22:13][16.9]
[00:22:14] Did you guys have a mentor when you were first starting off a couple of years ago? Did you have people that you look towards or was it just kind of bootstrapped, even knowledge wise? Just learn by yourself, figure out what you needed and implement it. [00:22:27][12.7]
[00:22:27] And it was the latter. We had reached out to two people. We didn't really love the energy that was received, a lot of beer. And a lot of this won't work because and I mean, it's a very unconventional business model, so I get it. But it just didn't work for us. And we're very much women who we actually have the same birthday. That's one of the things I kind of connect to. That's where we first met in that cafe. So we're very similar. We're kind of just thought to ourselves, now we're going to try it. And if we fail, then that's going to be an awesome lesson learned, a great a great ride. But we didn't want the fear that was coming from people. So it was a very intentional decision to learn from the grassroots. And that's what we done and work in two years. Yes. Two years later. Now people are coming to us asking how we do it. And it's just beautiful. We're now able to kind of lend a very positive spin to the to the work we do. [00:23:16][48.2]
[00:23:16] It's amazing your growth without hearing exact numbers. [00:23:19][3.1]
[00:23:20] It sounds like it's been off the charts with any industry across the world, including retreat's. And I know retreat's can go well, but from what the sound of what you've done, yours has gone so extremely well. [00:23:31][11.4]
[00:23:32] When we look forward to goals that you have for the next three years, you mentioned having these more in depth conversations of do we franchise, how do we grow that? Do we want to grow that? Have you guys come to any consensus at all about what will definitely be in the works over the next three years now? [00:23:49][17.6]
[00:23:52] Have a lot of whiteboarding. I think what we've always done and it's been consistent in our approach to any kind of changes is at heart centered around what we want to do. That's first and foremost. And are we giving back and are we living in our purpose? Because that's something we're both very adamant about. And now as we kind of approach our mid 30s, we're asking ourselves, what do we want a life to look like? Do we want to be moms? And I have a partner right now, and he's incredible and very patient with my lifestyle, but I mean can only be sustained for so long. So the question remains, what do we want our lifestyle to look like? And then how can we make a business still centered, still serving to an end, but really kind of mold into the lifestyle that we want to move to? So those are the more deeper questions we're asking ourselves right now. And then we'll just we'll transition the business to make it work. I'm not concerned about and I think we have options, which is beautiful over at the stage now where we put out a retreat and it sells out like that. So we have a brand. We have all the things in place now. It's just really. The deep question that we have to ask ourselves, but what a good situation to be in, so not for a second do I ever complain about having these discussions. It's exciting times. [00:25:00][68.8]
[00:25:01] Absolutely. [00:25:01][0.0]
[00:25:02] I wonder, it was so with someone who has your personal history, with what I imagine is either a developing or changing or maybe just one specific model that works well for you. But losing 90 pounds, 12 plus years ago, it must have given you a deep relationship with goal setting and and yourself and maybe even how those to navigate one another. Do you ever find that your relationship with goal setting has changed since that time period, or am I wrong? Did you did you was the 90 pound weight loss not developed in goal setting or how did that work? And how does it speak to where you're at now and where you're transitioning into? [00:25:41][38.8]
[00:25:42] It's a great question because it's changed dramatically. I used to be the person who would have the two to three year plan down to a pat, all the goals, not only with the weight and how that was definitely one aspect, but a lot of it now, especially as I entered entrepreneurial and I knew I was going to transition into full time entrepreneurship goals around finances and goals rather than targets. You wanted to hit all goals centered. A lot of the decisions I made and I've since transitioned into a lot more grace and compassion, a lot more trust in what is meant to be will be. A lot more of my spiritual journey has grown incredibly in the last two to three years. I've been traveling full time. I've seen the world a lot deeper than I think the average person has from my my scope and perspective has just changed tremendously, whereas now I'm very much trusting of what is meant to be will be. Of course, we're going to have goals and a vision. [00:26:36][54.3]
[00:26:36] But the questions are so heart centered, is it aligned? Is it what it is we kind of want out of our lives and it's less about the numbers, less about the actual pragmatic targets and more really about the work we do and who we want to be in the world. That's very different. And I'm happy with that change. Yeah, a lot more a lot more compassion to what the work I do. [00:27:02][25.3]
[00:27:02] You've clocked a lot of miles to get there, too, and we literally traveled the globe in search of that. So that's that's amazing. So I'm curious if you ran across a young woman or a non binary individual tomorrow who said, listen, my folks immigrated to Canada when I was young and I grew up there and I got my and my business degree and I went into H.R. and I did great. [00:27:26][23.6]
[00:27:26] I learned a lot. It wasn't a waste, but I've been there ten years. I'm leaving now. I just got out of this relationship. I'm going to go out on my own. I'm the entrepreneurial efforts. What are the three pieces of advice you would give that individual? [00:27:38][11.5]
[00:27:39] Yeah, so I'm a very big believer on being on your own. I would tell that woman to go and just be in a space where she can receive messages. I think there's just so much noise in our society where we just are so conditioned. You don't take the time to simply go and receive one of the one of the spaces in my journey that I left out. And I did take about three to six months to not do anything. And I traveled Europe and it was just me and my suitcase and I traveled and it was beautiful. Such a beautiful time because the message was so clear and essentially pulled me in and called me. [00:28:14][35.0]
[00:28:15] Had I not given myself that space, I don't know if I would have heard that message. So space and time, another thing I would give that woman as far as advice, because I see it as kind of talking to myself five years ago, it was just compassion and grace. I think coming from an immigrant household, you have this insane pressure that's again, condition. You just want to do everything your parents didn't do. They did so much to kind of get you these opportunities and you feel the same pressure to succeed and be and again, just giving them compassion and grace. And then the third thing I would say is, I mean, I know it's so cliche and I know we should probably be early, but I'm going to continue to push this message. We got one life to live. Do what you want. Do what brings you joy. You can monetize anything, especially in this day and age. Let's capitalize on that amazing opportunity. And I would just tell that woman to, like, really quiet the space, have some compassion and find it, find what it is that you love and just do it nice. I think I really connected to some kind of stoic mentality, some kind of stoic mentality, especially just that, like, life is not guaranteed and things can happen and it can feel morbid at times, but it's reality. And I just don't take a day for granted anymore. [00:29:30][74.5]
[00:29:31] That's excellent. So be in a space and time where you can receive messages and continue with compassion and grace and do what you want to do. [00:29:40][9.0]
[00:29:41] I like those that are very it's funny because they feel both simple and very, very difficult. I think that you could sit for a couple of hours. With each one and apply it to yourself in all of the different areas and facets that we all function have come up with some different and interesting answers. I really appreciate that. Well, I'm going to turn around and follow up with you in a year because I can't wait to find out what's going to be happening with them, with your own personal experience, with to make a fitness as well as the whole experience. I think that the retreat in what you guys are doing sounds fantastic. And for everyone listening before I let it go, it's you can find to make a fitness at Tameika G Dotcom, that's t om dotcom. And you can also look up the whole experience at the whole experience dot org. So but thank you so much for taking the time out of your leg. Wonderful wildlife in the background. Morning. I really appreciate it. It was so awesome talking with you. I know you're busy and I really appreciate your time. [00:30:47][66.4]
[00:30:48] Of course. My pleasure. I hope the message is received. [00:30:50][2.2]
[00:30:51] Absolutely. And for everyone singing Happy October, we're wrapping up our nod to our salute to women, health and wellness, as well as the acknowledgment of Women's Breast Cancer Month. And until I talk to you next time, thank you for giving me your time. And remember to always bet on yourself. Slainte. [00:30:51][0.0]
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