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Hello friends. Hello hello wasn't I talking again and if another month it's crazy it is really weird. I feel like this these episode I feel like we just recorded this like 5 seconds ago. You did right now but it was 4 weeks ago but it's not weird to me that like we've come to me. It's weird to me that we're about to enter June like a six-month Mark and it's summer and we skip spring again. We sure did. We went straight from 60 degrees and beautiful. 90 and my AC was broken for about, I think it's been broken a lot longer than I realized except I didn't need the cool air for a long time until
And I think Brandon told you, it was broken last year. I have a plan, but it carried me. Through here. We are, here we are now, I look like Fabio in my car because I have it on full blast of all the times. Nice, it's a visual, it's a look-see. Yeah, per use, we're going to talk about three questions. We always ask, what brought you Joy? What helps you feel confident. And what are you learning? Let's dig in what brought you Joy in May? Well, I just got back from vacay. Yeah, yours is. So I plan our vacation back in. I think January or February because I got to get my body was craving sunshine and Beach something to look forward to. I think I planned it like right after the new year. When everybody was hoping that 2021 would be a nice, Fred the fresh air and it was just a whole lot more of the same. Yeah.
But here we are just a few months later, and it's starting to feel a little more like the real world and going on vacation to Florida. We're basically covid. Never existed to begin with. It was, it was like real life again, and it was, it was so refreshing. And it brought me a lot of Joy. My girls are 9 and 6, and they were really fun ages to the beach this year number one, cuz they could carry their own stuff to the beach. Most important, most importantly they could carry their own stuff.
I got me laughing. And then, I started cracking
And the girls, just loved every moment of being there. We had the cutest little house and it was just the four of us and it was just such a sweet sweet time. For our little family, to feel like life is normal again and just take a break and enjoy each other. Yeah. And we took naps every day, I took that some days, I don't know, Ty has surely the nap Queen, I will wear that Crown very proudly. It's impressive that really is so we just relax and we had a bonfire on the beach one night and it was so sweet to watch the girls. Just
Enjoy the ocean and enjoy this, and enjoy the world and to see it through their eyes and to force me to play with them. That's always a big challenge for me. I always want to just either all or nothing. I'm like I either sit and relax or I feel like I need to be doing something and play is just not one of my areas of expertise and strong suits. So we made sand castles then we laid in the ocean and just had a really good time. Yeah. So it brought me. Lots and lots of Joy. Number one, be with my family and I were to see the world kind of opening back up and enjoy a little bit of normalcy again. No, and I was brought great joy because time made her first Instagram reels without me teaching her how to do it.
I literally, I don't remember if I texted you this or, and I was like, who are you? What is happening? I don't even know who you are, but I am so proud. That brought me great joy, that and the teacher. I know you didn't. You did great enjoy this month. I feel like likewise I could probably just say the same thing. I think I've gotten some really sweet time that with my friends in a way that I haven't been able to have for a long time. So that's been really life-giving, just schedules have freed up and some special ways and I just get to do life with my people.
And really sweet way is in, like last Saturday, we went out to the summit here in Lexington, which is for those that don't know, I just dislike cool like Chic shopping center but it's really kid-friendly in like the kids had played in the fountain and had popsicle. Then you know, they have, you can like, get a drink and walk around. So we all had a cocktail and just hung out and like the middle of the afternoon on Saturday, which I haven't gotten to do that with friends. And gosh, I don't even know how long so that was really sweet and coupled with like, not having to wear masks really anymore and it just, it felt really weird. But wonderful and
Yeah, it just felt like this feels like a breath of fresh air and like life as it was intended to be. And I think, you know, a we probably said this a hundred times before, but I just going through 2020 and really the first brand of 2021. These moments feel so much more special and cherishable because we just are never going to take him for granted again. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully the kids don't remember it that well, but it'll just be such a signal. It'll just be a mark in history and I just hope that it leaves. If nothing else we take away like treasure time with your people and make time for your people in whatever way you have to.
Sam has a lot of joy.
A, my life seeing that email that you don't have to wear masks. So I went to the nail salon that day was right before we went on vacation and everybody had their mask on and I walked in and didn't have mine on and felt a little bit judge. So I put it back on but in the middle of the appointment, this lady like looked down at her phone and said, we don't have to wear masks anymore and like ripped her mask off, and screamed it across to the other one. It was so funny, but I wasn't, it made me so happy that that somebody else felt that happy about it, right at the time, which leads into our next question of what help. But at the time we were doing a two-day, All City sample sale with other Bridal boutiques and it was a Thursday and Friday. Yeah. So the Thursday
We will have to like mandate mask-wearing and it was like that night that it came out that you know, starting the next day you didn't have to anymore and all three or just so excited and everyone that came on Friday, really give your box and you don't have to wear a minute. Was just so surreal to be around people and be like, oh my gosh, this looks like normal life again. This is amazing and we all just kept walking past each other, like all the vendors being like, man in this great and this so great. I feel like Rebels doing it but it's like, no, they've given us permission to save them is just so exciting. But yeah. So I mean, in a lot of ways,
Entering back into the world. Maskrey is like answers. All three. What brush do I say? What made us feel confident? What are you learning? How to re-enter the world that's free, but what help us feel confident when we were talking about this before? We like off off, Mike, Ellis at off, camera, others, that camera recording me. Like what made us feel? Confident is not. Then we have the same answer which was this today. Sample sale and it wasn't the same fulfill itself. It was the camaraderie that was built between all of the bridal, store, owners, independently-owned, bridal store owners. I'm here at 10 and it just was really great. I think it's easy to assume that, you know, we're all each other's competition and like yeah, we already had a competition but that because of that, there can be no sense of community or friendship or camaraderie. And I know all of those words are synonymous with each other but it just
You know, when you hear competition you just kind of I feel like it has a very negative connotation in a lot of ways and that were always like up against each other. And that way. Yeah, totally not to say that we haven't felt that before but the way that we all came together to work as a team to sell each other's dresses that we were, we were just encouraging Brides to find the dress of their dreams for a good deal. Yeah. And we were selling each other's dresses. Like there was no, there was no like, okay, you only talk to her if she's got your dresses. It was everybody all hands on deck all day both days and it was just really cool to watch each other in action and kind of learn from each other and also learn each other's inventory. So we can refer to each other cuz we're not going to each of us have our own very unique stores and personalities.
We aren't going to be everything to everybody, right? And that's okay. And I think that is the biggest. Takeaway four, other vendors to follow suit that you're only one person. And you need those people to be able to refer yeah Brides to cuz in the end we just want them to be happy. Exactly. So it was really cool to see their inventory and see how they work so we can confidently refer them to refer our Brides to each other and know that everyone's going to be loved. And we're all in the same boat we all just want our Kentucky Brides to be well, taken care of. Yeah, exactly. Said that. Just, I think gave everyone a really healthy dose of confidence that while we're all, you know, staying focused on her own businesses and whatever. We can also serve and care for each other, in the midst of that. And I think,
Especially coming out of Nino 2020, like small businesses were raked over the coals and so to be able to kind of feel like we were like Phoenix is coming out of the ashes together was really, really beautiful. And yeah, it just it was awesome. And I think give us all a really good dose of confidence moving forward on how to do life and business together and for the betterment of our businesses and our community, and there's just not much more you could ask for in that. So yeah, that was really really fun and I ain't final question. What are you learning?
What did what did Mark Mark? What an APA
I don't know you go first OK Google first made for me was filled with on a very personal note filled with a lot of long overdue self care and that I went to doctors appointments that I hadn't gone to in a long time. I have really started doing a lot of, I went back to therapy starting in April. So a lot of my work was done in May and it just I think our where it's really easy to neglect ourselves first and at least I can only speak for myself. So, for me, it is really easy to neglect, my own Souls needs. And I think after a while that started manifesting in physical ways, and so yeah. Just especially with like, doctors appointments, like going to see your lady doctor in. Like, for me, like, I have tons of moles look like,
Do the dermatologist, and you know, all those things, setting up care with a primary care physician. Like all of these things that seem like, oh yeah, of course, you should see the things but they're the first things to go and schedules, get busy, or life gets hectic or covid is a part of the picture and yeah so just tackling all of those to spell really empowering and just the idea that knowledge is power like maybe nothing's wrong with me, Praise Jesus. But also I want to know if I'm on a healthy track or if I need to make tweaks to my health and whatever that way that is mentally emotionally physically. And so I'm in the trenches of that and while it can be exhausting and overwhelming and hard some days. I know that I'm learning the value and putting in that work. So
Yeah, I'm learning that taking care of yourself is hard, but where they work, very good in front of you.
I am having a hard time thinking about what exactly I'm learning. So I don't have anything specific. I feel like I thought of something before we got on here and now I cannot remember what it is, but I think I'm learning that
I have to slow down and I know we learned that I kept saying that through 2020 but March and April kind of came out as fast and furious when they were so crazy busy that it's easy to fill every weekend with something to do, but I have learned that I do best mentally. When I have a day at home to get our home back in order. And while that feels like it's you know, and everyday tasks that I feel like I'm cleaning something constantly. If I have one day at home to just feel like I'm in control of everything at home for a minute. Anyway, I can face the week a little bit more confidently, and I think that's taking me awhile to figure that out and not feel resentful. That I have to spend a whole day at home, trying to get my life back in order. Like why can't I keep it up through the week?
But if I had that one day, I can I can confidently, give yourself and knowing my limits on what I need in that Taylor. Nolan has it all together, I know. But, you know, we like to think that something, I believe some false teeth as well, and I totally agree with that. I like, I cleaned my room last night. That looks like a bomb, went off. I live like a gypsy. All of my office of dogs that have been living out of suitcases, and, you know, me, I don't unpack very quickly, so if I like it was like, Hey, a cluttered space,
Aquila cluttered mind to me so that I have a clear space. I have a clear mind and that I have to, like, remind myself of that. Like, the mental impact, it has on me having a clutter stay. So, there's power and a clean living space and I'm the opposite. Like, we got home, Saturday night and my bag was under a note in the first hour that we were home. It is an actual miracle that happens for me because it makes me crazy. And I have learned that those little things
Add up and make me feel less crazy. So there we go. That's what I'm learning. Learning learning. What's good for a mental health? Make me with I think may actually was mental health awareness month that was look at us. We were so good, we didn't even post, just got, I just got as well, you know, worth it.
Hi guys. Well we encourage you as always to take a few moments and your day and ask yourself these questions or ask your friends it's just it's good to reflect and can make life just feel one it can produce gratitude in your life into it makes you step back and view. The bigger picture is in the end of day that day today like I feel really overwhelming but when you step back and ask yourself what brought me joy this month, let me feel a little more confident this month and one of my learning those just help you. I hope you see the bigger picture and can bring Clarity and gratitude to your life.
So happy June. Happy summer. Happy freaking summer. Yes, we're excited. Will be back to Jim's. Going to be us. We love you guys. Have an awesome day.
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